The spending spree- once it starts, I can’t stop it!

Ugh, that's what happens to me as well. It's like a contagious bug or something.

I forgive you for that Survivor slight you made against me, this compliment has soothed my ruffled feathers. ;D

Awwwww, lovely. :)

I solemnly vow to never slight you again.

Wow, a LOT of Lost questions. I will try and answer them as best I can.

but how did they get to the past in the first place?

Okay, so underneath the island right, there's this wheel. Because Charles Widmore had found the island and was coming to "reclaim it", Ben turned the wheel and the island started "flashing" through time. When the flashes finally stopped, Sawyer, Juliet, Faraday, Miles and Jin were in the 70s.

And what was the whole point of the island? Was it created to do something or existed already and harnessed for something or what?

As far as I understand, it existed already and was like a "cork". Remember the light that Jack turned on the series finale? If that light goes out, the world ends. So the island is like... an island... cork.

Sometimes I don't fully understand it myself. I think I understand it, but then I question myself. :-/

How did the six survivors get off the island when previously nobody was able to leave?

They followed a specific bearing that the freighter had followed to get to the island as well and that allowed them to leave. Faraday worked it out. They flew out in a helicopter and then crashed into the sea, and Penny picked them up in her yact because she was on the way to rescue Desmond. ♥

Cue the greatest reunion scene of all time!

Why did other people remain behind?

They were doing trips back and forth to the freighter in a raft, but the freighter exploded (this is Widmore's freighter by the way, the reason Ben had to turn the wheel to move the island). So some people got trapped on the island. Most of them died except for Juliet, Sawyer, Bernard, Rose, Miles, Faraday, Charlotte (who died later) and Jin.

Oh, and did anyone keep pressing the button after Desmond left? Or did it get destroyed or something, but then how did everything not go kablooey without the button-pressing?

The hatch exploded at the end of Season 2. Locke decided to see what happened if they didn't press the button, and it blew up. So no more button pressing!

I will try to answer whatever questions you have. :)

Also, did you think it was weird that Kate was in the afterlife thing with Jack even though when he died, Kate was flying to freedom overhead? That’s what my father kept harping on about, and I was all, ‘Afterlife is timeless, damn it!’

I think the point was that it was set after they all had died, not just Jack. That's why they were all in... "limbo" together, because they were all dead. And it could've been a hundred years after Jack died, or however long Hurley lived before he died.

Thanks for making me feel better. *hugs*

You're welcome. *squish*

Not that kind of show, what? The pointlessly mushy and emotionally manipulative 7th Heaven kinda show or…?

Schmaltzy, I guess? I hate schmaltz.

Not to mention, an actual cat! Lol! That would be the most convincing evidence of being a cat lover, no? :P

Very true!