It's become his curse. Not to keep talking about this, but I love how his massive peen has been mentioned in both afterlife episodes.
The way they used the looking into a reflection to change bodies is pretty similar to things I do on my dreams. Most of my dreams are fairly lucid (I've had a dream journal for about a year and have 130+ written down) so that aspect really jumped out at me. Like, I've literally had to look up at the sky or press on my hand or grab an object to transport myself somewhere else or wake up, etc...
I haven't watched any of The Sopranos, but it's on my (long) list of things I need to watch. Similar?
There are a few episodes where lucid dreams factor into a significant part of an episode. In particularly, there's two consecutive episodes where Tony is in a coma and his subconscious imagines him living an alternate life away from the mob. Last night's episode of The Leftovers reminded me of that.
I'm in the camp that the alternate world is more of a hallucination/dream than a parallel universe, so it makes sense that she isn't there, since he doesn't know she killed herself.
I think the alternate world is for people who haven't moved on and she seemed plenty ready to move on
That would explain why so many of the people there are GRs or former GRs....though it didn't explain why patti was still there, unless we accept her explanation that she came back to help Kevin because she owed him one. Thought it was pretty cool that he helped kill her in that world and then she basically did hte same for him.
Someone had a theory that the two percent of the world that departed are experiencing the same things those who were left behind are; that is, they perceive the world as one in which ninety-eight percent of the population disappeared.
So I finally started watching this last week, first season was fine but a little slow but once I hit the second season I was hooked. Maybe it's because I've been moving through it so quickly and not having time to digest between episodes, but the third season is fucking weird man. Fantastic, but weird. I'm regularly just asking "why???" Also, it seemed he could only leave the afterlife(?) if he completes a specific task, but he wakes up in the newest episode prematurely because they pulled him out of the water? Anyway, I'm glad I finally started this and caught up in time for the finale. NO idea where it'll go
I'm honestly not all that interested in "how it will end?" as far as answers to anything mystical. I just want good closure between Kevin and Nora.
That's how I've felt as well. That's also how I felt with the LOST finale, which is probably why I loved it.
The last 5 minutes of the Kevin's in that room last night, from the book reading to the nukes, was probably the pinnacle of the series for me.
This has been my favorite theory for a while. Even if we don't get any kind of definitive answers about where all these people went, I will probably carry on believing this is likely what has happened to them after the show is over. For as bad as it is for the 98% left behind, it is exponentially worse for the 2% who lost the other 98.