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Analyze and summarize the following news-like text snippet: 
ABC says Lost's final images of plane wreckage were "not part of the story"
[SPOILER ALERT, OBVIOUSLY] Chief among the debates still lingering from Sunday’s Lost finale—besides whether Sayid and Shannon will totally get married in Shiny Light Heaven, of course—is the question of whether those final, silent images over the credits of plane wreckage on the empty beach held any deeper meaning. Specifically, some have speculated that it was meant to suggest that no one had ever survived the crash of Oceanic 815, and that the entire show had taken place in purgatory—despite the fact that, you know, Christian Shephard stated, in plain, listen-up language mere moments before that that was expressly not the case, that everything had actually happened on the island, that everyone in the group had died at different times, and that the Sideways World was the “purgatory,” if you want to call it that—which has caused many (including some professional critics) to write the whole series off as an ext...<|im_end|>
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The provided text appears to be a news article or similar content. A brief summary could be: ABC says Lost's final images of plane wreckage were "not part of the story"
[SPOILER ALERT, OBVIOUSLY] Chief among the debates still lingering from Sunday’s Lost finale—besides whether Sayid and Shannon will totally get married in Shiny Light Heaven, of course—is the question of whether those final, silent images over the credits of plane wreckage on the empty beach held any deeper meaning. Specifically, some have speculated that it was meant to suggest that no one had ever survived the crash of... (Further analysis would depend on the specific query.)<|im_end|>
