RE-WIND

Here is a very random thought that popped into my head for no apparent reason:

Would LOST make any more sense if it was played backwards from The End?

If the starting point was in the sideways church with Christian telling Jack he is dead, then having the viewer wonder "who are these people in the church and why are they happy that they are dead?"

Going backward in Season 6, we would get the insight on the island's long past and the terse relationship of the island guardian and the smoke monster. Is this a better stage set-up than the original plane crash and the twist appearance of the smoke monster at the end of Episode 1?

Would it make more sense when Juliet is trapped in the Hatch site rubble with the atom bomb, that its detonation actually "causes" the time travel back to 1977? Then the subsequent donkey wheel turns are trying to get the island back in the right time and place?

There would be some confusion on why the church goers are on the island when the freighter comes to "rescue" them, but then again Naomi told them they were all dead. The launch point of the series to the island is the sideways white flash which teleports the souls not to heaven, but a new purgatory or hell called the island. Knowing that the supernatural island is a test of sins, punishment and redemption make the island events more plausible?

When the O6 leave the island hell, they do not find paradise on the mainland. The group splinters into the miserable lives.  Frustrated by their situation, several characters turn into criminals (Kate, Sawyer) or soldiers (Sayid) in the hopes of dying again. (On a side note, that could explain why the Others were very accepting of their own island mortality.)

Then there would be mind bender of why all the characters would start the "new end" at the Sydney Airport if their flight had already crashed on the island. Unless, on this passage the plane lands in LA just like the sideways world view showed us. That would complete the loop.