Here's what I think, thought, thunk about last night's finale... and the last bit of on-TV LOST for 2009. I've marked burning answers, that were revealed in "The Incident," with this: (answer!).

Key points (according to me):
• One of the best continuous two hours that the show has every had. There wasn't a dead spot. The whole thing was fast and info-packed.
• Best line: Rose says, "What is it with you people?"
• Jacob is revealed (answer!)!! Dun, dun, dun! Bam! Before the titles?! Awesome!
• Jacob wears white.
• Jacob is no one we've ever seen before.
• Jacob has an unknown enemy... he wears black.
• The Black Rock is seen, in the water!
• There's a loophole and the enemy guy wants to use it to kill Jacob.
• Anubis statue is seen in it's entire glory.
• The submarine has some really old-school controls. To surface, twist this knob...
• Jacob visits everyone in their past (answer!). Would it have not been crazy cool to see flashbacks from old episodes where you really see Jacob in the backgrounds?
• Sayid's Nadia got hit by an SUV (answer!). Cliche, but it answers a question we've needed to know... and ultimately it's Jacob's fault!
• Rose and Bernard at back (answer!)! And so is Vincent (answer!).
• Rose and Bernie need to give up on the whole "whatevs" attitudes.
• Ilana knows Jacob. She works for him!
• What's in the box? Locke's in the box (answer!). It's a Locke box.
• The cabin! It has a piece of Egyptian cloth. Let's burn it!
• We see tiny Sawyer, writing the famous letter to the evil Mr. Sawyer (answer!). Jacob is everywhere!!
• We see Jack in performing the surgery he told Kate about in the pilot episode (answer!).
• We see Apollo bars!
• Jack and Sayid take the bomb from the well-lit cavern... which is really the basement of someone's cabin at the Dharma camp. Kinda.
• Jack shoots and kills about as many people at the Dharma camp as Ben supposedly does with gas.
• Sayid is shot! He's dying!
• Sawyer and Jack finally beat the hell out of each other. We needed to see that!
• Juliet is a sad sack. She's so dead.
• Hurley gets out of jail, meets Jacob and finds out about flight 316 (answer!). And, he gets the guitar case. Hurley's not cursed, he's blessed... or is he? What's in the case?
• Ben's a wimp and a liar. He comes clean to John. Ben learns he will be killing Jacob after all. Hating Ben right now.
• Everyone joins Jack to throw the hydrogen bomb down the well. Wait. Is this the sealed well we see in other episodes?
• The bomb doesn't go off. Dr. Chang gets his arm smooshed (answer!). Phil gets speared with rebar (WOW!). And Juliet falls in the well. Good Lord!
• Ben stabs Jacob. Jacob goes into the fire.
• Juliet wakes at the bottom of the well. She has a rock... and she starts pounding the unexploded hydrogen bomb.

So my questions are as follows:
• Did Juliet really trigger the bomb OR did the electromagnetic pulse go off?
• Who is the "alive" Locke? Is it the guy in the black shirt from the opening scene?
• Are all the dead people that have come back to life, throughout the course of the show, really been Jacob's enemy guy?
• If the bomb didn't go off, and there is a pulse, is it possible that everyone is catapulted into the future except for the dying Juliet and Sayid? Kind of like what happened to Charlotte??
• Is Ben still lying? He's not a Pisces.
• Did we lose two characters? Juliet and Sayid?
• How awful will the love triangle be next year if Juliet is really gone?
• What's in the guitar case?
• How does Ilana know Jacob? What happened to her to be in bandages?
• What happens to the Anubis statue? Bomb? Pulse? Plane?
• Why was the end logo on a white background for the first time?

I'm worn out and kind of sad.

Does anyone have anything else to add??

Posted by Doug at 2:50 PM | Permalink | Add a Comment (2)

So when do we see the video of Pierre Chang shown at ComicCon 08 within the show?
The making of the video.
There was speculation Faraday was holding the camera, but last night's show makes this almost impossible.
Could it be Miles holding the camera who we hear in the background, both as an infant and as an adult?

Posted by Henry at 3:54 PM | Permalink | Add a Comment (0)

My "big-bomb" theory was verified. I can't remember if it was a podcast or an entry, but I nailed the "Jughead" idea earlier this year: use the hydrogen bomb to basically erase the history of the show. I predicted it would be Desmond to trigger the devastation, after he had lost his beloved Penny, and thus had no reason to live. But, Ben's plans were thwarted and Penny didn't die. Daniel, luckily, has kept my theory going.

Here is Melcom's January 29th entry that mentions my theory:

Doug saw this episode early, and hinted that we'd see a possible way for the show to end...Jughead? The hydrogen bomb that could destroy the entire island? We know for a fact the Faraday will do some quantum leaping...because he appears in the cave where they're trying to get to the magical time wheel in the season opener. Perhaps to set off that bomb. We'll definitely go back to that scene in a future episode.

Who is going to set off the bomb?

Will this REALLY be the plan of action?

How crazy-nerdy-cool was the Enterprise flying through the LOST logo?

Posted by Doug at 2:01 PM | Permalink | Add a Comment (0)

Tonight's ep was pretty darn amazing! I have to say that watching this show two or three seasons ago, I never would have imagined the writers could have pulled off this kind of tie-it-all-together episode. Very nicely done.

And it's probably the only end-game scenario that equates to "it was all a dream" that I would actually accept as an ending. In fact, Daniel's plan (now presumably carried on by Jack) raises interesting thoughts about what would happen if they succeeded in making all this -- the whole show -- NOT happen.

* Kate would go to jail
* Sun would leave Jin and they'd never have their baby
* Charlie and Ana Lucia and Mr. Eko and Shannon and Boone and many, many others would still be alive
* Rose would probably die of cancer
* Locke would still be in a wheelchair
* Claire would give up Aaron for adoption
* Jack's dad would really be dead
* Michael and Walt would live happily ever after

What else? It's fun to think about.

Wonder if Kate can bring herself to help Jack with this plan when she knows it ends with her back with the Marshall. And for all of them, wouldn't it be weird to choose never to know each other, after all they've been through together?

Of course, I don't think it's going to happen, at least not this way, b/c we've got a whole 'nother season to get through, so they can't end it all now. But what a concept.

Posted by Ellen at 12:02 AM | Permalink | Add a Comment (0)

Did anyone get anything out of the re-cap show?

It was a snooooozer!

Make sure you pick up this month's Wired magazine. If you haven't already heard, it features special guest editor J.J. Abrams.

Let's hope the 100th episode, next week, makes up for this week of blah.

Posted by Doug at 1:53 PM | Permalink | Add a Comment (1)

Here are my bullets from last night:

• Two freaking weeks until another new episode? I call major fowl. We were promised this wouldn't happen. This is TWICE this season. BOOO ABC!
• Tiny Miles was kind of heartbreaking.
• Old Miles was kind of heartbreaking. I like Miles more now.
• Miles really can call dead people.
• Miles really is Marvin Candle's, uh, Dr. Chang's kid.
• Naomi is back, kind of.
• Hurley MIGHT have written the "Empire Strikes Back"? But, he did say his version had some fixes.
• Great "Star Wars" references.
• "Face it, Ewoks suck, dude." Best line of the season (I kinda like Ewoks).
• Hooray, Daniel is back... and he rode the sub to the island. Where from?
• So Bram and Ilana may be working for Ben... not for Widmore?
• There is more talk of the "shadow at the foot of the statue." HMMMMM.
• More confirmation that Widmore faked the other 815 wreck.
• Hurley is a foodie and makes a delicious garlic mayo.
• Hurley trying to one-up Miles in the "I talk to dead people" conversation was funny.
• Hurley has a hard time saying the word that rhymes with "dart" but starts with an "f." So do I.
• Brief mention of the numbers. Will we ever get an explanation of these digits?
• Miles is a sell out.

Two whole weeks until the season continues. Oh, that's right before sweeps. How convenient.

I hope next week is a GOOD re-cap show. Face it, re-caps suck, dude.

Posted by Doug at 4:30 PM | Permalink | Add a Comment (3)

Going back to point out two things I guessed right, 'cause I like tootin' my own horn.

Just thought of one possible mystery -- Is Miles the son of Marvin Candle? Is he the baby we saw in the Marvin-related flashback? Is that why Miles has "time on the island" nosebleeds
Back on Feb. 5

I betcha Kate gave Aaron to Claire's mom. I'm sure she's doing it to be all noble and give up the son that wasn't supposed to be hers, to go back and save the others. But you know, that's still a crappy thing to do to that kid who just lost the only mother he remembers.
Back on Feb. 16

Other notes:

Hurley is hilarious. Save us from the Ewoks!

Kate. *eye roll* Ever heard of "low profile"?

Browsie gets punched out! Quick, Sawyer, erase the tape!

Daniel's back! I missed him. Quick, Daniel, explain some time travel stuff to us!

Posted by Ellen at 3:08 PM | Permalink | Add a Comment (1)

Is Kate in on this "long con?"

Meaning is she connected to Ben? Is Kate a plant?

Here's why I ask:

1. Remember when Kate had breakfast with Ben on the beach? What did they talk about? Why her?

2. Kate visited Miles while he was captive. She asked Miles, "Do they know about me?" Odd. Why did she need to know so bad?

3. They have taken Kate several times.

4. Kate was on the phone when Jack walked in the room and she wouldn't say who it was she was speaking with. Why the big secret?

5. Why haven't we seen her childhood? We've seen most of the big players as kids.

6. Kate is suddenly a universal blood donor? Why was she so willing to save Ben?

7. Kate's middle name is Anne. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong. Could she be named after Annie, Ben's childhood girlfriend?

8. Isn't Kate's mother named, Diane? I might be wrong on this one. Or could Kate's mother be Anne?

9. Couldn't Kate have been raised off the island? Could she be Ben's daughter????

10. Or maybe I don't know what I'm talking about.

Posted by Henry at 11:52 PM | Permalink | Add a Comment (3)

Another good episode! I'm really enjoying this season, maybe more than any other. I think the writers finally have the balance down of intriguing us with questions but also answering some questions as we go along, so that not EVERYTHING is a weird confusing mystery. Anyway, high notes:

* Ben's not dead. Duh. But Richard's going to perform some temple magic on him that will leave him forever changed... and EVIL??

* Now we know why Kate left Aaron and decided to come back to the island. Watching her say her goodbye to sleeping Aaron was rough... very sad. But I do hope this means we'll find out what the heck happened to Claire.

* Wow, they made Ben's abusive dad kinda sympathetic. Maybe I'm just a sap...

* Hurley and Miles arguing time travel was funny. And I'm thoroughly in the "this is confusing" Hurley camp. It was interesting that they brought up the "why didn't Ben recognize Sayid later" question, which I guess was answered by Richard when he said Ben wouldn't remember anything. But I'm not sure why they felt that was necessary -- perhaps because when they wrote that Sayid-tortures-Ben part, they didn't give any indication that Ben knew who Sayid was. But it seems like they could have indicated that he did know but kept it super-secret, as he is prone to do. Anyway. Complicated.

* Aw, look at Sawyer all grown up and in a healthy relationship.

* It was sad that kid-Ben was dying and all, but I can't be the only one who totally sympathized with Jack's position. Let the kid die, maybe rewrite history for the better (even though Farraday says it can't be done -- wouldn't you still want to try?).

Posted by Ellen at 10:47 PM | Permalink | Add a Comment (0)

So.... is Little Ben dead? (I really want to call him Uncle Ben but that doesn't work.) I assume he's not, or the island will revive him, or something. But I have to admit it was cool to see Sayid shoot him -- I figured something would interrupt them before that happened.

Actually, that was one of two get-right-to-the-point shootings by Sayid last night (the other one being the Russian guy in flashback). Often in TV shows or movies, there's a lot of time elapsed between pointing the gun and pulling the trigger, letting people explain themselves, letting things happen to get in the way of the shooting, but Sayid is a killer and doesn't let that happen. That's a very effective way to make him scary.

Also, he can kill a chicken like nobody's business.

Illana is a bounty hunter who doesn't SEEM to be working for Ben, but I don't believe she's really working for golf course guy's family, either. Widmore? Hmm...

Other than that, I don't have much to say. I'm not a huge fan of Sayid-centric episodes. But two questions:

-- Was that Dharma torture guy the "I'm Larry, this is my brother Daryl" guy from Newhart? (I just IMDB'd it -- it WAS!)

-- Does anyone else think Horace kind of looks like present-day Kathleen Turner?

Posted by Ellen at 1:42 PM | Permalink | Add a Comment (3)