JJ just loves his Alice in Wonderland references doesn’t he? Well let’s dive in, this was a whopper of a finale. Get comfy, it’s a long one. :)The flashbacks throughout the whole 2 hours show a different Jack than we’ve ever seen. For one, he’s bearded (not a fan personally), we see him doing a lot of drinking, taking prescription drugs, driving when he shouldn’t be and stumbling around. He sees an obituary in the newspaper that upsets him to the point of almost jumping off a bridge, but he’s stopped when a huge car accident occurs behind him and his doctor instincts kick in. He ends up saving a mom and her little boy from the burning wreckage, but does not think of himself as the hero the news and public considers him to be. This whole time we’re never let in on who the obituary was for and what’s pushed him to this brink of depression.
Back on the island our survivors prepare to depart from their camp and set their plan in motion of tricking the Others getting blown to bits. Sayid, Jin and Bernard stay behind as the shooters, and Sayid makes Jack promise to keep moving toward the cell tower no matter what happens. Down in the Looking Glass hatch, Charlie’s beaten for information and reveals that he found out about the underwater hatch from Juliette. The women on duty warn Ben of Juliette’s betrayal, but it’s too late to tell their beach attackers they’re being set up. Two of the three tents are blown up as planned, but Jin couldn’t get a clean shot at the third pile of dynamite and all three end up captured by the surviving Others. Everyone with Jack knows something went wrong when they don’t see the third explosion, so Sawyer and Juliette head back to the beach to see what went wrong (but not before Juliette gives Jack a lingering kiss in front of Kate). You can tell it bothers her, and later when Jack defends Sawyer’s refusal of letting Kate go back to the beach, he admits the only reason for is defense is because he loves her. They keep hiking, Roussoe tells Jack they’re close to the tower, but right after that they’re intercepted by Ben and Alex.
In the mean time we find out, in the most bizarre scene of the episode, that Locke isn’t dead. Yup he’s shot in the ditch, but his eyes open and he finds he’s paralyzed once more. He’s about to shoot himself when (a much older) Walt appears to tell him to get up because he has work to do (anyone else see the Biblical references in that?) Desmond swims down to the LG after coming under fire from eyepatch dude, who also scuba dives down to them. Eyepatch gets orders from Ben to kill everyone down there to prevent the jamming signal from getting turned off, so he kills one of the women, shoots the other in the back, then gets a surprise dart in the chest from a hiding Desmond. Before she dies Charlie convinces the woman of Ben’s betrayal and in her dying breath she tells him how to shut down the jamming signal.
Ben pulls Jack aside and tries to convince him that Naomi isn’t with Penny’s rescue boat as she claims, calling their boat will kill everyone on the island and to bring him her radio. When Jack refuses Ben tricks him into thinking the beach captures were killed from that decision. Jack beats Ben to a pulp, doesn’t tell the group about the “killings” but brings a tied up and bloody Ben along. At the same time Ben admits to Alex that Roussoe is her mother. Back on the beach Hurley saves the day by literally driving over one of the Others w/ the VW van, allowing Sawyer and Juliette to take control of the situation. (When Sayid broke his captures’ neck w/ his feet I seriously said holy sh*t! outloud, that’s hardcore!) Through the walkies the hiking group hears their friends are safe, everyone except Charlie and Desmond. Charlie successfully shuts down the jamming signal, and is instantly connected to a broadcast from Penny. He tells her Desmond is alive and so is Naomi, but she has no idea who Naomi is. Before Desmond can talk to her, Eyepatch appears out the porthole with a grenade (that guy never dies!!). Charlie blocks off the door, but the explosion blows the window and quickly floods the room. He lets Desmond know it’s “not Penny’s boat” they’re trying to call, and sadly Desmond’s vision comes true of Charlie drowning (I’m still in denial about him dying).
Naomi sees her phone connection is working, and just as she’s calling her boat she gets a knife in the back from Locke. He also warns Jack not to make the call, but the phone connects and it looks like rescue is on their way. Once again we see bearded Jack, at home sitting on the floor surrounded by maps. He makes a mystery phone call to meet someone by the airport. Suspense builds as to who he’s meeting, to my shock we see Kate get out of the car. The sickening truth sinks in that we haven’t been seeing flashbacks, but flashforwards. Jack informs her of the obituary, I can only guess it was one of the survivors who died but we never know who. Jack crazily rants at Kate that they need to go back to the island, they were never meant to get off, she quietly says “yes we were” and leaves him.
So this is the depressing future that awaits our Losties if they get off the island. Obviously Kate and Jack don’t get together, he becomes a drunken bum who flies on a weekly basis hoping his plane will crash again on the island. What happens to make Jack so sick with longing for the life they had on the island? Who is Naomi with, and is Ben right that everyone will die if they come? Can this glimpse of the dismal future somehow be changed?
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Alrighty, then. Isn't Jack's old man dead? If memory serves, the bearded future Jack, when asked by the other doctor if he had been drinking, told him to go get his father and if he (Jack) was the drunker of the two, the doctor could fire him. Also the bearded future Jack had a prescription made out to him by his previously dead father. Am I missing something here? Is Jack's daddyo back in the game?
Moving on, since people are so wary of Juliette, why doesn't she just sit the lot of them down and explain that she was lured to the island under false pretenses and subsequently prevented from returning home and therefore, she really is NOT one of the Others and wants to go home as bad as they do? I really want her to do this. Is this so difficult?
Moving on, why didn't somebody kill Benry long ago? The guy is such a weasel, not to mention a compulsive liar. Why does he enjoy such a loyal following among his own people? Good to see Jack beat the snot out of him. Hopefully it won't be the last time we see someone drop the hammer on old Ben.
Viewer satisfaction, as measured by me, skyrocketed when Sawyer ventilated Tom's chest. He said he did it as payback for the kidnapping of Walt, but I really think he did it just to get a fist pump from me.
Hurley running over that guy in Ben's dad's VW was a nice touch, followed by Sawyer drinking Ben's dad's beer after the killing was done. Ben's dad doesn't get a lot of respect on this show.
So that's it. A mediocre season of "24" is over, "Heroes" is done, and now "Lost". I guess this is when I'm supposed to go on vacation or something?!!
no, daddy Shepard is still dead, but if you notice when Jack says to get his dad down and see who's drunker, the other doctor looks at him really weird. I think that shows that Jack's going nutty, the other doctor knows his dad is dead which is a tip off to the Jack's instability. With his RX I think he was just lying about it being written by his dad. When the pharmacist said she'd call his office to verify that was when he flipped out cuz he knew it wouldn't go through since he wrote the RX himself.
Juliette is an interesting character, any flashbacks we've seen of her she's been so mousy, I keep wondering what happened to her in those 3 years to make her so tough and jaded (...other than being captive I guess...) I love how unphasable she is, you never see a rise out of her, she's always calm, cool and collected. Sawyer asks "so are you screwing Jack yet?", obviously to shock her, and she fires right back "no, are you?" Prob the only time I've seen her look surprised is when Sawyer shot Tom. While we felt no sympathy for the bastard, it still bothered me a little because I think a darker side of Sawyer was released after he killed John's father, and now we see it coming out.
Hurley saving the day was great, there were a lot of good surprises like that. Jack just out of nowhere telling Kate he loves her, did anyone see that coming? Not to mention seeing Kate get out of the car to meet w/ Jack, I LOVED that twist, but I really felt disturbed after, like we're getting a glimpse of this horrible fate that awaits our Losties and there's nothing to be done about it. It's amazing how a show makes you care about fake people, isn't it? :)
I hear ya about 24, after last season's cliffhanger, what the hell kind of an ending was that?!?
Ah, so future-Jack is in worse shape than I thought, imagining the old man is alive and kickin' upstairs. Makes sense.
So, who was in the casket? Any ideas? Jack doesn't seem that close to anyone, but was clearly affected by the obituary. I can't remember if there were any gender clues regarding the deceased. Obviously it isn't Kate. Juliette perhaps? Claire is his half-sister (although present-Jack is unaware of that), could it be her? Is it Sawyer, Jack seemed to think Kate would be wanting to attend the funeral. I wonder if the writers even know yet.
Guess we'll find out someday.
I just watched Lost last night - had to tape it 'cause we were out Wednesday.
I am sooooo sad about Charlie. Maybe he's always been a charachter on the edge of the show, but he was a good man and I didn't see the reason to get rid of him. Most of the other deaths I was ok with as they seemed to have served their purpose. But Charlie and Claire were the closest to a family there was. Perhaps the re-emergence of Bernard and Rose will fill that hole. Regardless, Charlie showed how much he had grown since arriving on the island as a drug addict and a liability. he accepted Desmond's version of his fate, and sacrificed himself for his friends.
Good for Hugo/Harley! He was turned down by Charlie and Sawyer most brutally and still rallied himself to help. His role on the island is obviously to keep everyone's spirit's high and he does it with such innocence that you want to cry for him when he's hurt and cheer when he throws it off. That message to the Others was classic Hurley. A nice moment for everyone - including us.
I wonder if I'm the only one that was hoping Locke would shoot Jack. I am just about done with him. He's always so pompous and arrogant and his flashbacks are so boring. It wasn't until Jack made his mystery meet at the airport that I had any interest in that sub plot at all. Yea, yea, he's got a failed marriage. Yea, he's got a daddy issue. Yea, he's got addiction in his family. Blah. Give me a reason to see why he's pompous. Why should he be the leader? Because he's a doctor?? I would have preferred they give him the hero death than Charlie. That would have been fitting for him.
Speaking of the mystery meet at the airport. Anyone else catch Kate saying "he'll be wondering where I am"? Obviously she's got a man in her life. Made me think Sawyer. I expect the writers wanted us to assume "he" is one of the castaways just like we assume the person in the casket was. Any guesses on who? Obviously someone no one liked. Right now I'd say Ben but who knows what will happen by the end of the series.
Overall, I'd say the finale was the highlight of the season. Most of the season was forgettable with a few "a-ha" moments interspersed. This last two hours will guarantee I show up again next year.
yes I did catch Kate saying "he'll be wondering where I am" and I also thought of Sawyer. As for who's in the casket, my first thought was Rose since she was the one w/ cancer, but obviously Bernard would have been at the funeral. I don't know if it's important that we ever know who died, I think the point was to show how Jack was obsessed with the island and his life there, which included all the survivors, even those no one else knew or liked.
I too am sad about Charlie, but if you think about it, his character had come full circle. From being a fame-seeking druggie he became a father figure for Aaron and hero for the survivors. I enjoyed seeing his "best moments" flashbacks, it shows how much he grew through the value he put on certain events. What does irk me though, is if calling Naomi's boat is the "beginning of the end" as Ben put it, did Charlie die for the greater good or unknowingly cause their dispair?
Wow, excellent question re: the greater good or the beginning of the end. It would be a shame to have Charlie die the hero's death only for it to have been a mistake. Des said his drowning led to them being rescued. I'm looking forward to see how this plays out.
As to who was in the casket, it would have had to be someone both Jack and "Freckles" knew, yet someone that neither of them considered a friend.
Future-Jack is obviously suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
My thoughts return to present-day Jack and the Losties. Now that Locke has committed out-right murder, how will they deal with him. What's more, now that the "Island," or maybe it is "Jacob" in the form of Walt, has spoken to him and saved him from a seeping bullet wound, will John bother to stay around the camp with the Losties at all?
Personally, in these last several episodes, I have been very gratified to see the earlier episodes, at which everyone (including me) were shaking thier heads, have been brought to make sense. The VW, and why it was more than coincidence that Hurley found it, for instence. The tool by which Ben began his coup, was the very instrument that shall be his downfall. Also, it seems that Jacob is no more pleased at Ben's dominance of the island than our Losties are. This would explain why all of the odd things have been happening, starting with Jack seeing his dead dad standing on the shore staring at him, all the way to the present circumstances.
Overall, I'm totally back to being a Lost fan, and my doubts are assuaged.
-R.
that's a good point about the VW coming full circle and Hurley being "meant" to find it. I'm very curious about Jacob, what his role is, why he asked John to help him if he's supposedly the leader of the island. We know Ben is a pathological liar and a bit psycho, what would be his purpose in holding Jacob hostage?
Some things to ponder, do you guys think the next season(s) will be showing us flash-forwards instead of flashbacks? Can these future glimpses be changed or is it all fate and predetermined? Des said in his vision he saw Claire and Aaron getting on a helicopter but I wonder how that will play out with the "bad guys" on their way and what will happen to the rest of the survivors.
p.s. how do you think John's dad appeared on the island if it isn't some sort of purgatory or hell?
I really think that the Others did thier research on John, and found out who his dad was that way. They knew John was emotionally invested in the man, so they simply kidnaped him to manipulate John.
It is this background character thta has me curious... the guy who presented John with his own file to show him that his dad was the original Sawyer that James wanted to kill. I don't remember his name, but he was among "the Others" before Ben betrayed the Darma folks, and he doesn't seem to have aged. In fact, he seems to be the guy who talked Ben into betraying Darma in the first place. Watch for him having a heavier role in future shows.
YES I forgot about that guy and I did want to comment on him not aging, not even a little. He's the guy Ben ran into as a child in the forest and he looks exactly the same (except then I think he had longer hair). Now Ben looks older than him, how can that be?
Also found it interesting that Ben saw his dead mother in the woods the same way Jack saw his dead father.
Some one post something new to keep this site going!
-R
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