LOST Finale - The End

As they say friends, all good things must come to an end. Such is true for our favorite show. I know I won't have time today to do a proper write-up, but I don't y'all to have to hold your theories back, so let's hear 'em!! What did you think of the Lost finale?

The End is Near...

BEWARE SPOILERS BELOW
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Wow...well, what do you think folks? The last few weeks have been pretty interesting. Last week with killing off some beloved Losties (I still can't get over BOTH Sun and Jin...), this week finding out the history of Jacob and the "Man in Black," who we now know was his brother. We know Jacob's psycho mother and his brother are the Adam and Eve skeletons, that dead people appeared to the living as far back as their childhood (with their murdered birth mother), and that it's actually Jacob's fault for setting loose the Smoke Monster, who took the human form of his dead brother.

I can't help feeling a bit irritated at their mother's explanation of "The Light" that needed protecting. Is that supposed to be some sort of God entity down in the cave? And why would this pure light produce the Smoke Monster? I liked seeing the flashes of season 1 scenes with Jack and Kate finding the cave, I'm hoping they'll do that for the rest of the episodes to tie things together. But man, how are they going to bring it all to a close in no more than three hours left??

6.12: Everybody Loves Hugo

I don't know about y'all, but it only took about 2 seconds for me to recognize Dr. Chang's voice as the award presenter introducing Hurley in the first scene. Of course it would be him, why wouldn't it? :)

I really enjoyed seeing Hurley's scenes with Libby, they were very sweet. It's interesting how all these characters getting flashes from the Island-life are calling them "memories", which would point to Bonker's theory of their souls being sent back in time as kids, rather than a parallel reality (two existences of the same person).

I like how this and last week's episodes are starting to tie both realities together, somehow starting the wrap up to the end. Calm-Desmond on the Island still weirds me out, and I TOTALLY knew Flocke was going to throw him down that well. Interesting how their parallel selves mirror that by Desmond hitting Locke with his car. That really shocked me since it's so opposite Des' personality. I also was completely taken off guard by Ilana blowing herself to bits...woops.

BTW little bit of trivia, that dog in the pic from Hurley's slideshow is his dog in real life Nunu. :)

6.11: Happily Ever After

Ok, I haven't watched this episode yet (was out of town at a conference), but I heard it's a whopper! I wanted to post an article so y'all can start discussing. Feel free to spoiler-away as I won't be reading the comments until I've watched it.

Also if you have any pent up comments from 6.10 feel free to unleash them here. The only thing I remember wondering is what event led to Sun and Jin getting married as opposed to just being lovers? Obviously the lack of Jacob's involvement affected that somehow...

6.09: Ab Aeterno

Man, did Richard (or Eyeliner as my bf likes to call him) get the short end of the stick or what? That guy's had a miserable life, and an "eternity" (as the title translates) to endure it. I never once would have guessed Richard arrived on the boat as a prisoner, or that he tried to murder Jacob. Jacob's another guy who's mellowed out with age, he was pretty aggressive with Richard trying to prove he wasn't dead by almost drowning him.

So what did we learn? We learned that somehow the "man in black" a.k.a. Smoke Monster a.k.a. FLock is some sort of evil spirit that's been captured on the Island, which is keeping the evil (guarded by Jacob) from spreading into the rest of the world. MIB is stuck there as long as Jacob's alive and he can't kill Jacob himself, but we know as FLock he got Ben to do his dirty work. I have to say that Jacob sounds a little evil too though, constantly bringing people to the Island for his little social experiments—where they all always die. Jacob evidently can't forgive sin, or bring people back from the dead, but he can give eternal life/youth...so my question is WHAT is Jacob? I'm also really curious why the MIB is stuck looking like Locke. He can shape-shift as we know, we saw him trick Richard by turning into Isabella and baiting him to kill Jacob. So who was the guy whose body he was in before? Why is he in Locke's "body" but his body's still in the coffin? Did they give away any other info. I'm missing?

6.8: Recon

I got such a kick out of the surprise at the beginning of this episode. We see Sawyer in bed with a woman (shocker), doing the ole "you weren't supposed to see that" con when his briefcase of money pops open. But guess what, he was setting her up to catch her conman hubby, and his name ain't Sawyer. Nope, it's Detective James Ford of the LAPD, and Miles is his trusty partner. On James' date with Charlotte he told her he became a cop because it was his choice once he got to the part of his life where he'd either be a criminal or a cop. This means that in the other universe, Jacob's visit to his parents' funeral, giving James the pen to finish his letter to Sawyer, was enough to push him to the other side. Jeez, Jacob's such an enabler... Anyone else notice the guy at the police station looking for his bro was Charlie's brother? I didn't pick up on that right away, gotta credit my bf w/ that one.

It was a little painful seeing him go through the prison part of Hydra Island and see the cages where he and Kate first did the nasty. Her dress was even still there, ouch. We see UnLocke as a peacemaker again between Kate and Claire...I just can't decide whether he's good or bad. As the Smoke Monster he's a murderous demon, but he also always has some kind of explanation for his actions. Even his defense of why he lied to Claire about Aaron was believable...except for the fact that he's now driven her insane. I wish someone would ask her why she left and abandoned Aaron in the first place...

I had completely forgotten about seeing Widmore's sub two episodes ago, so that was a nice twist having them try to play Sawyer. That chick was asking way too many questions though, made sense that he called her out. I don't get why he automatically assumed Widmore wanted to capture/kill UnLocke, Widmore never actually said that did he? His enemy was always Ben, so I don't get that.

I have to say I'm pretty intrigued by next week's episode being about Richard...

6.07: Dr. Linus

As I've heard from many a Lost fan, this was one of the best episodes from this season yet. If you think about it nothing much actually happened in terms of action, but as a friend of mine pointed out, it was a very interesting character study for Ben.

Something I found interesting was as soon as parallel-Locke suggested that Ben go for school principal, I wanted him to get it. Even though Ben is such a hateful character, there's still something that also makes him a sympathetic character where we can understand where he's coming from. We've known for a while that Ben's only moral weakness is children. He was sent to kill Danielle, but couldn't once he saw the baby Alex. He was determined to kill Widmore's daughter Penny, but couldn't when her son came up on the boat deck. It's really no surprise that in the parallel world, Ben is a devoted and great school teacher. Because of that, I wanted him to be principal...I knew he'd do a great job. BTW it took a few minutes, but I finally realized the science teacher was another Lostie! He was the dude that blew up from the dynamite (referenced by Hurley further into the show). That was a good throwback.

It was also interesting seeing Alex again, and finding out she was somehow destined to have a close relationship with Ben, one way or another. It was surprising finding out Ben and his father did go to the Island, but left for some reason, and seem to have a fairly healthy father-son relationship.

Poor Richard, man I feel bad for that guy. We found out he came to the Island off the ancient shipwreck and feels like his entire life, however many centuries it's been, has been a waste. We also know for sure Jack has a purpose there because it seems he CAN'T die. His reunion with Sun at the end was a warm and fuzzy moment, I forgot they hadn't seen each other in quite some time since she didn't go back to the 70s with him. I also liked how Ilana forgave Ben and accepted him back with her group. I found the photo above quit stirring seeing him look like such an empty shell of a man, given how much power he used to have.

So Widmore's just off the coast...what do you think he's doing there??

6.6 Sundown

OK, someone help me out here...exactly what questions were answered from this episode?!? ABC was all "ooo we can't show you more than a few seconds of preview or we'll give everything away!!" At the end of the eppy I just sat there like "wait...did I miss something?" So please enlighten me if you know, cuz I completely missed that boat...

I think LOST has contained references to Christianity many times in the past, but it was pretty prevalent in this eppy (hello burning cross after the smoke monster invaded the Temple). Not to mention Dogen calling "UnLocke" (as I'm now calling him) evil incarnate himself, and him fulfilling that description by offering Sayid quite the temptation (Nadia alive again if he delivers his message). Anywho, the one nugget of info I found interesting was when Dogen told Sayid that Jacob had offered to bring his son back from the dead if he came to the Island. We know from last week's episode that Jacob was right, Dogen and his son are living happy and healthy in LA and saw Jack's son David's piano audition in the parallel uni.

A nice use of past characters, it was a surprise to see the lunatic who shot Alex as the mofia-ish loan shark who "roughed up" Sayid's bro. Guess that dude is just bad news no matter what universe you're in.

P.S. I will now forever be creeped out by Catch a Falling Star, thanks psycho-Claire. Man her face when Kate told her she had Aaron was scaaaaary!!

LOST Party

I had to share this! My coworkers threw me a surprise party today since I'm changing jobs (in the same department), and they're definitely aware I'm a LOST fan. :) Evidently my new web team members are also The Others, hmmm... :-D

6.5: Lighthouse

I got into this episode a bit more than last week's. It was interesting finding out Jack had a kid in the no-plane-crash universe...of course we'll all be wondering who the mother is and if it's a fellow Lostie. If you remember from 1-2 seasons ago, Jack had to have an appendectomy on the Island, but in this universe he had it out at the age of 7. I wonder how that could have changed from the Island being blown up, so odd...

So can we all agree the Island Claire is a nutter now? I wonder if she actually got the "infection" Sayid has, or if she's just been brainwashed the whole time by the Smoke Monster/Christian/Locke "friend." I guess this revealed that the new Locke is the baddie now, since he lied to/brainwashed Claire as Christian and as her new "friend" about the Others taking Aaron. My bf called it that she was going to axe (literally) the Other dude even though he was telling the truth, but I didn't see that coming. It surprised me the same way I was shocked when Alex got shot in the head. I'm assuming Jin lied about the Others having Aaron to be sure that Claire would keep him alive to sneak into the Temple. Any other reason you think he lied?

The lighthouse was pretty cool. When they first showed the images in the mirror my bf thought it was a view into the alternate universe—which would have been pretty darn awesome. Ah well, a spyglass into their lives I guess will have to do. I totally didn't understand the preview for next week...we're only going to see seconds of the entire eppy? What do you think's going down at the Temple?

6.4: The Substitute Screen

So last night I experienced something I rarely encounter while watching Lost...about 40 mins into it I realized I was bored. I'm not exactly sure why, and according to friends I've chatted with I'm in the minority, but I just couldn't get into this episode. I think it may have something to do with my irritation that the Island "John" seems like a mean bully, and coming out of denial that the real John is dead. It makes me sad thinking about how much faith he has in the Island and his purpose there, and yet he ended up murdered with his identity stolen by the moody black smoke monster. :-| Who, according to Ilana, is stuck looking like Locke...for some reason.

Anywho, I did come across some questions that I'm hoping y'all can help me with. First of which, didn't Helen die of like a brain aneurysm or something? Perhaps that wouldn't have happened if she hadn't experienced so much stress with John's obsession w/ his dad...dunno. Also, she mentioned to John having a small wedding with her parents and his dad. If he's on good enough terms w/ his dad that she'd want him at the wedding, I'm assuming that means he didn't push John out a window...so why would he be paralyzed?

That's really about all I've got...yeah I wonder who the creepy lostboy-ish (no pun intended) looking character is. And yeah I wonder why they were all chosen and their last names scratched on rocks years before (supposedly by Jacob). Anyone else notice the numbers by the non-scratched off names match Hurley's numbers? But I don't know, I just didn't feel the usual "no it can't be over!!" feeling upon seeing the ending LOST on the screen. Thoughts?

6.1-3: LA X & What Kate Does

Well friends, we're back (albeit a bit belated)! I can say in my random musings about Season 5's finale I considered the bomb working and Oceanic 815 not crashing, and the bomb not working and them still being stuck on the Island. Never once did I consider both options happening at the same time! I was so confused when Kate woke up in the tree, I initially thought "wait...was that first scene a dream??" So now we seem to have parallel universes. The Losties who blew up the bomb seem to now be in "present time" on the Island, which I assume means in the same time as new John Locke, Ben, Sun and Frank (yay for Jin and Sun). I base that off Jacob visiting Hurley a few hours after Jacob was killed by Ben. The second universe is back in 2004 with Oceanic 815 landing safely in LAX. Oh and one other point, the Island, including Dharmaville and The Foot, is now at the bottom of the ocean. So now instead of flashbacks or flashforwards, we get to see what each character is up to in their respective universe.

It was fun seeing some of our old Losties like Boone and Charlie. Interesting how the Island being blown up has affected other parts of their lives—Shannon not being on the plane, and I also heard Desmond was wearing a wedding band. It sort of sucked seeing the folks whose lives improved on the island, like Jin and Sun and Charlie, back as their old selves. How strange that back on the Island Juliette told Sawyer that "it worked"...how would she know??

So now it seems we have an answer to what/who the Smoke Monster is. It seems that "spirit" of the man in black can take on any human form it wishes. It's now using the form of John Locke, but I believe we've also seen it as Jack's father Christian and Ben's dead daughter Alex (explains why Alex ordered Ben to follow the new Locke). What do you think was meant by the loophole comment though...is that because of him appearing as Locke, or manipulating Ben to kill Jacob? Does this mean Locke is now a bad guy? Funny how parallel Locke comes across Jack's path in L.A., it would be an interesting twist of events if Jack fixed his paralysis with surgery. On to the next eppy...

So parallel Kate is kind of a biatch, but at least she feels bad about it. I was so convinced that the adoption couple not picking up Claire at the airport meant they didn't actually exist. I remembered her psychic (or whoever he was) telling her to go on that specific flight because he knew it would crash and she'd have to raise Aaron herself, so I thought he made up the couple. It was pretty sad seeing the mom apologize to Claire, nice to see Kate come through as a friend though and take care of her. But how creepy was it seeing Ethan as her doctor?!?

Back on the Island it seemed as though the new Others were testing Sayid to see if he was possessed by the smoke monster. What do you think the poisonous pill would have done...kill the "monster" virus, or kill Sayid? It was heartbreaking seeing Sawyer mourn Juliette on the dock, but I couldn't help but wonder, where would he get an engagement ring in Dharmaville? Ah well, I digress...

So Claire seems to be the new Danielle/wild jungle woman. The Other leader (what was his name...Tokah or something?) said the "virus" consumed Jack's sister (meaning Claire I assume), so is she crazy/sick now? She did seem to recognize Jin...maybe...

What are all your thoughts? I'll repost Robetron's reaction to the first eppy...