Great show. I was right on some counts of who would die...

-Charlie drowning while trying to get away from the exploding hatch.

-Mikhail for real this time, blown up.

-"Zeke", whom Sawyer will finally get revenge on.

-Jin (yep) or at least heavily wounded.

-Some extras on both sides.

-One of the chicks in the new hatch.

Add:
-Rousseau. She'll come back to help the Losties, and will try to save Alex from them, dying in the process but telling her the real mother (and father I guess).


But off on some others. I hit the bulleyes on Zeke though! Oh well.


To the point: there are two very important characters for me in this episode. Let's move to the trivial one first.

Why did Jack mention his father in the "flash-forward"? (If you think that it happened before the crash, unless you have a convincing time warp argument, you need to rethink things.) That would be either weird, incredibly stupid or cruel. He was on meds....

But the actually important point:

Locke should have shot Jack and destroyed the phone. Now the entire season of four will deal with Jack's blunder of getting them "rescued". Desmond knew, but not in time to warm Jack. Locke is back, as cool as ever (I would use a different word, but you can't use "bad" words on this forum for some odd reason), and I suspect he and Walt have a lot of work to do. Who'd have ever thought that back in season one that creepy old dude and the black kid with the crazy father would come this far? And they say Lost moves slowly and doesn't give answers ... pfft.

PS: No mention of Radzinsky! I want my Radzinsky!

I think all of the reasoning behind jacks mentions of his father were to keep viewers out of thinking they were seeing a flash-forward. Then, when it hits you are seeing a flash forward, most people would lean to jack being delusional / foggy from the drug and alcohol abuse.

I think all of the reasoning behind jacks mentions of his father were to keep viewers out of thinking they were seeing a flash-forward. Then, when it hits you are seeing a flash forward, most people would lean to jack being delusional / foggy from the drug and alcohol abuse.

Most likely.


We're not going to get a podcast to clear things up, are we?

No the last podcast was the last one for this season.

And I can see why. I don't want to even imagine what some people are going to say.

What would they say?

I would want the whole Christian Shepherd thing put to bed.

Up until this episode I've held out hope that Christian Shepard was still alive. I never believed in the whole time-warp thing for a second, however, with the DHARMA videos referencing life extension...I thought it was maybe a possibility. Check that, I don't know if it was the videos, maybe it was TLE, but I'm in the camp that believes that Jack was way to out of it on alcohol and drugs. Plus, he was joking that if he was drunker than his father, then you could fire him. I took this to mean that if you COULD find my father and test him then you could fire me. Definitely a reference to Christians missing body.

I think it was a wise decision, the finale totally speaks for itself. Amazing.