1641

Well the spoilers sounded better than what actually happened.

1642

Pretty much sums up my feelings.

1643

You guys have turned into a bunch of no-fun haters.

I thought it was a great episode. Loved the “death of the hatch” sequence.

1644

Doubleyou Tee Eff.

Good ep, but as per last season - I suspect the season 3 premiere is going to be a more fitting season finale. :\

1645

Why was Charlie so casual about the whole hatch blowing up business? Why didn’t anyone, you know, go check out the hatch after the big light and the door slamming onto the beach?

Lastly, why would an electromagnetic anomaly necessarily point to Desmond’s location (the Russian dudes and the call to Penny)? How could she possibly know where he ended up?

1646

I’m pretty sure they were Portugese, not Russian.

1647

Well you know the woman that gave him the boat was Lily, right? Wait, that’s her name, right? The other drunk driver? Yeah her. His woman seemed familiar, but I don’t know. And it was a different woman that those guys called at the end, right? That wasn’t Jack’s ex, was it?

1648

That’s the problem. I loved almost every minute of this two hours (everything after the “incident” was pretty anticlimatic other than the Others taking the three), but every second of the episode I was hating how much I enjoyed it, because I know it’s just going to lead to another season of stringing us along with filler for 20 odd hours with one or two real episodes thrown in.

Maybe it’s all a big meta-gag, the button was the show, and Desmond/Locke/Eko were us, hating having to keep watching, but afraid of what will happen if we miss it.

1649

Do you watch the show high, drunk, or what? Maybe you have more to distract you while you are watching the show, but I didn’t find it hard at all to pay attention to what was going on.

The woman who gave Desmond the boat identified herself as Elizabeth. I’m not sure if Libby is a nickname for that or not. While it’s played by the same actress as Libby I can’t say if it’s the same character.

Penelope was Desmond’s love interest and this was her first appearance. She is the same woman the two Portugese men call at the end and no, she wasn’t Jack’s ex.

And Kelvin Inman shares the same face and last name as Joe Inman, and apparently both are/were CIA spooks, but are they the same person? Can’t say.

1650

Oh come on. I got Libby’s name wrong, whoops. And I didn’t just watch the entire season in the last 24 hours, so I didn’t realize Clancy Brown’s character gives a different name from his single previous appearance. I seriously doubt they’re using the same actors for different characters. I never said I had a hard time following this. Only part I really screwed up was Desmond’s girlfriend. Geez.

1651

As she explained earlier in the episode. When you’re rich, you can find anyone, anywhere, ok? Duh! :P

1652

Maybe that’s why I felt so disappointed in this season finale.

And your Lost watching priveliges are hereby revoked for inadequate preparedness! >:(

1653

Gah! I don’t even know what a “privelige” is, and now it’s revoked!

1654

So are they in the artic or what? It was funny, earlier while watching it my gf asked me how he could keep heading west yet arrive back on the isle, as if she already knew the answer. I explained he could have been using a compass, and some extreme magnetic interference could have screwed him up or that he was using the sun to navigate but stuck on one of the poles. Obviously the tropical location and possible crash sites from a wayward plane or boat ruled out the north or south pole.

Then of course they showed the monitoring station in obviously artic conditions so who the hell knows.

1655

Hokey doke, here’s what I noticed:

Arctic theory: Desmond kept traveling west, and wound up at the same point. Barring the magnetic anomaly, the arctic or antarctic could cause this. Also, foreign guys in freezing climate watching for magnetic anomaly. Cons: There’s nothing to suggest that they are in the same place as the castaways, and a big honking magnetic thing to mess with compasses.

Also suggestive, the “shield” or whatever around the island and the violet sky might suggest that there is some kind of climate dome being cast by the anomaly to protect them from something.

Elizabeth is Libby, although Lizzie is a more common truncation. There’s the question of who her husband was, though. So far she’s rich, widowed, crazy, and a psychiatrist.

My pet heroin theory: I started it as a joke, but now we see that Charlie, previously all messed up emotionally by Eko’s leaving, is now a happy camper again. And we also notice that he has a cut on his arm that isn’t healed already, as the island tends to do. I’m saying he’s on heroin, which blocks the healing powers, as in Libby and Boone’s case. (dumb theory, but I’ll look like a genius if it’s right.)

And we see that Michael is infected/hurt by something, I’m thinking he’s got the super-HIV. Further, it’s a black crusty thing, so maybe the HIV is the Cerebus system converting people to more black dots/nanobots. Again, pretty far out there, but I’m taking the jump.

Here’s what I want to know:

Locke and Eko, are they all right? 'Cause together, I like them about 10x more than every other character.

Desmond: Is he officially dead? The quarantine hatch came flying down, suggesting an explosion, but until you see the body everything is still in play.

Walt: What did he do to make the Others want to get rid of him? Apparently he’s more than they can handle.

Sayid: Will he save the day? He’s rapidly become the smartest character in the whole mess. He has the right mixture of ability and cynicism to see through most of the obvious pitfalls that everyone else stumbles into.

H.

1656

More importantly, we never have to see either Walt or Michael again (knock on wood.) That alone made it a good episode.

1657

I’m not sure where all the anti-LOST hate comes from, but I enjoyed the finale. We got answers or info on a lot of stuff, including:

  • There really was an electro-magnetic anomoly in The Swan, and Desmond’s little episode with Kelvin caused it to go critical and bring down the LOSTies plane.

  • Kelvin was apparently the CIA agent Sayid encountered in Iraq. The timeframe of his joining Hanso would fit with the end of the Gulf War, and he mentions “being a spook” for 10 years prior to joining Hanso.

  • Desmond was in love with “Penny”, who happens to be the daughter of Charles Widmore. Widmore Industries is a Hanso partner, and Desmond was in the race around the world they sponsored. He wanted to win the money prize and provide a life for himself and Penny.

  • Desmond got his boat from Libby, who had recently lost her husband, the previous owner. No real background on who the husband might have been, but it would not be surprising to learn he was a Dharma guy. It was unclear if the meeting between her and Desmond took place before or after her looney bin stay with Hurley. I’m guessing after.

  • Apparently Penny must know something about the Dharma project, as she was the one paying the Portugeese guys to monitor electromagnetic pulses. The arctic setting may have simply been attributed to that being the best location to montior the entire hemisphere for such anomolies. I’m not expert, so I’m just guessing on that.

  • The “Others” are obviously Dharma project people who live far better than their fake camp and costume clothing would suggest, confirming our season long suspicions.

  • It appears “The Pearl” was the real psycological experiment, as all the notebooks filled with observations apparently were being sent to nobody.

  • The island has obviously existed for far longer than the Dharma project, as was evidenced by both the slave ship in season one and now the broken stone statue. It would stand to reason that the islands mysterious properties existed pre-Dharma as well, since that’s what likely drew the Hanso/Dharma folks there.

  • “Henry” is obviously the leader of the project, as everyone defers to him. Did anyone else notice that the marks of his captivity with the LOSTies were still obvious? Does this mean the island’s healing properties do not extend to the “Others”?

Many questions were raised as well though, including:

  • What’s with the statue with the four toes? Could the island have been home to a lost civilization? Atlantis perhaps? Or is it yet another mind fuck by the Dharma folks?

  • What happend to Desmond, Locke and Eko? And why the hell was Charlie acting like nothing much happened? Shouldn’t he have informed everyone of the destruction of the hatch and formed a rescue party? Big oversight by the writers or wacky plot twist?

  • What exactly are the Others up to? Why do they insist they are the good guys? Who are the bad guys then?

  • What will happen to Walt and Michael? Will they escape the island to be discovered by Penny’s minions? Will Michael then work with Penny to get back to the island and redeem himself by saving everyone?

  • What’s with the notebooks going nowhere? Why bother with “The Pearl” at all? What the hell was Dharma doing BEFORE everything went batshit crazy?

  • Um, dumb question, but why bother with the numbers every 108 minutes if simply turning the key and blowing up The Swan would have solved the electro-magnetic issue years ago?

1658

I really hope Lost isn’t one of those stupid Hollow Earth things. All signs point that way, though.

1659

Another plug for the arctic theory is the random polar bear showing up. Of course that conflicts or merges with the Walt, aka Mr. Too Much to Handle, theory of crazy strange spooky powers.

I don’t think it’s a Hollow Earth thing, more of a Savage Land kind of place.

1660

That’s priveliged information.

Here’s a question: Is Elizabeth’s husband, Dave, the same person as Hurley’s imaginary friend, Dave?

Back in the episode where Hurley and Dave are trotting around the island, right before Dave makes his leap off the cliff and says what is Desmond’s trademark farewell, “See you in another life.”

Of course, Sayid’s Nadia wrote something similar on the back of her photo, so it may be an ongoing motif, rather than a tenuous connection between Desmond, Libby, Dave and Hurley.

One line which drew a laugh out of me in the finale was when Eko told Locke “Don’t tell me what I can do.”