CPA-ESQ.

Weak episode - which did not need to be 2 hours. 1 hour of it was everyone running / walking through the jungle and fighting with Jack..

then in the last 5 minutes - everyone is on board with blowing themselves and other innocent people to smithereens, shooting non-violent people who they lived with for 3 years - all in the name of "I love kate," and "you were looking at another girl"

The ending was a bit disappointing - and I hope it does not go down a whole God vs Angels route.

Slumbering Fist

I've watched every frame of the show since it first aired.

And now I've decided LOST is (or, more aptly, has become) just dumb silly pants.

It was cool when the characters arcs and backstory controlled the tilt of the show, but now its just mainly them running around in convoluted hokum.

cracksky

Even if the bomb resets and 815 lands safely at LAX, I think that Desmond would still be connected to Faraday and have some memories. The island will still be there but the hatch is destroyed so when Desmond crashes his boat in 2001 what will he do there instead of pushing the button? Just fix his boat and leave? Maybe he never goes on the race in the first place because that was set up through Widmore. Maybe he never meets Penny either but has memories of her, Charlie (his son) and the island (button experience) and decides to find Faraday and Eloise to change things again.

Palaver

I think you are on the money here. Except I think that the people are being brought there by Jacob. Basically, the battle seems to be whether mankind has any potential. Fake-Locke seems to think we are not redeemable. Jacob seems to have faith in mankind.

johnnysd

I actually think that there will be some sort of "reset" but that the Losties will retain knowledge of what happened before.

Gizmo

Worst finale of Lost yet. They gave an obvious out for Juliet if "V" does not get picked up (or promptly canceled) by ABC. No "real" character deaths.

Giles

or 'the Rapture'

s}{ammer

Once again, you are totally skipping over the facts that this is older than the Christian bible. They made a very obvious attempt to show us that Jacob makes Egyptian tapestry and lives in the foot of an Egyptian statue. Of course to most modern folks who are mostly familiar with Christianity will "feel" a biblical touch on this story, since Christianity and many of the biblical stories are adapted from earlier religions that were in the same geographical area.

Jacob is not a good guy fighting a bad guy. These are two gods who use people as pawns in their game. Neither is good or bad, just different in the ways they use people. Just look at how Jacob told Ben "What about you?" in other words to Jacob, what is Ben? He could have explained to Ben why everything happened like it did, but why bother explain yourself to someone so low as a mere human mortal?

Horus=Sun, sky, healing
Seth(Set)=infertility, chaos, envy

These two were both gods and Seth was seen as an evil counterpart to Horus. Since Horus is the basis for Christ this all feels like it fits within the Christian bible, however, framing the story within a monotheistic religion won't work well.

Just read a bit on Horus and Seth(Set) here at Wikipedia and immediately you should notice the similarities between Jacob and Horus, and Seth and the other guy with Jacob.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_(mythology)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horus

Edit:forgot to add links to wiki

Merkin Muffley

Even more connections to The Stand last night.

s}{ammer

Interesting you mention this. We all know how King likes to write in a magical negro in his stories and I got that vibe last night from Rose.

She makes a comment along the lines of "after 3 years you people are still running around trying to shoot each other." It felt to me like a very observant comment from her, almost like she herself is yet another "god" like creature on the island there to help steer the losties in the right direction, but of course they ignore her insight and storm off to the next fight.

By the way, I mention magical negro because it is a literary tool not in a racist way.

mphtrilogy

Jacob had a chance to thwart the plan when Ben confronted him, he actually provoked him with his response, "what are you?" indeed. Jacob could have said I have a plan for you or some other nonsense. He wanted Ben to go through with it.

Jacob has a plan also and we will see this play out in S6.

it's a shame to see Locke die twice on this show.. bummer, what a life for Locke! i do hope his character can be reignnited, but in the end it looks like he was just a putz.

Looks like they wrapped up a ton of characters, Original 'Classic' Locke, Rose, Bernard, Juliet, they even gave us some closure on Vincent they all look like they will be reduced to minor players.

Bizarro Locke will take center stage.

Not the greatest of finales, but another real good season, which is saying a lot for a 5 Season, 1 Hour Show.

Some Tasty Final Season 6 Morsels:
How the statue Blew
How the Ship got on the Island
Where did the pile of Dharma corpses come from
Quarantine!
The closure of Claire
Who air drops the Dharma food?
Who is Dharma?
Whidmore's End game
The final swan song of Ben
Ileana and the Egyptian 'Good Guy' Crew
Ileana in the Hospital with bandages and one eyeball backstory
Jacob's Revenge/Vengence or other?
Bizarro Locke's New Rule
The Smoke Monster revealed!
The Others Finale Mission revealed!
Alperts Backstory
Jacks Final Redemption!
Hurley, Kate, Sayid, Sawyers story wraps
Christians true purpose
Aarons finale?
Sun and Jin's reunion
Sun's baby?
Walt done for good?
One last appearance by Faraday, Charlie?
Polar Bears?

Looking forward to the finale Grand Royale of battle of Good v Evil in Season 6.

Wow this has been one Legendary Show

Michael Corvin

You just blew my mind.

I've always subscribed to the multiple realities/planes of existence ala The Dark Tower. Team Darlton and Abrams have made it clear they are huge fans and even bought the movie rights. I have no doubt that they could be trying to pull off something similar on Lost. So turning the donkey wheel instead of moving the island through time, it moves to another similar plane of existence. So the people weren't skipping through time at all just to a similar reality that isn't in sync with the previous plane. This would explain why no one can change the future.

Along those same lines, Faraday thought he was able to have the mind jump in time, but what if it was merely unlocking a memory from an alternate timeline/reality? In essence, what if the flashbacks as we have known them weren't flashbacks at all but the actual timeline and everything that happened on the island is the flashback/memories from this alternate reality?

I've always had an issue with the flashbacks since season one. Were the flashbacks for the benefit of the viewer or were the characters actually having the flashback at the time? I argued quite a bit about it 5 years ago, but I still think it could be pretty important as we get closer to the end.

I also love the Stand connection Merky pointed out, right down to Mother Abigail.

Flave

Those tests are usually done at around 5000 ft below ground. No way these guys drilled that deep.

That said, they did not detonate the hydrogen bomb, just the (much weaker) atomic bomb "primer". (An atomic bomb is used to initiate the fusion reaction of the hydrogen bomb.) If they had detonated the actual hydrogen bomb, the entire island and a good chunk of the surrounding ocean would have been vaporized.

And THAT said, an atomic bomb is still plenty powerful and they should all be dead.

HE Pennypacker

I second this.

Flave

I think you're confusing "Lost" with "Fringe".

Groucho

Or with the new Star Trek flick.

It's almost as if all three of these franchises have something in common.

HE Pennypacker

So every century or so Jacob feels the need to bring people to the island. How long has he been doing this? Who did he nudge towards the island prior to the Black Rock crew?

Michael Corvin

I've never seen Fringe and am not a Trek fan. Sounds like I should check out both.

BlackCapTen

Anybody have ideas on who Adam and Eve are now that the season is over?

Flave

Nobody else see the Jesus Christ symbolism here? Jacob = Jesus, other guy = Satan, Ben = Judas, and Jacob dies to redeem our sins?

cracksky

I'm seriously getting pissed at all the Dark Tower talk here. It's like a 10,000 page, 7-book series spanning 25 years. Not everyone has fucking read it. STFU!

On a related note, JJ Abrams and Damon Lindelof will adapt The Dark Tower upon completion of LOST.

Groucho

Alex and Horace

Flave

Definitely! Fringe has become my new fave and the new Trek movie is the best one yet. And the nice thing about the new Trek movie is that you don't need to know the whole mythology as it's essentially a reset for the franchise.

Dr. Henry Jones, Jr.

Jack and Kate

s}{ammer

Rose and Bernard?

I seriously think Flave has me on ignore.