Man, the acting in the finale is incredible. All of them - particularly the actors playing Sawyer, Ben, Juliet, and Kate (yes, I said Kate) really brought it.

Elizabeth Mitchell absolutely made that last scene work. And Josh Holloway was incredible in his grief.

I also thought the expressions on all of their faces when Jack dropped the nuke down the hole were priceless. Just waiting to die.

Sorry for the multiple Lost posts. But - man! - what a great finale!

I haven't watched it yet (I hope to remedy that in the next few minutes).

Talk amongst yourselves.


(Massive spoilers in the comments thread)

Some thoughts and spoilers below the fold.


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Just watched the episode. No liveblog tonight, but some thoughts and spoilers below the fold.



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I wasn't able to watch the show in anything like real time, so I didn't live-blog the episode.

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I'm beginning to see where I think things are going with the show Lost. I have a theory. Many of you already see this coming too, I'm sure. I'm interested in your thoughts.

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I'm live-blogging tonight (a bit delayed).





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I was not able to watch this as it aired, so no live-blog this week, but I did just finish watching the episode.

Some thoughts and major spoilers below the fold . . .
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I won't be able to watch the show when it airs, so I won't be live-blogging it. But please use this thread to discuss the episode.

The episode title is one of the most intriguing I've seen from Lost.

Also - if any of the Thinklings want to jump on this post and live-blog the show, or even write your thoughts on the episode after viewing it, please feel free.



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Live-blogging the show tonight, after a tortuously long two week hiatus.

By the way, here's what Namaste means:

"Namaste", Namaskar or Namaskaram (Sanskrit: नमस्ते [nʌmʌsˈteː] from external sandhi between namaḥ and te) is a common spoken greeting or salutation in the Indian subcontinent. Taken literally, it means "I bow to you". The word is derived from Sanskrit (namas): to bow, obeisance, reverential salutation, and (te): "to you". Namaskar is considered a slightly more formal version than namaste but both express deep respect. It is commonly used in India and Nepal by Hindus, Jains and Buddhists, and many continue to use this outside the Indian subcontinent.

We're about to watch this week's episode, and I think I'll live-blog it tonight.

It's been a really good season so far, don't you think?


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I wonder how these two new characters (NewAnnaLucia and Caesar) are going to pan out? He lies to her about the double-barrel shotgun he has. Shades of Nikki and Paulo.

Locke just told Ilana (NewAnnaLucia) that he died. She looks at him like he grew a third eye and walks away. Which I can understand.

Tunisia is the "exit". Hence the polar bear the now deceased C.S. Lewis found there. I'm writing this part after having watched the whole show and now re-watching it with eldest daughter and daughter-who-just-got-her-braces-off-today (yay!) - Locke is lying in the Tunisian desert with a bone sticking out of his leg and he's in for a lot more punishment in this episode.

Widmore and Abaddon . . . are the good guys. R-i-i-i-g-h-t . . . (although, now that I've watched the show, I like Widmore more than Ben).

And flight 316 did crash on the island. So we have a bunch of new Lostaways to replace the ones that have been shot, speared, stabbed, killed by flaming arrows, etc.

"So, you didn't make it, eh?" - HUGO ROCKS!

"Everyone on the island is gonna die if I don't go back. And the answer is no." Kate is absolutely evil. And here she's lecturing Locke about what love is, and in general patronizing the crud out of him. What an awful person she is.

I'm kind of digging the Abaddon character. And right when I wrote that, he got blown away. Man! I'll bet it was Ben, since he was looking all evil in the earlier scene with WAAAAAAAAALLLLLTTTT!

Were in the hospital after Locke's horrible car accident, and here's Jack, evidently at the start of his glassy-eyed drug stupor days and the start of his glorious AwfulBeard. And those crazy Jack eyes too. Jack's right on the edge . . . at the passing on of Christian's "hi", Jack loses it.

Suicide note: I first thought that Locke was going to kill himself for a purpose, to get them to come back. But now I just think he did it because Jack depressed him so much (as did that heartless tart, Kate).

He's all set up to do it, and here comes Ben. Ben is "keeping everyone safe". Except for Abaddon, who he probably blew away.

Ben confirms the Abaddon whack. But I'm sure he had a good reason. Widmore and Ben are the yin and yang of this show. I'm still not sure if one's black and one's white, or if they are both just evil. There's "a war coming" in any event.

Is it just me, or is anyone else wondering if John even knows how to get back to the island? That's not been explained. I mean, what if they had all said "sure". What would they have done then?

But I digress. John feels like a failure, but he is saved by Ben's compassion and almost touching encouragement. Ben's good! Ben's good!

John just spilled the beans about Eloise Hawking. And . . . well I guess Ben is not so good after all.

Ben looks kind of remorseful. And he says he'll miss John (after getting the murder scene all ship-shape). I'm still on the fence as to whether he's evil or not (just kidding!)

Back to the island. Caesar is rifling through documents, etc, in a hatch, I guess, on the island.

Caesar's asking lots of questions. I'm sure having this formerly dead guy walking around who wasn't on the manifest is a bit much for them. Evidently a number of people were hurt in the crash, but hopefully no one was killed. This seems to have been a nicer plane crash than 815.

Frank took off in a canoe with some women or something. Good ol' Frank!

And there's Ben. He was hurt in the crash. Good.

On the previews they talk about "the moment you've been waiting for." Please tell me it's not the reveal of the current state of the Sawyer/Kate/Jack triangle.

[Found via the Waco Tribune-Herald's Lost Blog.]

The show's not on yet (and I'll be watching it later tonight, not in real-time) but I just noticed the title is "316".

Wonder if that's a Biblical reference or something? With this show you never know.



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"316", as in a flight number, but also as in John [Locke] 3:16.

Ben giving Jack a sermonette on Thomas and Jesus.

John wearing the shoes of "Christian Shepherd".

"I wish you had believed"

"Leap of faith"

Christian Shepherd telling John last week that he was the "sacrifice".

I don't know how comfortable I am with John Locke being a Christ figure, but that certainly seems to be where they are going with this. How do you feel about that?

You can see Jack changing . . . starting to become a "man of faith" (although faith in what I'm not sure). At the church I almost though he and Ben were going to start praying. He's seeing the connections. He had that conversation with Kate about how they all got together. She dismissed him, but he had a point. How did they all get back together? Then, to have Frank Lepidus, of all people, piloting the plane . . .

A lot of questions were answered this week, about how Dharma found the island, how to get back to it, etc. Of course, a lot more were asked (and the characters won't answer them).

Among them . . .

Where's Aaron?

How did Hurley get to the airport?

Same with Sayid and his lovely federal marshall (new character?)

Did the plane crash?

What made Kate want to go back?

Where are Sun, Sayid and Ben?

Who beat Ben up?

Is Ben good? (I vote yes)

What the heck is Jin doing working for the Dharma Initiative?

My theory on the plane: It didn't crash, but the original Losties were "flashed" off of it somehow. I could be wrong though.

What a show!

P.S. I cracked up when Hurley told that guy to put on a seat belt, and then put on his sleep mask (I don't know what you call those things) and leaned back for a nap right as the plane started to go haywire.

They had Hurley looking rather Jesus-like in this show too, with his longer than normal hair and beard. I wonder if that was Charlie's guitar somehow?

I heard he was running smack about me. I'll bet he's not man enough to step out among the wreckage and settle this once and for all. To borrow a line from Brendan Fraser: COWARD!



On the other hand, Bird's got it going on. If I were a chick, I'd marry him. I would send him a poster of me, but I'm sure he's already got one hanging on his wall. I'll sign it for you any day, Bird!

If you haven't seen last night's Lost, you may not want to read this post.

- Jin's awesome. I really liked the scene when Sawyer saw him and realized he wasn't dead. Good stuff.

- Smokey appears to be a very bad monster. He's tricksey, too.

- Brandi and I laughed hard when Jack's dad told Locke, "Since when has listening to Ben gotten you anywhere worth a darn?"

- Ben's an evil manipulator. His little "Oh-if-you-only-knew-how-much-I-helped-you-all" tirade in the van was annoying. Like Smokey, Ben's tricksey.

- Too bad C.S. Lewis had to die. :-(

- I think Faraday is an immortal. That explains how he was a scary man when Lewis was a wee lass.

- I still don't get why Jack and his gang need to go back to the island. I can understand Sun (I call her "Moon" now since she's gone to the dark side and packin' 9s and all) wanting to get back to see Jin, but that's it.

- Do any of y'all remember Faraday's mum from previous seasons? She's had a few scenes throughout the years. :-)

- For all of Locke's flaws, you've got to admit he's got guts. Either that or he's crazy.

Some (extremely random) thoughts on the latest episode of Lost.

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I'm told by my French-speaking daughter that The Little Prince is a French book.

Jin . . . oh man, that made my night! YES!!!

For once I'm ahead of the game. I totally called that Ben was the client.

Does anyone agree with me that Jack is being way too incurious regarding Ben's motivations in all this? Is he really motivated to help those left behind on the island? Believe that and I've got a bridge (or a Dharma hatch) to sell you. I'm with Hurley - it's better to be in jail on a murder rap than to do what Ben says.

Me no likee pistol-packing Gangsta-Sun . . . I miss the old Sun! Maybe when she's reunited with Jin things will get back to normal. And, as you can see, everyone is beginning to come up with good motives to go back. Well, most everyone. Jack, because his life in LA has become totally pathetic. Kate, because she's being blackmailed by Ben. Sun, to see Jin, now that he's not only alive but in the same time-warp context (I think) as the dwindling band of remaining Lostaways. Aaron . . . because what little boy wouldn't want to grow up on a cool island of mystery. Sayid, because he's completely in Ben's sway. No matter what he says he will do, he always ends up doing whatever Ben wants him to do.

Hurley will still take some convincing. But I'm sure Ben will be convincing.

I laughed when they came upon their deserted camp and someone said "where is everybody?" Um, haven't they noticed that pretty much all the redshirt Lostaways have been terminated? Seriously, the average life-span of a redshirt these days is about 42 seconds.

So, who was shooting at them when they were in that kayak thing?

Danielle Rousseau - I totally called that too as soon as they came upon the French wreckage. She looks far less crazy in her early days.

The nosebleeds can stop, now. Gross.

I was kind of relieved when Juliet's nose started to bleed, because for a moment there I was afraid she and Sawyer were going to kiss.

OK, if you're "not allowed to change anything" in the past, how come everything's changing in the past. There are proto-others being killed in the past, shipwrecked future-people (Jin) being discovered by French scientists in the past, etc. I don't think that rule means what they think it means.

Good episode tonight. Although I'll be glad when Locke turns that wheel or whatever to stop the flashes. They are starting to make my nose bleed.

How does Locke know that Ben did something to leave the island? He wasn't there to see Ben do it. Does he know about the wheel?

So many questions, even as the back-story fills in. But that's Lost.

I'm enjoying this season so far.

Just finished watching this week's Lost. No live-blogging yet (that would take mental energy I don't have), but a few observations, with spoilers, below.




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I really loved this episode. I have to admit that, of the characters in the Oceanic 6+1 (Sun, Aaron, Jack, Kate, Hugo, Sayid, and Ben), I'm really tired of Kate, Sun, Jack, Ben, and Sayid. The story on the mainland just doesn't make much sense to me - especially the part having to do with keeping Jeremy Bentham on ice so they can take him back too. So it was nice to have a non-mainland show, except for PenDes, of course. I'm liking their story; they even have their own Cholly!

I realize that for many of you, an episode without Jack's bearded, drinking, pill-popping, confused mug hoarding screen time is like a day without sunshine, but this was a nice respite. [Bill ducks] :-)

Things are starting to fill in. It's been finally confirmed that Richard is, indeed, immortal. Take his shoes off and I'll bet he's got only four digits. Charles Widmore's involvement in the island has also been confirmed, and wasn't he a world-class jerk when he was twenty? Faraday and C.S. Lewis have some nice emerging chemistry (so it's too bad that she's about to die from time-travel sickness. Would some Dramamine™ help?), the dude who sees dead people - his name escapes me at the moment - is fantastically dour, and Sawyer and Juliet are in absolute rare form right now.

Desmond showed a spine in dealing with Widmore. So did Locke in this ep.

Faraday has evidently spent a lot of time bouncing around, well, time. And he's got some skeletons in his closet as well.

I hope C.S. Lewis doesn't die.

And, as always, the Lostie redshirts continue dying in droves. Are there any left? It appears not. I miss Forgurt . . .

Great episode. What did you think?

Ok, I finally was able to watch the Lost premier. We had our College/Young Singles over to watch it tonight; it was a fun time.

There are already two good posts on the premier, below, so I won't write much on it. Just some observations with mild spoilers.

First, I thought it was a good premier. Not a great one, but a good one. The time jumping is cool, but it also has me concerned that it's a desperation move on the writers' part to have a device that will help them cook up new plot-lines out of thin air. If you can jump around to any time you want, it really opens things up. But that's the cynical view - we'll see.

Favorite moment: The flaming arrows! I tend to agree with the person who wrote that they must have gone way back in time and that the warriors of some ancient society are shooting at them.

A very close second: When Sayid attacked Jack and almost did him in. *Sigh* What could have been . . .

Hurley remains the moral center of the show.

Sawyer has become, behind Hurley, my favorite character among the males.

Among the females? I'm not sure what I think of Sun the Gangsta. So - and this will be a minority position - I'm going with Juliet.

I'm looking forward to Season Five!

The Lost Season Five Trailer:



LOST Season Five Official Trailer #1 - video powered by Metacafe

Even Hurley's packin' heat in this season.

Can you wait? I cannot . . .

[H/T Sherry]