5.17 The Incident, Part II

Well, it’s back to work. I hope to avoid being repetitive and covering again some of the material of the first part of this 3 part saga, but we shall see. Work was kicking my ass this week, so I barely had time to do much on this until Sunday, which is now today. Oh, and I failed to mention how much X looks like that gay naked guy on Survivor from Season 1, Richard Hatch. Holy hell, I thought it was a cameo at first.

The Others arrive at the statue, and as Richard identifies it as where Jacob lives, Xlocke basically goes D’oh why didn’t I figure that out. Sawyer demands 5 minutes with Jack alone, while the fate of the world hangs in the balance. Must be nice to put everybody in jeopardy like that without a care in the world about, well, the world. Jack flashback, where we see the origin of his surgery story that he told Kate way back at the beginning of the series. Jack apparently accidently sliced open a woman in surgery, and her nerves were falling out of their sack like a leaky plastic bag full of soup. Or when Jack tilts his head, oatmeal *bloops* out of his ears. Either way. Count to 5. I was surprised as anyone that Jack didn’t go One, Two, Elventeen, Zebra, Kumquat, Five, Ollie, Ollie, Oxycotin. But, at least Jack screwed up getting a candy bar. Yes, it was our favorite brand of Apollo. Jack is mad that his father called a timeout on him in front of his staff. This marks the first time in the history of modern discipline that a timeout actually worked. Personally, I think Christian should have taken off his belt and chased Jack around the surgery table. Like Homer Simpson chasing Bart down the street with a medieval mace, swinging it around and around, yelling “I’ll mace you good.”
Jack: I need my team to believe in me.
Oh, what else can I say here. A bit selfish, but fine. Jack has bigger things to screw up. Jacob hands over the candy to Jack and touches Jack’s fingers for about 5 seconds. If I wasn’t suspicious of all the touching by now, I surely would not have missed it in this scene, the way the camera stayed on the hands for an excruciatingly long time. Can you be more obvious? Well, at least it was the second time I watched. Sawyer and Jack have a pow wow, and as Sawyer told Jack about Christian drinking himself to death in an Australian bar back in Season 1, this time Sawyer explains his own parent’s gruesome death much to Jack’s boredom. Sawyer is still clinging to WHH, as he could have tried to prevent the death of his parents by leaving the island in the last 3 years, but chose not to.
Sawyer: What did you screw up so bad that you need a second chance?
Exactly. Holy hell, did Sawyer read my mind or what. All this hydrogen bomb stuff is about Kate. It’s not about saving hundreds of lives, ending misery. No, it’s about a woman that is rotten to the core but pretty to look at. These are two alpha male gorillas beating each other over the head with sacks full of bananas over a broad that is one day away from boiling Dharma bunnies in a kettle of Dharma box wine. Jack puts out the weak argument of Locke wanting us to come back, and it’s destiny. Yeah, nobody is buying it. Much to the show’s credit, they come clean rather quickly since Sawyer stumbled onto the truth.
Jack: I had her. I lost her.
Sawyer is incredulous, as am I, as is 99% of the people watching this show. Hey, she is right over there. Go talk to her.
Jack: It’s too late for that. If it’s meant to be, it’s meant to be.
Jack Sucks Moment of the Week. Have I handed this award out yet so far? Well, even if it’s the first one…you lose a girl, and instead of talking to her, you decide detonating a hydrogen bomb is a better option? Are you kidding? Hell, don’t get me wrong. I’d try to slam my skull into Jughead repeatedly until it went off or I knocked myself out before getting trapped by Kate’s wily ways. Well, we are talking Jack here, who still is in the mode of going up to a girl in his class and pulling her hair to get her attention. Except, this time it’s a BOMB. So, all your destiny stuff is bullsh!t. It’s the equivalent of Obama seeing Michelle making googly eyes at whoever is running Canada. I assume it’s either Doug or Bob McKenzie. How‘s it going, eh? Hoser. Take off. Next thing you know, missiles level Saskatchewan, and Moosehead beer ceases to exist. And I can’t begin to fathom the fallout from such a selfish action. The horror. Does anybody realize how great Moosehead tastes. It’s the best beer EVAH. The nectar of the gods. A fight a long time coming breaks out and of course you have to be rooting for Sawyer out of principle. Imagine this happening in Season 1.Who are you rooting for? Exactly. Things change.
Sawyer: I had a life here.
Indeed, you did. But it was on borrowed time. Jacob and Xlocke had other plans, and it wasn’t forever. Sorry buddy. As the slugfest starting to slow down a bit, Sawyer kicks Jack in the balls, much to my amusement. I was reminded of the scene in zombie flick Grindhouse: Planet Terror, when Quentin Tarantino was determined to sexually assault Rose McGowan and took off his pants. His junk started to melt and like a chilled bottle of pancake syrup, started to glub, glub, glub, pull away from his sensitive groinal region and ever so slowly in a gelatinous sticky mess streeeeeeeeeeeeetch towards the floor. I hope somebody reading this is eating their breakfast right now, sincerely. I think this writeup just got a “R” rating if not worse. Anyway, Jack takes the nut shot. For Sawyer, it’s clobbering time. He gets on top of Jack and starts to wail away on him, like Tawny Kitaen on that poor baseball player husband of hers. Oh, stop with your accusations. I think women are lovely and do not spend my whole writeup bashing women. Consider the women on this show that I dislike:. Kate, Sun, Charlotte, Kaite, Jack’s ex-wife, Kayte, Shannon, Qate, Rose, K8, Claire the first 3 seasons, Khate, Amy, Cate, Jack, Nikki, Ate-kay…well, that’s not the entire female cast, so stick that up you ass and smoke it. Juliet comes along and tells Sawyer you know, I’ve changed my mind. Arrgh.

Juliet flashback, and a huge red herring. You have to notice that this flashback did not contain Jacob. It was merely a vehicle to explain her impending break up with Sawyer. Apparently Juliet’s and Rachel’s folks split up. But since there was no Jacob, this was the end of the line for Juliet, and as I’ve been harping on it all season long. Even if you love one another, you aren’t always supposed to be together. I call bullsh!t. I love a bottle of rum, and you better believe me and her are together every weekend. So why, Juliet?
Juliet: I saw the way you look at her.
Welcome to the party, pal. Hans Gruber Austin has been running amok on the island for a while, and you just noticed the dead body land on your windshield. Ay caramba! And they breakup. Well, at least it’s more civil than say Paul McCartney and ’ole Stumpy Mills. At the Swan, Radzinsky and Chang are fighting as only nerds know how. Phil tips them off about the bomb. But let’s keep drilling. Geez. Radzinsky has never heard of taking a deep breath and counting to 5 apparently. Hell, at least you get a candy bar out of it. Kate takes a look at Jack’s beaten and bloody face.
Kate: Does it hurt?
Kate is a Stupid Wh0re Moment of the Week. Actually, no Kate, it doesn’t hurt. No, Kate, it doesn’t hurt. I found some wild strawberries; since I have an eating disorder, I couldn’t manage to find my mouth so I smeared them on my face. Or, no Kate, it doesn’t hurt. A polar bear just gave birth to me, and I’m wearing it’s afterbirth as a skin moisturizer. Or, no Kate, it doesn’t hurt. But Sawyer just kicked a field goal with my bean bag, and let me tell you, I’ll probably feel the pain from them once these stupid cuckoo birds stop circling my head. After a question about Aaron, Kate gets fiesty by declaring that she was mad that Jack made her come back. Well, last thing I remember at the dock is that Kate yelled at Jack and drove off with Aaron. Next thing Jack sees is Kate laying in his bed, ripping off her clothes. Um, Jack must have persuasive powers greater than that guy that could bend spoons with his mind. Which is fascinating since Jack has the brain size comparable to a milk soaked Cheerio. Kate is still sticking to her fraud Claire excuse of coming back.
Jack: Nothing in my life has ever felt so right.
Run away. Run far, far away. OK. Let me pose this question. Has Jack been right about anything, ANYTHING, on Lost island. Name one thing. Just one. Fine. Name one thing Jack has been right about anywhere on the planet Earth. I felt incredibly more comfortable when ole Jack was busying making bologna sandwiches for everybody back at the Barracks while Little Ben was dying. I’m sure not more than 2 or 3 of those sandwiches exploded. Jack wants Kate to rub his aching nuts…um, to believe in him. Kate agrees. This author groans. Stop with the I believe in you stuff. You have a bomb. Kill yourselves, and make it snappy. Radzinsky keeps drilling. There Will Be Blood. By the way, fantastic movie. I wish Daniel Day Lewis wasn’t quite so picky with what he does. Geez, Bill the Butcher in Gangs of New York and now an oil baron maniac. A treasure for sure. “I drink your milkshake. I drink it up.” I get goosebumps. Then I see him pick up the bowling pin, and I get the giggles for the next 5 minutes.

Hurley reluctantly uses his Get Out of Jail Card, and catches a cab with Jacob. Jacob spends an awful long time talking with Hurley. This makes me wonder if this is because Hurley needs extra convincing and positive reinforcement, or because Hurley is extra special. Of all the people on the island, for me and for nearly everybody else, Hurley remains some kind of pure character, never doing horrible things like nearly every other main character, a real life Scooby Doo. A pure soul. Jacob corrects Hugo’s I’m cursed rant and calls him blessed. Jacob also touches Hugo’s chest, not unlike Mr Anderson doing so to Neo in the 3rd Matrix movie and the final battle in the Matrix. Hugo ends up with the mysterious guitar case, containing God knows what. Unless it’s the Ark of the Covenant, which in that case would be God. I’d love to see Jack open it and have his face melt. While Jack is being told to get the bomb as close to the source as possible, I am left mystified by how quickly Kate changed her mind about the bomb being evil. I think she was excited to see Jack and Sawyer fighting, and thought it must be over her, so she needs to continue to feed her ego by agreeing to whatever is necessary to keep her the center of attention. Meanwhile, the Others at the foot wait at the foot until night falls, rather than doing something right as they arrive in the middle of the afternoon. OK. But, note. It’s night time 30 years late, and day time in 1977. If there is a time jump by the Losties to the right time, it won’t be an exact jump to meet with the other group.
Richard: Jacob would have come to you.
Locke: I’m tired of waiting
Well, it’s not like Locke was waiting all that long. What, a day? No, Xlocke needs to act right now, to take advantage of the loophole he has exploited. Xlocke has been on the island for quite some time, so I’m sure he is tired of waiting in general too. Ben tells Sun that the statue was like that when he got here, but Sun doesn’t buy it, and I am not so sure that I do either. I wonder if Ben and Richard and the Others knocked down most of the statue to chase Jacob out. Jacob sought refuge, and chose the cabin. Then, Ben and Richard trapped him in there with the ash. Since Xlocke was been using the cabin, Jacob escaped elsewhere, but what none of them realized was that Jacob fled back to the ruins of the statue. During this time, as punishment for damaging the Tawaret statue, goddess childbirth, children on the island became a huge issue. Richard protests Ben going in to see Jacob, as only the leader can do it. Strange that a former leader is not afforded the same privileges. Richard moves the wall, Ben get a knife, and Xlocke claims all will be different once Jacob is dead. Indeed.

Miles questions Jack’s mission of the bomb, as he is the only one in the group who was not used to seeing Jack come up with a half-assed plan, and everybody falling in line behind them, full of dread knowing that it won’t work. What if the bomb causes the incident, which if a normal question, one that myself and characters on the show have been speculating about. As the group sees Phil go bouncing by in his jeep, Juliet mutters the overused “Live together, die alone.” Can the writers throw anymore clues to the viewer that Juliet is about to die? Holy smokes. Just throwing a subtitle on the bottom of the screen “Juliet is about to die.” would be a bit less subtle. We get it. Sawyer calls Juliet “blondie”, yet another attempt to distance Sawyer from Juliet to lessen the blow for the audience. Jack’s gun accuracy continues to impress me, blasting away at the Dharma folks. Then again, I’m sure Dharma wasn’t trained to be commandos, so it’s possible they are leaving themselves wide open as targets; therefore, I will quickly take back my compliment to Jack and pretend it never happened. Jack takes cover behind a mound of dry dirt, since obviously a bullet can’t possibly pierce that obstacle. Tell you what, faithful reader at home, go get your gun and a bag of sugar. Try to shoot a bullet through the sugar. And what did you learn? Exactly, don’t listen to me. You can trust me, but don‘t listen to me when I give you instructions. Now go get your broom and dustpan. I’ll wait. Trust me. Oh, don’t be ridiculous, I’m not waiting. And what did you learn now? Never trust me. So while Jack continues to play Neo from the Matrix and breaking rules of physics with his Kevlar dirt, Hurley pulls up in his superhero van yet again, saving the day…he’s like a free safety, showing up at the last second, exactly when he has to. Hey, Dharma sees the faux Hostiles have a bomb. Let’s keep shooting at them. Brilliant. Looks like everybody forgot their logic pills today. Instead they all took Cialis and are a hell of a time trying to lay face down in a foxhole. Sawyer clobbers Radzinsky, captures Phil, and gets Dharma to throw down the weapons. Game over. Let’s all go home. But that would be disappointing, with so much time left in this episode, and with many, many more commercials that need to air, so let’s instead say that the drill can’t be stopped as the electromagnetic pocket is sucking it down into the earth. That sounded vaguely erotic. Uh, oh. Jack looks at Kate, Sawyer looks at Juliet, Hugo looks at a jar of ranch dressing, Phil looks into a mirror and wonders why he never plucked his eyebrows, and Jack drops the bomb into the hole. Nothing happens. Jack Sucks Moment of the Week, #14 or whatever hell number we are up to. Did anybody out there, anybody at all think it would go kaboom? This was JACK. Everything he does turns to sh!t. However, the magnetism kicks in, the same that was pulling objects in the Season 2 finale just before the Swan hatch blew up. Remember, that explosion had a profound effect on Desmond, and a somewhat lesser effect on Locke and Mr Eko, who were in close proximity. Right now, there are a bunch of people hanging around, so you have to wonder what effect, if any, a possible upcoming explosion will have on them. Random metallic objects are being pulled down the drill hole, Dr Chang’s arm becomes pinned, which will lead to an eventual amputation, so that when we see him in future, or at the very least we saw him in the Losties past on orientation films with a fake arm. Now we know why. Phil corners Sawyer, and is going to get his revenge for Sawyer punching him. But this is Hollywood, and it doesn’t work that way. Instead, Phil is impaled. Just goes to show, if you hit a woman (Juliet), bad things are bound to happen to you in the end.

5.15 Follow The Leader
Then Phil comes on down the aisle and slugs Juliet in the face. Well, I was a bit surprised at that punch, sort of the reaction I had when Mongo in Blazing Saddles punched out a horse. Not from Juliet taking a punch, which was funny in an absurd kind of way. But you know windshield wiper eyebrows Phil will die in the season finale. Hell, Sawyer just said “I will kill you”. So, even though we won’t have Phil to kick around anymore, at least he brought a comedy element to his upcoming death

But if she happens to bring you a warm beer and makes you a terrible sandwich while you are watching the big game, hell, all bets are off.
5.14 The Variable
The more troubling sight is seeing Juliet in a red shirt for the second straight episode. JJ Abrams is directing this upcoming Star Trek movie, and as all Trekkers know, red shirts get killed all the time. Uh, oh. I predicted at the beginning of the season that Juliet would not survive much longer. I was wrong about how quickly it will happen. But it’s about to happen nevertheless, much to my disappointment.

Juliet manages to get more chains wrapped around her, preventing escape than David Blaine, Criss Angel, or a dominatrix role playing. She has more chain links around her than a suburban property trying to keep the awful neighborhood kids from doing a dip and dash in their underground pool. She has more chains wrapped around her than Regina, a worker on the freighter during Season 4 who walked off the ship and straight into Davey Jones’ Locker. As Juliet is hanging on for dear life on the edge of the drill hole. Sawyer and Kate spring into action to save her. Sawyer is desperately holding on, knowing that if Juliet dies, he will have Kate stalking him forever. Meanwhile, Kate is doing her part by stretching out her arm about 6 inches, maybe a foot, like she was offering a hand shake to somebody, and proclaims “I can’t reach her.” Kate Is A Wh0re Moment of the Week, # 1700. What kind of effort is that? You sticking out a baby arm , a Tyrannosaurus teeny tiny arm barely into that hole to help the girlfriend of the man you want to idolize you…oh, right. While Juliet is screaming, about to fall, you call hear Kate whispering “So, Sawyer, now that you are about to become single..” I heard it. I swear I did. Trust me.
Sawyer: I got you.
Juliet: I love you, Jamesssssssssssss.
Sawyer starts to cry. Fantastic, touching death scene, really giving the Juliet character a dignified ending. I admit that I choked up too, and shed a couple of tears. Why, oh why, oh why, couldn’t that have been Kate falling down the hole? Oh, so sad, my friend. Sniff.

At the statue, Sun is in search of booze. Hell, who isn’t? It’s 7:30 AM on a Sunday morning, and I’m drinking a warm beer. Hey, it’s 10:00 AM somewhere in the world. Probably Alabama. Illana’s group appears and they are looking for Ricardo. “It’s Richard.” Makes you wonder. If Star Trek and Fringe can reintroduce Leonard Nimoy, why can’t Lost bring back Ricardo Montalban. He’s dead? So what? That hasn’t stopped this show before. Next year, we will find Charles Widmore feuding with Heath Ledger and Bea Arthur off the island.
Illana: What lies in the shadow of the statue?
Richard: (Latin, translated) He who will save us all.
So, is Illana’s group part of the off island Others, which Ben has shown to us over the years exist, and Jacob, to whom the Othes swear their allegiance, has meet with Illana off island, does this indeed make Illana and Richard allies? Xlocke said that the Others must deal with the Ajira survivors, most likely kill them. So what will happen next if Xlocke shows Jacob dead, declares himself ruler of the island, and obey my orders. Now, Richard, kill Illana. Illana has something to reveal from the cargo on the plane, and it turns out to be Lock’s dead body. Inside the foot, Ben and Locke are moving into a room we saw at the very beginning of this episode, apparently Jacob’s home. Looking up, you can see the sky through the open ceiling. Which bothers me to no end, since there seems to be a perpetual fire burning in a pit. Does it never give off smoke? How could nobody have seen that smoke drift out of the foot and realized somebody was living inside of it? Was if because Jacob was trapped in his cabon with the circle of ash, and only very recently set up shop here, not allowing enough time to be discovered. Still, it is taking an awful big chance, as smoke can rise quite high, or can be blown inland quite far with wind from the ocean. Ben admires the tapestry that Jacob has created. It’s a Greek phrase, from Homer’s Odyssey, “May heaven grant you in all thing’s your heart’s desire” Seems like a witty foreshadowing, as Locke has spend all day, hell, a few days goading Ben into wanting to kill Jacob. He is borderline consumed by the thrill of the task.
Jacob: Well, you found your loophole.
Xlocke: You have no idea what I’ve gone through to get here.
Let’s step back for a second. First of all, let’s mourn the loss of Locke. We spent 5 seasons heavily invested in this lovable character, a guy that had a trying existence, a meek, kindly soul willing to believe in people even when they constantly let him down. Up until the end, he kept doing what he thought the island wanted him to do. But as we have mentioned many, many times, for a couple of years now, the island is not equal to Jacob is not equal to Smoke monster is not equal to Christian. Turns our there are at least two competing entities here and that thinking they were all one and the same would have been a mistake. Since the there is a Book of Laws, as seen by objects put in front of young Locke off the island by Richard, this book is likely the reason Jacob and X can’t kill each other. Jacob is probably either above being judged or simply a pure soul himself. When Locke told Richard to tell time traveling Locke and he needed to kill himself to get back to the island, it was actually Xlocke telling him that. Locke was not going to be resurrected into Super Locke, but rather Smokey Locke. Right now, the man in black, Smoke Monster, and Locke are all wrapped up into one neat little package. It will still be nice to see Locke in his new possessed role, as I enjoyed evil Terry O’Quinn in TV shows like Millennium and Harsh Realm. When Ben was being judged, it was all a big setup. Don’t forget, when Ben summoned the Smoke Monster when Sun and Frank were around, Smokey never showed up. Because he was already there, as Xlocke. When Smoke Monster went to attack Keamy’s men, it didn’t do much damage, like it did to Mr Eko or the pilot from Oceanic 815. At the time, I expressed by disappointment and confusion over it. Now, it’s clear that Smokey needed Keamy to stay alive long enough to blow up the freighter. X has been doing one giant long con job. Smoke would have killed Ben in the Temple unless it needed him for manipulation down the road. Notice, that Locke and Smokey/Alex never appeared in the same scene while Ben was in the Temple. Ben was told to do everything Locke told him to do, and don’t even think about killing him. Alex is the only one that could have delivered that powerful message to Ben and have Ben listen. Which meant Alex had to die for Smokey to take her form. Which meant Keamey needed to be on the island to kill her. Which meant…you get the idea, and how much thinking ahead Xlocke had to do. Jacob is looking for the loophole where he can prove a pure soul can stop the event loop that he and X are battling through with chess pieces in the form of humans. He needs to prove his point to break his cycle. And the only candidate like that which springs to mind is Hurley. I don’t feel comfortable knowing Hurley can save the world, but I’m not the head writer. Can you imagine the storylines with me in charge? Lost: starring Nikki, Paulo, Ethan, and Artz. Kate dies in the pilot episode. X believes that all humans are corrupt, and his loophole is to have the only person that can gain an audience with Jacob, the leader of his followers The Others, to kill him willing. Xlocke managed to go to Ben at an early age when Sayid was manipulated into shooting Ben, triggering a visit to the Temple to save him yet strip his innocence. X most likely lives in that Temple. Ben grows up to be the leader after “tricking” Widmore into leaving the island, maybe Ben pretends that’s what Jacob wants. Jacob never talks to Ben, so Ben over the years grows resentful. Now, Alex is dead, the rules were broken, and Ben is pissed. And image the subtleness of X to have Ben move the island and not Locke. It causes the island to time skip which may have changed events in the future by way of the past, Ben and several others return, and now the moment of truth for Xlocke. A Judas Iscariot in Ben is about to betray his Master. The manipulation of the characters goes much deeper, as I will no doubt see when I rewatch the first 5 seasons of Lost over the next few months.
Xlocke: Do it, Ben
Jacob: Ben, you have a choice. You can go.
Ben: All I ever heard was Jacob, blah, blah, blah. I did as I was told. Why did I wait? But Locke didn’t? Why him? What about me?
At this point, we may have to accept that maybe Locke was special, and by killing him and assuming his form, Xlocke becomes more powerful than ever. The other point is maybe Locke is nothing special. He was simply used to get Ben pissed off.
Jacob: What about you?
A very defiant statement, one made by someone that knows what comes next. Jacob knows that he can calm Ben down with some reassurance. Ben is throwing a total hissy fit right now, and needs Jacob’s approval, approval he never got from his father. And the coincidence that so many characters on this show have daddy issues leads me to believe it‘s not a coincidence, but a means for Xlocke to find one that will ascend to leader of the Others and eventually kill Jacob, the father figure. But instead Jacob wants to die, have Ben kill him, giving a seeming victory to Xlocke. But like many of these good vs. evil stories go, there is usually some deeper magic/rules/action in play, and this fits with Jacob’s master plan. Jacob is sacrificing himself for the greater good of the island/world. However, this means the Losties take on a bigger role for the island’s fate next season. Ben takes the knife and in an extremely effeminate way, stabs Jacob several times. I swear, it looked like an old lady trying to stop a mugger by swinging her purse. It looked like Clay Aiken throwing a punch at Mike Tyson. It looked like a squirrel trying to scrap with a pit bull. His arms were as fully extended as Kate trying to reach Juliet in the drill hole. Ben stabbed him in less than a manly fashion. What a pussie. Yet, the stabs hit their mark.
Jacob: They’re coming.
Just before he died, he announced that someone is coming. Since Xlocke seems to be in tune with what is going on on the island, logically this must mean to me that the Dharma Losties are going to return to their correct time. And have to deal with Zombie Xlocke. Oh, we’ve often wondering what Season 7 of Lost would look like, after the current story is done and over with. Zombies was always a tongue in cheek response. Well, we have zombies right now. What irony. Juliet is laying at the bottom of the drill hole, busted up pretty badly, but still alive. From one scene to another, she seems to be bleeding more or less, depending on the camera shot. Continuity error? Or a mindfock like when the bullet hole of Ben’s kept moving around his body like some type of fly moving around the top of some fresh dung or rotting fish or Kate. She sees the bomb, picks up the rock, and beats on it with some rage. White light. Does this signify the bomb detonated? Time travel? Both? We’ve seen the white light when the Swan blew up, and when the time jumping was happening. Unfortunately, Juliet’s injury would move with her if it was a time jump. She is very very likely dead. If the bomb went off, and it didn’t in the past when the incident first happened the first time around, did this have a ripple effect on future events. Does the Oceanic 815 land in Los Angeles, meaning the last 5 seasons of TV watching was…meaningless. Do the Losties jump 30 years into the future, and a fight over control of the island manifests itself? This might be the second best fight ever waged on TV, following close behind the saga of Vince McMahon and the idiot owner of the Denver Nuggets from this past week, The basketball guy took a beating in the media. Nothing made me happier. Looks like I’ll be watching wrestling Monday night for the theatrics.

I think next week, it‘s time to do a character by character thumbnail review and where they fit into the Lost universe going forward. I also want to take some time and possibly put together some long term theories that cover what exactly is going on with this show, beginning to end. This finale was much more confusing that past season finales, but I think we broke it down enough to get the idea of what happened. We just need to look at the big picture. One more article to go, should have it done in about a week.