So is next season going to fill in what happened between the call / rescue and Jack’s downward spiral, or start where it eneded tonight?
Brian
No, no… he’s being “funny.” He does that; you’ll get used to it.
So is this why Ben is desperate to keep the outside world from knowing about the island? Once a person has been there, they cannot bear to leave?
So will next season pick up with future post-rescue mainland action? Or will it pick up with the choppers coming in to the island to where we left off at the “present time”?
Waaaaaiiiiiiitttt a minute. I’m not sure I believe the whole future flashback thing. Unless Jack was just rambling drunk, this seems to imply that Christian Shepard is still alive. Jack said (in a “flashback”) – “Go get my dad down here, and if I’m drunker than he is, you can fire me!”
See above: Macbeth, self fufilling prophecy, stupid Mancurian git, etc.
That page 1 spoiler dance was 100%.OMFG. OMFG. I’m so happy they went this way.
Now everyone can shut up about mysteries not being answered and same thing week after week and no big revelations and blah blah blah. I’m so excited! What happened to everyone? Was the ‘he’ Kate talked about at the end Sawyer? Are they shacked up now? What about the Dharmaites? Did they choose to stay back? Gah, so many questions, but I’m sure we’ll find out later!
I vote for ‘rambling drunk’. I also vote that his beard looked like what I use to clean the wok.
It could exist “back home” with generous helpings of flashbacks to the impending rescue/attack. Or vice versa.
Part of me thinks that this will all contrive to lead the Others and the Losties to team up to hide and resist the potential baddies on the freighter. Penny will eventually come to the rescue because of Charlie’s little chat.
He’s conning us.
So it still wasn’t Penny’s boat. Meaning that there was something of truth to what Ben said – Naomi lied with her cover story. So who was on the boat, and what are they after? Locke seems to know something, but he’s not telling. Just killing Naomi and then running off again, perhaps find something else to kill.
If Jack’s “beard period” is in the future, why does he tell his fellow doctor to see how drunk his dad is? His dad was dead before the flight.
If the porthole that charlie was near was blown out, the water would only fill up to the top of the porthole, leaving enough air for Charlie to get a good breath and swim to surface. He was trying to end the cycle of Desmond’s visions and be a man IMO.
Will Richard lead the next season? Is Locke a freaking lunatic, or does he have some sort of “divine” guidance?
So much for us never having to see Waaaalt again. :rolleyes:
On preview, you guys type faster than I do.
Would just taking the tape cartridge (good quality tape that can play continously for 16 years) out of the cart machine disable the frequency that was blocking the radio/satellite phone or would you actually need to disable the transmitter or something?
Sayid: Still. The. Fucking. MAN!!!
Hurley: So glad he got his. Score one (or three) for fat people!
Locke: Unkillable. Throw him out a window, crash a plane on him, shoot him in the gut. Still walking around!
Walt: Waaaallltt!!
Naomi: She said she didn’t know Penny, didn’t she? Makes sense that Penny didn’t know here, and Penny wasn’t on the boat. I don’t think that’s “not Penny’s boat.”
Christian Shepard: I agree. Is he dead? Either the island really brought him back to life or Jack was just too doped up in the hospital to remember daddy was dead.
Future Kate: Meh, she probably came back to a really good lawyer.
I am really really hoping that the rest of the series deals with life off the island. That’d be so much sweeter than 2 (or 3?) more seasons of “what’s up with this island?”
If you’re talking about the window that Mikhail gloated through, it was too small.
In any event, I think Charlie truly believed he had to die to get everyone rescued, so even if there was a way to get back up intact, he didn’t care.
Great episode. The guy in the drugstore said “You’re the hero. Twice over.” I thought he was talking about saving both the mom and the kid, but maybe he was talking about getting everyone off the island.
So whose funeral was it? My first thought was Locke.
ETA: Yay! Locke is alive. Wait…
They definitely have a “Locke problem”
Well, I think she pushed a button that turned off the transmission entirely.
I still think there’s a possibility that he’s really alive. Somehow. He seems to be pretty important in the scheme of things – at least in several characters’ flashback histories. There’s probably more to Christian Shepard (dead or alive) that we will find out later.
In a grudge match against Mikhail. Two unkillables. Yet there can be only One.
What a totally excellent way to wrap up the series!!!
While they didn’t quite answer ‘all’ the questions, they certainly made sure that we knew the survivors would survive and that the “others” would ultimately fail.
I would’ve liked to have learned more about Dharma, the Smoke Monster and who ever that freaky teenager was that inspired Locke to yet again try to do something stupid (and then falter right when it mattered most) but It was all good.
And like any good RPG, never discount any item left behind, you never quite know when you might need to drive a VW bus to the beach to squish someone!!
I also like it that they left it open should the series be picked up again for another season!
Wow, I just can’t say it enough, WOW what a way to end the series!
Remember, Christian Shepherd’s body is on the island. Some people have a constitutional inability to die on the island (Locke, Mikhail), so I wonder if he might have been resurrected?
I doubt it–I’d say Jack was just drunk.
To quote Locke, we’re gonna need to watch that again.
I think one of the Others said something to the other Other about how they disobeyed Ben’s order by shooting into the sand. Sounds like they were ready to mutiny.
I think the guy in the coffin is Locke.
I was skeptical about keeping the story going until 2010. Not anymore. 
It’s been 30 years since I was on the radio, but it looked like she pushed the stop button on the tape cart machine which would have no effect at all on the transmitter itself. “Lost” viewers aren’t supposed to think these things through quite as much as some of us do, but there you go.
Am I the only one who thought that when Sawyer and Juliette heard noises right before Hugo’s VW came rolling in that it was going to be the smoke monster?
Also that funeral, should we read anything into the fact that it was happening in what looked like a black part of South Central? Would Locke, Sawyer, Ben or any of the other notables end up there?