Holy. Fucking. Shit.
Anyway, was that Sun and Jin behind Jack on the plane in one of the first scenes? I was watching from outside at the time, but it sure looked like them to me. The next flashback (heh) led me to theorize that that flight was Jack and Sun and Jin flying to Australia. Which reminds me: The Oceanic flight that crashed left from Australia, right? If so, why were Sun and Jin in Australia?
:dubious: They have 3 more years left. That was the season finale, not the series finale.
If Naomi isn’t who she says she is, ie., with Penny, but she still gets everyone rescued, how is she a “bad guy”? Unless there is actually some mission (probably relating to babies) being pursued on the island that is not resolved by the rescue of the Losties Obviously, in retrospect, Jack realizes that leaving the island was a mistake, and Kate does too, on some level. So their evacuation must have caused something pretty bad to happen or something good not to hapen, though life seems to be proceeding in a mundane fashion for the rest of the world.
Maybe not everyone was rescued. I’m thinking of Claire, actually, since Desmond’s vision had Claire getting off the island in a helicopter, no one else. Jack was obsessing on this idea that he was going to get EVERYONE off the island, ALL of them. Maybe people were left behind, erased from the flight manifest yet still remembered by the Losties. That’d be creepy.
Any indication of how long between the events on the island and when Beard!Jack flashforwards took place?
Also, I want a Golden Ticket to fly around the world on a Friday night just to have a drink.
Tom said that Ben was crazy having him shoot into the sand instead of shooting the Losties, because of what they had done to the Others, killing seven of them.
Soooo, when Jack told Kate “I’m tired of lying!”, what’s he talking about? That along with the fact that Jack alludes to his dad still living makes me wonder if it wasn’t technically a flash-forward but that maybe the Losties jumped backward in time and the whole shebang was undone when they were rescued? And they’ve all been debriefed/brainwashed into not telling anyone what’s going on?
Hmm…would be an interesting turn of events since going back in time to a point before the plane crash would give everyone a chance to redeem themselves and deal with the troubles in their lives–all the crap they were flashing back to while on the island.
I really want to know why Charlie didn’t just run out and slam the hatch door behind him. I suppose he was just tired of running from Death since he’s cheated it so many times before.
My God, it’s gonna be a long wait until February. :eek:
What? That wasn’t the end of the series, just this season. It still has three more seasons to go. 
And if they go to the future now and deal with the island through flashbacks, that will ruin it for me. In fact, the flashforward there at the end almost would have if this episode hadn’t kicked so much ass. Part of the appeal of the show to me is rather or not they got off the island or died on it.
Granted, we only know of at least three people that get off, but still.
I rewound – Here’s what they said.
Kidnap Squad Leader: “It was an order, Tom. We had to follow it.”
Tom: “Ben doesn’t know what the hell he’s talking about. He’s lost it! I mean, look at what they did to us! Instead of putting three bullets in the damn sand, we should have killed them for real!”
Looks to me like Ben’s order was to fire bullets but not kill them – a bluff. And Tom was arguing against the sense of that order.
No way. I’ve been promised a “highly anticipated and shocking finale” in 2010 - that damn well better include comprehensive info on just about every question in the Lost Questions thread!
It’s weird - I swear something about Jack’s facial hair just telegraphed, “future flash.” (when its badness wasn’t completely distracting, that is). But WTF is up with his father. Can’t be that he’s so messed up he forgot or something - he was also writing himself prescriptions from his father’s practice, and worried what would happen if the pharmacy called that office.
To paraphrase the Waco Kid, we’re interested, but we’re very puzzled.
(Oh and all I could think about during Hurley’s rescue was how the VW van haters were going to eat crow here!)
Nope. I thought the same thing. Or at least considered it as a possibility.
Brian
Maybe it was just a very cheap funeral home which was indicated by it being in a bad neighborhood. Locke, who had super healing powers on the island, suddenly suffered from a broken back and a gunshot wound upon leaving. He died shortly after returning to the world, hated by all the Losties who saw him as a villainous nutbag who tried to keep them from being rescued. Only Jack realized that Locke was right, and went to his funeral. Is my guess.
What do Locke and Mikhail have in common? There must be a reason they both have super healing powers on the island, and each has some sort of healed major wound (broken back, missing eye). Hmmm.
Male pattern baldness?
Has Locke killed anyone before? My friend I was watching Lost with said that she thought it was out of character for Locke to shoot Naomi so easily, since he’s never even seen her before, but he was unable to kill his evil father who tried to kill him. I remember that Locke let Boone die, but I don’t remember Locke ever killing anyone before. And Locke shot Naomi so easily, but he wouldn’t shoot Jack when Jack wouldn’t give over the phone. That didn’t exactly make sense to us.
I’m sure that Locke knew that he needed to get the satellite phone, but I don’t know why he threaten to shoot Naomi if she didn’t give it over, instead of just shooting her without any warning. Other than to make the show more dramatic obviously.
Did Jacob say that Naomi was so evil that she had to be killed immediately? Does anyone have any guesses?
They do kinda look alike. Maybe Mikhail’s mother got conned in a Cold War rationing scam by some rotten schemer who goes by many names…
ETA: Locke didn’t shoot Naomi, he threw a knife at her, and maybe he just can’t kill people he knows/cares about and whose faces he’s looking into. He “killed” Mikhail easily enough.
Same here. I went back and watched it a couple times. They sure looked just like Sun and Jin.
[nitpick]Locke killed her with a thrown boot knife, he didn’t shoot her.[/nitpick]
I think the whole flash foward will end up being a kind of head-fake. I think it’s more like one of Desmond’s flashes, a possible future, rather than the inevitable one.
Does anyone have a screen capture of the plane scenes, e.g., the newspaper?
I thought that too… but isn’t that a kind of “it was all just a dream/Bobby Ewing in the shower” kind of fake-out ending? Will people feel ripped off if they do that? I kind of will, though maybe what will wind up happening is that Jack will have some way of “unchoosing” that moment where he made the satellite call.
I want to know WHY Jack is filled with remorse about his decision. I’m thinking that some people just didn’t come back, and now don’t exist except in the Losties’ memories. What else could cause such anguish in Jack, considering that he accomplished his goal of rescue?
Has anyone seen the updated message on the Hanso website?
Oh hell yes. Some Losties got off, others didn’t, Jack figures it was his fault. Ever the martyr. Saying nice things to Kate about how Sawyer wants to protect her, and then “I love you, Kate.”
Call me shallow, but I liked seeing Kate with shiny, clean, conditioned hair. Looked like a Pantene commercial. 