Previously...on LOST!

[OumaFan]

IMO Ben and Locke are the stars of the show. Jack started off so important but has fizzled a bit (although I'm sure he'll have a huge role) plus I don't really like him as a character. Kate's saving grace is she's pretty hot. But I could do without her constant pouty look, melodramatic acting, etc. At least she's hot.

Ben, Locke, Sawyer, Juliet, Hurley are the best characters.

I don't know what is the deal with that chick who brought Sayid on board, "what's in the shadow of the statue"

And I'm a bit unclear about the ending with Ben's daughter, or something presented as his daughter, telling him to go with Locke.

The smoke monster can take human forms? Or that was something else? I don't know.

Good episode though.

[OumaFan]

Ok so I think I've got everything pretty well figured out about the show in general, the time traveling, etc. Then John takes Locke and Alpert and tells him the guy's gonna come out of the woods and Alpert's gonna have to tell him he's gotta die, and etc., and obviously out comes John.

I just watched it so I haven't given it much thought but I'm not sure how that happened.

[OumaFan]

Ok I guess one of the skips in time just took him to the future at the time that Locke and Sun and Ben were there with Alpert.

John is awesome but he's got such a smug look on his face all the time this year OOOHHHH the island talks to me.

[bcollins]

You'll love the finale. Or hate it. Or both. One of those...

[OumaFan]

I have obviously tons of questions but one little (or maybe not little) thing that has bothered me for a long time is why Richard Alpert, who's immortal (?), maybe even a crew member of the Black Rock (?) and who seems so important is always seemingly the second in command, why he is always just an advisor to a leader, whether it be Whidmore (who may be a descendant of the original others) or even a guy that wasn't an original other or a descendant in Ben.

Now at times he almost seems like the real leader just acting like he's second in command (when he says he doesn't answer to Ellie or Whidmore when he takes Ben to be cured) but still that doesn't really answer the question of why he's not the leader overall.

And I will not be happy with "that's the way the Island wants it" as an answer. Its probably the answer.

Anyway I'm saving the two part final for tonight. Sucks that Daniel died, oh well. Richard saw "all of the 1977 Losties die?"

Edit-now that I think about it I guess he was the leader in 1954 when Locke came to the camp.

[OumaFan]

I didn't like the finale Well, compared to my expectations.

So that guy from the beginning of the episode who was talking to Jacob about how bad he wanted to kill him somehow became Locke? Who was that guy? Why did he want to kill him? We've got to find out at some point.

Talk about your ultimate cliff hanger though. What did Juliet setting off the bomb cause? Does it cause them to skip back to the future somehow? What happened to Sayid, I would assume he dies but god knows with Lost, of course Juliet would have been gonzo from that fall.

Still so much we don't know for a show with one season left.

[OumaFan]

OH shit. I just thought of this.

Was that the smoke monster? Was the guy in the beginning and the smoke monster somehow the same thing? It can shape shift, as it did into Alex. Who told Ben to do whatever Locke told him too, i.e. kill Jacob. So it shape shifts into Locke who tells Ben to kill Jacob.

But. Why did it have to wait for John to do that?

Why could Ben kill Jacob and not say, that first guy at the beginning?

Of course that theory could be incredibly wrong, haha.

One of my major problems with the finale was the Jacob thing seemed forced. We wait five seasons, we find out who Jacob is, he goes around doing crazy shit and then he's dead.

I'm lost, no pun intended. Where do they go from here?

LOL now the time travel part seems simple.