My Head Hurts

WARNING, WARNING, WARNING:

IF YOU HAVEN'T WATCHED THE SEASON FINALE OF LOST YET AND YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENED, DON'T READ THIS BLOG ENTRY.

Okay, I think we're amongst friends. WHAT THE HELL? It's 1:15 am and I am still trying to work this out. In my defense, I got home from hanging with some friends around 9pm so I didn't start watching my tape until just after 10.

I guess I'll go through this chronologically--sort of, you'll know what I mean--

Here are some thoughts:

First off, during the credits I got excited because I saw the actor who plays Walt was listed.

The Jack/Juliet smooch was a little weird, especially considering not too long after that Jack tells Kate he loves her. So what's up with the kiss? Has Jack given up on Kate for the time being because he saw her and Sawyer's porno? Or, is he playing nice with Juliet for another reason?

Loved the Nirvana song playing when Jack was driving to the funeral home. "Scentless Apprentice" if you didn't catch it. Weird that a song "based" on a book (Perfume) which was turned into a movie has now been in a tv show.

Bernard! Dude, LIE!!! You could have told them the gang went to go hide. You didn't have to tell them the true freakin' plan. Thankfully Tom didn't actually shoot the boys.

Hey Alex, meet your mom for the first time. Mom stare lovingly at daughter then suggest the ultimate bonding experience---let's tie up your father!

Hurley, we hurt because we love.

Hurley part 2: the van kicks ass, but where was the music? Did the 8 track get tossed out after the last adventure?

Naomi and Penny--so Penny has a direct link to the island, perhaps Dharma is a part of her father's business dealings? If Naomi wasn't part of Penny's efforts to find Desmond, then why does she have a picture of him in her copy of Catch 22? And, why was the book in a foreign language? Did she pick it up during a prior mission? Or, does Penny just not know the names of everyone working for her trying to find Des? I mean, she had some Russian dudes working on it before. Man, this chick has connections. Also, has she just been sitting around her webcam, or whatever, waiting for someone to receive the signal?

How does Ben know on sight that Naomi is not someone to be trusted, assuming he was telling the truth?

Why didn't Charlie just get out of the room? The blast broke the window and sent the water rushing in, but the whole place was huge and I'm sure he and Des could have gotten those tanks on and swum out of there. Why do only certain people die on this damn island?

Locke is alive!!! And he had a vision of Walt...or someone/something who morphed into Walt. Legs still work and he seems to have held his own against that bullet. Why didn't he tell Jack he saw Walt? Why did he let Jack make the phone call?

And on to the big one--

The flashbacks were actually flashforwards. But...

If they were true flashforwards, then Jack got off the island, but Jack is way fucked up. The chief of surgery says he was a hero a second time--meaning the first was getting atleast some people off the island. Jack mentions his father as though his father was still alive, but was he just really messed up from the drugs and the drinking? Or, as some people theorize, is his father alive? But, if his dad is alive, was he "re-born" on the island? I seem to remember that Jack went Down Under to pick up his father's body--meaning someone declared him dead. If dad was re-born and now at the hospital, then he would need to be found at some point and rescued with the castaways. And, how the hell do you explain that to the hospital staff?

Jack's ex-wife is with child and they are so not speaking to each other. I can't remember if we've seen a flashback that gives us a timeframe for when they broke up. I know we knew it happened, but I'm trying to get events in the right order.

It takes till the end of the episode before we find out that Jack had called Kate. She meets Jack secretly and talks about having to go back to "him." Jack asks why she wasn't at the funeral, and she pretty much tells him she had no reason to go. Who is in the casket? Some of the postings I've read this morning have been leaning towards Ben, Jacob, or Locke, possibly Sawyer. People who have a lot of time and technology have freeze framed and posted pictures of the obit Jack was reading. You can't make everything out, but you do know this person was in LA, it was a man and the name started with Jo and the last name had "antham" as its last letters. It also appears the body was discovered shortly after 4. At first I was leaning toward it being Michael. Kate might still be pissed at him for what he did to her, Jack and Sawyer. But, you'd think she'd understand doing some sort of extreme behavior to save someone you love ('Cuz nothing says I love you mom like toasting your abusive father).

Jack says they weren't supposed to leave and that they have to go back. He also admits that he has been using his "golden pass" to repeatedly fly in the general area of the original crash hoping that the plane he is on will go down. So, the airline must have given them free fare for life to make up for the whole crash incident. The man clearly has developed a death wish along with his nearly manic desire to, presumably, return to the island.

Who is the "him" Kate is talking about? And why the hell isn't she in jail? Did they make some sort of deal with the devil and the "him" is Ben? That could easily drive Jack insane. He purposely spared Ben so that Ben would see he was wrong and that Jack was right...that Jack could save everyone. If they have to work with Ben to get back, that would crush Jack. Is Kate in hiding from the law now or did she get some sort of get out of jail free card when she returned?

OR--could this not be a true flashforward and instead is just a possible end to the story?

Jack makes the call even though John says it's not supposed to happen this way. The guy on the other end of the line sounds friendly enough and it sounds like first thing next season atleast someone is getting off the island. We "know" from Des's premonition that Claire and her baby get off the island in a helicopter, and Des seemed to think that the two of them were going to safety. John just sort of slinks off for whatever reason. Des is still in the underwater facility, but he has tanks so he can get back to the surface. Plus, he has to tell someone that Naomi doesn't seem to work for Penny. The rest of the gang is on the beach--with Juliet. Is this going to be a problem? Jack will probably just radio Hurley and tell them help is on the way. And what about the Others going to the temple? Why did they have to go there?

It seems to me that if the end of the series really is that Jack goes bonkers and he and Kate have a strained relationship at best, that would not give a person reason to watch for 3 more years. One theory floating around is that season 4 doesn't take place on the island. That it instead involves everyone trying to get back to the island because home now really sucks. That just sounds weird to me. I'm sticking with my idea that the flashforwards are just an example of what might happen and that Jack will have the chance to change these events. (OH, and if everyone is getting off the island right away, why bother with setting up the whole Jin might die 'cuz she's preggers thing?)

I'm sure I'm way off somewhere. Tired now. Going to bed. Discuss at your leisure.