Let's discuss 'Lost' finale. Please!

So, what they're telling us is, "Lost" is all about love?

Well, not all. But the Jack-Kate-Sawyer triangle (with Juliet on the fringes) reached a fever pitch in the explosive (had to say it) two-hour "Lost" finale on Wednesday. And when Jack revealed, to Sawyer of all people, that he was willing to blow up the island, himself and everyone on it, just on the chance he could start from scratch and hopefully get Kate back, well, I didn't know whether to hug him or lock him in a hatch for eternity.

He's been annoying in his seeming serene single-mindedness lately. I never would have guessed that it was all because he was pining for Kate.

And who was that man on the island's beach, sitting beside Jacob and looking out at a sailing ship -- a ship perhaps doomed to suffer a fate similar to that of Oceanic Flight 815? He was calmly telling Jacob -- the "real" Jacob this time, I suppose, and not the Jacob in the form of Jack's father -- that he wished he could kill Jacob, but there was something preventing that from happening. (I laughed out loud later, when Richard tried to stop Locke from taking Ben along to see Jacob, citing a "rule," and Locke got angry and accused him of making up the rules as he goes along.)

And why doesn't Richard age? Was that corpse really Locke and the Locke who led Ben to Jacob the guy from back on the beach? And does Sawyer really still love Kate, or did he realize that Juliet was the one?

It was telling, I thought, that in the end, the only person willing to say "I love you" out loud was Juliet.

Still more questions than answers. I have to reset the DVR and watch again for any clues I might have missed. Then wait until next year for the final season and see if I was lost all along.

Any thoughts, "Lost" fans?

Posted May 14 2009, 11:08 AM by Sharon Eberson
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Arkiegal wrote re: Let's discuss 'Lost' finale. Please!
on Thu, May 14 2009 2:36 PM

How about Jacob going individually meeting our Losties pre-island, touching each (or at least handing something off to each) and also dispensing a brief but meaningful chinese-cookie sort of advise?  List of all who were visited by Jacob: Sawyer, Kate, Locke (after fall from window no less!), Jin & Sun, Hurley... was that all?  Does that mean anything that it's only those people?

Like seeing Rose and Bernard, but why?  I expect just about everything in Lost to have a meaning.  Was showing us Rose and Bernie just so we're now at ease as to their whereabouts?  Frankly I'd forgotten they'd gotten seperated from the group.  Or were they there to impart chinese-cookie wisdom to Kate vis-a-vis 'love is so very, very important'?

I too want to rewatch.  I've said that all season but never did.  Last night was hard, as I was switching between American Idol (Yay Kris!), Penguins (Yay Pens!) and LOST.

Thanks Sharon for letting me get this off my chest.

Arkiegal wrote re: Let's discuss 'Lost' finale. Please!
on Thu, May 14 2009 2:38 PM

OH, and the ship - don't you think that was the Black Rock?

I thought it was interesting that Mean-Beach-Guy said that Jacob had brought the ship there.  Said it very matter of factly, like this was his modus operandi.

Sharon Eberson wrote re: Let's discuss 'Lost' finale. Please!
on Thu, May 14 2009 4:20 PM

Yes, I thought the ship was Black Rock -- trying to be coy because I'm always afraid of giving away spoilers. But what the heck.

I went back and forth between the Pens and Lost, too. Missed three goals, but made it hard to follow Lost as well.

Happy to see Rose and Bernard but found it hard to accept that they had lived peacefully and unnoticed 5 miles from the compound. That seemed a bit silly.

It's kind of cool that we get to see Jacob's ongoing relationship with so many members of the cast and yet he's as much a mystery as ever.

And I will henceforth think of Mean-Beach-Guy as MBG. Thanks for the short cut.

Arkiegal wrote re: Let's discuss 'Lost' finale. Please!
on Fri, May 15 2009 11:45 AM

OK now that we're into it... what do you think about the idea floating in the blogisphere that both Jacob and MBG are Egyptian gods.  or even aliens that in Earth's history posed as ancient gods (see "Stargate" or any of several Star Trek episodes)?  

I don't have the time or mental capacity to follow all the theories that are out there, but this one intriqued me and my friends on Facebook.

Tuned In Journal wrote Talking finales; NBC's pre-Leno plan
on Wed, May 20 2009 6:05 AM

There's an interesting report in TV Week that NBC considered stripping a show in prime-time hosted

Buc Fever wrote re: Let's discuss 'Lost' finale. Please!
on Wed, May 20 2009 5:12 PM

I've watched the beginning of the season finale a few times now, and it doesn't seem to me like the guy at the beginning is mean at all. In fact, if you consider the facial expressions both Jacob and this man exchange, it seems that he is grudgingly following Jacob. It even seems as if he is upset with Jacob for bringing more people to the island, knowing that the island will eventually pull them apart (which seems to be the theme).

I also noticed the decision to dress the two, with Jacob wearing white and the other guy wearing black. Perhaps we are now seeing the two sides of the island? A "good" and a "bad"? From the conversation at the beginning and the revelation at the end with Locke's body still dead...makes you wonder if this man's spirit has lived-on on the island, and is now using Locke as a proxy to reclaim his power.

Now...whether that is a good thing, or a bad thing, is still yet to be determined!

However, I guess pretty much EVERYTHING is now yet to be determined given the explosion at the end. Has the explosion erased all history of Locke on the island, subsequently erasing Ben's murder of Jacob? Is Jacob really dead? I mean, the guy has been living on the island for thousands of years, and all it takes is Ben with a knife to seal the deal?