LOST - Season 3 Finale

Did you watch the season Finale of LOST last night? It was pretty good. Still WAY more questions than answers, but I'll for sure be watching next fall. Even with all the plot complications it's still the best show on TV (except for The Office). Brad links to some interesting reactions from last night's episode from Lost Easter Eggs:

When Jack pulls up to that funeral home, the name of it is “Hoffs/Drawler.” This is an anagram for “Flash Foward.”

So I’m thinking the gist of Jacks flashforward is that he’s now haunted by Bens words to him that if they leave the island …they all will die. this funeral might be one of many…and jack can’t bear to watch them all die one by one. He feels responsible as he refused to listen to Bens warning. Maybe they’re all sick?

Flash forwards are impossible and unreal, and this show, as crazy as this still sounds, is based in reality. Jack can’t see the future; what we saw tonight is the present. Notice how Jack doesn’t react to any of the “flash forwards”. If he did see them, he would know he’d be that remiss about leaving, and would take steps to correct that mistake.

It is not a “flash forward” in the sense that we understand “flashback.” Rather, it is the present, and we get a glimpse of what’ll happen. So yeah, all of LOST has been a mega-flashback from the point of today’s flashforwards, if this makes any sense. BUT, since within the LOST world, the ISLAND is the PRESENT, then what we saw tonight wasn’t the ACTUAL present, but the REAL future, what it all will lead to. But Jack was most definetly NOT getting Desmondesque flashes as he gazed unto oblivion. I buy the JEREMY BENTHAM possibility. It would tie into the whole John LOCKE, Desmond David HUME, Danielle ROUSSEAU philosopher trend.

The name in the HD screen caps is clearly Jeremy Bentham. Here is some info about this European philosopher: the Prision he designed, which was made to be able to observe all prisoners without the prisoners knowing they were being watched to create a power of mind over mind…And lastly the socail power club he belonged to called the Jacobin Club (JACOB)

I also think we just saw the very end of the show. I.e. Jack and Kate meeting up is how Lost ends in 48 episodes. The only difference is that by then we’ll know who was in the casket and we’ll know why Jack was so distraught about not being able to go back.

I’m thinking that when the rescue ship makes it to the island, they only have enough supplies to take a select few, vowing to come back for the others. That’s why Jack feels so incredibly guilty, because they left people behind, and they haven’t been able to find the island again….

i think they went back in time to before the plane ever crashed, before any of them ever got on the plane or made the decision to get on the plane — thus, jack’s dad is still alive, and only the survivors of the crash know about the crash ever happening. it doesn’t explain the “golden passes” but it does explain jack’s dad being alive, jack and kate having to keep something a secret, etc.

i also think that because they leave the islane, everyone dies (charlie - heroin overdose, claire’s baby aaron getting sent to bad parents, jin being killed by sun’s father…etc…) the island is actually what kept them alive for a good, quality life.

the entire run of LOST we have been rooting for them to get off the island, this episode changed all that — now we want them to stay on it. excellent writing.