Season VI, Deep Thoughts - The Finale

Just a quick FYI, the official recap of the show is the next blog entry down, so just keep scrolling down before reading this. As I said at the end of the recap, I plan on doing a few more blog entries to discuss the immense amount of questions that were left unanswered, and I will do my best to find resources to provide some sort of closure for each question. Plus, I love doing this, so it will help with my LOST withdrawal over the next few weeks.

So here’s what I think all went down in the finale. Once Juliet detonated the bomb in the season 5 finale, the intense amount of energy surged our friends from 1977 back to the present. I am still trying to grasp if the bomb explosion WAS the incident that killed a lot of the Dharma folks, or if it was the massive amount of electromagnetic energy that was released from the bottom of the drill rig. Regardless, the bomb was nothing more than a Flux Capacitor.

We are led to believe throughout this final season that the explosion of the atomic bomb actually created an alternate sideways time line where the characters are all well and good, living their lives and fulfilling their desires. However we all got the impression that something was missing in their lives. As my brother Dave had commented a while back, Desmond wanted approval from Widmore. He has it, but he is alone and doesn't know Penny. Charlie is still playing in Drive Shaft, but he is still a junky. Claire is going to raise Aaron herself, but she is all alone. Hurley has the best luck in the world, but has no luck with women. Locke is married to Peg Bundy and has a relationship with his dad, but he is still paralized. Jin and Sun are in America to start their lives together, but Sun's dad wants Jin dead. Sawyer didn't grow up to be a conman, but his dad still killed his mom and himself and "Sawyer" is still out there. Jack has a son, but he is divorced and his dad is still dead. Kate has escaped her past and the law, but she is still on the run.

I believe that Oceanic Flight 815 did crash on the island, and all of the survivors' experiences, interactions with the Others and the island we viewed over the past 6 years to the point where Jack dies in the bamboo garden really did happened. Whatever happened, happened. The sideways time line of Season 6 was thought to be an alternate reality, when it actually was a place, some call it purgatory, between our life on Earth and the afterlife.

Matthew Fox said it best on the “Aloha to LOST” special when he said, “After you die you go to a place, and this place can last a nanosecond or an extended period of time where you eventually have to remember your own death, and remember all the people that were instrumental in your life. The people you loved and were important to you, and in remembering them, you can let go and move on to the next after life (whatever that might be).” It was a great interpretation and I completely agree with him.

We were given clues throughout the final season that the sideways timeline was, indeed, a staging area before moving on to the afterlife or heaven. Rose told Jack in the season premiere (after all the turbulence on the plane), “you can let go now…you can let go.” These clues were consistent throughout the season. So Jack died in 2007, for all we know Kate could have died in 2077. Since the most important time of her life was spent on the island, when she died her spirit moved on to this ‘spiritual plane’ that looked a lot like Los Angeles in 2004. There is no NOW here, so time is indefinite in this purgatory state.


Christian Shephard eluded to the fact that some of his Oceanic friends died before him, and some long after him. The trials and tribulations that the characters experienced forever connected them. This show has been built off of connections from day 1. They always focused on relationships, like how Jack was connected to Christian, whom was connected to Claire, and so on and so forth.

When Desmond was exposed to the catastrophic EM (Electromagnetic) Field Power Test earlier this season, he actually died for a brief moment and his spirit/consciousness moved on to purgatory, not the 2004 alternate timeline. At some point Desmond figured out that he was dead, and was able to help the other Oceanic 815 passengers figure it out as well by putting them into situations that would recreate their most dramatic and emotionally driven times on the island. Kate helping Claire give birth to Aaron. Locke wiggling his toes for the first time after they crashed. Sun’s ultrasound experience with Juliet. These all helped them relive their life experiences and ultimately, relive their impending death.

By the end, they all remembered their island experience, their lives, deaths, and connections to each other. I kind of feel the writers stole this idea from Titanic. After Rose Dewitt dies as an old woman, she moves on to that spiritual place and joins Jack Dawson, and everyone else that has died (at one time or another) and shared in the tramatic experience of the Titanic sinking. That time was the most significant part of Rose’s life. Even though she died years and years later, her spirit took on the physical form of a young woman during the time in her life that was most significant to her.

So once everyone realized that they were dead by sharing in the emotionally intense experiences, they were able to let go, and move on. Michael was not there because his spirit was still trapped on the island as a lost soul. Walt was not there because the actor is 6’5” with facial hair and he’s only supposed to be 11 years old on the show. I get the impression that Ben did not want to move on because he was still repenting for his sins once he realized that he was dead. I am still on the fence if the spirits of Alex and Rousseau were also actually part of this collective purgatory, or were they just the figment of Ben’s imagination and past life placed there. It appears that Jack ‘created’ a son named David with his imagination so that he could be the father that he never had. It still boggles me why the writers sold out and made Juliet his ex-wife. It would have been ever so more astute to use my idea of Harper Stanhope as his ex-wife.

In the end, I was pleased that they could all remember their lives, and were able to move on to the next life together. No one does it alone.

I started watching LOST the summer after the first season. I always heard good things about it, but never had time due to the fact that we had a new born baby in the house. On a ‘dude, you’ll love it’ Hurley-type of recommendation, I started watching it. ABC was brilliant enough to re-air the entire first season during the summer leading right into Season II in the fall of 2005. I was immediately hooked with all of the plot twists, revelations, and classic Holy S-! moments. It’s been a blast to try and figure this show out along the way with all of you.

This whole blog started as an email between the Oceanic 6 (Joe, Dave, Bill, Andre, Dante and myself). I guess you could say Charlie Boo and Mike Mazz were Oceanic 7 and 8. We would just toss around theories and had fun with it. In Season III, I started emailing a brief recap of the show around, and we’d all ‘reply to all’ with questions and thoughts. It was basic, but germane… From 8 people it expanded to 23 to 42 to the weekly blog you are reading right now. Thank you for taking the time to read it. It’s hard to gauge how many people read it on a regular basis (I still haven’t figured that out with the website), so I never really knew if anyone was reading it at all…until this Monday morning when I got around 15 mutually exclusive emails asking “when are you going to post the blog…my brother’s uncle’s cousin’s former roommate is waiting for your recap”. I’ve heard that we actually have people from London reading this…crazy.

It truly has been a great ride with this show, and I wonder if when I eventually move on to the next spiritual plane, I’ll end up in a my living room typing away on the computer while my beautiful wife glares at me patiently waiting to check her facebook account... Just kidding Angela!

I hope that this blog was helpful to you as we experienced the show together. I know it helped me to remember what happened in past episodes, and get a better understanding of what in the hell was going on. It truly was a priveledge to share this with you.

See you in another life, brotha.

-Slice

Season VI, Episode 17 – The End

There were a few lines that topped off the finale – “Kinda true dude, he’s worse than Yoda!” – Hurley. “You all head over to your heart of the island, and I’ll get that magic leprechaun out of the well.” – Sawyer….and finally “We’re not candidates anymore…..WHACK!” followed by “oooooh” – Sawyer with an elbow to the face of Ben Linus.


The seasons may have changed, but the themes remained the same throughout:

- Live Together, Die Alone.
- Do not mistake coincidence for fate.
- It’s purgatory! (this was more of a fan-theme than a concept of the show).
- I can fix this!
- Whatever happened, happened!
- See you in another life, Brotha!
- Aaron is the key to the island (that was my theme, which pissed me off because it never came to fruition).

Let’s dive in. Christian Shephard’s coffin is being loaded off an Oceanic plane, and arrives at the same church where the Dharma Lamp Post station is located. They used this station to find the island. Desmond helps the courier, and then rejoins a well dressed Kate in Hurley’s car. “Christian Shephard, seriously?” Desmond’s response, “...seriously.” Kate asks why she is there. Desmond says, “No one can tell you why you’re here, Kate.” “Well you’re the one that brought me here!” Desmond responds, “I’m not talking about the church, I’m talking about…here!” (Watching this for a second time gives this line a whole new meaning.) Des is going to show her where they are going…

WHOOSH to the island and Jack looks like re-born man, he’s reflecting on what just happened (his ceremony with Jacob) and what he’ll do next. Sawyer says to him, “Come down off the mountaintop and tell us what the burning bush had to say for itself!” Nice reference Sawyer. Jack explains the game plan of getting to the heart of the island, and they collectively figure out that Desmond is going to be used by Flocke in some way to put out the light. Sawyer leaves to find Desmond in the well. Kate and Hurley leave with Jack for the heart of the island, the source. Hurley delivers a final classic Han Solo line, “I’ve got a bad feeling about this.”

Then we cut to our first of 12 FREAKING COMMERCIAL BREAKS! Are you serious? Back from commercial and Hurley is with Sayid in the flash sideways. They are parked in front of the same motel complex that Sayid used as a safehouse when he broke Hurley out of Santa Rosa Mental Health Institute. Hurley knocks on one particular door, and Charlie Pace answers. Hurley is grinning from ear to ear, which makes me realize that Hurley really can remember everything that’s happened on the island. “Do not disturb…who are you, and why are you grinning like a soddy idiot?” Hurley’s smirk makes me chuckle, “Uhh you’ve got a concert to get ready for, and I’m here to pick you up!” Charlie’s not going, so Hurley has to use a tranquilizer gun to get him to the concert.

WHOOSH to the island. Jack’s explaining why he took the job as the new Jacob, “the island is all I’ve got left, the only thing I haven’t managed to ruin.” Kate’s response is “nothing is irreversible.” Jack said the SAME thing to Locke in this year’s season premiere when they met at the airport. Sawyer catches up with Flocke at the well where Desmond used to be. Sawyer informs Flocke and Ben that they are no longer candidates, which means one of them has replaced Jacob. Flocke doesn’t seem to care, since his intentions are to find Desmond and use him as a weapon to destroy the island.

We now shift our attention to an all too familiar season finale locale…Bernard and Rose’s retirement village. Rose now looks like one half of P.M. Dawn and Bernard looks like Bad Santa. They no longer get involved since retirement. Flocke and Ben show up, and Desmond agrees to go with Flocke as long as he leaves Rose and Bernard alone. As we leave the scene Desmond knows what is going on with the heart of the island.

We segue to Miles near New Otherton. He’s found Richard, whom appears to be alive! Richard wants to finish what they started by blowing up the Ajira Airways plane. (He’s really taking his wife’s orders to heart…much like we all do).

WHOOSH to the museum concert benefit thing and Miles sees Sayid in Hurley’s hummer. He warns Sawyer to get to the hospital to keep an eye on Sun Paik. I smell a Sawyer/Juliet reunion brewing. At the hospital, Juliet enters Sun’s room to take a look at the baby. Here comes Sun’s heightened state of emotion. Sun looks at Juliet in a very familiar way, as Juliet warns her that the gel ‘is a little cold.’ Again, the same line she said back in Season 3 to Sun when she first showed her the ultrasound of the baby. As she presses the probe to her belly she “remembers”. Looking at the monitor, Jin begins to experience the same rush of memories. They both say to each other, “Did you see?” And now that they’ve experienced their past lives, they can speak perfectly perfect English. “It’s a girl, her name is Ji Yeon.” I like the way this finale is going!

WHOOSH to the island. “Easy Bigfoot, it’s just me!” Sawyer warns them that Flocke has Desmond and Jack’s ok with it, “we are all going to the same place anyway!” Sawyer says, “then what?”…"Then it ends!"

WHOOSH to the hospital and Jack is prepping Locke for his spinal surgery. “Alright, I’ll see you on the other side.” This phrase takes on a whole new meaning now.

WHOOSH back the island, and Miles and Richard head over to Hydra Island in the outrigger. Richard finally realizes that he wants to live, as Miles pulls out his first gray hair. On the way they find…LAPIDAS ALIVE!!! Nice. Now they plan to take off in the plane instead of blowing it up. On the main island, we are shown a wide angle shot of Flocke/Ben/Desmond approaching Jack/Kate/Hurley/Sawyer. It reminds me of the Greasers/Socials face-off from The Outsiders. Kate just starts firing away at Flocke, and it’s kind of funny. Flocke seems surprised that Jack is the new Jacob since he is the obvious choice, but does not seem surprised that Jack intends to kill him once Desmond does what he is supposed to do.

WHOOSH back to the hospital and Jack informs his son, David, that he gave the concert tickets to his mother. We are about to find out the mystery mom! AND IT'S HARPER…what…Juliet…sorry but that was absolutely such a lame surprise. Especially considering that once we find out its purgatory, why would Jack be married to Juliet? Are you telling me that during there so-called marriage they never made an emotional connection to be able to remember their past lives? This was the weakest part of the episode for me…I guess because I thought the writers would be more clever. (So who magically created this son named David, Jack or Juliet, as part of their purgatory experience?)

WHOOSH the island, Flocke informs the entire group that he’ll be heading to the source with only Jack and Desmond. Hurley approaches, “Jack, I believe in you dude!” Des does not seem scared or worried in the least bit, in fact, he tells Jack “Doesn’t matter what happens, I’m going to go somewhere else, a place where we can be with the ones we love, and never have to think of this damn island again. The best part is Jack, you’re in this place. We sat next to each other on Oceanic 815, it never crashed, we spoke to each other and you seemed happy!” (The first time I watched this, I was ALL IN on the fact that whatever Desmond does was going to cause the 2 timelines to collide and everyone in the 2004 timeline would end up living their lives, and the 2007 timeline would cease to exist (at least for our Losties). Jack knows what’s up and says, “There are no shortcuts or do overs…whatever happened, happened!” Indeed it did Jack, indeed.

Back from commercial #8 and we are back in 2004. Hurley thinks Sayid is really a good guy, regardless of what others think about him. Sayid stops a bar fight after tall blonde gets pushed into some trash. Holy S-!, it’s Shannon. They touch, share a moment of heightened emotion and remember their past relationship. I wonder if Sayid recalls kissing Shannon when she was a complete bloody mess after getting shot in the gut. Boone seems so useless in this episode, I wonder how he remembered his past life…did Desmond put him in a Beechcraft 18 airplane and tip the plane off the side of a 50 foot cliff?

Still in 2004, Juliet is at the concert with David as she finally meets Aunt Claire. She has to scoot to the hospital for an emergency. Charlotte shows up again, and wakes up Charlie. “I was shot by a fat man.” Pretty funny delivery I must say. Daniel is also in the scene and formally meets Charlotte for the first time. But when they touch, there is no intense emotional connection. Hmmm... David and Aunt Claire join Desmond and Kate at Table 23 as Driveshaft and Daniel Widmore take the stage after being introduced by an ageless Dr. Pierre Chang. (They never explained if Dr. Chang was ever part of the Dharma Initiative in this universe…unless I missed something). Charlie takes the stage and sees Claire out in the crowd…he begins to drool like a baby. How coincidental because Claire goes into labor and is about to deliver a baby.

WHOOSH to the island, and Desmond is being lowered to the bottom of the glowing waterfall. At the bottom, the floor is covered with man-made stone structures, a walkway into a central glowing pool, and I noticed skeletons all over the place. I also noticed that we are running out of time in this finale and we’ll probably never get to learn what the island is, who made this underground ‘temple’ of sorts, and who were all the dead bodies lying around the floor? Des enters the Beverly Hillbillies bubbling crude. The pool has a central plug with hieroglyphics on it (again which we will probably never find out what they mean). Des gets a nasty nose-bleed, begins to glow himself, but manages to pull the plug. The light of the island, the source, has now been extinguished…and coincidentally Flocke is now MORTAL! Jack hits him with a right hook, and Flocke returns with a small boulder to the side of Jack’s skull. I’m guessing that probably hurt like hell.

We are half way there people, so like I always say in the Finale post…stick with me. I guess that’s my other recurring LOST theme.

Back at the concert in 2004, Eloise joins Desmond. “I thought I made it clear that you were to stop this!” Desmond just chose to ignore her threat. Eloise says, “once they know…what then?” Desmond replies, “Then…we are leaving.” Eloise is concerned that Desmond is going to take Daniel with him, but to my surprise he is not. Hmm, where is Desmond going to take them?!? We segue over to the museum where Claire is in labor, Charlie’s left to get the classic ‘towels and water’ associated with giving birth outside of a hospital, and Kate is coaching her. At this point, Kate has either experienced the intense emotion I’ve been describing, OR got a little grossed out by Claire’s Vajayjay because she has a wide-eyed crazy look on her face. Aaron is born, and Kate has experienced all of her past memories, and I think Claire has too. When Charlie returns, Claire instantly remembers who he is, and as Charlie takes Claire’s hand, he also experiences his past emotions and memories. They both look at the baby...“It’s Aaron…it’s Aaron.” I look across the room at our LOST party, and I can see my brother’s wife, Holly, and Joe Britz crying…it’s a special moment for us all.

WHOOSH back to the island. I can see stagehand #3 and stagehand #5 throwing styrofoam boulders at Ben, Hurley, Sawyer and Kate as they are making their way to the cliffs. They radio Miles who is helping Frank Lapidas fix the Boeing 737 with duct tape, a piece of plywood, aluminum foil, 2 bottlecaps, and some bamboo. Jack wakes up and goes after Flocke who is just about to climb down a ladder towards the boat. Jack initiates a fantastic Ryu Rising Dragon Fist Punch. A wrestling match ensues and Flocke manages to stab Jack in the side with his big-ass knife, that’s not good. Jack continues to fight, gets a nasty cut on his neck from Flocke’s knife (so that’s where the nick on his neck came from), and just as Flocke is about to attempt to finish Jack off, Kate shoots him in the back with her rifle. “I saved you a bullet.” (-3 points to the writers for that weak line). Jack kicks Flocke off the side of the cliff and it’s poetic. Smokey / Essau / MIB / Flocke is now…dead! Evil has been defeated, and Jack’s purpose has been fulfilled.

WHOOSH to 2004, and Jack’s neck begins to bleed, NICE. Jack checks on Locke who happens to be awake right after his major surgery, and he can move his toes. Locke begins to experience all of his past emotions, and remembers his life on the island. As I look across the room, my brother Dave is crying…what a sap. Jack can’t believe it, and he actually shares a brief memory of the time Jack and Locke were looking down the hatch shaft in Season I. He’s freaked out, and is going to the concert to see his son. Locke responds, "but you don’t have a son!" Jack and I say at the same time, “WHAT?!” “I hope somebody does for you, what you just did for me.”

Back to the island and Jack looks like your typical Benjamin Linus. “Find me some thread and I’ll count to 5.” Nice line Jack, seriously. Way to bring it all back to the beginning. The island still needs to be ‘fixed’ and Jack is the man to do it. “Whatever Desmond turned off needs to be turned back on again.” Jack says his final island goodbye to Sawyer and Kate. “Tell me I’m gonna see you again!” Jack starts to mumble something, and then stops…he proceeds to play tonsil hockey with Kate for one last time (on the island). Ben and Hurley are staying put. Kate says, “I love you” and I half-expected Jack to say, “ditto”. Don’t know why, that’s just what came to mind. Sawyer and Kate plummet into the ocean. Kate rips her spleen, and Sawyer now has brain damage from their heroic jumps.

WHOOSH to the hospital and Sawyer enters Jin and Sun’s hospital room. They greet him with smirks, because they now remember everything about James Sawyer Ford. Jin has a hilarious grin on his face as he says, “Hello….detective.” That was awesome. They are leaving and they inform Sawyer that they’ll seem him later… Sawyer leaves and attempts to grab an Apollo Bar from the vending machine. Enter Juliet, here we go. “It’s ok, I’m a cop!” Juliet responds, “well maybe you should read it its rights!” She tells him to unplug the machine and then plug it back in. “It worked”. (The same phrase she said to Miles from the Afterlife/Purgatory when she was first buried in the season premiere). They touch hands and share their past lives together. “We could go dutch!” As Juliet says this in the 2004 time line, and simultaneously in a flashback memory they realize they’ve been reunited. “I gotcha…I gotcha baby…” I look around the room and now Brian Zack is crying like a baby, I guess he always had a connection with Sawyer and Juliet.

Still in 2004, Jack’s late for the concert and is greeted by Kate. “It’s over,” she tells him (in more ways than one Kate). Jack still can’t figure out where he knows Kate from. She touches his face and says, “I’ve missed you….sooo much.” (Very important hint that prepares us for the surprise ending). He begins to experience visions of their shared past, and gets even more freaked out. Kate adds, “I know you don’t understand, but if you come with me, you will!”

We are coming very close to the end of an era with just 20 minutes left in the show. Jack is destined to go to the bottom of the, now dry, waterfall and turn the island back on. In doing so, he passes the Island Matrix of Leadership to Hurley. Jack says, “this is the way it’s supposed to happen, it was only supposed to be me so I could do this!” Hurley is not gonna let Jack die, but he accepts the Aquafina bottle of dirty water from Jack and takes over the leadership role anyway. Jack says, “I believe in you Hurley, and I believe in the fecal coliform bacteria that is now lining your stomach”. “Now you’re just like me.” And with that, Hurley is now the new protector of the island. Jack successfully climbs down the waterfall shaft and revives Desmond. Des is worried that it didn’t work, he thought that he would leave this place, “you were right, Jack!” Jack’s response, “There is a first time for everything, now you go and be with your wife and son…see you in another life brotha!” (What a great line that has captured our attention since the first episode of Season II). It's great that these two individuals are the ones that have saved the island.

We transition over to Hydra Island where Sawyer and Kate find Claire on the beach. Claire refuses to go, “Look at me, this island has made me crazy. I don’t know how to be a mother anymore!” Kate responds, “None of us do, but you’re not alone, let me help you.” (When I first saw this I did not think it was a big deal, but now knowing how the show ends, I was expecting something more dramatic and better dialogue since it appears that we never get a chance to see Claire engage with a 3-4 year old Aaron. Very disappointed with this exchange, but I guess we are left to assume that Kate and Claire make it safely off the island, and raise Aaron together. They all make it on the plane that has now been duct taped together and safely fly away. Claire and Kate are holding hands, and you can see Sawyer begin to cry. This is the first time Sawyer and Claire have left the island since destiny called on September 22, 2004.

Back at the heart of the island, Jack heaves the rock-plug-peg back into the hole, and water begins to flow again. A golden girl, I mean golden glow, emits from the pool once more. Hurley and Ben pull up the rope, and Hurley makes me laugh when he says, “Desmond…NO!” I’m surprised that Hurley didn’t push Desmond back down the waterfall. Ben believes Desmond is going to be ok, and believes that Hurley should help Des get home to his family. When Jacob ran things you were not allowed to leave, but maybe there’s another way, a better way to get Des home! Ben becomes Hurley’s #2.

WHOOSH to Locke arriving at the church. He meets Ben Linus whom is sitting outside. He apologizes, “I was selfish, jealous, I wanted everything you had. You were special John, and I wasn’t.” Ben is not going inside with the others, he still needs to work some things out. John Locke forgives Ben…for strangling him in cold blood. Hurley comes out of the church and says to Ben, “you know, you were a good #2.” Ben responds, “and you were a great #1.” And I say, “what the hell is going on here!?” Just then, Jack pulls up with Kate. “I’ll be inside, waiting for you, when you’re ready.” Jack says, “ready for what?” To which Kate replies, “to leave…” Again, the first time around I am still wondering where on Earth are they all going together, back to the island?

Jack enters the rear of the church and I immediately notice various symbols from multiple religions on the book shelves (a Buddha statue, a Christian cross, and a menorah just to name a few). As the camera pans across the room, the stain glass window depicts emblems from Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Taoism and Hinduism. At this very moment, I realize what is going on, where they are, and where they are going…the final Holy S! moment of the series. I was happy that they left us with 1 last OMG! moment, and even more ecstatic that they gave us 1 last Jack’s getting a migraine, grab the temples look. It was fantastic. He touches the casket and the full wave of past experiences flashes before his eyes. I think he realizes where he is now…a celestial plane somewhere between life and the afterlife (whatever your personal beliefs might constitute an afterlife). He opens the coffin, and it’s empty. Now we, as LOST fanatics, experience our own rush of intense emotions as the explanation of the sideways timeline is revealed.

Christian - Hey kiddo!
Jack – Dad, you died, how are you here right now?
Christian – How are you here?
Jack begins to cry – I died too, are you real?
Christian – I sure hope so. You’re real, everything that’s happened to you is real, all those people in the church..they are real too!
Jack – They’re all dead?
Christian – Everyone dies sometime kiddo, some before you, some llllong after you.
Jack – Why are they here now?
Christian – There is no now here (as he begins to look around). You all made this place together, so you could find one another. The most important part of your life was the time you spent with these people. That’s why all of you are here. Nobody does it alone, Jack. You needed all of them just as much as they needed you.
Jack – For what?
Christian – To remember, and to…let go.
Jack – Kate said we were leaving?
Christian – Not leaving…moving on.
Jack – Where are we going?
Christian – Lets go find out (as he smiles and escorts his son into the congregation.)

Jack enters the church and sees all of the people he shared the most important part of his life with all hugging, smiling, and embracing the moment. Good thing Michael’s not there, or maybe he would have shot Libby. As we pan across the room, I can vaguely see Sayid torturing Sawyer at the base of one of the pews. The group includes, Sayid/Shannon, Boone, Sawyer/Juliet, Bernard/Rose, John Locke, Desmond/Penny, Hurley/Libby, Claire/Charlie, Jin/Sun, and finally Jack and Kate in the front pew.

WHOOSH to the island, and as the final score plays over the speakers, we see Jack lying on a rock outside of the cave of golden light. He’s barely alive and begins to walk through the jungle into the bamboo garden. I love the brilliance of this moment. Jack’s about to die on the island, in the exact same spot where he first landed on the island at 00:01 of Episode I.

Back to the church, and Christian opens the doors to an incandescent vibrant light. Our LOSTIES embrace the light as it touches their celestial bodies. Jack closes his eyes, and as he does, we quickly transition to Vincent lying next to Jack as he makes his peace with the island. He sees the Ajira airplane flying away, he smiles, and closes his eyes…

…LOST

There are 3 final shots of the original plane wreckage on the beach. My understanding is that this is simply the wreckage left behind from the original 2004 crash which included 48 survivors, nothing more.

121 hours of LOST is now complete, and I am more than satisfied with the ending. Some will criticize that they didn’t answer enough of the scientific and metaphysical questions, but I am ok with it for the most part…I’ll leave my questions for a blog entry next week. I created a separate blog entry for my final thoughts and theories, based on my interpretation of the show. Its posted above this entry. I would sincerely love to hear how any of you felt at the end. Were you personally satisfied with how it all worked out?

For the last recap entry, I bid you a final and gracious…Namaste and Good Luck!

-Slice