Hi Friends!  I can’t believe Season Five is over.  It’s like when a relative (one that you like) comes to visit and at some point you are ready to get your house back but in another way you are sad to see them go.  I was thrilled to see the season play out and there wasn’t even one episode that I was disappointed with but I was also very sad for it to end, especially knowing we only have one season left!  Argh!  What will our new obsession be?

So for me I want to start with the Sawyer / Juliet scene at the hatch.  H-E-A-R-T-B-R-E-A-K-I-N-G.  I don’t cry for very many shows and that scene did it for me.  But I keep thinking of what our softened up 1977 Sawyer is going to become after this event.  Look out folks, you aint see nothing yet!  The sheriff is back in town and he’s got one hell of a chip on his shoulder!
  Ugh, the heartbreak!
  Way to go Juliet!  Push through the pain!

1.  So we know Jacob likes to weave rugs.  If anyone can read what is on this one that would be super cool and appreciated.  But the rug is always the same in the end, right, it’s just a rug.  Anything he learns in the making of the next one or does different is progress.  Just like what he says about people coming to the island.
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2.  Did Jacob catch a red herring?  The significance of that would be huge!  Or, it was just be amusing.
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3.  Black and white shirts.  How fitting.
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4.  Thank goodness Dan was so detailed regarding the bomb.  Maybe he had some sort of inkling that he may not be the one to do it or he knows how bad his memory is so that is why he was so very detailed.
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5.  Locke wants to kill the rest of the passengers from the Ajira flight, I assume.  He tells Richard that once they are done with Jacob that they need to “deal with them.”  How interesting.  Perhaps he knows that Ilana and the others are there to help Jacob.  I don’t like the new Locke anymore.

6. Frank being a “candidate” must have something to do with how Jacob will take form and speak to them after his death.  Ultimately, it’s going to be either Miles or Hurley, I think, that does the talking for him.  Heck, Hurley may even be able to get a game of chess going.

7.  It makes sense that Smokey, the man in black, and undead Locke are all the same entity.  Smokey came to Ben and told him he had to do whatever Locke told him.  duh!  Like killing Jacob.  Smokey was *reading* everyone on the island as it/he needed to find the right person that it/he could manipulate.  No wonder it didn’t kill Locke!  It wanted him for later use.

8.  Jacob didn’t kill Nadia, he actually saved Sayid from being killed.  He made Sayid pause before crossing and thus he didn’t get hit by the car that ran the red light.
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9.  Vincent!  Unfortunately, I’m sure that this will be the last time we’ll see this dog.  No back story. No more showing up when there’s trouble.  Unless… Jacob chooses Vincent to be his vessel around the island now that he’s dad.  That would be cool.
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10.  This is the last of Rose and Bernard, too.  But, I love that they found a loophole of their own.  They don’t play the game anymore, they just live.  They’ve embraced the island and it is what it is for them.  I would venture to say that they are the “Adam and Eve” that were found in the cave back oh so many seasons ago.  Too bad Sawyer and Juliet couldn’t have found the same Garden of Eden for themselves.
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11. The circle of Ash was broken from around Jacob’s cabin.  If memory serves, it was Locke that bent down and picked up some of the ash.  Perhaps that is when it was broken?

12.  Ilana’s eye opening.  It also kind of reminds me of Michael from the Halloween movies.  Eeeek!
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13.  Ilana didn’t just go back to the island to help Jacob.  She also made a little pit stop and nabbed Sayid to bring him back with her.  That is why I don’t think that Sayid will die from the gunshot nor will he did from the bomb.  Jacob needs him there for some purpose.

14.  Here is the part of the rug (I assume) that Jacob made at some point which Ilana knows already what it means.  I am hoping that we see some back story next year on their relationship.  Maybe she’s really old like Richard.
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15.  It’s interesting that they’re carrying around the big old cargo crate like it’s the Arc of the Covenant.  Did they really have to pick such a huge friggin’ box that took four guys to carry around the island?    I guess the writer’s couldn’t have used such blatant biblical imagery if they would have thrown him in a body bag or a knapsack.
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16.  Maybe it’s not the content of the book Jacob is reading that is important, but more about the author, “lead readers—whom she sees as, for the most part, spiritually lost in the modern, secular world—back toward the path of redemption.”
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17.  I miss Charlie!
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18.  Sun finding this ring makes me think back to when she (ironically) found her wedding ring in the sand.  How unlikely was that?  Perhaps some *divine* intervention helped her out there?

19.  The scene at the funeral of Sawyer’s parents, there is the sound of a large bird right before Jacob shows up.  Then, as he leaves you can hear the sound of a bird again (like a crow perhaps).  Could that be how Jacob gets around?  Remember the bird on the island that we thought sounded like it said “Hurley?  I keep thinking back to The Stand and in the book Randall Flagg gets around this way – he takes the shape of a bird.  Only, he’s the bad guy in that book and I like to think that Jacob is the good guy.

20.  I’m not liking that is was Jack’s dad that taught him about counting to five.  One of the most meaningful and life changing events and we find out that it was his dad who told him to do it.  Doesn’t seem as moving knowing this.  Oh, and Sawyer wanted just “five” minutes with Jack.  Lucky number I guess.

21.  Everyone that Jacob “touched” (except for Sun and Locke) were on the list of people that Jacob wanted from the survivors.  And, they are “coming” back from the past.  He somehow prepared them for this moment in the touches I think.

22.  The Sawyer and Jack fight was 5 seasons coming.  Glad they finally got that out of their systems … I hope.

23.  My bets are on Hurley for taking over as the leader of the Losties.  He was an indirect leader before (back on the beach Hurley had a subtle way of getting people to do things) and I can see him doing it again.  The war is coming between the black and white, the good and evil on the island and it doesn’t get much better than Hurley.  Plus, he’ll be able to talk to Jacob and what to do next.

24.  I loved the scene in the cab with Jacob and Hurley.  Someone to calmly tell him that he’s not crazy and getting to talk to those he lost is a blessing.  But I don’t believe that him coming back to the island was a choice.  Jacob knew once Hurley saw that guitar that he would go back (remember that Charlie told him that the people back on the island needed him).
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25.  The fact that Mrs Hawking and Jacob both were working to get the Losties on the plane and back to the island tells me that she is actually a “good” guy.

26.  Creepy Locke.  Nice shadowing on the face – black and white / light and dark.
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27.  Marvin Candle had a gimpy arm in the Dharma videos.  We see that during the *incident* that his arm gets trapped and Miles helps to free him.  So…. wouldn’t that mean that this event *has* happened before?  How likely is it that another event was the cause of hurting his arm? Like Miles said, Jack is creating the exact event that he thought he was preventing.  Free will be damned, this was meant to happen.
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28.   What if Jacob decides to take over the Locke body from the plane?  Locke versus Locke?  Like the old Spy versus Spy cartoons!
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29.  Jacob tells Ben that he has a choice – either to do what Locke asks or leave.  Kind of like he told Hurley he had a choice.  I don’t think Ben had much choice and Jacob knew it.  But Jacob won’t be dead in the spiritual sense.  Maybe he’ll even become one of the “whispers.”

30.  I think once Ben realizes next season that Jacob wasn’t the bad guy he’s going to have some big regrets.  Ben has been trusting and believing in Jacob for a very long time.  I’m sure he still cares about him in a sense too.

31.   If I were an actress and I knew I was going to be killed off of a show, I would ask for the exact death Juliet had.  That was amazing.  And she is an amazing actress.  Oh, and in the context of the show, I guess the island wasn’t done with her or she would have been so dead at the end of that fall.

32.  THE greatest season ender…. ever.
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33.   So where do we go from here?  It’s safe to say the Losties aren’t dead.  Matthew Fox did an interview after the finale and admitted that they weren’t dead.  But, from knowing this show there is no way that they will just suddenly appear back in regular time.  There will be a cool and interesting way that they are brought back.  Maybe they will be a big troop of Locke’s.  lol  Maybe they will be the whispers.  Maybe they will inhabit all the dead bodies around the island.

34.  Desmond had a small roll this season but truly I think Des is the one and only person who can truly be a variable in all of this.  Des is special.  Once he shows up then all bets are off.  Maybe ultimately Des will become the new Jacob in the end.

35.  Sayid will be alive.  He has to be.  Jacob saved him for a reason.

36.  Which side of the war will Richard chose?

37.  What does Locke need with all of the Others?  He told him that they would need rest to be ready for what he had prepared for them.  Which is what?

38.  We still don’t know what was in the box that Ben was hiding from Jack when he was in the hotel room.

39.  Walt *saw* Locke, in a suit, running from lots of people trying to kill him.  Will Locke rise again in Jack’s dad’s shoes?

40.  Will Walt return to the island?

41.  How will Claire come back into play?  Aaron is surely coming back as well.  Will Desmond’s vision of them leaving the island on a helicopter come true?

Sorry, took a mini “vacation” from the site.  Will get the summary up tonight with lots of pictures!!!

Thanks for checking back!

Wow. Now *THAT* is how you do a season finale.

So bittersweet.  Two hours of amazing tv but now the season is over for another 9 months.

1.  Why the big fancy metal box to carry around Locke’s dead body?  Whatever / Whoever has taken over Locke apparently doesn’t need the corpse to take his form.  Unless there is a twin out there of Locke.  I hate that it’s not Locke though.  I thought this guy had finally found his mojo but turns out he’s the man in black.

2.  I can’t help to think again to Stephen King and the bad guy he has running around (Randal Flagg, Walter, whatever you want to call him).  I’m thinking it’s the same “bad guy” concept that has a hold of Locke’s body and I also think it’s the same guy from the opening scene that wants to kill Jacob.

3.  We are back to our black and white theme.  Very first scene, Jacob has on white, the other guy has on black.

4.  I really want to stew on my thoughts of that opening scene.  If you’ve seen the 80’s movie “Clash of the Titans” then you’ll remember the scenes where the “gods” were moving the people around.  It almost reminds me of the opening scene.  It’s like Jacob brings people to the island out of some “power” he has.  I think maybe he is hoping that on one of the boats / planes that crashes someone will kill him and end the seemingly endless loop of events.  According to the man in black, they come, they fight but it always ends the same.

5.  Jacob seems like such a kind man.  He goes to each one of our Losties at an important moment of their life and is so gentle.  Except with Locke he actually brings him back to life after he falls out of the tree.  But, Jacob goes to each of the survivors which surely means there is a larger purpose for them.  And when they crash on the island Jacob makes the list of who he wants from the survivors.

6.  Jacob must want Sawyer to finish the letter.  He gives him a pen.

7.  Should Jack really be carrying the inner part of the bomb around on his back?

8.  I think that Richard is suspicious of the *new* Locke.  He keeps staring at him (or so Locke keeps pointing out) and even says he’s different.  But Jack tells Richard that he shouldn’t give up on Locke so I think that Richard might be second guessing his suspicions.

9.  So Eloise is their leader.  Richard says so when he makes Jack and Sayid go ahead of him through the Dharma houses.

10.  I’m not clear on what Frank might be a “candidate” for according to Ilana.  Guess we’ll have to wait until next year to see.  Maybe a new *body* for Jacob to inhabit?

11.   Hurley is a rock star in that van.  How many times can he be a hero driving that thing into dangerous situations.

12.  I love Rose and Bernard.  I truly hope that they leave those two exactly where they are.  Give someone some happiness people!!!

13.  “It’s always something with you people.”  I agree with Rose.  They can’t just sit still and live a calm life, they are always shooting at someone.  But I guess it would make for one boring show if they didn’t.

14.  Ilana has her face wrapped and all we see is her eye.  We haven’t had an eye opening for awhile.  When Jacob comes to her in the hospital she obviously knows him.  What must he ask for her help with?  I’m thinking it’s to stop the man in black from whatever evil he’s spreading.  Maybe she is one of the good guys.

15.  AND, if Jacob wasn’t the one in the cabin then there are some people on the island who have been talking to the evil / black spirit on the island.  And, Claire was in the cabin so she is somehow involved with him.

16.  Book that Jacob is reading, Flannery O’Conner “Everything That Rises Must Converge.”

17.   The first time that Ben took Locke to the cabin the man in the black shirt is the one who asked Locke to help him.  I don’t think that Jacob was there at all.  And I think Richard knew that.

18.  I was sad when Sun found Charlie’s ring in the baby cradle.  Made me miss Charlie for one and for another I missed the old, more simple days of the show.  Charlie gave his life so that Claire and Aaron can leave the island and I still think that we will see that happen.

19.  Maybe Jacob going to all the important events was like Dan going to Charlotte as a little girl.  He’s trying to subtly influence their behavior and thus change the course of events and therefore breaking the loop.

20.  I think it’s cute that Jacob is the little old lady who lived in a shoe.

21.  I thought that it was going to be Jacob that actually put the woman back together during Jack’s surgery.  Such a poignant moment in his life that I’m glad Jacob didn’t heal her.  But, we can see that both Jack and Jacob like Apollo bars.  I’m not clear yet on what his role was in that scene.

22.  Sawyer is 100% right, a man does what he does because he wants something.  But, I don’t think that Jack is trying to change the future because of Kate alone.  I think it’s all of his regrets collectively that he wants to change.

23.  The Jack and Sawyer fist fight was five seasons coming.  I think they needed to have it out once and for all.

24.  Juliette learned early about being in love but not being with that person that you love.  The scene with her as a little girl was a wee bit cheesy though.

25.  Jacob wanted Hurley to have Charlie’s guitar.  But I love that out of everyone, he only straight talks Hurley.  And he also reassures Hurley that he’s not crazy but rather that he’s blessed because he has the ability to talk to his dead friends.

26.  Sayid will live.  Killing of Juliet (as I thought she would be) was the sacrifice for the season.  They can’t also take him away from us.  They just can’t!

27.  I don’t think that the man in Locke has the capability of killing Jacob.  Having Ben do it is the loop hole he had been looking for.  But I’m also not convinced that Jacob didn’t want to die.  He doesn’t do anything to make Ben feel better about not seeing him all those years.

28.  Notice the black and white shadows on Locke and Jacob’s faces in Jacob’s foot/house?  Ben doesn’t have the shadows but the two of them do.  Will have to screen cap.

29.  Yeah Miles!  Finally pointing out what we’ve been thinking.  That the Losties are actually causing the event that they think they are preventing.

30.  So the scene at the Swan construction site was crazy intense, once the bomb actually went off that is.  Like when Locke first let the numbers run out and all the metal started coming.  Miles saving his dad.  And of course the Juliet in the tunnel scene.  OMG, heart wrenching!  I was very teary eyed in that scene.  You can also believe that Locke is not going to take losing her well.  If he was bad before then he’s going to be totally off the charts now.  I can see him blaming Kate and Jack for her death since he seems to think that they had a very happy life until they came back.

31.  Yes, Juliet waking up at the bottom of the tunnel was unrealistic but if the island wasn’t done with her then it makes sense that she lived in order to set the bomb off.

32.  Anyone able to translate what Richard says lies in the shadow of the statue?

34.  I really hate that it’s not *our* Locke running around the island.

35.  Jacob says “They’re Coming.”  I think that he means the O6.  They *were* meant to come back and I think it’s to stop the dark man that has taken over Locke.  That is their purpose.

36.  Elizabeth Mitchell has to be beyond pleased with the way they wrote her character off of the show.  Sure, it sucks that she’s gone but if you are going to go, THAT is the way to do it!

37.  I also was moved with the flash that Lost’s final season is next year.  What!  Can it be true?  I knew that was coming as well but it’s going to be such a bittersweet season.

Click here if you want to read them.  May be considered spoilers so I put them on the Spoiler Page for those of you who don’t want to know any info.  Don’t worry, it’s nothing that will spoil the whole episode, like revealing the ending.

Here is a little I can tell you:
“All I will say is that it is time for the time travel craziness to end,” he said. “And once it does end, something very, very surprising will happen in its wake. It is a little bit of a game-changer,” [Damon Lindelof revealed.] Source: The Ausiello Files

I think Dan was wrong.  Not that they cannot change the future because truth be told, any of us can change our future.  We can chose to turn right instead of left and save our own life unknowingly.  But, not all of us are transported to the past and therefore that decision has ramifications on the course of our lives on a whole.  Dan was wrong that the Losties weren’t supposed to come back to the island.  Yes they were.  In fact, they had to come back in order to save Ben and set off the bomb, creating the *incident* which lead to the quarantine of the hatch, the button pushing and so forth.  If the Losties had not have returned none of that could have happened and there is where their fate could have been changed.  Yes, my head is going in circles too.

1.  Looks like the old Locke is completely gone.  The boars of the island aren’t safe with him around.  This scene reminded me of the good old days on the beach were Locke went around killing stuff for them to eat.
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2.  I’m glad that Locke’s compass can still find North, according to Richard, because they *always* go North.

3.  I believe Locke.  If he gives Sun his word that he will help get Jin and the others back I think that he will.  And, did you notice that he called the Losties “our people?”  Maybe he thinks he leads them all now.
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4. Jack and his insatiable need to fix things.  Why does he have to fix it?  Why does he have to try and change the course of the future/past?  Doesn’t look like our Jack has changed one little bit.  And, he convinces Ellie to go along with it (in her hopes of changing the fact that she shot her own son).

5.   Was it just me, or the scene where the guy brings in the manifest and starts telling Radzinsky about who was on the sub remind you of when Hurley brings the manifest to Jack and points out that Ethan wasn’t on it?  Ethan probably had to split because he knew there was no way he could explain what was really going on.
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6. Tell the truth, how many of you out there could name the president in 1977 when Pierre asked Hurley?  I was just a little girl then so I didn’t know off hand.  But this was one terrific scene with Hurley and Pierre and had me laughing out loud.
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7.  So we answered the question of how Richard knew when to come and help Locke but now we don’t know how Locke new when to send Richard there.

8.  Radzinsky trades Sawyer a map to the Hostiles for a ride on the sub.  First off, Sawyer doesn’t know where they are as he hasn’t seen their camp.  Second, I can’t wait for next week to see exactly where he did draw the map to.  Knowing Sawyer, it’s going to be good in a funny way (funny to the audience I mean).  Plus, Sawyer promised to kill Phil so he has some revenge to take when they get back off of that sub (which we know they do from watching the previews).

9.  Kate says that she can’t go with Jack in the water and into the tunnels this time.  Why?  Kate is always up for adventure and always wants to come along so why not this time?  Was she thinking of Sawyer or can she not go around the hydrogen bomb?  This is very much not like the Kate who used to steal guns and sneak around if necessary to be a part of the action.
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10. Tell me when Kate became the moral majority?  She thinks that blowing up hydrogen bombs and killing children is so wrong but this is the same woman who robs banks and blows up step dads.  Typical, people think that if they do something for the greater good it’s ok but when someone else does it suddenly it becomes a moral issue.

11.  When the Freighter people showed up on the island remember that they thought that Dan and Charlotte went to the hatch to detonate a bomb?  They said that the bomb would kill everyone on the island?  Sound like a bomb that we know about (Jughead)?  Dan turns out to be stopping the bomb from going off but if he didn’t show up would the bomb have exploded?  It seems too coincidental these two events then and now but not sure yet how they play into the story unfolding.

12. Red flowers!  These have been around forever in this show.
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13.  Any guesses how the get the bomb moved?  Richard says by the same way they brought it in.  Hm….  I don’t think teleportation is an option.  Maybe the same way the pyramids were built.  The little cart it’s on seems kind of rickety.  Plus, it’s been sitting there for 20 years rotting.
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14.   “We’re not alone here and we all know it!”  Oh wait, wrong season.
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15.  Oh boy.  Locke wanted to kill the Hatch because he didn’t believe that pushing the button saved the world.  Well, we know how that turned out for him and he admitted he was wrong.  Now Locke thinks that upsetting the apple cart again by *exposing* Jacob is a good idea, that killing him will somehow set him free.  Hopefully past events/decisions of Locke isn’t an indicator of future events.

16. I watched it again and Ben totally says that he “tried” to kill Locke.  Tried?  Ben has a plan here and I think that Locke is 100% mortal and never died.  Maybe he had the crazy paralyzing spiders in that box he was hiding from Jack.  Being a doctor, maybe Ben thought Jack would recognize the spiders and then know he was using them to paralyze Locke.  Crazy theory you say?  I guess we will see!
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17.  No more knock out drugs on the sub?

18.  So here it is, cheesy CGI from the greatest show on TV.  Looks way more cheesy when it’s running that it does in these screen caps.  One can only hope that there’s not some tech sitting at a desk somewhere uber proud of this work.  I hope this was noticed and let go because of sheer campy-ness.
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OK, so who is the leader?  Looks like we’re back to Jack and Locke leading the packs.  Will be veeeery interesting when they hit the “present” to see who does what when new and improved Jack meets up with new and improved Locke.

1.  Too much dead Dan for me tonight.  It’s bad enough they killed him, I didn’t need multiple dead body shots.

2. OK, so I may lose people here but I want Kate gone.  I know why they keep her … because she’s the wrinkle in the plan (always, ugh she drives me crazy) but wow, Sawyer had a real shot at happiness.  Come on Darlton, you can’t just give *someone* happiness on this show?  I could totally see Sawyer and Juliet running off and making a nice life for themselves. Geesh, even in real life once in a while a guy can catch a break.  Guess the island isn’t done with him.

3.  I know why Locke has to kill Jacob.  Locke now believes that he had to be *killed* in order to be set free.  Jacob asked Locke to help him.  Locke’s way to help Jacob is to *kill him* in order to set Jacob free as well.  How will he do it, who know exactly but I have a feeling he needs the whole gang there in order to make it happen.  I really doubt that Locke wanted everyone to meet Jacob.  He needs their help and couldn’t just come out and ask them now could he.

4.  I love it, 30 years later and Locke is back on the beach carrying around a dead boar just like he started at the beginning of this show.  The irony of them on the beach didn’t escape me.

5.   So Richard is an adviser of sorts.  Adviser to who exactly?  I think that Richard plays a similar role that Abbadon played in that he is there to help people get to where they need to go.  Richard helps them stay on course or on the right “record” if you will.

6.   Did you catch Ben at the end tell Richard that he “TRIED” to kill Locke?  Either Ben is denying the truth (which why would he to Richard) or that sneaky little you-know-what is playing Locke right to where he wants him to go.  Not sure where that is yet but remember dear friends that Mr Ben Linus *always* has a plan.

7.   Richard thinks that he saw Jack and the others die back in 1977.  I’m holding on to the idea that someone (Juliet) will somehow move them forward in time just at the right second before the bomb goes off.  So of course Richard thinks that they die.

8.   Compass points them North.  Again with the North.

9.  BRILLIANT writing getting Richard back to the plane right at the exact second that Locke would flash with his injured leg.  I am in awe tonight, ok so most nights, but completely 100% in awe of the writing on this show.  To think that scene through from these various angles took some serious brain power.  Bravo Paul Zbyszewski & Elizabeth Sarnoff.  Bravo to the writers who also led up to this epi.

10.   Oh no not again.  Sawyer getting beat up.  He’s totally going to get back at Radzinsky, I’m sure of it.

11.   And hello, remember in Season One that Sawyer gets beat up by a “genuine Iraqi Soldier.”  He can surely handle a few blogs from a pasty guy living on an island.

12.  Ok, and here’s another flash back.  Sawyer would have completely left Hurley behind just a few short seasons ago.  Now Hurley says that they can’t leave him because Sawyer would never leave them behind.  Oh really?

13.   Best line of the night.  Pierre/Marvin comes in the jungle questioning Hurley, Miles and Jin about where they are going and who they are.  Hurley says, “But we asked you first.”  LOLs

14.   So Locke sends Richard over to help “past” Locke and his injured leg.  Locke knows he has to convince his “past” self to die and come back to the island.  He also knows that his past self needs some medical attention.  Wouldn’t it be cool if you could watch an event in your life and send one of your buddies to help you and convince you to do the right thing?  Another variable perhaps?

15.   Richard comes out from the pond into the tunnel and has fire.  Where did it come from?

16.  OMG, get Kate away from Sawyer.  And how many times must Kate come trying to save the day and ends up muddying the waters instead?  She has turned into Jack.  Always trying to fix things and sometimes things don’t need fixing!
17.  Locke gave his word to Sun that he would help to unite her with Jin and I think he will.  It may be on his terms and on his time but I do think he’ll help.

18.  Yeah, Sayid is back!  He always makes a dramatic entrance.  I guess they’re paying him enough they better bring him back on screen.  Plus he’s such a bad a$$ Jack will probably need him to help with the bomb.

19.  I’m curious where Sawyer drew the map to.  I’m thinking that it’s somewhere that will either hurt or kill Radzinsky.

I was thinking about the choice of being able to take a pivotal moment in your life and change the event.  I’m sure all of us have at least one moment in our life where you wonder, “what if…”  But would you really change it if you could?  Should the Losties mess with their fate?  What if they were meant to die in that crash?  What if Jack manages to change the future and instead of crashing on the island, the plane crashes in the ocean and they die?  What does Jack have to go back to anyway that he’d want to change the crash?  Wouldn’t he be better changing his actions with Sarah, his dad or the drugs?

1.  I don’t think the Mrs Hawking does know what happens next (she tells Penny in the hospital).  Let’s assume that she picks up the journal when she shoots Dan back in 1977.  She has the events up until the time that Dan goes back and then shoots him.  Now she doesn’t know what is going to happen because the journal ends.

2.  Why would Dan think that Jack and the others don’t belong there in 1977?  What does he know or what did he learn back in Ann Arbor that we haven’t learned yet?

3.  I think that when we see Eloise go to Dan playing the piano as a young boy, this isn’t a flashback, if you consider 1977 as the “present.”  I think that we are seeing her after she shoots him on the island and gets the journal.  That is how you would explain that she knows Dan has a destiny to be fulfilled.
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4.  Everyone is in a jumpsuit except Juliet and she’s in a red “death shirt.”  I think that the writers are going to use the overworked plot device that someone is going to have to stay behind and die so that the others may live and return to modern times.  Juliet will be the one.  Think about it.  She loves Sawyer but knows the moment he calls Kate “Freckles” that their life there together is over.  She also still loves Jack.  She can save them both by sacrificing herself to get them back where they belong.  This is my prediction.

5. When Dan has Miles take him to the Orchid station and Pierre/Marvin pulls up, he looks at his watch and says, “right on time.”  OK, I can believe that Dan understands the physics of the island but how can he know the movements of Chang?

6.  And Dan spills the beans to Pierre about Miles knowing it will lead him to send the children off of the island.  How could he know this stuff?  I’m wondering if we are going to see that Dan is the one who made all the calculations under the church where older Mrs Hawkins talks to the Losites.  That is how he figured when the incident would be on the island and that is why he has to get back.

7. OK, the scene where Dan is crying over the news footage of the plane crash totally changes in the middle.  At the beginning Dan’s hair is wet and slicked back.  Then 30 seconds later it’s dry and longer.  Bad editing or does something in time change like it did with the pictures at the lady’s house that Miles “talked” to her dead son?
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8.  There is never much product placement but turns out JJ Abrams is a guest editor for the magazine this month.  The magazine we see is “The Super Power” Issue from August 2003. Issue 11.08.  See a large picture of the cover here.

9.  When Dan approaches Charlotte I wonder if he tells her the same thing about not coming back to the island or if he tries something different this time.  If I were Dan I’d probably try a somewhat different strategy.

10. Dang, Jack sure is a good shot!  Is there anything he can’t do?

11.  If Dan’s plan is to detonate the hydrogen bomb, was he going to let them all die?  I didn’t hear anything in his plan about getting them out of there before he bombs them.  But, we also don’t really know why he wanted to see his mom on the island so badly.  Maybe she will be the catalyst to getting them back to current time.  Maybe in 1977 she sees the journal and knows she has to help the Losties get back to real time.

12.  And I think that Desmond is going to end up being the Variable.  Why would he let them change anything?  I can see him doing anything to preserve his path that leads him back to Penny.