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On with the show…

Yes, I’m still stinging from the beating the writers gave me, the viewer, from this episode. If I wanted to watch fighting I’d turn to ESPN. If I wanted to watch the bad guy intimidate the good guy I’d go to work (you decide who’s who). I watch for the mystery of the show! You say, the mystery is in whether or not the pacemaker was real. *Insert me rolling eyes.* There was no mystery there. It was Them again torturing our Sawyer and I for one am raising my hand to be excused from this story line.

My boyfriend told me that maybe our expectations have become so high that there is no room for any error in this show. True, but it wasn’t necessarily the writing that I take issue with as much as the content.

I will still watch because I do want to see Sawyer’s redemption song (remember him singing this on the raft?)

1. Here is a little something to cheer you up. Follow this link. Warning: you will be earwormed for the day.

2. Bravo to Desmond for knowing when to walk away. Claire was a little freaked and the *new and improved* macho Charlie was fluffing his feathers when Desmond came to her about fixing her tent. For the record, Desmond appeared to know lightening was going to hit her tent and that is why he built the lightening rod. Seems like more people, especially Hurley, are starting to know that there’s something going on with Desmond.
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3. Jack is watching a cartoon about Swan’s. How appropriate. But why? Seems like the crafty Others didn’t plan for a purple sky explosion that wiped out their Comcast Cable. At this point, I think it’s fair to say that much of what they know about these Losties comes from internet research. Maybe I’ll be proven wrong, but info about Jack, Sawyer, and Kate would all be out there considering what we know about their histories. Now they are cut off. This could be what starts the cookie crumbling because they seem to be depending on technology as much as we do!
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4. Bravo to Jack for the mind games with Juliet! This distinctly reminds me of when Ben (the hostage formerly known as Henry) was playing the *who’s in charge* game between Locke and Jack knowing full well there was already tension there. Jack is toying with Juliet by implying that Ben is in charge. I think that Jack has seen the tension and is playing on it. Finally, I can get behind Jack on this one!

5. OK, I missed this point but it is true. When Ben barges in and tells Juliet he needs help, he distinctly says, “The SUB is back, we have a situation.” I guess we know how the Others have been sneaking around now. It explains how they could have boarded the sailboat without Sayid and Jin seeing them. It explains how Steve/Scott was killed on the beach without being detected. I am wondering if they got the sub from someone in the past who has crashed on the island. They are scavengers. Now they have the sailboat, too. Desmond won’t be happy about that one.

6. The scene where Sawyer is scheming to shock one of The Others, Kate asks about Jack and Sawyer at first act slike he doesn’t care, then he indicates that they don’t even know if he is alive. I think that is part of why they march him past them. They want Kate and Sawyer (who indeed does have a conscience) to know that he is still very much around. Another way to keep them from escaping?

7. Funny. Sawyer calls Munson “Costanza.”
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8. Two days since the sky turned purple, they’re blind, the comms are down and they can’t get them back up, and Colleen is in critical condition. I agree with Sawer, “We happened.” The Other’s don’t even realize, I think, what has indeed happened. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.

9. BTW, on top of being annoyed with the endless Sawyer torture, I’m also annoyed that there are more new Losties being introduced. I’m sure these two are fine actors, but come on! We don’t get enough screen time with the characters that we know (hello, where are Rose and Bernard?) but now we have to have new survivors? Could the writers have at least made their introduction more interesting? Make them have been lost since the crash, something! Them just running up and we are supposed to accept them is just not right. Now we have to share airtime and flashbacks with the noobs. I’m not liking it!

10. Cassidy and the mystery of Clementine. I don’t believe that there is a baby. Sawyer has been locked up for nine months so the timeline makes sense. However, Cassidy seemed to be as much of a sheister as Sawyer and I think she wants her revenge on him for conning her. She doesn’t need the money, this is about saving face.

11. Looked up the words to “Oh My Darling, Clementine” and they probably don’t have any significance, but still interesting (btw, I still wonder if there is mining going on here):

In a cavern, in a canyon,
Excavating for a mine
Dwelt a miner forty niner,
And his daughter Clementine.

Refrain:
Oh my darling, oh my darling,
Oh my darling, Clementine!
You were lost and gone forever
Dreadful sorry, Clementine.

Clementine goes on to drown in the song, too.

12. Didn’t Kate rob the bank in Albequerque? That is also where Sawyer sent the money for his “baby.” Will we see a connection later?

13. I’m also not convinced that the Other’s don’t know that there is periodic sound coming through the intercom that Jack keeps hearing. Conveniently, he keeps hearing the good stuff. Why isn’t the boring stuff crackling through? “Hey Ben, pass me the salt.” “Juliet, where did you put the gauze?” Stuff like that. I think Jack should be noticing this too.
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14. I can’t believe that I am siding with Sawyer on this, but I would not be sad if I saw one of the Others hurt and I thought that “my people” did it. Think about everything that they have done to Sawyer alone, let alone everyone else. Kidnapping kids, killing their mates, injecting who knows what and etc… yeah, they’re the good guys all right.

15. I watched back the scene where they are taking Jack to help Colleen and he distinctly pauses and turns towards Kate and Sawyer. He is facing forward (left of the screen) and his head turns to the right. You can see this by the line in the bag over his head. This will come into play during the great escape that must be coming. He heard them for sure.
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16. Whose xray is this *really* going to be? Is it Ben? Is it Locke? Could it be someone we haven’t met yet? Obviously it was meant to be here for him to see – no coincidence there. I found two very significant things about this scene. For the first time Jack seems to realize that he is not just in this room, but on this island for a very specific reason. Secondly, if there is this amazing healing power here, why is this person still plagued with cancer in their spine?

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17. Did Jack really do everything he could to save Colleen? Juliet had her stabilized and then Jack starts working and she dies. Plus, I could not believe that Jack didn’t pause and demand something for himself or his friends in order to help her. My boyfriend thinks that perhaps the surgeon in him took over and the rationale of where he was, was forgotten.

18. There is more than one operating room wherever they took Jack. He walks to Area Op-4 but behind Ben we see Area Op-5. Why all the operating rooms? Also, notice the observation area above the Op room that Jack and Juliet are in. We know for sure there are fertility experiments happening. Is Sun unknowingly involved? Are they trying to breed super-humans (intelligence and immune to disease)? No crash cart? Do they kill people and not even try to save them if something goes wrong?
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19. When Juliet brings Jack to the operating room Ben is upset and Juliet says he can help, he’s a doctor. Ben begins to say, “That is not why we …” and Juliet cuts him off. Not why what? They brought Jack here? Not why they are here? Not why he brought Colleen here?

20. How is it that Ben is always in front of the monitors just in time to see the important stuff? He is like the Wizard in Oz, isn’t he? This is way too convenient and not believable.
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21. When the warden brings in Sawyer to get the information about the money, why does he ask him, “You remember Agent Freedman from the Treasury Department?” Why would Sawyer remember him? I assume other meetings, but was he also involved in the investigation into Sawyer’s con?

22. After exchanging info with the warden, wouldn’t Sawyer be wanted by some very powerful people? When it comes time, will he want to leave the island? What will be waiting for him back on land?

23. If there are two island’s why didn’t Danielle see it when she mapped the main island? Is is possible that they brought Sawyer to see the other island in the morning because of the tide? Maybe there is a land bridge connecting the two islands and depending on the tide it might not be visable in the morning. If they brought him in the evening he would see the connection. In the season opener Ben tells Goodwin and Ethan to go join the survivors and gives them a very short time frame to get there. If there were two islands how could they have done that so quickly? I still have some serious doubts about what Sawyer has been shown. Maybe there *is* another island but that these Others and the Losties are indeed only on the one island.
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24.  What does Ben mean a man gets sick if he lives alone?  Connection to “the sickness” that is always referred to?  Maybe it’s not a virus that they need to fear, but more of a physchological illness.  Goes along with these experiments we have been seeing.

25.  Who is the patched man next week?  Remember last season when Eko opened the trunk in their hatch they found a glass eye.  Is this the owner?
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Initial thoughts.  Those two hours were JAM PACKED and it needs another *looksie* for more thoughts.

1.  Charlie is having serious post-traumatic issues.  He doesn’t seem to understand what happened.  He seems surprised Locke and Co. aren’t back yet when Bernard asks where they are.  He seems confused when Claire mentions the “violet sky,”  He is just way to jovial to not be in shock.

2.  Michael is going to die.  Will he come back to help his friends first?  Who knows, but there is no way that they are just going to let him go that easily.  Maybe Walt will talk him into going back for the DAMN DOG and something will happen to Michael.  It would be cool if it was set up that Sawyer ends up being a foster parent for Walt.

3.  What was Desmond in prison for?  Seems he was set up by Penny’s dad.  Mr. Widmore sure doesn’t want his daughter with Desmond.  He goes so far to send him to this experimental island?

4.  How does Penny know about the island?  I loved the last scene, it was so X-Files-esque.

5.  I don’t think that Desmond, Locke and Eko are dead.  But I sure wish someone would go check out the hatch.  Especially after the Quarantine door came flying to camp.  Hello?

6.  Sayid will go and save Jack, Kate and Sawyer.  We could see Sayid back on the boat during the *incident* and I’m sure once he hears Hurley’s story he will find a way to save them.  Plus we are talking about the 3 main characters.  They have to be saved.  But it sure would be cool to see where The Others are going to take them.

7.  What was the look between Jack and Kate right at the end?  It seems they have something in mind but by the look on Sawyer’s face he was not part of the plan.

8.  Libby so set up Desmond.  She *HAD* to be put up to giving him that boat.  Did she have a deal similar to Michael – was she trying to get someone back and had to deal to help get all of the survivors on that island in order to get her loved one back?  Plus, she really looks crappy as a red head.

9.  I don’t believe that Desmond made the plane crash.  You are telling me that the magnetic force was so powerful that it pulled down a plane from the sky, but the cans of food on the beach only fell off of the shelves?  No way.  Yes, the instruments were probably messed up and yes, the people on the plane were meant for this island, but I don’t think that Desmond’s close call with the buttons was the cause.  I think that the pilot may have made errors because of the instrument malfunction, yes.  But there are too many connections not believe they are supposed to be there.  I think that the reason *The Others* wanted the list so badly was because they needed to know who survived the crash.

10.  Desmond knows about The Others, but how?  He refers to them as “The Hostiles.”  At some point he must have left the hatch and had some sort of encounter.  Desmond just has way too much story left to tell for him to be dead. 

11.  What was up with the $42,000 reward from the boat race?  42 is one of the numbers.  Coincidence?

12.  The big bird that flies down towards Jack and co.  I had read last season during my research that the Black *Roc* is a mythological bird.  Connection?  Does it have a connection to the *monster*?

13.  The big foot on the beach.  Four toes?  Where *is* the rest of the statue?  Was it destroyed in the last *incident*?

14.  Desmond’s story is so disturbing and sad.  It’s one of those life stories that makes you look back and say, “What if…”  What if Desmond had read Penny’s letter back in prison?  Would there have been a happy ending to his love story or would he have ended up exactly in the situation he is in?

15.  We hear the whispers right before Sawyer & friends get poison darts.  We assume it’s these Others but could it have been the “good” Others warning them that the “bad” Others were coming?

16.  There is much more to discuss…. will continue since we have *all summer* to go over this one.  But I thought this had to be the best season finale I have ever seen…. 

17. Still to discuss: Kelvin, rip in his suit, volcanic rock, Rudinski (I think that was his name), fabric softner paint, stuck in a “snow globe,” Mr Widmore, Desmond in prison, more on Libby, answer to riddle, Charles Dickens, Sawyer’s comment about aliens, Sayid praying, Hanso commercial, the original incident, the Swan key, the new incident, the hole in Kelvin’s suit, the boats, the ferry, Fenry, ah, and I’m sure there is much more!

It’s official and has been said by the writers, we will find out why the plane crashed this season. So this Wednesday or next week we will have an answer. Of course, as any *true* Lost fan knows (I say with a smug look on my face) it will also lead to more questions. But that is what we love about this show, right folks!?

So I thought I better hop on the computer and put my theory out there. Now I can’t speculate the logistics of *how* the plane crashed, but I am sure that Libby had something to do with it.

Think about it, the writers have been kind enough to give us a good story before offing anyone. What about Libby? We know she was in Hurley’s backstory and we saw her briefly talking to Eko at the airport, but what else to we know about her? She gave us bits and pieces but could have been half-truths just like Goodwin was a Peace Corp worker (wasn’t that the irony of the season?). Libby never got an episode devoted to her past, coincidence?

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Here is what I’m thinking. Libby is 100% connected to the Others. Probably the bad Others. We WILL get a backstory on her but it will come through bits and pieces and be intertwined with the other character’s backstories. There won’t be one big epi devoted to her, but rather, we will learn of her past through her interaction and so-called chance meetings with the survivors. I think that back home as she was somehow responsible for making sure the survivors got on that plane. Maybe she was paid by Hanso, Widmore, or the illusive HIM, but at any rate, this was her purpose.

I can’t say why, but if you go to the upcoming episodes page, you can read how Libby will appear [back home] in the season finale. Totally goes with my theory. Yeah, she was in the asylum with Hurley, but we don’t know her role there yet. Remember she came up to Eko in the airport last week when he was talking to the *hypothermia* chick. She was probably panicking when she saw them talking because perhaps he would believe the resurrection story and not board the plane.

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Man, Michael is s-c-r-e-w-e-d for shooting her! Deliverance will have nothing on what the Others will do to him.

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To add, I just found this:

“Damon Lindelof [reveals]: Libby’s got this mysterious backstory, of which we’ve only given you the tip of the iceberg. We know she’s spent some time in the mental institution with Hurley, and the idea of killing her before she had an opportunity to explain how she got there… we have a master plan for how we’re going to tell that story, but it’s all posthumous. You’ll start to learn Libby’s moves through flashbacks over the course of the next season. So we’re not done with Cynthia, but Libby is dead.” Source: The Ausiello Report

Do I need to break out the “I told ya so” dancing man? 

Mittlewerk’s video shows workers in the tv to the left of his shoulder as he discusses the *observation* that they are to complete and record.

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Now look at the scene when Locke and Eko are watching the video. The Swan hatch is in the top *right* corner and the left corner is just static. Wonder which hatch that is?

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All right, so there seems to be loads of chatter regarding “did they” or “didn’t they” kill off the two stars that *ironically* were arrested for drunk driving?

The answer is no.

Watros’ [Libby] impending departure was first hinted at last month, after it was announced that the actress had signed on opposite Tom Cavanagh for the CBS sitcom pilot My Ex-Life. She was initially described as “guest star,” but sources indicated that was a ruse to keep from spoiling the Lost storyline.

Rodriguez also tried to put to rest the rumors that the show’s writers were engaging in a little moral grandstanding by deep-sixing her, saying her contract was always meant to be for a year, no more.

“No, no, no, not at all,” she said, when asked if her offscreen troubles led to her onscreen demise. “I knew when I signed on.”

Two of the show’s executive producers, Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, seconded Rodriguez’s remarks in an interview with TVGuide.com.

“A lot of this is going to sound like spin, so all we can give you is our word that this is exactly what happened,” Lindelof said, reiterating that Ana-Lucia’s death had been plotted from the start.

So we know Ana is dead. She has been making the talk show rounds talking about it and “sticking to the story” that she knew from the start, but what about Libby?

I’m thinking that she is going to hang on long enough to tell the tale. She is still listed in this week’s epi in the cast so she must be going to make some sort of appearance.

Also, in the commercial we hear that “she is dead” not that “THEY are dead.” But if Libby has a part on an upcoming new series, I would say it’s a safe bet that she is a goner.

(My) Scott also made a good point.  We see someone holding a Virgin Mary statue in the preview.  Locke said he was keeping them for “medicinal purposes.”  Killing pain perhaps of *someone* who was shot?

That leaves very few tailies. Coincidence?

First thoughts:

1. Hm. Click here for the I told ya so (she says with arms crossed in defiance). I was scorned by fans last season for saying Boone was going to bite it and he did. Now Ana.

2. Did Libby die? We can see two graves in pix for upcoming episodes but she was holding something out in front of her when Mikey shot her that could potentially have saved her. Listen, I read today in a magazine about how an underwire in a bra stopped a bullet so stop your scoffing… BUT IF SHE LIVES this is going to be so freaking cool because she can rat out Michael. If she dies, Hurley and Sayid will have a new connection.

3. Michael, Michael, Michael. I said, that he was going to sell out his friends for his son. But again, I would send you all down the river for my daughter. However…. the killing part might stop me.
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4. Henry was expecting Michael. How did he know? I don’t think that he knew who was coming as much as he knew someone would be coming. So the tradeoff is Ana has to die in retaliation for killing Goodwin. Then, Fenry (aka Fake Henry) gets freed in a “supposed” trade for Walt. So what is next in Mikey’s plan? Hey Mikey, he likes it!
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5. Thought it interesting that they have Christian (Jack’s dad) and Ana meeting in a bar just like Ana met Jack — at the airport bar.
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6. So Christian has a daughter in Australia. How did that happen?

7. The name Christian picks for Ana is SARAH??? So was he the person that Jack’s wife SARAH had made dinner for the night that she dumps him. I would say that we are going to be seeing more of this in the future.

8. I hope that the writers/producers know how much they make this show seem like purgatory. I KNOW THAT IT IS NOT, however, think about the implications. Every time someone finds their peace, they die. So if this was purgatory and you found your peace you pass on to heaven. I’m just saying.

9. First Michael tells Jack and friends that the Others are weak and only number 22 with two guards and two guns (Two for the road???). But then he goes on to tell Ana that they are “animals” and he has seen what they can do. Somewhere in the truth Michael either sat down and worked out this compromise (complete with killing) or they kidnapped him, only to torture him to the point of this horrible deal. No matter, he is leading the survivors to a slaughter for sure.

10. Eko falls off a cliff next week? Will anyone believe Locke since he has lied about cliffs (remember Boone’s accident?).

11. Fenry’s quote was great. To Locke, ” If you’ve come to apologize I forgive you for hitting me with your crutch. I’m so glad my head didn’t break it.” Now how many shows would you find that kind of dialog, huh?

12. Ana told Fenry the funny thing about killers is tha tthey love to talk, yet he said nothing while she yammered on….

13. Did you see Sawyer hit the car with his hands that Christian and Ana were talking in? It was right before Christian goes into the bar and Ana decides to leave him.

14. Hurley mentions the hosptial and then again remembering why Libby looks familiar. The camera went to Libby like they knew that we were going to be wanting a reaction. But I didn’t see a reaction.

After watching with the thought in mind that THEY want us to see these *specific* clips, here is my list I call

(insert creepy echo) “Thoughts and Questions”

1. Arrow on the hatch door where the Tailies were staying. What does it mean? We know the medical hatch had a caduceus so what is this?

2. *Orientation* video indicated that they were to stay in the hatch for 540 days. Desmond says he has been there 3 years. What happened?

3. L-O-V-E-D the Locke quote after watching the film. “We’re gonna need to watch that again!” Yes we are!

4. Ana recounts the number of tailies that were taken by the Others. What happened to them? Why chose them and not any other survivors? Why take so many tailies and so few of the mid-section-ers?

5. I still think that Kate poisoned someone in her past. I saw her getting Sawyer to drink and it reminded me of my theory. We have seen alot of clues leading us to this (poison to Michael (meant for Jin), drugging Jack to get him to sleep, etc…).

6. LOVE the scene where Eko comes out of the woods with Sawyer over his back. “Where’s the doctor?” Classic TV.

7. OK so the guys from the raft come out of the woods and did you see how happy everyone was to see them? Wouldn’t you be like, holy crap, there goes our chance to get saved? I would.

8. Hurley told LIbby she looked familiar. Did he forget?

9. Eko’s stick with the bible references, what was up with that?

10. Mike on the computer. OK, so you’re stranded on an island and your kid has been taken by seabillies. The computer that is used solely for “saving the world” suddenly lights up with an instant chat and you don’t say anything to anyone?

11. Sawyer has really gotten beat up on this island. He gets stabbed by Sayid, punched by Hurley and shot TWICE by The Others. When will he get his revenge or when will we see the tough guy? He told Zeke that it wasn’t over… can’t WAIT for that confrontation!

12. When Sun asks Kate if she ever took a pregnancy test she answers yes. Tom? The Marshall?

13. What is all being built at this point? We are told that Eko is building a church but what was Charlie and Sayid building? And when did Charlie become Mr. Fixer Upper?

14. Henry is so freaking good at manipulation. I bet the actor playing him is just loving this part and I love watching him. Good job bad guy!

15. OK, I SWEAR that tonight I heard the word “Lockdown” come out of the speakers during the scene when the weird sounds are coming out before the doors go down. Me thinks the producers cleaned this up a bit for us.

16. The map. I think that in 20 years when there is a recap of the greatest TV moments, the scene where the map on the door lights up will be in that countdown. I can’t wait to look back and remember the moment and to also have all the knowledge of what the show is really about. In the meantime I’m enjoying the ride!

I have a theory.  In this theory Rose and Bernard have just shown us the path to the rest of this show and the ending.  Here is where I see Lost ending….

In the book “The Lost Chronicles” JJ Abrams states (and I paraphrase here from memory) that this show will end.  They will not leave us hanging (of course, unless they jump the shark and ABC decides to kill it).  We will see what happens to the survivors.

Rose does not want to leave the island.  Much like Locke, she has found her peace, her Garden of Eden if you will.  Now that Bernard knows the WHY he is also OK with never leaving this island.  The stage is now set.

Sun … she is now pregnant.  A miracle.  Will she want to leave?  Will Jin want to go knowing that he wants this family so badly, he certainly doesn’t want to go back and face Sun’s father so why not settle here?

Claire.  She was warned that Aaron should and cannot be raised by another.  We know she doesn’t get along with her mother and Thomas (baby-daddy) doesn’t want anything to do with her.  What does she have to go back to?  Add the relationship with Charlie back to the equation and neither of them will want to leave.

Eko.  Building a new life as the priest.  Knows now the fate of his brother.  Maybe he will find his life here.

Hurley.  Hello??? Libby and Darmalars.  Need I say more?

Locke.  This is a given.  He is out of the wheelchair and is The Great White Hunter (to quote Charlie).  What does he have to go back to?  Helen is gone.  His dad betrayed him.  His mom is nuts.  He will be the pride of the pack here on the island.

At this point in the story we could argue that the rest of the characters that I haven’t mentioned have plenty of reasons to return home.  But we only know some of their past.  We didn’t know even one little bit about Rose last week and now we know that she will never leave the island.  Who knows what other revelations we might encounter over the next season or so.

So here is how I would LOVE, LOVE, LOVE to see Lost close. 

A Coast Guard ship spots the island.  The survivors see it coming.  As the boat approaches the shore the survivors are hiding in the trees, watching.  The soldiers on the boat are searching.  Maybe they see some of the remaining fuselage down the shore. 

No one is coming out from the trees.  Their hearts are beating fast, pupils dialated, palms are sweaty, yet no one moves out.  Minutes go by, maybe a soldier steps ashore.  Stillness.

Vincent comes bounding out from the trees.  He’s Sawyer’s dog now.  He is Sawyer’s companion (maybe he’s the only one who can stand him or he hasn’t isolated himself from).  Long pause.  Sawyer steps out from the trees.  Sawyer cannot stay here.  His life is the con and he craves it back.  Sawyer now looks like one of the so-called “Others” we have gotten to know.

The soldier is surprised and pulls his gun.  Sawyer puts up his hands and in his suave way calms him and explains who he is.  The soldier asks where everyone else is.  Sawyer pauses.  A long, long, thoughtful pause.  He is waiting to see if anyone else emerges.  Nothing.  Sawyer states two words, “They died.”

Soldier, Sawyer and Vincent board the Coast Guard ship.  Sawyer doesn’t look back as the boat leaves but lifts his hand in adieu.

Like any great show, we don’t have all the answers in the end.  What we are left to speculate is how the survivors who are now left behind will live their remaining days here.  Will they become the illusive “Others” to anyone else landing here?  At this point our survivors will know all the secrets of the island and may carry out many of the same actions we are now seeing from the current “Others.”  Nothing is told.  We just have to sit ….. and wonder.

THE END.

“Dude, I’m an amalgam.”

1. Dave is not real. If he were real, he would have a shadow, which he does indeed not. Unless he is a vampire then I would need to revise this idea, but since everybody knows that vampires aren’t real (duh) then he must just be a figment of Hurley’s overstuffed mind. Also, Dave’s appearances are much like those in the Sixth Sense. He walks around and talks to people, but if you watch the episode back the only two people that have any interaction with Dave are Hurley and Dr. Brooks. When they are at the basketball game Dave is yelling and waving his arms, but no one responds to him and in fact they throw the ball to Hurley. Also, don’t forget that Hurley saw the big chicken and Jin speaking English in the pantry. Hallucinations seem to be coorelated to the food.
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2. Libby. Let’s discuss why a “hot chick” (Hurley’s words, not mine) would like him. Is she a crazy stalker? The story about Jin seeing Hurley on the ledge (thus, how she found him) sounded pretty bogus. Plus the scary pix of her at the end watching him at the institution. Libby seems cuckoo for Hurley puffs. However, let me refer again to the idea that twins are playing somehow into the story (suggestion of Josh Holloway not mine). Yes, I can tell you are rolling your eyes at this point but bear with me. Is it possible that Libby in the loony bin is a different person that the Libby on the island, maybe her twin? The ladies will understand this, but if her hair were naturally brown (pre island) then if she colored her hair blonde (post island “do”) wouldn’t her roots have been showing by now? Unless Sawyer has some hair dye along with the pregnancy test this is a different chick.
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3. Isn’t it ironic that the *only* food left from the drop that wasn’t scavenged by the survivors were the fish crackers? They have to eat all that fish for months and these crackers get dropped to them. Maybe it’s a psychological thing, kind of like the last jelly donut that no one wants to eat even though nothing is wrong with it.
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4. OK, so check out the flowers around Hurley as he follows Dave. It’s just a weird, out-of-place item. Remember the field of flowers in the Wizard of Oz? They put them all, except the Scarecrow, to sleep. Not sure where I’m going with this but perhaps they are poppies or something with hallucinogenic properties. Thoughts? Do you think they’re just a pretty prop? A clue to viewers that he is hallucinating?
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5. We have the issue of the cliffs again. I’m going to do a post this summer and list of the references to cliffs over the past two seasons, but for now I just want to point it out. Seems we’ve had a few mishaps and near mishaps on the cliffs.
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6. Why does Hurley refer to himself as “sick?” He hasn’t seen Dave at this time and he means his food addiction. These are the words that are also on the mural, if you recall. Thoughts? Is he thinking that since his food addiction is back that he knows his “Dave” fantasy will also return?

7. Check out Dave’s hand. We think that there is something on his hand (a code, perhaps, or a cheat sheet of info to feed to Hurley?) but it also could be dirt. I wondered briefly if someone “is” on the island and it talking to Hurley, but it is not Dave. Could be someone who looks like Dave that maybe is playing the role and Hurley is projecting his visual image of Dave onto him?
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8. I think that the whole point of Dave telling Hurley that he is still in the institution and that all of the “events” that Hurley thinks brought him here, including the numbers, aren’t just a coincidence are the writers way of telling us, the viewers, that we are not going to find out in the end that this was all some type of dream or hallucination. I don’t think it’s a red herring at all, just them telling us to trust them that the events are “real,” or at least real in the sense a tv show is real.

9. It was weird when Dave jumped off of the cliff. He makes a splash in the water and we can see him until the end. Figures that Libby wouldn’t come up in time to see if there was a person with Hurley or not.
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10. Hurley talks about the “accident.” Remember Widmore Construction? Wouldn’t it be interesting if they built the platform that Hurley broke? So when we meet Hurley at the hospital it had been 2 months since the accident, 23 people were on it and it was only built for 8. I’m thinking that we are also going to find out that one of the 2 people that died are somehow related to another survivor.

11. I hope that the survivors thought to take the flashing light off of the food to either use as a signal on the beach or could come in handy if another raft is built.

12. Check out this audio clip. Someone at the Fuselage recorded the sound from the jungle, right before Hurley attacks Sawyer and played it backwards. Weird!

13. Of course no one was going to help when Hurley attacked Sawyer. I think that Sawyer likes this role that he has set up for himself as the outsider, yet needed for all the “goods” he keeps.
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14. To debunk a rumor going around the internet, I could not find an airplane in this picture. This is the picture that is hanging in Dr Brooks’ office (Hurley’s doctor).
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15. Henry. This so seems like religious symbolism. Like the image of Christ on the cross. But, if that *is* the image that the producers are sending, why? Christ was misunderstood but withstood the torture for what he believed was his purpose. Seems like shaky ground considering the conservative culture in America. But, this image does seem powerful for this character and where they are taking him (the writers, I mean).

16. Henry tells Locke that God doesn’t know the island is there any more than anyone else in the world. Can the magnetism coming from the island be blocking radar much the way it throws off a compass? Henry says this place is a joke. Could Henry be someone who has been through the stations as an experiment (like Desmond) and that this hatch is insignificant in the grander scheme? Could he be duping Locke so that he will let the timer run out to get another peek at the secret map?

17. Is it at ALL possible that pseudo Henry is HIM? Wizard of Oz clues could lead us to believe it. We are to think that there is the great and powerful Oz (aka HIM) but it turns out *just* to be a man. Henry is just so crafty at this game he is playing that you have to wonder who he really is. What was his purpose in being caught? Why is he aligning himself with Locke? Why didn’t he leave when he had the chance? What was he really up to when the hatch went dark.

18. The note on the $20 bill. Seems like Sayid really got him with this one. However, maybe not. Maybe Henry and The Others figured that the search party from the survivors would dig him up and this item is just a red herring to them. Or maybe it is meant to throw them off what is really going on there. Seems like nothing on this show turns out to just simply be “what it is” on the surface.
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19. Once Michael shows back up (yes, he IS coming back…see my Upcoming Episodes page), could he possibly fix the real Henry’s balloon to get off of the island? Michael is the construction guy and if he gets Walt back he is for sure, 100%, going to want to run like crazy.

20. How did Henry know who the “bearded man” was? When Locke comes into the armory to chat he asks if the bearded man is HIM. Henry responds by telling Locke that he is “no one.” So how does Henry know who Locke is even talking about if he isn’t part of Zeke’s group?

21. Libby says to Hurley on the beach that “it’s like the island doesn’t want you to lose weight.” What a strange thing to say, very Locke-esque.

22. Santa Rosa is the same mental institution that Locke’s mom was in. We learned this when Locke hired the private investigator.

23. I was happy that the producers answered the question about why they never showed the caves anymore. Seems according to Hurley that no one lives there anymore.

24. What is Eko building? You can take this for whatever you would like. Read the diary entries from the ABC website, but I have read that whoever writes these (in real life) is not affiliated with the writers of the show so I don’t know if this is real or not, but since it *is* at ABC’s website so it may also be right on.
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ABC Diary Link One
ABC Diary Link Two

25. Ah, love. Get a room!
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26. One more thing, another Desmond throw back. Right before Dave jumps off the cliff he tells Hurley “See you in another life.” This is the same thing Desmond said to Jack when they met on the stairs back in The States.

Do not read this post if you don’t want to be spoiled, well, come on, you know what I mean … spoiled from a Lost fan perspective!

See the picture below:

Recognize this woman?

It’s Libby! She has dark hair and looks crazy, but hello! This is from the upcoming epi “Dave” that is Hurley centric. Guess we know now how Hurley knows Libby, she apparently was a patient the same time as he was. Weird. Stalker chick maybe?

Anyway, from what I’ve read this pix was not supposed to be released yet…. Guess I’ll watch her from a different perspective now. Unless this is Libby’s evil twin?