After false lead after false lead, I finally found a version of the 12-minute Lost “epilogue” floating around online and I’m very glad I did.

If you want to wait for the official DVD/Blu-Ray version to find out what happened, stop reading now. In other words: SPOILERS AHEAD, DIVERT DIVERT DIVERT!

OK, so if you’re still reading, you either have watched the video or you want to know what’s in it (I won’t link to it here, as I don’t want to contribute to the takedown hunt — plus, for all I know, the version I saw has been taken down anyhow.)

So … were there answers?

Sorta. But enough more was settled that it made me feel even more comfortable with the ending as it was. Except I’d have loved to have seen Lapidus rappelling out of a helicopter or something. Not that it would have had ANYthing to do with ANYthing, but c’mon, that would have been great.

(Note: If you’re as big a Lapidus fan as myself, check out FYeahLapidus.)

OK, now that I’ve gotten that out of my system.

Here’s what I got out of the 12 minutes:
• Hurley and Ben have completely adapted to their island protector roles. Hurley’s at peace more than he’s ever been. He’s happy, I dare say. Ben, I think, is actually happy to not be running around deceiving and killing people.
• How much did you want to run in, grab that binder filled with DVDs that Ben had and run away?
• Polar bears were on the island due to their ability to withstand electromagnetism and their intelligence. Not of huge importance, but at least it explains why, specifically, polar bears.
• The Purge happened a pretty short time after the Incident – at least in outside world time. Those guys in the warehouse were hired 20 years ago to set up the food drops, and the Dharma Initiative ended soon after. The food drops were due to the Incident.
• Better for those two warehouse guys to think the food drops had been unnecessary for 20 years than to have to explain that there were, indeed, two guys on the island pressing a button, yada yada yada.
• Ben and Hurley are tying up all the loose ends created by the Dharma Initiative’s incursion onto the island.
• Poor Walt. Though the epilogue doesn’t exactly explain WHY Walt is special, it does explain that he is, and that he’s important to the island. I’d love to understand more of why, but at least it brings that full circle – a plotline that was so integral to the island for the first two years, at least getting its due. He obviously has some sort of ability to help the lost souls on the island move on to whatever it is they need to move on to?
• Obviously, the Dharma folks understood why women could no longer carry babies to term on the island – the Incident & the electromagnetism it unleashed. Why didn’t the Others understand this? They obviously didn’t, because they brought Juliet in to help. And if they did, they sure as hell didn’t explain it to Juliet.

So, what did I miss? Did it satisfy any of your burning questions? How much would you pay to see a Lapidus spinoff? Or a Hurley/Ben spinoff? I’d watch either. I’d love to see one-off episodes, a mystery of the week-type thing.

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I truly love this little town in the middle of nowhere in Oregon; I have since the first episode.

Eureka’s one of those scifi shows firmly grounded in science and reality (of sorts). It seems like the kind of place you just might get if you gathered the finest scientific minds of their generation and put them all in one place with, more or less, unlimited resources.

It was obvious from the very first episode that Allison and Carter were going to get together, sooner or later. And in Season 2 when they got married and Allison got pregnant, it seemed they weren’t going to tease us with the Sam and Diane scenario for years.

Then, in order to save the town, the timeline, everything, Carter and Henry had to lose their loves to save it all, well, I was willing to go along with it. I was even willing to deal with the detour that was Nathan Stark, as he obviously loved Allison and they did, after all, have a child together.

So when Carter and Tess broke up at the end of Season 3 and Allison had had proper time to grieve, it seemed it was time.

Then, Season 4 had a fabulous opener that did a variety of things:
• gave us insight into the creation of Eureka
• gave us James Callis doing one helluvan American accent
• gave us a time travel paradox
• gave us Allison and Carter kissin’ and lovin’ and Jo kicking some SERIOUS ass.

When our intrepid time travelers made it back to present-day Eureka, it was, of course Fargo, who first noticed not everything was the same. The statue of Archimedes used to be granite, but was now brass (bronze? I can’t remember; I might have gotten it wrong).

Jo finds that Zane is in her jail, but he’s not reminiscing about how they met – he’s really in jail and their love was something that happened in the old timeline. Allison makes it home and both her children are still there, but her son, who’s been autistic and noncommunicative, is a happy, normal teenager who just wants to play Xbox with his friends.

That was a beautiful moment, actually – Allison realizing she could have her son more fully than she’d ever been able to, and knowing that her present was, maybe, better than her previous present.

Then, Carter gets home.

S.A.R.A.H.? Check. But she looks different. We see a purse right by the front door. Is Zoe still at Harvard?

“Yes.”

But it’s not S.A.R.A.H. who answers. It’s Tess.

Not that we didn’t see that coming, sorta. But, still.

In this present, Tess never left town. She stayed and is in love with Carter. He was with her, too. But he’s the same Carter who shared the kiss with Allison in the past and created this present.

So, forget about Jack and Diane; it’s Sam and Diane all over again, except they’re named Carter and Allison.

On the plus side: We have Fargo & Jo having a shared experience, which should create some amusing moments. We have Jo and Zane no longer in love, and an angry, unloved Jo is more fun to watch than a happy in love Jo. Sorry, Jo. We have James Callis rockin’ it in the present.

But I really don’t want this detour in Carter & Allison’s love to last an entire season. And I don’t want another detour.

Other than that? No complaints. I even liked the sepia-toned past. Very evocative.

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You probably noticed the site looks a little different today. I just upgraded to WordPress 3.0 and upgraded my theme and decided I wanted to get away from the old snow in the background I used to have, as it was rather harsh on the eyes anyway. I haven’t decided what background to go with yet, but it made no sense to reinstall that old background.

I’m not fond of this neon orange, so don’t worry – it’s not here to stay.

I’ve been rather lax in updating the blog in the past month, as you’ve likely noticed.

The end of two of my all-time favorite shows – Lost and 24 – left me unsure about what I wanted to blog on next. June is a pretty crappy month for TV anymore and though I love Burn Notice and In Plain Sight, I just don’t have a lot to talk about. I’d gotten so used to the analysis of Lost and Battlestar and the mocking of or cheering on for 24 that I don’t really want to go back to the recap route.

Fortunately, Warehouse 13 and Eureka start up soon, and I think both will provide plenty of fodder for good TVT posts.

Erika is hiding in a corner, crying out of sheer joy that there will be more Jensen Ackles next season. Seriously, though, I didn’t think they could get another decent season out of Supernatural after the apocalypse this season, but that final scene last month convinced me otherwise.

I’m also watching some stuff via Netflix, so I might start blogging about that. And I still have Season 2 of Torchwood to plow through. But I don’t want TVT to become an archival TV blog. Or, wait – that might be kinda cool.

Anyway, as you can see, I’m trying to figure out the direction to go in. I love TV (well, certain TV shows anyhow) and I do enjoy writing about it. I appreciate all the discussions and comments and everything we’ve had here, and they will continue, I promise.

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Before I get into the meat of the matter, I have to ask this of the folks out there who didn’t like the finale of Lost last night:

You didn’t like the Battlestar Galactica ending either, did you?

I ask that not to accuse you of just not liking finales to shows you’ve loved. I ask that because in both cases, I believe the ending was absolutely the culmination of everything that came before.

The endings MADE SENSE. Yes, you can nitpick and complain about little things here or there that didn’t make sense. When you’ve unraveled as much string as both of these shows did, it’s hard to get it all back into a neat little ball of yarn.

Not all questions were answered, and in some cases that was infuriating (from both shows).

But, in the end, the show was what it was always about: The people. Love. Fate. Free will. The afterlife.

The only way to tackle last night’s action-packed ending is by bullet points. I’m emotionally exhausted and I still have two hours of 24 to watch tonight, and that promises to be as equally emotionally wrenching.

The afterlife

Let’s get one thing straight: The island wasn’t purgatory. Not for our Losties, at least. Sure, there are some people who are stuck there forever, running around whispering stuff, like Michael. But our Losties’ Purgatory or waiting room or whatever you wanna call it was the alternate universe. The flash-sideways.

The island was real. The Losties were absolutely alive.

The flash-sideways was a place where these people who had become a family could come together and finally find peace. And once they finally all came together, it was time to go into the light.

OK, that moment was totally hokey. But did you notice the statues of Vishnu and the Buddha in the rectory? Did you notice the stained glass window that had symbols from Judaism, Islam, Jainism, every religion, practically?

This wasn’t about a Judeo-Christian afterlife. This was a recognition that every religious or spiritual practice in the world has some sort of belief system about what happens after life on this world is over. If you were Buddhist, you could believe that the island and their tests there were their final tests before enlightenment. Or maybe the flash sideways was, and now they don’t have to be reborn again.

Love

Omg, when Juliet and Sawyer met again and recognized one another and kissed, I was bawling like a baby. (KNEW that the baby doctor was gonna be Juliet and that she was going to be Jack’s ex-wife.) And Jin & Sun, too. Like. A. Baby.

This show has always been about love and loss. From Day One.

And you know what? Team Darlton made us love these characters. Even the ones who annoyed you, you had moments of loving. Don’t deny it. Denial is ugly.

Jack/Jacob/Hurley/Ben

It made so much sense to have Hurley be the new Jacob. He was always the one who took care of people, made them feel better.

Jack’s job was always to fix things. In the end, he fixed the island. He sent Desmond down there to break it – but that was only, really, so he could kill Flocke. Flocke couldn’t be killed until the island was broken. When Des pulled the cork out of the island, Jack and Flocke became mortal.

By the way, how freakin’ awesome was that flying punch-down that Jack did to Flocke on the cliff? Cut to commercial. WOW.

So, anyway, Flocke could be killed. He couldn’t leave the island and bring his evil with him. He couldn’t end life, the universe and everything by leaving.

That was Jack’s job. He was always the fixer. Only when he gave up the idea of having to fix everything was he actually able to fix the thing he’d been working toward his entire life.

Once that was done, he wasn’t the person to keep the island safe. It made so much sense for it to be Hurley. The second Hurley went back with Jack to save Des and the Island, it became exceedingly obvious that was what was going to happen.

And bravo to Ben, in the end, doing what was right. Even telling Hurley that he could send Des back to Penny and his son, Charlie. Indeed, if Hurley was the new Jacob, couldn’t he make his own rules? Why couldn’t people leave the island?

Fine job, Ben. I liked that they invited Ben inside the church to come with them, but that Ben chose more time in purgatory, to atone for what he’d done, to make things right with Alex and Danielle. He’d redeemed himself and was “eligible” to move on, but he chose not to. Which redeemed him even more.

Desmond/Penny

Thank you.

De plane! De plane!

Who else let out a yelp and applauded when Miles and Richard found Lapidus bobbing in the ocean! That. Was. So. Awesome. I don’t know, I had a feeling he was still alive.

And Richard was still alive, too – was it his brush with death with Smokey what made him mortal again, or was it the cork being pulled out of the island? Probably the latter.

So Lost to have him find a reason to live again, once he knew he could die.

Duct tape fixes everything.

When Kate, Sawyer and Claire come upon the Ajira plane just about to taxi and Frank gets ‘em on, total sigh of relief, but also an intake of breath. Would they still escape the island? Nothing was ever certain on Lost, and they’d killed almost everyone else by this point, so it could have happened.

Questions:

Why wasn’t Miles in the church? And Richard, too? What about Frank?

Dharma initiative? Um, totally confused about that. How did they ever get to the island? Obviously, they were trying to find Elvar Hanso’s ship and did, but how did they even find it? Did Jacob allow them to come? Or did the MiB allow them to come, knowing the destruction they’d reign down on the Others.

WTF were the Others? Just people gathered by Jacob over the years to protect the island? Were they candidates? Were some candidates?

Why couldn’t babies be born on the island? Was it the nuclear bomb? I assume that, but it was never made clear.

Why did the Others have that superhuman strength? Did the exposure to the radiation make them all Hulk-like, except not green and huge?

What was Widmore’s backstory? We never really got that. We never learned how he got to the island, why he was there (Eloise, too). And who was Penny’s mother? How did that all transpire that he met some woman off-island whom he loved and had a child with? And how did Eloise and Faraday end up off-island? Did she leave when she found out she was pregnant so her child would live? (They hadn’t had Faraday yet when Widmore was forced to leave, right?)

Who in the hell was Matthew Abbadon? I know he worked for Widmore, but wtf? Ilana, too.

I’m sure I’ll come up with more questions and more thoughts.

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But I do want to say this:

Thank you to the entire cast and crew of Lost – you provided excellent entertainment and diversion for six years. The acting, the writing, the music, the editing, the cinematography – it was all better than we’ve seen on television in, maybe, ever. OK, a close tie with The Wire and Battlestar Galactica, but in a totally different way.

Thanks for being my Constant.

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We’re down to the last 2.5 hours of one of the best shows in the history of television (1- that’s not hyperbole and 2- even if it were, I’m allowed). If you haven’t watched Tuesday’s ep yet, LEAVE NOW.

So, we had two very distinct sets of stories going on last night and they’re hurtling toward one another, faster and faster, ready to culminate in … what?

The Island – Jake & the candidates

• Kate was still a viable candidate. Her name being crossed off had nothing to do with her being killed (though that could still happen) – it had everything to do with her having a purpose in life. Once Kate became mom to Aaron, she no longer was a viable candidate, because she had someone who needed her. Once she chose to get Claire back to Aaron, she became viable again.

• Jacob was visible to the candidates now, not just Hurley. Why? Could he always have made himself visible, but only let Hurley see him because Hurley wouldn’t freak out at being able to see him?

• Jack! I was never a Jack hater, but I’ve really grown to love him the last few episodes. He has finally accepted his place in the world and he’s much more enjoyable to watch. And now he’s the new Jacob and needs to find a way to destroy (or, at least, bottle up) the MiB.

• How long does it take to burn a bag of ashes? Jacob was still there for a long time, no?

• Who was Sawyer trying to kid, saying he was doing just fine until Jacob came along? None of the final candidates was doing OK. All four were all behind bars – either jail or the crazy farm.

• DESMOND! Where are you, brotha? Are you going to save the world in both timelines? (Note to Team Darlton: Remember what I said about Desmond and Pennah!)

The Island – Ben & Flocke, together again for the first time

• What did Widmore tell Flocke?

• Ben, you bastard! I knew you couldn’t be all good, but I didn’t realize you had all that bad left in you, either. I guess when faced with the man indirectly responsible for Alex’s death, however, that was bound to happen.

• Miles: The smartest man left on the island. RUN, MILES, RUN! Don’t answer Ben if he calls you on the walkie, btw.

• Will Flocke still kill Pennah if he manages to leave the island? Oh, wait, if he leaves the island, everyone and everything comes to a screeching halt, so, kind of, yeah.

• Bye Zoe. We hardly knew ye, but you weren’t very important anyway.

• So, Widmore’s dead. Wow. Just when I was starting to maybe kind of like him.

• Is Richard dead? He was released by Jacob from living for all eternity, right?

Off-Island

• Sawyer’s an honest cop. Go figure. But that’s OK, Kate got away anyhow.

• Ana-Lucia! Wow, you’re a crooked cop. Somehow, I was glad to see that Ana-Lucia was a bad one. I never liked her. Love that Hurley and Desmond were basically being like Starsky and Hutch or Laurel and Hardy, maybe.

• Ben, in the haze of Desmond’s beating, saw his other life. Did he see what he did to Danielle? What if she suddenly flashes on her other life? That’ll end her fondness of Dr. Linus. It’s interesting to see, though, the happy, non-crazy Danielle.

• I realize that most of the Losties are happy in the alternate timeline. Only Kate and Sayid are pretty frakkin’ miserable still. What’s going to happen this weekend at the Concert?

Random questions remaining that somehow were raised by this ep

• Why couldn’t women have babies on the island? It’s not the MiB preventing it, as we know of at least once baby conceived and born on the island – Ethan. Was it the detonation of Jughead?

• In the alternate timeline, with the island at the bottom of the ocean, is that an alternate way of keeping MiB from getting off the island? Can we have our happy Losties and leave the Island at the bottom of the sea or do they have to go back to the original timeline and all die?

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I have no idea what other SPN fans thought, because I have been out of town and have spent the week playing catch-up. I was lucky I got to see the finale on Saturday. You know what? Kripke brought it!

A few shocking, horrible, awful deaths; some brotherly love; a hot car that saves the world; and an Angel gets his mojo back. Nice.

I was sure Samifer was a terrible idea, and I was sure the whole Sam/Lucifer talking in the mirror thing was gonna suck, but they didn’t dwell and Jared pulled off the two characters quite well. Seeing Lucifer swallow our darling Sammy up was hard to see, and I can’t believe I was rooting for a damn car to pull him out of it. A car!!

I am also a sucker for this style of storytelling, and it helped that I am a big fan of Chuck the Prophet. The one thing I do know, is that a lot of people are supposing that Chuck is GOD. I am back and forth on this, and may need to watch again to get a more solid opinion. He was wearing white… but would Kripke be that obvious? Honestly, I wouldn’t put it past him.

So, the ending. If this was the verylastSupernaturalever, I would have been satisfied. It would have sucked to think that Dean wouldn’t have his brother, but it would have made sense to me. It would have felt final and tied up and bittersweet and gratifying. But we all know there is another season to come, and Samifer standing under the street lamp, glaring at Dean and Lisa was not only clique, but kinda cheap. And let me tell you, if we have to endure another season of those stunning boys at odds, I am gonna be pissed. I watch this show for the the pretty, the gore and the brotherly love. A few episodes of Sam trying to get back to the world is fine, but not a whole season! Plus, I am not sure how much more of Dean’s suffering I can take.

And who are we gonna blame when things go awry next season? I am so used to “Damn you, Kripke!”, but will it now have to be “Damn you, Sera!”. Just doesn’t have the same ring to it.

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I am sensing a pattern here, and I just hope that it means from now on that if the third-to-last episode of the season/series bores me (I’m looking at you, Lost), then the penultimate episode will be awesome, as occurred here.

All the goodness! Castiel came back to save those beautiful Winchesters from Pestilence, even though he is less angel-y and more human-y. How awesome is Castiel? Anyhoo, Bobby actually did sell (or lend?) his soul to Crowley, sealed with an iPhone documented kiss, and for his trouble, got the use of his legs back. Which was great as he and Sammy headed to firebomb the warehouse full of the Vaccine That’s Really Croatoan, where Sammy proceeded to be a BigDamnHero saving all the non-zombied workers from the Croatoaned zombies. Meanwhile, Dean finds Death at a diner in Chicago eating yummy pie. Turns out Death is just as sick and tired of Lucifer’s antics as everyone else, so he gives Dean a few tips about the rings, and makes him promise to throw his darling bother Sammy into the void. Which turns Dean into a liar as he agrees, because we all know he would never do that. Right?

I love how this show continues to tweak the presumptions we have about myth and religion, and much like Lost, has been toying with the idea of Good vs. Evil, and all those hues in between. I wonder if Darlton and Kripke are cursing each other for stealing each others ideas. Hee.

So, what can only be seen as the stupidest plan in the world seems to have been hatched. Sammy will let Lucifer use his vessel-ness and then, THEN! Sam will use his demony powers to make Lucifer jump back into whence he came, so the rest of the crew can seal him back in with the Horsemen rings. It seems like a really bad idea, although I certainly don’t have a better one, so I guess we’ll go with this.

I have no idea how it will all play out, but after this episode, I am very excited to find out.

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Didn’t watch? Get the frak outta here!

OK, so this episode answered soooooo many questions, even as it raised others. The biggest question it answered (and theory it put to rest) was the identity of the island’s “Adam and Eve” – Jacob’s adoptive mother and his brother, the actual MiB.

Loved that it flashed back to that scene from Season 1 where Jack and Kate found the skeletons in the caves and Locked dubbed them Adam and Eve, reminding anyone who may not be keeping detailed notes about the show (all five of you). The “Rose and Bernard are Adam and Eve” theory was shot to hell there. (Also, nice foreshadowing of Flocke; he was still the Locke we knew and loved at that point.)

No time warp, no one we knew – but extremely important to the history of the island.

By the way, remember when Locke was dragged into the ground by Smokey in Season 1 or 2, but was dragged back out and said he’d seen the heart of the island and it was beautiful? Yeah, he was doomed all the way back then.

Here’s what we learned and questions I have:

• What is MiB’s name? Drove me crazy that he was never named, but somehow appropriate. Obviously, he had a name. Wouldn’t have been raised for so many years without one. But in true Lost fashion, his name was never uttered. Even though, as I said, it drove me crazy, I loved that detail. His name isn’t important. He’s Smokey. He’s Flocke. He’s Smocke. He’s Christian Shepherd. He’s the Man in Black.

• MiB could see dead people. Jacob couldn’t. Does this mean, somehow, that Hurley is more like MiB? We saw from his background that he wasn’t a bad person/being. Didn’t start out that way, at least. He discovered the ultimate betrayal – that he’d been lied to his entire life about his parentage, about there being things in the world besides the island, about everything. But if he had been told the truth earlier, would he have tried to leave the island earlier? I think so.

• MiB instinctively knew how things worked. He knew how to play that game he found on the beach. He knew how to build the Frozen Donkey Wheel. He knew how to use the light – the source – for his own purposes. How did he know these things? Obviously, he had shared how to use the wheel with those he drew close to him – Ben, for example. Did Widmore use the wheel to get off the island before? And if so, how did he get back? I thought one of the side effects of using the wheel was that the island moved in time and space. And if he didn’t use the wheel, how, exactly, did he get off? The submarine? Was it that it was easier to leave through the correct coordinates underwater? And why? (Wow, this bullet point ended far from where it began.)

• MiB was far more intuitive and “special” than Jacob. Jacob had no guile, but didn’t seem particularly bright. He was totally an annoying mama’s boy. By the time he decided to rebel, it was too late, and he was the only option for protecting the island, so he did it. He never cared about leaving the island, had no natural curiousity.  I found his talk with MiB about the people in the settlement interesting – MiB, having lived among them, found them deeply flawed. Jacob, by watching them only from afar, really saw nothing wrong with them. MiB’s knowledge of man comes from experience, while Jacob’s comes from ignorance. The problem is, MiB had a very small group to study, and was discounting the good things he found among them – all the clever men who helped him find the places on the island where metal acted funny. MiB so desperately wants to leave the island that he doesn’t care that it will eliminate all everything.

• MiB is not just some evil smoke monster. Smokey is not just a manifestation of evil, or the devil. MiB IS The Source. He went into the cave and came out as Smokey. His body died (which confused me, as I thought that the boys could not kill one another – interesting that MiB could not kill Jacob, but Jacob could kill MiB, or was that only because it was an accident that MiB died?), but his essence came out as Smokey. The crackling in the cloud is part of the Source light. Does some of The Source remain inside the island?

• The Island isn’t Purgatory or Hell. It is, in a sense, Eden – the Source of all life. To destroy the light is to destroy everything – it will all cease to exist. Jacob accepted that he had to keep MiB on the island in order to keep the Light from going out. MiB doesn’t even particularly care about that. He has always wanted to leave the island, to see what else is out there. He doesn’t seem to care/realize that if he were to leave the island, there would be nothing/nowhere to see. Why do I suspect that, in the end, he’s going to realize that and become the island’s protector – as he was meant to be all along?

I’m glad the show isn’t just a matter of good and evil. I suspected Team Darlton had some game-changer in their pockets, but couldn’t for the life of me figure out what that is. Once again, they’ve shown that Good and Evil aren’t simply a matter of Good and Evil. Nothing (and no one) is pure good. Nothing (and no one) is pure evil. Jacob beat the crap out of his brother more than once; MiB never raised a hand at Jacob, even to protect himself.

This is my prediction: All our candidates are going to die, but MiB will realize that he truly needs to protect the island, or else he’ll have nowhere to go anyway. And so he’ll stay. And because he can see dead people, he’ll get to hang with Jacob and their “mom” and all the others who’ve died and run around on the island. It will be a sad ending, because these people we’ve followed and traveled with for so long will be gone, but a happy ending, because the world will be saved. (Also interesting: Locke was probably the best candidate for saving the island because he believed in it so strongly, so with MiB manifesting as Locke, how will that affect things?)

Oh, and Desmond and Penny had BETTER be together, or else I’m gonna be really pissed. Not sure if I’ve mentioned that before. DO NOT KILL THEM OR KEEP THEM APART, DO YOU HEAR ME DARLTON? kthxbai.

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Usual spoiler alerts. Do I even need to say that?

Anyway, I’ve seen a lot of hate the last couple of days for Tuesday’s episode, but I loved it.

Yes, at least three beloved, probably four (Frank), characters met their demise in Davy Jones’ locker. No, we don’t feel all that much closer to finding out what’s going on. Yes, it was unnerving that we just wanted to punch Sawyer and say, “JUST LISTEN TO JACK ALREADY!”

But this show has never been about happy endings. In fact, I suspect that Sayid, Sun & Jin’s endings are about as happy as one could expect from Lost.

Sayid was under the thrall of Flocke the last few episodes. It was nice to see him break free of that psychological hold and give his own life to save his friends. They are his friends and he was never going to be with the love of his life, in this reality or any other. He realized that. If there is an afterlife, then Sayid can be with her there. And maybe he will be, Star Wars-style? (I wouldn’t mind Hurley “seeing” the two of them, smiling, holding hands, before the end.)

Sun and Jin have been desperately trying to find each other pretty much the entire run of the series. We started with Sun wanting to escape Jin, but loving him too much to leave. They recaptured their love over the last six years and it’s been a tender love story we’ve watched. In the end, they’ll be together for always, though I cried when their hands separated upon their death.

Their daughter is alive, though, and if all the candidates die, my money’s on her being the final candidate (not a new theory, and one I’ve mentioned before, but the carnage we’ve seen seems to be leading in that direction ever more).

So I have two competing thoughts on what might happen:

1) The alternate universe Losties will figure out enough of what would happen if they reverted to the pre-Jughead version of reality and want to stay there. Pretty much without exception, their lives are better there. Sayid may not have it too great, but he’s not really doing much worse. And he just blew up in the original timeline, so that’s not a very good ending for him. With this alternate timeline, Ben never kills Jacob, so Jacob is still there to keep the cork in the bottle, at the bottom of the ocean (with both vessels – Jacob’s body and MiB’s body killed by the island being in the murky deep, it would seem they’re both without means to get off the island, and that’s probably the best thing).

2) Everyone dies. Hurley, Claire, Jack, Kate, Sawyer, Desmond (NOOOOOOOOOOOO). They’re all gone and years later, Sun & Jin’s daughter somehow finds her way to the island to try to figure out what happened to her parents, then becomes the new Jacob.

If you didn’t at least almost bust out crying when Hurley broke down, by the way, you have no soul. Just sayin’.

Of course, this could all be wrong, and Jack could be the new Jacob. Or Desmond could still be alive (but if he doesn’t end up with Penny, Team Darlton has some serious ‘splainin’ to do) and be the new Jacob.

Or what if Des becomes the new Jacob and Jack the new MiB?

My head hurts now.

I’m still not 100 percent convinced that the MiB is actually the bad guy. It’s not like Team Darlton to be so obvious. I suspect that it’s not quite as black and white as it seems to be. Or maybe I’m just fooling myself.

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