LOST - There’s No Place Like Home (Part 2 & 3)

Tonight is the season finale of LOST which means something crazy is going to happen. Let this be your one and only spoiler warning. Everything that follows is a combination of instant reactions and comments during commercials, with a bit of speculation thrown in for good measure. Here we go!

• Very bad stuff happens on the “rescue day.” This episode will be epic.
• The coffin was not for Ben or anyone else… a new character will soon be revealed.
• Jin learned a new word, boom. I really hope that’s not foreshadowing.
• THE REAL OTHERS ARE FREAKING AWESOME!
• Why is Ben so important? So important that Widmore wants him alive, so important that the real others would initiate on a full-on attack against the commando unit, so important that for helping Kate and Sayid are allowed to leave the island, “just like that.” Something tells me that while Locke seems to be the new “chosen” one, Ben still has a significant amount of pull and perhaps the Locke and Ben partnership is ready to begin… either that or Ben, who always has a plan, has an out for Locke.
• WALT!!!!!
• Who is this Jeremy Bentham guy? He obviously knows the truth.
• The people who stay on the island are still in danger. But who or what is causing the danger? Widmore? Ben? Someone else?
• The lies… the fake story… it was Locke’s suggestion? There wasn’t someone behind the curtains pulling the strings, creating the story? Something is missing.
• Haha, the “magic box!”
• So the teases and hints about time travel are real? Are Ben and Locke going to “move” the island through time? How does that help them in their situation? How exactly would that hide the island? Again, something is missing.
• Wait. Sawyer is on the helicopter. There is no “choice” to stay. Again, something is seriously missing…
• It seems like there is a constant swing back and fourth between Ben being fairly good, at least in his intentions, and pure evil. It started when Ben was first introduced. He seemed to be the clear cut villain, the evil genius who ran the island. Over time it seemed that just because Ben made some pretty dirty decisions, he always had the best of intentions at heart, especially when it came to matters of the island. I just saw Ben in pure evil form, complete vengeance and lack of any “plan” that he might have had. We already know there is a funky time issue going on, but that it doesn’t really work with radios… so is the boat about to go boom?
• Was Charlotte born on the island?
• Well… now we know that Sawyer did in fact make a choice. The question is will he make it back to the island before it disappears? You had to figure though that Sawyer would pull off some sort of heroic movie. His character has changed a lot over the course of the show as well. He started off as the lone ranger who didn’t care about anyone else but himself and now he’s dodging bullets to save Claire and jumping out of helicopters so that others can make it off the island.
• It seems that characters evolving is a big thing on the show, which makes me question Jack a bit. Based on the flash-forwards it seems that he does, in fact, change. His discussion with Locke about believing in miracles falls right in with the Man of Science/Man of Faith storyline that are Jack and Locke, but it just seems unfortunate that Jack can’t seem to change without “proof.” But what that does mean is that whatever causes him to finally change is obviously very, very substantial.
• Jeremy Bentham isn’t really his name… it’s a code of some sort? Who was in the coffin?!?! Maybe it was Ben.
• Hurley is being haunted/visited/tortured by those killed on the island… not good.
• How creepy was that when Christian Shepherd showed up and told Michael he was done?
• Jin died… in the explosion of the boat… Two people are responsible for Jin’s death (as per the last episode). One is Sun’s father and I presume the other is Widmore… or perhaps even Ben which would put an interesting spin on things when things come into play in the future.
• Unfortunately it looks like the two that died “in the water” are going to be Lupedis, who will easily be explained since he was the pilot listed on the manifest, and Desmond. Desmond won’t be able to be explained on the manifest and would really, really suck. This is LOST so there could be another explanation that has yet to present itself, but right now it’s not looking good.
• I’m pretty sure Sun is holding Ben responsible for Jin’s death… and has chosen team Widmore. This is going to be pretty interesting after all.
• Awesome. Sawyer makes it to shore! Too bad he now has to live feeling like he should have died with his friends, even though unknown to him, they actually survived. Is that irony? I think that’s irony.
• Wow. So the transfer of power is a reality. Whoever moves the island can NEVER come back. Ben protects the island by banishing himself from it. And now Locke is officially in charge of Alpert and the crew. Hopefully this means answers are just around the corner… unfortunately the corner is next season and nine months away.
• So the island really… did… move. Something tells me we’re probably not going to know where, let alone see it again, for a very long time.
• It seemed moving the island was the most painful thing Ben ever had to do. Though it also seems that he really did “warp” from the strange ice cave right to the desert two years later. I’m hoping we see Ben again before next season but I have my doubts about that as well.
• And I know irony when I see the second phase of LOST beginning with yet another plane crash. (I know, technically a helicopter isn’t a plane, but it’s close enough.)
• Well, it looks like there really is going to be a hunt for the island and evidently Claire doesn’t want Aaron to go. I’m trying to remember what the crazy psychic said to Claire before the baby was born. I know that he told her she had to raise him, and then all of a sudden he want’s her on the flight to LA.
• I like how something as big as moving the island wasn’t enough proof for Jack to believe… something really, really big has to happen to change his mind.
• Jack actually took Locke’s advice.
• I think Desmond is safe! Holy crap! I didn’t see that one coming. Who would have thought that Penny would be on the boat that found the life raft! The reunion is complete! I’ve said before that the most emotional moment I’ve seen on TV was when Jack Bauer was saying goodbye to his daughter right before flying the nuclear bomb into the middle of the desert (which of corse he survived). However, I would say that the initial Penny/Desmond phone call from a few weeks back, combined with the reunion here on the boat, is one of the most emotional and surprising sequences to make TV, it surely gives Bauer’s goodbye a run for the money.
• Oh COME ON! Octagon Global Recruiting…. are they for real going to do another alternative reality game…
• So Penny Widmore is responsible for the fake story? She clearly isn’t working with her dad. Clearly considering Jack said “don’t let him find you.” But I think Jack and Desmond will meet again since “I’ll see you in another life” was used again… very cool!
• So no one dies in the water… it’s just a story? A complete lie? Why did they insist on telling us that two people didn’t make it? DAH! LOST writers and their red hearings!
• So… Jeremy Bentham is really… drum roll… JOHN LOCKE!!!!!!!!!! So Locke left the island, was able to get in contact with everyone, and then somehow died. In order to get back, everyone has to go together which is obviously a problem because Sun is now on Team Widmore, Kate hates Jack, and well, Desmond is with Penny (which will make Ben finding her even more interesting), and who knows where Lupedis is. The second phase of LOST seems like it’s going to be very, very good. The fact that Jack doesn’t even hesitate when he sees creepy Ben (see my evil discussion above) and without pause listens to Ben’s ides and basically agrees to go along with them says a hell of a lot. Jack was inches away from killing Ben a few Island Days ago and now, something like three or four years in the future, Jack is ready to follow Ben completely! Something really, really big, bigger than the island moving, happens. Something so big that the death of John Locke, of all people, throws Jack into a complete tailspin! What a great turn of events!

We now start the very long wait for the next season of LOST, which isn’t scheduled to air until next January or February. There were a lot of answers, but in true LOST form some serious questions were presented. It’ll be a long summer full of speculation and over-anilizaiton. And then of course there is Octagon Worldwide Recruiting. Haha. What did you think about the episode?