Episode 617 - The End

Ok, here we go!  I don't know if I should be excited or sad.  But ready or not, here we go!

- This is a beautiful way to start the last episode; getting us acquainted with where all our characters, in both realities, are and what they're up to

- Isn't that the church where Eloise Hawking was?

- Is Desmond going to try to get everyone back to the island?  Is that why he's trying to get Christian Shepherd's body?

- Except the Island's underwater, so how's that going to work? Maybe I'm still missing something.  Hmmm...

- Ok, but if you have to protect it, why on earth would you go there and show the smoke monster where the light is?!

- Star Wars reference from Hurley!  And then another Star Wars reference "I have a bad feeling about this"

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- I love Hurley.  Everything he does brings a smile to my face.  :)

- See, the island is going to be on the bottom of the ocean, which will sync the two realities.

-  Rose & Bernard!  I totally forgot about them.  That's cool that they're back in the story again

- But I really don't think that sinking the island will accomplish what anti-Jacob thinks it will

- And, by the way, anti-Jacob is EVIL (in case you didn't know that)

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- Desmond's had a flash, hasn't he?  He's seen the future for what anti-Jacob is going to make him do, just like he saw flashes w/ Charlie

- Juliet!  I wonder if she's going to run into Sawyer and get connected with him, or if it's just the Oceanic 6 plus Desmond who end up all in the same place (at least that's what I'm assuming is what's coming)

- They remember dying!  What must that be like?!

- That's super cool that they got their memories back and could speak English, but how sad for them that they remember that they die.  Maybe the cool part of that is that they were together.

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- Ooo, they are playing the destiny music

- Oh!  Richard is aging!  I guess now that Jacob is dead, Richard won't live forever.

- Lapidas was in the sub, huh?  Interesting that he was able to live when no one else was

- There's a cool idea we haven't heard before: why not just fly off the island?!

- Wow, that's awfully bold Jack!  I want to know the surprise.  :)

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- Interesting that Jack USED to be married to Juliet

- And yet, I'll be that's the whole thing, I'll be that all of LOST is actually a "Long Con" possibly of Jacob on anti-Jacob

- The rain is coming, and something bad always happens when it rains!

- Desmond is the connection between the two realities, just like he was the constant for Faraday

- Ok, but we're not even half-way through the episode yet, so how can we already be here, how can we already be at the light looking down?!

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- Is that Boone & Shannon?! Haha!

- Woah, they didn't waste any time, did they?

- That pull away shot going down the water fall WAS just like the shot of Locke & Jack looking down into the hatch at the end of season 1

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- Oh, this is the first time that Charlie has seen Claire in this sideways reality!

- Hmm, what's w/ the dead body?  And now what's Desmond doing, I wonder?  And what's w/ the light and everything?

- What the heck just happened?  Is the light gone?  Hmmm, this doesn't look good

- Wow, anti-Jacob is human again!  Maybe that killed the island?  Looks like anti-Jacob isn't the smoke monster anymore, which means he now can be killed!  And maybe, he isn't all bad anymore?

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- I wonder if Claire & Kate are going to get their memory flashes through this pregnancy/contractions thing

- Claire & Kate are having the baby just like it happened in the jungle in the REAL timeline --  THERE IT IS!  They are getting their flashes!

- Side note: that was the world's shortest labor.  Like 5 minutes.  That's crazy fast (and correct me if I'm wrong, but labor is usually MUCH longer than that)

- I guess Ben gets to stay on the Island.  Lucky him

- Hey, it's both islands!  Both the main island and the island w/ the plane

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- I think Jack would have the advantage in a fight like this because he's used to fighting as a human and anti-Jacob isn't

- WAY TO GO KATE!!!

- Ok, so anti-Jacob is dead, but now what?

- WHEN is Jack going to flash?  Did Jack start to see it but choose not to keep looking?

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-LAME!  I just lost all my thoughts for this last section!  I didn't get it to post right!

- Ok, let me try to re-create...

- Basically I'm glad that Kate appears to have picked Jack over Sawyer.  And my evidence for this is that she told Jack "I love you" which she's never told anyone that I can remember (though Jack told her before)

- Also, I'm thinking that we aren't really going to get any more answers than we have right now, just conclusions.  I think this episode is just going to wrap up this whole story, not give answers.

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- Juliet.  That makes sense that Juliet would give Sawyer his flash.  And will she get her flash here too?

- Beautiful.  That's the best way to describe what LOST is doing right now.  The way they brought Sawyer & Juliet back to their memories was perfect.

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- Jack must have to see Kate to really get his flash.  Ha!  There she is, I must be right

- Jack IS avoiding the flashes.  Why does he want to avoid it so much?

- How come SHE understands?  What is it that they are understanding based on their flashes?

- This's gotta be a totally disappointing and awkward conversation to be listening to for Ben since he probably wants to have this honor himself, to protect the island

- I'm not sure if I can believe that that's ACTUALLY Jack passing on the protector-ship to Hurley.  He didn't say any words or anything.  Maybe it is, maybe it isn't, I'm just not sure.

- Wow, that was a really lame pep-talk by Claire, yet she bought it!

- OH MY GOSH!  I didn't even see it!  It's the cork!  The piece that Desmond moved and Jack just moved back is the cork!  Maybe what's "below" is supposed to be hell, evil.

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- So true, forgiveness DOES matter, and it matters alot

- Spoken well, Ben, spoken well.  Hurley DOES take care of people.

- And Hurley asking Ben to help him is exactly what Ben needs.  :)

- Oh look, Jack's NOT dead.  Doesn't look like he's doing so good, but he's not dead.

- Uh, totally confused w/ Christian being alive!  Huh?  What does Jack mean "I died too?"  When?  We haven't seen him die yet

- The flash sideways is "heaven" (in whatever version these writers conceive of it)

- I don't know how I feel about the whole "heaven" thing, but I'm ok w/ it just being the flash sideways, not reality, and I'm not super bothered by it, but I don't like things that deal w/ the after life when they're not accurate.

  But overall, I LOVED the episode.  It was a beautiful tribute to the show.  It didn't answer many questions, but it did bring closure.  I feel good about it being over.  I don't feel like there are hugely hanging questions or things that I don't have the answer to, which is really nice.  I'm still going to have to process. but overall I feel like it was a fulfilling ending to an AMAZING show.

  Thanks for reading and putting up with my rantings, ravings, and hypothesis.  It's been a fun run.  : )