LOST finale!

Woa. Just.... woa.

While I know my better half is cooling on this show, last night's finale was my favorite episode ever, just beating out Season 3's fast-forward finale and greatly improving on last season's "donkey wheel" finale.

I got tingles at the opening scene, considering how ambiguous it was, you knew it had to be important. Normally, my reaction would have been, "Why are we introducing MORE people AGAIN!" but the convo was so heavy handed you knew these weren't just minor characters destined to die in an insignificant way... especially when the name "Jacob" was dropped. 

I've seen a lot of Cain and Abel comparisons, and Jeff picked up on the "black shirt/white shirt" thing before me. But MY THEORY is definitely more of a Satan/God parallel. I mean, they're not going to come out and SAY that ever -- maybe they are just the God/Satan of the island. But in the old testament, Satan and God were always "playing games" with each other, so that's what I'm going with now. (Also like the theory I saw about Richard being on the ship in the distance.) 

But can Jacob really be Godlike? I've seen a lot of reviews this morning talking about how he jumped in and laid a comforting thought or hand or pen to every Lostie, but what about Sayid? Did Jacob cause the death of Nadia, or stop Sayid from being killed as well? Either way, Jacob knew Nadia would die, and wouldn't that be more indicative of something self-serving than a God-like action? Bah! (Also of note: Jacob was NOT in Juliette's flashback).

But if they aren't Satan and God, they're another science vs. fate coupling in the long Lost tradition: Jack vs. Locke, then Jack (on the fate side) vs. Sawyer (it wouldn't be Lost if someone wasn't being brutally punched in the face right?). It's always been the central argument of the show hasn't it? As of the finale, most of the characters believed that you CAN change the future, hence everyone changing their mind at the last minute to blow up the island and hope we start back at zero. "See you in LA."

I love how they threw in that gut-punch of Miles saying "What if we are the incident?" No doubt, they wanted us to agonize over that statement. However MY THEORY is no, that's not the incident. I don't say that with complete confidence though. I don't see how that could tie back into Dr. Chang's videos. The whole "incident" scene started to feel a little like a bad sci-fi movie at some points and I condemn fervent Losties for scoffing at Juliette's re-awakening. Of course they're not saying "Yeah, she survived, no biggie." That bomb was supposed to go off on impact, it didn't and then chains from nowhere wrap around Juliette's waist and she's plunging into the abyss. Like, duh, it was supposed to happen. Course correction. 

Jeff also picked up on Locke, not being Locke but being "Who dat Locke?" before me. MY THEORY is that "Who dat Locke" has been every apparition ever seen on the Island. Jack's dad, Hurley's imaginary friend, the black horse, BEN'S DAUGHTER. Satan is a well known shape-shifter (Jesus in the dessert anyone?) and although it's far out, it makes more sense then dead people actually BEING there right?

I like how they re-introduced Rose and Bernard and let them say what the audience was thinking: When will this ever end? Why are you doing this? In essence, who cares, have you ever done any good? It goes back to the conversation from the beginning, the eternal series: 

Who dat Locke: They come, they fight, they destroy, they corrupt. It always ends the same.
JACOB: It can only end once. Everything before that is progress.

It kind of trivializes our investment in the show to know this is something that has repeated over and over, and that our Losties aren't special.

Speaking of not being special, we get to Ben. MY THEORY is Ben knows EXACTLY what is going on, knows he's supposed to kill Jacob, knows killing Jacob would not ACTUALLY kill him. It seemed like "Who dat Locke" knew he was being played after Jacob said "They're coming," hence why he angrily kicked him into the fire. If Ben isn't in on it, Jacob definitely knew what was going to happen to him. I mean, of all the things Jacob could have said when Ben demanded to know why he wasn't special, wasn't "(Pause) What about you?" just akin to running straight into the knife? Also: my favorite line on Lost ever. Seriously rocked my world.

And who is Ilana? Is she an original Islander as well? Some people said they were speaking Latin, so, um, what's that about? She did call Richard "Ricardus." And what is this "candidacy." Is this some sort of Island-protection clan, like those who protected the Arc of the Covenant or the old knight who protected the Holy Grail in The Last Crusade? She definitely had a "I'll give my life to the cause" vibe. 

So what next? Losties start from scratch, become better people? Will "progress" have been made? I mean, it had to have happened right... the bomb exploded, I feel certain that they're not all just dead and that's that. But if they reset in time, do they lose their memories? That has not happened at any point in all the time traveling so far. They always ... remember. But will the Losties dead and gone (Charlie, Claire) remember? Will they get together at barbeques? Won't Locke ALWAYS be trying to go back? And what about Widmore? What's his role in all of this? WHO'S SIDE IS EVERYONE ON??

Whooo. That was fun. What are your thoughts my Lost compadres?