Lost Until February

***Ruminations & Postulations on the Lost season Finale*** Things That Rocked: - Sayiid snapping that dude's neck with his legs. - Desmond shooting Mikael in the chest with the dart gun. - Jack pummeling Ben. - Rosseau elbowing Ben in the face. - Hurley saving the fucking day. Things That I'm thinking: My totally off the wall theory, but first thing that came to my mind. Is it possible to have memories of your future? Is it just me or did Ben fabulously demonstrate the technique of deceiving people by adding just the right amount of truth to the fabrication? Well, I guess that he demonstrated it, but unsuccessfully. Trying to get into Ben's head: he starts off w/the intention to lie and manipulate Jack and in the end is (as it would seem) telling him the truth, pleading to Jack with the truth...how did Ben, master of predicting and manipulating human behaviour misjudge what Jack's reaction to the supposed slaughter of Sayiid, Jin and Bernard would be? I have thought a lot about Jacob. I have no conclusions or postulations. The only thing I got is: how f*cking awesome was it when Lost momentarily went all scary horror, psychological flick on itself. Trying to be like everyone else: realistic, obvious and boring I came up with this: Definitely a flashforward. Jack’s references to his father are just drug induced statements. How ridiculous are these people trying to prove it was a flash forward evidenced by the make and model of Jack's cell phone. F*cking gay, try thinking: paid advertisement. Most obvious explanation for what’s going on in the flash forward – it’s Ben’s funeral. Kate’s w/Sawyer now and clearly, Jack is miserable for some undisclosed reason. There was a suggestion made that when future/or present time Kate says ‘he’ll wonder where I am’ she isn’t referring to Sawyer, rather the baby she had with Sawyer. Not a bad suggestion – but I don’t think it really matters at this point. Some one else theorized that the crash, what’s been happening on the beach, in essence the episodes that we’ve been watching are not in present time, but in past time and that the flash forward with Jack and Kate post rescue is actually the present time. They went on to suggest that next season perhaps we’ll be watching the present time as regular episodes and that the rest of the story of what happened on the island will be disclosed through flashbacks. I hope what I just said makes sense. I actually agree that it would seem what we’ve been watching is in the past, Desmond’s ability to see future events is further proof to this theory. As for the format of next season’s episodes. I think that they idea we’ll be watching them primarily after post rescue w/flashbacks to explain the rest of what happened is plausible and likely – but really who knows right? I think that I’d miss having them be on the island though. Why do Kate and Jack have differing opinions on whether or not they should have been rescued. We still don’t know the explanation between all of these people’s lives being intertwined prior to Australia and the plane crash. We still don’t have an explanation for Des’s ability to see the future – or for the old lady in his flash back who tries to prevent him from proposing. We don’t know why people seem to age selectively on the island – like Ben aging into adulthood and then seemingly stopping. I think it’s safe to assume there was no fake flight 815 – that Naomi lies when she says the flight was found as were all of the survivors. This supposed recovery of 815 shouldn’t factor into figuring out what’s happening because it’s a lie. Who are these people that were on the island prior to the Dharma Initiative. When Charlie realized it wasn’t Penny’s boat why didn’t he abandon the plan? Or at least swim out that window – he would have totally fit – I know we’re supposed to suspend our disbelief, but they could have made the window smaller just so it wouldn’t seem like such an obvious exit. Is Desmond good or bad? Is he hiding something – what is he hiding?