My random thoughts. Obviously, don’t read ahead if you haven’t seen the finale yet…
- While three years have passed for the Oceanic Six, have three years passed on the island? If so, things might be a LOT different with those left behind. Keep in mind that the four seasons we’ve watched were just a span of months in island time. We’re talking THREE YEARS. That could mean Kate gets back to Sawyer, only to see he’s been married to Juliet for a couple of years. Just no babies, unless Juliet figured that out. Too bad… there’s a part of me that actually wanted to see Jack and Juliet more than Jack and Kate. They could also easily go the Narnia route and have a
- Let’s keep in mind that whether three years have passed on the island or not, to them Jack, Sayid, Hurley, Kate, etc. are dead. They watched that ship go kabloey. And knowing what apparitions Jacob/Christian Shepherd served up for them in that time, they may not only have a shock when the Oceanic Six return, but may not believe they’re real.
- Heck, three years is such a long amount of time that it’s reasonable to think that the left-behind Losties at this point are rag-wearing mad members of the Richard Alpert Others, with possibly Sawyer as leader in Locke’s absence.
- Why is Locke not on the island? My theory, going back to a lot happens in three years, is for some reason the island had to be moved again. This time, it was Locke who had to make the sacrifice to leave the island.
- Probably the biggest hanging question from the episode I hope gets answered but may not be: What happened to physicist Daniel and his raft of unnamed Losties? I thought they did too much development of Daniel and his knowledge of the island’s properties to just discard him like that. Maybe he was close enough to the island to be swept up in that vortex and go along with it? And in a case of probably wishful thinking, maybe he happened to pick up a former Korean mob henchman who jumped off an exploding freighter? Michael’s a goner for sure, however, as the island let “him go.”
- Loved the effect of the island disappearing, complete with the ocean filling up the empty space the island left like an empty tub. Though my theory is not so much that the island moved somewhere else, but moved a couple of minutes ahead in time and is ALWAYS there, just not in the present. Think of missing a train that left the station a few minutes ago and is out of sight. Even if you run as fast as the train along the tracks, you won’t catch it and you won’t see it, but it's there. The challenge for the Oceanic 6 will be to figure out how to catch that train.
- The Ms. Wildmore boat moment wasn’t quite as tear-jerking as the Desmond Christmas message moment, but it was still sweet.
- Sun blames Jack for Jin’s death and has now taken her dad’s role as the callous leader of a corporation – and talking alliance with Wildmore no less. Why do I see her as Ramses to Jack’s Moses? Though the twist here is Jack will need to convince her to come back to the promised land as well.
- Octagon Global Recruiting obviously reflect a viral marketing event surrounding the San Diego Comic Con. Sound similar to what the “Dark Knight” folks did last con to get folks looking around Old San Diego for the Joker.
- In case you’re wondering about the two “alternative endings,” they simply show - I stick with my theory that Claire actually died in the explosion of that house in Dharmaville and she’s as much an apparition right now as daddy Shepherd.
- I’m surprised not many have brought up that the island itself may be the fabled lost city of
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