8 Months…

Lost. An excellent season with an excellent 2 hour finale. The whiners will no doubt complain about questions not being answered, but there’s just no satisfying those sorts of people. They don’t seem to understand that you need to constantly have a stream of questions to answer to sustain a series like this – otherwise what’s the point of watching? Lost consistently delivers the answers, and at the same time poses new ones.

This is good writing.

These guys have been keeping a lot of balls in the air for 3 years, and with few exceptions they haven’t dropped many. With the end now clearly defined (48 more episodes over 3 years) the answers will no doubt arrive in a carefully orchestrated fashion.

So anyway…last night. Lots of people got wacked. I counted at least 12, 4 being major or “borderline major” characters. Nice. As the “end-twist” was unfolding earlier in the episode, I thought about the possibility and discarded it. The repeated mention of Jack’s father being alive is what threw me. I’m still not sure what’s up with that. And Jack’s beard was definitely not showing the gray that his island scruff had. Maybe we’re wrong to assume that the flash-forward really WAS a flash-forward.

And who’s in the coffin? Not “friend or family”, so who does that leave? Ben? Locke? And who did Kate have to get back to?

We have 8 months to mull over these questions. I’m not a smoker, but as Diane said: “I need a cigarette” after this one.