Hoping the end totally rocks! Will probably tie back to the mysterious numbers somehow too. Heh.

I admit, I’m growing hotter and hotter on this notion of these characters being aware of the narrative and their respective places in it. Like the Pirandello play except, y’know, with a mystical island.

– c.

On the one hand, you have Hurley often trying to actively manipulate the narrative towards its most mutually beneficial outcome, regardless of whether it makes him look crazy. On the other hand, you have Miles, who weaves his own stories when he does his psychic scam, but purely for self-preservation and profit.

Here’s to lost indeed. And I think it’s great the show’s going out now — a time limit is always a good thing for this kind of show. Allows you to tell a proper story. So few television shows are about proper story.

– c.

From your lips to God’s ears.

Let’s start a letter-writing campaign to have me create and write a Lapidus TV series.

He can be like the Six Million Dollar Man.

Plus Airwolf.

– c.

Totally my experience as well. Actually, the vocal “haters” have been more vociferous than the fans, I think.

I’m pondering “live-blogging” the finale here (not on Twitter, in fear of spoiling others).

– c.

Over the season, my favorite characters have changed around a bit. For me, the First Season was all about Locke being The Frakkin Man. After that, it was a rotation. Sayyid, Hurley, Sawyer, and especially Desmond. All of them have found cozy little hidey-holes deep in the decaying recesses of my heart.

I’ll be sad to see it go, but I’d rather it go out while there was still some steam left in the chamber. Far too many shows have gone beyond the point where they should have called it quits, and they end up being that embarrassing uncle who sits on the end of the couch farting and generally not making much sense.

So, here’s to Lost, and hoping for a final farewell that encompasses all of the qualities that made it such an enjoyable, brain-breaking show.

“Frank Lapidus is alive, and now half-human, half-helicopter.”

This has never been my experience, and in fact the ability of LOST to blend textual mysteries with mysteries of the subtext, so that some things need true answers and some don’t, is one of its great accomplishments. That we might not agree on what needs an answer and what doesn’t is part of the point. I’d love to learn more about Walt, even at this late date, but I won’t be troubled if it just doesn’t happen.

I’m not sure who critic Mike Hale has been talking to, but he should hang out with a nicer bunch of fans.

That’s another prediction for the finale: Holy Shit, Explosions.

– c.