Lost: Live-Blog Together, Die Alone (See What I Did There? Huh? Huh? Shut Up.)
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Ahem.
Watch this space. Here there be liveblogging starting ’roundabouts 9PM EST.
I may be sauced. Or, I may be sober, and then get sauced. There’s just no way to tell.
More soon, Lostmonkeys.
8:11 PM — Testing, testing. Sibilance. Sibilance. I see you, tequila. I goddamn jolly well see you. By the way, these Lost “Final Transmissions” are equal parts sweet and stupid. I did like the one chick who was like, “Sawyer, I want your babies!”
8:18PM — Y’know, watching this recap, I’m reminded that Ben is sort of a bad fucking dude in a lot of ways. He’s done some genuinely awful shit. And yet you love the guy. He’s a real rogue element in this finale. Could go either way. Like Angelina Jolie. Or me in college. (Oh, relax. I’m joking. No dudes would make out with me. *sob*)
8:50PM — Okay. Okay! Yes. The Alton Brown margarita — not the easist thing in the world to make, but certainly a tasty treat. TEQUILA. Nom nom nom. 100% agave. Blanco, bitches. Yes. Lost. This is about Lost. Must remind. Not about tequila. Mmm. Tequila. What’s happening? Where are my pants? Who put this ferret next to my balls?
8:55 PM — Five minutes! Five minutes! Squee! Five minutes! *poops pants*
8:58PM — My wife’s joke, redux: When Jacob is going to pass along his guardianship to Jack: “Do you have a cup?” My wife: “Because I saw this thing on the Internet? With two girls?”
9:08PM — DRUNK VOMIT mahaha. Okay, not really. One margarita down. Two Star Wars references. “I got a bad feeling about this.” Was Jack doing some funky prayer shiznit by the water there? Was he communing with the island? Was the line about him not feeling any different a lie? Oh, also good: “Christian Shepherd? Seriously?”
9:10PM — Man, live-blogging makes you feel the pressure. Like, I have to be “on.” I have to be funny. OH SHOW! Back on! *vomits*
9:12 PM — Oh my God it’s Richard! No. No wait — it’s Charlie with eyeliner.
9:15 PM — Vincent! My life is complete.
9:18PM — Nice beard, Bernard. By the way, if this show doesn’t end with Vincent and Lapidus together, ruling the island as a wacky cop duo, I will make Cuse eat Lindelof.
9:24PM — Booze! More booze! Now Juliet! Booze and Juliet!
9:27PM — Holy shit. They speak English now. In the Sideways world. What the fizzle? My wife just asks me, “Wait, because you’re doing this, does this mean we have to stay downstairs until 11:30?” I just smile and giggle and throw up in her lap. Proof of why she married me. Oh! And like Rick’s doing — hey, anybody who wants to “live-blog” in the comments, damn yeah. That’s the point. Live-blog together, or die alone. First person to spooge on the cracker gets a cookie. And also, a cracker.
9:28 PM — This margarita is ass compared to the last one. I rushed it during a commercial break. Tastiness takes time. So, the weird thing about the Sideways world is actually the… better, proper world. The people who did right are happy. Those that have done wrong are, well, less than happy. This is a world in balance. Desmond’s trying to get them “back.” Maybe that’s bad. Maybe he’s the Smoke Monster. Maybe he’s Not-Desmond. Brutha. He’s the Brutha from Anutha Mutha. Er, Brutha.
9:30 — Theme here is very 80s.
9:33 YESSSSSSSSS LAPIIIIIDUS
9:36 — Sorry, fuck dashes back then. FRANK THE RABBIT is back. Now we just need Lapidus to transform into his true helicopter form. Yeah. Anyway, holy shit! We’re not even 45 minutes into it, and it’s all kinds of ball-waving cock-swinging ass-kicking good. Way to move fast, Lost, into kicking this into full gear.
9:37 — My wife says, “I’m hungry.” I say, “There are nuts.” And I laugh inside.
9:38 — Wife now sees what I’m doing. She’s watching this right now. Don’t make any sudden movements. She’s like the T. Rex. She tracks you by movement.
9:39 — Ahh. Juliet. Mom. Aunt Claire. This Sideways world is the world that makes sense…
9:41 — Jack. Locke. Desmond. Good. Evil. The Dude In Between.
9:44 PM — Is the Sideways world some kind of heaven? Hell? What? Desmond here seems to be behind his Sideways self — there, he wants to come back. Here, he wants to go there. Hah, smoke alert commercia, and it’s Smokey, and it’s… ohhh, silly Target. You’re so cute.
9:45PM — My margarita is empty. This is hell. This is Smokey’s fault. I blame him. He stole my booze!
9:46PM — Wife wants to take a break from booze. This is your turn to convince her of the bullshittery of that notion. Drink! Drink! Chug! Chug! By the way, my favorite porn spam ever was: WATCH YOUR 50 YR OLD AUNT CHUG COCK. Chug cock? that’s evocative language, people.
9:53 — Wife would like you all to know, Claire looks bloated. Maybe she’s been eating babies.
9:54 — Goddamn, it’s hard to type when it’s dark. And when you’re holding a margarita. And when you’re masturbating wantonly. What? Shut up. You love it. Pervs.
9:55 — Maggie and Sayid. Sweetest moment so far this episode. Also: Hurley is really the Zen Dude King of the show. He’s the rock. He’s its gooey yet chocolate-coated center. Everybody Loves Hugo.
9:56 — My wife: “Would you like some nuts in your mouth?” Uhh. Yes? Also. Margaritas are a pain in the dick to make when you’re trying to also liveblog some shiznit. Might need to just drink whisky. Because, y’know, the only place I pour that is IN MY MOUF.
10:01 — This show is about love, people. And I lvoe scotch. Scotchy Scotchy Scotch.
10:05 — Jack’s not Jacob for long. And Smokey’s just a dude? And Heaven turned to Hell. And the Island had a big drain. Oops.
10:08 — Balvenie Doublewood. Wahtchoo got?
10″09 — Typosd can suck my perineum OH MY GOD IT’S ON *pees panties*
10:12 — “OH MY GOD he’s covered in egg *vomits*”
10:16 — Oh, c’mon. You can lift that. It’s a tree. It’s not a boulder. The shaking is a little corny, too. Also: it feels like the DTs.
10:18 — PUNCH HIS BALD HEAD! Wooo! Jack is Neo! And Jesus! And Kung Fu Conan!
10:19 — What the fuck is up with that AT&T commercial? It’s like, “Isn’t it cool to be an imaginative five-year old? AT&T.” Total non sequitur. Like, “Don’t you remember what is was like to draw cartoon bears? Smith & Wesson. And Bank of America.” That commercial is entirely unrelated to the subject matter.
10:20PM — By the way: awesome thing about this episode? I still don’t know where they’re taking me. Got over an hour left, and I’m left thinking, “Eeee! What the hell?” I’ve never been so happy to not have a goddamn clue. Also: the whole “Sideways-world revelations/reunions” thing is really quite touching. This show is firing on all cylinders for me. And it’s not just ’cause I’m high on angel dust.
10:21 — Okay. Quick poll. Favorite moment so far? GO!
10:22 — I know when you’re having a baby you poop the bed. Did Claire poop the island?
10:24 –Reminder: Kate is a murderer.
10:25 == Wiggle your toe!
10:26 — THE SHOW DOES AS I DEMAND!
10:27 — Is Jack the only one who isn’t “awake” now? He started to see. What is this place? What is this time? The Sideways world — is it some kind of collective delusion? Is it the afterlife? All this time, people have wondered: “Is the island the afterlife?” No. But maybe the Sideways world is. And maybe they can come back from the brink. Maybe this is is that. And maybe I need to change my pants. This has been a killer finale so far. I’m really pleased.
10:30 — I’m almost out of scotch in my glass. This is a cardinal sin. This is my own personal version and vision of hell. Is anyone else drinking? I saw someone say “Yuengling.” Good for you. Thank you for supporting the Pennsylvanian economy.
10:32 — Rain’s… over?
10:33 — what’s great is, when the characters in the Sideways world see irony, they’re sharing it with us. Jin thinks it’s funny that Sawyer’s a cop. A detective. They’re us. In LOST, the story is alive. The narrative is thriving.
10:34 — Duct tape works. GO LAPIDUS. Turn into your true form! Copter everybody away!
10:37 — Oooh! So good. I completely love the choices of who stays. Ben! Hurley! Jack! What a fascinating goddamn trio. And still an hour to go! Ish! And then it’s gone. My wife laments. Lamentations!
10:38 — I need to pee. My wife reminds me that I am not allowed to pee on the couch. Not after… well. Not after the last time I peed on the couch. Oh! Tuesday! I miss you already.
10:41 — This last hour is the HOUR OF LAPHROAIG. Yes. Smokey! Get it? Smokey! It’s in honor of Smokey! I just made that up! I just peed ont he couch! Eeeeee! *diaper full*
10:42 — Quote of the night: “I don’t believe in a lot of things. But I do believe in duct tape.”
10:43: Why My Wife Rocks v.3.0 — I entreated her to tell me what this scotch smells like, thinking she’ll say, “Smoke.” but she instead says, “LAPIDUS.” And she says it again: “LA-PEAT-US.” This is why i married her, goddamnit.
10:46PM — LOST: You had me at, “You got it, Blondie.” Best moment of the show so far.
10:47PM: LOST POLL — favorite LOST character? Do it up. Tell me! Give into my drunken demands!
10:48PM — lot of commercials, but they’re short, i gotta say. I’ll take it. Gives me a chance to talk to you perverts. I’m still weirded out — is the Sideways world a curse of some kind? An insanity, ala Hurley in the asylum? Waking up is good in the terms of revelation and realization, but… why leave that? Why want to leave it unless it’s just plain not real? An illusion? And is Smokey really dead? Is that too easy?
10:51 — True Blood. Last season was good for the first half, stupid as shit in the second.
10:54 YES HURLEY AS ISLAND GUARDIAN I told you soon he’ll be Buddha and Ho Toy and all martial arts and fire breathing and shit!@
10:57PM — Jack: “Oooh! I fell on my keys! Ooooh. OOOOOH.”
11:00 — The witching hour. Everybody do a shot! Also, how the hell are they going to get that plane aloft? And yes, Claire. You do look crazy. You’re a farking moonbat. And my wife would like to remind you that you look bloated.
11:03 — “Good to see you too, …?” What did sawyer call Miles?
11:04 — LAPIIIIIDUS! My wife echoes the call: “LAPEEEEENIS!”
11:06 — And we still don’t know what’s up with the Sideways world. LOST, you’re fucking with my gourd. And I love it.
11:07 — I hear a theory that Jack might become the new Smoke Monster now. interesting. Not sold on it, though — this is a happy, triumphant moment, not a vengeful flensing of soul-from-body.
11:08 — “This is a new drug that prevents acid reflux and boner failure and beard weakness. It’s called HAGRID AC.”
11:09PM — Hey, y’know, I’m okay that they won’t explain everything. As my wife says, “It’s not a toaster. I don’t need to know the ins and outs.” She’s totally right. Sometimes, magic is just goddamn jolly well magic, y’know? I have the answers I think I need. Also, I’m drunk. Which fills in like, at least half of my answers right there. LA PEAT US!
11:10PM — This Laphroiag has some legs, goddamnit. The bell jar is like a syphilitic peepee.
11:30 PM — Yeah, I know, I haven’t blogged for a while. Wow. Show’s over. That’s going to be a controversial ending. But my initial reaction: I feel very… touched and I think it worked. I think it juked us just right but never invalidated what happened. It didn’t tie up everything but it also… tied up everything. Cosmically. Spiritually. Thematically. I dunno. I got tears in my eyes. And maybe a little pee in my pants. I think that was the right finale for the show. We’ll see what tomorrow brings. Dying to hear your thoughts.
11:33 PM — The news is reporting some dumb shit. These local yokels are “reviewing” the finale — they say that everybody died in the pilot? Like, they all died in the plane crash? Is that their conclusion? No! No, that’s not it at all. They live. Jack dies at the end, but Hurley keeps going. Sawyer and them make it off the island (unless we saw those last shots of a plane crash for a reason?) — the point is that everybody lives until they die. Right? The news is reporting that all these people think that everybody died in the initial plane crash? Seriosuly? No! No. No. As the wife says, “These thoughts can eat a dick because they are wrong. Jesus Christ.”
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Oh hell. Now I can’t stay away. I delighted in the Drunk Post awhile back.
Laundry. Must fold laundry.
Drunk post! Woooo!
*stumbles, vomits*
– c.
Reading this is just going to add that extra oomph to my “Losting” with the Lundehund.
Just so you know, I’ll be live commenting whenever the hell I feel like it.
Do you think Lapidus’ chest hair hypnotized innocent viewers, leading to his sudden popularity?
When I saw Vincent the first thing I said was “Awww. No eyepatch.”
Loved that line by Hurley “This would be cute if we weren’t about to die.” Someone is getting snarky.
Perfectly perfect made me want to perfectly throw something at my TV.
Baby seemed unimpressed with the first little bit. She refused to burp.
Maggie was very amused with Miles’ eye roll/”again” look after Douchey McEyeliner douched up the shot. (I’ll stop busting on Richy-poo. Starting now, obviously)
Frank! It’s Frank! Cop duo could still happen!
I can’t comment and fold laundry.
Shit. The pile saw me.
I’m not live-blogging, but during commercial breaks (and in between the times when El Hobo Beardo is monopolizing the computer) I’m working on a tribute post.
Also. Lapidus rising from the depths like an angry, smugly bitter Oceanic god was a nice touch.
First off, Lapidus. Fucking A.
Second, Target may have just won “commercial”. It’s like the Superbowl.
I love all you people.
I’m also drinking, so my words at this point are dubious.
– c.
omfg Shannon-Sayiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiid.
Noah
Hi, Michelle? Can I call you Michelle? You don’t know me, and all I know about you is that apparently a rampant alcoholic (or Chuck just likes framing you). Anyway, this is important – Right now, when he least expects it, you have the chance to fulfill your destiny. Keep his cup full. Keep it so full that he has to keep taking sips in fear that it might runneth over. And then, when he is so drunk that Estelle Getty is sexy, shave him. All of it. Shave him to the skin. Baby powder that shit. Tie a little bow in his hair.
Remember, only you can prevent forest fires.
Yuengling here.
The center of the island is a hot tub time machine???
I think you need to lay off the sauce, Chuck. You spelled “love” LVOE.
LVOE!
He broke it! HE BROKE THE ISLAND! :O It’s all your fault!
Oh noez, the island! This is what happens when you introduce Atheism into the core of Creation! ;P
Yes we are watching. We’ve taken 4 months to get to 3 episodes short of the end of season 2 of Supernatural. We will never get to this show on DVD to catch up.
I cried. Exceptionally clean Pseudo-Newborn made me cry. Thank GODS my tubes got tied.
OMG OMG OMFG Jack just said THIS IS FUCKING SPARTA
Okay: Quick poll.
Favorite moment so far?
GO!
– c.
Going with the Shannon moment. Didnt see that and I wanted Sayid to have some happiness.
Charlie realizing who Claire and Aaron were. Charlie was always my favorite character, and I was PISSED AS HELL when they killed him off. And excited as hell in the beginning of this season when I read Dominic Monaghan had contracted to four guest episodes.
All my issues with Claire came after Charlie’s death and she became a useless twat. So it’s good to see a fairytale ending for them. Shut up, their story’s not continuing, they’re done. Finito. End of the line. HAPPY MOTHERFUCKER HAPPY.
Also. It isn’t Maggie and Sayid (as much as I would LOVE for that to be). Maggie Grace is the actor, not the character. It’s actually Shannon and Sayid. Drunkard.
I neeeeeeed a tissue.
Shannon. Maggie. Psshhh.
*liver failure*
Ana Lucia and Daniel aren’t awake currently either. Desmond said in “What They Died For” that Ana Lucia wasn’t ready yet, and he told Eloise that he wasn’t taking Desmond with him.
Also, I don’t think Rose and Bernard are awake either. But their role has been pretty much marginalized since the time travelling, so who’s to say?
Hah! You mean “Daniel,” not Desmond. Drunkard!
I came up with this after the fight, and it has just about everybody laughing here.
“So Locke, you learned how to walk again? Now learn how to FLY!”
How come Jack’s neck bled but not his side?
Graham’s crusted Port here.
- Lapidus’s Revenge
- Jacks air-punch
- Jack and Kate’s moment right now.
There’s, er, some dust in my eye….
Dear LOST Cast,
It might be a smart idea to move the fuck away from the edge of the cliff since the island is shaking itself apart. You don’t want to end up like Smocke down there on the shelf, do you?
You’re so soused I’m feeling it in Newfoundland. So it’s your fault. Drunkard!
Enough commercials for ya? Crikey
Classic! I don’t believe in a lot of things, but I do believe in Duct tape!
I will use that one in the future.
Awesome piles on top of awesome. Now I am happy and teary-eyed.
Der Wendighaus is equal parts hooting and teary.
HOOT!
*sob*
HOOT!
*sob*
So good.
– c.
Jesus, Jack is having sex with the island now. I feel so dirty.
Look, Jack has always, since the beginning, been my favorite character. I will nt apologize for this. I always fall for the suffering hero. Or the martyr. Especially whenge’s both.
I am going to cry by the end of this, for sure. Again, of course, because Juliet was my second favorite. Oh, Blondie. What a heart-palpitating moment. In front of a vending machine.
Hubby would just like to request you throw parties every Sunday involving his woman getting likkered up.
I’m very sad right now. Locke forgives Ben.
Tears….
I ALSO SPELL IT LVOE!
…også, I think Lapidus is a rad-as-kites name.
Også, I have never seen Lost but the idea of a manicopter almost kinda makes me want to.
I thought I was the only person who says ‘mouf’ totally unironically. This makes me happy.
Chuck – when your wife asks if you want some nuts in your mouth, don’t even reply. Just surprise her with some Deep Sugar.
I’m glad it ended the way it did though. It did explain the Flash Sideways.
Everybody lives until they die.
Your life matters. That’s what it says. The journey is important.
We all go to the same place.
Wow.
That is going to be a controversial ending, I think.
- c.
What a show.
I need to pee.
And try to sleep.
But what a show.
As I absorb, I really loved that finale.
It said a lot.
It said a whole lot.
– c.
I always knew Lost would turn out to be a big softie, but that ending may have been a bit too sappy for me.
All in all, I thought it was a really solid way to end the show, even if the very final twist may not have worked for me and if I had a couple of other nitpics along the way. Hell of a night of tv.
I wonder if I will be in the minority in how I felt about that finale.
I smell a lot of hate a-brewing.
Shame, probably.
– c.
I didn’t hate it. Just a bit too sappy for me, but everyone’s sappiness levels are different. I did really like the last shot, of Jack looking up at the plane.
A beautifully crafted, scripted, shot ending.
I still feel like… well, like I did after watching the last BSG. Empty.
I’m going to watch this again. I hope I have a better reaction, but I just feel the sappiness (and some of it was fucking excellent) was not enough to make this as fucking awesome as it could have been.
I can absorb a lot of… erm, sap.
Last thought: sucks for Walt and Michael. No group afterlife for you guys!
Also: Yes!
The last shot. The plane. The eye closing. The bamboo.
Nice parity. Nice bookend.
Still surprised that some people seem to be getting, “They all died in the initial plane crash” out of this. Really? Is that the interpretation? Am I alone in thinking that’s batshit?
– c.
@Shawn:
Or Lapidus.
WHERE WAS LAPIDUS?
Secret belief: he never dies. He always lives.
Also: Mr. Eko can obviously suck a nut, too.
– c.
“I don’t believe in a lot of things, but I always believe in Duct Tape” – Miles Enos
FAVORITE CHARACTER!
No, those people are dumb. The more I soak it in, the more the ending grows on me. The True Love Makeouts Make You Remember Everything scenes really make infinitely more sense with the Flash Sideways being Flash Way Way Way Forwards.
I would have liked a bit more danger in the last 1/3, with maybe a bit more of Smokey, but all in all I think it worked. A bit cheesy, but it worked.
Personally, I loved the ending. The questions i wanted answered were answered. The message is one I really want to believe in.
No, you’re not alone. I’m already seeing the “WTF terrible ending” or “uh…” tweets and I just don’t get it. It explained everything that was important enough to explain, and left the rest to the world of “it didn’t matter in the grand scheme of what was important”.
I am so, so fine with this end. I think the fans of each character, with the exception of, like, the Mikhail contingent or something, should all be happy their characters got what was so very crucial here… closure.
I will be thinking about the end over and over. I cried during every lovely reunion, and I am pleasantly surprised at how they chose to “end” Jack and Kate on the cliff… because the options people could think of (she runs off with Sawyer, they get away together and live happily ever after, etc) didn’t happen.
There’s so much I have to say about this ending! God. So satisfied. I get it all. So happy.
Words! not working! I didn’t drink along, but I had like a million cups of coffee. I am a blogging hummingbird.
….
@Shawn:
Yeah. My initial — like, in the moment — response was “Fuck you! No!” But then… it just kept building, and building. I’ll say more about it (cogently, less drunkenly) tomorrow, but having my father pass and having a lot of “life versus death” thoughts over the last two years, this really punched me in a sensitive spot. In the right way, not the wrong way. No bad touch. No need to show the officer on the doll where LOST touched me.
– c.
Everybody lives until they die was a great metaphor.
What really got me crying was how the dog came in at the end to keep Jack company as he passed on. Just something about that made me think that it was OK for Jack to pass on, because someone would watch over him.
I do wish they would have explained more of the spiritual nature of the island but I guess that will be released in a tell all later on.
I guess Linus felt he wasn’t ready to move on yet? That he was just starting to live a good, honest life and he wasn’t ready to move on?
@Marty: Inclined to agree, sir.
– c.
Good stuff. I called Hurley taking over the Island just as soon as he said he wasn’t going down that ladder. I will now commence writing a spin-off comic book about Hurley and Ben running the Island. It’ll be awesome.
@John:
Yeah, I guess, right? Something about this being purgatory. An inability to move on until your sins are reconciled.
I joked about Vincent being part of the very end, but seriously, I’m happy to see him as part of the very end.
– c.
@Will:
Word. That’s the best part of the ending for me, is that it doesn’t (appear to) invalidate any of what we know in the past, or even what comes in the future. The story isn’t done. The Sideways world was just.. the culmination. The end-end. “The End” means something, then, something big, something deep, the longest con of them all.
– c.
No polar bears in heaven?
WTF, Cuse/Lindelof? Fucking polar bear haters…
Only polar bears in hell. Global warming and all that.
GEEK WAR: The ending to #Lost punts the ending to #BSG in the balls. FIGHT!
Lost wins. But only because it connected with both jigglies on the first kick. BSG just got a glancing blow on rightie.
Something about those shoes in the bamboo…
Interesting theory that I’ll copy and paste for now:
The reason we didn’t see everyone at the end, like Mr. Eko, the hispanic woman whose name I forgot, and others is because of two reasons: They had either already moved on, or were not ready to do so.
It seemed like everyone reached that moment in their life where they were ready to seek out the others and then move on. Jack took the longest because he was fighting it to the very end and it took his father’s casket to finally convince him. They had all reached the same point together, especially when Desmond started interfering.
As for the rest, they were either not ready to move on (since the hispanic woman who was a cop wasn’t there) or perhaps like Jacob they had already moved on. Some were just ready to accept their death right away and moved beyond. Linus may very well have wanted to cling to his pseudo life, especially since he had fallen in love and that student was almost his daughter.
That make sense? I’m really tired.
How long do you think it took Vincent before he started gnawing on Jack’s cheek?
And how about the evil Eloise keeping her son stuck in limbo? That’s kinda fucked.
[...] If you want to review my “thoughts of the moment,” you’re free to time travel backwards and check out my semi-drunken (read: semi-coherent) live-blog of the finale. [...]
Trust the BBC to help this make sense for the populace:
As early as the first season, there were suggestions that no-one survived the plane crash and the island was some sort of purgatory.
Close but no cigar. The island was real and as Jack’s dad Christian Shephard ( … Kate was the one that spotted it. Really how did we all miss that one?) pointed out “everything that happened, happened”.
Instead, we learned that rather than being some some kind of alternate-timeline, the flashes sideways were glimpes of a kind of limbo between life and death.
In their deaths – some on the island, some much, much later – they were all pulled together to move on to the afterlife.
The people that meant most to them during their lives would be there with them as they moved on to the next plain of existance.
With various philosophies running throughout the entire series, the final scenes took place in a multi-denominational place of worship.
Lost fans attempt to explain the programme’s plot
There were some genuinely moving touches, Ben remained outside the gathering, not quite ready to leave his own personal purgatory and forgive himself for his sins.
Yet Locke did offer him gratefully accepted forgiveness and Hurley, who invited Ben into the gathering said he was a “good number two”, with Ben telling Hurley he was a “great number one”.
We were left to assume that the two men acted as protectors of the island for some time.
It ended as it had begun with Jack lying in the same bamboo forest in which we first met him in episode one. Back then Jack opened his eyes for the first time on the island, this time around he closed them for the last
I like this.
@Kelley —
Ayup! That sounds about right, I think.
– c.