the Penny/Desmond reunion was much needed. i wouldn’t care if jack/kate/sawyer were pushed out a high window much less how they resolve their drama.

was no one wondering which item young John Locke was supposed to have picked?

That was a Skrull.

— Rob

Then she can go back in time and save Jin. Nice.

* Damon Lindelof (show co-creator and co-showrunner, one-half of Team Darlton) — noted comics freak. Still owes at least two more issues of Ultimate Wolverine Vs. Hulk to comics fangeeks.

* Drew Goddard (current writer) — Archbishop in the Church of Joss. Writer of several episodes of Buffy and Angel and, uhm, dudes, he’s writing the current Buffy-is-Bicurious arc in the season 8 comics, y’know.

* Javier Grillo-Marxuach (alumni writer) — Staff writer/producer on the superhero friendly-ish Charmed and other geek-skewing shows like Jake 2.0 and, arguably, Medium. Also wrote Annihilation: Super-Skrull for Marvel and unlike Damon Lindelof, seemed to have gotten his Marvel work in on time.

* David Fury (alumni writer) — Yes, he left Lost on something like bad terms. But a) he’s an Elder in the Church of Joss and b) he was Indiana freakin’ Jones’s snake-loving pilot in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

— Rob — having too much fun with IMDB

I think Hugo said something like, “they said it was a suicide…” but it a way that it seemed like he didn’t believe it. And I assume that when Ben asked Jack if “he” had visited them he was talking about Locke because Jack said “he” blamed him for things going badly after they left.

Do I sense a Ben vs. Desmond showdown in the future?

Didn’t someone mention that John killed himself of the island?

So, how did Miles know Faraday’s girl had been there before??? Was the black lady who owned the house where Miles “contacted the spirit” of her dead son the same woman as Walt’s grandmother? I know some speculated that at the time but I didn’t think those photos looked like Michael.

I figured it was Locke in the coffin when they first showed it but throughout last night I wondered if Jeremy BENthem wasn’t a clue that it was Ben- should have known it was a red herring. So, does that mean John had to move the island and leave? It seems like he can’t die on the island so one would suspect he was killed off the island.

All in all, a great ending and enough answers to please most anyone.

I really liked seeing Jack and Sawyer working together. That should happen more often. And there was the set up for Faraday being dislodged in time like Desmond was when he noted who his “anchor” was, so I’m guessing something like that.

What were the “really bad things” that happened after the Oceanic Six left and why did Locke leave the island?

I suspected that it was going to be him but I was still gutted when I saw him. He was my second choice for coffin occupant after Ben.

Penny showing up was convenient, but I loved it. Yay!

Sawyer is definitely >> Jack.

Waiting until January is going to be painful.

Des also kinda forgot about all the other redshirt castaways that had been so helpfully ferried to the boat by Faraday. How many trips did Faraday make, three? So counting out the “stars” about fifteen redshirts from the island died? Makes the massacre at New Otherton look tame.

What was Keamy’s original goal with the C4? Surely it wasn’t purely to stymie Ben (fat lotta good it did). It mighta served to keep the ship’s crew from sailing away while Keamy and his men were island-bound, but HE DIDN’T TELL ANYONE ABOUT IT after shooting the captain!

That’s taking the “big surprise” a little too far.

Haha- I saw their “recruitment ad” last night (http://www.octagonglobalrecruiting.com/)and didn’t realize those dates are San Diego.

What does LOST have to do with comics, indeed.

Why don’t you ask the folks at Octagon Global Recruiting?
They’ll be in San Diego July 24-27.

Do those dates sound familiar?

Except for Hurley, Sun seems to no contact with any of the other Oceanic 6. She might be mad at Kate, Jack and Sayid for not waiting for Jin.

If Locke is off the island [as implied as his body in the coffin], Sun might have learned that Ben killed Keamy, thereby triggering the dead man’s switch and have a mad-on for Ben.

She also might be directing her anger towards Widmore since he was the one who hired the mercenaries in the first place. The meeting might be a “keep your friends close but your enemies closer” stratagem.

Was Faraday really taking people to the boat? I don’t think so…

“Checkmate, Mr. Ecko” = line of the whole season.

Good stuff.

Brad

no way is jin dead. i think sun’s going to turn into her father, or something close to it, in a quest for revenge (but she’ll get redemption somehow). or she’s just jerking widmore’s chain.

i think desmond probably has to go back too, which means they’ll have the means to go thanks to penny’s fortune.

i like that ben has turned into kind of a loki/trickster kind of character. he knows everything we all want to know, and he ain’t saying shit.

i’m interested to see where walt ends up fitting in, although i’ve never really cared about him.

jack’s a big baby. i’ve decided sawyer>jack.

Hmm- A Flash/Green Lantern comic in the first episode with panels that seem to foreshadow island events (including the subterranian Orchid station last night) for starters…This season’s arrival of the freighter scientists whose characters - at least early on- brought comparisons to the Fantastic Four and the Challengers of the Unknown…
Gee, what *does* this show have to do with comics?

Well, it’s Heidi’s blog. There’s also this: http://www.lostpedia.com/wiki/Mystery_Tales_No._40

“How could they explain they were all on a raft in “the South Pacific” and Walt is back in NY living with Grandma? One assumes he has a new name, like his dad (Kevin Johnson), that was set up by Ben. ”

Didn’t Jack say at the press conference that the a portion of the plane washed up on shore and they got the raft from that?