ALMOST TIME!!

We are T-minus 3 hours until the big Series Finale tonight. I am about to explode I just can't wait!!!

Random observation - but did anyone notice that today's date is the 23rd? And 23 is one of the numbers? Fate, or just coincidence??? ha ha

I had said I was going to write another blog post going over some of my favorite moments, theories, etc., however I have just returned from being out of town for the weekend so I apologize I did not get that done earlier than just before the finale.

Anyway, Here are my TOP TEN moments in Lost history. Just some of my favorite moments over the years that are memorable to me. Although some of them seem so long ago and before we really knew much of what was to come for our island castaways, here are some of the bigger moments.

10. Walt gets "taken" by the Others. When Michael, Walt, Sawyer and Jin try to escape the island on a raft looking to be rescued, they are elated at the sight of another boat coming their way. This is the first time we ever actually see any of the "others" - who basically take Walt and then blow up their boat to leave them in the middle of the ocean. This was the first of our season finale "cliffhangers."

9. "What's in the hatch?" Almost the entire first season was devoted to finding out what was in the hatch. This was before we knew anything about the Dharma Initiative, the Others, Widmore, Jacob and Richard... during the 1st season this was the island's big "mystery." I still remember though once they finally made it inside, and seeing the ping pong table, all the food, the computer with the beeping countdown clock. It was such a shocker to see all of this existed underground on the island.

8. Sayid shoots a young Ben. This was after we learned that the survivors had actually gone back in time after the island was "moved" by Ben. They are living amongst the Dharma Initiative. When Sayid is captured, we have a very ironic encounter of a young Ben coming to help free Sayid, who later on goes against him and shoots him. The biggest question after this episode was can these events "change" the future. Turns out they didn't. Sayid shooting Ben as a boy really made no difference in how things happened in the "future" - as Ben did not even have any memory of that happening (because he was taken to the Temple.)

7. The Desmond-Penny reunion. This was one of my favorite "heartfelt" moments of Lost. After years of being apart, and neither one of them gave up looking for one another, Penny and Desmond are finally reunited. I loved it!

6. John Locke's dad is "the real Sawyer." This was awesome! For the longest time we were trying to figure out who was the real Sawyer - the man that was responsible for the deaths of James Ford's parents, and who he sought revenge on his whole adult life. I loved the connections there to Locke and once he was brought to the island how Sawyer was able to learn who he really was, and finally kill him.

5. Ben is the "leader" of the Others. For almost the entire second season, we knew Benjamin Linus only as "Henry Gale" - a man who said he landed on the island in a hot air balloon. We questioned whether he was telling the truth or not, and although I always believed he was part of the Others, it was a big revelation when we learned that he was in fact their leader and calling the shots.

4. Locke is really the smoke monster. This was where we realized that it was the smoke monster who had "stolen" his body. For awhile we had believed that Locke had actually been brought back to life on the island, and this was the moment we realized that Locke had been "conned" again - by the smoke monster who set him up to leave the island, so he could die and take his body.

3. We learned that The Others are a civilized society on the island. For the longest time, we had only seen them in a "primitive" state and I can remember how shocked I was to see they lived in houses, had jobs, and held book club meetings. I remember at the time how "shocking" that was!

2. The episode "The Constant" where we learned about time travel on the island, the experiments that Daniel Faraday was conducting for years (conveniently "funded" by Charles Widmore), and the island's mysterious time loop.

And my number one absolute greatest moment in Lost history, is......

1. "We have to go back, Kate!" - I truly think this was the greatest moment ever!! When we first realized that Jack and Kate were OFF the island, and that what we had been seeing about Jack's spiral downward (alcoholic, suicidal, etc.) was not actually a flashback, but a flash-forward! I thought that was genius. I can remember that moment realizing that they had actually gotten off the island....absolutely my favorite moment in Lost history.


So now that we are just a few hours away from the finale, I want to post some of my "predictions" - just in case I am right, I can have it documented here on the internet for all to see. LOL :)

- I've been saying this for quite some time now, but in case you are reading this for the first time...my ultimate "theory" as to how the show will end up is that it will be Jack and Locke sitting on the beach, much like the way we saw Jacob and the Man in Black sitting on the beach. Their conversation was about how the same things keep happening over and over, just with different people, but that "it always ends the same." I think this is foreshadowing to show that we will still be left with Good vs. Evil - it is something that always exists - except now instead of Jacob and Man in Black fighting it out - now we have Jack and Locke (the "new" Jacob and the "new" MIB).

- I also think (and hope) that we will finally find out who Jack's ex-wife is, and the mother of his son. I said this awhile ago, but I will say again I think the mother could be Juliette. It is perfectly logical that they could have met in medical school (they are both doctors), had a child, and then soon after divorced. Plus the fact that Juliette is the only one who we have not seen yet in the alternate reality. I think that she will be at the concert, and I think that Miles is somehow going to convince Sawyer to come with him to the concert, setting up the stage for Sawyer and Juliette to "meet" again. They will both regain their memories of their previous life on the island, bringing back those feelings of love and that they were meant to be together. Just the way we have seen with Desmond and Penny, Hurley and Libby. I really hope that Sawyer and Juliette end up together!

- My final theory is in regards to the "light" of the island that Jacob, and now Jack, has to protect. I think that this "light" is actually the place on the island where people go after they die. It is their "happily ever after." It is where they are reunited with their loved ones after death. All along, the Man in Black has been promising people that if they stick with him, then he will reunite them with their loved ones (Sayid with Nadia, Richard with his wife, etc.) - but I don't think he really had the ability to do that. I think that this "light" of the island is basically a metaphor for heaven. If you think about it, when people are dying, there is always a reference to going toward "the light." I think this place is the heart of the island, and that Jack now has to protect this "heaven" from being corrupted by evil. I think that when Jacob threw his twin brother in there, he became the smoke monster because he wasn't supposed to go there yet - he wasn't meant to die (remember his mother said she made sure that could never happen). Jacob messed with Fate. His brother wasn't supposed to go into the cave, and because he messed with FATE (his "mistake"), evil was born. Now he has to protect the light of the island from evil ever getting inside, because it is the one happy place where people can be with the ones they love for eternity.

- I also have to write my husband's theory on here (which I will admit is a good one). He thinks that Ben is going to kill the smoke monster, because then he would have killed all the important people on the island...Jacob, Widmore, Locke, and now the Smoke Monster. I think that's a pretty good assumption. I will add my two cents to this theory though. I have stated before, that I am secretly hoping for Ben to show us that he is "good." This whole time we have seen such an evil, conniving and ruthless man. I remember when he pushed the button to blow up the freighter, and his response was "So what?" He has no heart. However, I am still holding out that behind that evil, there is some "good" that exists, that everything he has been doing was for the good of the island and ultimately for humanity. I think that if Ben does kill the Smoke Monster, it will be his one saving grace - his chance to "save" everyone once and for all.


I will end this post with a few questions that I would like to see answered on the finale. I know that not all questions will be answered, but here are some of the bigger questions that I want to know:

- Why can certain people suddenly communicate with the dead? Hurley can see and talk to dead people, Miles can communicate with the dead, Sawyer was able to see the image of the young Jacob running through the jungle. How is this possible, and how is it that only some people can see them?

- Are the events of the island truly FATE or just coincidence? I have always believed that this show is all about Fate. Everything that happens was MEANT to happen. The survivors were all meant to be on the island, everything that has happened, both past and future, was all part of a larger plan. However, in last week's episode, Jacob said something that made me question that. When talking to the remaining candidates, he made it known that "there is always a choice." He has talked about choice a lot, particularly when we saw him visit each of them prior to their arrival on the island, making it seem like the decisions they made which really shaped their lives, were all a CHOICE to them. However, if it was truly fate, how could there really be a real choice?

- I really want to know the Man in Black's name. I don't think we are going to find out. For some reason, I think this is one of those things that the writers are just leaving a mystery. Names have always been such an important part of the show (Jack SHEPHARD - a leader; John Locke (philosopher), of course Jacob in biblical times had a twin brother named Esau. I don't think on the show he is named Esau, but still I would love to know his name. Who he was in real life before he became the smoke monster.

- After the survivors blew up the bomb (in the 1970s) and Juliet died, why did she tell Sawyer "It worked." Now since we have seen the alternate reality as if they had never crashed, does that mean that it really did work, they were sent back to a life where they never really crashed? I am thinking that now in that alternate reality when Desmond is starting to gather them all, he will be bringing him back to the island, just to prove the theory that no matter what happens, they are meant to go to the island. Remember, Faraday was on the island before (as a boy, with young Charlotte) and came back to try to prevent her death. I think that in this alternate timeline, although they don't remember ever having been there (because it has been erased from their memories), that they still will go back to the island (via Desmond) and "relive" all the same moments again. This would just show that you can't change the past (or the future). What is meant to happen will happen.


Okay...that's it for now! I am getting ready to start the two hour recap right now which will hopefully give us some insights into the happenings over the past six seasons and how everything relates. Can't wait for the 2 and 1/2 hour finale!!! It's going to be a long night. Don't forget, for those who don't know, that at midnight there is a live reunion on Jimmy Kimmel of all the Lost actors and producers, talking about the season finale and hopefully giving us some answers and their own input!!!