I just thought of something! Where the hell was Vincent during all of this!

He must be on the island, wherever that might be, going... "You know, something's not right. I can't quite put my paws on it, but the air smells different. I'm hungry. Oh look, a bird!" Or something.

I can't believe they didn't address his character!

(Part 1 Recap, Part 2 Recap)

We now return to the continuing stooory of how the Oceanic Six came to be off the island. Stay tuned, folks, it only gets better from here! Click through to read the recap for part 3. This is going to be good.

Just like Part 2, I'm going to go in 'episode time' rather than separate the stories.

(The recap for part one can be found here!)

Well, this is getting interesting. Mysterious new names, new DHARMA stations, gobs of C4, and those guys who just won't die...

So with the last two parts of this, I think instead of breaking things apart into their separate stories, I'm just going to go along 'as it happened' if you will. There were enough little flash fragments tossed in to make it otherwise confusing. So here goes!

Since it's going to take a while to do the recaps for parts 2 and 3 of this three-hour LOST epic, I figured I'd go ahead and do the dirty work first. God knows this is going to take long enough as it is.

We finally gain some insight into the inner workings of the island, as Ben shows us what's down below. We find out the identity of the corpse in Jack's coffin, the real identity of the person we only knew as Jeremy Bentham. This and so much more. But like all finales, these tidbits of knowledge come at a cost....

I've put all of this together in no particular order, so here it goes.

Frozen Donkey Wheel. I totally get it now. Hee HAW!!! Not quite the snake in the mailbox, or the exploding hatch, but still... whoa!!

If you saw the post below, then yeah, Jeremy Bentham is NOT Ben Linus. You'll have to wait for the real posts for that!

(final edit:Well. It's not Ben, is it? Ha! Put that in your pipe and puff it!)

(Further edit: yeah, so we did already know that. Forgot you guys went after the obit with a magnifying glass, LOL!!! Now its official though!)

Sorry guys, this couldn't wait. 25 minutes in and already going WTF?! (commercial break!)

(EDIT: 10 min. into part 3... maybe its a code name for?... you know....)

Jeremy Bentham (IPA: ['ben??m] or ['bent?m]) (15 February 1748–6 June 1832) was an English jurist, philosopher, and legal and social reformer. He was a political radical, and a leading theorist in Anglo-American philosophy of law. He is best known for his advocacy of utilitarianism, for the concept of animal rights,^[1][2] and his opposition to the idea of natural rights, with his oft-quoted statement that the idea of such rights is "nonsense upon stilts."^[3] He also influenced the development of welfarism.^[4]

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Among his many proposals for legal and social reform was a design for a prison building he called the Panopticon. Although it was never built, the idea had an important influence upon later generations of thinkers. Twentieth-century French philosopher Michel Foucault argued that the Panopticon was paradigmatic of a whole raft of nineteenth-century 'disciplinary' institutions.

Wikipedia: Jeremy Bentham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Panopticon:

The Panopticon is a type of prison building designed by English philosopher Jeremy Bentham in 1785. The concept of the design is to allow an observer to observe (-opticon) all (pan-) prisoners without the prisoners being able to tell whether they are being watched, thereby conveying what one architect has called the "sentiment of an invisible omniscience."^[1]

Bentham himself described the Panopticon as "a new mode of obtaining power of mind over mind, in a quantity hitherto without example."^[2]

Wikipedia: Panopticon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I'm sure there is a lot more here to digest, but the show will be back on in a minute! Gotta run!

If it weren't for Doc Jensen over at EW, I just might be a slightly saner person! Lots of good things to think about this week from the Doc and his fans. From wild theories about where the island will end up, to something I'd been contemplating recently:

...about the Island's volcano back in season 3, if the writers didn't intend to go somewhere with it? So, I might be completely off course, but my finale prediction: volcanic eruption (caused by Island moving and/or Keamy's explosives), which would of course lead to all kinds of running and screaming amongst the left-behind castaways. Can't wait to see, if I'm right!'' — Martin from Cologne, Germany

To which the Doc responds, quite Zen-like: "Martin is my most favorite person on the planet right now."

I think the Doc knows something we don't. Yet.

(You also gotta love the LOST Bingo card that the fans came up with there... classic.)


Link: 'Lost': A night to 'move' on? | Lost | Doc Jensen | TV | Entertainment Weekly | 1

Alright, I squirmed when you killed Eko, I understood (sort of) when you killed Charlie, I shrugged when you offed Boone and Shannon, and barely blinked when you killed Nikki and Paulo, Mr. Friendly, yeah OK Ana Lucia and Libby, sure... but... but... WHAT?

Question: OK, Ausiello, get me psyched for the Lost two-hour finale on Thursday! — Al

Ausiello: The significant death I hinted in the last AA? It's for sure an original cast member. This just in: Better make that (gulp) three original cast members. That's right, per my Lost mole, a trio of island vets won't survive tomorrow's finale. Crikey!

[Em. mine] Anyone care to lay some odds on whom the soon-to-be-bleeding-demised might be?

Now. (pause) I'm betting that someone bites it waaaay into the future, in one of the O6 flashforwards or something. That I could live with, probably.

Source: Ausiello on Lost, Grey's, NCIS, Heroes, Tree Hill and More! - Ask Ausiello | TVGuide.com

Season Four's not even over with yet and its already on the pre-order lists! Hooray!

Doesn't look like there's a lot of information available as to the details: Extras, etc. But here's your link to get yours:

Link: LOST: Season Four DVD

I was thinking about this the other day actually. How is the story going to be told now that the MAIN-main characters are no longer on the island? Are we going to be getting a back-and-forth method in 'present' time or will we go to a flashback-to-the-island style like this rumor suggests?

There are several rumors about the plan and structure for Season 5 and one of the main rumors is about how the future or Flash forwards we are seeing (2007) will actually be present time with flash backs to the Island. The writers have also confirmed that perhaps a time will come that "flash" will no longer be required.

Keep in mind that this is only a rumor, but I can see this making sense. But not for every episode. You have to figure that Locke, the rest of the islanders, AND The Others still have relevance, and trying to tell the island story completely in flashbacks would be, well, just dumb.

I'm predicting that the episodes will either be island-centric (Locke, The Others, Ben?) OR O6-centric (Jack et. al. back home) with flashbacks/forwards where relevant. And if that means flashing back to the island to maybe fill in some blanks then so be it.

What I would hate to see, would be flashbacks from O6 time, back to 'island-future' time. That would just get too confusing, I think. Where the O6's would be going "back" to a time that hasn't yet happened on the island, and then trying to fit the island stories into that.... ARGH. My head hurts just thinking about it.

Two more days!

Link: Rumours: Future Will be Present Time in Season 5!?