So we've come to the end of another season already! Didn't seem long enough. In the first part of the finale, we see the "O6" as they are welcomed back to civilization, finally get a glimpse of those other guys on the island, we revisit quite a few images and bits and pieces from old flashbacks, and someone learns something very important....

Just want to leave you guys with one thought that occurred to me, regarding the title of the upcoming three-hour, two-part finale...

Dorothy: Oh, now I'll never get home!
Lion: Stay with us, then, Dorothy. We all love you. We don't want you to go.
Dorothy: Oh, that's very kind of you, but this could never be like Kansas. Auntie Em must have stopped wondering what
happened to me by now. Oh, Scarecrow, what am I going to do?
Scarecrow: Look! Here's someone who can help you.
Dorothy: Oh - will you help me? Can you help me?
Glinda: You don't need to be helped any longer. You've always had the power to go back to Kansas.
Dorothy: I have?
Scarecrow: Then why didn't you tell her before?
Glinda: Because she wouldn't have believed me. She had to learn it for herself.
Tin Man: What have you learned, Dorothy?

Something to think about? I dunno, but...

What have we learned indeed. I can't wait to find out.

OMG times about fifty. Yeah, after that total yawn-inducing episode last week, they really set us up big time. There is just so much in this episode that needs to be looked at, so many questions, so many allusions and concepts....

OK, now that I've had time to sleep on it, my mind is still reeling from last night's total mind blowing episode. So many details, so little time.

In 'Cabin Fever' Locke, Ben, and Hurley are on a mission to find the mysterious and never-stationary cabin of the equally mysterious Jacob. While on the freighter things take a turn for the worse.

Our flashback, or rather series thereof, dealt with Locke's past, and some familiar faces show up where you'd least expect it.

This one is rather long. There are a lot of details, a lot of words that have to be repeated exactly to get their meanings... So hang on.

While you (like me) are drooling over the prospect of learning more about the secrets that Uncle Jake's Cabin may hold for Locke, Ben, and maybe Hurley....

I suggest you do a read of the wacky Doc Jensen's take on this week's episode. For once he doesn't sound like a total madman and parts of his theorization make sense, and might get you back up to speed on some of the island intracacies.

Where is all of this leading to on Lost? Perhaps Jacob will give us a few more hints tonight. I suspect he knows SOMETHING of altered realities. In this creepy entity, whose only line to date has been, ''Help me,'' I sense a trapped soul who has had something stripped from him, and I don't mean his body. I wonder if here, on an Island that seems to stand at the crossroads of All Possible Worlds, what/who we see trapped here inside this otherworldly outhouse is a man who never really was. In other words: Could Jacob be the version of Charles Widmore that somehow, some way got flushed out of existence? Maybe.

OK, Doc, but this whole Jacob/Esau road you're going down leads to one obvious question: Who are we to parallel to Esau in this story?

I particularly like the bit about Horace Goodspeed.

Horace Goodspeed may have one of the most convoluted names in Lost lore. If I had to guess the inspiration, I would say HORACE = the ancient poet Horace (famous sayings: carpe diem, or ''seize the day''; aurea mediocritas, or ''golden mean,'' a concept that expresses both mathematical and spiritual equilibrium; and dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, or ''It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country''). And GOODSPEED can only = Stanley Goodspeed, Nicolas Cage's scientist character in The Rock! His specialty: Chemical weapons! By the way, you remember what ''The Rock'' is in The Rock, right? It's Alcatraz. Which is a prison. On an Island. Policed by sharks!

Pop culture references meets Greek Classical, gotta love it.

Link: ''Lost'': Jacob, reveal thyself! | Lost | Doc Jensen | TV | Entertainment Weekly | 1

Hmph. I really don't care much for these "filler" type of episodes, so let the flaming commence. I suppose the plot got moved along a little bit, but in the end only a couple of tiny semi-important things happen.

The most important being we get to see what started Jack's downward spiral in the future. And frankly, its a letdown.

ARGH! Due to the foulup on Thursday night with the weather, here's your recap of "Something Nice Back Home." Yeah its going to be short, because quite frankly I didn't find a lot that needs much in-depth-ness done to it. I apologize to everyone who'd rather read the long version....

We find out a bit more about the future, in particular the future of Jack and Kate. A mysterious visitor makes two appearances, and somebody else speak Korean. Oh, and Jack gets operated on.

... on account of weather. Due to an outbreak of typical spring Oklahoma weather, the local ABC station was in 'weather alert' mode and was nothing but. So, I'll be watching the episode at a later time! Stay tuned! Nobody spoil it for me!