Tom, aka. Zeke, aka. Mr. Friendly, R.I.P.Well, I suppose this has to happen. The Others' fate it seems are now decidedly intertwined with the fate of the survivors. He's got no place in this. He wasn't really developed as a character, and really didn't play into much, except to be the voice of Ben early on, and a lap dog later. Can't say I'll miss him too much.
And what's with Sawyer taking him out in cold blood. Well, lukewarm blood anyway.
Naomi, R.I.P.Throwaway character? Yeah, probably so. More plot device than anything, just to get that phone on the island and put us where we are now. Won't really be missing her, either. Although it would be nice to know where she got a copy of Desmond's photograph. Considering there was only one, and Desmond has the original.
Charlie, R.I.P.First
off, I'm actually kind of angry that they actually did it. They
actually offed him. I thought maybe, just maybe they weren't going to
after he came up out of that pool, that the space-time continuum had
changed beyond Desmond's perception and that Mr. Pace was going to be
all right. I was wrong.
On the one hand, I suppose this kind of
thing happens all the time. One minute you're here, the next you're
not, and normally, if you don't have a precognitive Scotsman around,
you don't know about it... but really. Did he have to die? I wonder
what purpose it ultimately serves? I hope there is one, beyond the
character development realm I mean.
Sure it makes sense if you
look at it this way. Charlie had served his purpose, he went from the
irresponsible little git, to a pseudo-daddy, and a selfless hero
sacrificing himself for the greater good.... I suppose, I guess. I'm
still wondering....
Onto the characters....
Alex and RousseauOK, that's out of the way. Wonder if Danielle will change her mind about leaving now? She apparently changed her mind about Alex...
Mikhail, the InvincibleSo do you suppose he's really dead this time? With more lives than your average feline, I bet we see him again. A whole dollar.
I'm also convinced, more than ever that he's actually DHARMA, and not a "native." He chose to side with the Others out of convenience and necessity, and now he sees a way to exact some revenge and continue with the greater task of the initiative.
PennyAh, sweet Penny, just another season finale fleeting glimpse. She knows for a fact now that Desmond's alive, and on this "island" but she still doesn't know where. And she didn't send the boat.
The Bad Guys(tm)So who sent Naomi, and who's Minkowski? (If I heard that right.)
As an aside, Minkowski was a early 20th century physicist, who dealt with matters of spacetime physics. A lot of Einstein's work in general relativity was based on Minkowksi's work, most notably as it pertains to spacetime curvature, and M's math. A nice touch, and I wonder why they chose this name, here.
Are they DHARMA? Are they Hanso? Who's to say at this point. Although I'm betting we come to know them next season as much as we know the Others now....
SawyerAh, the man without a plan now. Quick, give him an important mission in life, before he gives up!
HurleyAttaboy Hurley! I was thinking maybe after being insulted about his stature twice in the same day he'd go off and do something stupid, and there'd be an R.I.P. next to his name. But no! He has to go and be the hero! That was just plain awesome.
Now, the big ones....
Locke, and WaltDid anyone else do a big "Holy ^$#%!!!" when they saw Walt standing over the pit? Yeah, me too. Of course you realize that it's not really Walt. It's Jacob. It's the island. It's a manifestation of someone Locke held dear to him, because if you recall, Locke and Walt became quite good buddies there for a while....
What about his legs? Well, I think that for the moment Locke gave up and was prepared to do himself in, Jacob "let him slip" if you will. Then pulled him back at the last moment. Sort of a "how serious is he" about blowing his brains out kind of thing.
Jack and Kate's Adventures in the Future!Holy black smoke monster! Did anyone really see that coming? Yeah I noticed the Razr Jack was using, but I wrote it off as a continuity gaff at first. Nooooo....
How apropos is it that Jack winds up after his rescue sort of as a mirror image of Charlie before the crash? A strung out drug addict unable to keep himself afloat... Maybe ironic is a better word.
Although, unlike Charlie (and like Locke, by the way) Jack has a mission. To get back to the island? But why? What happened? Did they leave somebody behind? Does he just want to get back because of something he saw there? Like his dad (or visions of) maybe?
Speaking of which, I don't believe that the elder Shepard is alive in this future. I think that was just Jack spewing psycho babble in a drug and liquor induced haze, being back in the hospital, thinking he was still a doctor, and that he still worked there and all....
But
who is the mysterious "He" that Kate spoke of? And more importantly....
*WHO* was in that casket?! With nobody but Jack, and possibly Kate to show up at the funeral. Which was in a rather unpleasant part of town by the looks of it. Why is Jack so upset about it that he was willing to jump off the bridge?
And thanks to Dakota for the "Anagram Alert" :) The funeral home's name was "Hoffs Drawlar"... which, when shuffled, comes out to "Flash Forward." Nice.
....
I was not disappointed (well except for the Charlie bit) with this one. They've set themselves up for another mind blowing, and story right-angling season next year.
If only we can wait that bloody long!
(The whole "rattlesnake in the mailbox" makes perfect sense now, doesn't it...)
As far as the casket...not so sure about having to be Sawyer...what about Michael? He irritated me so much I doubt he had any friends that would attend either:-) Plus the last thing he did was screw everyone over...and maybe Walt is back on the island and therefore unable to attend the service either.
And the guy Kate was with is likely Sawyer. It seemed an obvious hint that Kate got pregnant, and ended up with Sawyer. Just a thought.
If Ben was right about the "real bad guys" being the people Jack contacted on the phone, and that everybody in the island will die, then that would explain why Jack ended up they way we see him in the future.
Think about it, Jack is set on getting everybody rescued and he even went as far as sacrificing three of his friends so the rest could be rescued. He gambles everything for some illusion. At the end as Ben and Lock predicted bad things happened. Ben probably gets taken with the survivors out of the island and he ends up dying because his tumor comes back.
There is no body at the funeral. Ben did not have any family or friends (off the island). Probably most or everybody of the Oceanic flight survivors did not care much about him.
But Jack knows. Like John he probably figured the island out but after or during the time of the rescue.
As for the dead person in the casket. I suspect that we haven't yet met him. Not to make racial statements, but no detail in this show is capricious. As Jack got out of the car, there were only black men on the street. Also, the caretaker was black. That would suggest a black neightborhood, and therefore character. I thought at first it was Michael, but isn't he from NY? Perhaps he's the one that led the ship to the island?
I also think that Charlie's death was avoidable. It took about 30 seconds for the room to fill up with water, plus the couple seconds it took for the grenade to go off. Not only that, but the door opened into the chamber, so the force of the water would have helped him and Desmond to shut the door.
I have to wonder how Desmond didn't notice Mikhail coming back to life, putting on the scuba gear, and leaving the station. I mean it would really get my attention if a dead guy got up and started doing stuff.
I think there is something more to Mikhail then just luck. I 1st death (the fence) was explainable; I accepted that the fence was only on "stun" (sounds like Star Trek lol). But taking a harpoon to the chest...the is not something a normal person would survive. I bet we're going to seen him a again (alive, and still messing stuff up). I have to wonder if maybe The Island/Jacob is healing him, or if he's the Russian version of Chuck Norris.
...And Kate is definetely with Sawyer. Who else would she be with? And if Sawyer died, she would go to the funeral, where as Jack might not.
...as for who's in the casket- Jack said it wasn't his friend...
And what about the other members of the flight? The ones that were kidnapped off the other beach and who Kate and Sawyer (or was it Jack? memory failing) saw when they were caged. They were likely not rescued.
My bet is Ben is in the casket.
And, as far as outstanding mysteries go, I still do not understand what killed the pilot of the plain in the first -- or was it the second -- episode of the Season 1. Nor why. Any thoughts?