Friend pointed out that Miles has never spoken to the Lockeness Monster.

The only things I still care about:

- Is the Island being under water a result of A) Juliette setting off the bomb, creating an ALT timeline/universe, or B) Was it foreshadowing Lockeness Monster destroying the Island, or C) A bit of both.

- Will the ALT timeline/universe converge with the Island timeline/universe, adding meaning to Juliette's last words, "It worked."

- Is this really all boiling down to a religious googly mook battle between "good" and "evil", with no explanation of the Magical Lightbulb Source of life other than "BECUASE IT'S THE MAGICAL LIGHTBULB SOURCE OF LIFE", or is it maybe some kind of virtual reality experiment?

- What is going on with Ben?

I'm not sure he was any more special than, say, Miles. Paranormal activity was always a part of the show, and Walt's character seemed a way to introduce that kind of phenomena, along with glimpses of dead people, random polar bear I Spys, etc.

And as for Rose and Bernard, when we saw them last they pretty much wanted to be left to their own devices, to live out their lives apart from all the drama. I wouldn't be surprised if they were only reintroduced at the very end with little more explanation than that, if at all.

After all is done I'd love to hear what they had planned for Walt, though I assume any such plans were meshed into the show in other ways.

Now that Widmore is dead, I guess we have to believe what he said last about his motivations. Unsatisfying at best.

So far any "answers" we've been getting have been rather forced. More show and less tell would be nice. I'm worried the finale is going to be everyone standing around answering questions.

I cannot wait for the concert - seeing absolutely everyone in one place would be killer!

At which point the roof will lift off the concert hall to reveal that they are actually in a viewing gallery, being watched over by their captors

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iggE4ImYwyc

a tribute to LOST.

I went to the New York Times Lost event tonite.......

A few observations:

1) Emmerson is a lot bigger looking on a stage with his producers than he looks on the show.......

2) The writers pretty much admit that ~Across the Sea~ sucked.

3) The writers also admit that many of the questions we will still have after the show is all done are due to writing mistakes they made, mostly in Seasons 2 and 3.

4) Damon reveals that the TV show that most inspired him to become a writer...........ISM is going to love this.................~Twin Peaks~

5) Garcia, when asked if he understood the ending, hinted that he wasn't sure if he got it or not, but then shrugged and said "yeah, I got it".

Wasn't a waste of time to go to this event, but I got in for free(wife, theater manager), not sure if it was really worth whatever they were charging people.....although they did show a sizeable clip from the finale, which was enjoyable, but not all that revealing.

Spoiler----contains a brief description of a scene from the final episode:

Interesting. In the final Official Lost Podcast, Darlton discussed the episode and did not think it sucked. They did acknowledge it was a very controversial episode and they were shocked by the vehement reactions to it. But that was recorded a week ago and they could have changed their minds in the interim.

That episode SUCKED and there's no two ways about it. It put me off the entire season, and may be the entire show - - as it was, or should have been, obvious that is was one of the major, major episodes - and no fvckups were allowed. Yet it was a giant FAIL.

That some of the writers thought it sucked tells me that just don't give a damn.

And, at this point, neither do I.

They didn't actually come out and say it sucked, but listening between the lines gave me the impression that they were embarrassed by it....and they were definitely practicing empathy towards those who thought it did.

Writing doesn't always turn out the way you want it to, though. I'm betting they thought everyone would love it, that it would be fitting to go back and show the island's history.

But just because JK Rowling loved Hagrid, it doesn't mean that we particularly care.