It should be noted that this thread will be 5 years old on Wednesday.
:)

Ah, but the link provided by your wife reminded me that Jacob didn't touch Hurley (or Sayid for that matter) until after they'd left the Island. Implying (to me) Jacob had different selection criteria for them than for the rest of the candidates. Sayid just happened to indeed have a fuctup life. Maybe Hurley was chosen, well because Jacob just obviously really liked Hurley and thought he would be awesome for the Island.

Why the hell did Clarie have to raise Aaron. Why was that such a huge deal?

And the other thing that occurred to me last night - Locke (real Locke) said that he looked into the heart of the island and it was beautiful. I wonder if he found the light before last night - or before he became Fauke.

I'm guessing you're asking why Jack and Kate were intent on getting Claire back to Aaron...and here's where I get to say.....

You'd have to be a parent to understand. ;)

No, really. I can only imagine how awful it would be for Kate and Jack to pretend to be his parents when they knew Claire was still alive. Thinking back on those Oceanic 6 scenes, I think they were played very well. Parenting focuses your priorities so sharply, and the empathy they'd feel for Claire missing it would be immense.

That's actually not what I was asking. There was the psychic who was hellbent on Claire not giving up Aaron. That was imperative that it be Claire who raise Aaron, and not an other (to be interpreted much earlier as The Others).

The Jack/Kate pretending to be his parents is something completely different.

Weird. I started rereading the thread. The discussion begins with the 2005 season finale and abruptly jumps to 2008.

Then my nose started bleeding. :eek:

Well, I don't want a nose-bleed, but I'm tempted to read the thread.

Until this season, I always watched on DVD, a year behind everyone - but with the great benefit of being able to watch a whole season over a couple of days. I enjoyed all those seasons far better than the current one, and I don't consider it without significance that I watched this season week-to-week.

Because I was a year behind, I was never picky about spoilers. But I never went looking for them, and so have never read this thread.

Is it a good recap?

Just close your eyes at the part where we all discuss the last ten seconds of the show where Hurley inhales the smoke monster and promptly transmogrifies into Paul Lynde. "Miss me boys!?!" he cackles. Fade to black. Oh, it was one for the ages.

He said that after he stood his ground against the smoke monster (they covered this in the pre-show). If you watch it again it was probably smokey showing him whatever smokey thought would make him "believe".

I have given it a lot of thought over the last couple of days.

JJ Abrams has consistently been a creator who can pitch a good idea with no real follow-through. Felicity ended with time travel. Alias turned into a gooey mess. Star Trek was a "please everyone" bait and switch. And now Lost.

JJ Abrams can kiss my ass.