yea dude, we're from the future.

here be spoilers... come back after you've seen the finale! (or final, as certain special people like to say.)



well! it's been a year, hasn't it. i'm really not sure what the hell i'm going to do until freakin' 2010 to wait and find out if juliet is dead, if jughead went boom, if they got transported back/forward in time, if 815 crashed, if real-locke is real dead....

first off - locke is dead! probabaly. right....? so this whole season, fake-locke has just been walkin' around somehow in a locke suit? that's creeptastic. kind of reminds me of that alien in MIB who killed the farmer, and walked around in his body like an "edgar suit," as his shell-shocked wife described. it just seems weird that the producers would slip this in at the end. (that's what she said.) i mean, we've all kind of picked up the fact that back-from-the-dead locke is somehow slightly different than old-locke. but i had at least just figured that he had some new-found connection with smokey or the island or whatever. not that he was SOME OTHER DUDE COMPLETELY. seems like a cheap trick, but ok. it's lost. if i can suspend belief on everything else, i can let this slide too, right?

a few questions that have been raised. first off, it seems curious that if fake-locke is the dude from the beginning of the episode, chillin' with jacob on the beach in the shadow of the statue, he would know exactly where jacob lived! why does fake-locke make a big show of "take me to your leader" and so forth?? i assume that he doesn't want to let on that he is fake-locke. if he just ran into jacob's underground lair, everyone (ben, sun, richard, the band of merry red-shirts, etc) would be curious. i think he has to play up the unknowingness to convince everyone that he's the locke they all know. (of course, now his cover is totally blown, considering real-locke's body is now rolled out on the sand.)

also - how are there TWO locke bodies?! if fake-locke is in one (in the underground lair when we last saw him), why the heck is real-locke out on the beach? where did the extra body come from? i presume this can be explained with some time-travel trickery. it just seems that if fake-locke is indeed wearing real-locke like a suit, there should only be one body, no?

other things i need answers to!
- what is the significance of the ash circle around not-jacob's-haunted-cabin being broken? who has been let out of captivity?
- who the heck is ilana? what was she doing in a russian hospital? why did it seem like she knew jacob?
- why did jacob physically touch all of the 815ers that he met? why was juliet's flashback the only one without jacob?
- who/what is the loophole?
- how does the ben/widmore war factor into the jacob/fake-locke war?
- does anyone care where claire is?!

other things i'm thinking about!
- sayid? probably a goner (boooooo). juliet? maybe not.
- i loved the back of sun's wedding dress! i've missed her usual spark and awesomeness this season. bring it back in season 6, b'vakasha!!
- interesting that jacob gave hurley that guitar case that we've all assumed is charlie's. it still might be, but how did jacob end up with it? (also - i loved that one of hurley's possessions was a fruit roll up. never ever change, hurley!)
- horrah for phil being dead! that guy was a major jerk.
- glad there was a little moment about charlie and claire when sun found his driveshaft ring (can't believe that thing is still around!) in aaron's old crib (made by old-real-locke!) oh, the old days...
- obvious but - so so scary and sad when nadia gets smashed by that car. i was mad when jacob just kind of looked on as if he knew it was going to happen... but then i forgave him because he seems nice and is cute. (but why did they cast some dude who looks like steve zahn as jacob??)

recaps:
- i would definitely check out doc jensen's recap at ew. good stuff, and he'll have another one out next week with more finals thoughts and answers.
- erika posted a few thoughts today on her blog, but will eventually have a full (or two) posts on the finale. considering she's (real) locke's gal, i'm sure she's quite sad...

ok. hope that helped jumpstart your thinking. hopefully i didn't further confuse anyone... what the heck do we do until 2010?!