r_scribbles | This Lost Finale was brought to you by the letters O, M & G.

- Blast! Jacob's a new character! I had theories about him being Locke or Desmond! However, his intro scene with his nameless nemesis was brilliant, and I was at least right about one thing - that the statue and the temple would grow in importance, and that we'd find out more about the island's more distant past. It seems like at the core of this whole show is a battle between two godlike beings - I doubt it's as simple as Good vs Evil... the statue that Jacob lives in (super cool, BTW - I've loved that thing ever since it was just a foot) suggests the Polytheism of ancient Egypt - interestingly, looking like a cross between Anubis, but with Ammit the Destroyer's crocodile face... both deities of death and final judgement. I mean, you never quite know how far into SciFi territory you are with Lost - Jacob & his nemesis could be aliens or actual gods, or anything, really. Jacob seems to be the one who 'brings' people to the island - seemingly to play out the same power struggle time after time. Maybe Jacob is the real Baddie after all.

Speaking of Jacob's nemesis - we know he's a shape shifter now, right? But instead of 'becoming' one of the living people who disappeared off the plane into the 70s - which would have been much easier to have got away with - he has to become somebody who is dead and whose body is on the island... much like many of the 'visitations' from dead people on the island, including Christian Shepherd, of course. He might be Smokey, too.

Plus - *ahem* OHFUCKOHFUCKOHFUCK, Locke really is dead, that guy we've been watching for half a series isn't Locke at all!!!

I feel really sorry for Benj. Even earlier this series when he'd been banished he was still a little bit 'Mwuh-huh-huh-huuuuh', now he's all sad and small and broken :( Horrible that Jacob wouldn't even try to apologise or explain to Ben... would Ben have been the same old Ben if he hadn't been manipulated by Jacob and Not!Locke? It seemed to me to be a further part of the manipulation - as if Jacob wanted Ben to stab him. Maybe we'll find out more next series. Maybe not.

Manipulating, Prospero-like bastard though he may be, I thought it was sweet how Jacob turns up to help or comfort all the main Losties at some point in their lives... although I agree with

sharelle that the bit where he's calmly reading a book and Locke's all 'aaaaaaaaahhhhhhicanseemyhousefromhere*SPLAT*' behind him was HILARIOUS. Possibly unintentionally so. I have a feeling they were going for 'Infernal Affairs' with that moment, but it came across all Naked Gun.

*Does best 'Dogtanian' impression* JULIEEEeeeEEEeeeeEEEETTTEEEEE!!!! I shed a tear, dear readers, and I hated her guts for so much of her time on Lost. Turns out all she needed was to wash the Jears out of her hair, sup a whiskey straight from the bottle and go all kick-ass. Sawyer/Juliet actually became the only pairing in the Rhombus Of Doom that I gave a crap about - because they just got on with it instead of fucking angsting about it all the time, because it was a genuinely sweet, fair, adult relationship. Juliet went from Stepford Wife to an actual, grown up, sensible, logical, sympathetic female character... so of course, she had to die. Lost Island likes its ladies whiny and/or psychotic, ta v much. I think it was Sawyer's reaction that really sold it for me. But I loved that her last words were 'Son of a Bitch'.

Sayid's condition is also worrying. I hope he's not due to become a gonner. I'm not sure if we'll ever see Rose & Bernard again either, now that they've announced they're at peace with the world. And there was me hoping that Lost would dare to kill off it's charismatically challenged 'Lead' in that gun fight. No such fucking luck. The world's dullest protagonist plods on as far more interesting members of an excellent ensemble fall around him.

Also, 1977 Losties, please stop saying old episode titles at me. I get it. Stop, now.

Sweet moment between Miles & Chang. Miles called him 'Dad'. Nawww. His Daddy Issues are resolved. He is so dead in the first few episodes of the next series.

As for what happens next... don't know. I still think they've caused a paradox by blowing up the pre-hatch (and blowing up the hatch worked so well in the finales of S1 and 2, right, Jack? Idiot.) although seemingly nobody in 2007 who was there in 77 seems to remember a big ol' nuke going off, so maybe the paradox has already happened. Or maybe they just blew up an alternate reality. Dunno. I'd have to refer to "Time Travel For Dummies" again.

Oh, and I really liked the electromagnetic implosion. It was neat. Especially Phil's death. Skewered like a chick in a shit Matrix sequel. Yeah. That'll learn him.