Damn my lateness! I missed the 6 showing of it. I guess I'll have to wait AFTER you guys to watch it at 10

Argh, I'm like 3 episodes behind. I've had soccer practice while it runs in Canada at 7, and AI at 10. Add that to the Oilers' run, and it's been impossible. I have a torrent of my next episode, I'll try to watch that tonight.

The Canadians have already seen it?

While "Three Minutes" wasn't as bad as an episode as some of the fluff here makes it out to be (indeed, the Sawyer moments sparkled), I do agree that Jack was scripted really poorly in the episode in order to stretch it out. It would have been better if Jack turned to Sayid at the end and was like "I know, I agree, we should see how this plays out."

I didn't (tomorrow I will), but yes, Canadians have seen it.

Well East Coast Canadians at least. It's at 10 here.

I literally just tuned in, catch me up.

A giant statue of a foot with 4 toes.

Michael being surprised to find his gun didn't have any bullets in it.

Hurley thinks a giant parrot said his name.

Desmond's back story is pretty interesting and watchable. If he survives he'd make a good new cast member.

Sun throwing up was a nice touch.

this finale is a fucking mess.

I dont even know what to type.

Oh my god, Im at a lost for words. That's a first.

I'm with you

Archie, Arsi, someone, somewhere, what did I just witness?

Seconded! Very good finale, I thought.

Besides the WTF ending..I'm guessing that since the computer at the end by the Portugese dudes said, "Electromagnetic activity detected," that means that they found the island where the Losties are stranded on. That is why Penny Widemore said, "Where is it?" (or did she...I forget!) She has found where her beloved Desmond is (even though he's fried crispy now). I sense there are going to be a lot of pissed-off fans who are going to be mad by the somewhat ambiguous ending. Who knows? I could be right?

Check the above paragraph for a possible explanation for the ending, people!

Roland, you HAVE to be kidding.

It was good until the ending. But then, WTF?

It's too bad that they found the island, because Desmond is dead anyway. And how would they even know to look for electromagnetic activity?

The rest of the episode was brill. Desmond's flashback was awesome. But that ending... stupid. Ruined the rest of it.

Nope. Not kidding. The people on CHUD seem to be saying the same thing. Penny (not Percy- stupid spelling mistake) has found Desmond's location- the Losties' island- with the help of those researcher dudes. I guess...CRAZZZY.

Lecter and others who haven't seen it yet, don't read this.

Whatever flaws people might find it was still easily the best episode of this season and a much better finale than last year. I really liked the Desmond character, and it's a shame he apparently died. His was the only interesting backstory this year, didn't bother me at all watching those flashbacks.

I know Michael (H. Perrineau) is not back next year as a regular. It looks from the finale like Walt won't be either.

I dont think people will be pissed off by the ending because you expect some cliffhanger crypticness on a finale. What bothered people last year was they gave no answers, they *only* had cliffhanger mystery last year, no balance. At least we got some answers this year: 1) Gale is the leader of the others 2) Pushing the button really does do something 3) What caused 815 to crash and a few other things.

To answer Trixter, Penny knows about Dharma, the island, and the electromagnetic stuff because it's been implied multiple times that her father's company (Widmore corp.) is in cahoots with Hanso. The real question is, how does she know that Desmond is stuck on the island?

Yes, roland's take was mine too. It gave the impression Des's gf had been searching for him and with that EM pulse found him.

I agree with you Archie, I think it was a very good episode... up until the end. They could have had a much better cliff-hanger, IMO.

And I refuse to believe that Locke, Eko and Desmond are all dead. Why would the writers kill off three of the most popular characters, and let Charlie live? It's stupid.

I remember hearing something said by the guy who plays Michael that nobody dies in the finale, so I'll stick to that. It's just hard to fathom them killing off all three of those characters.

Question: At the end, were the Russians (I assume they were Russians because they were playing chess and all Russians portrayed on TV love chess ) on a plane or in an arctic research station? MY TV was staticky and I couldn't tell if the backgroud was clouds or barren snow-covered land. I suppose having a phone on a plane would be odd, which is why i think it's a ground based station, but my friend insists they're on a plane, so I'm not entirely sure.

It looked like snow but I have no idea what language they spoke.

Mild Spoiler from spoilerfix

Season One was about the main castaways
Season Two was about the other tribe
Season Three will be about the Others