Think the last 3/4ths of this season will be enough to bring a lot of viewers back when they catch up on DVD? I think that'd be awesome, and I particularly want to make sure they finish those 3 seasons.

I also forgot to note how much my face lit up when I saw Penny on that screen. I don't know how to describe it but Desmond and Penny are why I love Lost so much. If their love story ends up not playing a HUGE factor for the endgame, I will be utterly pissed.

I love for those two. I still maintain that Orientation and Season 2 finale were among the best episode of the series and one of the best scenes ever was Desmond cutting the wires to Naomi's parachute thinking it's Penny with cut backs to when Des and Penny first met.

Also... I think Naomi's boat is part of Dharma. How and why on earth did she have a picture of Des and Penny?

Physics. Water is heavier than air, so as long as you keep the air from escape the water won't displace it submerged.

Go to your sink, fill it with water. Take a glass from the cabinent, quickly push the glass (opening down) to the bottom. As long as the air has no way to escape, most of the glass will be filled with air.

I really do hope all this positiveness translates into success in the 4th season. It should open with at least as many viewers as Season 3 opened with.

hmm... I actually just thought about buying season 3 on DVD...... I've never bought a TV show on DVD. It was such a good season, though, and I missed 15-20 minutes of a few episodes because I had night school. And I think I just plain missed one, because I didn't care much about them.

There has only been one TV drama before I have thought about buying on DVD. And still would. Unfortunately, Touching Evil (the USA version) was never released on DVD.

Well I hope Season 4 doesnt start off as weak as Season 3 did, as long as that doesnt happen i'm sure the viewership will be alot more consistent and higher.

That finale was so lame I couldn't believe it. 2 hours of boring wheel spinning and stalling and characters doing one dumb against common sense thing after another. This episode belonged among the first 6 of this season.

I envy the people who read the spoilers and knew not to expect much.

Still have to see it...didn't read any spoilers at all either...so how awesome was it?

Awesome.

Go look in the "Grade the Season Finales" thread. Everyone unanimously seemed to think it rocked. I thought it was amazing but not the best episode of the season.

Will the travails in the island considered the new flashbacks?

I think this proves the theory that Penny's father either is behind Dharma or works with Dharma. He is the only person besides Penny who would know that Desmond is on that island. I think he stole the picture gave it to Naomi as the cover. It is also possible that Dharma is the one who faked the plane wreckage. Not sure really though what Dharma is up to.

Well that was the best episode of Lost I have ever seen, hell, it was the best episode of television I have ever seen. The whole two hours was non-stop excitement. Hurley running over that guy was priceless. I loved how they resolved the attack on the camp right away. I was afraid that the whole episode was going to be about the big attack on the camp. I loved the underwater hatch sequences with Charlie and Desmond. Desmond shooting the Russian with the harpoon was great. That bastard just won't die, kinda of like Locke. Speaking of Locke, I think Jacob is the one controlling all the "visions" and the black smoke. I think it was Jacob talking to Locke, not Walt.

Anyway, that is the way to end a season. I hope those who abandoned Lost this season watch the DVD this summer to see how awesome the last 2/3 of the season was and with a earlier time slot and a non-stop seasons 4-6 will bring them back.

A+++++

How you felt about the finale probably depends in part on how you feel about Jack. To me he's by far the most boring of the main characters, and a character I came to outright dislike this season. So the padded out nothing-happening flashforward (it was obvious it was flash forward from the first scene) was just almost unwatchable. He couldn't even make it to the opening credits without crying this time.

And hey Jack, when you are dealing with a known con man and master manipulator, you don't go agreeing to walk off and talk to him privately when you don't have to. And even if you do agree to that, you don't give the guy his walkie talkie back. Jack said to Kate that he let it happen (the gunshots which he thought were the deaths). No he made it happen, it couldn't have happen without Jack giving the guy back his walkie talkie.

The highpoints were Sawyer shooting Zeke, Penny on screen (although how did she happen to be sitting at a camera just at that right time?), Ben explaining why he tried to brainwash Karl.

Oh and someone please kill Bernard. God he was a wimp.

By the way, I thought Matthew Fox did a great job this episode... This was the first time I've felt for crying Jack.

The one thing I still didn't love in this episode was Charlie killing himself for the sake of killing himself. Yeah ok, him dieing makes Desmond's vision true, but when faced with running outside and closing the door, or staying in and drowning for the heck of it, I'd think his instincts would kick in.

Mikhael was also kind of dumb to simply blow up the window, he didn't know about Charlie's vision thing, how stupid would he have felt if Charlie just ran outside and let the room flood without him? He should've just thrown the grenade in the room, closed the door, and made him explode. I mean I still liked the way the scene was done itself, but still. Am I missing something here? Seems hole-y.

Yeah that was dumb. And a disappointment since his character is a lot more watchable than Jack's (to me I mean, of course). Charlie shooting his mouth off about Juliet and endangering the whole plan was also dumb.

So Charlie died?

I knew there was a reason I stopped watching this...

Well, Charlie locked it from the inside, did he not, to prevent Desmond from trying to talk with Penny? What if he went outside to close the door, but it wont lock from the outside and desmond opens the door cause he wants to see penny??

HUH?! HUH?!

I'm fairly certain he closed the door, because he knew how determined Desmond was to see/talk to Penny. Even if Desmond popped in for a "Hello, Penny, brother!", he'd be swimming with the fishes.

More thoughts later. Still trying to wrap my brain around the finale.

I still liked Live Together, Die Alone more. But then again, that's my favorite Lost episode.

Supposedly, the writers are going on "radio silence" for a few months, to let the fans digest what happened last night.

The optimist in me believes that.

The pessimist in me thinks that the first writers' meeting will go something like this: "Well... what the fuck do we do now?!"

Couldn't Desmond see into Jack's future and figure out that leaving the island is going to be a huge mistake? I can't see how else they can explain the flashforward on the show. This isn't "Heroes" where someone can go five years into the future and go back to the present day to fix things.

I'm only halfway through the first hour and so far it's pretty awesome. Also the music in this episode is brilliant.

Don't drink the koolaid.

What music? Can you give an example of a scene with it and I'll check it out later.

Actually, something that Damon Lindelof tells E!Online's Kristin Veitch interests me.



Is it possible that, with Charlie's death, Desmond will start seeing Jack's future, and he'll see that leaving the island is a mistake? I just don't see how flash-forwards could be a regular (or semi-regular) thing, or how they can explain the flash-forward on the show, without introducing time-travel or whatever.