Standard disclaimer here: If you haven’t watched the episode, stop reading here. Blah blah blah…

I dreamt the series finale to Lost the other night. It was pretty cool. Not sure if I should give away all the details, just in case I’m right…or if I’m not right.

On to this episode:

1. Hey, guy from the prison break scene last season. Yeah, you. We’re going to hire you back on. And you’ll be dead at the end of the episode. And we’ll give you cheesy lines before you get killed. Your most profound line will be “Shut up”. Twice. And the character with you, who we’ve never seen before on the show, will make you look kinda like you have no idea what you are doing. But it’s all good.

2. Oh, so that’s why Sayid was healed from the Coca-Cola water in the spring. Because he’s eeevil. No wonder Miles was looking at Sayid like he might not be totally alive after he asked Sayid if he had seen anything after he died. It would have been great if Miles had added “oy vey” at the end of that conversation.

3. “Have you see Joan Hart?” “No, she left.” “Oh, okay”. (Turns around and leaves.) Because fugitives NEVER hide in the “Authorized Personnel Only” room. No need to look there.

4. Oh, and there’s Ethan Rom. He’s a good guy now that the past has changed. Or is he?? It’s like Lost is getting all the old characters rounded up before the end of the season. “Hey, tree from season one! Come back on the show! You’ll get chopped down, but whatever.” I wonder what other random characters will show up before the season finale.

5. I think part of the season finale should consist of all the tarps coming out and doing a chorus line high-kick and bow. Seriously, how much screen time did they have? We saw them more than Desmond in the first season. And possibly the second. But no love for the tarps this season. BRING THEM BACK!!

6. In the “new” 2004 – Artz loses one suitcase. In the “old” 2004 – Artz loses all of them.

7. The pill that Jack was supposed to give Sayid looked suspiciously like Echinacea. Maybe it’s not poison. Maybe it’s just supposed to boost his immune system since he was in that Coca-Cola water for a while.

8. I think Jack could have just quoted the Hippocratic Oath (“First do no harm”) when telling what’s-his-name why he wouldn’t give Sayid the pill. Simple. To the point. But that would be…simple.

9. Kate in the “new” 2004 = pale. Kate on the island = very tan. This is how I tell them apart. Oh, and Kate in the new 2004 wears eyeliner.

10. There’s karma for you. Kate opens the bag she stole from Claire, hoping to find another outfit. Oops! Just baby stuff. We saw Aaron with the stuffed whale last season, when he came out of his room when Kate and Jack were fighting. Same stuffed whale? Dun dun duuuuun!!

11. “You got family there?” – said by Kate to Claire. Inflection and pronunciation – Canadian. Note how “there” doesn’t go up as high in inflection. (This does not impact the storyline at all, just something I noticed. Deal with it.)

12. Seriously, the Other Others haven’t learned Japanese by now? You think they would have at least caught on to the phrase “Don’t shoot them”.

13. How did Kate open/shut the taxi door with handcuffs on? The last time she opened the doors with the handcuffs on, it looked like the door magically popped open.

14. No Locke this week. He’s on the island…somewhere.

15. Best lines: Hurley – “You’re not a zombie, right?” Miles – “We’ll be in the food court if you need us.” That was…pretty much it.

16. So we finally get to meet the potential adoptive couple of Claire’s. Well, we meet one of them, anyway. This goes with my theory that there are certain paths in the character’s lives that will not change, regardless of the change in past events.

17. Remember the black stone and the white stone that Kate found with the “Adam & Eve” skeletons in the cave? Where did those go?

18. Kate’s got some awesome physics skills. She knew right where Rousseau’s trap would land. Amazing. She didn’t even need a schematic. And one of the Other Others said something about Rousseau being dead a while…but if you look at the age of the kids from 815 (with Cindy) in the last episode, not that much time has passed since 2004.

19. Did the show ever answer where Kate learned her tracking skills? From what I remember, she already knew how to track when she arrived on the island.

20. Claire – You have cash in your bag, remember? Kate let everyone (us) know, because she told you she didn’t take it. Give that to Kate instead of your CREDIT CARD. Geez.

21. Here’s a cool video on YouTube which parallels the “original” 815 crash with the “new” 815 crash. Notice the little differences, like Cindy giving Jack one bottle of vodka in the “new” version instead of two. If that is the key to the entire show….oy. (This also gives the producers a great way of explaining why Jack and Sawyer’s hair is different from the “old” version and the “new” version. “Well, you see…everything has changed now!!”)

Also, in the “old” version Jack tells Rose that everything will be okay…in the “new” version, it’s Rose that comforts Jack. And the synchronization is pretty unbelievable. Especially Rose’s line at :47.

(Oh, and the “click here” things on the video? It’s an ad for a college. It’s not Lost related.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-1qzelSWpE

22. The reason the episode is titled “What Kate Does” – in season two, there was an episode titled “What Kate Did”. (See, it’s a new timeline. Get it?? Get it??) lol

Tags: 815, Claire, Jack, Kate, Lost, others, plane, rose, what kate does