"The Incident"

Holy crap! Is it the Incident that Shredder has been talking about in those films?! The one that caused the electromagnetic anomaly and the code being entered every 108mins in The Swan. I never would have figured that our Losties would be involved in that.
(Sorry, I forget what the dude's name was.. I only remember him as Shredder from TMNT2)

I haven't played the video game, but I'm reading that there is an I wonder if that's canon and will appear later on in the show.

The "Incident Room" is canon. In fact, it's the only canonical thing in the entire goddamned game. The developers were quite limited on what they could show in the way of new material - the design/layout of the room was provided by the guys behind the show's mythos, and it's shown on the blast door map:

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I wager we'll be seeing it in the finale. One thing, though - there's an inscription on the map reading "Caduceus station believed to have been abandoned due to AH/MDG incident of 1985" - our characters are in 1977. Either it's referring to a different incident, or we'll be seeing more time-jumping shenanigans before the season's out...

I'd be disappointed were that the case. The episode title kind of indicates a continuation of The Constant, so...

I'm surprised no one has tried to figure out what all the writing on the temple wall means...especially in the smoke monsters room. Maybe they have, but I'm way too lazy to look into it! The Anubis symbol is very intriguing though...it's quite cool having some Egyptian mythology come into play.
But yes, holy crap at the judgement. I'm so glad Ben got a good telling off by the monster to follow Locke. Imagine if Ben tried to kill Locke in future episodes and then the monster just comes out of the jungle with all its mechanical sounding rage to tear Ben to pieces. I can only dream.

Miles was a chracter I was weary about, but now he's become a lot more interesting for me. I'm not sure if this has been theorised, but I'm starting to think maybe every kid who is born on the island has a special power? Or maybe they are born naturally gifted with intelligence. Or maybe Dharma just injected them with some super gloop to make them super humans. Me dunno...me dunno.

Then apparently Charlotte's special power was bleeding to death. Or maybe the writers will reveal something about her too.

that's Faraday behind the camera and talking to Chang. I guess someone spilled the beans about the future.

Chang has a prosthetic left arm! oh noes!

I seriously had tears in my eyes when Daniel talked to Charlotte, and again when Desmond was talking to PENNEH. Even worse, they killed Dan! THEY KILLED DAN! He was fast becoming my favorite character! Why couldn't they kill Miles?!

That is, of course, if he is actually dead. Seemed that way at the end though.

So Locke was really just this "I wanna kill you Jacob" guy since the return to the island? The fuck? THE FUCK?!

So did John Locke do some time travel paradox shit? Something about that loophole? So his current self is dead, but his past self came to the future?

Jacob sure died a pansy's death. He didn't even try defending himself.

The more I feel bad for poor John Locke. That man's entire life he has been nothing but used and manipulated by people more clever than he is. People taking advantage of his good hearted nature. And now, after everything that he's been through, he had to be killed simply so whatever that dude was could take his form and manipulate others into killing Jacob.

I expected more of what "the Incident" was going to be like (maybe involving a reactor in the incident room), but they haven't built that hatch yet. They've only started drilling right? So how do they contain the spike in energy? They can't use machinery or else it will just get sucked in. Do they just simply fill up whatever with concrete and then build the Swan machinery and computers around it?

I'm not sure if I like where this is going. Only one season left. Matthew Fox claims to know the general idea of the ending and that we won't be disappointed.

Looks like a battle of good(Jacob) and evil(other guy in black shirt.) The other guy says that people who are brought to the Island only bring fighting, corruption, and destruction. Jacob seems to want to prove him otherwise.
Seems like the only ones who've found peace on the Island are Bernard and Rose.

I was thinking that the Black Smoke monster was the black shirt guy, and for the past seasons he's been trying to mess with people until he found his loophole to get to Jacob. And possibly Jacob foresaw this loophole and gathered his players (the people he visited) to try to block that. But didn't Richard take young Ben to be healed at the Temple, where the Black Smoke monster lives? I thought Richard was on the same side as Jacob.

So does everything not matter anymore? Like the mysteries with Dharma and the numbers? Did someone "bring" Dharma to the Island or can supernatural mysteries be solved with science and math?

I'd be freaked out if I was coming to an island with a statue like that.

Holy shit. So Locke's been dead as a doornail all along. I won't pretend I saw that coming.

Interesting how all this ties together, though. They're really starting to play up the mythological aspects of the show's background. When Ben referred to not-Locke as "waltzing in like Moses" and not-Locke gave him that knowing look... What if...? Oh god. Oh fuck. Oh wow.

I have all kinds of thoughts I'm going to be rambling on about in the morning. Jesus, fuck. FUCK. Excellent finale to a great season.

Oh yeah, and now we know how Chang lost his arm. cool~

Well maybe insane intelligence has something to do with it? Assuming Daniel was born on the island he was gifted with science, Charlotte was gifted with languages etc. Or maybe children are more susceptible to receiving special gifts from the island, which could explain why they wanted to steal all the children from the Losties.

I loved it!

I have a theory about the guy at the beginning with Jacob. Maybe they're both like opposing gods of something. Because if that statue is Taweret, the goddess of birth and all that jazz, who is represented by Jacob...then the smoke monster is like the god of death who could be the other guy. But for some reason they can't kill each other directly, so then "smokey" manipulated Locke into going off the island and dying so he could take his form. It seems that the smoke monster can take the image of anyone who has died on the island and isn't buried. Which is why the others are so insistent on burying their dead. Which would make sense that Christian is walking around - since his body went missing from the coffin.

Sooo...when "Locke" said "I had to go through a lot of trouble to get to this point" or something along those lines, he could mean that he used Christian to convince Locke that he was special and he needed get off the island to die, to in effect bring everyone back, but since he was dead he could take over Locke's body, so by his "resurrection" he could scare Ben to think Locke was special to the island to bring him back to life, to be judged by Smokey/Locke and scare him into following Locke's every command, to the killing of Jacob. Bit long winded and could be wrong...but that was definitely the loop hole of the guy from the beach with Jacob.

Which also gets me thinking if the smoke monster has to take forms of other people, since his original human self could be dead, then maybe now Jacob's human form is dead he will become some kind of smoke monster too but in the opposite sense.

But yes, this episode got him rethinking about everything that happened in the series. The way I see it, is that all the weird happenings are because of the war between Jacob and the smoke monster. If they kept Eko in the series, maybe they were thinking of making him like Locke but representing Jacob. Which would explain why Eko was so brutally killed by the smoke monster, because he saw his potential alliance with Jacob.

MY GOD THERE'S SO MUCH TO THINK ABOUT.

The presence of Jacob's enemy has me rethinking everything from the previous series! If everything up until now has been a step in a "war" between Jacob and the evil one then so many of the steps made by supernatural forces on the island reflect this.

So it's safe to say that the Cabin Jacob was in wasn't Jacob but Jacob's evil buddy, as they said that it had been used by someone else. Meaning Locke's spiritual connection with the island was with the baddy.

But yeah, that threw me off that ending. I too cannot pretend to have seen the ending with Locke actually dead coming. It's a shame that he's gone. But because Hugo can still see dead people in a benevolent, non-evil way maybe we'll see Locke's character again yet.

Also, it's interesting still to note that even if the smoke monster is Jacob's enemy, that he's still very much a mechanical force, which calls into question the nature of Jacob. I hope it's not all supernatural and that they try to link in some science, not because I want it to actually work in the real world I just think it'd be cool. Also, the writers have hinted there might be more than one smoke monster. HOW WILL THEY DO THIS IN ONE MORE SEASON?!

SO MANY UNANSWERED QUESTIONS! I really want to watch the previous seasons now. Might make a summer project of it.