Well, the big finale of Lost was last night. Needless to say, I had a mongo headache when it was all said and done. It was something, that’s for sure. I knew they were going to be evil on us, withhold stuff, ask more questions, after all, this *is* Lost. I swear, they need to change the name to More Questions than Answers.

In the interest of those with TIVO who had the audacity to watch American Idol last night instead of Lost, I will put the rest of my musings and rantings within spoiler tags. So if you haven’t seen it and you don’t want to see what happened, don’t click the link below. That should be apparent, but sometimes, people need to be told.

Thanks to lovely Larke I knew something was happening 11 minutes in. And, as I check my watch and saw Arzt toying with the dynomite, I knew he was toast. Hell, I knew he was toast last week. All the sudden some unknown becomes a major characters? I don’t think so. On a show that loves to kill off people, he’d be an easy one to kill. And HOW GLAD AM I that they did not kill Locke like I thought they were going to. I still don’t know how Terry O’Quinn will manage both shows, but I’m glad for all our sakes that he will. Unless he’s the big October death. Wouldn’t that just about figure?

So like I said, I’m VERY glad I got that one wrong.

Also, all you chumps that believed they’d ACTUALLY show us Lostzilla need to put on the dunce cap. Greatest respect to ya’ll but I wasn’t surprised in the LEAST when all we got a look at was some black smoke. K thinks the durned thing is invisible. Why was it trying to drag Locke underground? Maybe it has something to do with the hatch. K and I sorta think maybe its a system of tunnels. *shrug*

The whole thing with the raft people was WILD. Seriously wild. When they first saw the blip on the radar I thought, “Run away! Run away!” because I figured, you know, polar bear or something. But then it was a boat…with a motor and a light and it was, “Ohmygod, they’re gonna get *rescued*?” Not so fast, missy. No, then I started thinking, “Hey, that boat is kinda small, sorta ragged looking. Those guys don’t look all that clean cut either. How’d they get such a tiny boat so far out here?” Then they asked for Walt and it suddenly made SENSE.

These guys were the “Others” we’d been hearing so much about for so long. Claire’s baby, Aaron he turns out to be named, was just a red herring. Danielle said when she got to the beach last week that when she had her baby, she saw the smoke and that night they came for her child. Then she mentioned she’s been hearing voices, saying they’re going to take the boy. Everyone, me included, assumed they meant Claire’s baby. Nuh uh! It was WALT. Because the kid is some kind of a freaky deaky kid who can make things happen with his mind. Maybe they want to harness that power. I don’t know! So Danielle told Sayid and Charlie that when she got to the black smoke, the “Others” were gone. They’d already hopped in their boat to go fetch Walt. Because somehow, they knew he was on that raft.

And that’s where this whole cosmic/destiny/fate thing comes into hand. Hear me out: They’re building this raft and all, right? They decide they need to leave pretty soon after Arzt shares his knowledge of the tradewinds with them. HOWEVER, the day the black smoke starts up they say, “fuck it, we’re leaving TODAY.” Because like I said last week, I would too. Get me the hell of that island and away from the freaky smoke and these mysterious “Others.” But the others put up the smoke because they knew they were leaving on that raft that very day and planned to get Walt that night, regardless. See, its circular. This was supposed to happen.

Still, how much did that suck for Michael to have to watch his son get taken away and no be able to do a damned thing about it? And his boat went kablooie so he couldn’t follow. How the hell are they going to get back to the island? And is Sawyer okay, because it sorta looked like he got shot there.

I have to point out here, that I was totally right about crazy French chick taking the baby because she wanted her own kid back. But I’m not one to gloat.

I was also way right about the freaking hatch, though I will admit we got a better look than I expected we would. Still, we know exactly dick about it, so I guess its the same thing. Deep ass tunnel with broken stairs… check. And that is what we faded out on so I knew that too. Oh what a wicked summer we are in for. Those bastards.

Let’s have a moment of silence for dear Arzt (how much did I love the piece of Arzt on Jack’s shoulder?).

And that concludes my rantings on Lost. Not really disappointed, but I felt like I was jerked around for two hours, for sure. Did I expect any different? Not really. The flashbacks of everyone just before they got on the plane were cool…showing how they all almost didn’t make it, especially Hurley. I think we’re in for some deep doo doo next season. I, for one, will be commanding a front seat ticket and a bowl of popcorn. Sign me up!