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What bodies in what cave?  What show were those clips from?  I was like, "Whoah, they found bodies in a cave?!?!?"  Maybe it's a flashforward to something we'll see later.  Maybe that happens when the doctor-guy and the bra-girl from the alternate-timeline go to the island with the wheelchair-dude.

Yeah, I thought that was a little unneccessary.

Here's my complaint:

This show has a pattern of peeling back a layer just to show you that what you want to know is one step further down.

i.e:
1. The other's! They must know what is going on!
2. No, they just live in old DHARMA buildings, they are the ones who knew what was going on!
3. Actually, DHARMA didn't know anything, it was the others all along!
4. Well, not the others, exactly... but Ben Linus, Richard Alpert, and Charles Widmore sure have it figured out!
5. Wait, no... Richard only know what time traveling Locke tells him. He actually really doesn't know anything.
            5.a. And Ben and Widmore are equally clueless.
6. Doesn't somebody know something?
7. Oh, Jacob... Yeah, he's the big boss. He'll know what's going on.
8. Or maybe that MIB.
9. No wait! It's the woman who raised Jacob. Jacob himself is totally clueless!
10.  The woman?  No, she was just selected to do this job sometime ago by someone else.

So, my friend is pretty adamant that the MIB 'unleashed' the Smoke Monster and that smokey then took the form of MIB (similar to how he has now taken the form of Locke).  I took it the other way, that he went into the Magic Yellow Light, and Mr. Manhattan style was transfigured into the smoke monster.  And that he was separated from his physical body.

Then Jacob took the body to the cave.  Some flashbacks played so that Jacob remembered that he had to lay the bodies in a particular way... Why did he do that?  So it would match season 1, of course!  He almost forgot to make them hold hands... but then another clip played reminding him how to place them just so...

A few people at my Lost/Lunch group at work are convinced that this proves the show writers knew what they were doing with the "Adam & Eve" skeletons since season 1.  In my mind, it proves they never had any idea and they picked something that 60% fits.

I predict droves and droves of season sets of Lost selling dirt cheap on amazon over the next several months...

Yes, but Smocke also said: Don't tell me what I can't do!!!  So, it seems that Smokey does absorb some of the character traits of his "host" over time, so it sort of makes sMIBokey the same regardless of whether you think it's really the MIB or not.

But after this episode, we don't know as much about the smoke monster as we thought we did.

ALSO this: sMIBokey wants off the island the same way MIB wanted off the island.  So, does smokey itself want off?  Does Smocke really want off, or is it just residual memories of MIB?  MIB was presented as a slighty evil but mostly sympathetic character... but I can't say it makes me think that Smocke is anything but evil.  Unless Locke, who was good, starts to exert more control over Smocke and contains the beast long enough to instert him back into the sparkly glowy cave.

Not frustrated; more like irritated that they used a cheap device to create intrigue. Lampshaded in Chasing Amy when Jay says something to the effect that "Oh, you think just because fatass here hasn't said anything in ten years, whatever he says now is going to be all profound and shit!?" Similarly, MIB is not more mysterious for not having a name. He's just an evil no-name guy.

In my humble opinion, Lost has officially jumped the shark.   They have 3.5 hours left to make it right.

I had a dream I saw the last episode, and it made 0 sense. Something about everything being a plot by Disney villains. Not sure how to interpret that.

So Gaston, Skar, and Cruella Deville are all behind it?  Actually, that makes more sense than what it probably will be.

So, new episode tomorrow and then a TWO AND A HALF HOUR finale on Sunday? That's crazy, my friends.

Is that so?  Just two more episodes (one of them super-long)?

Yep. This time next week it will all be over folks.

Three alternate endings on Sunday's Jimmy Kimmel Live.

Alt 2004 could, in one sense, be Alt-alt-alt-alt 2004.

Seems that way to me too. Jacob flat out appearing to the candidates and telling them whats up seems to be the be all, end all for answers.

its not over yet. and i doubt anyone will be happy. ;-)

Well the good thing is that SKY1HD is airing the finale simultaneously with the US broadcast so i don't have to worry about someone on the net spoiling it for me :) Bad thing is that its at 5am :( oh well, another sleepless night won't hurt

But i think it will just leave a lot of questions unanswered

That's awful nice of them. Nice to know that not only will I be watching it with people in my time zone, but around the world!