Anyone know if there is a new episode this week or do we have to wait?

Gotta wait till next week for the 2hr finale to wrap up a 12 episode season.

Actually, 13 episodes all together, 14 if you count each hour.

Regardless, still too few episodes for the season.

But even with no strike, we were only gaining 2-3 more episodes (16 was the count before the strike). And really, after the awesome season we've just seen (plus the 2 hour finale), I'm fine with the season being shortened. The fewer hours gave us more of the good stuff and less of the bad. There was no Paulo and Nikki episode, no Hurley fixes a van episode and no Jack's tattoo episode. There is no episode this season that seems like filler. Everything was important. If this is what Lost will be like for the final 34(?) episodes, I'm all for it.

Well that sucks, but is good for me also cause I'm in the middle of a move and I don't want to miss it.

So supposedly we're going to find out who is in the casket in the finale- my guess is it's either Locke, Michael or one of the main Losties, heck I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out to be Claire. But still, the funeral home being in the "ghetto" seems a clear indicator that the dead person is not of the Caucasian persuasion.

All in all, I think this has been the best season yet. And I agree with Starkiller, we haven't had the filler that plagued the third season. Although I liked the Hurley fixes a van episode, there was a lot that didn't need to be there. I know the producers have said that because they do have an end date we wont get any of that junk for the next two seasons, but then again this is Hollywood so anything, good or bad, is possible.

Jack's tatoos are going to end up meaning something important when it's all said and done. Having said that, the episode could have been executed better. Someone needs to tell that Bai Ling chick that she really can't speak English.

3 hour season finale 5/29

8:00 - 9:00 re-air of There's No Place Like Home Part 1 (with bonus Oceanic press conference footage)
9:00 - 10:00 There's No Place Like Home Part 2
10:00 - 11:00 There's No Place Like Home Part 3

Who's in the casket? We will find out, but will it answer any questions? Probably not.

Now that I think about it, maybe the person in the casket is Richard Alpert. Seeing how he hasn't aged, I think it would be a real twist to know that he was the person in the casket. It would make sense to that he doesn't have any family of friends so that is why no one showed up to the funeral. Food for thought anyways.

I'm thinking Michael since we know Linus and Widmore are still alive. If Jack was the one commenting on why he wouldn't be attending the funeral, I would've thought it may be Locke considering the strain that exists between the two of them. But since it was Kate replying to Jack, I have to figure it's Michael. Even though they're clearly not what I would call friends, I can see Kate attending the services for Juliet.

I think that once the island is safe, Michael will have done his job so to speak. After that, I can see him dying because the island will no longer feel the need to protect him. What was great was Keamy trying to shoot Michael. The gun doesn't fire and he thought there was something wrong with it.

Well, tonight is the night. I might be more excited for this finale than Indiana Jones last week and that's saying a lot. Then again, I'm already sad that we have 8 months before Season 5 kicks off. Some questions that we should get answers to tonight:

Who was in the coffin at the end of last season's Jumpin Jack Flashforward?

How will Locke move the island?

We know Sayid gets off the freighter. But will Michael and Desmond die when the bomb goes off?

Will Keamy rock out to some XM satellite radio on his arm?

Does Keamy get whats coming to him? And does Ben exact the revenge himself?

Is Jin actually dead? Or is it a hoax to keep up the O6 story?

Can't Wait!!!!

This is going to be a great night. It's going to be interesting to see exactly what happens with all those questions. I think I'm most looking forward to finding out who is in the casket, but hope that isn't the biggest reveal for the finale.

Wow, all I can say is wow. What a great episode. In traditional LOST style, we got some answers and a helluva lot more questions.

Does any show create better finales than this show? Here are my main questions for next season:

WTF about Locke? Something tells me the majority of next season will be spent in that 3 years between leaving the island and the coffin reveal. We have to know why Locke would get off the island and why he would tell Jack that "very bad things" were his fault.

Is Jin dead? Obviously the island was done with Michael (and Christian relayed the message) but what about Jin? There would be few places for him to go since the freighter is gone as well as the island. If he lives, my guess is the raft that Daniel Faraday was using to get people to the freighter would be his best chance.

Speaking of Faraday, is the raft still out in the middle of the Pacific? Or did the raft move with the island (not just the island, but the water surrounding it).

What about the other survivors? Juliet, Sawyer, etc? And the Others? What "very bad things" will be happening to them?

Finally, what about Ben? What ideas does he have about getting them all back to the island? And what happens to the person in the coffin when they get back?

Overall, not as unbelievably awesome as Season 3s finale, but still one of the best finales of all time.

One theory about Locke is that he is actually Jacob. http://lostpedia.com/images/7/78/Jacob_Locke_Comparison.jpg

My one friend things Jin is definitely dead. My other friend and I think Jin is still alive and will play an integral part in getting Sun to go back to the island.

I'd have to watch the finale again, but I believe Faraday didn't go with the island. A good question is, did the remains of the freighter go with the island?

Juliet and Sawyer? Besides fucking, they are probably starving. With the island now moved, the time displaced food drops are probably no longer happening.

In 1996, the first mate's recovered journal was sold at a Southfield's auction by Tovard Hanso, in lot #2342, for £380,000 to bidder #755, Charles Widmore. ("The Constant"). I think Ben believes that the answers to get back on the island are in that journal.

I think that once they bring Locke to the island, the same thing will happen to him that happen to Christian Shepard, whatever that may be.

I want to believe that Jin is still alive, but don't know for sure. I agree with the theory about bringing Locke back to the island and him "coming back to life" or something like that. What's the deal with Michael seeing Christian right before the big boom. Does that mean that Christian really is alive and can travel back and forth between the living and the dead, cause Locke, Claire and Jack have all seen him after crashing on the island.

My favorite Christian Shepard moment can be found at http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/missingpieces/index?pn=index and it's called "So It Begins".

I don't know what he is, but according to the one official LOST audio podcast, he's referred to as the writers as being "undead".

That's interesting seeing as how they have also said that they wouldn't bring anyone back from the dead. But I guess technically when the show started he was already dead so they didn't go back on their word. Also, with Juliet drinking on the beach, it's almost like she knew that either she knew she wasn't leaving or couldn't leave.

Another question, now that it seems like we have jumped forward in time 3 years, will we only see flashbacks, like with what happened on the island while the 6 were gone, or will there be flash-forwards where we, the audience, are watching what's happening on the island get the teasers of the future? Either way can't wait for this season on DVD and the next season, 8 friggin months from now.

Well, it looks like when Ben turned the frozen donkey wheel he was transported to Tunisia (we saw the scene in "The Shape of Things To Come"). The interesting thing is that in the timeline, Ben turned the wheel somewhere around the first of 2005 and didn't end up in Tunisia until October 25, 2005. If this is true, the transport not only moved him to another place, it moved him ahead 10 months.