Y'know, not to oversell it or anything.

Evangeline Lilly as Kate Austen

Matthew Fox as Dr. Jack Shephard

Jorge Garcia as Hugo 'Hurley' Reyes

Yunjin Kim as Sun-Hwa Kwon

with A. Baybee as Aaron Littleton

The Locke Squad at the Otherton barracks consisted of Locke, Benjamin, Hugo, Sawyer, Claire, Aaron, five redshirts and their hostage, Miles. Sawyer, Claire, Miles and Aaron abandoned him and she may be dead because of it. Three of his redshirt extras died on screen, the other two are either dead or abandoned. Now he's down to Benjamin and Hugo, and Hurley only stayed with him because he was "asked to" at gunpoint.

As the man himself said, "Sounds like a piss-poor captain if you ask me."

Probably the strangest scheduling of a finale I can remember. And thank the almighty Darlton for it. Does anyone know if ABC is really being so benevolent and that the 2 hr finale on the 29th does nothing for them with sweeps? If so, color me impressed. I thought all networks were always about bottom line (explaining the cancellation of very popular, critically acclaimed shows -cough- A.D.-cough-

Just curious.

All of you who are so good about staying away from spoilers... PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD>>>BE CAREFUL...As I posted in Room 23-from Dark UFO :

Just to let you know that I've just been contacted by LostFan108 again and he has provided me with the main synopsis points for Episode 4.12 Parts 1, 2 and 3.

Tomorrow we will be posting a high level synopsis for 4.12 Part 1 and then sometime before 19th May we will post the key highlights from Parts 2 and 3. This will include all the main cliffhangers and talking points, including who the kiss is between, who is in the coffin (It shocked me) and what the Frozen Donkey Wheel is, along with any deaths.

I'm making this post to warn as many of you who don't like the big spoilers to stay clear of this section of the site as well as any other unmoderated message boards as there will certainly be idiots who will post it wildly around the net.

The posts will be done in such a way as to make it difficult for people to copy and paste the text and we will have lots of "Are you Sure" messages.

If you can pass this onto other web sites and message board owners warning them to watch out for potential trolls spreading the spoilers.

I will post any news item on Room 23...but I will have InvisoText and plenty of warning (as well as ample credit to Dark UFO and their source) - so no fear of the Room.

Cheech Marin has been in Episodes before. In fact he was prominent in a Hurley-centric Episode...dad comes back after Hurley wins the lottery storyline. The Camero bit. Anyway...

7 Years. True. But since BSG is done after they show the 2nd half of this split season and LOST is done in 2 more years (34 Eps)...in 2 years we will have the finale to both shows. So I suppose you are right - in 7 years we will STILL have them. Not sure why you'd pick that number, though.

4am Need more sleep.

But if aliens play the big reveal in Lost, Darlton will never work again. And his fan club (most of us) will lose much faith in him. I could understand unexplained phenomena and advanced culture maybe from another world...but if everything gets explained away as being due to aliens and alien tech - I will puke.

BE CAREFUL

YOu know who likes to post here and do the drive-by. Dark UFO is about to reveal every big secret set to be given us this season. He's gonna try it - he'll hit and run post it here...if you see his name, you know what to do.

I am not kidding at all.

Hey Napoleon Park, how are you?

I am not kidding at all.

Hey Napoleon Park, how are you?

I am not kidding at all.

Hey Napoleon Park, how are you?

And, uh, Hi. I'm getting on. Overfed, antisocial, still working on my acne scars, dying as fast as I can, but I had a pretty good day today. Had some great sandwiches (broiled pepperoni and mozzeralla on onion buns), posted to both Lost talkbacks and all four of my Yahoo groups, Denny Crane ran for president. And there's a new Lost later on tonight. So better than most days, I'd say. Thanx for asking.

So what's up with you?

I'm so temptet to click three times real fast just to see what happens. Nope, ain't gonna do it... Wouldn't be right.

Hey, a twofer - Monty Python AND SNL quotes in the same post. Lord, I am a geek. If I could think of an appropriate Simpsons line I'd go for the trifecta. Help me, Jeebus.

It gives me goosebumps everytime that jack says, "Dammit, Kate! RUN!""

I highly doubt they will add aliens into the mix.... Just about 19 hours and 15 minutes left till us west coasters get to watch LOST

And there's nothing wrong with dumbf*ckery - mute people enjoy coitus too.

and there are probably some people who just read spoilers instead of watching television, just to save time. Like speed-reading for fun.

I hope they don't end it on a cliffhanger where he presses the button on it and then we have to wait 7 months to see what it does...

How great would it be if somehow Keamy survives. We see a flashforward of him working with Widmore as his hired gun. Then we could have a Sayid vs Keamy flash forward.

Also, anyone else think that if Ben wouldn't have sent Alex, karl and Danielle to the temple, everyone would still be safe inside the barracks? Keamy used Alex to open the sonic fence. If she wouldn't have left the compound how would they have gotten in?

Also, I like the idea that the iPod on Keamy's arm is a device to repell Smokey, BUT, when he was on the freighter and the captain and Keamy were at a standoff, Keamy showed the captain the device and the captain acted as if he couldn't shoot keamy because he was wearing the device. This makes me think it is linked to his heart and if he dies alot more people will die (ie. go boom!)

Anyone thinking Sawyer made it off the island with out some people knowing it? Who else would be "expecting Kate" as she said in the finale last year? Aaron is like 3 years old all he is expecting is a bottle and some shit in his diaper.

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Must....not....look....at.. ..spoilers....ARgggg!!!!

I checked the blog and my "Did "The Other Woman" give us a big clue to what the 4-toed statue is?" post was 1 month and 1 day ago (14Apr).

Being crazy doesn't necessarily make you...well...nuts.

Now I know the ideas are different, although I do seem to remember him saying some stuff related to the gods, too. But you gotta admit, that's pretty good.

;->

Beta - what does that smell like, gunpoweder and fish?

So just because jack thinks Sawyer is still on the island, doesn't mean he is. He could have made it off a different way (Orchid?) without the O6 knowing it.

So when Kate said she was doing something for Sawyer, maybe that "something" was giving him a 'handy' or playing hide the salami?

Alright. I doubt that it is true but I still don't by that Aarron is who Kate is worried about getting back to.

I like the theory posted above that Abaddon could be future-Walt, only for making sense in that one scene by the elevator. Yet.. why would future-Walt work with Widmore and the Freighties?

Hey edshrinker, are you from South Carolina, or just visiting? I lived there when I was in high school... always preferred Hilton Head though.

Myrtle is about 2 1/2 hrs from here.

Lost is about character isn't it? So we need some character in these people! Faraday has gotten the most (through Des) but still not enough. The others need more backstory.

Also, now that we know Keamy and his men are the real threat, not the initial four, I'm wondering what their purpose was to begin with? They flew in not knowing anything, then Keamy comes in anyway to blow everyone the hell up. I mean I like the new four, but I need to learn more about them!

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Although the only Canadian city I have ever been in was on the west coast. But still, Vancouver is a great town.

you really are a piece of shit dude. all the work that was done to keep spoilers away from folks...you are a pathetic cocksucker. I hope most have logged off until after this ep.

but Nadia is fraking gorgeous

and Michelle Forbes needs to get a rat to chew that thing off her face.

So far - so good. Great ep.

"Juliet, your cooch is on fire"

and she'd just stand there smirking

That really did make me laugh out loud.

Bub

Bye

sanity

2nd LOL moment

Never realized what a cougar Jack's mom is!

Xiphos just sprung a woody

The audio is fucking up right now. I'm getting very upset

I'll put the link up when it is done

Tough crowd

I thought it was great...perfect set-up to the 2 hour finale. Entertaining. Answers given, more to come. And we know what Keamy's device does now (big boom)

Could NOT have said ir better Ash0ko..where have you been, man?

The next two weeks will be hellishly slow.

Also, how much in Mr. Piak's company worth that Sun could just buy it? What kind of settlement are we talking here?

So Sun stood to gain the most of any of the six from an Oceanic settlement. I'd imagine Jack got a pretty good bonus for them losing his father's body, too.

If any of you are in need of the just aired episode of Lost, or simply want a copy to watch. And watch. And watch once more during the 2 weeks off, here it is my friends:

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Great Episode and wonderful set-up to the 2-hour finale. More reveals than I expected.

Enjoy!

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Ilk has allowed to upload to his site as well. What a great guy.

Gepta, Ilk, you hear me you turkeyknobs??? And I want your 10 page paper on Farscape Ep 2 I, ET in my email by 9am. You know who I am talking to. Fishy turned hers in already and Gepta already gradge -a-ma-tatered....so who does that leave, HUMAN!

Sawyer jumpin from the kopter doesn't mean he is toast. Too popular a character. Won't happen.

Looooove too see a swan dive face first by a few characters, but Sawyer is no longer one of them. He has grown on me. You are right though, I think they gave the kiss away on those DAMNED Previews. MUST run out of room next...

Oh hell. Next time, is 7 months from now. Is THAT not a kick in the front, huge Keamy-like chompers!

No more previews. Until our 2nd to last season. ANOTHER kick to the chicklets!

At this rate I will no longer be TOUGH AND RUTHLESS

but....

Rough and Toothless.

sigh

Seriously, GN, it's non-linear storytelling. Yeah, we know the O-6 get off, but the fun has been in finding out how.

And as Darlton predicted, as of 1/3rd of the way into the season finale, with Hurley at The orchid, sun and Aaron sitting on a boatload of bomb, Jack oozing drainage from his wound and, with Kate, heading to face an army and Sayid... I gotta to watch that again to remember exactly where Sayid is... But at the moment they're all over the place, so it's still anybody's guess how they all wind up getting off the island together. Does knowing they live let us worry about them less? Sure. But they're still an awful lot of characters we MIGHT see die in the next two hours - Locke Jin Sawyer Omar Richard Juliet Charlotte Rose Bernard Keamy Lapidus Desmond Michael - and a variety of ways we could see them go - raging gun battles, Danielle booby-traps, exploding freighter, crashing helicopter - so the fact that we don't have to worry if Jack, Kate, the bay-bee, the pregnant momma, Sayid, Benjamin or lovable old Hurley survive doesn't make the next couple of hours any less tense. At least, not for me.

I LOVE that they opened this episode with the O-6 press conference. And yes...it gives away WHO made it back, which...at first would seem anticlimatic...but ALL the characters are just as much in jeopardy OFF the island as they were ON it...as we saw in Sayid's "Economist" flash forward. Hurley is still haunted by the numbers....Jack is suicidal...Sun is pwning her Dad (which will not go well)...Kate is...well...not affected, as yet...but I have a feeling Malkin's warning about Aaron's upbringing will come into play soon.

So...knowing WHOM gets off BEFORE they actually GET off the island only makes the HOW they got off that much more of a puzzle. How does Hugo make it on that chopper? Where does the chopper head to? Why doesn't Jin make it? It's still a fuckin' puzzle.

Why didn't Locke reckognize/acknowlege Alpert on the island?

Why was Claire so content to be in Jacob's cabin, chillin with Dad...so far from her bay-bee?

Why was Dwight having sex with Angela after she just accepted a marriage proposal?

Oh, wait...wrong show!

If Ben moves the island...does the Hydra island follow?

When is Vincent going to save the goddamn day?!!

This is gonna be the longest two weeks of my LIFE! Sorry I've been away, Room 23ers. Was shooting up at Myrtle Beach bike week the past 7 days. Just caught up on my LOST viewing tonight. Anybody got the link to last week's talkback...love to catch up on everyone's thoughts.

GO TEAM VINCENT!

Sorry, couldn't resist.

Here ya go, Cheif:

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Does anyone know if Harper Stanhope was with Alperts group? Or Adam and Amelia from Juliet's book club?

And, um, my point - actually Brody's point, he raised the question - is, if Locke in the orchid with Magick manages to move The Island, does The Other Island tag along for the ride or get left behind?

MediaNerd...Yeah...I suppose Locke only being 7 or 8 when Alpert paid his 1st visit might make remembering him a bit tough...but that was a pretty strange encounter!

Then there's this encounter...from S3 "The Brig":

RICHARD: It's beautiful isn't it. No matter how much time you spend on the Island you just never get tired of this view. We haven't been formally introduced, I'm Richard.

[They shake hands]

RICHARD: You mind if I, join you here.

LOCKE: Nah sure.

RICHARD: He wanted to embarrass you.

LOCKE: I'm sorry?

RICHARD: Ben knew you weren't gonna kill your own father. He put you in front of everyone in our camp just so they could all watch ya fail.

LOCKE: Why?

RICHARD: Cause when word got back here that there was a man with a broken spine on the plane who could suddenly walk again, well, people here began to get very excited because that, that could only happen to someone who was extremely special. But Ben doesn't want anyone to think you're special, John.

LOCKE: And why are you telling me this?

RICHARD: Ben has been wasting our time with novelties like fertility problems. We're looking for someone to remind us that we're here for more important reasons.

LOCKE: What do you want from me?

RICHARD: I want for you to find your purpose. And to do that, your father has to go, John. And since you're not gonna do it, I'm gonna suggest someone else.

[He hands Locke a red folder. Locke looks at it briefly as Richard walks away]

LOCKE: Sawyer! Why would Sawyer kill my father, he doesn't even know him.

RICHARD: [As he leaves] Keep reading.

So...Locke gets his name...as he did when he was an awkward teen from his science teacher...Richard's weird insistence that Locke's "special"...and Alpert's appearance is nearly unchanged...I dunno...Seems like John might of said..."Have we ever met before?" at the very least...

As for the island(s) moving...Do they physically "move"...like a boat?...or relocate some other way? That remains to be seen.

I suppose all that C-4 is to ensure that ship is in very tiny pieces at the bottom of the ocean...as to not ever be traced back to Widmore.

With enough money & determination...you can make anything disappear.

I definitely wouldn't remember ANYONE I'd just met once from that age, no matter how odd the person was.

Keamy getting no reaction from Ben. Classic ! Ben takes one in a firefight remember and either the whole translating through space thing works on both the Island AND Ben or there is yet another seret escape device in Orchid, presumably in deep freeze hence Bens Parka, which he uses to flee the Island. (Leaving Locke as head honcho to learn the ways of the Island) Sawyer is too popular to die and they need to keep at least SOME original Losties on the Island for next season.

There also seemed to be a natural joining of the flashforward with the flashback with that Islandfolk helping the 6 off the boat photo shown in the Oceanic Presentation.

Speaking of flashbackforwards what will next weeks be ? they could throw us in a loop by having something we think is a flashforward but this time we return to the flashbacks. It could be Island action all the way with no flash or perhaps the beginning of the 6 getting together in the furthest flashforward we have yet seen after Jacks last season one, then every one of the 6 vows to get back to the Island. (though Sayid surely has a headstart with Ben if he wants back)

Anyway solid,solid stuff and I'm enjoying it thoroughly as an episodic story with engrossing characters never mind all the BIG secrets yet to be touched on.