SO MUCH SPOILERS. SO MUCH AWESOME.

[phamos]

So, Jeremy Bentham. I was waiting all season to run into Jeremy Bentham, and throughout this episode I think they were setting us up to think that Ben was Jeremy Bentham. Nope! There's good ol' Locke, dead as a doornail. So, apparently when he started chillin' with Batmanuel on the time-shifted island, he managed to find Ben's secret passport room? I'm assuming that's the "Locke's Dad in a Box" room, although he apparently shares it with Smokey. So I'm still waiting to find out about immortal pirates, four-toed feet, and all the crazy hieroglyphics that keep turning up in all of Ben's secret passages.

I am in denial that Jin is dead. Shut up. No. When it looked like we might lose Desmond AND Jin (AND Sawyer, potentially, for like a split second, but I pretty much knew he'd survive that jump), I was very, very worried. Sayid can only carry so much of the ridiculous hotness load. BUT OH MY GOD DESMOND AND PENNY. I am concerned this will mean a much reduced role for Henry Ian Cusick next season, which ticks me off because he only got to do stuff in like two episodes this season and the rest of the time he was just walking around looking all tousled and blue-shirty. Which is fine, but I'm still convinced he's that eye in Jacob's cabin. So I refuse to think his plotline is over. Because time loop old lady WHY DOES THE PRIEST KNOW THE OLD LADY JACOB'S CABIN. That's all on that.

Yay for Walt. Boo for no Abbadon. Yay for Batmanuel! Maybe he'll be a regular next season? Where are Rose and Bernard? I didn't see them with all those red shirts on the boat with Daniel. Are they hanging out with the redhead and the ghostbuster? Because they weren't on the beach with Juliet. I have to say, Juliet and Sawyer were looking awfully Adam-and-Eve-y when the island went bye-bye. WHAT DID HE WHISPER TO KATE?

Why was Hurley playing chess with imaginary Eko? What's the deal with Claire in Kate's dream -- is she still alive? (I have to watch again to hear who was on the phone in that dream, I missed that.) Why is spectral Christian just a total world traveler? Showing up in hospitals, on 'splodey freighters...That was a fabulous moment, though. What did he say? "You can go now, Michael"? Something like that? Awse.

Glad Lapidus made it out. I'm confident that Daniel is still alive somewhere, too, though I'm guessing all those red shirts will have conveniently kicked the bucket somehow. And where was Charlotte born? Does this have to do with her excitement about the polar bear? Is she a redheaded time-traveling Eskimo? Miles kinda irritates me, but if he works as a plot-momentum driver by blurting out psychic info that the rest of us aren't privy to, it might make him more worthwhile.

And OH MY GOD more Jack midlife crisis-mobile, with the Ray Bans and the Wrangler and the denim jacket and now the PIXIES. I LOVE Gen-X midlife crisis Jack.

I'm sure I forgot stuff, but I'll write more later.