So, after years of building up Whitmore as the big bad guy, they dismiss it with a wave of Jacob's off-screen hand. Great.

I love how Jack tells Sawyer what Sayid said, then later asks Sawyer what Sayid said. It was bad enough when they were contradicting earlier episodes; now it's in the same episode!

I know this show has taken retconning to a new level, but I'm not sure that Widmore was ever clearly being set up as the bad guy. There was always a lot of moral ambiguity in his rivalry with Ben.

But yeah, I don't understand why Ben was suddenly able to kill Widmore, unless as someone has suggested, none of the supposed rules imposed by Jacob or his mother are actually physically binding. And we've seen these rules being broken at least as far back as Keamy shooting Alex, but perhaps Ben was unable to kill Widmore in his Condo because Ben still believed that the rules held some kind of power. He probably believed this up until the point he killed Jacob.

Are we sure Widmore is dead? If the Island isn't "done with him" he may rejuvenate? Maybe it's too late for that...

I think he's definitely dead. Only one that's questionable is Richard, but I think he's probably dead, too.

i enjoyed seeing ana lucia. "tubby"

some of those fan letters were real embarrassing.

That smoke monster/fire alarm commercial was worse.

still in wtf mode... enjoyed the ride (mostly), not sure in the destination.

Not to spoil, but I got turned on about the hole must be filled by a hard rock to produce the magical spew whatever... eesh.

I'm glad I recorded it cuz I'm gonna have to re-watch it.

i don't even understand what happened at the end.

Still trying to decide what I think about it on the whole. A lot of mixed feelings for sure and how they "resolved" things. But I'd be lying if I said I didn't really, really enjoy those 2.5 hours.

So there was no why about the island or its existence.

Someone put the following in Garspeak, please:

Oh Jack and his friends are in Heaven.

I didn't really think we'd get this anyway.

My primary disappointments (spoilers, naturally):

1. The whole parallel world = afterlife thing
2. The return to simple Good vs. Evil, pretty much disregarding all the moral ambiguity introduced in the Jacob/MIB origin ep.
3. The way Jack was able to kill Smokey/Locke
4. Sawyer's general uselessness/lack of any real heroic/redeeming moments
5. Moving a big rock in a cave/Desmond's use as a "weapon"
6. The generally anti-climactic effect that #1 had on the events on the island. As Desmond said, they didn't really matter.

Do you mean that he was able to kill him at all or were you disappointed in the way in which it was done? He was able to kill him because Desmond removed the rock from the hole and that made them both mortal I think. Certainly the fight scene on the rock that ultimately did Locke/Smoke Monster in was quite lame.

Overall, I'm still processing like it seems most are. I definitely feel unfulfilled which I knew I would but I think I'm even more disappointed than I thought I'd be.

Lame ending. I'm not awake enough to be coherent and articulate my thoughts clearly yet.

I was disappointed in how it was done. I got that he was rendered mortal by Desmond removing the stone, but I guess I just thought that was kind of lame. It ended up meaning that the smoke monster wasn't some ancient primal force that had fused with the MIB but was rather something that he was transformed into. And that was OK, I guess, but it didn't seem to serve any purpose. The island created something that wanted to destroy it? It made more sense to me that Smokey actually was a defense mechanism, but fused with the MIB, it became subverted to his desire for revenge/escape. And yeah, the knife fight on the cliff was just kind of lame and unsatisfying.

Oddly enough, though, I don't really feel disappointed. If anything, this season had lessened my expectations, but I still think this was some pretty entertaining TV as far as that goes. Not everything can be Mad Men or The Wire or whatever, and as a huge fantasy/mystery/adventure thing, this was unparalleled.

My roommate and I got into a very brief, commercial-break conversation about how the creators of the show are racists. None of the major black characters from the past 6 years were brought back for the finale.

Rose was there.

Um, Rose?

No. Just no.

It's apparent there must have been an original plan for the series that only lasted 3 or 4 seasons. When the show became a hit they decided two things: 1) K-CHING! There's money to be made if we extend this thing as long as possible, and 2) the general viewership are such a throng of suckers they'll eat whatever we give them.

This last episode sold out the entire premise of the show. It essentially told us that nothing mattered... that Jacob, MIB, Walt, the Others, the Dharma Initiative, the polar bear, EVERYTHING meant exactly as much as the episodes this season in the temple. Did you notice that Flocke suddenly had a game-changing new quest? Destroy the island? Where the hell did that come from? That means Lindelof and Cuse didn't even have a clue where they were going until, at best, the penultimate episode. And that ending. Goddammit, that's the equivalent of "And then he woke up and it was all a dream". That was the lamest thing they could have done, and they did it.

The only mystery left is why they felt they needed to end this at all. It was still high in the ratings. Surely there was more money to suck out of it. Why not keep piling on more magic, nonsensical bullshit for an indefinite number of seasons? It's not like they could RUIN it, right?

I guess we'll never know how electromagnetic fields inhibit cancer while promoting neural regeneration.