Is Walt coming back for season 6? Thats simply GOT TO happen.

Season 1 - 22 episodes, 25 hours

Season 2 - 23 episodes, 24 hours

Season 3 - 22 episodes, 23 hours

Season 4 - 12 episodes, 14 hours

Season 5 - 16 episodes, 17 hours

Season 6 - 16 episodes, 18 hours

TOTAL: 111 episodes, 121 hours

Firstly, other than some vague black vs white (the Othello game with Locke and Walt in S1), good vs evil, yin vs yang thread being woven throughout the series, the whole "who REALLY runs the Island" thing has ALWAYS hinted at only one person they all report to: Jacob. No tales of ancient grudge matches, no "there is an Anti-Jacob", no "the darkness is coming" teasing - nothing. There was ZERO FORESHADOWING of the existence of an equal to Jacob that was playing a game (which in itself was disappointing - kind of on the same level as Liz Hurley playing chess with the black angelic dude at the end of BEDAZZLED) which would result in one of them causing the other's death indirectly because of some stupid rule (how very fucking HIGHLANDER) and the victor going on to rule the Island as some kind of Prize (is Greg Widen on the writing team? Just wonderin'). None of this has been foretold. None of it foreshadowed. None of it hinted at in any way.

That's why the whole Jacob vs Esau bit felt less good than anything else in that finale - because, for the first time ever (apart from the Eko death, which anyone following the behind-the-scenes drama on the show would have known the reasons for) a plot point just felt tacked on and pushed in where it wasn't in any way foreshadowed - in a show where EVERYTHING IS FORESHADOWED!

Yeah, I wasn't impressed with Jacob vs Esau AT ALL.

Oh, and they should keep Brian K Vaughan the hell away from any endings that need to be written. His denouement for what caused the plague in Y: THE LAST MAN was all kinds of lame, suffered from "can't make an answer that wil equal the anticipation" syndrome, and ended up a trite and muddled reason that was massively unsatisfying. And having the characters be all clever-clever and so very meta in discussing how unsatisfying this reason was a couple of issues later wasn't cute and post-modern and clever, it was pretentious, navel-gazery and totally pointless, as it only served to have even the main character of the comic remarking how shit the reason actually was. Not clever - just dumb.

Other than that, Y: THE LAST MAN was pretty damn near perfect. Looking forward to more mid-season BKVaughnery...

You knew all that? You are smart.

DRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIII INNNAAAAAAAAGGGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEE!!!

I'm finished.

Of course, this is just a guess.

I miss that kind of storytelling from Seasons 1-3. I certainly wouldn't mind having a full, 24 episode season for the final one.

Why did Sun stay in 2007? Why did the wheel get stuck when Ben pushed it? Who is this upcoming 'war' between? Why is Richard the only one who doesn't age? Why haven't they killed off Kate yet? Whats up with Walt? Who was shooting at Saywer et al on the outriggers? Why do all the flashback characters overlap? Why does Lost insist on killing almost all of their female characters EXCEPT for Kate? Why is "We're not going to Guame, are we?" the best line (and delivery) ever on Lost? What is the Temple? I could go on for over 18 hours...

Yes we do. Read the synopsis for the finale on ABC.com.

"We don't know if the smoke monster made them sick."

Smokey drags them underground and when they come back they are acting not like themselves, which Rousseau interpreted as a sickness. What do you think happened?

"It didn't matter Sayid shot Ben, he's still evil."

Oh really? Because Ben was a pretty damn nice kid before Alpert took him inside the temple to save his life, which Alpert said would change him irrevocably.

"It was assumed Widemore and Hawking were connected to the island."

Yes, but we didn't know they were ON the island, and I certainly didn't suspect Widmore was an Other based on his conflict with Ben.

"We always assumed Dharma existed off island."

We knew based on a NON-CANON ARG that Dharma may have been based in Ann Arbor, but the show had yet to tell us, and we certainly didn't know htaches existed off the island.

"We don't know what Jacob is still."

I didn't say we did but we know whatever was in the shack wasn't him, and I'm sure Jacob's ultimate nature is something that will be addressed in the final season.

"We don't know what Locke Two and Dead Locke are."

Well I'm pretty sure dead Locke is dead Locke. And Locke Dos is obviously whatever entity was talking to Jacob at the beginning, which is more than likely Smokey or related to Smokey.

"We still don't know what the magnetic property is at the Swann, or why they enter numbers."

Also never said we did. I was just adressing your claim that last season didn't tell us anything we didn't already know. but again I suspect the nature of the numbers and possibly the magnetic anomaly, and whether it's related to Jughead, is something that will be addressed in the final season.

"We know Jack's Dad also encountered most of the people that were on the flight, as a matter of fact, Locke's dad did too, so why not someone else."

Christian ran into the others off the island by happenstance, not becasue of some kind of divinity, which obviously Jacob does. He sought them out intentionally.

"A war has been hinted at ever since season one with Locke and the dark and light eyes."

Sure, but we didn't know there was a third group involved, and off the island.

"We still don't know why the Oceanic Six came back to the island."

We don't? Jack came back to save the others and becasue he thought it was his destiny. Kate came back to find Claire. Sun came back to find Jin. Sayid was forced to by Jacob's followers. And Hurley was asked to return by Jacob after he convinced hi mhe wasn't cursed. The guitar case I'm sure will be explained next season. Aaron is a child so he didn't.

"We don't know why the plane landed in the current time and why some folks disspeared."

Does it matter? They flew through a random time anomaly and they weren't able to recreate the first crash per Hawking's specs so they ended up in places they weren't supposed to be necessarily.

"5 years and we STILL don't know what the Smoke Monster is."

Why would they reveal something that big before the final season. We learn something new about it everytime it appears. We know it's probably related to Esau, that it seemingly judges people, that it scans their minds, that it is related to the Egyptian mythology of the show. Have some patience.

"All Season 5 did was show us Dharma time, and that's about it."

It showed us multiple times on and off the island just like very season has. Yes they were in Dharma time but they also flashed to the distant past (statue, flaming arrows), the future (outrigger gunfight, Ajira 316), and to the 1950's (Jughead).

"Oh, and a bomb went off MAYBE."

The bomb went off. What we don't know is if it had the intended effect of resetting the timeline (which I suspect it did but with the 06's memories intact thanks to Jacob), or whether the bomb and the pocket of energy canceled each other out and/or created whatever the Swan Station was trying to prevent with the numbers being entered. Either way we'll find out next season.

And I didn't really get any of those answers online. Those were all either directly from the show or ones I inferred from the show from strong evidence.

If Season 6 starts with the future having been changed, I may consider it to have jumped the Dharma shark. It would go against everything they've set in place already, and destroy the impact of season 5. Next year we really need to see a flashback of Faraday in the 70s when he left the island. How/If they'll do that I have no idea.

That's some Next Level thinking, right there. Esau was under all our noses all along! Those crafty LOST writer bastards...

Read gio988's reply to me about Esau though. He's right - Esau has been there ALL FUCKING ALONG!!!

gio988 IS Darlton. I am convinced.

Also, the escape clause that will bring Locke back is that he was murdered. He did not commit suicide like Esau wanted. Esau (appearing as Chrisitian) told Locke he would have to die to get them to come back. He did this to be able to use Locke’s form as he did Christian’s. The difference is that Christian committed suicide by drinking himself to death. Think ‘Leaving Las Vegas.’ Locke did not. He was going to do so, but was stopped by Linus. And then Linus murdered him. Locke will get to come back for this reason.