LOST "Live Together, Die Alone" Airdate: May 24, 2006 (Season 2 Finale)

Oh my gawd...oh my gawd...Taylor won American Idol and I totally missed it. That was because I was watching the best frickin' episode of LOST ever. Talk about saving the best for last. It's after midnight; I'm exhausted; My wife's been ragging me about which one of the Lostaways I will be for Halloween... Funny... But I feel as if I have been neglecting my blog. So I at least wanted to get a short list up here tonight, and then get more detailed after I watch it again this weekend. Then I'll have the entire summer to take a break and rest my brain... or I guess I could play the game: The Lost Experience.

Here's a short list of a few things that stood out in the Lost season two finale: (in no particular order)

1. The Bird. It swoops out of the jungle as they are making their way to the location of Michael's betrayal.

I know it's not a great screen capture, but it was the best one I could get. Hurley asks if the bird just said his name. What do you think? Here's the Audio. The spirit of Libby maybe? Watching over him? Or is it the Others controlling the animals and using them for remote viewing?

2. The strange statue of the foot with four toes.

I am trying to figure out what animals have four toes. So far I have come up with the Korean Dragon. It has four toes where as the Chinese Dragon has five and the Japanese Dragons have three. It is believed when the Korean Dragons leave for China, they gain toes; and when they go to Japan they lose toes... ah crap, I'm reading a damn mythology site about dragons. Damn! Sorry!

It does seem sort of "Planet of The Apes" though, doesn't it?. "Damn you! Damn you all to hell!!!"

3. It was Desmond who brought down Flight 815. We learned so much about his past and a lot of things really started to fall into place. I still have more questions, of course, but I'll get to those in a bit. I had to listen a few time to get his full name and rank, as well as why he was in jail..er, well, we don't know the full story yet. Lance Corporal Desmond David Hume of the Royal Scots Regiment of Her Majesty's Armed Forces was dishonorable discharged after serving his time. Look Out! A some-what religious tie-in: Check out the wiki on the Royal Scots. The regiments nickname was Pontius Pilate's bodyguard. David Hume is also the name of a famous philosopher.

Desmond also makes the claim that they (those on the Island) are the only ones left. "We are stuck in a snow globe. There's no escape." This is only briefly mentioned and not brought up again. I wonder why he said that? It's obvious that humanity is still here because of the way it ended: we saw some (Russian? Maybe?) dudes in a Siberian watch station as well as Penny Widmore. It must have been Lindelof/Cuse theory debunk.

Here's a pic of Jack and Desmond before they met at the stadium that day.

This is right before Penny shows up and utters the very sweet line, "All we need to truly survive is one person." We also got a confirmation that the girl in the picture with Desmond that we saw early on in the hatch is not Jack's wife, but in fact Penny.

Steve & I had been trying to figure that out. I even compared pics and they do look similar. Just for giggles, let me post the hatch picture:

Wait a tick! That's a different girl. Desmond has on the same shirt, but Penny's wearing a black shirt in the first picture and the girl in the other pic has a white shirt on. Do you think it's just a continuity oversite that they hoped no one would discover? Or is there more to the story?

We finally got meet Kelvin Inman in Desmond's flashbacks. He was the same guy who interrogated Sayid during Desert Storm. He said that he was kicked out of the Army because his men followed his orders. I wonder what he ordered them to do? We were also introduced to the Swan fail safe switch.

And we saw how Kelvin accidentally died at the hands of Desmond. I say accidentally because it didn't look like he wanted to kill him. It was because these two were frolicking on the beach that Flight 815 was brought down. So the question you must ask yourself now is, was it an accident or was it fate? Did Kelvin know that the rip in his suit would lure Desmond out of the hatch thus leaving no one to push the button? That may become a new theory for season three.

...uh what number am I on?...*scrolling back up*...oh yes! (This short list is getting long).

4. This whispers are back. I didn't capture the audio, but I did listen to that scene a few times and it sounds like I heard one of the whispers say, "Elizabeth. Hit 'em!" I couldn't make out the other whisper when Jack screams, "Run!"

5. The Rock. Here's a capture from last week.

I will try to post another capture this weekend. It's looks like something you would see at Stonehenge.

6. The Pneumatic Tubes (which would have been the name of my band if I had one back in the 80's. We would have toured with the Producers and Missing Persons...sorry, my brain is melting).

I stand corrected. The Pearl ("?") was the psychological experiment and The Swan button really did need to be pushed in order to release the magnetic pressure that would build up every 108 minutes.

7. Fenry Gale... and yes, I meant to spell it like that. It's his new trendy celebrity nick name. So is this guy HIM? The one in charge. He jumped Zeke's ass about the beard like Tommy Hilfiger jumped Axl Rose the other night (did you here that story? Ask me about it later.) Fenry sure acted like he was the man. And around the same time, thanks to a slip up from Miss Klugh, we learned that Mr. Friendly's real name is Tom. He also removes his beard when pressured by Kate.

8. Compass bearing 325. That's the way they tell Michael to go to get rescued. It's North West btw.

9. Libby.

I read somewhere that Libby was married to Widmore. However, she says her husband who just passed away a month ago was named David. She seemed like she was on the verge of depression. Maybe that is why she ended up in the asylum with Hurley. That and the fact that she gave a complete stranger her boat, which her late husband named after her, "Elizabeth."

10. Charles Widmore

You've seen and read the name throughout season two: Widmore Labs & Widemore Construction. What an ass. He intercepted all of the correspondence that Desmond sent to Penny, his daughter, and he really didn't want Desmond in her life at all. I'm not sure if you caught it, but the race around the world was sponsored by Widmore. Desmond wanted to get back his honor by winning the race.

11. The fate of Desmond, Locke, and Eko. Charlie made it out ok. I'll guess we'll have to wait until September to see who survived the magnetic pulse, as well as, what happens to Jack, Kate, and Sawyer as they go home with the Others/Hostiles.

12. The ending.
The two Siberian (and I'm only speculating as to where they actually were) Scientists discover the magnetic anomaly and call Penny. They say, "I think we've found IT."

They didn't say "him" they said "IT." Is she trying to locate the island to find Desmond, whom she loved and would wait forever for, or do you think she's deeper than that? Maybe trying to take down the Dharma Initiative, Hanso, and her father's company (like Persephone is in the Lost Experience game). Just laying down some ground work for season three.

I have had a great time the last few months analyzing and blogging about this show. This is actually more than I have ever written in my life. It's funny how when you get older, you discover new things. I am reading more than I ever have as well as writing now. I read an article in Entertainment Weekly that quoted Damon Lindelof as saying that part of the show is about self-discovery. Well, I've made some major self discoveries of my own. Thanks LOST... and thanks to everyone who reads this ( and calls me to let me know I haven't updated the blog yet). You inspire and motivate me.

~Tripp