Folks over at TWOP are saying that the person in the newspaper article was named "Jeremy Bentham". Great, another philosopher and also a character that we haven't met yet. We haven't, have we?

I think my only question would be, why wouldn't Kate go, and if Sawyer's dead, then who's wondering where she is?

Yeah, I was assuming she was going back to Sawyer, so I couldn't figure out whose funeral it was.

I was not expecting flash-forward. Damn. I wonder where they're going with this, because clearly they're not going to be rescued by this magical Not Penny's Boat. They have three seasons to go!

I wonder what sort of consequences leaving the island has, why Jack is so freaked out. And I do wonder if it's a "possible" future, or if it's the actual future, and they just gave Jack and Kate (and probably Sawyer) permanent immunity on the show, not that they didn't already have it anyway.

I hated Charlie for a good long stretch, but he redeemed himself in this last arc. I was so sure he was writing "Tell Claire I love her" on his hand, but he used his last bit of energy to pass on important information to people. Gotta respect that.

Also, I really really love Ben, too. I'm sort of in love with Michael Emerson's delivery, and I wonder how he talks normally. It's so freaky cool!

I think Ben's a really great villain. He's very complex, and I think they've been incredibly consistent with him. I never get the annoying flip-flop vibe from him, even though I also never really think of him as a good guy, either.

HA HA HA. Oh my God, TWoP, I love you sometimes. Courtesy of Big Slick:

Hoffs/Drawlar (funeral parlor) is an anagram of . . .

Flash Forward.

Jack was really freaked out, but Kate looked better than ever. Clean, dry hair looks good on her.

Over at TWOP they're suggesting that the stuff we're calling the flashforward is actually the story and that the island stuff is the flashback and that is the big change that ABC was advertising.

flashforward is actually the story and that the island stuff is the flashback and that is the big change that ABC was advertising.

Hummm. That could be an interesting reset. Since they've got so many seasons left (even if they are short ones) it would give them some room to go back and forth between pre-crash, island, rescue, post-rescue.

Possible funeral people: Ben, Locke, Sawyer, Michael?

Screencap of the newspaper clipping.

So, it doesn't look from the clipping like it could be Locke or Sawyer, unless they were using an alias.

I know. And the man from New York? That makes it sound like it was Michael.

So, it doesn't look from the clipping like it could be Locke or Sawyer, unless they were using an alias

Sawyer? Using an alias? You don't say!

Although someone here already read it as "Jeremy Bentham," who is a philosopher, which would be more Locke's style. But it could be Ben, too.

Kate specifically said, "Why would I go to the funeral?" Which makes it seem like whoever died personally offended her (and, you know, Ben kept her in a cage and all that).