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).

Didn't Michael betray all the Losties who sailed around the Island?

The Internet has pegged the date of the newspaper as April 5, 2007. So they'd been off the Island for, what, almost three years? Or two years? I think someone on TWoP calculated present time as Christmas 2004.

Okay, did ABC have a Q&A thing with the producers after the show? I heard that was the original plan.

I want to know what time line they're going to take from now. If it stays in 2004esque timeline, they will have to do everything leading up to the Kate/Jack scenes in 2007. That's calling writing yourself into a corner.

Personally -- and I had suspicions about this, but wasn't plot spoiled -- I think they've done the reset switch. It solves a lot of the mythology problems they've got, and is a bit Aliasish. Basically, they can take the next season as they see fit I suspect.

That said? I think the last hour of that was outstanding in places. I did have a problem with the not knowing who to trust, though. Ben's a great character.

Someone in the TWoP thread (it's a good but annoying read: I think they've basically guessed EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER to be in the coffin) made the interesting comment that we may look back at the first three seasons of Lost to be the plodding introduction to the real story.

How do you think this resets in any way, Kevin? How does this solve any mythology problems? Unless you think they'll really shift the major narrative into 2007.

Time on the island goes slow, we think. As in, the series doesn't take place in the usual time frame to other shows. Maybe Jack and Kate left just 'now' (ie about a month in), and that's actually 2007 in The Real World. I dunno.

Reset wise, they can shift the focus of the series now if they want. For example, they could run the series in 2007, and have the flash backs be the island. And then have Jack go back to the Island once he finds it. Yadada.

Although then none of the references Kate and Jack make, make sense. From the looks of them, a lot of time has passed.

So many questions. So few answers. Welcome to Lost.

Having Bentham in the coffin is actually sort of funny: [link]

Heh. That certainly makes Jack's horrified refusal of the offer of opening the casket much more amusing.