Also, I found this great fanvid recommended by jengod:

LOST - The Gun Show

It's set to "Paper Planes" by M.I.A. and very entertaining.

Amy, your loop is exactly my loop. I'm gonna go have cookies and check out Sunil's links tomorrow.

Regarding tonight, from Alan Sepinwall:

Per last week's podcast, apparently the 8 o'clock hour will feature a slightly modified rerun of part one of "There's No Place Like Home," featuring different questions at the Oceanic Six press conference that deal with other details of the cover story. Sneaky ABC programmers. I'm assuming a combined version will be on the DVDs.

Ah.

Well, a full three hours of Lost tonight!

Yep!

Also from Sepinwall: dueling lists of the Top 15 Episodes. Nice retrospective and a reminder that this show is pretty awesome.

Ha ha ha. I just read that a "popular fan theory" regarding Abbaddon (the Mysterious Black Dude played by Lance Reddick) is that he's Walt, all grown-up.

It's so cracked-out it just might be true!

oh, I fucking love it. It is totally cracked out but interesting.

Unfortunately, LOST conflicts with SYTYCD tonight. I guess I'll watch LOST since the other is in the audition faze.

It's great because he's totally Walt's body type, all tall and lanky.

I really enjoy Jeff Jensen's Lost posts. Hee:

I prefer the time-travel zaniness of my friend Steve at MagicLamp.org, who writes:

''The Island will move in the present and past, causing 815 to crash into the ocean, since the magnetic pulse never happened. Those versions of the 815ers all die, leaving their counterparts alive on the Island. The Oceanic 6 are told their friends can't return or the paradox will endanger the world. Locke replaces Ben, who ends up in the coffin, and Aaron will be foretold to be Locke's replacement.''

I love the way you think, Steve, because (1) I've been predicting something close to this for most of the season; and (2) it makes no sense.

Also, Steph, someone has a pretty good theory on the Island NOT moving in time:

''Here is what I think the season finale will reveal about the 'On-Islanders.' When Ben moves the Island, it won't be to a different time, as you have speculated, but to a different place, one very far from the South Pacific: the arctic! I am thinking that the Orchid Station controls the location of the Island, that it has moved before, and that it has been in the arctic — hence the Polar Bears. Also, if the current Island moves to the arctic, it would explain why flash-forward Ben was wearing a Dharka, and may be why Penny's people were looking for Desmond in the arctic. Plus, what a season-ender it would be to have Ben push some buttons and suddenly the Island is covered in snow!'' — Rob Nuttall from Halifax, Nova Scotia

There's also the question of whether the Oceanic 6 get off before or after Locke moves the Island.

Holy shit, I am so excited for this finale tonight, moreso than I've been for the other Lost finales, I think. It's totally bizarre what they've done with the fucking storytelling this season: like I said before, it's the fact that we actually KNOW specific things about what's going to happen (rather than the usual vague ALL YOUR QUESTIONS WILL BE ANSWERED) and we're itching to find out how all this shit goes down.

Meanwhile, some really amusing Lost parodies...with action figures! Oh, action figures.

LOST Parody #1 - Star Wars
LOST Parody #2 - Pirates of the Caribbean
LOST Parody #3 - Harry Potter
LOST Parody #4 - Lord of the Rings
LOST Finale: Indiana Jones & the Mystery of the LOST Island