I'm Homerslapping my forehead. I can't believe I never made the Richard Alpert connection.

I've spent time with Ram Dass and have given away 25 copies of his book, How Can I Help: Stories and Reflections on Service. That book is what led me to be who I am today.

I can say with zero hesitation that Ram Dass is loving the character and the show. Heh.

I meant the bomb is why the button had to be constructed to keep it from happening again, i.e., it made a permanent hole or something that then had to be regulated by the button.

I know what you meant -- it's what Miles suggested -- but I don't think they're going there.

I'm totally bummed about Juliet!

I really hope Kate and Jack wind up dead. There, I said it. I really hate them now!

Loved Rose and Bernard and Vincent!

Loved the shout-back to the Black and White symbolism from the first season.

Phil's death was very satisfying.

Nothing will go as anyone expects -I mean the characters - next season.

I will be really disappointed if the bomb going off is what always happened. Daniel was able to change the past before, by telling Desmond to find Eloise, so I have confidence that his plan with the bomb would also make a change.

What that change will be, I don't think I can even speculate.

I am so curious as to what Jacob was up to in all those off-island meetings.

Rose and Bernard = awesome. 'We're retired."

Does it bother anyone else that if Flight 419 resets, that Juliet could very well still be kidnapped to the Island when the Others take over the Dharma project?

(That is, unless the A-bomb somehow changes the fate of the Dharma Project so that Young Ben doesn't massacre them.

You know? I SO hope that the final season opens with another airplane crash. That would be so... cool.

They kept saying the bomb would (or might, I'm not sure) kill everyone on the island. If that happens, I don't know what that does to island history.

Ben's history should change significantly, no?

Seems like. Would there even be a Ben, anymore? Maybe not.

It's too wide open for me to think about.

Rose and Bernard = awesome. 'We're retired."

The high point of the episode for me. Yep, they can pretty much do anything they want for the next season. I'll watch. I've reached a point of acceptance. No matter what the wacky, it doesn't faze me anymore. Lots of interesting characters to offset the boring stupid love quadrangles.

Not much to say about the finale really since it is a reset.

Here's my thinking on Jack's motivation: yes, setting off a bomb and changing history because he lost Kate sounds stupid, but I think it is more of a shorthand for bigger changes in his worldview. losing Kate has become a symbol to him of bottoming out with the crazy beard and everything, and how he got out of that was to believe in Locke and getting back to the island and fulfilling his destiny. And if his destiny is to change history, well, that's just grandiose enough to make everything all right in Jack's mind.

Juliet, I feel like I understand her decisions but I don't think I can explain them. I'll have to think about it a bit more.