Also, when Lapidas was getting ready to take off and saw Sawyer, Claire, and Kate, I was unreasonably happy that he got to say "What the HELL?!?" one more time.

I think that was the basis of casting him: ability to say "What the HELL?!?" repeatedly, without it ever getting old.

What also never got old -- Sawyer said "Sonofabitch!" at least three times last night.

The only thing I'm irritated I didn't see is Claire reuniting with Aaron. I would have loved that, but oh well.

Right.

Naturally, I want to see the lives that Claire, Kate, Sawyer and Richard made for themselves post-Island.

And just what the reign of Hurley was like.

I loved Miles "I don't believe in a lot of things, but I DO believe in Duck Tape!"

I deleted the episode when I should have gone back to rewatch the last few scenes - were Miles, Frank, Daniel, etc. in the Church of the Departed at the end? I don't remember seeing any of them.

And the tailies - was Libby there? I figured Ekko wouldn't be there for meta-reasons, but I'm pretty sure Anna Lucia wasn't, either, and she had made a (great) reappearence.

I did feel bad that Michael and Walt were noticeably absent from the original gang.

Oh, and Richard wasn't there either, was he?

Miles, Frank, Daniel, Charlotte, Richard, and Ana-Lucia weren't in the church.

Libby was with Hurley.

We just watched it, after waiting about twelve hours for it to download.

We feel cheated. And lied to. And crapped on. And we're people who are willing to take a lot from our TV.

Conclusion: it would have been a great series were it not for the fact that the flash-sideways was one long con.

"It was all a dream"? REALLY?

I shall take some hours to recover and then start on the rewatch in the hope that something ends up making some sense. Somewhere in the series. Sometime.

"It was all a dream"? REALLY?

I don't think it was a dream; I think everything on the island (as well as the flashbacks and flashforwards) were real, and the flash-sideways was basically purgatory, in the sense of a holding area where everyone waited and resolved stuff in their lives and then met up and went on to heaven/Valhalla/afterlife 2.0.

Unless that's what you mean by it being a dream. But I think there's a clear difference between a dream and purgatory/holding-area-pre-afterlife.

I deleted the episode when I should have gone back to rewatch the last few scenes - were Miles, Frank, Daniel, etc. in the Church of the Departed at the end? I don't remember seeing any of them.

I was happy that the church pretty much just had the original cast (except for Michael and Walt), which made sense to me.

Of course, in the end, they didn't really answer many questions at all, but I liked it as a series conclusion and character resolution. For personal reasons, it was very hard for me to watch the death wish fulfillment ending, so part of me wishes that they got to live those new sideways lives, but just remembering the island.