I Think I'm Lost: The Beginning Of The End

(Um, I guess this is your spoiler alert!)

Four things:

1) I loved it, I love the future, yes, yes, I see it and I love it. I love how all the mysteries lying in the future are now lying in the past, with a whole new set of mysteries about the past...which was the future. The narrative really is contained or as Desmond put it "it's a bloody snowglobe!" There is something so sad about seeing Future characters. Just like Future Jack did with Jack, Future Hurley has chipped away at the fine and noble fabric that was Hurley, leaving only a deflated shell of a once great warrior. But Future is the new Past, so I'm ok with it.

2) Charlie. "I'm dead, but I'm here." And the other guy saw him, so he must really BE THERE. Right? Well, I suppose it is a mental institution... But let's think a moment on how this may further play into the Life/Death theme that seems to be becoming important. Let's remember that dead people often appear on the island. Let's remember Future Jack spoke of his father writing prescriptions and actually be upstairs at the hospital. Does the island manifest the dead both on and off the island? Is this a curse of all those unresolved and desperate? Apparitions? Heavy... (But for one second didn't you think that Charlie was still alive and at some point in the narrative they find a way of bringing him back, or it actually never really happened and he was fine all along? Just a thought)

3) Something happened. Something big. Future Jack referred to it when pleading with Future Kate: "I can't keep lying." Future Hurley assumed Future Jack thought he "went nuts and told them everything." Mistakes were made. Bridges were crossed. And burned.

4) Goddam you, THE OCEANIC SIX!?! You can't do that to me! This is the kind of shit that keeps me up at night. For the last 30 hours all I've been hearing running through my head is "I'm one of the Oceanic Six. Don't you know who I am? I'm one of the Oceanic Six!" Ok, so now we know how many come back. And thankfully we know half now: Jack, Kate, Hurley. I'm going to support my previous theories and say that John Locke was also one. This is because a strong part of me believes he was in that coffin. But given the recent legitimate schism, I don't know if Locke would even think about leaving the island. And besides just because someone came back doesn't mean the rest aren't still alive on the island. I mean, remember that scary black man who tried to take Hurley away. "Are they still alive?" 'They' could be anyone: the Hostiles, other survivors of the crash, hell, even the current invaders from Naomi's ship. ANYONE. Geez, knowing all your friends were having ridiculous action-adventures on a mystical island in the middle of nowhere and not being able to rejoin them must be really tough. Will, as Hurley predicted, the island find a way to bring them back? Can their mistakes be undone? Is a Lost island never found again or will the Oceanic Six live to fight another day? REGARDLESS, I can't believe this shit. I have to know and I have to know now. Talk about plaguing my thoughts! "I'm one of the Oceanic Six" is definitely the new "We have to go back, Kate! We have to go back"