LOST portrays love as weakness because of Jin & suns death. Now I am left thinking will they have any importance in the end or will they have been useless characters as Lepidus seems to be. (even though he’s a really cool character). You might think that oh he’s a pilot and the devil needs him but if that was true then MIB would not have risked his life in the sub crash and would have protected him like Claire.

And for the end all of the “losties” from the alternative timeline will gather and return to the island with the help of Widmore, Widmore’s wife and Desmond to finish MIB.

it’s actually 4 1/2 hours, the series finale is now 2 1/2 hours!!!

Also, they have been building up Jack so much this season that it wouldn’t really be great writing if they were to disregard him. Especially because he has made the MOST progress out of all of the Oceanic survivors.

Jack is one of the only ones who has almost completely over come his obession. He has showed us time and time again this season that he can “let things go” which was his biggest issue before.

Sawyer sort-of let go of “Sawyer” the con-man, when he killed him. But he still has bitterness and hatred inside of him since Juliets death. Kate sort-of overcame her selfishness by coming to rescue Claire. But, she still put her mission of saving Claire before Jins mission of finding Sun earlier this season.

Basically, what I am saying is that if this is really poetic writing, it just can’t be Sawyer. Not anymore. They havn’t built it up enough to let that happen in just 4 short hours.

I would like to see this though, so possibly I am wrong.

I have been reading the posts here almost since the begining and redundancy is good. It brings back ideas that have been put aside for various reasons and often are given a fresh new spin.

Good thoughts and ideas. I have been thinking all day about a last man standing finale. You may have hit the nail on the head.

Yes, dead is dead in the 2007 timeline, but by introducing an Alt. where all the “good guys” survive they can kill pretty much everyone can’t they? As long as they do a reset i the final episode it all doesn’t matter.

If only one character stays behind to keep MIB in check in the 2007 timeline I am hoping it will be Sawyer. There’s a nice irony to Sawyer, the loner who is fighting like hell to get off the island and always thinks of himself first choosing to stay behind to face off with Locke.

I can picture Sawyer sitting in the sand swilling whiskey. Locke comes over and glares at him. “Do you know how much I hate and want to kill you?” “Hell yes! You know where I’ll be Hoss. Right here waitin’.”

this is why Widmore doesn’t mind killing people because they are not really dead, they are alive in the Alt/Real World. I think Jack will remain alive in the Real World and on the Island and maybe he will know about each life and this will be how he brings future people to the Island to continue the game – he doesn’t leave the island, he uses his other self (maybe this is how jacob did it – but I’m not sure how he avoided aging in both places though..)