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LOST: Season 4 Finale Live Blog

Update: I’ll do a write up later. Thanks for joining me!

Update: Wow. They have to bring Locke’s body back. That’s so he can do a “Christian Shepard” and come back, I’ll bet.

Update: “Some very bad things happened, and it was my fault for leaving. And he said I had to come back.” “The island won’t let you come alone, all of you have to go back.”

Update: Outside the funeral parlor. Hoffs/Drawlar.

Update: Probably not the last we’ve seen of Frank and Desmond.

Update: Commercials – You know something? Every single thing is pointing at Ben being in that coffin. I’ve said that for a while now, even before tonight.

The person we would least suspect in that coffin right now? Locke. If Ben’s in there, where’s the mystery for next season? But if it’s Locke… Oh, man.

Update: EXCELLENT! IT’S PENNY!!!! Didn’t see that one coming either.

Update: The big lie begins.

Update: Now, the last time someone had a boat, they took a kid. You’d think Sayid would remember that.

Update: What the heck did that person say? Gonna have to look at that again. It’s Claire! In a dream…geesh.

Update: Yeah! He’s alive! Now, just make it to the end of the season, dude.

Update: Come on Desmond! Be ok!

Update: Commercial – Ben looked really upset that he was leaving, which I think is understandable. Good to see he apologized to Locke.

Update: Wow..it’s amazing anyone survived that crash. Hope Lapidus makes it. I like that guy.

Update: Ha! And they acknowledged it too.

Update: Technically, they moved two islands.

Update: Excellent! Completely called the wheel and the cold room.

Update: Ben leaving with no instructions for Locke. ANd he can’t get back to the island after he moves it. Ah, not a gunshot in his arm. An injury.

Update: If it is Ben that’s died, I think the Oceanic 6 are going to try and take matters into their own hands.

Update: Commercials – Sun must want to try and use Widmore to get back to the island to get to the rest of the people there. When she said the other people got off the island, she probably means Ben. And I would be willing to bet when Ben said he was changing, he’s changing into a Parka and warm clothes. Question is, is Locke going to be the one that shoots him in the arm? Better not be Keamy. (har!)

Update: Why did Ben throw all that stuff in there are short it out?? Notice that Ben seems to realize he knows it’s Locke’s time now…

Update: Paik does know Widmore! Ha!

Update: Sun with Widmore?

Update: Alternate endings tomorrow on Good Morning America.

Update: Commercials – We didn’t see Jin blow up. Sure hope he grabbed a life vest. Could be that Christian telling Michael “You can go” means he could save himself, but I really don’t think so.

Update: Michael stays. Whispering. Christian let him go.

Update: Wherever you go, Widmore will find you. Not if I find him first.

Update: How did they miss that boat with the heading?

Update: “Why are you calling him Bentham….” Hmmm. Wonder what someplace safe is? Checkmate, Mr. Eko? Yow.

Update: Sayid kills again. Wonder who that guy was? A body guard?

Update: Commercials – At least the fall didn’t kill Sawyer. He’ll be on the island too. Sawyer must have told Kate to visit his daughter, or give her some money he has stashed away.

Update: Hurley’s thinking of going… Sawyer’s secret… He’s gonna jump.

Update: They can’t reach down and plug that hole?

Update: Fuel leak, great.

Update: I think Juliet realizes Daniel might not be back.

Update: Does that mean Charlotte was born on the island?

Update: Commercials – Didn’t expect to see Keamy again. I”ll also point out that radio signals don’t have the timeline effect (at least, the phone call to the boat didn’t). They could talk in real time.

Update: Ben wipes out Keamy, and a second later turns into a rat with one word. “So”.

Update: Bingo on that bomb and the dead man’s trigger.

Update: Keamy’s back? Dang!

Update: Helicopter ride… Hurley still concerned about Claire.

Update: (Kali.Amanda – I saw the same thing).

Update: Commercials – I love how Ben is putting all that metal in the chamber while the tape said not to. Wonder who’s headed down into the station? The only person I can think of is Alpert.

Update: “Time traveling bunnies” WBAGNFARB.

Update: The Orchid tape from last year’s Comic Con, at least the Comic Con tape was the blooper tape.

Update: Ha! Silly experiments, and a video tape.

Update: Charlotte’s been on the island before? What? She’s DEAD TOO? Or is she a Ben operative?

Update: Gotta love Rose.

Update: I think Michael’s going to end up sacrificing himself to keep that bomb cold.

Update: Ah! The timing of the island vs. the boat is off. Forgot. That’s why it didn’t blow up. Good solution for the bomb too.

Update: Commercials – Finally a decent explanation for why Walt is older now. If “Jeremy Bentham” ends up being someone we don’t know, that’ll be a surprise. Kate’s reaction, “him, of all people”, really points to Ben.

Update: Locke was the one that told Jack they had to lie? Wow. Didn’t see that coming.

Update: To protect everyone that didn’t come back! Hurley believes Michael is alive too. It’s beginning to sound like Ben (if he is Jeremy Bentham) can’t find the island either.

Update: WALT!

Update: Commercials – The question is, did they have the insight to get in that rubber raft when it came back and get OFF the boat? Or did they find a way to stop it? I’m guessing the later, if it didn’t explode already.

Update: Sayid to the rescue. And Alpert too. Bet that boat is gone.

Update: And the whispers…and …it is a trap!

Update: People running in the jungle need to look ahead when they run. …Of course, this is probably a trap.

Update: Commercials – I’m gonna have to re-watch that scene with Kate and Jack when she backs up. She said something to him I missed about being married. I still bet Ben is Jeremy Bentham. He does use aliases, so that’s not a surprise. Ben must visit Jack to tell him to get back to the island.

Update: How is disconnecting a power source going to blow something up?

Update: Jeremy Bentham must be Ben’s alias.

Update: Three years have passed…..

Update: Jeremy Bentham? Who the hell is that?

Update: EXCELLENT! She backs up!

Update: The Coffin.

Update: Bet Sawyer bails out of that helicopter we saw in the preview.

Update: Two Hour finale starts now! (Looks like a Kate Sawyer kiss!)

Update: And gets decked.

Update: And Ben walks in….

Update: I love Hurley’s reaction to the phrase “the actual Orchid station”. “Wait… What?”

Update: Yeah, not so good with the C4 explosives. …Wonder why they mentioned Kate’s father just now on the popups?

Update: I swear Ben’s bearing that he gave Michael wasn’t 305.

Update: Commercials (Four days until The Mole!)

Update: I wonder if Jack tells Kate about Claire, or if she overheard?

Update: The funeral, and Claire’s mom. First in a series of shockers for Jack.

Update: Gah! Network hiccup. Windows….grrrr..

Update: I’ll probably write more things during the commercials during the last two hours, since I’m not pausing the TV the way I do when I do the 24 writeups.

Update: (Andy, good catch on the keys). (Kali.Amanda… I’m trying! Updates probably won’t be as frequent during the last two hours).

Update: And we’re back to commercials. Again.

Update: Back at The Orchid, we have mercenaries!

Update: The numbers on the odometer. Wonder what convinced Hurley to take the car?

Update: Ha! Didn’t notice the numbers on the jerseys.

Update: The coconut and whispering would really freak me out if I were Hurley.

Update: Commercials. THis “Wipeout” show looks a lot like “Ninja Warrior”

Update: Sun likely got money from Hurley to do the takeover of the company. A settlement wouldn’t be enough to buy that much interest in the company.

Update: Stunt baby on the rubber raft with Sun and Jin.

Update: Man, if that boat blows up, there are going to be a lot of people that go with it.

Update: Wonder if we’ll finally see The Temple tonight?

Update: Dangerous and unpredictable to move the island. Love this cracker scene. Wonder how Ben knows those crackers are 15 years old (There’s that number again).

Update: Commercials

Update: Sayid on the boat, finds out that Jack and Kate ran off.

Update: Nadia. I’m sorry she’s gone.

Update: Aaron’s five week’s old.

Update: Question for Sayid and Jack. Those are new too. (I think).

Update: Boone mentioned. Libby didn’t make it through the first week. Charlie drowned a few weeks before we could leave.

Update: Expanded press conference.

Update: “You don’t get to die alone”. Reference to “Live together, die alone”.

Update: Genghis. Gotta love Sawyer’s nicknames.

Update: Jack’s great. “It’s only a flesh wound! I think I’ll go for a walk!”

Update: Commercials

Update: Charlotte’s out of the loop on the Secondary Protocol, and Faraday’s pretty freaked out about what he knows is going to happen.

Update: You know, with all these dead people showing up on the island, one has to wonder if Widmore wants to communicate with them. For what? Profit?

Update: I really like Hurley’s reaction to seeing his parents.

Update: There’s that shadowy figure in back of Karen Decker.

Update: It’s started! With captions too.

I’ll be live blogging the Lost Season 4 Finale here, all three hours. Remember that they’re repeating part 1, and adding footage of the press conference, so don’t miss it!

Feel free to post your own comments!

LOST: Was Sun’s Takeover Realistic?


Spoilers
If you watched the first hour of the finale a couple of weeks ago, you know that Sun has taken over her father’s company. A couple people pointed out that it must have been one heck of settlement to be able to do that, so it’s completely unrealistic that she’d be able to do that.

I agree that she couldn’t do that single handedly; but I don’t think she did. She went to someone who could easily help her do it: Hurley.

LOST: Predictions Before The Season 4 Finale!

Here’s an expanded list of predictions for what’s going to happen during the season finale:

The first two are expanded versions of what appeared at EW.com

The Coffin: Ben’s in there. All the signs point to it. Richard Alpert tried to get Locke to come with him at an early age. When he couldn’t get there, circumstance shifted and Ben was brought on the island as a replacement. Now that Locke is coming into his own on the island, the island will have no use for Ben, and he’ll end up getting killed by Widmore himself, or one of Widmore’s henchmen.

The Island Move: When that island moves, it’s going to move big time: Past and Present. The implications of that? If the island moves in the past, that means there’s no Desmond and button to fly over, and Flight 815 keeps flying until it crashes. That means there was no “staged” plane; it’s the same plane from a different timeline.

The Black Rock: When the island moved previously, it must have caused a huge disruption in the ocean. Fish must have been everywhere scattered across the island when it just popped in on it’s new location. (Man, I bet that smelled for weeks…) Anyway, I think that’s how the Black Rock ended up in the middle of the island; it was just in the middle of the ocean and when the island did a jump, it happened to be right where the island “landed”. One has to wonder what else the island is going to pick up when the island jumps this time.

Richard Alpert vs. Matthew Abaddon: I really think that there might be two opposing forces at work on the island that have been staring us right in the face: Richard Alpert and Matthew Abaddon.

We’ve seen Alpert at work already, even as far back as when Locke was a baby and young boy When Alpert went to visit Locke, he looked very upset that Locke took the knife during the test. This isn’t what Alpert had hoped for. Another attempt was made to get Locke onto the island when he was a teenager, but that was also rejected. It wasn’t until Matthew Abaddon planted the seed of that Outback trip that Locke “took the bait” (so to speak) and went on that trip, the trip that made him get on that island.

So think about that a minute: If Alpert rejected Locke early on, why did Abaddon want him on the island? Yes, they could both be working together, but remember that Abaddon was one of the people recruiting Naomi and her crew to get ON the island. Bringing hostiles to the island sounds to me like the last thing that Alpert would want.

I really think that Ben and Widmore might just be pawns in a bigger game that is just now going to be revealed.

The polar bear, the parka, and “Frozen Donkey Wheel”: It’s clear that Dharma thought that they were able to transport animals into the arctic in their experiments. If they were doing animal experiments, they wouldn’t be sending anything that wasn’t native to the arctic because it would kill the animal. The problem is, they really weren’t sending things off the the arctic – they were sending them to the desert. I think they had no idea this was happening. The fact that Ben showed up in a parka in the desert reinforces this idea even more. That could be a precaution (a well deserved one… if you got sent through a portal to transport you somewhere else, you wouldn’t want to be caught in the arctic without a coat). I think there’s something more to it as well.

What happens if the device the transports the island is very cold? So cold that have to get into heavy coats just to keep warm while operating the device? And what about that “Frozen Donkey Wheel” code word the writers have been using for this finale? If it’s a very old device, it could be in the shape of a big wheel, the kind of wheel you might see donkeys hooked up with in a mill. Turning that wheel might realign the island in order to facilitate the island’s move.

What goes wrong: I think that in the midst of getting the island shifted to a new place, Keamy’s going to break in and start shooting. Ben (in his Parka) is going to get shot in the arm, drop through the portal they’ve opened up and end up in the desert. Keamy’s going to end up dying which the device in his arm will pick up and trigger an explosion on the boat.

Locke will then make a choice of what to do, and it’ll end up moving the whole island not only in space, but in time as well (which is not something anyone expects).

Why The Ocean 6 Won’t Talk: Sometime shortly after they make it off the island,
Widmore will warn them that they shouldn’t tell anyone about about the island, because if they do, he’ll have them killed.

Just How Old IS Widmore?: How long has Widmore been around? If the island doesn’t allow people to die until it is done with them, could it keep them alive past the time when they should have died? Widmore could be much older than we expect.

If you have a prediction, please add it in the comments section!

Welcome to EW.com readers!


Welcome to EW.com readers!

Jeff “Doc” Jensen asked for predictions on the season finale, and this week he’s posted reader responses. My guess was one of them!

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.

If you’re a regular reader of MagicLamp.org, be sure and read the EW.com article, “Lost: A night to ‘move’ on?”

What the heck does “Frozen Donkey Wheel” mean?


If you listen to the Lost podcasts (and you should), you might have heard that the final scene of this season’s LOST is referred to as “Frozen Donkey Wheel”.

The producers always come up with some code word that nobody can make sense of for those final scenes. In previous years, they’ve used “The Bagel”, “The Challah”, and “The Snake in the Mailbox” (because it would be “the last thing you would expect”).

Read more about what the producers have to say about this at CTV.ca.

Kitchen Nightmares Sneek Peak: j. willy’s bar & grille, South Bend


The next season of Kitchen Nightmares starts in the Fall, but we’ve got a tip about one of the places that will be featured.

Gordon will be visiting j. willy’s bar & grille in South Bend, Indiana. A local paper covered the news.

What did Gordon think once he got there?

“This is a dynamic team,” Ramsay said, pointing to the j. willy’s crew. “We have the most amazing decor, the most amazing ribs, and the most amazing barbecue sauce.”

(Thanks to John)

Lost: Who Buried Danielle And Karl?


There have been a number of deaths in Lost over the last few episodes: the boat’s doctor, the boat’s captain, Alex, Karl, Danielle. One of the things that bothered me right away was: Who buried Danielle and Karl?

Think about that a minute. There are people invading the island, the two camps are split, and Ben sends Alex and Karl with Danielle away from camp to keep them safe. We see Danielle and Karl murdered right before Alex is carted away. Would the soldiers on the boat take the time to dig a grave for Danielle and Karl?

I don’t think they would have. They were in the middle of the jungle and out to get Ben. They had a hostage (Alex), and they needed to try and use her as leverage as soon as possible.

So, there are several distinct possibilities. The first: The Others buried them both. I think that’s the most likely possibility.

The second possibility: That wasn’t really Danielle in the grave, and Danielle herself buried Karl. This theory is the same, in reverse, of course – Karl could have buried Danielle). The face did look very much like Karl’s, but Danielle’s face didn’t look very much like her (see the picture).

The problem with this theory is, If it’s NOT her, who the heck is it? And, if you’re thinking that Miles knew about the graves – Well, he did, but that could have been Karl or Danielle (not both) saying something that lead him to dig them up.

The third possibility: Danielle and Karl really did die, and those are their bodies, but Danielle came back (like Yemi, Christian, etc) and buried the bodies herself. Now, THAT would be a weird thing to have to do for yourself…. But the most likely possibility, I think.

What do you think?