Lostwatch: We Gotta Get the Band Back Together - Tuned In - James Poniewozik - TIME

*Many nice one-liners in this episode, particularly involving Michael Emerson's inimitable delivery. ("Is he talking about what I think he's talking about?" "If you mean time traveling bunnies, yes.") If we never see him with live-Locke again, that'll be a shame. I was really impressed by Emerson's delivery as Ben commenting on Jack flying passenger planes, hoping to crash: "That's dark, Jack. Very dark." eyes wide & unblinking, eyebrows raised.
*Last week, we were debating who it was who ultimately rescued the Six. In retrospect, I can't believe I didn't guess Penny. Though somehow I didn't think we'd be seeing her get reuinited with Desmond until the final episode of the series. That they're back together may just have cost Desmond his life-insurance policy. *Speaking of life-insurance policies, what are the odds for Faraday, drifitng on open sea in a boat full of cannon-fodder extras? I hope he makes it back to the island. I think he might have.
*Significance of Charlotte (apparently) having been born on the Island? I've read the speculation that she's Annie right, Ben's childhood sweetheart, but she seems clearly too young right, unless there's some Alpertification going on right - I'd thoght time alteration, not lack of aging but that's good. Alpertification.
*Oh, and back to Locke. My own guess on the coffin was wrong: I had my money on Ben in the coffin, alive, having faked his death to get to Jack. huh, had not hrd that gess, it's good. It did seem it had to be Locke or Ben, or maybe Michael, to warrant Kate's "why would I go to his funeral?" the alternate reveals they filmed in order to keep ending secret (as show on GoodMorningAmer & linked by tvtattle), of Sawyer & Desmond respectively as the corpse, would have required totally additional story to explain Kate's hostility. I'd mourn Locke more yes, but again we run into the whole lack-of-faith-he's-permanently-dead thing right-Ben saying they have to take him seems almost certainly to mean he would be reanimated on return to the island, plus I can't imagine the series continuing without Terry O'Quinn in some substantial role—though I suppose he could be in flashbacks to the Island after the O6's rescue.
* Speaking of which: I end up asking a question I was asking after last finale—where are we at the beginning of next season, now that the O6's rescue story has been told? I have a hard time imagining Lost going a long while without any of the cast who are back on the Island. really? bt of the original Losties, the only one left there is Sawyer. not counting Locke as 'left there'. well also Rose & Bernard, but they've appearred only occasionally anyway. & Claire, but she seems to be crossed over to some other state. then there is Juliet. so mainly, Sawyer & Juliet - funny the suggestn that they could be the Adam & Eve skeletons, I like it bcs wld not before have speculated that, since those two had no previous significance as a pairing. other than them, there are Miles, Charlotte, Richard Alpert, other Others. Do the O6 come back that quickly? Is there a fill-in-the-gaps stretch of episodes—or parts of episodes—showing what happened on the Island from 2004 to 2007? And if so, are those considered flashbacks?
And how do they get back? As Ben said, "I have a few ideas." Now you've got about eight months to think about yours.