Secondly, following are more thoughts and info on the finale. If you haven't read my initial post from Monday, you may want to read that first.
- I forgot about what may have been my favorite moment of the Jimmy Kimmel special: Josh Holloway (Sawyer) checking in via satellite from Canada where he was supposedly on location filming "Snakes on a Plane 2: Electric Boogaloo".
- The best line not from the finale occurred on Regis and Kelly the next morning when Regis wondered if "The Lost" had ended yet and happy that his prediction "the real villain is the dinosaur" was accurate.
- The name embroidered on the jumpsuit of the Oceanic Airlines employee who unloaded Christian's casket was Bocklin. Arnold Bocklin was a Swiss symbolist painter. His pictures portray mythological, fantastical figures along classical architecture constructions (revealing often an obsession with death) creating a strange, fantasy world. Bocklin is best known for his five versions of Isle of the Dead. Appropriate name.
- A number of people asked for my thoughts on the wreckage shown during the closing credits. Some thought this was the Ajira flight indicating it didn't make if off the island while others felt the lack of people among the debris meant everyone had died in the initial crash of Oceanic 815. I don't think it was Ajira because Jack's smile at seeing it fly overhead meant he was successful. I also don't believe it was 815 because Christian told Jack that everything that happened was real. I felt it was more symbolic of what was left behind. That and there were no previews to show for next week!
- What happened to Walt is supposed to be addressed in the DVD. Also expected to be included is 20 minutes of answers to questions left unresolved by the finale.
- The actor who portrayed Mr. Eko was asked to make an appearance but apparently he wanted five times the salary he was offered and the producers declined.
- According to the "Across the Sea" script, the baby that became the Man in Black was named Samuel by his adopted mother. The name is Hebrew in origin meaning either "name of God" or "God has heard".
- Now on to the big one - the Sideways world. I believe everything we saw of the Sideways world from the first episode this season when we saw Oceanic 815 survive the turbulence to the final scene at the church occurred at different times in the minds of all the characters but at the moment of each one's death - whether it was before Jack died or long after. As Christian told Jack: There is no now here. However, as viewers, we saw it as a linear time frame with everyone having their moment of enlightenment in one convenient storyline. Whenever one of them died, this was the life each character wished they had lived. It was only upon realizing that the life they had led was worthy and no regrets should be had, did they move on. For the purpose of the show, the death that was focused on was Jack's. The vision of the island underwater is what he wished for so none of the island events would have happened. His son, David, allowed him to be a better father than his own was to him. Restoring the use of Locke's legs resolved his guilt at not believing Locke that they should never have left the island and had to go back. But none of this was real. Much like the movie "Jacob's Ladder", all of this occurred - appropriately enough - in the blink of an eye. The same way Juliet asked Sawyer to have coffee as she died. She was experiencing her life as the ex-Mrs. Jack, working at the hospital, and encountering James.
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