“Lost” Finale Part 2 & 3: Oh So It Was Jeremy Bentham in the Casket! Duh!

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“Lost.” Season Four. Finale. Awesome. Awesome, awesome, awesome. Enough of that, let’s cut right into this thing. Rather than waste time pointing out where we left off with our plagued survivors, you can take a moment of your own time and check out the last “Lost” post or dig right into this one.

We pick up at the exact latest moment we’ve seen that takes place off the island, that being a cracked-up Jack telling an angry Kate that they have to go back. Kate pulls away…but what we don’t see, is Kate back up and get out of the car. The brief and heated conversation they then have reveals that the man in the coffin is (I swear to God, time like, slowed down for me) Jeremy Bentham. Jeremy Bentham? Who the %$&* is Jeremy Bentham? At best I can speculate that this is the nameless black guy we’ve seen several times before, and I pretty much stick to that until we finally see in the last scene that it’s really (yup, I’m gonna say it) Locke.

Back on the island, we pick up with Sayid and Kate helping free Ben from Keamy and company, which is awesome because we get to see Sayid and Keamy basically knock the living crap out of each other. I’m not sure we’ve seen a brawl like this since Ethan put Jack to shame back in season 1, and it was pretty damn good. Once Keamy is down, Ben once again joins the Others, who inform him that their arrangement with Sayid and Kate was that they are free to leave the island in return for helping get Ben back. And so they go their separate ways, and suddenly Sayid and Kate have their own helicopter.

Flash-forward to Hurley getting a visit from Walt, where Hurley in short, tells Walt that they are lying about the crash and their survival to protect everyone who was left behind on the island. Furthermore, they both, like Jack and Kate, have spoken to this Jeremy Bentham guy. Oh yeah, that’s that bald, nameless black guy, right? Wrong. It’s Locke, duh. Speaking of Locke, the next scene involves an encounter between Jack and Locke at the Orchid Station where Locke says a few things (like telling Jack that if they leave the island, they’ll have to lie about everything that’s happened) and as per usual when Locke says weird shit, Jack does that sorta crazy laugh that means he’s completely pissed off and fed up.

Back on the beach, we finally learn something significant about Red, I mean Charlotte. Miles makes a comment insinuating that Charlotte has been spending her entire life trying to get “back here,” and later it seems as if she believes she was born on the island. Anyway, she and Miles apparently decide that they’re going to stay on the island. Now I love this show. I love “Survivor.” I love virtually every show that takes place on an island, but I find it incredibly odd that these people, who seemingly have nothing to fear in the real world (if you recall, the people who followed Locke and decided to stay on the island were afraid that the people from the freighter were not there to rescue them), are just simply deciding to stay here. I fail to see the logical reasoning behind this decision, especially when it doesn’t look like too many people plan on sticking around anymore.

My doubts aside, Locke and Ben are then in the Orchid Station, where Locke watches a video specifically telling him not to put metal or inorganic objects in a particular chamber, as Ben begins stocking the chamber with…metal and inorganic objects! The video, in short, explains that time-travel is possible and I suppose that’s what the Orchid Station was studying. The effects of putting metal and inorganic objects in the chamber, well, apparently that is what will “move the island.” Either way, because there’s still another hour left in the finale, something has to go wrong, and it does, because Keamy shows up, gets in yet another brawl, this time with Ben, and Ben finally stabs him dead. I was sad to see Keamy die. He was another love-to-hate-him type of character, and I would’ve been interested to see how being stranded on the island with all these people he was about to kill played out for him. Granted, I guess there’s enough going on in this show already.

As if the finale wasn’t going awesome enough, the next chunk of story continued being pretty damn explosive. Frank has Sayid, Jack, Kate, Hurley, and Sawyer on the chopper heading back towards the freighter. Of course, everything that can go wrong will go wrong, so the chopper has a leak and they have to start throwing all the excess weight off the chopper in hopes of making it to the freighter. Frank says they’re still too heavy and then Sawyer gets that look in his eyes. We’ve seen this look before. It’s that begrudging look he gets when he realizes he’s about to do something for the greater good of others. With that,  he whispered something to Kate, gives her an incredible kiss, and jumps out of the chopper. Yeah. I’d like to meet the person, girl or guy, who did not fall a little in love with Sawyer at that particular moment. Christ, God knows I did.

Chopper lands, but at this point, because Keamy is dead (I failed to mention that he has a heart monitor hooked up to the C4 on the freighter that Michael, Jin, and Desmond were trying to freeze to keep it from going off. Unfortunately, they only prolonged the inevitable. The chopper was quickly fueled and patched up and everyone hopped on board. Frank, and yup, the whole Oceanic 6, with Sun and Aaron now joining the original group on the chopper, along with Desmond. Inside, Michael gave Jin the go ahead to get the f&*% off the freighter, and Jin took off. Meanwhile, Christian Shephard popped up in front of Michael and said, “You can go now, Michael” (Grim Reaper much?). What the hell did this mean? Is Michael dead? Does what Christian said mean that the island will finally let Michael die, or could that have just been a warning that he better get away from the C4. I sort of want to see a little more from Michael, so despite the odds, I hope that he’s alive out there and we’ll get the chance to see him confront those he betrayed. And Jin? Jin just missed the chopper and then the freighter blew and started sinking, so like, come on, that’s not a proper send off for Jin. He’s got to be alive somehow. And anyway, I know a major theme of “Lost” is having daddy issues or absent fathers, but how many children related to this island are we going to bastardize? Aaron, Walt, and Sun’s kid seems a little extreme. I can’t believe all these people are dead. Bullshit!

And finally, for tonight’s main event…the moving of the island! Ben insists that he do it, because “whoever moves the island can never return.” And so, Ben tells Locke to go find the Others as it is his time to lead them, then goes down into this icy room that looks like it might be in underground Antarctica, and then begins pushing this round wheel. Apparently moving the island quite literally meant that someone would have to move the island. Granted, microwaving metal objects also had something to do with it. As a result…

FLASH!

All the main characters witness a bright light, and when it’s gone…so is the island. Well, according to the Oceanic 6 plus Desmond and Frank it’s gone. The island still exists someplace. Daniel Faraday was on a raft, so I don’t know if he maybe moved with it or if he’s stranded. Same goes for Jin…and maybe Michael. We’ll find out next season, I guess. Sit tight though, because here’s where things begin to wrap up.

The chopper begins to waver and starts going down, so they crash and have to use the inflatable raft to sit on and wait for rescue…you know, the kind of rescue they waited 108 days for while actually on the island. Unbelievably enough, a rescue boat does come. Even more unbelievably enough, the rescue boat is Penny and her crew! She and Desmond embrace, only so we can assume that they live happily ever after. Will we ever see Desmond again? I’m not so sure. I hope so. Either way, this was not the end of the Oceanic 6′s rough days, as Jack realized that they had to lie. You know, being that the island has now vanished, and the fact that several incidents on it involved native people, pressing buttons, and black smoke monsters, not to mention that someone was trying to kill everyone on the island, it’s probably much safer to lie about what’s happened. And so, the next day, the Oceanic 6 set sail on a crappy little raft for some tiny island. Crazily enough, they risked going back into the ocean, in search of some island. Ballsy.  But it worked, so good deal for them.

And so, we find ourselves headed for the final, cryptic scene. Before that, let me add a few details I missed regarding flash-forwards:

-Sayid breaks Hurley out of the mental institution after killing another assassin. Clearly, someone is trying to kill the Oceanic 6, or is at least keeping a close eye on them.

-Sun approaches Charles Widmore, offering to work with him? Something’s strange about that. Could Sun really be heading for the dark side? I have to believe that she plans on playing him. Maybe using his resources to find the island again? Either way, Sun does not appear to be the same innocent woman she once was. I’ve got a feeling that in things to come, Sun will be a major player.

-Now for the epic last scene. Jack returns to the funeral parlor at night and breaks in. He flips open the casket, and then Ben walks in behind him. They small-talk a bit about Jeremy, saying that after Jack left some “very bad things happened” which is why Jack now has to go back. But Ben explains that the island won’t let Jack go alone, and that everyone will have to go. This includes the man in the casket. Who is dead. Which explains why he is in the casket. And finally, we get to see Jeremy Bentham…who is John Locke! Which I already revealed.

Now I’ll end with my issues about Jeremy Bentham being John Locke. I sort of loved it and thought it was a really great ending for the finale, but my issue was that everyone was referring to him as Jeremy Bentham like it was his real name. I could understand if they were very clearly in public. Walt and Hurley for instance, they were in the hospital and used the name Jeremy Bentham, but Jack and Kate behind the landing strip at the airport. Wouldn’t they, by second nature, refer to him as Locke. That’s really my only beef with the episode…unless Jin and Michael are really dead…then I have two beefs with the episode. But hey, we’ll continue this conversation come next January.