Lost: Through the Looking Glass: Thoughts

It's been about half an hour, and I'm still a bit breathless after that ending. Snake in the Mailbox for sure.

I don't know if it was Cuse or Lindelof that said "After the finale, you'll wonder how this show can go on." Either way, it's completely true. Obviously it's going to go on, but in what form? Are we going to flash forward a few years until everyone's off the island, and do flashbacks to fill in the gaps? Or are we just going to know that somehow they get off at the end, and keep going on the Island still after some kind of screw job on the escape?

Aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh, so many questions...And it's going to be 9 months until we get anything resembling an answer.

I was watching the Lost: Answers special on the second run through before the finale, and noticed that Damon made a quip about how if they get off the Island, the show was over. These two are always so coy about everything, that when he said something straight like that, I smelled a foiler. And boy was I right.

I think we may start to see either a mix of flash-forwards with flashbacks, or just completely a flash-forward type of format. I hope the Island doesn't take a back seat to the after-Island events, but I think after this kind of game-changer, they're going to be expanding on this after-Island timeline, they kind of have to.

We have to some extent run out of flashbacks, so a switch in formats may be due. It is a crazy idea, but I put nothing past Damon and Carlton, and the Island and post-Island stories running in parallel, instead of pre and present running parallel as we have seen up to now, would be just fine with me.

There's so many different ways they can go, and it really opens the story back up.

Can't believe that Sawyer's dead in the future...or was I wrong on that one? And who was Kate going back to, maybe Sawyer and I was wrong on that one. If so, could be anyone from Locke to Ben, but someone Kate seems furious at. Sawyer seems logical to me, but you never know.

All in all, I think this was a fantastic finale, although I would have liked a bit more resolution on Naomi's people, that's a pretty decent cliffhanger to leave us with. Can't wait till February, I'm sure someone's already got a clock going somewhere...