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It’s amazing what new things crop up in your head after a week of contemplating the LOST Season 3 finale. Doc Jensen shares his questions, revelations and ANOTHER theory.

You know you have been chomping at the bit for this one, so without further ado…

Doc Jensen review of the LOST S3 Finale

Haven’t read it all yet, but…it’s DOC. You know it’s gonna be good stuff.

This one is from our buddies over at From Inside the Box. There is some theorizing, but it comes from an educated showwatcher, so I’m good with that.

CNN has posted The Associated Press’ review of LOST’s Season 3 Finale, which aired last night. It’s a good, clean and complete review, without waxing poetic on theories or anything of that nature, if that’s not your cup o’ tea.

I am going to call this “speculation” as opposed to “theory” — after watching last night’s episode, I am nowhere NEAR ready to actually theorize yet. I need to rewatch it a few dozen times to do that!

FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NOT SEEN THE LOST S3 FINALE YET, GO NO FURTHER!!!

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I think that Locke is in the coffin. Most of the board spec has said they think it is Ben, but I honestly can’t imagine them EVER getting Ben off the Island, dead or alive. And it would make sense — there were NO attendees of his funeral, yet Jack felt compelled to be there and was upset when he read the obit. Plus, Jack and Locke are yin and yang — they are each other’s antagonist. They have both been leaders of the Lostaways, but both have continually led the groups in opposite directions. IF their being rescued was some kind of life altering mistake, then that means Locke was RIGHT. Locke dying before Jack could make it right again would be devastating to him.

Second speculation (which is more theoretical) regarding Jack’s allusion that his father is alive in this futureflash — right now, I’m leaning towards alternate realities. Desmond was told by Ms. Hawking that “the universe has a way of course correcting.” Desmond did not alter his decision to leave Penny, because of what Ms. Hawking said to him — but on the Island, he repeatedly tried to stop Charlie’s death…even though he knew it would alter things and would become an inevitability. What if their rescue disrupts this natural course? And either sets them back to a time right before the crash, or changes what happened before the crash.

So so so many things to play with for the next 8 months, eh? Must go rest my brain now…

Something to tide you over until TONIGHT:

Top 10 LOST S3 Moments according to Entertainment Weekly

Of course, it is compiled by Doc Jensen, so it’s good stuff. NO spoilers

Quickly posting this before I head to lunch: Doc Jensen reviews “Greatest Hits”.

There! Be back later to flesh out…

ETA: Wrong link! Fixed it now

I know y’all are all waiting on pins and needles for Jeff Jensen’s review of last night’s OMGWTFLOST??!!??, so there ya go. I haven’t even read it yet, but assume there be spoilers.

… and in rare form. Go check out Jeff Jensen’s review of “The Brig”. Honestly, there are NO other LOST reviewers/critics that even remotely compare to Doc. LOVE HIM.

Only complaint? “SawKat” — c’mon, dude. Check the boards. We call that ’ship “Skate” But he makes up for this faux pas by using sci fi curse words - Frak yeah!

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hijinx and speaker discuss LOST Episode D.O.C., theorize about the parachutist and whether or not Sperm Island is trapped in some kind of alternate universe. WARNING! Spoilers regarding centricity of remaining LOST episodes discussed!

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hijinx and speaker are back in business, discussing the last two LOST episodes: One of Us and Catch-22. WARNING! There is some spoilery discussion regarding the next episode airing on April 25th. (Spoilers from minute 17:31 to minute 17:50.)

…and I still love his recaps. Honestly people, stop reading all the mind-numbingly narrow and semi-intelligent recaps provided on lesser websites. Just read Doc Jensen’s “One of Us” recap and bask in the awesomeness. Dude, if I ever got Jeff on the phone…there would be much *ASPLODEY* from all the LOST theorizing.

Oh, and I must say that I am all up in that Nestor love.

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hijinx and speaker discuss LOST Episode 3.15 Left Behind and tell tales of LOST Weekend 2007

The video recap for last night’s Lost episode is up at The Associated Press. It includes an interview with Jorge and discusses the lower ratings for the show.

I just checked last night’s numbers, which were better than the past couple of weeks. Hopefully that trend will continue.

Okay, here are my notes on last night’s Lost episode “Tricia Tanaka is dead”:

• Appearance of Vincent should quash all the rumors in the fandom that Walt and Michael had him on the boat with them. There were fans who claimed they saw Vincent on the boat — obviously they were wrong
• The “Tricia Tanaka” in the title was the tv reporter who got killed, along with her cameraman, when a meteor hit the Mr. Cluck’s that Hurley owned.
• Hurley’s old boss, who then worked for him at the Mr. Cluck’s, is named Randy Nation. Also, Hurley mentions in his ramble about all of his bad luck that his best friend Johnny ran off with his girlfriend Starla — she was the chick from the record store that he was flirting with after he and Johnny quit Mr. Clucks the day Hurley won the lottery.
• Old light blue VW bus that Hurley finds has a Dharma logo in place of the usual VW logo on the front of it. The skeleton has a Dharma jumpsuit on with his name “Roger” on it, then “Work Man” underneath. Hurley thinks the guy’s name is Roger Workman.
• Kate picks on Sawyer when he refers to the television show “Little House on the Prairie” as just “Little House” indicating that he used to watch it. His excuse is that he had mono for two months and that was the only thing on. Also, they discussed having a “clean slate” which Kate acts like she doesn’t understand what that means — but her first centric episode was called “Tabula Rasa” which means “clean slate”
• Hurley tells his mom, after the meteor, that he has to go to Australia to try to break the curse with the numbers. He says that is where they came from, according to Lenny in the institution (the Connect 4 guy).
• When Jin and Hurley are pulling Roger’s skeleton out of the van, his head comes off. Hurley says “We’ll get that later…” Then later, Sawyer freaks when he sees the skull and Hurley just says “That’s just Roger” I thought that was hilarious
• When Charlie asks Desmond when he was going to die now, Des responds “it doesn’t work that way”
• Sawyer was in rare form with nicknames in this episode. Just a few I jotted down — Charlie (Oliver Twist, Jiminy Cricket), Hurley (International House of Pancakes), Jin (Jin-bo…which is very Southern; I had a friend named Jimbo so that made me giggle), and even Roger the skeleton (Skeletor — which is the name of the bad guy from the animated tv show He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, which ran from 1983-1985).
• Hurley refers to the beer being old — like before Rocky III (which would mean before 1982) or maybe even Rocky II (which came out in 1979).
• The Jesus centerpiece statue is carved from solid gold. Mrs. Reyes says they got their butlers, Mr. and Mrs. Tron, from Benigans (which is a restaurant chain). When Hurley asks where his dad is going to stay, his mom says “it’s been 17 years” — Hurley doesn’t know what she means, so she covers the ears of the gold Jesus statue and explains to Hurley about her needs. Hurley’s response is to cover his own ears and scream. The next morning, when Hurley’s dad comes to wake him up, Hurley has headphones on because of how loud his parents were.
• As they are looking through the VW bus, Sawyer asks what was with “all the recycling” and finds a blueprint of some sort that looks like it is for a road. When Kate and Sawyer were on the work crew for the Others, there was mention that they were also working on a road of some kind.
• Hurley’s motivational speech to Charlie ends with “Let’s look death in the face and say..’whatever, man.’” That has to be one of my favorite quotes now.
• I think this was the song that was playing when Hurley got the van to start and as they rode around — Shambala
• When Kate is searching through the jungle, she leans down and touches a net on the jungle floor which is what she was looking for. That was the net that her and Jack got caught in during episode 2.19 “S.O.S.” and that they said was one of Rousseau’s nets (like the one that Rousseau had trapped Benry in). She figured that the nets had to be close to where Danielle lived on the island.

That’s the main stuff that stuck with me. You guys pick up anything else?