Lost became my favorite show ever during the last year. It is hard for me to really think of many shows that have had a huge and lasting impact on me that I will remember for a long time. Lost I know will be one of them. I kind of put off talking about the finale because I just wanted to enjoy it for a while. I have and now I still feel the same. Blown away.

“The End” was a 2.5 hour masterpiece. I have read all kinds of things about it since it aired last Sunday, but I can’t think of anything negative said that I even care about. I care more about the Gulf Coast Jones Act than the Lost whiners. The final episode was simply beautiful to me. Stunning. I think a lot of people felt the same way as I did several weeks ago sometime int he middle of this episode. I decided during Across the Sea that I wasn’t going to judge anything until it was over. Just go along for the ride. I read a lot of people say that while in the middle of The End that they didn’t care about the mysteries anymore and just wanted to enjoy it. Those of us that took that step to realization as the series concluded were well rewarded. We let the story tell us what it wanted to, and didn’t worry about what it wasn’t telling us.

I’ve been “along for the ride” the entire series in reality, but I made a conscious effort to tell myself to just wait during Across the Sea when all the crazy magic stuff came along. The End was breathtaking. the final minutes were some of the most amazing that I have ever seen on screen. When Vincent laid down next to Jack I knew it was over, and I was both saddened and overjoyed at the beauty of it all.

I am absolutely, and completely satisfied.

That’s right. 3 more days left before the Lost SERIES FINALE! Bittersweet for most of us I think. We can’t wait to see how it ends with an epic 2 and a half hour movie to end it all, but we are certainly going to be very sad to see it go.

I have already started to re-watch the series from Season 1. I miss it already. The show is literally only one of 3 I have genuinely cared about in the past decade. Lost, The Sopranos, and Dexter. Everything else is just junk food for the brain.

So…what are we in store for this weekend? Let’s look at the schedule of the upcoming Lost weekend.

Saturday we can watch the replay of the Lost Pilot (Season 1 episode 1) that began it all. I watched this yesterday actually . ABC will re-air the original two-hour pilot from 2004 from 8-10 p.m. ET. It will reportedly include a ”pop-up” version with enhanced trivia and facts about the $10 million episode.

Then tune in on Sunday at 7 p.m. ET for “The Final Journey,” which will review past events of the series. Past and present cast members are also expected to discuss their experiences working on the show.

And finally, the two-and-a-half hour “Lost” series finale will air on Sunday from 9-11:30 p.m. ET. Hope you took Monday off work!

If you are anything like me, and well maybe you aren’t because you probably have a life, you will be on the interwebs talking about the episode after it airs. This means that 2 AM is probably a conservative time to be in bed.

I’m not going to a Lost party. I just don’t want to be distracted. Too many people kicks my ADD into overdrive. I can’t NOT talk when I’m around people. I don’t want to get all dressed up and have to wipe my shoes on the outdoor rugs at some dude’s house and listen to idiots that are just there for a drunkfest ask questions the entire time. Seriously…can you imagine the girlfriend of the guy that comes and says stuff like “Who are these guys? What is this show about? I have never seen this before!”. Stabbed in the eye.

I guess it is almost time to end now. Good news though. I heard that the finale got extended another 25 minutes or something last night. It is going to be a bloodbath the rest of the way it appears.

Probably the most depressing episode last night since the Charlie finale. We lost at least 3 main characters. Sun/Jin with a heartbreaking death scene just after being reunited a couple weeks ago. Sayid with a heroic death as I always thought would happen. I always figured he would go out saving Jack’s life. Then we have no idea what happened to Frank. Some assume he died, while other think it isn’t possible to have such a lame and uninteresting death. I agree with the latter. He would have had at least a catchy one liner before he died wouldn’t he?

Funnily enough, there was a collective cheer when Kate got shot last night, but she looks to have survived the wound. I guess she is also immortal. Maybe she will kill MiB and become him. Yeah…I know…stupid. Go puke in your stone sink.

Jack is THE Candidate for sure now I would guess. Everyone knew it from the beginning, but it is way too clear now. Except the possibility that Jack is just going to meet Desmond and he will be Desmond’s right hand manlike Richard. Either way it looks like this is all going to come full circle at some point.

I still theorize that everyone will die by the end. That Jack will become Jacob and die in the AU, while everyone else will live in the AU. For some reason I have the notion that they can’t be alive in both time lines. Happily ever after and all that. Jack saying “I wish you would believe.” to Locke last night made it just appear that he was the pathetic one in the AU.

Usually, every Tuesday morning I wake up and the first thing I think of is how to plan my day around LOST. Yeah…I have problems. I need to make sure that I have everything I possibly need to get done completed by at least 8 PM so that I am ready to go. I just know that come 9 PM my day is effectively over as I will watch the show and then discuss/read about that episode until I go to bed most likely.

The end is coming and it will leave a huge hole in my entertainment catalog that’s for sure. This week I guess is just a taste as LOST is off this week because some corporate clowns decided that sweeps or something should make us wait another week to see the next episode. So…they show us the Richard episode again, which I have already seen at least twice .

I guess I could start and watch LOST from the beginning again this week, but I hadn’t planned to do that until the final episode was over to help lessen the withdrawal. I could read a fat burner review and go crazy today I guess, but I doubt that happens. It. Just. Sucks. That. I. Have. To. Wait. Another. Week.

The only bad thing about this episode is that it finished way too soon. I can’t remember this ever happening before where I lost track of time while watching an episode of Lost. When the “L O S T” black screen came up I looked at the clock and couldn’t believe it. It was a pretty amazing set up episode with a lot going on, and MORE separation of the groups. Oh yeah…one other sadness. There is no episode next week and I have to wait until May 4th for the next one .

This was another episode of all the main cast members instead of just one character centrics like we have gotten used to over the years. Some amazing on-island action in this one, with some ho hum Alt. Universe action that was necessary like what happened to Locke and Ben with his bow ties, but not as Epic as the island scenes.

Everyone reunited with each other and the Man in Black/Smokey/Flocke at the end of the last episode it was time to see how the new group would act towards the Smoke Man. It appeared that all of our faithful Losties have some sort of skepticism when it comes to the MiB, and this group was no different.

Jack has a nice scene with his sister Claire, and the rest of them all except Claire and Sayid make plans to break away from MiB. Claire comes to see why they are all leaving and Kate talks her into going with them without incident, sadly.

As they go off on a boat they are stealing from MiB, Jack decides that he is doing the wrong thin.g, and Sawyer tells him to get off his boat. Now Jack is split from Kate, Sawyer, Sun, Frank, and Hugo.

Jack gets back to shore and runs into MiB immediately where they get bombarded by some sort of missiles from the sky. Jack passes out as MiB says to him: “You are with me now” and the screen fades to LOST.

It appears that a lot of people are rather confused after this episode. While it wasn’t exactly completely straight forward, the show wasn’t really confusing I didn’t think. It just didn’t answer all the questions put forward in typical L O S T fashion I guess.

We got the return of a couple favorites for this episode. Charlie, Desmond, Penny, and of course some Claire which is always nice. Like the title suggests this probably had something to do with Desmond and Penny right? For the most part it did, but this episode was far from a typical love story.

Last episode we saw Desmond waking up on the docks after he was brought back to the island by the infamous Charles Whidmore as our cliffhanger. This week the episode followed Desmond’s story in the off island universe as well as his current on island situation.

We find Whidmore as his island crew messing with a generator, and then a machine that pumps massive amounts of electromagnetic energy into whoever is unlucky enough to be in the tiny room with their machine. Not even Hinkley lights would survive this. Desmond is told that he is there to do something important, but first Whidmore needs to force him into the room to see if he actually can withstand the type of energy needed to do what it is Whidmore has planned.

As soon as the machine kicks on, Desmond is off the island and living in an alternative world in completely different circumstances than we have seen. He is Mr. Whidmore’s right-hand man. Plus he has never met Penny, his true love.

He is tasked with finding and babysitting our good friend Charlie for a concert at some wedding Whidmore’s wife is putting on. IT gets much more difficult to follow from here.

Charlie explains to Desmond his near death experience on the LA X flight earlier in the season and how he saw Claire and knew he loved her. Charlie shows Desmond the same thing by trying to drown him in the ocean (not kill him, but show him what he means), and he sees Charlie in the window holding his hand to the glass. HE flashes towards when Charlie died on the island and sees “Not Penny’s Boat”. If you weren’t sure the two worlds were connected yet, you should by this point.

Desmond then believes that he needs to find Penny for some reason. Whidmore’s wife needs to be told that he couldn’t get Charlie to the event, and she isn’t upset, but she is Eloise (Faraday’s mom from past season) and she cryptically tells him that the needs to stop looking for whatever it is he is looking for.

He leaves and is approached by the MUSICIAN Daniel “Faraday Whidmore (yeah…he’s now a Whidmore) and they start to believe that they had changed something and that they are now in a different universe. Penny is his half sister. Desmond finds her running where he met Jack for the first time and they click. He gets back in the limp and asks his driver to get him the manifest from the 815 Oceanic flight he was on with Jack and everyone else.. He needs to tell them all something.

Desmond wakes up back on the island and is in a daze. He is now calm and wants to help. Sayid snaps a neck and tells him that he needs to come with him. Cliffhanger. L O S T

I can’t even tell you how jacked up I was for the Richard episode to finally come last night on Lost. While he isn’t necessarily my favorite character, he does seem to have the most mystery surrounding him of the non-Jacob and Smokey/MiB characters. The man that never ages, been there for probably hundreds of years, etc.

Instead of spending time in recent Richard memory, the episode was almost entirely flashbacks. Richard was found way back when riding horses was still the way to travel in Spain. His wife sick and needing medicine forced him to ride to find a doctor. After being told he was too poor to afford it he accidentally killed the doc in a scuffle. He ended up in prison, and then eventually on the infamous Black Rock slave ship.

We got all kinds of insight into Richard’s motivations over the decades he ahs been on the island. Almost entirely that he wanted to be re-untied with his dead wife. He met Smokey, who tried to manipulate him with his religion that he was dead and in Hell. That Jacob was the Devil, and that Richard needed to kill him.

JAcob showed him that he wasn’t dead, and gave him that anti-aging “gift he seems to have and the lack of chin acne he has. Richard became Jacob’s servant at this point, and remained so until recent episodes where he assumed his life was meaningless after Jacob died.

The episode threw out a red herring early to make us all think they were dead, and in Hell, only to kill that notion right away 15 minutes later. The episode had just amazing MiB and Jacob scenes, and Jacob kicked the crap out of Richard too. This episode was a Top 5 all time easily.