ElleDee, I like your predictions, and I actually think you’re on the right track with Ben & Widmore not really being on different sides. I think they’re both more bad than good. I feel like the only person so far who is anything close to “good” is Alpert, though he’s really more neutral than anything else.

Glostie, that is definitely something I’ve seen around, that MIB is actually the good guy. Most people point to the fact that the obvious signs that Jacob is good and MIB is bad are just way too obvious – like wearing white instead of black, the fact that bad people kill good people more often than the other way around, etc.

MIB is the good guy while Jacob is the manipulative one who goes around touching people and telling them they have a choice when they really don’t. E.g. did Ben really have a choice not obeying Locke when he stabbed Jacob. What would you do if your dead daughter came and ordered you to obey Locke. Jacob HAD To be killed as he gives people wrong and false ideas. Here’s the scoop…MIB is actually Moses.

As Locke said, things are going to change in season 6…starting with our perceptions of who’s right and who’s wrong

i’ve been bugging every one who would listen to me about lost for the past 8 months (well, not really, but i managed to get 2-3 people to start watching the show, and they were glad i convinced them :p). i’m gonna be insufferable from feb. 2nd to… may? and then incredibly satisfied (i hope) and depressed. because even though LOST has flaws, it’s still THE. best. show. evar.

As to Juliet…I read that the producers of V allowed the filming to be scheduled around her because they decided to bring Juliet back for the last season of LOST…who knows….we shall see.

I don’t want to make any predictions, because mine always turn out to be crap. I definitely like the whole Jacob/Esau thing that has been going on. I like to see Biblical mythology being used this way in pop culture – it’s more than just winking references, it’s actually kind of intense, and I dig that, as a writer.

I really hope for some sort of redemption for Sayid. He’s a great character, and I just feel he’s been so underused/misused recently. Same with Hurley. Despite all the wonderful eye candy on the show, Hurley is still my favourite character, and “Tricia Tanaka Is Dead” is still my favourite episode, and I just hope that the potential there can really be harnessed in the final season.

I’m ridiculously excited about the statue. Child-like glee. Etc.

I’m not sure who coined the “Flocke” portmanteau, but I wonder if they were aware of the polar bear cub born in a German zoo named Flocke (German for “flake” as in “snowflake”).

Interesting! I don’t know how many other folks are using it, but I actually got it from Sally. :) As we’re both huge Beatles fans, I assumed she came up with it based on the fact that “Fake Paul” in the Paul Is Dead myth is regularly referred to as Faul, but you’d have to ask her!

Flocke the polar bear

It’s almost like one of those seemingly coincidental “crosses” that happened so many times in Season 2 flashbacks.

I am not sure that Ben and Widmore are actually on opposing sides in the grand scheme of things, because they both work towards the same goals sometimes (like getting the Oceanic Six back to the island) and are bound by some kind of rules, meaning they might have their faith in the same authority (Jacob? I would have thought so *before* Ben killed him, but after? Obviously Ben listened to the smoke monster over Jacob). And they both do “good” things or “bad” things in about equal measures, even though the both claim to be on the side of good.

I hope that they never really explain what the Island is, but I sure as hell want to know who the players really are. There are so many factions right now and they all act in morally grey areas (except for Hurley and maybe Frank Lipidus) and we don’t know who is really in charge. I suspect that the Island is just a magical place without a will of its own, and any guiding forces are created by the entities that control the island’s powers the most. The war might just be a power struggle between rivals and nothing more, only those rivals have tremendous resources, and thus the ability to do great damage.

I also have a theory that the smoke monster is a collective conscience of all the people who have died on the island. That’s why it’s so unpredictable – so many people have died and they all want very different things. It would be a good way of holding leaders of the island accountable for the people that they killed, anyway.

I want Ben to die a horrible death. And not to be further redeemed first! He’s a first class treacherous bastard and catastrophic asshole and I hate him so much and I want him to get what’s coming to him!

I love Sayid a ton, but he hasn’t done anything reasonable in a few seasons. The whole working for Ben thing? I didn’t buy it. And then shooting little Ben without getting the 411 on how time travel worked? Didn’t buy that either. Sayid thinks things through too much for that.