If you start a LOST blog, make sure I get the link and I will read it.

I loved Sayid's impish side (like when Boone and Shannon are fighting, and Sayid just smirks.)

Not a nit pick at all. If you look at the post-return timeline, they come ashore on Hydra Island on Day 11, when it's still light. It's dark when they're put into the cages. The next day (Day 12) they're shown hiking to the Ajira plane. Since so many things happen on that Day (the sub explosion is in the evening),…

why [Jack] should trust Locke, and Locke's answer is that he could just kill everyone right now, but he didn't, so that should earn him some trust.

Locke wants him to think that he's been trying to help Jack escape this place, first by trying to lead him to water, but Jack is still skeptical.

It sounds like you're not thrilled about how the sideways played out, but I'm not completely sure since some of your earlier comments were positive.

That better be one tardis of an Island.

Ha, maybe you'll be sad that you invited me over to read and comment on these. Because I can't shut up about Hugo.

There's a blonde woman who we can presume is Claire, and for Charlie this was a "spectacular, consciousness altering love".

That sounds like a really good story premise; maybe you should write it.

Can everyone at least concede that yes the show came down hard on him dying and coming back being real, and not some hallucination/dream state?

It's *really" close to It's a Wonderful Life, especially with the bridge motif, and Clarence as a rough-and-tough Aussie.

Or a two-hour finale instead of one+ hour.

I think it's a valid interpretation too, that Kevin might have died when John shot him. The ending did have a strong Places in the Heart or LOST vibe to it.

I responded to the Leftovers finale with a bit more coolness than LOST, except for when Mary woke up, and then when Matt found out she woke up.

It's like in Rashomon. You may not understand anything, but somebody has to take care of the abandoned babies.

I do.

I was glad they didn't show her just getting up and walking. She's going to need a lot of muscle toning to walk again, assuming she even can.

Yes! I was very glad that Mary woke up when Nora was with her. It really felt right.

Kevin had to go back because just getting rid of Patti wasn't enough. While he may have needed to be "international assassin" to do that, the second journey was for him to find out who he really was; what was important to him; to find the right truths and bring them back (assuming that he lived at all, and wasn't…