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This... this was a weird episode, well, to summarise anyway. Theories and speculation kinda went out the window, and stuff just HAPPENED. @warlach and @marawlings were on the money with their tweets >.<

Thoughts:

• Wow. That first glimpse of Anthony Cooper sent chills up my spine
• Did Locke plant that C4? Didn't look it, but why else would Widmore rig the plane? Is he in cahoots with him? Where the hell did he get it from, otherwise?
• Jack didn't need that "little push" this time around to get the Apollo Bar; is that symbolic of a Jacob free world?
• Sayid tells Jack to go save Desmond, but tells Jack that he's "the one"; is he The Candidate? Surely.
• *BOOM* goes Sayid 
• Sun and Jin die together. Thank you for ending it in Korean.
• Lapidus gone too? If not, what the hell is he still doing on that island?
• Screw you, Sawyer!
• Once again, Terry O'Quinn knocking that Flash Sideways scene with Jack out of the park
• Ok, so, MiB is 99% evil, as of the end of this episode. Obviously I am now expecting a MiB/Jacob backstory that will once again flip things on its head
• Three characters from season 1, episode 1, gone in minutes. I think it's safe to say LOST just kicked into ending mode

UPDATE:

The Official LOST Audio Podcast: May 7th, 2010 (25:26)

Executive Producers Damon Lindelof & Carlton Cuse discuss the rules & why Sawyer didn't know who Anakin was.

Thoughts:

• Confirmed: MiB can take on the appearance of only those that are dead, and on The Island
• Confirmed: Flocke = Christian Shephard. WHAT THE FRAK? NO. CHRISTIAN SHEPHARD != FLOCKE. HOW CAN THAT BE? >.< See my theory on why this can't be. Reading this again, an additional argument in my favour was the scene when "Christian Shephard' appears on the freighter to Michael; how could that be, if Flocke cannot leave The Island?
• "Because Jacob chose you, you were trapped on this island, before you even got here"
• Does Flocke actually need The Candidates to get off The Island? Why? All he seemingly needs to do is kill them
• "John Locke was not a believer, Jack. He was a sucker". Wow, way to devalue Locke's 4.5 seasons of faith in The Island and Jacob
• Sun recognised Flocke in the flash sideways, I assume
• Sayid can't have killed Desmond. What does that mean though? Did Desmond tell him something to stop him from killing him, or is Sayid not as evil as Flocke thinks he is?
• I'm impressed on the casting of mini Jack Shephard 
• "We're done going back, Kate" Yeh, haven't heard that before! See you there in two eps, Sawyer
• Jack Shephard. The last recruit
• Am I the only one that expected Shannon to show up? @marawlings has pretty much convinced me that he'll choose Shannon, and not Nadia, for whatever reason. She'll be in the next episode
• And speaking of the next episode, according to DarkUFO, there's a hiatus next week

Was this episode going to be anything but a disappointment compared to 'Ab Aeterno'? Sadly, it lived up to its expectations.

Thoughts:

• "The only way we can leave The Island, is if all the names that haven't been crossed off, go together" Is this just BS by MiB, or does he actually not need to kill them?
• The Sickness leads to your emotions disappearing?
• Why aren't they married in the sideways? It's freaking me out more and more that nearly all of the original Oceanic 815 losties ended up on that plane in the Flash Sideways only to not crash on The Island, when seemingly, the only reason they were on that plane in the first place was because Jacob wanted them on there, to crash on The Island
• Does the fact that Jin seemed to make it extremely clear that he was a Kwon and Sun was a Paik influence on-island events, re: the Kwon candidate?
• And there we go again, with the frakn long stare into the mirror by Sun. I'm going to screenshot every one of these from the season soon.
• Room 23!
• Why are Zoe and co. looking for the pockets of energy? Is that how they're going to destroy MiB? Or will there be another Frozen Donkey Wheel reset? Or maybe they'll just destroy the thing.
• Poor Mikhail, destiny's a real bitch
• "A wise man once said that war is coming to this island. I think it just got here" Is Flocke just playing back what Widmore told him, or did someone else actually say that?
• What did Widmore's team do while everyone was tranquilised?
• Ok, The Package is a person, but again, not sure how Desmond comes into play >.< Maybe it's the fact that he seemingly operates around the normal rules that apply on The Island