Lost Season 4 Finale Spoilers (Photos)
Of all the casualties on last night’s “Lost” finale, the most surprising one was already in a casket. The two-hour concluding episode of one of the best seasons of “Lost” ended with viewers finally seeing that it was arch rival John Locke in the casket that Jack went to visit in the Season 3 finale.
Of course, that only brought up another question: How did Locke get off the island?
That wasn’t the only big event. The earth moved - literally - when the island disappears. (Ben activated a time-travel machine, if you must know.)
The Oceanic Six, as they were dubbed this season, were in the helicopter when the sea swallows the island.
Viewers were left to wonder until next season what happened to rest of the survivors when the mysterious island disappears beneath the waves.
The much-hyped finale capped off the island mystery’s fourth season - a year that finally filled in some of the holes in the rich and complicated storyline.
And with a definite end in sight - the producers have agreed to two more seasons, ending the show in 2010 - viewers came back this season to get caught up in the lives of Oceanic 815 survivors.
Among the highlights last night:
* Desmond and his beloved Penny were reunited - in one of the few happy moments in the episode - aboard a rescue boat that discovers the survivors of a helicopter crash.
* Early in the episode, Sawyer - seemingly among the “safe” group with Jack, Kate, Sayid and Hurley aboard the helicopter headed off the island - sacrificed himself to save the others. When the ‘copter sprung a fuel leak and needed to lose weight to make it back to the freighter, Sawyer jumped from the whirlybird. He swam back to the island and was with Juliet when the island disappears.
* Jin, Desmond and Michael had a bomb to deal with on the freighter, which was triggered when mercenary Keamy died from stab wounds inflicted by Ben. Sun, aboard the rescue helicopter, witnesses her husband’s death from the helicopter when the bomb goes off.
Still unanswered by the finale was the fate of new mother Claire, who popped up in the finale as a ghostly figure in Kate’s dream.
Who is Jeremy Bentham + More Spoilers & Video Spoilers after the jump…
During the finale we keep hearing about this character who is visiting all the oceanic six named Jeremy Banthem. When Sayid goes to visit Hurley in the mental hospital he does not even like to utter Mr Banthem’s name. At the end we see its John Locke.
If you remember early we saw Jack at a funeral for someone. The newspaper clipping was like J—– -anthem. Then never showed who the funeral was for. I guess we know now.
The name Jeremy Bentham. It’s yet another moniker on this show borrowed from real life. Bentham was a philosopher (a contemporary of the real John Locke…yikes) who, according to this early but dead-on “Lost” theory, proposed the idea for the Panopticon, a type of prison:
“The concept of the design is to allow an observer to observe (-opticon) all (pan-) prisoners without the prisoners being able to tell if they are being observed or not, thus conveying a ’sentiment of an invisible omniscience.’ In his own words, Bentham described the Panopticon as ‘a new mode of obtaining power of mind over mind, in a quantity hitherto without example.’ ”
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