Lost: LAX

The bomb worked? Jack, Kate, Sawyer, Hurley, and crew all landed at LAX just like they were supposed to.  Except they didn't.  But Juliet said they did and it sure looked like they did, except when it was obvious they did not land and indeed did still crash on the island.  Jack's dad simply isn't supposed to be buried regardless of how this all turns out.

Jacob's nemesis is the smoke monster and Jacob is dead, maybe.  Bram almost survived his encounter with the nemesis by employing the "ash" trick, but Smokey the Nemesis dropped a support beam on his head and knocked him from the circle.  Once Hurley told the Others of the death of Jacob, they surrounded the entire temple structure with ash seemingly in an effort to protect themselves from Smokey. 

I am reluctant to buy into the "reality" of Oceanic 815 landing safely in LA.  While it is completely plausible for a show like Lost to create a fiction that includes both time travel and alternate realities, I'm of the belief that the people in charge of this show are far too smart to throw those two pitches back to back.  Though I did love Jack offering John a consult "on the house".  That being said, I simply cannot comprehend, as of yet, how the island can exist as we've known it and also be the lost city of Atlantis at the same time.

Hurley really does talk to dead people, he's not crazy.  Good for you Hurley!  On a more depressing note, Jacob really is dead, he said so himself.  Speaking of dead, Sayid was dead until the island resurrected him.  Question, is Sayid now Jacob in the way Locke is now Smokey the Nemesis? Juliet is dead and the island was not kind enough to fix that for Sawyer or the many Juliet fans out there.  How would Juliet have known that the bomb worked as she died?

The biggest clue that the plane landing was a fever dream or a mutation of reality was the fact that Desmond was on 815.  Complicating Desmond's appearance is the fact that the only person who saw him was Jack.

Smokey the Nemesis told Ben that what made Locke different from everyone else on the plane was that he wanted to stay on the island. But that's not true, Rose wanted to stay as well and for more or less the same reason.  The island healed them both. 

The plane that landed did not seem to have Michael, Walt, Ana Lucia, Mr. Ecko, Libby, Nikki, Palo, or Claire on board.  Of course Kate did steal a taxi that happened to have Claire in it so I'm guessing that was the writers way of saying, "Even if you didn't see a character that doesn't mean they weren't there".

The Temple Others were led by an Asian man who did not like the way English rolled off his tongue.  I don't know if it makes sense but could that man be the mythical Alvar Hanso?  If that is him did the DeGroots defect from the Dharma Initiative to the Others as well?  Where was "The Sheriff" who presided over Juliet's trial after she killed Danny?  Last we heard of her I'm pretty sure she was headed to the Temple. 

I guess this means we only have 15 episodes left.  I have faith that they will pull all the pieces together by then!