First time poster here! I loved this season ending. I can't believe we have to wait until 2008 for more. I kind of feel okay about the short hiatus they took this season, especially if it meant they would bring the show back in September.One thing that really got me here, but I haven't seen anyone post about it yet was Jack's passion to get back to the island. In the conversation that Kate and Jack had, he said he was using his Gold pass to fly to Australia, Japan and all points east and prayed he would crash. At first I thought he just wanted to finish his life that way, like the first crash he should have died and didn't, so he wanted to make sure the next time he crashed it took. But then I remembered the scene before he meets with Kate and it shows him in his home with books, maps and what I can only think would be flight plans. It seems like he is trying to find the island again, but can't. So maybe Ben and Locke along with the ever young Richard are still on the Island and they have shrowded it again. Rousseau said she was staying there too, so maybe not everyone was rescued.
Maybe my initial interpretation was wrong and he actually wants to go back to the island, but he can't find it.
Also, if they continue the new season with flash forwards, it will be interesting to see how Hurly is doing? Did his act of heroism break the black cloud of bad luck he was having. (BTW-who thought the code to the transmitter was going to be the "Numbers"--I did!) I have to assume that Claire and Aaron made it on board a helicopter because Charlie fulfilled his proficy of unjamming the network and then dying. How are they doing?
All I have to say is that the Writers got it right for the ending. Please continue that track with the new season.
MAT
P.S. Anyone else notice that the new "head of surgery" and Naomi were both on the NBC show LasVegas together.