Why do we measure out our days until the next LOST episode? What is the rush, when it only brings us closer to the end? Sure, tonight will answer questions about the incident, reveal new information about characters, and provide us with 2 hours of action, intrigue, and mystery, but it will also bring us to a half a year of LOST limbo. After tonight, we are stuck with only our memories and a longing for closure.

Even the final closure: the next and last season, will also bring us to an end of a great show. What’s the rush? Let’s savor this now. Let’s savor this finale to the penultimate season.

And so, without further ado, I bring you my final Live blog of the season. LOST: The Incident…

Only two episodes in this penultimate season (it’s not every day I get to use the word penultimate). Follow the Leader seems to focus on two leaders: Jack and Locke–Jack in ’77 and Locke in present day. By the way, Elvis died in 1977, maybe if Jack manages to change the timeline, we’ll get Elvis back from the aliens.

I thought I should add 1 prediction: whatever Jack plans to prevent or modify the incident, it won’t work (or at least not as intended). After all, if it were successful, then we wouldn’t have 1 more season to go.

I’ll also add what I think is the correct interpretation of the time travel conundrum: I believe that Dan’s original assertion that “whatever happened, happened” is the correct theory. Mainly because I like that take better than the traditional take of Back to the Future and Terminator series (see The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger).

Tune in to LOST at 9:00pm PST and be sure to follow my live blog or check out the replay while you ruminate on the show after the episode. Either way, you can get it here: