If you didn’t catch last night’s LOST season finale….don’t keep reading.

Holy crud it was amazing!

Some ruminations regarding all of this:

• Is it a whole Jacob and Esau thing? Or is the story more Christ and Satan?
• The dark man cannot kill Jacob himself, he has to get someone else to do it. (A Judas figure, who was chosen to be a follower of Jacob)
• There are strong sentiments of election with Jacob’s choosing of those who would come to the Island
• The one who lives in the shadow of the statue is “He who will save us all” or something along those lines, which definitely could be a reference to Christ.
• Those who leave the Island after having been initiated into the Others can never return. (Rejection of the faith? Excommunication/expulsion from the Church?

Of course, this all very possibly grows out of my Christian worldview. It is much more likely that this is a secular “spiritual” story, with lots of references thrown in to different religions and beliefs in a way that will get everyone to make up their own reality. (Or is there a definite hint that buddhism is a failed attempt at finding truth and meaning with the Dharma initiative?)

A ton of questions still remain, obviously.

• How did the Dharma initiative come to be? Were they brought by the dark man?
• Jacob keeps telling people they have a choice, but it always seems that in those cases they are inevitably going to do what he wants. Did he want Ben to kill him? (again, Judas?)
• Why were the babies dying?
• What’s with all the lists?
• Did the “Incident” cause the Swan’s predicament, or did it prevent it?
• Whose eye was that? (Juliette’s?)
• What’s the deal with Jack’s father “Christian”? Is this supposed to point at the resurrection of the dead?
• Why the warnings to never bring Aaron back to the Island?
• What was so special about Walt?

LOST has been a great ride. I hope we get a ton of answers next season!