This show is
so on the ball now. I cannot wait until next season, it can surely only get better from here. I'm with the speculation that they
will get off the island, and the next season(s) will focus on life off the island for them, and how they all cope with it, but... that seems a little too
The Nine, so there'll definitely be more to it than that.
As Jack was saying in the flash-forward, they made a mistake and they needed to go back. I guess leaving the island was the mistake, which is something that Locke obviously knew. I think Locke will stay and take over as leader of The Others, while Ben leaves with Jack and co. (perhaps he leaves because he knows The Others won't want him as their leader anymore, or perhaps they force him to leave with them), and that it was Ben's funeral that Jack went to. I don't think Jack really cared about Ben enough to go to the funeral to mourn, I think he went because he hoped to see Kate there (well obviously, he said so), or Juliet, or anyone else, because he's lonely and out of touch with them, and wants to go back to the island and hopes if he could get into contact with anyone else that was there, they'd agree to try and go back with him. Or maybe he did feel a little bad about Ben's death, because he knew that Ben was right all along, that leaving the island was a bad idea.
Of course, I could be wrong about any/all of that. We'll see when the show comes back.
PlaTheGreat said:
I also realized something else tonight. How come out of all the people on the island there are only two parents? Claire and the Frenchwoman.
You'd think there would be at least one other parent! Also, I have absolutely no belief in Ben being the father.
This was explained in a Juliet episode a few weeks back. Women who conceive on the island end up mysteriously dying during their pregnancy, which is why the Others brought Juliet to the island. Since she was a fertility expert, they thought she could fix it, but she couldn't (but Ben still wouldn't let her leave).
This is also why the Others kidnapped everyone's kids and Claire and wanted Sun (and any other possible pregnant Losties). The revelation that women who get pregnant on the island die is significant, because for a while there was an uncertainty whether Sun got pregnant on the island by Jin, or whether she got pregnant before they left by the bald guy she was sleeping with, but it was revealed in Sun's episode, when Juliet did an ultrasound on her, that she got pregnant on the island (which was basically a death sentence for her).
Also, Ben is totally not Alex's father, that would be way too stupid. He just kidnapped her when he was a baby (just like the kidnapped the kids from the tail end of the plane etc.) and raised her as his own.