Lost #1 and 2

Oh my gosh! What's going on? 

The new and final season started last week with an intriguing show.  So many questions!  We start off back on the plane which goes through turbulence and makes it.  No crash.  We see all our players and they run into each other in various fashions.  Jack saves Charlie's life; Kate pick-pockets Jack for a pen...later in the airport Jack encounters John Locke who lost his luggage; Jack's father's casket never made it aboard and they really aren't sure where it is.  Jack and John have a nice moment and Jack offers John a pro bono visit to see if there isn't something surgical that he can do -- after all -- John is paralyzed still.  It seems that despite all odds these people are destined to be in each others' lives. 

Meanwhile at the same time, we are back at the Dharma station.  It appears we are righted in time.  But Dharam did build the station despite Juliet's exploding the bomb.  After some time Sawyer can hear that Juliet is still alive and buried beneath the rubble.  Ultimately he gets to her only to have her die in his arms. But not before saying that she has something to tell him , but dies too soon to actually tell him.  At the same time Hugo is visited by the spirit of Jacob who tells him to take Sayed to the Temple.  Everyone goes but Miles and Sawyer who stay behind to bury Juliet.  Why didn't they take her?  If the springs can heal Sayed -- couldn't they have healed Juliet?  Or is this the way to get the actress of this show and full time for "V"? 

Once Juliet is buried Sawyer asks Miles what it was that Juliet wanted to tell him.  "It worked." This leads me to believe that there is an alternate universe, which the makers of "Lost" denied from the start. 

Hugo takes everyone else to the Temple where they are met with hostility and many more survivors.  One is the flight attendant who recognizes everyone from the "first plane", allowing us to believe that the second return flight did occur.  The Others are about to kill the gang when Hugo announces that Jacob sent them.  This stops everyone in their tracks.  He offers a guitar case as proof.  Inside is a religious statue that is quickly broken.  Within it is a note that apparently says to heal Sayed and protect the rest. 

Sayed is submerged in the springs and appears to drowned instead of heal. 

While in the alternate universe, Jin and Sun are detained as Jin has thousands of dollars in his luggage.  He is pulled away to be interogated.  He doesn't speak English and doesn't know what is going on.  A woman says to Sun, "if you speak English and this is some misunderstanding now is the time to speak up." Of course she does speak English but she wants to get away from Jin, so she say, "No English". 

Kate breaks away from the marshal who was escorting her back to the United States and hijacks a taxi that has the very pregnant Claire in it.  Ultimately she takes the taxi leaving Claire behind.  In time she finds a mechanic who takes her cuffs off and in a plan to change her clothes into Claire's she sees that all that was in the luggage was baby supplies and toys.  She feels guilt and goes back in search of Claire.  She learns that Claire is going to give the baby up for adoption and drives her to her destination.  There, she learns that the  adoptive parents no longer want the baby.  This causes Claire to go into labor and Kate takes her to the hospital.  There they encounter the creepy character who was an Other who abducted Claire and tried to take Aaron from her.  So here again -- they were destined to encounter one another.  Also, this means he wasn't on the island.  Was he then, never an Other?  He's able to stop the contractions and Claire announces that the baby's name is Aaron however she doesn't know where that name came from.  Kate encourages her to keep the baby.  This coincides with the reason Kate went back to the island: to find Claire and reunite her with Aaron. 

Meanwhile on the island, after much time has passes, Sayed suddenly rises from the dead.  he has no memory after being shot.  The leader of the Others takes Sayed and ultimately tortures him.  However he calls it diagnosing him.  He fails the test.  We later learn that he has a darkness enveloping him, and the Other leader says, "just like your sister". 

Hugo tells the Others that Jacob is dead and this sets off a flurry of activity, including the ash circle encompassing the temple.  This will keep the smoke monster away.  We earlier learned that the smoke monster is the same as the man who is claiming to be John Locke even though we know Locke is dead and all has seen the dead body. The Others shoot off a flare that is seen by Richard Alpert and the group on the beach. This terrifies Richard.  At the same time "John" comes out and says, "Hello Richard.  Must be nice to be out of those chains." Then attacks him and carried him away.  Chains?  Chain to Jacob, to the island, in time?  After all he never aged.  Will he begin to age?  Or did "John" just kill him?

Sawyer is abducted by the Others and brought to the rest of the gang.  He promptly commandeers a gun and escapes.  Kate goes after him with 2 of the Others and Jin.  She breaks away but Jin stays with the Others.  One of the Others is going to kill Jin when they are both shot by Claire.  A very raggedy, dirty, Claire.  She looks like Russo.  Jin says her name and this startles her, almost as if awakening her.  And we end here. 

Claire is "dark"? Sayed will become "dark" and who is this guy impersonating John. 

Oh my gosh.