So I watched the sea­son finale of Lost last night. Warn­ing: There be spoil­ers ahead.

Over­all, I thought it was a good, but not great finale. Mainly because I could see where so much of the story was going. Two weeks ago, I pre­dict­ed Sawyer was going to jump off that heli­copter to save the oth­ers. And he did — prov­ing in my opin­ion that he is a much bet­ter hero and match for Kate than Jack ever will be. And that scene of Sawyer com­ing up on the beach with­out his shirt? Yum.

There was a lot of back and forth action tonight. To the heli­copter, to the boat, back to the heli­copter, to a life raft, to another boat. But we finally got some answers to the ques­tion of how the Oceanic 6 got off the island (they were on the heli­copter when the freighter exploded). Although did any­one else think it was excep­tion­ally con­ve­nient that none of the other back­ground crash sur­vivors on the freighter tried to get on the heli­copter as it took off?

I think Michael died in the freighter explo­sion, given the fact he saw Jack’s dad who told him “he could go now.” But I don’t think Jin is really dead. He’s prob­a­bly washed up back on the island (wher­ever the heck it went) by now. Besides, if they kill Jin off, they’re down to only a few main char­ac­ters on the island — Locke, Sawyer, Juliet, Bernard, Rose, and the three science-types (of which Dan the math guy is the only one I like). But it looks like the island folks saw the freighter explode and will prob­a­bly assume Jack, Kate, etc. are dead — until Jin washes back up on shore.

I loved the scene with Penny and Desmond. I think that was a per­fect way to close out their story arc — and I hope the writ­ers don’t ruin it by hav­ing Ben kill Penny. I was also happy they didn’t kill Frank the pilot off. And that fight scene with Sayid and Keamy was excellent.

So was Sun through the whole show — espe­cially when she offers to team up with Wid­more (I’m think­ing she blames Ben for Jin’s sup­posed death, not Jack). Seems Sun’s father knows Wid­more well enough to play golf with him. What will hap­pen if Ben sends Sayid to kill Sun for work­ing with Widmore?

As for Ben and Locke, it seems to me that all Terry O’Quinn does now is beam with some sort of child­like won­der. And why doesn’t some­body just kill Ben already? It was clever though how he used his daughter’s mur­der to jus­tify killing Keamy — and thus blow up the freighter. Ben didn’t want any­one to get off the island, despite what he told Kate.

We also know that yes, Losties, you can time travel on and off the island. That video Locke was watch­ing also stopped at another con­ve­nient point. And mov­ing the whole mov­ing the island bit? Meh. For me, the char­ac­ters make the show, not the weird and illog­i­cal sci-fi stuff the island sup­pos­edly can do. Also, the island being sen­tient sounds like a load of hooey to me. But I’m not a big sci-fi fan.

As for Jack, I’m tired of him, his daddy issues, his guilt, and that nasty beard. And Claire — she had a whop­ping thirty sec­onds of screen time last night. Is she dead? Alive? A ghost? I don’t really care much about the Shep­herd clan anymore.

Still, the finale hooked me enough to keep watch­ing next year. I’ve got so much time invested in the show know I almost have to watch it until the end. Seems I can’t get off the island either.

What about you? Did you dig Lost this year?

BTW, I plan to recap some more of this year’s shows next week.