"Finale" is Not Accurate

See, when you call a TV episode a "finale" it means it should be the resolution of something. So, at the risk of repeating myself...

Chumps.

For those of you who watched the "Lost" finale last night, what did you learn? What new information did you get that made it worth sitting through 22 incredibly boring flashbacks this year? Anything that made you care more about any of these characters?

I didn't think so.

Okay, so there's no more hatch, which means no more shower and no more laundry. Charlie's deaf, which will hopefully make it impossible for him to sing or play the guitar. Eko and Locke are missing and presumed tedious. And the three stars of the show have been kidnapped by the Others, about whom we know just as little today as we did one year ago.

The one new wrinkle was the show's first non-flashback look at the outside world and it had...no context whatsoever. Nothing. You could have showed it at the beginning of the episode (or the season) and it would have had just as much relevance to the audience.

Well, enjoy the summer. Only four short months 'til we get yanked around again.