"Tobacco companies went to court to continue advertising near high schools. Why would they do that?"

I have a secret theory that the Truth anti-smoking group is backed by the tobacco industry. Or they're just stupid. How many people are pushed to smoke just to spite those stupid ads? No, serious question. View this: Why Some Anti-Smoking Ads Succeed and Others Backfire. Also this: not surprisingly, anti-smoking ads sponsored by tobacco companies have the opposite effect.

Personally, I'm just tired of Truth insulting our intelligence.

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First this. Nothing new, but some confirmation.

I'm away from home so I'm not on my usual computer, and this browser makes Xanga do weird things with double-spacing, so I had to do weird things to counteract that later on.

I didn't plan on doing a commentary on the commentary, and I seemed to be right when the first little tibits popped up ("'There's No Place Like Home' is an homage to The Wizard of Oz"; "Kate was a fugitive at the time of the flight" -- wow, what insight). But then they started actually revealing relevant information about the Oceanic Cover-up. "The Oceanic 6 are the only survivors known to the outside world." So now we know that

• Oceanic doesn't know that it's a lie.
• The Oceanic 6 are presumably the ones who concocted the story. Why? (Maybe Widmore went to them directly?)
• They acknowledge some of the deaths that happened on the island (Boone fell, Charlie drowned).
• Aaron is actually 2 mo. old. Well, I could have found that out myself, but I was worried about a 5 week old was so huge.

I have to look over the cover story again, because it still doesn't make sense to me. Or maybe it just doesn't make sense at all. Like why did it take so long for the survivors to be recovered? I mean someone on the island they found had a freaking camera, they couldn't have been that isolated.

Other new things I noticed:

• Something on the beach when Sayid arrived in his dinghy. Sea turtle? Murdered doctor? Looking up screencaps.
• 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42 show up twice at Hurley's party: once on the speedometer, and throughout the crowd. It's not over!
• If I heard correctly, Sawyer actually calls Hurley 'Hugo' when he and Jack meet up with Lapidus.

9 o' clock, season finale time! I was really hoping they'd jump right into it without showing credits. Or any of this "Previously on 'Lost'" crap. We just saw "previously on 'Lost'", you made sure of that! Stupid move, producers.

• Ah, never mind. We're starting in the future... three years into the future. Evie is a great actress.
• "Hugo" again, what's up with that? Sawyer's changed dramatically since the barracks, I suppose this is part of that.
• Irrelevant, but I watched Daniel Dae Kim in "The Andromeda Strain" the other day. Hope to see him in more awesome projects like that.
• "Whispers are a sign that danger is near" said the commentary. And they seem to be indiscriminate as to who they warn.
• Good to see the two island factions teaming up like this. Warms my heart (awww).
• "They help us free you, we let them off the island." It's their decision? And thus, two more of the Oceanic Six escape.
• Flashforward to Hurley in the mental hospital. Adult Walt! I missed most of the opening credits, but that's Malcolm David Kelley alright.
• Who did Walt say came to see him? Ah, Jeremy Bentham (one of my favorite philosophers, a utilitarian I think -- not surprised by who it turned out to be).
• "We're lying to protect the ones who didn't make it off the island." We can trust Hurley.
• Jack is aggressively ignorant, as always, to the power of the island.
• "Lie to them.... If you do it half as well as you lie to yourself...." Great line.
• So this is good-bye for Locke and Jack.
• "After all that time you spent trying to get back here" Charlotte? Some possible connection to her excavation in Tunisia?
• Look, it's the time machine! Once again, I call the improbable and I'm right!
• Ben's cramming the Vault chock-full of metallic objects. Locke, don't even ask questions.
• Electromagnets, negative something or others. I was too awed to get any of that.

A commercial in which polar bears follow some kids around. Doesn't seem to be connected to "Lost", but my first thought was that we were glimpsing what would happen if Widmore found and marketed the Island. Wormhole polar bears for everyone!

• Looks like the Sawyer/Kate/Jack love triangle is over once and for all. Or at least Kate's not jerking people around.
• Um, we have to lose Sawyer before they get off the Island. He doesn't seem to want to bail out either. Don't die Sawyer, please!
• Keamy is unstoppable in his pursuit of Ben. Also, he seems to be a tad psychotic. If Keamy dies, he's taking the whole freighter with him.
• In my opinion, Locke is getting better with every episode. So is Ben.
• Charlotte thinks she can stay on the island temporarily. "Looking for where I was born." Okay then. Not asking questions.
• Everyone is headed toward the wired boat. Suspense!
• That was a weird shot with Sayid sticking his head out of the chopper.
• They're emptying the chopper. Saywer you are so noble.
• Good-bye, Sawyer. Wait, swim back to the island!
• Assassin Sayid is oh so suave. But why is he at Hurley's hospital?
• I didn't catch that name and I have no subtitles! Who committed suicide? Jeremy Bentham again, I assume.
• Eko visits too? That makes sense. At least Hurley's not lonely.
• I really hope Sawyer survived. Or at least I hope they let me believe Sawyer survives.
• Jin why would you risk your life when your marriage is happy and your wife is pregnant?
• Michael is all about family, as he has proved time and time and time again.
• "Lost" does excellent death scenes.
• Christian Shephard, the angel of death. Calling Michael to join him.
• Now where are the Oceanic Six bound?
• Widmore. Assassinate him, Sun! So they know about Widmore's involvement. Maybe next season (if there is one) will be about unraveling this mystery.
• Sawyer lived and is a world-class swimmer! Or he's a ghost. Sadly, the latter is incredibly likely.
• So everyone stays on the Island but the person who moves it.
• "Sorry for making your life so miserable." I don't think he hated it.
• Ha, it's like the end of The Lion King when Simba takes over.
• Secret passageways everywhere. Wtf, this particular hidden spot is creepy and very cool.
• Wow. So that's how you move an island.
• Oh the suspense. Maybe the Oceanic Six Official Cover Story isn't a total lie.
• Desmond has to live to get back to Penny. There would be no justice in the world if he dies before then.
• "Who's there?" It's Christian Shephard. Close enough, it's one of Christian Shephard's recruits. (Just look at Aaron's cute little bed!)
• "It's a miracle," says Kate. "He moved the island," says Hurley. "Pssh, whatever," says Jack. Aggressively ignorant. Why can't he just let the astonishment wash over like I do.
• Well, if you don't lie you'll all be locked up in mental institution, because what happened to you was ridiculous.
• Did someone say Widmore? It's Penny!
• Penny's crew, at least, is in on the lie.
• By the way, Penny, your father is a evil mastermind who made our final days on the Island very difficult. What do you want to do about this?
• How exactly are the islanders in danger? No one knows where the island is, and who's to say Widmore won't keep searching anyway?
• Okay, here we are. The much debated funeral scene. Behind curtain number one... watch the show end without revealing it, ha.
• Hi, Ben. Jack looks like a child that knows he's done something wrong.
• "All of you have to go back"! The Island wants them all.
• It's Locke in the coffin? I called it, I win!