Blew me away when Locke was in the coffin. How did they move the fucking island? What happens to Desmond and the pilot?

Questions questions questions!!!

Yes, the time shifting has me really confused, I don't think they moved the island (per-say) just it's location in time/space. I wonder if the island is Atlantis or something?

I'm just wondering why they all have to stay on the island why is it so important that they stay, it must have something to do with events that unfold if they don't.

Des and the pilot, ive got no idea, but I'm sure they are alive, I also think the others on the boat are alive, that person that appeared before it blew up must have moved them somehow.

I think they screwed up a bunch of great opportunities with poor writing for the episode.

The Orchid station gets glossed over in a few short minutes after the big lead up months ago when the producers "leaked" the orientation film for it. It really seems like the writing has gone downhill since season 2. The past few finales, they seem in such a hurry to entirely write off any loose ends and start over from scratch.

The "dead man's switch" on the guy's arm -- Kearney knew nothing about the flight 815 survivors who were ferrying back and forth from the island, so the only people who would be injured by his bomb would be the ship's crew (whom he had already demonstrated that he considered disposable). If he was going to wear such a thing, why did it even have to be real? Nobody on the island could previously see the boat anyways (or hear it blow up) to know it was real.

And the whole leaking gas tank on the helicopter thing seemed to be yet another excuse for Sawyer to stagger back on the beach without his shirt.

Season 5 won't be till 2009 and it looks like "Weekend at Locke's" as Ben Linus tells Jack it's mandatory to take his corpse back to the Island with the reluctant Oceanic 6.

Meanwhile, back on the Island, Sawyer will search for his missing shirt...