What I want from 'The Incident'

I will review Lost’s fifth season as a whole at the weekend but right now I’m like a geek on the night before geek-mas waiting for the finale. Tonight in America and tomorrow in the UK via lovely illegal torrents we will all witness ‘The Incident’, but here is my request list of what I want to see before another painfully frustrating 8-9 month hiatus.

1. An end to all this time-travel malarkey.
I enjoy the time-travel angle on the show, it has opened all manner of avenues for telling the story of the history of the island but enough is enough. For the final season get the shows main characters in the same place and the same time.

2. Desmond
I hate watching the struggle to keep everyone’s favourite scotch button pusher part of the show, as he is clearly now the most withdrawn of all the characters. Get him back on the island, or at least in the thick of the action.

3. More Widmore
I’ve liked everything involving Charles Widmore this season, in each of the three different period personas we have seen. The finale needs Widmore, stat.

4. I want what’s in the box to blow me away
Whatever is in this crate on the Hydra beach in 2007 better be good, the only reason you leave a box unopened is to raise the tension. I want it to be surprising and I want to see it this season, not wait anxiously until 2010. Don’t hatch us off again.

5. Christian Shepherd
Ghostly resurrected drunk surgeon can only wander in and out of episodes for so long without us getting bored waiting for the answer, why is Christian alive on the island?

6. Jacob
Quite self explanatory, we have been waiting a long time to find out who Pickett meant when he uttered the words “Jacob’s List” back in 3.06 “I Do”, which in case you were wondering was Autumn 2006. We’ve seen a ghostly presence but it’s not enough, it’s time for the powers that be to deliver the most anticipated character since the show began.

7. The big questions going into season six.
The majority of the fans will be already counting down the days until the sixth and final season but I want what comes up in the finale to make the wait excruciating. Keep the level of quality up, and the anticipation from the fans will follow. In Damon and Carlton we trust.

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