"Lost and insecure/ You found me/ Lying on the floor/ Surround me/ Why'd you have to wait/ Where were you/ A little late/ You found me"

The final season of LOST premieres tonight and I honestly do not remember the last time I was THIS excited about something. I wasn't even this excited about this past Christmas and I live for that holiday. Since it's the last season (sob) we should be getting some answers. I just re-watched season five in the past week so I took some notes as I watched about what I need to know about. I've come to terms that not every little detail is going to get explained but I want some answers about:

Note Locke is the only one with his back turned. Significant? Probably.

Overall Mysteries:

-The significance of the numbers. 4 8 15 16 23 42. Is it just something to drive us viewers crazy? And whenever the producers needed to use a random number for an address or a flight number they already had six at their disposal? Was it just so Hurley would come to the island? WHAT DO THEY MEAN?

-The smoke monster. It's a security system. It judges people and decides if they can live. It makes clicking sounds and some people see white (I think only Locke) while others see black. Ben can summon it by pulling a plug in a drain (lame). And it can take the forms of other people. Is Smokey just the anti-Jacob? More on him later.

-Who are Adam and Eve? My money is now on Bernard and Rose. Minus the whole black and white stones deal, in the S5 finale, Bernard said "What does it matter if we're dead? As long as we are together?" I think this was sort of like in The Sixth Sense when the creepy little kid is saying how the people don't know they are dead and the camera is focused on Bruce Willis. The producers thought it was a dead (pun?) give away. I think this is also the case with B&R.

- I know the polar bears were turning the frozen donkey wheel but why polar bears? Just cause it was cold down there? Just to drive all of us crazy?

- What is up with the Black Rock? Why is it so important? Was it carrying Richard and he's been around ever since? Why is it in the middle of the island and carrying dynamite?

The Island:

-The "war". Who is it between? Are the Losties and Others going to team up against a new third party?

-If you're born on the island does that mean you have super powers? Ethan had superhuman strength/wouldn't die. Miles can talk to dead people. Maybe Daniel was too and that's why he is so brilliant?

-I think Eloise is the biggest villain on this show. She sent her own son to die. I knew it happened in the past so it needed to happen but really. I don't think this lady is at all good. And why does she leave the island? Why does she relinquish the power of being the leader? Or is she forced out cause she is pregs?

-Is Richard dead? Why doesn't he age? Why does he have such thick eyelashes giving him the appearance of eyeliner? Why has he been around forever yet he is always an advisor and never the leader? Cause the leader always dies/is banished? Why wouldn't he want a promotion?

-Is Ben good? Bad? Just in it for himself? Does he ever tell the truth?!

- Why did Naomi say there were "deceased RESIDING" on the island? Weird choice of words. Does that mean dead is not in fact dead?

- Was Kate flirting with Ben's dad, Roger? Did she want to be the mother of Ben's step-sibling? Gross.

- What was up with the brain washing room they had Karl in in the third season? What was the point of it?

- Who does Juliet look like? Ben's mom? The lady in the picture? Does this mean anything?

- Why was there a circle of ash around Jacob's cabin? To keep him in or others/Others out?

-What is in the guitar case Hurley is toting around these days?

-What the heck happened to Claire? Is she dead? Is she alive? Did someone take over her body? Why is she the only one to say they can't go back? Was that an evil force at work or the truth?

- What are the rules that Ben and Widmore are playing by? Why can't they kill each other? Is it like the Jacob and Anti-Jacob deal?

Who are you and why are you important:

-Christian Shepard, Jack's dad= good? bad? evil? awesome? WHO IS HE?!?

-Who is the economist? Is he in charge of the Ilana/Bram/third party that is now showing up?

- Did Locke's girlfriend Helen really die? Or was that fake just so Locke wouldn't give up on his mission to bring the Oceanic 6 back?

- Who is the "creative fellow" who invented the lamppost/found the island in the first place? Faraday? Richard? Someone we haven't met yet? Vincent for crying out?

- Why was Ilana in the hospital? What happened to her? Why do I just think of her as being Ana Lucia 2.0?

- Jack's grandfather, Ray, what's his deal? I find it hard to believe they introduced him solely to so Jack could get a pair of his dad's shoes. Grandpa Shepard a previous island inhabitant? I won't be surprised.

- What happened to Annie, Ben's little girlfriend? Besides the fact she has the best name ever, why is she important? Why do they keep bringing her up? Is she Charlotte's mom? Is Ben somehow the dad? Does he not know he is her dad? Is Annie Charlotte's mom and someone else is the dad? WHY IS SHE IMPORTANT?

- Are Eloise and Widmore in cahoots? And they had a baby together but clearly are no longer involved romantically or even friendly to one another. And he had Penny with some off-island chick. What's the deal with those two?

-What happened to baby Ji-Yeon? The poor kid gets abandoned by her mother and she's like three years old. Is she going to end up on the island? Is she special since she was conceived on the island and survived being born?

- Why does Daniel have a different last name than both his father and mother? Just a plot device? Ughhh.

- Why was Libby in the mental institution? Just because she was sad her husband died? Please. I need a real reason.

Special or Delusional:

-Walt. Why is he special? He killed all those birds (with his mind... when he got angry). He came back as a ghost-thing. Did they really just get rid of him cause he went through puberty and grew a few inches? Poor kid is acting in pizza roll commercials. Come on, throw the kid a bone in the last season.

- Why is Desmond special? He could see the future. He didn't get hit by the pendulum in the Lamppost station even though he was waltzing around not looking where it was going. He bounces around in time and in his mind. He didn't die when Ben shot him at close range... WHY IS HE SPECIAL (aside from his awesome accent and ruggedly handsome good looks)?!

-Is Locke special? Or was he just a carrying vessel for the Anti-Jacob? He has almost died like thirty times-- falls out of building, got shot several times, car crash, plane crash-- yet he continues to live. But he is the one who told Richard he was special. So is Richard only asking questions because he was told to do so and that in turn made Locke think he was special. So was he never really special at all?

Oceanic Flight 815:

- What happened to the kids from the tail section that got abducted by the Others in earlier seasons?

- What about Cindy the flight attendant? Was she an Other planted on the plane?

Farfetched Theories:

-This whole going back in time deal, what if just their brains went back in time? And whatever they thought/wanted/believed they were seeing they did?

-Another thing on Claire, let's just say this little bomb explosion thing works and they land safely at LAX. Maybe she gives him up for adoption and Kate adopts Baby Aaron. Just a little theory I came up with and I'm writing down in the event it is right.

-Baby Charlie: What if he somehow, since time pretty much means nothing now, grows up to be Charlie Pace? And what if Penny and Desmond die (God forbid) and he is adopted that's why he doesn't remember them as being his parents? Or maybe the creepy nurse that watches him while Penny is in the hospital room with Des is evil and kidnaps him. I just think it's strange they named him Charlie, okay?

Season Five Finale:

- Was Juliet pregnant at the end? She put her hand on her stomach and Bernard asked if she wanted tea. If she blew up everything maybe SHE is the reason people on the island can't have kids now and that's why she could never save the pregnant women.

- Sayid, Hurley, Jack, Kate, Sawyer, Locke, Jin and Sun were ALL physically touched by Jacob at some point in their lives. Does that mean something? Oh and Sayid and Hurley were the only two touched AFTER returning from the island. Significant? When Jacob goes to see Ilana, he's wearing gloves? Does that mean she's not special?

- Is Juliet alive after destroying the bomb?

- No one had ever seen Jacob... except all of our 06 plus Jin, Sawyer, and Locke. Of course they didn't realize it at the time, but why is he popping up in the real world but not to his own "people"?

- The guy in black in the S5 finale, the anti-Jacob? Who is he? The devil? Is he bad? Do we just assume Jacob is good? Maybe this guy is good? Why does he want to kill Jacob so badly? WHO IS HE?!

- Jacob says he isn't dead and apparently dies at the end. Thanks producers for talking about this guy for like four seasons and killing him the episode we meet him. I know he is coming back somehow but COME ON! Give me something!

- WHO IS COMING? Why did Jacob say that? The losties are coming back to the present? The third party containing Lapidus, Bram and Ilana and Locke's dead body are coming? WHO?!?

-The white screen at the end of season five instead of the usual black: WTF? A change in power, a change in time, a change of events... I NEED TO KNOW!!!!

Probably means nothing but I am writing it down anyway:

- What is with all the purple and blue these people wore in season 5?!?! Rewatching it all at once, I mean Richard has like 42 purple long sleeve button ups. He was a metrosexual even in the 1970s! But seriously, was there a sale on purple clothes in Hawaii or something. I know the color is associated with royalty but is there any other significance? Richard, Eloise, Kate, Sun, Juliet, dead-Locke, Sayid, a lot of the others under dead-Locke's lead are ALL wearing purple. And Ben, Jack, Richard again wear a lot of blue striped shirts. I mean vary it up a little bit.

Like I said, I watched about eight episodes in a little more than 24 hours. I am ready for this season. But after almost crying about eighteen times and actually crying several more times (Why did they have to kill Daniel? He was the best one! Why did I hate Juliet for three seasons only to pray she wouldn't be sucked down into the abyss?) I just don't know if I am going to be emotionally prepared for this season. Seriously, I was depressed when Daniel died and I barely knew him. I hated Juliet and I was sobbing when she died. WHAT IF THEY KILL JACK? Or Desmond? Or Sawyer? Or god forbid, Hurley, the heart of the show? I take it back, I understand why Libby checked into a mental institution for grief cause that might be happening if they kill any of the characters I love which is pretty much all of them.

Okay, Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof: BRING IT.

ETA: By now I've watched the premiere and maybe you noticed this post went through some changes. I changed nothing aside for organizing it into sections and highlighting key words and fixing typos (Okay fine, I added in the note about Ji-Yeon. But she wasn't mentioned in the premiere so it doesn't matter!). Several things I wrote were mentioned/highlighted/touched on in the premiere... guess it was just my destiny to write about them prior to the premiere. :)