Your move, Mr. Eko

There are two types of Lost fans - those who were mostly amazed and occasionally annoyed by last night's slam-bang, two-hour season finale extravaganza, and those who hate freedom and want the terrorists to win. It's going to be a looong wait until January (yes, January) to see what happens next with season 5.

But here's some of what we know now: how Jin died, why Sawyer wasn't one of the Oceanic Six, how the Oceanic Six actually got off the island, how (kind of) Ben ended up in Tunisia wearing a winter parka, who was in the coffin, why the Oceanic Six have lied about their ordeal, whether Desmond and Penny ever would get back together, how to move a tropical island.

Of course, now we have a whole bunch of new questions - who the heck built the island-moving-wheel? are Daniel and the other Losties who were on that speedboat heading to the freighter when it blew up dead in the middle of the ocean or did they teleport with the island? Is Sun teaming up with Widmore to get revenge on Jack (Jack indicating that Sun blames him for Jin's death - which really doesn't quite make sense, but you know how chicks are - totally irrational)? Why do the Oceanic Six, including dead Locke, need to return to the island? (was it me or did kate apologizing to sleeping Aaron seem to indicate she had decided they in fact did need to return?) Why did Ghost Whisperer guy and Charlotte remain on the island?

Some fairly solid speculations - the Orchid hatch is how folks like Richard have been bouncing through time.

Some based-on-nothing speculations - Widmore once moved the island. We seem to think he's been there before, by the fact he is looking for it and that he indicated to Ben 'you took what was mine.' Makes me wonder if before Ben, Widmore was the one in communication with Jacob and he moved the island for some reason and has been driven to return yet cannot.

Nice touches - Hurley playing chess with Eko. The Christian Shepard apparition showing up and telling Michael 'you can go now' before the boat goes kablooey. Yet another partial Dharma videotape giving us just a hint of what's going on - and each time Dr. Marvin Kendall has a different name in the video. The big bad mercenary guy getting what's coming to him, though unfortunately it came at the expense of many lost innocent lives. But at least the island is now a peaceful democracy instead of a haven for terror. Whoops, political commentary in Lost Talk, sorry.

Annoyances - the wheel that moves the island and that magic realism stuff going on there; am really having a love/hate relationship with that aspect of the show. the Eko/Christian Shepard/ghosts thing - dammit, I want some explanation, some clue, something to help explain all this.

Trivia - Jeremy Bentham, Locke's pseudonym, was a noted English philosopher, best known for the idea of utilitarianism - that something's moral worth is gauged by how much pleasure and happiness it brings society as a whole, and thus by its outcome. Perhaps an allusion to choices Locke makes that cause great damage and suffering to the island in the time between the Oceanic Six leaving and Jack growing his Jim-Morrison-in-Paris beard?

In closing - that episode rocked. Your thoughts, speculation, take?