I don’t have a lot of great theories although I have read some. I do believe though that Ben is a good guy and is trying to save the world.

My theory from episode one is that it is a giant alien space craft grown over from millions of years sitting in the water. Or it is a giant flying turtle that will at the end of the series take off and fly away. Either way it will launch and head home at the end of the series. Oh, and Ben is not the good guy. I think he has proven that more than once. Any good he does is only like any other move, to serve his ends.

At the end of the last episode the show will cut to a ranch in Crawford, TX. Sitting by a roaring fire will be a man-child shaking a snow globe of some island paradise. As the camera pulls away we hear a longing sigh as the man stares at the globe. We then overhear his wife commiserating off camera with someone…”All he does is stare at that snow globe and shout, “watch out for the black smoke.” We hear a door open and a shadow falls across the room. The camera pans up…it’s BEN…wearing a Presidential Medal of Freedom

The series will end with one of them waking up to realize it was all a dream. haha

In the very last scene, one of the characters will break the fourth wall and address the audience. He will say that they hope everyone has enjoyed the journey, but life is a mystery and some things will never be solved, and that we should all just be happy. The camera will pull away to reveal that they are on a large stage on a Broadway theater. The house is packed. They cast bursts into song, and all the cast members who have ever appeared on the show come back on stage for the finale. Famous people are in the audience, like Spielberg and DeNiro. One by one, the major characters come to the front of the stage to take a bow. The song reaches its final crescendo, the curtain closes and the credits roll.

Okay, I’m kidding!

They are in Purgatory. Only after sins/life problems are reconciled do they move on.

Ok, this is a “Lost” blog, not your personalpoliticalcrap blog…..
And on the real subject…
I don’t know how the writers could possibly tie up every loose end, because if you go back to the first season you see things like Charlie running down the beach trying to find someone to save a drowning person in the ocean, and Charlie’s yelling “I can’t swim!”, yet he swims down to the submerged station in season, what, season 4? And the fortune-teller told Claire before Aaron was born that the baby was in “great danger” and that “only (Claire) should raise the child” but then Claire appears to Kate last season and threatens her by saying “Don’t you DARE bring him back” to the island….
Some things are just never going to be resolved, but as long as the writers get back to making it about the characters and the interplay between their personalities and not about the mumbjo-jumbo-smoke-and-mirrors-supernatural crap as substitution for good writing, then the show will continue to have the support of those who watch with disbelief fully suspended. Because the characters are what we’re watching for, not the special effects b.s.

I predict Jack wakes up in bed with Bob Newhart at the end of the run.

“the fortune-teller told Claire before Aaron was born that the baby was in “great danger” and that “only (Claire) should raise the child” but then Claire appears to Kate last season and threatens her by saying “Don’t you DARE bring him back” to the island….”

How do you know that Claire was talking about Aaron when she said, “don’t you DARE bring him back?” I think Aaron’s a red herring.

The island is a giant time machine. Watch Sawyer this season doing his “Jumper” impersonation.