Having watched the Season 4 finale of LOST I have a lot of questions. The finale spanned three episodes, "There's No Place Like Home" parts 1, 2 and 3.
A word of advice, don't read on if you haven't seen all of Season 4, and don't want to get 'spoiled'.
I'm not going to try and summarise the three episodes, because it would take me hours, and even then I'd most likely miss something. But I will try an extremely abridged version. All three episodes featured flash forwards, looking at the Oceanic Six, how they deal with life off the island, and how they handle the circus immediately following their rescue. On the island, the plot deals with the survivors attempts to get onto the freighter whilst Locke and Ben continue on their mission to 'move the island'.
At the conclusion of the series, events on the island catch up with events shown in the various flash forwards.
There are some major revelations in the 3 part finale.
Major 'flash forward' revelations are:
The flash-forwards continue on from the final scene of Season 3, with Jack screaming "We have to go back" as Kate drives off.
Blaming her father for Jin's death, Sun buys up a controlling interest in her fathers company.
Hurley is given the rebuilt Camaro by his father, but then freaks out when he realises the odometer reading is displaying "the numbers".
At the funeral for Jack's father, Claire's mother confronts Jack, telling Jack that Claire was his half-sister. This makes Aaron, Jack's nephew.
Jack, Kate and Walt reveal they have all been approached by a man named Jeremy Bentham, who is trying to convince them to return to the island.
Jeremy Bentham is the dead guy in the coffin Jack visits in the Season 3 finale, "Through the Looking Glass", and is revealed to be John Locke at the conclusion of Season 4.
Hurley tells Sayid that dead people from the island visit him when he was plays chess with Mr. Eko in his room, when Sayid visits him.
Major 'on island' revelations are:
Locke is the one to tell Jack to lie about the island if they are successfully rescued.
The Orchid station houses a 'time traveling' device.
To 'move' the island, Ben goes behind the Orchid station, into a frozen chamber, wounds his right arm, then spins a large wheel. When he completes the rotation, there's a weird noise and a white flash and the island appears to disappear. Ben also disappears, and this ties in with his previous flash forward, from the episode "The Shape of Things to Come", which commenced with him waking up alarmed in the Sahara with a wounded right arm and vapor rising from him, wearing the Dharma parka. In a previous episodes flashback Charlotte finds a skeleton of a polar bear, and also a DHARMA collar with the Hydra station logo on it, in Tunisia (Sahara desert).
Charlotte reveals that she has been on the Island before.
Jin and Michael are apparently on the freighter when it explodes. Although in one of the flash forwards, when Hurley is speaking to Walt, he infers that Walts father is still alive on the island, it'd appear Hurley was lying.
As well as the Oceanic Six, Desmond and helicopter pilot Frank also make it off the island.
Christian Shepard (Jack's dad) appears to Michael and says, "You can go now."
So I have a lot of questions:
Ben tells Jack they all must return to the island together, does this include Frank, Desmond and Walt?
What happened to Daniel Faraday and the people on the raft he was ferrying to the freighter? Did they disappear with the island?
Where is the safe place (not the island) Sayid promises to take Hurley? and is Sayid still working for Ben at this stage?
It's previously mentioned that Jeremy Bentham has a son (in the obituary Jack carries around), if Bentham was actually Locke, then does Locke have a son and if so, is it one of the characters we've already met?
Where do Frank and Desmond go after leaving the island?
Has the island moved in location or in time as well?
If the island has moved forward in time, and the Oceanic Six return, will they be older whilst the other survivors have not aged?
Is the Island the city of Atlantis? According to some theories, the original location of the culture of Atlantis was near Tunesia, in the Middle-Sea. Ben appears in Tunisia after moving the island, and Charlotte also finds Polar Bear remains in Tunisia.
Has Charles Widmore been on the island before? If so, was he in charge of the Others before Ben, and did he move the island?
Is Charlotte the daughter of Charles Widmore, and therefore sister of Penny?
Is Ben to Charles as Locke is to Ben?
What's the deal with Richard Alpert? Was he a passenger on the Black Rock?
What is Sun and Charles Widmore's common goal? Is it to find the Island (as Sun may know Jin survived the explosion)? Or is it to find Ben, as he's the other person she blames for Jin's death?
What has happened to Claire? Is she dead or alive? If she's dead, how'd she die?
Why is Jack's dad speaking on behalf of Jacob?
Where has Jacob gone?
Interestingly, Jeremy Bentham (the alias used by John Locke) was a real person:
After his death, Bentham's body was preserved and stored in a wooden cabinet; this preserved body, called the "autoicon", has been on display at University College London since 1850, and every fifty years is brought to the College Council meeting where Bentham is listed as "present but not voting". Source: Wikipedia
One interesting theory getting thrown around is that the Island is actually the lost city of Atlantis.
According to some theories, the original location of the culture of Atlantis was near Tunisia, in the Middle-Sea. Ben appears in Tunisia after moving the island, and Charlotte also finds Polar Bear remains in Tunisia.
Here's some interesting information:
The story of this lost city has been around since 355 B.C. Plato wrote about this lost land in two dialogues, Timaeus and Critias. Plato believed that this land was near the Straits of Gibraltar until its destruction 10,000 years prior.
Source.
My history and geography is not the greatest, so I'm not sure where the Straits of Gibraltar fit in relation to Tunisia. There's more information on Wikipedia, if you feel so inclined. An ancient civilization would definitely shed some light on that four toed statue that still has me guessing from Season Two.
One other big question is, how will the next series unfold given that the 'present' seems to have caught up to the flash forwards?
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