i dont keep up on the gossip and rumors, but my guess for what happens in the season finale is this: Jin dies.

here’s why:

1 - he doesnt speak English (yet…that might be a secret he is hiding like his wife was), so without any speaking parts, he is one of the most boring characters on the island. they already played out the racial fued with Michael and the conflict with his english-speaking wife. what’s left to discover about him? like i said, maybe he speaks english too, but i doubt it.

2 - His wife is a much more interesting character, and lets face it, this experience for her is all about being on her own and discovering who she is without Jin. she was trying to escape him in the first place, so i think this experience for her will be about finding herself and some such truck.

3 - the penultimate episode of the season set us up for it. Jin and his lady apologized, they sucked face, and i think if Jin dies his chica will be at peace in some sense because of how they departed. His apology and display of love and emotion was more than she had gotten from him in years, their relationship will have ended on a good note.

4- they can’t kill Locke, they are not that crazy. He is the Dylan McKay to Jack’s Brandon Walsh. Would it surprise people? of course, but i think they would lose more than they gain by getting rid of him. i also dont think they’ll kill walt or the baby because there are too many mysteries left surrounding both of them.

who else might die?

Sawyer - i doubt it. i love the attraction between him and Kate and what that does to Jack. He is an important part of the show’s dynamics. The only reason i might be convinced that he was going to die was that he was holding the secret about Jack’s late father’s remorse. And now that he told Jack that secret, maybe he is expendable.

Hurley - they have to keep him around just because of his connection to “the numbers”. plus he’s a funny guy, one of my favorites.

other thoughts:

I dont know what the significance of the “Black Rock” ship was, but it didnt really excite me as much as the hatch does. Is the island haunted by pirate ghosts? that would suck.

how do you think they tried to cast the role of Diane when they put an ad in the paper? “Looking for the freakiest woman of all time. Must be able to hold a look on your face like you are confused, psychotic, desperate, agitated, and ready wrestle a boar or eat another human at any time.” She scares me.

The person i really want to know more about is Walt. The whole “animals die around him” thing is intriguing, and his concern about the hatch (which he learned about just by touching Locke) was chilling.

looking forward to tonight…

what’s worse than getting up at 5am on a saturday to drive 45 minutes into work?

i’ll tell you what. getting there and being told that our study is cancelled because the operators started without us on 3rd shift.

doh. i’m looking for the silver lining, but havent found it yet. time to go home.

what’s this you say?

I don’t call?!?! I DON’T CALL?!!??!

I believe I have left you 2 or 3 messages in the past 4 weeks and how many responses have i received? None. Zero. Zilch. Nada.

You are the one cavorting around the country with Mr. Hanes while I am left wondering what hotel you’re shacking up in night after night. I’m cutting the grass, you’re driving cross country. I’m putting my kids to bed, you’re sipping Coors Lights at a bar in Passaic, New Jersey. I’m playing softball, you’re fooling around with the french-milled soap again.

and speaking of softball, it’s a misnomer. the ball isnt soft, and neither is the game. you have to bring it if you want to hack it in our league. When i put on that Saints uniform, and I know I have a game with the Ambassadors or In the Light Ministries, I’ve got enough adrenaline running through my veins to send a whole herd of mastiffs off a cliff. I’m not sure you could even handle being the batboy for our team. so don’t talk to me about softball.

You know how many times derek and i have nearly come to blows because he refused to bring his uber-talented wife up to the keystone state with him. And you want me to believe it’s a coincidence that the first time it occurs, it just so happens to fall on the same night that i have my first doubleheader of the season? You planned this davejac.net! You worked with the booking agent and the church in York, PA to make this happen. You spoke with the President of our softball league to make sure we were scheduled for a double-dip on that night. You even bribed our catcher to be out of town for the night, leaving us with only 1 substitute.

All i want to know is why? Why did you do it? To make me look like a bad fan, is that why? Were you just trying to turn Derek against me? Did you want Sandra to spit at the mention of my name? Were you trying to make me look bad in front of all the dotnetters that pledge their allegiance to me day after day after day? What was your motive, you yellow-bellied, swine-tickling, Kia-driving, skirt-wearing, Avalon fan? That’s all i want to know…why you did it.

Oh, and when are they coming back. I want to know that too. Because you can be sure that if there is a next time, and I’m willing to bet there will be, that I will be there to enjoy the croonings of the dashing, diminutive, depraved derek and his sensational singer/songwriter sweetheart sandra. i’ll beat you down before the show…enjoy the show…and then beat you some more afterwards just for fun. i am not one to be trifled with.

and please check my team schedule for all future visits to PA…thank you.

if you want to read an interesting blog, may i suggest Andy Osenga’s. he has been updating it frequently, with good rants on guitar gear, church hopping, and Oprah being full of crap.

Andy’s Blog

my Jetta just got inspected, emissions and all, plus work to replace a bad cam position center, spark plugs, and spark plug wires. can you say $590 that i didnt want to spend on my car?

oh, and my Odyssey just got body work done from the 3 times i have backed up into something and the two times we have driven into the garage door trim while pulling in. can you say $1163? thankfully we had saved for that.

in a related story, my savings account now has -$61 in it.

so my sis is getting married on memorial day, and we put together a honey-do list for me of things to take care of while we were on vacation. She’s getting married at the park near my house, by the way, right in the middle of Intercourse. It was my idea, kind of. I think its brilliant. The punch lines are endless. Anywho, here’s the status of the honey-do list at this point.

tonight, i help erica prepare for saturday’s yard sale.

friday night, doubleheader in softball (and i kick my own butt for missing derek and sandra)

saturday night, first ever hosted poker tourney

time to go home…