Lost Discussion Group: Finale Thoughts

SPOILER ALERT: Not that there's any bombshell information in this post, but if you like having your Lost experience unspoiled by even the teensiest hints of the future, you may want to sit this one out.

For the final LDG before the show itself returns next week—what's it been, a year?—I thought I'd circle back to the teaser-heavy Doc Jensen article I linked to Friday, which dropped some hints about what we may see in the final six hours (thanks to an extended season finale).

Consider this a general discussion thread for any wild speculation and/or questions about where the rest of the season is going, but here's a starter:

[T]he finale — whose Big Twist is code-named ''Frozen Donkey Wheel'' — will set the stage for another series reinvention. Citing the seventh Harry Potter book, in which J.K. Rowling broke her usual year-at-Hogwarts template, executive producer Damon Lindelof says, ''We're taking the same approach. You think the show is, 'Okay, they're on the Island, and then — whoosh — you're in the past or the future.' By the end of season 4, I think the audience is going to go, 'How can the show continue to be that?' And they are absolutely right.''

No more whoosh? Any thoughts on how the game is going to, yet again, change?