What are you lookin' at?

Didn't know this had been out there for so long — it's footage from the orientation video for The Orchid station ... a lot more footage than we and Locke saw last night.

Does this mean ...

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So they answered who's in the coffin, but "Lost" has never gotten back to the question that's burning in my overwrought little brain: what the hell's up with the four-toed statue?

Some more thoughts and theories after opening last night's coffin ...

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As revealed this morning on ABC's "Good Morning America," the production of "Lost" filmed three different endings to last night's Season Four finale — as a means of confounding any spoilers and sneak peeks.

Basically, it was the same final scene, but with three different people shown in the coffin ...

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This will take some processing. But here are a few immediate thoughts following the big Season Four finale tonight of "Lost":

Namely — the name Jeremy Bentham. It's yet another moniker on this show borrowed from real life. Bentham was a philosopher (a contemporary of the real John Locke...yikes) who, according to this early but dead-on "Lost" theory, proposed the idea for the Panopticon, a type of prison:

"The concept of the design is to allow an observer to observe (-opticon) all (pan-) prisoners without the prisoners being able to tell if they are being observed or not, thus conveying a 'sentiment of an invisible omniscience.' In his own words, Bentham described the Panopticon as 'a new mode of obtaining power of mind over mind, in a quantity hitherto without example.' "

Discuss.

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"A place where miracles happen"

More scenes from tonight's big finish...

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We are, too. And trying to get straight in our heads all the new information that was laid out in this truncated but still action-packed Season Four of ABC's maddening and marvelous drama.

Wade in the water: Jack remains all wet in tonight's Season Four finale of "Lost." (ABC)

Entertainment Weekly has laid out a helpful gallery of Season Four's best moments.

Speculation seems to be leaning toward tonight's finale shedding some light on just who is in the coffin we saw in the first series of flash-forwards — at the funeral only Jack attended.

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So they're just going to ... move the island. OK. No problem. How do you pack for that?

Locke goes back to visit some old friends in last night's episode of "Lost," from YouTube

But if you were thinking during last night's episode of "Lost," "Gosh, I hope we can have a few more hours of this madness before we ind out what the hell's going on!" — you're in luck.

The show is still wrapping up in 2010, but ABC has decided to add a few extra hours to the story, including an extra hour to this month's season finale.

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