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We are less than four hours away to the first two episodes of LOST, season 5. Here’s where (and when) we left off:
When we left off (On-Island time):
January, 2005:
The Oceanic 6 are rescued – Jack, Sun, Kate, Aaron, Sayid, and Hurley
Desmond and Frank (helicopter pilot) is also rescued and is with Penny on her boat.
Claire: with her (and Jack’s) father, Christian Shepherd, in Jacob’s shack. Deceased?
Daniel Farraday and random people in raft: unknown
Ben Linus: responsible for moving the Island, got teleported/time traveled to Tunisia, October of 2005.
People on the Island that went … ?
John Locke: with the Others at their camp, on their way to the Temple.
Sawyer and Juliet: On the beach
Charlotte, Rose, Bernard, Miles and everyone else: on Island
RIP: Jin and Michael
In the Future, approximately 3 years, off-Island
Hurley and Sayid: Sayid is breaking Hurley out of Santa Rosa Mental Hospital
Kate and Aaron: Living together without Jack – avoiding him
Sun: About to start doing business with Charles Widmore, Penny’s father and owner of the freighter
Jack: With Ben at the funeral home
Ben: trying to get everyone back to the Island
John Locke, aka Jeremy Bentham: deceased, cause of death unknown
Sawyer, Juliet, Daniel, Charlotte, and everybody else: unknown
Mary Go Round 
Some interesting notes to keep in mind from some of my philosophy reading:
Jeremy Bentham figured that laws should be socially useful and not merely reflect the status quo; and, that while he believed that men inevitably pursue pleasure and avoid pain, Bentham thought it to be a “sacred truth” that “the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.” Bentham supposed that the whole of morality could be derived from “enlightened self-interest,” and that a person who always acted with a view to his own maximum satisfaction in the long run would always act rightly.
Bentham is to be compared to William Godwin: they resembled one another in their “blind contempt for the past.” While each preached the need for nonviolent revolution, each had a different following. Bentham’s revolution was to be effected by legislation, Godwin’s by argument.
I’m printing this to keep with me at the start tonight. Can’t wait.