Last Lost Post (or not)

I was looking through my blog and found a post in February suggesting some bets about Lost before this last season started, so I thought it would be fun (for me, anyway) to see how I did.

Ok, so what kind of prop bets (as opposed to drinking games) can we suggest?

• What year will most of the action of this season take place?  
• 3-2 that it is 2007, the year the Ajira flight crashed.
• 5-1 that it is 2004, the year Oceanic 815 crashed.
• 6-1 that it is 2010, the present day.
• 10-1 that it is some other time.
•  Answer: 2007.
• Where will the action mostly take place?
• 3-5 that it will be on the Island.  But almost half of action in imagined community LA.
• The over/under of the original castaways dying this year (and this bet is a push if the series ends with the lives and deaths of all over the course of time a la Six Feet Under)?  Those who count are: Jack, Kate, Hurley, Locke, Sawyer, Jin, Sun.
•  Two.  
• Answer: Over: Jack, Jin, Sun.  Didn't even mention Sayid here.  What was I thinking?
•  That more than half of the aforementioned will have some kind of happy ending.
• 3-1
• Answer: Depends on your view of the LA reality, but just focusing on the Island folks: Less than half--Kate, Hurley, Sawyer.  Jack died happy, but that does not really count as a happy ending.
•  Hurley will eat to excess.
• 5-3
• Not really
• Juliet remains dead.
• 2-1
• More or less.
• The rebooting worked
• 3-2:  No.
• Some/most of the characters remember the alternative time line: 3-2.  Sort of.  Depends on what one means by alt time line.
• Who wins the ultimate battle:
• Jacob: 2-1
• Man in Black: 3-1
• Neither: 5-2
•  You could say that Jacob won since his plan was carried out.
•  We will find out why Aaron's predicted life scared the psychic?
• 10-1--my guess is that this gets entirely ignored.  Right, you are, Steve.
• Number of tailies that appear in this season for more than just a flashback?  
• Over/under is 3 (and that includes Bernard).  Libby, Bernard, Cindy (the flight attendant showed up several times).  Ana Lucia did show up in one episode, so over.
• Penny and Des live happily ever after
• 5-2:  Yes.
• Charles Widmore does not.
• 4-3.  Yes.
• Ben has a happy ending
• 25-1.  Ben defies the odds--happy ending as Hurley's second.  Plus his alt reality is pretty sweet, too.
•  Will the Lost-viewing public be satisfied by this season?
• 5-2.  Hmm, jury still out on that one.
• Will I be satisfied by the way the show finishes?
• 3-2 (I am relatively easy to please).  Yes.