[D-Roc]

I thought Hurley's chilling message to Jack was one of the best moments of this episode..no..season.

Time and time again we are being reminded of the missing piece of this story. It's been alluded to and hinted at, but never fully revealed - the idea that there are things which people are "supposed to do"..and "not supposed to do".

Some might call it freewill vs predetermination (fate)..however it goes far deeper than this in my opinion, because clearly there is still a choice which 'can' be made. Jack wasn't "supposed" to make that call (to the freighties) - yet he still made it. Jack wasn't "supposed" to raise Aaron - yet he raises him (for a time at least). So it's not simply freewill vs fate because people have made choices which have went against the grain of what they were supposed to do, and yet it has been their choice - not fates/the Universe.

So, should we be looking at this in terms of 'course correction' and the paradox of a life already lived..already experienced?

If you had only 10 chances to make the right sequences of choices..would you get it right first time round? ..how about 2nd or 3rd time? 4th..5th..6th, maybe?

What if the only way to make the right choice..to do what one is "supposed" to do, is via consequence - Widmore, Jack, Hugo, Michael..each of these men haunted with nightmares of the mistakes that they made and the choices that they got wrong..

To remove 'freewill' from these people would be folly, since as Ben once said:

"I want you to WANT to save my life". (3.04)

commitment is everything in Lost, it seems

"Commitment is what makes you TICK, Jack.." (2.11)

Time to get it right this time around..perhaps.