ok, here's some good stuff from a friend in the states (although I think he means ABC, not NBC)
"So I was reading some comments on some blogs about Lost and came across a number of interesting observations concerning the finale, thought you might be interested.
"The name of the funeral home (Hoffs/Drawlar) anagrams to "Flash Forward."
"Do not think that Jack mentioning his father means that his father is alive. No one at the hospital acknowledged such a fact. And when the pharmacist tried to call the office he storms away saying don't bother." Just because he was drunkenly ranting about his father doesn't mean his father is alive.
If Naomi was really a bad guy we had only her word for it that the world at large already thought they were dead
Naomi also told them that Oceanic went under after the crash due to financial difficulties arising from the crash. That doesn't jive with jack flying with them in the flash forward...proving either that won't really happen, or Naomi was lying, or both.
NBC has lot's of LOST related web sites for fans, part of the new kind of marketing by making a game of it - both drawing people into the world of your show, and drawing people to your websites. Heroes, for instance, setup a web site for the paper company where Mr Bennett worked, and if you went there and clicked on just the right things you could get clues and hints to look for other things. One of Lost sites like that was oceanic-airlines.com. It seems to be down now, but when it was up it said that the airline had to close down due to financial trouble.
Many people scanned the obituary Jack had from screen shots and came up with the full text.:
Here is the obit:
"The body of John Lantham of New York was found shortly after 4 am in the 4300 block of Grand Avenue.Ted Worden, a doorman at the Tower Lofts complex, heard loud noises coming from the victim's loft. Concerned for tenants' safety, he entered the loft and found the body hanging from a beam in the living room. According to Jaime Ortiz, a police spokesman, the incident was deemed a suicide after medical tests. Latham (sic) is survived by one teenaged son. Memorial services will be held at the Hoffs-Drawlar Funeral Home tomorrow evening."
Clearly there is no one named John Lantham on the show. Best guess as to who was on the show was Michael. Changed his name after getting back. He's the only character from New York other than Rose & Bernie. He's an Artist, hence the living in a loft. He's survived by a teenage son. The funeral parlor was in a poor black neighborhood of LA, and someone pointed out that it is very unlikely someone white would have a funeral there. No one would want to go to his funeral, certainly. He has more reason than anyone on the show - so far - to hang himself.
And they misspell his name the second time it's mentioned in the obit to Latham. John Latham is the name of an artist from the 50's who also devised a concept called "flat time". I'm not sure I understand it but in an explanation of a piece of art he devised to represent "flat time" the explanation says 'This represents the present moment in passing time which can only be made sense of when related to what has already gone, the past...".
that certainly seems meaningful in regards to Lost.
Anyhow, probably Michael."