LOST Season 5 Finale

Time for a LOST geek-fest:

Things I didn't like about the end of Season 5:

• Didn't the whole motivation to detonate the H-bomb seem a little forced? Did anyone but Jack have any desire to go back to their lives pre-Island? And couldn't Faraday have provided a little bit more of an explanation as to how exploding an enormous bomb can change the dynamics of time? I thought the rules were pretty clear: if you travel to the past, you can't "change" anything, because anything you do there is what lead to the time that you came from. The LOST writers definitely seemed on board with that line of thought (they explored it with the attempted murder of young Ben Linus). So if they are going to break those rules, couldn't they have at least have had Daniel Faraday say some kind of quantum mechanic technical speak that nobody would understand, just to make it seem like he knows more than "I think maybe if we blow up a big bomb, that we can change the future".
• The scene with Sawyer holding Juliet's hand when she is about to fall into the magnet hole. Haven't we seen that scene, like, a million times before in, like, every action movie ever made? I expect a little more from LOST.
• Rose and Bernard. I was hoping that they were just dead or something. It took me about 1 second to remember how much they suck. Can I start a petition to the writers to have Rose killed in the most gruesome way possible?
• There is too much to keep track of right now. I really hope that Season 6 starts with everyone in the same time period. I'm definitely over the 30 year difference thing.

Things I liked about the end of Season 5:

• Evil John Locke. I'm not quite sure where they are going with that, but I like it.
• The idea that Miles brings up about the possibility that them detonating the H-bomb IS "the incident". If that were the case, then the dynamics of time travel are totally in order, and it makes for an awesome plot. I kind of wish that were the end of the show: Jack, in his attempt to save them all, detonates a bomb that he thinks is saving them, but in reality, that detonation is what eventually leads to them crashing on the island in the first place. And maybe that is what they are doing, but I'm not counting on it. Something tells me that Season 6 won't start with Jack, Kate, Sawyer, and Juliet all dead. But the whole time we've been seeing them 30 years in the past, I keep hoping for a hint that something they do in the past is what ends up dooming them in the future (present?).