Below is the transcript of today's "Lost" finale live chat hosted by our extraordinary "Lost" blogger, Luci Chavez.

If you want to read Luci's 3-part recap of the big finale (as well as recaps of all episodes this season), they're all right here.

The last installment of Luci's 3-part "Lost" finale recap (read  part 2):

SPOILER ALERT

A taxi arrives at a church. It's Real Locke in WITPDCAR. He gets into his wheelchair. He sees Ben outside. Ben apologizes for everything. "I was selfish. Jealous. You were special, John. And I wasn't." "Ben, if it helps, I forgive you." Ben chooses to stay outside even though everyone else is inside. (A self-imposed penance perhaps?) Ben tells Locke he doesn't need the wheelchair anymore and Locke walks into the church on his own two legs.

More from Luci Chavez on last night's "Lost" finale (read part 1 of recap here):

Juliet, Claire and David (Dylan Minnette) are walking into he concert in WITPDCAR. Juliet has to go back to the hospital, I presume. Charlie is passed out in the green room until the lovely Charlotte wakes him. "I got shot by a fat man." Daniel Farraday/Widmore (Jeremy Davies) is in the green room, too. He and Charlotte meet.

Outside, David and Claire sit at Table 23 with Desmond and Kate. (The producers think they're so cute.) Dr. Chang is emceeing the event. It is his museum after all. Daniel Widmore is going to jam with Drive Shaft while playing classical piano. Highly unlikely in real life because, in my mind, Drive Shaft is basically Oasis but I don't even care because there is Charlie with his bass looking just shy of sober! Yeah!!!!

Here are the really hilarious "alternate endings" to the "Lost" finale as presented last night on Jimmy Kimmel's special "Lost" postmortem (which was so good). Even if you don't watch "Lost," these are fantastic and you'll enjoy them, I promise.

Our "Lost" recapper Luci Chavez on last night's finale. Luci will be
hosting a live chat on the finale today at the News & Observer site
at noon. Please join her! 

I have bogarted other people's DVR's to watch Lost. I have stayed up until 3-4 a.m. after late Duke basketball games to watch Lost.

I have vigilantly avoided nearly all internet speculation about Lost for the past three years. I've put friends under radio silence so as to avoid spoiling one second of the best TV show ever.

Consider what a TV show needs to do to inspire that kind of devotion and
emotion every week.

Now multiply it by 150.

The payoff came Sunday night while watching the 2 1/2-hour series
finale.

The series finale of Lost was grand and epic yet achingly intimate and personal. While Lindelcuse stayed true to the show's "what the hell was that" roots with an ending left open to interpretation, it satisfied me emotionally in every way.

TV Guide has published obituaries for every character who has ever died on "Lost," starting with Boone and ending with Sun and Jin. Good stuff, but I wish they were written in the style of real newspaper obits. You can also chime in with your own condolence wishes.

R.I.P. 

If you're a true Lostie, you don't need us to remind you that the big series finale is taking place tonight (you can even watch on a movie screen, if you want).

The action starts at 7pm on ABC (crossing fingers there are no severe weather warnings from WTVD!) with a 2-hour retrospective, and then the final episode follows at 9pm. That will last two-and-a-half hours. Then you've got the late local news, and then a special episode of "Jimmy Kimmel Live" featuring the cast and executive producers, who will show alternate endings. 

At that point you might as well just stay up all night and maybe rewatch the finale again.

Then tomorrow at noon, visit newsobserver.com to chat live with our "Lost" blogger Luci Chavez -- the best "Lost" recapper in this or any other universe.  You might even win a special prize!

If you're a Lostie in need of moral support for Sunday night's big series finale, Raleighwood Cinema Grill could be the place for you.

The movie theater/restaurant is showing all of Sunday night's "Lost" programming on their 35-foot screen, free of charge (they will be selling their regular full-service menu of appetizers, entrees, desserts, beer, etc.).

"Lost" begins on Sunday with a special two-hour recap/retrospective starting at 7pm, with the finale following at 9pm and running two-and-a-half hours (here's the full viewing guide, including information about additional programming on Saturday).

Our "Lost" blogger Luci Chavez on last night's episode. If you want to email her and commiserate, go for it.

There is a candidate. And as much as I want to scream and rail, now knowing who it is, I cannot. We knew it all along.

Sunday cannot come soon enough. I am not sure how much more of this my TV heart can take.

SPOILER ALERT

Would you believe our obsessed "Lost" blogger Luci Chavez was about to miss the big finale?! Here's the panic-filled message we received last night. The subject line of her email can't be reprinted in this blog...

My deepest apologies, Lost fans. I have religiously avoided the internet so as to avoid spoiling one second of Lost. I want to FEEL it, you feel me?

But I've mentioned the series finale date before and I WAS WRONG. (That's the same thing I screamed out at the beginning of the season 4 finale.)

Here's the schedule (with times, just in case, for DVR purposes) with my apologies:
-Tonight, ABC, 9 p.m. -- "What They Died For" (62 minutes)
-Saturday, ABC, 8 p.m. -- "Pilot" (120 minutes)
-Sunday, ABC, 7-9 p.m. -- "The Final Journey" A final recap and series retrospective (120 minutes)
-Sunday, ABC, 9-11:30 p.m. -- "The End" (150 minutes)

I'm so ready to be enlightened.