Okay, I know we went over this last night, I agree about Jack, though, in all fairness, I figured they were going to kill someone that had been around the whole series. I do wish they'd brought back Weiss and maybe Will, but *sigh*...The tower with Isabelle was predictable as was the new baby being named Jack.

As to Jack committing suicide...I got the feeling that he wouldn't have survived the gunshot wounds long enough to make it through transport and surgery--part of why Syd didn't want to leave him, she wanted to be there till the end. You're lovely little AU only has one problem--I'm not sure Jack had enough strength left to throw anybody down a flight of stairs, at least not an uninjured, healthy person.

And as much as I liked Irina? I never trusted her the way you did. I hoped she wasn't evil, but, because of how many times she'd betrayed Syd before, despite the fact that she loved her and Jack, I just couldn't see her ending up a good guy. I don't think the revelation that Irina has been the 'big bad all along' was that retarded or even surprising. It's hinted all the way along that she was in deep, had connections to Rambaldi and all that and was very power-hungry. *shrugs* That's just me.

And look at it this way: At least they told you what happens to everybody, unlike with Joan, hmm?