Just finished watching Lost...

I didn't like the storylines past season four or so, but man those were some of the greatest characters in TV history. The flashback episodes in season 1-3 were incredible.

Eko's death pissed me off.

It made no sense thematically.
I found out they killed him off because he didn't want to live in Hawaii anymore.

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Why didn't Ben move on? Was he creating a new reality for himself with Alex and Roussou in the purgatory?

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I thought it was more of him taking some more time to forgive himself for some of the things he did on the island. Obviously he redeemed himself because he was there, unlike Michael, but still needed more time.

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Damn, what a great show and I thought the finale was better than what I had heard.

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Definitely. It was a great finale, and a perfect way to end the series IMO. I get that a lot of people hated it, but I thought it was fantastic and pretty moving. That finale doesn't work unless you're invested in the characters completely, and I was.

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Its really better to watch it in binge mode because storylines are much easier to follow

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Definitely (again). I said that after my rewatch a couple years ago. As much as I enjoyed the weekly discussions here, it's much better to shotgun the episodes because you don't really have the time to dissect everything and try to question everything.

I'll try to answer your questions from what I remember.

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- If The Man in Black had become mortal after Desmond removed the stone, what was the threat of him getting off the island?

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I think that he was contained to the island, so it was "don't let him off." Even if he was mortal by that point, it was still in everyone's best interest to kill him/keep him there to not affect the outside world.

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- Why did the Man in Black need Locke's body?

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I don't remember this specifically, but I think the smoke monster took human form, so MIB was what he used until dead Locke came to the island (and then he took over him). Not sure about that though.

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- Why didn't Ben move on? Was he creating a new reality for himself with Alex and Roussou in the purgatory?

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Because he wasn't done atoning for his shite yet. He served with Hurley for however long, but still had more things to do before he moved on. And he wasn't really in that core group of characters anyway, so him moving on with all of them wasn't really necessary (really only Hurley befriended him and asked him to be his #2).

I'm on my phone too, so sorry if there are typos and whatnot. Someone else may be able to answer these better than I did.

its on my mount rushmore and I don't give a shite what anyone says, the finale was brilliant

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- If The Man in Black had become mortal after Desmond removed the stone, what was the threat of him getting off the island?

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I concluded that the Men in Black's mortality only lasted during the short period of time after the plug had been removed. Jack had to replace the plug, otherwise, the entire island would have been destroyed and possibly the entire earth depending on your perspective.

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- Why did the Man in Black need Locke's body?

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He needed Locke's body in order to fool Ben into killing Jacob; the MiB couldn't do it himself.

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its on my mount rushmore and I don't give a shite what anyone says, the finale was brilliant

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I agree. While I wasn't a huge fan of the flash "sideways," I thought it was a really good finale when it could've been a whole lot worse. I expected them to have a few more cliffhangers.

Gotta admit, when The Man in Black is getting ready to leave and the camera cuts to Jack yelling at him in the rain, I got chillbumps.

With all of it's flaws, it is the best experience I've had watching a TV show. The ride was fantastic.

Some of the best production quality on TV history on that show.

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and was some of my best years.

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it sounds lame but I agree. It's one of those things that you remember the time period more than anything. Here's my lost experience:

It was the summer between S4 ending and S5 beginning, and I had never seen an episode. I obviously heard great things so me and some buddies decided to give it a shot. We were in Athens and most people had left for summer, so it was just like 5 or 6 of us in our apt building. We rented disc 1 (first 4 eps) from the video store and watched, and were all instantly hooked. We built a little fort in the living room and we would all just get in the fort and rail LOST. Many extracurriculars involved as well. It was so, so addicting. We would watch LOST for like 10 hours straight. It was excruciating when I had a maymester class that traveled for a week and I couldnt' watch LOST. The last bit of S4 wasn't out on disc so I had to go to the SLC on campus with my headphones and watch LOST by myself. S5 and 6 we watched live but it wasn't quuiiiiite the same. That binge watching period watching 1-4 were just really good times with good friends. One of the reasons I'll always look back fondly on the show.