***Spoilers Below!! This post discusses the Lost season finale! If you haven't seen it and don't want it spoiled, stop reading now!***
Wow, so that was awesome!
I stayed with Lost all season, even though there in the middle it was more out of momentum than interest. Within the last five or six weeks, though, it really got good again (I attribute it to the writing team hiring a comic book writer by the name of Brian K. Vaghn - but I'm a nerd like that).
The season finale last night actually had me cheering a couple of times - like when Hurley came riding in with his van and saved the day. I know it's kind of sick that I cheered about Hurley running over a guy and killing him, but I like to think I was cheering more about the fact that he stopped listening to everybody and proved his worth.
When they showed the first flashback with Jack and his beard I told Sara I thought it was actually a flash-forward, but then I changed my mind about three times before the end. Now a day later when they implied that it was actually a flash-forward I've changed my mind again and decided it actually was a flash back and that our crash survivors have actually been on the island before and that history keeps repeating itself somehow. I have nothing to support this theory, I'm just trying to come up with bizarre theories that sound plausible so I can be fascinating at parties (as fascinating as you can be at a party talking about nerdy theories about TV shows).
Sawyer continues to be the most interesting character for me. 
He's so completely out of his element being forced into community and relationships with his fellow survivors. And now we're seeing a new facet of him ever since he killed Locke's father. As one might imagine, when you devote your whole life to revenge - and then you get it - you're probably gonna feel pretty lost afterwards. Obviously the show's title works on several levels.
So let's talk. I know several of our readers watch Lost. What did you like about last night's episode? What did you hate? What did you think of Charlie's sacrifice? How about Jack's willingness to sacrifice the lives of a few for the good of many? Is Naomi really a bad guy? Did anybody else want Jack to keep punching Ben?
Talk!
Thursday, May 24, 2007
Lost season finale
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I watched the last hour of the finale last night. I have NEVER watched the show before. I just hear all you guys talking about it. I have some questions... Was that lady really that girls mother? Why did that dude shut the door and drown? Why didn't he shut the door from the outside? Why didn't he swim out of the port hole after the water level was to the top? How long have they been on that island? What company were they using for that cell phone? So many questions. I guess that's what I get for just watching the last hour of a show that's been building for 4 years!
1. The woman really is the girl's mother (I suppose Ben could be lying, but it's been hinted before that she is).
2. Charlie shut the door and allowed himself to drown because the other guy, Desmond, had a vision in which Charlie did this and it lead to everyone being rescued (Desmond has visions of the future quite often and they generally come true). Charlie didn't want to jinx his friends getting rescued by trying to save his own life, so he made sure everything that Desmond saw was exactly what happened.
3. Same answer for the porthole - and I'm guessing he probably wouldn't have fit through it.
4. I forget how long they've been there. Something like three months I think.
5. They're definitely not Cingular, because I can't even get reception in Lawerenceburg, much less an island in the middle of the ocean...
I'm trying to imagine watching last night's episode after never having seen the show. That had to be confusing.
Jason, you should rent seasons 1-3 this summer, it's such a good show, and it won't be back on until Feb.
I thought last night was probably one of the best episodes so far, although, It was PAINFUL to see Jack like that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm sad to think that they won't be on the island forever.
Patrick, that's not a bad thought... I was on a lost blog last night and people had even more crazy ideas than that!!!
I think that it is either John Locke or Sawyer in the casket...... what does everyone else think????????????
any chance that charlie is still alive??
If the funeral is indeed a flash-forward, then I'm guessing it's Locke in the casket.
And I suppose Charlie could still be alive, but that would really cheapen his death scene and sacrifice.
i have never blogged in my life, but i can see how this is addicting.
I read some online speculation on another website earlier today. One of the posters on the site pointed out that this episode started with Jack off the island (in the future you're eventually led to believe) and then did the whole whoosh flashback noise like they always do and deposited us on the island (making the island stuff the flashback).
What's the signifigance of that? Maybe nothing. Maybe the producers are just being cute. Or maybeeeeee season four will take place with everyone off the island and back in civilization and all the flashbacks will start telling the story of how they got resuced.
The other suggestion was that the Jack and Kate we saw in the future could just be the middle of the story. Maybe in the coming season, besides just seeing how the survivors got off the island, we'll see Jack lead them in an attempt to go back.
It's riiiidonkulous how excited I am about a stupid TV show right now. I should go read a book or something.
I think it was Ben in the casket. I also thought from the first shot of Jack that it was post-island. It got a little confusing because he kept talking about his dad as if he were alive, though. I'm so mad Charlie died. I don't think we've seen the end of him, though. It seems when people on the island believe they have a purpose, they seem to be healed or come back to life (like the one-eyed guy, not sure how to spell his name). Also, Locke was paralyzed again in the pit and ready to give up until Walt appeared to him, then it seemed to boost his faith that he was there for a purpose, and was suddenly able to walk again.
I agree with Tracy- I think it was Ben in the casket. A couple of questions that I walked away with though:
1. At the end, Kate said that she had to get back to someone. Was that her parole officer?
2. Does Jack insist that they go back because there are a lot of people still left on the island? Maybe the helicopter could only take so many people and then the batteries ran out on the phone so they couldn't find their way back.
3. Is Jack super human now? It seemed like he had a cut on his wrist from trying to end his life (yet still alive), he tries to jump off a bridge (yet still alive), he takes a huge bottle of pills (yet still alive), he walks in front of cars with no fear (you get it).
There were a few lines in the show that nag at the back of my mind....
1. After not shooting Jack, Locke told Jack that "he wasn't supposed to do that"... reminding me of when Desmond was told that he wasn't supposed to propose to Penny, but instead had to fulfill his destiny. This implies Jack has somehow screwed up the destiny of the islanders by calling the boat.
2. Jack told the Dr. to call his father down and see how sober he was and he also had a prescription written by his father. This implies that his father is still alive??
I'm beginning to migrate toward the theory of parallel universes that have somehow gotten mixed up. This plays into all the 'looking glass' innuendos and other clues like Charlie genuflexing with the left hand instead of the right.
To describe this theory, in Universe A, there were no survivors in the plane crash as Naomi described. The current survivors are from Universe B, but somehow got to Universe A through the magnetic fields. Now, the only way to keep all kinds of problems from happening in Universe A is if they are kept on the island and therefore don't interfere with the vacuum left by the death of the plane victims. If they leave the island, then they interfere with the destiny of Universe A. This is what Jack edperienced when he got back to civilization... his father really wasn't dead and a lot of the pain he had gone through he was going to now have to relive. I'm looking at other events through this lens and will keep evaluating it.
The theory about multiple worlds is interesting, however the producers continue to say that the "island" takes place in the "same time and space continuum." This totally messed up my theory of time warps. I'm now wondering if they are in Eden. I definitly believe there is a spiritual side to the story. I wouldn't be surprised if Jacob is from the Old Testament.
And about Charlie - I think he's really dead. He was in an interview saying he wanted to pursue other things.
And Patrick - yes, i did want to see Jack give Ben a few more punches.
Just for the record, I do know how to spell definitely.
Natalie, I had heard the writers say it wasn't purgatory, but hadn't heard that it was all in the same space/time. Guess I'll have to go back to the drawing board.
Definitely religious stuff there. In the 'answers' episode before the finale, they kept talking about the redemption of each of the characters. There are too many religious references and innuendos to even count at this point.
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