Lost until January …

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So I watched the season finale of Lost last night. Warning: There be spoilers ahead.

Overall, I thought it was a good, but not great finale. Mainly because I could see where so much of the story was going. Two weeks ago, I predicted Sawyer was going to jump off that helicopter to save the others. And he did — proving in my opinion that he is a much better hero and match for Kate than Jack ever will be. And that scene of Sawyer coming up on the beach without his shirt? Yum. 😎

There was a lot of back and forth action tonight. To the helicopter, to the boat, back to the helicopter, to a life raft, to another boat. But we finally got some answers to the question of how the Oceanic 6 got off the island (they were on the helicopter when the freighter exploded). Although did anyone else think it was exceptionally convenient that none of the other background crash survivors on the freighter tried to get on the helicopter as it took off?

I think Michael died in the freighter explosion, given the fact he saw Jack’s dad who told him “he could go now.” But I don’t think Jin is really dead. He’s probably washed up back on the island (wherever the heck it went) by now. Besides, if they kill Jin off, they’re down to only a few main characters on the island — Locke, Sawyer, Juliet, Bernard, Rose, and the three science-types (of which Dan the math guy is the only one I like). But it looks like the island folks saw the freighter explode and will probably assume Jack, Kate, etc. are dead — until Jin washes back up on shore.

I loved the scene with Penny and Desmond. I think that was a perfect way to close out their story arc — and I hope the writers don’t ruin it by having Ben kill Penny. I was also happy they didn’t kill Frank the pilot off. And that fight scene with Sayid and Keamy was excellent.

So was Sun through the whole show — especially when she offers to team up with Widmore (I’m thinking she blames Ben for Jin’s supposed death, not Jack). Seems Sun’s father knows Widmore well enough to play golf with him. What will happen if Ben sends Sayid to kill Sun for working with Widmore?

As for Ben and Locke, it seems to me that all Terry O’Quinn does now is beam with some sort of childlike wonder. And why doesn’t somebody just kill Ben already? It was clever though how he used his daughter’s murder to justify killing Keamy — and thus blow up the freighter. Ben didn’t want anyone to get off the island, despite what he told Kate.

We also know that yes, Losties, you can time travel on and off the island. That video Locke was watching also stopped at another convenient point. And moving the whole moving the island bit? Meh. For me, the characters make the show, not the weird and illogical sci-fi stuff the island supposedly can do. Also, the island being sentient sounds like a load of hooey to me. But I’m not a big sci-fi fan.

As for Jack, I’m tired of him, his daddy issues, his guilt, and that nasty beard. And Claire — she had a whopping thirty seconds of screen time last night. Is she dead? Alive? A ghost? I don’t really care much about the Shepherd clan anymore.

Still, the finale hooked me enough to keep watching next year. I’ve got so much time invested in the show know I almost have to watch it until the end. Seems I can’t get off the island either. 😎

What about you? Did you dig Lost this year?

BTW, I plan to recap some more of this year’s shows next week.

4 Responses to “Lost until January …”

  1. Brian says:

    It was great. As suggested in Time Magazine, I think the show has been made stronger knowing that an end date has been set.

    The end with Locke dead really sets in play the upcoming season. Jack and Ben trying to get everyone to go back and finding out why Locke is forced off the island is a real solid place to start from. While not as big of a change as last season’s finale, it moves the story along very well.

  2. Jennifer Estep says:

    I’m just glad they’re not going to try to milk it for eight seasons like some shows do.

    Yeah, I imagine next year will be getting everyone back to the island. Although I do wonder if they’ll still do flash forwards/backwards with the characters who are off the island.

    And we need another Sawyer episode. Didn’t get one of those the whole season. To me, he’s the most interesting character now that they’ve sent Locke off into loony land.

  3. Aaron says:

    Spoilers ahead, of course:

    I just saw the finale of Lost this week (I didn’t catch it live) and I was quite impressed. I think this season has been the best yet. It was much more contained than any of the other seasons, I think – with a story arc that not only furthered the overall plot, but worked as a self-contained, smaller plot within the whole. Enough so, in fact, that with only a little help along the way from me, my girlfriend watched the whole season (her first season of Lost) and was just as rabid about it by the end as I was.

    I have heard a very well thought out theory that Ben is not killable just yet due to wacky time-traveling between the Island the “real world”. Something along the lines that the Island is in some kind of time loop (say, repeating the same 7 to 10 years over and over, but not in a Groundhog Day kind of way) and if you exit the Island, then come back, you’re guaranteed to live until the time you lived to before you went back in time to get to the Island? Widmore has probably been there (since Ben couldn’t kill him) and Ben has obviously been on and off the Island as well (hence not dying yet). Michael as well. (Consider the jamming gun this season that apparently had nothing wrong with it.) I know I’m not getting it all down there, but it’s a thought.

    I just keep getting the feeling that all the “Flash Forward” stuff this season will ultimately be eradicated from the time line by the characters heading back in time when traveling to the Island and stopping the circumstances from ever happening. Perhaps even by going as far back in time as the beginning of the series. (Jack’s odd circumstances upon waking after the crash lend a little credence to this – out in the woods, flat on his back? Is that how Ben appeared after teleporting off the Island in the flash forward?)

    Long post, I know!

  4. Jennifer Estep says:

    That’s one of the things that bugs me about the show these days. The mythology and how things work doesn’t seem to be consistent or even somewhat logical. To me, the writers just seem to be making it up as they go along and lose or ignore whatever elements they don’t like. Remember the smoke monster? We saw it what, once, this year?

    The whole time travel story makes my head hurt. Never been a big fan of the TT plot device.

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