LOST: The Final Season (Spoilers)

[Mark]

He's only mostly dead.

You've called his blave.

 

[delericho]

About two seasons ago, I reached a point with Lost that I just had to know how it ends, but I don't particularly enjoy watching it. (I call this the "Wheel of Time" effect.)

The first two episodes of this season matched this entirely - too many new characters, too much that wasn't explained, too much jumping around, and yet I'm left waiting eagerly for the next episode.

So, to be honest, I'm glad it's finally coming to an end, but at the same time hoping that the writers do, somehow, manage to pull it all together.

 

[Quantum]

So you want everything to be explained in one episode instead of over a season?

There are about twenty episodes a season, so have some patience.

 

[delericho]

So you want everything to be explained in one episode instead of over a season?

No, but if they want to get everything covered, they need to start explaining some things, and they probably shouldn't be adding three or four new layers of mystery with so little time remaining.

There are about twenty episodes a season, so have some patience.

There are sixteen episodes this season, of which fourteen now remain. And I've been having patience for four years now. If they're going to explain things, the time is now.

 

[Shayuri]

I actually felt like these two episodes was where they were really starting to throw the final explanations together. I mean, we now know what "John Locke" is, in some measure. We have some idea of what his motivation is, assuming he's being truthful.

It now seems likely that most of the paranormal events we saw on the island were the result of this shape-changing 'smoke monster.' All part of its scheme. That was by no means clear before. What the nature of this 'monster' is...as it's obviously NOT a security system...is yet to be explored, but at least we have it embodied in a character that doesn't seem to mind talking now. Which is a good start.

I suppose my feeling is that we're being guided to ask the questions that really matter now. Now all they have to do is actually, y'know, answer them, and we'll have a nice ending.

 

[RigaMortus2]

It's the Doc Brown alternate time line theory going on

If Charlie doesn't play at the Enchantment Under the Sea dance, they will all be erased...

"You don't know who Doc Brown is? He invented the DeLorean." - Ben, Knocked Up

 

[EricNoah]

I love the idea of the old losties and the new not losties running into each other.

I knew in my head that one group was 2007 and another was alt-2004, but I didn't feel like I was hit over the head with it and I wonder if that was intentional - something to mislead us...

 

[Quantum]

My feeling is that they're showing what their lives would be like if they had never crashed on the Island. But I think that is doesn't quite happen that way because of the scene that shows the island on the bottom of the ocean. Somebody had to cause that island to sink. And I think that is what the focus of the story will be about.

And I think it will involve the final confrontation with the smoke being somehow.

It also remains to be seen who are the good guys and the bad guys in the conflict as well, and who they actually are.

 

[Remus Lupin]

Well, not much answered that episode. Are the writers aware this is the final season?

 

[Fast Learner]

I get the feeling they're reframing the questions so they can be answered more satisfactorily.