The penultimate season of Lost is now behind us, and we have one last hiatus to digest all that has been revealed. Locke's body is still in the box that was loaded on the Ajira flight. So, some dark personality has assumed his identity and been working against Jacob all this time. Jacob ended up being a young, vital and seemingly mortal man that has been on the Island since at least the time of the Black Rock but often takes road trips to the flashbacks of our Losties. And, oh yeah, Ben stabbed him to death! Sayid is in the process of dying from a gunshot wound. Juliet has plummeted to what we assume was her death at the drilling site for the Swan station, and, oh yeah, while she was down there, she detonated an H-bomb that threw our screens to white before lowering the boom. LOST. Whew!
As the series draws to a close, answers are coming at a more rapid pace, and the new questions that arise are pointing the way towards a certain resolution. The big picture comes more clearly into focus episode by episode, and there is no doubt that the mysteries and enigmas that have confounded audiences for years are about to be shown for what they are. It is an exciting time being on the cusp of revelation. All the big teases are about to pay off. Those of us who have been invested since Season 1 have been rewarded in numerous ways and know the best is yet to come.
Though Season 5 has brought us ever closer to the truth about the Island's greatest mysteries, it has also brought the realization that this all about to end. Whether that final episode of the final season lives up to the expectations we've put on it or not seems almost secondary. The fact of the matter is that Lost has been all about the journey, the journey of discovery for the characters as well as for us. What other show sends swarms of fans to Wikipedia to hunt down obscure references to Egyptian hieroglyphics or summaries of The Epic of Gilgamesh just in the hope that it might lead to a revealing tidbit that illuminates a character's motivation or an island conundrum? Time travel story lines have brought on some glorious headaches but opened new avenues of story telling possibilities. The cultural, literary, scientific and historical references have served as a means to further involve the most dedicated of fans, and if someone is incidentally educated in the process, well, so be it. But while the over-arching concepts and themes have made the show an intellectual's delight, without characters we care desperately about, Lost would be nothing but Philosophy 101 with really hot professors. Thankfully, we have seen character development that has been masterful. The transformations these people have gone through from the beginning to now run the gamut from inspiring to heartbreaking. We have cheered some of them on, and rooted against others (not to be confused with "the others"). But it is their stories that need resolution. We have taken this trek of island madness with Jack, Hurley, Sawyer, Jin, Sun , Kate & Co. Understanding all the mythology without giving these individuals closure would miss the point. They are the reason we keep coming back to Mystery Island. It is for these reasons that the Lost junkies among us are going to suffer severe withdrawals unless we find some other way to get a fix during the break.
There is only one solution to this problem. WE HAVE TO GO BAAACK!
As the series draws to a close, answers are coming at a more rapid pace, and the new questions that arise are pointing the way towards a certain resolution. The big picture comes more clearly into focus episode by episode, and there is no doubt that the mysteries and enigmas that have confounded audiences for years are about to be shown for what they are. It is an exciting time being on the cusp of revelation. All the big teases are about to pay off. Those of us who have been invested since Season 1 have been rewarded in numerous ways and know the best is yet to come.
Though Season 5 has brought us ever closer to the truth about the Island's greatest mysteries, it has also brought the realization that this all about to end. Whether that final episode of the final season lives up to the expectations we've put on it or not seems almost secondary. The fact of the matter is that Lost has been all about the journey, the journey of discovery for the characters as well as for us. What other show sends swarms of fans to Wikipedia to hunt down obscure references to Egyptian hieroglyphics or summaries of The Epic of Gilgamesh just in the hope that it might lead to a revealing tidbit that illuminates a character's motivation or an island conundrum? Time travel story lines have brought on some glorious headaches but opened new avenues of story telling possibilities. The cultural, literary, scientific and historical references have served as a means to further involve the most dedicated of fans, and if someone is incidentally educated in the process, well, so be it. But while the over-arching concepts and themes have made the show an intellectual's delight, without characters we care desperately about, Lost would be nothing but Philosophy 101 with really hot professors. Thankfully, we have seen character development that has been masterful. The transformations these people have gone through from the beginning to now run the gamut from inspiring to heartbreaking. We have cheered some of them on, and rooted against others (not to be confused with "the others"). But it is their stories that need resolution. We have taken this trek of island madness with Jack, Hurley, Sawyer, Jin, Sun , Kate & Co. Understanding all the mythology without giving these individuals closure would miss the point. They are the reason we keep coming back to Mystery Island. It is for these reasons that the Lost junkies among us are going to suffer severe withdrawals unless we find some other way to get a fix during the break.
There is only one solution to this problem. WE HAVE TO GO BAAACK!
Since our window for getting back to the Island won't be available until 2010 I am going to travel back in time to Seasons 1-5. In light of all we have recently learned it will be interesting to watch with a new appreciation and perhaps gain further insight into tidbits that would have been easily overlooked during the first viewing. Okay, the first eight viewings. Cause if you only watch an episode once, you are missing out my friend!
