No new "LOST" until 2010?
So did everyone watch LOST last night?!?!
Holy. Crap.
The season finales have always been must-watch episodes of LOST and last night didn't disappoint.
Jacob seems to be some kind of god-like being attached to the island, but with the ability to leave occationally and make sure everyone gets traumatized or married (a bit redundant depending on who you ask). He's got a counterpart who wants him destroyed, too. I'd try to distinguish him more, but both he and Jacob kinda come off like opposite pages of the LL Bean summer catalogue. "These rugged khakis are great when frying fish in the sun and exchanging pleasant hatreds with that misguided someone on those unshaven days."
So we see Jacob at key moments of several of the different castaways' lives to offer some cryptic words or just cop a feel. Didin't he? It looked like he touched everyone. Except for Juliet. Please correct me if I'm wrong (matthew@imakereality.com or TWITTER), but did he appear in Juliet's flashback of her parents getting divorced? That seemed to be the only one that didn't fit the pattern. Is that why she (maybe) dies? Because he never came to see her, yet she's on the island anyway. That touch might be some kind of protection marker or somesuch. Maybe he's using a Ward of +10 Defense or maybe I'm a total geek who thinks about this too much. I also wonder what's up with the book he's seen reading right before John Locke is shoved out the window by his father. Flannery O'Conner's Everything that Rises Must Converge. It's already moving up the Amazon.com sales ranks and here's a quote from their review:
Review
Collection of nine short stories by Flannery O'connor, published posthumously in 1965. The flawed characters of each story are fully revealed in apocalyptic moments of conflict and violence that are presented with comic detachment. The title story is a tragicomedy about social pride, racial bigotry, generational conflict, false liberalism, and filial dependence. The protagonist Julian Chestny is hypocritically disdainful of his mother's prejudices. His smug selfishness is replaced with childish fear when she suffers a fatal stroke after being struck by a black woman she has insulted out of oblivious ignorance rather than malice. Similarly, "The Comforts of Home" is about an intellectual son with an Oedipus complex. Driven by the voice of his dead father, the son accidentally kills his sentimental mother in an attempt to murder a harlot. The other stories are "A View of the Woods," "Parker's Back," "The Enduring Chill," "Greenleaf," "The Lame Shall Enter First," "Revelation," and "Judgment Day." -- The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature
Looks like the book was there for a reason, to me.
Also, as a fan, I was really glad to see the return of two of my favorite characters: Rose and Bernard. These two were always great on-screen and seem to come off like the two people who might truly "get it." They're just living out their lives quite happily in a cottage by the ocean. You sure wouldn't hear me bitching about that! On the other hand, they might just be passive-aggressively leaving the story and subject to the randomness of others and were only present to tie up a plot-hole. Either way, it was a nice nod to the audience showing those two again.
And what do you think? Is the bomb going to negate the timeline or be the very catalyst they wanted to avoid? I think the flash of white and the white-inverted logo that ended the episode will send them thru time again, but with neither of those results. They still have a full season left, so to negate everything seems a little odd, not to mention the whole "it never happened" plot device being horribly cliche now.
So we sit on our hands and wait for the next season, completely unable to scratch the itch this show leaves in our brains with each cliffhanger.
At least we're garaunteed our final season! The show's done nothing but get better as soon as they revealed that there's not only an ending in sight, but a time limit to do it in.
That is all (for now).