Welp. They probably did more to clarify tonight than they have in 5 years. Obviously, there are still a lot of dangling threads (hell we still never got a complete explanation on the famous numbers) but ... Frankly, for all the frustration, I can't wait for Sunday. A 2.5 hour Finale followed by another two hour clip-fest followed by a Jimmy Kimmel special with the cast and crew. the writers insists they will answer tons of questions on Sunday so we'll see.
[spoilers] It looks like they're going the obvious route and making Jack the new protector after all. Pretty big reversal from a few weeks back for Ben. I'm gonna guess that Desmond's unique properties will allow him to get close to the light at the center of the island without turning into a smoke monster. [/spoilers]
[spoilers] Without considering what possible hope Ben has of harming Smokey when he has no idea where anyone who might be able to help him is or what they're doing, he seems to be going awfully far to "sell" it. I doubt anyone minded seeing Widmore killed, and "He doesn't get to save his daughter" was a nice touch, but I also doubt anyone believes Penny is gonna die. And dammit, Widmore's cute assistant with the glasses! This show has had a bad habit of killing off the cute honeys. Speaking of which, it was nice to see Anna Lucia again. [/spoilers]
LOST will be remembered, I think, as a "clever" show, but the few "answers" that they give are just when they even give them. It was well and truly over for me when they introduced the guy who could sense and talk to dead people. And this last episode had another one of those lines that make me want to punch the writers in the face: Hurley: Jacob, where have you been? Jacob: All that matters is that I'm here now. FUCK. RIGHT. OFF.
I'm largely enjoying it but that's mostly because I'm trying not to think of all the things they dangled in front of us that wil never be adequately explained.
Also, could the promo image for the final season - of the cast sitting behind a table - be ANY more of a BSG take? It's totally shameless!
Well, the BSG pic was based on The Last Supper, so if Lost is doing the same thing, they're spoofing Da Vinci, not Moore.
Yes, I know... but one TV show using the last supper as an inspiration is one thing. Another TV show using it a year later looks less like the use of an artistic masterpiece and more like a copy of another tV show.
I'm planning on watching it live for the first time in probably years. I fully expect to be greatly disappointed.
Two little things I liked in the finale: Jack saying to Desmond: See you in another life brother. The "church" window with the symbols for all major religions. Other than that, it sucked.
For consistency's sake, he should have. Either that or an explanation for why he didn't. Maybe it's because Smokey was dead or at least closer to death when he floated down there?
I can fanwank a couple other explanations, for what little it's worth. 1. There was always one and only one smoke monster that was imprisoned in the cave's light. Throwing Jacob's brother in the light, disrupted the light and allowed the smoke monster to get free. It instinctively took the form of Jacob's brother. So when Jack and Desmond were in the light, no smoke monster to free. 2. Being thrown in the light would turn any normal person into a smoke monster, but as protector of the Island, Jack can walk in the light all he wants. (It would kind of suck if the protector of the Island himself couldn't walk in the light) And Desmond can too thanks to his unique electromagnetic immunity. 3. Jacob's brother only turned into a smoke monster because of some inherently evil and distrusting part of his nature. Jack and Desmond don't have that part, so they didn't turn into a smoke monster. Of course, it would help to know what the smoke monster in fact from an objective, non-smoke monster, non-Jacob source so we could trust that information.
I don't know. I think they were trying to say that you have to die in the pool to become a smoke monster. Jack lived and walked out. Or... and I just thought of this... maybe Jack didn't become a smoke monster because he let go of life and moved on. Perhaps MIB refused to let go and clung to life after he was dead, hence smoke monster. DANG! I like that answer. Let's make it canon. Anyone else notice the skeleton in the cave, was that supposed to have some kind of meaning?
