Friday, May 30, 2008

LOST (my patience)

I'm starting to really worry about LOST.

LOST is one of my favorite TV shows, but after tonight's season finale (and last new episode of 2008!) I'm starting to get annoyed. The questions raised to questions answered ratio is plummeting and with 38 episodes shouldn't we, the loyal fans, be getting SOME answers?

OK, so we know the circumstances around the Oceanic 6's homecoming, but we still don't know why the O6 feel it necessary to lie to the world population other than "to keep those we left behind safe." WHAT? The ones left behind are hidden away on an island that can be moved at will. No one knows where there people are in the first place.

OK, so we know why Ben appeared in a Tunisian desert in a parka, with a wounded arm, expelling frosty breath...and we know when he moved the island, he also moved forward in time because when he arrives in Tunisia he sees Sayid on the TV...why does this revelation leave me feeling so meh?

and OK, we know (ish) how Jin died. Although, does anyone really think Jin is dead? Don't you think we can't really be denied another emotional reunion like we got tonight between Desmond and Penny. But we don't know why Michael saw Christian Shephard right before the explosion - but I do assume it has something to do with why Claire saw him shortly after her house was bombed by the mercenaries.

and GREAT, we know Locke is in the coffin, and that apparently he inherited Ben's penchant for aliases...so now we get to mull all summer and fall about how Locke died and how, in some freaky Weekend at Bernie's way, the O6 is going to return him to the island.

I was really hoping my theory about the coffin being filled with a total stranger would prove true when we found out about Jeremy Bentham. My thought was that either Bentham would turn out to be a conspiracy crazed loon bent on proving that the O6 were lying about their story to the press or that Bentham would turn out to be a character with a tie to someone on Flight 815 that never quite believed all but 8 members of the flight died on impact and was determined to prove their loved one was still out there somewhere.

My theory held that it might have been Mike Walton, Ana Lucia's ex-partner, in that coffin. Big Mike was clearly in love with Ana (as evidenced in the season 4 premiere when he was interrogating Hurley.) After that creepy interrogation Mike would be convinced that there was more to Hurley's story and started digging. When he got close to the truth, Ben would dispatch Sayid to kill Mike. No one but Jack would want to go to the funeral because to Kate, Sun, Hurley and Sayid he was nothing but a thorn in their side. Jack would go, because he was hoping Mike would discover what they did, discover all about the island, and be the key to going "baaaack." But alas, I'm just spinning my wheels.

And so now the countdown is on to the series finale. Let's just hope season 5 sheds more light on answering all the dangling questions before my patience wears thin.

Here's a swank recap of all the season 4 flash-forwards in chronological order:


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