You don’t “get” Lost. You experience it.
Although this blog primarily speaks to my love of movies, I sit on my butt watching TV, too. And one of the shows I’ve loved all along has been Lost, which has now entered its sixth and final season. Final season. I just hate writing that down. What will I do without Jack, Kate, Sawyer, Sayid, Hurley, Jin, Sun, Ben and Locke? With Richard and the Others? Dharma hatches, four-toed statues, Jacob? The island itself? WHAT?!?
Last night’s two-hour season premiere “LA X, Parts I and II” brought all those mind-bending, terribly wonderful experiences back, plus added some more. SPOILER ALERT! Juliet detonated the bomb (or did she?), initiating some kind of an explosion (we think) and perhaps creating an alternate timeline split. In one view, the ploy to stop the whole 815 crash from ever happening by blowing up the Swan hatch doesn’t work, but only sends the gang from 1977 back to 2007, still on the island. There’s the Fake Locke, aka the Smokey Monster or Man in Black, and a temple filled with the Others, with some kind of Fountain of Youth/healing waters.
The other view is that it DOES work, and we see what happens to everyone after the plane DOESN’T crash but lands safely in L.A. Except everything is skewed and weird and, well, lost.
I really could go on and on, and while I will most likely blog once a week about the show — just because I’m compelled to — for a full and complete analysis, I’m going to link you to EW.com’s Jeff Jenson, aka Doc Jensen, who does an absolute thorough job of dissecting each episode. He gets a tad philosophical and brings up some pretty out there references, but he’s also spot on.
And so the beginning of the end …