Lost has officially kicked off its 6th and final season. If you’ve been waiting for answers, this is where they’ll finally arrive, but show creators Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse won’t make it easy. Just as flashbacks and flash-forwards have been used, they’ve now introduced the concept of flash-sideways…yup, this show is now operating with two different realities.
The premiere opened with a very familiar flight hitting some familiar turbulence, but surprisingly, the flight did not crash, and more importantly, revealed a shot of Jacob’s statue…submerged under water. In the other reality, the losties were back in the present, all around the familiar site where Desmond (Henry Ian Cusick) blew the hatch up, under the impression that the plan cooked up by Faraday (Jeremy Davies) and Jack (Matthew Fox) did not work. Or did it?
Thanks to our friends at MrMet.net for verbalizing this theory, and putting some things in perspective. We could argue that, as Juliet (Elizabeth Mitchell) says, “It worked,” because the hydrogen bomb may have actually saved the island by helping neutralize the electromagnetic energy beneath the Swan station. We could reasonably say that this was the incident Dr. Chang (Francois Chau) referred to in the Swan station video, causing them to need to press the button every 108 minutes. What may have caused the island to sink was drilling too deep into the wall containing the electromagnetic energy. Had Jack and the rest of the losties sat back in 1977 and done nothing, (more…)
All right, wrapping up the complete Lost journey is of course, season 5, which holds one the biggest cliffhangers of all. It’s 1977 and Jack (Matthew Fox), Sawyer (Josh Holloway), Kate (Evangeline Lilly), and the rest of the gang attempt to blow up the Swan Station, and stop it from ever causing Flight 815 to crash on the island. Wait…what? We’ll back up to the beginning.
Season 4 left off with the Oceanic 6 leaving the island, forced to lie about what happened because the island vanished, as Ben (Michael Emerson) and Locke (Terry O’Quinn) moved it to protect it from Charles Widmore (Alan Dale). Yeah, that doesn’t make things any less confusing really…season 5 gets pretty weird. Sure, the island moved, but somehow the island became dislodged in time, causing the remaining survivors to experience violent time shifts. Making matters worse, the shifts eventually had the potential to cause brain aneurysms.
This really gave Daniel Faraday (Jeremy Davies) a great chance to shine in the season. Early on, Faraday stepped up, understanding the predicament and attempting to resolve it. He played a significant role not only in helping his friends survive the time shifts (for the most part…), but ultimately became the driving force for the finale’s events. Yup, it was he who showed up with the grand scheme of changing the past, despite his previous theory that whatever happened happened.
Granted, Faraday wasn’t the only character who stepped up this season. With some of the key leaders getting off the island, namely Jack, Kate, and Sayid (Naveen Andrews), those remaining looked to Sawyer…and he certainly stepped up. Sure, Faraday put some logic to the time shifts, but Sawyer got his people safely into the Dharma Initiative. Sure, they were stuck in 1974, but what else were they supposed to do while (more…)