This episodeย helped to mitigateย my sense that LOSTย might, in spite ofย having a set number ofย seasonsย to tell the story, nevertheless manage to endย in a manner not entirely unlike aย train wreck. There is little time left to bring the story to a conclusion, and Iโm not looking for every question to be answered, but I do hope that we will not be left withย lots of glaringย contradictions. A novelist has the chance to revise earlier parts of the book once she or he has told the whole story. With a TV show, where episodes are aired sequentially, the possibility to go back and revise is not there. And so, if the writers and producers of LOST are able to bring such a complex story to a coherent end, it will be a work of genius, proof that Locke was right โ the island isย a place where miracles happen.
Letโs see what we learned [SPOILERS FOLLOW]. Perhaps the most important thing we learned is that Desmond is the โpackageโ that was kept in the locked room on the submarine. Apparently he is the best hope for preventing the smoke monster from getting off the island. But why?
The pockets of electromagnetic energy around the island also seem to be important somehow: Zoe is a geophysicist.
Seeing an encounter across the sonic fence barrier between โJohn Lockeโ and Charles Widmore was impressive. If it is true that Widmore knows more than he has said about the smoke monster, how did he know what his role was supposed to be in all this, after being away from the island for so long? What is his mission, and what is the background to it?
What do you think it all means?ย I feel like by nowย we ought to be able to speculate intelligently aboutย what remains to happen between now and the final episode, and it is the sense that so much is still uncertain that leaves me feeling somewhat apprehensive.
What about you? Are you like Sayid when it comes to LOST?