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<\/a>The producers of LOST said some time ago that they were not <\/em>going to give the sort of \u201canswer\u201d to the questions LOST raises that George Lucas did when he \u201cexplained\u201d the Force in terms of midi-chlorians. But some people have been dissatisfied, and so I thought I\u2019d offer my own attempt at giving a \u201cmidi-chlorian ending\u201d to LOST. My hope is not so much that it will satisfy as that it will show why taking this route doesn\u2019t really satisfy in any meaningful sense. And for what it\u2019s worth, my own preferred alternate ending for LOST is the Scooby Doo ending, in which Jack pulls off Flocke\u2019s face, showing him to be the Man in Black, and the latter utters the last words of the show: \u201cAnd I would have gotten away with it, if it weren\u2019t for you meddling Oceanic Flight 815 survivors and your dog.\u201d Black screen. \u201cLOST\u201d in white letters.<\/div>\nNow, on to the \u201cmidi-chlorian ending for LOST.\u201d At the heart of the island is an energy, an energy that surrounds us, and penetrates us, and binds the galaxy together. It gives life to all things, and a little bit of it is in each one of us. It is mediated to us through tiny organisms called midi-chlorians. And since midi-chlorians are so closely connected with the Force, at the heart of the island there is a high concentration not only of Force energy but of independently living midi-chlorians.<\/p>\n
When Jacob\u2019s brother was sent downstream into the cave of light, he landed right in the midst of those midi-chlorians. His own midi-chlorians \u2013 in essence, his soul \u2013 left his body to join with them, and having been stirred up, together they issued forth from the cave as a cloud of smoke, while Jacob\u2019s brother\u2019s lifeless body flowed out of the cave and down the stream, where Jacob eventually found it.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\nThese free-standing midi-chlorians were dominated by the personality of Jacob\u2019s brother, since none of the other midi-chlorians had ever been in a symbiotic relationship with a human host. But this \u201centity\u201d found that it could find other dead individuals and draw their midi-chlorians into itself, allowing their form to be taken (although communicating with the midi-chlorians in a living person who remembered the dead individual helped fill in the picture).<\/p>\n
Now, we can set aside other details and focus on one: why was it important for the black smoke not to leave the island? On the one hand, the symbiotic relationship between the midi-chlorians and the Force would have been disrupted if\u00a0the connection between them were severed by great distance. On the other hand, the black smoke would eventually absorb everyone\u2019s midi-chlorians, preventing their life essence, their souls, from\u00a0eventually returning to the light from which they originated.<\/p>\n
So there you have it, an \u201cexplanation\u201d of the sort Star Wars offered for the Force. I\u00a0don\u2019t know what J. J. Abrams or\u00a0Carlton Cure or Damon\u00a0Lindelof would have to say about it. But I\u2019m curious whether, if at some point they had taken the time to say these things on the show (Qui-Gon could appear as a ghost and read by blog post or something like that), would those who wanted more explanations have felt more satisfied?<\/p>\n
Also relevant to the topic of clarifying LOST is this video explanation of LOST using post-it notes<\/a>:<\/p>\n