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<\/a><\/div>\nThis episode\u00a0helped to mitigate\u00a0my sense that LOST\u00a0might, in spite of\u00a0having a set number of\u00a0seasons\u00a0to tell the story, nevertheless manage to end\u00a0in a manner not entirely unlike a\u00a0train wreck. There is little time left to bring the story to a conclusion, and I\u2019m not looking for every question to be answered, but I do hope that we will not be left with\u00a0lots of glaring\u00a0contradictions. 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 \u2013 the island is\u00a0a place where miracles happen.<\/p><\/div>\n
Let\u2019s see what we learned [SPOILERS FOLLOW]. Perhaps the most important thing we learned is that Desmond is the \u201cpackage\u201d 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? <\/p>\n
The pockets of electromagnetic energy around the island also seem to be important somehow: Zoe is a geophysicist.<\/p>\n