Every once in awhile when I'm watching "Lost", I am momentarily taken out of the show and it's like I'm watching it for the first time. And that's when I realize that everything that is being said and everything that is going on is insane.
I love the show. I am completely into it. But I wonder: who is watching it? Are there really 15 million geniuses out there? Because you can't watch it casually. I am pretty hardcore, and I have no idea what the fuck is going on. I have to go on lostpedia immediately after every episode.
We are rapidly closing in on the end here, people. By my Daniel Faraday like calculations, there are only 17 episodes left. I guess I thought we'd be getting some real answers by now. Then again, we kinda are getting answers, but they're the kind of answers that then pose a million more questions.
Every once in awhile, it's good to take a step back and remember all of the shit that needs explanation. I've done this before, and it's time to do it again. So let's just go through a quick list of stuff that still makes no sense:
-The importance of Walt/why did the others want him so bad?
-(Seinfeld voice) what's the deal with Richard? We get the time travel thing, but why isn't this dude aging?
-what's the deal with Jacob?
-what does Jack's dad have to do with everything and is he Jacob and why?
-is there a connection between Jack's dad coming to the island in a coffin and Locke coming in a coffin?
-what happened to Claire?
-is this just a good ol' fashioned time traveling ghost story?
-how come a submarine can go to and from the island, but to "get back" there they had to go on a plane that was magically going to crash there?
-why were some of the people "lifted" off the plane that eloise told them to go on?
-uh, how did Locke come back from the dead? is Locke even Locke?
-what's with the temple, the heiroglyphics, and that old foot statue?
-here's a random one: wouldn't chang be a little more respective to someone telling him that he's from the future when he's been doing experiments with time travel?
-how is Locke talking to the island?
-what's up with those new people that crashed on the island and seem angry?
-who are the "teams" and their motives, i.e. the dudes who picked up miles in the van and said they were on the good team.
-smoke monster
Really? They're really going to clear all this up? I'm hopeful.
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Where are Rose & Bernard?!
In the first season, when Kate found the briefcase containing the guns in the lagoon, why were they handcuffed to two people who appeared to be sitting in airplane chairs?
Why do people have to be drugged to approach the island on the sub, but not drugged to leave the island? (Desmond did go a bit loony after all, when he left the island.)
Why was the psychic so set on only Claire raising Aaron? And what is the outcome of the fact that she's not raising him?
We know that they don't blow up the bomb because 30 years from now Edwin is going to be treated by Juliet for radiation burns after taking his shift on trying to repair the leak in the bomb. So what is the big incident that is supposed to happen? And is the incident why no one has been able to conceive a successful baby on the island? (Well, until Sun and Jin, anyway.)
Was Rose's cancer cured by the island or by the leaking radiation from the bomb? Why was she cured by Ben was accelerated?
Where the heck is little Ben? There was no sign of him in the camp this week.
And, as Stephanie asked, where are Rose and Bernard? When are they? Who else is with them?
And so many, many more questions.
Seriously, if they don't handle the Walt thing, I will be so upset!
I hope someone on the LOST writing team has a sort of list like this, so as they are writing the next 16 eps, it can be like mad-libs, fill in all the answers as they go. For some reason, no matter if they detonate the bomb or not and find that the plane never crashes, i still feel like the last episode will end with a crashed plane burning on the island, and the same people being on board.
I was having this conversation with someone the other day. Basically, I've given up on LOST. I think they've written themselves into a corner and unless they plan on making HUGE revelations in every episode from here on out, not everything is going to be resolved. I feel like the first season was written thinking "We'll never get picked up so we'll never have to explain any of this. Let's just start making shit up." And then, oops. Everyone loved it.
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