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Debating 'Lost's' Season Finale Shocker
Last night was the big two-hour season finale of "Lost." Here at "Access Hollywood" we've got a large group of Lostees. After each episode we debate over email what we have seen and our theories on the show. Take a peak at what staffers here thought about how season four wrapped up.
EM: One Word: Awe-SOME. Two Words: Kicked-@$$. Three Words: Awesomely, kicked-@$$
BH: Loved. I guessed right for who Jeremy was but needed a bit more at end.
EM: Was it me or was Jack's future beard look, what's the word, uneven?
SH: Jin sooo is alive!
EM: You are wrong, sir. Michael. Jin. Locke. ALL dead, Oh, and eerie Claire, too is pushing daisies. And great moment when Penny and Desmond reunited. Ah, love.
MM: Not dead. They're the undead. In another realm.
DOS: Much ado about nothing. I thought the buildup of "we have to lie" and Kate saying she doesn't want to think about “what happened on the island that day” made it seem like a hell of a lot more bad happened. And Really? They moved the island. Come on. Next we'll find out Aliens were involved. Whatev!
EM: Well, since you brought it up, Charles Widmore was in “Indiana Jones” (no really, he is) and that dealt with aliens!
DOS: Well EM that was what I was alluding too. I hope everyone saw the movie though because you just ruined it for anyone who hasn't!
EM: Hey, if you haven't seen it by now...tough
LS: Fine, then Rosebud was a sled!
SH: And Darth Vader is…
KF: And Bruce Willis was dead the whole time!
EM: Your dad. There I said.
BH: He's the master at spoiling surprises.
AL: Um, Indy's been out like a week. That's the window for revealing spoilers now? I guess I can cancel the babysitter for tomorrow night.
Next you'll tell me Forest Whitaker's girlfriend is a dude.
MM: Well, hopefully next season shows what hell they are dealing with on the island, and of course it will show how Jack has to get everyone back but I agree, 'Lost' is officially a sci-fi show now [not that that's a bad thing].
SH: I agree. Yeah, spinning a big wheel and moving an island, no more allusions and illusions. Now Sci-Fi.
AL: Thought it was a very solid episode and a mostly satisfying conclusion to a darned good season. Having said that- a few qualms.
The Locke in the coffin reveal seemed odd. It wasn't disappointing. Rather it just seemed to have no connection to anything we'd seen or learned. Kind of random. It also now seems like last season's coffin shot was a bit of a cheat. I swear that coffin was smaller then.
I guess my theory that Ben killed Nadia to get Sayid on board with his revenge plan doesn't work since it appears that Ben transported in time and space directly from the frozen bowels of the island to the desert in Oct. '05, SIX MONTHS after the Oceanic 6 were rescued.
My biggest issue? I agree with DOS that the events on the island didn't seem to justify the big lie. They couldn't say anything because the bad guys might go after their friends on an island that's been MOVED? They couldn't secretly tell the FAA or someone what happened and start a massive search? It wasn't an awful explanation, just not as strong as I would have hoped.
And by the way, didn't the Oceanic 6 do anything to find their missing friends in the three years they've been hanging out in the real world? (I know that might only be a week in island time, but still).
Along those lines, how many folks that we care about are actually left to save on the island? Sawyer, Juliet, maybe Jin, Rose, Bernard, maybe Claire, apparently NOT Locke, and to a lesser degree Miles, Charlotte and maybe Faraday. To be honest, I only care about the first three people on that list. And why do I suspect that Sawyer and Juliet are going to get very friendly next season?
The significance of the name Jeremy Bentham? Is it an anagram for something?
So is Sun bad now? If Jack gathers everyone to return to the island, will she work as a double agent for Widmore? Or is she actually working against Widmore for the O6? Questions.
I refuse to believe Jin is dead. I suspect we'll soon be treated to the irony of Sun spending three post-island years churning with bitterness, becoming a hard, cruel woman (sort of what Jin turned into before flight 815), only to discover that her husband actually survived the freighter explosion. I think the 3 deadies are actually Michael, Locke, & ghost Claire.
Speaking of the dead, how cool was the line where ghost Christian told Michael he could go now? Especially, after we learned that the island wouldn't let him shoot himself in the head back in NY. But NOW he can die? I guess his work was done.
I loved the Desmond/Penny reunion- their Christmas Eve phone call was my favorite moment of the season and I was happy to see them together, even if I suspect it will be short lived. A concern- just how much did the O6 reveal to daughter of baddie Widmore? Will that info somehow get into his hands?
Finally, have poor Faraday and those random guys been bobbing in the ocean all this time? I hope they had sunscreen.
Locke in the coffin was not a shock, as I had guessed it was him when we saw the coffin for the first time & Jack said he was neither a friend or family member, and there was noone at his funeral.
I was under the impression that it was Ben who moved the island, not Locke. I do think Jin could have survived, as he KNEW that the bomb was going to go off, and he had time to hit the ocean after seeing the heli leaving.
I wonder if Sawyer and Juliet will hook up now, but I really want to know what Sawyer said to Kate before he jumped!! If must be the favor he asked of her that her and Jack argued about in a flash forward.
Sun does blame Jack for leaving Jin, so she might work with Widmore to get even with Jack.
I enjoyed the finale, but not as much as last seasons.