Twenty-four hours from now, one of my favorite television shows will start its final episode.
While other people have expressed despair about LOST ending, I’m not feeling it. I know I’ll miss the show once it’s not on the air every week from January through May. But this is a day that I’ve been waiting for since I watched the first episode on DVD during the summer of aught-five. Some questions will be answered, but more importantly, the story of Jack, Locke, Desmond, Sawyer, Hurley, Ben and all the rest will be over. I’m not glad that it’s over, but I’m glad that we’re at the end of the story (if that makes any sense).
To prepare for the final episode, I’m going into a blackout mode. Since I first got into Lost, I’ve followed other Web sites (like DarkUFO and DocArzt). But because the end is so soon, and apparently, spoilers are out there, I’m enacting radio silence (or, more accurately, Web invisibility) until after tomorrow’s episode. I’ve been spoiled for things in the past, but I want to go into tomorrow with a blank slate.
I really don’t have any theories as to how it will all end. While I’m not as hostile to the Sideways universe as I was at the beginning of Season Six, I hope the story ends on the Island in the universe we’ve been watching these six years. It would be great to get some more answers to the questions we’ve had along the way, but if they don’t answer everything, I’m cool with that.
I did have one thought the other day- Desmond and Jack first met in a stadium following Jack’s performing surgery on Sarah and had the following exchange:
DESMOND: Ah, a girl, right?
JACK: A patient.
DESMOND: Ah, but a girl patient. What’s her name?
JACK: Her name’s Sarah.
DESMOND: What’d you do to her then?
JACK: Do to her?
DESMOND: You must have done something worthy of this self-flagellation.
JACK: I told her — I made a promise I couldn’t keep — I told her I’d fix her and I couldn’t. I failed.
DESMOND: Well, right. Just one thing — what if you did fix her?
JACK: I didn’t.
DESMOND: But what if you did?
JACK: You don’t know what you’re talking about, man.
DESMOND: I don’t? Why not?
JACK: Because with her situation that would be a miracle, brother.
DESMOND: Oh, and you don’t believe in miracles? Right. Well then, I’m going to give you some advice anyway. You have to lift it up.
JACK: Lift it up?
DESMOND: Your ankle. You’ve got to keep it elevated. It’s been nice chatting.
JACK: Jack.
DESMOND: Jack, I’m Desmond. Good luck, brother. See you in another life, yeah?
You have to lift it up. In the Sideways universe, the Island is at the bottom of the ocean. What if all Jack has to do is lift it up? Stupid idea, but I just thought I’d share.
If you’re a Lost fan, I hope you enjoy tomorrow as much as I do. If you’ve never seen the show, it’s not too late to start watching. I may not have a post up until much later after the finale, but I’m sure I’ll have some sort of reaction.
See you in another life.
If, way back during Lost Season 1, you were to go through all of the survivors of Oceanic 815 and pick one to be the protector of the Island for all eternity, the smart money would have been on John Locke. Locke believed in the power of the Island and experienced its benefits first hand. The actions he took were to explore the Island and learn about its secrets. Locke’s main rival, Jack Shepard was everything Locke was not. Rather than believing that the Island was some special place, he was focused on escaping it and getting back to his life. The protector of the Island was supposed to be John Locke. Jack Shepard was supposed to leave the Island and save those who needed to be saved off of it.
At the beginning of tonight’s episode of 24, former President Charles Logan changed his tie. The he ran into Jack Bauer. And after that, Charles Logan needed to change his pants.
