"Lost" Season Finale (With One More Notion)
For some reason, I keep thinking "Don't raise the bridge. Lower the river." …
Another thing occurred to me while watching the show for the second time: Maybe Kate IS pregnant on the island, and the person she has to get back to in the future is not a companion but her child. Thoughts?
And now back to what I filed earlier…
Yes, I enjoyed the episode enormously. "Good Vibrations." Charlie's sacrifice. Not Penny's boat. Hurley saves the day with the van. Any time we get much of Bernard and Rose. The return of Walt.
But:
– ABC screwed the pooch in the promos, which showed Sayid, Bernard and Jin tied up — a scene that had not aired at the time Ben et al. faked shooting them. Bad loss of suspense there.
– The shifting into flash-forwards, to tell us that Jack and Kate (and possibly a third person) got off the island, seemed to change the terms of discussion about the show, especially in Jack's wish to get back.
Maybe that's a good thing, since there are three seasons totaling 48 episodes to go — and 48 episodes is a lot of story, even if you allow for a modicum of vamping.
At the same time, though, it feels somewhat like one of those "X-Files" situations where, having painted itself in an impossible corner, the show would simply declare that everything we knew was wrong and try to start from scratch.
"Lost" did not go that far. But, after spending years in keeping us guessing about the island, we're now being shifted into considering things way beyond the island. And does this mean the end of flashbacks, or simply a back-and-forth between, uh, flashback and flash-forward?
Still, here's the good thing about last night's show: I am really interested again. I may be snarling two or three weeks into next season, but right now I want to think about "Lost" and not just poke holes in it.
May 24th, 2007 at 5:03 pm
Lindeloff said in a recent interview with E!Online that the flash forward plan has been there since the beginning. Lideloff and Cuse have always said that they envision that show running for 4 or 5 years but it's obvious that the 48 episodes over 3 years was the compromise they came to with the network.
I think comparing Lost to X-Files at this point in the game is an insult. As a fan who watched that show for the entirety of its run (even after it became the how many times will Dana cry this week show) it was obvious the X-Files didn't have an end game. Now if this time next year Lost has simply muddled along and become a pale version of its former self, I'll be more than happy to return to this blog and admit that I was wrong. I think last night was just the infusion the show needed. The big question for me is will they have flashbacks and flash forwards mixed throughout the season, because that could get confusing.
I blogged my thoughts on the finale at, http://www.mediaobsessed.com
May 26th, 2007 at 7:09 am
I think we're close to the same page. I don't buy that they had everything worked out when the show began, but, as I said, the season finale made me more interested in the show again — just the way you saw it as a needed infusion.