I’ll be posting on this site with reports from Knowing LOST, including major news (and there will be some major news). First of all, though, check out the latest episode. It’s the third episode, and is titled “Do You Want to Know a Secret?, which is written by myself and fellow TVOvermind scribe Mark O. Estes. Of course, I shouldn’t have to warn you guys — if you haven’t read the first two episodes, starting with the third episode isn’t the smartest thing you could do.

It’s going to be a big week for the project, so stay tuned to the site to remain in the know. On Monday, a brand new exclusive piece of Knowing LOST fan art will be posted and available for order. It’s worth every penny, too. Expect even more great news about the project later on in the week.

Until then, enjoy episode 1.03, “Do You Want to Know a Secret?”

In this interview with Sci Fi Wire, Cuse and Lindelof revealed, “There was a big, mythic architecture which included a lot of what’s in the finale, in terms of where we end the show, that we knew way back in the beginning.” To prepare for a season, they held mini-camps for the writers before each season to map out the architecture of the upcoming season. However, they were not beholden to the blueprint. Lindelof underscores, “It’s good to have a plan, but at the same time the most important plan is making the next episode really good.”

Read the full article here, Sci Fi Wire: Dude! Lost’s creators explain they actually IMPROVISED!

Via ScreenRant:

From all of us who made the show, we really hope that you don’t feel it was a waste of your time. We hope that you spent the entire night not just thinking about the finale on a story level, but that you were emotionally affected by it.

There are two feelings that you feel when you watch the ending of a television show. The first is the feeling that you have of just understanding that the show is over and the second is what your response is to actually what’s happening on the screen.

What I liked about the Soprano’s finale was that it changed the experience because when Chase cut to black, suddenly that feeling of “the show’s over” was replaced by “is my cable out?” – he kind of changed the conversation about it.

For us, we tried to write the last two and a half hours of the show so that those two feelings would feel like they were the same thing. So, you’re feeling of saying goodbye to the show – of the show not being around anymore – was actually literally perfectly paralleling what we were showing you on the screen.

If you had an experience anything like that, then it was mission accomplished.

If you didn’t, we blew it and I apologize.

The epilogue will actually be a self-contained story featuring Number One and Number Two, Hurley and Ben respectively, and will also have an appearance from Walt. Here is what Kristin Dos Santos from E! reported:

“For those people that want to pony up and buy the complete Lost series, there is a bonus feature,” Michael just told our Kevin Pereira of Attack of the Show!, which airs tonight at 7 on E!’s brother network G4. “Which is um, you could call it an epilogue. A lost scene. It’s a lot; it’s 12 or 14 minutes that opens a window onto that gap of unknown time between Hurley (Jorge Garcia) becoming number one and the end of the series.”

Michael says this extra footage is not the premise for a spinoff. “It’s self-contained. Although, it’s a rich period in the show’s mythology that ‘s never been explored, so who knows what will come of it.”

UPDATE: DarkUFO contacted ABC and found out that this person was indeed an intern at ABC, but he or she was released 3 years ago.

Good stuff on here! I can finally throw in my two cents! I’ve had to bite my tongue for far too long. Also, hopefully I can answer some of John’s questions about Dharma and the “pointless breadcrumbs” that really, weren’t so pointless …

First …
The Island:

It was real. Everything that happened on the island that we saw throughout the 6 seasons was real. Forget the final image of the plane crash, it was put in purposely to f*&k with people’s heads and show how far the show had come. They really crashed. They really survived. They really discovered Dharma and the Others. The Island keeps the balance of good and evil in the world. It always has and always will perform that role. And the Island will always need a “Protector”. Jacob wasn’t the first, Hurley won’t be the last. However, Jacob had to deal with a malevolent force (MIB) that his mother, nor Hurley had to deal with. He created the devil and had to find a way to kill him — even though the rules prevented him from actually doing so.

Thus began Jacob’s plan to bring candidates to the Island to do the one thing he couldn’t do. Kill the MIB. He had a huge list of candidates that spanned generations. Yet everytime he brought people there, the MIB corrupted them and caused them to kill one another. That was until Richard came along and helped Jacob understand that if he didn’t take a more active role, then his plan would never work.

Enter Dharma — which I’m not sure why John is having such a hard time grasping. Dharma, like the countless scores of people that were brought to the island before, were brought there by Jacob as part of his plan to kill the MIB. However, the MIB was aware of this plan and interferred by “corrupting” Ben. Making Ben believe he was doing the work of Jacob when in reality he was doing the work of the MIB. This carried over into all of Ben’s “off-island” activities. He was the leader. He spoke for Jacob as far as they were concerned. So the “Others” killed Dharma and later were actively trying to kill Jack, Kate, Sawyer, Hurley and all the candidates because that’s what the MIB wanted. And what he couldn’t do for himself.

Dharma was originally brought in to be good. But was turned bad by MIB’s corruption and eventually destroyed by his pawn Ben. Now, was Dharma only brought there to help Jack and the other Canditates on their overall quest to kill Smokey? Or did Jacob have another list of Canidates from the Dharma group that we were never aware of? That’s a question that is purposley not answered because whatever answer the writers came up with would be worse than the one you come up with for yourself. Still … Dharma’s purpose is not “pointless” or even vague. Hell, it’s pretty blantent.

Still, despite his grand plan, Jacob wanted to give his “candidates” (our Lostaways) the one thing he, nor his brother, were ever afforded: free will. Hence him bringing a host of “candidates” through the decades and letting them “choose” which one would actually do the job in the end. Maybe he knew Jack would be the one to kill Flocke and that Hurley would be the protector in the end. Maybe he didn’t. But that was always the key question of the show: Fate vs Free-will. Science vs Faith. Personally I think Jacob knew from the beginning what was going to happen and that everyone played a part over 6 seasons in helping Jack get to the point where he needed to be to kill Smokey and make Hurley the protector — I know that’s how a lot of the writers viewed it. But again, they won’t answer that (nor should they) because that ruins the fun.

In the end, Jack got to do what he always wanted to do from the very first episode of the show: Save his fellow Lostaways. He got Kate and Sawyer off the island and he gave Hurley the purpose in life he’d always been missing. And, in Sideways world (which we’ll get to next) he in fact saved everyone by helping them all move on …

Now…

Sideways World:

Sideways world is where it gets really cool in terms of theology and metaphysical discussion (for me at least — because I love history/religion theories and loved all the talks in the writer’s room about it). Basically what the show is proposing is that we’re all linked to certain people during our lives. Call them soulmates (though it’s not exactly the best word). But these people we’re linked to are with us duing “the most important moments of our lives” as Christian said. These are the people we move through the universe with from lifetime to lifetime. It’s loosely based in Hinduisim with large doses of western religion thrown into the mix.

The conceit that the writers created, basing it off these religious philosophies, was that as a group, the Lostaways subconsciously created this “sideways” world where they exist in purgatory until they are “awakened” and find one another. Once they all find one another, they can then move on and move forward. In essence, this is the show’s concept of the afterlife. According to the show, everyone creates their own “Sideways” purgatory with their “soulmates” throughout their lives and exist there until they all move on together. That’s a beautiful notion. Even if you aren’t religious or even spirtual, the idea that we live AND die together is deeply profound and moving.

It’s a really cool and spirtual concept that fits the whole tone and subtext the show has had from the beginning. These people were SUPPOSED to be together on that plane. They were supposed to live through these events — not JUST because of Jacob. But because that’s what the universe or God (depending on how religious you wish to get) wanted to happen. The show was always about science vs faith — and it ultimately came down on the side of faith. It answered THE core question of the series. The one question that has been at the root of every island mystery, every character backstory, every plot twist. That, by itself, is quite an accomplishment.

How much you want to extrapolate from that is up to you as the viewer. Think about season 1 when we first found the Hatch. Everyone thought that’s THE answer! Whatever is down there is the answer! Then, as we discovered it was just one station of many. One link in a very long chain that kept revealing more, and more of a larger mosiac.

But the writer’s took it even further this season by contrasting this Sideways “purgatory” with the Island itself. Remember when Michael appeared to Hurley, he said he was not allowed to leave the Island. Just like the MIB. He wasn’t allowed into this sideways world and thus, was not afforded the opportunity to move on. Why? Because he had proven himself to be unworthy with his actions on the Island. He failed the test. The others, passed. They made it into Sideways world when they died — some before Jack, some years later. In Hurley’s case, maybe centuries later. They exist in this sideways world until they are “awakened” and they can only move on TOGETHER because they are linked. They are destined to be together for eternity. That was their destiny.

They were NOT linked to Anna Lucia, Daniel, Roussou, Alex, Miles, Lupidis, (and all the rest who weren’t in the chuch — basically everyone who wasn’t in season 1). Yet those people exist in Sideways world. Why? Well again, here’s where they leave it up to you to decide. The way I like to think about it, is that those people who were left behind in Sideways world have to find their own soulmates before they can wake up. It’s possible that those links aren’t people from the island but from their other life (Anna’s parnter, the guy she shot — Roussou’s husband, etc etc).

A lot of people have been talking about Ben and why he didn’t go into the Church. And if you think of Sideways world in this way, then it gives you the answer to that very question. Ben can’t move on yet because he hasn’t connected with the people he needs to. It’s going to be his job to awaken Roussou, Alex, Anna Lucia (maybe), Ethan, Goodspeed, his father and the rest. He has to attone for his sins more than he did by being Hurley’s number two. He has to do what Hurley and Desmond did for our Lostaways with his own people. He has to help them connect. And he can only move on when all the links in his chain are ready to. Same can be said for Faraday, Charlotte, Whidmore, Hawkins etc. It’s really a neat, and cool concept. At least to me.

But, from a more “behind the scenes” note: the reason Ben’s not in the church, and the reason no one is in the church but for Season 1 people is because they wrote the ending to the show after writing the pilot. And never changed it. The writers always said (and many didn’t believe them) that they knew their ending from the very first episode. I applaud them for that. It’s pretty fantastic. Originally Ben was supposed to have a 3 episode arc and be done. But he became a big part of the show. They could have easily changed their ending and put him in the church — but instead they problem solved it. Gave him a BRILLIANT moment with Locke outside the church … and then that was it. I loved that. For those that wonder — the original ending started the moment Jack walked into the church and touches the casket to Jack closing his eyes as the other plane flies away. That was always JJ’s ending. And they kept it.

For me the ending of this show means a lot. Not only because I worked on it, but because as a writer it inspired me in a way the medium had never done before. I’ve been inspired to write by great films. Maybe too many to count. And there have been amazing TV shows that I’ve loved (X-Files, 24, Sopranos, countless 1/2 hour shows). But none did what LOST did for me. None showed me that you could take huge risks (writing a show about faith for network TV) and stick to your creative guns and STILL please the audience. I learned a lot from the show as a writer. I learned even more from being around the incredible writers, producers, PAs, interns and everyone else who slaved on the show for 6 years.

In the end, for me, LOST was a touchstone show that dealt with faith, the afterlife, and all these big, spirtual questions that most shows don’t touch. And to me, they never once waivered from their core story — even with all the sci-fi elements they mixed in. To walk that long and daunting of a creative tightrope and survive is simply astounding.

After the final LOST logo faded away, we were left with the end credits and several images of the Flight 815 wreckage. At first I thought it was a look back at the series-an homage to where we started.  Then I saw it was being used as an argument that the island was purgatory the whole time-showing that no one survived the initial crash.

A comment someone made on reddit got me thinking about a third option.  One of the biggest gripes of  the finale was that we did not receive the answers to the mythology that we have been analyzing and theorizing over for years.  I think these images may give us the answer we’re looking for or at least some closure to the mythology.

The hatches, the temple, the statue, the lighthouse, the smoldering black rock, and all those confusing hieroglyphs are all just remnants of people who have come to the island and now are long gone.  Each one of these places has a compelling story to tell, but the details are locked away in the past.  Well, add another mysterious location to that list-the 815 wreckage, risen up from the tides.

Imagine if our show took place after Jack closed his eyes for the last time.  A group of strangers crash-lands onto a strange and wonderful island, just as confused as the Losties were when they first arrived.  The first couple of days, an adventurous few discover this huge crash site, along with make-shift tents and branded food that oddly resembles the Wal-Mart Great Value brand.  At night, instead of hearing scary New York City cab sounds, these people are greeted by a pair of beady eyes staring out at them from the jungle.  The next day, a big guy with Yoda-like wisdom and a knack for Ranch dressing comes out to meet the newcomers.  Besides the obvious question of how does this guy retain his figure on a deserted island, they ask, “What’s up with the plane crash?”  The friendly sage would smile and simply reply, “Oh, heh, that’s how me and my friends got here.”  And thats pretty much all the information you would get about it.  Sure, there might be a flashback episode detailing how Hurley got the job right before he passes the job to the capable Ji Yeon-who, coincidentally, was among the newcomers.  But the 815 plane wreckage would be just another point of interest on mystery island.

Thankfully, our show wasn’t about the animated Ben and Hurley spin-off, Number One n’ Two, nor was it about the people who built the temple, the statue, or even the Swan Station.  Lost was about Jack and Kate getting caught in a net, Hurley offering Ben an Apollo Bar, Sawyer and Juliet finding love in time travel, and Claire and Charlie eating invisible peanut butter.  It was about the characters and their paths to happiness, love, and redemption. And now, the only thing that remains is this oceanic plane wreckage.  All their struggles, pain, and joy wrapped up in one set piece.

I think that’s exactly what they were showing with the final images.  Lost was a character story through and through, but now their story is just another part of the island’s complex and perplexing mythology.

What do you guys think? Sound off below!

Edit: Looks like ABC has come clean.  A spokesperson said, “The images shown during the end credits of the ‘Lost’ finale, which included shots of Oceanic 815 on a deserted beach, were not part of the final story but were a visual aid to allow the viewer to decompress before heading into the news.” [LA Times]

I think the perfect way to decompress is to let the story of Lost slip peacefully into the island’s mythology.

After the episode “Across the Sea” aired and audiences were pretty divided down the middle about loving it or hating it, Damon tweeted what I’ve used as my title for this post. (I, as the geeky Lost fan, just sniggered and went, “He said POLAR.”) He wasn’t just talking about “Across the Sea”… he knew what was coming in two more weeks.

Last night the episode aired and I was absolutely shattered. The show I had followed and researched and written about and LOVED above everything else was now finally over. I was saying goodbye to the characters. I literally dropped everything (pen, paper) and just sat on the couch with my face in my hands, rocking back and forth and sobbing uncontrollably. The patio door was open behind me and I imagined all of my neighbours, outside setting off fireworks because it’s the long weekend here in Canada, all wondering what the heck is wrong with that woman in her living room over there. I was just… wrecked. But those tears were cathartic tears, saying goodbye to the show, goodbye to the characters… and goodbye to the anticipation of this wonderful finale. But what I was NOT saying goodbye to, was the speculation.

For yes, this finale has left things WIDE open for the viewers. The same people who thought The Sopranos ending was a major cop-out, leaving things to the viewers to figure out, will hate this ending. And yet, think about what would have happened had they actually provided answers. First, most people would hate them. “Uh… the whispers are the bad people stuck in an island purgatory?? That is LAME,” shouted many when they finally answered that question. “So let me get this straight… after 5 years of documenting every single frakkin’ use of those six numbers, they just HAPPEN to be the random freakin’ numbers that Jacob used when he was listing off the candidates? Oh my GOD that is stupid,” said many people when they revealed THAT one.

Without sounding totally sycophantic here, I actually was fine with both of those answers. I thought they happened a little abruptly, with Hurley saying, “Hey, I think I know what the whispers are!” in one, and Smokey saying, “Jacob had a thing for numbers” in the second one.

So if they’d come out and said, “This is what the island is. And this is what that shiny light was. Oh, and Jacob and his brother actually turned out to be nothing more than this. And this is the sideways world… and this is how the Dharma Initiative found the island… and the Others originated by this…” we would all be sitting here right now simply debating whether or not we liked their answers. But look what we’re doing instead – we’re talking, REALLY talking about what this series was about, and what it meant to us.

Yesterday I wrote up a tribute of what this show means to me. I come to Lost on a very personal level, with my own views of faith and family and political affiliations and beliefs and set of morals and personal “rules,” to use a Lost term. And every single person on this blog and watching Lost comes at it with their set, and they are unlike the set of anyone else watching. So they made it personal – they gave us this finale that offered us a way to interpret it in a personal way, while also giving us the tools we could use to actually figure it out for ourselves.

After I got up from the couch, still sobbing, and made my way over to the kitchen table to do the CTV chat (fittingly, with my giant Sopranos poster behind me that you would have seen if you’d caught me on the National last Friday), I still had tears streaming down my face as I logged into the chat, and after I was in there, I did a quick flick over to Twitter to see the reactions. It ranged from, “Thank you, Damon and Carlton, for 6 wonderful years” to, “I hope you rot in hell and your house burns down.” SERIOUSLY. Someone wrote that.

It actually made me pretty angry to see such personal comments and personal attacks made against them, and I considered recording an angry video podcast. But I changed my mind this morning after sleeping on it, and realized that when you make a show that’s as personal as Lost is, unfortunately you’ll have to bear the brunt of personal attacks when people are unhappy with what you gave them. A lot of Skaters will be upset with the show, for example. I was actually surprised at how much Kate did NOT choose Sawyer… But for me, not having shipped in the past 6 years, it certainly didn’t cast a pall on anything for me. I could understand why it would for those who had really wanted Kate to end up with Sawyer. If it’s any consolation to them, I really thought that Kate taking off in the Ajira flight was a suggestion she WOULD end up with Sawyer off the island, and would take him back to meet her bestie, Cassidy, and he’d meet his daughter, and Claire and Aaron would come and live with Kate, and they’d all live happily ever after as one big communal family. But that’s because, as much as I claim not to, I really love happy endings sometimes. BUT… if they’d actually presented that ending to me on screen, I would have called it trite and ridiculous. It makes more sense in the rainbow world of my brain.

So… polarizing is a bad thing? While I’ve said all along that I didn’t want the Lost finale to overshadow the series that came before it, I love how much people are talking about it today. I doubt the end of 24 or Law & Order will spark this much discussion… nor will ANY ending this season. For the next few weeks, that finale WILL overshadow the rest of the series, but for the serious fans like us, we’re already going back over the series and pulling together the threads that led us to this place. And maybe in doing so, some people who either originally disliked it or were confused by it will suddenly get it, and it’ll change their view of it.

Some people will hate it, yes. But if you loved the show up until episode 6.16 and then didn’t like the finale, are you REALLY going to dismiss the six years that came before it? Did people dismiss the entirety of Seinfeld just because the ending sucked? No. And while this is obviously different – Seinfeld was not a serial with an overarching mystery that pulled everything together and instead was a series of standalone episodes – I think the things we loved about this show were still present in the finale, whether you liked it or not. Sawyer and Kate didn’t end up together in any obvious way, but the writers (and Josh and Evangeline) gave us Sawyer and Kate to begin with, and many moments of the two of them to savour. Perhaps you didn’t like things coming down to Jack’s perspective in the finale, but you can’t argue that Jack wasn’t integral to everything.

Because I loved it, I’m afraid the only way my opinion could change would be to like it less. And I’m sure once I start picking all of the pieces apart that could very well happen. (I mean, the obvious thing that jumped out at me this morning was the sadness that this WASN’T Locke’s journey, as I’d hoped it would be.) But for now, I loved it, and will continue to look at it in the days and weeks to come. So let’s keep talking.

Nikki Stafford is the author of the Finding Lost series of books, which offer episode-by-episode guides to each season. The guide to season 5 is now available at Amazon.com, and is currently working on the season 6 book, which is available for pre-order. She posts regularly on her television blog, Nik at Nite.

photo courtesy of ABC

Last night, the extremely affable Jeff Fahey was kind enough to take a few minutes between scenes on the set of the Robert Rodriguez film ‘Machete’ to discuss his role and experiences as Captain Frank J. Lapidus on LOST.

Minor Spoiler Alert: read at your own risk, as Fahey addresses the fate and future of Lapidus.

You are primarily a film actor, and have not been a series regular on television since ‘The Marshall’ in 1995.  So what was it about LOST that lured you back to the small screen?

JF: “When they called me and asked me if I’d be interested, I was working in Afghanistan. I talked to Carlton on the phone; he walked through the pilot and all three seasons. He was so nice and such a wonderful man. I then had lunch with he and Dmaon in LA. They are two great, comfortable, intelligent, creative people. So I said yes. I went over (to Oahu) and did a few episodes, and it kept going. They gave me freedom. For season six, they offered a contract. I just love everybody on the show and it was a dream job. If it’s the only one I have in my career, that’s just fine.”

What was it like to work with the impressive ensemble cast in Hawaii?

JF: “It was so easy, so free. In the three seasons I was on the island, I never experienced one moment of discomfort. I loved every person in all departments; writers, directors, producers, the wonderful cast and great crew. I can’t even consider it working. It was like three seasons of a paid vacation.”

What was your favorite line of dialogue delivered by Lapidus?

JF: “There were so many. I loved the way they wrote him, with the one liners. But everybody loved the  line about Guam.”

What was your favorite scene to film throughout your three seasons on the show?

JF: “It was one great ride and I loved the whole process. It was a joy every day to go to work. When we worked on the sub, it was so confined, but there was more freedom to work on the (Ajira) plane and (freigher) helicopter. On the sub, I banged my head a few times…but I think everyone did. For the scene with the door, they put in a stunt man and he wen’t flying. It worked. You couldn’t tell it wasn’t me.”

There are a few fascinating theories about Lapidus out there. One prevailing thought is that the Man in Black (as the Smoke Monster) killed original 815 pilot Seth Norris because he was supposed to be you. My theory is that in the flash sideways, Frank will be the helicopter medic who picks up or delivers Claire and Aaron at the hospital, thus fulfilling Desmond’s vision that led to Charlie’s sacrifice on the island. Are you aware of such speculation or did you ever theorize about your character’s destiny/role on and off the island?

JF: “I made a point to not overthink where anything was going.  I enjoyed the fact that because it was so well written, one could work in an environment of the unknown. I didn’t overthink the destiny of Frank. It allowed me to stay in the moment and enjoy the moment without wondering if I was doing the right thing. I honestly told myself that I can’t be disappointed or over-excited about whatever his fate is, whatever happens. For that reason, when this is all over, I’m going to watch the whole thing all the way through as a fan.”

Where are you going to watch the series finale?

JF: “I’m going to watch the finale at the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin. They are showing it on several screens.”

Did you read the last script, the series finale? If so, what was your reaction?

JF: “No. I’m as much in the dark as you are. I’m enjoying that.”

Many fans were openly discontent with the lack of Lapidus in season 6. And although he was taken out by a sub door and we did not see him surface afterward, there is great debate about whether Frank survived and will appear in the finale on the island. Can you confirm or deny your appearance in the final episode?

JF: “By the time they were filming the finale, I was in the Western Sahara. He’s dead now, the dream is over.  I couldn’t overindulge where and what the fate of Lapidus was. He’s sitting somewhere at the bottom of the sea.”

[Jo Garfein is a freelance entertainment writer with a spoiler-free theory site called Get LOST with JOpinionated]

Enjoy !

“It’s in production now,” confirms the source, who couldn’t yet confirm the actual running time of the new scenes. “Damon and Carlton wanted to offer fans answers to additional questions they couldn’t get to in the body of the final show.”

source : tv guide

concerning Jorge’s story about the EW cover you can even read it here : Jorge Garcia Blog
he spoke about the finale but didn’t say a word about it so no spoilers guys
let’s enjoy Jorge’s interview
we’ll miss him :’(

thanks Sl-Lost for the head up

My name is Josh, my user name was ‘Smoke Monster’. I apparently have been unethically deleted from this site without warrant. This is unbelievable. Early on in the season I came up with a great theory of what I thought would happen as this show ends. The funny thing is, my theory is essentially coming true, way before any potential spoilers for the fifth or sixth episode were even being whispered. It took me a long and hard time to figure out what to write down and what order it should take, and I took that time to (a) figure out what was happening on Lost, and (b) share my ideas with this site because I respected it…oh, and (c) so I could have that theory written down on the blog so I could revisit it later when the show was coming to an end to compare and contrast.

That respect has been extinguished. Now I understand why you banned ‘Fart Monster’, who was my friend but was a blatant asshole to everyone on the site. I told him to desist in his spoilers and dick comments but he didn’t, and I had no control over that. But to punish me for his intransigence is unconscionable, especially because I spent so much quality mental time on formulating that theory. It was initially dismissed by the bloggers, so I wanted to repost it in order to show them that they did not think intellectually ahead when trying to figure things out. But obviously now I can’t, and obviously not thinking ahead is a systemic problem on this site.

I am a very peaceful person, and never usually resort to this kind of language, but you know what, you guys are fucking retarded assholes, a complete joke to anyone that has ever watched Lost and actually tried to figure it out.

Just because I used the same IP address as ‘Fart Monster’ sometimes (even though when I wrote my actual theory I used my IP address) does not give you the right to delete my content. You ignorant fucks have ruined this for me. I was trying to remember everything I wrote but obviously now that doesn’t seem to be the case.

So here it is: My theory was written under ‘Smoke Monster’ I believe between the first 4 episodes or so, I don’t remember. If you still have it, email it to me so I can still salvage what I worked so hard to share with you ignorant fucks instead of keeping it private. If my deletion is any indication, however, that vital information is probably deleted. But let’s hope not.

If it’s there, let’s then hope you give me the respect a human being deserves and send that vital information to me. I had until this point always had respect for this site. But, as far as I can gather, you no longer deserve any.

If it’s not there, then straight up fuck you. You oversensitive ignorant fucking idiots, I’m glad Lost is coming to an end for the sole fact that I never have to hear of this site again. You people just fucked up your karma.

My theory went something like this: The nuclear bomb set the flash sideways into existence; the island underwater foreshadowed the actual ending; in the flash sideways, Desmond attempts to help everyone find their “constant” from the island in order to link the 2 timelines; Jack becomes the new Jacob on the island and opposes Smoke Monster Locke, while in the flash sideways Jack eventually heals Locke from his spinal injuries in a “miracle” (Jack and Locke roles reversed from beginning to end; Jack becomes another smoke monster and Jack and Locke have an epic fight, destroying the island while Desmond turns the wheel a final time to sink the island and merge the 2 timelines, allowing everyone in the flash sideways to remember everything from the island timeline. Jack and Locke go down with the island, while Desmond’s consciousness simply flashes back to the flash sideways, with full memory intact.

It was something like that, based on nothing but deductive logic. So please send that to me if you have it. If you do not, then go fuck yourselfs. You douchebags are gonna be lost after this show ends, having to go back to your normal lives trying to grasp the basic concepts of how life actually works without becoming ignorantly confused.

I thought I could trust you people, this was the first blog I ever tried. I’m never going to engage with sites like this again unless I know they’re not mentally retarded. Next time you lose something important in life, know its payment of karmic debt you now owe to me for deleting what I worked so hard on in order to post.

Whoever or whomever made that conscious decision to delete my posts, you will learn your lessons eventually. But until then, go fuck yourselfs you piece of shit fucking losers. You all think you’re the shit, but you’re not, you’re nothing but lonely people, and after this show is done, your delusion will end and you will again realize how alone you really are, because your arrogance is disproportional to your intellect. Grow the fuck up, and send me back my fucking theory.

A couple things I noticed:

• Alpert was flung by the smoke monster, but I don’t think he’s dead…
• Ben and Widmore’s rules flew out the window with Widmore’s death, what changed?
• Jack took up the mantle of Jacob’s successor pretty quickly-I think he was preparing for that moment
• Jack quoted Eko (and Locke), “Don’t mistake coincidence for fate.”
• Looks like Desmond has front row tickets to a Driveshaft concert
• How can Locke destroy the island with Desmond?  Is he going to throw him into the Light?

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Enjoy the last week waiting for a new Lost episode!

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As season six marches on towards its finale, we’re slowly learning that’s not exactly the case. The producers have said on multiple occasions that not everything is going to be answered. When it’s all said and done, some mysteries are going to remain unsolved. To be honest…I’m OK with this. Unlike most fans out there, I’m perfectly fine with not having every single question answered. I like the idea that when the show ends, we’ll still have things to theorize about and ponder over. What fun would Lost be if it just neatly wrapped everything up?

That being said, there are a few questions I personally feel can’t be avoided. I’m not concerned with things like “Who built the statue?” or “Where did the hieroglyphics come from?” Those things just aren’t important to me. The obvious theory on both is that some culture with ties to Egypt did both. I don’t care about how the US military got to the island, and what they did there. None of that is important. It’s all just historical stuff that really doesn’t have any bearing on the resolution of the series. What I want to see answered are the questions that are more based in the mythology and mysticism that the series has established.

I’ve put together a list of eight mysteries I want resolved before Lost ends. Now I know there are going to be disputes to my list, but let’s keep in mind that this is MY list. If you don’t agree, don’t start with the e-bashing like a tough guy, and just make your own list. Feel free to comment and tell me why you disagree and what changes you’d make.

These are in no particular order…

How Does Ms. Hawking Know so Much?

Ever since season three, we’ve seen Eloise Hawking come in, drop a piece of knowledge about timelines, and the way things work, and then disappear until the next season. Well now, we’re at the end. There’s no “next season” for her to show up in. If we don’t get resolution on this now, then it’ll be one of those things that goes unanswered. I don’t want that. I want to know what the deal is with this woman, and I want to know who appointed her to the role of Time Cop.

She seems to know everything there is to know when it comes to things like time travel, island mystery, and alternate realities. But how is this possible? We know she has a history on the island, and eventually left at some point. Was she given this knowledge by Jacob in an attempt to make sure he has an off-island assistant?

I feel like the chances of Ms. Hawking being brought back at this point are pretty slim. She may make an appearance in the alternate reality, once she learns what Desmond is up to. I highly doubt she’s going to be mentioned at all in our main island story.

What is the Smoke Monster?

Every time we’ve seen the infamous Smoke Monster, we’ve learned a little bit about him. This goes all the way back to the pilot when it was just a rumbling in the jungle. Since then, we’ve been learning the true purpose of the “creature” little by little, for six seasons. In Across the Sea, we learned how the smoke monster came to be. Jacob threw his brother in the cave of light, and out came a pillar of destructive smoke. As far as I’m concerned, this is just the latest incarnation of the monster. I’m with the group who believes there’s been more than one smoke monster in island history, and before MIB, it was his mother. I’m not going to argue that point here, but if you want to read more on my crazy ideas on this, you can head over to the forums where we’ve been debating this topic all week.

Even though we’ve seen how the monster came to be, we didn’t actually learn why it exists. We just know it’s afraid of sonic fences, it has the ability to take the form of dead people, and it’s really good at making some people dead. We have yet to get any clue as to what its true purpose is. Is the smoke monster the true protector of the island? Is it just a judgment system for those who have done wrong? What?

One thing we can assume, is that the smoke monster was around before Jacob and his brother. Why am I assuming this? Well, if we look back to last season’s episode Dead is Dead, we’ll remember Ben’s trip to the ruined temple-ish place. While here, we saw hieroglyphic drawings of smoke monster worship. Now, with last episode taking place some time around 23-43 A.D., these hieroglyphics obviously predate Jacob and his brother. This means that the smoke monster predates them as well. So it’s pretty old.

With MIB getting more desperate, and willing to put it all on the line, I have a feeling our answers about the smoke monster are coming soon.

How does Jacob leave the Island?

Since about season three, we’ve seen that the island is both very difficult to, as well as leave. It seems to take a specific bearing to make the magical trip. We’ve seen people come and go via helicopter, boat, plane, and submarine. In the season five finale, we learned that Jacob had visited different characters at pivotal moments in their lives. The only question that was left unanswered was…how the heck did he get to these places?

We know that his brother can’t leave the island. Is this just because he’s also the smoke monster? Obviously Jacob has a means of leaving the island, but what is it? This is one of those questions that I’m going to file under “Not Likely to be Answered.” I just have a feeling we’re not going to get any resolution on it, because of the simple fact that when it’s all said and done, this won’t be that important. There are much bigger things at stake here, and the facts of how Jacob comes and goes from the island just really don’t seem that important.

Would I like this to be resolved? Of course I would. This is definitely one of the least important questions on the list, but it’s still something that’s nagging in the back of my brain. I’d also group this one together with questions like “How in the heck do the Others get across the island so quickly?” The secret tunnel debate has been going strong for six years now. Maybe Jacob has secret tunnels to the main land?

How does the lighthouse work?

The lighthouse was shown for just a few minutes earlier in season six. Hurley brought Jack there, because Jacob told him to. In the end, it seems as if Jacob wanted Jack to go there so that Jack could discover his purpose. By seeing this lighthouse device that somehow had the ability to peer into his life, he was supposed to realize that he was being chosen for something, for a higher purpose.

While I personally thought the introduction of the lighthouse was awesome, it left me begging for more. I was yearning to learn how the lighthouse worked. What was the magical power that was harnessed in order for this device to look into the lives of our characters? While I’m not concerned with who built the statue, or drew the hieroglyphics, I am concerned with who built the lighthouse, and how they made it work. Was it Jacob? It has the same design style as the temple, so putting two and two together, I would just assume that the two were built by the same group of people.

The only reason I’d care about who built the temple, would be to learn who built the lighthouse. It had to have been a group, and not just Jacob by himself. These things are obviously too intricate and contain too many large stones for one person to put together by himself. And was the lighthouse built with the idea of using it as a method of peeking into Jack’s windows? If I had to venture a guess, it’d be that the lighthouse was built first, just to be used as your typical lighthouse. It was then repurposed by Jacob as a method of scoping out his candidates. But how did he make it work this way?

And speaking of candidates…

How are the candidates chosen?

Why Jack? Why Sawyer? Why Hurley? What makes these characters more special than anyone else on the planet? None of them really share much in common, other than their obvious daddy issues. Is that what Jacob bases his decisions on? Since he never had a daddy, he spontaneously chooses candidates based on those who had daddy issues as well? Jack’s dad was an alcoholic, Sawyer’s killed himself and his mom, Hurley’s abandoned him and his mother, only to come back for the money. Heck, even Kate’s dad was an alcoholic douchebag who beat her mom. But there has to be more to the selection process than that…right?

And why was Kate’s name crossed off? I understand the obvious crossing off of anyone who’s died, but what determines the crossing off of those who are still alive? Kate was crossed off, but what did she do differently than the others? Was it because she took Aaron and raised her as her own? Come to think of it, the only thing that does make her different would be the fact that she became a parent. Maybe you can’t be protector of the island if you’re a parent.

That leads us to possibly unlocking more criteria for determining a candidate. Jack, Sawyer, Hurley, Locke, Kate…they all don’t have any real family ties. None of them have siblings. I mean, Jack has Claire, but they’re really not family in the traditional sense. They just met and have no emotional ties to each other, so for the purpose of figuring out candidate selection, we’re going to just say Jack has no siblings. As we’ve said before, none of them have strong parental ties. Jack’s mom hates him for what happened to his father. Kate’s mom hates her for killing her dad. Hurley’s parents are both really only interested in the money. Both of Sawyer’s parents are dead. Locke doesn’t know his mom, and his dad’s screwed him over multiple times.

None of them have children, until Kate took Aaron and raised her off-island. And none of them have significant others. Jack had Sarah, but then lost her. Did Jack’s name get crossed off when he was married? Or was it just assumed he would eventually lose her and therefore it didn’t matter?

I feel like this won’t be answered in the way I’m hoping, but I think some resolution will come. Jacob obviously has to choose one of the candidates, and I feel like it’d be pretty silly if one of them was chosen without so much as asking why. If I were about to be entrusted with the sacred duty of protecting this mysterious and strangely powerful island, I’d at least want to know why. Wouldn’t you? I expect this to be touched upon, but never fully disclosed.

What’s the purpose of the alternate timeline?

Let me just say that this better get answered, or else I’m going to be more than disappointed. If none of the other questions on this list get answered, I’ll be upset. But if we end up wasting an entire season with this alternate timeline as our side story, and we never learn what it’s all about, I’m going to be furious. So far, I’ve hated the alternate timeline idea. It’s shown glimpses of being awesome, but then they waste far too much time with things character’s like Kate, Sun and Jin, and Sayid. It’s obvious they’re trying to go somewhere with this, and I’m guessing it’s all going to involve Jack and Desmond figuring everything out. But so far they haven’t given us any reason to care about the above mentioned characters.

I’m sorry to sound like such a negative Nancy on this subject, but I really don’t care about this alternate timeline. As I’ve said on the forums, the end result of it better be mind-blowing or else I’m going to be left with a bitter taste in my mouth. A few weeks ago, I put up some thoughts I had on what the whole purpose of the alternate timeline was, and got a lot of negative feedback on it (thanks guys!), but no one bothered to serve up any of their own thoughts. Oh well, I can’t win ‘em all.

My basic thought was that this alternate timeline is the result of the characters finally getting what they’ve always wanted. However, this happiness comes with a cost. Just as an example, Sayid is allowed to have Nadia in his life, but he’ll be without her love. I’m not going to get into every character, as that would just be a copy and paste of my previous post, and everyone would just start with the whining again.

Beyond that idea, I’m lacking in any other thoughts as to what the true purpose of our mysterious alternate timeline could be. Anyone out there have any thoughts?

What’s the deal with Walt and Aaron?

I was originally going to use this space to ask “What is the Source?” But I feel that this is something that’s definitely going to be touched on in the next couple episodes, and as of right now I don’t really have any thoughts or ideas on it.

Instead of that question, I’m going to take one from the forums that a lot of people have been asking for. It seems that a lot of people want to know what the deal with Walt is. No one mentioned Aaron, but I threw him in as I feel he falls into the same category as Walt. Going all the way back to season one, we’ve been told that these two characters are special. The Other tried on a couple occasions to kidnap both of them, and even succeeded with Walt.

Aaron was born on the island. Before his mother, Claire, even got on the plane, we were told that her baby was going to be special. Her psychic pal, Richard Malkin, warned her to never let the baby be raised by another. It’s even thought that he had Claire get on the plane, because he knew it would crash and she’d be forced to raise him on her own. I guess he never saw Kate coming into the picture. The Others wanted Aaron, and were willing to cut him out of Claire to get him. This seemed like one of the biggest mysteries of the first season, and then it just kind of faded into the background.

Maybe Aaron was never really that special. Or maybe as we went along, the producers realized they just didn’t want to continue with this and let it fade away, hoping we’d forget about it. Well guess what? We haven’t, and we want to know what the deal is! Is Aaron special or not? Is he going to play into the end game somehow? Why was it always so important for him to be raised by Claire, but then everything seemed fine once Kate took him off the island? The chances of any of these questions getting answered seems very unlikely.

Walt’s story is similar to Aaron’s in the fact that we were told he was very special. The Others took him at the end of season one, in our first big finale twist, and ran some tests on him all throughout the next season. Michael went on a quest to find him, and was asked some strange questions about him appearing in places he wasn’t actually in. The Others straight up said he was special, but agreed to return him to Michael when they realized they got more than they asked for.

But why? Unfortunately, puberty hit, and the actor that played Walt was growing up a little too fast. This caused the character to be written out of the show before we could get any answers. With all the time travel, I was hoping they’d be able to work this in as a way to bring Walt back in and answer some of these questions. Instead, the character went from being very special and important to just appearing once a season. I’m fully expecting Walt to show up in the finale. I’m not sure what context it will be in, but so far we’ve seen just about every character from the first couple seasons show up in some way. And with Walt being one of the more important characters from these early seasons, I’d be shocked if he didn’t show up too. While he shows up, I don’t think we’re going to get much more resolution on his character, and that’s just sad.

What’s the deal with Desmond?

To me, this is the biggest question I have. There are so many unanswered questions surrounding Desmond, and I truly believe his character is going to be the key to the entire show. Desmond was brought into the picture as the answer to the biggest question from season one: “What the heck is in the hatch?!” It turned out Desmond was down there saving the world, one button press at a time. When things got to be too much for Des, he bailed, leaving the responsibilities on the shoulders of John Locke. And when things got to be too much for Locke, he convinced Desmond to let the timer run down to zero, causing the eventual turning of the fail safe key.

The result of turning the key was a hatch implosion, which rocketed Desmond back to a previous point in his life, allowing to relive it for just a couple days. Was it the hatch implosion that made Desmond special, or was he special before he turned the key, and that’s what allowed him to survive. Or is it all just a chicken-egg situation, and impossible to answer? My theory is that it’s a little bit of both. Desmond’s always been special. Just as Jack, and the others were always being watch by Jacob, Desmond was always meant to come to the island and turn the key. Once he did, the electromagnetic force just further strengthened the special abilities that he had yet to tap into on his own.

Back in December, before season six started, I wrote up a whole article dedicated to Desmond. Many of the theories I put together in that article, I still stand by. Back then, I had thought that Desmond may even be Jacob’s son, but as we go on, this is looking less likely. I still think Desmond is special, but not Jacob’s son special. I really hope we get resolution as to why exactly Desmond is so different from every other character we’ve encountered. All our other characters, we’ve gotten hard details on their lives, going back to childhood. In Desmond’s case, we’ve only gotten bits and pieces. In a show where character development is so important, why does this character remain so mysterious with just two episodes left. We know more about Jacob’s childhood than we do about Desmond’s.

When all the dust settles, I believe Lost is going to come down to two characters. Jack will be there to take on the role of island protector. It has to be Jack, because at the heart of this show, Lost is about Jack. Jack will take Jacob’s place and live forever as the guardian on the sacred island, until it’s time for him to choose his own replacement. The other character who will be there at the end, will be Desmond. It’s going to take a big type of event to get rid of MIB, and it’s going to take someone who’s pretty darn special to pull it off.

What if that cave is a source of electromagnetic energy? And what if Desmond, since he’s somehow immune to this energy, is able to go into that cave? I’m not sure what he would do in there, because we really have no information on the light cave at this point. But I believe that’ll be a scene in the finale. We’ll see Desmond go into that light cave, and that’s where all our answers to all our questions will finally come from.

Thanks for reading! As I said at the beginning, this is purely opinion, and if yours differs than mine, feel free to hit up the comments. Keep it clean, and spoiler-free, or else you’ll get deleted.

I know you’re probably wondering how this has anything to do with Lost. Well, Galaxy 15 has apparently entered the orbit of it’s neighbor satellite, AMC-11, and is threatening to interfere with AMC’s signals. For those of you who don’t know (I didn’t,) AMC-11 is responsible for beaming cable television to homes across the country. One of the shows it’s sending? ABC’s Lost.

I guess ground control is beaming stronger and stronger signals at Galaxy 15 in hopes that it will get the rogue satellite to malfunction and cause it to shut down. This will prevent it from interfering with AMC-11′s orbit, and should result in no interference on Lost’s final night.

Should ground control not be able to shut down Galaxy 15, there is a chance the finale of Lost could suffer some interference. I’m not sure about you, but I’ll be pretty upset if this satellite causes me to miss even a minute of TV’s biggest event of the year. Imagine watching Lost up until the last 10 minutes with no interference, and then Galaxy 15 bumps it’s neighbor satellite, and everyone in the country misses the last few minutes of Lost. I would fully expect rioting in the streets.

‘Across the Sea’ was not simply an episode of LOST, though it did a pretty good job of that as well, it was an episode about LOST. We are used to the show’s constant referencing of itself through scenes, dialogue and recurring plot points – all things that are common in many forms of post-modern art and entertainment. But never have I seen something refer to the experience of the viewer and speak so directly, and without apology, to the audience about what it has been like to actually watch LOST and how we shall hold it’s mysteries, loose ends and open threads when the story has finished. This hour of television was bold, risky and totally unique. Only LOST could do it, because only LOST is this big, this important and this special. When the Man in Black says ‘I’m special’ as a way of side stepping the issue about how he knows how to get off of the Island – it is really saying ‘Not every mystery needs solving, because this show is special’. That has infuriated and frustrated many fans, including me, but the truth remains – it is special. How many times have you spoken to someone who has said “What are you going to watch instead of LOST?”. The answer I give is this: Nothing. There are other great shows, and there will be other great shows, but this is special. The six years we’ve had have been amazing, They have been captivating. And FlashForward cannot even begin to compare.

‘Across the Sea’ was a story within a story. It is the last crucial frame of reference to understand the final chapter of this epic which will conclude for us in just over a week. The family history of Jacob and the Man in Black is helpful for us to understand their motivations and longings and how they have shaped the whole tale. But this story within a story was not only about the origins of the brother’s feud, but the episode’s other key concern was the Island itself; it’s heart and source:

“Light. The warmest, bright light you’ve ever seen or felt”

But let’s talk about the brothers first.

We finally have found out the Man in Black’s name. He has none; his mother had chosen only one for one son. So to us he remains ‘Esau’ or ‘Man in Black’ or ‘Smoke Monster’ or ‘Smokey’ or, more recently, ‘Locke’. But what is in a name? What significance is there to him remaining unnamed? Well ‘names’ provide us with identity, they bring clarity and they give us heritage. By not having a name MIB lacks these things, in a more real way than for his twin Jacob, and he feels that pain acutely. He knows he doesn’t belong on the Island but he has no other idea of his origins or his home other than they lie ‘Across the Sea’. He yearns to leave but he cannot express why. In his conversation with Ben during ‘LA X’ he says that he just wants to go home, yet he doesn’t know what that means. Perhaps it is to be free of the Island. Perhaps it is to judge and corrupt the rest of the world. Or perhaps it is simply to die because his life now is worse than death. Much worse.

Jacob & MIB’s mother’s name was Claudia – one of the given names of the virgin who gave birth to Romulus and Remus, the twin founders of Rome. (If you want to read all the Lost allusions in that story you can go down that particular rabbit hole here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romulus_and_Remus – most interestingly Romulus and Remus are found and raised by a She-Wolf!). As with many of LOST’s special people (Locke; Ben; Aaron) these brothers were ‘Raised by Another’. Like for all the audience, the answers Claudia receives on her arrival to the Island only lead to more questions. When we first came across the Others we wondered: Who are these people? Then we wondered who their leader was? Then who or what was directing him? And then finally who is Jacob and where does he come from? Now we have been given that answer and told, pretty categorically, that we could ask these ‘origin’ questions forever and ever and never get an answer. Many will now demand to know ‘Where did “Mother” (Allison Janney) come from and who is she?”. Some will be frustrated by the fact we will never find out. ‘Mother’ and ‘MIB” are literally our Adam & Eve – they are as far back as the writers are willing to give us.

On the one hand this episode is a ‘Mythological download’ but on the other hand it is very much an encouragement from the writers to accept what we do not understand. “Mother” came to the Island by accident, that is all. We won’t know how or when or how she found the waterfall of light or worked out what it was or what it did. We know that MIB is ‘special’ similarly to how Walt was ‘special’. But we don’t know how or why. For 3 seasons now I’ve taken the view that LOST is not a televisual Sudoku puzzle that needs solving or a show like CSI that only exists to explain whodunnit and how-they-dunnit. The writers are working on a tapestry. We’ve asked through blogs and forums “Can we help you?”. They’ve replied “If you like you can sort that”. LOST is the tapestry, rich and complicated. We have spent, and will spend, months, years and terabytes sorting through the loose threads.

Can I cope with that? Yes I think I can.

I had thought the nature of Jacob and MIB would be left more ambiguous. Now it actually seems pretty clear. The Man in Black believes humanity is destined for destruction and he wants to leave the Island and will do whatever he wants to get away – lying, manipulating, killing. His motives are selfish and evil. Seeing him as ‘The Boy in Black’ gave us a glimpse into the fact that it wasn’t always that way, but it is that way now, where it matters. I was certainly expecting Jacob’s intentions to be more abstruse, but it seems the conversation given to us at the foot of the statue in ‘The Incident’ is an accurate portrayal of their beliefs and motivations. Locke’s actions in ‘The Candidate’ confirmed his evil intentions. ‘Across the Sea’ confirmed Jacob’s relative innocence and benevolence. Put simply, he believes in Mankind. He believes in our redemption and he chooses to protect the Island. After six seasons of varying degrees of ambiguity we can now say that in the LOST universe there is definite good and definite evil. Though one thing remains, good and evil are not positions on a chess board, they are choices. Jacob and MIB have the same upbringing, the same heritage, the same environment, all the same external pressures. Their destinies of good and evil are not determined by genetics or circumstance or by particular experiences, they are defined by choices. It is our choices in life that determine how for each of us ‘the scales are balanced’.

So let’s now talk ‘Waterfall of Light’:

I was genuinely surprised to see something like this. Visually and musically it felt like a real ‘Spielberg’ moment. It was a little corny but only in the way that ET/Raiders of the Lost Ark/Star Wars can be corny and that’s okay with me. Certainly if you’re going to get a brand new character to explain the central mythological conceit of the show you might as well get Allison Janney. She was excellent and she managed to sell this crucial moment to us in impressive fashion. Compare her acting with that of the other elder female oracle of the story, Elouise Hawking, whose hammy readings of lines have often taken the drama out of big reveals.

“It’s beautiful”

“Yes it is. And that’s why they want it. Because a little bit of this very same light is in every man, but they always want more.”

“Can they take it?”

“No but they’ll try and if they try then they’ll put it out and if the light goes out here it goes out everywhere”

Take a moment to read 1 Timothy 6 from the New Testament. Done it? No! Well, I did it for you and it contains a lot of themes that match this scene; greed; corruption; faith; unapproachable light. This chapter is famous for the often misquoted verse “For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil”. It talks of how greed can kill a man and bring ruin and destruction. I think we’ve found what Widmore is looking for:

“Life. Death. Rebirth. It’s the source, the heart of the Island”

But like the Ring of Power in Tolkien’s saga holding this power, trying to gain it or ‘take’ it will only lead to corruption. ‘Mother’ warns of the dangers of this light to both brothers and later on to Jacob, who after having a ‘Take this cup away from me” moment he finally agrees to drink the wine and become the next protector of the Island.

Jacob, filled with rage at his ‘Mother’s’ murder, drags his brother to the light. His brother has been tainted and corrupted by the murder and when his body floats into the waterfall ‘Smokey’ is immediately expelled. Minutes later Jacob finds his brother’s body which he then places in the caves. So what is Smokey? We are still unsure. My reading of it was that the best way to describe him is as the “Man in Black’s corrupted soul”. If the LOST universe has a heaven; it is this light. If it has a hell; it is the light being extinguished. I am now convinced that in ‘Walkabout’ John Locke somehow got a glimpse of this light. We’ve always presumed it was Smokey he saw, but his description of it to Jack in the next episode now feels truer to the light we were shown here.

Much of LOST has been analogous to religious stories and there has always been a supernatural element to the show. We are now being told this is the ‘heart and source’ of the Island. This last season has driven deeper and deeper into the spiritual aspects of the show, so deep now that we’ve hit the light at the depths of the tale. The core of LOST’s mythology is spiritual. Some, like me, are happy with that (I love it) others will have a genuine sense of being robbed or being duped into watching a spiritual story. Yet it is near impossible now to deny that this is what the story is (not that a myriad of bloggers and theorists are doing that as we speak – ‘Across the Sea’ is a difficult episode if you are a ‘Man of Science’). Take last week for example – after seeing Jack pull out the bomb from his backpack it read 3:54 – knowing that LOST has referenced Bible verses before I tried to find a verse that it may relate to. As it turns out there is only one 3:54 in the Bible and that is in the book of Lamentations, the book of grief, and do you know what it says?:

“The waters closed over my head”

Two minutes later they are all submerged in water. Coincidence? Possibly, but at this stage it is more likely that the spiritual aspects of the show are what are driving the plot of these final episodes. Of course it isn’t all just a religious analogy, that would be lame – the Sci-Fi and philosophical elements are still there and they are still important, but it seems that the story certainly has a ‘Meta-Narrative’ (Google it). I think that is pretty cool and should make for a high concept, meaningful ending. I hope so anyway. I also hope that those who don’t like the way the mythology has played out can still enjoy, and love, this story and remember the great ride it gave us – and remember the real story of LOST, the characters, has yet to finish. Even if the mythology let you down, I am convinced the resolution of the finale won’t. I’d like to encourage all those fans who weren’t at all disappointed with ‘Across the Sea’ to remember that you are not stupid or gullible or simple minded – your only crime is to love this show and find meaning within it.

Two brothers, raised the same way, with the same experiences. One is unhappy about the answers given to him. One wants to escape the Island and be rid of its mysteries. One rages against the story given to him by his “Mother”. The other brother chooses to stay. Chooses to protect the Island. Chooses to take his “Mother’s” cup? Chooses to bring others to its shores and share its mysteries. Which brother are you?

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I’m not intending on doing a recap for 6.16 “What They Died For” (though that may change) but I am writing a preview of the last episodes which I will post before Tuesday and then I will do a total recap of the last three episodes after the finale.

please note that I do not consider myself a part of any Church, I was born to Christian and Jewish families and have studied many religions.

People must have forgotten that even Jesus denounced the CHURCH…  His message was to leave behind the concerns of the world and reject it. Live peaceful within the kingdom of GOD which exists OUTSIDE the world created by man. He told his disciples to leave their things and wander.

Jesus overturned a market inside the temple… remember this the next time your in your christian bookstore.

If Jesus were alive today he would look at the people who call themselves Christians and he would say “Why do you say you worship me, but you do the opposite things i say?”

To be a follower of Jesus you must go all in or nothing, You CANNOT live in the world and praise Jesus for it on sundays for to truly follow him would be to reject the MAN-MADE WORLD which includes the INSTITUTION of religion. Jesus would have wanted us to all be living in caves. Perhaps the next step in evolution is not to get higher but to get over ego and become ONE with nature again.

INFLUENCE IN LOST?

Every great Prophet had a background in another religion… Why? Because GOD (If that’s what you prefer to call it) reveals himself to people throughout history however the flaw of mankind is that we cant seem to get anything right in fact we are DOOMED to corrupt, so every once in a while GOD comes back, reveals himself to more people until he finds one with the ability and desire to spread the message, and lo and behold. Our desire to share truth is what facilitates a lie and people begin to worship the WORDS that are only used to describe, as best they can, a personal encounter with IT, ONENESS with GOD or LIGHT like in LOST.

LOST IS AN ALLEGORY FOR LIFE…. It only inspired by the PHILOSOPHIES that the religions of the world concern themselves with. Why are we here? What is good and evil?, What happens when i die?, Do we have free will or destiny?

For LOST to postulate these questions makes it natural for the show to take on a religious feel, but a feel that isn’t directed towards any ONE religion.

Lost takes pieces from every religion, Tibetan monks actually wear robes with an image of a donkey wheel on the back. The Dalai Lama makes a sand mandala which is a representation of Shambalah which represents paradise and interesting enough  is roughly translated into TIME MACHINE.

The Tibetan book of the dead is a detailed account of what happens when the mind has left the body and enters the void to re-join with IT (God). It details the dangers of bad experience due to unframiliarity and why it is important to KNOW GOD before you encounter him so your time in UNION will be blissful rather than frightening.

Sound like a psychedelic trip? Thats because it is. To be able to connect with GOD through the use of natural plants lends the notion that it is given to us by nature to be found. During a trip people experience a ONENESS with all things that is quite profound, we realize just as it says in many religious texts that GOD IS WITHIN US ALL.

CANDIDATES?

But if I have God, and you have GOD are we all GOD? Well… No, We all have the potential to reach the potential of GOD, but only one of us can do it… And perhaps only one of us did, Jesus?
“I am the lord your GOD, you in I and I in you.”
“The kingdom of heaven is within”

How have these verses lost their true meaning?
The next step in humanity is always the realization of the corruption of CHURCH, to modify it so that a more direct connection with GOD is had, until so much time has passed that the idea of separating from the church becomes a new church in itself, until GOD reveals himself yet again to someone who is motivated enough to start a DOOMED process.

Man will find the LIGHT and abuse it. Look at the use of Psychedellics in spiritual practice. For thousands of years SHAMANS used these substances in spiritual context and their cultures dont suffer addiction we do here, because context is KEY. These are not drugs for a party but a connection with all things. It all seems to be about faith. MIB and Jacob cant kill each other because they believe it to be so, just as is Jacobs commitment to protect the light.

So again…LOST IS AN ALLEGORY FOR LIFE…. It only inspired by the PHILOSOPHIES that the religions of the world concern themselves with. Why are we here? What is good and evil?, What happens when i die?, Do we have free will or destiny?

LOST may one day become its won religion…heh

So if LOST didnt make sense to you, Go take a TRIP and report back, I challenge ya…