WARNING: IF YOU HAVEN'T WATCHED THE SEASON FINALE OF LOST DO NOT READ THIS BLOG UNTIL YOU HAVE.
Before we start I just need to say, is it wrong for me to have a crush on Michael Emerson?
I decided to look over my blog for last season's finale just to see how far off I was on things. I think you can tell that I am not nearly as obsessive as many fans are, but I had some decent impressions on a few things. Wonder if I'll do any better this year.
Jeremy Bentham. That's the coffin guy. He's gone to see Kate and Jack. Jack believes him, but Kate thinks he's nuts. The writers/creators knew at the end of last season how this season was going to finish up. The scene we start with picks up where the flash forward that ended last year's ep left off. I wonder if either of the actors knew then who Jeremy would end up being. That'd be a hell of a secret to keep. Probably not.
Jeremy also went to see Walt, who goes to visit Hurley. He asks Hurley why they are lying and Hurley says it's to protect everyone else on the island. You'd hope Walt would understand that since he's been essentially hiding himself since his return.
Mr. I See Dead People Miles tells Charlotte he's surprised she wants to leave the island after all she's done to get back there. HELLO? When Faraday can't convince her to leave she tells him that she was still looking for where she was born. Ermmm...born on the island then? Mom was either preggers when she got there or this was the one island pregnancy that was successful.
Here John, watch a video while I grab every piece of metal and cram it into "the vault" like some kind of crazy microwave experiment. The video describing the Orchid mentions time and space experiments and some sort of "exotic material." Is it alien? Is it just something that hasn't been identified, but is organic to Earth? And what's with the automatic rewind?
"You just killed everyone on that boat!"--John
"So."- Ben
Hero Sawyer! Whispers to Kate. And yes, I did jack up the volume and rewind the tape. I thought I could make out a "find him" towards the end of the whisper, but I can't say for sure. Big smoochie and then time for a swim.
Flash forward: Sayid the assassin goes to see Hurley to let him know Bentham is dead. Hurley wants to call him by his real name, but Sayid says no. Hurley agrees to go with Sayid "somewhere safe" although Sayid is lying to him about not going back to the island. Oh, and Hurley is playing chess with a dead Mr. Echo.
Hey look, there's the boat! Stop to refuel, red light bad, Jin sends Des up to go tell people to get off the soon to be gone boat. ARRRGHHH!!! Jin is still on the damn boat. Jack's Dad appears to Michael and tells him he can go now. He's gonna go alright...go boom!! Jin had got topside and we know that there were life jackets and lifeboats. Wonder if he got one or both in time? The gang in the helicopter couldn't see that well to determine if anyone survived. Wonder if this means Hurley will end up seeing Michael since he sees dead people...and plays chess with them.
Flash forward to Sun in London contacting Charles W. "We're not the only ones who left the island." Will she help him bring down Ben? Will she do something to screw them both up?
Ben zaps the vault and goes to change. Sawyer finds Juliet on the beach. He turns and sees the smoke from the now exploded boat meaning Kate is presumably dead. Juliet must think Jack is dead too. Oh Lord, does this mean they will get together now? (On a side note, I'm sure Jackie enjoyed a shirtless Sawyer appearing from out of the surf.)
Ben's in a parka. I'm supposing that it is THAT parka which we saw in a earlier episode. More fun with space and time kids. He tells Locke that Locke will be the new leader of The Others, begging the question, will they interact with the Oceanic survivors? Also, a side question, why doesn't Locke recognize Richard? We know they met when Locke was a kid and Richard looks exactly the same. Granted, Locke's had some head trauma now and again, but still.
Ben also tells Locke that the person who moves the island can't come back. Does he mean he can't return the next moment or he can't come back ever? Ben spins the wheel, the weird sounds start, there's a bright light and poof! Island gone. Let's see you explain that one Jack.
Flash forward to Kate getting a weird whispery phone call (whispering sounds usually signal something bad is going to happen). EDITOR'S NOTE: I checked a Lost site that I like and the phone call was deciphered and the voice says "The Island needs you. You have to go back before it's too late." Goes to check on the kid and badda boom, badda bing, there's frickin' Claire! Claire tells Kate to not bring Aaron back to the island. Sorta contradicts the phone call eh?
YEAH!!! PENNY AND DES!!! One of the brief happy bits of the episode. And so begins the Big Fib. Frank stays on the boat as does Des. Hopefully we'll still get to see Des, possibly when Ben is going after Penny like he promised he would do.
Jack breaks into the funeral home and hey, wouldn't you know it, Ben is there too. Ben knows that Jeremy came to see Jack and Kate. Jack says Jeremy told him a month ago that bad things happened on the island after they left and that he needs to go back. Can't wait to see what those bad things are next season.
Great, go back Jack. But...there's a catch. You can't go alone. EVERYONE must go back. How you wonder? Well, Ben has some ideas. Oh, and by the way, when the island says EVERYONE, it means EVERYONE. Let's grab the dead guy who is...LOCKE!
So, what are we left with here? Locke is Jeremy Bentham. Considering that Locke's name is important, I looked up Jeremy Bentham, his alias. Bentham was an English philosopher and social reformer who lived 1748-1832. He formulated the principle of utility which approves of an action in so far as that action tends to promote the greatest amount of happiness. For Bentham, the idea of duty didn't really fit in with utility. The action, if it generated the most happiness, was just the right thing to do. Fitting for Locke I would say.
Locke somehow found a way off the island in order to find Jack and the others and get them to come back. How? And, how did he die? Was it punishment for leaving the island? Did Charles W. kill him? Did Sun have anything to do with it? I almost thought Faraday would have helped Locke get off the island, but last we saw him, he was on a raft heading for the freighter. Would the raft been close enough to the island to go away with it?
If Claire and Jack's dad are in cahoots with Jacob, then why is she telling Kate to not bring Aaron back? According to Ben, the only way to make things right is to bring back everyone. Presumably Jacob would want the island to be set to right, so why leave Aaron at home?
Also interesting was the "commercial" for Octagon Global Recruiting advertising for non-paying jobs. Wonder if this is a website that's going to work like The Office's Dunder Mifflin Infinity site or if it is going to be a site that provides pieces of the puzzle that is this show?
I don't know. All I do know is it's going to be a long time before we get to have this much fun.
Finally, on a completely unrelated note, I watched an incredible movie this morning. The Orphanage would have made my top 10 list had I actually seen it last year. The story revolves around a woman who goes back to the orphanage she lived in as a child. She and her husband, a doctor, move there with their son and decide to take in special needs kids who require care that their parents may not be able to provide them. As they are getting things ready, their son talks of meeting new, invisible friends who want him to play with them. One day, their son disappears and it's up to Mom to find him. The movie is really well shot and impressive for a directorial debut. There are plenty of creepy moments, but no real gore. The suspense is completely story and character driven with a couple of well placed shock moments here and there. I was impressed with the way the script flowed. Things made sense and tied up logically, although not so neatly as to be overly predictable. It also featured great acting and some really moving scenes. It's in Spanish, but don't let that stop you from watching it.
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