My theory concerns how LOST will end. I have read very many LOST theories, but so far have come up with none of my own. However, this one appears to be so obvious that I will not be surprised in the least if it has already been published somewhere.
Premise 1: As we all know, explosions are a recurrent theme on LOST. Unfortunately, Lostpedia.com does not have a special article on explosions (some examples can be seen in the “Pyrotechnics” section of the “Visual Effects” article, as well as in the “Dynamite” and “C-4” articles), so I had to compile the list myself. I will count only those which involve fire, so neither the Smoke Monster visual effects nor the plane’s explosion-like falling apart will be included in the tally.
It will not be totally useless to recall all these explosions (maybe I left something out, but you get the idea):
Season 1
Pilot – a) turbine explosion and b) the one caused by a broken off plane wing;
Numbers – Rousseau’s hideout blows up when Jack triggers the booby-trap;
Exodus – a) Dr. Arzt blows himself up when showing off his knowledge about dynamite; b) Kate threw a dynamite stick into a Smoke Monster pit to save Locke (no fire on the outside but it would have been had we looked inside); c) hatch door blown off; c) raft blown up by the Others.
Subtotal: 7
Note: Essam Tasir was going to use C-4 (in “The Greater Good”).
Season 2
What Kate Did – Kate blows up her father’s house with him inside;
Live Together, Die Alone – a) Eko tries to blow up a blast door; b) the hatch explosion/implosion (we actually don’t see it).
Subtotal: 3
Note: Hurley was going to use dynamite to blow up The Swan’s pantry (in “Everybody Hates Hugo”).
Season 3 (obviously the producers decided to catch up with the lack of explosions in Season 2)
Tricia Tanaka is dead – A meteorite strikes and destroys Hurley’s chicken shack.
Enter 77 – Locke blows up The Flame.
The Man from Tallahassee – Locke (supposedly) blows up The Galaga.
Through the Looking Glass – a) Rousseau blows up a tree as a demonstration; b) two beach camp tents rigged with dynamite blow up when Bernard and Sayid shoot at them; c) Mikhail Bakunin detonates a grenade in The Looking Glass (no fire, but in a normal situation there would have been).
Subtotal: 7
Note: Rousseau suggested using a C-4 block for destroying a sonic fence pylon, but Locked talked her out of it (in “Par Avion”).
Total in three seasons: 17. It is worth paying attention to an increased number of explosions in all the three finales.
Premise 2: In a July 8, 2007 NYT op-ed piece Damon Lindelof wrote:
“We Yanks, however, do not want froufrou endings. We want things definitively tied up. And by “things” I mean lots of people dead. And by “definitively tied up” I mean in excruciating ways that ideally involve lots of gratuitous explosions.”
The reference is to be found here:
NY Times Link
As an author of a comment somewhere on this site remarked, “This show is not marketed to the obsessives or to the international community, it is marketed to an average American viewer.”
Premise 3: In world literature, one of the most famous books about people stranded on an island and experiencing strange and unaccountable happenings is Jules Verne’s “The Mysterious Island.” As far as I can tell, this literary reference hasn’t been used in the show so far (came close Shannon’s reference about “the mystery freakin’ island”).
Theory: Based on the three premises stated above, I would say that at the end we will see something very similar to how Verne’s book ended: It will be a big volcano erupting and cracking, and ocean flooding into its crater, causing an enormous explosion unseen so far either on big or small screen. It must be real big, because: a) it will be in Season 6 finale; b) it will be the last one in the series. That’s it. I guess it wasn’t for nothing that we saw Benny boy learning about volcanoes at school and, particularly, about the dormant volcano that exists on the Island.
Afterthought (How I would prefer LOST to end): Actually, I’m vacillating right now between a) black screen with the word “FOUND” on it; b) Jack’s eye like at the beginning of Pilot; c) the one I described above; d) panoramic view of the Island.
Theory by Lo.S.T.
Premise 1: As we all know, explosions are a recurrent theme on LOST. Unfortunately, Lostpedia.com does not have a special article on explosions (some examples can be seen in the “Pyrotechnics” section of the “Visual Effects” article, as well as in the “Dynamite” and “C-4” articles), so I had to compile the list myself. I will count only those which involve fire, so neither the Smoke Monster visual effects nor the plane’s explosion-like falling apart will be included in the tally.
It will not be totally useless to recall all these explosions (maybe I left something out, but you get the idea):
Season 1
Pilot – a) turbine explosion and b) the one caused by a broken off plane wing;
Numbers – Rousseau’s hideout blows up when Jack triggers the booby-trap;
Exodus – a) Dr. Arzt blows himself up when showing off his knowledge about dynamite; b) Kate threw a dynamite stick into a Smoke Monster pit to save Locke (no fire on the outside but it would have been had we looked inside); c) hatch door blown off; c) raft blown up by the Others.
Subtotal: 7
Note: Essam Tasir was going to use C-4 (in “The Greater Good”).
Season 2
What Kate Did – Kate blows up her father’s house with him inside;
Live Together, Die Alone – a) Eko tries to blow up a blast door; b) the hatch explosion/implosion (we actually don’t see it).
Subtotal: 3
Note: Hurley was going to use dynamite to blow up The Swan’s pantry (in “Everybody Hates Hugo”).
Season 3 (obviously the producers decided to catch up with the lack of explosions in Season 2)
Tricia Tanaka is dead – A meteorite strikes and destroys Hurley’s chicken shack.
Enter 77 – Locke blows up The Flame.
The Man from Tallahassee – Locke (supposedly) blows up The Galaga.
Through the Looking Glass – a) Rousseau blows up a tree as a demonstration; b) two beach camp tents rigged with dynamite blow up when Bernard and Sayid shoot at them; c) Mikhail Bakunin detonates a grenade in The Looking Glass (no fire, but in a normal situation there would have been).
Subtotal: 7
Note: Rousseau suggested using a C-4 block for destroying a sonic fence pylon, but Locked talked her out of it (in “Par Avion”).
Total in three seasons: 17. It is worth paying attention to an increased number of explosions in all the three finales.
Premise 2: In a July 8, 2007 NYT op-ed piece Damon Lindelof wrote:
“We Yanks, however, do not want froufrou endings. We want things definitively tied up. And by “things” I mean lots of people dead. And by “definitively tied up” I mean in excruciating ways that ideally involve lots of gratuitous explosions.”
The reference is to be found here:
NY Times Link
As an author of a comment somewhere on this site remarked, “This show is not marketed to the obsessives or to the international community, it is marketed to an average American viewer.”
Premise 3: In world literature, one of the most famous books about people stranded on an island and experiencing strange and unaccountable happenings is Jules Verne’s “The Mysterious Island.” As far as I can tell, this literary reference hasn’t been used in the show so far (came close Shannon’s reference about “the mystery freakin’ island”).
Theory: Based on the three premises stated above, I would say that at the end we will see something very similar to how Verne’s book ended: It will be a big volcano erupting and cracking, and ocean flooding into its crater, causing an enormous explosion unseen so far either on big or small screen. It must be real big, because: a) it will be in Season 6 finale; b) it will be the last one in the series. That’s it. I guess it wasn’t for nothing that we saw Benny boy learning about volcanoes at school and, particularly, about the dormant volcano that exists on the Island.
Afterthought (How I would prefer LOST to end): Actually, I’m vacillating right now between a) black screen with the word “FOUND” on it; b) Jack’s eye like at the beginning of Pilot; c) the one I described above; d) panoramic view of the Island.
Theory by Lo.S.T.
