There have been 5 seasons of lost and 103 episodes so far and while each episode dating back to the pilot has lots of information and clues, people are digging and searching for theories pretty much from everywhere but from the actual source material. Often people use individual lines of dialog pulled out of context to explain some wild and random theory instead of looking at the overall scope of the entire series and realizing that it is far more rich then a one liner.
If the LOST producers have taught us anything it is that they rarely show scenes in the series that don't have a deep and connected relationship to the entire show. The producers have stated and demonstrated that they don't believe in developing something only to have been thrown away, with the possible exception of Nikki and Paulo (which they added to please the loud and annoying fans who couldn't just let the writers do what they did so well, to which the writers realized their well-intended mistake and cleanly cleared it up burying Nikki and Paulo alive). The clearest case of this is with Charlie where the producers and writers spent an entire seasons working up his death, and decided that even though they really didn't want to lose Dominic Monaghan they felt they would have cheated everyone all the turmoil they had gone through preparing for his death. It is with depth like this that the 6th season will occur. This final season has been describe by the LOST producers as ! finish to a mosaic, that only once you've seen the entire thing will you be able to understand the picture. Anything like space aliens or future time travelers would separate and break up this beautiful mosaic from five seasons of coherence to one season of deus ex machina explanation. Such a cheap explanation is too simple this six year long story. Like I say in my title, let us be reasonable about what we know and not search and use what we don't know for answers. There's a lot of depth left unexplained throughout the series. Let’s start with a look at what we have seen.
Before I get into the deeper mythology of the entire show let’s look at the most prominent question on our hands at the moment: Did the bomb work? I say whether the bomb worked or not (to reset the timeline that is) the original story line cannot be erased. First of all, if the producers and writers nullify everything that has happened, then we basically wasted five years. Secondly, if it completely changes the timeline and our loveable losties never know about the events of 815, not to mention rewriting their lives from the 70s onward, then we have an effective paradox where there was no one in the future to travel back and fix everything. Personally, I believe the bomb is actually the incident, that we will continue on and see our losties become deeper parts of the storyline. If the bomb did work, and it negates the effect incident, then the only way to save face is that the Universe course corrects in a multitude of ways, and the losties somehow come in contact again, ! and/or remember the events of what happened. My belief that the bomb will not work is due to how it seems to fit into the storyline far better than trying to explain everything again in the last eighteen hours of the series. It would be great and all to see everyone alive and happy, but really even if that happened it would completely ruin everything we’ve been through, again for example Charlie. If the timeline is reset at the beginning of season Six, then we have to spend that time re explaining the new timeline, and everyone will be asking about how each character’s story was changed? How was each event changed by the reset? So on and so forth. It’s just not realistically possibly with the amount of time we have left of the show, especially when there is much of the LOST mythology not explained yet, for example: Richard Alpert, Smoky, The Map on in the Hatch, What happened to Claire, Why Women can’t conceive children, The Dharma bodies in the bear cave, The toy ! truck next to the Dharma bodies in the bear cave, the two bodi! es in th e “Cave” the losties found with the black and white stones aka Adam and Eve, Four Toed Statue, why does the cabin have volcanic ash surround and who broke it and why, why the Arrow station had a bible, radio and glass eye, and so much more. Not only is there not enough time to explain the mythology and explain a time reset, but the time reset would ruin some of the mysteries that happened after “Incident”, and at that point it just muddies everything up. To add on to this, there also isn’t time left in the series to explain new outside story lines that don’t fit into the old story line, ie: aliens, super advance time travelers, or anything that would take more than one episode to fit it into the story. If anything is going to complete this mosaic (don’t forget this is what we’re working towards) it is the future of the show melding and explaining the past seasons, simultaneously and beautifully. So here we go.
Instead of pulling one liners out of the story and expanding them to encompass everything, let’s take everything we’ve seen and use that to explain the story. Like I said before, the producers rarely show anything that’s not deeply important to the story later. This, impartially, is why LOST is so great. Everything has meaning. For example; when we see things in season Five that are related to season One we are blown away due to that deep interconnected story line. This line of thinking goes greatly with one of the motifs of the show; of how we can’t escape everything in life being connected. The lost characters continually throughout their lives interacted with each other, if not directly, but none the less connected. Sometimes it was through one or another person, but no matter how it was shown it is very well portrayed throughout the series. As a side note it’s interesting to think about how this happens even in the real world. Six degrees of separation states e! veryone in the world is connected through on average of six people. That is an amazing concept to think about, and even though it seems far out, it is amazing how much repeated evidence is found through studies and even personal experiences to support the concept. Even the LOST producers speak of this of phenomenon; when they were first brought on the show one of them lived just across the street from another who was connected to starting the series. So, it is this deeply entwined concept in LOST that will continue on into the very last few hours of the show. Everything (well most everything) will be connected from the first season all the way through to the end, and resetting the story is just not an effective way to do that. What this means is that the mythology which is current unexplained, for example: possibly the two bodies in the “Cave” aka Adam and Eve, will become part of the story in season Six. My personal guess for that particular mythology will be that two ! of our losties will become those people in the caves. Rose and! Bernard ? Jack and Kate? Who knows. But how much deeper would the story be if we did find out that those bodies were losties? Maybe they chose to die there. Or possibly they were forced to die there to further along the progress of the survivors of 815. This story concept is far more rewarding then of just resetting the story and saying “HEY LOOK CHARLIE IS ALIVE!! HE STILL LIVES IN LONDON AND IS A FAMOUS SINGER!!! WOOT!!! YAY I’M SOOOO HAPPY” I, for one, would enjoy seeing everything connected and happen for a reason, then just resetting the story and making everyone alive. What happened, happened. Dead is Dead. Live together or die alone… wait scratch that last one. : /
So what other mythology would we miss out on if the incident didn’t happen? Well probably one of the ones I’m most interested in learning more about is the UV map of the island on the blast door in the hatch (Black Lights are UV – Ultraviolet – based, which through the fluorescence of the materials used, ie: The Blast Door Map dyes (Tide Laundry Soap for example), emit visible light in reaction to this UV light. Normal visible light does not cause this emission, hence why the map is invisible unless the UV Black Light is turned on). It is Radzinsky who is said to have created the map while living in the Swan station presumably after it was considered to be quarantined. This map though briefly shown has incredible amount of detail on it. For those who haven’t seen a screen shot of it I suggest searching for one right now, and once you’re done checking out its glory, come back and continue reading. On the map it describes many different details about the island; un! fortunately it doesn’t explain what is meant by each description. So are we expected to think that map will never be explained? Instead I believe that we will see, at least parts of Radzinsky dealing with the incident and working in the swan, and possibly even showing him or creating/explaining the map, and why it’s important. Hell, maybe even our losties will be part of that.
With this type of mosaic the complete picture is coherent and beautiful. The individual pieces might be jumbled up, but in the greater scheme of things it all works together. Anything to break from this coherence would break up the mosaic as well. If you reset the story line, it almost as if you stop adding pieces to the story, and instead tried to start a new mosaic next to the one you were working on. So if a mosaic is what the story is working towards, then what is the ending that fills in the last pieces without the story just being an endless loop?
Unfortunately, without knowing more I have no idea what the final ending will look like. Damon and Carlton have said that we probably won’t have any clue what the ending will be until halfway through the sixth season. This is because we don’t know enough to form a complete thought. Picture trying to figure out what the fifth season would have been like from the opening pilot. Of course this is a gross exaggeration, but in the pilot we know so little that there would be no idea that the show would take you time traveling to the 70s with the Dharma Initiative. To a lesser extent this is what the finale will be like. There are critical elements we just have no knowledge of yet, so it’s impossible to tell. Even so if we do look back through EVERYTHING we’ve seen so far we can guess how it might get to this ending.
What’s the one constant through the entire story that has interacted with or at least has been integral with the cast and time line, besides the island of course. That would be Richard Alpert. Now Jacob would be a good guess, but he falls more in line with the island as being an extremely important influence, but one more from the shadows. Richard Alpert (the age-less man), though, has (presumably) experienced the events of the island all the way up to the most recent where Sudo-Locke kills (presumably) Jacob. Man, if there’s anyone’s flash back I want to see it is Richard Alpert’s. Well, I may be in luck as for the first time in the series history Nestor Carbonell (the actor who plays Richard) will be a full-time cast member. YAY!!!! This means that he will have a much more important role throughout the season. Beside the fact that I love any scene with Richard Alpert in it, this suggests that we may get to see a lot of the island through his experience, which is ex! actly what I hope for. Here we will see the beginnings of what Jacob has set out to do and even what the outcome is beyond his own presumed death. We may learn about the island before the statue fell, about when the black rock came to the island, how exactly it got to the middle of the island, we may learn about Magnus Hanso, maybe we’ll finally understand what the rules are about being the leader of the island, and hell what the leader is supposed to be doing, maybe we will learn from what/how the Losties died as Richard said he watched them all die, and maybe in the end, we’ll all be jumping for joy as our losties do whatever the hell they are supposed to justify all this “progress” they’ve been doing.
No matter what happens in the end, I know it will be amazing. The writers and producers have not let us down, and there’s no reason to think they would start now. I have a feeling this will be the best season by far. I think this completed mosaic design is the only way the last season can happen, and if it’s done right (and it will be) it will make you want to re-watch the entire series over again. I’m incredibly excited and sad for the end of LOST; it’s been an amazing ride.
Sincerely,
George Berkeley
If the LOST producers have taught us anything it is that they rarely show scenes in the series that don't have a deep and connected relationship to the entire show. The producers have stated and demonstrated that they don't believe in developing something only to have been thrown away, with the possible exception of Nikki and Paulo (which they added to please the loud and annoying fans who couldn't just let the writers do what they did so well, to which the writers realized their well-intended mistake and cleanly cleared it up burying Nikki and Paulo alive). The clearest case of this is with Charlie where the producers and writers spent an entire seasons working up his death, and decided that even though they really didn't want to lose Dominic Monaghan they felt they would have cheated everyone all the turmoil they had gone through preparing for his death. It is with depth like this that the 6th season will occur. This final season has been describe by the LOST producers as ! finish to a mosaic, that only once you've seen the entire thing will you be able to understand the picture. Anything like space aliens or future time travelers would separate and break up this beautiful mosaic from five seasons of coherence to one season of deus ex machina explanation. Such a cheap explanation is too simple this six year long story. Like I say in my title, let us be reasonable about what we know and not search and use what we don't know for answers. There's a lot of depth left unexplained throughout the series. Let’s start with a look at what we have seen.
Before I get into the deeper mythology of the entire show let’s look at the most prominent question on our hands at the moment: Did the bomb work? I say whether the bomb worked or not (to reset the timeline that is) the original story line cannot be erased. First of all, if the producers and writers nullify everything that has happened, then we basically wasted five years. Secondly, if it completely changes the timeline and our loveable losties never know about the events of 815, not to mention rewriting their lives from the 70s onward, then we have an effective paradox where there was no one in the future to travel back and fix everything. Personally, I believe the bomb is actually the incident, that we will continue on and see our losties become deeper parts of the storyline. If the bomb did work, and it negates the effect incident, then the only way to save face is that the Universe course corrects in a multitude of ways, and the losties somehow come in contact again, ! and/or remember the events of what happened. My belief that the bomb will not work is due to how it seems to fit into the storyline far better than trying to explain everything again in the last eighteen hours of the series. It would be great and all to see everyone alive and happy, but really even if that happened it would completely ruin everything we’ve been through, again for example Charlie. If the timeline is reset at the beginning of season Six, then we have to spend that time re explaining the new timeline, and everyone will be asking about how each character’s story was changed? How was each event changed by the reset? So on and so forth. It’s just not realistically possibly with the amount of time we have left of the show, especially when there is much of the LOST mythology not explained yet, for example: Richard Alpert, Smoky, The Map on in the Hatch, What happened to Claire, Why Women can’t conceive children, The Dharma bodies in the bear cave, The toy ! truck next to the Dharma bodies in the bear cave, the two bodi! es in th e “Cave” the losties found with the black and white stones aka Adam and Eve, Four Toed Statue, why does the cabin have volcanic ash surround and who broke it and why, why the Arrow station had a bible, radio and glass eye, and so much more. Not only is there not enough time to explain the mythology and explain a time reset, but the time reset would ruin some of the mysteries that happened after “Incident”, and at that point it just muddies everything up. To add on to this, there also isn’t time left in the series to explain new outside story lines that don’t fit into the old story line, ie: aliens, super advance time travelers, or anything that would take more than one episode to fit it into the story. If anything is going to complete this mosaic (don’t forget this is what we’re working towards) it is the future of the show melding and explaining the past seasons, simultaneously and beautifully. So here we go.
Instead of pulling one liners out of the story and expanding them to encompass everything, let’s take everything we’ve seen and use that to explain the story. Like I said before, the producers rarely show anything that’s not deeply important to the story later. This, impartially, is why LOST is so great. Everything has meaning. For example; when we see things in season Five that are related to season One we are blown away due to that deep interconnected story line. This line of thinking goes greatly with one of the motifs of the show; of how we can’t escape everything in life being connected. The lost characters continually throughout their lives interacted with each other, if not directly, but none the less connected. Sometimes it was through one or another person, but no matter how it was shown it is very well portrayed throughout the series. As a side note it’s interesting to think about how this happens even in the real world. Six degrees of separation states e! veryone in the world is connected through on average of six people. That is an amazing concept to think about, and even though it seems far out, it is amazing how much repeated evidence is found through studies and even personal experiences to support the concept. Even the LOST producers speak of this of phenomenon; when they were first brought on the show one of them lived just across the street from another who was connected to starting the series. So, it is this deeply entwined concept in LOST that will continue on into the very last few hours of the show. Everything (well most everything) will be connected from the first season all the way through to the end, and resetting the story is just not an effective way to do that. What this means is that the mythology which is current unexplained, for example: possibly the two bodies in the “Cave” aka Adam and Eve, will become part of the story in season Six. My personal guess for that particular mythology will be that two ! of our losties will become those people in the caves. Rose and! Bernard ? Jack and Kate? Who knows. But how much deeper would the story be if we did find out that those bodies were losties? Maybe they chose to die there. Or possibly they were forced to die there to further along the progress of the survivors of 815. This story concept is far more rewarding then of just resetting the story and saying “HEY LOOK CHARLIE IS ALIVE!! HE STILL LIVES IN LONDON AND IS A FAMOUS SINGER!!! WOOT!!! YAY I’M SOOOO HAPPY” I, for one, would enjoy seeing everything connected and happen for a reason, then just resetting the story and making everyone alive. What happened, happened. Dead is Dead. Live together or die alone… wait scratch that last one. : /
So what other mythology would we miss out on if the incident didn’t happen? Well probably one of the ones I’m most interested in learning more about is the UV map of the island on the blast door in the hatch (Black Lights are UV – Ultraviolet – based, which through the fluorescence of the materials used, ie: The Blast Door Map dyes (Tide Laundry Soap for example), emit visible light in reaction to this UV light. Normal visible light does not cause this emission, hence why the map is invisible unless the UV Black Light is turned on). It is Radzinsky who is said to have created the map while living in the Swan station presumably after it was considered to be quarantined. This map though briefly shown has incredible amount of detail on it. For those who haven’t seen a screen shot of it I suggest searching for one right now, and once you’re done checking out its glory, come back and continue reading. On the map it describes many different details about the island; un! fortunately it doesn’t explain what is meant by each description. So are we expected to think that map will never be explained? Instead I believe that we will see, at least parts of Radzinsky dealing with the incident and working in the swan, and possibly even showing him or creating/explaining the map, and why it’s important. Hell, maybe even our losties will be part of that.
With this type of mosaic the complete picture is coherent and beautiful. The individual pieces might be jumbled up, but in the greater scheme of things it all works together. Anything to break from this coherence would break up the mosaic as well. If you reset the story line, it almost as if you stop adding pieces to the story, and instead tried to start a new mosaic next to the one you were working on. So if a mosaic is what the story is working towards, then what is the ending that fills in the last pieces without the story just being an endless loop?
Unfortunately, without knowing more I have no idea what the final ending will look like. Damon and Carlton have said that we probably won’t have any clue what the ending will be until halfway through the sixth season. This is because we don’t know enough to form a complete thought. Picture trying to figure out what the fifth season would have been like from the opening pilot. Of course this is a gross exaggeration, but in the pilot we know so little that there would be no idea that the show would take you time traveling to the 70s with the Dharma Initiative. To a lesser extent this is what the finale will be like. There are critical elements we just have no knowledge of yet, so it’s impossible to tell. Even so if we do look back through EVERYTHING we’ve seen so far we can guess how it might get to this ending.
What’s the one constant through the entire story that has interacted with or at least has been integral with the cast and time line, besides the island of course. That would be Richard Alpert. Now Jacob would be a good guess, but he falls more in line with the island as being an extremely important influence, but one more from the shadows. Richard Alpert (the age-less man), though, has (presumably) experienced the events of the island all the way up to the most recent where Sudo-Locke kills (presumably) Jacob. Man, if there’s anyone’s flash back I want to see it is Richard Alpert’s. Well, I may be in luck as for the first time in the series history Nestor Carbonell (the actor who plays Richard) will be a full-time cast member. YAY!!!! This means that he will have a much more important role throughout the season. Beside the fact that I love any scene with Richard Alpert in it, this suggests that we may get to see a lot of the island through his experience, which is ex! actly what I hope for. Here we will see the beginnings of what Jacob has set out to do and even what the outcome is beyond his own presumed death. We may learn about the island before the statue fell, about when the black rock came to the island, how exactly it got to the middle of the island, we may learn about Magnus Hanso, maybe we’ll finally understand what the rules are about being the leader of the island, and hell what the leader is supposed to be doing, maybe we will learn from what/how the Losties died as Richard said he watched them all die, and maybe in the end, we’ll all be jumping for joy as our losties do whatever the hell they are supposed to justify all this “progress” they’ve been doing.
No matter what happens in the end, I know it will be amazing. The writers and producers have not let us down, and there’s no reason to think they would start now. I have a feeling this will be the best season by far. I think this completed mosaic design is the only way the last season can happen, and if it’s done right (and it will be) it will make you want to re-watch the entire series over again. I’m incredibly excited and sad for the end of LOST; it’s been an amazing ride.
Sincerely,
George Berkeley
