Wow! Did you guys catch the season 2 finale of Lost last night? Now what are they going to do?
I just have a few comments on last night’s episode:
- Clancy Brown - I dug this guy when he was on Carnivale. I think his role in Lost was well-suited, too. Still playing that kind of creepy guy.
- What are you, stupid? - Ok, so you’re abandoned in the hatch by Desmond with only a scant semblance of instructions and a sense of imposing doom. What’s the first thing you do when he shows up off shore in a boat? Try to leave on the boat? Ask him what the heck the button is all about? Question what he knows about the island and the Others? No! You borrow his boat for a raid - that you know is a set-up - to save Walt, the crazy-man’s son, and then conspire with him to end the world with magnetic annihilation.
- Boat shots - Yes, the island is pretty. The boat is nice. The waters are cool. I don’t care - stop with the scenery shots at the dramatic points and continue with the story already!
- No reflexes? - I guess that they didn’t feel it when they were all shot with those stun darts. I would think that you’d reach to pull it out.
- Not quite the Simpsons - Did anyone else fall into hysterical laughing fits at the TV when Sayid says “it only has four toes”?
- Never any power - It’s a strong theme in this show that the survivors never have any power. The Others are always stronger. There is always something more powerful and unknown around the corner. Nobody ever has the strength to fight back meaningfully. That’s going to get old very, very soon.
I also have some stupid predictions for season 3 of Lost.
Michael feels guilty and tries to return to shore to pick up some other survivors, but everyone wants to know where John, Kate, and Sawyer got to. That’s when Hurley steps out of the woods to explain what happened, and then Sayid shoots Michael. A lot.
Roussou will meet up with a couple other of her shipmates who survived the insanity caused by the island. They will aid in a raid to save crash survivors who have been captured by the Others.
As it turns out, Kate is one of the Others in disguise, and has been feeding them information all along.
Echo, Locke, and Desmond never existed, of course. That’s the effect of the hatch imploding. The survivors wonder what that “quarantine”-labeled hatch is all about, but none of them can recall anything about Locke or the hatch.
The Others will figure more prominently in the show, since there will be no more crashes (thus no new influx of new characters) due to the hatch’s magic magnetic powers.
Hurley’s mental problems become more of a factor since losing Liz. He’ll factor more prominently when he finds a consumable artifact of significant value, and threatens the group with its use.
Jack gets tired of being simultaneously responsible for everyone and blamed for the things he does to try to protect the group, and strikes out on his own.
Sawyer and Kate start to get busy to the point of nausea. Gradually, viewers will become so turned off by their affections that they’ll have to pull a crazy sweeps stunt (like making Kate a secret member of the Others) in order to pull their ratings out of a nosedive. This episode will probably be the last one before the multi-week break in the middle of the fall season.
Claire and the baby become fatally addicted to the crack-water that Charlie gave them, and Charlie must forge out to one of the other hatches to search for more when the supply drop fails to appear in time.
Sayid makes a deal with the Others, signing on to their cause and then when he’s figured them out, he escapes back to the group to tell of the Others’ secrets. Nobody will trust him, and he becomes a recluse, living at the edge of the camp. Then they only come to him when they need someone to hold a gun or to ask about a single detail about the Others like, “Where would they take a stolen baby?” or “Do the Others have penicillin?”
Certain characters come back from the dead. This is enabled using the two odd stones found early in the first season and the large status foot that Sayid sighted on the Others’ side of the island.
At the end of the third season, they still fail to be rescued, and we still fail to turn off our TVs.
