Some Lost Speculation

So Denny wants some spec­u­la­tion on Lost, eh?

First, let me point out that this has been a kick-ass sea­son of Lost. The flash-forwards have been inspired, the sto­ries have been grip­ping, last night’s Sun and Jin flash-forward-and-back love story was phe­nom­e­nally touch­ing. (Though I did think to myself, if you’re a work­ing actress, you will most likely some day be called on to pre­tend to give birth, and that must be as daunt­ing as it is inevitable.)

The reveals have been com­ing quickly, but as with good twisty mys­ter­ies, each one presents new enig­mas. Wrapped in rid­dles. Etc. Tiffany and I keep com­par­ing this to The X-Files and thank­ing our lucky stars that it seems these folks have a plan and a des­ti­na­tion. By the time The X-Files ended, any ambi­tion for an over-arching plot was aban­doned, but by that time, nobody cared. Us included.

Some thoughts I’ve had recently about Lost:

• The bat­tle royale between Ben and Penny’s Pops is shap­ing up to be the defin­ing strug­gle of the series. But where does the Dharma Ini­tia­tive fit in there? And what sort of devil’s agree­ment did the Oceanic Six make with Ben or Pops to be allowed off the island?
• With the flash-forwards, the pro­duc­ers have solved a seri­ous prob­lem they were going to have to deal with. Now they can kill off major char­ac­ters with­out hav­ing to remove them from the series. I pre­dict that Jin will not be the last one.
• You can put Jeff Fahey in a scrag­gly ‘do and a bermuda shirt, but you can’t take away those hyp­notic Lawn­mower Man eyes. As a result, ‘copter dude still gives me the willies, despite his aw shucks attitude.
• I just love Jeremy Davies (plays Daniel Fara­day). Just caught him in Solaris the other day, which is not as bad a movie as some would have you believe. It’s just slow.
• Michael seems like he’s just back for a guest-starring role. What­ever, it can’t be more dis­ap­point­ing than the much-hyped let­down of Fisher Stevens. I’m hop­ing he returns in a flashback.
• What hap­pened to Walt? (Michael might be able to answer that in the next ep.) And what do his super­pow­ers (killing birds with his mind and cre­at­ing polar bears out of thin air) have to do with all of this?
• Puff the Magic (and noisy) Smoke Mon­ster, we miss you.

Okay, so, all y’all (Denny) who wanted to chat about Lost… com­ment below.