So...Lost? Random thoughts..

[shadowkat]

Works slow which is making me edgy. I don't do slow well. I like to be crazy busy. Most people just wander about and chat with folks, which I can do a little of...before feeling quilty for distracting them from their work and running out of stuff to talk about. This will be fast since at work.

Anywho...Lost?

Is that a cliff-hanger or what? And now we have to wait eight frigging months?
Also...



Please not Juliet. Just when I was beginning to love the character to pieces.
Also, she appears to be the only one that Jacob did not visit, along with Benjamin Linus. (Yes, I'm a Juliet/Sawyer fan. Also a Bernard/Rose fan. The only two romantic relationships I've seen depicted on a sci-fantasy series that actually are healthy/supportive and work for the long-term.)

Jacob and Conrad or God and the Devil playing Chess in the book of Job - at least that's what came to mind. Seems Conrad finally found his loop-hole to kill Jacob, question is - will what Jack and his companions do in the past undo it all?

This thing can go down two ways - one they reset the dang clock and cause a parrallel universe or two they cause what actually happened.

Kudos to Miles for the best line of the night - "so, has it occurred to any of you that the bomb may actually set off the incident that you are attempting to avoid or change? That by setting off this bomb you may actually set everything in motion? And the best thing to have done would have been nothing at all? Glad to see you guys have thought this through."

So the writers deliberately tell us the two options. 1) they reset the button
2.) they kill everyone on the island and cause the events that happened in the future, ie the plane crash

We may be given a clue by the state that the statue is in - it is destroyed with just a foot. The question is when did it get destroyed? Not sure. May have been before the 1970s.

This season has been really good. Lots to ponder. And last night's episode rocked.

More thoughts later.

Comments

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Jacob not visiting Juliet does make me think that's it for her. Also wearing a red shirt. Never good to wear a red shirt. If she really is dead they had better do something good with it -- cause I'm right there with you on Juliet/Sawyer, and she's been the most likeable of the bunch for some time.

Agreed. They better make it count. Although they did have her be the one who made the bomb go off. But I need a bit more than that. Loved Juliet/Sawyer, and loved Juliet. Wanted to find out more.

But you are right - the fact that Jacob didn't visit her, that she and Sawyer were devoted to each other, and the red shirt thing (which I didn't pick up on) - she's dead. (Also, Elizabeth Mitchell is in another series next year or slated to be in one - which never bodes well. )

If it turns out that Jack really was right to try to get a do over I'm not going to be a happy camper.

Right there with you...except for one thing, if it means that Juliet lives? I'm okay with it. Up until the point she got pulled in the well and sent to her doom - I was thinking, no reset, no reset! Then wham, okay, a reset wouldn't be soo bad.
LOL!

That said? I can't see them doing that. It goes against the thematic framework of the story. Jack is never right and often causes the exact opposite of what he wants on the island. Way to hell is paved with the best of intentions...and so forth.
He reminds me a lot of Angel in Angel the Series - always trying to fulfill a higher purpose, get his father's approval or rebel, always with great intentions, the leader - but he leads everyone to their doom. To do an about face now...would go against the story, I think. It's a horror tale, with anti-hero characters...

They could hit the reset and have things turn out horribly for everyone. Such as the plane crashes anyhow, but ends up at the bottom of the ocean with everyone dead (of course then we wouldn't have another season), or they end up at LAX but their lives go miserably..and they all feel lost in them.

Or that Jack did what was necessary to throw them back to their correct time - which means he was right to do it. That would annoy me. But again, it sort of goes against the whole nature of being "lost". The theme of being lost - seems to be what is central to this series.

[2maggie2.livejournal.com]

Juliet being alive would take the sting off Jack being right -- but the scenario where he's right and she's still dead is a possibility: the worst of all possible worlds.

I agree with you that it wouldn't make sense against the thematic framework of the story. OTOH, I'm not fully convinced that the plot isn't way more important to the show's creators than the thematics. And if the thematics are important there's still the possibility that the field is supposed to invert now that they are heading towards their "found" destinies. So I'm more than a little worried that I'm going to end up rather grumpy about all of this.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

The fact that they decided to do a time change that sent the current star trek film into an alternate universe - makes me wonder me wonder if your distrust may not be on target. Also Alias in the final seasons did...let's just say, jump off target to fit crazy plot twists as opposed to theme. It's hard to trust Abrahams. I trust Whedon to stick to theme far more.

But...it doesn't fit the pattern of the story or the plot to date - which has consistently shown us that no matter what the characters do they are doomed to end up where they currently are. Also - the title is "lost", so unless they can do the reset in such a way that the stories would still center on that theme, and the island would still factor in...

Plus we got what is happening in the future that they went out of their way to create. To unravel that..

Sigh. I think if they did, then it would be huge mistake, a jump the shark moment - which they already did in I think Season 2 or 3, and went to the network begging and pleading for an end date so they could write a story that had a conclusion, was well plotted, and thematically cohesive, without the jump the shark moments.

So, I'm thinking...that if they do do the reset, it may not be what we think - it may be option three, a few things changed, but not the central one - the plane crash still happens, just..a few events have changed?