Here’s a not-very-controversial statement: Most pop culture today follows either the template of the “hero’s journey” or the template of the Shakespearean tragedy. (The answer, it turns out, was “all of the above.”) Now, in February, I’m wondering something else: Is Lost a “hero’s journey” or a Shakespearean tragedy? Or is Lost’s narrative something else, entirely-something more interesting? Something more…subversive? Back in June, I wondered if Lost was science-fiction, fantasy, or some other genre. That question still hasn’t been sufficiently answered. No, today, the question I want to revisit is the question I asked at the tail end of Lost’s season one: What kind of show is this, anyway? I’m not going to answer any of those questions today. Back in June and July, I asked a lot of silly questions: Who are the Others? Can science and faith ever be reconciled? How is Lost’s season two like a game of Civilization IV? This episode made no real attempt to explain what was going on in this competing timeline, but it did flash one unusual scene early on after first showing us Jack on the plane: the island.Recently, I was “flashing back,” if you will, to last summer, back when I first started watching Lost and writing this crazy column. On the ground in Los Angeles, Jin was taken away for questioning because his bag contained thousands of dollars. Boone was also alive on the plane, as was Rose and Bernard, who seemed as much in love as ever. Jack saved Charlie's life on the plane because he swallowed a baggie of drugs. who said he was the luckiest guy in the world. Sawyer gave some advice on the plane to Hurley. Jack fumed that the airline lost his dad's casket. Kate fled from her FBI captor by hopping into a cab. They all had interactions with various old friends, too, though no one remebered anyone: Half the episode was spent with the survivors in a rebooted timeline, landing safely in Los Angeles. There's also some kind of alternate reality going on. These people also somehow saved Sayid's life by dunking his body continuously into a body of water inside the Temple. When this group learned Jacob was dead, they went into a panic, spread ash around and told the castways they were protecting them and had to keep "him" out. He read a list that Jacob had given Hurley in the guitar case and allowed our survivors to enter the Temple because they were on it. The entire group went and they ended up abducted by a whole new group of people, led by a bearded Asian guy that spoke English but had a translator anyway.
Jacob, meanwhile, appeared to Hurley and said he had to take Sayid to the Temple in order to save his life. She said she had something to tell him before she passed away and Miles later told Sawyer what it was: "It worked." We assume she means the reboot, which we'll get to shortly.īut Sawyer is now a broken man and blames Jack for Juliet's death. Juliet was actually still alive in the rubble, but died in Sawyer's arms. Everyone that was at the Swan site in 1977 when Juliet exploded Jughead was zoomed ahead to the present day. He then turned back into Fake Locke and said to Ben, in the coolest line of the night: Sorry you had to see me like that. This has been speculated for awhile and was confirmed when the Fake Locke dude transformed into Smokey and took out everyone in Ilana's group except for her. Below, we cover the basics of the two hours.
It also introduced us to a new group on the island.Įnjoy a detailed review of "LA X" by following the preceding link. Lost returned for its sixth season with an episode that answered one of the show's longest-running questions.
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