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Previously:
This week on Lost

It’s safe to say that there will be two groups of people who watched last night’s epic finale of Lost: those who are angry because they didn’t understand the ending or because it didn’t end the way they wanted it to, and those who have a soul. I’m kidding. Sorta.

Personally, I thought it was a perfect conclusion to what has been an obsession for so many people for six years, a final chapter that was full of heartbreak, renewed hope, and ultimate redemption. It was necessarily explosive at times but beautifully tender and poignant in its closing moments. This story that began with Jack opening his eyes in the middle of the jungle ended with him closing them in the middle of the jungle. But as the Sideways storyline so masterfully reminded us, that wasn’t really the end. Instead, the reunited castaways, lost no longer, would make their final journey together.

A happy ending? I say yes. But bittersweet? Absolutely.

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Since the beginning of the season, I’ve been doing these weekly blog posts about the previous night’s episode of Lost, usually as a somewhat-random, somewhat-organized list of bullet points. But seeing as this is the last post before the series finale (about which I’m still in denial), I wanted to do something a little different this week. With only two and a half hours left until the end, there’s less of a need to theorize and more of a need to understand how all the pieces fit together. Less of a need to guess the final scene and more of a need to put everything in its proper context.

Last week’s episode, “Across The Sea”, was myth-heavy and controversial, probably one of the most controversial in the whole six-season run of the show. But as I thought my way through it the next day, I wasn’t as concerned about the minutiae of it (how the people figured out the secret of the donkey wheel, whether the producers should’ve shown the Season 1 flashbacks, etc.) but rather the larger overarching themes of the series and how the story of these two mythic brothers and their adopted mother fit into them, themes such as good vs. evil, free will vs. determinism, and science vs. faith.

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Wow. Thinking through last night’s Lost, it’s hard to know where to even begin. Here are some initial thoughts about it, although I’m sure tons of people who are way smarter than me will be able to dissect it much better than I ever could.

In the beginning…

• Mother: “Every question I answer is going to lead to another question. You should rest, just be grateful you’re alive.” A warning upfront from the writers: Don’t overthink this thing, just sit back and enjoy the story for what it is. Sorry, we crossed that bridge a long time ago.
• Claudia: “How did you get here?” Mother: “The same way you got here, by accident.” Jacob and the Man In Black’s mother may be the “Eve” from Season 1, but this isn’t a story that directly parallels the Creation story in the Bible. This is a story that has been going on for a long time before Jacob and MIB were ever born. But I think it’s interesting that Mother uses the phrase “by accident”, as opposed to being brought to the island on purpose. Whereas the Losties were chosen, selected, marked and numbered as Candidates, Jacob and MIB are products of mere chance. I think this is significant.

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Random thoughts, theories, and questions from last night’s Lost:

• “Because it’s going to be you, Jack.” The last words of Zombie Sayid before he became Pop-Goes-The-Sayid. A confirmation that Jack is “the candidate”, the numero uno choice to become the next Jacob, a job he seems more than willing to assume.
• “You’re a candidate.” Sideways Jack to Sideways Locke, explaining that Locke could be able to walk again with a new experimental procedure. But…
• I wondered a couple of weeks ago if Jacob and the Man In Black exist in the Sideways world. Such a premise might not be so farfetched after all. Last night’s Sideways storyline showed a guilt-ridden Locke who couldn’t forgive himself for incapacitating his father, Anthony Cooper. Even when he had a chance to walk again, Locke chose the punishment of the wheelchair, a penance that not only caused physical and financial hardship but strained his relationship with true love Helen. By not letting go of that guilt, by not realizing that his father is gone and what’s done is done, is Sideways Locke setting himself up for the same tragic ending that his Island counterpart experienced? More on that in a second.

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