The finale for Lost is finally here. And dear I say it, It is coming too fast.
It seems strange to say that, considering most opponents of the show, say the directors are wasting episodes on useless sub-plots. I semi-agree with that point. In the early days of lost, we got to see winding sub-plots dedicated on a single character, and now that we are at the end, they really didn’t have any bearing on the story as a whole. And I definitely think that there was so much time wasted at the beginning that now we are rushing through too many mysteries.Things like Jacob picking Jack as the new him, Hurley finding out about the whispers in the forest etc. All these things were told in about 2 minutes.. And yet we have waited 6 seasons of mystery. They were delivered with such a lack of pizzaz.
At the end of the day though, throw all of that out the window. This shows end will be intense.
There is still many questions floating around. I think more than people wanting to see how the end comes, people are looking for the answers to existing questions. Little niggles in the story line that seems to have thrown us off track. Here is a few that I’m personally looking to finally get answered.
Why can Flocke/MIB not fly over water? And yet if you remember on the freighter, the smoke monster appeared as Christian, and told Michael he had done his job. Was he able to fly over the water back then? Was that even him?
It is now known, (or semi known), that the man in the cabin who Ben thought was Jacob, was infact the smoke monster. In the latest episode Ben was quoted as saying “It was where I thought I summoned the smoke monster, but infact he was the one summoning me”. The question I have is that Richard must have known this. Richard would have known that the person inside the cabin was not Jacob. Ontop of that, when the plane crashed on the island, he already had a list of people to get from the tail section. This list was given by the smoke monster, as Ben would have got it from the cabin. But why were the people split up? Some were taken to the temple?
I also wonder just how privy was Richard Alpert to the going ons of the candidates? Did he know that there is candidates in the first place? Remember when Richard came up with the plan and told (Real) Locke how to kill his father. What was the reason for this? Simply to prove Ben wrong?
Something that came up in the last episode. Is the fact that Ben was promised the island, in exchange for ratting out his wardrobe buddies. And yet the last line of the episode, is of Flocke saying that he needs to destroy the island. Uh-oh, Guess Ben has been double crossed.
In a way, the story seems to have simplified a whole lot. Jacob has clearly told Jack that he needs to kill Flocke/MIB. And really, that is all we are going for in the final episode. They could leave out answers to alot of questions, alot of little mysteries, and still be able to wrap up the show. So let’s see the showdown!
