LOST: The Incident
Hey west coasters, SPOILER WARNING.
That finale was pretty much awesome. The way everything played out, from Miles asking what everyone was thinking: “what if dropping the bomb down there causes the incident you’re hoping to prevent” to Jacob showing up in all of our cast members lives. Here’s what I think I know and what my thoughts are for the final season:
Jacob has always been the good guy. He’s done everything to make sure certain people were on the island. The other, unnamed person, is the bad guy. He’s wanted Jacob dead for hundreds of years and has finally found his loophole. How this other guy appeared as Locke for a few days or, I assume, showed up as Ben’s daughter to convince him to follow Locke’s orders, I have no idea. Perhaps he’s who the one responsible for all the other “sightings” in the past from Eco’s brother to Christian Shepherd. Now that he has gotten Ben to kill Jacob, everything changes. But I don’t know how.
Richard is just a pawn. Who he really works for is questionable, maybe he’s just some sort of Island intermediary. I’m not really sure. But whoever these “good guys” are, the whole “shadow of the statue” deal, they really are the good guys. They do, in fact, work for Jacob. But are they too late? Can they stop this other person without Jacob? I don’t know.
Would the Incident have occurred without Juliet setting the bomb off (oh man was that crazy)? I guess it’s a moot point but I’m guessing history is playing out as it was supposed to. I’m guessing that Daniel was, in fact, wrong after all.
So the bomb went off and we ended with a white screen. No hint of what’s to come, no teaser — save for the awesome opening eye — nothing. So what exactly happened when the bomb went off? Did the Island skip in time again, did it course correct? Did it reset? I’m not sure.
The whole episode, at least as far as Jacob was concerned, had to do with people having a choice for the course of their lives. Had Kate decided to stop stealing as a kid she would have never been on flight 815 and so forth. So will the final season show us what could have been? Or will we see what happened as a result of their poor past decisions? I really have no idea. Are you noticing a theme here?
The fact of the matter is that the sense of mystery is completely intact. There are a million possibilities for the final season and I’m pretty happy about it. Needless to say, this finale was a game changer it’s just not clear in what way. I love it.
Update: After some looking around online for the book Jacob was reading while Locke fell out of the window, I discovered the title is Everything that Rises Must Converge. The plot summary from Amazon sounds pretty similar:
Collection of nine short stories by Flannery O’connor, published posthumously in 1965. The flawed characters of each story are fully revealed in apocalyptic moments of conflict and violence that are presented with comic detachment.
That’s a pretty good summary of what we know to be true about LOST and could possibly be the only bit of foreshadowing we’re going to get.
What did you think?
That finale was SICK. Best I’ve seen in a while. It was much better and gave me more closure than the ‘We’ve gotta go back, Kate!’ finale.
The scene with Juliette falling was one of the most emotional scenes I’ve ever seen on TV. Yes, I almost shed a few tears. Almost.
More emotional than when Desmond finally found Penny in The Constant? I think not. Though I’ve never really been a Juliet fan.
Yeah, I didn’t like her at first, but she grew on me. I went from liking Kate and despising Juliet to like Juliet and despising Kate.