May 26
A Long Time, On a Crooked Road: “The End” Recap and Analysis by Chris Kirkman
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Previously, on Lost:
Goodbye to all my friends at home,
Goodbye to people I’ve trusted,
I’ve got to go out and make my way,
I might get rich you know I might get busted,
But my heart keeps calling me backwards,
As I get on the 707,
Riding high I got tears in my eyes,
You know you got to go through hell,
Before you get to heaven,
Big ol’ jet airliner,
Don’t carry me too far away,
Oh big ol’ jet airliner,
Cause it’s here that I’ve got to stay …
This week, on Lost: LA X. Christian Shephard has finally reached his destination – or at least a package with his name in big, bold stencils indicates as such. While his coffin is loaded on board a truck by a pony-tailed baggage handler, AlternaJack sits in his office, going over x-rays. Jack prime washes his face, and ponders his wet, aged hands. AlternaBen steeps some tea with his good arm, while Ben loads a cartridge and ponders how long he’ll have to continue killing people. AlternaLocke takes one last look at his wheelchair as he’s wheeled away on a gurney toward his healing surgery. AlternaSawyer wraps up his day in the police force, as Sawyer takes a seat next to Freckles on a log and checks her gunshot wound. AlternaKate sits in the AlternaCamaro as the Oceanic delivery truck pulls up to a church, and AlternaDesmond meets the pony-tailed delivery guy and signs for the package. The two lift the coffin onto a dolly and Desmond asks pony-tail to wheel it around back. As Desmond heads back to the Camaro, we know it’s time to start. Let’s get to it.
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May 25
So You Could Find One Another: Cultural Perfections in LOST 6.17-6.18 “The End” by Pearson Moore
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This analysis is for Ree Hines.
I write this for everyone disappointed, angered, or confused.
You invested six years. Give it one more shot. Watch the finale again; you’ll thank yourself for the effort. Enlightenment may not require a punch in the face or renewed sense in legs once dead, but it does require careful thought. Enlightenment was not intended for the already-dead inhabitants of the sideways purgatory. It was intended for us. For the thirty millions around the world, most of whom sacrificed a Monday morning to experience the end.
Give it one more shot. If anyone should be disappointed in the ending, it’s Pearson Moore. Not one of my grand predictions proved correct. But I can tell you this, after a third viewing:
LOST is the greatest piece of fiction ever presented on television.
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May 22
Vivace con brio: Cultural Enlightenment in LOST 6.16 “What They Died For” by Pearson Moore
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It was one of the most delightfully playful scenes in the last six years.
Desmond, in league with Hurley, exploiting Ana Lucia’s tendencies toward self-enrichment to stage a jail break for two most important players in the final moves on the grand Cuatro chessboard. But Desmond is not moving pawns about the board. Hurley is a rook–a mighty castle–serving his Island’s queen and her bishop-martyr. Desmond is the great knight, of his own free will serving King and Island. He and Hurley are neither puppets nor pawns, but free agents of conscience, collaborators in a noble and necessary cause, working con brio toward the final move.
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May 20
The Long Goodbye: “What They Died For” Recap and Analysis by Chris Kirkman
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Previously, on Lost: Sawyer screwed the pooch on the sub, sabotaging Shephard’s straight-shooting speech and subsequently sending Sayid towards suicide. The sub shook and shimmied and Shephard saved Sawyer, while Sun and her suitor sucked seawater and said sayonara. Shephard and the sole survivors soon sobbed.
This week, on Lost: As many a time before over the past six seasons, we open on an eye. Jack’s, to be exact. We soon see that he’s not waking up in a jungle, or trapped inside a Dharma aquarium, or bearded and hopped up on goofballs. No, this is AlternaJack, and he’s got quite the life, now. It’s morning in LA X, and Dr. Shephard makes his way to the bathroom. Once there, he notices something very peculiar, indeed.
Dude, you really need to stop eating PB&J in bed.
Little Jack Jr. interrupts his pop and says he’s made breakfast. They sit down to a big ol’ hearty bowl of Super Bran and it becomes quite obvious how Jack got his neck wound – he probably blew out a vein in the bathroom after all that fiber. David asks his dad if he’s coming to the concert tonight, and Jack says absozooberutely.
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May 14
Dying Light: Counter-Culture in LOST 6.15 “Across the Sea” by Pearson Moore
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Jacob represents all that is good.
We know this because the woman who stole him told us so. The woman who told us human beings–people–would hurt Jacob and his brother, “because they’re people, Jacob, and that’s what people do.” The woman who said all people are the same: “They come, they fight, they destroy, they corrupt.” The woman who wished to prevent corruption by smashing the skull of the boys’ birth mother and wiping out an entire village of peaceful Roman peasants.
Jacob represents all that is good.
If you believe this, you are obliged to believe as Jacob’s mentor taught him: That you, dear reader, are a blight on this earth, not worthy of drawing your next breath.
Tonight’s episode was breathtaking. It brought light to the most perplexing mysteries in Mittelos. It revealed where the survivors stand, and where they must stand to bring order, to maintain the light, to restore Eden. Tonight we witnessed the essence of LOST.
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May 13
He’s Not Heavy, He’s my Smoke Monster: “Across the Sea” Recap and Analysis by Chris Kirkman
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I’ll just leave this here:
Retcon - “Retroactive Continuity” v. to retroactively revise (a plot, storyline, character, event, history, etc.), usually by reinterpreting past events, or by theorizing how the present would be different if past events had not happened or had happened differently. See: Crisis on Infinite Earths; Wolverine’s bone claws; Greedo shoots first.
Once upon a time, there was an Island. It was a very special place. To this Island came a lady in red – shipwrecked and washed ashore, this lady was very, very pregnant. Although the lady in red survived her ordeal, she did not believe that her ship companions had, and so thought that she was alone. She wasn’t. Soon, thankful for finding a stream for fresh water, she bent to take a drink and was startled when she looked up and found that Allison Janney was on the Island, as well. She seemed shocked to also find that Allison Janney spoke Latin.
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May 09
Articles of Faith: The Culture of Trust in LOST 6.14 “The Candidate” by Pearson Moore
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“Trust me.”
We’ve heard the statement dozens of times over the last fourteen episodes. These words are at the core of LOST.
LOST is about the elements of our humanity that precede and supersede life itself. Our common humanity has a value greater than life. LOST argues that there must be a fertile ground into which we place the fragile seeds of our human existence. This ground is rich in trust, empathy, compassion, respect, and the desire to serve the needs of others. This is our perfection.
Tonight we learned the basis for trust, the foundation that will lead to that perfection.
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