Lost and Found
Unlike some Lost fans, I missed the first season. I thought it looked stupid to begin with, and we were pretty involved at church on Wednesday nights, but my wife and I began watching during the second season (oddly enough while I was holding a church position and working on Wednesday nights). We’d finish up at church at 8:15 or so and we’d rush home and put the kids in be and turn on Lost, praying that none of the youth wanted to come over or do something after because then we’d miss it and I’d just have to read the show notes on Thinklings or TVSquad. I became a fan of the show and especially of Locke, then of Benjamin.
We continued watching the show until earlier in this season when Sawyer and “Freckles” were locked in the polar bear cages and Jack (and all of us) saw them getting their groove on. I’m not really sure why I stopped watching after that episode, I watch movies and other TV shows with more sexuality than that. But for some reason, Lost had lost its appeal.
Then I went to Louisville and visited some friends. They are hardcore Lost fans and are pretty good at guessing the plot twists and turns. But we went to one of their friends house and watched the recent episode focused on Ben’s history. And there I realized that it isn’t the show that I care about, it’s the camaraderie. I could care less whether Kate chooses Jack or Sawyer (though it’s pretty apparent now that she doesn’t pick Jack), I do care about the fellowship that it allows me to have with my spouse or friends or complete strangers as we discuss possible outcomes or answers to the many twists and questions of this great show.
Maybe I’m a sad example, maybe others just watch it because it’s an entertaining show. Maybe I’m revealing all sorts of psychoanalytic things about my subconscious self. All I know is that if Lost did not return next season, I would be okay (though very perplexed as to how they got off the island and if everyone is as suicidal as Jack), there will always be another show or movie or centerpiece for conversation, but if I’m alone there is no conversation. People matter.
We gravitate towards television and movies because they have the remarkable power to touch us deeply and show us something about ourselves. That is the power of a show like Lost. Everyone has their favorite characters and usually they are those with whom they most closely associate. The power of television and movies and all art for that matter lies in people and the dialog between the artist and the viewers, and the viewers themselves. If that communication is broken, art merely becomes entertainment.
That being said, the season finale ROCKED!!
- At least 12 of the others are dead.
- 7 in the dynamite blasts
- 2 Charlie’s angels in the Looking Glass
- Hurley got 1 with the VW bus
- Sayid offed 1 while bound and gagged with his feet, He’s hardcore!!
- Sawyer nailed Tom after he surrendered because he thought he was lying about surrendering
- It could be thirteen if Desmond’s harpoon and a hand grenade combined to kill cyclops
- I’m not holding my breath, and neither was he.
- I don’t think I would have the presence of mind to put my scuba gear back on if I had a spear jutting out of my chest
- Charlie’s dead
- Locke isn’t
- Ben was right about Naomi
- Rousseau and Alex are reunited
- Favorite line: “Help me tie him up?”
- If that truly was a flash-forward and not just a dream or vision, then at least Jack and Kate left the island
- Someone they both know but Kate doesn’t like (Juliet) is dead
- Kate is with someone else who would be suspicious of her spending time with Jack (Sawyer)
- And it appears that Jack’s dad is alive (or has been brought back to life by the island.)
How in the world are they going to squeeze two more seasons out if they get rescued next season. Ben has to be right. Ben is always right.
Update: I just learned that the man that Jack contacted on the satellite phone, Minkowski, shares his name with an early twentieth century German physicist who described time as a fourth dimension!
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