We Have to Go Back Kate

There really is no more polarizing show on television on Lost. Whether arguing that it has fallen off since the first season or it is actually better than it ever is, or even arguing about what it all means, it is hard not to have an opinion on the show and argue to your last breath on that opinion. This was the season I decided to stop being frustrated with all the unanswered questions and the absurdity of it all. If I were a Lost character this season I would be Paulo before the whole dieing thing, just a dude in the background while the Jack’s and Locke’s argue over every minute and inane detail of the show.

If there were a season for the show to shake itself off the funk it has been in since the excruciatingly boring first season finale, it was this one thanks to the jaw dropping last scene of season three that introduced up to the concept of a flashforward. So for season four we had a nice mix of flashbacks, flashforwards, and whatever the frak that Desmond-centric episode was.

Naturally the writers dropped the ball with some of the flashforwards, thinking that a big reveal at the end would make up for the otherwise substandard rest of the episode. Yes I am talking to you Kate. But then you had the edge of your seat ones like Sayid and Not-Henry, which I was actually right was not really a flashforward. I have a theory that when he went behind his bookcase after they killed his daughter he wasn’t summoning the smoke monster but instead warped into the future to warn Charles Whitmore that he was going to kill his daughter in retaliation. I was just a couple episodes off.

Then the finale shows us in detail how the Oceanic 6 got off the island, which less face it was pretty anti climatic. The problem with Lost with all the back and forth in time, even the novice viewer can piece the puzzle together by the time the actual reveal happen. What keeps people coming back is the big plot twists and season four had a decent ones even if everyone thought it was Locke in coffin the day after the third season finale. I was actually holding out for my initial guess in Not-Henry until the moment he walked through the door. Even then I thought maybe it was still him and faked his death.

But it was Locke which of course ended up in the coffin which really puts a wrech in my Charles Whitmore is Future-Locke theory. Of course this, and other parts of the finale, begs these questions:

- What did everyone refer to Locke as Jeremy?

- If Locke has to go back with the 6 to get back on the island, does Walt, Desmond, and the Lawnmower Man have to go back too?

- How and why did Locke get off the island?

- How does Locke die?

- What the frak is up with Claire?

- What the frak is up with Jin?

- What the frak is up with Faraday and the people on his raft?

- What the frak is up with Michael? (I assumed Jack's dad saying you can go now meant he could die. And on that note, why is Jack's dad showing up everywhere?)

- Is there a significance to Sawyer, Michael, and Jin all being in the sea (be it dead or alive) much like the end of the first season?

- What did Sawyer whisper to Kate?

- Why did Miles want to stay?

- What does Sun want with Whitmore?

- What was with the weird octagon commercial thing?

- Why were Boone, Libby, and Charlie selected as the three that died in the Oceanic 6 fake story?

- And most importantly, what the frak is with the feud between Not-Henry and Charles Whitmore?


Lost 4.x gets a on my Terror Alert Scale.