THE END IS HERE; A love letter to the greatest show ever made
The sixth and final season of LOST is clocking in at an incredible pace. It began six years ago, and now, it is ending. Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof has spent six years of their lives to bring us the story of the Island. The time for mysteries is over. The time for answers has come.
The first big mythology-episode of this season was “Ab Aterno”, the episode that gave us the purpose of the Island and the origin of a big mystery; Richard Alpert, the man that lived forever. The second mythology-episode gave us another origin, and perhaps the answer to the biggest mystery of them all; The Smoke Monster. This episode was loved by some and hated by others. It gave us the identity of Adam and Eve, the origin of Jacob and the Smoke Monster and it solved the mystery of where the Frozen Donkey Wheel came from and what its original purpose was. It also answered the question that we all sought to solve; what it all is about.
From here on out, there will be much spoilery talk about the Island, the Smoke Monster and everything else. So beware!
The story that Damon and Carlton has been working hard to tell us over the course of six years is about… A cave with some lights in.
Now, I do realize that sounded stupid and moronic. This is also the main flaw with this episode, and it is what haters will focus on when they tell people why this episode of LOST was simply flawed and dumb. People like that exists, and they will exist, but I am not one of them. I am one of the people that FREAKING LOVED this episode. It is the only episode I have seen two times, just because I thought it was so damn good. It gives us so many answers, and it sets up the conflict that LOST will further explore in the two last episodes of the show. Because, as this episode revealed, LOST is about an epic fight between two brothers, both severely manipulated and fucked up by an unbelievably crazy mother. One of these brothers would protect this light in a cave, which actually is everything; dead souls, living souls, the afterlife, the portal to a new life and rebirth. Simply put, it is everything. And, if we are to believe Jacob and the crazy mother, this light must stay on the Island. Forever. If it leaves the Island, it will destroy all that is. The world would be thrown into chaos. This is the stakes we’re up against. And it actually wouldn’t be that hard to protect this light if Jacob hadn’t thrown his brother into this light after he killed their crazy adoptive mother, something that, if I my theorizing is correct, corrupted the light and made it into a pillar of smoke.
So, basically, the Smoke Monster is everyone that ever died and lived. He is everything and he is nothing. He is what we must pass through to be reborn. He has a grudge against Jacob, he has gained a consciousness and he wants to leave the Island. Now.
In a week from now, LOST will be over. The epic, sprawling saga of a mysterious island with weird science experiments, ancient civilizations and various “special” people will be over. There will be no more time-travelling, no more conciusness-altering love, no more “Not Penny’s Boat”, no more mysteries and no more answers. There will be no more Science vs. Faith, no more Jack, no more Kate, Sawyer, Hurley, Faraday, Locke, Smoke Monster, Desmond or Benjamin Linus. No more mysterious hatches, old corpses, people arriving to the Island, no more Dharma, no more weird storytelling experiments, no more Flashforwards, no more Flashbacks and no more FlashSideways. It will all be over. Now, many of us may not think about how much this series actually means for us, but seriously; LOST means everything to me. LOST is like Star Wars, and I imagine the feeling I will have next week will be exactly the feeling I had after I’d seen STAR WARS: Revenge of the Sith in cinemas, the very feeling I was left with when I read the last Harry Potter book.. It was something like this; “It’s over. Great.” *Deep breath* “What do I do now?” Fact is, I am in tears now. I am scared as shit, and I am sad. Because, come 2011 and onwards, we won’t have anything even remotely close to LOST. We will never have a six-year long show that is filled with mysteries, with clues, with hidden easter eggs and with weird connections to all and everything. It just won’t happen. LOST has done what no other show have done; it has created a six-year long sprawling epic, with not one really bad episode (yes, I actually liked season three’s “EXPOSE”). It is the first show that has managed to contain one big storyline for six seasons, with never giving answers until now. And it has never, not once, been in real danger of being cancelled. It has had a loving and loyal fanbase that almost never gave it up. It will go down in history as one of the greatest shows ever written, just because it actually managed to get to the end and tell the story it wanted too. It is one of the few shows that was a huge hit from the very first episode, and it has been like that over the course of six seasons. And now it’s ending, one minute at a time.
Come next week, I will only have one question about my life, about LOST and about TV; “What do I do now?”
Goodbye LOST. Travel well, and know that you will forever stay in our hearts and minds. I seriously have no idea what to do, what to obsess about now that this superb journey is coming to an end, and it hurts like hell. Come next TV-season, there will be a show missing from all our time-tablets, and we will be sad when we finally figure out what it is. We will no longer have anything to obsess about, to think about, to talk about. But, sadly, life goes on. We just have to find something else to live for.
Farewell, LOST. Know that you will be forever missed, and that you’ll always have a place in our hearts. In comparison, we won’t have anymore terribly exciting cliff-hangers to solve over the course of summer. All of our lives will change, because this is the end. And it will forever be.
So goodbye LOST. We love you. And we always will.
