My Serious, Logical Thoughts on The End

TITLE
This actually refers to something Jacob said a few episodes ago when he told Hugo that they were nearing the end. It can also be taken as this is the end of the series.

Ok, the show is over. It answered questions and didn’t answer questions. Here are some things that did not get answered.

WHAT DISSAPOINTED ME
What disappoints me about LOST is Locke. Here he was this man who had faith in the island and in the end he gets murdered. In season one he was the wise man who knew more about the island than anyone. He was mystical and mysterious. In the end he was a broken man and was trying to commit suicide just before he was murdered. That was kind of anticlimactic for me. The only redemption is that Jack states that Locke was mostly right about everything.
We never learned the name of the man in Black.
We never learned what the light in the cave really was, or who put it there or why removing a stone makes the island explode.
We never really learned why the Hurley numbers were special. We do know that Jacob told Hurley they were a blessing and that Jacob used these numbers for people and put their names along with the numbers on the wall of a cave and those people with Hurley numbers were all on flight Oceanic 815. But what did the numbers have to do with Hurley’s string of bad luck including the meteor hitting the chicken joint and other calamities?
Why was Walt so special? How did he make birds fly into windows? Why wasn’t Walt in the finale?
Where did Claudia come from? How did she make it so that Jacob and Esau could not harm each other? Who taught her about the light in the cave? What year did Claudia come to the island?
The psychic told Claire that Claire needed to raise Aaron. He implied that it would be disastrous if anyone else raised him. Why? This was never explained. What is the deal with Aaron?
Who built the statue on the island and why?
What was the connection to Egypt and Greek gods like Apollo?
In season one Rose says that the noise of the smoke monster sounds familiar. Why?
Where did the lighthouse come from in the Church? How did DHARMA know how to use it to find the island?
Who was still sending supplies to the swan hatch? How did they know how to find the island? Remember the pallet of food that landed with DHARMA supplies in season two?
Who was Henry Gale? What was he doing in a balloon over the island?
Why didn’t DHARMA ever return to the island?
It was disappointing to see Richard lose all his faith in Jacob for a while and even tell others not to listen to Jacob.
The Others were very interested in children in seasons one and two. It was interesting to speculate why, but the answer that the Others could not procreate on the island left me feeling flat. That’s it?
We never really got a definitive answer on how the Others made lists of people and determined who was “good” and “bad”. Sayid was determined as “bad” through an odd test of torturing. Why? How did that test work? What was the “disease” that infected Sayid and Claire that worked its way into their hearts that destroyed the person they once knew?
Why was Esau not allowed to kill some people but was allowed to kill other people – Eko, Seth Norris and so forth.
Was Esau the one who appeared as Walt? This happened a few times including the day Shannon was shot. Walt also appeared to John Locke right after Ben shot him, and he was lying in a ditch of dead DHARMA people.

WHAT I THINK IT IS
So, what was this show all about? A very difficult question to answer, but I will try. The island was created by God, and the light represents spiritual goodness that emanates a signal out to all of humanity giving them the choice to do good. Without the light they would not have a choice and fall into darkness with corrupt minds. The island is a test for humanity. God decreed for man not to mess with the light in the cave. That is why when you remove the stone from the light the island goes all crazy.
Claudia made a deal with God that Jacob and Esau could not harm each other. But when Jacob destroyed the body of Esau, because of this deal he could not be destroyed completely and so he became an ethereal being – the smoke monster.
There were actually clues to the show’s end. When Desmond says “see you in another life” this actually happened at the Church when Desmond met Jack. In season one Jack is quoted as saying “we all died” which could be interpreted as a vague hint at the final destination of everyone in the finale. This unfortunately led to the theory that the survivors were actually already dead in season one, and the island was purgatory. That turned out to be wrong.
Esau had not been human for a very long time – perhaps thousands of years. If Claudia was part of the Roman Empire then that could have been roughly 2,000 years ago when she came to the island. Thus the smoke monster could have been without his body for that long. In that long time the smoke monster lost touch with his humanity. He forgot what it was like to be human and became desensitized. Human life meant nothing to Esau in the end.

WHAT I LIKED
The Black Rock saga was explained in detail, and it did double duty by explaining Richard’s backstory and how the statue was broken. For once Ben told the truth. When Ben arrived on the island the statue was already broken.
I am really glad that the alternate timeline was not really an alternate timeline. None of those events actually happened. Whew!
I liked it that all the couples got together in the end.
All the plot twists. The phrase “I never saw that coming” definitely applied to the whole series.
If you haven’t seen it, the three alternate endings to LOST shown on the Jimmy Kimmel show are priceless!

ERROR?
When Miles tells Ben that he lived in the compound 30 years before he did that was not quite true since Ben had lived in the compound as a child and was there even before Miles traveled back in time to the 1970s.

LOST SPINOFF SERIES
Here are some LOST spinoff series I’d like to see

Vincent the Time Traveling Canine – after becoming “unstuck” in time Vincent now travels through time encountering people on the island. Using his superintelligent mind he aids hapless humans in the different problems they encounter, and they never know that it is a dog that saves the day.

The Agira Six – follow the adventures of six people who arrive on a plane in LAX that was bound for Guam. Not being able to tell where they actually have been, the six make up lies, but soon their lies begin to untangle all the while a private detective tries to solve the mystery of where they have been.

Walt the Seeker – Join physicist Walt all grown up as he now teach physics at a university while secretly trying to find a way back to the island. Quirky millionaire Alvar Hanso junior gets in on the action.

Thinking Clairely – Claire becomes a radio therapist helping callers with their problems. Her specialty is crazy. This mom has her hands full with a son bent on world domination.

Ghost Horse Whisperer – After seeing the ghost of a horse on the island Kate finds that she is able to speak to the ghosts of dead horses. Now she aids the former owners of these horses helping them find peace. Her sidekick Miles Straum is also on the case!

Smokey and the Bandit – The smoke monster is frustrated by a gopher who keeps stealing his stuff. Each week the smoke monster tries in vain to capture the smart rodent while Jacob sits back and laughs. The result is hilarity.

So, that’s it. I have now officially written a report on EVERY episode of LOST. This show is undoubtedly the best show of the decade and then some. I will miss it. I hope you have enjoyed reading my blog. You can see me on youtube as qcotms and read my future novels at www.qcms.biz.

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