Lost: There’s No Place Like Home (1/3)
By fred | May 16, 2008
(S04E12) So here we go again: a new episode of Lost. This season has been nothing but fantastic, and while last season finale was a marvelous mind-blowing moment of television that raised everyone’s expectations and hopes up, I’m confident in saying that, so far, this season has still managed to challenge every fan’s expectations and blow their minds, more than once, delivering what seems to be the best season of the show so far.
But it’s not over yet, there’s still a little more to find out, or possibly, a lot more. A new episode, but this one is special. It’s the first part of the season finale, and we’ll have time to watch it over & over again as the second and final part won’t air until May 29, in two weeks. So you could have thought that it might not be a fully-featured episode, not an action-packed one, but one more putting pieces in place. And in a way, it was, a little.
But the engine started, pieces are already in motion, some things are happening, and there’s no way to stop them now…
Not that I’d want them to stop, Hell no. I’m not sure what is happening, in fact I’m pretty lost on more than one side of it, but I don’t want it to stop, no way. This episode opened with yet another brilliant scene. And first, a nice shot : we’re in the sky, nothing’s happening, when things start to “move”. Anyone else thought this was the Island moving ? Well,not really, but a nice allusion to it maybe ?
Then, we found the Oceanic Six as they were for the first time gonna reach the main land and meet back with their families. A great touching scene where no words were spoken, but none were needed. And it had a lot going one, starring with Sayid and Kate having no one waiting for them, although Kate’s loneliness was incredibly highlighted as Hurley invited Sayid and only he into a big group hug, all the while Sun had already set her mind about her father, and didn’t even gave him one look. As we find out later, she wouldn’t stop there!
This, and the press conference that followed, was a pretty huge event. It was, it was the birth of the myth, the beginning of the legend of the Oceanic Six - with by the way an echo to what I’ve been saying : the name came from the media, obviously, as it is part of the world of Lost, hence why there’s no question whether or not Aaron was on the Flight 815, in some manifest, or nothing like that : six people made it out, six people are alive, six people walk out of that place and go to the press conference : they are the Oceanic Six. Simple as that.
Now while this was huge, I also felt that, when it comes down to us, viewers, it wasn’t that big of a deal. Because many questions were asked, about their health, how they survived, everything, but not so many answers were given. Instead, Hurley joked it away and Kate never had to explain her baby’s age. And no, for some unexplainable reason no one thought of asking who the Hell are those two people who survived the crash but died before leaving the island.
As far as I’m concerned, it’s killing me not to know who they are and why they need to pretend that there were 8 survivors, two of which died later; but as part of the press there, shouldn’t that also be a burning questions ??
So no, not many answers, and in fact this is one of rare times where I wasn’t that excited about the flash-forwards, because that wasn’t the interesting part. Sure, it was good to find out more about their return, and Jack finding out who Claire and Aaron really are to him, but what we really want to know is before that : how did those six got together and left ? Why them ? How did they leave ? And who came up with the big fat lie ??
I don’t know if this is valid or not, but they never said that there wouldn’t be any time oddities if they followed that path. To me, it always sounded more like following that heading was about safety, perhaps concerning whether they’d get unstuck and go crazy. There may still be some weird time anomalies.
I’m starting to think that the island in some sort of time bubble anomaly and the path points to a weak spot. If you cross the path at the weak spot, you get out sane but go through some sort of time hiccup that moves you temporally in some direction. If you go through somewhere else, you become unstuck and either die on the spot, or go crazy and die soon after. I actually like the idea of a time hiccup when crossing the border better than a general slow down or speed up phenomenon. It’s more consistent with the island having unique properties (ones defined by a bubble), would explain why some evidence suggests time speeding up and others suggests it slowing down (neither would be true, you just get a hiccup in a random direction when crossing the barrier) and could even explain what moving the island means (moving the bubble is more sensical than moving a land mass atttached extending from the earth’s plates.)
Personally, that’s what I think tomorrow’s big reveal will be. Moving the island will be about moving the island in time. They’ll do something at orchid station that will alter the “bubble” and move it to the past or future. Of course, such a time shift will be a very hard thing to communicate in a “holy crap!” final Lost season finale moment…unless perhaps…
Locke pulls a lever.
Pink light begins coming out of the reactor and filling up the room.
Cut to helicoper flying away with Jack where you see the island enveloped in pink light.
Cut to beach scene with pink light everywhere.
Pink light disappears and everyone on the beach looks around disoriented.
Pan to a pirate ship approaching the island with words Black Rock written on the side.
Cut to black.
LOST.
:D Just an idea.
Well, they never said anything really except following that path was the only way to be safe. But safe from that, what could happen if following that path, if not, much like the Lost writers, Daniel knows how to not answer questions ;)
Also, it works except that Desmond did got unstuck in time while they were following the path… Of course, it’s Desmond, the radiations, etc
I don’t really remember if Minkowski & co knew about the coordinates or not? I guess it could make sense, yes, especially considering that actually what Sayid did is jut traveled forward in time, right? He moved forward in time into the next afternoon (without realizing it), like the doc, but the other way…
I think what bothers me the most, with the doc, is that if his body traveled back in time but the Island and the Freighter exists “in the same time”, as seems to be the case, then we have a very risky and odd situation : one person exists at the same time in both places. Though not alive, the doctor was at two places at once. Exactly the kind of things producers said they wanted not to do (hence why I used to think a physical time travel could only go into the future).
Also, we’re this close to many paradoxes : let’s imagine that Dan & co calling in to ask about the doctor, though he wasn’t dead yet, would have affected the events to come on the boat. That because of that call, and the doctor being aware of it, he’d have been suspicious of Keamy and run away to hide before he could get killed… then what?
I too think the Island will move, though I’d say both time and space actually. Even though we all expect a time travel by now I guess, so the big surprise could be that they just move it, as in change of location, wouldn’t it?
Still, Future Jack seems sure he can go back, so there’s got to be a way. Plus I think next season(s) might be about the O6 trying to go back, so they couldn’t be trying to go back to an Island sometime in the past…
Yeah, nice. Or instead of going that far back, let’s just use that to bring back Rousseau onto the Island! ;)
So, are we Thursday yet?
Future Jack is why I think it might just be traveling in time and not in space. Perhaps he doesn’t know better, but he was clearly using a bunch of charts trying to figure out a location. To me, that says he thinks it’s in the same spot. Perhaps it moved but he just didn’t see it, but you never know.
Whatevery rationale they have for the “lie” is going to be key probably. It’s gotta be something big for them not to want to try to organize a rescue trip. Hmm, either type of move would probably be a pretty good rationale for something like that.
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