The Official Lost: The Final Season Thread (Warning: Possible Spoilers)

The final season kicks of tonight at 8pm (EST) on ABC.

Discuss the final season here

I'm hoping they all die seeing how they all should have died from the beginning.

So if I watch this tonight I will be back on track because I got lost after like the 3rd episode.

So if I watch this tonight I will be back on track because I got lost after like the 3rd episode.

Ummm, not so much. It's really complex, with so many layers. It's hard to imagine anyone is totally "on track" given how much has gone on over the years and how much is left to the imagination. I've never missed an episode in 5+ years, and it's still tough sometimes to remember all the story-lines and past episodes. Fortunately they give you periodic "recaps" to help keep the average viewer up to speed. It really is great TV. I'd say it has to be one of the best written TV series of all time. I DVR'd tonight's premier, but I probably won't have a chance to get to it until Thursday night.

So glad I didn't waste my time on this.

Check out Lost: Untangled on abc.com. Low budget recap of what happened in the previous episode. Quite amusing.

it doesn't seem like there are very many lost fanatics here, but in case there's one or two of you, maybe you can help me out. i feel like the show has told us enough to figure out what everything is building to, but i can't quite piece it together. maybe you guys can help me out. here are, what i beleive to be crucial facts to figuring things out:

1. jacob and the man in black are enemies, although there is some indication that they used to be friends
2. God used to love Jacob, but now he doesn't
3. the man in black is trying to go home
4. while we are led to beleive jacob is good, all we have seen jacob do is lie to and manipulate people
5. while we are led to believe the man in black is bad, all we have seen him do is tell the truth and ask them to make a decision
6. one of the major themes of the show is redemption
7. everyone on lost has daddy issues. Could it be that Jacob and/or the man in black do as well?
8. Lost is filled with judeo-christian religious symbolism
9. God can't see the Island (According to Ben, atleast)

The only theory i can think of so far that fits in with pretty much everything we've seen on Lost is that the MIB and Jacob were the two angels that God sent to keep people out of the Garden of Eden. However, Jacob decided to start letting people back in, and this is the source of the conflict between the two "men." I don't think that this theory is 100% correct, but I think its on the right track. What say you? What are your theories?

I think it is heavily influenced by judeo-christian but I think ultimately it will spin out to a more generic religiously influenced conclusion. I definitely don't see it playing out to a specific existing judeo-christian arc or theme though. There has been a lot bantered about Cain/Abel but that seems way too obvious and this show has always been anything but obvious. It will be an entirely fictional conclusion theme to me.

I think it is heavily influenced by judeo-christian but I think ultimately it will spin out to a more generic religiously influenced conclusion. I definitely don't see it playing out to a specific existing judeo-christian arc or theme though. There has been a lot bantered about Cain/Abel but that seems way too obvious and this show has always been anything but obvious. It will be an entirely fictional conclusion theme to me.

i agree it won't clearly align itself with any specific religion, but i think the general story will play out that way. pretty much every old religion on earth teaches that man once lived in a eden-type paradise, but lost it, and that there was a flood that destroyed pretty much everything. I guess my basic theory is that Lost will essentially try to say, "this is the real story on which all of that is based."

anyone else feel that Lost nuked the fridge last night?