LOST - The Incident: I May or May not Have Soiled Myself
posted by Amy on May 14, 2009 at 02:48 PM in Reviews, Pop Culture, Television
So, last night was the finale of the penultimate season of LOST, and if I could sum up my reaction to the episode in a few words, it would have to be WHAT THE WHAT?!?!?!
Oh wait, before I go any further I had better do this:
***SPOILER WARNING: If you do not watch LOST, well first of all, what is wrong with you? Secondly, you probably shouldn't read the rest of this post because it will confuse and bore you. Also, if you ever come to your senses and start watching the show, you don't want it to be SPOILED. You really don't. ***
Ok, so anyhoo, I totally want to blog about the season finale, which I though was completely AWESOME, but I should have taken notes or something, because my head is full of so many questions and ideas and are-you-kidding-me's that I don't know where to begin. There is probably no way to be orderly about this, so I guess I will just dive in and talk about the things most interesting to me.
Jacob: Welp, we finally get to meet Jacob, so that answers the question as to whether or not Jacob is really just Christian/Richard/some character we already know from the future/imaginary. (The answer is no, in case you hadn't figured that out.) I am not sure if I like the actor they picked for Jacob, but I suppose he was good enough. I was surprised and interested to find out that Jacob had intervened at various points in some of the Lostaways lives. I was rather disturbed that he was present for Nadia's death, perhaps even caused her death. That very first scene of the episode, which I assume was back in the late 1800s because I assume that was the Black Rock they were looking at, was both cool and disappointing. VERY cool from a plot perspective, but kind of lame because their outfits and very modern accents seemed weak and semi-anachronistic, like this was a community theater portrayal of 1881. Oh well. I personally did not catch the importance of the fact that Jacob was wearing white and the Other Dude was wearing black, but others on the internets sure did. It was cool to see the black/white duality finally make another appearance, since what, Season One? Which reminds me, I am still anxious to know who Adam and Eve are. I read someone suggest perhaps they are Bernard and Rose - but that leaves quite a few unanswered questions, like who put them in the cave, and why did they have bags with one white stone and one black stone?
Locke/Other Dude: So apparently, whoever the Other Dude is, he has shapeshifted into John Locke. And he knows all of Locke's memories and personality quirks - or at least enough of them to be a convincing Locke. And the real Locke is really dead. I am wondering if Alive Locke/Other Dude is the Smoke Monster, who I think everyone agrees can take the form of dead people. So does that mean that Christian, Horace and Yemi were all the Smoke Monster when they appeared as well? And can the Smoke Monster leave the Island? Does that mean Charlie, Christian (off the Island), Ana Lucia and Libby were also the Smoke Monster? Anyway, he seems to have defeated Jacob, but who are the "they" who Jacob says are coming? The "good guys" who are just outside with Richard and Lepidus and the Others? Or the Lostaways who are in the past? Or some other "they" we don't even know yet? And how do Ben and Widmore fit into all this? Are we EVER going to find out who the Others/Hostiles are, how and when they got there? And why has Jacob been ruling through Richard?
Jacob & Other Dude - Who are they really?: It seems like a lot of the imagery and clues are pointing to the fact that Jacob and the Other Dude are ancient rivals, possibly Egytian gods? There are all the hieroglyphics everywhere, duh. And the statue seems to be of the god Sobek. So that could mean that the Other Dude is Set, god of Darkness and Chaos. (Thanks Wikipedia!) (Also: Horus=Horace coincidence???) Frankly, if they DO turn out to just be Egyptian gods playing some war game, I am going to be pretty disappointed. That just doesn't seem like a very satisfying resolution. Besides, that tapestry Jacob was weaving was in Greek, and the Others speak in Latin, and the Lamp Post Dharma Station is under a Catholic Church, so there is a plenty of religious imagery to go around. So maybe they are gods/dudes even MORE ancient than any of these relgions? Whatever, I am not even going to try and figure it out. Also, STILL WONDERING why the statue has four toes.
Jake/Kate/Julie/Sawyer Love Quadrangle: Firstly, sometimes I just want to slap Jack upside the head, he is such a freaking pouter. And while I know he had feelings for Kate, I just don't buy him wanting to blow himself up and reverse time so that he would never have met her. I know he was tormented and all after they left the Island, but they always made it seem like he was tormented because of the Island, not because of Kate. Maybe I was just misinterpreting that all along, but to me it seemed to stretch credibility when Jack told Sawyer he wanted to go through with Daniel's plan because "he lost her." Sawyer's response was dead on. Anyway, I have grown to love Sawyer, even though he can be dumb as a bag of hammers. If he whined about what a good life he had going on in Dharmaville before Jack showed up one more time, I was gonna flip out because HELLO, EVENTUALLY YOU WOULD END UP GASSED TO DEATH BY BEN LINUS, so it's not like his perfect little life was going to last anyway! Sawyer, catch up or take notes. I also really want to love Juliet too, but I still think there is a little bit of a creep factor with her. I don't know why, but sometimes I think there is more to Juliet than we know. I could be wrong about that, but it prevents me from liking her without reserve. Although, I don't care what anyone else says, I thought the scene with her being sucked down into the hole was awesome and heartbreaking and intense (not cheesy or melodramatic), as was the very very last scene where we find out that Juliet is not dead, and oh hi, there is the bomb and a convenient rock.
The Bomb: I didn't think they would actually succeed in blowing up the bomb, because of the HUGE paradox changing something like that would create. I mean, wouldn't a hydrogen bomb blow the whole Island to smithereens? Or am I overestimating the power of such a bomb? So if the bomb were to kill everyone, well then Eloise would die, which would mean Daniel would never have been born. But then he would not be alive to travel back in time to do all the things necessary to make the bomb blow up - and so you see how this is a big circular problem. Unless Miles was right, and the bomb WAS the incident. But that doesn't seem likely, because even if the bomb didn't kill everyone, surely it would have killed Dr. Chang, who was clearly within the bomb radius, and who we know lived past the Incident. (As an aside, I just want to get this out there: I hate Radzinsky with the power of a million hydrogen bombs.) Anyway, it seems from the end of the show that Juliet did in fact make it go boom, and so now we wait.
Other much more eloquent reviews of The Incident with other cool insights:
MamaPop (hilarious!)
Lostpedia
The League of Ordinary Gentlemen
Rocks in My Dryer
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