I've been carefully thinking about season six, it's premiere and the final episode. Yeah, like you haven't been doing the same, and maybe even more than myself, but I had a weird thought. Just a thought, and I really have nothing to support the following supposition, but I want to get it out here and see what everyone thinks.
By now we all know the title of the premiere episode is LA X. To be honest, I think LOST will resume where we left off with half the survivors in 2007 and the other half in 1977. For a while I had contemplated
Jeff Jensen's theory that the plane would land safely, but the survivors will have been imbued with some sort of vague memory (ala Close Encounters of The Third Kind) and be compelled to find their way back to the island. To be honest, I am not liking this theory for the simple reason that our survivors have already been compelled to find the island once before and we don't want to see repetition. The writers of LOST are so creative that I would hope that they could come up with a story that doesn't repeat something we have already seen (unless it is in a flashback or a memory scene).
I adore Jeff Jensen's analysis of LOST and he has, at times, been a great resource. Heck, I have his LOST posts e-mailed to me automatically! I don't do that for very many blogs, so I hope I have shown you how much I like and respect this guy. I just happen to disagree with his speculation on this point.
So, what do I think will happen? I think the season premiere will take up where we left off in the Incident, with Juliet detonating Jug Head and the resulting KABOOM! There will be a RESET of the "Destiny Alarm Clock", but I think we will find our favorite 1977 peeps still in 1977. Seriously, as much as I love Jack (and I really do have faith in his ability to reach his potential), I have serious doubts for the success of his plan. Really, when has anything Jack ever planned actually worked the way HE wanted it to? I've tried to remember if Jack's schemes have ever worked and I can't come up with anything. If any of you can think of anything, please let me know.
Okay, now that I've said that Jack's plan will fail, where does that leave the 2007 survivors? I think we will immediately revisit Bram and Illana unceremoniously dumping the real John Locke's body on the beach, the camera will pan to a stunned Richard and then to a very confused Sun.
The most important role of the season premiere, aside from quenching our unending craving for our addiction, is to remind us where we left off (yeah, like we NEED that), to set the tone for the season and to provide a slight hint of what's to come. I expect LOST to follow this rule. However, since LOST and it's writers have never followed the rules, indeed have created some of their own, I could be so off base that you could look through a telescope and find me sitting on the Moon enjoying a rum and Coke Zero and applying inches of sunblock to my bulky spacesuit.
Only time will tell.
In the mean time, I continue to think LOST everyday. It is my drug and, while my family has NOT yet suffered as a result of my addiction, I am under the continuous watchful eye of my soon-to-be thirteen year old daughter. I think she is looking for signs of withdrawal and has programmed 9-1-1 into the speed dial on the cordless handset to be on the safe side.
She needn't worry. I have returned to my re-watching schedule and will be caught up in no time and ready to post my thoughts in about a week or two. I've modified my posting plans and plan to post thoughts on three or four episodes at a time.
It all depends on how fast I can get the basement cleaned up again after I decided, without any planning ahead, to thoroughly organize my bedroom. I now have pieces of surplus furniture and boxes of I-don't-know-what, carefully placed around the basement to create pathways to the laundry area, to my daughter's bedroom, and to my bedroom (yes, I sleep in the basement because it is so cool in the summer and warm in the winter).
In the meantime, if anyone wants to buy me a copy of the poster pictured above, I'd be greatly appreciative. I might even be able to arrange a trade. Does anyone want some soon to be ripe pears grown in the comfort of my back yard? I can't eat them all.
