05.23.10
some lost predictions
the enchantment under the sea ending: i think this one was pretty obvious. in the alternate 1985, i mean alternate 2005, everybody is going to some sort of event / concert. desmond jumps on stage and plays chuck berry songs until everybody’s split-existential crises are cured?
and
jack sacrifices himself to save the island / stop the smoke monster: it completes the tragic messanic-hero epic arc while simultaneously putting some resolution to the J/S/K triangle.
and
jack’s baby momma = . . . . . . ? the obvious answer here is juliet. almost a little . . . tooo obvious, no? so i’m hoping they throw us something random and sweet here
OR
scooby-doo ending? we haven’t seen that doggie for a few seasons have we?
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lost has always been such a great show because its format allows it to rip off the essentials of just about every other show ever and act out those glommed melodrama nuggets within the uber-lush context of incredibly good looking geography and people. over the more recent seasons they have had to reach and hit (and miss) with buddy-cops, korean soap operas, quasi-real-time 24-ish bomb defusing, obvious and not so obvious sci-fi homages, and so on.
so whatever happens during the last episode – i hope they choose to ‘pay tribute to’ the finer and more elegant cinematic resolution tricks. maybe jack does the surgery on locke at the concert hall where his kid is playing frenetic classical music intercut with everything else happening all at once and everything get’s all fast and nutty a la Aronofsky or Lynch
or perhaps the Martin Scorsese classic-rock ultra-violent music montage: a paranoid freaked out hurley, smoke monster starts whacking everyone, the feds come and close down the island. all set to a stones or clapton song.
or we could get the seinfeld ending.
