I'm writing this review for all those who are so limited to believe that LOST is a show that gives you questions and no answers.
In this review i'll try to answer some of them, mainly from the 6th season and from the 5th also. Many might wonder why the hydrogen bomb didn't work. Well maybe because Jacob brought them again like he did the first time in 2004, that's why the bomb wasn't supposed to work. You may also be wondering why only some guys from the Ajira flight were sent back in 1977 and some of them didn't. Mainly because that was supposed to happen, but more importantly because we see in Season 2 of LOST that Pierre Chang says in the Orientation video for Station Swan that "shortly after the experiment began however there was an incident" referring of course to the incident with the guys from the future, that were supposed to come back to the island (just like Jack kept saying) in order for that time paradox to really happen (it's Bootstap Paradox). Or one could argue that they were sent back because they couldn't recreate the exact circumstances that brought them originally on the island.
Let's get to Season 6 however... because there are the bigger questions. Firstly to help you understand them, I'll begin with episode 7 from season 6, where Richiard says to Jack that he was touched by Jacob, and that if he would light up the fuse of that dynamite, it won't work. It didn't work for Jack either, because he was touched by Jacob to. So we see in episode 9 Ab Aeterno how Jacob explains to Richiard about the black smoke, and how "smokey" would need to destroy the island in order to get out (coming back to that in a moment). OK. So... we get to the weird (that's how other people are calling it, not me) episode 15 Across the See which in my opinion is one of the best episodes of LOST. So why did I tell you about Richard earlier? Because the same thing happened to the two kinds Jacob and MIB (man in black). Their mother used the light from the center of the island to make them unable to kill themselves just like Richiard wasn't able to kill himself. This makes any sense? Well another thing you might wonder is how that women that killed Claudia and stole her children was there before Claudia got there? Well mainly because she was one of the first to get on the island and discover it's unique proprieties. But she wasn't alone maybe. So that's why she started learning about how to protect that place, maybe because others tried to take more light than they needed, and so she became protector in order to keep the light going and also the life on and off the island. Later when Jacob became protector of the island, you might wonder how did his brother became the black smoke after being thrown into the light. Well this is the hard part. Maybe it was because the light there had this propriety: to give light and life to those with good heart and take all the light fro those with bad intentions. That's why the light took all the light and humanity from Jacob's brother and left only darkness and evil represented by that black smoke. And why did the black smoke became human again when Desmond putted off the light you might wonder. Maybe because the light was the one who kept him that way, and had stolen as he says all his humanity. Anyway the fact that MIB was leaving the island was not the reason why Jacob and Richard were saying that everyone is going to die. It was because of the light, that had to be put out in order for the smoke to finally leave the island. So turning it off, could have lead to everyone's death.
You may also be wandering why was the smoke monster always changing his thoughts about leaving, first he wanted to kill the candidates, then he tried to kill Desmond even though he needed him to destroy the island. Well the answer was given by Jacob in Ab Aeterno, where he shows Richard that the evil was trapped between the glass of the bottle and the cork. What was the glass actually? It was the island protector, but we see at the end of the episode that the evil was freed by breaking the glass. So it would make sense that after Jacob died, MIB no longer needed Desmond to destroy the island, he only had to kill "The Candidates" (the glass) so he could leave. But failing to do so in the 14th episode, and Jack being coronated as the new protector he took the measure of last resort, with Desmond help to destroy the island (the core), allowing him to leave, but ultimately destroying everyone in the world. Some people may think that the writers were lost but they weren't. It was all very logic, MIB need to kill everyone who could or would protect the light and the island or destroy the island in order to leave. The thing was that he couldn't go into the light to turn it off himself and he also didn't know that turning it off would turn him back into human, that was what Jack knew, and prepared him a "surprise" as he said in the last episode.
This show is soo good that it even gives you answers through imagery like MIB breaking the glass or a scale with black and white stones. Not even to mention the fact that the "killing of the candidates" was foreshadowed in season 3 when Eko died and said "You're next!". Yes that is how well planned this show was. Incredible!
I hope this review brings some light to you if you had conflicted feelings about the end.
I've watched this show 5 times, and not even now I got all the answers, because even now I am catching some of them.
Indeed this show will remain a unforgettable masterpiece of television. Maybe 10 isn't enough for this magnificent show.
See ya in another life brotha ;)
In this review i'll try to answer some of them, mainly from the 6th season and from the 5th also. Many might wonder why the hydrogen bomb didn't work. Well maybe because Jacob brought them again like he did the first time in 2004, that's why the bomb wasn't supposed to work. You may also be wondering why only some guys from the Ajira flight were sent back in 1977 and some of them didn't. Mainly because that was supposed to happen, but more importantly because we see in Season 2 of LOST that Pierre Chang says in the Orientation video for Station Swan that "shortly after the experiment began however there was an incident" referring of course to the incident with the guys from the future, that were supposed to come back to the island (just like Jack kept saying) in order for that time paradox to really happen (it's Bootstap Paradox). Or one could argue that they were sent back because they couldn't recreate the exact circumstances that brought them originally on the island.
Let's get to Season 6 however... because there are the bigger questions. Firstly to help you understand them, I'll begin with episode 7 from season 6, where Richiard says to Jack that he was touched by Jacob, and that if he would light up the fuse of that dynamite, it won't work. It didn't work for Jack either, because he was touched by Jacob to. So we see in episode 9 Ab Aeterno how Jacob explains to Richiard about the black smoke, and how "smokey" would need to destroy the island in order to get out (coming back to that in a moment). OK. So... we get to the weird (that's how other people are calling it, not me) episode 15 Across the See which in my opinion is one of the best episodes of LOST. So why did I tell you about Richard earlier? Because the same thing happened to the two kinds Jacob and MIB (man in black). Their mother used the light from the center of the island to make them unable to kill themselves just like Richiard wasn't able to kill himself. This makes any sense? Well another thing you might wonder is how that women that killed Claudia and stole her children was there before Claudia got there? Well mainly because she was one of the first to get on the island and discover it's unique proprieties. But she wasn't alone maybe. So that's why she started learning about how to protect that place, maybe because others tried to take more light than they needed, and so she became protector in order to keep the light going and also the life on and off the island. Later when Jacob became protector of the island, you might wonder how did his brother became the black smoke after being thrown into the light. Well this is the hard part. Maybe it was because the light there had this propriety: to give light and life to those with good heart and take all the light fro those with bad intentions. That's why the light took all the light and humanity from Jacob's brother and left only darkness and evil represented by that black smoke. And why did the black smoke became human again when Desmond putted off the light you might wonder. Maybe because the light was the one who kept him that way, and had stolen as he says all his humanity. Anyway the fact that MIB was leaving the island was not the reason why Jacob and Richard were saying that everyone is going to die. It was because of the light, that had to be put out in order for the smoke to finally leave the island. So turning it off, could have lead to everyone's death.
You may also be wandering why was the smoke monster always changing his thoughts about leaving, first he wanted to kill the candidates, then he tried to kill Desmond even though he needed him to destroy the island. Well the answer was given by Jacob in Ab Aeterno, where he shows Richard that the evil was trapped between the glass of the bottle and the cork. What was the glass actually? It was the island protector, but we see at the end of the episode that the evil was freed by breaking the glass. So it would make sense that after Jacob died, MIB no longer needed Desmond to destroy the island, he only had to kill "The Candidates" (the glass) so he could leave. But failing to do so in the 14th episode, and Jack being coronated as the new protector he took the measure of last resort, with Desmond help to destroy the island (the core), allowing him to leave, but ultimately destroying everyone in the world. Some people may think that the writers were lost but they weren't. It was all very logic, MIB need to kill everyone who could or would protect the light and the island or destroy the island in order to leave. The thing was that he couldn't go into the light to turn it off himself and he also didn't know that turning it off would turn him back into human, that was what Jack knew, and prepared him a "surprise" as he said in the last episode.
This show is soo good that it even gives you answers through imagery like MIB breaking the glass or a scale with black and white stones. Not even to mention the fact that the "killing of the candidates" was foreshadowed in season 3 when Eko died and said "You're next!". Yes that is how well planned this show was. Incredible!
I hope this review brings some light to you if you had conflicted feelings about the end.
I've watched this show 5 times, and not even now I got all the answers, because even now I am catching some of them.
Indeed this show will remain a unforgettable masterpiece of television. Maybe 10 isn't enough for this magnificent show.
See ya in another life brotha ;)