ABC is going to rerun the LOST Finale and also the Jimmy Kimmel post-LOST special (“Aloha to Lost”) on Saturday, May 29, 2010, starting at 8:00 PM (7:00 PM Central Time) in the U.S.
The running time for the finale has shrunk down from 2 hours and 30 minutes, for the original broadcast, to only 2 hours and 5 minutes for the rerun. That must mean far fewer commercials this time around.
Here’s the schedule, but you should check your local listings to make sure:
8:00 – 10:05 PM Rerun of the LOST finale 6×17-18 The End
10:05 – 11:00 PM Rerun of Aloha to Lost, the Jimmy Kimmel post-show
Thanks to Geri for the heads up!
Picture of glowing cave is from lost-media.com. Click twice for larger image.
A fast-paced, funny look at some of LOST’s unanswered question, by College Humor:
As packed with unanswered questions as that video is, there are still plenty more.
I’ll add more here, as I think of them (and feel free to chime in, if you think of more too):
1. How did Anthony Cooper get to the Island in the “magic box” (in “The Man from Tallahassee”?) Smokie couldn’t have taken over his body, because his body wasn’t on the Island.
2. Why did Jacob choose the LOST-ies, out of all the billions of flawed people in the world?
3. Why — and how — did the Island travel in time?
4. Who were the kids dragging the teddy bears?
5. Why did so many of the LOST-ies have a connection to each other, before they got on Flight 815, without knowing it? Why did we always see them criss-crossing through each other’s flashbacks?
6. Why — and how — did Hurley see dead people?
7. Why — and how — did Miles get messages from dead people?
8. What were Walt’s special powers? What about that bird?
9. Why did Flock yell out RealLocke’s signature line, “Don’t tell me what I can’t do!”?
10. How did Smokey inhabit Christian’s body, when Christian’s body was missing?
11. How did the guardians of the light live for so long? How did Jacob transfer that ability to Richard?
12. Locke got Helen. Hurley got Libby. How come Sayid didn’t get Nadia in his flash sideways?
13. If Jacob/MiB’s fake mother made the rule that the brothers couldn’t kill each other, why didn’t she extend it to say that they couldn’t kill each other by proxy either? And how do these rules get enforced, anyway?
14. How did Eloise know so much?
15. When the LOST-ies went back on Ajira 316, why did they all have to go back together, including Kate who wasn’t even a candidate? Why did Eloise tell Jack he had to bring Locke in a box? Why did they have to make the conditions as much like Flight 815 as possible?
16. How did Frank Lapidus end up being the pilot on Ajira 316?
17. Why did Jacob need to bring so many people? Why not just one person to replace him, and a couple of alternates in case the first one got sick?
18. How come Jack and Desmond didn’t turn into smoke monsters when they went into the cave?
19. After Locke asked Walt, in the Pilot, if he wanted to know a secret, did he ever tell him? And what was the secret?
20. Why did all the people in Purgatoryland Church appear to be the same age they had been in 2004? Surely some of them had lived to old age before dying. Was Limboville so Jack-centric that everyone chose to look the way they had at the time that Jack, not they themselves, had died? Or was this all being told from Jack’s point-of-view (so he would remember them the way they were when he last saw them)? But didn’t Christian said that Limboville was something they had all made together — a kind of team project — which suggests it couldn’t be just Jack’s vision?
21. When Jacob told the MiB at the end of Season 5, when they were back in the 1800s, “It only ends once. Everything else was just progress,” what was he referring to?
22. Why did we see the Island underwater at the beginning of Season 6?
23. After Jack and Kate confessed their love to each other before Jack died, they didn’t get together in the sideways world. Kate, in fact, kept on flirting with Sawyer. Is this the attraction so strong it can’t be denied, even after death? Will the triangle continue for all eternity, while they are frolicking in the bright light? I didn’t see any indication in their sideways flashes that Kate or Sawyer wanted to “let it go.” Just the opposite — it looked like they were just getting started, gearing up for another round.
A lot of people were confused by the shots of the Oceanic 815 wreckage that were shown at the end of the LOST finale, as the shots seemed to suggest that the LOST-ies had never survived the crash.
Not to worry! Those shots were actually not part of the show itself!
The LA Times blog is reporting that ABC added them to “soften the transition” between the finale and the local news.
An ABC spokesperson told the LAT, “The images shown during the end credits of the ‘Lost’ finale, which included shots of Oceanic 815 on a deserted beach, were not part of the final story but were a visual aid to allow the viewer to decompress before heading into the news.”one mystery.
Screenshot of Oceanic 815 wreckage is from lost-media.com. Click the picture twice for a larger image.
How did pushing the button control the Island's energy?
What if maybe — just maybe — there are some answers to the unsolved mysteries after all?
Alffmix, a poster on the Lostpedia forums, believes that many of the big mysteries of the show — from the source of Jacob’s power to the Island’s ability to heal — can be explained by electromagnetism. Specifically, Alffmix says, the tug between electromagnetism’s negative and postive forces, going in and out of balance, is what caused many of the Island’s strangest phenomenon.
The theory provides a science-based, or science-fiction-based explanation that fills in some of the huge gaps left by the finale’s focus on vague spirituality.
This is an exciting theory, maybe even a grand unified theory of LOST. It suggests that the balance of positive and negative electromagnetic energy is related to the balance between white and black, Jacob and Smokey, and good and evil as presented in the show. If the theory is correct, then the scale we saw with the black and white stones becomes a symbolic representation of something that is real and concrete.
The theory does add up. It does sound plausible. It does make sense. It’s hard to say, though, whether it’s an imaginative viewer seeing patterns that weren’t intentionally planted, or whether the writers themselves actually did build this explanation into the show.
Could the ending be a long con by Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, something they dreamed up in order to see if they could get away with it?
Think about it. Six years of dazzlingly smart, complex story-telling, raising questions of free will versus destiny, science versus faith, and good versus evil, weaving themes about the betrayal of children by their parents, creating characters with “special” powers, building a world with a system of mysterious rules that keeps even the most powerful in check, seeding easter eggs and cross-references so complex that thousands of blogs and websites and the amazing Lostpedia had to be created to keep track of them all … and then it all boils down, in the words of my blog-pal Val, to “they died happily ever after”?
No way.
Sawyer, a man who knew a lot about how to run a long con
Yes, I’m being tongue-in-cheek. But I really can’t imagine how they came up with such an ending. It was so jarring, so disconnected from anything that had come before.
What do you think? Do you agree? Disagree? Do you think the ending fit in with what had come before? If so, why? If not, did it bother you or did you enjoy it the way it was?
Editing to add: Demonstrating once again that there are no new ideas, after posting this, I did a vanity search on Twitter for “LOST long con,” and I found that a whole lot of people had already been tossing that idea around long before I thought of it. That search, though, fortuitously led me to an article which is the best I’ve read so far on the finale: Lost was the ultimate long con by Charlie Jane Anders.
This last “LOST Untangled” is much more a retrospective of the entire series than an untangling of the finale itself.
That’s too bad, because the finale was the one episode that I really needed to have untangled, the one episode that left me baffled.
Maybe they didn’t untangle it because they couldn’t, because they didn’t understand it themselves.
(What, me bitter? 😉 )
Anyway, this has music by the “Previously on Lost” recap band, lots of clips of iconic moments from all six years of the show, but alas, no dancing statue this time.
Be sure to watch it past the end of the credits, where there is a moment that is vey funny (for those who’ve been watching the “Untangled” videos all along.)
The more I think about the ending, the less sense it makes.
That is not a good sign.
Here’s what I don’t understand:
According to Christian Shepherd, “This is the place that you all made together, so that you could find one another.”
But when the dead LOST-ies made “this place,” why did they construct it in such a way that it blocked their own awareness that they were dead? Why did they create a convincing alt-world for themselves where they all had new lives, with no awareness of their past? Didn’t they come to “this place” specifically to acknowledge and let go of that past?
They were the ones who created “this place.” They could have made it anything they wanted. So why did they make it a place that blocked their own memories, when the reason they were there was to process those memories?
Why did it take Desmond to wake them up so they could begin to remember? As matter of fact, why did Desmond even want to wake them up? What was it to him?
Even more puzzling, since they were all initially unaware that they were dead, and thus unaware that they were creating “this place” out of their imaginations, then how did they all synchronize their imaginations to create the SAME place for all of them? Did they attend some sort of Second Life workshop right after dying and before heading out to the alt world, where they hammered out their new world before stepping into it?
It just doesn’t make sense.
I could go on. And I will. But the vastness of the things that don’t make sense is overwhelming, and I must retreat to an alternate reality for a moment. 😉
