Lost: OMG! An Incomplete and Unedited Recap

The final season of Lost is upon us, and the first episode pulled the audience right back into the mystery and excitement that the series built in the first five seasons.  Beginning with the first hour recap, I was glued to my seat.  The recap not only touched on the major characters and plot of the series, but it also induced a wealth of emotion that carried forth into the beginning of the first hour (second hour of the evening) of the premiere.  I’ve seen the Juliet/Sawyer/Bomb scene a half dozen times now, and it gets me every time.  No kidding.  I’m starting to sniffle right now as I write this post.  And just as last season ended with the inverse title screen, so did the recap which merged into the all-white start of the new season.

For those of you who have not seen the season premiere, you might want to stop reading now (but come back later!).

The white screen turned into clouds.  Jack, looking like 2004 Jack, was on the plane.  OMG!  And Rose was sitting across the aisle!  And Bernard was in the bathroom!  And the flight attendant was the one from the Tailies who disappeared on the island with the children.  And everything was the same as it was before the crash!  The bomb worked!  OMG!!!  And the island is under water!  OMG!

Or did it?  Kate woke up on the island in 2007.  And so did Miles.  And so did Sawyer and Hurley and Sayid and . . . JACK!  OMG!!!

So instead of flashbacks or flashforwards, this season we’ll see alternate reality.  How will this be resolved?  Will the characters get to choose which reality they want?  Will they be redeemed in both realities?  Will the Jacob vs. Man-in-Black war resolve the reality?

And what about that Jacob vs. MIB battle?  At the end of season five, we saw Ben stab Jacob and John Locke/MIB kick him into the fire.  This season, we learn that the MIB is indeed the Smoke Monster, and he holds nothing back.  We learn that the group led by Ilana were Jacob’s body guards, but after Jacob’s death, Smokey unleashes his fury.  The ash circle that is supposed to keep Smokey away?  It works, but Smokey can outsmart it if he so chooses.  There seems to be nothing that can stop Smokey now that Jacob is dead, and Ben is witness to it.  Ben’s world is being rocked throughout the season premiere as he learns that he has not helped John Locke but instead someone posing as John Locke.  Before last night’s awakening, did Ben know about the existence of the MIB as an entity as he knew of Jacob?

Back on the plane, Desmond sits next to Jack!  OMG!  If the island didn’t exist, it makes sense that Desmond wouldn’t be on it in 2004, but why is he on the plane?  And what does this mean about Charles Widmore and Penny and baby Charlie?  Will baby Charlie not exist because Desmond doesn’t get to meet Charlie on the island, or will he still be born and be named after Penny’s father? 

Charlie is on the plane.  He is found passed out in the bathroom.  Jack saves him by pulling out the drug sack that was lodged in his throat.  As a result, Charlie is escorted off the plane upon landing by law enforcement.  We also see Kate as the fugitive and Sawyer the con man who talks to Hurley, the luckiest man on earth.  Locke is on the plane and talks to Boone.  We learn that Shannon didn’t leave Australia.   And we learn that landing at LAX instead of crashing on the island doesn’t result in a better life for all of the lostaways.

Back on the island, Sayid is dying.  He is “too far gone” both physically and spiritually.  He asks Hurley what will happen to him when he dies.  He’s tortured and killed more people than he can count.  He thinks there is no hope for him.  AND THEN . . . DEAD JACOB WALKS OUT OF THE WILDERNESS!  He tells Hurley to take Sayid to the temple.

Meanwhile, Kate hears Juliet under the rubble, and Sawyer, Jack, Miles, and Kate start digging to save her.  With the help of the Dharma van, they remove the heaviest metal and Sawyer climbs down into the hole to Juliet.   Juliet tells Sawyer that she struck the bomb.  Then she mumbles something about meeting up for coffee.  Sawyer realizes that Juliet is a goner.  Then Juliet says she has something very important to tell him, but she dies before she can tell him.

I think she wanted to tell him that she is with child and that is what guided her decisions in the last episode of Season 5.  I think that is why Bernard offered her tea and why she wanted Sawyer to have the opportunity never to have seen the island. 

While Jake, Kate, Hurley, and Jin take Sayid to the temple, Sawyer asks Miles to stay behind with him to help bury Juliet.  As the only one who can talk to dead people, Sawyer wants Miles to speak to Juliet.  And what does Juliet say to Miles?  “It worked.”

Does she mean that the bomb worked?  Or does she mean that she finally figured out the baby problem of the island?  I REALLY want Juliet to come back to life and live happily ever after with Sawyer and have a family.  Or maybe they could meet in the alternate reality and live happily ever after.  I have no idea how I want this to happen, and I’m sure I’ll be happy with whatever the writers and producers plan for Sawyer, but it would be nice to have Sawyer’s story end with love and happiness (and not with Kate).

There is so much more to write about (Richard Alpert, the temple, Sayid, the scene at the airport with John Locke and Jack, CLAIRE!), but I have a real job to do today (darn!), so now, it’s time for the Wednesday morning water cooler talk.  Begin!

P.S.  On an unrelated topic, did you know that FlashForward is based on a book of the same name?  I’ve read it, and I’ll post my thoughts closer to the beginning of the second half of the season in March.

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