Lost: Season 6 – Preparing for Disappointment

By Shawn Deena
For the last six or so years we as a collective fan base have followed a plotline that is so absurd it makes the story arc of The Matrix seem logical. We went from castaways on a spooky island, to a bunch of baddies, to another bunch of baddies and some new castaways, to a smoke monster, to baddies on a boat, to time travel, to temporal plot lines where one person is in the past and another isn’t, to now season six, where all of this will come together in the next four episodes.

Question: How the hell is that going to happen?

In less than a month the producers and writers of this convoluted mess will present for us these things in no specific order:

• Why these people were “chosen” to come the island
• What the black smoke is – really?
• Why the black smoke had to occupy dead Locke but somehow occupied a missing body, that being Jack’s father – unless of course they’re all dead like Richard has alluded to.
• What exactly is this apocalypse this Flocke is going to cause when he leaves?
• Will the survivors actually leave on a crashed commercial plane that somehow still has fuel enough in it to fly from nowhere to somewhere?
• Is the island really “alive”?

I don’t know, maybe it’s me, but it seems like with the enormous amount of meandering they’ve done jumping all over the place, it just makes my head hurt. Especially with the bizarro Lost plotline which is now unraveling to be not bizarre because, apparently, the same characters are now realizing they’ve been living a lie in a fake world and maybe they’re all still on the island, but then if they are all still on the island then who are the people who are on the island? Are they fake and are the people in the fake “what if this never happened” plot real? WTF?

All I’m saying is this: if I went into a pitch meeting with a treatment that tried to explain Season 6 of Lost then I would have gotten tossed out of the casting director’s office. For sure.

Am I disappointed in how it’s turned out so far? Yes and no. Somewhat disappointed but just perpetually confused as to why they’re making such odd plot choices. Bring back Libby as a crazy person, but four seasons ago hinting that she was a crazy person? And why bring back everybody who is dead except Juliet and Ana Lucia? Well, we can guess why Elizabeth Mitchell isn’t back (She’s a lead in the singular lettered craptacular that’s trying to do for ABC what BSG did for the Sci-Fi Channel [no, I won’t spell it they stupid way they do]). But Michelle Rodriguez – outside of girl behaving badly, it’s anyone’s guess.

My other issue with the show is that they’ve spent an inordinate amount of time on the non-meandering episodes doing everything they can to make you go, “Whaaaaa?” before the commercial break. It’s gotten to the point where it’s almost predictable. Flocke and Desmond standing over a well and at the last moment – Flocke pushes him in – Whaaaaaaa?

We can hope (please please) that we don’t get the dream, it’s all in your head, snow globe or someone hitting the reset button and none of this happened endings. The problem is with the way the show’s been going it may just end up being some combination of those or even worse – they could pull a Sopranos. Either way, much like season five where the very end is where everything got really good, let’s hope they’ve got just a little bit more juice to close this thing out properly.

Shawn Deena is a writer, musician, gamer and all around comic book and sci-fi nerd. As lover of films and television he has entirely useless library of knowledge that has now been increased thanks to the large volume of movies and TV shows Netflix offers on their instant play. As someone who likes to share his opinion, having a forum where he can rant incessantly about things in entertainment that bother him, make him laugh or make him want to hit himself in the face with a DVD box is a good thing. Having written about everything from Office Depot chairs to the page turning excitement of CPA guidebooks nothing pleases him more than writing about the stuff he loves and knows.

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