Getting Lost

Hi, I'm Thomas and I'm a "Lost" addict.

The show "Lost" reminds me of my research.  Just when I think I have locked down the variables and understand something, I am proven wrong.  And, the Smoke Monster has also made a few appearances with disastrous effect.

With the show coming to an end, I am going to go out on a limb and put forward my speculation on the putting things together.  You can all laugh a what complete crap this is on Sunday evening.  On Monday we can all go back to the lab were we belong.

I think the key is, "Live together, die alone."  The coming face off with the smoke monster will turn on the individual characters putting their own issues aside and coming together.  I think this is also the key to "getting of the island."

All the main characters arrived lost in the sense that they were all inside themselves.  Charlie, Sun, and Jin may have died on the island, but they all did so at the point when they let go of themselves and committed to another, or to each other in Sun and Jin's cases.  Remember, Juliet said "it worked" after her selfless act of setting the bomb off.  Sayid was even selfless in his last act.  Bernard and Rose have in a sense already escaped in that they found their peace in each other.

The man with no name (not the character played by Clint Eastwood in the Leone films), before he became the smoke monster expressed disgust with living with the other people on the island because they were venal and self absorbed.  I have speculated the Jacob was bringing other people to the island to prove to the smoke monster that people were capable of more.  The Darma communal project might have been such an attempt.  The monster has been trying to prove otherwise to Jacob by his interactions with people and his attempts to manipulate them to kill Jacob.

Desmond through his experiences with EM fields has recognized the need to connect the part of each character in the parallel "sideways flash" existence with themselves in on the island.  In a sense to reconnect them with their souls.  This is critical to getting them to come together to face the smoke monster.  Once the castaways have faced down the smoke monster, Desmond can be revealed as the name at 108 degrees, and as the replacement for Jacob.  Having put others ahead of themselves the Oceanic 815 folks who have stood together can leave to their sideways existence, now knowing how they are all connected and taking the lesson of "Live together, die alone".

OK, back to grading.

T.S. Hall