We've reached that point in this season of Lost. It's full speed ahead from here. No real time for deep character exploration; they've got a story to tell. There were a few good, personal moments scattered here and there in tonight's installment, but for the most part, pieces were just being moved where they need to be for the big finale next week.
For example, it was interesting to me to see the return of the "old Jack." Granted, this one's a crazy man of faith -- as Kate pointed out, just like Locke. I'm refering more to the return of Jack's patented stubbornness. He'd always been the character to decide on a course of action and pursue it in the face of all opposition. Much of this season, though, he's been the aimless, nearly useless tumbleweed getting blown around. Now that he thinks he has a purpose, he's back in classic mode. It's not really that I like this aspect of Jack. I don't, in fact. But it is very true to his character.
There were a few sweet moments between Sawyer and Juliet. Of course they aren't going to get the ending they were talking about, betting on future knowledge and living happily ever after. But it was nice to hear them talk about.
Where we seem to be heading is this: Faraday was dead wrong. (Pun sort of intended.) You really cannot change the past. In fact, setting off the hydrogen bomb is likely what caused "the incident," and necessitated the building of the Swan station and "the button." Is this disaster also what causes pregnancies on the Island to be fatal? In any case, it will likely end up appearing to Richard Alpert that the gang from the future is killed, when really they're just being thrown back to their own time.
Even if this is all exactly the way it goes down, I suspect there will still be a few surprises in store during this season's final hours next week.
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