And so the end begins, with tonight's premiere of the final season of Lost. It seems (unsurprisingly) that it's going to get "worse" before it gets "better," in terms of tracking what the hell is going on. If you thought last year's past vs. future was a challenge to keep up with, you're probably in for real trouble now. It seems that the new "flashbacks" of this final seasons are going to be glimpses at an alternate reality resulting from last season's detonation.
In my opinion, the best thing about this development is that it tackles some very important character issues head on. In all of Jack's pig-headed struggle last season to re-write (or re-right) history, he never once stopped to consider if things would really be any better for any of them had they never crashed on the Island. And this premiere made it immediately clear that for the most part, no, things really weren't.
From Kate to Locke, Sun and Jin to Jack -- everyone but Hurley seems to be various shades of miserable. You might argue that Boone is better off not dead, but he seemed fairly unhappy. And as for Charlie, might not the heroic death be better to his new fate?
Oh, and a bunch of crazy stuff on the Island too. If that's what floats your boat, then you got the revelation that the Man in Black apparently IS the smoke monster... whatever that means. And you got a world more questions about this crazy tribe of apparently real Others, guarding this what's-this temple and... what, working for Jacob?
Actually, I guess if the mystery sort of stuff is why you watch Lost, then this premiere might have been really frustrating to you. For a character fan like me, it was quite intriguing. I'm a bit skeptical of just how interesting the "other lives" of these people will continue to be, but then again, I don't suppose that story has to run for long -- this is it, folks!
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