Tonight, the best show on TV begins its final season. That's right, season 6 of LOST is about to start up and I couldn't be any more excited. I began watching the first season to see if the dude from "Party of Five" could pull off not shaving for an entire series like he did in "Party of Five." Additionally, I was intrigued to see how they would develop a show based off of people trying to get off a deserted island.It began with a doctor opening his eyes to see that his plane had crashed on an island and he went to help people that were in need of medical care. Once people were able to help those that needed it, the survivors began to set up a camp and discuss what had happened and began to talk about how they would get off the island. To most of the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815, what appeared like a uninhabited random island quickly turned into anything but uninhabited. When a random Jurassic-like noise was heard coming from the forest my interest peaked, but later in the season when Charlie turned to the survivors and asked, "Where are we?" then I was hooked.
Let me say that was the first thing to hook me to the show, but certainly not the last. Episode 1 introduced the viewers to the damsel in distress named "Kate." To say that I've got a crush on Kate would be an understatement. She is, in my friend Alan's term, a "cutie." However, she's hardly a typical damsel in distress though. She's a tough girl, a go-getter, a take care of herself, the girl next door, and is very easy on the eyes. Basically she is LOST's version of Mrs. McGoo. The only thing missing from the comparison between the two are freckles, which just happens to be Kate's nickname. That, and Kate happens to be caught in a love triangle between Jack, the doctor/party of five/good guy of the show, and Sawyer, the anti-hero/bad boy of the show.
I'm pretty confident Mrs. McGoo isn't caught up in a love triangle with me, unless it involves Gerard Butler.
In addition to the eye candy, I've loved how they develop the characters based on their past. On any given episode, you are keyed into elements of a characters past or future that has either led them to the island, gotten them off the island, or explains why they are who they are. All the while they develop the story of the island and all the questions that go along with it. Yes, some people may have been turned off to the polar bears and the black smoke and other sorts, but the writing of the show is exceptional. Combine that with great acting, fascinating character development, and the hint that there is an explanation for everything and you've got the mark of a heck of a show. I encourage anyone that has never watched the show to go and rent the first season...I promise you won't be disappointed.
Needless to say this season promises to deliver on a ton of questions that need to be answered. Just some of the questions that Season 6 promises to deliver are:
1. What do the numbers mean? -This has been a question since the very first season. These were the numbers that Desmond entered every 108 mins to keep the island safe, the winning lottery numbers that Hugo won the lottery with, and there are a few other things that tied these numbers in to.
2. What is Smokey? And where does he come from? - The black smoke has been a question from people early on and we got a taste of it last season, but hopefully we'll find out what exactly it is?
3. What is the deal with the four-toed statue? - Nuff said...why only four toes and what happened to the whole statue?
4. Who or what is Jacob? - This imaginary figure, or not so imaginary, Jacob has become a central figure in what/who is making the decisions on the island.
5. Polar Bears on a tropical island? - Yep. And how exactly did they get there?
Those are just a few of the rhetorical/unanswered questions that lie ahead for many LOST fans to be answered.
My personal intriguing unanswered question is:
What is the deal with Walt? - Amid the ragtag group of survivors is a boy that may or may not be the key to the island. Somewhere along the way the show hinted that he had some sort of mental abilities from weather control to the ability to attract animals with his thoughts. At one time Walt seemed to be key to the fate of the survivors. Unfortunately for the show's producers, while time on the island moved at the leisurely pace of a month-or-two every season, the actor portraying Walt, Malcolm David Kelley, had this annoying tendency to age a full year with every calendar year that passed.
If you're like me and you REALLY want to get in depth with these questions and answers, (and there are some interesting things on this) here is a Season 6 Study Guide that you can download and print out. Hopefully you enjoy it as much as I did.
Lost Season 6 Preview
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Hope you guys enjoy this preview, I thought it was pretty cool. Maybe you'll come back tomorrow and post your thoughts on the first episode.
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***Editors Note*** If anyone is having problems downloading the file, leave me a comment and let me know your email and I'll gladly email it to you
12 comments:
Oh dear...so many mistakes here.
-Desmond pushed the button every 108 minutes, not every 15.
-How exactly did the polar bears get there? Duh. The Dharma Initiative brought them there. The real question is how did the one polar bear end up in the middle of the Tunisian desert???
-What is smokey? He's a security system. We've been told this countless times. The real question is, who or what created him.
-As far as Walt goes, I'm with you...damn child actor that actually ages in real life! Even the writers have said that they're trying to find a way to write him into the last season.
Crap...phone call. Gotta get back to work...
So MANY mistakes? Please...
They are rhetorical questions nerd.
15 mins...I'll give you that.
There is more to Smokey than a security system. I don't care what we've been told. If you'll read the preview, you'll see what I mean.
You know I'm just giving you a hard time. And only because I am insanely (on the verge of mentally insane) into this show.
I know what/who smokey is!!! Na na na na na na!
Can't wait... it's going to be GOOOOOD!
The polar bears ended up there because that's where you go when you push the wheel and they were used to push the wheel so that a person wouldnt have to push it because once you push it, you supposedly can't go back to the island.
Dragos,
I have entertained the polar-bears-turning-the-frozen-donkey-wheel theory as well. But I'm guessing there's another exit point on the island. Only because it makes me giggle a little when I picture someone dragging a polar bear down into the cavern and hooking him up to the wheel and having him take a few steps. And we do know that you can go back to the island if you turn the wheel. Both Ben and Locke have proved that! But we'll see!
But it isn't John Locke back on the island. It is Esau
Touche....but the island let Locke's body come back. But, like Locke said to Jack last night, it's not the person, just the body (when talking about Jack's dad).
The island let his body come back because they had to reenact the original crash....which has Christian's body on it. So Locke's body was a replacement for Christians. Which may explain how Christian got back to the island...if you believe he was the leader of the Others.
I'm still not convinced that pushing the wheel makes you not able to come back...but who knows. We'll see. And Christian being the leader at some point...hmmmmmm. We know Ellie was at some point and that it went straight from Widmore to Ben. Maybe Christian could have been there at some point when he was younger. That's why I love this show! You just never know what's going on! I mean Sayid is Jacob now. Hello!!! Too cool!
If you haven't checked out that file I put on this blog, you should. I think it really makes sense..
I can't see it at work. That part is blank. I'll have to check it out from home.
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