Okay, I know a ton of folks were on the "What's going to happen on 'Lost'?" bandwagon before last night. Now we're all on the "What the hell happened on 'Lost'?" bandwagon. Seriously, yeah, questions were answered, but so many more sprouted up in their places.
If you aren't up to date and don't want to hear the spoilers, stop reading.
(Even if you haven't caught up, I still care about you deeply. But come on, people, it's not the like this is "The Crying Game." Lost news is all over the place. Full episodes air on Netflix.com and Hulu.com If you're reading this blog you probably have some computer savvy. So if you care about hearing the spoilers GET CAUGHT UP, YOU NINNY!!) Ok. 'Nuff said.
The main point weighing on my brain:
*The Evil Twin Effect.
Alternate planes? (Get it?!) Seeing our beloved flawed heroes at their most intensely flawed? It seemed so bewildering, so bizarre...and SO RIGHT. Where else could we go? Nowhere - except on the Jughead H Bomber Express back in time. It was fun to see our old flirty, dirty Sawyer. It was amusing to see Jack "fixing" Charlie. I could only shake my head as Kate worked yet another evasive maneuver. But the absolutely most painful dark doppelganger to watch was Jin's. I cringed as he told Sun to button up her sweater. I cringed until I had to just shut my eyes so I couldn't see the subtitles as he was marched away by customs. Chagggeeeeaaaahhhh!!!!!
The idea of metamorphosis is not new to Lost. Change, evolution-we've watched these characters develop for the last five years. It isn't easy to see them revert back to their previous selves. It reminds me what great leaps we humans can make, even in the course of 108 days. The situations that arise, how we handle them, the choices we make that influence the paths we take. Then, what happens when a host of new choices present themselves. Like Jacob said in Season 5: "It only ends once. Anything that happens before that is just progress."
108 days ago it was the end of October. Since then I've learned how much happier my body feels when I stay away from dairy. I've learned to be kinder to myself during the holidays-after all, this one went well with a very limited amount of fanfare. I've learned that people are who they are. We can't really change them no matter how different we'd like them to be and despite how much we plead or cry. Simply standing next to someone as they make their own path can be enough. I'd like to think I've learned to let go a little bit.
Not all of these lessons are new. I, for one, continue to be amazed at how many instances it takes to learn something. It seems like I have to experience them in a variety of ways before my understanding is enhanced. And it will probably never be complete. Even after this last season of Lost is over, we'll probably have more questions than ever.
But isn't that what this life is all about? Searching, questioning, processing? Our inherently human ability to ask is one aspect that helps drive me each day. What lies before me? How will I act? What can possibly lie ahead?
Yes! I love the idea that we're seeing the evil twins. And it seems they did not just end up back on that airplane, but other circumstances have changed. Jin & Sun: are they married? Jin doesn't have a wedding ring and the airport security refers to Sun as "Miss Paik." Charlie is much angrier than I would have expected. Hurley refers to himself as the luckiest guy on the planet. They all seem much more at peace (other than Charlie and Kate) than I would have expected them to be. And Boone didn't even have Shannon with him. So we have this butterfly effect from what exactly? Dharmaville circa 1977. Was it all the effect of only what happened in the 70s? Or could everything that happened after the plane crash have effected the twin universe as well? My friend Tana surmises that all of these worlds are existing together, but in a sphere, rather than on different planes. So what happens in one sphere reverberates to the other universes causes effects and subtle changes. I can't wait to see where the writers take us in the next few weeks!
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