jd87: Lost season finale tonight

by Josh Delman

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Lost season finale tonight

The two part season finale for Lost airs tonight at 9pm EST. I'm a huge fan of the show, and there's a lot at stake in tonight's episode. It's called "The Incident" -- and most fans of Lost will remember the first mentioning of The Incident during the early part of season 2, when Jack and Locke first entered the Swan (known previously as 'the hatch') and watched the Orientation Video.

I have some predictions for tonight's episode, and I'll throw them down here for posterity, but I'm not making any guarantees: I'm just a fan, and I didn't come up with some crazy theory to explain every event on the show. I'm just going off what I know to be true regarding tonight's episodes. That said: in the official LOST Podcast, Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, the two head writers¹ remarked that the season 5 ending would be reminiscent of the season 1 ending/cliffhanger, which if you don't remember was the opening of the hatch – but they don't go in until the following season. So my guess is we're either gonna be left hanging regarding what/who Jacob is, or we're going to see some new base on the island but not enter it.

Another awful prediction: The Incident is going to result in the death of the Losties who time traveled to 1977. (Yikes!) Certain characters seem to have the ability to change the past, while others do not; my guess is that Desmond is going to play a much bigger role in season 6 than he did in season 5.

1. A lot of people think J.J. Abrams is still head honcho at Lost - turns out he stopped working on the show sometime during the early part of Season 2. All the best episodes were written by Damon Lindelof (the showrunner) and Carlton Cuse. ↩

May 13, 2009

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