Getting Nervous About “Lost”, Too, But Not Too Nervous

If you’ve read this blog for any period of time you know that I’ve loved, and then hated, and then loved “Lost”. It started out with a (lit­eral) bang and then went down­hill for awhile and then came back up and then kinda mud­dled around and then really hit its stride a sea­son or two ago. And we’re com­ing down to the end on May 23 with a 2 1/2 hour series finale that pro­ducer Damon Lin­de­lof has already said won’t answer every ques­tion out there. But it will answer some and I guess that’s what matters.

What will it answer and how will it answer it is the big ques­tion though. Will we ever be told why no chil­dren could be born on the island? Will we ever know who built the statue that Jacob lived inside of? Will we be told who even­tu­ally fin­ished the don­key wheel project started so long ago by Jacob’s brother, the Man in Black? Will it be explained what was wrong with Sayid before he com­mit­ted hari kari with the bomb in the sub­ma­rine? And where is Daniel Fara­day? I want him back one more time.

There’s a lot to answer, and judg­ing from last week’s episode focus­ing on the rela­tion­ship of Jacob and his brother, the showrun­ners are in no hurry to get to the fin­ish line that they set out for them­selves two sea­sons ago. Yeah, we got the answer from sea­son two on who the bod­ies were in the cave, but that deserved a whole hour ded­i­cated to one sim­ple question?

I don’t think that the peo­ple who make the show are going to end it as some hal­lu­ci­na­tion in Hurley’s crazy head or a dream that Aaron started hav­ing before he was born or fast for­ward­ing five to 10, or more, years into the future and see­ing whomever took over for Jacob down­ing another air­liner or crash­ing a cruise ship or some­thing. I just want a sat­is­fy­ing end­ing, not every­thing has to be explained and I know that every­thing won’t be explained (like how that plane was able to drop a food ship­ment on the island if nor­mal peo­ple aren’t really able to travel to the island) but I want cer­tain peo­ple to live (mainly Hur­ley) and for their sto­ries to end with sat­is­fy­ing end­ings. Not much to ask.

Also, I’m going to see the Times Talks Live:Lost on May 20 where New York Times enter­tain­ment edi­tor Lorne Manly is going to be talk­ing live with pro­duc­ers Carl­ton Cuse and Lin­de­lof. I’m sure they won’t give any­thing away (the finale is only 3 days later) but I bet they’ll hint at some­thing. Maybe I’ll tweet it — that would be fun.

And what show will I watch after this is all over with? Maybe The Walk­ing Dead.