It’s the end of another year, and thus the perfect time to revisit all the highs and lows of the past two semesters. Unfortunately, at a small school where there are only a handful of happenings to discuss around the water cooler, all of this year’s highs and lows have been visited and revisited and visited some more. So I would like to draw back the pinecone curtain and review the past year of something vastly more important: “Lost.”
This season has taken a whole new turn. In the very first scene, the audience was introduced to what I think is the coolest and most outlandish aspect of this season, time travel.
For a few episodes, the people on the island jump back and forth through time, because although they are short a few Doloreans, they do have a giant wheel underground that apparently controls the space-time continuum. That is arguably cooler. The characters meet the island’s past inhabitants, including some characters we are already familiar with. And we see that for some reason, the guy in the eyeliner looks the same no matter what decade it is. My hypothesis: botox.
I would consider the time travel bit a highlight of this season. For one, I’m a nerd. But also, this season has answered a few important questions. We have gotten a better look at why certain things on the island are the way they are.
On the other hand, the more questions they answer, the more new questions we have. Also, time travel led to the death of my favorite character. I will probably be mad about that until they bring him back to life or put him in a whole bunch of flashbacks.
Drama and excitement abound in this season. There are love quadrilaterals. People are dying and coming back to life. The show has become a full-fledged soap opera. You remember that show “Passions,” the soap with all the teenagers and that old witch lady who brought a dummy to life? For the season finale, “Lost” is actually bringing in the guy that played the dummy. Or so I predict. Also, one of the main characters will develop several brain tumors and be confined to a hospital bed while his significant other becomes pregnant with his father’s baby.
So maybe the show is getting a bit ludicrous. Maybe even the die-hard fans that stuck it out through the ridiculousness of the previous four seasons are now trying to get into "Grey’s Anatomy." Yeah, maybe it’s a stupid TV show that is of little importance to our everyday lives. But I will watch this show until the end and, so help me God, all my questions will be answered. Either that or the plot will spiral into a black hole of absurdity and the show will get canceled by the network. Whichever.
Snape is an opinions columnist and a senior majoring in peace studies. Comments can be sent to rebecca.snape@whitworthian.com.
OPINION: An even weirder season of 'Lost' comes to an end
Published: Sunday, May 10, 2009
Updated: Sunday, May 10, 2009
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