Lost: Season 6 predictions
I just finished Lost Season 5, which features time travel (or so we think) and ends with the bomb going off. Season 6, we are told, is the end, so here are my predictions and thoughts.
a) The time travel gimmick, really, I could care less if it's real or not, but its point is eventually going to be that the Oceanic 6 played a part in the narrative antecedent's bad stuff. They will have been Others, and the people before the Others, yadda yadda, and will eventually be fully implicated in the whole glorious mess-- ultimately they will not be outsiders at all.
b) The two off-island factions (Whitmore and whoever Ben represents) are obviously joined at the waist, since Faraday is (I think) the son of Whitmore as well as his white-haired Mom. The series is going to make the Star Wars-ish and fairly banal point that family dysfunction can infect the whole cosmos, or it will make an equally banal point that the world is one big family, man, and since we only have one of it, we had better not fight.
c) The "missing Dad" motif that I discussed earlier has come back in spades-- we not only have missing Dads, but false Dads, no Dads, substitute Dads, you name it. Most fo the main characters' Dads are, plot-wise, out of the picture, so expect epiphanies aplenty as the series closes, along the lines of "I should have ___ while he was still here."
d) What is most obvious is that the series will ultimately show us the standard circularity of time that underlies myth: the Oceanic Six will be their own parents; history will repeat itself (Whitmore's ancestors sent the 1840-something boat to the island that we see in Season 1; there was a discussion at the end of Season Five where some late 1800s sailors on the Island talked of how people kept coming and raping and ruining things.
e) The Island will ultimately stand for what is left of the world at the beginning of the 21st century: we are at the point where our capacities to act and affect the world are so powerful, and often so misguidedly self-interested, that we can really fuck things up if we aren't careful, and that the best intentions (the "original" Others) lead to Hell.
a) The time travel gimmick, really, I could care less if it's real or not, but its point is eventually going to be that the Oceanic 6 played a part in the narrative antecedent's bad stuff. They will have been Others, and the people before the Others, yadda yadda, and will eventually be fully implicated in the whole glorious mess-- ultimately they will not be outsiders at all.
b) The two off-island factions (Whitmore and whoever Ben represents) are obviously joined at the waist, since Faraday is (I think) the son of Whitmore as well as his white-haired Mom. The series is going to make the Star Wars-ish and fairly banal point that family dysfunction can infect the whole cosmos, or it will make an equally banal point that the world is one big family, man, and since we only have one of it, we had better not fight.
c) The "missing Dad" motif that I discussed earlier has come back in spades-- we not only have missing Dads, but false Dads, no Dads, substitute Dads, you name it. Most fo the main characters' Dads are, plot-wise, out of the picture, so expect epiphanies aplenty as the series closes, along the lines of "I should have ___ while he was still here."
d) What is most obvious is that the series will ultimately show us the standard circularity of time that underlies myth: the Oceanic Six will be their own parents; history will repeat itself (Whitmore's ancestors sent the 1840-something boat to the island that we see in Season 1; there was a discussion at the end of Season Five where some late 1800s sailors on the Island talked of how people kept coming and raping and ruining things.
e) The Island will ultimately stand for what is left of the world at the beginning of the 21st century: we are at the point where our capacities to act and affect the world are so powerful, and often so misguidedly self-interested, that we can really fuck things up if we aren't careful, and that the best intentions (the "original" Others) lead to Hell.
Labels: Jack Shepherd, John Locke, Kate Austin, Lost Se06, LOST season Six, LOST TV
posted by Butch at 9:10 PM
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