So the final season of LOST premiered Tuesday night. And for the record, I’m completely confused (some would say LOST… ha ha. I know you haven’t heard that before). I watched the 2-hour episode and found myself almost thinking I’ve figured it out, but then “guess who” comes back to life! He’s my least favorite character on the show by the way.
But I do have a theory or two… and here they are. Let me know what you think, where I’m wrong, and other mysteries as well.
- Jacob and the Dark Shirt guy of season 5′s ending are feuding Egyptian gods. They were banished to a floating island where they must live out eternity hating each other.
- Richard Alpert is a servant or lesser god-like being who does the bidding of Jacob to prevent the evil of Dark Shirt dude (of which we don’t yet have a name… or we could call him John Smoke [ha ha]).
- These ‘gods’ are using people as pawns to try and loophole their banishment and kill each other or better yet return home (off the floating island).
- Everyone you’ve seen as dead, was dead and were inhabited by these gods to pawn out their purposes. Manipulating the people towards loopholes in other words…
- However, because this is TV, something restorative will happen at the end and most will be restored to life (especially the central cast).
- This is my wild adjustment to the theory. Desmond is going to be a surprise character which actually has a bend towards evil working with John Smoke.
- As for time travel… no idea. That’s not my favorite aspect of the story. Ask Doc and Marty.
Either way, wrong or right or close, I’m excited to see how this story ends. It’s been some of the most entertaining television I’ve seen (evil Coca-Cola Polar Bears and all).

With a crick in my neck from pondering the whirlwind of thematic content I have officially lost (haha) interest. It’s almost as if they have one last season to totally mess with my head but got it done instead in one episode. Cudos to the production team for that. Off to NCIS for some relevant titilation.