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***THIS WILL CONTAIN SPOILERS***
It's finally here. The final season of "Lost." The final premiere. I loved every minute of it. I love how they made us think, for just a second, that Faraday's plan worked completely sending everyone back to 2004 and not crashing. They even showed the remnants of the Island on the seafloor (even though I doubt the Dharma houses would have survived a Hydrogen detonation). Nope. We traveled back in time. We've traveled forward in time. Now we are traveling side to side in time. It seems that the Incident merely spawned a parallel universe, which should have been obvious since there were little things that weren't exactly right in the scenes on Oceanic 815. Things like Jack, Rose, and Sawyer's hair, Desmond's presence, Shannon's lack of presence, Hurley's luck. The great thing about the alternate reality was that everyone still seemed to have this feeling they should know each other (especially Jack). I also loved the attention to details. Like when Jack saves Charlie, he angrily tells him "I'm supposed to be dead!" or the way Marshall Mars' head bleeds when Kate jumps him is the same as when the luggage hits it.
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The most interesting thing about this season is going to be the Book of Job, good versus evil battle between Esau (the man in black) and Jacob. The crazy thing is how John Locke is at the center of all of this, and not just the John Locke who used to be in a wheel chair because the original Sawyer pushed him out of an office building. First it mirrors the Man of Faith vs. Man of Science dichotomy between Jack and Locke from previous seasons. The second and far more interesting is that these are clearly supernatural beings that won't just die. It is a constant struggle between the belief that man is inherently good and man is a brutish and cruel animal who can be corrupted and destroyed so easily. We see Locke (the 17th Century Philosopher) versus Thomas Hobbes in the Jacob/ Esau conflict. Ironically, Esau, who is a Hobbesian is using the body of a man named John Locke. I won't be surprised if Jacob has now possessed the body of Sayid (not that the spring healed him), who is probably the best example of a good character that has done evil to survive.
Other thoughts:
I found it wildly entertaining that the translator at the Others' temple looked like John Lennon and he had the last line before a Blackberry "All You Need Is Love" commercial. That can't be a coincidence.
In alt-2004 Aaron's 2 mom's share a taxi.
Who IS Richard Alpert? Why was he ever in chains?
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LOVED the exchange between Ben and Dark Locke: "You're, you're the monster!" "Let's not resort to name calling."
Can Ben somehow find redemption? He was "pardoned" by Smokey last year but we know that being pardoned by the devil means nothing. He has hit rock bottom now; I honestly want to see him redeem himself. Up until this season we have not had wholly good nor wholly evil characters. It has been the refreshing realism of the show that characters are redefined over and over again. Only now does it seem like the Jacob-Esau split is the true good v. evil. I hope characters keep crossing back and forth as they have all series.
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