Lost: Through the Looking Glass (2) - Season finale quick review

Spoilers abound.

I thought the finale was great. With about five minutes left, I realized that it might have been a flash forward and sure enough it was. There were about five or six storylines that were happening, but over a two-hour span, it played out well. Charlie, prior to his drowning death (which seems somewhat pointless), talks to Desmond's Penny and has just enough time and just enough magic marker to warn Desmond that Naomi (the parachuter who most people didn't believe was genuine) was "not [from] Penny's boat." Unfortunately, at the same time Charlie's death was happening, Locke had shot Naomi, and Jack made contact with "the bad ones" (to paraphrase Ben, who seemed pretty helpless at this point, having lost control of half of his camp).

Walt, aged a solid 2-3 years in teenage years, saved Locke, which would purport to indicate that perhaps him and Desmond will be able to prevent the future that we saw Jack in. The writers all along have been saying that this storyline will make perfect scientific sense, and perhaps it will, but I think the finale has taken it into a new direction, it's well worth watching, and if you had given up on Lost for whatever reason (including it's bonehead move to 10 PM, which hopefully will change back in Feb. 2008), you need to get the season 3 DVDs and sit through them. The storyline gets better and with only 36 episodes left (a long three more seasons when you think about it), one can only hope the writers are on a path to somewhere, as opposed to aimlessly drifting as they had in parts of season 2 and the earlier parts of season 3.

The fact that we have to wait almost seven months to figure out what happens next should drive most fansites up the wall with speculation, which is probably good for ratings next season.

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