With the final season of “Lost” upon us Feb 2, the print folks wanted me to come up with something related to the show. So this is what I sent to print. It’s a list of supposed facts from the show, some true, some fiction. Given how bizarre and convoluted the show has been its first five seasons, can you tell the difference?
The creators, struggling during season 3 in 2007 with no idea when the show would end, were given a rare gem of a situation: an actual end date. This enabled them to hone the storylines and figure out how to shape the final 48 episodes, ensuring a (hopefully) coherent and satisfying conclusion for “Lost” addicts. With time travel and characters dying (and sometimes returning, given the time travel), it’s enough to give even the most ardent fans a nosebleed.
Lost: the final season
- I can't wait to get some answers!
- I gave up a long time ago. The show was just too hard to follow.
I’ll post the answers tomorrow. First one to get them all correct will get a “behind the scenes” book about “Lost.” Just email me at rho@ajc.com with your answers.
1. During season five, several castaways returned to the island where they planned to blow up a hydrogen bomb called Jughead to try to prevent the original plane crash.
2. Richard Alpert (above), a self-proclaimed leader of the Others, never seems to age an iota, no matter what year “Lost” shows.
3. A major character on the show is simply dubbed the Monster. Usually, it’s in black smoke form but sometimes it takes on the form of human beings. And sometimes it kills.
4. Jacob (above) is a mysterious figure on the island who appears to have lived there for centuries. A Man in Black, his rival, may have murdered Jacob in the guise of Benjamin Linus.
5. Polar bears, not normally seen on a tropical island, have popped up at least twice.
6. While in the hatch, Desmond for years had to type in a set of numbers (above) every 108 minutes to prevent a major catastrophic event. When he doesn’t, Flight 815 goes down. Those also happen to be the same numbers Hurley used to win $156 million in a lottery before he got on that flight.
7. The Dharma Initiative was a group of scientists who arrived on the island in 1970 to study the island’s powers. The Others eventually kill them in a bloody shootout.
8. For all these years, there’s been a love triangle. Kate ends up with a child but it’s unclear if it’s the son of surgeon Jack or renegade Sawyer.
9. There’s a stranded 19th century ship sitting in the middle of the island, not anywhere near the shore.
10. Women on the island who got pregnant had trouble coming to term and would die. The Others were desperately trying to figure out how to fix the problem.
11. Characters hear whispering voices in the jungle just before Benjamin Linus shows up.
12. The remains of a four-toed statue seen briefly in season two was shown in season five to be where the Man in Black resides.
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