My LOST Predictions - Keep the theory simple and guess the outcome (yeah, right.. simple)

Trying to guess what specifically comes next is almost pointless. Better to just try to get inside the minds of the creators.

Two back to back episodes in this last season tell a story.

"Whatever Happened, Happened"
"Dead is Dead"

My theory is simply this. We were lead to believe that "Dead is Dead" didn't hold true for quite a while, and right at the last minute we find out that actually yes, dead indeed is dead. No resurrection. No magic.

This tells me that the concept of "Whatever Happened, Happened" is correct. Much as I liked Faraday, his plan didn't seem more than a shot in the dark. Miles was probably correct.

Swan and surrounding area explodes as it always did, caused by the bomb, gets concreted over. How that becomes what we saw in season 2 i'm most interested in and really hope we get to see it. I said just under a year ago that I had faith we'd see explanations for things we'd seen years earlier, in particular the Swan, and we certainly got some of it this season, but I still want the rest, although it's pretty hard to imagine it's relevant to closing out the story so somehow I now doubt it. We still don't really know what the computer did and what the failsafe did. You do kind of wonder if in fact that failsafe was an installed and ready to go version of Faraday's plan. We never found out how Desmond, Locke, Charlie and Eko escaped unscathed from whatever happened to the Swan when the key was turned. Time flashes, perhaps only temporary, seems a possbility. Main problem with this theory would be why the Jughead core didn't destroy the magnetism in '77. Perhaps, final stretch, it didn't go off at all. Maybe what we saw was simply a time flash.

Lots of thinking regarding what happened next in '77 there, but realistically I can't help but imagine that they're done telling that story now. We seem to have reached the point at which the relative importance of characters like Ben and Widmore are shrinking significantly. They, along with Richard and Eloise are the only really significant characters in that timeline once the others disappear, and we've seen Ben and Widmore's pivotal moments already. Can't imagine sticking around in '77 to see how the Widmore/Ellie thing progresses.

One wish for season 6 would be that they devote a whole episode to loose ends. Flash all the fuck over the place and answer questions. Frame it as a Richard episode since he's been there for so long.

I guess the incidental explosion comes coupled with a time jump for everybody that flashed around when the wheel got stuck, back to 2007, even those nowhere near, such as the retired cabin dwellers Rose and Barnard. The worst part about that happening is it's pretty hard to find an excuse for Juliet to be alive, which sucks.

The other fans say the 8 months is painful. It's not so bad. There's time to wind down from the season, forget the show for a while then later in the year start a lead-in Marathon which is now over 100 episodes. There's an entire season of a guy we thought was John Locke actually being somebody else which will make for interesting second viewings. There's the chance to hear all about Radzinsky from Calvin, this time knowing just what an arsehole he really was. A chance to see Jacob's people building the runway that Frank will later try to land 316 on. It's loads of fun watching the jigsaw.

Every time I think about rewatching the earlier seasons of Lost I expect the incessant back stories of all the characters to wear thin, but actually they don't tend to. I may geek out over the SciFi elements of the show but I wouldn't be this enthused about it after five years if I didn't love the vast majority of these characters. The original flashbacks are mostly responsible for this.

This was originally a QUICK post that became a very long rambling one lacking structure. Shit, how many posts do I do this end game apology on? Fuck it if you don't like it you won't read it. But you did, didn't ya!