Lost: Fade to White
By stephanie - Thursday, May 14th, 2009
Hopefully Lost won’t end in the same semi-lame-o way BSG did – but so far, so good, this season’s cliffhanger was a doozy. (SPOILER ALERT! Don’t read anything else if you haven’t seen the latest episide!)
A couple of random thoughts: First off, I don’t get why people are questioning whether Juliet set off the bomb at the end of the episode. Of course she did! The question is: What will happen to our favorite Losties once a nuclear explosion comes in contact with a huge pocket of electro-magnetic radiation? My guess: More time travel!
One thing I have not seen on the Lost boards, surprisingly, is any commentary on the radiation suits Desmond and whats-his-face who used to be on Earth 2 and Carnivale had to put on whenever leaving the hatch. The “sickness” was the radiation poisoning…right? The question then remains, how was this cleared out so quickly by the time 2004 came around?
OK…so the big question is, who is this Jacob guy and what is his relation to the man in black? (Mr. Baddie, which some are referring to as “Esau” per the Biblical reference?)
I do think Jacob is a good guy. A semi-manipulative good guy, bringing people to the island to see if they can overcome their baser instincts. Mr. Baddie is the devil, the tempter, who we think now is somehow related to the black smoke.
Well, well, this is starting to get metaphysical. Let’s back up for a moment and return to the nuclear bomb:
Do our friends survive it? I am going to guess yes. Our big clue was the close up of the eye opening up at the end of the next season promo. That’s Jack, waking up in the forest, in the same spot, only now he’s been transported to 2007. He is part of the group that Jacob referred to when he said “they’re coming.”
All the other time travelers – Sawyer, Juliet, Sayid, Miles, Jin, and Hurley, will also be reappearing in 2007.
However, with Jacob dead, and Mr. Baddie aka Bad Locke running the island, you can be assured that all hell is going to break loose.
Somehow in all this, we’ll have a flashblack to show us how the Black Rock got stuck in the island, where Richard comes from, and all that other hoo-ha.
Will we be flashing forward to 2012 and the end of the world? It remains to be seen. But given how tightly the story is coming together, I’m going to guess that however this wraps up, it’s going to be good.
If we’re lucky, maybe the vanishing Starbuck will reappear as the “harbinger of death.”
Can I wait a year to see how this all resolves? It’s going to be a long year, that’s all I’m gonna say.
If the first episode of Season 5 of Lost bored you, then you are either not a fan or just a 

