The pilot episode of Lost is and will forever be the best pilot episode ever created for television. Every single one of us was mesmerized from the first eye popping scene. What began with a plane crash though, turned real weird, real fast. Or real slow, depending on how much leeway each of us decided to give the writers. Time travel, crazy scientific stations, barren women, parallel universes, a smoke monster, a bizarre life-giving stream. After almost 6 years of agony, I still hold on to the slim glimmer of hope that we as a collective group of Lost fanatics will have resolution for some of Lost‘s most provocative and mind-blowing questions, but, I alas, am afraid, all Lost will deliver is more heartbreak ala Sun and Jin style. Regardless, please hold off all phone calls, texts, emails during the 2.5 hour finale set for 9 PM on ABC on May 23. Or even afterward when I will be either crying, jumping off head-first from my first-floor balcony or watching a post-finale special, Jimmy Kimmel Live Aloha to Lost. Actually, don’t bother me on the prior Saturday either as I am sure to be watching the original pilot set to air with added pop-up balloons along with a two-hour retrospective called “Lost: The Final Journey“. Damn you Lost, Damn you.
One thought that someone shared with me:
I choose to believe that Darlton always knew that Jacob/MIB was the base of the story. With that in mind, how long do you think LOST would have really lasted if the pilot was about two brothers on a lost island in the year 23 AD, and their eternal struggle against one another? Yeah … 3 episodes tops. 🙂
3, tops, I agree. I just missed seeing sawyer last episode. I can always live with Jack or Desmond when Sawyer takes a week off..but,watching child actors for 30 minutes this late into the season irked me. I felt deprived, especially since there is such little precious time left with my beloved characters.