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Lost: The Incident (Warning– Spoilers held within)

If you haven’t seen the season finally of Lost you’ll want to stop reading because my plan for the day is to begin the speculation of what is going to happen next year. There are plenty of other people who can do a general review of the show, so I’ll stick with great episode.

And so we come to the obvious question, did Jack’s plan work? They successfully blew up the island so does that mean that the hatch couldn’t have caused their plane to crash? If so will the next season start with everyone off the island with no memories of anyone? Will Locke still be in a wheelchair, and Kate in jail. Will Rose still have cancer? Will Clair give up her child? What about Charley? Will he be alive again?

There is plenty of interesting possibilities if they are all simply back to the way they were before the island but there are also problems with that. People aren’t going to be satisfied with the show simply resetting to ground zero so here are a few of my predictions for  the beginning of next season.

– Greg Grunburg will make  a cameo

– Locke will be able to walk

– Hurley will keep seeing dead people

– Desmond is going to remember things no one else does

– Walt is going to be to tall to play himself from season 1

–  Ben is going to lie about something

– Juliet will be even less happy with the others than she was before

– Sayid’s wife will still get hit by a car

– Jacob will be alive and interacting

– The island won’t look like it was blown up by a nuclear bomb.

The other possibility of course is that there is no plane crash but everyone who was supposed to be on the island will wake up still on the island with no idea who anyone else is. This could be fun as well.

The final question is that of Jacob. We have finally seen him, as well as seeing that there is someone else on the island who doesn’t like him and can seemingly look like anyone he wants, including Locke and Ben’s dead daughter.

First we know that they have been there a long time. Exactly how long we can’t be certain though my guess is that the boat they saw was the black peral so a few hundred years at least.Secondly I don’t think that the white and black that the two wore in teh beginning was an accidental clothing choice and their conversation then tells us something.

The other one says they come, they fight, they destroy they corrupt. Always ends the same.

Jacob then says “it only has to end once. Anything that happens before that is just progress,”

This makes it clear that Jacob is trying to get them to do something and the other is trying to prove it can’t happen. A basic question of the nature of human, good or bad.

Could it be that they are angel and demon then? Perhaps the island is Eden and the enemy is the serpent. Or perhaps there is a more technological answer. The science on the island is far advanced of anything on earth and it is being kept until humans prove worthy.

What I do suspect is that Rose and Bernard are the real key and that the love triangle is part of the test. Can those who are on the island find a way to live peace and harmony rather than war?

There are plenty of questions left about the island and only a single season left to answer them, but this episode made me feel as if they really do know the answers to the important questions of this show.