Where will I be in 2010?

I have to admit…..I’m a little jaded by LOST lately….w-w—w-w-wWhat?!?!? Yeah…I know that’s considered a bit treasonous, for a lack of a better word…I mean, you never hear George Bush say he’s disenchanted by America, right?? Even at the end of his tenure in office…heck, I’ve got 2 more seasons and I’m already feeling a little less glossy about the best show on the planet??

I’m not sure what it is…I think it’s because I feel “rushed”…you know, this season was truncated with the writer’s strike and the fact that the show is going to end soon…I miss the old days of not knowing everything...I know, I know..it’s an embarrassment of riches, right? We’ve always had to wait for answers and now they are giving them to us at a faster clip and I shouldn't’t complain…But I will go on record as saying that I never complained about not getting answers quicker..I’ve always enjoyed the chase of the mystery, the thrill of the hunt..nowadays I think I’ll have a mystery to solve and then they turn around and answer it before the show is over…

So now I’m only left with making up theories and waiting for them to shoot them down…I thought I had Michael pegged at time traveling to get on the boat and was rudely slapped with the reality that he did in fact get on the boat less than 2 months after getting off the island….I went looking for mysteries and deception where in fact there were none….Looking back, I say “in fact” way too much….

But let’s talk about last week’s episode for a second….Jack and Kate together at last!!! But wait…Jack can’t be happy…It’s just not meant to be…it’s either the jealousy or the controlling or the bull headed drive to save everyone..Jack is the stereotypical doctor with the God complex….and I think the island is trying to tell him, guess what, buddy? You ain’t all that..and I think I’ll take your appendix to prove it…There is a huge theory going around that Juliet planted some type of device in Jack so that they could track him once he left the island…this is the type of theory I used to get behind but now, as I mentioned above, it’s most likely not the case…there’s no point..we’ve already seen them track Michael and they didn’t put anything into him…except a ton of remorse…

But there was one element of the show that I found to be the fulfillment of one of my deepest, most self respected theories, in that LOST is a reflection of Star Wars….and this week’s episode provided the biggest moment of foreshadowing of any of the past episodes ever….

If you’ve never read my theory on LOST and how it directly ties into Star Wars, then shame on you…I’m sure it’s logged out there somewhere on the internet highway…most likely it’s gathering dust at rest stop or something…Long theory short, Jack is Luke, Kate is Leia and Sawyer is none other than Han Solo….so maybe you can all see where I’m going with this…What did Jack step on in the kitchen? The Millennium Falcon…and then he let out a Sawyer like “sonuvabitch”…so I knew long before the end when Kate tearily told Jack that she was doing a favor for Sawyer, that the Jack and Kate relationship was over….I'm not saying they are brother and sister but I believe that like Luke, Jack has a greater destiny than just a loving relationship...and Han and Leia were such a better couple...it may have been the lack of the incest thing...but I digress way too much

Now I don’t know for a fact that it’s over but it doesn’t look well…I mean, this is where Jack starts the pill popping road to ruin…and then he grows a beard, which is kind of a slap to Kate, considering she bought him a razor at the beginning of the show…and we’ve already seen how jacked up poor Hurley is…How is Jack going to get back to the island??? He looks crazy and the only person who agrees they need to go back is Hurley, who IS crazy..but he’s really not…we know he sees Charlie in the courtyard of the loony bin and they talk about things…and now Jack is seeing his dad….wasn’t it interesting that the smoke alarm went off and that’s when Jack sees his dad? Is this a blatant reference to the Smoke Monster? We’ve seen Smokey manifest himself in many ways and it’s this humble writer’s opinion that this is just another sign that Jack’s work with the Island is not done…..

And I will lastly note that it’s going to be a real treat to see Sawyer again in the future, along with his current role of protector of Claire, who was seeing things and has now run off into the jungle(once again), this time, following her father, the one and only Christian Shepard...VERY INTERESTING...but we have to assume that Sawyer is still alive and kicking on the island…especially if Kate still feels the need to do favors for him still…..Maybe, just maybe Kate is seeing people from the island as well..maybe Sawyer…aww there I go again..hoping and wishing on yet another theory..:)

That’s all folks….my hope is slowly being restored…I will inspire the nation once again…I’m no lame duck Presidente..

Later..EPdeLFC4ever

JB