Catch-Up: Lost

Lost is an absolutely amazing show - as is Dexter - as has been since both shows have run, I usually consider my favorite whichever is currently running. Predictably, right now I like Lost the most, and at least for right now, I think it's pretty set that way. The show is hard to follow unless you've watched the whole series, but it is so worth anyone's while. Last night's finale was incredible, they introduced a mystery character (Jacob) and a potential adversary masterfully, PS the themes-subtext of their quarrel equally drew me in. Alot of people see a Biblical sub-text to it (I don't know the Bible very well, see what 16 years of Sunday School boredom got me), and refer to an Old Testament story about Jacob & Esau, some are suggesting that maybe the sides are switched inverted and Jacob (the man in white) is the bad guy, and Jacob's Enemy (the man in black) is the good guy, and I'm sure there are endless other theories/offshoots of this apparent duality-human morality saga. I don't geek out too much about it, and just sort of take it as a slightly modified meta-"State of Nature" debate derived from classical philosophy - like Jacob's unnamed enemy character posited: "they men fight, they destroy, and they corrupt, it always ends the same" - men are corruptible, flawed beings and this fault eternally recurs & manifests itself in every event of human history over and over again, v. Jacob's counter-arg: "If it only ends once, anything before that is just progress" - men can change things, no to eternal recurrence.

The scene with Juliet and Sawyer made me so emotionally taut, I didn't feel like crying but it was such an amazingly done and sad scene. I've had one movie (Bridge to Terabithia) that has made me actually cry, and to date I've never had a TV show do that to me, but that scene really had me feeling extremely, extremely raw afterwards. I think (and aside from that, hope!) that Juliet will end up living past this scene because of the whole jumping-in-time thing her activation of the bomb-device likely caused her and the others above the well to skip back to the present in 2007, and because the Lost directors/writers Cuse & Lindelof both said there was one major character death in the finale, and I suspect the emotional repercussion of that spectacular scene where Sawyer can't save her is meant as a red herring to distract the audience from the reveal that Locke is the major death, and that his doppelganger - the man in black in Locke's form - came and killed Jacob, sparking the major war that's been cryptically referred to through the series.

This is just an incredible show, who knows what direction it'll take, I really don't care because Cuse & Lindelof (the earlier mentioned creators and writers of the show) have done a spectacular job so far and there's no doubt the last season will be out of this world.