All LOST in the Supermarket...

Okay, so as the couple of you who read this notice, I have been away for a little bit, partially due to work, and I needed a break too. Got to plan vacation, perhaps a little trip to New Mexico or something. There has been one thing occupying my mind of late and that is the best damned program on television... LOST!

So the finale of the show premiered last week. If you aren't familiar with the show, check out the website. The jist of it is, there are a group of people that have crashed on an island in the Pacific, that no one in the outside world can see. These people are linked, as many of them have crossed paths at one point or another, making it seem like something other then chance brought them all together. On top of all of that, this island has many mysteries, and the survivors begin to realize that they are not alone.

The season has progressed as the people from the tail section of the plane reunite with the rest of the survivors and begin to explore the many hatches left on the island by the Hanso Foundation's Dharma Initiative. The big issue is whether the hatches have meaningful purposes or whether they are just tools for others that wish to observe human response. And if the latter is true... who are the others...



So the Finale came, all two hours of wonderous glory. Were the questions answered? What happens in the Swan hatch if the button is not pushed? What is Michael planning to do to Jack, Kate, Sawyer and Hurley in order to get his son back? Who are the others who captured Walt and just what do they do? And what will happen now that Desmond, the Scottish ex-soldier and primo button-pusher is back?

In the end, more questions were brought up then were answered. But the suspense was riveting. The most interesting part of the finale, may not have been the fact that we saw the Others in their full glory or that we found out that the hatch was actually important, stopping the world from being sucked into a major black hole.

What I felt was most interesting about the finale was that the hope of survival, of love was reiterated in the story line of Desmond. Desmond, of the Scottish boat racing breed, we come to find out is a former soldier who was court-martialed and jailed; for what reason, we do not know.



Desmond was released from prison, taking with him an unread book, Charles Dickens' Our Mutual Friend, which he promises to read before he dies. As he leaves prison in Britain, a limosuine is waiting for him, with a passenger asking him to get inside. Desmond refuses, with distain, but he is finally convinced inside. It turns out the man is the head of a powerful corporation, Widmore Labs; which have links to the hatches on the island. The man also is the father of Desmond's girlfriend, whom he loves desperately and has not seen or heard from; as he wrote her constantly in prison.



Widmore offers Desmond two boxes, one of his past, and for his future. The box from the past is a box containing the letters he wrote to Penny Widmore, never delivered to her. The other box is filled with money. Desmond refuses to take the bribe, and instead sets himself to the goal of winning a boat race that was run by Penny's father, in an effort to win back both his honor and his love. He set's off to America where he subsequently run's into Libby the Tail-section survivor, who by sheer luck owns a boat that she would like to give to Desmond. He also runs into Jack, the night that Penny tracks him down and confronts him.

Desmond sets off on the race, and eventually lands on the island, where he is separated from his girlfriend and his goal, atleast temporarily. Throughout this time, Desmond is tortured with the fact that he may never be able to get home. Isolated and alone in the hatch, he comes to a decision that he will kill himself, and looks into the book that he wished to read before he died. In it, Penny leaves a letter telling him that no matter where he is, she loves him, and that love will bring them together. As he finishes the note, he hears a noise, someone banging on the hatch, the survivors of the crashed Oceanic plane.

It is this hope of a tomorrow with the chance to make things right; lost love, separation, anger, desperation, greed, all can rectified, if you keep hoping for the chance. The hope of Desmond to be reunited with Penny is the same as the hope of Jack who wishes to heal a woman paralyzed in a car accident or any of the others on the island, who all seem to be looking for redemption in their troubled lives.



Throughout the series, characters have tried to come to grips with the choices they have made and the inequities in life. I think this will be the driving force as the next season approaches, and I think Lost will be the better for it. Keep an eye out for re-runs or Netflix that baby!