Cinema Suicide

Face it. If you’re a LOST fan then somewhere in the middle of season 2 you started trying to sort out the pieces as soon as it became clear that something really big was going on. Maybe you even went apeshit and played along with the ARGs that accompanied each season and if you were genuinely die hard, then you probably also watched the webisodes to fill in the gaps. Office chatter around these parts became ceaseless collaborations as members of the art department presented harebrained theories to the web developers about the significance of the numbers, the heiroglyphics, the age of Richard Alpert, etc. I was even guilty of this sin as I took it a step further and started tying my own ideas, culled from the pages of The Stand and reinforced with hardly understood concepts from The Elegant Universe, into existing theories of just what the fuck is going on.

Unfortunately, somewhere around the end of season 4 it occurred to me that these guys were probably just making up wild shit as they went along, cherrypicking ideas from really awesome fantasy and sci-fi novels and that there probably has been no grand operating system behind the vast mysteries of LOST. The fan base persists, though, and even though I’m feeling a bit suspicious of the LOST writers, I just can’t help myself. I love putting their wild riddles through the paces and try to make sense of them all. Season 6, the grand finale begins on Tuesday, February 2nd and I couldn’t be more excited about it. The final chapter of one of TV’s greatest shows is coming to a conclusion and I’ll be trying to figure it out all the way to the series finale. Thankfully, showrunners Lindelof and Cuse promise that to all my friends and colleagues, this last season is going to make me more annoying than ever as I pass my crazy-ass theorize before everyone I meet.