LOST premiere = 4 days away!

January 29, 2010, 6:56 pm
Filed under: Doc Jensen Notables, Miscellany | Tags: Doc Jensen, LA X, season 6

Who’s excited? “This guy!” …or girl 😉

Here are some pre-premiere tidbits I’ve been reading about this week:

Final Season of Lost Won’t Give Up Answers Easily

Michael Emerson says:

“I feel great curiosity, because from what I’ve shot up to this point, I don’t see any end in sight. The storyline is continuing to expand instead of contract. It’s grown more fragmented, rather than becoming more unified. The threads aren’t joining up, they’re flying away.”

I guess I’ll have a lot to write about this season!

A random thought on Jacob, over on Doc Jensen’s blog:

You know, it suddenly hits me: Does Jacob’s touch = ”The Creation of Man” portion of the Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel, in which God the Father grants the spark of life to his first created human, Adam?

Michelangelo was said to have been inspired by the Christian hymn ”Vein Creator Spirits,” which, according to Wikipedia ”asks the ‘finger of the paternal right hand’ (digitus paternae dexterae) to give the faithful speech, love, and strength.” In various ways, isn’t that what Jacob gave each of the castaways when he touched them? To Sawyer, he gave a pen: speech. To Jin and Sun, he issued a blessing at their wedding: love. To Locke, he encouraged and comforted him in his greatest crisis: strength.

Very interesting… And, I wonder if rebooting the timeline via Jughead will prevent Jacob from being killed.

While I’m not big on speculating on how it’s all going to end before the season even starts, Doc Jensen gives it his best guess for a lot of the island’s growing mysteries, and it’s a good read: Lost: How It Ends (Maybe). I especially like his prediction for Locke and Ben becoming the new Jacob/Man in Black.

But before it ends, we have to start at the “beginning of the end”… The Lost Season 6 Premiere episode will be called: “LA X Parts 1 & 2” (emphasis on the space between the LA and X…confirmed that it was done on purpose).

So what does it mean?

I read here:

The X could refer to the year 2010 (X being the roman numeral for the number 10) — the year which the final season of Lost will premiere. It could be signifying that Jack’s plan to reset the timeline worked and the point where our Losties reappear will be at LAX airport as was planned. It could mean the exact opposite of that, and that a safe timeline reset to LAX isn’t happening, with the X being spaced away from the preceding letters. Some fans are even suggesting that the “LA” is French (meaning “The”) and the X is a variable (X usually being substituted for any unknown number). The theories, as they always do with regards to Lost, go on and on… Personally I am more for the “Whatever Happened, Happened” theory — meaning that Jack’s plan didn’t work and that the Losties would end up back in 2007 with Ben, Sun, Frank and Co. But it’s looking more and more (especially with this mysterious title) like there will be some sort of reversion back to the plan having worked in some way. However, I’m sure it won’t be as cut and dry as, “The plane never crashed.”

I think the notion of it being the opposite of a same timeline reset/landing in LAX is implied and probable. Could also refer to an “X marks the spot” type of thing, “The Ten”, etc… Guess we’ll have to wait and see!

And lastly, here’s a cool fan video showing Lost clips in the style of 24… The Lost Plane Crash in Real Time: