Like many fans, I am happy to be lost in Lost. Savoring it, in fact. Locke as the Smoke Monster? Bring him/it/whoever on! A ”flash-sideways”? I like coming in on that new angle! As the final pieces of TV’s trickiest jigsaw puzzle are being wedged into place, the burden is on the guys who run the show — Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof — to have the sixth and final season not end up looking like…one big jigsaw puzzle.
How to do that? So far, they’ve got the right idea in finally establishing that Lost isn’t just a mind game: The Island has always been a metaphor for the heart — the center, the life force. Now many of the mysteries of the heart are being revealed, along with alternative glimpses of how the lives of so many did or may or could have turned out. Read the rest of this entry »


