LOST season 4 finale review

LOST season 4 is now completed. The show had a bunch of cliffhanger questions, shocking I know! The entire season 4 with the flash forward sequences now, its almost like you are watching parts of season 5. We know the outcome paths for many of the Oceanic 6 for the next 3 years. We see Ben is in civilization but can he also not find his way back to the island? We have a number of side characters are now displaced like Faraday, Miles, Juliette, and Richard. Where are they now? The tanker explosion look like no one did survive so did we say goodbye to those characters?

Now the question is where does the story line go. You have 2 remaining seasons, at I believe 16 episodes each. You have a ton of characters and personal plot lines you have to wrap up. You also in typical LOST clue looking, there hundreds upon hundreds of cryptic clues of things put in each episode. When I was reading over at lostpedia.com it is scary how many clues the common viewer never will notice per episode.

I have noticed one key thing that keeps happening over and over. At the end of each season there is always a confrontation with Jack & Locke. Now a key point, for the season 2 finale, you never see both guys talk within the same room, however the past arguments they engaged in before season 2 plays a large roll in Locke's thought process of that episode. So here at season 4 we have another Jack vs Locke deeeeeeep talk. Jack acts determined and stubborn on his set goal and here is Locke as the polar opposite to Jack's thinking. We see this occur again while they are standing outside the Orchid station. We come to an interesting point, because it seems even though they disagree, both people are getting what they think they want. Locke is getting to save the island and Jack is getting to return to civilization. Both of them to each other act confident after all the days of survival, they are finally reaching their goal.



We of course see my favorite villian, Benjamin Linus almost appear to manipulate every single person he comes across to get what he wants. Though what does Ben really want? It seemed like we was the shepard of the island, but looks like that is a complete false. The others living on the island feel more strongly to Locke than Ben. Ben knew this prob in middle of season 3, so this entire time, we has having to realize it (shoots Locke in grave season 3), deals with not protecting the island from outsiders, sees his inherited daughter get murdered, then has to realize what his new role is. He had a great quote in this season, "Destiny is sometimes a fickle bitch." He thought he was meant for so much more, but it seems more he just another pawn in the larger scale on what is occuring with the island.



So lets go down a character run and sumarize their story line

• Hurley: obviously has a deep connection with the island and the LOST numbers. Hurley thinks he is nuts, but he almost has a stronger connection with the events of the island, but he can not put the pieces together that co-inside with him.
  
• Desmond: As seen with Faraday, Desmond somehow has a link to time travel. It is almost like it is more his mind them his entire self taking the time leaps. He is the constant, and prob see a confrontation with him, Penny, and Charles Whitmore
• Juliette: Too much character development for her to go away. We will see her down the line and I sense Jack will still have some guilt/mixed feelings when we see her on screen again.
  
• Sawyer: The ladies love Sawyer. He stayed behind on the island. As it was preluded through all seasons, Sawyer was a con artist and had no place in today's world. On the island he is actually at peace. He feels that he has an important role to still play. We could see the hero trait come out of Sawyer more and more. Also we were seeing a new strong trusthworthy unspoken trust go with him and Jack
• Claire: Man is Claire dead? Somehow it seems that way but how did she die? Maybe the explosion from the building gave her some slow injury that made her bleed to death. It seems Claire's is now with the island since we saw her approach Kate in the dream. We will
  
• All past LOST dead characters: Lets go down the list of Boone, Mr. Eko, Shannon, Ana Lucia, Charlie, Jack's father, and anyone else that we know is dead. Obviously the island has some connection to where the dead reappear or people's memories are tap into seeing dead people. Something is going odd with that, but that will not be answered until the end of the series.
  

It is almost certain LOST will not return with Season 5 until 2009. I thought when I saw the end of Season 3 that the plot would have complications, the storyline would have some things never be answered, and the show would go in an entirely new direction. Now after viewing Season 4, only some things have changed. First I have been pleased with the overall story. Seems to be focusing on a main focal point which many characters can relate to, and it is also showing fate brought all these people together. Right now the story is wide open. I think the 3 year time gap between the rescue and the now present day is going to give the writers to fill in plenty of flashbacks but it will be hard to incorporate the island now. Most of the storyline characters have progress well through the four seasons. It will be interesting to see if there is a resolution for many of these people with the huge problems they each face back in reality.

LOST is still a great show and I tell all my friends if you have not watched it I will let you borrow the DVDs to catch up on the show.