Season 3 of Lost can summed up as having the best finale ever seen on television, after a mixed season of powerful highs but more than a few lows.
The biggest low occurred in the Fall. Although learning more about the Others was good, and enjoyable, the prison life of Jack, Kate, and Sawyer went on far too long. Back with the Losties, Eko’s death added little to the story. Juliet, however, is an important new character, and her introduction in the Season 3 premier opened several significant avenues in the story.
Nikki and Paolo in the Spring - the story of a Lostie couple we had not seen before - was an another example of a enjoyable tale that added little to the main story. But Desmond and his ability to see the future introduced one of the most riveting threads in the entire three seasons. We still do not know whether Desmond just sees the future or time travels - which would explain him on the steps of the stadium with Jack in season 2 (Desmond, getting to know Jack in the present, on the island, went back in time to the stadium after leaving the island). Desmond’s story comes to intertwine with Charlie’s, and this provides one of most wrenching and effective parts of the finale, though I hated to see it: Charlie’s death.
At the same time, Locke again goes through a profound regenerative experience, and Mikhail (an Other) survives at least two takings of his life. Does the island have some kind of recuperative effect on some of its inhabitants (not all - recall Boone, Shannon, Libby, Ana Lucia, Eko).
And this, in turn, sets up the finale to end all finales: Jack on the island insists on calling in the apparent rescuers, over Ben’s presumably heart-felt objection that they’ll all regret it and … we find that Jack, off the island, in a flashforward, indeed regrets leaving the island. The flashforwards raise all kinds of questions - who is in the casket, who is waiting for Kate at home or wherever, what happened to Jack and Kate …
I can’t wait until the end of January, and the beginning of at least a few answers…
We want to thank Paul Levinson again for his collaboration with SL-LOST.
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