Lost Season 2 finale (Spoiler Alert)
Well another season of Lost has come and gone. In case you missed it heres a quick recap of the events of the 2 hour finale last night (in no real order):
The boat which the survivors found was manned by Desmond who tried to sail off the island only to find himself back where he started.
Locke decided to stop pushing the button. Then he decided that Mr. Ecko should stop pushing the button too.
Michael, Jack, Sawyer, Hurley and Kate set off to the Others camp while Sayyid sailed around the island with Jin and Sun for a sneak attack. Along the way they find a GIANT statue of a foot with 4 toes.
Michael sold out the survivors to rescue his son and is given a boat and told how to get off the island. At the end he sails off into the sun set with Walt while Jack, Kate, and Sawyer are tied up surrounded by the Others. Hurley is let go so he can tell the remaining survivors never to return to the other side of the island.
Locke and Desmond seal Mr. Ecko out of the computer room and let the timer run down. Desmond realizes just in time what the machine does and decides to trip the fail safe after Locke smashes the computer.
In the Desmond’s flashbacks we find out that the machine is a giant electromagnet and pressing the button discharges. If it isn’t discharged it will do something BAD (we don’t know what but its bad). We also find out that the one time it wasn’t pressed is exactly the same time that flight 815 crashed. So by not pressing the button one time Desmond “shot down” flight 815.
When Desmond trips the fail safe a bright light and loud noise wash over the island. When it ends nothing seems to have changed, but the door from the hatch comes crashing into the camp as if a huge explosion threw it up into the air.
At the end of the episode, Jack, Kate and Sawyer are hostages; the status of the hatch (along with Locke, Mr. Ecko and Desmond) is unknown and the big cliff hanger is that somewhere in the Arctic a monitoring station picks up the electromagnetic disturbance from the hatch and it turns out its being monitored by Desmonds rich ex-fiancé who is looking for him.
Overall it was a decent episode, not nearly as good as the first season finale but the overall potential of next season I think is greater. There are many different storylines which can be explored from this point on.
posted by Gordon @ 7:49 PM
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That cliff hanger is also very interesting for a completely different reason. It's the first time in the show that we see something happening in the present that doesn't occur on the island. Up until this point, everything we've seen of the outside world has been in flashbacks. This kind of debunks the theories that they are in purgatory or are on some other plane of existence. The rest of the world does in fact exist. I can't help but wonder if we'll see more of that in Season3.
I also want to point out that we do not see an explosion in the traditional sense. My guess is that there was simply a massive electromagnetic discharge and we can only hope that Eko, Locke, and Desmond got out okay. I would love to see Desmond become part of the regular cast. My wife thinks that if they did survive, they're somehow mutants now. Who knows with this show?
I guess explosion was the wrong word. Yes I think Locke and Ecko will come out alive. I have the feeling we'll see them half way through the new season, much wiser and very much different.
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