Plotlines

Rousseau plays a significant role, but it also becomes clear that her intentions are not entirely good, and the scratches on her arm hide a terrible truth connected to Claire’s abduction. As we know, Rousseau is searching for her daughter, and if my memory serves me right, we will have another episode towards the end of the series that sheds more light on Rousseau’s background.

Meanwhile, the passengers have captured a prisoner, namely Benjamin “Ben” Linus, although at this point he is only known by the false name Henry Gale. I really like the actor who plays Henry, later Ben, Michael Emerson, because his roles always have one or more layers beneath what is immediately visible.

Throughout the series, he undergoes several changes, and his backstory, especially his past with Sayid, is quite intense. This is also because you never really know what he is up to, and his unpredictability in his actions adds to this.

I already mentioned it in the previous article, and of course, it continues here, because it has become an established structure that will later put us through the wringer: the flashbacks. Again and again, we learn details about the individual characters and their backgrounds, or what led them to end up on Oceanic Flight 815.

It’s not always just about the main cast, even though there are extras who always act in the background, but sometimes the focus is on characters like Rose and Bernard.

What’s interesting about these two is that each represents a side that can also be found in the entire group. On one side are those who desperately want to leave the island and return to their old lives, which is what Bernard stands for. On the other side are those who want to stay on the island because they have found a new sense of purpose, and the island has given them something they never thought possible, Rose represents this side.

Thus, the discord over the SOS sign that Bernard desperately wants to build is not just a small quarrel between a married couple, but rather stands for the entire group that has made it this far.

Yes, I am happy when characters I don’t particularly like are written out of a series. I was glad when Ana Lucia was gone, but not about the way it happened, as it was a bit too brutal for me. Sure, it somehow fits the character and a bit with her backstory, so you could chalk it up to karmic justice. But that feels a bit simplistic to me. Especially on such an island, and with all the creative things that have already happened, I found it a bit uncreative.

In Hugo’s case, who was just getting closer to Libby, I found it even more tragic, because not only was Ana Lucia shot, but Libby was also shot and seriously injured by Michael. Why do I mention this?

In TV series, there are often characters who are absolute outsiders, either physically or because of their behavior. Often, these are the so-called nerds. Of course, I don’t mean that in a negative way, look at me, I have a website where I write about TV series, I’m a nerd myself.

And maybe that’s why it bothers me so much that these characters always seem to get the short end of the stick. If you ever want to watch a series where this happens almost every episode, check out The Big Bang Theory. But I digress!

Yes, Hugo will have his moment to shine later on, and I like that because he deserves to be happy. And yes, why should he suffer less than all the others? Still, I found it a bit harsh, and I think it could have been handled a little more smoothly.

Towards the end, the Others get more and more screen time, and it becomes clear that they are not necessarily the good guys. However, this needs to be put into perspective, because the survivors never considered that there might be others living on the island and that they might be trespassing on their territory. This is something the passengers from the tail section of Oceanic 815 experience particularly harshly.

However, trying to figure out who started it all is like a never-ending tennis match.

The season ends, quite literally, with a bang! Locke is obsessed with finding out what happens to the Dharma station, where Desmond lived for three years, if the number code is not entered after 108 minutes.

After the countdown expires, everything basically blows up. But of course, it’s not that simple, after all, this is LOST. No, it’s about a kind of energy that is released, which, due to a previous disturbance, was also responsible for the crash of Oceanic 815.

There isn’t much left of the station, and we as viewers are left with a nasty cliffhanger, because not only do we see Penny again, who is told that the anomaly has reappeared, but Desmond is now also back on the island, trying to prevent the worst. Apparently, he is unsuccessful.

But of course, that’s not the end, because the Others have taken prisoners. Jack, Kate, and Sawyer are being held captive in another Dharma station. Are the Others perhaps remnants of the Dharma Initiative? A valid question! However, the series does not want to give us a clear answer to this just yet, we’ll have to be patient.

Believe the allegorical, which I’ve touched on before, has been scaled back a bit from this season. Not necessarily for the worse, but rather to lay a few paths that can be followed later on. This is particularly noticeable in the fact that I have touched on many things in this article that will only be followed up later. Practically the loose ends that were already scrutinized in the first part of the season.

Sawyer, Kate, and Jack in captivity, Locke in a sense leaderless and lost, the station that was the center of this season destroyed, and much left without direction or purpose. That’s how the series leaves us, and maybe it’s one of the cliffhangers that bothers me the least. Because it’s one that doesn’t treat you unfairly, but instead leaves you hungry for more.