Lost – A Prediction

OK, so we’re now four weeks in on “Lost” (Ok, five weeks in if you’re watching the next episode on E4 too – but I’m not, so it doesn’t count for purposes of this post) and I’ve a couple of predictions and thoughts…

I suspect it’s one of two things – although as I’m crap at these things I’m likely to be wrong on both.

Option One – They’re all actually dead, and are in some kind of limbo waiting to see whether they are a) saved or sinner, or b) how their actions in this environment affect the outcomes. I gues it comes down to some kind of balance, where their good and bad acts have balanced each other out, and now they’re in this situation to see whether they come down on the side of good or evil. In that way, the “Lost” could also be seen as lost souls. In particular, the way Locke has now regained the use of his legs, and this being some kind of test/metaphor to do with how he handles this change in his life – whether he now chooses to help the others and make up for being an angry person previously, or whether he uses the “gift” in order to work to save himself. It’s a possibility.

Option Two – It’s some kind of “Dallas” scene where it turns out that they’re all just figments of the writer’s imagination, and it’s all, like, a metaphor. Potentially I guess it could be that the writer is trapped too, perhaps paralysed or in a coma, and this entire thing is a scenario that they’ve been writing, and now find themselves “lost” within it.