The people have spoken, and the people want something to do for eight months until we get another Lost. The first suggestion I’m taking from the Memorial Day robo-poll is for a weekly Lost discussion. Think of it as a Lost Summer Seminar, with me as the lazy professor who delivers the phoned-in lecture, and Chaddogg as the diligent, underpaid teaching assistant who does all the actual work in the Comments section.
Ideally, we’ll mix up really big-picture questions (How do you think the series will end?) with tiny questions (What the hell are The Whispers?) with sound-off/critiques (Does anyone really care about the Jack-Kate-Sawyer triangle?) and meta-questions (Dom and Evangeline: Can They Stay Together?). Kidding on that last one. I think. And you should feel free to ignore the question and hijack the discussion.
But for the first one, let’s keep it simple and begin at the end: Where do you think the first episode of season 4 begins?
There seem to be a few-options after the big reveal of last week’s finale. (Speaking of which: can we all agree that if you still haven’t seen the finale and care about spoilers by now, you should not be reading any posts about Lost?)
* The first episode could be set in the future, after Jack and Kate (and who else?) got off the island, and we find out more about Jack’s quest to get back to the island
* There could be a Battlestar Galactica jump forward, where we see whoever remains on the island, however far in the future, and what has become of them after the “rescue” of the rest
* The show could leave the flash-forward dangling, maybe for a long time, and simply pick up the story immediately after Jack makes his satellite phone call. (This is my guess, until one of you persuades me otherwise about five minutes from now.)
Lost Summer School is in session! Stop staring out the window!