I sort of, um, forgot to post LDG earlier in the day, so I’ll keep this brief. This will probably be the last Lost Discussion Group of the summer (at least, the last one not hosted by Robo-James), after which I think we’ll give LDG a rest for a while, so we may as well return to our tradition for one whole entire year and solicit predictions for the first scene of the first episode of season 5. Jeff Jensen at EW gives us a jumping-off point by revealing the title of the return episode:
“Because You Left”
That seems to give weight to the theory that the season premiere will start filling in the blanks as to how things went south on the Island after the Oceanic Six’s escape. I’m thinking it’ll either start at the beginning or the end of that story. Someone on the beach watching the plume of smoke from exploded ship on the horizon—disappear? Or Locke telling Jacob that he hopes he’s happy and turning the Frozen Donkey Wheel?
I’m trying to imagine what sense I possibly would have made of those last few sentences if I had time-traveled from August 2007 and read it. Anyway—have at it.