Exploration of Spoilers Part 1-The Regression of Sawyer

With less than a week till the highly anticipated season premire of the final season, I wanted to examine some spoilers I've come across. There has been several things discussed at Comic-Con, one which I came across about Sawyer's character. Lost Season 6's blog indicates that Josh Holloway's Sawyer will deal with the loss of Juliet in a bad way. That we will see him resort back to the Sawyer of Old (I'm thinking the "Tokoyo Rose" and "Freckles" nicknames will evolve to more bitter ones?)Also, Holloway hints at a rekinding between Kate and Sawyer, because it makes for better T.V. I would have to agree with this, because I have not been too crazy about Sawyer since he's been with Juliet. His attraction lie in his wise-cracking, tough exterior-thee audience can see there is a softie in there somewhere, but when he is fully exposed he loses his appeal very quickly. Well, in my humble opinion.

If Sawyer regresses back to the Sawyer of Season One, but takes with him the growth and development of Season Five, it will be interesting to see what we are left with at the very end. As discussed in my other blog, the theme of redemption runs heavy, and I thought last year we were actually going to see Sawyer go because he had made such a turn around. Alas, will the death of Juliet revert him back? Will he find his true redemption?
Rambles Prediction
I feel like it's going to play out like this: There are hints of Elizabeth Mitchell's Juliet returning if they can "fix it", so Sawyer will return to his wrinkled brow renegade ways but all the while on a mission to be Mr. Fix it. If you've read Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus, you know that this will be his main objective and he won't spend much time reflecting on it, as he is to me the epitome of male. I feel a wrench being thrown in at the idea of him and Kate sparking things back up, but don't feel it will completely hinder him from trying to save Juliet. I also think he will keep that character growth but we won't see as much of it verbalized as in Season Five. Rather, it will be more internalized as he has been hurt by Juliet's departure and the fact that he finally opened up to someone that has now "left him". He will build those walls back up, but with a possibility of Juliet's return, there is the possibility of a full, well rounded, well developed Sawyer in the end. And that's my prediction. Stay tuned for next time and my predictions on John Locke

Connections Lost

With the beginning of the end just weeks around the corner, I started to think about how this show has drawn us in. Yes, there are attractive people running around on a beach. Yes, there are some fan favs that we watch for. The scenery is beautiful and the idea of being abandoned on an island is, arguably, a little bit of a secret fantasty to all. However, all of these elements combined don't add up to the magnetic force Lost has over some of us. What's missing?

I believe that the most important factor is the connections. ***SPOILERS*** It's like a game of 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon. Aaron is Claire's son, Claire is Jack's sister, Jack is Christian's son, Christian meets Sawyer in a bar in Sydney who then relays that story to Jack on the island though Sawyer was out looking for the real Sawyer to kill him, but alas that's Locke's dad - Just for one small example. An avid fan knows I could go on for days. I digress.

I believe that these degrees of separation, or connection, are what draws the audience to their TV set week after week, pining away for answers to how this piece fits in. Their is a sense of cognitive dissonance while watching; Are the characters growing closer together or farther apart? I think we watch, hoping that it's closer together. In the world of cell phones, facebook, webchats, internet dating, email, virtual exercise and kindles, the idea of "connection", real human connection, seems lost on some. I believe at this shows center, it is the most simplest of ideas. Themes thrown around about good vs bad, nature vs science, redemption, etc. are all very real themes in this show. However, I sense a strong theme of simplicity. The kind that comes with being stripped of all other concerns and worries and having the most basic need of survival. That survival mode forces them to look to eachother, "Live together die alone" and in essence, form bonds in the short time they are on the island stronger than some obtain in a lifetime.

This bond is rationalized to some degree with the common blood that some share, the links between characters we learn as the show goes along, but is it those commonalities that creates the relationships between the characters that seem so otherworldly to some of us? Would you get back on a plane after enduring such hardship to go back to rescue the others? Is it possible that we have forgotten how to have those relationships because we are too busy being plugged in, wired in, logged on to form these ties? What do you think?

Lost Dot Com/forum

Any other losties out there that were on the lost.com/forum website? I went to login today and I get "oops...this link appears to be broken". Well, google chrome acts up on me from time to time so I tried IE and it still didn't open. Kind of upset because that was one of my mostfavorite things. Anyway, if anyone out there knows what happened, please let me know! I checked over the website to see if there was any announcements or anything with no luck. I did love the discussion on there, and hope that this will serve as great discussion as well. One of my favorite things about Lost is all the allusions to different books; the Bible, Slaughterhouse Five, Brave New World just to name a few I've read and dissected. I was an English major and still have that desire to pick apart, so future blogs will surely reflect that. I would love to teach a class based off Lost books someday. If anyone wants to take it let me know =)
That said, if anyone reading is formally from the lost.com forums or wants to follow this blog I hope to make it interactive, especially as January nears closer. So please share your thoughts and opinions and stay tuned!

Who's Will Be Left Standing in Lost?

There was an Entertainment Weekly reports that Michael Emerson (Benjamin Linus) predicts that LOST the future of the show in this statement to EW "I don't think LOST will have a happy ending. I think we are going to start seeing more casualties. I would put money on major characters being killed. I believe it will be a sad ending to the show-or at least bittersweet. I think it will definitely be a season finale for grown-ups," I personally never expected LOST to have a touchy-feel good ending. However, I didn't expect to see major characters go down the way Emerson is predicting. I do feel that they can't end the show the way Jack's character and crew are pushing for: Blowing up the island w/ the hydrogen bomb so that they never crash the plane. C'mon, if it ends that way, the last scene being flash back to 2004 with everyone on Flight 815 landing safely in LA after successfully blowing up the island in 1977 (ish?) there will be backlash from the fans. And the writers know that so I really don't think it's going to have that happy ending. No more than I think it's going to end with it all being Hurley's psychotic play in his head. But rather than major loss in characters, I expected the players to come full circle in their individual quests for redemption. While most of the characters that have found theirs have died, it seemed that with Kate and Jack, Sawyer and Juliet, Jin and Sun there may be something found in the pairing that would keep them from biting the bullet. The season finale mixed with rumors of Elizabeth Mitchell starring in her own show fuels speculation that Juliet will be the "major character" to die, but with a show like Lost, we are always left guessing if they who die really die. Or those who rise from the dead, as in Locke's case, really live? Locke, as we are to believe, has been reincarnated to convince Ben to kill Jacob. There was another major character (albeit a "silent unseen" character until his debut and death) that met the end.

So who is going to be left standing in Lost, if Emerson's predictions are correct? I can't see EVERYONE kicking the bucket just as I can't see EVERYONE landing in LA on that big ole' jet airliner Flight 815. So let's assume Juliet is dead and Jacob is dead. My prediction for next to go would be Sayid, as he seems to be kinda nuts now since working for Ben, being betrayed by Ben, jumping back in time and trying to kill young Ben and failing, he seems to have nothing left to live for. Then again, if Juliet is really dead, where does that leave (gulp) Sawyer? I really hate to bring him into this, as most of you know, I'm a Skater. (Sawyer and Kate as apposed to a Jater, Jack and Kate fan) And I am a huge fan of Sawyer and how far he's come in this show. However, I think he's gotten a little too soft for me this last season, so if Juliet did die, either the softie in him will win and he will become just plain pathetic and possibly meet his demise in a state of weakness, OR he will go the exact opposite, go back to the old Sawyer, and get real vengeful on everyone's @** till he does something stupid and rash and gets offed. My vote is to see him in the Season Finale with some beautiful chick from the Midwest that writes blogs about....I digress.
Moving along. Jack- Well, I know he is the leader, the "Shepard" but I'm really indifferent. I don't know what it is about Jack but he's annoys me. I think it's because I feel like if Charlie from Party of Five grew up to be a Dr. and his parent's hadn't have died and he didn't have all those brothers and sisters and his name was Jack instead...Yeah...It's like the situations are different but the characters are too similar for me to really dig Jack. Christian, however, I can't wait to see how that is summed up.

Hurley could be an "easy-off" as I like to term it. It's my blog I'll use my own verbiage. He seems to have disappeared into the background somewhat over teh last season or two, but is still a fan fav (much like Charlie, sniff...sniff...still miss you!) so it would get the sentimental shock value. I don't think Sun and Jin could be (it's Lost, I know, anything is possible) because I think we are working too hard on this story to get them back to the same time and why they are in different time periods anyway? But wouldn't that be a real killer, we wait for them to get in the same time dimension and after all that agonizing over if it's going to happen, one of
'em dies?

Kate, to me, is very up in the air. Her character, as it stands, could go either way, with Jack or with Sawyer, dependent on what really happens to Juliet. With Juliet out of the picture, with the obvious tension between Kate and Sawyer turn to something more? Will get back together with Jack? Or go back to her renegade con girl ways? To me, she has the most "options" of which way her story will go, so she seems the strongest candidate to see the show thru to the finish line. Which means....Nothing because Lost is known for it's curveballs.

Live together die alone, either way there are so many unanswered questions still out there, so many possibilities of the fate of each character, and undoubtedly a thrilling final season to come. Can't wait!!