Lost

    With about six months until the beginning of season five of Lost there is no point in getting worked up too much about the coming season just yet. However, yesterday was the annual Lost panel at the San Diego Comic-Con. These panels have become some of my most anticipated summer events over the past couple of years. This year was no different. Season four of Lost was my favorite season yet, and Lost itself is absolutely the best scripted show on television. My only complaint with the show is that the hiatus is so long. The eight month hiatus allows for cool alternate reality games like the Find 815 and the Lost Experience web programs that gave some awesome side stories to fans. A new alternate reality game began this summer with the reorganization of the Dharma Initiative.

    Lost's fourth season finale finally aired last night and it was arguably the biggest leap forward for the series yet. We got the answers to several questions such as why the Oceanic 6 have to lie to the world, what the Frozen Donkey Wheel is and who is in the coffin. There are many more points of interest in this two hour long episode. For starters, we learn the fate of a number of important character as their story lines were concluded. There were a number of deaths and a few revelations, all of which effectively moved the story forward and set us up for the fifth season of Lost.

    Tomorrow night is the second part of the season four finale for Lost so I thought I'd post a few last minute predictions and theories before it's too late. I'll start off by saying that I've avoided spoilers pertaining to the second and third hour of Lost's finale. I've watched a couple of the promo spots for this week's episode but I don't consider that spoiling... nonetheless, I'll be keeping this spoiler free. I trust anyone who is reading this has already seen the first hour of There's No Place Like Home at least...

    This season's finale is a three parter, totaling three hours. The first hour aired last night. There's No Place Like Home, Part 1 was exciting and revelatory. We didn't get a whole lot of answers of course but more than I expected going into it. The episode is Oceanic 6 centric, showing us what happens to each member following their rescue. This is, as far as I am concerned the earliest possible moment in the Lost timeline we can have a flash forward. The events that take place prior to this episode's opening flight will have to occur in real (island) time, probably at the end of the third hour of this finale.

    Wow. An awesome Locke centric episode of Lost. This is also a mythology centric episode, you can't really have a Locke episode without the mythology... can you? The bulk of this week's show is about Locke, Ben and Hurley's trek to Jacob's cabin intercut with flashbacks of Locke's past run-ins with Alpert and Abbadon. The purpose of the flashbacks here are to tell us that Locke is indeed special, and he was 'chosen' to end up on the island. This episode reminded me a lot of The Man Behind the Curtain from last season, where we learned a good deal about Ben and first met Jacob. It was in that episode that we learned about Ben's role in the purge which was revisited in this episode. Over the twenty or so episodes between these two, there has been a major shift in the roles of Ben and Locke.

    Something Nice Back Home is the tenth episode of Lost this season. It was, as far as I am concerned, one of those set up episodes that is much more filler than substance. We get very very very little action in this episode. I usually hate these soap opera Lost episodes, and this one was really no different. There were a few interesting points in this episode, we only get a couple hints in the flash forward that are important, the bulk of this episode was boring and pretty much meaningless. Here is what I mean...

    Last night's Lost episode was one of my favorites thus far in the series. The Shape of Things to Come was the ninth episode of the fourth season and had a Ben centric flash forward. This episode gives us some insight into how the future unfolds for Ben and Sayid while hinting at the bigger 'why?' of it all. There is no shortage of action in this episode, there are a number of deaths and Smokey the Black Smoke Monster makes a long awaited appearance.

    Lost's fourth season returns from a short hiatus this Thursday so I thought I'd post a few predictions and theories. I'll start by saying I enjoy reading rumors and spoilers. Don't worry, there won't be any 'Ready for a bombshell!?!?' moments in this post. There won't be anything here that you wouldn't learn from watching the sneak previews on ABC.com or the teaser ads on TV. That being said, my theories probably contain mild spoilers, so consider yourself forewarned. So here's how this will work, there are four more episodes coming (the finale will be a two parter, three hours long) so I'll take them one at a time. Here we go: