Lost S06E15 - A Review.

As soon as one hears the name “Lost” the first thing that comes to the minds of many avid watchers, are the unfathomable gravity and magnitude of questions this series has left as breadcrumbs in its path of progress. Every season would answer a set of answers, but would also throw in double the number of questions for the viewers to figure out, or hold their breath until the creators decide to have mercy and do the honors. Well, considering this being the last season of the series, the creators have finally turned benevolent and they’ve let us in on, what could possibly be an unprecedented event in American TV history, the enigmatic core that drives the series of “Lost”.

Ever since the series began, every episode would build in structure, formation, character arcs, progression, scientific frontiers, emotional turmoil, and the smothering mystery the series threw up week after week. But, there was always one thing missing: the foundation. Slowly, the creators felt the need to be a bit more relaxing and forgiving, to provide viewers some respite from the ever increasing numbers of questions and an awful dearth of answers. They started throwing bits and pieces of the cornerstone on which the show stood tall, and remained a hot favorite in its long run. The pieces were few and far between for almost 5 seasons, but when they sensed the dwindling excitement in the viewers because of the lack of answers, and in an effort to rekindle that enthusiasm and the desire to be taken on a journey experienced never before, the creators decide to go all in, in the last season (like they had an option) and open the Pandora’s box. This week’s episode is a very essential artifact from that box. This episode finally told the viewers what, why and where it all started.

The episode in context took us at the inception stage of the series as we know it, and showed us the birth stage of, probably the two most important characters of the series, Jacob and his brother (nameless). To put it in simple words, everything that has happened so far in “Lost” was a part of the games these two were playing. By the looks of it, it’s not any amateurish game, but a very simple, yet a very convoluted one. It’s a battle between undying, unbending, unwavering faith, and the very nature of questioning that faith, the curiosity and the inanity of accepting something blindly. It’s all human, and yet it’s sometimes beyond that. This episode cemented those bits and pieces of the foundation together, and made the whole structure as sturdy and as believable as possible. I’d even go so far as to say that this was probably the best episode of the series ever. Simply, because it gave us answers; one of the most important one, mind you.

The “Lost” followers can finally stop gasping for breath, and finally start to breathe in the fresh air this episode has brought along, and wait for the equally mind-bending, rollercoaster of a finale a week later.