Another Life

I could write all night about last week's season finale of Lost. That's a promise, not a threat, although I'm sure some of you out there who either: a) don't watch LOST b) are among those who once watched only to finally tap out, likely midway through the third season or c) know what Lost is but hate it with a fiery passion, would consider it to be a threat. But aside from the fact that none of you would read it, the simple fact that Lost is too much for any one individual to try to wrap his brain around dissuades me from attempting to recap it all. It could be summed up by the following Stewie Griffin monologue:


One moment did catch my eye as a HUGE opportunity blown at first blush - right before one of the key characters, Dr. Jack, was about to drop the hyrdogen bomb down the drill shaft into the energy pocket in a Doc Brown-style attempt to spark a chain-reaction that would unravel the very fabric of the space time continuum and destroy the entire universe (or at least wipe out that little corner of it which contained the plane crash and all subsequent activities of seasons 1-4), all the characters had this really odd, rough moment where they silently looked at each other, mentally saying goodbye. (See why neither I nor you would make it through a whole recap? Look how much mental energy you had to waste just making it through that one sentence! Sorry, I digress.) Anyway, all the characters were quickly making peace with the fact that if this bats&^t insane idea actually worked, they'd instantly vaporize into the nothingness that is an altered space/time reality (or something like that. I'd be more confident if Back to the Future had shown us where Marty McFly was on the verge of disappearing to before his dad manned up and planted one on his future mom). Would that not have been a ridiculously appropriate moment for somebody - ANYBODY - to pull out one of the all-time cult favorite lines of Lost, namely, "See ya in another life" with a slight Scottish brogue. Am I totally alone on this?

Probably.