I am – Hercules!!
Locke: You really think all this is an accident?
Claire: She took my baby!
Michael: Something’s out there.
Locke: Each one of us was brought here for a reason.
Jack: Who brought us here, John?
Locke: The island.
So. The first hour of the three-hour “Lost” season finale aired last Wednesday. The tribe pulled together to put the raft in the water. Sawyer told Jack about Jack’s dad. Young Walt gave his dog to Shannon. Sun gave Jin a homemade phrasebook. Michael, Walt, Sawyer and Jin were bid goodbye. It was engaging, propulsive, cathartic, emotional. But were it the last hour of “Lost” till September? We’d all be the dictionary definitions of “disdainful,” "frustrated" and “livid.”
Happily? The final two hours of the season finale air tonight. Michael and crew will encounter something – a force field? pirates? a sentient weather balloon? – at sea. There’s a very long Hurley flashback. Claire will misplace her newborn. We’ll see more of Michelle Rodriguez’s most smiley character ever. We’ll perhaps glimpse again Greg Grunberg. We may learn Danielle Rousseau hasn’t really been on the island for 16 years. We may learn why Oceanic 815 crashed. Locke may have trouble with his legs. The hatch might open. Boone might stumble out of that hatch carrying a VHS cassette and two tiny Japanese girls.
Somebody’s going to die.
The finale “demands that people talk about it all summer,” co-creator Damon Lindelhof tells USA Today.
"Listen to what the French woman says in the third-to-last scene,” Lindelhof tells the Wall Street Journal.
Tonight, Lindelhof tells Ain’t It Cool News, “you will SEE the Monster (at least some of it). And look out for those numbers... especially near the end of the two-hour. They're EVERYWHERE.”
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8 p.m. Wednesday. ABC.
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