I didn't mean to suggest that Jack HAD to become the smoke monster, rather that I had a brief moment of "How are they going to fuck with us now?" in which Jack did become the smoke monster, the explosives that Whidmore brought took down the plane just as it was leaving and that the church full of happy people went kaboom, followed by LOST and the music. I'm not saying it would've been a better ending or anything (far from it), just that after all the endless twists in the show-and in particular in the season finales-the very paranoid corner of my brain was desperately trying to figure out what the tragic twist would be here, so I'd be a bit more prepared for it. Though I revel in it, I'm still a little shocked that Lost had, for most intents and purposes, a happy ending.
As far as genres go, I think Lost never full committed to one, and it certainly never attempted to be full of answers and explanations hard sci-fi. It happened to attract a lot of fans of hard sci-fi who enjoy fiction that really breaks down how plot elements "work" at least within the confines of a given fictional universe, but I don't think we were ever given any reason to believe that Lost would fill in all those holes. The only answer I really remember being promised us is that of what happened to the survivors, and we got that answer pretty directly.
Please add me to the ever-growing group of people who would happily watch "Hurley and Ben Protect the Island: Electric Boogaloo."
|