The TV Zone

Another fine, fine "Lost" last night, and we're left with these themes (class): Fathers and sons (and daughters); death and transfiguration (or resurrection); and that "Lost'" age-old fave, "Life is but a Dream." Hurls as the mad man, who speaks truth to the deluded? That's another nice twist that I never saw coming.

I'd like to get into greater detail but time -- not much right now -- and the fact that I STILL haven't caught up with last week's episode (and will this weekend) leaves me behind the eight ball here, but I think we can all agree on the possibility that last night offered momentous developments and a momentous consideration: That the Oceanic Six may all be dead, after all, and that these flash forwards exist in some half-lit world out of time and space. I'm babbling -- I tend to do that -- but Hurls' declaration that "we're all dead -- we never got off that Island" has to rank as one of the most gorgeous shockers of the season to date. Which means that Jack and Kate's post-Island love nest is but a ... yes ...dream, or nightmare, too.

The fathers: That Jack's would return is neither surprising nor unexpected, but that CLAIRE'S? Never saw it coming, and certainly have no idea what it means -- and why it would mean that she'd leave Aaron, thus setting up the other possibility that Claire, at least in this world, will never be seen again. (In which "world?" Is the world of the Island the only real one, while the flash-forward world is the land of the walking dead? Meaning: That those who remained behind were alive, perhaps, while those who left were not? And that possibly Aaron is dead, too? Puzzles upon puzzles ... )

[Meanwhile, 'my bad: an insightful reader reminds me of something that I ENTIRELY FORGOT - and rather than explain, here's the full comment from Tody OB: "Maybe I'm not reading your comment above correctly, but you do know that Claire's father is Jack's father Christian? It was established a while ago in a Claire-centric episode and hinted at in an Ana Lucia episode.....

Doc Jensen at EW.com has posted a very intriguing theory that Claire is a ghost herself already; that she never survived the explosion of her house. And that's why Miles took such an interest in her. Check it out; he splains it way better than I do."]

I must run now, before I say anything else that I may regret [see above], but here's another thought: Does anyone believe that the bodies beneath the dirt, the ones that Miles uncovered (while hearing voices), were actually Karl and Rousseau. I can't imagine they were, but...

(Above: Finally, together, forever and ever ... ?)