How Lost will end.

After 2 months of the site being down, it has took a while for my brain to begin thinking everything Lost again but I reckon I’m back into the swing of things. I may even begin my 3rd rewatch soon so I can once again, start picking over the tiny details with a fine tooth pick. However, this theory is plain and simple — how will Lost end?

On the very informative, up to date and aptly named Season 6 website (www.lostseason6.com) there is an interview with Matthew Fox and also a video interview with Cuse and Lindelof with questions in both interviews regarding how Lost will end. In both cases it seems quite assured that the ending will not be an ‘And they all lived happily ever after’ ending where our group of Losties is concerned.

Cuse’s comment of “the viewers will be asking how could you do that?” and “we (meaning Cuse and Lindelof) may need to go into hiding” doesn’t sound too positive does it? In another Q&A with Lindelof he says “Whether people like it or not, that’s the ending we’ve had”.

In the interview with Fox, he comments are also slightly worrying with him saying that the show ends in “an incredibly powerful, very sad and beautiful way”. If asked if that means whether it is a good or a bad ending for our Losties I think Fox would say ‘not good’.

There have been two possible endings that have been going around in my head recently but after taking into account the comments from the writers and Fox, I’m beginning to sway to my latter idea.

My first idea of the ending is 815 coming into land at LAX. Whatever the characters did, or will do, negates all the tears, all the misery and anger and so they are free to lead their lives as they were meant to. However, we could probably assume that Jack and Kate would never end up together, neither would Sawyer and Juliet and Locke would never walk. This I think is quite a plausible ending and it makes logical sense but it does cause a problem for the writers — what then does happen to our Losties when 815 lands?

It is this question that I believe the writers want to avoid which, in turn, leads me onto my second idea regarding the ending, an idea which I think is very, very likely. Cuse and Lindelof have apparently known how they were going to end the series from right at the beginning but they weren’t sure how they were going to get there. I think by this they mean that they didn’t know who would fall in love with who, who would die, who would become enemies and what the story was really going to be. Their comments also seem to suggest that the ending will be finite — there will be no questions about what happened afterwards or the possibility of a film or an off shoot series a few years down the line such as ‘What Kate did next’. The end will be the end.

Matthew Fox’s vague description of the end, I think, tells us how it will end. “Powerful, very sad and beautiful” — these are words you’d probably use to describe a tragedy such a Romeo and Juliet. Both the lead characters in this are in love throughout the story, at the end they both die but they die in a quite romantic way. This story’s ending is very powerful, very sad but beautiful at the same time but it isn’t a happy ending.

Another story that ended in an almost identical way to how Matthew Fox describes is Blackadder series 4. Right at the very end, four of the five lead characters are ordered out of the trenches and into No Man’s Land whereby they are all shot and killed. As we watch them slowly fall to the ground, the image slowly fades silently into an image of field upon field of poppies, this image is held for a few seconds and then the show ends. Once again, if you were to describe this ending, Matthew Fox’s words would be almost perfect.

In conclusion, it is for this reason that I don’t think the ending will be 815 landing at LAX, the ending to the finale of Lost Season 6 will be that all our Losties will die. They will find someway to prevent the upcoming war or the human race destroying itself but in the process they will all lose their lives. How, when, where and why they will die, I do not know but they are not destined to live beyond the end of Season 6.