Welcome to another edition of TV or Not TV where I’m just plain confused thinking about LOST.
In case you didn’t hear last week the premiere date for LOST’s sixth and final season has been set in stone on February 2nd, 2010. After we just encountered the trippy time travel season I have to chuckle at the fact that the season premiere is on Groundhog’s Day, which is now a day almost synonymous with the time repeating day from the movie of the same title. I’m sure this is completely coincidental and if not the choice of the day has to be completely tongue in cheek.
Even thought his next season coming up is the final season it probably will be one of the most confusing as well. Unfortunately I am one of those Internet addicts that just can’t seem to stay away from TV news spoilers so I am unfortunately aware of scenes that have been shot for the final season, partly due to my appreciation of Ryan and Jen’s THE TRANSMISSION podcast, and I really hope some of what I’ve learned turns out to be a very elaborate and expensive prank performed to throw Internet snoops off. Sadly reality dictates that this isn’t likely.
I’m not actually going to talk about some of these things that I’ve learned and instead I’m going to set them all aside and pretend that I don’t even know them. Instead I wanted to talk a little bit about possibilities. Where could this all possibly go based on what we saw and what we know? How will this new season possibly start and where will the time travelling LOSTies that were thrown back to the 70’s find themselves after last season’s finale? Also be forewarned, if you haven’t seen the fifth season of LOST and plan to this will ruin things for you so you may just want to skip ahead to the TV listings.
As those of us that watched the season finale we know that two distinct things were going on at once. We had a story unfolding in 1977 and we had a story unfolding in 2007 (as well as a bunch of flashbacks to the mysterious JACOB popping up in the lives of the show’s characters at some point or another, but that part we don’t need to focus on). The events of one story actually lend to some of my thoughts on the other story. I suppose I should actually get into the dissection now, huh?
The first big question that everyone has, after seeing the finale, is if setting off JUGHEAD at the future location of the SWAN station successfully somehow changed things for everyone in the future? The principal that I think they were trying to play out with this line of thought was that the INCIDENT that tapped into the strong electro-magnetic anamoly that would necessitate the need to further dissipate the energy from that anomoly every 108 miniutes would be undone. No one would have to enter the numbers into the computer, DESMOND wouldn’t have to be there to accidentally not enter the numbers on time and OCEANIC FLIGHT 815 wouldn’t be hit with that same energy and crash on the ISLAND. Cause and effect, right?
If we take the above theory to be true, the ripple effects that occur bend my brain and make me feel a little wonky. If OCEANIC FLIGHT 815 never crashed on the ISLAND than none of the events that we have seen up to this point have transpired. No WALT getting snatched off a raft, no LOCKE being obsessed with opening the hatch, no OCEANIC 6 getting off the ISLAND right before BEN turns the frozen donkey wheel and starting the time hopping on the ISLAND. The time travelling not happening is probably one of the most important elements because it means that no one goes back in time, BEN doesn’t get shot by SAYID and possibly never joins THE OTHERS since he had no wound to be healed. Could all of this possibly happen? Can all that we’ve known be undone in a flash of solid white light?
For the long time LOST viewer I don’t really have a solid answer. The fifth season proved that the writers and producers of the show really are capable of taking this show in any damn direction that is possible. I think that there are also certain hints that this isn’t the exact direction that they will be taking the last season of the show based on the story that was occuring on the ISLAND in the “present” story line set in 2007. LOCKE (or Evil Locke, Un-Locke or whatever you want to call him), SUN and FRANK are all on the ISLAND in a future where they are handed a photo from 1977 showing their friends as members of the DHARMA INITIATIVE. This means that they are living in a time line where their friends have already bene back to 1977. Whatever events that happened in 1977 have already transpired in their past, they have played out because it’s already 30 years later. SUN is still on the ISLAND looking for JIN when she’s handed that picture so she’s already been through her entire ordeal. I have to cling to this as the item of hope that they won’t try to do an entire reset for the last season. To be honest this show always has so much going on I really don’t think I can handle any new information.
Now that I’ve pontificated about nothing important at all let’s get on to something else in no way important… this week’s TV offerings!
MONDAY
CBS – 8:00 PM: During this time of year we get to enjoy many holiday television traditions and it would appear that How I Met Your Mother is starting their own as we get another year of Slapsgiving2: Revenge of the Slap.
NBC – 8:00 PM: I may have broken up with Heroes a little too soon since tonight the most awkward family Thanksgiving will be happening at the Petrelli home. How do you handle eating dinner with the woman that covered up your own death while dealing with having a serial killer stuck in your head? I’m sure if they can get to dessert it will be fine, pumpkin pie cures all.
TLC – 9:00 PM: After many seaons and an entire year of tabloid torture the series finale of Jon & Kate Plus 8 is finally here. If this means I never have to hear the name Jon Gosselin again I’ll be happy.
TUESDAY
ABC – 8:00 PM: Just when things on V are getting really good ABC does what any good network does: put the show on hiatus until March. Didn’t hurt Prison Break their first season though.
NBC – 8:00 PM: It’s the contestant’s last week on the ranch on The Biggest Loser so be sure to bring a tissue because this will be a real tear jerker.
WEDNESDAY
DISC – 7:00 PM: Even though some of it are repeats there’s nothing like four hours of MythBusters.
FOOD – 7:00 PM: In a panic about how to prepare your bird for the big day? Procrastinators out there may take something away from Dear Food Network: Thanksgiving Turkey.
NBC – 8:00 PM: If Tuesday’s showing of The Biggest Loser wasn’t enough to guilt you ahead of time for Thanksgiving than this special Where Are They Now? edition won’t help much as we see the people that have kept the weight off, and the few that haven’t.
THURSDAY
NBC – 9:00 AM: Two years ago the entire nation was Rick Rolled by the Cartoon Network float at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. What will happen this year? Based on the AMA’s let’s hope Adam Lambert won’t be on a float.
FOX – 8:00 PM: It would appear FOX is putting on their own holiday tradition with another holiday showing of Night at the Museum.
SCIENCE – 8:00 PM: In case you can’t wait for the gourd tossing goodness of Punkin Chunkin 2009 than you can watch Road to Punkin Chunkin to get the mood started. It’s so nice to see a competition where the nerdiest and the dirtiest of mankind can get together, isn’t it?
USA – 9:00 PM: It’s the first official season airing of the newer holiday classic Elf.
FRIDAY
NBC – 8:00 PM: I still haven’t seen the edited-for-television cut of The 40-Year Old Virgin. Is it like 20 minutes long?
CBS – 9:00 PM: The whacky life of Medium continues as Alison is suddenly in a coma and her consciousness is trapped into the body of Jeffrey Tambor (Hank from The Larry Sanders Show). Better yet, he/she insists on staying home with the JOE and the kids. Hopefully he/she doesn’t want to spoon.
HIST – 8:00 PM: It may not be a holiday classic but there’s something to be said about Surviving the Holidays with Lewis Black.
SATURDAY
NBC – 8:00 PM: If you missed Merry Madagascar than I’d recommend catching it this time around, especially since it is immediately followed by one of the best super hero movies to date: The Incredibles.
ABC FAMILY – 9:00 PM: One of the Peanuts specials that I used to look forward to every year as a child was Snoopy, Come Home. If you are in the mood you can catch this as well as A Boy Named Charlie Brown two hours prior at 7 PM.
USA – 9:00 PM: If you didn’t catch Elf yet this week this is your last chance until… well, next week I’m sure.
SUNDAY
ABC FAMILY – 8:00 PM: A cunning canine protects his owner’s home from two bumbling thieves in The Dog Who Saved Christmas. So is this HOME ALONE with a dog?
CBS – 9:00 PM: The dog theme continues as a mentally challenged man tries to find every pooch a home for the holidays in A Dog Named Christmas.
HGTV – 8:00 PM: Even though there is no dog directly involved their may be a shot of a guy in a PLUTO costume in Behind the Magic: Disney Holidays.
– Will Wilkins wrote this with visions of turkey and stuffing dancing in his head.
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