The much-hyped 100th episode of Lost has come and gone and we're feeling . . .
Well, we're feeling like putting that old school Boys II Men Jam on blast, and letting that smooth 90's R&B melody ease our confusion/sadness.
Let's address our Sadness first:
Daniel Faraday is gone??? Here's the thing, we're really glad the big Lost death wasn't Juliet. And, in general, the Daniel character hasn't been a favorite of ours. His spastic manerisms, perpetual squint, and Captain Kirk speech patterns were a little grating. But this episode, we found Skinny D's long-haired burst of bravery and last minute heroism kind of touching. He rushed headlong into danger to undo what his mother helped do to them all. He tried to change what mama bear called "their destiny."
And his mother! Eloise, you asshole! Poor Daniel gets shot in the back by his mother in 1974, when she is just some naive gun-toting hostile. But present day Eloise knows all. She knowingly and willingly sent her son to the past to get shot in the back by her former self. And his father, Charles mother effing Widmore was complicit. What a family, huh?
And that leads us to our Confusion:
Daniel decides during this episode that he's going to change the past. As we all know, Skinny is the physicist who's been telling us since day 1 that you can't change the past. But apparently upon rexamining his little leather-bound notebook Danny figures, maybe the rules aren't so hard and fast. He says that the past is a constant but when adding the variable of human will into the equation the outcome can be changed.
We didn't do that well in Math. We were eventually asked to leave Calculus (as though our presence defiled the very nature of the subject). But from what we remember through a haze of blackboard chalk and graph paper, Daniel's logic doesn't make a lot of sense. Can X be both a constant and a variable outcome? No, right? Mathletes, it's your time to shine. Help a sister out. If we're playing by the rules set up by Lost writers, can they actually change the past? Can they erase the last 5 seasons with a hydrogen bomb and the help of one bitchy hostile named Eloise?
We say no.
Also, word on the street was that those stupid Flash Forward promos were going to reveal Lost secrets and Flash Forward secrets and all kinds of secrets. Maybe we're a little slow but . . .
We don't see no stinkin' secrets. If you do, again, help a sister out.
Previously:
Top 5 Reasons We Resent "Lost"
"Lost: Is Ben Gonna Make It?
Today in Baseless Rumors: Matthew Perry On the "Lost" Finale
"Lost": We're So Over Ben
"Lost": Make Room For Miles
