"Lost": Is it All About Libby? - Ed Martin - MediaBizBloggers

We all have multiple theories about whatamp8217s really happening on ABCamp8217s Lost Hereamp8217s one of mine The entire storyline that has played out on this show from its uniquely thrilling pilot to its mindscrambling final hours has been taking place in Libbyamp8217s head How else to explain the countless narrative threads that demand explanations before Lost ends its sixyear run in three short months especially when each new hour in the mad dash to its conclusion continues to leave viewers with more questions than answersCould it all be the wild imaginings of one of the most interesting if underdeveloped characters in the history of this fearless franchise Is it all about Libby Letamp8217s ponder that a moment while looking back on the overall experience of watching and obsessing about this showIn hindsight every time I thought Lost was in danger of becoming unwatchable it has turned around and drawn me in all over again So I assume the growing frustration Iamp8217m feeling this season wonamp8217t last The two most recent episodes which have focused on Regular Kate and AlternaKate and NotLocke and AlternaLocke have offered only a couple of interesting nuggets amid way too much filler amp8211 much of it coming in the alternate timeline Itamp8217s interesting to see the showamp8217s beloved characters living vastly different lives but the novelty is already starting to wear off because nothing thatamp8217s happening in the alternative stories seems to have anything to do with what I have been watching these last six years I donamp8217t care that AlternaLocke is happy because thatamp8217s not the Locke in whom I have made a longterm emotional investment and Iamp8217m put off by the notion that I should somehow see them both as one and the same and be satisfied amp8211 unless something happens to connect the Lockes along with all the other dotsThere has been much speculation that the alternate timeline as we have experienced it so far is the story of what would have happened to the characters on Oceanic Flight 815 had it not crashed but that isnamp8217t exactly right because there are too many differences between what we recently saw on the alternaflight and what we remember from those harrowing sequences in the pilot that depicted the plane breaking apart not to mention the aftermath of the crash No Shannon no Michael no Walt a bizarre appearance by Desmond etc After this weekamp8217s episode in which NotLocke revealed to Sawyer that Jacob had long been messing around with the lives of many Oceanic 815 passengers likely before they even got on the plane it seems to me that the alternate timeline may actually be showing us the lives these people would have led had Jacob andor the entity who is now NotLocke never messed with them in the first placeOne thing is certain The alternate timeline has nothing to do with the islandsinking detonation of that atomic bomb at the end of last season because the big bang would have killed all of the realtime inhabitants on the island in 1977 though not the timetravelers who were transported back to 2007 when the bomb went boom Benjamin Linus who was a child on the island at the time of the big bang could not be alive and well and teaching math in the alternaverse as we saw this week could heAll confusion aside Iamp8217m still going along on what has been and will clearly remain an unforgettable ride Itamp8217s all merry madness which brings me back to Libby Iamp8217ve always thought there was much more to her than we saw during her toobrief run in Season 2 Remember the end of the episode titled Dave which revealed that Libby who would be shot by Michael two episodes later and die in the episode after that one had been a patient in the same mental hospital as Hurley That revelation has never again been referred to but why was it there To stick with the showamp8217s own lunatic logic Jacob must have paid a visit to that hospital at some point But there was something about the way Libby was framed in the final shot of that episode that broke away from the show itself as if it were a private moment or a critical clue for only viewers to see It looked to me as if Libby was thinking of her next move in a game she might have been playing with Hurley who was shown playing a game with someone else Or she may have been off in her happy place making up a very complicated story influenced by what she was seeing and hearing around herTruth is I canamp8217t think of a more complicated tale than the one we have been enjoying since September 2004 Maybe thatamp8217s why I have never been able to shake that shot of Libby in the hospital Lost makes me crazy tooamp160

Click to Make Your 2025 Contribution to Support the MediaVillage Education Foundation

"Lost": Is it All About Libby? - Ed Martin - MediaBizBloggers

Author

Publish date

Channel

Ed Martin

Empowering Women in Media: Insights from Industry Leaders (Video) - By E.B. Moss

More Videos:

Click to Make Your 2025 Contribution to Support the MediaVillage Education Foundation

"Lost": Is it All About Libby? - Ed Martin - MediaBizBloggers

Enjoying This Commentary? There's More to Love

Ed Martin

Empowering Women in Media: Insights from Industry Leaders (Video) - By E.B. Moss

The payment was successful

Cookies