Well, you gotta hand it to the writers. It’s the last season, there’s only like, what, 15 episodes left? And they found the time for a character episode with barely any plot development. And you know what? That’s totally cool. It’s not really clear where events are headed, Sawyer’s a brooding loner again, and Jack has remembered that the best way to deal with a mysterious leader giving out instructions is a hearty ‘fuck you’. Life is good. 

 What I’m really loving is the way they’ve been mirroring the first season, in terms of  themes and characters, and answering questions that people had totally forgotten about. Remember wondering what the hell really happened to Rousseau to make her so crazy? Well, we’re totally gonna find out. I’d never even realized the parallels between Claire and Rousseau, so I’m really psyched to see what’s gonna happen there.

 Over the years, as the plot changed, so did the questions we had, and to have all the old stuff like the Smoke Monster and the ‘disease’ still be the impetus behind everything is refreshing in a really awesome sort of way. However, last season was kind of plot heavy, and it got hard to tell what some people’s motivations were at times, which made it nice to have everyone step back to an extent and just react emotionally to what’s been going down. These are the same people we started with, and it’s nice to see them being themselves rather than trying to accomplish insane missions and such. 

  But there’s one thing that has changed. And that is the similarity between this show and Digimon. Not many people realized it, but key aspects of the show directly correlated to one of my favorite childhood cartoons. Some brief examples:

1.      Group of people in a strange, disturbing place, no idea of what’s happening and no clear way of getting home. Initially, the group in Digimon lands on an island, but they go off elsewhere pretty soon.

2.      Love triangle between a spunky brown haired girl, the darker haired, occasionally douchy leader, and the blonde loner.

3.       Behind every bad guy is another, stronger bad guy who’s more in control of what’s happening. This happens in a lot of shows, but still.

4.      Increasing amount of insanity in the shit that’s going down.

5.       Events in the real world affecting the crazy place, and vice versa. AND the eventual return to the real world by some of the group, followed by the need to return to the crazy place.  

6.      Children who are somehow better connected to the crazy place than the older folks in the group are.