DESTINY

 Confucius said "It doesn't matter how slowly you go, as long as you don't stop."

Season 6 of LOST was slow.

It was heralded as a return to the fast paced Season 1.

Season 5 ended with a cliffhanger when Juliet was sucked into the hole and woke up with the bomb near her. She hit the bomb with a rock and it was the end of the episode. To keep fans in excitement, ABC has posted a very short sneak peek of the 6th Season where an aye opens up in shock. No clue to who the green eye belongs to.

Also in the Season 6 preview, it is revealed that the big idea is "Destiny Found" and it could as well be the ultimate reason why they are all stranded on the island in the first place, not the kind of destiny that each of the characters thought. At the time, Michael Emerson told reporters that Ben's work is not done in the Season 5  finale but he is also still crossing fingers for it because nothing is set in stone in "Lost."  Juliet's comeback was teased by EW with no other details while Claire's involvement was suggested by Carlton Cuse. "Claire is a wonderful part of the show and the audience can rest assured that they will see (her) again on Lost," Cuse said. TPTB promised that with the LOST story would come back to full circle. "Season six will feel a lot like season one," Damon Lindelof teased. "The focus comes back to the characters with whom we began. We've been winnowing away everyone else who came along. The Tailies are gone, only Miles is left of the Freighter Folk and only Juliet is left of The Others. We're getting down to the end now."

So the whole set up for the final season was to double back to the beginning to focus on the first main characters and to reveal their Destiny.

Destiny is the events that will necessarily happen to a particular person or thing in the future. It is a   hidden power believed to control what will happen in the future; fate.

What were the current events at the end of Season 5 which would set into motion the conclusive destiny of the main characters? It was the apparent Jughead explosion by Juliet - - - her death was to make things "work." But nothing worked out as expected. The island did return to his normal time frame, but the main characters were no better off than before the time skips. They had less answers to their own questions than ever before.  

And even the random fan had a few concerns going into the final season.

The Others made their importance known in Season 3 but the viewers had not been told really anything about them except  their fertility problems. The Others overall purpose and connection to the Island had not been to be revealed.  They seem to have people recruited around the world and they seem to have a limitless amount of resources. Is it all in the name of protecting the island or do they have other work to do?

After two seasons of hearing about Jacob, viewers finally got a look at him in the Seasons 5 finale. Then there is the twist that Jacob and a mysterious Man in Black may have been controlling the LOST story this entire time.  The big question is what has been the purpose of the power struggle between these two. Is it just a game between the two or do they have a higher purpose to their actions?

Just as the dynamic between Jacob and MIB remains a mystery, Widmore and Ben's relationship is obvious based upon hate. Widmore obsessed with getting back to the island and reclaiming his place as the leader of the Others. But what is so important about a tiny hidden island that would make a billionaire crazy? But, like Jacob and MIB , there seems to be an unwritten rule that prevent these two from harming each other directly. What are the Rules? Have they been controlling and manipulating people along the way for their own game?

Lastly, we learned very little about the Smoke Monster. We don't what it is or how it manifests itself. Is it organic, spiritual, nanotechnology?  And the island inhabitants, the Others, seem to ignore the Smoke Monster's origin and purpose. The open question is that is the Smoke Monster the actual controlling being on the island, and the various personal conflicts (Jacob-MIB, Ben-Widmore) are somehow to appease it.

The main characters literally fell into the Jacob-MIB saga. The main characters also literally fell into the Ben-Widmore Dharma remains story line. The 815 survivors continue to look out of place and serve no purpose in resolving these pre-existing conflicts.

So those were some of the major question marks going into the last season. It was teased as a series of events for the main characters to find their destiny. But the side stories soon consumed Season 6. Then the addition of the sideways parallel story arc created more confusion than answers. Instead of running around one circle for clues and answers, we had to run around two circles.

The only destiny found at the end of the series that viewers were destined never to find out what were the foundational theories (science fiction or otherwise) explanations for the various connections, island events, and rules of the series as applied to the characters.