NICE PARTY BUT

Spoilers.

In Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life, the Grim Reaper visits a lovely little dinner party to inform the guests that unfortunately they're dead. After refusing wine and poking a man in the eye, he leads them to heaven, where there is, of course, a nice musical number.

The same could be true for LOST.

Instead of a dinner party, the guests are passengers on a plane.

And instead of a direct flight to heaven, the guests are given one last adventure on a mysterious island.

Instead of the Grim Reaper, it is Christian who gets to spoil the adventurers surreality.

Jacob is the reaper because he was the only one who could bring or allow people to the island.
Christian was an island smoke monster vision in order to get Jack to play "island adventure" with his new "friends."

It is a nice children's theme birthday bash, the island adventure. Part laser tag, part follow the leader, part pin the blame on the donkey . . . good stuff.

Such a light and whimsical idea of the island as an after life carnival attraction run by Jacob, and immortal who tries to give lost children one last ride of their lives, presents a more sympathetic view of the roller coaster island events.

If the producers and writers now claim they were trying to present Big Questions like the meaning of life . . . . why skirt the issue? Python embraced it and poked the viewer in the eye with the absurdity of a cocktail hour purgatory.

So why can't LOST be perceived the same way?