SEASON 5

Season 5 can be considered a watershed for LOST, or where the series fell off the rails, or foreshadowed the confusion to come in Season 6.

The preview poster claimed "Destiny Calls."

Destiny means that the events that will necessarily happen to a particular person or thing in the future, i.e.  she was unable to control her own destiny. It is the hidden power believed to control what will happen in the future; fate. Destiny can be considered predetermined outcome that an individual cannot control.

The main plot points for Season 5 took the initial island survival story and slammed dunked it in the ocean.

Season 5 centered mainly on the people left behind on the island and the series  "bad things" that happened after Ben turned the frozen wheel. Major plot points and themes included:

•  Time travel, the Island's unexplained erratic jumps through time, and whether it is possible to change the past or not, with the notion of "whatever happened, happened."
• Death, featuring three episodes heavily concerning themes of death, third parties statements about being dead,  and the apparent resurrection of Locke.
•   Leadership, especially concerning the history of the Others throughout both timelines;  the powerplay between Jack, Sawyer and DHARMA  in 1977 time travel arc, and the question of leadership of the Ajira 316 survivors.
• The O6 survivors'  journey back to the Island, following the lead and direction of mysterious Eloise.
• DHARMA Initiative ways of life, experiments and other activities on the Island, mainly Horace, Dr. Chang and Radzinsky trying to harness the island's "unique" properties. 
• Ancient Island history, including the tunnels, the smoke monster's alleged place of origin, the statue of Taweret, an ancient Egyptian god, and the conflict between Jacob and the Man in Black. 

 The time travel arc did not solve any of the mysteries set forth in the prior four seasons. It just added a supernatural component to an island that was not an island in any physical sense. Despite the producers adamant cries that the characters "were alive" the constant scripts telling the viewers that they characters were actually dead leading many to believe that their souls were trapped in a secondary universe, arguments continue to this day what was real and unreal. Leadership was a theme, but leadership itself lapsed into apathetic following, especially in the beach survivor's camp. Why anyone who got off the island would desperately want to return to their probable demise is still a crazy notion that none of the characters could adequately explain. DHARMA and its purpose got the short stick because we were introduced to new characters, but only partial and vague explanations of their work. It seemed like more tangent filler than real source materials. It was the ancient island history that held the most promise - - - with the detailed backgrounds of ancient Egyptian culture and rites could have been the Big explanation to the LOST mythology. But, despite the time and resources devoted to these plot elements, nothing substantial came of them.

One could say that LOST could have skipped Season 5 entirely and jumped from the end of Season 4 directly into Season 6 without that much more confusion.

DEJA VU: SEASON 5 PREVIEW

Some critics believe that Season 6 was so off-the-beaten-story-path that the entire sideways world arc and The Ending should be erased from LOST memory. They believe that the show basically ended in Season 5.  It harks back to the paramount of theory speculation of trying to fit the conflicting puzzle pieces (clues) into some kind of rational, workable solution to the LOST world(s).


Prior to the Season 5 opener, I posted on a fan blog the following comments as my view of what could be happening in the future:

Pondering such a mud puddle existence, a flash of irrational thought hit me that makes sense: Richard Alpert, Mr. Eyeliner, is Egyptian! An ancient Egyptian. Painting on a pyramid wall looking Egyptian. We made fun of his appearance, but never asked why he looked that way.

Add to that image the fact that ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs are seen at the two great island mystery places, it made we wonder whether these are the big clues.

We have debated whether there are clones, body doubles, multiple lives, duplicates, ghosts, or zombies as part of the story line. I found this interesting:

In Ancient Egypt, they believed you would use your body in the afterlife. When you died your soul or ba would fly out of your body and spark your double (ka) which would then travel to the otherworld. However, it would need to return to your body, since without the physical body, the ka would die. People would be buried with possession that they would need in the afterlife.

If you were a pharaoh, destined to join the other gods -- not only would you need your body, but all the other accoutrements of status, from gold to slaves. Pyramids served to house this paraphernalia of eternity.

What if the show is not about earth science but the ritual beliefs of a LOST ancient religion? While not purgatory as the TPTB infer, it could be an Egyptian "otherworld" were your spirit body, ka, needs to prepare itself in a spiritual world (that does not follow the rules of time, space, science and physics we know of) to return to the human body it left on Earth. 

93 mph island moving away from freighter in Faraday 31 minute time lapse experiment.

Polar Bears in Tunisia, to plane crash site near Bali, to the island vanishing off Fiji, to the launch point in Portland . . .  the mechanism is a large CLOCK: the pendulum  the island is actually anchored by magnetic center of earth and the island is the end weight so to speak; and the pendulum arch runs from Tunisia to Portland, crossing the equator in such a fashion that the rotation of the earth (our 24 hour earth clock) is different on the island.  The Hatch release every 108 minutes is the EM “tension” on the normal tethered string of the pendulum.  The monkey wheel is the chain or distance of the tether.  Changing the tether’s space coordinate would make it appear to vanish.  Focal point at the bottom of a grandfather clock, you only see the disc when it reaches the bottom arch.  If you suddenly move the chain up, on the next pass the disc would be “gone.”

Now for the island to criss cross the earth’s Time rotation means the island has its own time and space dimensions.

Ancient technology may have been as advanced as modern technology (but merely “lost”).  All the elements of the industrial revolution were in the great library in Alexandria before it was sacked and burned.  What if the ancient Egyptians used advanced science and created a mechanical representation of their king’s afterlife?  Or if the Egyptian afterlife is the truth, and the island is the temple where the Pharaohs must prove themselves in order for their soul to be reincarnated with their body in the next life span.