How Should "Lost" End? - TWoP Forums
p1 Apr07
-Other clues the creators have dropped include saying that people are going to be astonished at the solution to the 'Adam and Eve' skeletons mystery oh good they said that? which suggests to my twitching sci-fi antennae that those skeletons will turn out to be two of the Lostaways. Perhaps all of them will go back in time, found their own society, erect the statue etc., and turn out to be the island-born Others' ancestors. oooh that's good. The series will turn full circle and close with some grace if it turns out to be something like that.

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p12-13 (just onto 14 pages currently) Jan08
good fr cmmter Atropos:
At this point, I'm expecting one of two endings.
1) A reprise of the opening scene from "A Tale of Two Cities," with something else (an ocean liner, maybe) crashing or getting ready to crash, and the 815 survivors taking the place of the Others as the older, more mysterious group on the island ("Sawyer, Sayid... infiltrate their camp and find out how much they know. I want lists in 3 days.") ok, good, eerie, possible.
2) An epic 2-hour finale dealing with Jack and Kate's journey back to the island, intercut with flashbacks (possibly moving farther and farther back in time) filling in missing pieces of the island's history nice. last scene or two would deal with them arriving on the island, but some sort of time discrepancy has caused them to show up 50 or 100 years before the crash of Flight 815, possibly even before the arrival of the Others. They shack up together inside the caves, and we realize at the end that "Adam & Eve" are actually Jack & Kate okay, good *(the black and white stones would have to be worked into this scenario somehow, of course, but on that I'm completely clueless, and don't even care to venture a guess...)
I can't lay claim to the "Tale of Two Cities" thing, that was actually in some magazine article I read several months ago that included descriptions of a handful of prospective endings for the series. The second one is more or less mine, though (not that it's all that original, mind you).
I think the heart of the show has always been with Jack and Kate, so it's logical to assume that it would end with them. Darlton have stated on more than one occasion that they represent the "ultimate relationship" on the show, and they even said at one point that Adam and Eve were the most direct clue they've given so far to the show's endgame. They said they had to include those bodies, because otherwise people would accuse them of making things up at the end. huh. well then. I mean, that almost feels like we know. sort of. ok, have to relate the pregnancy problem, the Dharma Initiative's interest...
I think there is going to be a time/time displacement element introduced at some point, but somehow I don't think it's going to be a HUGE facet of the mythology.
--There are plenty of ways that Adam and Eve can be central to the final season of the show without them being Jack and Kate--
Absolutely... I only meant to say that my theory was consistent with Darlton's statements about Adam and Eve, Jack and Kate, etc... not that it was the only theory that was.
Adam and Eve could actually BE Adam and Eve, for all we know. (Now THAT would be an ending).
-Dramatically, to me, it makes the most sense for it to be Jack & Kate. It will be a let down if it's anyone else. It just wouldn't have the same impact. Jack & Kate found Adam & Eve afterall. That's too Full Circle cool to ignore.
*Anyway, didn't Jack pocket the black & white stones that they found on the skeletons? How fucked up is that? The stones are only in FutureJack's pocket because PastJack puts them in HIS pocket after finding them on FutureJack! nice. It boggles the mind!
I hope we get a shot of Jack grabbing the black & white rocks as he leaves home to go back to The Island.


-The island is the earth before humans existed, before humans stripped the earth of its own living self and healing powers. mmm I like it.

...p6 -Didn't we get an explanation about the animals (polar bears, sharks) from the fact that Dharma had a zoology station, and those big bear cages that the Others kept Kate and Sawyer in? That's one of the mystery resolutions I was actually fine with.
..p7 -A storm hits the island, and the Losties see a ship off the coast, heading their way. They get all excited... RESCUE ! The ship veers off to the south, they run towards it, and as they see it being carried by massive waves towards land, Hurley says something like "are those sails ?", and the last shot is Sawyer making out the words on the side of the ship... H.M.S. BLACK ROCK.