Tom McGee's Blog

The new sea­son of Lost promised answers, lots of answers, gush­ing forth faster than you could keep up. So why do I feel like I have more ques­tions now than I did last summer?

I guess there are peo­ple out there who puz­zle over this stuff end­lessly, and I admit it’s kind of fun to tin­ker around with occa­sion­ally. But seri­ously, I’d already for­got­ten half of the new char­ac­ters that showed up last year. And now there’s these left­over ‘60s guys in the tem­ple wear­ing pink turbans?

The con­cept of par­al­lel uni­verses isn’t new (it’s foun­da­tional to quan­tum mechan­ics) and I think there’s got to be more going on than a bifur­ca­tion of the present after the H-bomb went off. It’s not merely split into two tracks — there are three copies of John out there. Pick your Locke, so to speak.

C. and I spoke halfway through the two-hour pre­miere. She asked if I was dis­ap­pointed. “Not yet, but there’s another hour left” was basi­cally how the response went. Actu­ally, sev­eral more months. But the big pay­off isn’t in sight yet.