past recaptured, present explained

Grammar is a great theory; it often serves expositonal writing. But the ear for human speech and the ability to put all pieces to build the marvel are the storyteller's gift. The workshop is the human heart in conflict with itself. The last phrase belongs to Faulkner. It is from his Nobel address; it rings through the ages. Grammar teaches us the rules to break. Huck Finn breaks them all. Moby Dick dumps digestion upon digression (yes, it's neologism at its worst and a pun). Darlton failed as storytellers. They went with the Christian (pun) ending. Instead, they could had Faraday arises from the shadow of the statue. He turns time back, everybody gets home safely: Richard with his wife, Ben cleaning the floor in Dharmaville as his father did. Faraday puts flowers on the graves of his parents. He turns to Jack and says: just having one God seems kinda boring. Why not two? Or Ben kills MIB: "You know old habits are hard to break. I let them die just to give you a false sense of security. It's just a courtesy, you die quickly. My name's Jacob. Bye-bye, brother." This would explain Ben's kung-fu fighting in Tunsia as well.

The scripture tells us that Jesus wept as he look up upon The City of David (as in Jack's fictional son). Clue, somewhere the alternative ending that I (perhaps only I) saw in that moment and so many others. The manipulation of Desmond, the figure of Hugo, the fact that Faraday nevers meets Ben except through Desmond's fists. Ben, like Hugo, terrify angels, demons, and even God. Faraday glimpses Ben's soul and understands how much Widmore would do to keep Ben hidden from the world. The writers chose a different route, much to my displeasure.


In my myopic opinion, this is the key episode in the series. The End would have worked better without this episode. This episode sets us up for everything that needs to happen, but did not. Faraday is a divine figure, another Christ. the term has been applied to both St. Francis and Spinoza) His death at the hands of mother mirrors Christ's death. It was the proof that Jack demanded of God's existence. It sets up a three way conflict between the female goddess and Faraday and that character that is the true protagonist, Ben. (Please my comments on ben and mib in another blog concerning mr. sheep) The concept of sideways as Faraday's "kingdom come" springs forward from his death. It could have foreshadowed the final duel between Ben and Faraday's army to borrow a phrase from Harry Potter. Ben would have destroyed MIB. Sideways time would have become real as Ben is defeated. Jack lives, Locke walks, Sun and her husband live, Desmond takes over Widmore's empire. Hurley remains to give Ben a choice: go back to sideways time and take your chances OR remain here among the ghosts. Hurley remains explaining that he has learned that he can pass effortlessly between life and death. He must remain; the island is his kingdom. Finally, we say Hugo digging in the sand and Faraday appearing alive and well in the shadow of the statue. the final ambiguity: is Faraday living or dead or beyond such distinctions as Hugo is. BUT this was the road not taken.


Ms (Miz Wanda), I missed something in you comment: In no way do I seek to be a hero: nor a leader nor a demon nor an extra-terrestial! I seek to learn, and what I have learned I have down in books: I do not happen to live in the USA. I started my own publishing company to publish my work. In the same manner I started my new medical practice. I am closing my farms (on which people grow fruits and vegetables. By the end of the year, I will have but one "share-cropper" left.I have bought and sold houses for property. Now I am attempting to sue some folks who took some land from me. I work two jobs as a physician. I have no time to anybody's hero. I am all over the internet. My book titles are there. The scientific papers I worked on, the number of my infamous patent: they are all there as well. I am too busy minding my own business to be a leader or hero. My own to-do list is long.