With the fifth season of Lost coming to a close tomorrow, you probably already have your season finale party Evite sent to everyone you know who understands the importance of staying quiet in between commercial breaks – but in case you haven’t, we’ve asked a fellow Lost fanatic (and upcoming finale party host), for some ideas for celebrating/grieving this last episode. For more Lost clips and a killer deal on previous seasons, visit our Lost store.
The penultimate Lost season finale is here, and any Lost fan has got to be excited. Our Losties are all back together on the Island (albeit in different “time zones”). We’re in the midst of Dharmaville, and John Locke is risen from the dead (literally and figuratively). Secrets are being revealed – at least kind of, which is truly Lost fashion. But the big question remains: how are you going to celebrate this end to the time traveling, plane crashing, paradox rupturing, season 5? Here are some ideas:
1. Dharma products are all the buzz: Why just have beer and chips for your Lost finale party when they could come straight from Dharma’s Ann Arbor HQ? There are enough knock off Dharma labels online to deck out your party favors with DI decals to make it feel like you are on the island in 1977. Printing off a few dozen Swan Station emblems and taping them to the beer cans of your choice will have you boozing in true Roger Linus style (hopefully you won’t become as abusive). Or, if you are a teetotaler, throw some generic Dharma labels onto a box or two of Nilla Wafers to create a treat that Hurley would be knocking your door down to get a handful of.
2. Bring it on with some sweet 1970’s grooves: These Dharma times have been full of great music, so why not keep the feeling going with some classics? Three Dog Night. Mama Cass. This will have you rocking out to those hits from which DI escaped the threat of the Hostiles and the smoke monster. But why stop there? Lost is full of great music. Turn on some Buddy Holly to re-live that fateful night of John Locke’s birth, or a little Nirvana “Scentless Apprentice” to feel as strung out as Jack did during his booze addled, pill-popping, fake bearded days. You really can’t go wrong here.
3. Theme it, with Hostiles versus Dharma: Want to get an interesting mix at your party? How about pit two sides of your guests (“One is light, the other dark” – but who knows which is which?) in some friendly, costumed competition. One side wears ratty, castaway gear, and the other coveralls with their favorite Dharma station. Through the night, have the sides compete in whatever activities you see fit, whether it be pin the tail on Smokey, or Island themed Pictionary. Hardcore fans might indulge in a round of Lost trivia fueled by the boundless archives of Lostpedia.com. Either way, at the end of the finale, you can have a big argument about which side made it out better, because arguing with your friends about pointless topics like television shows is what it’s all about, right?
4. Try to predict the fight of the century (Locke vs. Jacob) with Wii boxing: If you don’t own a Wii, maybe you could just pick up some gloves and have a friendly scrimmage (Please note: blood sports conducted in private dwellings are not condoned by Amazon.com). If you do have a Wii, like most Americans at this point, why not go online and find a template for a Locke Mii and make your best approximation of what Jacob will look like (maybe a beard and… I dunno, use your imagination here). Then, square off and duke it out to see who will truly control the island. Even if the results don’t pan out with how the finale ends, at least someone will have bragging rights for the most Kos in a frantic round of Wii Sports boxing.
Those are just a few ideas. Lost fans are creative at heart. I mean, how couldn’t you be when you are into a show that leaves so much to the audience’s imagination? No matter how you structure your finale party, it will surely be a good time.
Ok, here’s a quick pre-hash:
The Dharmaites are in big trouble. The Incident is looming and the sides seem to be split. Jack has found his spiritual side and has embraced his destiny to carry out our dearly departed professor’s plan to detonate a friggin’ H-bomb to counteract the effects of the bad energy likely to come from the Swan. He’s struck an unlikely alliance with the Hostiles, who for better or for worse, are handing over a WMD to a guy with a hunch. Meanwhile, Sawyer, the lovely Juliet, and Kate are on a sub headed for whatever life they could live on the mainland. Unless Sean Connory and Alec Baldwin show up with an ingenious plan to fake the sinking of this vessel, I don’t know how they will get off of that thing.
Is Jack’s plan totally harebrained or is the island leading him towards something that could change the future? As long as Radzinsky doesn’t mess it up (read: he will somehow… jerk) they will either set the stage for a total restructuring of the Lostiverse as we know it, or they’ll all be burned into the side of a Dharma love bug. Either way, man, that’s good television.
Meanwhile, in present day, what in the heck lies in the shadow of the statue? My guess is John Locke and his newly reunited people on their way to Big Bad Jacob (more on that in a second). Let’s just hope that the Big Lebowski of the island - the conspiracy theorist pilot Frank Lapidus - shows up just asking for his rug back, man. Seriously, though, Frank is in a tough spot and it will be nice to see the character that embodies what every Lost fan goes through on an episode by episode basis get his answers before Ilana and her creepy cronies decide to give him a sand nap.
Finally, Locke is back in a big bad way, and he seems to have the answer to all of the Others’ problems – take down that pesky Jacob so that they can all live under the velvet fist of a bald zombie. This has been an interesting ride, between Ben finally looking like he doesn’t have “a plan” (but does he really?) and even the ageless Maybelline model Richard Alpert being seemingly perplexed (scared) by John’s bizarre new relationship with the Island. I think that this will climax with a showdown a-la the end of the Raiders of the Lost Arc versus Neo and Agent Smith. One thing is for sure, “Jacob Loves You,” unless your name happens to be John Locke and you are trying to punch him in the face. This is going to be a finale liable to make the average Lost mythos nut go clinically insane until the show returns next winter.
It’s been a wild ride, and I hope that we are all as lost by the end as we were in the beginning, because the fact is that the ride is almost over. With any luck, the cliffhanger for this season will be epic enough to make us all count the days until the final season premier and set the stage for what will hopefully be the greatest seventeen episodes of any network television show’s final bow. –Sten Johnson
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