Lost
Okay, so as I suspected, tonight's episode didn't do much to deter my theory.
Save this theory so you can all say "what was he thinking" in May, but here it is
The "jump the shark" moment needs to accomplish two things:
1. Radically shift the direction of the show
2. Piss people off
It would be easy to assume that a rescue party arrives midway through season three, but I got to thinking about that, and it's a little too easy. bear with me, but we already have three groups of people on the island:
a. the survivors of 815
b. the "others"
c. the other others (Desmund and Rousseau)
by surviving, Desmund is pretty much going to fold in with the survivors. Rousseau has a story coming soon because we've already established that her daughter is alive and eventually they'll meet.
truthfully, there isn't anything radical about bringing the outside world to the Island. Last week's episode did that in five minutes and sent me on a tangent, and I came to one conclusion.
Jack is leaving the Island
That's the halfway mark. I don't mean Jack leaves the Island and we don't see him. I mean Jack leaves the Island and so do we.
Let's assume that Ben/Henry isn't lying and whatever he asks Jack to do is done, and true to his word, he sends Jack home. Let's say that this involves Jack betraying the survivors (after Sun killed the woman on the boat, it's probably a safe bet the "others" are going to declare war on the survivors) and just as a series of giant revelations hit, we leave the island.
And don't come back until season four. At all.
Jack goes back to Los Angeles, and spends the remainder of season three trying to convince the rest of the world about this Island, and more importantly, trying to get back to the Island.
That's a major shift, dropping every other character for half a season and returning your hero to the outside world with no idea of how to undo what he did.
It's possible they already started setting up season four here. Walt and Michael are already home, or will be by the time Jack finds them. Maybe they meet Desmund's ex, and that kicks off the return to the island at the beginning of the next season.
In the meantime, Lost blue balls us. Sets up some huge things, like Rousseau seeing her daughter just as the audience leaves the island. Or another connection between one of the survivors and one of the others. Something we won't know for another seven/eight months (let's assume this happens around February)
No Locke. No Eko. No Sayid, No Kate, No Sawyer, No Sun's pregnancy. No Desmund's clairvoyance. No Island. Not until the fall of 2007.
That's enough to say a show's jumped the shark. to abandon 97% of the cast for half a year.
It's a thought. What do you think?
Save this theory so you can all say "what was he thinking" in May, but here it is
The "jump the shark" moment needs to accomplish two things:
1. Radically shift the direction of the show
2. Piss people off
It would be easy to assume that a rescue party arrives midway through season three, but I got to thinking about that, and it's a little too easy. bear with me, but we already have three groups of people on the island:
a. the survivors of 815
b. the "others"
c. the other others (Desmund and Rousseau)
by surviving, Desmund is pretty much going to fold in with the survivors. Rousseau has a story coming soon because we've already established that her daughter is alive and eventually they'll meet.
truthfully, there isn't anything radical about bringing the outside world to the Island. Last week's episode did that in five minutes and sent me on a tangent, and I came to one conclusion.
Jack is leaving the Island
That's the halfway mark. I don't mean Jack leaves the Island and we don't see him. I mean Jack leaves the Island and so do we.
Let's assume that Ben/Henry isn't lying and whatever he asks Jack to do is done, and true to his word, he sends Jack home. Let's say that this involves Jack betraying the survivors (after Sun killed the woman on the boat, it's probably a safe bet the "others" are going to declare war on the survivors) and just as a series of giant revelations hit, we leave the island.
And don't come back until season four. At all.
Jack goes back to Los Angeles, and spends the remainder of season three trying to convince the rest of the world about this Island, and more importantly, trying to get back to the Island.
That's a major shift, dropping every other character for half a season and returning your hero to the outside world with no idea of how to undo what he did.
It's possible they already started setting up season four here. Walt and Michael are already home, or will be by the time Jack finds them. Maybe they meet Desmund's ex, and that kicks off the return to the island at the beginning of the next season.
In the meantime, Lost blue balls us. Sets up some huge things, like Rousseau seeing her daughter just as the audience leaves the island. Or another connection between one of the survivors and one of the others. Something we won't know for another seven/eight months (let's assume this happens around February)
No Locke. No Eko. No Sayid, No Kate, No Sawyer, No Sun's pregnancy. No Desmund's clairvoyance. No Island. Not until the fall of 2007.
That's enough to say a show's jumped the shark. to abandon 97% of the cast for half a year.
It's a thought. What do you think?