Lost Season Four Ends on a Weird Note

The Oceanic Six Finally are Off the Island

Season 4 of Lost has concluded, and the series - which started as being about a motley group of people stranded on a mysterious island - has spiraled into something bizarre and weird. The rescue of the survivors of Oceanic Flight 816 would usually mark the end of the series. It is, however, just the beginning of Lost.

After a bewildering series of flashbacks, flash forwards, set pieces on the island, off the island, here is - apparently - the situation.

There are officially six survivors of Oceanic Flight 816, known as the Oceanic Six. They are Jack, the doctor who is spiraling downward due to drug addiction and madness, Hurley, the very rotund lottery winner who is just mad and talks to dead people, Kate, the ex criminal who is taking care of the child that Claire (who apparently didn't make it, except as a ghost) bore on the island, Sayed, the ex Iraqi Republican Guard torturer who is working as an assassin for Ben Linus (more about him anon), and Sun, the Korean widow whose husband died trying to get off the island and is now a corporate mogul out for pay back. One does not have to be still on the island to be lost.

Got that so far? Lost gets better and better.

Then there is Desmond, the ex Scottish soldier who has finally been reunited with the love of his life, Penny, who is the daughter of Charles Whitmore, the evil British corporate mogul who has a lot to do with the island and the big body count it has caused. Desmond's and Penny's whereabouts are currently unknown. So is that of the Oceanic pilot, not the one who crashed the plane, but the one who helped rescue the survivors.

Jin (Sun's husband), Claire (the Australian lass with the baby), Michael (who escaped from the island earlier with his son Walt), and quite a few others are presumed dead. Sawyer (the conman/crook) and Locke (the former wheelchair bound guy who is now insane) were left on the island. Locke apparently will make it back to civilization and is now dead.