Recap Of ‘Lost’ Season Finale
The season finale of Lost has aired and as with any season finale it has left a cliffhanger that leaves all of us wondering what will happen next. The episode started off with a flash forward of Kate driving away from Jack and then she stopped the car and put it in reverse.
Apparently, Kate had a few things she wanted to get off her chest — stuff she forgot to unload on Jack in last year’s finale. She told him that his ”we have to go back!” crap was galling, especially in light of what happened on their final day on the Island; that a man they both knew — the man in the obituary, one Jeremy Bentham — had come to her a few days earlier and tried to make the same wacko ”going back” argument; that Aaron still doesn’t quite understand why Jack isn’t around anymore to read Alice in Wonderland to him before bedtime. She slapped him and told him to keep his distance and then drove off in a heartbroken huff.
Bentham was a 19th-century philosopher associated with utilitarianism and liberalism. He also designed the ”panopticon,” a cylindrical-shaped prison that requires minimal security and facilitates intense paranoia. He was also buried in a bizarre box designed for public display called an ”auto-icon.” Bizarre. Clearly, one must consider comparing and contrasting philosopher John Locke to philosopher Jeremy Bentham, but one should consider those things when one is not falling asleep at his computer at midnight.
More interesting to casual Lost fans is this: The name Jeremy Bentham all but confirms as legit the obit text that has circulated throughout fandom since last year. There are many more curious details in this notice — including the suggestion of suicide that was raised by Sayid later in the episode — but why don’t you go over to lostpedia.org and read the obit yourself.