Damon Lindelof, one of the head writers and co-creators of Lost, the hit serial on ABC, got drunk during an episode wrapup party last Friday in Hawaii, and told some local journalists the entire story behind Lost, what the Island is and how it will end.
The Honolulu Advisor posted the entire scoop, so I will try to paraphrase the detailed story as best I can, but be warned, there are major spoilers ahead.
According to these writers, Lindelof said that the Island is really a large, always moving land mass, invisible from outside detection. It’s unable to be seen from space, or from earth, unless one knows the correct location and path in order to reach it.
“Uhhh, it’s really simple actually. The Island represents the Garden of Eden, the mythical location of the beginning of human life,” said Lindelof. “But when man was banished from the Garden, God removed the Island from the mainland, and cast it out into the ocean, to float freely around the Earth, invisible to human eyes.”
Did God mean to leave us a way to find it again, the opening being a way to return home? Lindelof shrugged at this, and said that was up to us to interpret.
All he knows is that there is a way to it and man had found it. And not just by Dharma, but by a people long ago. Lindleof continued:
“These travelers were looking for a new home, and somehow stumbled upon the path to the Island. They landed there, knew it was holy ground, built a Temple and massive monuments to represent themselves and God.
“You remember the four-toed statue right?”
At this point in the conversation, Damon started rambling, and said the smoke monster is really the serpent from the Garden of Eden, who caused man to sin.
“That’s why it killed Eko…he saw what it truly was and the serpent wouldn’t allow it.”
There is much, much more to the story, and you can finish it all at the Advisor, so I’m going to skip to the end.
Damon says that the Oceanic 6 (including Aaron, Kate cannot leave him behind) will return to the Island after Ben secures a submarine for the journey. The Freighter people had killed off most of the survivors of 815, but a few of them fled to the Temple and joined The Others there. Locke, Claire and Juliette remain alive.
When they arrive, they hear loud rumblings coming from the direction of the Temple, and as they make their way there, they find Jacob (garbed in armor) and the Smoke Monster in the midst of spiritual warfare, while Locke and the Others are in an all-out battle against the Freighter people.
The Smoke Monster, or serpent, gets the best of Jacob, pinning him down and getting ready to destroy him, when Aaron walks over, snatches the snake by the tail and flings it into the depths of the Temple, utterly ridding it from this living world.
Jack and the Oceanic 6 arrive just in time to help defeat the Freighter people, but not without losses, as Juliette and Ben both die of mortal wounds.
With the enemy defeated, Aaron stands up, suddenly wise and talking, and proclaims that man has returned to the Garden of Eden, and here they will create a new world. You find out almost prior to this that Aaron was conceived without Claire ever having been with a man.
And some other secrets will be answers. The coffin actually holds Vincent, the dog (which explains why no one really cared to come to the funeral, although Jack seemed a bit too distraught over a stupid animal) and the two skeletons in the cave from season one are actually Adam and Eve.
Lindelof ended his drunken rambling by adding:
“Oh yeah, April Fools day.”
(like you didn’t already know)
By the way, Jacob is Luke Skywalker’s father.
Yeah, everything is an April Fools joke today… everything is expected to be this way… nice try though Mo!
I had to bring it man…at least give it a shot…that’s all you get when I write at 11pm on a Monday
Yeah, I knew it was a joke as soon as I read the headline, but why even post it in the first place? I expect more of you than that Mike. Goodbye Pop Critics . . . forever!!
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maybe I focused on … “I thought it was a joke until I read the whole thing and found out it was true.” I think thats what gave it away…
It’s April Fools Day, I had to post SOMETHING!
Um, just kidding.
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Cap’n, good point, I changed it for now…lol.
Sorry guys if it seems cheesy, I thought I put a lot of work into a fake ending, give me credit!
Mike – everyone is doing it today. Don’t blame you one bit.
Honestly, I thought parts of Jason’s review of Rendition was an early April Fool’s joke
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Well, I heard Rendition was pretty bad, so I can’t fault him too much, although I haven’t seen it yet.
Nice effort Mike. My desire for spoilers momentarily overshadowed my knowledge that today is April 1.
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nice.
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Nice! Funny thing is, the Garden of Eden theory kind of makes sense. I would not mind if it ended up being something like that.
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Classic
Had to be done. Well thought out, Mikey.
Although I would have believed it more had it been some director of an upcoming chick flick revealing key plot details…
You had me going for a few seconds, there. Good job, you’re the only one I almost fell for all day!
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By next month my parents will be telling me this is really what the show is about…
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I also heard yesterday that Journeyman, Jericho, Threshold, Lexx and Sliders were coming back on the air. Yippeee!!!!
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Ok Frank so you had me overanlyze your statement for the last 15 minutes. 1) Its not April 1st anymore so you coulnd tbe posting an April fools joke… 2) but you are posting on an April fools thread… 3) You said Journeyman so it could be possible (I havent heard the official word it has been offed like that trash bionic Woman was) 4) It may not be April 1st but you are being sarchastic… 5) the giveaway here is Sliders..right? Journeymans not coming back… right? =)
Threshold is the giveaway since that was like 2 years ago
Sorry Cap’n I had to slip in the joke late since I was busy yesterday.
I liked Threshold but it was yet another weird mystery genre show in the wake of Lost that didn’t catch on.
I’ve been watching Sliders repeats on Hulu recently so that’s why it came to mind.
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Threshold was on at the same time Surface was, and I actually enjoyed Surface even though it pretty much sucked too.
Frank had me going, I was like REALLY JOURNEYMAN IS COMING BACK!!!?!?!?!? Well done…. =)
Let me just say, Mike, that you had me totally believing you for DAYS! Yeah, uh huh, I said Days! I read it after April 1st and when I saw the headline I tried not to read it, but I ended up seeing, “Garden of Eden” in bold and I was like, “WHAT?!” Then a day or two passes and I asked Jason if he’d read it…of course he started laughing and informed me that it was a joke…Good job, dude. Kudos to you!
Thanks Ana
So you saw Garden of Eden, read nothing else so you had no idea?
Hilarious
Yeah, Garden of Eden was the only thing that I read so I was thinking about that for a day or two. Then I brought it up with Jason over dinner and he started laughing. You got me good!
Good stuff
I don’t care what no one says, this has got to be the ending!!
Thanks Tiffany