Lost Redux: Who Causes the Incident?
The countdown to the Incident (and the Lost season finale) has begun, and it’s not yet clear whether the Losties will prevent the Incident, cause it or merely suffer through it as victims.
But which players are in a position to do what?
And what’s the deal with fancy newfangled Locke? We’ve got your look back at what happened in “Follow the Leader,” along with a mess of all-new insight into the finale from the real Lost leader, Mr. Damon Lindelof himself.
What strange new Locke is this? Locke really has changed.
Does he truly have a purpose (as he claims) or is he just a reanimated dead guy like Christian Shepherd, whose zombie ways are unknowable to us at this moment? Whatever the cause, the consequence is that Locke is no longer the waffling follower we once knew.
This new Locke has clearcut goals, acts with the utmost confidence and plays with Ben and Richard Alpert like they were Lego people. What is his goal? Per Locke himself, his mission is twofold
: ( “If there’s a way to save our people, I’ll find it,” and, he’s going to kill Jacob.
Why? Among other motives, apparently this new Locke comes equipped with a surplus of reason. He’s become a rational skeptic and he questions the unknowable god that is Jacob.
Who would have imagined that flaky ol’ Locke could change so much? For that matter, at some point in the last five seasons, Kate turned into a voice of reason: “Since when did shooting kids and blowing up hydrogen bombs become OK?” Jack, on the other hand, is a newborn devotee of destiny and predetermination.
Quite the reversal!