Just a Simple Girl with a Dream

I’m nerdy so of course, I enjoy making lists.  Just call me Ross Gellar (actually I think I am a Ross/Rachel hybrid in that I am a total dork but I also like putting outfits together.  Then again, I really like dinosaurs, but I also love purses!  Oh the conundrum!).  At my old job, I used to keep a list of all the people that were let go in our company (it was a big list).  I also keep a list of how many dead characters are still in the current opening credits of General Hospital (another big list).  I tried keeping a log of how many characters have died on Lost but then my brain exploded.  I admire television shows that have the courage to kill of a main character, because a lot of shows do play it safe.  Remember when ER killed of Mark Green, aka “a hero dies?” First of all, that got me to watch ER for the first time since Clooney left, but it was somewhat more believable than Carter just running around Rwanda or whatever that was. Lost and GH have taken this one step further and kill someone (or multiple characters) every Sweeps period.  It seems that no one but Jack, Kate, and Hurley are safe (and their soap counterparts Sonny, Carly and Jason).

We’re getting towards the home stretch of the season, which means that eventually the Oceanic 6 are going to have to be airlifted off the island.  I’m looking forward to this because I want to know the reasons why those specific people go and more importantly, the explanation for those that are left behind.  Now, I read some spoilers and some theories, but I don’t necessarily know everything that is going to happen.  I do believe that Jin and Claire do not really die and that there is an element of time travel involved with the island.  I also think that Caleb NicholCharles WIdmore is a lot older than we think and that somehow he and Ben are involved in a game of world domination that unfortunately, all depends on Jack and Kate.  Because everything else does.  In fact, if Jack and Kate wanted the sun to orbit around the earth, I’m sure the sun would oblige.

Here’s what needs to happen: Libby has to come back, because that little flash of her in Michael’s hospital room wasn’t doing it for me.  DUI or not, Elizabeth Watros was crazy Annie Dutton for God’s sake!  She’s lightning in a bottle, she should be a bigger part of this story.  Of course, I said the same thing about Shannon, too, and look at her.  Speaking of Shannon, I want Jack, Kate, and the rest of the O6 to go back to the island, but somehow they travel back in time to when the plane first crashed.  There’s Shannon screaming in a mini-skirt, there’s that guy getting sucked into the engine, there’s Boone running around like a jackass, looking for a pen.  Seriously, if they have to get back to the island to make things right, shouldn’t they save everyone?  Jack could be all “Boone, don’t go into the jungle with John” and Kate could take Shannon aside and tell her that sex + Sayid = death.  Hurley would take the dynamite away from Dr. Artz and Sun would stop Michael from shooting Libby (although she would hold her tongue when Michael shot Ana-Lucia). 

That would be great and all, but I’m sure we’ll be treated to more of Jack’s “awesome leadership skills” with Kate, backpack in hand, one step behind him.