Major Change Coming This Season on LOST

[spicedogs]

This season, I have been spoiler free till somebody blasted speculations of the latest possible events on LOST over at Twitter. So now that I know what is about to happen, I feel compelled to discuss it here.

According to Kristen on E! someone's dying and leaving the show at the end of Season 5. She says that he or she is a much-loved character.

Some people speculate that it might be Ben. Someone over at MEFB said that

Better not be Ben. I tweeted that, but then I thought, prolly not, because although folks love the actor, the character is pretty much reviled. And Darlton love Emerson. I've heard they even write lines and angle for him to give 'em the "eyes treatment." So after my initial fear passed, I'm thinking he's safe. But I have a second worry that it might be Sawyer. Anyone else I'm wouldn't mind in varying degrees. Except for Kate, I'd pay money to see her go, but I guess she's not it, being the lead female character and all. Anyway, the bets are going down in Dark UFO and you can check your hunches with other rabid Lostoholics.

(Well, those of you in MEFB know who tweeted about it and made me see a spoiler.)

Here's my take on the possibilities:

1. It may be Desmond. Maybe we will find out that Ben killed him and his family.

2. It may even be Sun. Sun did not enter the past when she arrived on the island. Hence, her presence is no longer needed. If we do away with Sawyer and anyone else who is currently in the past, we alter the future and that person will not be alive in 2004 during the original crash. Unfortunately, Ben is in the future as well. So that becomes a problem. How beloved is Ben? Well, he does keep the audience glued to the TV and is continuously nominated for any award possible. So, TPTB need him.

3. How about Locke? He is in the present as well. And, I always said that he'd morph into Jacob. Maybe he needs to be killed in order to become the new character "Jacob." This would be brilliant on the producers' part. It would make the audience be under pins and needles trying to find out who will be killed off.  The powers to be (TPTB) are able to deliver a major death without getting the audience mad, because the actor is still delivering lines as another character.

A the end, unfortunately, we will all be disappointed, because our theories are so much better than their delivery.

I sitll wish that I was not spoiled.

Comments

[mr-henry-gale.livejournal.com]

I'm fine with Sawyer and Jin biting the dust - I've never been particularly interested in their stories. I'd like Daniel and Miles to stay on. But Ben absolutely *cannot* die.

[spicedogs.livejournal.com]

Frankly, I'm at a point that I wish nobody would die. Just let them all be till the end. Want to kill them off at the end? Fine. I will not have a problem with that.

[keyserzozie.livejournal.com]

I second that. Sawyer's arc ended last season, when he killed Locke's father. Miles has no purpose at all that I can tell. Kate (*shrugs). Whatever. Juliet seems to have dropped out of the plot (rather to my regret - another case of a decent female character going incomprehensibly gooey over Sawyer/Jack).
But Ben? They wouldn't dare...

[spicedogs.livejournal.com]

They better not!