Damon Lindelof gets drunk, spoils entire ending of Lost!
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.
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