(***NOTE: POSSIBLE SPOILERS BELOW! READ ON ONLY IF YOU’VE SEEN THE SEASON 5 PREMIERE!***)
Season 5 of the television show Lost began this week. As expected, the opener was frustratingly good. New questions posed, new curiosities raised all leaving viewers wanting more.
One particular scene from the two-part opener I most enjoyed was this scene between Hurley and his mother:
This scene is the perfect summation of the first four seasons of the show on two levels. First, Hurley’s seemingly crazy explanation/recap of what happened to the passengers of Oceanic Flight 815. Second, and I think more significant, the response of his mother at 1:54 in the clip: “I believe you. I don’t understand you.” At this moment, viewers of the show are Hurley’s mother. This isn’t his mother talking; this is the viewers of the show talking. From the smoke monster to The Others to the polar bear to the time travel to the reappearance of dead people, we believe all these things are happening, but we don’t understand them, how they all fit together, or why they happen. We believe them, but we don’t understand them. This scene is the perfect representation of the relationship between the show and the viewers.
And now I eagerly await the next opportunity to be LOST once again.
