mousehands : ask philip

Lost is one of the most talked-about televisual productions in the last year. Firmly in the top ten, but not quite managing to break into the much fancier top five. I would not dare to give away the endings to the more popular programmes, such as: Cash in the Attic, Murder, She Wrote or A Week of Dressing Dangerously, but I’m sure nobody would be too put out if the ending of Lost is revealed.

During the course of the first series, we discover that the mysterious island is in fact The Isle of Man; moved far south by a group of Iranian dissidents, their plan to recapture the devil-may-care antics of their youth and also bring about the end of American hegemony. The creatures in the forest turn out to be a team of mechanics, left behind after a particularly unsuccessful post-TT race party and left to go feral. Jack, Locke and Charlie attempt to bring the two-wheeled artisans into the group.

This ends in failure and terror. Sawyer teams up with Sayid and Sun to produce a rival motorbike team, with Sawyer’s collection of useful, salvaged items; Sayid’s technical prowess and Sun’s uncanny abilities with herb-based healing techniques. I will leave some suspense intact by leaving the rider of the “Team SSS” bike a mystery.

The series ends on a cliff-hanger: The two teams’ bikes seem irrevocably destined to hit each other in a metal-crunching, bone-mashing, life-ending tragedy. Of course, in the next series, the whole sorry saga starts all over again.