[If you haven't caught up with Lost, I discuss Season 6 up to this point, so spoilers for you. Also, I can't imagine why you'd give a crap about the rest of this post.]

Last week, one of Lost's long-standing mysteries was solved. A few years ago, there was a flashback involving Locke as a young boy. One of the Others, Richard, appeared at his home. Even though the flashback occurred some 30-odd years before we meet Richard on the Island, he looks exactly the same. He does not age. Is he immortal? If so, why? And how did he come to be on the Island? Last week, we got the answers. They are: sort of, Jacob, and he was a slave on the Black Rock. He can die, but not by his own hand. Someone else must kill him.

Reading the comments section on some Lost commentary the next day because I'm a huge nerd, somebody made this connection: remember when Michael couldn't die back in Season 4? The "why" of that was seemingly never resolved. Except now it has, right? Jacob must have granted him the same gift of sorta immortality that he gave to Richard.

Now here's the problem: I'd completely forgotten that was a question to begin with. I barely remember that Michael was even a character. Nevermind that he had tried and failed to kill himself multiple times, and seemingly couldn't die.

The general feeling about this season of Lost is that we have five seasons worth of questions, and its time to start dealing out some answers. This manifests itself as a general uneasiness about the direction of the show. I don't feel like I'm getting the resolution I want. Except, maybe I am. Maybe the real problem is Lost has been so dense and so confusing for so long, that I can't even remember the questions I want answers to. Are there other things that I missed? When I rewatch the series from beginning to end after it concludes, will it all make sense? I don't even know.

I'm still enjoying the show. The general air of confusion and not understanding is part of the Lost experience, one I've come to accept at this point. But because I am not a Lost scholar, and don't remember every loose plot thread - I only remember that they once existed - I wonder if this final season can't help but be a disappointment.