Black and White

Setting aside for a moment the obvious failures of the writers' version of the last season and final episode, one must consider LOST as a microcosm distilled from only two elements. Black and White.
We are introduced to this concept in in the Pilot episode, when Lock and Walt play backgammon. Walt is Black, Lock White. The game of backgammon consists of Black pieces and White pieces. The goal is to move toward the end and survive.
So who won in the last episode? The black or the white? This is a staggering question which was not only not answered, but was avoided completely (on about the same scale as having Whitmore waiting in the closet just to be shot lazily and collapse to the floor, his entire role in the vast expanse of 6 seasons reduced to absolutely nothing.
A big question mark. It was as if the writers just gave up on the show and just wanted to finish it and move on, forget all of the themes and sub-themes which were meticulously developed during the course of the previous years, forget about the entire Dharma Initiative, forget about the giant fertility statue torn apart which guarded Jacob's cave, forget about the 'cabin', the whispering voices, the reason why Walt returned to keep Lock from killing himself in the mass grave (remember Walt returned after being 'kidnapped' by the 'Others', dripping wet, as if he just popped out of the water, standing on the lip of the vast cavernous grave where Lock held the molding gun of a poisoned Dharma worker.
The writers wanted us to forget a lot of things.
Well, for those of us who really liked the show, we don't want to forget, we want answers.
I've thought about the show and it's 'ending' all Summer, and I've decided that the last season and end is just not acceptable. I will tell you the answers to the questions, the reasons, the secrets and the lies. I will re-write Season 6 and give you the true ending (once you hear it, you will know the truth and you will feel at peace and find closure). No, it has nothing whatsoever to do with wine and cheese in a church (where as they fly into the golden light, I'm assuming the giant pendulum still swings, cutting out time and space to the coordinates of the place we know still exists, only with new stewards.
Yes, I know, and I will tell you.
As I said, it all begins and ends with Black and White. Why do you think Bernard the white man is called Bernard, and his wife Rose is called Rose? They are not the ultimate guardians, but they serve a very unique purpose.
It all comes to circle around, only when Jack closes his eyes in the writer's finale watching the plane cross the boundary of his vision, it is a serpent eating it's tail down to nothing. Not a true circle, which as we will see, is more analogous to a corkscrew, continuing it's turning forever.
In the next post, I will delve into the origins of Black and White, pulling together the facts and relationships from the beginning, building the ending and open the 'real' sixth and final episode which can only lead to one culmination.
The continuation of the Island. I'm about to put the mystery back into the show we can't live without.
Come along for the ride. I will guarantee you will get hooked again. (and be glad you did).
theLostBoy