THE expectations about next week’s finale of “Lost” are ramping up quickly.
The season’s finale episode will tell fans:
* why the plane crashed;
* what happens if you don’t push the mysterious bunker computer’s button every 108 minutes;
* and wind up the story of the kidnapped boy, Walt.
At least that’s what the crazy-quilt series’ producers are saying, according to a report out today in Newsweek.
Over the past year. the hit series has been raising fans’ hopes – and dashing them just as regularly – for an explanation of what the heck is going on on this dangerously lush island.
At the end of last season, the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 discover a bunker beneath the island and discover The Others during their attempted escape off of the island.
The task this year – when ratings have taken a 20 percent dip – is for the show to top itself and rekindle some of the Nielsen magic. The two-hour finale airs a week from tomorrow.
The show’s co-creator , J.J. Abrams – who took much of the year off to direct Tom Cruise’s big budget “Mission Impossible 3” – said last week that the finale would put the show back on its stride.
“The ending of this year in ‘Lost’ blows the ending of last season out of the water,” he said last week.
Fans have been upset by the lack of new episodes in the second half of the season – tiring of reruns and demanding more new surprises in the plotline that already has more twists than a pipe cleaner.