Thursday’s ‘Lost’ debate: What couple has that “spectacular kiss” in the season finale?
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So you may have heard that producer Damon Lindelof was quoted awhile back saying there would be a “spectacular kiss” in this season’s finale.
And that smooch is one of his favorite moments so far in the entire SERIES!
Later, ol’ Lindy spilled that the kiss wouldn’t happen on the island.
Then your feverish little brains probably went haywire, trying to figure out who the fantastic couple could be.
Jack and Kate?
Faithful Jaters seem to think so, especially after the recent flash-forward episode had the couple engaged and playing Mommy and Daddy to Aaron (although that didn’t seem to end so well).
Sawyer and Kate?
Skaters have pointed to the same episode, when Kate confessed to a secret promise made to Sawyer. That showed our Southern boy—even though he’s presumably back on the island—still had the power to come between Jate.
I say: No way!
Be honest: Would either of those scenarios truly blow your mind? Been there, done that.
But what about Claire and Aaron?
I’ll admit I was on board with this possibility at first. Big emotional moment, a total sobfest as Aaron gets taken away from his mommy, right?
But that was before Claire went all undead on us, abandoning Aaron to hang out with Ghost Daddy Christian and act creepy in Jacob’s cabin.
Now here’s who I REALLY think will lock lips before the season ends on May 29.
Are you ready?
PENNY and DESMOND!!
Yes, I’m thinking that our star-crossed lovers—she’s his constant, yay!—will reunite and that’s going to be one of the whiz-bang moments that “Lost” loves to leave us with.
Read on to find out why…
Okay, so here’s why I think our favorite brotha and his faithful lady love will FINALLY get together soon.
First off … (SPOILER ALERT!!!) we know that Sonya Walger is set to appear as Penny—in some capacity—during the season’s final two hours on May 29.
We also know the “Lost” producers are ga-ga about the Desmond-Penny romance.
They think DesPen is the true love story of the show, way more than any possible Skate or Jate relationship. (Click here to hear them say so themselves.)
That said, my guess is that the season will end with Penny finally finding Desmond on that freighter—where he’s waiting for her, just like she waited eight years for his phone call—and whisking him back to the real world.
That would allow Desmond to be another player in next season’s off island story, without feeling like we were conned into thinking that only the Oceanic 6 makes it off the island.
Penny and Desmond would keep his rescue a secret, since they’d be trying to figure out exactly why her father is so interested in the island and sent a team to kill everyone on it, and rigged the 815 wreckage. (If he actually did, which I’m not entirely convinced of.)
This would set up a wild off-island conflict, too, pitting Desmond against Sayid and Ben.
Remember that Ben vowed to kill Penny as revenge against Charles Widmore for killing Alex?
What if Season 5 involves Ben’s hunt for Penny, using Sayid as the assassin?
Here’s where a lot of drama could come in.
I could be wrong, but I don’t believe Ben knows that Penny is Desmond’s girlfriend. (You never know WHAT that guy knows, though.) And it’s been implied that Ben’s hit list for Sayid has been given to him one person at a time; if that’s true, he wouldn’t know that he’s eventually meant to kill Penny in the end.
Plus, I doubt Ben comes clean with Sayid. Don’t forget that little smile he gave after manipulating him into kill one of Widmore’s men, telling him (falsely?) that he’d murdered Nadia.
Can’t you picture it? Desmond and Penny on the run, desperately trying to keep her alive (while trying to find the island to save those left behind), not knowing that his pal Sayid is the one hunting them?
And a stunned Sayid realizing that he may have to kill his friend, and his friend’s girlfriend?
And a ticked-off Ben, annoyed that he hadn’t realized he could have used Desmond to get to Penny sooner? (Something tells me he wouldn’t have a problem wasting Des.)
The only thing that keeps me from thinking the Penny-Desmond love connection may not happen is that the show may want to wait until the final season.
But otherwise, I’m really loving this idea!
How about you? Any other Pen-Des lovers out there?
(Photos courtesy of ABC and HBO)
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