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Topic: Lost Season 6 Discussion - No Spoilers
Python
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Location: Sydney, New South Wales

Edit note by Dan : This thread is for discussion of season 6 of Lost, genuine discussion and speculations only -- no spoilers for anything that has yet to air in the US, everything that has aired in the US is fair-game for discussion so there should be no need for spoiler tags.



In preparation for Season 6 which starts next week (2nd of Feb). Here is something I just found on the interwebs.

Its the plane crash done in "24" style real time.



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thermite
Posts: 3864
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
Yeah they can't release trailers for Season 6 because it would answer the question of whether the bomb worked to reset the crash in the Season 5 finale. Looking forward to the show, but it is a shame that it's coming to an end.
ctd
Posts: 8212
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
but it is a shame that it's coming to an end.

lol im f***en glad it is ending.
Red
Posts: 376
Location: Sydney, New South Wales
I'd love to burn my hands on Juliet's muffins :D

Eagerly awaiting S6!
Pinky
Posts: 4336
Location: Melbourne, Victoria

I'll just leave this here...


Final Season Of 'Lost' Promises To Make Fans More Annoying Than Ever
Viper119
Posts: 1190
Location: UK

Lost is f***ing awesome, I cannot wait!
assag
Posts: 8
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
what's the deal with all the lost hate? every one i know hates it.
natslovR
Posts: 6495
Location: Sydney, New South Wales
Lucky. I was worried this thread meant it had started already. While I have just watched the Lost in 8 minutes promo on iTunes I still wanted to watch the season 5 DVD extras before s6 starts. Guess that's something for this weekend then :-)
greazy
Posts: 2779
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
I forget what the term for it is, but when you constantly add more questions to the pool and never answer any, the audience becomes irritated and anxious. I remember learning shakespeare used to use humor inbetween dramatic scenes to reduce the tension/anxiety.

Of course this could have changed after season 2, but I think thats when everyone jumped ship (to heroes).
FraktuRe
Posts: 1765
Location: Gold Coast, Queensland
season 3 was s***, but 1/2/4/5 have been great, and many things have been answered.

I can't wait.
protit
Posts: 15011
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
Lost is the shizzle.
Triamks
Posts: 2758
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
That'll teach them aye greazy?
parabol
Posts: 5661
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
I forget what the term for it is

The term you're after is not having watched Season 4 and 5 :)
deadlyf
Posts: 671
Location: Queensland
I watched all 5 seasons over the xmas break, it was bit of a mind f*** watching them like that. I had watched up to season 2 before and like a lot of people trailed off during season 3 but I wanted to catch up for the last season and since they were going for $40 a season at JB's it seemed like a good time.

I'm looking forward to this show actually ending but for me it's turning out to be a lot like the Robert Jordan books in that although I'm going to watch/read it until the end, I don't really expect it to be a satisfying ending and I'm sure there will be a lot of questions left unanswered.
existence
Posts: 7182
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
lost is f***in sick... next thursday ep is acquirable off intarnet
reload!
Posts: 5135
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
what the f*** is the internet!?
Khel
Posts: 14156
Location: Melbourne, Victoria
Yeah, Season 3 was s***, I almost stopped watching it then, but I'm glad I didn't, cos its been f***ing awesome since then.
Viper119
Posts: 1191
Location: UK
Season 4/5 blew my mind hole!
FraktuRe
Posts: 1771
Location: Gold Coast, Queensland
f*** you guys, now I want to rewatch season 5.
Reverend Evil™
Posts: 17249
Location: Wynnum, Queensland
season 3 was s***, but 1/2/4/5 have been great

I thought season 2 was rubbish along with the first half of 3. Finally the writers realized to stop wasting our time and actually make the eps interesting. Season 4 and 5 have been the best.
The GuVna
Posts: 1191
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
WALT!
lewd
Posts: 615
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
so is the OP the 1st ten minutes of the new ep airing next week?
ravn0s
Posts: 9239
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
reading comprehension ftw

no its not. but heres the first 4 minutes.




some dude won a lost marketing campaign and they sent him a usb stick with this vid on it
thermite
Posts: 3904
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
do I wanna watch that?
ravn0s
Posts: 9241
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
the first 2 mins is a replay of the final minutes of last years finale, then it shows you what happens after the bomb goes off.

last edited by ravn0s at 21:56:17 30/Jan/10
existence
Posts: 7188
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
guys there is 3 more brand new videos if you go to www.abc.com and click on the big lost advertisment, they are f***ing unreal!!!! SO PUMPED FOR THIS HOLY f***ING s***!!!!!
Jayebee
Posts: 89
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
Haha saw this earlier today. I've never watched Lost, but it looks f***ing confusing.



last edited by Jayebee at 23:06:26 02/Feb/10
Viper119
Posts: 1193
Location: UK
WTF.. is the first epp of season 6 out?

edit, oh i see, lots of vids, the starter kits are pretty cool.

last edited by Viper119 at 23:17:50 02/Feb/10
Reverend Evil™
Posts: 17253
Location: Wynnum, Queensland
ROFL

That college humor one is f***ing hilarious
HeardY
Gaelic newb
Posts: 17258
Location: Sydney, New South Wales
hahah yeah college humor one is class
ctd
Posts: 8232
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
FKNLOL.

Did they ever show what happened to those c***s that got bitten by the spider and were buried alive cause of that paralysis shizzle or whatever they called it.

I forget.
Midda
Posts: 4581
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
I guess they died...
ravn0s
Posts: 9274
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
it has begun...

the beginning of the end
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ravn0s
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heh thats why i waited. i knew they would pull s*** like that
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ravn0s
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Location: Brisbane, Queensland
someone will release a single of ep2
ctd
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Location: Brisbane, Queensland
They released singles for 24 season 8 episodes 1-4 when it was a double night! Sometimes internet... I don't know you..
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thermite
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Location: Brisbane, Queensland
slow as f*** here too, i'm actually going to make and eat a stir fry before I see this motherf***er
doing the 2-in-1 though
ravn0s
Posts: 9278
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
what am i doing wrong


using torrents.
protit
Posts: 15055
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
i got my torrents supah fast :D lost is awesome.
natslovR
Posts: 6504
Location: Sydney, New South Wales
that was an interesting double ep

Of note:

1. Spoiler:
no one actually left the airport

2. Spoiler:
i'm pretty sure that's jacob that just re-incarnated in Sayed's body


protit
Posts: 15056
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
agree with both
FraktuRe
Posts: 1801
Location: Gold Coast, Queensland

Spoiler:

possibly, but it seems jacob is 'dead'.

Also, libby? WTF is going on there, she died ages ago

parabol
Posts: 5669
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
I'd normally use spoilers, but this is a thread about a current season of a TV show so discussions of up-to-date stuff are expected.

Anyhow, why was Desmond on the plane? If the island was underwater then obviously he wouldn't have ended up on the island earlier and wouldn't be sitting there in front of the 386 PC and causing the plane to crash at that moment. So what caused him to end up on that flight?
Midda
Posts: 4594
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
Yeah, anyone who comes in here and gets s***ty about us discussing Season 6 of Lost deserves to have it spoiled.
no one actually left the airport

It looked as though Claire and Kate did.
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FraktuRe
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^you're a bit slow then eh.
natslovR
Posts: 6505
Location: Sydney, New South Wales
I guess Desmond was there because the island was underwater for last 30 years. He didn't sail to it, he sailed over it and on to Australia, where after doing whatever he did there he caught a flight back to America.

How is Jacob being in Sayed's body any different to his mate being in Locks?

Jacob allowed Ben to kill him, because he knew it would happen (or couldn't stop it) which is why Hurley was travelling across the world with the note to say give Sayed a bath or Jacob will be angry. Sayed needed to be in place for him to re-incarnate
ravn0s
Posts: 9279
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
jacobs "mate" isnt in lockes body. he is the smoke monster and the smoke monster can make itself look like anyone. it made itself look like locke to trick ben into killing jacob.

frakture libby wasnt in either episode so dunno wtf youre talking about.
paveway
Posts: 11446
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
what a retarded show

koopz
Posts: 8515
Location: New Zealand
lost was to tv what Windows Updates were to WinXP


there will be a tonne of Qs that will never be answered, yet no one will ever demand to know why so long as things keep moving.

I'm thinking there'll be a spin off coming

and people will eat it up

last edited by koopz at 20:21:02 04/Feb/10
Khel
Posts: 14190
Location: Melbourne, Victoria
Who plays the crazy looking guy with the glasses? The one at the temple, who was acting as an interpreter for the badass samurai ninja guy. He looks really familiar but I can't remember what I've seen him in before and its been bugging me all day.

Edit: nevermind, just found it, he was Bullock's friend in Deadwood.

last edited by Khel at 19:51:01 04/Feb/10
ravn0s
Posts: 9284
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
thats john hawkes khel. he was sol star in deadwood.

edit: bah
thermite
Posts: 3972
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
f*** I looked for it too

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0370035/
FraktuRe
Posts: 1807
Location: Gold Coast, Queensland
frakture libby wasnt in either episode so dunno wtf youre talking about.


Hmm sorry, I meant "Cindy Chandler", the hostess chick. And now I remember she was taken by the others early on, not killed like libby. >_>
Reverend Evil™
Posts: 17268
Location: Wynnum, Queensland
I've pretty much worked out how Lost is gonna finish but I'll wait til the end to tell you if I was right or not.
Dazhel
Posts: 771
Location: Gold Coast, Queensland
Don't worry about telling us Rev, can you tell the show's creators please?
That College Humor vid was on the money.
reload!
Posts: 5158
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
for such a huge show, my god the cgi sucks dick.
good ep though

HeardY
Gaelic newb
Posts: 17270
Location: Sydney, New South Wales
haha this season is going to be great!!
protit
Posts: 15062
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
the 00 refresher episode was bloody awesome too.
mongie
Posts: 7078
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
PS: This is an interview with the writers between the first 5mins being leaked and the first ep being aired.

The interviewer says there are SPOILERS, but for people who have seen the first ep, its really just more of an explanation of what might be happening throughout the season.

You know the writers never give much away.
mongie
Posts: 7079
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
"Cindy Chandler", the hostess chick.


Yeah, that's Kimberly Joseph :D
tequila
Posts: 5759
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
i just can't believe this show is still around, at all
mongie
Posts: 7080
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
Sorry, but its probably the most interesting series in the last 10 years, if not longer.
existence
Posts: 7194
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
yeh, ur a tard teq and clearly havent watched much of it.. lost is sort of more then a tv show, u cant just sit down, watch it and be over with it, its like a f***en jigsaw puzzle and youre always trying to figure s*** out and guess what the f*** is going on.. which i love, the twists in it are by far the most awesome iv ever seen anywhere! <3 lost
protit
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Location: Brisbane, Queensland

twin peaks was better, mongie.
reload!
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Location: Brisbane, Queensland
yeah but that finished 19 years ago...
protit
Posts: 15070
Location: Brisbane, Queensland

ok then, seems like only yesterday...
Auz_Guy
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Location: Brisbane, Queensland
I think the plane ride was as per usual up to the point of turbulence. I think the parallel universe began mid flight (eg when the episode began). Christian Sheppards coffin was on the the manifest which means it was probably loaded into the cargo hold and disappeared from the plane when the timeline split became parallel.
Also, Desmond only showed up when Charlie got into trouble in the toilet, but vanished once Jack revived him. I think this has alot to do with Charlie's destiny.
Also, in the first ep when Locke (Smokey) tells Ben to go get Richard...the is a scene with Frank Leppedis and Sun...while they are talking, Richard is talking with one of Illyana's men in the back ground...crank up the volume and you will here him ask Richard, "How long have you been working with him?" and Richard replies, "About a million years or so" It's hard to hear but definitely said and confirmed on the Lostpedia site.
Also, Jacob in Sayid ftw.
Bet Smokey is taking Richard to the temple gates to try to sneak his way in (by way of forcing Richard to do a secret knock or some s***). I'd love to see Locke and Sayid transform into smoke forms and battle it out.
Also, I mention in another thread that we will get to see Richards feet at some point. It was confirmed again on Lostpedia...but that is all that is said about it. I'm guessing he will have four toes.

Bah
Posts: 3521
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
think the plane ride was as per usual up to the point of turbulence. I think the parallel universe began mid flight
They made hurley say he was the luckiest man alive just to dispel that notion.
thermite
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Location: Brisbane, Queensland
and shannon wasn't on the plane, and desmond shouldn't have been there
Auz_Guy
Posts: 312
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
Sorry, I was implying that I think that everything changed mid flight. Shannon boarded the plane, Hurley was unlucky, Desmond didn't board the plane in Australia. I'm theorizing that after JugHead exploded and history was changed, the timeline for the passengers changed in an instant. Shannon disappeared and Boone's recollection of history had changed. Hurley's history changed also and Desmond seemingly appeared out of nowhere (I realize that he told Jack that his seating companion was snoring) but it doesn't really rule out that he could have instantly appeared on the plane as the bomb went off...especially considering his vanishing act after Charlie's destiny was changed (note: I also realise he could have gone to sit somewhere else on the plane, but this is Lost and just about every scene is significant) And Jack had that dejavu look on his face like he knew he just had a life altering moment.
ravn0s
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Location: Brisbane, Queensland
plus we didnt see desmond get off the plane. we saw everyone else get off.

maybe desmond is time travelling again?
thermite
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Location: Brisbane, Queensland
yeah it does seem desmond would ideally be explained by his flashes in time
lewd
Posts: 633
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
i think the alt timeline is what leads up to the events that are occuring on the island right now, basically.
and the whole thing is a loop where jacob can never die
he knows this. he didnt even try to defend himself
claires gonna give birth to her baby
at the middle or end of the season
and name it "jacob"

and richard was a slave on the black rock ship.
"good to see u out of those chains"

predicted.



last edited by lewd at 15:16:03 07/Feb/10

last edited by lewd at 15:16:31 07/Feb/10
Auz_Guy
Posts: 313
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
^ The Black Rock pirate ship was the first thing I thought of when I heard about the chains, but Richard did say he has been working with 'him' (I assume Jacob) for about a million years - and I would imagine that time was spent on the island. Also the spoiler about his feet indicates that he might have four toes. Which could mean he is Tawaret the God of Fertility or at least related to it. The reference to chains might mean something else. I just can't see Richard being a slave on the ship.

On that note, I wonder if the failing birth rate came into play when the statue was broken.

last edited by Auz_Guy at 16:37:54 07/Feb/10
lewd
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Location: Brisbane, Queensland
^fair calls.

i do belive that the monster is an alien.
i used to be a x files fan ....and on theback of the magazine the black chicks reading on the plane it says "the truth is out there" and an add for Morley cigarettes...which was what the cigarette smoking man smoked ...hints that he could be an alien but i dunno. ithink it would be dope if he was an alien as long as they didnt f*** it up in how they bought that angle across.
Bah
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Location: Brisbane, Queensland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morley_%28cigarette%29
It's just like using Oceanic as the airline.
lewd
Posts: 635
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
^ even that wiki entry says x-files is the most famous use of the brand.
but yeah i see where you're getting at.
still is relevant i say.
groganus
Posts: 949
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
Sorry, I was implying that I think that everything changed mid flight. Shannon boarded the plane, Hurley was unlucky, Desmond didn't board the plane in Australia.


Id agree with you if it wasn't for the fact that Desmond has the uncontrollable ability to time travel, i think he magically appeared on the plan and played a small part in an event that we are yet to full understand and then he magically disappeared... it may have something to do with charlie.. considering that Desmond has time traveled into charlies life a few times... but we will see.
Viper119
Posts: 1198
Location: UK
Wasn't Desmond's time traveling through his own life period? He flashed backwards or forwards in himself in places/times he'd been before, etc, he never actually moved his own body through time.
Auz_Guy
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Location: Brisbane, Queensland
Groganus, not sure if you read my post properly. Your theory on Desmond is exactly what I was talking about. I think he did magically appear and disappear from the plane right after the turbulence.

Also, if this is true, it will be the first time that Desmond has physically time traveled. All the other times he was flashing into his past and flashing into Charlie's future, he was only mentally time traveling. When he flashed to his past, he was actually sitting in the plane heading for the freighter and it appeared that he had blacked out. When they got to the freighter, they found that guy in the infirmary who was mentally time traveling too. He was flashing to a carnival within his mind but his body remained in the infirmary.
koopz
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Location: New Zealand
wouldn't be sitting there in front of the 386 PC


it was an Apple ][e (2e)

did anyone else find it odd that a guy who could magically solder up and old early 80's computer after if was shot up couldn't come up with a simple way to punch in a series of numbers automagically?

surely that's be like a few lines of code - maybe a few more if it ran in old Basic

The GuVna
Posts: 1193
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
Just curious, was it Horus that said "help me" to Locke in the cabin ages ago? I can't remember if the later episodes "answered" it or not.

Shame they couldn't get anymore old cast members for them leaving the plane, like Eko, Nikki, Libby, Anna Lucia, Paulo, Michael, Shannon, Nathan etc.

edit: Wish I found this Page before finding these names a longer way :P
815 Passenger Wiki

last edited by The GuVna at 18:58:46 07/Feb/10
ravn0s
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Location: Brisbane, Queensland
apparently shannon will appear sometime later in the season. same with juliet
Auz_Guy
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Location: Brisbane, Queensland
Yea, Eko is apparently making a reappearance as well as Walt. Producers said that the actor who played Libby was offered 3x her original pay packet to return, but she declined due to sand in her vagina about being killed off so early. They have also said that her character is vital to the storyline and some things may be left unanswered because of her refusal to rejoin the cast.

So just to recap a bit about Libby:
She was Hurley's fling on the island.
She was also in the Santa Rosa Mental hospital with Hurley, although he didn't know her then.
She was the one who gave Desmond the boat enabling him to join the race that led him to the island.
Her dead husband's name was David and he was a philanthropist.
(Hurley's imaginary friend was named Dave - and Hurley can see dead people)

Also, I believe it was Christian Sheppard who was asking Locke for help in the cabin. After Jacob left the cabin, Christian took up residence. Note - Christian Sheppard was either animated or impersonated by Smokey.
The GuVna
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Location: Brisbane, Queensland
Libby will be seen in 2nd half of Final season
Auz_Guy
Posts: 316
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
oh...
d0mino
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Location: Brisbane, Queensland
wasn't the cabin surrounded by a ring of that black sand to keep smokey out ? thus christian sheppard could not be animated by smokey.
Auz_Guy
Posts: 317
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
The line of black sand/ash surrounding the cabin was a broken line by the time Locke and Ben first went there. I'm guessing the broken line meant Smokey could come and go as he pleased....prolly also the reason Jacob went to stay in the staue again.
Midda
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Location: Brisbane, Queensland
Desmond didn't travel through time, only his conscious did. His mind went back and forth between himself in the past and future. His body was just collapsing on the ground in the time period he wasn't experiencing at the time. You see them trying to wake him up when he comes to in the present.
Nathan
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I reckon the writers have just tried to purposely lead us astray re Desmond.

If the basic idea of this altered timeline is that a) the island is underwater for whatever reason and b) as such the plane doesn't crash onto it, it also stands to reason that Desmond never crashed on the island.

As such, he could have been doing anything at all; but I think they've already hinted that something draws the people on the plane together? So if Desmond hadn't crashed on the island (which he doesnt in the altered timeline), he is instead drawn to flight 815 like the rest of them.
thermite
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Location: Brisbane, Queensland
yeah you guys are probably right about Desmond, but where the heck did he go
Auz_Guy
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Location: Brisbane, Queensland
I posted this theory in another thread, but I'll recap because we have new info. If it turns out to be true then I suppose it would be a SPOILER.

Two rocks, one black & one white, were found amongst the belongings of 'Adam & Eve' in the caves. Jack supposed the bodies had been dead for 50 yrs or so.
The same rocks were on Desmond's coffee table when he did his first mental flash (he flashed to a time he was painting his apartment).
I think Adam & Eve are Desmond & Penny.
I think they will return to the island with their little boy Charlie.
With all the confusion of time traveling, I think they they will find them selves in 1940 or so.
They named their boy after Charlie who sacraficed his life in the Hydra station to get a msg to Penny.
I think that after they die in the caves, little Charlie is left abandoned on the island to fend for himself until such time as the Hostiles (Richards crew) takes him under their wing.
This theory says that little Charlie Widmore grows up to become big Charles Widmore.
Crazy, I know...
Charles eventually catches up with his mother Penny (maybe from a parallel time line - dunno) and rather than freak her out by telling her that he is in fact her son, he tells her that she is his daughter.
It would explain why Widmore (a guy who has heaps of power and thugs to do his bidding) didn't have Desmond offed from the start and also why he turned up at the hospital after Ben shot Desmond to ask if he was alright.

I may have overlooked some paradoxes, but time travel stories are like that. Also, as the show winds up, new information may come up to cover any obvious paradoxes.


Bah
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The whole timereset thing has killed Claires Australian accent.
ravn0s
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she still sounded australian to me
existence
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Location: Brisbane, Queensland
yeah iv read that theory too auz_guy

sounds good, ep3 was crap, revealed pretty much nothing, that is the craziest/cool ending if thats what happens


more interested right now in what jacob/anti jacob is, their relation to the island, RICHARD in general, and still the whole time travelling thing!@
Bah
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Location: Brisbane, Queensland
she still sounded australian to me

I wouldnt have noticed the accent if i didnt just watch that "previously on" episode they just had on 7-2, her accent was heaps stronger in the early episodes.

Semi forgot she was jacks sister too at the end when Japanese guy goes "your sister", seriously why wouldn't he just say "claire", the whole episode was like that though, trying to be all mysterious and vague, pretty annoying, just wanted Jack to start slapping that c*** and tell him to make sense.
FraktuRe
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Location: Gold Coast, Queensland
^Oh f***, claire is jack's sister. I'd completely forgotten about that. :/

I think he said 'your sister' because jack doesn't actually know it's claire?
thermite
Posts: 4033
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
yeah he met claire's mother, he knows
Reverend Evil™
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Location: Wynnum, Queensland
That was a pretty s*** ep. Those guys in the temple are pissing me off. Why the f*** can't anybody on that island give a straight direct answer FFS!
natslovR
Posts: 6511
Location: Sydney, New South Wales
It's a shame pouty boring Jack didn't die from the poison and spend the rest of the season rotting somewhere.
thermite
Posts: 4035
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
Holy s*** I just found out the guy arresting Kate is NOT James Woods. I've been watching this show for SIX years telling people it's James Woods.
ravn0s
Posts: 9327
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
yeah he met claire's mother, he knows


no he has no idea that claire is his sister. all jack knows is that his dad was having an affair with claires mum.
Auz_Guy
Posts: 319
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
Ten months after the crash, Jack delivers a eulogy at his father's memorial service. He expresses remorse over not having his body present, saying he loved his father. After the ceremony, Carole Littleton (Claire's mum) approaches him. She explains her story, revealing to Jack that Claire - whom she believes he never met - was his half-sister and was also on the plane. Jack is obviously shaken at the news. Carole then approaches Kate, complimenting Aaron, unaware that he's her grandson.
ravn0s
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heh i dont even remember that
lewd
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Location: Brisbane, Queensland
re: claires accent.

it does sound like she calls the baby 'erin' rather than aaron.

true that not much happened plot wise in ep 3, but thats how this show works.
most times, in hindsight, these type of episodes are the most important.
Khel
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Location: Melbourne, Victoria
Yeah, I thought she was saying Erin too, but then I forgot the baby wasn't actually called Erin.
Midda
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Sounded like Aaron to me.

And I totally forgot that Claire was his sister.
lewd
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Location: Brisbane, Queensland
^ my best mates name is aaron, and if i pronounced it like that, he'd probably end up hitting me. soooooooooooooo, nah bro.
Khel
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Even when Kate repeated it and said "Erin (Aaron) is a good name" it still sounded like Erin to me.
Saint
Cainer
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Yanks pronounce Aaron as Erin, so annoying! I asked some what happens when an Aaron dates an Erin and how do you differentiate the names and they didn't know :p
Midda
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Maybe my mind was just translating it to Aaron since I knew that was what she ended up calling the baby.
Dan
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Ok. All Season 6 Lost discussion is to be kept to this thread. Unless there is a desire to discuss actual spoilers (unaired in the US stuff) then you can create a separate thead for that. Anything not yet aired in the US that isn't just personal speculation and genuine discussion is not permitted in this thread.
FraktuRe
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WE HAVE TO GO BACK TO THE OTHER THREAD, WE HAVE TO GO BACK, KATEDAN.
Dazhel
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I lol'ed
Khel
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Just watched the new ep, pretty awesome! Though I have to wonder, did they (as in, the writers) really have this planned out from the start? I mean right back in season 1 when the numbers first came up, did they really know what the numbers were going to mean? Cos it still makes no sense why those numbers were etched on the hatch, or why they needed to be entered into the computer. Sure, it makes for a pretty awesome reveal, with the numbers being part of Jacob's plan and representing the survivors, but I still find it hard to swallow that this was the idea all along.

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thermite
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This still might not be what the numbers 'mean'. Seems they mean a lot of things, just keep popping up in different places.
ravn0s
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i took the numbers beside the names as meaning what order he met each person. locke was the 4th person, jack the 8th etc. or maybe he just numbered all the people on the the flight.
Twinsen
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Location: Gold Coast, Queensland
What ever happened to Desmond? I can not for the life of me remember? and last nights ep on TV was s***, was really annoying me the dialoge between characters, grrrr!
thermite
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Last time we saw Desmond he got shot by Ben and then he beat the s*** out of Ben and threw him into the marina where he, Penny, and little Charlie were staying in their boat "Our Mutual Friend".
ravn0s
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actually the last time we saw him was on the plane :P
thermite
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true, I have a hard time accepting the bizarro world as real I guess
existence
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Sure, it makes for a pretty awesome reveal, with the numbers being part of Jacob's plan and representing the survivors, but I still find it hard to swallow that this was the idea all along.


starting to agree khel, i just f***ing hope they pull it off..
Auz_Guy
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The last time we saw Desmond he was lying in a hospital bed with Penny by his side (after Ben shot him at the marina). Penny gets a visit from Eloise Hawkings and she admits that Desmond's situation is ultimately her son, Daniel Faraday's fault. When Eloise walks out of the hospital she is met by Charles Widmore. He asks if he (Desmond) is ok. Elosise says that he should go see for himself and mentions that his daughter is there. Charles says that he gave up his relationship with his daughter along time ago. Eloise says he knows nothing about sacrifice, because she had lost her son, Daniel. Then Widmore says something about that not being fair because Daniel is his son too.

Don't know if it means a great deal, but Sheppard's number in the cave is 23, as was Jack's seat number on the plane. Also, the cave inscription doesn't indicate whether it is Jack Sheppard or Christian Sheppard....just 23 Sheppard.

I wonder what Illyana will use the WHITE ashes of Jacob for.
thermite
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Spoiler:

http://knowyourmeme.com/i/000/038/630/original/300.png?1265342471

ravn0s
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auz_guy if it were christian sheppard it would have been crossed out.
spidz
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have they forgotten about Walt?
FraktuRe
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Who gives a s*** about walt.
Auz_Guy
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Yea true rav.

Hey. when we first saw Miles do his 'ghostbuster' thing. He was at an old black woman's house. I assumed it was Walt's Grandmother's house, because after Miles spoke to the spirit, he found the heroin in the wall cavity and it was the same packaging as Charlie's gear. So, was it actually confirmed that it was Walt he was speaking to? Wonder when he dies...and how that scene fits into the timeline.

May have mentioned this before, but in that scene, when Miles is returning to the living room from up stairs..he stops and looks at the photos on the wall. Every photo and photo frame had changed into modern frames and photos. They were completely different on his way up the stairs.

I'm thinking Miles is seeing 2 different timelines at once. Maybe he's not so much talking to the dead, but talking to the occupants of the other timeline. Maybe Hurley is in the same boat on that one. There has been a few occasions where the environment around Hurley has completely changed (eg, photo of him with his imaginary friend (dave) and the scene where Anna Lucia pulls him over with the unconscious Sayid next to him).

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The GuVna
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anyone get a good look at smokey jumping over Kate & Claire? i think it was just a smoke man figure just jumping but i cant tell :P

Though when I was slowing it down in virtual dub there's a frame were a face appears in it as it enters the room.




ravn0s
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last 10 mins was awesome.
Dazhel
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“There’s a war coming” -- Charles Widmore
Reverend Evil™
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The best part about that ep was when Caleb Nichol showed up in the sub. Things should start getting interesting meow!
infi
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wow the ending of that episode has got me fired up. how many episodes for this season?
Dazhel
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Location: Gold Coast, Queensland

If Jim Robinson had a sub the whole time and knew where to send a freighter with a bunch of thugs on it why was he always whining about not being able to get back to the island? ANSWER ME THAT CARLTON AND DAMON!
Bah
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Jacobs dead now perhaps?
Khel
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Location: Melbourne, Victoria
I haven't watched the latest episode yet, so maybe I'm missing something, but I don't think he did know how to get back to the island, cos he didn't know where it was, at least until at the end of season 2 when desmond let the hatch explode. Remember there was those dudes in the snow who were monitoring stuff and saw the explosion? I always figured either those guys were working for Charles Widmore, or he had his daughter's phones bugged or something, and that was when he got the info on where the island was so he could send his freighter full of thugs.
ravn0s
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wow the ending of that episode has got me fired up. how many episodes for this season?


16
Reverend Evil™
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I find for me personally the eps with Caleb Nichol seem to be the most exciting. He's such a cold smug son of a bitch. I hope he's in every ep from now til the end.
HeardY
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how s*** was teh CGI at the end with the sub and periscope

haha
thermite
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Cgi is always s*** on this show
they originally weren't gonna do CGI at all and use puppets and s***, they actually shot the pilot like that and it looked even s***ter
Reverend Evil™
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That would have been funny seeing Jack and Kate as puppets. Glad they didn't go that way.
thermite
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Original Polar Bear done on set:

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/lostpedia/images/d/da/BearLaunchFreeze.jpg


Someone convinced the producers that even dodgy CGI would be better than that.

Final CGI Polar Bear:

http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/lostpedia/images/1/10/CGBear.jpg
Reverend Evil™
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LOL

It looks like someone's just chucked it towards the camera
mongie
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There are 18 episodes in this season.
Mantis
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They should have just hired the Bundy bear.

Or maybe that was what they were training them for. To sell Bundy.

Woah!

I think i just blew my mind!
thermite
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you've solved lost, they're actually in bundaberg
existence
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I always figured either those guys were working for Charles Widmore, or he had his daughter's phones bugged or something, and that was when he got the info on where the island was so he could send his freighter full of thugs.


those guys were working for penny, she was trying to find the island to find desmond.

also super interesting reveal in the latest ep is that ben linus and his dad, in this other timeline did indeed visit the island. But now im confused in the fact that its deep underwater, what the hell happened?

existence
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you know what i still dont understand..

it was eloise hawkings who told jack and ben that locke had to come back to the island dead, correct? so is it just coincidence that smokey has found his body and re-animated it, or was that always meant to happen which would mean that eloise hawkings is bad??? because it needed to be lockes body to get everyone to believe him, coz he was supposed to be the next leader etc
thermite
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also super interesting reveal in the latest ep is that ben linus and his dad, in this other timeline did indeed visit the island. But now im confused in the fact that its deep underwater, what the hell happened?


Yah I think at first we were meant to think the nuke sank the island. But if the timelines split because of the nuke then the Linus' left the island after 1977 without ever knowing anything about it sinking (or they wouldn't be wondering what would have happened if they stayed). So the island must have sank at some point between 1977 and 2004. I'm guessing we won't know what happened till the finale. Probably Jack's fault.


it was eloise hawkings who told jack and ben that locke had to come back to the island dead, correct? so is it just coincidence that smokey has found his body and re-animated it, or was that always meant to happen which would mean that eloise hawkings is bad??? because it needed to be lockes body to get everyone to believe him, coz he was supposed to be the next leader etc


Maybe, but not necessarily. Smokey said "You have no idea what I had to go through to get here!", and I think we will discover a LOT of people have been manipulated, and a lot of the events of the series were his doing.

I have a theory that Jacob brought Dharma to the island, probably to build that hatch, as part of some ploy to prevent Smokey from being able to do something or other. Smokey manipulated the button pushers to stop pushing the button and get rid of the hatch for some reason. He also would have manipulated Widmore and Ben to wipe out the Dharma initiative.

existence
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charles widmore "if youre not back on the island when the war comes, the wrong side is going to win"

does this mean, that if he doesnt kill himself and anti jacob reanimate his corpse, the wrong side (i.e jacob jack hurley etc) will win

this makes charles widmore truely bad?



i agree thermite, but IMHO, the way lost has been played out over the years, if they use the excuse "jacob and anti jacob basically manipulated everyone to do this and that and THAT explains the whole storyline" its a bit of a sucker ending.. i honestly have no real theory/explanation of how this show is going to end, im not even reading any forums about it except for this one, im just watching the show week to week, taking it for face value and trying to nut it out myself.

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thermite
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Don't worry I always read spoilers for the next ep and the rate at which the spoilers are true is about 1 in 5. And even then people suspect it was just a good guess based on the casting calls for the episode.
thermite
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charles widmore "if youre not back on the island when the war comes, the wrong side is going to win"

does this mean, that if he doesnt kill himself and anti jacob reanimate his corpse, the wrong side (i.e jacob jack hurley etc) will win

this makes charles widmore truely bad?


No I think Widmore genuinely was trying to keep Locke alive. When Locke told him that Richard said he had to die, Widmore insisted that wasn't true.

if they use the excuse "jacob and anti jacob basically manipulated everyone to do this and that and THAT explains the whole storyline" its a bit of a sucker ending..


That would be somewhat of a cop out, I guess.
thermite
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I have figured out a massive secret in lost

seriously don't read this

Spoiler:

Smokie is aaron!

Jacob is aaron too, but from the alternate reality, where he doesn't turn out f***ed up

There is s***loads in the whole series and the non-series lost stuff to support this.

Khel
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those guys were working for penny, she was trying to find the island to find desmond.


But how did penny even know to look for an island? She knew nothing about the island, or that it was full of electromagnetic weirdness, she would have had no idea what to look for. I reckon either those guys worked for Widmore and he was keeping his daughter in the loop, like he was selling her the whole "I'll help you find desmond" type of thing, but really just wanted to find the island himself. Or if they were really working for penny, then I reckon charles would have known about it, cos hes too smooth to not know about f***ing EVERYTHING thats going on, so he would have had a man on the inside or a bug or something, and got that info when penny got it.
Saint
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We need to send someone to the island to ask all the questions we want to know, I nominate Khel
FraktuRe
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Nah, there's already a hurly on the island.
ravn0s
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ba doom tish
Reverend Evil™
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Anyone else notice how Locke's ears are slightly bigger since he's come back as smokey? Wonder if it has anything to do with ancient Egyptians and cats?

Hmm
thermite
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Hmm so nobody has read my theory? I think it will blow your mind.

Spoiler:

Claire's baby, Aaron, gets raised wrong, and grows up to become evil. At some point he will travel into the past. Aaron becomes the smoke monster (I'm not sure how, but I bet there is a sci-fi explanation for it).

The alternate reality Aaron is raised correctly, however, and he crosses over into our reality, and he becomes Jacob. His powers and ability to influence others are largely due to the fact that he is from a different universe and there is some sort of paradox at play.

There has been way too much importance placed on Aaron in the series, and the ideas about 'bad twins' and kids that gain special powers. That and all the stuff about the importance of proper mothering, and the nature of good and evil.

Now that we are getting more insight into Fake Locke's character, like with him raging at Claire, it seems more and more likely that she is his mother.

It would be an immensely impersonal story if the most important characters on the show were unrelated to the story of the main characters. What I mean by that is that Jacob and his nemesis seem like 11th hour additions to the story, and that is very awkward, and they must tie into the show in terms of the characters we know, and the recurring themes that have been there all along. You don't just bring in a new characters in the last season that are secretly responsible for everything - they must have been in the show all along.

The show is totally character-driven and it doesn't make sense for Jacob and Smokie to be random strangers. This theory makes Christian Shepherd the grandfather of both men, Jack the half-uncle of both men, and Kate the adoptive mother of the show's bad-guy.

Reverend Evil™
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You should send that idea off to the writers because they're prolly still working out how to end the show.
Bah
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Hmm so nobody has read my theory?
You said not to read it?
Spoiler:
Now that we are getting more insight into Fake Locke's character, like with him raging at Claire, it seems more and more likely that she is his mother.
Thats stupid, he is the one that made her crazy in the first place.
ravn0s
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next weeks ep should be good and will hopefully answer some questions since its a richard centric episode. the promo hints that he might tell the losties what the island actually is.
Reverend Evil™
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Hmm, somehow I doubt that will happen. Someone will ask him and he'll say he can't tell them just yet. And they'll move onto something else since no one really pushes anyone for answers.

8-)
ravn0s
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actually i just read that we do find out next week. its a 4 letter word with a 'o' in it.
Auz_Guy
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Nice work Thermite, I was theorizing with a mate today
about the possibility of Smokeys crazy mother being in
fact the crazy Claire.

Highlight of ep was the epic bitch slap she receives
from Smokey. That put a stop to her s***house acting
for a few scenes.

So anyone notice the thing with Sawyer in this latest ep?
We find out he's a detective and he ends up catching Kate
at the end of the ep. But in the first ep of this season
when he is coming out of the elevator at the airport, he
notices Kate beside him wearing handcuffs and he helps her
escape by providing cover. That's weird.
thermite
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Vague picture with symbolic lost spoiler from a few months back
Ties in with what ravn0s said :P
Spoiler:
Perhaps the island is the buttplug of Earth's a******


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ravn0s
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So anyone notice the thing with Sawyer in this latest ep?
We find out he's a detective and he ends up catching Kate
at the end of the ep. But in the first ep of this season
when he is coming out of the elevator at the airport, he
notices Kate beside him wearing handcuffs and he helps her
escape by providing cover. That's weird.


he didnt become a cop to catch criminals. he became a cop so he would have the resources to find the conman that destroyed his family.
Reverend Evil™
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Maybe Sawyer did that so he didn't have to explain what he was doing at the airport?
thermite
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Thats stupid, he is the one that made her crazy in the first place.


That is a pretty good point.
Spoiler:

So maybe another kid ends up being smokie, and he tries to make Jacob/Aaron's mother Claire just as crazy as his own mother, so he becomes evil too.

Or smokie just wants to ensure he will become the evil bastard he is.



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existence
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fwoar

epic episode

its all coming together :D
Saint
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Richard ep lived up to the hype, definitely explained heaps!
iFraktuRe
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yep, though I thought it was a bit stupid when the ship somehow dominated the head of that statue.
natslovR
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Very good episode. A+++++ would buy from again.
HeardY
Gaelic newb
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it was OK - dunno what the circle jerk over the episode is about though
ravn0s
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lol thermite was right about the cork. well done

edit: also nestor carbonells performance was exceptional.


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Python
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Great ep! Hope there are a few more like that instead of episodes of no meaning
Python
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Check out this, easter egg from the game "Just Cause 2"

Its the Lost Island!
groganus
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therminte
Spoiler:
It would be an immensely impersonal story if the most important characters on the show were unrelated to the story of the main characters.



Spoiler:
They haven't just dropped characters in, jacob has been around since season 2 or 3... (ben has always gone on about him) and the smoke monster has been around since first ep.. Sure they have changed the characters.. but they have been contributing to to the story for quite some time... it's hardly like they have just dropped them on us hoping we would chew it up as an explanation.


thermite
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I am aware of that groganus, I know this show quite well, but I still stand by what I said. They are new characters, at least from a certain storytelling perspective.

Also this cork island plug idea is straight out of Joseph Campbell's "Hero with a thousand faces". He even mentions an island as one idea to have a sort of nexus between two worlds - the Axis Mundi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_mundi

So .... we have a monomyth on our hands!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hero_with_a_Thousand_Faces

thermite
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Next week's episode is called "The Package".

http://www.lostreview.com/images/evangeline-lilly-nude-ass.jpg
Dazhel
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Location: Gold Coast, Queensland

thermite delivers
parabol
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That pic is asking for a Content-aware Fill ...
iFraktuRe
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I'd fill her with my content.
Auz_Guy
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Disappointed with the ep.

When Richards age is emphasized by Ben as being "very very old", I thought he'd be more than just a hundred odd years old. I kinda wanted him to be ancient.

Also, the Black Rock ship crashing into the top of the statue...wtf...does anyone else feel cheated in that scene? Would have been good to actually see a tsunami lifting the boat 100 mtrs (or so) into the air to crash into the concrete statue and land somewhere in the middle of the island in tact (for the most part).

I remember seeing the ship come to the island at the start of the season on calm waters in the morning. I wonder how many times it has come to the island.

Also, Man in Black (smokey) tells Richard where the statue is and says that Jacob is there. These are the two characters from earlier in the season (Richard and Locke (smokey)) that are approaching the statue to kill Jacob. Richard asks Locke "What's with the statue?", Locke says "That's where Jacob is." Is this a continuity error or is there more to it? They should definitely be aware of each other because of the "Good to see you out of those chains" line.

The producers confirmed early in the show that the Losties are NOT dead or in purgatory. So what the f***?
thermite
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When Richards age is emphasized by Ben as being "very very old", I thought he'd be more than just a hundred odd years old. I kinda wanted him to be ancient.


It has been apparent for quite some time that Richard came on the Black Rock, and the date of when it went missing was given in an episode about Desmond like 3 years ago.

Also, the Black Rock ship crashing into the top of the statue...wtf...does anyone else feel cheated in that scene? Would have been good to actually see a tsunami lifting the boat 100 mtrs (or so) into the air to crash into the concrete statue and land somewhere in the middle of the island in tact (for the most part).


A little...

I remember seeing the ship come to the island at the start of the season on calm waters in the morning. I wonder how many times it has come to the island.


Yeah I thought that too.

Also, Man in Black (smokey) tells Richard where the statue is and says that Jacob is there. These are the two characters from earlier in the season (Richard and Locke (smokey)) that are approaching the statue to kill Jacob. Richard asks Locke "What's with the statue?", Locke says "That's where Jacob is." Is this a continuity error or is there more to it?


That didn't happen. It was the other way around, Locke was pretending to not know where Jacob was, and Richard was taking him.

The producers confirmed early in the show that the Losties are NOT dead or in purgatory. So what the f***?


What do you mean? They're not. It was made pretty clear by Jacob that they were not dead, nor was it hell.

Bah
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I remember seeing the ship come to the island at the start of the season on calm waters in the morning. I wonder how many times it has come to the island.
Well thats not necessarily an error, it has been shown leaving by boat is problematic, so they could have arrived, turned around, and then jacob started up the storm and wrecked them.
parabol
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http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~boldajis/images/lost_0.jpg

http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~boldajis/images/lost_1.jpg
ravn0s
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lol
Saint
Cainer
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haha @ locke wrinkles
Auz_Guy
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Yeah Thermite, my bad. It was the other way around. And Smokey delivered his "Nice to see you outta the chains" line after he'd gained access to Jacob.

I watched again, and Jacob says to Richard that 'hell' is being kept where it belongs by the island.

And with the whole dead/not dead thing, if we are to believe Jacob, the losties are not dead...but if we are to believe Richards wife (who could be 'working' for smokey) the losties are dead.
I just think that if the losties are being tricked into thinking they're dead, it was really stupid for the producers to confirm so early in the show that they are not dead. It's like saying, "one of our future story arcs is not true, but please go along with it and be mystified anyway".
iFraktuRe
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How could they be dead when several of them have left the island before. Duh.
Auz_Guy
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Dude I'm repeating what Isabelle said to Richard.
Yes six of them did leave the island, then they came back and blew up a hydrogen bomb. I think Isabelle is suggesting they died in the explosion.

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iFraktuRe
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Linus has also left the island, So has charles widmore and ellie hawkins, You're saying they're all dead too?
Dazhel
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Location: Gold Coast, Queensland

Isabelle didn't say Richard was dead. When Richard said that he wished they were together she said that they were already together.
I took that as meaning he's alive, and she's a ghost but they're both together on the island with each other. It's been pretty well established that Hurley can see and talk to ghosts.
Auz_Guy
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Yeah I didn't actually say they are dead. I just thought the writers were trying to trick us into thinking they could possibly dead and then thought that was ridiculous because of the producers having already confirmed that it is not the case.

Also, at 23:38 into last ep, Isabelle says to Richard, "We're dead, both of us".
And just to reiterate, I don't believe he is dead, nor the losties are dead. And I realise that Hurely can talk to ghosts. Just saying that the writers have thrown the 'dead' equation in to trip us up. Which is stupid.

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thermite
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This isn't the first time the idea that they're all dead in hell has been mentioned on the show. Remember Anthony Cooper? "little hot for heaven, isn't it?"
iFraktuRe
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You sure when isabelle says that it's not ole' smokey appearing as her?
Dazhel
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Location: Gold Coast, Queensland

What Isabella said can't be an attempt by the writers to trip us up because Jacob flat out calls BS later on:

Richard (to Jacob): [MiB] said you are the devil and that the only way I would see my wife again is if I would kill you. I saw her, here, in this place - where is she?
Jacob: That wasn't your wife...
ravn0s
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Also, at 23:38 into last ep, Isabelle says to Richard, "We're dead, both of us".


that was smokey pretending to be her. i thought it was fairly obvious.
The GuVna
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I finally remember thinking I'd seen that scene were the other prisoner looks through the crack in the ship to see "the devil" ie the statue, were his eyes the same that looked back at Hurley when he looked into the cabin?
thermite
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were his eyes the same that looked back at Hurley when he looked into the cabin?


Dude that was locke lurking around in Horace's cabin in that episode.
Khel
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When Richards age is emphasized by Ben as being "very very old", I thought he'd be more than just a hundred odd years old. I kinda wanted him to be ancient.


Yeah, this was my first thought too, especially since in the "previously on Lost" bit at the start it even has Richard saying he has lived longer than you could ever imagine. Americans must have pretty limited imaginations if 150 years is "longer than you could ever imagine".

Also, I'm getting the feeling more and more than the exact nature of the island, and who Jacob and the man in black actually are, is never going to be explained. I think all we're going to be left with is hyperbole and metaphors and a case of "the eternal struggle between good vs evil", with Jacob representing the good and the man in black representing the evil. I always figured Richard would have been like an Aztec or Egyptian or something, and have some connection with the whole good/evil gods angle and explain a whole bunch of s***, but really hes just some guy who washed up on the island and is as clueless as everyone else about whats really going on. So yeah, I reckon we're never going to find out the full details, cos theres no characters left they could use a hook into that background info now.
The GuVna
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Different Episode, Hurley walked up to the outside of the cabin, looked in, couldn't see anything, then these eyes look back at him, freaks Hurley & he runs off.
thermite
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oh right, doubt they'll ever address that
existence
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Also, I'm getting the feeling more and more than the exact nature of the island, and who Jacob and the man in black actually are, is never going to be explained. I think all we're going to be left with is hyperbole and metaphors and a case of "the eternal struggle between good vs evil", with Jacob representing the good and the man in black representing the evil. I always figured Richard would have been like an Aztec or Egyptian or something, and have some connection with the whole good/evil gods angle and explain a whole bunch of s***, but really hes just some guy who washed up on the island and is as clueless as everyone else about whats really going on. So yeah, I reckon we're never going to find out the full details, cos theres no characters left they could use a hook into that background info now.


exactly my thoughts... and its worrying

just the way jacob explained to richard about "ppl should make the right decisions, why should I have to influence them" it is sooooooo broad. we really needed " i am this person, im here to stop that person from doing this so THIS doesnt happen"

maybe the numbers still tie in.. and maybe desmond could still tie in, khel. and theyv also got the whole time jump section to use to tie in jacob/mib past stories. there is no f***en waaay they SHOULD do what you're saying, but im getting more and more scared they might :(

plz dont fail us lost writers

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ravn0s
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desmond is returning as well as the time constant thingy.
Reverend Evil™
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Why would Isabelle be on the island if she didn't die there?
thermite
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Theres a theory going round that dead people are tied to an object that comes to the island. Like isabelle could have come in the necklace or something.
It's probably more like they come with a person. Like Hurley could be carrying Jacob around in his head ??
lewd
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there is supposed to be an episode set entiely in 53 a.d, featuring only MIB and jacob.
this should answer who they are and where they come from.

did u notice how jacob torments MIB by offering him fish in the season 5 finale on the beach and then in this ep offered him a drink, knowing he is an effigy and does eat or drink? lol, jacobs a piss taker

if the guy isnt a f***ing alien then i dont know how there gonna explain him and to be honest - i do not believe we will get an explanation, that would really s*** me if they didnt answer what his origins are
ep 14 will explain a lot . think its about jacob n mibs childhood


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existence
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yeh thats right lewd, i remember reading that, the ep set in 53 ad should explain a lot~
ravn0s
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there is supposed to be an episode set entiely in 53 a.d, featuring only MIB and jacob.


thats probably ep15 since none of the losties are appearing in the ep.
parabol
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Umm... guys, like many shows the writers were making up the story as they were going along.

This means:

1. There will be inconsistencies
2. There will be plot holes

Just enjoy the show and stop micro-analysing.
thermite
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They might be writing the scripts and specifics of the episodic stories as they go, but I believe by the start of Season 3 they had the whole plot and all the 'secrets' locked in. I wouldn't be surprised if they had some ideas about the nature of the monster and island when they wrote the pilot. Especially if my Joseph Campbell theory from above is true, which it probably is if they are screen writers.
parabol
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but I believe by the start of Season 3 they had the whole plot and all the 'secrets' locked in. I wouldn't be surprised if ...

Sounds like pure speculation to me?
ravn0s
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when they announced a finishing date for the show (i think during season 3) they said they had the rest of the show planned out.
lewd
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Just enjoy the show and stop micro-analysing


dumbest comment in a lost thread ever.
existence
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they knew exactly where the show was going, they answered it countless times in interviews and s***.

in other news, just watched ep 10

and all i can say is

Spoiler:
f***ING DESMOND IS BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

AWESOME episode

Khel
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I wish they could find an excuse to bring Daniel Faraday back, he was my favourite character :(
thermite
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Sounds like pure speculation to me?


The "I wouldn't be surprised" bit was, but I "believe" was based on interviews and podcasts with Damon and Carlton from years ago.
Dazhel
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As much as Daniel Faraday was a cool and mysterious character, at this stage I hope they're not wasting time on anything unrelated to wrapping up the story.
iFraktuRe
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So desmond is the secret weapon eh.. wonder what they'll have him do.
Reverend Evil™
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I wish they could find an excuse to bring Daniel Faraday back, he was my favourite character

Same here, Khel. For such a good character they really shafted him by such a stupid death.
mongie
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Me too, he was my favourite character too, and I have no idea why they had to kill him off so abruptly!
thermite
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Various killed-off characters will be and have been back in the alternate reality. No idea if Faraday will be though.
existence
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the whole faraday time loop with his mother and her sending him there knowing she was going to kill him but forced him to go anyway was prob my favourite concept of the whole season

that aspect of the show is what has me completely by the balls
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guys, im confused on the show at the moment. i sorta lost track about what is happening at some point.
We saw jacob's nemesis off the island as some boss guy, gets shot by sayid, and sun and jin are seeing each other without the blessing of her father,

what alternate reality is this again? Is it the future if they never went the island? They are flash forwards or something?
cheers for the clarification.
thermite
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No no no, that wasn't Jacob's Nemesis (The Man In Black as he's being called) that was Martin Keamy (Played by Kevin Durand), the ex-marine that Widmore hired to kill Ben Linus (he instead killed Ben's daughter) a couple seasons ago (In the timeline/reality that most of the show has been set). He seems to be some kind of mobster/hitman in the alternate reality. Unless you mean the Russian guy, Mikhail, who was one of Ben Linus' guys on the island (wearing an eye patch).

The show has not explained what exactly the alternate reality is. All we know is the island has sunk under the ocean sometime between 1977 and 2004, the plane didn't crash in 2004 (which is when these alternate reality scenes appear to be set), and the character's lives have been significantly different there. It seems likely that it is what their lives would be without Jacob's manipulation.



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parabol
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I have to say, I'm completely uninterested in the flash-parallels. Completely random and too coincidental (all the characters keep bumping into each other).

However I loved the future flashes of Season 4.
Vash
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ahh i thought that mob guy was the MIB, they looked similar.
interesting. good to know i wasnt missing too much.
so theres about 12-14 episodes to go?
ravn0s
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lol no, only 7 to go. last ep is double episode so actually 8 eps.
thermite
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Apparently it will be a triple episode finale.
source: http://www.hollywood.com/news/Lost_Finale_30_Second_Spots_Said_to_Go_for_900k/6836987
ravn0s
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^the first hour might be a recap ep before the final 2 episodes because everywhere else is saying 2 hr finale.
thermite
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I've got some theories on Desmond

You know how he was the constant, well what if he is the constant between the two realities. Remember how he popped in to that plane and then disappeared in the season premiere? Maybe Widmore had to send him there on a mission?

As to why he's like this, maybe it's because he's the only one left that sat in that hatch for so long near the pocket of energy, probably did something to his prostate too.
lewd
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So desmond is the secret weapon eh.. wonder what they'll have him do.


go back in time and press the buttons so the plane dont crash.
thats what charles whitmore will try and have him do
that chick desmond used to hang with once said to him
'the most important thing you will do in your life is press those buttons'
thermite
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http://overexpose.net/prints/LockeSith.jpg
ravn0s
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lol
lewd
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hahaha nice one......
Vash
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Todays episode was f***ing awesome.
Desmond is probably my favorite character, and the desmond episodes dont fail to impress.
parabol
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Another awesome Desmond episode. Cool bananas!
existence
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I have to say, I'm completely uninterested in the flash-parallels. Completely random and too coincidental (all the characters keep bumping into each other).

However I loved the future flashes of Season 4.



todays episode was ground breaking, watch it and your views will completely change on the flash paralells

holy f***ing s*** that was so amazing

vash I dont understand how charlie knew to let him know and get the ball rolling sort of thing, but holy s*** this is awesome

epic epic epic episode, everyone really watch it asap
Vash
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Charlie said when the plane hit turbulence, he got flashes when he swallowed the heroin bag, i think when their faced with close connections to the island universe, they get flashes.
Indeed, an epic episode.
thermite
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Yep brilliant episode
The GuVna
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When Desmond was sat in that strapped wooden chair I thought they were about to reveal that he was the one saying "Help Me" to Locke in the Cabin, but alas no, I was well teased with that :)

Interesting episode none the less.
Saint
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Another great Desmond ep! And Faraday is back yay
existence
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Charlie said when the plane hit turbulence, he got flashes when he swallowed the heroin bag, i think when their faced with close connections to the island universe, they get flashes.
Indeed, an epic episode.


yeah, makes sense!

i hope desmond rounds up everyone off the plane, and they realise there is some form of unfinished business or some sorta leet s***.

also, as per usual eloise hawkings seems to fking know what the hell is going on!! HOW!!!! does charles know? what was ben linus' paralell story? this makes all the paralell stories so much more meaningful now
thermite
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Well I think we can assume Eloise has all her memories from the end of Season 5, when she shot Faraday. She helped set that bomb off.

Yeah I think Desmond will round everyone up - but does he need to bring them all to the brink of death? hehe


what was ben linus' paralell story?


I think his story was some sort of metaphor for what's going on with the island regarding the leaders.

He was a teacher at a high school, and Locke, the substitute, tells Ben he should become the principal.

On the island Jacob is dead and Locke is the only one in charge, he told Ben he should become the leader of the island after he's gone.




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neffo
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When Desmond was sat in that strapped wooden chair I thought they were about to reveal that he was the one saying "Help Me" to Locke in the Cabin, but alas no, I was well teased with that :)


Didn't they already establish that it was the smoke monster.
thermite
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Nope
Dazhel
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I wish they could find an excuse to bring Daniel Faraday back, he was my favourite character :(

As much as Daniel Faraday was a cool and mysterious character, at this stage I hope they're not wasting time on anything unrelated to wrapping up the story.


Awesome, we both got what we wanted. :D
ravn0s
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so lost is a love story?
neffo
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Remember later that the shack had the ash around it. Who else would say "help me?" Locke said it wasn't Jacob.
thermite
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That ash could have been to keep smokie away. I really hope Christian Shephard turns out to be a different guy to smokie. Preferably Christian Shephard himself. Besides, wasn't smokie running around the island terrorising the losties?

Check out tonight's ep, just before the 6 minute mark. The moment the guy tying desmond up says "You don't have any metal on you?" he looks and sounds just like Jack, just briefly. And then Widmore's reponse "Course he doesn't you idiot" he sounds like Locke. Might be nothing to it, but it might be deliberate?

parabol
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Guys that shack stuff happened several seasons ago, before they had anything resembling a cohesive plot.

Don't read into it too much, don't do it ... !
Auz_Guy
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That was brilliant. Ok so just wondering if anyone thought the last bit of that ep was a bit off? Could it be that when Desmond decided to follow Sayid into the jungle, the alt timeline changed/continued?
Was thinking that maybe if he didn't go with Sayid and instead fought to stay with Widmore, maybe the alt timeline would be different eg. he vanishes right in front of Penny (like he seemingly did on the flight).
It definitely appears that Desmond is aware of his flashes to and fro now, because he wants to show 'him' the manifest from the plane. I assume 'him' is Widmore and I assume he'll want to show him when he flashes black to the island.
Dazhel
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because he wants to show 'him' the manifest from the plane.


I'm pretty sure he says 'I just need to show them something', as in show the passengers on the manifest how to have the flashbacks that Charlie showed Desmond, not show Widmore anything.
ravn0s
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he didnt vanish, he fainted. also he didnt say he wanted to show anyone the manifest. he said he wanted to show the people on the flight what their life should really be.
Reverend Evil™
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So they're doing a second version of someone rounding up Losties to go back to the island. But using Desmond because he's a cooler character than Jack.
ravn0s
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well they cant really go to the island in the alternate universe since its underwater and all.
Auz_Guy
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"show THEM something", right got it.
Yea I know Desmond didn't vanish, he just fainted. I was just wondering if he decided not to go with Sayid would that change the alternate timeline. Like the choices you make on the island, changes the course of time in the alt timline.
existence
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just watched ep again

i have a rock hard solid raging boner.

BRING ON NEXT EP.
thermite
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Next, a Hurley episode.
parabol
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Hey at least we won't have any more Sun and Jin episodes.

They are sooooo boring, as most of us can't relate to the family/social-class/business/pregnancy issues since we are not Korean/azn/pregnant/.
Vash
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But thats what makes those episodes interesting...
I find Asian culture fascinating.
thermite
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Yeah I don't care much from the Sun and Jin plot. Maybe when the show wraps up it will be more interesting in retrospect, but at this point I don't even give a toss if they find each other again.

I am far more interested in Rose and Bernard, I f***en lost it when they first found each other on the island.

I've got a feeling there will be a twist with Rose. You know back in the first ep (?) where she was all quiet sitting there alone, she'd realised her cancer was gone, she has some kind of connection with the island. There's gotta be more to this.



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Dazhel
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I've always thought that Rose and Bernard would turn out to be the Adam and Eve dead bodies that they found in the cave in season 1.
Khel
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So I was thinking, could the alternate reality be the reality that happens if the man in black makes it off the island? There seems to be this recurring theme of people getting their desires and their life being "better", and then realising that they aren't actually happy and their lives have turned out kind of hollow. Seems like something a devious, evil smoke monster would pull!

Also, a couple of episodes ago, when Widmore is talking to Jin about what will happen if the man in black gets off the island, its not like a "hell on earth" type apocalypse scenario he paints, he just says that the people they know and love will just blink out of existence and cease to exist. Kind of like reality would change and the people we currently know, will have never existed and will have lead completely different lives?

I dunno, I don't read all the Lost websites and stuff, this is just something that occured to me while I was watching, could be completely wrong :P
Dazhel
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Libby!
:D

(also, Ka-BOOM! hahaha)
mongie
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Awesome episode.
ravn0s
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khel thats what people have been speculating since the beginning of this season.


lol @ alana getting gibbed like arzt from a few seasons ago.
iFraktuRe
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Haha, about time that silly bitch died.
Bah
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Hah "that dynamite is unstable" queue the stupid bitch shoving other crap in her bag then slamming it on the ground.
Triamks
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I thought Desmond injured Locke so that when Locke was taken to Jack's hospital, Jack would repair Locke's spine and Locke would walk again like Jack offered.
iFraktuRe
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It looked to me like when locke looked up he remembered the island, straight after the plane crashed.
thermite
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I wonder if Locke will 'remember' that he becomes the villain and then be conflicted about what to do about that.
ravn0s
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what frak said. they see the memories from the other reality when they either meet their true love or they are in a life or death situation.
existence
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yup . when desmond went to run him over i thought exactly the same, desmond isnt literally going to destroy him on the island, more so 'make him remember' that hes dead in his alt time line or something along those lines which will cause him to drop dead in lost island time which will render smokie useless

something like that

f***ing AWESSSSSSOMEEE EPISODE

the whole ep when hurley and libby were on scene i was screaming at the scream "REMEMBER U f***.. REMEMBER!!!" and then they kissed and i was like MOTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTHERf***KKKER!!

holy s*** i love this show
Purslow
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Personally i think this show should have died when they GOT OFF THE BLOODY ISLAND! That or when Merry died :'( either way this show has lasted long past its used by date and i'm glad it is ending, although that said i do feel bad for all the millions of people that actually think this show is good so heres hoping for you millions that it continues :)
Reverend Evil™
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Hopefully it will all be a dream
Saint
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Very cool ep and Libby came back yay! And another tiny thing explained - the whispering voices. Although that definitely felt made up as opposed to thought out from the start.
ravn0s
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cause him to drop dead in lost island time which will render smokie useless


erm lockes already dead in lost island time.
Khel
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I assumed Desmond was trying to kill Locke because hes trying to make things with the Losties to be the same as they are in the "real" timeline, and in the real timeline Locke is dead. But yeah, I guess he could just be trying to jumpstart Locke's memories with the near death thing too.

Although that definitely felt made up as opposed to thought out from the start.


Yeah, I kinda thought the same, I mean I liked the explanation, I'm happy enough with it, but the whispering voices have been around since the first season and I doubt that was the explanation they had in mind all along.

Also, f*** them with their teases about the Island, Richard DOES know what it is, the f***er. Here I was thinking we weren't going to get anymore juicy info out of Richard, then he drops that s***. Not cool Richard, not cool.
Dazhel
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Also, f*** them with their teases about the Island, Richard DOES know what it is, the f***er. Here I was thinking we weren't going to get anymore juicy info out of Richard, then he drops that s***. Not cool Richard, not cool.


Nah, I thought that came across as completely fake and that Richard was bulls***ting his way through what they needed to do.
Why have a complete episode not that long ago that highlighted Richard's crisis of confidence because he was in the dark just like everyone else?
Khel
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Or I guess he could have just been talking about that cork metaphor, which would be equally unsatisfying.
thermite
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Pretty sure richard was just referring to the scene we saw a few eps ago with the cork.

I was also hoping for a better explanation for the voices in the jungle. Dead people is a little cliche.


Also I think Richard, Ben, and Miles are f***ed. I bet they'll get smoked. Well maybe not Ben.

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existence
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I assumed Desmond was trying to kill Locke because hes trying to make things with the Losties to be the same as they are in the "real" timeline, and in the real timeline Locke is dead. But yeah, I guess he could just be trying to jumpstart Locke's memories with the near death thing too.



in the 'real' timeline, desmond doenst know that locke is dead. when smokie says to him when hes tied up "do u know who i am" he says " of course, youre john locke" so that theory doesnt work.

The ep where des remembered his love for penny etc, he was actually blanking out in 1 time line when he was conscious in the other. i am thinking he has now 'blanked' out when hes down the well, and the very next scene is him in the other time line, and hes killing john locke cause he threw him down a well. rewatch the penny and des scenes and the scene where they zap him with the electromagnetic s***, and unlike all the other flash backs, when des flashes from 1 time line to another, its in real time, ie hes either in 1 timeline or the other, like when he was time travelling. Maybe he isnt even 'remembering' its just him time jumping consciously again. actually that makes alot more sense (since he passes out in front of penny when he jumps back to island time line)

this next ep is gonna be amazzzzzzzzzzing.

Jim
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finkle is einhorn
einhorn is finkle!
Triamks
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I thought Desmond ran over Locke to "introduce" him to Jack.
Dazhel
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oh my GOD! Einhorn is a MAN!?!
natslovR
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What a s***ty ending to the series: {spoiler} Loch escape from the islan which is hidden in a volcano an he threatens air travel in Europe

http://images.smh.com.au/2010/04/16/1329963/gall_volcano_top-600x400.jpg
existence
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Hahaha natslovr
Python
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eightyeight
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hahaha python wins
The GuVna
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So its been revealed that it was Smokey who was Christian Shepard at the start of the show. Just curious, can anyone remember when Jack saw his dead father in the hospital he worked at, after he fixed the supposedly broken smoke detector. But now they're saying that Smokey couldn't have left the island.

Oops?
ravn0s
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or he was lying about being christian, but i doubt it.


also no lost next week :(

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existence
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no lost next week are you f***ing kiddding?

also pretty s*** ep

desmond obviously isnt dead and talked sayid out of it..

the ep was called " the last recruit" surely jack isnt lockes recruit now.

f*** up smokie widmore!!!
thermite
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I just watched a Seinfeld episode with Jinn in it.
Tollaz0r!
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Desmond is NOT trying to kill them.

He is bringing people close to death so that they get a vision of their life in the other time stream.
They need to be brought close to death or be given a very strong emotional event that matches one in their other timeline such as Hurley kissing that chick.

thermite
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He is probably trying to get Shephard and Locke to kiss.
parabol
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parabol
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Can someone tell me why there was C4 on the plane? Smokey's explanation of wiping them out while they're together made sense at the time, except when you consider he had the same plan (according to Jack). Surely Widmore and Locke would have opposite plans?
ravn0s
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maybe widmore intended to blow it up before they got on it.


QQ jin, sun and sayid :(
thermite
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Can someone tell me why there was C4 on the plane? Smokey's explanation of wiping them out while they're together made sense at the time, except when you consider he had the same plan (according to Jack). Surely Widmore and Locke would have opposite plans?


Well maybe he manipulated widmore by letting some info slip through sawyer, expecting he would try to pull something like that?
Not sure... but he did seem a step ahead of everyone.
ravn0s
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im guessing desmond told sayid everything that is going to happen which made sayid change back to the good side. also i think sayids last words "because its going to be you jack" are a pretty big hint that jacks going to be the next jacob.


also next weeks ep is the non-losties ep and sounds like its going to be interesting.
rrrocket
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so tell me why does smokey want them all dead? And now they all didn't die together what now?
natslovR
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Good ep. I just accidentally flicked on channel 7 and they are running the current episode. So that's pretty good, same day as US screening.
Bah
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They caught up because of the one week break.
Reverend Evil™
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Thank god Jin and Sun are gone. Actually, I didn't mind Jin but Sun was such a whiny character.
Saint
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Aww pity the pilot died, I liked his character. Always kinda sad to see any Lostie die now because we've been through so much with them.

so tell me why does smokey want them all dead? And now they all didn't die together what now?

He wants them dead so he can leave the island, but he can't kill them himself so they have to die by each other's hand instead. So now I'm guessing he'll try and figure out other ways to get them to die.
Reverend Evil™
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Yeah, Jeff Fahey's character was one of the best on there. He should have made it till the end.
ravn0s
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"awwww, hell" best last words ever
parabol
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He wants them dead so he can leave the island, but he can't kill them himself so they have to die by each other's hand instead.

So why didn't he just let them fire up the plane + C4?

Also I thought if an action a candidate was about to take (killing someone else) would cause self-death too, then it wouldn't occur ...


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Khel
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That was a pretty selfish move on Jin's behalf though, I mean he could have left Sun and saved himself and at least his daughter would have 1 parent, now shes an orphan. GG.

Did that sub have weapons? Like could it shoot torpedos? Should have shot the bomb out a torpedo tube imo.
Vash
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i never understand these suicide/kamikazi/omg save everyone sacrifice myself things.

Sayid could have just thrown the bomb instead of running in with it.

Jin should have escaped. Sun was ok with it. And yeah, they have a daughter.
iFraktuRe
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Yeah that's what I thought sayid was going to do khel, then suddenly it was a zero anyway >_>
Saint
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Yeah Khel the whole time I was thinking "put it in a torpedo bay and shoot it out or something". I was thinking of the kid the whole time too, how stupid of him.
Nathan
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Great ep. I guess he wanted to kill them all together because it would be much harder to do one at a time without creating suspicion of his intentions.

Still I agree re: the airplane, it doesn't make sense to me why he pointed out the C4 was there.
iFraktuRe
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To get their trust to take the sub. Perhaps he still needs the plane to leave.
parabol
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To get their trust to take the sub. Perhaps he still needs the plane to leave.

Sooo ... why didn't he have the plane blown up with everyone inside, then take the sub himself. Hmm?
iFraktuRe
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maybe he knows something you don't?
ravn0s
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it would have been pretty hard for him to come up with a reason for why he couldnt go on the plane with them.
thermite
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Maybe widmore can't kill them either.
Red
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existence
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Them dying was so sad:( I think the acting in this show is so bloody good too btw, they are all top class actors, except Claire. Bring on Desmond ....

The next ep is gonna be a cracker, YouTube across the sea if u wanna see previews.

Auz_Guy
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So in the 'Richard/Jack/Dynamite' episode, Jack puts 2 n 2 together and figures that on account of Jacob touching them they CAN'T kill themselves. However in this ep, he says the complete opposite...Smokie can't kill us, but we CAN kill ourselves. Sure, they didn't all die. But Sun, Jin and Sayid were touched by Jacob and they ended up dead. Just wondering if the Dynamite scene would have worked out the same way if it were Sun sitting across from Richard instead of Jack.
Also, did Smokie have some insider knowledge that Jack was going to board the sub?
He gave the backpack to Jack with the c4 in it, even though Jack was adamant he was only there to help everyone on to the sub. He only boarded the sub because he carried the injured Kate aboard. Did Smokie know that Kate was going to get shot and that Jack would pick her up and put her on board and that Sawyer would close the hatch before he had a chance to get off? Bit of a stretch I thought. Why not just give the backpack to someone who was definitely gonna board?
thermite
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Sun, Jin and Sayid were touched by Jacob and they ended up dead


Jacob's gift my differ from person to person. Like he made Jin and Sun fertile and have a daughter, Ji Yeon Kwon. I'm guessing we'll see her again?

Jack didn't say they could kill themselves, but each other. He must have thought hard about why Smokie hadn't killed them earlier, if he planted the bomb to kill them anyway?

Can't explain how Smokie knew what he knew. Perhaps he knows them all so well, from reading their minds, that he can anticipate what they might do.
Khel
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Also, did Smokie have some insider knowledge that Jack was going to board the sub?
He gave the backpack to Jack with the c4 in it, even though Jack was adamant he was only there to help everyone on to the sub. He only boarded the sub because he carried the injured Kate aboard.


Yeah, I was thinking about this, did we actually see who shot kate? Could it have been smokey who shot kate? Or could he have got Claire to shoot Kate? Knowing that Jack would then help kate and go in the sub?

Also, I think its more that other people can't kill the candidates, like Richard was trying to kill himself, but hes not allowed to kill Jack, so the dynamite didn't work. But in the sub, smokey tricked them into killing themselves and thats allowed?

I dunno, it all seems a bit made up at the last minute so far, while I'm enjoying this season, it doesn't feel like they're revealing the answers to the questions we've had throughout the series, it feels like they're just making the answers up on the spot and then making them fit. The stuff happening now doesn't really feel all that connected to the last 6 years of Lost, like its not like we have a big reveal and then suddenly realise its been foreshadowed for the past 4 or 5 years, all the reveals so far feel like new stuff they've made up for this season.

And some of it feels really disappointing, like for years they had this enigma that was the statue with the four toes, and everyone was coming up theories all over the place about what it meant, and then we get the time travel bit and OMG theres the whole statue! And the theories start up again, and then instead of there being some big awesome reveal about what the statue is its just "Oh yeah, its just a statue, and it used to be whole, until a few hundreds years ago when a boat crashed into it". Such an anti-climax.

Guess maybe I had my expectations set too high, its still an enjoyable show, but its not super-amazing-awesome like I was expecting.
ravn0s
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Smokie can't kill us, but we CAN kill ourselves


no he said flocke wants them to kill eachother.


i read theres a scene in the nexp ep which proves the whole show has been planned from the very beginning.


edit: just tried to explain how they could kill eachother, but just confused myself. f*** it

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Auz_Guy
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Yea, my expectations were so high for this show. I know exactly what you mean about this season. It totally doesn't feel like the last five seasons. IMO a 'twist ending' should mean that the ending could have been guessed from very early in the piece, but due to the writers genius, they kept us at bay until the end when they reveal how they hid the information from us.
The Sixth Sense movie is a perfect example of a twist ending. The information was there right from the opening scene. And it's revealed at the end how stupid we were for not seeing it straight away.
The Lost writers are STILL revealing new information that is changing the plot each episode. There is no way we could have guessed how this is gonna end from the start or even a season or two ago.
Having said all that, I hope I get to eat my words when the writers, hopefully, deliver a kickass finale.
JaYMan
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I think it would rock if somehow Jacob turned out to be the bad guy and Smokey was doing everything he's been doing for the sake of everyone else, even though it all seemed bad at the time.
Saint
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The whole bit about moving the island and whoever turns that thing being teleported into a desert are a couple of things I'd like to know.
iFraktuRe
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I think no matter how they end it people will hate on it.
lewd
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ive heard there is a 'major spoiler' on youtube regardng the finale.
Nathan
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Guess maybe I had my expectations set too high, its still an enjoyable show, but its not super-amazing-awesome like I was expecting.


+1
existence
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The whole bit about moving the island and whoever turns that thing being teleported into a desert are a couple of things I'd like to know.


this is explained in the next episode

there is pretty big spoilers on youtube, some dude watched them filming this ep and made a video of it with text , pretty pawn next episode
Triamks
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Well today's episode revealed a bit.

Ie, that
Spoiler:
Jacob's brother and "mum" are "Adam and Eve".
parabol
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Well today's episode revealed a bit retroactively made up some s*** to tie in with other random s*** they made up in Season 1.

Fixed.

It's entertaining, sure. But people who believe the writers had it all planned from the beginning are delusional.
neffo
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People who believe Lost didn't have a defined ending from the very first episode are morons.
Crizane Tribal
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The Sixth Sense movie is a perfect example of a twist ending.

If you like The Sixth Sense, watch Jacob's Ladder. It's one of the best movies ever made IMO. Once you know the end, you can go back and watch it and it all makes sense.
Shroud
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The way the stories are being told its really hard to tell if when they stumbled upon Adam & Eve back in series 1, if the writers had already written a story about who they were as revealed in the latest episode.

To me it feels like they only decided the answers to these questions now, I think when they designed the show they decided to have a lot of random "mysterious" elements on the island that would never be explained. They are just there.

Since the show has become so popular and people want answers, they are now writing them on the fly.

Thats just how it FEELS watching the show.

I guess its impossible to ever really know, maybe on the season 6 DVD they'll have some good 'making of' stuff which shows how it was all really pllotted right from the first season.. that would rock.

I guess maybe they always had this final season planned, and seasons 2-3-4-5 were "fillers" to fill in time until they knew they could release the final season, maybe thats why the writers stated it was such a relief to have an end date too the show so they could show all the cards etc.

Either way, im really enjoying the season, and I think anytime you have big mysteries like this, when they do the reveal, no matter what the answer is its always going to be a bit of a disappointment because everyone has an imagination and probably imagined things in a different way.

Myself I always imagined that some kind of ancient tribe had lived on the island and Smokie somehow gained his powers and was "evil" and so Jacob was blessed with his abilities too represent "good" and that they balance each other out, Jacob meant to represent "good" & his brother the opposite. Sort of a ying & yang theory.

Obviously I was completely wrong and Smokie doesnt seem inherently evi(other then the fact he kills people who dont make the right decisions)l or bent on distruction as yet and Jacob doesnt seem like he was that "good" either, there is more revealing to be done.

Now it feels to me like Smokie is some kind of element that brings about judgement to people for their decisions, IE he killed Mr Eko for refusing to repent for his sins.
Shroud
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I have a Lost question from earlier in the show that I never found an answer for, maybe I missed it.

When Juliette joined the survivors camp originally, Sayid demanded answers from her, and she replied "If I told you what I knew, you'd kill me."

Did she or the Others end up really knowing much? Seems to me like in the end the Others had NFI about the island (except Richard) and Ben Linus especially all ended up being clueless pawns who werent really doing much at all, Ben ended up being manipulated by Smokie to kill jacob and break the rules of the game.

What was so special about "the others" in the first place, and why was catching Ben linus so important?

I must have missed it somewhere.. even though i watched every episode.
iFraktuRe
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I also liked how the completely dodged around giving smokie/man in black a real name, the f***ers.
Dazhel
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I also liked how the completely dodged around giving smokie/man in black a real name, the f***ers.


I'm waiting for them to just come out and call him Esau at some point.
thermite
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I'm guessing we will never find out who that woman was.

How come they started speaking American half way through a scene?

Dazhel
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I'm guessing we will never find out who that woman was.


It was CJ Cregg, in a previous life.

How come they started speaking American half way through a scene?


American? I thought they were speaking English.
Either way, they flicked to a new camera angle and everything. The audience is supposed to accept that new camera angle means they can understand foreign languages. Directing 101 :)
ctd
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Because of her pronunciation of the name 'Claudia'.
ravn0s
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what language were they speaking initially?

also is smokie actually jacobs brother?

reasons why he might not be:

1. his body was placed in cave which kate and jack find in th future
2. smokie can make himself look like dead people. he might look like jacobs brother to piss jacob off.

reason why he is:

1. cant kill jacob himself (their "mother" made it so they couldnt)

maybe hes a manifestation of man in blacks evil side?
ctd
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Spanish.
Dazhel
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also is smokie actually jacobs brother?
...
maybe hes a manifestation of man in blacks evil side?


Yeah I'm guessing it's one of those Star Trek type deals where someone's soul or whatever you want to call it mixes with pure energy and comes back to haunt the crew of Enterprise.

His dead body just got spit out at the end of it, so it's probably safe to say that there's a bit of Jacob's brother still in there but it's something completely different and malevolent considering it's taken the form of other various dead people over the years.
trillion
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last nights ep was definitely classified 'what in the weird'

ehhhh spanaird!
ravn0s
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also how did he come back to life after his mother killed him?
existence
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what i dont get is

remember how flocke took ben down under the temple to that place where he was 'judged' and smoke reanimated his dead daughter to convince him to follow and do what flocke says etc

why the f*** were their heiroglphyics on the wall of smoke fighting anubis? or why were there heirglyphics at all? they need to explain that.. or that makes no sense.

maybe egyptians inhabited the island some stage after smokie was born, and they drew all the s***.. nfi really

and i was also hugely disapointed with how they explained the island and the source etc... so vague, fking lame.
Vash
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What time period was it set in when jacob and MIB were born?
existence
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hasnt been said

but there were men on the island, with decent looking huts, and fires and s***

im guessing like the 1500-1600s ?
iFraktuRe
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Yeah it had to be about then, since they spoke spanish also.

So the Egyptians and the statue are still not explained.
parabol
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why the f*** were their heiroglphyics on the wall of smoke fighting anubis?

I was hoping that had something to do with Richard's time. But no, his "I've been here longer than you can imagine" ended up being 130 years or whatever.

Also, the previous Jaboc + brother scenes that we saw seemed more hostile. Was that Jacob vs smokey or vs pre-smokey brother? i.e. when did that occur?
existence
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i think the more hostile scenes were definitely jacob vs smokey

coz he has that bottle of wine and explains how he can never let him escape, coz hes some badass smoke monster now

and yeah, i was also hoping the heiroglyphics had something to do with him

i am maybe guessing the mother could have still been an ancient egyptian, after all she was doing tapestry. thats egyptian isnt it?
ravn0s
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i guess its possible that smokey made those ruins/hieroglyphs himself. just to show off how much of a badass heiroglypherer he is
Crizane Tribal
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I'm waiting for them to just come out and call him Esau at some point.

Same here.

existence
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why esau
ravn0s
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hes jacobs twin brother in the the book of genesis.
thermite
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does esau rhyme with see-saw?
ravn0s
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yer i think its pronounced eh-saw
assag
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The explanations for jacob and smokie not being allowed to kill each other were piss weak..
oh they cant kill each other cus mum said so, oh they cant die because mum said so, i mean what the f***.

and how the f*** did the crazy mum chick kill all those dudes and fill in the hole, also how did MIB know how to make a donkey wheel that will get him off the island. Absolutely piss weak, why is it that 2 episodes away from the f***in finale they give us more questions??

ill buy the cheesy light that is inside all of us but i want some answers involving why these bastards are godlike to begin with arrgh
ravn0s
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how did MIB know how to make a donkey wheel that will get him off the island.


because he just knows things. like how he knew how to play that board game.

yer i know, its a pretty s*** explanation.
Reverend Evil™
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If smokey can use dead bodies, why didn't he use one ages ago and leave the island on the Dhama submarine? He could have acted all cool and s*** and just sneaked on board and left if he really wanted to.

Vash
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Back then there was some magical bind on him leaving due to jacob and candidates being alive... and he's still bound by the candidates.
Reverend Evil™
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Why did the "others" have Kate and Saywer digging the ground with picks and s*** and why did they keep them in those animal type cages.

Another thing, why did Lockes body stay in the coffin after Smokey took control of it. Because I remember Smokey telling Jack he used his fathers body and that coffin was empty when Jack found it.
Crizane Tribal
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I gathered that he cannot leave as long as Jacob or a candidate is on the island. That's why he had to get all the candidates together to leave with him.
Reverend Evil™
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That doesn't make sense. He can't leave as long as a candidate is on the island but he can leave when he has a candidate with him.
Dazhel
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The explanations for jacob and smokie not being allowed to kill each other were piss weak..
oh they cant kill each other cus mum said so, oh they cant die because mum said so, i mean what the f***.

and how the f*** did the crazy mum chick kill all those dudes and fill in the hole, also how did MIB know how to make a donkey wheel that will get him off the island. Absolutely piss weak, why is it that 2 episodes away from the f***in finale they give us more questions??

ill buy the cheesy light that is inside all of us but i want some answers involving why these bastards are godlike to begin with arrgh



Amen.
Khel
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How come they started speaking American half way through a scene?


I'm glad they did, because the crazy immortal mum's accent was f***ing horrendous. It didn't sound like she was speaking another language at all, it sounded like she was reading a bunch of words off a script with no idea how to actually pronounce them. I'm really glad they switched to English or I would have had to turn the sound off and work out what was going on by the pictures.

Yeah, wasn't as satisfying as I hoped, still with the weird metaphors and the ambigious "It is because I say it is" type explanations. Still cool, seeing background on Jacob and the man in black, but I was hoping for a bit more this close to the end of the show.

With the heiroglyphs, I'd assume that light at the heart of the island that turns people into undead smoke monsters has been around for a long time. Maybe back in Egyptian times someone else made the mistake of throwing a person in the cave and they came out as a smoke monster, and there was an epic battle where they fought the monster and finally managed to contain it back inside the island, and scrawled the heiroglyphs as a warning to future people/protectors to not go in there. Thats how it happened in my imagination anyway, I hope they don't reveal the real answer because I'm sure it will be far less impressive and just disappoint me.

Also, the man in black wasn't trying to leave with all the candidates, he was just trying to convince them all to leave with him to get them all in the same place so he could blow them up.
thermite
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Yeah it was piss weak I agree, they have really got to pull something amazing out of their arse these last eps to bring it all together, because I'm just not seeing it.
Khel
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They didn't really explain the wheel thing either did they, I mean, it never actually got built. It was just a "Well I think I can stick a wheel in this here wall, and then when I turn it stuff will happen", what in the f*** explanation is that? What the hell does sticking a big wooden wheel in a wall and turning it actually DO? And it wasn't finished being built anyway so how is it even there in the future?
ravn0s
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Why did the "others" have Kate and Saywer digging the ground with picks and s*** and why did they keep them in those animal type cages.


they were building a runway. somewhere to keep them locked up.

Another thing, why did Lockes body stay in the coffin after Smokey took control of it. Because I remember Smokey telling Jack he used his fathers body and that coffin was empty when Jack found it.


he doesnt take control of their bodies. he makes himself look like them.
Reverend Evil™
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It's funny how the Dharma guys have never found that cave since they have s*** going on all over the island.

I like the show but the writers are just making s*** up as they go.
thermite
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They didn't really explain the wheel thing either did they, I mean, it never actually got built. It was just a "Well I think I can stick a wheel in this here wall, and then when I turn it stuff will happen", what in the f*** explanation is that? What the hell does sticking a big wooden wheel in a wall and turning it actually DO? And it wasn't finished being built anyway so how is it even there in the future?


He did kinda mention something about mixing water with the light, so I guess the wheel is some kind of ghetto tap for the water.

It's funny how the Dharma guys have never found that cave since they have s*** going on all over the island.


not all over, the 'others' told them to stay out of a large section of the island.
ravn0s
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It's funny how the Dharma guys have never found that cave since they have s*** going on all over the island.


its probably the same reason why jacobs brother couldnt find it. only the protector knows where it is.
trillion
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Rev how do you define the difference between them making it up as they go and making it up, uhh... before they went?

How would you have written it to make it ahh less kooky?
Reverend Evil™
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they were building a runway

Yeah, that's such a dumb reason though. Why the f*** build a runway when they've been coming by sub for f*** knows how long. I know that was the reason but it's so f***ing retarded that it has nothing to do with anything. It's been so obvious the writers don't know what the f*** they're doing and they just add in stupid s*** for the hell of it. That retarded spider ep comes to mind.
Reverend Evil™
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Rev how do you define the difference between them making it up as they go and making it up, uhh... before they went?

If I was writing it I would have made it one cohesive story from start to finish. Pretty much all of season 2 was balls and had nothing to do with anything. You could prolly skip season 2 and you'd be non the wiser.

The whole pressing the button every hour or whatever the f*** was retarded as well. What the f*** does that have to do with smokey and the candidates or whatever. It's all such bulls*** and they really had no f***ing idea what the f*** they were doing. I tip my hat to them though because they've kept us watching.

8-)
Khel
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The whole pressing the button every hour or whatever the f*** was retarded as well. What the f*** does that have to do with smokey and the candidates or whatever.


And why did the timer turn into crazy evil looking heiroglyphs when the button wasn't pressed? I've always wondered wtf that was sposed to mean.
Reverend Evil™
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LOL

And why leave the island and then go back? "We have to go back, I don't know why, but we have to. I can't get a straight answer from anyone but I'm gonna round up everyone who left and we're gonna go back!" Smokey can't use a dead body already on the island, he has to form some elaborate plan to get Locke off the island, then have Ben kill him and then bring the body back.

f*** ME
iFraktuRe
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As if they were building a runway when there's a runway on Hydra Island.
Shroud
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Your right, the explanations in this weeks episode were piss-weak.

"I have made it so you & your brother can never hurt each other", although he may no longer be Jacob's brother?

I think we are going to see something MORE about Jacob's "godlike" powers, I remember Jacob's brother saying to him when they were playing that game "One day you will have your own game where you can make the rules.", and it seems like thats what ended up happening, I think we will find out the rules and the game and the "loophole" jacob mentioned.

Even though we know the loophole was for Esau/Smokie to convince someone else to kill jacob.
Dazhel
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That retarded spider ep comes to mind.


http://www.leavesoflorien.co.uk/interests/star trek/insp_spocks_brain.png
neffo
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As if they were building a runway when there's a runway on Hydra Island.


Isn't that the one they built? Cause that was on hydra as well (its where the cages are).
Bah
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http://topcultured.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/anti-locke-brakes.jpg
Reverend Evil™
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ROFL
Saint
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lol @ bah

Also, s***ty ep. Created more questions than it answered IMO.
Khel
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The last few episodes should just be an interview with the writers, where they ask them what different things through the series meant, and the writers actually tell us.
Reverend Evil™
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The last ep should be the losties back on the mainland all celebrating that they made it home. But we're never told how they did it. Just one massive transition from the Jacob/Smokie ep to that.
ravn0s
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The last few episodes should just be an interview with the writers, where they ask them what different things through the series meant, and the writers actually tell us.


after the finale theres going to be a Jimmy Kimmel Live: Aloha to Lost special with all the cast etc. plus theyre going to show 3 alternate final scenes.

the executive producers/writers (damon lindelof and carlton cuse) arent going to be there because they dont want to do any interviews about the ending.
Khel
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the executive producers/writers (damon lindelof and carlton cuse) arent going to be there because they dont want to do any interviews about the ending.


Because they don't actually have any answers to the questions people are going to ask imo.
Dazhel
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Because they don't actually have any answers to the questions people are going to ask imo.


Damn straight.

Edit: Two episodes before the finale it feels like the writers are accelerating headlong at a brick wall.
If they reach 88mph, it'll be awesome and they'll disappear in two fire trails and a spinning number plate.
If they don't everything is just gonna be fubar.
ravn0s
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Because they don't actually have any answers to the questions people are going to ask imo.


theyve always said they arent going to have answers for everything. and not everyone is going to be happy with the answers they do give.
trillion
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Snakeman
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I lol'ed at this.

Give it until half way and the funny starts.

thermite
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hahah that was great
Dazhel
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What time period was it set in when jacob and MIB were born?

hasnt been said
but there were men on the island, with decent looking huts, and fires and s***
im guessing like the 1500-1600s ?

Yeah it had to be about then, since they spoke spanish also.


Much, much earlier. They were speaking in Latin, not Spanish.
masta_blasta
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f***in' magnets, how do they work?
groganus
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I thought it was a good ep, I take the lack of explaining to just mean that no one on the island really knows what the f*** is going on.

Intact this whole series is really just about the surviors of the plane crash and there story on the island, anything else they share is a bonus.
lewd
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^ yeah nah.........

this is a story that helps if its foundations are explained.
to not explain jacob and 'blacky', would be lame as.
'specially if jack is to become the next jacob so to speak.
he can now find out this info without us having to suffer his stupid
dumbfounded look.


did the light turn him into the smoke, or was the smoke always in him and the light released it?

this is the beauty of lost. its a water cooler show, so has to have conundrums.
StrangeRash
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i just want to know what's so special about walt
WetWired
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well walter is the one who crossed dimensions to kidnap the other peter and bring him back to our world. He pretty much started the whole war between universes in the process.
FraktuRe
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Wrong thread, wrong walt.
StrangeRash
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whatever.. it still works for me! :P
ravn0s
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walllllllttttt!!
Dazhel
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^
http://mimg.ugo.com/200903/25049/michael-waaalt.jpg

So at this late stage in the game, we're unlikely to have it explained why 'The Others' wanted to kidnap children from the Losties from way back in the first season. When Mr Friendly takes Waaaalllt from the raft I'm guessing the explanation boils down to good old fashioned pedophilia.
WetWired
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you rang?

http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/underwire/images/2009/04/06/walter_2.jpg
Khel
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we're unlikely to have it explained why 'The Others' wanted to kidnap children from the Losties from way back in the first season.


And why they shot at Jin and Sawyer and busted up their ride, almost killing them, when they were super special candidates and their names were on the list.
thermite
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I think the deal with the others is that, just like the losties, they're people, and people are c***s. That's it.
Reverend Evil™
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My guess is the writers didn't know what direction they wanted to go in so there's so many loose ends no one knows what the f*** is happening.
thermite
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the island is testing us, we have to believe we were watching all this stuff for a reason
Shroud
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i dont think the others knew about the lists.

seems the others were a bunch of dumb c***s with NFI what was going on. They were just pawns.

It seems like everyone is a pawn in the game being played by smokie & jacob and they are just being moved around.

Remember when jacob tried to move sideways and his brother said ' u cant do that, one day you can make up your own game with your own rules!'

this is jacobs game. and they are all pieces on a board.
Khel
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i dont think the others knew about the lists.


Nah, they definitely did, cos remember in that episode where they're introducing the people from the tail section and the others send a spy into the group, he has a list of names of people who are important.
Dazhel
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the island is testing us, we have to believe we were watching all this stuff for a reason


Heh, regardless of the outcome there's gonna be lots of hating after the season is aired.

Fool me once, shame on you,
Fool me twice, shame on me,
Fool me for six long seasons and make a bazillion dollars in merchandising, f***ing genius.
konstie
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i just want skyler to die.
infi
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lol^ me too
groganus
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So at this late stage in the game, we're unlikely to have it explained why 'The Others' wanted to kidnap children from the Losties from way back in the first season. When Mr Friendly takes Waaaalllt from the raft I'm guessing the explanation boils down to good old fashioned pedophilia.


This isn't an easy question to answer.

Basically ben wanted to infiltrate the survivors, so he took white knowing he could manipulate michael to get his rescue shortly afterwards...

Clair was taken so the others could monitor her pregnancy... The inability to have children has been a big issue for ben.. he recruit juilette off the island purely to investigate it.. and im pretty sure half the reason he took the french chicks daughter was because he knew he couldnt have a child (that and he knew she would be better off with him)

Nah, they definitely did, cos remember in that episode where they're introducing the people from the tail section and the others send a spy into the group, he has a list of names of people who are important.


I can't be sure it's the same list.. from memory it was just a list of who ben thought was important for his own reasons.

Ben was an evil dick and the main villan for 4 seasons.

Jacob never spoke to ben, he did it all on his own accord, from getting rid of whitmore to tormenting the survivors, richard guided him but im pretty sure richard was just making sure the island was safe and let ben do what ever the f*** he wanted.

I was going to write up a big time line of all of ben's event's which explains alot about why the island is in the state it is in at its current point of time. but i accidently hit the back button half way through typing that... i might actually do up a visio chart explaining more of the island timeline aswell later on.
Shroud
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we're unlikely to have it explained why 'The Others' wanted to kidnap children from the Losties from way back in the first season.
And why they shot at Jin and Sawyer and busted up their ride, almost killing them, when they were super special candidates and their names were on the list.


I dont believe these are the same lists.. I think Ben had his own agenda and his own lists

By the end Ben has been exposed as greedy clueless f***wit who didnt know s***. And Jacob knew that Ben would get greedy & kill him which is why he never allowed Ben to come anywhere near him.

I dont think Ben ever knew about the caves with the names, or the candidates or any of that s***.. he didnt even know anything about Smokey.

he was just a dumbass.
groganus
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Im pretty sure the only reason ben got into power with jacobs people was because he remove whidmore. (i think (this is a theory) he got away with it because whidmore wanted to experiement with the island)
Khel
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How did Ben get those names then? He sees the plane crash, and he immediately orders people to go find the survivors, and gives them a list of names of people he doesn't even know? Its not like he got to know the survivors, figured out which ones would be useful to him, and then made a list of names, that was a list of names that existed before he even knew who was on the plane.
Dazhel
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I thought Ben dispatched Ethan and Goodwin to the plane crash sites to make lists, he didn't give them lists before sending them off. It's been a while since I watched that episode though so I could be wrong.
Khel
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Oh yeah, maybe thats right, its been a while since I saw it too but I had this fuzzy memory of Goodwin's list having Jack's name on it, which wouldn't be possible, cos they wouldn't have met (unless someone knew the names ahead of time).
groganus
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Also the polar bear explanation.

http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Polar_bear

Polar bears were brought to the Island by the DHARMA Initiative, who held them in cages at the Hydra station. (The World of the Others) Text on the blast door map suggests that DHARMA Initiative researchers were attempting to genetically modify the polar bears to allow them to survive warmer climates. At least some of the polar bears survived the Purge, after which they were freed from their cages and swam to the main Island. (Access Granted) After the crash of Oceanic Flight 815 in 2004, survivors of the crash occasionally encountered and were threatened by the bears, and Charlotte Lewis discovered the skeleton of a DHARMA Initiative polar bear in Tunisia that same year.


I think people forget that alot has been explained

also the lists http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/List



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ravn0s
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so jack is the new jacob.

cant wait to see what alternate desmond is planning.
eK
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jack is now the f***ing man... hopefully he just pops in all gangster like from now on
assag
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Ben is the man i so think he is playin MIB, i really enjoyed this ep so much s*** went down it was awesome! bring on the finale!!
HeardY
Gaelic newb
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this show is just f***ed, can't wait for it to end.

I wish I gave up on it like I did hero's.
Python
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neffo
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Umm, Ben said it in this episode.

"I was told this was where I could summon the monster, little did I know it was summoning me." (or something)
Khel
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Alternate Desmond is awesome, hes the man with the plan.

Also, I can't remember, what happened to that old guy and his black wife? Are they still off living in the jungle like hermits? I can't remember what happened to them, just that someone stumbled accross them living hermit style in the jungle a little while back.
groganus
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khel;

Rose and Bernard later reappeared when Sawyer, Kate, and Juliet escaped from the submarine. Rose, initially, appeared unhappy that they had been discovered. The couple revealed the small cabin in which they had been living with Vincent for the past three years. They expressed that they were happy living peacefully on their own, away from the violence and drama that the other survivors had always been involved with. Rose, whose cancer clearly was no longer affecting her, showed no signs of concern about a nuclear weapon on the island, and promptly directed the group towards the Barracks, saying farewell. ("The Incident, Part 1")

After the incident, Jack's group time-traveled back to the present. Rose, Bernard, and Vincent have not yet been seen on the Island in 2007. It is unknown whether they time traveled to the present and are elsewhere on the Island, or whether they stayed in 1977.


Last ep was great showing what side ben is truely on, i find it funny that he is so emotionally attached to his daughter the way he is.

In case you don't remember, widmore sent ben to kill rosso, ben found the child but couldn't kill them, so he kept the child, when widmore found out he said it was the islands plan to kill the child, ben told widmore that if it was the islands plan then widmore should kill the child... widmore clearly didn't at that point in time (which proved to ben that the islands plan/jacobs plan is all just bulls*** that the leadre of the others can use todo basically what they want)

Few years later ben ends up taking control of the others and kicking widmore off for having living a life off the island (its ok to leave the island for island related matters, but not to live 2 lives) which then sparks the fued between widmore and ben.

Eventually widmore sends his kick ass team of marines to take back the island, at which point ben's daughter is killed, when ben leaves the island he trys to kill penny, but can't and shoots desmond instead (but not killing him).

The m.i.b convinces ben that jacob is responsible for the death of his daughter.. when really it was his own dumb fault all along...

Out of all the cast i love ben the most, he is such a f***ing pyscho cainer.
Khel
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I reckon Ben is still trying to stop the bad smoke monster locke though. I mean, when he shot Widmore, I kind of got the impression he was trying to shoot him to shut him up, so he didn't tell the smoke monster whatever secret it was that he was telling, and then he could pass it off as a revenge killing. And Ben sounded a little disappointed and taken aback when smokie told him that Widmore had enough time to tell him his secret anyway.
groganus
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Yeah but at the same time id firmly believe that ben did do it so widmore didnt get the chance to save his daughter... cause thats the kind of f***ed up person ben is.
natslovR
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especially now. Ben wants to stay on the island and MiB wants to destroy it. Ben won't let that happen. He'll kill MiB.
ravn0s
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im with khel. i think ben is playing flocke. imo bens been transmitting to miles everything he and flocke have been saying with the walkie talkie.
Python
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whatever happens in the finale, everyone will most likely be disappointed :[
ravn0s
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only if its f***ing retarded. i doubt ill be disappointed. i havent been trying to figure what its all about like some people, ive just been enjoying the ride.
Cheez
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haven't read through all the pages so i don't know if this has already been posted (please remove if it has)

Last page spoiler of the final episode:

http://scifiwire.com/2010/05/ultimate-spoiler-read-the.php
ravn0s
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fake. the text looks uniform even though its on crumpled paper.
Cheez
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yeah i agree that it was probably sent out there through some of the sites to get people talking about it more and wanting to see it to get the ratings up. It does sound good tho
Mantorok
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So apparently in the UK, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Israel, Turkey and Canada they will be airing the finale at the same time as the US to reduce the number of people downloading. Sounds like someone finally got a clue.
rrrocket
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except Australia of course. Channel 7 were doing so well! My guess is they wanted to air it same time as the Origin.
Dazhel
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Yeah basically this article covers the points of the last two comments.
‘‘We wanted to give a fair, legitimate ending,’’ producer Carlton Cuse told People. ‘‘The island isn’t gonna be an alien spaceship and fly away.’’


Haha nice stab at Lucas and Spielberg there.
Khel
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That was a good article, until the writer posted the question of whether Kate would end up with Sawyer as one of the big mysteries of Lost that needed answering.
Dazhel
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If they devote more than 30 seconds to Kate and Sawyer hooking up I could be motivated to write a hate email.
Reverend Evil™
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http://www.channelsurfing.net/watch-abc.html

Can watch here live. Only downfall is putting up with the ads and the quality is pretty low.
ravn0s
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imo kate + jack, sawyer + juliet.
Khel
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So I guess I have to stop reading the internet at 2pm until I've seen it
Dazhel
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imo kate + jack, sawyer + juliet.


Only problem with this theory is that Jack is the new Jesus Christ and Juliet is dead.
ravn0s
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not in the alternate universe :P


well we havent seen juliet in alt uni yet, so im just assuming shes not dead.

last edited by ravn0s at 12:41:54 24/May/10
Mantis
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I'm assuming she's Jack's ex-wife and David's mother.
ravn0s
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same
Khel
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Just went to eztv and got a "Service is temporarily unavailable due to capacity problems" error message. Guess people have already started hammering it.
Mantorok
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Just hit up their twitter.
HeardY
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it's out as a 2 CD 1.37gb rip
Khel
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I think its only the first episode so far, not both? Cos I don't think they'd both be even finished yet would they?
JaYMan
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Both are out
HeardY
Gaelic newb
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yeah it's both.

haha at 100+ mb/sec on the tracker I am on.... BT traffic must hammer the intertubes
Khel
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Looks like the 720p version is out now too
infi
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grrr now i have to wait... till later tonight. :S
ravn0s
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currently acquiring 720p version
existence
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currently acquring normal version!
Cheez
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Currently trying to get normal version, my dl speed is slowly picking up.
JaYMan
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Just finished watching!
BoDGie
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I can't believe they killed everyone off like that!
The GuVna
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F O U N D.
Dan
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In before the nerd rage.

Bit of a cop out, but after 6 seasons of wtf, did anyone really expect something more tangible?
JaYMan
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Yea. Still a damn lot of it seemed kinda pointless in the end. All about the journey i guess. But i can't see myself ever going back and rewatching it.
The GuVna
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I was hoping at least Jack would be white smoke.

& also hoping that Echo was going to be the priest in the Church.

& Michael to bust through the Door & Yell WAAAAAAALT.
fpot
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Spoiler:
Jack becomes the new Jacob and protector of the island, the antagonist to the “Man in Black” / Smoke Monster in John Locke’s body
Jack and “John Locke” go to the heart of the island / tunnel of light with Desmond - bc he is a weapon to the island’s magnetic existence. Desmond drains the light/heart of the island…and the island starts to sink.
In order to make that parallel universe happen, Jack believes he must kill John Locke and save the island.
Jack and John Locke have a showdown on the rock cliffs. As John Locke stabs Jack and is about to kill him, Kate shoots and kills him, and Jack kicks his body into the ocean.
In the Flash Sideways:

Desmond is reuniting all the characters and is helping them remember their time on the island.
Ben Linus is Alex’s teacher and mentor. Alex invites him to dinner where he shares a romantic connection with Alex’s mom, Danielle Rousseau.
Desmond works for Charles Whitmore, and connects with Penny through the charity concert the Whitmores are planning.
Hurley and Libby reconnect through Desmond, and Hurley begins to help Desmond reconnect everyone.
Hurley and Boone help push Sayid and Shannon back together. Sayid and Shannon remember.
Daniel Faraday connects with Charlotte at the charity concert event.
Kate helps deliver Claire’s baby, Aaron - backstage at the Driveshaft / Daniel Faraday concert. They both remember.
Charlie and Claire come together backstage. Charlie remembers.
Jack and Juliet are both doctors in the same hospital, used to be married, and had a son together.
Jin and Sun are pregnant. Juliet is their doctor. As Jin and Sun look at the sonogram, they both remember.
Jack gives John Locke spinal surgery, it works, and Locke remembers.
Sawyer and Juliet meet in the hospital. They both remember and reconnect in mutual tears of happiness.
Jack goes to the charity party and runs into Kate. She looks familiar to him, but he only slightly remembers when Kate touches his face.
Back to the island:

Sawyer, Kate, Claire, Miles, Richard Alpert, and Pilot Lapidus leave the island on the plane.
Jack, Hurley, Desmond, and Ben Linus go back to the tunnel of light. Jack gives Hurley the responsibility of being protector of the island. Jack puts back the magnetic stone while Desmond is pulled out. Hurley asks Ben Linus to be his helper on the island.
Back to the Flash Sideways:

All of the islanders meet back up at the church where Jack was supposed to have his father’s funeral.
Just outside the church, John Locke forgives Ben.
Jack goes inside the church and remembers everything about the island when he touches his father’s coffin.
When Jack opens the coffin, it is empty.
His father is standing behind him. Jack figures out that he must’ve died himself. Jack’s father says everyone eventually dies “at some point, at some time”.
All the characters “move on” to what seems to be heaven all together because they needed each other.
The episode ends with Jack dying of the knife wound in the bamboo forest on the island. He is joined by Walt’s dog, Vincent and smiles as he watches the plane with Kate, Claire, Sawyer, and the other survivors flying away - and then he dies…at the exact place where the show started.

Dan
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Yea. Still a damn lot of it seemed kinda pointless in the end. All about the journey i guess. But i can't see myself ever going back and rewatching it.
That's pretty much exactly what I said to Saint.

Further, if anyone that hadn't watched it were to ask me if I'd recommend it (to watch as a completed series). I'd say don't bother.
Snakeman
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I was kind of expecting to see the wizard behind the curtains pulling all the strings to somehow explain the entire "WTF" . But I did cry in parts of the ending... WHEN I REALIZED I WASTED 6 f***ING SEASONS FOR THIS s***.../joke. Nah really, I was happy with the ending although there are way to many lose ends.
Dazhel
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f*** OFF.
Spoiler:
What a f***ing load of bulls***. In season ONE the show runners SPECIFICALLY said "No they're not in purgatory."


I want my giggle back.
Red
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[15:05:31] woahh seeding at 540MB/s on that lost torrent


Yep... f***en smashes the internet.
ravn0s
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thought it was a great ending. it pretty much came full circle except the characters were no longer unhappy/flawed, they were happy/complete.


edit:

dahzel: they werent. everything that happened was real.
FraktuRe
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I dunno what to think. It leaves so many loose threads, so many people left unfulfilled/unexplained. :(

assag
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I still have no idea what the island is...lol
Dazhel
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dahzel: they werent. everything that happened was real.


Hmm I think I get it now
Spoiler:
everything that happened, happened and flash sideways was just where dead people realise they're dead. But then again that makes no sense either because sawyer and claire are in the church with the dead people.


Edit:
Spoiler:

Ahh, Jack's dad said that all the losties are all there together because they loved one another on the island and they want to spend the rest of eternity together. The people that weren't dead are there because they died later. Or something. Awww.



So basically the finale is thus: When you have so much s*** left unanswered, and answering any of it would be to the detriment of something else, don't bother answering any of it and it'll all be sweet.
FraktuRe
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Yeah it doesn't make sense, where is lapidus and miles? or ecko? or dozens of others. :(
JaYMan
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What was up with the numbers?!?!
Snakeman
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^^^ We already got a piss pore explanation for that "Jacob has a thing for numbers"
The GuVna
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What was up with the numbers?!?!


It's the Valenzetti Equation, revealed on the Hanzo Exposed website

fpot
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Wasn't there a thread a while ago saying that they won't be explaining anything?
Dazhel
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There was something a while ago where they said they won't be explaining everything, they didn't say they won't be explaining anything.
Fizzer
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I feel really daft and like someone needs to explain to me wtf I just watched.

Did jack etc die when they set off that bomb or when the plane first went down?
rrrocket
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Okay so I'm not really impressed.

WTF happen?

How is it Jack was in the same spot looking up when he died from when the show started?
Dazhel
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Desmond uncorked the island, and it made the metal act all weird so super people could get stabbed and shot like normal. Then Jack corked up the island again. Hurrah!

It's like that bit in Superman 2 when Superman steps into the special chamber and Zod and co. are on the outside of the chamber expecting Superman to lose his powers, except WHAMMO Superman reversed the polarity and now it's Zod and henchmen getting their arses handed to them.
groganus
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to sum it up, and don't read this if you have yet to watch the last ep


Desmond claims that if he goes down there (and dies) he will be in a place where all his loved ones and friends are (and that jack will be there too).. i take it he knew this from all his near death experiences and from his ability to time travel (or what ev's) anyway... he uncorks the island, jack defeats lock and assists the others escaped.

jack now knows to save the island he has to reverse what Desmond did during jacks last moments he puts Hurley in charge and heads down the hole and reverses what Desmond has done. he then washes up somewhere on the island near by staggers around and dies.


The off the island part of this season has been set in what you could call purgatory, Desmond has been going around trying to make them remember so that the can leave and ascend i guess you could say.

some will say this ending eats balls.. i personally like it.. its kind of like the ending to the sopranos but has a bit more resolution.

I've always said this show is all about the survivors of flight 815.. and its wrapped up there story line nicely in my books.
Wrecktim
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i would have loved at the church for it to have had everyone that was in the show. well atleast the ones with speaking parts
groganus
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i would have loved at the church for it to have had everyone that was in the show. well atleast the ones with speaking parts


I'm pretty sure the writers had previously said they couldn't get everyone, that aside Desmond wasn't taking everyone.. for example, he excluded miles, the pilot (can never remember his name) and Faraday. (in fact that made mention of that, when Desmond was speaking with Faradays mother he said he wouldn't be taking her)


Man the more i think about it the more i enjoyed the last ep.

last edited by groganus at 23:13:39 24/May/10
ravn0s
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all the other people werent there because they werent ready yet, just like how ben wasnt ready to go into the church.
JaYMan
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More I think about it the more it does my head in tbh. Were they dead all along on this island?
ravn0s
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Were they dead all along on this island?


no that was all real
JaYMan
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So they were actually time travelling and there was a smoke monster etc, and people who couldn't be killed etc in the real world? I mean if they were dead all along that stuff is easier explained... So all that crazy stuff happend... on some freaky island AND all this seasons flashes were from some type of purgatory type thing?
Crizane Tribal
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Worst. Episode. Ever.

Honestly, what the f*** was that s***? They used the stupid "AMG you were in purgatory lulz" thing to distract us from the fact that they didn't answer a god damn thing about the island. UGH. Terrible.

Also, the whole Kate still loving Jack thing was soooo just thrown in at the last minute. What the f***? There hasn't been any hint of there being any residual feelings there since the fourth season. After their relationship fell apart, Kate was quite cold and distant. They then kinda patched things up and became friends again. There was no hint that any romance still existed between them. I did not buy it at all.

There were a few things I liked... like Desmond and Hurley working to get all the loose ends together so everybody would remember and move on. I also liked seeing everybody happy in the end. The reunion between Sawyer and Juliette was really nice, where he was like "You got it, Blondie" etc. I, like many of you, spent the last 6 years watching these people struggle, bleed, cry, worry and die. It was nice to see them all happy, content and resolved.
Khel
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I actually really enjoyed it. I stopped expecting things to get answered, and I actually watched the 2 hour recap episode before I watched the finale and that put me in a really good frame of mind to enjoy the finale. Watching back over all the cool stuff thats happened in the show over the past 6 years, and all the great characters, put me in a good mood to enjoy the ending. It wasn't really an ending to explain the mysteries of the island, it was an ending to all the character's story arcs. And thats something they stress in the pre-finale recap special, they said they wanted the finale to be a really character driven thing, where you say goodbye to all these characters you've watched and followed so closely for so long.

I'm not quite sure how people are having trouble understanding it though, the whole island bit was real, was always real, and isn't purgatory or whatever. The flash-sideways bits were just some metaphor for some kind of "afterlife" where everyone actually got to be happy, and got live proper lives and find the people they loved and all that happy stuff. They're all there cos everyone dies eventually, I mean geez, they even come right out and say that in the show, do people actually pay attention? When Jack asks how everyone is there and his dad tells him that everyone dies, some before him, some long after him, it doesn't really matter, theres no sense of time in the weird metaphorical afterlife. They talked a bit about that in the pre-finale episode as well, saying it was a chance for them as writers to tell a bit of a "what if" story and see what would have happened to the survivors had the plane not crashed, and if they would have found each other again even if the island hadn't brought them together.

It was nice, a bit pointless I guess to the overall narrative, but it was a pretty nice way to wrap off the show imo. I was a little disappointed at first that it wasn't some alternate reality thing, and that the Desmond in the alternate reality wasn't going to pull some huge coup and defeat the man in black from the other side, but yeah, the finale really wasn't about that. I enjoyed it for what it was, and it was a fitting end to the show imo. I even got all emotional at the end there when Jack was dying and the dog came and laid down beside him :(

Edit:
I, like many of you, spent the last 6 years watching these people struggle, bleed, cry, worry and die. It was nice to see them all happy, content and resolved.


Yeah, this is pretty much what the writers said they wanted the finale to be. So in that way, it delivered, and I find myself not really even caring about the unanswered questions anymore.
thermite
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I would have been happy if they ended it before the church scene... I was actually enjoying it until Christian said all that BULLs*** and then they all spent 5 minutes hugging.

It's just that if the alt reality isn't real, then what's the point of the characters intricate lives there and showing us things like the island underwater, it seems like none of that actually ties in with the story. What do they even need to 'move on' for... why not enjoy their fake lives? None of that stuff had a purpose that related to the plot!!

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Khel
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I recommend the pre-finale special too, I found it really great reminiscing over the last 6 years of whats happened, and it has interviews with the different cast members as they talk about what it was like to audition for the show and work on the show over the years, and their favourites scenes and stuff.

Also, Sayid is british and has this really upper crust british accent! So weird to hear.
Crizane Tribal
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What do they even need to 'move on' for... why not enjoy their fake lives? None of that stuff had a purpose that related to the plot!!

Didn't Charlie mention something about their alt lives feeling s*** after realising the truth? Desmond seemed to concur.
Khel
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Also, I thought when Jacob descriibed the Island as a cork that stops Hell from getting out, I didn't think there would LITERALLY be a cork that stops hell from getting out, that amused me.
JaYMan
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The flash-sideways bits were just some metaphor for some kind of "afterlife" where everyone actually got to be happy, and got live proper lives and find the people they loved and all that happy stuff. They're all there cos everyone dies eventually, I mean geez, they even come right out and say that in the show, do people actually pay attention? When Jack asks how everyone is there and his dad tells him that everyone dies, some before him, some long after him, it doesn't really matter, theres no sense of time in the weird metaphorical afterlife.


And after that they "moved on". Isn't that kinda exactly what purgatory is???

Purgatory is the condition or process of purification or temporary punishment in which the souls of those who die in a state of grace are made ready for Heaven.

Kinda seems exacly what it was to me. How can you say we didn't watch the show? I don't really get what you think was happening then.

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Khel
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Yeah yeah, that bit could have been purgatory sure, but I was addressing the people who were saying that the stuff on the Island was them in purgatory.
JaYMan
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Yea see that's what i first thought. That ok, S6 flashes have been purgatory and everything else really happend and they all must have died.

But then i thought.. hey that leaves everything REALLY unexplained. Like there was a real world with time travel, smoke monsters, people who couldn't be killed and have lived and unnaturaly long life times etc... If they were all dead from the point of the crash maybe things would have made some more sense.

When his father said it's all been real, maybe he just means well, it was real to you, you experienced it etc.

I enjoyed the end and everyone getting together etc and felt really content when it first finished and I don't regret watching it. But looking back and thinking about all the crazy stuff that happend. Them being dead the whole time would just go down easier for me.

I don't know. I guess it's kinda cool in itself that they don't really tell you what's going on and you have to think about it more maybe never getting a real answer. I know they said everything isn't going to be explained. But even what they kinda explained wasn't real clear.

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groganus
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Leaves room for a spinoff focusing more on island mythology.
infi
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I liked the bit where Claire has her baby.

Spoiler:
why is desmond in charge of all the reunifications?


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Creepy
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Spoiler:
As Faraday discovered, Desmond is the constant. And also immune to Weird Island s***™
Saint
Cainer
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Some of it made sense and some of it didn't. If the island stuff actually happened, then it's still all science fiction and bulls*** and stuff like the hydrogen bomb going off and not killing anyone and smoke monsters leaves alot to be explained. It feels to me like they tied up one part of the show (character arcs etc) but still left the whole island thing and so many parts about it unexplained.

I really liked the "remember" flash scenes, they were really well done. The off the island flash side of things was ok, but the island stuff was still all horses***.
StrangeRash
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so smokie won in the end.
he is jack's dad after all
and he had all the losties together so that bright flash was a truck load of C4 going off, which ben detonated

so ben is now his number 2

the end.

Dazhel
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I would have been happy if they ended it before the church scene... I was actually enjoying it until Christian said all that BULLs*** and then they all spent 5 minutes hugging.


This, I was actually enjoying it until Jack opened the coffin. Ending it before the church scene wouldn't have been good though because we were still waiting to see what they're all gathering together for. They just needed to have a link back to the events happening on the island. Not a wishy washy 'ooh we all died at SOME point and now we'll be hanging out together forever' explanation.

For example, Jack corked up the island again at the end - wouldn't it have been much better if he wasn't able to, and the flash sideways crew realized that in order to save the real world they each decided to make the sacrifice to end the sideways world to save the real world?

THAT would have been a better ending. They still could have had all the emotional recap scenes and it could have been done even stronger emotionally because they had to unite in a purpose.
thermite
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Khel
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Loved when they found Lapedis still alive amongst the wreckage of the sub too, I think I actually cheered. Hes awesome.
ravn0s
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yer lapidus is like the dude that never dies
existence
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wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww what an epic finish.. i really liked it. it was sad :( but awesome!!

there is 1 thing I don't understand though

how is his father alive in the side flash? or how is he not in the coffin rather. jack was bringing his coffin to LA for the funeral, and then he is randomly alive?

ravn0s
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no one was alive in the side flash world. it was a place they all dreamt up to help them prepare to move on.
existence
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yeah just done more reading.. get it now...

fark

good ending!

so that is why when everyone remembers they always started crying, and they all understood they are 'ready to leave'

s***ttttttttttttttt

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existence
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just found this on a forum I read, apparently (from reading it, and the spoiler website) its written by one of the writers


First ...
The Island:

It was real. Everything that happened on the island that we saw throughout the 6 seasons was real. Forget the final image of the plane crash, it was put in purposely to f*&k with people's heads and show how far the show had come. They really crashed. They really survived. They really discovered Dharma and the Others. The Island keeps the balance of good and evil in the world. It always has and always will perform that role. And the Island will always need a "Protector". Jacob wasn't the first, Hurley won't be the last. However, Jacob had to deal with a malevolent force (MIB) that his mother, nor Hurley had to deal with. He created the devil and had to find a way to kill him -- even though the rules prevented him from actually doing so.

Thus began Jacob's plan to bring candidates to the Island to do the one thing he couldn't do. Kill the MIB. He had a huge list of candidates that spanned generations. Yet everytime he brought people there, the MIB corrupted them and caused them to kill one another. That was until Richard came along and helped Jacob understand that if he didn't take a more active role, then his plan would never work.

Enter Dharma -- which I'm not sure why John is having such a hard time grasping. Dharma, like the countless scores of people that were brought to the island before, were brought there by Jacob as part of his plan to kill the MIB. However, the MIB was aware of this plan and interferred by "corrupting" Ben. Making Ben believe he was doing the work of Jacob when in reality he was doing the work of the MIB. This carried over into all of Ben's "off-island" activities. He was the leader. He spoke for Jacob as far as they were concerned. So the "Others" killed Dharma and later were actively trying to kill Jack, Kate, Sawyer, Hurley and all the candidates because that's what the MIB wanted. And what he couldn't do for himself.

Dharma was originally brought in to be good. But was turned bad by MIB's corruption and eventually destroyed by his pawn Ben. Now, was Dharma only brought there to help Jack and the other Canditates on their overall quest to kill Smokey? Or did Jacob have another list of Canidates from the Dharma group that we were never aware of? That's a question that is purposley not answered because whatever answer the writers came up with would be worse than the one you come up with for yourself. Still ... Dharma's purpose is not "pointless" or even vague. Hell, it's pretty blantent.

Still, despite his grand plan, Jacob wanted to give his "candidates" (our Lostaways) the one thing he, nor his brother, were ever afforded: free will. Hence him bringing a host of "candidates" through the decades and letting them "choose" which one would actually do the job in the end. Maybe he knew Jack would be the one to kill Flocke and that Hurley would be the protector in the end. Maybe he didn't. But that was always the key question of the show: Fate vs Free-will. Science vs Faith. Personally I think Jacob knew from the beginning what was going to happen and that everyone played a part over 6 seasons in helping Jack get to the point where he needed to be to kill Smokey and make Hurley the protector -- I know that's how a lot of the writers viewed it. But again, they won't answer that (nor should they) because that ruins the fun.

In the end, Jack got to do what he always wanted to do from the very first episode of the show: Save his fellow Lostaways. He got Kate and Sawyer off the island and he gave Hurley the purpose in life he'd always been missing. And, in Sideways world (which we'll get to next) he in fact saved everyone by helping them all move on ...


Sideways World:

Sideways world is where it gets really cool in terms of theology and metaphysical discussion (for me at least -- because I love history/religion theories and loved all the talks in the writer's room about it). Basically what the show is proposing is that we're all linked to certain people during our lives. Call them soulmates (though it's not exactly the best word). But these people we're linked to are with us duing "the most important moments of our lives" as Christian said. These are the people we move through the universe with from lifetime to lifetime. It's loosely based in Hinduisim with large doses of western religion thrown into the mix.

The conceit that the writers created, basing it off these religious philosophies, was that as a group, the Lostaways subconsciously created this "sideways" world where they exist in purgatory until they are "awakened" and find one another. Once they all find one another, they can then move on and move forward. In essence, this is the show's concept of the afterlife. According to the show, everyone creates their own "Sideways" purgatory with their "soulmates" throughout their lives and exist there until they all move on together. That's a beautiful notion. Even if you aren't religious or even spirtual, the idea that we live AND die together is deeply profound and moving.

It's a really cool and spirtual concept that fits the whole tone and subtext the show has had from the beginning. These people were SUPPOSED to be together on that plane. They were supposed to live through these events -- not JUST because of Jacob. But because that's what the universe or God (depending on how religious you wish to get) wanted to happen. The show was always about science vs faith -- and it ultimately came down on the side of faith. It answered THE core question of the series. The one question that has been at the root of every island mystery, every character backstory, every plot twist. That, by itself, is quite an accomplishment.

How much you want to extrapolate from that is up to you as the viewer. Think about season 1 when we first found the Hatch. Everyone thought that's THE answer! Whatever is down there is the answer! Then, as we discovered it was just one station of many. One link in a very long chain that kept revealing more, and more of a larger mosiac.

But the writer's took it even further this season by contrasting this Sideways "purgatory" with the Island itself. Remember when Michael appeared to Hurley, he said he was not allowed to leave the Island. Just like the MIB. He wasn't allowed into this sideways world and thus, was not afforded the opportunity to move on. Why? Because he had proven himself to be unworthy with his actions on the Island. He failed the test. The others, passed. They made it into Sideways world when they died -- some before Jack, some years later. In Hurley's case, maybe centuries later. They exist in this sideways world until they are "awakened" and they can only move on TOGETHER because they are linked. They are destined to be together for eternity. That was their destiny.

They were NOT linked to Anna Lucia, Daniel, Roussou, Alex, Miles, Lupidis, (and all the rest who weren't in the chuch -- basically everyone who wasn't in season 1). Yet those people exist in Sideways world. Why? Well again, here's where they leave it up to you to decide. The way I like to think about it, is that those people who were left behind in Sideways world have to find their own soulmates before they can wake up. It's possible that those links aren't people from the island but from their other life (Anna's parnter, the guy she shot --- Roussou's husband, etc etc).

A lot of people have been talking about Ben and why he didn't go into the Church. And if you think of Sideways world in this way, then it gives you the answer to that very question. Ben can't move on yet because he hasn't connected with the people he needs to. It's going to be his job to awaken Roussou, Alex, Anna Lucia (maybe), Ethan, Goodspeed, his father and the rest. He has to attone for his sins more than he did by being Hurley's number two. He has to do what Hurley and Desmond did for our Lostaways with his own people. He has to help them connect. And he can only move on when all the links in his chain are ready to. Same can be said for Faraday, Charlotte, Whidmore, Hawkins etc. It's really a neat, and cool concept. At least to me.

But, from a more "behind the scenes" note: the reason Ben's not in the church, and the reason no one is in the church but for Season 1 people is because they wrote the ending to the show after writing the pilot. And never changed it. The writers always said (and many didn't believe them) that they knew their ending from the very first episode. I applaud them for that. It's pretty fantastic. Originally Ben was supposed to have a 3 episode arc and be done. But he became a big part of the show. They could have easily changed their ending and put him in the church -- but instead they problem solved it. Gave him a BRILLIANT moment with Locke outside the church ... and then that was it. I loved that. For those that wonder -- the original ending started the moment Jack walked into the church and touches the casket to Jack closing his eyes as the other plane flies away. That was always JJ's ending. And they kept it.

For me the ending of this show means a lot. Not only because I worked on it, but because as a writer it inspired me in a way the medium had never done before. I've been inspired to write by great films. Maybe too many to count. And there have been amazing TV shows that I've loved (X-Files, 24, Sopranos, countless 1/2 hour shows). But none did what LOST did for me. None showed me that you could take huge risks (writing a show about faith for network TV) and stick to your creative guns and STILL please the audience. I learned a lot from the show as a writer. I learned even more from being around the incredible writers, producers, PAs, interns and everyone else who slaved on the show for 6 years.

In the end, for me, LOST was a touchstone show that dealt with faith, the afterlife, and all these big, spirtual questions that most shows don't touch. And to me, they never once waivered from their core story -- even with all the sci-fi elements they mixed in. To walk that long and daunting of a creative tightrope and survive is simply astounding.

Source: SpoilerTV



explains s*** really well
infi
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Wow that's a great write-up.
groganus
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That is a good read ^

id like to know who it is that wrote it though.
Nathan
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I'm in the "sidways world is bulls***" camp. I think I would have been happier if they left it out of season 6 entirely; the rest of what happens in the finale is interesting enough on its own.
Dazhel
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For those that wonder -- the original ending started the moment Jack walked into the church and touches the casket to Jack closing his eyes as the other plane flies away. That was always JJ's ending. And they kept it.


Maybe they SHOULD have changed it so it didn't come across something that felt tacked on after everything that happened.

Nathan: agreed, there could have still been an epic finish on the island with the same moment in the bamboo trees without the sideways world.
Nathan
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So if I understand the theory correctly, the sideways world didnt just pop into existance due to the bomb going off - like they imply.

Instead the sideways world is just purgatory that would have always existed for them, regardless of whether the bomb went off or not? Which would mean its solely a construct of Season 6 and has nothing to do with anything.
Khel
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I dunno, the reason for leaving Ben outside seems a bit daft, there were heaps of people in the church who weren't part of the first season. Desmond, Penny, Hurley's mental patient chick. So they already changed the ending to have those people in it anyway.
Khel
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Yeah, sideways world is just their version of the afterlife, pretty much has no bearing on the overall narrative, its just playing out a "what if" scenario if people's lives were different and the plane never crashed. Must everything in the show have something to do the island and the mythology? Can't the fact that its just entertaining to watch count for something?
infi
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Well I guess the diehards desperately want to try and make sense of it - plus there was a lot of allusion to a mythology which would tie all the loose ends; the promise was tantalising.

I gave up a long time ago trying to understand it all, and just went along for the ride.
existence
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It can and it did khel, just alot of people having a hard time coming to terms with the ending that it didn't explain absolutely everything.

I am very content however, me and you have had the exact same views on the show all season, so we're still cool people.

im just sad its all over.... by far most addictive tv series/movie/anything watchable i'v ever encountered.
Reverend Evil™
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Loved when they found Lapedis still alive amongst the wreckage of the sub too, I think I actually cheered. Hes awesome.

Apart from Locke, he was my favorite character. He wasn't in it much but he was just a really cool guy.

I'm in two minds about the ending. I would have preferred something different to them being dead and having to find each other to move on to heaven or whatever. Those bits reminded me of the s***ty flashbacks they used to do which were awful.

So many things left unexplained but it's all over so there's nothing we can do about it.
thermite
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It isn't really over. There will be an expanded universe with books and games that further various areas of the plot. No doubt it will piss people off and decades from now when they're making the prequels people will be arguing about what is Lost canon and what isn't.
Reverend Evil™
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Well, to me the tv show is canon and nothing else should be recognized. Just like with the original Star Wars trilogy.
infi
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don't start messing with this now. the 6 seasons is just right.
lewd
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lost = brilliant
Crizane Tribal
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The sideways bulls*** did do one pretty impressive thing; it made the hero and a main character's death a happy thing. Jack died saving the planet and the world, yet it was still a happy ending.
Zoidberg
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here is the alt endings from Jimmy Kimmel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyKyjeRodd4&feature=player_embedded#
mongie
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I just watched it then, and thought it was amazing.

Stafford argues that the plane really crashed on the island, the castaways survived, and went on to have all the experiences viewers saw there.

But in her view, the sideways world is their purgatory. And since "there is no 'now' here," in the words of Jack's father at the church, all those gathered there had died, at one time or another, after living their own respective lives.

"They reconverged for Jack's sake," Stafford said, "and this purgatory was an afterlife scenario, shown through Jack's lens."


From an article - the opinion of someone who writes books on the various seasons...


That was my understanding as well, the sideways world was all of Jack's "soulmates" "moving on" together - from Jack's perspective.

Apart from what Crizane Tribal says (which I agree with), it also let Christian basically wrap up the show - if they didnt say that part, we'd have no idea what the entire series had been about.
ravn0s
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lol @ the alternate endings
spidz
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I agree with all the stuff, and can sort of understand that thing existence posted from another forum, but there are so many other characters they didn't have in the church.

key characters like Echo, Walt, Michael, Anna Lucia etc.

What about the chick that protected Jacob, and the randoms in the temple etc etc

Too many unanswered questions.

Why was Walt so important to the others?
ravn0s
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they wanted echo in the finale but he asked for like 5 times the amount of money they were willing to pay him to come back for 1 scene.

sounds like the actor is a giant douche. echo was originally going to be there for 3 seasons but they had to release him from his contract cause he hated living in hawaii.
spidz
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thats a shame, cause his character was a giant f***ing win!

What of Walt?

Michael was on only 2 eps back, what about him?!
Khel
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Michael was a traitorous douche though, so he probably wasn't invited to the purgatory church gathering.
spidz
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Ben was invited, so your theory sucks Khel!
Khel
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Yeah, but the assumption I guess is that Ben redeemed himself by being Hurley's right hand man, even Hurley gives him props about being a great number 2. But when Michael died, he was still a douche. People ended up actually liking Ben, even respecting him, but nobody liked Michael, he would have just been a downer on their party. Especially since one of the people he shot was there.
Reverend Evil™
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It was prolly cause Michael was black...and annoying.
spidz
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Yeah, but Ben killed Lock!

Michael only killed dudes to save his son, which was what any parent would do!
thermite
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so I guess when Christian told Michael "you can go now" he was full of s***
Crizane Tribal
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AMG who's the fake Kate in that video? She's hella fine.
Khel
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Real kate is better imo
Rdizz
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mmmmm I don't know what to think of that ending.. id give it a 7/10, it was alright but not spectacular
infi
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Hell yeah real Kate is foine.
ravn0s
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michael is stuck on the island as a whispering ghost because he failed at life. no afterlife for him
mongie
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Locke offered his forgiveness to Ben as well...
Shroud
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For example, Jack corked up the island again at the end - wouldn't it have been much better if he wasn't able to, and the flash sideways crew realized that in order to save the real world they each decided to make the sacrifice to end the sideways world to save the real world?



Pls explain how this concept would work??
How could they destroy there 'afterlife' to save the real world? wtf?
Dazhel
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Pls explain how this concept would work??
How could they destroy there 'afterlife' to save the real world? wtf?


Yeah but it wasn't known to be 'the afterlife' until 5 minutes before the end when Jack's dad came back and explained it all. It could just as easily have been explained as a parallel universe.
existence
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Yeh on the spoilertv site there is a pretty big thread and alot of people are suggesting it was meant to be a paralell universe/timeline but half way thru the season they changed to the afterlife idea..
infi
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So they all died.... Or some of the living appear in the afterlife... :s
shad
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Everyone dies at some point. From what I can understand there is no real concept of time where they are. They just needed to remember to move on.
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thermite
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whoever made that vid of questions wasn't paying attention and is seriously confused
infi
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that censorship one was rofl
infi
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612ABC radio is having a competition to describe the plot of Lost in 10 words or less. :S
Nathan
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wouldn't it have been much better if he wasn't able to, and the flash sideways crew realized that in order to save the real world they each decided to make the sacrifice to end the sideways world to save the real world?


Yeh TBH this was the kind of ending I was expecting, that one of the worlds would be sacrificed to destroy MIB. Not a "they're in purgatory LOL!" explanation.
Saint
Cainer
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hhahah @ that censorship one
Dazhel
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612ABC radio is having a competition to describe the plot of Lost in 10 words or less. :S


Losties crash, fruitlessly search years for answers, then ascend together.
FraktuRe
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612ABC radio is having a competition to describe the plot of Lost in 10 words or less. :S


plane crashes, crazy s*** happens, people die, explains nothing, ends.
spidz
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replace 'end' with 'profit' and you have a winner
FraktuRe
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non internet people don't get the ??? profit thing. That said, adjusted:

plane crashes, people die, everyone falls in love, ???, profit.
Reverend Evil™
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Shhh...I f***ed your son's dog

LOL
Bah
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But they survived the plane crash, then fell in love, then died? Right? just watched it on 7, going to read the thread.
And as if vincent wasnt just waiting to chew on Jacks corpse.
Habib
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That is a good read ^

id like to know who it is that wrote it though.


here is the source, from (supposedly) someone at Bad Robot

Personally, I prefer the always excellent recap from colin72 @ thefuselage.com. Unfortunately, the mods have edited out some of the best bits. I'll reproduce in full before they butcher it some more:

Let’s recap!

Let's start off with Lindelof and Cuse’s big gimmicky twist that would make M. Night Shyamalan blush. Everyone in the Flash Sideways is in some vague purgatory waiting to realize they’re dead, or waiting for Jack to realize he’s dead, or helping others to realize they’re dead, or some vague dead BS. After flashing back and flashing forward, Lindelof and Cuse decide to flash all the way to dead. It’s cheesy. It’s a cop out. It’s lame. This twist combined with their inability to address many of the questions and plot lines they raised makes Lost a unique failure in TV history.

Sometimes the dead person remembers important people who were in their life, like their father, sometimes they make up people that never existed like a son, and sometimes they forget the people who were important to them… like everyone on the island. Did you seriously expect there to be some kind of coherent rules at this point?

Desmond is still flittering around purgatory helping everyone remember the island and realize that they’re dead… sometimes by setting up elaborate scenarios and sometimes by blunt force trauma. Part grim reaper, part Cupid, part Hulk Hogan = all stupid.

Charlie looks like he’s a skinhead going to a Goths only Halloween party.

Hurley says to Charlie, “What if I told you playing this concert is the most important thing you’ll ever do”. So apparently Charlie has been gothing it up for awhile and couldn’t move on for some reason until now… which just so happens to also be Jack’s time to move on. So you only exist in purgatory and move on once? So Jin and Sun are once again moving on without their kid? I want to kick Jin and Sun’s Lindelofs and Cuses until they can’t speak English.

Charlie is shot with a dart that knocks him out cold in .3 seconds.

Jack took the job because he says the island is “the only thing in my life that I haven’t managed to ruin.” Really? You believe you made the wrong choice in detonating the nuke, you killed Juliet, you wish you could tell John Locke that he was right about everything, and you had a hissy fit and smashed the magic lighthouse mirrors. You suck Jack.

Sawyer has somehow figured out that Locke needs Desmond to destroy the island. He does some fancy recon by crouching behind a bush 20 feet from Locke. Sawyer is caught by Bad Ben. Sawyer escapes by smacking Bad Ben, because everyone smacks Ben, and Locke lets Sawyer walk away and doesn’t kill him because he doesn’t.

Bernard and Rose have been living in Gilligan and Skipper’s hut. Bernard goes to the same hairdresser as Claire. His grooming habits have really gone down the drain but Rose is still sassy just as the law-of-portraying-an-African-American-woman on TV states she must be.

Desmond has a hunch that Locke wants to take him to a place with a bright light because the characters in the finale are really good at guessing the plot. All of their IQs have been dialed up to 80.

Locke tells Desmond that if he doesn’t do what he wants, he’s going to kill Mr. Howe and Lovey. Desmond makes the Smoke Monster pinky swear that he won’t hurt Scruffy and Sassy if he helps destroy the island… which would kill everyone. Bad deal Brotha. Bad deal.

So Locke is taking Desmond to the magic light cave that he previously couldn’t find but now can find.

Miles finds Richard who has been knocked unconscious for what must be 12 hours.

The world’s worst parents are still at the hospital and can’t speak English. Juliet cameo! What a surprise. Sonogram island flashback! Jin remembers the baby he never met, barely loved, and abandoned. We get another dramatic montage. Jin and Sun are all smiles, can speak English, and seem absolutely thrilled to be dead.

Sawyer meets up with Jack, Hurley, and Kate. Jack says that everyone is meeting up at the magic light cave. Sawyer asks, “Then what?” Jack replies, “Then it ends” and loud music from a John Wayne western is heard. Michael Giacchino must be paid per decibel.

Miles somehow notices Richard has a grey hair but doesn’t say a word about the eyeliner.

Lapidus is alive and has been floating around minutes offshore for over a day.

The whole gang bumps into each other on the way to the magic light cave. Jack tells Locke that he’s going to kill him. So much for the element of surprise. Locke says, “How do you plan to do that? Jack says, “That’s a surprise.” Oh, my bad. It is going to be a surprise. Well, Smoke Monsters love surprises because Locke is perfectly fine with all this and doesn’t even ask Jack to whisper the surprise in his ear.

Jack was married to Juliet for some reason in the Neighborhood of Make Believe. I don’t care. I really, really don’t care.

Sawyer asks Jack what his plan is. Jack doesn’t really have one but for some reason thinks Desmond is a weapon. Jack is a great leader. And by great I don’t mean great.

Jack, Locke, and Desmond go into the magic cave where the light isn’t as bright as it is outside.

Hurley and Boone have made some elaborate plan to get Sayid and Shannon together and we get another island flashback. It’s tough work in purgatory where you have to get a certain number of people together and help them realize they’re dead in order to help someone else realize they’re dead.

Claire is still crazy and wearing that dead badger on her head.

Someone tell Daniel that hat doesn’t make him look cool. And make him stop talking in hushed halting tones like he’s Keanu Reeves or something. Mercifully we don’t have to hear much of the Driveshaft concert.

Claire goes into labor as Desmond looks on with the smarmy self-satisfied grin often seen from pompous TV show creators.

Desmond is lowered into the cave by Jack and Locke. Jack somehow believes Desmond is going to become a weapon against Locke. Locke somehow believes Desmond is going to sink the island. They each came up with these theories the same way Lindelof and Cuse came up with this plot. They pulled it out of their magic caves.

There are skeletons in the cave of people who didn’t turn into Smoke Monsters and weren’t spit out of the cave.

***mod edit

The island starts shaking and going all sorts of crazy. Everything seems to indicate that Locke was right and Jack was wrong, but that doesn’t stop Jack from impulsively tackling the Smoke Monster and punching him in his Smokey mouth. Locke bleeds which of course means that somehow his Smokey powers are gone. Luckily the Smoke Monster-magic light thing doesn’t have to make sense now because it didn’t make sense before. Keep things vague and unexplainable and you don’t have to explain anything. Locke smacks Jack with a rock but leaves without killing him so that Jack can wake up in a few minutes and come after him.

Claire is going into labor but there are no doctors at the fancy museum benefit to deliver her bay-bee. I guess Kate will have to do it. Great.

Eloise somehow knows everything about everything in the real world and in purgatory. But sorry, no more screen time for your story grandma.

Claire craps out one of those cute non-bloody TV babies and we get more of the dramatic flashback crap that will make the audience feel sad and distract them from the countless mysteries the show introduced and dropped. Bah. What mysteries? This is a show about characters. Bah. What plot holes? Who is Walt? Bah. Best finale evah! Bah.

Back on the island the cameraman is shaking the camera around really hard which let’s us know that all hell is breaking loose.

Ben who may be good or bad now is trapped under a tree. Miles, Lapidus, and Richard are still determined to fly the plane and are welding something to the windshield with a propane torch they bought at the hardware store.

Locke is at some cliffs where he has a boat. Instead of hurrying to the boat, he’s standing around at the ladder waiting for Jack to catch up with him like any good cartoon villain would. Jack yells his name and instead of climbing down the ladder before Jack gets to him, Locke runs at Jack and Jack obligingly runs at Locke. Jack does a slo-mo jump which somehow must temporarily stun Locke because he doesn’t use his knife to stab Jack. Jack smacks Locke and surprisingly his knife goes flying out of this hand.

Now some stuff happens that I’ve never seen before. The knife is loose and they wrestle around trying to get it. The knife is just out of Locke’s reach! The tension builds! Now Locke has the knife. He politely stabs Jack once in the side and pushes him to the ground. Locke brings his arm way back as if to say “Here it comes, I’m going to stab you” but luckily Jack catches Locke’s wrist right before the blade goes into his neck. The blade is right at Jack’s neck! Despite being above him and having all of his weight to push with, Locke can’t quite push the blade down. Locke takes a moment to taunt Jack and say, “I want you to know Jack. You died for nothing.” Just then, Kate pops up, shoots Locke, and delvers the line, “I saved you a bullet”. Jack kicks Locke over the cliff. Goodbye unnamed evil guy with ambiguous super powers acquired in an unknown way. I feel like we hardly knew ye. Mainly because we didn’t.

Meanwhile back in the Dead Zone, Locke wiggles his toes, has his poignant island flashback and realizes that he’s dead.

Jin and Sun meet up with Sawyer at the hospital and are still smiling all goofy and speaking English. Shut up you two.

Miles worked for a contractor renovating apartments for a couple summers so he knows how to fix the hydraulics in the nose of an airplane… with duct tape.

Kate asks why the cameraman is still shaking the camera now that Locke is dead. Jack somehow has figured out that Desmond turned off something in the cave and somehow has figured out that he can turn it back on. Jack could go with everyone on the plane but he can’t because he says he can’t. Kate and Sawyer could help Jack re-butt plug the island but they decide to leave despite being told previously that everyone in the world would die if ***mod edit and the light went out. Ben, who is no longer trapped under a tree somehow, and is now Good Ben, has been welcomed back into the moron posse but says he’s going down with the island. Hurley can carry a man out of a sinking sub to save his life but he’s not going to jump off a cliff into the water to save his life. Dude?

Jack and Kate exchange I love yous completely out of the blue… although Jack was married to Juliet in puratory for some reason. Who knows. Whatever. It’s almost over.

Sawyer runs into Juliet in the Land of Misfit Toys and makes me long for the days we watched her dying for an hour and a half.

Sawyer doesn’t ask her what the hell she meant by “It worked” but they have their romantic flashes and Juliet spits out the line about getting coffee sometime. They embrace, Sawyer works in some “I got yas”, Juliet says, “Kiss me James”, and he complies after delivering the line “You got it Blondie”. I throw up, urinate, crap myself, and lose control of all of my bodily functions. Sorry, I’m allergic to cheesy dialogue callbacks. Don’t judge me.

Kate and Jack meet up in purgatory. Kate touches him, he has an island flashback, and although he’s grown tremendously as a character, is still too stubborn to realize what’s going on.

Back on the island, Jack is going into the cave and is bestowing his magical mojo to Hurley. Jack doesn’t know the magic spell mumbo jumbo and the river is dried up but Hurley drinks water from a magic mud puddle and shazam! Hurley is the new Jacob.

Jack goes into the cave and tells Desmond to leave despite the fact that Desmond is the only one who can survive the light. Logic and reason be damned! Jack is going to do this himself.

The un-flyable plane is now flyable thanks to some magic duct tape and just has enough runway to take off.

Jack somehow manages to survive the magic light, doesn’t turn into a Smoke Monster, and ***mod edit After all, Lost is about the characters not about silly things like rules, plot consistency, or story logic. Bah. Jack lays on the ground and laugh-cries. A new twist on the old sissy-face man cry.

If only someone special or magical knew that the way to cause the Smoke Monster to lose his power was to pull the plug on the magic drain and then quickly re-plug it, Desmond could have done that long ago.

Hurley and Good Ben have a good chat. Dude asks Ben, “What the hell am I supposed to do?” Ben tells Dude to do what he does best. Say dude a lot and eat stuff? No, “take care of people”. What people? Hurley asks if Ben will help him. Great idea Dude. What are the chances that Ben will turn bad and screw you over at some point? Hopefully the magic fairies keep dropping those Dharma supplies from their magic fairy spaceships.

Hurley has a heart to heart with Ben in purgatory. Hurley tells Ben he was a great number two. Lost is a great number two. A great big smelly number two.

Jack arrives at the funeral home where everyone else has gathered. He touches his Dad’s coffin and has more island flashbacks. Jack opens the coffin and there is no body. And then it happens… you were force fed one cheesy scene after another for over two hours… here comes a 10 minute enema.

Dear old drunken Dad is actually in the room behind Jack… and he’s dead… and Jack’s dead… and everyone is dead. Lost is dead.

Back on the island, Jack has somehow survived the light cave and somehow has been magically transported out of the cave. As he stumbles through the jungle, everyone in purgatory hugs and sad music plays.

Christian heavy handedly opens a door and a light shines through. On the island, Jack lies down. Vincent lies down beside him and we get a close up of Jack’s eye as it closes. Vincent perks up a bit. He’s hungry. Very, very, hungry.

Horrible.

Last week on the forum someone compared Lost to a bad relationship and I said…

After Sunday I’m breaking things off. I’m going over to her apartment, getting back my CDs and sweatshirt and calling her a dirty slut.

Well… Lost, you are a dirty slut. You lied to me, faked it, and probably gave me an STD.


From here. Worth reading through some of the recaps for the other episodes too :)
Reverend Evil™
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Anyone know the amount of time the losties spent on the island? Not counting Sawyer and co going back in time.
Khel
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It doesn't sound like an excellant recap, it sounds like someone who doesn't like the show having a big cry.
Bah
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Charlie is shot with a dart that knocks him out cold in .3 seconds.
hah yeah, i was waiting for a simpsons moment then where charlie the junkie asks for another couple.
Habib
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Ignoring time travel, they crashed in '04, and Jack dies in '07. Of course, Hurley and Ben stayed behind so who knows how long they lasted.
HeardY
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thank f*** that s*** is over.

what a waste of my life watching 6 seasons of nothing!

I can't believe I hung in there for so long to be left with that.....
HeardY
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hahahahaha


http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1936291
Jim
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this show is like kfc, I knew it was s*** but after a while I'd go back to it hoping it'd be good
Skitza
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That ending actually pissed me off cause it answered f*** ALL!!!! What a load of s*** ending.
RockitMan
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There's a moofie called 'Passengers' with Anne Hathaway which is pretty much exactly the same story minus the island.
Dazhel
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It doesn't sound like an excellant recap, it sounds like someone who doesn't like the show having a big cry.


Khel, truly it was a crappy ending to what was alternately a awesome/mediocre series with plenty of great mysteries but sadly only a loose coherence. You're sounding like one of those guys that's sticking by The Phantom Menace because it had some cool Jedi scenes.
I was really hoping for something different in that last season and didn't expect to be disappointed as much as I was. Jim's on the money with the KFC analogy.

And as if vincent wasnt just waiting to chew on Jacks corpse.

Hahaha, so I'm not the only one that thought this.
Reverend Evil™
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There's a moofie called 'Passengers' with Anne Hathaway which is pretty much exactly the same story minus the island

Yep, that's exactly what I thought of when I saw the ending. The Lost ending was just as bad as using the whole "it was all a dream" explanation. It's easy to use when you know you've painted yourself into a corner and can't think of a clever way to continue.
infi
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So you think the producers just randomly spewed out script for 6 season with no central plot of beginning middle and end at all.

Just like with Twin Peaks, it looks random but the writers have a clear story in mind.
Shroud
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Yeah for the ending they should have shown Jack's eye open like so many of the LOST openings and then his dad goes "Come on Jack.. its time to go to school", Jack looks around the room in a bit of shock, realises he is 15 years old.

would have been just as effective.

Then the final scene shows him in school and Kate and Sawyer and Hugo are his classmates, Locke is the teacher, Linus is the principal and it was really just a dream about people from school.. he sits at his desk looks up and Locke says "Hello Jack.." in that annoying way.. and it closes!


anyone could write this s***.. even me!!
Reverend Evil™
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So you think the producers just randomly spewed out script

Yep. There were so many stupid sloppy scenes in season 6. Jacobs mom telling her sons she's made it so they can never hurt each other. What the f*** does that mean? Also killing off Widmore in the most cheesiest of ways after him being such an important character. And him whispering some secret to smokie.

I just think for such an important season there were so many dumb things happening that the writers weren't sure what direction they were going to take the ending.
Saint
Cainer
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Yeah, I agree that the whole island side of things felt wishy washy and all over the place. But the part they had worked out from the beginning (the purgatory part) felt fairly solid and well done.
HeardY
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LOLS

http://trog.qgl.org/up/lost-ending.gif
Khel
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Khel, truly it was a crappy ending to what was alternately a awesome/mediocre series with plenty of great mysteries but sadly only a loose coherence.


I genuinely liked it, I walked away satisfied at the end. Going into it I really wasn't expecting all the questions to be answered, I mean it had become obvious that answering every question we had about everything wasn't their intention with season 6, so I stopped looking for answers and just watched it to enjoy it. If they did answer all the questions you'd just be complaining about how disappointed you were with the explanations anyway. It had some cool scenes on the island, satisfying conclusions to the main characters' story arcs, and some touching, emotional "awwww" moments in the sideways world when people remembered who they were and were reunited and stuff. All up I actually found it to be one of the most satisfying ends to a series I've seen.

If I was like a rabid Phantom Menace fanboy I'd be trying to convince everyone else they're wrong, but I don't really give a s*** if you loved it or you hated it, its not like anything I say is going to magically convince you that you liked it, and its not like anything you say is going to magically make me realise I hated it.
Khel
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Also killing off Widmore in the most cheesiest of ways after him being such an important character. And him whispering some secret to smokie.


I dunno, I thought that was a fitting way for Widmore to go, Ben getting his revenge for Widmore getting his daughter killed. Also, the secret he whispered in smokie's ear was that thing about Desmond being the failsafe and being capable of destroying the island.
JaYMan
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The characters were all great and if that's the main reason you watched the show I guess you could be content. But lots of people while also also appreciating the character ties I'm sure were just really hanging out to see what this island is all about. Most people after being teased and teased without getting answers had come to the brink at some point of giving up on the show, only for them to add something new (like time travel) that makes it even more cool and interesting, so you keep watching. To not get any answers about the island is just massively disappointing, when for a lot of people, that's why they kept watching the show.

I was kinda content because in the end I wasn't expecting much. But I'm more annoyed at how awesome the show COULD have been if things were planned out a little better and thought through.

I don't regret watching but as someone else mentioned, I wouldn't recommend a friend to watch the whole series who has never seen it. I just couldn't put them through it.
groganus
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People who are saying it didn't answer s*** must be confused, just about everything was or has already been answered.

If something wasn't answered directly the answer was already pretty obvious.


The last 3 eps did seem a tad rushed, but in saying that i feel every series finale is rushed
Khel
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I don't regret watching but as someone else mentioned, I wouldn't recommend a friend to watch the whole series who has never seen it. I just couldn't put them through it.


I'd recommend it, with the advice to just enjoy it and don't try to second guess it. Like you said, there was a lot of cool s*** like the time travel bits. I'm tempted to buy the full series on dvd when it comes out and rewatch it, cos there was a lot of cool s*** in the earlier seasons too that I wouldn't mind seeing again. Probably a lot of little hints and references to stuff I've forgotten too, so it will be interesting to see how stuff is foreshadowed.
ravn0s
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apparently the complete lost series dvd set is going to have a 14min epilogue showing what happened to hurley and ben after hurley became the new jacob.
Dazhel
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I'm guessing they reveal Hurley's midichlorian count up by a factor of 1000%.

its not like anything I say is going to magically convince you that you liked it, and its not like anything you say is going to magically make me realise I hated it.

Very true.

Most people after being teased and teased without getting answers had come to the brink at some point of giving up on the show, only for them to add something new (like time travel) that makes it even more cool and interesting, so you keep watching. To not get any answers about the island is just massively disappointing, when for a lot of people, that's why they kept watching the show.

Amen. This is why I was so disappointed.

People who are saying it didn't answer s*** must be confused, just about everything was or has already been answered.

HeardY's link has a bunch of loose threads and I'm sure there's plenty more. Most of the threads they did tie up were done by hand waving and "It's magic, Yo!". There's always going to be somethings left unexplained I guess but the show wasn't consistent with it's own internal logic and rules.
ravn0s
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no its over 9000
The GuVna
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apparently the complete lost series dvd set is going to have a 14min epilogue showing what happened to hurley and ben after hurley became the new jacob.


I wonder if Hurley gets to murder anyone, as he was one of the rare losties that didn't kill anyone :)
Khel
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apparently the complete lost series dvd set is going to have a 14min epilogue showing what happened to hurley and ben after hurley became the new jacob.


I heard there was going to be 20 minutes of extra footage that got cut from the finale due to time constraints, is that the epilogue? Or is that on top of the epilogue?
Crash
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Khel, truly it was a crappy ending to what was alternately a awesome/mediocre series with plenty of great mysteries but sadly only a loose coherence. You're sounding like one of those guys that's sticking by The Phantom Menace because it had some cool Jedi scenes.

I find it amusing that you give s*** to Star Wars because they went about explaining what the force is with midichlorians, yet you want them to give some in depth explanation to what the island is.
Dazhel
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The irony there is that Star Wars actually WAS about the characters instead of about the mystery and with the prequels Lucas wanted to pretend otherwise.
Reverend Evil™
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If something wasn't answered directly the answer was already pretty obvious

Huh? No f***ing way it was.

Here's a few things I've been thinking of...

If Ben was following Jacob's orders, why did he have access to a secret tunnel in his house where he could activate Smokie? It seemed to me no one could f*** with Smokie.

Jacob's and Smokie's mum said she made it so they could never hurt each other. Never found out how.

Why was there some convoluted plan to get Locke back to the mainland, have Ben kill him and then bring Locke's body back on a plane just so Smokie could become Locke? Why couldn't he just possess an already dead body on the island? And what happened to Smokies original body?

I can't remember what season, but it's the one where Kate and Sawyer are in those dumb cages. Jack asks Ben something something and Ben says, "do you honestly think I'm going to tell you?". I can't remember the question but it was something stupid you never found out. It's not clever writing, it's sloppy. And like jayman was saying, there were a lot of us watching from the start and expecting to get some answers and come 6th season, they just completely ignore everything and go with some lame purgatory line.

For a show with this much lore they sure treated the fans pretty s***ty. And the whole, "well it was really about characters, not story", that's a slap in the face.
Auz_Guy
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Khel, not sure how many HINTS you'll find when you rewatch the series...if you saw the final, you would know there was no big reveal anyway.

Very disappointing end.

The plot goes: They crashed on an island, discovered it was the balance of good and evil in the world, and died. The end. Purgatory could have been left in or taken out. No twist end, no creative end, no big reveal = FAIL

infi
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Don't you think part of the intrigue and debate is generated simply by these unsolved questions. Does every question need to have an answer? That in itself is part of the theme of Lost - science vs. faith.
Sc00bs
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haha there goes 6yrs of viewing u guys lose. i stopped after it started getting ridiculous in season 2 with random s*** happening and not getting explained.
Reverend Evil™
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I think the writers did it so we'd fight amongst ourselves.

Mission accomplished!
Bah
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They did it so they can make spinoffs and still say that lost is "over" as lost was about the characters, not the island.
Khel
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If Ben was following Jacob's orders, why did he have access to a secret tunnel in his house where he could activate Smokie? It seemed to me no one could f*** with Smokie.


Ben wasn't following Jacob's orders though, it was revealed years ago that Ben had never actually seen Jacob. Any orders he did get, were probably from Smokie trying to lead him astray, and I'd assume thats who told him how to summon the smoke monster, because he said he was told to go in there to summon it, and who else would have told him?

Why was there some convoluted plan to get Locke back to the mainland, have Ben kill him and then bring Locke's body back on a plane just so Smokie could become Locke? Why couldn't he just possess an already dead body on the island?


Pretty sure Ben wasn't actually meant to kill Locke, that wasn't part of the plan, when he fessed up at the end and apologise for killing him he said he was jealous of what Locke had. Ben wanted to get back to the island and be the boss guy again, and he wasn't going to be able to do that with Locke around. Smokie probably just saw an opportunity when Locke's body got back to the island and took it.

I dunno, I'm not too fussed about the unanswered stuff, I thought I would be, but in the end most of the stuff that wasn't answered wasn't really important to the overall story of the survivors. You can't claim the whole show was about Jacob and the Man in Black and the magic at the heart of the island or whatever, when those characters (apart from a few mentions here and there) didn't even show up until the last season. May as well say the whole show was about living in the 70's with the Dharma Initiative, or the whole show was about jumping through time. The deep mythological stuff was just this season's angle, like every other season had an angle, the constant through it all is the characters so its not hard to believe the writers when they say its about the characters.

Whats more likely, that the show is about the people like Jack, Kate, Sawyer, Hurley, Sayid, Jin, etc who's stories we watched unfold over the course of 6 years, or the show was about some characters which showed up at the end for a handful of episodes, or the magic fountain of life which showed up 4 episodes from the end. The island and all its wackyness was just a backdrop for the story of the survivors, it just made the story more interesting to watch, thats the way I see it anyway, and it seems to me thats the way the writers saw it.

This is a pointless argument though, I dunno why I keep getting drawn back to this thread and sucked into replying, its like yelling into the wind, for both sides. So I'm going to try and leave it there.
Bah
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Location: Brisbane, Queensland

that the show is about the people like Jack, Kate, Sawyer, Hurley, Sayid, Jin, etc who's stories we watched unfold over the course of 6 years,
But accepting that means admitting to watching a soap opera for 6 years.
Reverend Evil™
Posts: 17612
Location: Wynnum, Queensland
You can't claim the whole show was about Jacob and the Man in Black and the magic at the heart of the island

I never did. To me, that stuff never came into play until season 6. I was more interested in finding out why the Dharma guys were there and the donkey wheel allowing people to leave the island. And also why Widmore was sending troops to the island to take out everyone. And why were the Others stealing kids. And what was Desmond doing sitting in the bunker all that time pressing buttons. Why was the island so special that there was some power struggle between two people, namely Ben and Widmore so important.

The whole afterlife thing was dumb.
Crash
Posts: 1286
Location: Sydney, New South Wales
The irony there is that Star Wars actually WAS about the characters instead of about the mystery and with the prequels Lucas wanted to pretend otherwise.

Just about every episode was a character centric episode, yet you are going to sit there and say the show was about the island?


Huh? No f***ing way it was.

Here's a few things I've been thinking of...
I'm disappointed they never revealed what brand of cigarettes Sawyer was smoking in season 1.

It's a never ending rabbit hole. The writers tell us why the brothers cant hurt each other - because their "mother" made it that way as the protector of the island... Yet you seem to want a scientific explanation as to how she did it. It's a TV show, ITS NOT REAL.
Jim
Posts: 11740
Location: Brisbane, Queensland

fail
comparing knowing a cigarette brand, to how some of the crazy s*** shown to you (therefore filmed, and chosen to be included for your viewing), actually works
Reverend Evil™
Posts: 17613
Location: Wynnum, Queensland
You can't just say s*** like, "because I said so". That's a retarded argument. Just because it's a tv show doesn't give them free reign to make up crap when it suites them. That's an easy way out and doesn't do justice to six years worth of viewing. A lot of people were wanting to know the secrets of the island and after watching for six years you'd think the writers would at least give them that. s***, even crap show like Neighbors and Home And Away have a coherent plot.

Almost every ep of Lost had someone not agreeing to divulge information. But by the end you'd think that after all that you'd find out why.

The writers tell us why the brothers cant hurt each other - because their "mother" made it that way as the protector of the island...

So you'd be cool with things like light sabres on the island? We don't know why everyone has one, but the writers said it's ok? There's no valid reason, but hey, their mum said light sabres for all, so let's go with that.

last edited by Reverend Evil™ at 18:07:28 27/May/10
FraktuRe
Posts: 2231
Location: Gold Coast, Queensland
It's pretty obvious the mum gave them both some of the special water, and bam! they're both invincible and can't hurt each other. Durh.
Khel
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Location: Melbourne, Victoria

Whoever is the protector of the island obviously has some kind of "power", and she used her mojo to make her sons not able to hurt each other, because she cares about her sons and doesn't want them to hurt each other. I don't think theres much more to it than that? Jacob touched each of the candidates too so they couldn't be hurt, I'd assume the mum's thing was something along the same lines.

Personally, I think the more they tried to explain it the worse they made it, I would have been happier if it all just stayed weird and unexplained, rather than get all quasi-religious and mystical.
groganus
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Location: Brisbane, Queensland
Huh? No f***ing way it was.

Here's a few things I've been thinking of...

If Ben was following Jacob's orders, why did he have access to a secret tunnel in his house where he could activate Smokie? It seemed to me no one could f*** with Smokie.


Ben thought he was following jacob, but the whole time was being manipulated by the smoke monster he even said in the 3rd last episode "i thought i was summoning the smoke monster, turns out he was summoning me" (or something to that effect) ben only came to realise he was following the MIB after he killed jacob

Jacob's and Smokie's mum said she made it so they could never hurt each other. Never found out how.


This is non essential to the story, however... who ever is protector of the island can create rules.. for example, jacob made the rules about who can come and who can leave the island, so its possible his mother made a rule that jacob and his brother couldn't hurt each other. either way it doesn't really matter that much.

Why was there some convoluted plan to get Locke back to the mainland, have Ben kill him and then bring Locke's body back on a plane just so Smokie could become Locke? Why couldn't he just possess an already dead body on the island? And what happened to Smokies original body?


Once again this was the mib manipulating ben. He needed locke's body because locke was made leader of the others and ben was told to follow his orders... so it was easier for the mib to manipulate ben that little bit further to kill jacob.

I can't remember what season, but it's the one where Kate and Sawyer are in those dumb cages. Jack asks Ben something something and Ben says, "do you honestly think I'm going to tell you?". I can't remember the question but it was something stupid you never found out. It's not clever writing, it's sloppy. And like jayman was saying, there were a lot of us watching from the start and expecting to get some answers and come 6th season, they just completely ignore everything and go with some lame purgatory line.


I can't answer that question because i can't specifcally recall the question.

For a show with this much lore they sure treated the fans pretty s***ty. And the whole, "well it was really about characters, not story", that's a slap in the face.


It was always about the survivors, from the very get go... you are dellusional to think otherwise.
Crash
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You can't just say s*** like, "because I said so". That's a retarded argument. Just because it's a tv show doesn't give them free reign to make up crap when it suites them. That's an easy way out and doesn't do justice to six years worth of viewing. A lot of people were wanting to know the secrets of the island and after watching for six years you'd think the writers would at least give them that. s***, even crap show like Neighbors and Home And Away have a coherent plot.


Its a science fiction show.... Why do we need to know about how the island works? Do you seriously want another moment where architect from The Matrix pops up and explaining the powers behind the island?



fail
comparing knowing a cigarette brand, to how some of the crazy s*** shown to you (therefore filmed, and chosen to be included for your viewing), actually works
Thats because his brand of cigarettes doesnt matter to the show, some people are looking too far into the explanations and start asking how, when, where and why behind an answer thats been shown. Yes there was stuff that could have deserved some explanation, but it probably ended up not being relevant to the story when fans started asking questions about that particular mystery.
lewd
Posts: 959
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
people who justify the s*** ending are fail.......
and most probably didnt complete school and dont know the
fundamentals of storytelling....
of which there are plenty missing in lost.
they tried to rewrite the mystery/adventure tv format and screwed it up.
case closed.
Khel
Posts: 14940
Location: Melbourne, Victoria

What are the fundamentals of storytelling then, do share? Because I'm not sure you could really apply the typical three act structure to an ongoing tv series over 6 years, especially when actors are going to leave, or new ones come on, and your story is going to have to change to accomodate it. If you look at the overall arcs that the main characters follow though, its pretty typical "Hero's journey" type stuff, especially in Jack's case.
FraktuRe
Posts: 2238
Location: Gold Coast, Queensland
the fundamentels of storyteling...
are obviously...
..to type like this
with line breaks
constintly for no aparent reason
and also to have no discernable sentance structure..
..and be full of speeling misteaks
if u went to school.
youd no that...
Bah
Posts: 3806
Location: Brisbane, Queensland

I think the main problem with the lost ending was that it answered a question that was never asked in the previous 5 seasons, i.e. purgatory, they just introduced it in the final season, and acted if it was a big reveal, while ignoring a huge portion of the island mystery. Kind of like a sleight of hand magicians trick, making you look at one thing and think "oooo" while hiding something else.
Also it seems to me it was a bit of a dodgy way of letting them kill off a heap of characters, without upsetting anyone too much.
thermite
Posts: 5370
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
They did go against the fundamentals of storytelling. They set up a lot of stuff without ever referring back to it, which is why so many audiences are disappointed. Storytelling is meant to reward people for paying attention.


the fundamentels of storyteling...
are obviously...
..to type like this
with line breaks
constintly for no aparent reason
and also to have no discernable sentance structure..
..and be full of speeling misteaks
if u went to school.
youd no that...


Have you seen a script? That's pretty much how they're written.
Reverend Evil™
Posts: 17619
Location: Wynnum, Queensland

It was always about the survivors, from the very get go... you are dellusional to think otherwise.

How dare you!

8-)
Its a science fiction show.... Why do we need to know about how the island works? Do you seriously want another moment where architect from The Matrix pops up and explaining the powers behind the island?

Well it would have been nice after watching for 6 years to find out something about it. I reckon it would have been awesome if someone like that dude from the Matrix turned up and answered everything.
lewd
Posts: 960
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
the fundamentels of storyteling...
are obviously...
..to type like this
with line breaks
constintly for no aparent reason
and also to have no discernable sentance structure..
..and be full of speeling misteaks
if u went to school.
youd no that...


vs.

people who justify the s*** ending are fail.......
and most probably didnt complete school and dont know the
fundamentals of storytelling....
of which there are plenty missing in lost.
they tried to rewrite the mystery/adventure tv format and screwed it up.
case closed.


what?
were you a member of the lost writing staff?
because you have there logic.
btw, a line break, suggests a diferent idea/point and is actually easier to read imo.
and please get your spell check fixed.
Nathan
Posts: 3444
Location: Canberra, Australian Capital Territory

I think the main problem with the lost ending was that it answered a question that was never asked in the previous 5 season


+1

Ultimately it was not an interesting reveal because it had nothing to do with the rest of the show.
FraktuRe
Posts: 2241
Location: Gold Coast, Queensland
Wow lewd, you sure are a moron.
lewd
Posts: 961
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
its like ive come up with this unique opinion on lost thats so dumb that some f***wit on a gaming forum feels he needs to insult me.
ending = fail is a common opinion amongst fans.
and im still waiting for you to point out my spelling mistakes.
but, whatever helps you get through the day mate.
i dont really care what you think. if you do at all.

It's pretty obvious the mum gave them both some of the special water, and bam! they're both invincible and can't hurt each other. Durh.


especially with pearls of wisdom such as this........lol
special water.


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Khel
Posts: 14947
Location: Melbourne, Victoria

Maybe its a common opinion posted on sites made up of fanbases that avidly picked apart every episode for clues and tried to psycho-analyse every character to get to the bottom of the big mystery, but amongst fans in general, I think theres just as many people who thought it was good, as there was who thought it was bad. It was also very well critically received, and I'd imagine film critics probably have a good grasp of the fundamentals of story telling.

In fact, over lunch today when I caught up with a few people, the topic of conversation turned to Lost, and I was getting ready to defend my opinion on why I thought the finale was good, and yet they both agreed with me and thought it was a great way to the end the series.

Everyones entitled to their opinion, and thats what makes threads like this so interesting, hearing all the different opinions and the different theories and the different rants, but don't try to sell your opinion as the only one or the overwhelming majority, because its really not.
Auz_Guy
Posts: 341
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
Maybe a vote?

+1 Fail
lewd
Posts: 963
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
^ yeah, i enjoyed the show on a week to week basis. its only when thinking of the series as a whole (say someone who hasnt watched it and buys the boxset on dvd. quite an investment for a show that a lot of people feel has a tacked on ending)
that i notice its flaws. at face value, lost is brilliant. but i dont think you could rewatch it and notice little things that suggest that they are in purgatory a la patrick swayze in ghost.





people in this vid are lame but bring up some common opinions.
Python
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infi
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HWECQa23Cs&feature=player_embedded
ravn0s
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haha that would have been even cooler python.
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