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Hey Folks!
by edshrinker
May 29th, 2008
12:29:22 AM
Here we GO!
FIrst and 2nd??
by edshrinker
May 29th, 2008
12:29:40 AM
C'mon
by edshrinker
May 29th, 2008
12:30:23 AM
For 8 months??

Hell

Look what I just did.

Crap

Are you telling me
by edshrinker
May 29th, 2008
12:32:43 AM
No one sees this up, or this TB has become too spoilery we lost the best of the best here? Shame.
Great...A Locke Line up for 8 months
by edshrinker
May 29th, 2008
12:35:17 AM
Smug...and probably misguided. Like his "sure of this more than anything in my life" decision to NOT push the button.

Coulda done better for a line up until January.


by Nairb The Movie
May 29th, 2008
12:35:21 AM
5th though! BEAT THAT! LOST SUCKS! I LOVE IT! ITS MY FAVORITE SHOW. ITS BEST LIKE PRISIONER.
Team Jack
by BrightEyes
May 29th, 2008
12:37:40 AM
This will be amazing . that is all.
Hey Bright Eyes
by edshrinker
May 29th, 2008
12:38:59 AM
Nice to see you back!

Stick around my friend

Nairb
by edshrinker
May 29th, 2008
12:40:17 AM
Back on the Hurley Meds, Dude.
Define SPOILER
by Napoleon Park
May 29th, 2008
12:42:06 AM
Ausiello at the TV Guide Daily Scoop newsletter says thatMp 3.) - Michael Emerson will NOT win best actor Emmy... because he is up in the Best Supporting Actor catagory.
the last 3 or 4 headlines
by Napoleon Park
May 29th, 2008
12:43:21 AM
were changed the next day, Ed, so we may not have that Locke quote up for long.
Define SPOILER
by Napoleon Park
May 29th, 2008
12:47:00 AM
Ausiello at the TV Guide Daily Scoop newsletter says that

p 3.) - Michael Emerson will NOT win best actor Emmy... because he is up in the Best Supporting Actor catagory.

Interesting, a talkback that automatically repels spoilers - now that IS a technological break through.

Anyway, what that said was:

1.) three original cast members do something, and 2.) that thing that one guy did that one time will be totally explained.

3.) "What" is used in the dialogue
by edshrinker
May 29th, 2008
12:59:40 AM
Very true NP. I want to see Locke up there almost as bad as I wanted to see my ugly self up top. But I couldn't resist. Never had a 1st post here. Just wish it wasn't this one. You think they can mix up post order with the link "Quote"?

It was funny..I went to click C2C and hit AICN on accident - and saw the new post up.

Once the Ep ends...we definitely need a new poll in Room 23...what line would you like to see up for the next 8 months?

From the clips...I like Kate's "We get to leave the Island?" or Jack's "Do NOT go back to the Island" or with it's simplicity..."Goodbye John"

Wonder how long it'll take this TB to hit 10,000?
by br1947
May 29th, 2008
01:01:30 AM
Let's get it started!
Not reading.
by gotilk
May 29th, 2008
01:03:04 AM
Just saying hi.
Br
by edshrinker
May 29th, 2008
01:03:12 AM
Friday?

j/k

GOTILK!
by edshrinker
May 29th, 2008
01:04:40 AM
GET BACK TO YOUR FARSCAPE, BOY!

You and those horrible eyes, go back to your TV like a Rat.

;>}

Well, the last LOST finale TB just about killed AICN
by br1947
May 29th, 2008
01:08:24 AM
When it finally stopped taking posts, it had to be a couple of megs worth of just pure text.
Good post NP
by edshrinker
May 29th, 2008
01:10:29 AM
I wish they would have reconsidered Emerson, though. If he isn't a "Lead" in Lost now, who the hell is? He has as many scenes as Jack...if not more this season.
We'll get it
by edshrinker
May 29th, 2008
01:14:26 AM
A couple of us frequent fliers from this season are doing a lot of writing in Room 23 and maybe don't get here as much (Pa, Node, RB, NP, and myself). But such a noble goal. Gotta do my part. The tough part is around Sept when other shows start up and there is other stuff to get in to...to maintain the chat for a show that is months away still from coming back. But - we shall see.
Love you, Herc, I do
by memento108
May 29th, 2008
01:23:52 AM
But didn't you once call Desperate Housewives the best comedy on tv? And now it's outright shitty? I'm not denying that that's true, but come on, man...be consistent! Anywho, can't wait for this and i'm gonna be glued to the tv.
Snowglobe
by theseventhshore
May 29th, 2008
01:24:27 AM
The island WILL move. Absolutely in space...most probably in time as well. And I'm willing to bet that the last scene of the ep will be Locke emerging from The Orchid...with SNOW falling (and maybe a polar bear lumbering into frame!). Either that...or it'll be so far back in time that it will CAUSE the crash of the Black Rock through its sudden 'materialization'. You heard it here first, kidlets!
IT PUTS THE LOTION ON ITS SKIN OR ELSE IT GETS 'T.A.S.G.' AGAIN
by RyanMurray
May 29th, 2008
01:25:30 AM
KEAMY FOR LIFE! Or a few more hours. heh.

*shifty eyes*
thanks ed
by BrightEyes
May 29th, 2008
01:26:32 AM
I hope all you guys have fun watching this , any of you guys gonna have finale parties?
Hey guys
by Mezzanine
May 29th, 2008
01:28:15 AM
Not reading, just stopping through and saying hi.

It's finally here! The Season Finale! High Five!!!

fun LOST video on youtube
by RokurGepta
May 29th, 2008
01:35:20 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =FJAoH5I-f64
The episode? Hell this TALKBACK will be EPIC!
by KnightShift
May 29th, 2008
01:37:21 AM
After watching the exponential growth of the monstrosity that was the talkback for "Through the Looking Glass", I hope and pray that Harry has invested in some extra servers for this site.
Jeremy Davies' acting SUCKS THE SHIT out of Harry's fat ass
by NomeKing
May 29th, 2008
01:38:24 AM
did you actually see the crap HELTER SKELTER remake? This guy does the same mannered twitch in every performance. He sucks- period. There is a reason he went from Saving Private Ryan to the boob tube.
Herc and Desperate Housewives
by Craig2574
May 29th, 2008
01:46:55 AM
The man hated the show always. Calling it the best comedy was sarcastic. Its going be a long 7 months.
14 J 14 J 14 J
by TimMighty
May 29th, 2008
01:48:29 AM
..man...im pumped.
Post #34
by Phil Connors
May 29th, 2008
02:07:06 AM
How many? 10,000?
Its time for 2 hours of fun...
by Miyamoto_Musashi
May 29th, 2008
02:22:00 AM
and then go into hibernation for 8 months. It's times like this when I wish I was a robot. "Yes switch me off for 8 months....but make sure you save all the good porn"
Do Emmy people post here? Are they haters?
by Stereotypical Evil Archer
May 29th, 2008
02:43:10 AM
Thats why I'm asking.
Is it worrying
by Sniffingchimp
May 29th, 2008
03:05:31 AM
That I actually dreamed about this finale last night? For some disturbing/mildly arousing reason, I was playing golf with Jack and Kate.
Miyamoto_Musashi
by Sniffingchimp
May 29th, 2008
03:07:30 AM
True, a Lost 2 hour finale is the equivalent of really good sex but knowing that you're not going to get any for a long, long time once it's finished.....
Emmysons Emer... er,
by Napoleon Park
May 29th, 2008
03:53:31 AM
Apparently actors have some input into what catagory they want to compete in and Michael Emerson nominated himself in the Supporting Actor category.

And don't call him the star of the show while Brighteyes is around. It's all about the Jack.

My emmy Thoughts
by Miyamoto_Musashi
May 29th, 2008
04:18:14 AM
Emerson is constantly delivering the best performances on Lost, he really has no competition there and for me delivering one of the best perfomances on TV. Though given LOST's format and amount of central characters can't see any of them getting best actor, so supporting is fair. Michael "Dexter" Hall should take out best actor.
3 Years!?!?
by franchy
May 29th, 2008
04:41:01 AM
I'm a little confused about something... The first sentence of this article reads: “Lost” showrunner Carlton Cuse confirmed recently that Claire’s son Aaron is aging normally -- and that something like three years has transpired since the 100 days Jack, Kate, Hurley, Sayid and Sun spent on Dharma Island. So 3 years has passed since the 100 days the Oceanic 6 spent on the island? However, we know that Oceanic 815 crashed on September 22nd 2004. And during Ben's most recent flashback where he meets Sayid, shortly after he comes back from the island, the lady in the hotel tells him it's October 2005. How were they gone 3 years?
RE: 3 Years!?!?
by franchy
May 29th, 2008
04:45:37 AM
I obviously meant Ben's most recent Flashforward up there...
Just a few more hours.......
by redfishbluefish
May 29th, 2008
04:48:44 AM
i think i can make it.

see you later. today is going to go at a snails pace, i just know it.

Sniffingchimp
by tomdolan04
May 29th, 2008
04:50:35 AM
It's kinda like the day before your girlfriend has her period. You want to bang the hell out of her and saviour every teasing moment, because you know when it hits you're going to go without and things will be messy :(

Equally whilst shes not putting out you do look at other girls to give you a quick thrill but it just isn't the same.

tomdolan04
by Miyamoto_Musashi
May 29th, 2008
04:55:28 AM
Man doesnt sound good, maybe you can't play the front 9, but there is always the back 9!!
Team Saymond
by Miyamoto_Musashi
May 29th, 2008
05:09:01 AM
Keen to see Sun join Team Saymond in season 5, ala her role in Shiri, doing lots of ass kicking and seeking some serious vengence!!!
Yay Finally! and some better Emmy picks
by ArianeB
May 29th, 2008
05:33:31 AM
Every other show had their season finale at least a week ago, what was ABC thinking delaying this a week?

An Emmy for Jeremy Davies? For best guest performance in a drama I assume.

Herc, if you really think Jeremy Davies deserves the best guest performance Emmy, you need to get yourself over to hulu.com and watch William Sanderson's performance in the Life episode called "What They Saw" or Orlando Jones's performance in the New Amsterdam episode "Soldier's Heart"

14 and a half hours....Pins & needles folks, pins & needles.
by Yeti
May 29th, 2008
05:35:35 AM
So Jack (as interesting a charecter as he is) is one of THOSE types. Never happy where they are either literally or otherwise. No that wouldn't get tiresome at all. No sir. Nu-uhh.
Glad ed got to post first
by theBigE
May 29th, 2008
05:58:27 AM
I was afraid Sick Fixx or gotham night would beat him to it! Ed, we'll see your name for the next 8 months when we log onto this page!

13 more hours!

Good to see familiar names posting!
by theBigE
May 29th, 2008
06:02:31 AM
Ah, the old gang's coming back together here too! See you all tonight after 11pm!
....TEAM BEN...
by mr ahole ramirez
May 29th, 2008
06:18:40 AM
...TONIGHT WE SHALL SEE THE GREATNESS OF TEAM BEN!....

PS: did anyone think that Ben was gonna pull a River (from Serenity movie where in the end, she goes runnin off and kill all the reavers?) at the end of the last episode when he just walked over to the soldiers?

The emmys are a joke
by Nabster
May 29th, 2008
06:18:52 AM
Will they have the balls to allow Ben to kill Penny.
Franchy
by MRJONZ72
May 29th, 2008
06:31:16 AM
Maybe just that particular incident / flashforward took place in 2005. Maybe the other flashforwards are 3 years later?
Sawyer's heroic sacrifice...
by Prof. Pop-Cult
May 29th, 2008
06:46:57 AM
Sounds like he volunteers to stay behind on the island, because there are too many people weighing down the helicopter.
Am concerned
by Miyamoto_Musashi
May 29th, 2008
06:58:20 AM
Just watched the clips from Variety websites for the upcoming episode they got me more excited than most of the porn I see these days....I am getting old
What, does a magician wash up on the island?
by tonagan
May 29th, 2008
07:13:52 AM
"Just Wait Till You See What I’m About To Do!! And for my next trick, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!!!"
Not gonna Do it
by nam0krut
May 29th, 2008
07:18:55 AM
Not gonna look at this TB anymore today! I learned my lesson during last years finale when some Douchebag kept posting "JACK PHONES KATE OFF THE ISLAND!" over and over again
Ender
by edshrinker
May 29th, 2008
07:25:48 AM
Ender - 1

Bulgarian - 0

Personally, I have the X-Files movie in July, NFL Football in Late summer, and Dexter in Oct to look forward to...then the 24 movie. So - not all doom and gloom for 8 months. Tropic Thunder looks like it might be good too.

I wish you'd post more spoilers
by TheBigDogg
May 29th, 2008
07:32:25 AM
Because I'm curious as to what is going on but can't bring myself to sit through the show.
TEAM BULGARIAN!
by spud mcspud
May 29th, 2008
07:44:57 AM
Hey, that Ender's a pretty big guy. Bulgarian needs all the help he can get.
TEAM McSPUD
by spud mcspud
May 29th, 2008
07:45:35 AM
Fuck that island! I ain't never goin' back!
Francy...
by DeeJay
May 29th, 2008
07:46:18 AM
... you make a good point, as that also raises questions about Kate's exchange with the reporter at the press conference (as to when Aaron was conceived). Considering the fact that Aaron, in theory, would look absolutely nothing like her, it would seem as if there's another layer to the 3-year rumor--- or that it simply isn't true.
TEAM JARV!
by spud mcspud
May 29th, 2008
07:46:24 AM
Where's that c*#t Smashing? He's got a well-deserved donkey punch comin'. Just saying. Oi!
TEAM FRECKLES
by spud mcspud
May 29th, 2008
07:46:50 AM
Kate all the way. All the way up to the root.
Question Related to Next Season...
by DeeJay
May 29th, 2008
07:51:09 AM
... in the Juliet-centered episodes, did they definitively say that all the women impregnated on the island died, or that all the women impregnated on the island *and tried to deliver while there* died? I ask this, because the former--- if it were true--- could pose some interesting possibilities for the Oceanic 6 to find allies at the beginning of next season. These allies could potentially assist them in getting back to the island or simply provide them with some vital information about the Dharma initiative. Does anyone know what stance the writers took in the episodes where this was discussed?
Tonagan...
by DeeJay
May 29th, 2008
07:52:01 AM
Tonogan...
by DeeJay
May 29th, 2008
07:52:45 AM
... funny stuff, fellow poster. :-) However, I think a magician has *already* showed-up...
Jeremy Davies
by spud mcspud
May 29th, 2008
07:53:14 AM
One-trick pony. Though it'd be interesting to see him, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, and almost anyone from the FAMETRACKER / HEY! IT'S THAT GUY! website, in a movie or TV series, where they have to play something absolutely opposite to who they really are. Or a sniper gets 'em.

I hate actors who only have one role in them. Over-rated motherfuckers.

McSpud - Add Hugh Grant to that list
by Miyamoto_Musashi
May 29th, 2008
08:15:03 AM
He plays a bumbling English men that all middle age women just fall in love with in each movie.
"it's a place where miracles happen"
by Maniaq
May 29th, 2008
08:15:54 AM
man those previews ended too soon! it's like the streaming video version of premature ejaculation! I wonder what Ben "I always have a plan" Linus did to Keamy in between crouching by a helicopter and handing Locke an instructional video??
Hugh Grant
by spud mcspud
May 29th, 2008
08:22:33 AM
I'd smoke-monster-pummel his ass into the ground on the Dharma island until he was literally unrecognisable. I hate that floppy-fringed fucker, and all his whinging about how hard it is to be an actor. Twat and a half, really.

Duly added, Musashi.

Marvin Candle, hooray. better not just be an orientation vid
by couP
May 29th, 2008
08:24:33 AM
and michael's mum, good to see we'll get some michael action
Locke's condition ?
by Miyamoto_Musashi
May 29th, 2008
08:36:06 AM
Trying to remember, do these guys know Locke used to be in a wheelchair ?
Someday this talkback will have over 10000 posts....
by nalapou
May 29th, 2008
08:45:32 AM
because LOST is the best show on TV.
Babylon 5 jumped millenia
by bah
May 29th, 2008
09:00:18 AM
The end of one season (3 or 4) had the last Earthling, thousands of years into the future, in a library watching events that resulted from the events of the show, before he turned into pure energy and left the planet.
I don't get it...
by Yabba the Mutt
May 29th, 2008
09:06:07 AM
Aaron ages normally and 3 years has passed since they got off the island? You mean Kate's trial finally ended 3 years after being rescued? Let's hear it for the right to a speedy trial! I thought for sure we would find that Aaron grows faster off the island much like we see an older Walt helping Locke after he was shot by Ben. I'm waiting for an on-island flash forward. That's going to be interesting.
Jeremy Davies
by alex138
May 29th, 2008
09:16:01 AM
was great in Rescue Dawn...but yea he was also playing the same twitchy character.
i dont understand
by Mr_X
May 29th, 2008
09:30:20 AM
are they going forwards in time? will Pamela have just dreamt up everything whilst bobby was in the shower?
So
by Series7
May 29th, 2008
10:03:07 AM
Is this thread going to cary on until the next post about season 5's opener????
Will we....
by Hellboy4Prez
May 29th, 2008
10:05:52 AM
Will we learn tonight why the Oceanic 6 lie about their time on the island, hopefully Abadon plays a big part. Also I think its Sawyer in the coffin. Remember how Kate told Jack she was doimg some stuff for him... Can't wait to watch
Node...Keamy's demise...Rousseau's revenge...
by Cheif Brody
May 29th, 2008
10:09:45 AM
Alex Will not be avenged by her birth mom...but rather by her adoptive/kidnapping father.

So...this is our new digs for a while?

When are they gonna renovate this pisshole?

Ok...The countdown is on...I'm spoiler fuckin free...and it's gonna stay that way til tonight! I'll be back with my thoughts on the finale asap!

And I'll be back every nite til we cap 10k posts...or the White Screen of Doom takes over...whichever comes first!

Namaste, Motherfuckers!...and...

GO TEAM VINCENT!

Could Lost go down as the greatest show of all time?
by rhcp2sweet
May 29th, 2008
10:13:53 AM
I think we have to wait until the end to be sure, but the first 4 seasons have been utterly fantastic (besides the beginning of season 3) and I can't think of another series that was this consistent. Anyways, we're only ten hours away fellas, and twelve hours away from the beginning of the destruction of AICN from this TB
This is a 2hour finale...
by tomdolan04
May 29th, 2008
10:21:05 AM
right?
FUCK ME
by jah_kingdom
May 29th, 2008
10:31:13 AM
I'm seriously considering blowing off an important engagement tonight but I know if I do, tonights LOST episode will suck. So, thank god for tivo.
for those who can't wait
by Mr_X
May 29th, 2008
10:35:55 AM
a trailer of tonights ep http://tinyurl.com/2w4apm - beware some potential spoilers
Jermey Davies channeling Bob Odenkirk
by wash
May 29th, 2008
10:51:17 AM
channeling Manson.

"I'm a ghost of a phantom of a shadow in the heart of your children!!!"
is it 9pm, YET?????????????
by redfishbluefish
May 29th, 2008
11:14:28 AM
oh my GOD, i can't stand this wait.
Lost would've
by Series7
May 29th, 2008
11:15:43 AM
Been a great show if it bothered to resolve anything. All we really know (or all I can really remember) is who Lock ended up in a wheelchair, Clair and Jack are half sisters and Malcolm Macdowell was studily killed off in the end of the first season.... I mean I am all for mystery and what not, but at this rate nothing will be wraped up in the end.
Best. Series. Ever!
by ccchhhrrriiisssm
May 29th, 2008
11:17:46 AM
And this episode rocks! Don't believe all of the spoilers out there!
10,000 Posts
by Youguysgotanymilk
May 29th, 2008
11:19:53 AM
The "TTLG" TB last year was amazing, a great accomplishment that truly demonstrated how great of a show Lost is.

However, when you set a world record for eating the most M &Ms you dont think "alright, I ate 597 M&Ms without puking, now I'm going to try for 598". We've already accomplished that.

I think we need to show our appreciation another way. What, do we aim for 10,001? 11,000? I think it's time to set a new record, show our love another way. Any ideas.

When they return from their 3 year break trom the island
by smackfu
May 29th, 2008
11:21:00 AM
They will find that only a month or so has transpired. Maybe even less. It's been made painfully obvious that time on the island does not flow at the same rate it does in the normal world, so why would you even suggest that the Island folks will be 3 years older when Jack returns?
node32774
by Hellboy4Prez
May 29th, 2008
11:35:47 AM
That makes sense, maybe Kate is taking care of something Sawyer says before leaving the chopper. It will be interesting to see if Desmond, Jin and Michael all make it off the freighter. I would go with Ben because of the way Jack is crying when he reads the obit. With Ben gone so is his best chance of finding the island again.
This Tb
by ChrisVenom
May 29th, 2008
11:42:01 AM
i cant wait actually. Ive met alot of cool people in last years big ass TB. Cant wait for tonights episode. Heres to 10,000 more!
But how do they move the SECOND Island?
by captain_kirk
May 29th, 2008
11:54:38 AM
Here's my question for you guys. As I recall, Island #2 had the others' getaway. I thought Ben said at one point that they live on Island #2. In any event, there are jails there, supplies, etc, and no one has gone over there one way or another. My question is this--is there anyone on Island #2? Shouldn't Island #2 be moved as well? I say that Island #2 is just as important because unlike every other place where Island #1 gets accessed, it is easy to leave #1 and go to #2 and vice versa. Is this because of the close proximity or something more? On another note, why was Bat Manuel so annoyed by Locke's responses? Was he threatened? Angry? He certainly seemed shocked. What did that mean?
Alias
by hank henshaw
May 29th, 2008
11:55:44 AM
Didn't Alias suffer after the 1 or 2 year time-jump? I was never a big fan of that show, but it seemed to me that the show was never the same after that.
I watched the episode this morning...
by ccchhhrrriiisssm
May 29th, 2008
12:04:54 PM
...but I can't say how.

Anyway, it was fantastic!!! The acting reminded me of the last episode of season 1 and the first episode of season 2 (tremendous Emmy material). Some of the "spoilers" are NOT correct -- including some of the darkufo spoilers. In fact, most of the spoilers left out the most important plot elements! Obviously, the studio was trying to figure out just WHO was the spy/leaker.

Anyway, this finale is FANtastic! I don't know if I can wait to see what happens next season. This one has more lasting impact than last season's great fast forward episode. It is poignant, heart-breaking, sci fi-rific and extraordinarily eerie! The coffin scene was...unexpected!

If LOST doesn't earn the Emmy for BEST DRAMA, BEST WRITING, BEST SOUND, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY and BEST ACTORS -- then the Academy is far too political. Season 4 -- culminating with this great finale -- has been the best season for a TV show since...uh...ever!
Walt Seemed Older to Locke!!
by wookiejedi50
May 29th, 2008
12:05:47 PM
I think SMAKFU is kinda close with his theory, although I think they are already on the island and I’m betting that at the end of the episode after the oceanic 6 leave the island and all of the remaining survivors are sad, Jack and co. will all come out of the woods where they’ve been hiding and yell SURPRISE! Because they’ve been back for awhile and they were hiding so as not to meet the younger version of themselves. To back this up when Ben shot Locke and left him to die in the Dharma death pit who saved Locke? WALT! and something like the next episode Locke told someone that Walt saved him and that he seemed older! Could he be 3 years older??? We’ll see.
hank henkshaw
by sapno_krei
May 29th, 2008
12:18:57 PM
Actually, ALIAS' decline started *before* the time jump, when the writers got tired of the SD-6 double agent plotline (arguably the hook of the show) mid-season. The time jump was just a cheap way to hit reset, rather than a sensible plot driver.
Node32774...
by ccchhhrrriiisssm
May 29th, 2008
12:30:14 PM
I watched a DVD of it with a friend who obtained it from a friend who obtained it from someone who could get into big trouble (or, at least, they said that they would get into trouble).

This episode was fantastic! As far as I know, it was a completed episode. The score was tremendous, and it even ended with the huh-boom-"LOST" scene.

I read some of the spoilers last week, but they weren't all correct (while some strangely were). I don't want to give ANYTHING away, but this was a great episode. I will watch it again tonight (or course) and make sure that what I saw was the same. However, I can safely say that the show will take on a whole new angle next year (it will have to). And I am surprised at how close some of the theories have been ... and how well the powers that be have kept this from getting out. Good stuff!
Marlon Brando reference
by Mako
May 29th, 2008
12:33:12 PM
Uh... I kinda hope they do the whole Locke - Kurtz thing cause there was a huge reference to it in one of the first episodes I think where Locked put an orange wedge in his mouth and did the whole Brando thing in Apocolypse Now.
Locke is in the coffin!!!
by erict072
May 29th, 2008
12:34:10 PM
I'm just saying...
There are
by DeCypher44
May 29th, 2008
12:54:29 PM
too many questions that need answering. I really hope they answer more questions than those that will be raised tonight.
hank henshaw
by MattmanReturns
May 29th, 2008
12:56:15 PM
Yeah, the show died after that. It didn't return to form until late (too late?) season 5. Season 2 of Alias is one of my favorite seasons of any show.
rashtasm
by Darkocity
May 29th, 2008
01:20:23 PM
Re: Naked Claie:
by EyeofPolyphemus
May 29th, 2008
01:25:27 PM
This is as close as it gets, Mr. McPoop:

http://tinyurl.com/59qkzm

Henrik
by jonissupercool
May 29th, 2008
01:30:14 PM
Any guesses as to why or how Henrik shows up. We only saw him once in that arctic station at the end of season 2
They must use Ben's portal
by mattysan
May 29th, 2008
01:31:07 PM
...to get off the island. They can't use the ship, because there are other random losties on it now, and they don't get off so the ship must get blown up. Is the helicopter big enough to hold them all? Plus no mention of Frank off the island, so probably not via the chopper. I think they use Ben's portal to get off.
fuck. really? 2009?
by samsquanch
May 29th, 2008
01:31:19 PM
fuck!
One other question to answer...
by Hellboy4Prez
May 29th, 2008
01:40:11 PM
Woops
by Hellboy4Prez
May 29th, 2008
01:40:28 PM

by Hellboy4Prez
May 29th, 2008
01:41:32 PM
Does Ben follow through on his promise to kill Penny Widmore. Sorry about my itchy trigger finger.
this day is going painfully slow
by redfishbluefish
May 29th, 2008
01:46:03 PM
and i am truly impressed at the lack of spoilery info here. it is greatly appreciated.
Mako...
by SimpleSandwiches
May 29th, 2008
01:48:32 PM
I think you are referring to the Godfather when Brando puts the orange in his mouth.... ALthough, I only saw Apocalypse Now once so there may be a scene like that in that movie too....
Sun...
by MrSentinel
May 29th, 2008
01:50:04 PM
The most beautiful reason to watch this show... period.
I agree, Michael Emerson...
by kuldan
May 29th, 2008
01:56:39 PM
...is engaging in his performance as Ben. For weeks I've been contemplating what other performances on the very limited television I DO watch are better than his. Turns out, there aren't any. His performance truly is the best performance on television.
I doubt much will be answered tonight...
by Prof. Pop-Cult
May 29th, 2008
02:00:01 PM
And Darlton already said that this season's finale wouldn't have earth shattering plot twists. My bet is that we will only see how the O6 get off the island, why they are keeping things secret (Abadon probably threatened them), and the island will disappear from the present time period (whisked off three years into the future). The biggest reveals that we could be treated to are: 1) Who was/will be in the coffin? (It's now looking more like Michael.) And 2) Is Danielle really dead? (Was that Danielle's corpse partially buried, or somebody else -- perhaps The Others' therapist who was married to Goodwin?)
"We Dont Know Jack" @ Slate
by Napoleon Park
May 29th, 2008
02:13:03 PM
http://tinyurl.com/6apxl6

Sl ate article by Juliet Lapidos (!) argues that this has been the best season of TV's best show due to the flash forward gamechanger. Somemwhat amusing, the best pert is her recap of the first three seasons:

"1) Are there other people on this island?

2) There are other people on this island.

3) Oh, my God, the other people on this island are way mean!"

RE: Naked Claire
by Vorlagen
May 29th, 2008
02:18:45 PM
If you're jonesing for some Claire and you like sick mutant rape, just watch The Hills Have Eyes. She's not naked, but she is pretty graphically raped by a gigantic deformed freak.
Commercials
by gameface247
May 29th, 2008
02:26:23 PM
Who else here DVRs Lost and waits until about 10:20...or 9:40 tonight...to be able to fast forward through commercials? Definitely one of the reasons the show works so well on DVD.
THIS SHOW IS STILL...
by jimmy rabbitte
May 29th, 2008
02:27:41 PM
...just kidding... can't wait for the season wrap-up tonight.
it's called a sense of humor.
by Napoleon Park
May 29th, 2008
02:43:48 PM
Since no one seems to have addressed this question, I'll just clear it up. Someone JOKED that noting ever gets explained (that old wheeze) and that they killed Malcolm McDowell in the first season. Someone else replied "wtf are you talking about?" or words to that effect. It was a reference to the NBC television series "Heroes".

Really, as "best show ever" as it may me, "Lost" is NOT the only show on TV ever.

McFarlane variant action figure
by Napoleon Park
May 29th, 2008
02:49:36 PM
Season 2 "Douchebag Charlie" as part of a 2-fer set with "Preggo Claire" as Cholly helps keep her clean with his imaginary two-finger douche nozzle. "The most delicious gijino*-butter you ever tasted!" Oh, you so would buy it.

[*Ever since someone posted GOJINO (GI Joe In Name Only) to a Joes talk-back, I've been trying to promote Gijino as a new euphemism for vagina, as in "O'Malley, stop looking at mah gijino!"

Gijino: spread it!

a modicum of taste
by Napoleon Park
May 29th, 2008
02:57:54 PM
You never struck me as humorless, Nodecode, and there's nothing wrong with not getting a reference to a secondary guest character on a series you don't watch.

As someone who collected superhero comics for 49 years, I could almost leap to the assumption that you're not a comics fan, but really, "Heroes" is not even the best example of that genre on current TV. (Medium is.) I like "Heroes" and don't consider that to be an example of bad taste, but then I've enjoyed an awful lot of pretty crappy comics in the last half century too.

("Heroes chapter 2 very sucked, but I have high hopes for chapter 3: Villains.)

"Hope springs a kernel." - Denny Crane!

Can't wait
by Bono Luthor
May 29th, 2008
02:58:12 PM
Me and Mrs Bono have been saving part one to watch with these two. That's a whole lot of LOST in one sitting and as it's the season finale you know it's going to be the fucking delux version baby. Hell yeah. Ahem. Sorry. I'm English. I should no better.
Also
by Napoleon Park
May 29th, 2008
02:59:04 PM
I think my "Douchebag Charlie" post totally eliminates me from having "a modicum of taste".
Eight months of
by Napoleon Park
May 29th, 2008
03:00:17 PM
"
Eight months of
by Napoleon Park
May 29th, 2008
03:02:39 PM
"HEY FOLKS Here we GO!"

I don't want to chafe Edshrinker too much over that, he already repented it and we have to show forgiveness. Still, way to think under pressure, Ed. 8]

four hours until that thing that happens
by Napoleon Park
May 29th, 2008
03:05:47 PM
and five hours until it gets new.

So are all the spoiler fearers steering clear until after 11:00? Yeah, don't blame you. Who would have thought the StarGate was under the waterfall?

Oh crap
by Napoleon Park
May 29th, 2008
03:07:16 PM
we're tied on the top ten with "Recount" - one more post to Bump us up another notch and I can't think of anything to say. Where is anybody when you need one?
The Lawnmower Man is Frank Lapidus????
by J-Dizzle
May 29th, 2008
03:14:13 PM
Whoda thunk it!
Fuck it's on tonight!!!!! It's on it's on it's on!!!!
by picardsucks
May 29th, 2008
03:17:30 PM
Fuck Recount!!!! Overrated onesided and rather banal. Besides the real Ron Klaine is a fat triple chinned slob who looks more like Jonah Hill with slick Black hair. Fuck Recount and Kevin Spacey "He who scroungeth for boy meat in London parks at midnight" Cause Lost is on tonight and nothin else fucking matters!!!!! Oh and Team Ben-Locke!!!!
The shark is about to be jumped
by BigGoozoo
May 29th, 2008
03:21:50 PM
If you believe the spoilers from Lostfan108... we're in for a big letdown. Let's hope the "frozen donkey wheel" he suggests is a smokescreen from Darlton.
rrrrrrrrrrr tits
by semisaj
May 29th, 2008
03:27:51 PM
I just read some spoilers...over at a couple of other sites...I hope some of its not true...because it kinda sounded lame...I wish I hadn't read them now...this show is going all back to the future on our asses..if the person in the coffin is who it is supposed to be...this show has taken an epic dump on it self..god I hope its not him
Massive SPOILER
by Napoleon Park
May 29th, 2008
03:41:20 PM
In part 2 of TV G's Michael Emerson interview, he reveals that Benjamin Linus's "mission is going to be recontextualized".
Did Anyone Else...
by DeeJay
May 29th, 2008
03:43:04 PM
... think that someone else was in the room with Penny when she took Desmond's call? The way they set-up the shot--- straight on and nearly cropped--- seemed to imply that. This is waaaaay out there, but since Ben was wearing a wool coat when he visited Charles & considering the Christmas tree in the shot...
I wish I could rationalize it
by edshrinker
May 29th, 2008
03:59:51 PM
But that was a shitty 1st post. Caught by surprise - though it least it wasn't something overly creative like...

FIRST!

There has to be some appreciation for not having to see that for 8 months.

Tho seeing anything that long is bound to be annoying. So I ask, seeing that hindsight is 20/20 and given 1/2 a day to think about it...what would some of you posted?

I'm of the opinion, the"First"post is like love. If you want it, plan for it...it will never happen.

Damn that's deep. Feel free to use that one gang. Why the hezmana didn't I post THAT!

Thanks for the kind words guys. It sure beats, "Goddamn mutherflipper Ed posted 1st I hate him, AICN, and this TB and will never return."

That would have hurt my feelings. Really.

Naked Claire, no text. The perfect 1st post. Would NEVER get bored of that. 8 months. 8 years.

i think the island moves...
by El Borak
May 29th, 2008
04:05:01 PM
to the far distant future where people only have 4 toes. or maybe the simpsons universe and then comes back to an earlier past, thus having a 4-toed statue present.
And........
by edshrinker
May 29th, 2008
04:06:44 PM
3 Hours until Part 1 re-airs and The End begins.

Spoilers...I read some of them too and I wouldn't be surprised at all if the LostFAn spoilers were set up as foilers by Darlton. They were so pissed after last year and they are smart guys. It is a certainty they filmed alternates of some scenes. What Iread was disappointing. I am SURE - tonight, I will NOT be disappointed. In fact, this will be the best 2 hour finale I will have ever watched. I will be surprised. And I will be anxious for 5x01 ...isn't that what great season finales do? Get us pumped for the next season?

edshrinker...foilers please
by semisaj
May 29th, 2008
04:13:57 PM
God i hope you are correct!
The wire
by semisaj
May 29th, 2008
04:20:52 PM
Shiiiit I'm going to watch the last 2 episodes of The Wire season 1 (so far the second best tv show after lost...i got another 4 seasons to go) go to sleep wake up at about 4 am UK time and get my ass over to ninjavideo and watch lost until i have to get my ass out of bed to go to work!!!!
Island will move - just a few minutes into the future.
by Yeti
May 29th, 2008
04:33:55 PM
Not a problem for Time-Travelers but impossible for anyone else to locate. How can you find somethiong that only exists in the future? (Sounds like a tagline for a movie, doesn't it?)

JJ call me! I have ideas galore!

I would have loved to do a Lost party
by edshrinker
May 29th, 2008
04:37:48 PM
But teaching the Summer session has been so overwhelming. The pace is too much. Hell, RB,Vader, and I are with in a couple hours of each other. Could have done it...

If I were made of money - I'd head out west to comic con...pickin up Gotilk on the way.

Alas...

Always thought it'd be so cool to get a bunch of us together. We're all so spread out, though. Even those of us in North America (See Fishy...that includes you, you hoser). Node and BigE in the midwest, RB Vader myself and others east coast, a ton of ya'll out west...

We need a massive LOST convention right in the middle of the US

According to E.J. Olmos, the final cylon is known to the casr...
by Pennsy
May 29th, 2008
04:56:08 PM
http://tinyurl.com/59lz69
the cast, that is...
by Pennsy
May 29th, 2008
04:56:32 PM
damn spellcheck.
Hmmm
by edshrinker
May 29th, 2008
05:01:13 PM
Olmos, along with other cast members, now know the identity of the final Cylon. But you won't get it from him. In fact, actor Aaron Douglas, who plays the Cylon Tyrol in the series, told the magazine that many of the guesses and such that have plagued the Internet "don't even come close."
lostfan108 is wrong...
by Vorlagen
May 29th, 2008
05:02:13 PM
DocArzt, a very prominent Lost blogger who avoids being a spoiler but who has access to lots of knowledge, says that lostfan108 left out tons of details and was flat out wrong about a few of the BIGGEST spoilers: http://tinyurl.com/5be47r
Just saying hi again.
by gotilk
May 29th, 2008
05:02:36 PM
Not reading. So....


Hi!
Good posts in Room 23, guys
by rbrog77
May 29th, 2008
05:03:18 PM
I read the headlines of the poists here but not what anyone said. Spoiler free and only 3 hours to go. I'll see you afterwards.
Hi gotilk...not reading either
by rbrog77
May 29th, 2008
05:04:04 PM
;->
So - I assume that means
by edshrinker
May 29th, 2008
05:04:57 PM
it is no one obvious. Maybe no one revealed yet. Like an Earthling??

Someone obscure, yet important. Hmmm

The Hatch Man? Neat inclusion in the new series if so.

Final Cylon is BEN LINUS aka Imperius Leader!
by br1947
May 29th, 2008
05:05:54 PM
Let's not get in a LOST vs BSG thing again, both are great and miles above anything else on tv. Tonight is LOST's night, let's leave it at that
Good News Vorlagen
by edshrinker
May 29th, 2008
05:07:25 PM
I thought as much. I really think Darlton got their revenge. And probably found the leak.
I WILL NOT look at spoilers this time
by G100
May 29th, 2008
05:24:08 PM
They may be close or woefully wide of the mark but they lived up to their name last season and DID spoil the surprise for me last time.

I expect this to be a great finale to a great season.

(the only real fly in the ointment for this season me was Roussea. Throwaway death for a great character. Poor Frenchy.)

Still not reading.(and chat invite)
by gotilk
May 29th, 2008
05:41:00 PM
But be sure to join us at the chat room.

Just use the chat feature here and when you're on type /join #room23
Oh man, Gotham... that's so sad.
by gotilk
May 29th, 2008
05:55:25 PM
I'm trying not to read, but that caught my eye. NO!!! He was one of the best. I missed all my opportunities to see him live with Tim Conway while I lived in SoCal. No!! No!!
That's Hedley!
by Napoleon Park
May 29th, 2008
06:10:32 PM
Great funny man indeed.
by gotilk
May 29th, 2008
06:15:00 PM
I grew up laughing with that guy. Every time he'd bust up because of Conway, I was right there with him losing it. What a loss.
:) NP.
by gotilk
May 29th, 2008
06:15:27 PM
sad, huh?
Do the math.
by Napoleon Park
May 29th, 2008
06:18:08 PM
Edshrinker, I don't want to pick on everything you say and roon de vybe for you - we all Lost luvvers here.

But technically a three hour season finale canNOT be the best two hour season finale you ever saw. Well, at 42 minutes per hour, three hours of broadcast TV with the ads trimmed out would clock in at two hours if you trimmed about six minutes, but they're not going to do that - instead the rerun of Pt. 1 of the finale will be adding a minute or two of additional "Oceanic Six press conference" footage.

However, I certainly agree in spirit that tonight will be the best freaking three hour season finale EVER! And probably better than most or all two hour season finales, too. So there's that.

"Where's my froggy?"
by br1947
May 29th, 2008
06:19:09 PM
damn, great guy
Harvey Korman was a brilliant talent
by Napoleon Park
May 29th, 2008
06:28:42 PM
His work with Carol Burnett and Mel Brooks alone qualifies him for the comics pantheon.

No disrespect meant, but THREE HOUR LOST SEASON FINALE! And I drove out to Radio Shack and picked up my TV digital to analog converter box so I can continue to use the 4 TVs I already have after the industry switched to digital next year and still watch TV even after I can't afford cable any more. (got it just a couple days before my coupon expired.)

And I just bought my first $40.00 fill-up ever. (My last fill-up was $33.00 - I don't drive much).

My cat's affectionate, I got cookies and there's time to go make a couple olive burgers before the show starts.

So for today and the next few hours at least, it's fucking great to be alive and life is good.

I'll mourn Harvey Korman... and Earle H. Hagen and Alexander Courage and Sydney Pollack some rainy day when I can find time. Right now is not the time. I'm too happy to be sad. New LOST!!! Whooo!

new spoiler!
by El Borak
May 29th, 2008
06:33:02 PM
jack realizes the HE HIMSELF is the island and that the lostaways are living ON HIS BODY. so he goes crazy and shaves off all his chest hair. then realizing he killed all his friends he turns to drugs and alcohol.
Not a LOST fan...
by mrfan
May 29th, 2008
06:39:03 PM
but it would drive me nuts waiting that long for my show to return. Hate these long breaks between them. Hope your finale rocks.
Wow you are really anal NP
by edshrinker
May 29th, 2008
06:39:27 PM
Tonight...is 2 hours of NEW Lost. Part one was, as you know, last week. Tonight, we get the final 2 hours. I don't count part 1...which was last week. But you knew that. And still made you post. You are a strange one.
I meant
by edshrinker
May 29th, 2008
06:41:55 PM
Your Post. I'm a terrible typist.

Expressing that so you don't nitpick that as well.

Still
by edshrinker
May 29th, 2008
06:46:54 PM
Enjoy tonight NP. And all of the gang here. 15 minutes for the east coast replay, 1:15 for the final...time to get hunkered down.
HK - Sad news indeed
by rbrog77
May 29th, 2008
06:51:05 PM
I saw Harvey dying on the news and as soon as they said his name I said noooooooooooo...

From his Carol Burnett in my youth to Blazing Saddles and History of the World in my later youth he gave me so much joy. And though the things I enjoyed him in will always be around, he will still be missed.

...and I'm still not reading the posts
by rbrog77
May 29th, 2008
06:51:41 PM
Only the headlines
RIP Harvey Korman
by ckane123
May 29th, 2008
07:01:56 PM
LOVED him. But (horrible taste, I know, but obvious) he is not in the coffin tonight (later, unfortunately).
I think Harvey would have laughed at that...
DAMNED POPUPS!
by br1947
May 29th, 2008
07:02:13 PM
It's bad enough on my computer... now they show up on LOST... ARG!
wow
by kickmeken
May 29th, 2008
07:05:39 PM
just watched... f**king awesome... the kiss indeed stopped time...
Watching part one again i've come to a revelation
by The_Squid
May 29th, 2008
07:15:29 PM
that typhoon refered to in the press conference is no typhoon. It looks strikingly similar to the Orchid station. Looks like moving the island has some slight side effects.
There was a lot of new stuff in the press conference
by rbrog77
May 29th, 2008
07:19:23 PM
Not sure if you are watching the 8PM episode, or if you will in later time zones, but there was a lot more to it that wasn't there 2 weeks ago.
RIP Harvey Korman indeed
by chrth
May 29th, 2008
07:23:37 PM
Definitely deserves a talkback, even if the young 'uns don't remember him
Half an hour left
by ChrisVenom
May 29th, 2008
07:31:46 PM
and the damn pizza man still isnt here. Cant contain myself! Also Whats up RB and Ed? Havent seen you guys in a while.
Oh no he di'int
by BigGoozoo
May 29th, 2008
07:32:54 PM
The Lawnmower Man flew circles around the island and they all went back in time. Brilliant!
Oh yes he di'id
by BigGoozoo
May 29th, 2008
07:38:10 PM
Sawyer kissed Kate and in the process uses a form of telepathy to erase the knowledge of his identity.
Eureka! Coffin inhabitant revealed!
by BigGoozoo
May 29th, 2008
07:45:42 PM
Miss Tessmacher.
OK, it's go time...
by BigGoozoo
May 29th, 2008
07:52:14 PM
...for Paolo on the shitter
The Walt / Abaddon connection
by Maniaq
May 29th, 2008
07:58:19 PM
I'm really starting to like the theory they are the same guy. I resisted the idea at first coz it's a little convenient, but both Walt and Abaddon seem to have a special connection to Locke - it's flimsy, I know, but still within the realm of possibilities...

Also, I think I know how S5 is going to start - just like S1, only no plane and it's a different island...

Here we go! Make a final bathroom run now!
by br1947
May 29th, 2008
07:58:37 PM
I love this Show
by edshrinker
May 29th, 2008
08:04:35 PM
That is all

Or
by edshrinker
May 29th, 2008
08:06:20 PM
Just pee on the floor.

Just stay away from sockets

If Locke comes near the freighter
by Mavra Chang
May 29th, 2008
08:07:55 PM
Boom
ed, that might cause a breaker to trip
by br1947
May 29th, 2008
08:10:15 PM
thus turning off my tv!
The Last LOST
by edshrinker
May 29th, 2008
08:11:37 PM
FlyBy fro Eight Months.

MuthaFlippin

8 months

cries and sobs uncontrollably.... and spell poorly

Ok BR
by edshrinker
May 29th, 2008
08:13:24 PM
Use a empty beer can

Or a bucket

That was a badass fight
by kyle051554
May 29th, 2008
08:15:54 PM
Sayid vs. Keamy!
bucket will suffice!
by br1947
May 29th, 2008
08:17:35 PM
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAALT!!!!!!!!!!!!
by mthrndr
May 29th, 2008
08:19:48 PM
Boom
so who is jeremy bentham
by mthrndr
May 29th, 2008
08:20:31 PM
Bentham
by Super Nintendo Chalmers
May 29th, 2008
08:21:46 PM
Good, I thought I was the only one who didn't know who the hell this guy was.
SAYID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!
by edshrinker
May 29th, 2008
08:23:48 PM
He needs his partner.....Must have our Saymond!

Don't like the New one.

Alpyid

Saypert

The Clip from the Newspaper
by edshrinker
May 29th, 2008
08:25:01 PM
The Obit, says Jeremy Latham...or Bentham apparently
Ben----Tham??????
by edshrinker
May 29th, 2008
08:28:14 PM
Weird, huh?
by edshrinker
May 29th, 2008
08:29:36 PM
This night is half over

Already

THAT is when you know something is good.

Jeremy Bentham
by Hercules
May 29th, 2008
08:29:40 PM
From SciFi Wire, 12/13/07: "Cuse also fessed up about the person in the coffin seen at the very end of season three. Was it someone we've seen before? "Yes," he said without elaboration.
Look at those
by edshrinker
May 29th, 2008
08:31:13 PM
MuthaFlippin CANS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
cool, herc
by redfishbluefish
May 29th, 2008
08:31:46 PM
Miles pisses off Rose
by Mavra Chang
May 29th, 2008
08:32:21 PM
Boom
Simply
by edshrinker
May 29th, 2008
08:32:35 PM
an Alias

We shall see

ooooh, my Sayid
by redfishbluefish
May 29th, 2008
08:33:41 PM
kicked some butt in a glorious way. what an awesome fight that was
Ladies and Gents
by edshrinker
May 29th, 2008
08:34:13 PM
We FINALLY HAVE

The Orchid.

The home to time/place jumping Bunnies

Wait a second....
by memento108
May 29th, 2008
08:34:44 PM
"Move" the Island...to a different time!?!?!
If you mean time traveling bunnies, then yes...
by br1947
May 29th, 2008
08:36:55 PM
LOL!!!!!!
Let her deck Miles first
by Mavra Chang
May 29th, 2008
08:37:12 PM
He's a twit.
Oh My God
by edshrinker
May 29th, 2008
08:37:23 PM
This Eppy is so damn cool.

"If you mean time traveling bunnies? Yes."

HOLY CRAP I LOVE BEN
by redfishbluefish
May 29th, 2008
08:37:31 PM
why don't you watch this very informative video.....

the best

Eye catching subject...
by Ateball
May 29th, 2008
08:40:12 PM
Witty one liner!
Michael Emerson really needs some awards...
by br1947
May 29th, 2008
08:41:11 PM
I would say Emmys, but they are a joke. He needs a GOOD award.
Added scenes?
by barfydog
May 29th, 2008
08:42:08 PM
Were there additional scenes added to Part 1 of There's No Place Like Home? I thought they said there were in the previews.
KEAMY?!
by kyle051554
May 29th, 2008
08:44:59 PM
NO FUCKING WAY. What is is, Mikhail's cousin?
Lost Party
by barfydog
May 29th, 2008
08:46:08 PM
Not having a party but a couple friends, chinese food, crackers and potables. Will watch again tomorrow to make sure I understand what I saw under the haze of alcohol. Probably have to watch a couple of times. Shoot, with an 8 month wait I'll have to watch the whole series over again.
Desmond
by barfydog
May 29th, 2008
08:48:27 PM
And Henry Ian Cusack MUST submit The Constant for his emmy consideration.
"So?"
by memento108
May 29th, 2008
08:48:30 PM
Man, he's cold. But I love him.
michael emerson
by alex138
May 29th, 2008
08:48:30 PM
is the best actor on the show
Oh, body armor. Duh.
by kyle051554
May 29th, 2008
08:49:01 PM
Still, those eyes looked pretty dead when Alpert took a look at him. Did the island heal him, or did Keamy just get the wind knocked out of him?
holy shit
by br1947
May 29th, 2008
08:49:13 PM
Maybe Ben really is the final Cylon... Jesus...
"So.............."
by Kampy0jay
May 29th, 2008
08:49:19 PM
Holy shit. Terminated
"So."
by CeltMonkey
May 29th, 2008
08:49:41 PM
Friggin' evil bastard. I love that guy.
barfydog
by alex138
May 29th, 2008
08:49:51 PM
there was a pro longed press conference where they named boone, libby, and charlie as the others who survived the plane crash but didnt make it off the island
Ben is the one of the final 5!!!!!
by Kampy0jay
May 29th, 2008
08:50:30 PM
Adam-a AKA BEN.
In exactly one hour this talk back is going to explode
by The_Squid
May 29th, 2008
08:51:03 PM
what happened to no killing of innocents Ben? It appears Locke has become the good guy, Widmore the bad guy and Ben is somewhere in between.
YOU KILLED MY DAUGHTER!!!
by Ateball
May 29th, 2008
08:51:10 PM
Good thing he took off that stupid Kevlar Vest...wouldn't want that to get in the way...
alex138
by barfydog
May 29th, 2008
08:54:40 PM
Thanks Alex.
First!
by Ateball
May 29th, 2008
08:57:47 PM
Sawyer rules post!
Jorge Garcia's mother isn't gonna like this
by Mavra Chang
May 29th, 2008
08:57:54 PM
Sawyer is her favorite.
ok, wtf did sawyer say to kate?
by mthrndr
May 29th, 2008
08:58:20 PM
anyone have subtitles and DVR?
The way Hurly looked at Walt means Michael probably dies.
by BrokenHeath
May 29th, 2008
08:58:50 PM
..and maybe Jin too when the boat explodes.
mthmdr
by alex138
May 29th, 2008
08:59:49 PM
i bet he asked her to check in on his daughter or something. which is what she was probably doing in 'something nice back home' that pissed off jack
Mcpoops, I was thinking the same thing...
by br1947
May 29th, 2008
09:00:31 PM
except about Juliet... but Kate was doing quite well too!
What Sawyer said...
by Ateball
May 29th, 2008
09:00:32 PM
Find my daughter, take care of her, tell her I love her....
wtf sawyer say to kate?
by ranting_dude
May 29th, 2008
09:00:39 PM
With closed captioning all it said was (whispering).
Arrrrrrrg!
by The_Squid
May 29th, 2008
09:01:16 PM
Too many commercials! Where the hell is Oceanic with the corporate sponsorship?
I like Sawyers character...
by BacardiRocky
May 29th, 2008
09:01:20 PM
but he has changed so much this seson that it would be fucking great to see the Dharma Shark make an appearance and go "Jaws:The Revenge" on him while swimming back to the island
BUT seriously...
by Ateball
May 29th, 2008
09:02:22 PM
..when they panned to Hurley when he said we need to lose a few hundred pounds....LMAO
Jeremy Bentham
by chimpjnr
May 29th, 2008
09:04:50 PM
He was an English philosopher from the 1800's. Big believer in Utilitarianism, otherwise known as the end justifying the means. Hmmm...yet another tradition of the Lost writers using a dead philosopher for their own means. Thoughts under the circumstances?
Why do u keep calling him that......
by Kampy0jay
May 29th, 2008
09:04:53 PM
His name is.............Baltar
Do Not Say the Name
by edshrinker
May 29th, 2008
09:05:17 PM
Hmmmm

If it IS Ben.....they sure did a lousy job of an alias.

Bentham

Not real creative.

jeremy bentham was also the positor of the panopticon
by mthrndr
May 29th, 2008
09:07:24 PM
look it up on wikipedia, but it fits very much with themes on LOST.
WTF!!!
by memento108
May 29th, 2008
09:08:11 PM
ABC AFFILIATE IS FUCKED!
what if bentham is richard alpert?
by mthrndr
May 29th, 2008
09:08:30 PM
Bah
by Super Nintendo Chalmers
May 29th, 2008
09:11:28 PM
I may be alone, but I liked Michael. "You can go now" was a cool line, though.
DID THEY REALLY...
by Lt. Kaffee
May 29th, 2008
09:12:32 PM
just fuckin leave the rest of the oceanic survivors to blow up on the boat? "Sorry guys, only room on the chopper for the main characters." - Jack
I know
by Super Nintendo Chalmers
May 29th, 2008
09:13:29 PM
Here, have a life preserver, you fucking extra.
Desmond was on the chopper right?
by Maxer
May 29th, 2008
09:13:40 PM
I'm glad alot of the redshirts died. They're uglyyyy. I kinda wished Jin was still alive though. Then there'd be a reason for Sun to go back.
Whoa!
by ChrisVenom
May 29th, 2008
09:14:16 PM
I tried to catch my breath after that scene but soon as it ended they show a new Dark Knight spot! Whew!
Jeremy Bentham....
by sanitti
May 29th, 2008
09:14:20 PM
Alias for the pilot.
What exactly happened?
by memento108
May 29th, 2008
09:14:23 PM
I had to miss the last segment, most of it anyway.
Jin and Desmond
by Super Nintendo Chalmers
May 29th, 2008
09:14:51 PM
If the island doesn't want them dead, then they may not be dead.
Oh, wait...
by Super Nintendo Chalmers
May 29th, 2008
09:15:20 PM
there's desmond on the helicopter.
Ughhh
by Ateball
May 29th, 2008
09:17:32 PM
....Jack we have to find Jin, Sun asked me to, No kate, he is really only a minor character..now please get on the chopper...with sawyer gone...im in like flynn!
ausiello says 3 regulars die...
by mthrndr
May 29th, 2008
09:18:00 PM
they wouldn't do that though, would they? that's pretty fucked.
God, those tits...
by memento108
May 29th, 2008
09:18:40 PM
Juliet's tits are a thing of wonder.
Possible showdown?
by Mavra Chang
May 29th, 2008
09:19:00 PM
Sayid vs. Sun? Winner offs the opposing team's villain?
Steve is fucked
by Super Nintendo Chalmers
May 29th, 2008
09:21:08 PM
Now I have to watch in fear...
by memento108
May 29th, 2008
09:24:15 PM
of the cable fucking up again. Damn it all to hell.
Spoiler!
by gotilk
May 29th, 2008
09:26:25 PM
Nah, just kidding. Starts here in HD in 35 min.
this suddenly turned into a star trek episode
by mthrndr
May 29th, 2008
09:28:16 PM
cheesy soundstage to boot.
Not Star Trek
by Mavra Chang
May 29th, 2008
09:30:05 PM
Superman. Don't you recognize the Fortress of Solitude? ;)
Now I see why they called it the frozen donkey wheel
by BigGoozoo
May 29th, 2008
09:30:35 PM
Because whoever came up with this plotline is a jackass
holy.
by mthrndr
May 29th, 2008
09:31:13 PM
fuck.
Oh...my...god
by memento108
May 29th, 2008
09:32:42 PM
HOLY SHIT
by kyle051554
May 29th, 2008
09:33:28 PM
That was _amazing_.
Helicopter crash.
by Stereotypical Evil Archer
May 29th, 2008
09:33:32 PM
PS: Lostfan108...
by BigGoozoo
May 29th, 2008
09:33:51 PM
...pretty much completely correct so far
I mean, I knew they were going to do it, but I didn't think they
by mthrndr
May 29th, 2008
09:34:49 PM
I'm not yet sure how I feel about this very literal turn. It's cool...I guess?
These people crash more often than Luke in Empire Strikes Back
by Stereotypical Evil Archer
May 29th, 2008
09:35:51 PM
I'm lost.
Awesome.
by br1947
May 29th, 2008
09:36:28 PM
Good stuff... on a side note, anyone else thing 'Wipeout' looks like and American 'MXC'? Not that that's a bad thing, always enjoy seeing people hurt themselves for my amusement...
The second kiss
by BigGoozoo
May 29th, 2008
09:38:39 PM
Jack and Des... how darling!
What?
by digitalcos
May 29th, 2008
09:39:27 PM
"The writer/director of The Sixth Sense and Signs brings you his first R rated film."

Are you seriously using the movies MPAA rating to sell the film?

Oh yeah.

Well, Fuck You.

The rest of the series should take place on that raft.
by Stereotypical Evil Archer
May 29th, 2008
09:39:32 PM
backwards speaking!
by mthrndr
May 29th, 2008
09:40:44 PM
someone fire up sound recorder!
digitalcos, Rated R with a twist.
by Stereotypical Evil Archer
May 29th, 2008
09:41:25 PM
Backwards, eh. . .
by CeltMonkey
May 29th, 2008
09:41:31 PM
A Twin Peaks dream?
PENNY
by BacardiRocky
May 29th, 2008
09:45:34 PM
PENNY!!!
Penny! Well what a coincidence!
by Stereotypical Evil Archer
May 29th, 2008
09:46:49 PM
AMAZING
by memento108
May 29th, 2008
09:47:07 PM
Almost started crying...holy shit.
Jeremy Bentham can't be Ben...
by BrokenHeath
May 29th, 2008
09:48:11 PM
because then Walt would just call him Ben. He did know him on the island by his name, didn't he?
There seems to be a rated R happening
by mthrndr
May 29th, 2008
09:48:21 PM
there seems to be a shit stain on my theater screen happening.
Penny's F'n Boat!!!!
by maineguy74
May 29th, 2008
09:48:25 PM
Once again, this show proves why it fucking rocks!
Penn
by Super Nintendo Chalmers
May 29th, 2008
09:48:30 PM
Where did the island go? It's Lost in Space.
by Stereotypical Evil Archer
May 29th, 2008
09:48:58 PM
Surprised Penny didn't
by sanitti
May 29th, 2008
09:49:29 PM
ask about Charlie....
Penny's great...
by Super Nintendo Chalmers
May 29th, 2008
09:50:03 PM
but notice how all of the other people on the raft are like, "Oh, hey. Nice to meet you," not "Holy FUCK! Are you serious!? How weird is that!!"
Octagon Global Recruiting?
by ranting_dude
May 29th, 2008
09:51:03 PM
WTF!
Octagon commercial?????
by sanitti
May 29th, 2008
09:51:29 PM
nice
Remember that episode
by JokersNight
May 29th, 2008
09:52:47 PM
When Kate had three fingers jammed in her pussy? Yeah, me neither.
3000 miles to another island. IT'S MY ISLAND!
by Stereotypical Evil Archer
May 29th, 2008
09:53:06 PM
man, it's all about these short seasons
by mthrndr
May 29th, 2008
09:55:21 PM
lean and mean, almost no filler.
anyone able to get to octagon site?
by jccalhoun
May 29th, 2008
09:56:20 PM
anyone able to get the Octagon site to load? It is overloaded for me.
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST!
by Charlie Murphy
May 29th, 2008
09:57:59 PM
that's it. that's all i can say... fucking john locke...
RE: Super Nintendo Chalmers
by Larry of Arabia
May 29th, 2008
09:58:28 PM
After seeing a whole island disappear I'd think that they would take Penny in stride.
well, it's not ben...
by mthrndr
May 29th, 2008
09:58:47 PM
sawyer?
OOOOkay. Locke is dead.
by Stereotypical Evil Archer
May 29th, 2008
09:59:29 PM
HOLY FUCK!!! IT REALLY WAS LOCKE!!!!
by memento108
May 29th, 2008
09:59:32 PM
BEST SHOW EVER.
WHAT THE EVERLOVING FUCK?
by seagrass
May 29th, 2008
09:59:45 PM
Holy Sh*t
by zardoz20
May 29th, 2008
10:00:03 PM
Good Finale
BEST EPISODE OF TELEVISION EVER
by CherryValance
May 29th, 2008
10:00:03 PM
If it were a movie, I swear it might make my top ten.
Locke!!!!
by BacardiRocky
May 29th, 2008
10:00:08 PM
Fucking idiot
SHIIIIIIIIIIT
by kyle051554
May 29th, 2008
10:00:16 PM
Is there any doubt that this is the greatest show ever created?
it's going to take me all 8 months to process this episode
by mthrndr
May 29th, 2008
10:00:31 PM
jeezum crow.
Fuck me for reading the spoilers
by BigGoozoo
May 29th, 2008
10:00:41 PM
they were right... again
So I guess that the new flashbacks...
by JackIsLost
May 29th, 2008
10:01:19 PM
will show the 3 year gap between rescue and now... Pretty nifty. Looks like the only way Terry O'Quinn will still be on the show now that Locke is dead. Holy crap.
That's how it's done, people
by Larry of Arabia
May 29th, 2008
10:01:33 PM
Take notes all ye other serials. That was some heavy payoff and a great cliffhanger.
Well, shit...
by digitalcos
May 29th, 2008
10:01:38 PM
I'm not sure how best to handle the Weekend at Bernie's joke. Any ideas?
Take Locke to island, like Star Trek 3: the Search for Spock.
by Stereotypical Evil Archer
May 29th, 2008
10:01:43 PM
Star Trek on Earth. What a series.
Locke?
by seanny_d
May 29th, 2008
10:01:44 PM
I don't care that Locke is in the coffin. He's not dead. No way. Not happening.

And for that matter, neither is Jin. Jin was picked up by Faraday and they're chilling somewhere on the ocean.

Love this show.

Checkmate, Mr. Eko
by zardoz20
May 29th, 2008
10:01:49 PM
Favorite line of the show...Hurley rules..
Ok, question!
by br1947
May 29th, 2008
10:01:52 PM
What happened to Desmond's vision last season where he saw Claire and Aaron get on the helecopter? You know, the vision that Charlie sacrificed himself for? Did I miss something?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooo
by 'Cholera's Ghost
May 29th, 2008
10:01:52 PM
LOoooooooccccckkkkeeee....
Jack has some awesome taste in music
by Loosejerk
May 29th, 2008
10:02:32 PM
Scentless Apprentice.....Gouge Away.....FUCK YEAH!
That means two of my four favorite characters
by Charlie Murphy
May 29th, 2008
10:02:35 PM
don't make it out of the series alive. Eko- dead. Locke- will die. Fingers crossed that Ben and Des make it.
Jacob is Jack
by Speedstream
May 29th, 2008
10:02:37 PM
That's my theory...Jacob is Jack.
Yeah, Locke can't be dead...
by memento108
May 29th, 2008
10:03:22 PM
But holy shit, to answer that question...there is NO doubt that this is the greatest show ever.
Poor man's process.
by digitalcos
May 29th, 2008
10:04:11 PM
I loved the black trash bag waves in the background.
Hoffs Drawler -- funeral parlor
by Lurker Johnson
May 29th, 2008
10:04:14 PM
Anagram for "A Fresh World"

that is all.
11 p.m. ET
by Hercules
May 29th, 2008
10:04:18 PM
From E! Online's Watch With Kristin, 4/23/07 - "Greg Grunberg, aka Oceanic pilot Seth Norris, was in Hawaii last week filming scenes for the show."
Soulf****r was Wrong!
by theBigE
May 29th, 2008
10:05:18 PM
Hah - I read just a few glimpses of that turd's "spoilers" in the previous talkback - he said that Ben would kill Penny at the end of this episode. Loser. I was bummed to see Locke in the coffin, as many predicted. Stupid spoilers.

I too am going to take some time to process this episode. Why did big Walt appear to Locke last season? 4 toed statue? Frozen donkey wheel? WE STILL DON'T KNOW!!!


by theBigE
May 29th, 2008
10:05:34 PM
Underwhelmed
by slave to the one
May 29th, 2008
10:05:37 PM
That's the big finale! Not on Par with the last 3!
Sooooooo, no-one can really die?!?!?
by The Dum Guy
May 29th, 2008
10:05:59 PM
I thought for a moment we would get a new character to be in the coffin... to fill in the next two seasons.
Cuse has said that the end scene was 3 years later
by mthrndr
May 29th, 2008
10:06:19 PM
So next season, I'm betting we jump forward to Jack trying to rally the troops to go back, with flashbacks to the island during the intervening years. I bet we're done with flash forwards for a while.
And... the crazy theories begin...
by br1947
May 29th, 2008
10:06:32 PM
So maybe the redheaded chick is the time-transported daughter of Juliet & Sawyer? She was 'looking for where she was born' and according to Miles she had been there before...
Yup, it's Locke.
by ckane123
May 29th, 2008
10:06:35 PM
ALL the spoilers were right - except I still think that Locke can DIE off the island and still be ALIVE if brought back to the Island (the island, even more so now, exists at a time BEFORE Locke dies). So now we know the arc for next season: Bad things happen on the island/the O6 try and get back. By the end of the season, Locke will "leave" to get the O6 back and dead Locke will "arrive" on the island... to "wake up." Expect filler episodes with Farraday, The hot-red-head and Ben vs. Whitmore next year as well. The final season will be the cleanup/resolve the last mysteries and (my theory) give the cast the chance to "fix" the past to NOT END UP ON THE ISLAND AT ALL...
I am an idiot...
by Lurker Johnson
May 29th, 2008
10:07:13 PM
Forgot the other "F", Doh!
okay wtf?
by El Borak
May 29th, 2008
10:07:17 PM
i dunno.
And by frozen donkey wheel
by theBigE
May 29th, 2008
10:07:19 PM
I obviously saw it - I just want to know how the heck it worked!

And how did Ben already know that Sayid was off the island and his wife was dead? How did Mr. Friendly travel so easily off the island, when no one else seems able???

WE HAVE TO GO BACK!!!!
by Ateball
May 29th, 2008
10:07:21 PM
LOST...best show ever...BSG is in the dirt...and I love that show too...time to go upgrade to the Blu Ray season 3 at moviestop tommorrow.
Season 5 is going to be a very different thing.
by Charlie Murphy
May 29th, 2008
10:07:42 PM
The show isn't going to pick up at the flash-forward point (I don't think) so the "real-time" stuff will only have locke, sawyer, charlotte, juliet and co. to keep us interested on the island and the show would cut between that and, i would assume, the Six's adventures on the real world. Flash forwards will be Jack trying to recruit the other 5 to return with Ben. Since Desmond went off with Penny, he'll probably only be a recurring guest star from here on (which kinda sucks, but really, what else do you do with him? his story's pretty much done...) Thoughts?
So... will bringing Locke back to the island...
by SilentP
May 29th, 2008
10:07:49 PM
bring him back to life the way Christian came back to life (or at least made him some kind of wacky ghost)?

FUCK, 2009? Godfuckingdammit.
Chatlette is
by Speedstream
May 29th, 2008
10:08:22 PM
Ben's friend from when they were kids...makes sense to me. Juliet and Sawyer...bitch outcasts...I can see it.
Nirvana/Pixies
by slave to the one
May 29th, 2008
10:08:31 PM
So is Jack trying to relive the late 80's early 90's Apparently he must be a HUGE Pixies fan, given that Nirvana were largely influenced by the Pixies!
Locke Will Live
by CalamityJay
May 29th, 2008
10:08:47 PM
If they take him back to the island...Poof!...he'll return to life.
http://www.octagonglobalrecruiti ng.com/
by BigGoozoo
May 29th, 2008
10:08:48 PM
Faraday - where did he and the boat of redshirts go?
by theBigE
May 29th, 2008
10:09:27 PM
He was off the island, yes? What happened to his boat when the island disappeared?
Alright, i dug it, but i have some gripes...
by Lt. Kaffee
May 29th, 2008
10:09:46 PM
they revolve around the kinda silly scene with ben "moving" the island and then the scene when jack so easily abandoned all those other passengers (who he ranted and raved about saving and rescuing for 4 damn seasons)to die by boat explosion. other than that i really enjoyed the episode and for some reason am super happy desmond made it.
Bentham
by Maniaq
May 29th, 2008
10:09:53 PM
Desmond?
oh yeah, no Greg Grunberg
by Charlie Murphy
May 29th, 2008
10:10:03 PM
i told myself i would watch for him, but the episode was so good, i forgot... how the fuck would he get in?
Yeah, already logged in at octagon recruiting
by theBigE
May 29th, 2008
10:10:32 PM
They took my email and said "see you in San Diego this summer!" Is that for Comic-con or something?
This twist is like Libby in the mental hospital
by BurgerKing
May 29th, 2008
10:10:34 PM
I'm shocked and baffled and my mind is just saying WHAT THE FUCK DID I JUST SEEE however I'm being cautious because of how ridiculously insane it is, to the point where you're saying cmon, really, your just wanting us to be mindfucked.

However, the use of the coffin in season 3 was a good way to set up this mindfuck, and we all know the writers had no fucking idea who was in the coffin until probably a few episodes back.

It's no THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS, but did anyone really expect it to be?

oh and jin ain't dead
by mthrndr
May 29th, 2008
10:10:59 PM
fuck ausiello. jin's alive.
Ooh, Herc changed the title again!
by theBigE
May 29th, 2008
10:11:16 PM
With a big spoiler for those on the West Coast!
Ashok0
by Charlie Murphy
May 29th, 2008
10:11:45 PM
you are right... i'm not thinking straight, the episode was too good... but Desmond probably won't be a regular, do you think?
THE LOST CURSE...
by BurgerKing
May 29th, 2008
10:13:14 PM
Strikes again! The attack of the Lost star DUI takes down another character. BAM.

I dunno if I'm supposed to not post this because of West Coasters but other people are talking dead Lockes and West Coasters shouldnt be here right now anywya.

HOLY SHIT BENTHAM MEANS...
by JBouganim1
May 29th, 2008
10:13:26 PM
THE MAN B Thats black language for what up kid thats Locke son
Sopranos was the best tv show. Not Lost.
by GQtaste
May 29th, 2008
10:13:37 PM
Yeah,Sopranos suffered in the last couple of seasons but it imo is better than lost.
Yup, I'd wager Jin is alive, too...
by ckane123
May 29th, 2008
10:14:41 PM
By episode three next year he will wash up on shore, barely alive, and Juliet, who will become the "new Jack"/leader of the island, will nurse him back to health. AND what is the "really bad thing" that happens to the island? I say look for some nasty stuff from Mr. Paik....
timeline for next season?
by Titus05
May 29th, 2008
10:15:11 PM
so what is going to be the present 'time' next season?...is it going to be with the Oceanic 6 trying to go back to the island (which would mean Locke is dead) or the years in between the rescue?...they have to start with the 6 going back...the timeline is even more screwy then ever before
I thought Des was done too
by CherryValance
May 29th, 2008
10:15:59 PM
I forgot about Ben having to kill Penny. That's gonna suck. And Jin and everything that happened. I did a lot of alternate screaming and crying this episode. Claire scared me something fierce. And Sun with the screaming made cry and then when that guy called up to Miss Widmore, I screamed and cried at the same time.
Sopranos better than Lost?
by Charlie Murphy
May 29th, 2008
10:16:10 PM
huh.
3 deaths
by Titus05
May 29th, 2008
10:17:00 PM
so we could potentially have 3 original cast members dying tonight---Michael, Jin and Locke
Octagon Global Recruiting
by SquallTiofae
May 29th, 2008
10:17:20 PM
Confirms there will be definite information about Season 5 at Comic Con this summer.
one more thing...
by Titus05
May 29th, 2008
10:18:16 PM
tomorrow on Good Morning America they are going to show the 3 alternate endings that were shot...should be interesting
Jin...
by seanny_d
May 29th, 2008
10:18:50 PM
Something tells me he's going to be picked up by Faraday and the meat socks. He was close to the edge of the boat anyway. And he has a history of surviving exploding boats/rafts. So he's got experience in that.
Locke leaves Mr. McPoops with enlightenment envy
by Guy Who Got A Headache And Accidentally Saves The World
May 29th, 2008
10:19:44 PM
Really can you blame him, we're talking about a guy with the handle of Mr. McFuckingPoops here.
Lurker: Hoffs / Drawler is an anagram of
by rockgolf
May 29th, 2008
10:20:45 PM
Flash Forward. This was explained last year after it was first shown. Oh yeah. New info at 8pm - Sayid has no plans to return to Iraq. Jack claimed that Boone, Libby & Charlie survived the crash, but died before rescue. Kinda true.
heart beat monitor shouldnt have gone off!!!!!
by BurgerKing
May 29th, 2008
10:20:56 PM
Silly writers, my nerd instincts have found a flaw in your writing! A major one at that!

We all know that the Morse Code took like 2-3 days to reach the freighter in the time difference between island and world.

Ohhh but the heartbeat monitor signal INSTANTLY shows up on the boat? I don't think so Mr. Lindelof and Mr. Cuse. I don't think so at all.

Very good Finale
by edshrinker
May 29th, 2008
10:21:15 PM
Enjoyed it and want MORE! It did its job.
Ed ed ed...
by Napoleon Park
May 29th, 2008
10:21:31 PM
Seems the show is going to change
by Crow3711
May 29th, 2008
10:21:36 PM
and quite radically too. I can't wait. Everything they have done thus far is complete and utter brilliance. I have complete faith in this story. There are other great shows, and then there is Lost, it really is in its own league, IMO. That was an incredible finale, and having Penny and Desmond together was beautiful. I can't wait to see what comes next, and what goes so wrong on the Island.
idiots
by lantern48
May 29th, 2008
10:21:54 PM
All of you. Lost is the worst fucking show ever. It exists to only tease you and never answer any questions-- all the while making so many new questions that you morons forget you had old ones. Fucking braindead suckers.
Next season
by Johnson311
May 29th, 2008
10:22:07 PM
When does next season start approximately?
Very good Finale...Two problems I had
by chaseguy17
May 29th, 2008
10:22:15 PM
1. Bringing back Micahel just to kill him after having maybe 15-20 minutes of screentime felt very cheap. I want to care that he died...but he hadn't done much recently. Maybe they should have kept him on the island. 2. Desmond finding Penny should have been a grand scene. But since we hadn't had a desmond centric episode in a while...there wasn't that "waiting" emotional impact. It was just there out of the blue. and we know the dark future ahead. I felt they really messed that up.

by Crow3711
May 29th, 2008
10:23:47 PM
You're a dork BurgerKing. You're trying too hard. The walkie talkie signals are instant. People have spoken from the island to the freighter. It's anything physically moving to and from the Island that gets messed with. Signals go fine since Charlie turned off the Looking Glass station, a jamming station. BOO YA. Lost is the shit.
Lurker Johnson - "Hoff's Drawlar" is also an anagram for...
by DonnaDarko
May 29th, 2008
10:23:50 PM
"Flash Forward" It's an A, not an E.
Ashok0...
by bonerama
May 29th, 2008
10:23:51 PM
The first few seasons of the Sopranos are brilliant, but it was just kind of meh the last few. I recommend you kill the downtime before Lost S5 with The Wire, the greatest show ever produced.
rockgolf
by Lurker Johnson
May 29th, 2008
10:25:01 PM
I stand corrected. And I unfortunately already knew that. ARRRRGHHH! Sometimes it doesn't pay to drink a twelver whilst watching this show.
Time change between the freighter and island...
by ckane123
May 29th, 2008
10:25:08 PM
I think the producers, when asked, will say that because the freighter moved closer to the island there was no time distortion. That's wha I'd say if I were them... Night all!
Eddy baby...
by Napoleon Park
May 29th, 2008
10:25:17 PM
you screamed up one side of the wall and pissed down the other complaining about last weeks Grey's Allmultisyllabicwordssoundthes ametomy finale, and this week you defend yourself by placing in type that part one of the tree hour finale was LAST WEEK. You seem like such a nice guy I can't imagine why I can't resist pointing these things out, but you just make it so damned easy.
Ashok0
by Charlie Murphy
May 29th, 2008
10:25:38 PM
the guy who said Sopranos is better than Lost is off his rocker. The Sopranos is a decent crime show and the first three or four years have some pretty neat ideas, but it always felt to me like it was treading water. it's well written (for the most part) and the acting is pretty solid, and definitely worth a look if you like crime/mob stuff, but... i don't know.
Heart Beat Monitor
by Kraken
May 29th, 2008
10:26:09 PM
But when the island transmitted from the phones, it was actually further BACK in time for the boat. So if anything the heart beat monitor should have sent the signal, and the boat should have exploded sooner than later.
michael may not be dead
by Bouncy X
May 29th, 2008
10:26:31 PM
jack's dad said it was time to go, now of course that might mean he DID die and he was his way of inviting him to the "other side" or whatever. but my first impression upon seeing that scene was that he was somehow rescued. as someone else pointed out, it would be sorta cheap that his big comeback was such a small role, he must have more to do in the coming finale 2 seasons. course i might be wrong and that was his redemption or some shit. as for the boat, with all the timeline stuff going on, maybe we only saw the boat from a different time blow up and its still ok somewhere else. sorta like the whole dead doctor thing.
To Burgerking
by coconutgroves
May 29th, 2008
10:27:46 PM
They moved the boat closer in, directly offshore - that is why Keemey's radio transmitter worked and wasn't affected by the the space/time problem. The boat was directly offshore within seeing distance. Great episode - 8 months is too long to wait!
lantern48...
by memento108
May 29th, 2008
10:27:55 PM
Ever watched the show? Or better yet, any episodes from this season? So many fucking questions have been answered this season. This season has been all about pay-off. The fans known that...the naysayers (like you) think it's still popular to bring up the fact that we never got answers. You, sir, are uninformed.
How would they explain how they got a liferaft to get off island
by BrokenHeath
May 29th, 2008
10:28:26 PM
they were exploring the island and found one? And wouldn't authorities want to find the island that they said they were stranded on for so long?
bouncy x
by chaseguy17
May 29th, 2008
10:28:47 PM
"time to go" meant that he could now die. the whispers released his curse is how i interpreted that. past episodes he couldn't die.
burger king
by mthrndr
May 29th, 2008
10:28:53 PM
the morse code signal didn't take 2-3 days to reach the boat. it reached it instantly. it's just that the boat itself was in a different time frame. but tonight, the boat was far closer to the island - in fact, I assume that it was past the protective event horizon of the machine. At this point, I don't think the island is natural at all, but man made. I think abrams took the basic idea of atlantis and a race of ageless people and molded this show around it.
i cant wait for
by alex138
May 29th, 2008
10:29:58 PM
next season when they carry around locke's body while convincing the others to go back. it'll be like weekend at bernie's
Good Season
by flickchick85
May 29th, 2008
10:30:10 PM
I've been down on Lost since mid-season 2, and while I liked the last few episodes of S3, I thought most of the rest of that season was utter crap, too. That said, I really think this was the best season since S1, and it actually makes me excited for S5 (which hasn't happened since S2)...though I know it probably won't be as good since it'll be another stretched out season. This forced short season was actually very beneficial to this show, imo.
So who is Jeremy Bentham???
by Mrhazard
May 29th, 2008
10:31:25 PM
New character??? Old character??? Old character with a new alias??? It's hard to keep track of all this bullshit... Love the show, tho... Easily the best show since Sopranos...
Better question
by br1947
May 29th, 2008
10:31:39 PM
Why not just remove the blasting caps?
chaseguy17
by Bouncy X
May 29th, 2008
10:31:53 PM
you know, i totally forgot about michael's many failed attempts to try to die. so then yeah, you're probably right....to paraphrase buffy "death was his gift". that makes much sense.
Enough loose ends, already
by BigGoozoo
May 29th, 2008
10:32:39 PM
All joking aside... 2 seasons to go and shitload of loose ends have built up over 4 seasons with no signs of letting up. If the theories are right and season 5 is a bridge to the final one, they'd better get going with the explanations...
Kind of sucks locke is dead
by The_Squid
May 29th, 2008
10:32:47 PM
although dead people tend to come back on lost. Penny will probably be a regular next season. Why does locke's carcass have to go back? What the fuck is up with clarie? I don't think she's dead, but what's she doing? I never thought I'd say this but the only real problem with this episode was there wasn't enough questions asked. You can go now Michael.
OK. That was a very, very nice finale. But...
by Mr. Nice Gaius
May 29th, 2008
10:32:53 PM
...is it just me, or has this show run out of surprises? I felt like everything was either telegraphed or a done deal because of all the information we already know.

Still, it's tough to beat the image of John Locke in a coffin. Good season. Pretty good finale. I look forward to the next.

EvilWizardGlick
by Bouncy X
May 29th, 2008
10:33:49 PM
you blew up my brain...thank you. lol. no but what i was saying was that just like we saw the dead doctor wash up on shore while he was still alive on the boat. maybe the boat we saw blow up is from that other timezone or whatever you wanna call it and there's still a version thats ok or vice versa.
Several thoughts
by Super Nintendo Chalmers
May 29th, 2008
10:34:25 PM
1) Lock is dead like Jack's father was dead. For some reason they are alive(ish) on the island, but dead on the mainland. 2) Jin could still be alive. If Sawyer can swim, so can he. 3. Michael's dead. Blowed up.
Greg Grunberg...
by mraig
May 29th, 2008
10:34:53 PM
Will he be in the alternate endings tomorrow morning?

That was the white rabbit from Alice in Wonderland on Aaron's door. Was that there in "Something Nice Back Home"? And what's the deal with Aaron (which has been hinted at since Season 1) and what's the deal with Claire--is she a ghost now or what? It seems like there is some connection between Aaron's "special" status, Walt's "special" status, and the reason why the Others were interested in them both. I'm sure it was all part of the "Others" orientation that Locke got when he joined up with them.

When Ben said "you all" have to go back, did that include Lapidus and Desmond?

So I suppose that Ben travelled directly from the frozen wheel room to the Sahara in 2005 (and the date on the island when he turns the wheel is sometime in late December 2004, right?). And the new timeframe of "We have to go back", if it's three years later, would be sometime in late 2007/early 2008 (i.e. more or less present day, for now). Which means Ben has been doin' stuff for two years or so since he made that threat to Widmore--and Sayid has been working for Ben for 2 years. It's possible that he's already killed Penelope in the intervening time--and it's hard to imagine that Penelope and Desmond haven't been together for that three years...

What the hell kind of show will Lost be next season? What format will it take? When will be the "present", and will there be flashbacks or flashforwards? Will Locke still be a series regular? Will I be able to wait eight months? How big will this talkback be by then?

Jacks taste of music
by zombieface
May 29th, 2008
10:35:19 PM
is excellent. but also remember the date of death of the body.. well locke? april 5th...
claire still not on heli
by BurgerKing
May 29th, 2008
10:37:04 PM
yo, way to kill Charlie for no reason. We better see some Claire helicopter action Season 5.
Not quite Spoilers
by shellfishh
May 29th, 2008
10:38:02 PM
These aren't spoilers, because I don't know bearded jack shit, but I want to throw out my idea just in case I am right and I get to brag.

Next season, Sun will be a 'bad guy'. She's pissed at Jack for Jin dying and I think Locke visited a few more people before he died.

I think Locke told Sun that Ben made the boat go "boom". That would be a good reason for her to hook up with Widmore. They both want Ben dead.

But Jin's not dead.
It was LOCKE in the casket...
by jimmy rabbitte
May 29th, 2008
10:38:27 PM
...I've been saying that since last season's ender...

No, really... I have...

can anyone explain the...
by El Borak
May 29th, 2008
10:38:51 PM
wheel? any theories?
Oh yeah...
by mraig
May 29th, 2008
10:39:31 PM
And why did the O6 claim that a few others had survived the initial crash, but then died later on the island?
Spoiler
by smackfu
May 29th, 2008
10:39:33 PM
Both Ben Linus and Charles Widmore (and Richard Alpert and probably others) are invincible. They're on (at least) their second run through (their consciousness has gone back in time and are re-living a fixed period of their lives) and they can't die until they die in the original timeline. It's the same thing that happened accidentally to Desmond when his conciousness became unstuck in time in Season 3 and 4. Only Ben, Charles, Richard and friends have done it on purpose, and Ben and Richard hinted that they've probably done it many times thus far 'I stopped counting birthdays a long time ago'. *because they're irrelevant because they won't start having real birthdays again until they stop looping back. This is why Ben always has a plan (he already knows everything that's going to happen up until the point where he looped back. And this is why he is utterly fearless, because he knows he can be beaten and tortured, but he can't be killed. And he then aluded this season that Widmore is in the same state 'are you here to kill me?' - 'we both know I can't do that'.
Penny and Desmond...
by Schmott
May 29th, 2008
10:39:45 PM
are going to be Mr. and Mrs. Dead Bodies in the cave from Season 1.
Halliwax
by BigGoozoo
May 29th, 2008
10:40:44 PM
Was that the name "Marvin Candle" used in the Orchid orientation video?
zombieface
by Super Nintendo Chalmers
May 29th, 2008
10:40:47 PM
What song was he listening to at the end? I didn't recognize it. It is funny that Jack is way cooler as a drunken lumberjack than he is as hero-guy.
Halliwax
by mraig
May 29th, 2008
10:41:53 PM
was the name that the Asian guy from all the training videos used in the Orchid video, wasn't it? All his names have something do with candles (Marvin Candle was another, I think).
Crazy theory time
by The_Squid
May 29th, 2008
10:42:04 PM
locke isn't dead. The writers pulled a fast one on us! Sayid said it was reported as a suicide, but he made it sound like he assasinated him(not entirely sure about this, need to rewatch that scene). But Sayid works for Ben, and Ben needs Locke to come with him. Maybe I'm just crazy and Sayid was impyling widmore killed locke but you never know.

by zombieface
May 29th, 2008
10:42:24 PM
scentless apprentice. yeah... i kind of like the hobo side of him.
Locke as a regular next year
by Charlie Murphy
May 29th, 2008
10:42:54 PM
hell yeah he will. that flash forward was two or three years in the future, so if the show picks up where it left off, with locke leading the Others with Alpert, i see no reason why he wouldn't be back. Also, I think it's really awesome that Ben went directly from the Island to the desert, and i'm really surprised the 6 got off the island already. I thought we'd have a whole other year of flash forward before the rescue.
Eddy Baby
by edshrinker
May 29th, 2008
10:43:02 PM
Buy me a drink if you are gonna talk to me that way Nap. And keep your hands to yourself. Glad to amuse you. I can always say - I did something of value this day. I gave Nap material. I'm taking baby steps with my self-esteem development lately. Very sad.

Better title for our home. Hope the lack of context negates that as a spoiler. I wonder if Herc would actually take a request since we will be the ones here for 8 months.

What about Faraday?
by Super Nintendo Chalmers
May 29th, 2008
10:43:05 PM
He's fucked out on that raft unless he transported with the island.
Schmott
by Charlie Murphy
May 29th, 2008
10:45:47 PM
you just blew my mind. thanks to you, the rest of my night will consist of me washing brain matter off my walls.
Ashok0
by Mr. Nice Gaius
May 29th, 2008
10:46:29 PM
I only watch the show, too.
How Widmore was "allowed" the island
by davy jones owns
May 29th, 2008
10:46:52 PM
so could widmore find the island because both michael and the red head (i somehow forgot her name) had both been there before? would it make sense that the island has been moved before, since Ben knew about the wheel?
"He's dead JIn." - Dr. Leonard McCoy
by Napoleon Park
May 29th, 2008
10:47:00 PM
Thank god Ben didn't die
by SilentP
May 29th, 2008
10:47:03 PM
Man, I love Ben. I hope he's not going to be useless now that he can't get back to the island. I assume he'll have a lot to do in season 5, but season 6 is less certain, by then he might have accomplished (or failed at) everything he needed to do (get them back to the island and get back at widmore)...
EvilWizardGlick
by El Borak
May 29th, 2008
10:47:36 PM
i figured most of that out, but why was it there? who built it? etc?
very interesting zom-bot
by redfishbluefish
May 29th, 2008
10:47:49 PM
i kinda dig it.
And no
by edshrinker
May 29th, 2008
10:47:55 PM
you can't boot me out from my 1st post. It is my 1st 1st. It might not be spectacular, but at least it is WE instead of ME.
BIG Disappointment
by FrodoFraggins
May 29th, 2008
10:49:08 PM
I hadn't seen any spoilers for the finale but I was definitely let down. At least the story moved forward this season, there just wasn't a lot of drama. The flash forwards revealed too much and reduced the drama.
but what happened to the other panda?
by Napoleon Park
May 29th, 2008
10:50:17 PM
Gotta love the ADD kids who need every question answered fight now. Okay, so it turns out Can he move the island and How can he move the island are two different questions: the answers are "yes" and "later, dude."

And oh boo hoo, we never found out how Keamy and the Frighter Fighters escaped from the Monster. Big Woo, like I'm gonna cry over that for eight months.

Jeremy Davies was awesome as Manson
by ZeroCorpse
May 29th, 2008
10:53:05 PM
He played Manson a couple times, but his best turn was in the modern HELTER SKELTER. If you grab the DVD, in the special features is the demo video of him practicing Manson, and it's fucking creepy.

As for LOST, I have to say I'm surprised by this episode. A lot of cool stuff happened, and it set the stage for a great season next year... But the people who say BSG isn't paying off need to watch this week's episode. It pays off, and it's an excellent episode.

How did Locke die?
by Fing Fang Foom
May 29th, 2008
10:53:43 PM
How was it explained? Suicide? What did the newspaper clipping say? Cant remember...
A MacGuffin plus a Shout Out
by Napoleon Park
May 29th, 2008
10:53:46 PM
"Bentham" was a clever false clue, half McGuffin, half shout out. The first syllable is supposed to make us think it's Ben- in the box - I bought it and jumped when he spoke, sure. And the second syllable is an homage to one of Lost's most loyal and devoted fans, our very own Go-tham Night. Congrats, GN, you're a tiny scrap of Lost trivia now. Dude!
Does anyone have the link
by Charlie Murphy
May 29th, 2008
10:54:12 PM
to the extended press conference scene video? is there even a video of it? and zom-bot, you are no doubt 100% correctomundo.
DarkUFO?
by Mr. Nice Gaius
May 29th, 2008
10:54:15 PM
Not familiar with it. I decided to stay away from all the meta and spoiler sites that surround this show. In my opinion, it needs to be able to stand on its own.

FrodoFraggins - you hit the nail on the head - the flash forwards are making it too easy to see where the show is going. That's why I feel the element of surprise has been compromised.

Charlie Murphy
by Schmott
May 29th, 2008
10:54:28 PM
I think I only came up with that as a result of my own brain matter on the walls. Seriously, though...there are so many small pieces that haven't been explained, yet have been declared (somewhere) as being important...like the cave bodies. I really can't see Ben actually getting the chance to kill Penny. So to me, it's a better concept of Penny and Desmond ending up waaay back in time to Adam-and-Eve-it on the island.
okay i'm starting to see.
by El Borak
May 29th, 2008
10:54:47 PM
A Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC) is a state of matter of bosons confined in an external potential and cooled to temperatures very near to absolute zero (0 K or −273.15 °C). Under such supercooled conditions, a large fraction of the atoms collapse into the lowest quantum state of the external potential, at which point quantum effects become apparent on a macroscopic scale.
My favorite SOULFROLICKER spoiler
by Napoleon Park
May 29th, 2008
10:55:47 PM
was when Jack's appendix ruptured and blew up the ship. Wow, he sure got that right!
What would be interesting...
by br1947
May 29th, 2008
10:55:51 PM
is if they shot 3 or 4 alternate endings to the series, and different ABC affiliates throughout the country aired different ones. Talk about creating an talkback cluster fuck!
btw what song was Jack listening to??
by zombieface
May 29th, 2008
10:55:55 PM
scentless apprentice
Nooo
by edshrinker
May 29th, 2008
10:56:38 PM
Penny and Des need to STAY clear of Widdy and the mainland. Wonder what will be up with those 2.

SPINOFF!

And

Where is the Best TV Dog the frelling world?!?!?!?

Locke was well hung
by Napoleon Park
May 29th, 2008
10:56:41 PM
according to the newspaper clipping, but TPTB have stated the obituary was just a prop, not canon.
I think I might have ADD...
by seanny_d
May 29th, 2008
10:57:11 PM
Because another TWO YEARS of this? I might end up certifiably insane by the end of it. I'm slightly concerned for my long term well-being. At least I'll be able to sleep tonight...unlike last year. What a mind fuck that was.
@ smackfu
by BrokenHeath
May 29th, 2008
11:00:17 PM
Ben doesn't know everything...he was pretty pissed when they killed his daughter.
Here's a good way to kill a battery.
by LordEnigma
May 29th, 2008
11:01:41 PM
You put a small hole in it, and you pour a pepsi or a coke into it. It will kill the battery in no time. Also... if you have corrosion around the battery. The pepsi or coke will clean it off. Nevertheless... this show rules as well WALL-E!
BIGGER problem with the radio transmitter:
by greenstyle92
May 29th, 2008
11:02:15 PM
They were so fucking far underground and the signal still got out? Bullshit.
SPOILERS got it wrong
by Napoleon Park
May 29th, 2008
11:02:29 PM
All that stuff about "the big Kiss" being between Ford and Austen.

Forget the Ford/Austen kiss, forget the big climactic Hume/Widmore kiss. The BIG KISS (allcaps is not enough - add reverb to that) was Jack and Desmond and y'all know it. Go Team Jazzmond!

Poor Brighteyes, not only do Jack and Dez get the Big Kiss with reverb but Martin disparages Shephard's masculinity over his back-shooting abilities and his as always brilliant medical knowledge.

"Trust me, I know what I'm doing - I don't have to check his pulse, he has to be dead, I shot him two times in the body armor." This is what they teach kids in surgery school these days?

Song
by siamesebee
May 29th, 2008
11:02:31 PM
It was "Gouge Away" by The Pixies.
My theory on how they get back to the island
by Slugworth
May 29th, 2008
11:03:11 PM
Somehow Ben knows how to time travel even when he's off the island. The O6 travel back in time, obstruct their former selves from getting on 815, and take their place on 815.

by El Borak
May 29th, 2008
11:05:29 PM
the island

a bosenova is a very small, supernova-like explosion, which can be induced in a Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC) by changing the magnetic field in which the BEC is located, so that the BEC quantum wavefunction's self-interaction becomes attractive.

In the particular experiment when a bosenova was first detected, this procedure caused the BEC to implode and shrink beyond detection, and then suddenly explode. In this explosion, about half of the atoms in the condensate seem to have disappeared from the experiment altogether, remaining undetected either in the cold particle remnants or in the expanding gas cloud produced.
I CALLED IT!! ISLAND #2 ALSO GOES BYE BYE
by captain_kirk
May 29th, 2008
11:07:05 PM
Yeah baby!
OT'S A PLACE WHERE MIRACLES HAPPEN
by Napoleon Park
May 29th, 2008
11:10:57 PM
15 minutes after the episode ended, Herc had already changed the article quote from "Wait until you see what I'm about to do!" to 'Jack, i said all of them, even the dead Locke-in-the-box".

If he was going to give us a choice of what line we'd like to see up there for the next eight months, I'd vote for "It's a place where miracles happen."

Any other nominations?

Way better than lostfan108's spoilers
by tbransonlives
May 29th, 2008
11:12:05 PM
Yes, way better than it was made out to be.
I've finally faced the music and realized we
by The_Squid
May 29th, 2008
11:12:19 PM
aren't going to find out what Jacob until the end. So now the bigger question is why is Christian Jacob's press secretary?
Best lines...
by br1947
May 29th, 2008
11:13:17 PM
"If you mean time traveling bunnies, then yes..."

AND

"So?"
oh ok
by BurgerKing
May 29th, 2008
11:15:21 PM
I was thinking that but wasnt sure. I'll take your guys' words for it. Time is confusing.
When Ben said...
by ImperialMarchFace
May 29th, 2008
11:15:34 PM
..."I can help with that", or something close to that, regarding Kate "going back" to the island, it's because they're together. Gross. Michael is dead (hopefully), I can't believe Jin's alive/dead thing has to continue now. I'd bet he's alive. Is Claire dead or what? Where is Sayid taking Hurley? Where the hell is this show going to go in the next two years?
Forget Goth Claire, Preggo Claire,
by Napoleon Park
May 29th, 2008
11:15:52 PM
even creepy curled up in the corner Cabin Claire.

Spooky chubby-faced threatening nightmare Claire is now the official new uber-haut Knight Mayor of Dreamsville. "'Don't You DARE!' Claire" is HOT!

jacob is locke
by El Borak
May 29th, 2008
11:15:58 PM
the shadow of jacob looked just like him. it's future locke.
christian is totally jacob
by BurgerKing
May 29th, 2008
11:16:29 PM
He's the one who told John what to do, he's the one who told Michael his work was done, which is weird because Michael pretty much just killed the red shirts...and I guess the threat of the frieghter.
And im glad those redshirts are gone. but....
by BurgerKing
May 29th, 2008
11:17:54 PM
now we have the Others redshirts. DAMNIT. They are always different people and it pisses me off how they just hang around waiting for a free ride home while the mains are busting their balls for rescue. Now that the dumbies from 815 are dead, we just have to wait until all of the hiding Others redshirts get blasted by Smokey or something.
also locke controlling smokey. think bout it
by BurgerKing
May 29th, 2008
11:19:01 PM
Yes, it's true. Ben is gone, therefore Locke takes his place, Locke controls Smokey? I think we're gonna see some awesome monster stuff next year.
answers for some of you
by ArcadianDS
May 29th, 2008
11:20:24 PM
blasting caps: they were wired in sequence. Desmond specifically pointed that out, and said if you attempt to remove one, "boom"

Marvin Candle: I thought the asian guy in the videos was Dr Martin Candle - he used a different name in this one, oh and did he have two arms? Im confused suddenly. Help!

Micheal cant die: I read Christian's line of "you can go home now" as a way of saying, "penance paid and accepted. Time to go see Jesus." and then BOOM

Claire likes twinkies and sodas: It would appear that she's eating much better now that she's off the island. Holy Wait-up-for-me-Hurley, Batman.

where go da Island?: its not cloaked. There was a depression in the ocean where the island used to be - which suggests that the island wasn't really part of any undersea mountain range or inert volcano. It was a 'berg' of some sort that was somehow anchored in its place.

The Rules: The person who moves the island has to leave? I got nothing on this other than it helps ensure that moving the island is a 'final option' because once you do, you're out of the club.

shifty eyes about: was it just me or were half of the people on the beach just firing stink eyes in every random direction? Faraday had this look of 'god i hate lying to people' when he walked away from Juliet. Then Juliet shot him a look of 'i seriously already know you're lying' later on after he hugged her goodbye.

last one becaues I could go all night here: island mumbles in reverse - so the voices are people who are working from the future back to the present (reversely) and because they are 'out of phase' ala Orchid, we cannot see them.

And this show seriously needs to own the Emmys or you can just cancel the award altogether.

Why could
by edshrinker
May 29th, 2008
11:21:42 PM
Locke Not have thrown on the transmitter so his heart beat would register?

Would have been worth a shot if all those lives were at stake.

And while Locke takes credit...didn't Ben do all the work to move the island? What did Locke do but watch another damn video? he could have You-Tubed that one from the Arrow sta...oh yeah. He blew that up too.

and if they had a giant wheel...
by BurgerKing
May 29th, 2008
11:22:33 PM
Why did they build a big station that BLOCKED the wheel? Don't you think access to it would be valuable to research? Yeah, it would keep dumbies like Goodwin from sending the island to the future or something, but cmon, looks important. Lucky Ben is all knowing.
a few thoughts...
by captain_kirk
May 29th, 2008
11:24:12 PM
1) Why does Keany's radio signal work from miles away, deep underground, near a magnetic anomaly, and through a temporal anomaly that bends time and space? 2) Why did Keany have the device strapped on his arm? To destroy the evidence lest he be killed? Why do that? 3) THat whole Desmond Charlie vision thing needs to be explained, cause I agree--Claire was nowhere on that ship. 4) Why does Claire demand that Kate NOT take him back? 5) How does Sawyer swim that fast? through an ocean, through an anomaly, and survive? 6) Isn't Faraday and the rest of his raft totally F*cked? 7) Why is Bat Manuel so eager to accept Locke as his new leader if Locke has repeatedly failed tests: most recently he failed the "kill daddy" test. He also failed the "which of these is already yours" test. 8) Why is Jacob so pissed off at Ben? 9) Why does everybody need to return to the island?
Loved Ben and Locke bringing the funny
by tbransonlives
May 29th, 2008
11:25:03 PM
"Time travelling bunnies.", "Is this the magic box.", "Couldn't find the anthoriums could you." Also Locke watching Ben put metal objects in the vault while the tape was explaining that it is a no-no.
So is Walt waiting for his dad?
by Billyeveryteen
May 29th, 2008
11:29:59 PM
'Cause he was dismissed, and went BOOM!

Hurly should've told 'em.

So Claire does not want Aaron to go back to the island.
by LordEnigma
May 29th, 2008
11:30:46 PM
That's good to know. We also now know that Juliet and Sawyer have a red-headed daughter that just happens to be able to skip through time some how.
I loved
by Napoleon Park
May 29th, 2008
11:32:37 PM
Ben putting folding chairs and trash containers in the magic box while the video specifically said not to, and Locke's look of consternation as he did it. "didn't you hear him specifically say not to do that?"

Lost is not really the funniest show on TV, but that came very close to a LOL moment.

How did Sawyer beat the helicopter to the island?
by Nasty In The Pasty
May 29th, 2008
11:34:34 PM
Yeah, he had a head start, but still, swimming a mile or so as compared to a helicopter flyover...?
Juliet and Sawyer's daughter?
by memento108
May 29th, 2008
11:35:14 PM
Did I miss something? Can someone fill me in?
polar bear in tunisia
by d-bob8
May 29th, 2008
11:36:05 PM
Maybe that bear skeleton the red head found in tunisia at the beginning of this season was what was left of one of the polar bears that was running loose on the island. It found that wheel room, or some other "anomaly room" looking for someplace cold. Seems that this would help support the writers knew where they were going with the story.
yeah I voted for that one before Nap
by Maniaq
May 29th, 2008
11:38:21 PM
before the ep aired, after the previews Heerc linked to - way better than Herc's new choice, I agree!

So... does anyone think Locke might be dead the same way Bunny Rabbit #15 is dead?

as in yes I'm dead - and yet I'm also here...

and claire
by d-bob8
May 29th, 2008
11:38:52 PM
did maybe a "ghost" claire get on the copter with aaron, maybe thats what desmond saw
What "loose ends"?
by Guy Who Got A Headache And Accidentally Saves The World
May 29th, 2008
11:40:44 PM
Other than the four toed statue and Jacob, I can't think of much left unexplained from previous seasons. The story is progressing like any other. I think you people are confused and have forgotten how to think. Because every episode almost ends with some humdinger of a twist or whatever you think that there are all these "mysteries" to it, but really if you pay attention you can find at least a possible explanation for everything.
Not missing something as much as missing a statement...
by LordEnigma
May 29th, 2008
11:43:18 PM
Miles tells Charolette that she has been on the island before. Charolette tells Farraday that she's looking for where she was born. While James and Juliet are sitting next to one another on the beach. If you put two and two together... it seems to make four.
EXPLAIN THE 4-TOED STATUE ALREADY
by Cletus Van Damme
May 29th, 2008
11:43:28 PM
Didn't someone promise an explanation of that within the last three episodes? F me!
Oh, and...."I'M SICK.....OF LYING!"
by Cletus Van Damme
May 29th, 2008
11:44:25 PM
It had to be said. :)

by Thunderbolt Ross
May 29th, 2008
11:44:27 PM
I hope Locke's death isn't just a cheap gimmick
by Guy Who Got A Headache And Accidentally Saves The World
May 29th, 2008
11:44:35 PM
I am a little upset, he was my favorite, but I do hope it's not just a cheap gimmick for a quick holy shit moment for the end of this season. I mean, it wouldn't have been much of an ending compared to previous ones without it, though it was still a good finale. I hope his death ends up really meaning something, otherwise it seems like a waste for the most interesting character on the show. Killing him off just to get Jack-ass back to the island he couldn't appreciate or understand to begin with?
I hate to say it but
by Thunderbolt Ross
May 29th, 2008
11:45:58 PM
whoever said Jack is Jacob is probably right. I only hate to say it because there's no surprise now.
Can we all just...
by vlad.e
May 29th, 2008
11:47:05 PM
appreciate "There's No Place Like Home" for what it was? A spectacular, rewarding three hours of television and a brilliant set-up for the concluding seasons of the series. That said...I think there was a lot more set into motion tonight than most people seem to realize. I am starting to think that Locke is dead because he was never meant to take control of the island, and Jack was never supposed to leave because he is who the island intended to take over for Ben. Both characters, in doing what they feel is right, have essentially been battling their respective fates to the point of catastrophe. And with the end of season 4, we are now at the turning point, from which everyone will be drawn back towards their fate, perhaps the one decided by the mysterious Jacob.
zom-bot.com
by Guy Who Got A Headache And Accidentally Saves The World
May 29th, 2008
11:48:27 PM
Almost all of those are tied into The "Others" that they could answer with an episode dedicated to them. And what loose ends about the "selective healing properties?" We know about it. Locke is some chosen guy, he can walk, Jack tries to leave the island his appendix burst. This happens because the island is "a place where miracles happen," what more do we need there?
excuse my punctuation
by Maniaq
May 29th, 2008
11:49:34 PM
reads like "I voted before you did, Nap" when I just meant "I voted before, Nap"
All who are saying Charlie died in vein...
by Wolfman Nards
May 29th, 2008
11:50:51 PM
Maybe the helicopter he saw her getting on isn't a helicopter we've seen yet... Like as in whenever they return to the island. I don't think they would have made a continuity error that big.
BEST LINE "Checkmate Mr. Ecko" WTF!! Sheer Joy
by MrInsidious
May 29th, 2008
11:52:06 PM
I cant believe more people aren't talking about that line! Ecko was in the top 3 coolest characters and still is as far as Im concerned and he's coming back!? To me that was the greatest line in the show. Holy shit ladies and gentlemen!
vlad.e
by Thunderbolt Ross
May 29th, 2008
11:52:52 PM
You nailed it re: Jack and Locke. What's especially satisfying about it is that it's a theme that's been going on since the very beginning.
Wasn't the four toed statue created just to fuck with us?
by The_Squid
May 29th, 2008
11:55:09 PM
Someone mentioned that prick jj abrams said the statue is just a mindfuck.
let's not forget
by vlad.e
May 30th, 2008
12:06:30 AM
the opening. how awesome was it that this finale picked up at the EXACT MOMENT the previous season ended. I've seen that sort of continuity from a finale to the next season's premiere, but to allow an entire season to elapse before continuing the scene is just the sort of narrative innovation that we've come to expect from Team Darlton.
I think they could make such a contintuity error.
by greenstyle92
May 30th, 2008
12:07:11 AM
Lost is only about half, (or maybe a third) written in stone. That is, they've known the broad strokes from the beginning. They've always know what the "deal" with island is. (although I think it's been adjusted. I think the "no time travel" comments meant they knew they were fucking with time but were avoiding overt time travel, except OOPS! over time travel!) They know what the smoke monster is, they know who the skeletons were, they know how Jack, Locke, and Aaron were supposed to be significant. They may even have known Christian Shepard's importance all along too, what with an early season 1 episode heavily hinting he was back from the dead, then hushing it up all the way until now, when it's been Christian Mania.

But I think a lot has been improvised along the way too. They already admitted Ben has been given a much bigger role than originally intended, and it's pretty fucking clear that there were big things in store for Walt and the Tailies but BOTH things for one reason or another turned out to be huge abortions, (ESPECIALLY the tailie stuff. remember them pimping how this was a show about two groups of survivors, except all but Bernard have died?) I could totally see things like Desmond's visions and Charlie's sacrifice having one significance at the time they were written and then getting changed later. And hey, the four toed statue really could have just been there to fuck with us, but they may find a way to explain it.

I hope that, by the end, they find a way to answer nearly everything to satisfaction. The fact that I feel pretty confident I know fully what the Dharma Initiative was all about when they used to be this huge fucking mystery gives me hope.
I think that at the end...
by greenstyle92
May 30th, 2008
12:10:54 AM
After the last episode airs and disappoints everyone, (no matter how good, it's just bound to happen, it's historical precedent,) they publish a huge coffee table book called "Lost, the whole story" where they sit down and explain, in granular detail, all that went into making the lost mysteries, and how the show evolved, stuff like, "Here's where we intended for the show to go in season 1, and you can see how close we stuck to it, but here's where we changed it. This is what we originally intended for Ana Lucia and Ecko, but here's why it went down the way it did. Here's the whole time line of the island" kind of stuff. I mean, if they were mean spirited, they could put that in a LOST full series Blue Ray Omnibus, but I think a book would be better.
tell me what happened to your eyes...
by Napoleon Park
May 30th, 2008
12:13:49 AM
Well, I went to this Lost Tv show fan website called "JinIsAlive!.com" and signed up for this contest and wrote a 35 words or less essay on why I thought the character of Jin was still alive.

A couple weeks later I got an e-mail saying I won and I had to give them my address so they could deliver my present.

The next day these two writers, Damon Lindelhof and Carlton Cuse and this actor Daniel Dae Kim showed up at my house with my prize. It was one of those two bowl metal pet dishes with a side for food and a side for water.

They forced me into my kitchen and tied me to a chair. They asked me "Did you see the grave, did you see the toomstone? Did you see the widow cry?" I said "Jin can't be dead!"

They said "Did you see Ausiello's open ended spoiler that three of the original series regulars would die in that episode? Can you count to three? Did you see that Michael, Jin and Locke were the three he was talking about?" I said "No, Jin can't be dead!"

They said "did you see all the C-4. Did you hear Desmond say it could blow up am aircraft carrier? Did you see Jin ON the freighter after the helicopter took off? Did you see the freighter explode, the entire surface of the deck engulfed in flames? Did you see the freighter sink?" "Jin is alive!" I yelled.

"Did you see the chopper circle around where the freighter sank and there were no life rafts and no one in the water?" They shouted at me. "Do you realize there were no survivors from that freighter explosion except the people who were on that helicopter?" They were screaming now and they seemed exasperated as I replied "Jin is not dead!"

They turned the pet food dish around and there, engraved in the metal, were the words "Jin is dead". They asked if I could read it and tried to get me to say it and when I wouldn't they got really mean and accused me of being illiterate or stupid.

They filled one of the bowls with luke warm tap water and disolved a quarter cup of sea salt in it. They they open a can of cat food and put it in a frying pan and seared it on high heat until it was charred black and stank and the room was all smokey, then they put the hot burnt catfood in the water and then squished it around and rubbed it on my face. All the while the writers were yelling "this is Jin - burnt meat soaked in salt water. He's dead, Jin is dead!" They were screaming in my ears like they were really angry.

Then the actor took a big handful of it and rubbed it in my eyes and the salt made my eyes sting and he was screeching "this is me! Charred black burnt dead meat! Dead! Jin is so fucking dead and I'm out of a job but I have to sit around for two years and wait in case they need me for a flashback. I'm fucking DEAD!!!"

And that's how I went blind, doctor.

Charlotte's Birth
by EyeofPolyphemus
May 30th, 2008
12:14:15 AM
If Charlotte is time displaced and was born to character we already know, Locke is the only one who (once) had red hair.
a few thoughts...again...
by captain_kirk
May 30th, 2008
12:15:57 AM
First, the time travel thing...come on, they harness the island's time travel abilities and the only thing Dharma can do is send a bunny 4 milliseconds into the future? Believe me, time travel doesn't explain all of this. The 4 toed statute? Come on, how do u know that the statue didn't originally have 5 toes..or that the original foot didn't lose a toe. And we still don't know how many toes Bat Manuel has. 3)Frank Lapidus...I hope he comes back
How did Locke die?
by Fing Fang Foom
May 30th, 2008
12:21:29 AM
Throw me a friggin bone here people.
bringing up Bentham
by vlad.e
May 30th, 2008
12:22:27 AM
I assume that Locke will be assigned the Bentham moniker somewhere between his coronation as the new island king and his sparsely attended viewing at Hoffs/Drawlar. But what is the nature of this name? It's used in the newspaper's obituary, so it isn't just a codename adopted by the O6. How did Kate and Hurley know exactly who Jack was referring to?
I also loved
by Napoleon Park
May 30th, 2008
12:26:42 AM
I also loved
by Napoleon Park
May 30th, 2008
12:27:45 AM
Hurley's sarcastic reply to Jack. "Unless we, like, overlooked it or something, he moved it, dude."
Fake endings tomorrow on ABC
by greenstyle92
May 30th, 2008
12:27:54 AM
Problem shot with different people in the casket at the end to throw us off. So, for the guessing, the fakes are:

Sawyer
Juliet
Hurley (implying Sayid killed him)
Richard Alpert
Desmond
Clair
Aaron
The #15 Bunny, grown to man size with a fixed dead smile on it's face.
A bone for Fing
by Napoleon Park
May 30th, 2008
12:28:50 AM
if you laid in a closed coffin for a year, you'd die too.
So, the frozen Donkey move the island wheel...
by greenstyle92
May 30th, 2008
12:29:05 AM
Was that Dharma, or pre-Dharma? if pre-Dharma, then who?
Eye... uh no.
by LordEnigma
May 30th, 2008
12:29:08 AM
Look at James' hair colour. It's very plausible. It also makes the most sense in terms of what Josh and Elizabeth look like in comparison to Rebecca.
Where was Grunberg?
by frakthetoasters
May 30th, 2008
12:29:14 AM
The invisible text said Grunberg showed up in a flashback. When was that? Did I miss it?
How did Locke Die? Caution may be funny maybe not
by frakthetoasters
May 30th, 2008
12:32:15 AM
Locke died because the Island broke up with him. The Island said that they had fun for a while but then it got predictable. Once the Island got drunk-high on pina coladas and Red Bull and let slip that Benjamin always lasted longer than Locke ever could, which made Locke so angry that he shaved. Then the Island kicked Locke out onto the beach, changed all the locks on its secret Dharma bases and had its numbers changed because Locke wouldn't stop text messaging.
Charlotte is just a former other...
by greenstyle92
May 30th, 2008
12:33:15 AM
or former dharma. Or former team rosseau. she is not a time warp baby. Time warp on this show has reached that level yet. (on the other hand, a whole island did just disappear, to who knows where... or when...)
Blink and you Miss Claire Bear
by frakthetoasters
May 30th, 2008
12:34:28 AM
One of the crime's of tonight's season finale that there wasn't enough Claire. I know she's in the cabin in the woods with her estranged and slightly dead father possibly enjoying some serious good weed (she was way too happy the last time we saw her. Probably found some Dharma Initiative Twinkies swiped from Hurley's backpack). Only two lines? More Australian next season please.
frak...
by greenstyle92
May 30th, 2008
12:35:16 AM
don't announce what you have to say is intended to be funny, cause it kills the humor. Although, I admit, I did still think "changing the locks on the Dharma Stations" was funny...
Sayid could've diffused the bomb
by frakthetoasters
May 30th, 2008
12:35:39 AM
If he had time Sayid would've diffused the bomb. He's got skills.
"DON'T YOU DAYH-RUH!"
by greenstyle92
May 30th, 2008
12:36:57 AM
"TAKE MUH BAYBUH BACK THEY-UH!"
What's really on the island...
by strangecan
May 30th, 2008
12:38:31 AM
I think the FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH is on the island in some form or fashion. Whitmore was one of the original members of the Black Rock. He is immortal (or has at least extended his life from the fountain). It was his own journal that he was purchasing at the auction when we saw him a few episodes ago in Desmond's time-travel episode. Ben probably moved the island when he became the leader of the Others and Whitmore wants to get back so he can either re-immortalize his life; or maybe he's tired of being immortal and he wants to go back to the island to remove the curse of immortality.
Sayid would have made love to the bomb.
by greenstyle92
May 30th, 2008
12:38:50 AM
they would have cuddled, then the bomb would have snuck to the bathroom and tried to blow up when sayid wasn't looking. but Sayid would'a knifed the bomb in the back and then did a break dance to kill it's detonator. That's Sayid's style.
Claire
by lordgrimplemort
May 30th, 2008
12:39:53 AM
Is the actress for Claire pregnant in real life? She looked like she's put on a few pounds since the last episode. And does she really not want Aaron to go back to the island or is that just some island trickery? I guess it's assumed that it was her ghost or time/space traveling self in Kate's house but remember Eko's brother saying that he wasn't really his brother right before turning into Smoke monster (I assume) and killing him. Are any of the ghost people or Walt/Claire type appearances actually the person they claim to be?
spoilers!
by greenstyle92
May 30th, 2008
12:40:35 AM
The island is in the middle of lake michigan now!
Great Finale! The Cheif Weighs In...
by Cheif Brody
May 30th, 2008
12:41:39 AM
Ok...Loved that beginning switch-a-roo flash forward tip of the hat to last season's finale...with Kate bitch slappin druggy Jack. So...right after that scene...he drove to Hoffs for his peek-a-boo with Locke/Bentham...and his nice chat with Benjiman....love that bookend 2 hours later.

So Christian released Michael from is island curse...he redeems himself...by replacing the 2 lives he took in Ana & Libby with Sun & Jin...ooops! Oh well...Glad Harrold Perrineau got the chance to come back and give Michael some closure....but seemed like a lil bit of a waste...which could be attributed to the 3 episodes we lost to the writer's strike.

Speaking of which...THEY WERE GONNA TELL THIS SAME STORY ARC WITH 3 MORE EPISODES?!!! Kinda glad the strike happened! Can't see much more we needed fleshed out...maybe a lil peek at where Claire headed off to.

Speakin of which...In complete agreement with those of you peeved that Chaw-lee may have died in vain. I guess Des's vision of Claire's rescue has just been "delayed"...otherwise...the writer's have committed a huge ass gaffe, IMO.

LOVED the Sayid vs Keamy kick ass fight. Think both of them were a lil surprised they had each met their match. Glad it wasn't Alpert killing Keamy...but Ben getting Alex's revenge...But still...in agreement again with those who found the Keamy shows up alive n well at the Orchid...then proceeds to pull the "James Bond Villain" mistake of explaining too much...then letting his gaurd down...a trained bad ass mercenary taking OFF his Kevlar? I'm sorry...that was the worst scene of the finale by far.

Loved Team Alpert's taking of the helicopter firefight...and the return of the tazer darts.

I thought the Des n Penny reunion was well done...Those kids are gonna have it rough soon, tho. Can't wait to see the Desmond/Sayid standoff when it's time to take out Penny. Will he turn on Ben?...ala Vadar on Palpatine?

OK...My theories that were completely killed by the finale. (Yes...I'm admitting my ERRORS...Not my correct guesses!)

1. Nobody forced them to lie! I had predicted that Oceanic/Widmore would have held the lives of those who stayed behind hostage, in return for the 0-6 survivors silence. In a way...that IS what is happening...but the "lie" was all Jack's idea!!

2. Saywer didn't die. Totally thought that boy was gonna eat it tonight. Guess they still need a hunk on the island next season....am I correct, ladies?

3. Michael ain't in that coffin! Wow...I so thought he would be in there. Oh well...blown to tiny bits works ok for me, too. RIP Ana & Libby.

4. Vincent never appeared in the finale. That sucked ass!

Ok...gotta hit the hay. Thought it was great...not as mindblowing as last seasons'...but...fer cryin out loud...how were they gonna top the first forward flash?

younger ben...
by nora inu
May 30th, 2008
12:42:13 AM
My wife thought he looked younger too. I don't think so, he just looked like he'd finally had a couple years of off island living and, more importantly, hadn't had the shit kicked out of him in a while for once.
the most shocking revelation
by vlad.e
May 30th, 2008
12:42:45 AM
BeardyJack's a Pixies fan! I always kind of figured him for a DMB, classic-rock AOR kind of guy myself. But apparently having the deaths of innocent people weighing on you steers you toward the indie rock.
too many questions.. again!
by theredtoad
May 30th, 2008
12:42:55 AM
hey i fixed my t.v. before 9! sweet! anyways.. The island left a pretty huge wake in its...wake. Could that be the tsunami?

One must wonder, how did that frozen donkey wheel get there? Dharma? really people? I'm having trouble understanding the mechanisms and the physical..physics of the wheel itself.

Redshirts all dead? Hold up there Kenny Rogers.
by Napoleon Park
May 30th, 2008
12:43:53 AM
Regarding the theory that all the survivors of Flight 815 - all the minor players, extras, background players and red shirts - are now dead, may not be quite accurate.

There were five redshirts in Locke's camp - three we saw killed on screen by snipers and two - Steve and an unnamed female - who were abandoned. They may have been killed by Keamy's mercs or not.

Cindy the stewardess was taken captive by the others and was last seen on the other island taking care of the kidnapped tail section children Zach and Emma.

Juliet said she wouldn't leave the island until everyone else was off - that doesn't mean everyone else was off. Actually, it implies the opposite. The people on the freighter were seen putting on life vests and readying life rafts but were not seen in the water as the freighter sank - probably dead. Farady and the group on Faraday's raft was not seen as the raft sank - but they were already off and they also weren't shown sinking, so they may be alive.

So as many as five 815ers from Faraday's raft, three tailie redshirts taken captive by the Others and two 815ers from Locke's group who were not shown being killed all MAY be alive. That's approximately ten. More IF any were still with Juliet, charlotte and Miles. They may ALL be dead, they may all be alive - no proof has been provided to support either conjecture.

Huh?
by Fing Fang Foom
May 30th, 2008
12:43:59 AM
I guess it wasn't revealed then since obviously you dont know. Or maybe you forgot like me? Yes, the island broke up with him but lets get specific, if you can. Anybody? Surely somebody can school us all. Thanks.
Bentham, wasn't it obvious?
by cyrent
May 30th, 2008
12:46:54 AM
Jeremy Bentham was a historical English philosopher influenced in part by John Locke. Knowing this fact, it was immediately obvious that Locke was using Bentham as his persona while off-island as the head of the Others.
Jeremy Bentham
by BristowBoy
May 30th, 2008
12:47:18 AM
As always, every name Cuse and Lindelof choose means something. If you wikipedia Mr. Bentham, you'll discover that he was a philosopher who advocated for utilitarianism- "the moral worth of an action is solely determined by its contribution to overall utility in maximizing happiness or pleasure as summed among all persons. It is thus a form of consequentialism, meaning that the moral worth of an action is determined by its outcome—the ends justify the means." Sounds like John Locke (another noted philosopher's name) to me.
Michael's reason for not dying
by lordgrimplemort
May 30th, 2008
12:50:27 AM
It hit me a little after the show that Michael didn't really do much good by staying alive until now, but then I thought of something. He didn't save many lives, because apparently everyone on the boat dies. And if he hadn't slowed down the explosion, the chopper people would have seen the boat blow up from the distance before they arrived so saving them wasn't his purpose either. The only thing I can think of is that by slowing it down he saved Desmond, Sun and Aaron, which makes me think that in the end Aaron is going to be a huge part of the show, going back to Claire and what the psychic told her. After Aaron left on the chopper, the island let Michael die. Does anyone else think of anything he did that the island kept him alive for?
Time Travel
by Adelai Niska
May 30th, 2008
12:51:47 AM
I think maybe there are 2 Lockes- one on the island and one off (like that video from the orchid with the 2 bunnies)
Ben
by EyeofPolyphemus
May 30th, 2008
12:56:40 AM
Ben no longer has the burden of leadership off island. he is also no longer being shot with a crossbow, tortured by Sayid, suffering from cancer, being beaten by jack, being beaten by sawyer, being beaten by Rouseeau, being beaten by jack some more, and having Keamy bonk him with a gun. stopping all that works wonders for health and vitality.

Whether Charlotte is a time traveler or not, she must be integral to the bad things that are going to happen. Either that or Jacob is angry Jack left. maybe both.

HEY!! POLAR BEARS!!!
by drchristopherlee
May 30th, 2008
01:00:15 AM
Remember the one in Tunisia? Did "they" use it to move the island last time? The leather collar attached to the wheel, the bears are trained for a simple task, plus they are built for the cold. If you train them right, no one has to leave and the island is moved. Ben woke up in the Sahara after turning the wheel, could have been Tunis.
no time travel yet?
by bobbywatts
May 30th, 2008
01:03:40 AM
Can anyone think of any one thing in the show that is definetly time travel? Allot of it could be the spawning of alternate time lines, wich is different, but he did say he was going to send the rabit 100 miliseconds ahead, right? BUT!! we did NOT see it happen.
the "bad things"
by bobbywatts
May 30th, 2008
01:05:18 AM
the volcano exploding..for sure
4 toe'd statue
by barfydog
May 30th, 2008
01:06:19 AM
Did the producers put the 4 toe'd statue in as a private joke that's gotten blown way out of proportion? Yay Lakers!!!
web link
by des.nibelung
May 30th, 2008
01:07:37 AM
http://octagonglobalrecruiting .com/ is a dharma initiative recruiting site for something in SD in july
hurley fat jokes
by rockness
May 30th, 2008
01:07:42 AM
have really begun to disappoint me. why do they go there constantly? the show already has enough humor and good stuff. i just don't get it. the show is about how everyone has a weakness so why single one out as a jester? i mean it's fine ultimately whatever. it just seems base and declasses the show a bit. i don't need to feel like a mean fifth grader is editing/writing my favorite show. otherwise. great of course. cliffhanger a bit of a letdown but the rest a bit up a let..up.
So which baby has four toes?
by Phil Connors
May 30th, 2008
01:09:20 AM
I wonder...
I agree, Bobby W
by Napoleon Park
May 30th, 2008
01:13:28 AM
for all the discussion of time travel here in this talkback, I don't remember one single clear example of time travel being used in his episode. We've seen Desmond psychically in touch with his past self, but there's never been any actual physical time traveling. Just a bunch of talk backers seeing what they want to see.
Hold on...
by LordEnigma
May 30th, 2008
01:14:00 AM
Charolette is only there because she's looking for -- or has found -- her birth place. Again... she's been there before. I doubt she's responsible for anything bad happening. The bad happening may have to do with Widmore doing more shenanigans, Locke beign a shit leader, or general island bullshit. The Island is a pisser. However... you fellas and gals need to remember that Charolette found a Polar Bear FOSSIL earlier this season. So this show is on that level of time travel. It has hit ludicrous speed!
IT WAS A GOOD FINALE BUT NO MINDF*CK
by eoneon
May 30th, 2008
01:14:19 AM
i was satisfied with the finale tonight,but i expected another "game changer" i knew it had to be Locke....sob sob... in the coffin,who else could it be??? i was kinda hopin all the freighties would die instead of dragging on into next season. there were some cool moments,esp w Ben and Locke,but all in all no real WTF? holy shit! moments. i may just be spoiled cuz the other 3 finales were all better imo.i like the show more when thew show leaves you w something to ponder over until next week(or season) i also wanted to see Abaddon. i'm not upset,but i still expected a bit more.maybe i'm mad cuz Locke is the best character on the show,and Jack(ass) is pissing me off
I'm shocked it's LOCKE.
by NoPIX
May 30th, 2008
01:16:48 AM
Everyone talked about this possibilty. But I just didn't see it happening. He can't walk off the Island....or can he? When he comes back with Jack and the gang will it be a surrogate Lock like Christian?
And did Michael really die?
by NoPIX
May 30th, 2008
01:17:38 AM
I hope we see more of him.
hey Ed!
by Maniaq
May 30th, 2008
01:23:47 AM
please seed!
Nathan Fillion is dead-uh bahdee...and the other thing
by MacFaux
May 30th, 2008
01:30:12 AM
Super epy. And Nathan Fillion is not dead..but occurs, his character, the Miami-Dade cop, Kate (er, Monica's) husband must be..cause if you know cops and their kids. He wouldn't quit.

When the reporter confirmed Kate's prego timeline at the press conference.."so, you were six months pregnat when the marshal brought you back"..Kate's ex-husband would have been thinking ..'My Kid'..and scurried off with lawyers, pals, and paternity tests or some such combo of the three. The fact that he didn't, must mean he met his end in a hail of bullets or the front end of a bus or some twisted Kate revelation. Cause he would have gone and got his boy. Mentioned this after 'Eggtown'..but seems worth mention again..Cause If he lives, Him (or anyone)soon coming to take the kid would be the one thing to get Kate running again towards La isla Mysterio..just starting the spec'ing of Season 5..The return of Patrolman K-dog. Bank it. Bet it tell your fingers bleed from the goof who called Sawyer's helo jump way way fore any other.

@ Xiphos..per your query 2..affirm, something of that nature.

As for AquaSawyer..it is 'easy' open ocean swim in shore off out tide from 2k in about 20-25 min (done it)..so that seemed be shown in real time.

In memoriam to Sydney Pollack, Penny and Des on a boat..

"like Yasser fuckin Arafat..never a night in the same port." - Joey Morolto.
They've pretty much established what next season will be
by chaseguy17
May 30th, 2008
01:35:15 AM
Half the show will be the 3 year later scenario involving largely with Ben vs. Whidmore. Ben will go after Penny and Desmond while Jack tries to convince Hurley and Kate to go back. Sun will likely be in the middle of all of this. While this is going on we will have island flashbacks that lead up to Locke eventually leaving the island and getting killed. Sawyer and Juliet will start a fling and Charlotte will start to learn about her past. Most likely Charlotte is "Annie" the girl who gave Ben the doll when they were younger. Miles likely figured this out because he can speak with the dead, and "Annie's" parents likely died in the infamous dharma gasout. Jin is clearly still alive and was likely brought back by Faraday and the raft. So all of these pieces will come together leading to the finale next year. The finale next year will probably start immediately from a previous week's cliffhanger with locke off the island and moments away from his death. While this is going on, Ben, Jack, Kate Desmond and everyone will be about ready to somehow make it back to the island. The final minutes will involve discovering how Locke died and then seeing the oceanic 6, ben, lapidus, desmond and others finally making it back to the island. everyone will be waiting for kate to see sawyer, Sun to discover Jin is alive and everyone to have this huge reunion....well that will wait till season 6. big cliffhanger will show Locke's murderer and the big reunion will get everyone excited and geared up for the last season, with everyone back together again. That pretty much sums up next season I would guess.
The Island is the source of all life on Earth
by thejwac
May 30th, 2008
01:36:23 AM
I called it.
Widmore Losties Vs. Ben Losties
by Lashlarue
May 30th, 2008
01:42:21 AM
This war will be glorious!
Stay all day ... if you want too..
by Quin the Eskimo
May 30th, 2008
01:47:12 AM
Holy shit. Not Locke.
This was lame
by geraldbeans
May 30th, 2008
01:54:39 AM
This is the first cliffhanger where everybody knows exactly what's going to happen. We're going to get back to the island, and Locke's going to be alive again. Big freakin whoop. The only cool thing about this episode were the Mayan pictures on the island moving basement wall. I like that this Island's mythology just keeps going back further and further.
Like a car accident, I can't look away but...
by RetroActive
May 30th, 2008
01:57:25 AM
this show is just a bad magic trick. Any time you get close to learning anything, another slight of hand...The Hatch, The Others, Henry Gale...er...I mean...Ben Linus, The other Others who don't age, Jacob, Penny's Dad, The Freighter-People-Others, The Smoke, Darma, Dead Darma People who were jerks in the Green Mile, Jacob's agents Claire & Jack's Dad. Get to the point already! Seriously, what have we learned? Nothing. Except that after an early episode in which Sayid & Jin fought sloppily, they have both now emerged as masters of martial arts. Other than that...nothing. But I keep watching. Damn it.
"I meant..."
by RetroActive
May 30th, 2008
01:58:57 AM
"sleight of hand"...must sleep now. Eyes and brain failing.
How to people get to
by Napoleon Park
May 30th, 2008
02:01:38 AM
"Jin is clearly still alive and was likely brought back by Faraday and the raft."

Jin was on the freighter with enough C4 to sink an aircraft carrier, he was seen on the deck after the helicopter took off, the ship exploded, the deck was consumed with flames, the freighter sank, no one was seen in the water as the chopper flew away, Sun saw him die, later she visited his grave, read his tombstone and openly wept in despair. How does that possibly translate to "obviously still alive?'

Octagon Global Recruiting???
by Hovitos2k
May 30th, 2008
02:02:29 AM
Did anyone else catch this commercial? Octagon Global Recruiting will be in San Diego July 24-27. That's COMIC CON week!!! Check out the website and it's a dharma site... Just what is going on here people??? Are they doing some weird promo thing? Anyone know anything about this?
My only disappointment with this episode
by Guy Who Got A Headache And Accidentally Saves The World
May 30th, 2008
02:08:18 AM
When Keamy walks into the orchid, holding that knife, bragging about killing Ben's daughter, then it gets all quiet.... and mother fucking John "knife dude" LOCKE steps out of the darkness, well I was hoping for one badass showdown epicass duel there. "Who are you?" "I'm John Locke, survivor of 815 and protector of this island. You, friend, are a fucking DEAD MAN." Yeah a little disappointed there, especially if it turns out Locke is dead for real forever dead nothing more than a cameo as a ghost occassionally thing dead. What a great send off that would have been for him. Yeah, it's great that he's not a Jack-ass who goes for violence and guns at every opportunity but it wouldn't have been completely out of character either, especially with the kind of person Keamy is.
Emilie de Ravin looked preggers for real
by Dingbatty
May 30th, 2008
02:11:07 AM
this season. Why she kept carrying stuff in front of her, or was filmed from the collar up or from behind. Sun's baby will probably look half black -- remember her odd encounter with Michael in the mobisode, and why did she make a point of telling him she was pregnant? Though her relatives back home wouldn't be pleased, given the racism there.
Elegant Simple Answers
by Napoleon Park
May 30th, 2008
02:22:59 AM
I can actually see how some of the people who prefer reading spoilers to watching drama unfold might have felt disappointed in this. They are looking for deep complex complicated explanations and mind numbing WTF moments. Sometimes the obvious is so obvious it isn't as surprising as one might hope for.

"Why are the Oceanic Six lying, who told them to lie, who made up the cover story?" Well, obviously they're lying to protect the people still on the island. Jack told them to lie because Locke told him to lie because it's the only way to protect everyone on the island. Jack made up the lie.

Does the rip in Benjamin's sleeve have anything to do with how Dr. Candle lost his arm? Does the act of teleportation involve extremely low temperatures. Well, no, Benjamin fell down a ladder in a room so cold the rusted metal turned brittle and shattered and he tore his sleeve on the jagged metal. Ben's way off the island may involve teleporting, but we have not seen that yet. The frigid temperatures in the cavern may involve the teleporter, or magnetic flux or resonance, but we haven't seen that yet.

"WTF is a Frozen Donkey Wheel"? Be honest, how many of you read that phrase and envisioned frozen donkeys? A wheel is a wheel, a machine to be turned. A donkey wheel is a wheel that can be turned by a strong animal. A Frozen donkey wheel is one that's been immobilized, in this case literally by being frozen and icy.

Simple answers to complex questions.

A stupid thing I should be embarrassed to admit:
by Napoleon Park
May 30th, 2008
02:24:07 AM
A stupid thing I should be embarrassed to admit:

When I heard so long ago that the cover story was that there were eight survivors of the crash but only the Oceanic six got off the island, I assumed that there were two dead. When they showed the enhanced episode with the extended press conference footage and Jack said that Boone, Charlie and Libby survived, I momentarily thought he made a gaffe the reporters would pick up on.

Stupid me, math was never my strong suit. 8 survivors minus three dead plus one baby born equals Oceanic Six. Fess up, did anyone else stumble over that point, or am I the group's Math moron?

Uh, hello? We saw Sun's (non-black) baby
by Guy Who Got A Headache And Accidentally Saves The World
May 30th, 2008
02:30:20 AM
So, I don't think it's magically going to turn brown next season.
Baby Killer Island
by flanaganagain
May 30th, 2008
02:35:39 AM
No one on island can have a kid so how can Charoltte be child of Sawyer and Juliet?
AND...
by flanaganagain
May 30th, 2008
02:37:25 AM
Locke looked so different in casket because it's a mortuary. They make dead people look good with makeup. Ever see one?
2morrow PLEASE
by flanaganagain
May 30th, 2008
02:39:59 AM
someone record Good Morning America for the deleted end scenes and repost on Utube or something. Pretty Please!
that was funny
by geraldbeans
May 30th, 2008
02:41:58 AM
when locke was watching the tape that said under no circumstance to put metal objects in the white room and ben is in the background putting metal in the white room. made me laugh.
Solid "FUUUUCK !!!" end to a rock solid season
by G100
May 30th, 2008
03:05:17 AM
Those who clearly gave in to the spoilers and appear feel cheated because they knew it was coming seem a mite upset. For those who learned the lesson the hard way last season and kept spoiler free it was a stunning shocker.

Ahhh... the poor, poor nitpickers with their petty jelousy of the shows success. Man they are REALLY reaching now.

WHAT TIME TRAVEL ?

Until I see it confirmed all these bizzarro theories are just that THEORIES. With the most probable Time travel one being the Adam and Eve corpses who always looked spookily important.

Oh! and whats that feature about John Locke that lets us know he was chosen from the very INSTANT he arrived on the Island ? The Island can HEAL. No Time Travel needed. And that assumes Locke will be resurected somehow after that point in time because he might not. John Locke has 3 YEARS of Island life to go through so Duh! perhaps we might just see a little bit of that ????

Besides we still know next to nothing about Jacob, the Temple the Volcano, the Smoke Monster, so there might JUST be a little more to figure out than some Time Travel Theory.

BTW Kudos to the guy who thinks Michael Emerson is "Hammy" ! Genuine LOL moment there as I read that completly moronic horseshit. Also well done for not spotting Jack's Liver was about to fall out hence Mathew Fox might not have been as sprightly as you might imagine.

Besides those who are frothing at the mouth speculating about how good or bad the end (2 fucking series away)is, have completely missed the point anyway as this season has been enjoyable throughout (bar Frenchy's death)and at no time did I feel I had to be spoonfed all the answers immediatly so good was the storytelling and the acting.

Gonna be a Looooong 8 months or so though. One of the best TV shows of recent times is STILL hitting hard with no sign of stopping.

Season 5... good vs. evil
by hefferee
May 30th, 2008
03:08:36 AM
I don't think it's valid to compare season finales. Each season has been entirely different in tone and direction, of course the endings are going to be different. It's already been stated by the producers that next season is about getting back to the island. Why have a game changer when this game is just getting started? Ben vs widmore... and Ben and Jack working to get the others to go back. I think next season could easily play out like a classic comic book. You have Ben gathering his team, his avengers, his x-men. of course, it's not a super hero story...but we have all the elements for an epic battle between good and evil brewing. And even those pesky characters that seemingly walk down the middle (Sun?). Alliances, battles, the best is yet to come guys. I'm ready for some Oceanic 6 action figures.
Congratulations!
by lord_zedd
May 30th, 2008
03:20:59 AM
We now have about 30 episodes of misdirection/disguised filler left! Go us!
Well said D.Vader
by The_Squid
May 30th, 2008
03:23:58 AM
The Season 3 finale was one of the best episodes of television I've ever seen. I initially felt kind of underwhelmed by this episode mostly because the whole episode I was anxiously waiting for something to happen the whole time. I think this episode will be better with repeat viewings. It is great in it's own way, just no big mindfucks and I always love finale mindfucks. The coffin bit was kind of lame since it was set up last season with no mention of it until now in season 4. Hell even the ending was the same "We have to go back" except now all of us have to go. My favorite parts were Christian dismissing Michael, Penelope showing up to rescue the survivors and Hurley's chess game with Eko. Plus Abadon's "are they still alive" quote is way more creepier now that we know the survivors are lying for themselves and not being forced by Widmore.
Vault takes advantage of a specific Island hotspot
by G100
May 30th, 2008
03:36:13 AM
The same as The hatch did with it's electromagnetic properties. Ben knoew it was there probably via Jacob & the others but Dharma may not have, hence the exploding through to the "source".

4 Toed statue and carved Smoke Monster control cave says ancient civilisation on the island though the "Wheel" could just as easily be Black Rock era.

What was the point of bringing michael back
by The_Squid
May 30th, 2008
03:40:00 AM
when all they did was kill him off five episodes later. I'll we'll have to look for him in the cabin.
putting a fork in the microwave
by Napoleon Park
May 30th, 2008
03:50:58 AM
Dr. Marvin Candle tried it with a clipboard and a pen and it blew his arm off.
Locke and Ben are conning Jack
by PidynEnfawr
May 30th, 2008
03:51:14 AM
Locke using the alias Jeremy Bentham? Who acts like that? Locke's conman dad, Longcon Sawyer, and master manipulator Ben. Locke is alive and well, pretending to be dead, just as his father did to Locke. Remember Ben's comment hinting about Locke manipulating Hurley and how that is necessary for being a leader of the others? Locke is fine, not dead.
Sun is gorgeous, beautiful, sexy, amazing
by PidynEnfawr
May 30th, 2008
03:52:28 AM
I can't wait to see her get revenge!
Benjamin and Johnathan in an elevator
by Napoleon Park
May 30th, 2008
03:55:22 AM
Benjamin and Johnathan in an elevator that just keeps going down and down. Finally Locke asks "How far down does this thing go?">p>The lights turn red and Ben sprouts horns and a tail and smiles. "All the way, John."
Do you think Sun pooped herself...
by lord_zedd
May 30th, 2008
03:59:39 AM
when she watched Jin "blow up"? I think there was some turdage. Maybe some pissage too.
New teams
by PidynEnfawr
May 30th, 2008
04:01:33 AM
Team Other Ben, Locke, Sayid, Hurley Team Jack Jack, Kate, Aaron, Desmond, Penny Team Widmore Widmore, Sun Team Island Ma and Pa (Juliette & Sawyer) etc
The Time Traveling Bunny Closet
by Napoleon Park
May 30th, 2008
04:06:57 AM
http://tinyurl.com/6nv7gh
Benjamin and Jack in the mortuary
by Napoleon Park
May 30th, 2008
04:09:54 AM
Benjamin and Jack in the mortuary look at John Locke's heavily made up face in the casket. Jack: "Gee, he looks so natural." They both look at him and then at each other and break up giggling.
the deal with a FROZEN room underneat
by Napoleon Park
May 30th, 2008
04:12:56 AM
It's where they keep their Dharma beer.
Holy Shit that was amazing!
by Yeti
May 30th, 2008
04:23:51 AM
The fight between Kearny & Sayid was brutal.

Loved Ben's line about "Time Traveling Bunnies"

So where and more importently when - diod the Island go? And if Locke is back and dead is it back in the present? And did Sun have Locke killed? Is she now EVOL?!

Gaaaaaaaaaaah! 8 months!!!!!!!

Sorry, Wolfman Nards...
by Bob Loblaw Law Blog
May 30th, 2008
04:31:51 AM
I don't think anyone was arguing that Charlie died in "vein"; We all know that he died in The Looking Glass. ;)

Of course, whether he died in VAIN... well, that's debatable, I suppose. I mean, Aaron did make it off the island... and that never would have happened had Charlie not taken care of the jamming mechanism on The Looking Glass station.

What does a donkey wheel and a nuked fridge have in common?
by lord_zedd
May 30th, 2008
04:33:57 AM
This has proven to be a very good month!
Does=do
by lord_zedd
May 30th, 2008
04:35:06 AM
Curses!
SSSSHHhhhhh...
by Napoleon Park
May 30th, 2008
05:01:29 AM
Tommy's sweepy.
WHAT. THE. FUCK.
by Smoke Monster Loves Kate
May 30th, 2008
05:13:27 AM
I just finished watching it.
Team Jack
by BrightEyes
May 30th, 2008
05:31:10 AM
Wins! What a great episode of Lost, absolutely brilliant. Loved every second of it, there was no wasted moment. And I was proven right on 3 accounts, team locke vs team Jack, locke is dead Jack is alive, Team Jack wins even if some of you don't like it. Now that the battle of the two greatest characters is over its now time for Team Losties Vs. Team Widmore. I was also right about my theory that the time machine/transporter was located in a freezing area covered in snow, even though some of you didn't agree. And thirdly I was proven right that Locke was in the coffin, I called that Locke got his legs cut off and was the person in the cabin in the season 3 finale when we were all guessing who was in the coffin. Three wins for me tonight, I feel great, just got home from watching this at a lost finale party. I will deeply miss Mr. John Locke though what a brilliant character. I LOVE LOST LOVE IT! night. One last Team Jack!
doubt charlotte is annie
by alex138
May 30th, 2008
05:31:37 AM
annie had an american accent and barring any time traveling is too old to be charlotte. also i think ben would recognize her the way he seemed fixated on the little dolls she gave him- which makes it highly unlikely he would have shot her so willingly in the second episode of this season.
Like hell Team Jack Wins
by Guy Who Got A Headache And Accidentally Saves The World
May 30th, 2008
05:37:45 AM
If anything, there is no team Jack anymore because Jack joined Team Locke. What kind of bullshit game is this where first guy to die loses? That's like saying the 300 Spartans lost their battle with Xerxes. Hell no. Jack was converted to Locke's way of thinking, he was made of believer, that was Team Locke's goal. How the hell can they succeed at that and be the losers. Also Locke didn't have his legs cut off, where the hell did you get that idea?
WHHAAAAAAAA
by BrightEyes
May 30th, 2008
05:40:44 AM
I CAN'T ADMIT DEFEAT WWWWHHHHHAAAAA!!!!!
Faraday and his raft people...
by Prof. Pop-Cult
May 30th, 2008
05:40:54 AM
They probably got whisked away into the future with the island. The raft might have been closer to the island than the helicopter, so the raft could have been within the island's temporal range.

Charlotte could have been somehow born on the island. So her parents may have been DHARMA people.

My crazy theory: Charles Widmore was the original captain of the Black Rock. His crew mutinied, led by Richard, and kicked Widmore off the island, leaving him (and his loyal servant/assistant Abbadon) in the mid-20th century.

Michael and Jin are dead.

I thought it would be epic
by BrightEyes
May 30th, 2008
05:42:07 AM
if Locke died if a badass battle getting his legs cut off therefore making the coffin smaller, anyways I still called who was in the coffin a year ago so ya know :)
abbadon
by alex138
May 30th, 2008
05:46:53 AM
slave on the black rock in servitude of her captain, charles widmore?
I'm glad you enjoyed it, BrightEyes
by Napoleon Park
May 30th, 2008
06:18:11 AM
I'm glad you enjoyed it, BrightEyes
by Napoleon Park
May 30th, 2008
06:34:42 AM
I thought you'd be upset because... Keamy used a derogatory slang term to refer to Jack while criticizing him as a cowardly back-shooter. Because Dr. Jack tried to kill Keamy by shooting him twice in the body armor and then failed to check for a pulse to see if he was actually dead. Because the much advertised Big Kiss turned out to be three big kisses - Kate and Sawyer, Desmond and Penny and... Jack and Desmond. Because drunk loser FF beardy Jack gets ejected by Kate who won't even let him speak Aaron's name, then works out his aggression by... breaking into a mortuary? Because he was denying Locke moved the island even after it disappeared right in front of their eyes and even Hurley was mocking him and asking if he thought they "overlooked it". What was the best part, when after promising to get all those people off the Island he only saved five of them, let everyone else on the freighter die and actually (poom) LOST the island? When he explained to the rest of The Six why they had to lie by repeating exactly what Locke told him word for word? Or when he constructed a web of deceit and lied to the US Coast Guard, the news media and the American public in order to protect some people who can't be found anyway? When he began taking advice from Ben Linus? When he decides they all have to go back to an island that no one can locate anyway and drag a corpse along with them?

Yep, you got some hero there, boy. In denial much?

I'll give Jacko points for saving Sayid's life though. He shot the heck out of Keamy's armor. Stunned him good.

Another great season!
by Dazzler69
May 30th, 2008
06:38:39 AM
Sucks to have to wait for 2009.

I hope it's not the end of Desmond's character on the show. Ben did say all of them which probably includes Desmond and the helicopter pilot.

I can see a bunch of youtube videos with the time traveling bunny now coming soon.

Desmond
by Dazzler69
May 30th, 2008
06:39:46 AM
He is like the show's Bobba fett. The coolest character and fan favorite.
2 alternate endings
by Titus05
May 30th, 2008
06:54:42 AM
they just showed the 2 alternate endings that they filmed for LOST on Good Morning America...they filmed the ending with Locke in the coffin but they also filmed 2 alternate scenes with Sawyer in the coffin and another one with Desmond in the coffin
Polar Bears
by chimpjnr
May 30th, 2008
06:59:12 AM
I'm guessing that the polar bears are a leftover from when a previous location that the island held in the arctic. Much like the Black Rock which just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. By enabling the island to shift space (and possibly time) it really allows the writers to throw in whatever cultural and historical references they feel like. It's only a matter of time before a Mayan pyramid appears...
jack shot keamy?
by Bouncy X
May 30th, 2008
07:01:18 AM
am i forgetting a scene or did i miss a post and it would make sense having read it because it was alpert that shot him in the back.
Johnathon Locke, R.I.P.
by Napoleon Park
May 30th, 2008
07:02:34 AM
Poor Johnny, picked on as a child, betrayed by a parent, rejected by a woman, refused admittance to a walkabout, failure as a leader. At the moment of his great triumph as he's supposed to save the Island he can't find the latch to the secret door, then Ben treats Locke like a child and lets John watch videos while he does all the work. Somehow in spite of it all Locke ascends to King of the Island... and in a matter of years - we'll no doubt find out how next season - he dies and gets badly painted in a little box. It's a hard life of a man of faith who never knows quite what to believe in.

http://tinyurl.com/5h5vbv

Titus
by CherryValance
May 30th, 2008
07:08:49 AM
Seeing those guys in the coffin totally freaked me out. I actually ran in the other room because I couldn't handle seeing Des in the there.
Bouncy: alpert shot keamy?
by Napoleon Park
May 30th, 2008
07:10:56 AM
Could be, I haven't watched it over again yet. If so then the one thing I was giving Jack credit for accomplishing = not his. Poor Brighteyes.
time travel machine
by Titus05
May 30th, 2008
07:11:40 AM
so in order to access the Frozen Donkey Wheel which moved the island, Ben blew up the 'regular' time travel room...so does this mean nobody can time travel any more from the island?...and how exactly did Ben (or anybody else) return to the island after time traveling?...there must be several time machines scttered around otherwise it makes no sense how anyone was able to get back to the island
CherryValance
by Titus05
May 30th, 2008
07:13:29 AM
seeing the altrnate coffin with Sawyer in it actually looked the creepiest to me
Eight months to discuss and wonder
by Napoleon Park
May 30th, 2008
07:16:00 AM
where the damned island went. The Bermuda Triangle? The site of Old Atlantis? Just south of paradise Island? The Carribbean? Disneyland? I like that someone guesses Lake Michigan, but I wouldn't hold my breath.

Be a drag if it went to Antarctica - I don't think anyone dressed for it.

Do you know how hard it was to not hit the fast
by SID 8.0
May 30th, 2008
07:16:35 AM
forward at the funeral home. Just watched it this morning since i=I work at night. Aww Locke passed away. That's too fucked up.
I thought it was that they couldn't get back
by CherryValance
May 30th, 2008
07:17:08 AM
once they turned the frozen donkey wheel. Meaning the specific person who turned it. That's why I think the person who turned it before was Charles Widmore. I think, and I may be wrong, that Ben was telling Jack that he had some ideas how "they" could go back, but he mant Jack and the gang not himself. Like he's island banished for turning the wheel. *shrug*
donkey wheel room
by Titus05
May 30th, 2008
07:21:10 AM
but turning the wheel moves the entire island...wasn't there a way to time travel without moving the island?...the room that Ben put all that metal garbage in was the 'regular' time travel room (that's where the rabbits were placed when moving in time)...while the room with the Donkey wheel was hidden behind the regular room and was only accessible after Ben caused that small explosion which caused a hole to be ripped inside that room
hmmm...
by CherryValance
May 30th, 2008
07:24:55 AM
I'm never gonna completely understand this episode.
Rose Bernard
by vmj19
May 30th, 2008
07:31:18 AM
I take it these two stayed on the island? Have we pretty much depleted the 815 background players now?
What IS Reality?
by Napoleon Park
May 30th, 2008
07:35:12 AM
In Lost season five, will "real time" be the Oceanic Six off-island with all "what happened on the island and with the island" stories relegated to flash-backs? Or will the shows "real time" continue as Island time with the Oceanic's in flash forwards? Answer, neither. The off-island O-6's flashbacks can't tell us anything about the island becauce they're not there - and the people on the island (assuming anyone survived the move and there still IS an Island) can't have flash-forwards about the people who did get off. So the show will have parallel plotlines about the off-island O-6ers and the Island folk which may or may not be told in the same time period - and anyone at either location can still have either flash forwards or flash backs. Quite the convuluted game-changer. This IS getting more complicated. Or I'm just getting tired - I'm not used to staying up this late.
YAWN.... pretty much predictable
by hamster factor
May 30th, 2008
07:48:11 AM
was a decent episode but nothing special - not even close to Through the Looking Glass from last season. It has become SO random now - no convenient plot device is off limits - dead characters come back whenever, Ben can teleport through time and space whenever he feels like it - there is always yet another super secret island station with a secret frozen room or some such hidden inside it that has yet another key secret to the island that still isn't explained but is used to further the plot. Contrary to what most people think, I believe the writers got lazy again this season. For me it didn't live up to what they left us with at the end of season 3. I'll keep watching it, but I'm definitely not overly pumped for season 5 like I was for 4.
vmj19 - background players
by Napoleon Park
May 30th, 2008
07:53:38 AM
I mentioned this above but rather than scroll for it, I'll recap it.

Juliet said she wouldn't leave until everyone was off - which tends to imply that NOT everyone was off yet.

There were people with vests and rafts evacuating the freighter before it blew up, but none seen when the chopper flew around as the freighter sank, so they probably didn't survive.

There were probably five people on the raft with Daniel heading back to the island which probably went whereever the island went.

There were five redshirts at Locke's camp at New Otherton - we saw three get shot so the other two - Steve and an unidentified woman - are MIA and presumed dead - maybe.

The Others captured Cindy the stewardess during the Tailies march to the beach. She was last seen on the small Other island taking care of Zach and Emma, the tailie children the Others kidnapped.

Since I did not see Cindy or the children with the others with Richard alpert, i assume there must be a few others left on the other small island with cindy and the children. Does anyone know if any of the members of Juliet's book club were seen with Alperts group?

Anyway, there are one or two groups of others, there are 815ers with Juliet along with Rose, Bernard, Charlotte and Miles from the Freighter. Possibly two survivors from Locke's group (unlikely). Possibly five on the raft with Faraday. Possible (very unlikely) some survivors of the Freighter explosion/sinking. Sawyer and Juliet.

Oh, and Keamy had four men left in his team - did we see them ALL die or are one or two of them still out in the jungle?

Oh, and ghosty Christian and Claire at jacob's cabin.

I'm thinking that the island is not as depopulated as it might seem.

There are still people who can't accept that Jin was standing on the deck of the freighter as it burst into flames and sank, sho why assume any of these other characters are dead yet if we didn't see them die?

And what about Jin's Other Panda, last seen riding away in a taxi!?!

Not quite as mindblowing as last season
by The Selecter
May 30th, 2008
08:00:07 AM
but good nonetheless. Glad to see the new "crew" intact still, and I liked how the Island plopped. However, it's the little things that get you while you're watching -- is Aaron ummm..."slow?" 'cuz he sure looks it. And -- if they pushed Hurley out of the chopper instead of Sawyer, they'd be able to fly back to L.A.! Plus, once the rotors slow down, choppers *don't* glide like airplanes, they drop like rocks.

(*Spoiler*) BTW, you Claire fans will be disappointed -- EdR won't be a regular next season, but she's supposed to be back the season after that.
How To Ruin Your Show....A 20 Step Guide
by lord_zedd
May 30th, 2008
08:04:39 AM
1.) Make sure that ABC picks it up. 2.) Listen to ABC's suggestions (read: demands) and switch your show from being a character study with fantasy elements to being a fantasy show with no character at all so you can appease the large amount of nerds your program is attracting. 3.) Apply bullshit to pad things out for six years. 4.) Let's kill off...uh...(insert character names). Yes, I know you weren't planning to, but the people are expecting something, goddammit! 5.) Have Kate and sawyer do it in a cage. 6.) Apply more bullshit. 7.) "Okay, so the other day I was idling in the Arby's drive-thru, right, and I was almost up to the pay window, see, and I pull out my wallet and it hits me...We all know and love flashbacks. But have you ever heard of....a flash-FORWARD?" 8.) Apply more bullshit. 9.) Introduce five new regulars in one episode. 10.) Have Kate & Sawyer do it again (but on pastel sheets this time) to please the "undersexed fat women who make youtube fanvids of K/S clips set to Richard Marx songs" demographic. (Which, by the way, makes up most of your core audience now.) 11.) Apply more bullshit. 12.) Jump the shark. 13.) If one of your stars unexpectedly gets a DUI, repeat steps 4,6,8,9 and 11. If not, repeat them anyway. 14.) ...aren't ghosts cool? Nerds like ghosts, don't they?... 15.) Repeat step 5. 16.) Blame it on Jack's dad. 17.) Release a video game tie-in. 18.) Apply more bullshit. 19.) Apply more bullshit. 20.) Donkey wheel.
The bears...
by mraig
May 30th, 2008
08:05:32 AM
The idea of the bears being trained to move the wheel to move the island (and thus having a banished bear instead of a banished person) makes a lot of sense.

It seems pretty clear to me that the "donkey wheel" room is part of an older layer of island inhabitance that has nothing to do with Dharma, and that Dharma built the Orchid over the pre-existing temple. (Probably the same is true for the 4-toed statue).

I am still trying to figure out why the O6 are claiming that there were originally 3 more survivors who died before they could be rescued. What purpose does that particular lie serve? If they were going to expand the lie to include extra people, I would think a good use for it would be to say that Claire had been one of the extra survivors who died before they were rescued, and that she had died in childbirth. That way, they wouldn't have to pretend that Kate was 6 months pregnant at the time of the crash (which evidence could pop up to contradict) and that a baby which is not related to her is her son (which evidence could pop up to contradict). But, as it is, what purpose does the 'there were others who didn't make it' lie serve?

If the O6 have become world-famous and recognizeable, how come the Walt story hasn't leaked out? He's living with his grandmother, presumably under his real name, going to school, interacting with people, etc. But after 815 crashed, you would think that his whole family and everyone who knew him would have constantly been thinking about how Walt was on the plane, talking about it to their friends, spreading the word--making a big enough deal about it that when Walt shows back up, it would be impossible to keep the lid on it anymore.

Ah yes, the inevitable...
by Kid Z
May 30th, 2008
08:13:48 AM
...shark-jumper episode. When BEn started pushing that wobbly cardboard wheel in the fake-ice spraypainted room, you might as well have had Fonzie show up on waterskis to jump over the little pop of water rings that appeared when the island went poof. It's all downhill now. Horrible, horrible, boring episode. Sad but true, guys, sad but true.
To those who say...
by mraig
May 30th, 2008
08:15:40 AM
that there has been no real confirmed time travel: it is all but certain that Ben travelled directly from the Donkey Wheel Room on the island in December 2004 to the Sahara desert in October 2005. That's time travel!

So who knows not only where, but when the island travelled to? Someone (Jack?) said in last night's episode that Locke/Bentham had first contacted him "about a month ago". Maybe the island travelled forward in time to about a month before the Jack and the coffin scene (late 2007/early 2008 if the 'three years' report is accurate).

If that is the case, then next season the Jack/coffin timeline could be the new "present" (with flashbacks to fill us in on what else the O6 and friends have been doing in the interim) and we won't be missing any time for the people on the island except that one month (which could also be filled in by flashbacks).

Alternately, Season 5's "present" could be the time immediately after the O6 are rescued (early 2005), and we could continue having flash-forwards to show us the "future" (early 2008, with beardy Jack and the coffin).

But I think that would get a little tedious--we have a pretty good idea what the O6 have been doing in their time off, and the real story we want to get on with is the one with Jack needing to gather people and get back to the island. That needs to be the main storyline (the "present"), and the details about Locke meeting with them and dying can be the flashbacks.

Of course, there is no reason why there *have* to be flash-backs/forwards next season at all...

lord_zedd:
by hamster factor
May 30th, 2008
08:16:32 AM
Yep, once they lost most of their mainstream audience they had to go over the top in order to maintain a core of Stargate fans - and the most pathetic sci-fi nerds are still complaining they won't watch it because it is fake sci-fi and has no action. I like some of the fantasy elements - that is what always made the show unique, but they've gone totally overboard now. And lets face it everyone: THEY MAKE IT ALL UP AS THEY GO. Ben wasn't even intended to be a main character - he had a bit part to start out. Now, I'm not one of those that claims the show sucks because of this, but you guys give them too much credit. This show would have been best suited to something like a three season run. Oh well, I'm still watching it too - so here's to drinking the Kool Aid
jack can't pronounce brother properly
by Mr_X
May 30th, 2008
08:17:23 AM
its brother not brudda.
lazy hurley
by Mr_X
May 30th, 2008
08:20:20 AM
i could see hurley was under pressure when the weight needed to fly out of the helicopter. he also kept his mouth shut when they flew out of the boat again, knowing full well 3 people could have taken his place. but what takes the biscuit is when they go back to civilization and those fisherman are dragging the boat on the beach, his lazy fat ass is still in the boat!
John Locke is Jacob....
by Hagakure
May 30th, 2008
08:23:48 AM
He had to die Obi-Wan style so his spirit could "Become One With The Island". Ben and Co. bring his body back and he is the 'Adam' part of the 'Adam and Eve' dead couple next to the waterfall (hence the 'Welcome home, John'). John Locke (In Spirit Form) travels through time, manipulating all of the events in the lives of all of the original cast to make sure they end up on the island because they need to be there for whatever reason that will be dealt with next season.
to be fair: the sweaty cleavage only gets better every season
by hamster factor
May 30th, 2008
08:28:04 AM
But what will we do now, no more Kate or Sun on the island with sweaty tattered garments? Oh well, at least we still have Juliet - and Charlotte definitely seems to have going on in that department as well. Claire may yet turn up as not dead and hopefully no longer annoying, but I doubt it. They love to kill of character that become useless - and she was by far the most useless of the original cast still around
hamster factor:
by lord_zedd
May 30th, 2008
08:28:51 AM
Ben shouldn't have lasted as long as he has. His character was never interesting to me, no matter how much relevance they tried to push off onto him. I've always liked the fantasy elements, but not when they BECAME the show. It's funny how ABC has pushed it into being what the public perceived it as. Actually, wait. No it's not. It's sad.
lord_zedd
by Mr. Nice Gaius
May 30th, 2008
08:48:30 AM
I have to admit, your "20 Step Guide" post made me laugh.

And I love how the device Ben used to move the Island has already been dubbed with the moniker, "Donkey Wheel". Man, you gotta love the internet.

Nap - re:tell me what happened to your eyes...
by rbrog77
May 30th, 2008
08:49:59 AM
That may have been the funniest thing I've ever seen you write. Great Job!!

BTW, I'm reading the posts now and will post a few things later.

crack pot theories
by hamster factor
May 30th, 2008
08:51:00 AM
Juliet and Sawyer are the Adam and Eve from the cave in S1 - the island didn't travel in space, it traveled in time and Charlotte is the daughter of Juliet and Sawyer and Jack's dad is their son and The creepy asian ghost hunter guy (forgot his name) turns out to be Sun's great grandfather. Walt is a NBA basketball player that shrunk himself down and posed as Michael's son. The ageless other dude (forgot his name) turns out to be the descendant of a race of polar bears that are the original owners of the island. Locke is found out to by Damon Lindoff that escaped the island to write a show about it but got killed by a disgruntled fan - thus the coffin.
all joking aside
by hamster factor
May 30th, 2008
08:54:36 AM
I do believe the island traveled in time, not space and I do believe they will end it all with some sort of circular plot device where we end up where we started
Other Losties
by rbrog77
May 30th, 2008
08:59:46 AM
Rose and Bernard were not on the raft...ever. That means, I think, they are still on the island.

Question I have is if Faraday and the raft weren't sucked into "moving day", then how do the red shirts on the raft know to lie when/if they are rescued?

Are we over looking the 3 non Oceanic survivors?
by Wolfman Nards
May 30th, 2008
09:00:09 AM
Why would Jack have said Charlie, Libby, and Boone initially survived the crash but died later? Why wouldn't he have said it was always just the 6 of them? I don't get that.
Okay episode - could have been MUCH better
by Itchy
May 30th, 2008
09:03:01 AM
My idea would have been to have 1 1/2 hours of show, followed by 1/2 hour of Charlotte and Goth Claire exploring each others "Orchid Stations". In my world, the Island can only move if stimulated by hot lesbo sex.
Ashok0, S4 was filler
by lord_zedd
May 30th, 2008
09:05:02 AM
It was there literally to fill in the gaps between flash-forwards and the island drama. Frustrating, really, since the suspense level took a massive hit for it. And I definitely do not want the seasons to be identical, I just want the quality of storytelling to increase over time, not decrease.
Wolfman
by Purgatori
May 30th, 2008
09:05:43 AM
possibly to give closure to their families? He knew them better than he knew everyone else. (shrug) And no one really cared about Anal. Also, I think Jin isn't dead. But I"m curious what everyone else thinks is the deal with Christian appearing to Michael before everything go BOOM.
Purgatori
by mraig
May 30th, 2008
09:13:40 AM
How does "your loved one died on an island after surviving a plane crash" give more closure than "your loved one died in a plane crash"? And even if that is the reason, why those three in particular, and not the others who did actually live but then die (Shannon--why Boone and not her?--Eko, AnaL--her mom cared about her!--Shit Break and Mrs. Shit Break, and now Michael and Jin)? Why introduce this plot point if there's not a specific reason for it?
Christian Shepard is actually Jack's son
by hamster factor
May 30th, 2008
09:17:54 AM
I think that explains the scene where he appears to Michael perfectly, because the whole thing is just a psychotic episode in Hurley's mind at the mental hospital. But he never actually went to the mental hospital, he is still on the island (!) and Charlie is his brother. Charlie never got to bang Claire because he is actually her son Aaron - and that would just be messed up.
Ashok0
by lord_zedd
May 30th, 2008
09:20:58 AM
It's your upper lip
By the way... re: cleavage
by mraig
May 30th, 2008
09:24:16 AM
Lately, it's almost gotten to be a joke how often Juliette and Kate are showing off the goods. I can imagine it's being written into the scripts now:

Juliet runs up beach to meet Kate, wearing a tank-top, leaning forward slightly as she runs.

Kate, wearing a tank-top, comes to meet her.

KATE: Hold on a second, Juliet. I have to tie my shoe.

Kate, still wearing the above-mentioned tank-top, leans forward to tie her shoe.

JULIET: Hold on, Kate. While you were leaning forward to tie your shoe just now, something fell out of your pocket. Let me bend down and get it for you.

Suddenly, the Smoke Monster appears to them as Shannon in a bikini.

And SCENE.

Lost Trek III The Search For Locke
by picardsucks
May 30th, 2008
09:26:07 AM
Jack and Ben along with the 6 steal the Enterprise. Go to the Island (Genesis Planet)and reunite Locke's Katra with his body.
Ashok0
by lord_zedd
May 30th, 2008
09:34:11 AM
...and you are not my brother. Just because my opinion is different than yours doesn't mean you have to troll on me.
Ashok0, you're takin it all too seriously brutha
by hamster factor
May 30th, 2008
09:34:32 AM
We're making fun of the show, but obviously we're still watching it. As ridiculous as it might be, as many times as it might jump the shark, I still find myself entertained - if for no other reason to see what they pull out their asses next. That is more than I can say for 90% of the crap on TV - so at least they've kept my interested.
Some questions I came up with from Finale
by TVguy4566
May 30th, 2008
09:35:13 AM
Sorry if some were raised before since I didn't read the entire thread:

1.)What happened to Locke's legs? It seems pretty obvious by the size of the coffin that Locke lost his legs. Was it the price to get off the island? Did he lose his power to walk when he left the island and had them removed because he couldn't stand to look at them?

2.) Sayid was willing to kill to get Hurly to a safe place not on the island. Since he is working with Ben, does he know of a sinister plan by Ben in reference to getting everyone back on the island? If Ben gets everyone back on the island, does that mean he can come back?

3.) Is it me or is the shop across the street from the funeral parlor look like the same shop where Frank was introduced?
Jin
by slone13
May 30th, 2008
09:37:13 AM
STILL not dead.
mraig, re: cleavage
by hamster factor
May 30th, 2008
09:37:30 AM
Yes, but I don't question it. I just accept it.
lord_zedd
by slone13
May 30th, 2008
09:37:37 AM
TOTALLY an idiot.
slone13
by lord_zedd
May 30th, 2008
09:39:30 AM
is a beautiful person
the coffin is miniature because:
by hamster factor
May 30th, 2008
09:42:41 AM
Locke's legs are still on the island. their is a mini wormhole inside the coffin where his still living legs are able to live and be free as king of the Others for the rest of their days.
Node32774
by TVguy4566
May 30th, 2008
09:42:51 AM
It ain't a regular sized coffin. Terry O'Quinn is 6'1". No way is that coffin big enough to fit him. Here is an image of the coffin and you tell me if it is over 6 feet.

http://www.lostpedia.com/wiki/ Image:The_Coffin.jpg
I think the easiest answer to Locke getting off is
by chrth
May 30th, 2008
09:44:17 AM
He moves the island again. I like this theory (despite the fact that I don't watch the show), because it allows the island to go back to the past to much with some stuff, and then come forward again for the Oceanic Six to get back to it.
Purgatori Re: Christian/Michael
by Pongo
May 30th, 2008
09:44:25 AM
In "Meet Kevin Johnson," we saw that Michael was trying to kill himself but couldn't do it. Mr. Friendly shows up and tells him that the island won't let Michael die until he does what he needs to do to help the people on the island. Apparently, what Michael did on the boat was enough, as Christian told him "You can go now, Michael," i.e., you can finally die.
Locke
by Thunderbolt Ross
May 30th, 2008
09:46:45 AM
The issue with Locke's legs
by chrth
May 30th, 2008
09:47:26 AM
Wasn't Locke in a wheelchair at the start of the show, and the island healed him? Maybe when he gets back, he no longer is healed and is back in the wheelchair and he needs to have his legs amputated or something (if he comes back like Ben did, and he's instantly a cripple again, his return to civilization might be an issue).
Holy Balls
by manicart1
May 30th, 2008
09:50:51 AM
That was some good stuff. The series was wrapped up niceley, just enough of the island's true nature revealed to satisfy and keep us thirsty for more and that ending...phew. 2009 till season 5 you say? Shitassfuck.
Frozen Donkey Wheel
by theBigE
May 30th, 2008
09:51:56 AM
That's not an overnight internet-coined moniker, EW.com's Lost writer Doc Jensen has been floating that term around for a month now. He said something relating to it would show up in the finale, and lo and behold, there it was.
I'm surprised
by rbrog77
May 30th, 2008
09:52:35 AM
You know, I've been saying for about a year now that the sci-fi stuff was the trees not letting us see the forrest. I think there was a line last night confirming that.

Silly Dharma Experiments

Dharma in all their wisdom, were able to move a bunny ahead in time milliseconds. If you think about it, the frozen donkey wheel without being frozen is a relec from ancient times (I'll come back to this later). When Ben turned it he and his parka and his cut arm vanished. In a previous episode Ben and his parka and his cut arm show up in a desert. And low and behold, he's got some vapor coming off of him.

When you go from freezing cold to extreme desert heatwith no buffer, vapor will rise from you too.

Then Ben shows up at a hotel desk and asks the date...wanting to find out the year.

Yes, there is time travel. But...

This is minor folks. It's dressing to make this journey fun. The real clue as to what the show is was at the end.

He said things had gone bad on the island and I was the reason.

If Jack has not been on the island in 3 years, why is it his fault. More to the point, why does Jack believe it's his fault?

Because Jack is Locke's balance.

Locke is faith. A ruler cannot lead by faith alone. Just because one believes something to be true, that does not make it true...or false, for that matter. Because Locke will lead from a standpoint of faith only, he will be a bad leader. In his heart he knew that, and that's why he asked Jack to stay. And because he led that way, things went bad on the island. And because his "balance"...his constant, per se, left him, it's the balanace's fault.

Now, let's go back to the donkey wheel. That ancient relic. That aincient relic that somehow can make an island vanish...move.

It was ancient, wasn't it? Why and how could something so time dated cause such a "god-like" event? What in those times where this ancient artifact would have been used...been common place...coulc make such a primative relic do such an incredible thing?

OMG...The gods!! They would use ancient tools. They were capable of spectacular acheivements.

So if you're looking for what is to come, consider this. Faith and reason will have to balance out in order for things that went bad on the island to be corrected. Seems like a big problem if you consider...

Faith/Locke appears to be dead

Reason/Jack has to convince everyone to go back

Kate has been told by a dead Claire vision not to take Aaron back

Sun looks to be hooking up with Widmore

Sayid and Hurley are at an undiclosed location

In order to set things straight, Jack has to team up with a lying, coniving bug eyed bastard he can't trust.

Sounds like a hell of a journey, huh?

One more thing. Why did things go bad on the island? Well, in addition to Locke being a bad leader, Juliet and Sawyer think freighter went boom with Jack and Sun and Jin and so forth all on the ship. So they're all dead...except their not. Then the island moved and they realize all this stuff that went down this year with the rescue and non-rescue and the mercenaries et al could possibly be balmed on whoever it was they think moved the island. And his name is...

Faith Alone

in other words: Jack is Locke's brother
by hamster factor
May 30th, 2008
09:56:15 AM
and he is out for revenge. It's not personal, it's just business. Locke's kidney wont rest until everyone on this island is dead!! (tune in next week)
One last thing about the coffin
by TVguy4566
May 30th, 2008
09:57:40 AM
If you look at the doors on the coffin, the top door (the one where the head and torso are) is longer than the bottom half. Typically, they are either the same lenth or the bottom half is longer because it has the legs and part of the torso underneath. It makes it seem pretty clear now that we know it is a man over 6 feet in there, that Locke's legs were amputated prior to his death.
Oh...and
by rbrog77
May 30th, 2008
09:58:30 AM
Yes I said most of that before. And I didn't expand on the gods thing, but someone above did saying something like the immortals and the gods and the children of the gods and such.

How about the sci-fi aspect being explained with the power of the gods. I know some of you would be disappointed, but I like it.

Great Episode
by Hellboy4Prez
May 30th, 2008
10:03:38 AM
Can't believe it was Locke in the box! Do you think Abbadon is working for Widmore, trying to follow the Oceanic 6, Ben and Locke back to the island.
Jeremy Bentham
by ghost_matt
May 30th, 2008
10:03:58 AM
Not only was Jeremy Bentham an English professor like has already been posted, but after he died his students kept stealing his head to check out his brain. His real head was eventually replaced with a fake head in his coffin. Locke's body is a fake, and that's why nobody went to the funeral.
Thanks Titus05
by barfydog
May 30th, 2008
10:05:17 AM
http://tinyurl.com/4klu2n Short clip from Good Morning America with Sawyer and Desmond in the coffin.
John Locke's is jesus and the island is his fater
by hamster factor
May 30th, 2008
10:05:23 AM
I get it now! Does that make Jack Judas?
*father
by hamster factor
May 30th, 2008
10:05:57 AM
..
I totally called Locke in the coffin
by HarrysNemesis
May 30th, 2008
10:13:39 AM
The day after it happened before seeing anyone else say it :) It really made sense based on the way Jack talked to the others about attending the funeral. The only two people they would feel that way about were Ben or Locke... but I don't think most would even consider Ben's funeral. Locke made the most sense.

LOVED the opening scene -- it was great to take it back to the finale from last year and continue. One thing I'm still curious about... Kate mentioned the horrible THINGS that happened that day -- the only horrible thing I really saw was jin getting killed when the boat exploded... I wonder if there is more to that than they have shown yet.

Re: Michael -- Yes, he's definitely dead... BUT as we all know in Lost you're NEVER dead once you've been to the island... he can always come back as an island spirit in the future.

Re: Charlie's Vision that everyone's pissed off about -- here's my take. First, Charlie didn't die for nothing -- Aaron still got off the island, and Claire ended up where she's supposed to be -- as far as his vision being wrong, where'd the vision come from? The vision came from the island. It is what Charlie NEEDED to see in order to make the sacrifice he did. So the island deceived Charlie to a higher moral purpose -- the island took John Locke's philosophy!!! The vision was a partial truth that got the result the island wanted.

Re: The Sayyid/keamy fight -- the second I saw him get shot in the back I was thinking 'isn't he wearing a bulletproof vest????' Then they convinced me he was dead w/ the open eye shot... then he's back to life shortly after. Seriously tho you shoot someone with a bulletproof vest on you'd think you made darn well sure he was really dead.

Re: Desmond/Penny -- yes it will get rough but I think in the end there's no way the writer's take Penny out -- Other than Ben killing keamy he has generally only killed out of necessity -- ultimately he will get his revenge in another way and leave Penny out of it, but probably after they have a story arc about him trying to kill her

Re: Who has to go back -- I don't think Des and Lapidus count as they didn't come in on 815, Des was already there and Lapidus is a recent arrival.

I agree of course Locke comes back to life when he gets back to the island. Also, I'm not even sure someone killed him -- perhaps he's in a catatonic, death like state that the island decided to put him in until Jack brought him back to the island. You never know with lost :) Also, the island would never let Locke die outside the island (remember how it prevented Michael from dieing) -- so whatever this death is, it is island sanctioned ;)

Notice the hieroglyphics on the stones when Ben went to move the island? This means people have been on the island for thousands of years, since the beginning of recorded history since those kinds of hieroglyphs were the first style of writing. Definitely falls into the Eden theory.

My new theory: The island is a collective consciousness of spirits that are trapped there due to the 'strange matter.' That's why when the shit goes down on the island, you hear the whispering. That's why things like healing are selective (the island decides). That's why the island CHOOSES whether you can go back to the island or not... the island makes decisions for itself. I think jacob is just a respresentation of the island's overall consciousness and Christian is the current spokesperson.

SOLID, good finale - not a mindbender, but that was hard to make with all the flashforwarding -- I do agree it made a lot of stuff anticlimactic (like the Jack-appendix episode -- how could he NOT survive we've already seen him in the future). Those who are saying they are making this up a few episodes in advance don't do your reading. They the broad arcs and story lines plotted out to the series finale -- I predict one of the best finales ever only because most finales they plan at the very end when the series has been cancelled. This finale is thought out YEARS in advance. The only anticlimactic thing about the finale is that almost everything should already be revealed by then -- the only thing that may not be at that point is what the island actually is (eden theory, etc).

Also everyone sure loves smokie... I'm ready for a comeback of the dinosaur like (well that's how I imagine it) monster from the first few episodes! Much scarier than smokey.

The Redshirts
by jtp8000
May 30th, 2008
10:17:05 AM
Still unclear whether the redshirts are dead or not. Most were on the freighter but did they get off the freighter in time and if so, did they make it back to the island before it disappeared?
Couple more notes
by HarrysNemesis
May 30th, 2008
10:18:54 AM
Jin is definitely not dead.

The boat with Faraday -- you don't see it in the water after the island disappears -- I predict they disappear and reappear where the island is and that they are also on the island now the last 3 years stuck with everyone else.

abbadon and richard
by alex138
May 30th, 2008
10:19:11 AM
abbadon works for widmore and richard works for the ben/others...so whats up with their common interest in Locke from his flashbacks?
Jin should be dead
by alex138
May 30th, 2008
10:20:59 AM
but probably isn't. But really, the helicopter was closer to the island than Jin was and it didn't get sucked through time...
the frozen donkey wheel
by alex138
May 30th, 2008
10:22:30 AM
didn't deserve to be coined. Rather the real shocker should have been 'the smirking cadaver'
Node
by alex138
May 30th, 2008
10:24:12 AM
that's what i am wondering. but he def works for widmore in some capacity. he was the one who debriefed naomi on her mission.
Jacob is God
by Jor-El23
May 30th, 2008
10:26:45 AM
and Christian Sheppard is Metatron
well
by alex138
May 30th, 2008
10:31:56 AM
it was widmore's boat and Frank referenced being hired by Widmore because he called him about knowing the plane was a hoax. I think that at least suggests the possibility that Widmore was in charge of everyone on the boat. What you say is possible but it is not a foregone conclusion.
the frozen donkey wheel is Jacbo's father...
by hamster factor
May 30th, 2008
10:33:19 AM
that beat him as a child and ran away with his wife. damn frozen donkey wheel, how could you.
they had to explain away the second island again
by hamster factor
May 30th, 2008
10:38:38 AM
did anyone notice? in the Helicopter after the island disappears, Jack says "but wait, there was a second island"... Kenny Rogers: "I aint see nothin but water out there ya here".
frozen polar bear wheel?
by ArcadianDS
May 30th, 2008
10:38:54 AM
If the polar bears were trained and used to turn the wheel, then why are the holding cells for them built on an entirely different island?
Faraday's castaways
by HarrysNemesis
May 30th, 2008
10:42:01 AM
Now that I think about it it's possible they're not on the island either... they could have been rescued the same way the oceanic 6 were but by someone else... the only reason I would think that is not the case is that if Jin got back to the mainland, he wouldn't leave Sun hanging. As far as the helicopter being closer than the raft, the helicopter was in mid-air when the island moved, whereas the raft was in water physically in contact with the island.. so I can see the raft going with the island but not the helicopter. Ben did say something to the effect of 'you know you're not the only people who got off the island' tho, which may lend credence to the other raft making it back to the mainland as well. So I can see it going either way... it could be Jun survives and washes back up on the island later but didn't get in Faraday's raft, but Faraday's raft still makes it out... guess we'll see next weekend. I'm sticking to the raft went back to the island for the moment only because we haven't seen any evidence that it did not yet -- for me I don't see Jin getting off the island but not contacting Sun.

Speaking of the helicopter, that must be the slowest helicopter ever.. it seems like they were flying for minutes and never got more than a mile or so from the island :) By the time sawyer jumped they would have been MILES off the island.

But where are Rose and Bernard?
by mattysan
May 30th, 2008
10:44:32 AM
Did I miss something?
Other alternate endings...
by Charlie Murphy
May 30th, 2008
10:46:43 AM
Sawyer and Desmond. Those must've been shot just in case spoilers got out, because really... they don't make much sense (given what we've seen on the show so far). neither des or sawyer has deserved any of the hate that jack and kate talked about and walt didn't even know desmond... if you missed GMA, the endings are already on youtube.
I wonder...
by evildeadgeorge
May 30th, 2008
10:48:04 AM
I know some people asked if when Ben said "all of them", that meant Desmond and Lapidus, but I wondered if that meant Walt too. It seemed to be a good intro to bringing him back last night.
Rose and Bernard
by HarrysNemesis
May 30th, 2008
10:49:21 AM
Hopefully dead... I like the actor that plays bernard, but don't care for the story line AT ALL. I'm sure they're still on the island and they'll make a couple of cameos next season helping out in a vaguely distracting way that's completely unnecessary.
alternate endings
by HarrysNemesis
May 30th, 2008
10:51:37 AM
They were definitely shot to prevent spoilage. Desmond does make sense because I can totally see him dieing to defend Penny from Ben.

Also, who is Kate going back to?? Is sawyer off the island in 3 years and it hasn't been revealed or what? If Locke can get off why not sawyer.

kate is going back to Aaron, i thought that was obvious
by hamster factor
May 30th, 2008
10:53:23 AM
... figured that out on the kate and jack flash forward
Don't get me wrong
by HarrysNemesis
May 30th, 2008
10:59:29 AM
The actors do a great job.. and I agree they're alive. Just don't care for the storylines they've been part of... generally when they're involved it leads to more of the sentimental/schlocky side of lost.
"Ckeckmate Mr. Ecko" ...F'ing Creepy...
by Bones
May 30th, 2008
11:07:57 AM
That was a Stephen King moment if I ever saw one. Loved it.
alternate endings as seen on GMA this morning
by BacardiRocky
May 30th, 2008
11:10:23 AM
glad they stuck with what was aired: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =DWWMYFAycmQ
Bearded Jack is actualy back in the early 90's
by pokadoo
May 30th, 2008
11:19:23 AM
Listening to Nirvana & Pixies! Although, that would mean that I'm also living back in the 90's. I wish.
I know its been posted earlier
by skimn
May 30th, 2008
11:20:03 AM
but Michael Emmerson deserves an Emmy, a Golden Globe, a Kids Choice Award, a Peoples Choice Award, a Nobel Prize in Acting, etc etc etc, for uttering the most chilling single word, in the coldest sonuva bitch manner.."so".
Frozen Donkey Wheel
by shellfishh
May 30th, 2008
11:21:29 AM
Did anyone else think that the "frozen donkey wheel" looked like what MIGHT once have been the steering wheel of a certain wrecked pirate ship?
nice to see perrineau thinks the same sorta
by Bouncy X
May 30th, 2008
11:31:02 AM
though my problem isnt how he was treated, its that they touted his big return for this season and it takes like 5 or 6 episodes before we even see him and then of the 14 episodes, he was in maybe 4 or 5 and aside from his flashback, it was all pretty small parts. i was expecting him to be a regular character or at the least, have more than 2mins screentime per episode he was in.
Thanks Ashok0
by rbrog77
May 30th, 2008
11:37:09 AM
I too find that interesting, that the roles of the 2 main characters have somewhere along the way been switched....especially that Locke as a child was a science geek.
I didn't want to see Keamy dead
by CherryValance
May 30th, 2008
11:38:10 AM
I was quite fond of his cold-as-ice badassery.
JIN IS DEAD and Rose and Bernard are the skeletons
by Pongo
May 30th, 2008
11:39:11 AM
Jin couldn't have survived the explosion and the skeletons they found in the first episode had a pouch with one black stone and one white stone. It wouldn't make sense otherwise.
they totally wasted Michael
by hamster factor
May 30th, 2008
11:39:45 AM
sad disgrace to an already disgraced character. They were obviously just trying to tie up lose ends from their previous fuck ups, but I feel sorry for the actor
Michael
by rbrog77
May 30th, 2008
11:46:16 AM
He said to Sayid he came back to die. Still, there's something else...of course.

I think what Christian told him was You can go now. Not go home. Not die. And maybe I'm wrong about this, but wasn't it said he had to return to the island to die (might have been island won't let you die)? If he has to return to the island, and if the island can project Christian and Libby on the freighter, might the island not be able to retrive people too?

Dead? I dunno....

re: the skeletons
by hamster factor
May 30th, 2008
11:47:50 AM
I don't think it is Rose and Bernard, but I do think the skeletons are characters we know, because like I said before - I think the whole island is traveling in time now with the use of the donkey wheel
Just saved this page as a favorite
by rbrog77
May 30th, 2008
11:48:29 AM
Called it New Lost Home

Could use some new drapes, but I like it...

;->

wait Parreneau wasn't paid?
by ArcadianDS
May 30th, 2008
11:50:56 AM
I dont fee sorry for him. If the producers of LOST offered to pay me for 2mins time for 5 episodes, I'd do it and Id be overjoyed about it.

Harry needs to stop blaming is lack of any career outside of lost on the fact that he was cast in the role of a bad guy. Just in case anyone isn't aware, this isnt exactly his first acting role - it just happens the be the only one anybody ever remembers.

Michael
by Thunderbolt Ross
May 30th, 2008
11:51:35 AM
I think on paper his coming back and dying is a good idea. They just didn't execute it well. It didn't resonate with me really.
"You can go now"
by ArcadianDS
May 30th, 2008
11:53:45 AM
thats what Lindelof and Cruse said to him after they wrapped shooting for this episode.
"He changed the rules." - I've figured this out!
by Dapper Swindler
May 30th, 2008
11:55:56 AM
Keamy was holding Alex hostage to force Ben outside. Ben claimed that he didn't care and she was just a pawn. But when Keamy shoots her Ben is shocked and horrified. He says, "He changed the rules."

I, along with most of you, assumed the "he" was Widmore or something. Like they had some kind of arrangement not to kill each other's daughters...sounds kind of silly now that I think about it. But the answer is so obvious I don't know how I missed it before.

In "he changed the rules" the "he" isn't Widmore or Keamy - it's Jacob. Ben was under the impression he (and by extension, Alex) was in the favor of Jacob or was needed for "work to do" and no matter what they wouldn't actually die - just like Michael couldn't die. But this understanding Ben had with the island went out the window when Alex was killed.

In "Cabin Fever" Ben has completely accepted his destiny that he is no longer the island's chosen leader, John Locke is. He has been suspecting this for some time but he became 100% sure when the island broke the rules and allowed Alex to die. He even said that the island doesn't want him anymore since it gave him cancer and killed his daughter.

have you guys heard the backwards phone call yet:
by hamster factor
May 30th, 2008
11:57:09 AM
this is reverse speech Kate heard on the phone corrected http://tinyurl.com/57prv5 not really earth shattering, but there ya go.
I think it's punishment
by CherryValance
May 30th, 2008
11:58:50 AM
Seriously. We already know what the show does to DUI people. I think Harold may have been punished for going off to do his own pilot. If I were Nestor Carbonell, I'd be worried. Also don't forget Mr. Eko's cameo that didn't involve Adewale at all last night. And I bet if we ever get Rousseau's backstory she'll turn out to be bad.
I disagree Michael coming back was a waste
by TVguy4566
May 30th, 2008
12:00:29 PM
It follows the theme of the island where survivors who have evil in them get redemption and then die. See Charlie and Shannon. I agree that he didn't get enough screen time, but they did lose episodes because of the writer strike. That is probably why Michael didn't get the proper send off.
node
by ArcadianDS
May 30th, 2008
12:02:35 PM
here's why being a supporting actor for a show like OZ is still not exactly 'hitting it big' as far as acting:

subscription television still lingers around the 50% level for installation to US homes. Of that 50%, less than half subscribe to any premium packages (HBO is not on any basic cable plans). Of that 25% of US homes that have HBO, even if two thirds of them watch that particular show, its in the realm of 10% to 15% of US homes watching Harold be a marvelous and amazing actor on OZ.

He's not quite hit the 'big time', and needs to stop acting like he's a terribly insulted Barrymore patriarch whose been asked to take a walk-on role at a dinner theater presentation of Oliver. He's a dime-a-dozen character actor who plays himself all over Hollywood on limited access cable shows, and in movies nobody buys tickets to see. He got a huge break with Lost and got to demonstrate that when it comes to yelling out a kid's name in a jungle, he's got that Midas Touch. Nobody will ever be able to utter the line WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALT!" again without the inevitable comparison to such a fine actor.

Its a shame he's going to cash out his chips in the midst of a bitter temper tantrum because he's cast member number, what are we up to now? Twelve?... to die.

He needs to check his ego at the airport when he leaves Hawaii because Im not sure it will fit into the carry-on bin.

"He changed the rules." - Wait...nevermind
by Dapper Swindler
May 30th, 2008
12:02:42 PM
Ben actually does tell Widmore to his face that he changed the rules...so I forgot about that.
What I found most amusing about the donkey wheel
by gwarwilleatyou
May 30th, 2008
12:03:18 PM
I thought it was funny that the writers had set up a pretty logical "scientific" explanation for moving the island, (overloading the bunny device) but instead blew it up to reveal a fantasy element behind it. (frozen wheel) To me this just goes along with whole science vs faith thing. To whoever said the polar bear was used to move the wheel. That makes total sense to me. Explains why it ended up in Tunisia.
I wasnt first with the polar bear wheel
by ArcadianDS
May 30th, 2008
12:07:13 PM
but my only comment was how come if the polar bears were used to move the wheel (which I fully believe they did), then why are the storage cages for the bears built on an entirely different island. If it were my construction project, the cages for the polar bears would have been built outside the 'greenhouse' above the orchid station. Makes zero sense - maybe this is a writer's gaffe that they're kinda wishing away into the cornfield and asking the rest of us to not talk about it?
Oceanic knows Jack is lying..
by DougMcKenzie
May 30th, 2008
12:09:04 PM
They would know the life raft in the pictures did not come from their plane. Is Widmore that owner of that airline?
speaking of the wheel
by ArcadianDS
May 30th, 2008
12:09:16 PM
any theories why deep beneath a tropical island, and about 50 yards to the left, there's this underground chamber full of ice and snow? Was that crawlspace itself a wormhole? Is that arctic listening station actually another Dharma post, and you can get to it by simply crawling through a hole under the island?

Makes me wonder again about the theories that one of the guys on that listening post might have been Jack.

how did Ben know about the FDW (frozen donkey wheel)
by hamster factor
May 30th, 2008
12:09:54 PM
seriously? it was blocked off in a totally sealed chamber that he had to blow a hole in to access. Ben always seems to know infinitely more than he says, but conveniently never truly reveals anything important, and not even Locke bothers to ask him the right questions.
oceanic's raft
by ArcadianDS
May 30th, 2008
12:10:13 PM
I thought the story was that they came upon the wreckage of an ocean liner on the shores of some abandoned island, and used the raft to paddle their way to their ultimate rescue.
polar bears moved the wheel in the past!
by theredtoad
May 30th, 2008
12:32:47 PM
read this theory on the fuselage. on Hydra Island, their cages were setup to teach them basic activities. The bears are expendable, they move the wheel and get shifted to the desert, where Charlotte finds one. It's cold down there, but the bears can handle it.
what did Sawyer say to Kate?
by hamster factor
May 30th, 2008
12:35:46 PM
before he jumps. I could almost make out a word or two, but no quite.
Re: theredtoad (2004 Indian Ocean tsunami)
by kyle051554
May 30th, 2008
12:36:50 PM
Wait a second: are you suggesting that the December 26, 2004 tsunami was caused by the disappearance of the Island on approximately the same date?

That is an AWESOME theory. Simply amazing. If true, how will Locke deal with the blood of around 230,000 dead on his hands?
they aren't going to tie it in with a real tsunami...
by hamster factor
May 30th, 2008
12:39:26 PM
give me a break, that would be cheesy and pretty morbid and disrespectful to the hundreds of thousands that died in the tsunami
Burger King-
by Novaman5000
May 30th, 2008
12:44:24 PM
Radio Signals travel instantly- Hence how they can have phone conversations with people on the freighter. Remember the freighter is out of sync with the rest of the island by a few minutes, but the sequences we're seeing are happening simultaneously in the timeline, if that makes any sense. The same way they can have phone conversations- that's how the signal can set the bomb off.
The writers just keep pulling stuff out of their ass
by MattmanReturns
May 30th, 2008
12:44:44 PM
They keep raising more and more questions that never get answered. They FINALLY answered who was in the coffin from LAST YEAR'S FINALE, but it only raised more questions. I dunno why I keep watching this. There's no way it can have a satisfying conclusion. But I know I'll tune in next season, like a drone.
Re: hamster factor
by kyle051554
May 30th, 2008
12:44:53 PM
Well, they may not use it as a story point (because of the sensitive nature of it), but I don't think it's a coincidence.
i agree, how the hell does a polar bear operate half a wheel?
by hamster factor
May 30th, 2008
12:47:39 PM
doesn't make sense. and also, why would the polar bears be used to move the wheel in the first place? the island had to be constantly moved?? seriously... I feel ashamed of myself for even engaging in a debate over the frozen donkey wheel of mystery. it is such a ridiculous plot point. it makes me think Damon and Carlton are now purposefully mocking their audience just a bit.
Harold Perrineau had some pretty crazy shit to say
by Charlie Murphy
May 30th, 2008
12:51:25 PM
about how his character went out. He said he was disappointed that he came back just to die right away and he confirmed the producers told him that was it for him. He also said it just goes to show how the show treats black people (!). check out the story at TvGuide... it's pretty whack.
Jack was listening to...
by SpideyVSNorris
May 30th, 2008
12:53:58 PM
"Gouge Away" by The Pixies. Someone earlier said "Scentless Apprentice". Same era, wrong band, wrong song, wrong season.
oh sorry Node
by Charlie Murphy
May 30th, 2008
12:57:39 PM
didn't realize it's been discussed already... i agree it would suck to come back to a show for so little time...
I think in last year's...
by Kid Z
May 30th, 2008
01:02:58 PM
...season finale, where we first saw "Beardy Jack", he actually was playing Scentless Apprentice as he was driving around. However, last night, you're right, he was playing the Pixies' Gouge Away when he drove up at night to break into the funeral home. Great song by a great, but under-appreciated band, by the way.
Harold Perrineau
by evildeadgeorge
May 30th, 2008
01:04:41 PM
If there was any chance he would've ever come back again(and really, it would have to be in the same capacity as Claire or Jack's Dad), I'm pretty sure that got shot to hell when he said "Darlton doesn't care about black people." I do completely agree though that a reunion with Walt at some point would've had a lot of emotional impact if it was done right. I guess it's all in where Walt's storyline goes from here, if anywhere.
donkey wheel and the wall
by Bouncy X
May 30th, 2008
01:06:14 PM
we never saw ben actually reach the wall, the flash hit and then he was presumably sent to that desert or wherever before he touched it. so that could explain the bear in the desert since it would get sent away before/as it reached the wall as well.
Pokadoo... Yeah the 90's rocked...
by Kid Z
May 30th, 2008
01:10:21 PM
...great music and I had money to burn. Not like in this sorry excuse for a millenium! The 00's SUCK!
Walt turns out to be Barack Obama
by hamster factor
May 30th, 2008
01:10:50 PM
and he has the key to healing this racial tension and he plays backgammon with John McCain. that is the meaning of the whole show. that is my theory and I'm sticking to it.
the alternate endings
by the new transported man
May 30th, 2008
01:11:30 PM
Were funny in quick succession. They should've filmed versions with Vincent, TASG, & Lando Calrissian.
new walt? as if
by Bouncy X
May 30th, 2008
01:11:58 PM
funny little story, i read an article talking about the finale, and the writer actually said it didnt look like walt. almost sounded like he was implying they hired someone new. like what the hell? yes he looked much older but that was clearly the same actor, he was recognizable and even had that same manner of speaking. that guy is either blind or hasnt seen any older walt episodes in a long time.
stop being stupid
by ArcadianDS
May 30th, 2008
01:13:11 PM
its not 'half a wheel', morons. And Ben only moved it a little bit.

oh and for you extra-stupid ones, the reason is because you can then move the island and ta-da, the polar bear is the one that can never return. poor little polar bear.

as to how - right because Im sure that the little tunnel is the only way to get in there - and that they actually forged that gigantic metal wheel INSIDE THAT HOLE because its bigger than the tunnel.

If this thread is to reach 10k posts, it needs to stop being so god damned retarded.

ok, dog food - Vincent must have something to do with this
by hamster factor
May 30th, 2008
01:19:32 PM
Clearly, Vincent knows all about the donkey wheel and was in charge of it. I always said watch out for Vincent - he is pulling the strings
Every time I read a really dumbass post...
by Dapper Swindler
May 30th, 2008
01:27:41 PM
...I then check the name of the author - and most of the time it is hamster factor.
I'm Sick...of Lying
by SamDonovan
May 30th, 2008
01:28:17 PM
If for no other reason than his delivery of the time traveling bunny line, I think Michael Emerson deserves the Emmy.
Good Finale, but many hanging threads...
by DrEdwardMorbius
May 30th, 2008
01:29:28 PM
...the food drops? The 4 toed statue and the anomalies and the hiroglyphs and the "frozen donkey wheel to alter time/space" and even the smoke monster can all be explained by the island being an etraterrestrial experiment (ala Dark City) or a kind of ET ship. But if Penny could only find it via her portugese-manned tracking station, how did whomever is making the food drops find it? Also, does anyone think we will ever find out what the "sky turning purple" when Desmond turned that key was all about? I think the true "Others" (Alpert, you know, the guy with more eyeliner on than Marilyn Manson on a Friday night)are in fact, aliens (...from beyond the 8th dimension, perhaps?) and the island(s) is (are) their ship. More on this later...
Eh, I think Harold has a few sour grapes.
by Novaman5000
May 30th, 2008
01:29:30 PM
Look, Michael did not deserve a happy ending. He murdered two people in cold blood. He got his redemption in the form of buying the freighter time and (most likely) allowing Jin to get far enough away from the blast to survive.

As for making this a black issue, come on. It's completely uncalled for and fairly unprofessional of him to be pulling out shit like that. There is a range of ethnicities in the show, and Walt and Rose are some of the most well-liked characters on the show.

That being said, Darlton should have been more upfront about him coming back and his death. It should have been something they talked about before he came on board, though I wonder if he would have taken it up if that was the case? It seems like he's got a bit of an ego, this one.

People who complain about the fakeness of the frozen set
by Dapper Swindler
May 30th, 2008
01:34:36 PM
Are probably the same people who complained that Jack's "fake" beard looked fake in the last season finale. (It was actually a real beard)
Is it possible that Jin survived the explosion?
by J-Dizzle
May 30th, 2008
01:43:19 PM
And what about Faraday's boat? Are they stranded in the middle of the ocean?
BEST SHOW EVER
by Luscious.868
May 30th, 2008
01:43:27 PM
Heroes? Yeah right.
Jin could be alive. And Faraday's boat...
by Novaman5000
May 30th, 2008
01:46:25 PM
I'm thinking it got sucked to wherever the island did. It didn't get far enough away in time.
"Gouge Away" by The Pixies. Someone earlier said "Scentless Appr
by zombieface
May 30th, 2008
01:46:47 PM
...and she was talking about that wrong season.
not a wooden wheel
by ArcadianDS
May 30th, 2008
01:46:54 PM
you need an HD television, friend. Its 2008.

If polar bears aren't used for the wheel, why is there a dead one in Tunisia with a dharma collar on it? Instead of the plausible "someone used it to turn the wheel during 'the incident' " theory, feel free to keep cooking up some of the most insane lunatic ramblings you can muster. Yeah alien spaceships thats the ticket

And yeah its a secret - still doesn't explain why the holding pens for the polar bears used to turn the wheel are location on AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT ISLAND. "oh hey there's animal cages - somebody must be keeping some kind of portal a secret, right?" "uh no the pens are on a different island." "oh okay then, guess there must not be any secret portals anywhere since clearly they're all caged on some other island."

stupid

Lets see we have a polar bear skeleton in a region of the country that happens to be where Ben winds up after turning a wheel that is in a frozen tundra of a cavern, but yeah you must be right - it couldn't have been that a polar bear was used down there. that would just make waay too much sense, amirite?

this whole thread has enough C-retard to stupid up an entire aircraft carrier.

face it: they've been trying to explain those polar bears since
by hamster factor
May 30th, 2008
01:52:55 PM
and it still isn't working. personally I preferred the very first theories and hints that it was being created out of Walt's imagination (the comic book). They should have just let the polar bear issue die after they gave us the cage and experiment explanation. the polar bears don't need to serve any other function, but they insisted on stirring it up again instead of answering other questions we've had since s1
Closing in on 1000 posts
by edshrinker
May 30th, 2008
01:56:58 PM
in 24 hours. Not bad. Not bad at all. 10k will fall.
So, ArcadianDS...
by DrEdwardMorbius
May 30th, 2008
01:57:06 PM
...you're kind of a dick, eh? That's okay, we all forgive you because we are just happy you were able to chime in from your 7th grade classroom... For the record, my 1080p showed a woodden wheel...cock
Node32774
by the new transported man
May 30th, 2008
01:57:15 PM
Imagine all of those alternate endings, but played in succession, same music cues, same cameras, same dialogue. It's basically the most glorious easter egg imaginable.
Hey, D Vader
by DrEdwardMorbius
May 30th, 2008
02:04:27 PM
Not trying to irk you at all, I respect your posts and opinions, I am curious as to how you make the connection between the food drops (Dharma stock) and the Others (Who killed the Dharma folks with Ben via the gas)? Do you think the Others took over the Dharma infrastructure, or that maybe some of the Others are off the island and pretending to be Dharma?
Jack to Desmond:
by hamster factor
May 30th, 2008
02:07:53 PM
"I'll see you in another life brother". any significance, or just random farewell? They better not get rid of Desmond, he is one of the best characters on the show. Although i don't see what they can do with him now that the entire goal of his life has been achieved in reuniting with Penny.
Hamster...
by DrEdwardMorbius
May 30th, 2008
02:09:59 PM
...Desmond said that to Jack in a Jack-centric flashback when he was training (running in the stadium)...
I've been watching it on a 55 inch plasma hd
by Dapper Swindler
May 30th, 2008
02:12:51 PM
And there's no way to determine whether the wheel was metal, wood, plastic, or whatever. Also, who the hell cares?
Orchid Station = Superman II Fortress of Solitude Trick
by Cheif Brody
May 30th, 2008
02:13:20 PM
Here's my dopey theory of the day...since we're all being retarded.

I think Ben learned from "the incident" long ago...that if you put metal in the teleport pod...it transfers the mojo outside the pod room.

The same way Supes reversed the mojo on Lex Luthor and Zod and sucked out their power while restoring his own.

I think Ben knew releasing the energy into the Orchid...then spinning the Donkey Wheel...would transfer him far further than a few milliseconds into the future.

I think when he said it's unpredictable & dangerous to move the island...I think he meant:

Unpredictable = time travel

Dangerous = Can destroy the island

Ben had no idea where he would land in the future...time or place-wise...and "bad things" happened to the island after he left.

Walt's Comment to Hurley
by Black Jaguar
May 30th, 2008
02:17:22 PM
Why would Bentham tell Walt to ask Hurley why are they all lying? Why couldnt Locke just tell Walt the truth or did he not want to be the one to tell him Michael was dead?
They are gonna go wayyy back in time
by zillabeast
May 30th, 2008
02:18:00 PM
And prevent the entire series of events from ever happening. Flight 815 will not crash.
a few comments
by MacTard420
May 30th, 2008
02:25:55 PM
locke probably doesn't know that michael died in the explosion. probably why he didn't tell walt. also, walt may have known his father was dead. it wasn't exactly clear cut in that convo with Hurley. also, does anyone else think Mikhail might pop up again? That guy was badass!
Hey Pogo
by Purgatori
May 30th, 2008
02:31:58 PM
Thanks! I didn't see all of that ep. That makes sense. Also, Sun's reaction was amazing. I actually was tearing up at that point because that was a scream of pure agony. If I saw my husband die that would be sound I made. That's acting. And Michael Emerson deserves an Oscar, Emmy, and a damn Tony for what he has done with that character. He's amazing and deserves it. I'm curious to see what the bad things were. And did the Others turn on them? And I'm also curious as to if the Others actually are the crew of the pirate ship. That's an interesting theory.
Metal in the time vault
by alex138
May 30th, 2008
02:36:29 PM
maybe im not reading into it deep enough but i thought it was obvious Ben put metal in there to blow up the wall so he could reach the wheel. he seemed very dismissive about the whole Dharma stuff with his comment of, 'Silly experiments.' Also have Darlton given an official statement on the theory of the island being Atlantis? The whole island dissapearing into thin air seems like it could have spawned the legened of the great city of Atlantis being swallowed by the ocean.
necgray
by alex138
May 30th, 2008
02:39:59 PM
i thought that too. it seems like a logical assumption that they froze the room to prevent the wheel from turning, otherwise the island may forever be jumping through time.
D Vader
by DrEdwardMorbius
May 30th, 2008
02:41:59 PM
Very well thought out, I'll mull that over for a while in the Krell Labs...Maybe Mittelos/DeGroots were Others all along, setting up Dharma so they could have an outside infrastructure, but who would the coin come from. We know Whidmore has big coin, we think Ben does too...maybe the Others had something of massive value (gold in quantities, or diamonds, etc...)and were able to accomplish all of this funding themselves. I'd perfer to think they were devious and "took over" Hanso or something of that nature. At least we'll have plenty to review before next year.
Don't get the polar bear confusion....
by giger167
May 30th, 2008
02:43:22 PM
Loved the finale, great from start to finish. Not really sure I get the polar bear arguments though. Wasn't the whole point of the show that moving the island was a final solution and not one to be taken lightly. Surely it is fair to assume that smaller experiements were made previously using the smaller teleport device (the device they filled with metal) that would of explained the moving of the polar bears or other objects in space and time ???? Doesn't this device tap into this wheel thing that Ben went down to. Why would polar bears have to be in the wheel room ????
Speaking of the Wheel Room
by Kweeno
May 30th, 2008
02:43:51 PM
Not Ice folks... Room was coated in Sea Salt Hint hint
Wheel Room pt.2
by Kweeno
May 30th, 2008
02:45:24 PM
No "Ice Breath" from Ben Seems to be an Atlantis situation
Atlantis did disappear, right?
by rbrog77
May 30th, 2008
02:46:30 PM
I'm just sayin...
Nap- regarding Jack
by BrightEyes
May 30th, 2008
02:48:01 PM
I know some have corrected you but Jack didn't shoot Keemy, Richard did, And when you found out you tried to backtrack and say you were giving Jack credit for something he didn't do when in the previous post you said Jack was a failure and couldn't even pull that off. Come on man, why hate to hate, those 2 post proved your not using logic or fairness and will just bash the guy at any chance. So know I'll add you to the people to not debate no matter what because of their extreme hatred for Jack. Also I never said Jack was a perfect man, far from it, Jack is an absolute mess and probably in the worst shape of all Lost characters since season 3's finale, but guess what thats what makes me love his character, he fucks up trying to do the right thing, and in my life I have fucked up so many times and did so many stupid things when my heart was in the right place but ended up losing. Lost to me is a show about redemption , it has helped me get through a lot of my own problems in life, and gave me hope to redeem myself for all my fuck ups and Jack Shephard is a fuck up with a good heart, same as me. So don't try to twist my words around and say I think Jack is perfect, if he was I wouldn't like him. And no matter how much I love Jack or I never HATE any other Lost character, I even love Locke, he's in my top 5 favorites, but when it came to Jack vs Locke, I went with Jack since season 1 to make the show more fun, and a sense of gambling to it. Now that Locke is gone, there is no more Team Jack and I will Be part of Team Losties vs Team Widmore . Maybe because of shift in teams I'll receive less post bashing me, doesn't make a difference to me though I am sticking through Jack till the end and I'm sure he'll fuck up many more times as will I in life, I can only hope that in the end we can reach redemption. Team Losties
Moving the island is both dangerous and unpredictable
by Dapper Swindler
May 30th, 2008
02:48:25 PM
Think about it...maybe Ben meant that it was dangerous and unpredictable for the MOVER. Indeed it was - sent him halfway across the world and a year into the future.
Finally...a refreshing thread
by Sleeperkid
May 30th, 2008
02:59:16 PM
Where hardly anyone's said a negative word about what was easily one of the most exciting finales I've yet to see. Say what you will about LOST, but man...the shit just feels...EPIC.
The sci-fi elements are here to stay
by Lovecraftfan
May 30th, 2008
03:02:35 PM
If people dont like that they're going to hate the rest of Lost.
Not that I care about Claire, but...
by Underdogthe3rd
May 30th, 2008
03:13:17 PM
Didn't Desmond said to Charlie that he saw her in the hellicopter leaving the island?
WE STILL DON'T KNOW WHY LIBBY WAS IN THE NUTHOUSE
by rhcp2sweet
May 30th, 2008
03:14:45 PM
That's the mystery that's been bugging the shit out of me that they probably will never answer.
I hate when actors...
by Bob Loblaw Law Blog
May 30th, 2008
03:22:13 PM
say stupid things like "If I were writing it, I would write it differently."

Well, jackass, that's why you're not writing it... because if LOST was written by someone like Harold Perrineau, then everyone's story would just tie up nicely and the show would have ended after two seasons.

It reminds me of Season 3 when Naveen Andrews was complaining about limited screen time even though he was getting PAID as a regular whether he had many lines or none. Have you ever seen what regular cast members get paid in a show like LOST? It's more than most people make in a year or more!! (Not that I'm for less Sayid or that the writer's have neglected him this season... hell he's one of the Oceanic Six and he had a kick-ass fight scene with Keamy in the finale!!).

In any case, I'm sure Perrineau was compensated nicely for his return to the show. But, as far as I'm concerned, he's tainted any "legacy" he had as an actor by badmouthing the Darlton.

Plus... I may be the only one who finds this amusing... but remember how Harold Perrineau was cast in "The Matrix: Reloaded" as Link because Marcus Chong (aka Tank) pissed off the Wachowski brothers? Maybe Perrineau pissed off Darlton at some point before or after his season 4 return... so they decided to just get rid of him.

Perhaps Perrineau should have learned something about not biting the hand that feeds you (aka the writers who decide your character's fate!!!) from his experience in the Matrix sequels.

Epic
by Thunderbolt Ross
May 30th, 2008
03:22:33 PM
indeed
I think Jin might have survived.
by Captain RawBeard
May 30th, 2008
03:24:04 PM
I reckon his body was blasted into the water and when the island vanished it scooped him up too along with Faraday on the raft.

I like the idea of Widmore being the Captain of the Blackrock and somehow ended up in the future.
My previous post was the 1001st of this TB
by rhcp2sweet
May 30th, 2008
03:24:06 PM
That means we're 1/12 of the way to catching up to the season 3 finale's talkback
clearly, with respect to the dog food, Libby is Hurley's real fa
by hamster factor
May 30th, 2008
03:27:08 PM
... prove me wrong, just try
If this is May, this must be the end of another shit season of L
by Pdorwick
May 30th, 2008
03:28:31 PM
I swore last year I was through with this show until the season finale convinvced me no. Guess what?

I'm through with this fuckin' show. Locke's in the casket! The island's gone! Who fuckin' cares; awful, awful awful.
Desmond lied to charlie about claire?
by hamster factor
May 30th, 2008
03:32:26 PM
to make him feel better? I don't remember when he said that... but really the way Claire's character has been treated this season totally fucks up Charlie's legacy. She didn't really care that Charlie died, she acted useless and annoying all season and then went and got herself killed/abducted by ghosts.
It's likely that the island was moved before during the purge
by Dapper Swindler
May 30th, 2008
03:32:31 PM
They killed the DI and then moved the island so they couldn't get back. Maybe not in that order. They probably made a polar bear do it. Brought the bear in through another wider entrance. But maybe it collapsed and that's why Ben needed to get in through blasting a hole in the Orchid pod. Just thinking out loud.

But when Charlotte found that polar bear in Tunisia, she knew what she was looking for. She wasn't at all surprised.

Anyone else notice
by Purgatori
May 30th, 2008
03:33:58 PM
that Claire wasn't speaking with an Australian accent in Kate's dream/vision? Cause yeah...no accent...at least that I heard.
AfterLOST
by Bob Loblaw Law Blog
May 30th, 2008
03:34:01 PM
That would pretty much have to be the name of any spin-off show, D. Vader. I'm in!! :)
if they moved the island since DI...
by hamster factor
May 30th, 2008
03:35:47 PM
then who the hell is still delivering those food drops and how do they find them?
Locke is Sawyer
by thebizzle76
May 30th, 2008
03:36:31 PM
No one else catches this? Sawyer is a false name (I think this was established a season or two ago)-somehow with all the time traveling stuff Sawyer is an alternate version of Locke (think also of how Sawyer is a con man while Locke is the victim of cons-alternate universes...) Good episode, looking forward to January 2008
Purgatori
by hamster factor
May 30th, 2008
03:37:31 PM
yes, i did notice that, and was going to post the same question but forgot. very strange, because the actress is actually Australian. I thought I didn't listen carefully, but she really sounds American
D.Vader
by Bob Loblaw Law Blog
May 30th, 2008
03:41:58 PM
I agree... everyone wants screen time.

And, yes, no one is arguing that regular actors in hit shows get paid a ton of money.

But, I think it's kind of selfish to complain about screen time when you're part of an ensemble cast. If "Lost" were "The Harold Perrineau Show"... well, that's a different story. But it's not... and he should just be grateful he got 2 1/2 seasons of work on one of the coolest shows ever. It's a helluva lot more than Ian Somerhalder and Maggie Grace got!!

The food drops...
by Dapper Swindler
May 30th, 2008
03:41:58 PM
Are a total fucking mystery. We don't even know if they are being dropped from a plane (no one saw one).
Claire's accent in the dream
by Dapper Swindler
May 30th, 2008
03:43:51 PM
Hurley once had a dream with Jin speaking English with an American accent.
it's one thing
by MacTard420
May 30th, 2008
03:44:32 PM
to be disappointed about a lack of screentime and another thing entirely to openly complain about it to the press/public. Actors should act more professionally. I think Michael's role was probably reduced a bit because of the strike but I don't think his fate would have changed all that much with a few more episodes.
YOOOO FUCKERS I JUST CAME UP WITH SOMETHING
by JBouganim1
May 30th, 2008
03:48:38 PM

Next season we will obv see the 3 years flashback with the remainder of the island ppl and prob see real time with the oceanic six and etc.

so basically we will see Locke leave the island to come to the 6 and try to get them to go back.

Sayid says "they said it was a suicide" with a yea i dont believe that shit expression. So he was prob killed right?

who would kill him?

My money is on Sun

I cheered when Keamy got it
by Sithdan
May 30th, 2008
03:49:43 PM
That SOB had to go.
cont.
by JBouganim1
May 30th, 2008
03:51:07 PM

So at the season finale of next year we will see Locke get killed by Sun (end of the 3 yr flashback) and a cut to her now going back to the island having arrangements with Widmore and whatever. Like her turning now evil or something

anyone else like this?
One thing is for sure
by BrightEyes
May 30th, 2008
03:52:26 PM
Sawyer is smoooootttthhhh
gotham night
by Dapper Swindler
May 30th, 2008
03:53:02 PM
Who was Ben's Man on the boat?

Michael

Didn't Ben have a list of people for Michael?

Yes, probably the science team

Why was Michael even aboard the boat if Widemore was just gonna blow it up?

Widmore had not intention of blowing up the boat, that was Keamy's idea. In fact, if the boat were blown up, how would he transport Ben back?

How did the Helicopter show up to the boat in "real time", and not a day later?

By using bearing 305 and avoiding any time dilation.

Got anymore? Be glad to help anyone else

whats with the food drops?
by hamster factor
May 30th, 2008
03:57:35 PM
seriously, if only someone had a crack pot theory about it around here... ah well.
The metal in the closet and the wheel in the cave
by Bunger!
May 30th, 2008
03:59:52 PM
I follow the notion that the wheel caused some kind of travel to the future; what I don't get is why it was necessary to "put the fork in the microwave" first.... I understand that the closet is some kind of time travel chamber, but why did Ben zap the metal in it first? What is the relationship between the closet and the wheel???
If Lost is anything like Cloverfield.
by cookylamoo
May 30th, 2008
04:03:45 PM
It'll be a big bummer ending with the island killing everyone.
gotham night
by Dapper Swindler
May 30th, 2008
04:04:29 PM
How does Widemore not know about Penny's boat? The Searcher? Why would he? Widemore knew that Ben wanted to kill Penny. Is Ben also on Penny's boat? He WILL know - you understand that scene was in the future right?
Node32774
by zacdilone
May 30th, 2008
04:04:59 PM
I find your post very amusing. The reasons you give for not liking the finale are rooted entirely in the theories others are putting forward? You realize you didn't make one cogent criticism of the finale itself, you only spit back unsubstantiated theories as your reason for not liking it.
so now Sawyer starts tapping Juliet...
by hamster factor
May 30th, 2008
04:10:57 PM
son of a bitch. last dude you'd want to get stuck on a paranormal island full of beautiful woman with. cock blocking bastard.
hey edshrinker
by The_Squid
May 30th, 2008
04:13:11 PM
are you gonna post a torrent this episode? Is it already there and I'm just blind?
ALTERNATE ENDINGS
by edshrinker
May 30th, 2008
04:14:59 PM
Now we know where the Des and a suit outside Hoffs/Drawler came from:

So they did do Sawyer and Des alternate endings in the coffin. Very cool. I wish they had leaked that instead of the correct one. I am so glad Des made it, however!

Alternates:

http://tinyurl.com/6aq7xj

I apologize if this is a repost - I have only made it 1/2 through the awesome feedback here since last night.

Maybe, they have to sacrafice Aarron?
by The Dum Guy
May 30th, 2008
04:15:58 PM
If kids aren't supposed to be born on the island, but "Claire" doesn't want him to go back...

I dunno, maybe the kid is actually the anti-christ or the 2nd coming of the real christ...

Okay, both of those sound stupid, but wasn't originally the idea for the show not to have time travel? This show is making me have weird dreams.
Coffin too short
by fignootin
May 30th, 2008
04:28:21 PM
Not to offend anyone who thinks Locke's legs are cut off (rolls eyes slightly), but the coffin looks short because of our vision. It's called the horizontal illusion or something like that. See the top hat example here: http://www.wisebread.com/ optical-illusions-that-make-yo u- fatter-and-your- wallet-lighter Mind the spaces. Anyway, if you ever see pics of people lying down, they will appear shorter than their actual height. It's the nature of our vision. Also, when you spread your arms apart at their widest, you'll have your height. Arms spread width=height of body or something. So if you look at that pic of Jack standing over the coffin, imagine if his hands were wide apart and I bet youd get around the length of the coffin. Also as an animator, may I add that they seemed to have used a different focal length or lens to fit the entire room in the picture when shooting from above. That would definitely distort the appearance of the coffin since it's halfway down Jack's body in regards to Jack's head being closer to the camera. Just some food for thought. Cool ep.
if you're not sure about Elizabeth Mitchell (Juliet)
by hamster factor
May 30th, 2008
04:31:04 PM
then you've got to check the movie Gia, also staring Angelina Jolie... trust me dudes
Metal in the time travel closet
by Steve Trevor
May 30th, 2008
04:33:30 PM
Much like frying a microwave, Ben put the metal in there to blow out the back wall.
Dharma logo in Cloverfield
by Steve Trevor
May 30th, 2008
04:34:26 PM
Was just a wink-wink to the boys on LOST and to the fans. No "serious" connection. Both JJ and Matt Reeves have said this in the commentary and documentaries on the DVD.
But Drew Goddard
by BrightEyes
May 30th, 2008
04:37:23 PM
The writer of Cloverfield and writer on Lost has said that there might be a connection between the two. giving a hint of the possibility .
Food drops
by Steve Trevor
May 30th, 2008
04:39:06 PM
The food drops were likely triggered by Ben or Desmond at the hatch via a coding. A similar coding existed at the Flame and Desmond has said that the computer is capable of more than just the whole numbers/magnetism protocol. It has been theorized that they came from some place intra-island - NOT from the outside world.
BrightEyes
by Steve Trevor
May 30th, 2008
04:40:53 PM
I think the connection is exactly that - he has written both.
hamster factor
by slkboxrman
May 30th, 2008
04:41:31 PM
regarding jack saying "see you another life, brother" ...if u have been watchin since they introduced desmond, when jack was running the steps in the stadium and hurt his ankle, desmond came over and they spoke and before desmond left jack he said "see u in another life, brother" he basically used desmonds first words to him as a touching goodbye.... i loved it
maybe
by BrightEyes
May 30th, 2008
04:41:53 PM
but you can never say never when it comes to Lost.
Fair enough
by Steve Trevor
May 30th, 2008
04:44:17 PM
I hate to be a hope killer anyway.
Sun and Jin
by AbsoluteTruth
May 30th, 2008
04:45:10 PM
Ok so Sun is obviously trying to use Widmore to help her get back to the island because she believes Jin may still be alive and she wants to get back to him. Why else would she want to go back? Its only a matter of time until she comes in contact with Jack and will probably be more willing to go with him to see if Jin is still alive. With all this considered youd have to figure that Jin is still alive because they will spend a decent amount of time next season showing us how bad Sun believes Jin is alive and how she wants to go back to him. I really dont think the writers would set that up for him to actually be dead.
slkboxrman
by hamster factor
May 30th, 2008
04:45:17 PM
yeah, someone else reminded me of that too. i forgot where I'd heard it before.
Am I the only one who thinks...
by vlad.e
May 30th, 2008
04:46:47 PM
Locke was killed by Alpert and his tribe? Alpert's smile and oddly cold "welcome home, John" seemed to be concealing a conspiratorial tone. And Alpert knew, from the test he gave young Locke, that something about Locke wasn't meant for the island. I have a feeling that next season we'll discover that things on the island did not go well after Locke Administration took office.
Why did Ben move the island???
by ricardomontalkhan
May 30th, 2008
04:46:55 PM
It makes no sense.. they had already killed the intruders. someone help me understand. haha hey Losties... check out this great new blog on blogspot. it's called thebitterproducer
best line of finale
by slkboxrman
May 30th, 2008
04:46:58 PM
locke "you just killed everyone on the boat!!!" ben "so"
Close to The Wire now
by curiousdog
May 30th, 2008
04:49:24 PM
Lost is moving into Wire-esque territory now,its that damn good, although The Wire didn't need crazy twists for you to be like "awwww sheeeeeeeeeeeeeetttttt". See the penultimate episode of Season 2 where Sabotka walks towards the Greeks as the corrupt FBI guy makes a call, or the look on Omar's face when he finds out Marlo had Brucie killed. Locke in the coffin was genius though!
Wuhuh?
by Purgatori
May 30th, 2008
04:55:21 PM
Mittleos Bioscience = Lost Time Bioscience. I just noticed this. Am I behind?
ben moved the island
by MacTard420
May 30th, 2008
04:55:51 PM
cuz JACOB told them to!
ricardomontalkhan
by slkboxrman
May 30th, 2008
05:01:19 PM
creative name BTW.....lol.... BEN had to move the island despite the intruders being killed, widmore knew where the island was and if the first team wasnt successful he would keep sending people there....moving it was the best option....and gave ben leverage over widmore in the future when he threatened widmore in his bedroom that he was going to kill penny.....i still wonder why he cant kill widmore
drTuring
by slkboxrman
May 30th, 2008
05:19:21 PM
good riddance to bad rubbish, meaning u of course.....btw ur comment about them using time travel as a fallback makes no sense at all...the time travel did not cause a change in the current events played out over the last 4 seasons...ben went a year or so into the future and did what ? nothing ...if time travel were to be relevant, going to the past would be better.... so since ur too dumb to realize this, its good that ur giving up on LOST, none of us will have to read ur whiny "im not gonna watch no more" crap....and at no point whatsoever did anyone involved in LOST say they were "making it up as they go" there was a plan from day one, and before this season they told us there is a definitive ending to the show that was in place since season one....thank u, have a stupid life
they ARE "making it up as they go"
by hamster factor
May 30th, 2008
05:34:07 PM
maybe they have a plan now - but they didn't in the beginning. MAYBE they knew the last scene of the last episode but they didn't seem to have any idea how they were getting there, because most of what has transpired was obviously unplanned. as i said before I don't knock it for that, it doesn't matter me as long as I remained entertained. but some stuff is pretty freaking random, as I have been satirizing on this TB
Just watched...great ep.
by Desmondo
May 30th, 2008
05:36:39 PM
I can understand why people don't place it up there with Through the Looking glass but I actually thought it had a lot more plot going on. Jacks' flashforward last season was pretty much a MacGuffin to throw us off the final scene.

Here, and in the last episode I realised I am continually seeing things I thought I would have to wait a lot longer to see. The Oceanic 6 coming home, the aftermath of the 'we have to go back', the coffin, Desmond/Penny, etc. I'm glad that Alan Dale is in Spamalot, because there is something cool about seeing them film in London proper.

Also I believe that Penny has to die. Otherwise Desmond will end up in that bad place where characters have all their loose ends tied up. Apart from 'The Constant' he has basically contributed nothing this season apart from the odd 'What ya doin' Sayid man?' line on the freighter. I think Penny has to die, and he has to seek revenge for the character to have any kind of emotional journey.

It was nice to see Walt back, but I'm not really sure he added any.

Oh and Kudos to the writers for actually having the guts to show a man push a large wheel and then for the island do disappear. Imagine if you knew that was going to happen back in Season 1. On paper it sounds horrible, and tbh I'm not sure I'm entirely convinced but it was pretty gutsy. I also liked how even though everything strange/supernatural has some ambiguity to it, they made a point that Jack could come up with no explanation for it. You can argue that Mr Friendly swapped the gun, etc, but really there can be no coincedence/other explanation for an island disappearing.

Also with regards to Claire helicopter/thing
by Desmondo
May 30th, 2008
05:43:37 PM
I'm pretty sure that Darlton said recently they knew who the Oceanic 6 were back in Season 2. So clearly when they wrote the stuff with Claire in the helicopter, they knew she wasn't going to get off.

Then again, to be honest as a writer they know Charlie had to sacrifice his life and the only motiviation he would ever have for this is if it helps Claire. Then they just explain it with a throw-away line, future changes, Desmond was wrong,etc, etc.

Or maybe Desmond is a lying scoundrel, and saw a vision of himself getting off the plane.

Oh and also my favourite line of the finale - Sawyer calling Frank 'Kenny Rodgers'.

"Making it up as they go"
by Redfoot the Fence
May 30th, 2008
05:48:37 PM
It should be obvious to anyone with a quarter of a brain that at some point in Season 1, a master outline was completed and the series was pieced together from there. Did they know which characters were going to be prominent two or three years down the line? Of course not: the original plan was to kill Jack halfway through the pilot, for chrissakes! But to say, at this point, that the writers have been "making it up as they go along" is asinine. Lindelof was quoted somewhere as saying that the "Adam and Eve" bit in Season 1 was thrown in there as a sort of retro-proof that the series DID have a direction and a PLAN from the beginning...but really, is it THAT HARD TO BELIEVE that Damon Lindelof and JJ Abrams sat down for a few days and mapped out the major points of the series, while leaving plenty of room for creative freedom for the actors and writers?
Why would you want to read the spoilers?
by The Dude Abides
May 30th, 2008
05:52:08 PM
I'm asking out of sincerity and honest curiosity here, I'm not trolling. I just want to know why you would want to read a short synopsis for something that has been building up over an entire season, something you've become emotionally invested in? What satisfaction do you get from reading spoilers? And, if you're lostfan108, what satisfaction do you get out of being the one to spoil something? Other than to be the guy that says, "nah nah na nah nah, I knew it before you." Only those willing to discuss the nature of spoilage seriously need reply.
Why would you want to read the spoilers?
by The Dude Abides
May 30th, 2008
05:52:17 PM
I'm asking out of sincerity and honest curiosity here, I'm not trolling. I just want to know why you would want to read a short synopsis for something that has been building up over an entire season, something you've become emotionally invested in? What satisfaction do you get from reading spoilers? And, if you're lostfan108, what satisfaction do you get out of being the one to spoil something? Other than to be the guy that says, "nah nah na nah nah, I knew it before you." Only those willing to discuss the nature of spoilage seriously need reply.
Oh...Forgot about another great Locke line...
by Cheif Brody
May 30th, 2008
05:53:41 PM
JACK: "You threw a knife into the back of an innocent woman...and you led everyone into an ambush...and...you blew up..."

LOCKE: "Yeah?..Well...You put a gun to my head and pulled the trigger, Jack".

ZING!!! So glad he threw that in Mr. Hero's face. Classic.

Who else wanted Locke to just start gibbering
by samsquanch
May 30th, 2008
05:59:03 PM
questions at Alpert and the Others.

There were a lot of quickly tied-up loose ends that whipped past us in this ep... Like when Kate asked: "Is that it? we can leave the island?" Considering that for 4 seasons Ben and the Others have been doing everything in their considerable power to prevent just that from happening...

So Locke finally becomes the leader of the Others, a big switcheroo, even if we did see it coming, still a huge deal for the losties, and the show. If I were him, the first order of business would have been "what the FLYING FUCK is this place???" And so on. BUt nope, we still have to wait until next frigging year to find out anything more, even though Locke is standing right there, with the Others willing and ready to answer all his questions.

Love the show, but one little hint from Alpert might have been nice. Something tasty for us to chew on for the next 50 weeks.

Bunger...
by MachThree
May 30th, 2008
06:05:42 PM
The tunnel to the wheel was behind the closet. Ben put the metal in the closet and activated the machine knowing it would cause an explosion, blowing a hole in the closet to the tunnel.
Role-Play Elements & Red Herring Endings
by DeeJay
May 30th, 2008
06:06:01 PM
One of the strengths to "Lost" has been the thorough manner in which role-play game sensibilities (especially in relation to the abilities and alignment of each character) have been used. To that end, I almost think that alternate scenes and endings have been filmed for more than one purpose. First is what's been said announced about throwing fans off of the trail and being proactive about storyline leaks. The second could possibly be to follow the spirit of the "Endlessquest" book series, and have DVD options to watch season 4 with different storyline elements. This would go beyond the usual "alternate endings" features, and the writers and producers seem thorough enough to pull that off.
Re: Making It Up As They Go Along
by lord_zedd
May 30th, 2008
06:15:13 PM
anyone who is vehemently defending this show ("LOST DOES KNOW WHAT IT'S DOING! THE WRITERS ARE SO COOL! SHUT UP! HOW DARE YOU HAVE A NEGATIVE OPINION! YOU'D THINK THIS WAS A FREE WORLD OR SOMETHING! AHHHHHHHHH! OK LET'S GO BACK TO TALKING ABOUT KATE'S BOOBS") should take a step back and realize they are in love with a show that is now about a poorly computer generated island that can be steered to Idaho by turning a Donkey Wheel.
Kenny Rogers
by evildeadgeorge
May 30th, 2008
06:23:10 PM
Sawyer calling Frank "Kenny Rogers" was my fav line of the episode, and second only to calling Roger WorkMan "Skeletor" on my list of best Sawyerisms.
ok... whatever. I still like the show, but give me a break
by hamster factor
May 30th, 2008
06:24:04 PM
seriously. you guys are too defensive. I have no doubt they had some IDEAS in the beginning (and I'm sure "Adam and Eve" will pay off - I'm looking forward to it) but nothing even close to a "detailed outline". and if they did they long ago threw that out - probably at some point in s2 when they obviously started taking direction from ABC suits wanting to stretch out the story and keep the cash cow going for 8 years or some such. thank god they corrected from that course - otherwise I think the show would have been canceled by now.
The Dude Abides
by alex138
May 30th, 2008
06:25:14 PM
as a struggling spoiler addict i can sum it up in one word: impatience. People obsessed with spoilers are usually those who just can not wait to find out what happens next. I know thats why I seek them out.
re: spoilers
by hamster factor
May 30th, 2008
06:30:09 PM
after having successfully dodged the bullet of spoilers for Through the Looking Glass, I've learned it's worth it to wait - I honestly had no clue what was happening in that episode until the end, and that was definitely the way to see it
Dog food? How about...
by kuldan
May 30th, 2008
06:41:02 PM
Rabbit shit is in that frozen room? All that time travel testing scares the shit out of those rabbits...
Jacks Dad's Coffin now Lockes Coffin
by G100
May 30th, 2008
06:42:04 PM
Curious symmetry being played out as we know there was something very odd about what happened to the body of Jack Snr. So now Lockes body may follow the same way. Also there has been a continual stress being put on whether people died on or off the Island, so there may well be a big reason for that to be important.

The "wheel" (there were NO Donkeys OR Polar bears in that room. I'm sure we would have all saw them) operates something (fairly obviously) something BEHIND the wall that glowed as it activated so it's not the "wheel" that transports the Island it's the Mechanism that takes advantage of the negatively charged exotic matter and we don't know WHAT that is.

Ben has travelled to Tunisia before presumably via the "wheel" but not necessarily. He said as much to the Hotel receptionist and it's why he was a "valued" guest.

I find it revealing that we never QUITE heard exactly what happens to things shifted forward in time. Yes the bunny APPEARS to vanish for a brief period but what actually happens is... (rewind..)Was the Island shifted exactly as long as Ben was shifted in Time ? Seems logical but not sure.

BTW Good call Prof. Pop cult. I always said that Richard Alpert had a "piratey" Black Rock look about him and suspected he hailed from there but Widmore as the Captain who was a victim of a Mutiny. Nice ! I think that rings true.

What I'm wondering is how the "very bad things" occur. Purely Bad Leadership from Locke ? Can't see it myself. There must be some opposing force to spark the chaos. Perhaps Widmore, perhaps something else.

Not sure about Sun's target of Vengeance. Jack says he thinks she blames HIM. If "Bentham visited Sun and told her what Ben did to Keamy (though why would he?) she would surely blame Ben. But it was Widmore who sent Keamy so he could be blamed too. Sun is a wild card now I think.

Ashok0
by lord_zedd
May 30th, 2008
07:15:14 PM
Oh, yeah, that's much more preferable. I really want to see the island show up in Rome during the Baroque period. Or maybe in New York during the Harlem Renaissance so Sawyer and Juliet can dress up in period clothing and finally take their newfound romance to the next level by getting wasted at a speakeasy and groping each other in a back alley. Maybe while they're there, they'll help solve a mystery surrounding the opening of the Apollo theater (hint: Jack's dad was behind it)! Or, even better, they can go to Woodstock and smoke Dharma hash and Locke can FINALLY meet Jimi Hendrix. Or...how about...they can go to THE FUTURE, when Lost has been over for a few years and people who have unflattering opinions of it won't be burned at the stake because all of its overprotective fanbase have moved on to the next big goose chase (this time on NBC).
Why have the Others been hiding all season?
by Raymar
May 30th, 2008
07:18:07 PM
They took out the mercs out in a few moments! What were they so scared of?
WHAT'S GOING ON NEXT!!!!!
by drumking94
May 30th, 2008
07:48:56 PM
What the hell are they gonna do now. Go back to the island? and WTF? THE PILOT's COMING BACK? What the FUCK
WHAT'S GOING ON NEXT!!!!!
by drumking94
May 30th, 2008
07:48:59 PM
What the hell are they gonna do now. Go back to the island? and WTF? THE PILOT's COMING BACK? What the FUCK
If Locke is off the Island... then he moved it again, right?
by ReekPoodoo
May 30th, 2008
08:20:44 PM
If Ben can't go back to the Island (since he turned the frozen wheel to move the island and got teleported to the desert); then how did Locke leave the Island? Did he have to move it again and he got then teleported off it? ... Sun gets Widmore to send a second boat? ... humph ... No answers until 2009, I guess.
pointless nitpicking & abuse or intelligent criticism ?
by G100
May 30th, 2008
08:22:14 PM
I'm open to ideas that haven't been explored and things like the Charlie Vision which seem to have been errors (albiet hardly fucking show destroying) But when I hear people moan about how Lame the ending they THINK the show MIGHT have is..... (Puhhhlleeeeeessssee!!!) Or how Emerson has "Hammy" acting (yeah right! lol) then frankly I consign that level of thoughtfull input to those who simply revel in being contrarian for the sake of it.

You certainly don't NEED to like LOST but don't be surprised when those who do like it point out WHY they think it's currently the best thing on TV.

The Wire is finished. BSG is very good but not quite up there with LOST.

I'd also be more open to these "critiques" if they posited the better option. i.e. "LOST isn't as good as show-A because." (admittedly someone did try that but made the eccentric mistake of placing Prson Break as the better show ! (much hilarity ensued)). Or even how THEY would personaly replot the show and make the "better" choices.

Feel free to disagree as these are of course MY views but I prefer REASONS solid REASONS as to why this show isn't as good as so many clearly think it is. Nitpicking over every single line and plot detail no matter how trivial, particularly those things that are clearly THEORIES and SPECULATION doesn't cut it for me personally.

Rock Solid acting with a great unpredictable evolving story pleases me even if, as we see here, it will never please some.

hey nodey
by redfishbluefish
May 30th, 2008
08:33:21 PM
:)
Remember the Submarine people.
by G100
May 30th, 2008
08:35:49 PM
Exit and ingress were not ALWAYS so difficult and the others had the sub for a reason. The correct bearing to penetrate the temporal anomoly that surrounds the Island may have always been needed though.

Ben did shut things down for his own reasons for a while, that's all.

P.S. Faraday's dingy was inside the temporal zone and was "moved" with the Island or the Heli would probably have spotted it.

They lost communications when swan blew up
by G100
May 30th, 2008
08:41:08 PM
Well according to Ben they did. And it imploded as the failsafe simply released completely (as opposed to the Button which acted as a safety valve) all the harnessed electromagnetic energy which had been "bottled up" as it were for Dharma experimental use. Hence the purple sky was probably the temporal "zone" barrier reacting with all this energy.
How does Locke get off the island?
by vadakinX
May 30th, 2008
08:43:27 PM
We'll find out in the next 2 seasons, but does anyone have any theories?

We know from the S4 finale that Locke visited the 06, so he left the island...did Juliet, Sawyer etc travel with him? As "the new Ben" is Locke now an enemy of the Losties?

Locke can leave the island but Michael took the Others boat and Locke blew up the boat. Is Desmonds boat still around? I suppose Locke could have used that...which brings up another point...

I think it was during the Ben Flash Forward....didn't Ben tell Sayid that he used Desmonds boat to get off the island? We now know of course that Ben teleported through time and space and that's how he left...so Ben lied to Sayid.

Did Mr. Friendly use Desmonds boat to get off the island when he was contacting Michael?

Is Desmonds boat even still around...which, again, is another thing...if his boat is still around, why didn't the Losties just use that to transport people off the island once they had the course bearing needed from Faraday?

Anyways, great episode...I loved how Sayid killed the guy in the car...the guy was just saying "Eight Fifteen"...nice.

As for what everything means...I think that we can narrow the overall theories down to aliens or time travel from future humans though the sheer basic look of the Frozen Donkey Wheel and ancient writing doesn't rule out the possibility of an ancient civilisation like Atlantis.

Or maybe the island is the 13th colony of Kobol :P

Will the island ever be explained? Or maybe the real question is...should it? By the way, I want to throw a theory out there..."We have to go back!!!!!"

What if...and bear with me here...what if Jack doesn't just mean that they have to go back to the island...what if he means they have to go...BACK IN TIME??? Great Scott!!!!!!

What if they have to go back in time and stop whatever bad thing happens on the island in Season 5?

Just a theory...probably way off...but at least we now have an idea of what the final 2 seasons will be about.

S5 will be about the remaining people on the island after it moved and the three years up to the point where S4 ends, as well as the story of Jack and Ben trying to get the other O6 people to return to the island.

S6 will then be about getting back to the island, fixing whatever needs to be fixed and wrapping up the storylines.

Frankly, there is a part of me that would prefer S5 to be the last season, and then to wrap it up with a couple of TV movies, though it all depends on how much story there is to tell.

The first 4 seasons have been pretty much continuous, each episode being either a few hours or a day. Season 5 is going to follow a different structure, they have 3 years to fill in 30 hours (2 seasons) which makes me believe that the focus will switch to present day.

Instead of following the island in relative real time, we will follow the O6 in relative real time and flash back to the island at various points, which will fill in the three years.

Oh and Charlotte is Charles Widemores daughter, that he has while on the island...then he leaves for whatever reason, sticks her in an orphanage or something and moves on.

Was Charlotte conceived on the island? Past history suggests No, but maybe Charlotte was the only child to have been conceived and born there, albeit with the mother dying in childbirth.

In any case, that's my theory...Charlotte is Charles' daughter and Penny's half sister.

Follow up
by vadakinX
May 30th, 2008
08:44:57 PM
It just occurred to me...if I'm right and Charlotte is Widemores daughter...then maybe it won't be Penny that Ben kills, but her.
Oh and
by vadakinX
May 30th, 2008
08:47:22 PM
I meant to say Locke blew up the sub, not the boat
I think next season will just be them answering questions
by happybunni
May 30th, 2008
08:48:18 PM
Either that or we will get a new force trying to invade the island, but hopefully not. Hopefully the bad things that happen just involve Smokey, the others, the brain exploding fence, and the various stations. Where we can get answers slowly to everything. There is enough content there for two years worth.
Ageless Stranger and Gay Dude got off island without moving it
by Guy Who Got A Headache And Accidentally Saves The World
May 30th, 2008
09:08:25 PM
This isn't hard people, try thinking critically for once.
We need all you at Room 23
by edshrinker
May 30th, 2008
09:08:41 PM
Check it out if you've never been, c'mon back if you have. We'd like to see our Poll participation break some records. ANd if yo uheve suggestions for a poll - leave it in a comments section.

http://lostroom23.blogspot.com /

The guys in a Dharma plane over the ocean
by Napoleon Park
May 30th, 2008
09:10:50 PM
Pilot: "Okay, we're here, drop the food."

Bombadier: "There's nothing down there - no island!"

Navigator: "Look, these are the proper co-ordinates, this is where we're paid to drop the food, so just drop it and let's go home."

That four-toed statue foot...
by Prof. Pop-Cult
May 30th, 2008
09:29:54 PM
This theory has been around for years now: It's simply the remnant of a giant idol statue, probably of an anthromorph god (a humanoid animal god, like the kind that the ancient Egyptians worshipped). That is all.
For those looking for a Torrent
by edshrinker
May 30th, 2008
09:34:54 PM
from me - I apologize. I recorded to whole 3 hour finale in one big lump, and my converter had trouble handling the hugeness of the file - so I never got it trimmed down into a nice sized avi. By the time it was ready - there were 50 torrents up already so I just said screw it.

I do have a Mp4 created of Parts 1-3 of the Finale if someone would like it (500MB file). I'll post a link as soon as I put it up.

"Shape of things to come" still best episode ever!!!
by picardsucks
May 30th, 2008
09:46:19 PM
Watched it again today - JESUS!!!! What an episode!!!!
Time
by chimpjnr
May 30th, 2008
09:48:56 PM
Admittedly, I hadn't read through the entire talkback, or at least not those of the past few hours...but on the subject of flashbacks next season. Doesn't time move slower on the island? 3 years in the real world could be a lot less there, right? Would it really require 3 years worth of history?
LOST - There's No Place Like Home pts 1-3
by edshrinker
May 30th, 2008
09:58:53 PM
http://tinyurl.com/3p8omz

so who was Ben signaling with the mirror?
by RyanMurray
May 30th, 2008
10:16:03 PM
THATS RIGHT HE WAS SIGNALING GAIUS BALTAR
G100
by Thunderbolt Ross
May 30th, 2008
10:26:37 PM
Word
IMPLAUSIBILITIES
by Napoleon Park
May 30th, 2008
10:28:27 PM
When I heard Jacob wanted the Island moved I cringed, imagining a physical move like that awful issue of Marvel Team-Up in which super-villains kidnapped the island of Manhattan and then Hercules had to tow it back into place - and the artist drew it so it went back backwards.

Now we know the question is not "can the Island be moved", but "where did it go" (or "when did it go")?

Thankfully no physical towing of the Island like a big raft was involved - it teleported from one point in space/time to another. Now I was wondering, what if the wormhole technology allowing the Island to move from one spot to another was random and didn't differentiate between big jumps and little ones? What if instead of going twenty miles South or a year from Tuesday (or, quite literally, to next January), it made a much bigger leap? Here's what might happen.

1. It travels back in time to before the human race evolved. the people on the island are the only people on earth and all of Earths population is descended from them. That would explain out history of tribalism and warfare - always dividing into groups of us and them - our side and "the others".

2. Same jump to the pre-human past, a civilization develops on the island, people who leave settle other continents with civilizations technologically less advanced. Then, the next time the Island is moved and vanishes, the legends of Atlantis or Lemuria begin.

3. Same deal, the Island in the past is Eden and Adam & Eve really are them. they were given that nickname when they were found because it felt so right and natural because it really IS them. Fold in all the "being driven out" and wanting to return mythos that fits.

4.One more into the past alternative: being the first people on Earth, they must populate the world, but... all the pregnant women die and the human race never develops.

5. Onwards. The Island moves into the far flung future. Charlotte: "I'm sorry, Daniel, but I told you - not even if you were the last man on Earth." [Especially not while Sawyer's stil around.]

6. The Island timeshifts to a post-apocalyptic future in which mankind has perished in a nuclear war and everyone on the island dies of radiation poisoning from the tainted air.

7. The Island shifts in time to a future where global warming has melted the ice caps. It rematerializes in the same location, which is now 400 feet under water.

The next two don't involve mega-jumps, just a different way of looking at them.

8. The Island teleports in time but not physical space, and reappears in the exact coordinates where the Planet Earth, which is traveling through space, was located a year ago - in the icy vacuum of outer space.

9. The Island simply jumps one year into the future. The entire Island, including the submerged base extending down to the floor of the ocean. When it reappears it occupies the same space as the water that flowed in to fill the void when it disappeared. When the two masses of physical substance occupy the same space, a massive nuclear fission reaction occurs and the Island explodes, cracking the planet.

BOOOM!!! Lost...

Ashok0
by lord_zedd
May 30th, 2008
10:46:51 PM
That's because you're not listening. I was using hyperbole to convey my disappointment with the direction the show is taking. If you weren't so busy trying sever my head for having an opinion that differs from yours, you might have picked that up. Are you ready to shut your mouth so I can freely express myself without having to worry about an fascist asshole fanboy like you personally attacking me? Or will you keep roasting me as a heretic? Buzz the fuck off and let me be. Stop taking a show so personally. I'm sorry that it makes up most of your life right now.
Someone wanted to know
by edshrinker
May 30th, 2008
10:47:21 PM
why Widdy and Benjamin are playing this "game" with everyone's lives but their own. Why is it a given that they will not kill each other.

1. Both are connected to the Island

2. Both have used the Time Traveling Bunny Machine

3. As a result - they both need constants

4. They ARE each other's constant.

Just a guess.

thebizzle76
by CherryValance
May 30th, 2008
10:52:53 PM
http://tinyurl.com/69yehl
Will Sun
by BrightEyes
May 30th, 2008
10:53:48 PM
Become an enemy to the original losties and team up with Widmore or is she double crossing jim? I think she will become bad.
BrightEyes, do you mean Jim from Neighbours?
by J-Dizzle
May 31st, 2008
12:05:11 AM
Neiiiiggghhhbours, everybody needs good neiiiiggghhhbours... Crikey, Madge is pissed off! (And why won't Helen die???)
IS IT ME OR???????
by eoneon
May 31st, 2008
12:49:10 AM
every time Jack is on screen he's either crying or out of breath??? His character has jumped the shark since last season. Locke/Bentham pwns all
RIP John Locke
by J-Dizzle
May 31st, 2008
01:00:29 AM
You were the true caretaker of the island and its inhabitants (Richard knew it all along).
If Hurley jumped
by samsquanch
May 31st, 2008
01:34:55 AM
There would be no more Hurley. Sawyer is athletic enough to swim the fucking kilometer or so back to the island. Hurley would have been fish food. Don't hate the big guy for knowing he would have died, whereas Sawyer just goes for a 'dip'.
this is what I get for reading AICN drunk.
by samsquanch
May 31st, 2008
01:35:27 AM
goodnight, fuggers....
One of the bad things..
by Hellboy4Prez
May 31st, 2008
02:49:01 AM
I'm going
by BrightEyes
May 31st, 2008
02:52:13 AM
can't wait to ask Damon and Carlton my question which involves Ezra James Sharkington
the headline is an anagram
by Pancho Straight
May 31st, 2008
03:11:21 AM
If the article headline was on one of those display signs with the movable letters, I'd sneak in here at night and change it around so instead of ‘Jack!! I Said All Of Them!!’ it would read ‘I Said Jack Them All O!f !’.
When that Aaron kid grows up
by Pancho Straight
May 31st, 2008
03:12:28 AM
and the girls find out the real reason why they call him turniphead, he's going to be really popular.
You know what makes "Kenny Rogers" extra funny?
by The Selecter
May 31st, 2008
03:19:26 AM
The fact the Kenny Rogers doesn't even look like Kenny Rogers any more. I hope Lapidus returns.

Oh, and if you hop on over to the TV guide site, you can catch Michael whining again about being written off for the 2nd time. Good riddance.
Dead soldiers
by Napoleon Park
May 31st, 2008
03:33:32 AM
Just to be sure, I counted when i watched it again. okay, keamy originally had a team of five. One died from injuries after being dragged and tossed by Smokey. That left a team of four for this assault.

One got guerrilla attacked and choked with a wire. One got hit in the ankles and went down. One was shot in the neck and twitched - presumably electrical shock but it might have been a fast acting nerve toxin. And one poor sap happened to be right where Keamy kicked that grenade to. That left Keamy. jumped, beaten and stabbed by Sayid, but he was winning when Alpert shot him twice in the back. His body armor saved him but he had the breath knocked out of him. They really should have put one in his face but if he saved himself by playing dead while surrounded by enemies, that was pretty awesome

And amazingly he wasn't jumped from behind when when Benjamin took him out - he was facing Ben with his knife in his hand and the little bastard still beat him down with his baton, then stabbed him with his own knife.

Someone questioned him taking off his armor, but he thought showing his heart monitor would be his fail-safe. And the armor would not have protected him anyway - Ben took him down with blows to the head and a knife to the throat.

Locke asks him why he did it knowing that killing Keamy would doom everyone on the freighter and Ben delivers the line of the episode.

I change my vote. If we had a choice of what quote would be on this talkback for eight months, instead of "It's a place where miracles happen", I think I'd like just "So."

Dead soldiers II
by Napoleon Park
May 31st, 2008
03:40:04 AM
The tracking count on the Mercs leave a question: the soldier hit in the legs and taken down... killed or taken captive? The one hit in the neck with a dart - tased or poisoned, dead or captive? I don't know why the Others would take two of their attackers prisoner instead of killing them outright, but on this show the general rule seems to be that no ones dead unless you see them die, and we didn't see those two go lethal.

On the other hand, we say Jin on deck of the freighter just a few seconds before it went up in a ball of flame. And, oh yeah, he was on the chopper landing pad in a circle with a big X in it. As in "X marks the spot", as in target, as in ground zero. And someone's still going to reply "Of course Jin is alive" with absolutely no evidence offered to base that on.

Another favorite line
by Napoleon Park
May 31st, 2008
03:42:43 AM
this had a lot of great quotable lines, but I loved it when Farady gave Miles that "come over here" head nod and Miles asked old twitchy "Something wrong with your neck?"

As opposed to his usual head cocked to one side standard operating procedure? How could anyone tell?

Meaningless coincidence
by Napoleon Park
May 31st, 2008
03:48:08 AM
Danielle/Daniel.

Charlie/Cha rlotte.

People die and new characters inherit their names. This can't be deliberate or meaningful. Can it?

But when they parted company, it sounded exactly like Charlotte told Faraday "Goodbye, Danielle".

I half expect there's a blooper reel somewhere with her cracking up and laughing and saying "Do you want me to to that line over? I called Jeremy 'Danielle'." and the director saying "No, we have to keep moving and get these pages done. We can foley it in post."

eoneon
by Bob Loblaw Law Blog
May 31st, 2008
04:37:27 AM
While I agree that Jack does seem to have a lot "emotion" in his scenes (crying, lack of breath, etc.), his character certainly hasn't "jumped the shark."

In fact, the only thing that has "jumped the shark" is the ACTUAL phrase "jump the shark."

Now, unless Henry Winkler shows up in LOST (or anything else, really...) atop water skis whilst wearing in a leather jacket and shorts... let's all please agree to never discuss that God-forsaken, out-of-date catchphrase ever again.

The Frigate 3 start the very bad things to happen
by G100
May 31st, 2008
04:46:59 AM
I think that's where the trouble will start for Locke as Faraday (possibly), but DEFINITELY Miles and Charlotte have a secret agenda and perhaps instructions from Whidmore. So they might open a whole can of worms for the others and Locke.

Sawyer and Juliet and Rose and the remaining Losties might also cause some grief.

Napoleon Park...
by TheRealMoriarty
May 31st, 2008
05:11:26 AM
... I didn't watch the episode until tonight (my wife and I weren't available at the same time, and we only watch it together), so I didn't read any of the talkbacks until now.

Just wanted to say that you have entertained me mightily tonight. I hereby declare you the King Of The Season Ending Talkback.

Carry on.

Sorry Bob, I can't agree to that.
by Napoleon Park
May 31st, 2008
05:25:51 AM
As the sub-assistant co-moderator helper monkey of the Jump The Shark Yahoo! group

http://tinyurl.com/5t5 gds

I can't agree that just because a catch phrase falls into the common vernacular parlance that it becomes dated and falls into obsolescense. If you were really far out and groovy you'd know that but apparently you're not as fab and gear as your clever choice of name would suggest. I'm sure I don't need to remind you that Mr. Winkler himself appeared on an episode of Arrested Development, the critically acclaimed Fox sit-com from which you've derived your appellation, and gingerly traversed the beached aquatic carnivore. Many shows, from That '70s Show to The Simpsons, have made self-conscious references to Jumping The Shark - "Lost" branded it's shark with a Dharma logo on the fin.

I just clean up at the group on a volunteer basis and had nothing to do with coining the expression or defining its usage, nor did I profit from the sale when a popular television listings magazine purchased the rights to the phrase, it's related copyright and trademarked applications and the related web site. Tell ya what, you come up with something that sells for over a million bucks like the phrase "Jump The Shark" netted Jon Hein and then we'll put you on the committee to debate which slang terms have outlived their usefulness. Until then, stifle yourself, you dingbat.

As your newly crowned King...
by Napoleon Park
May 31st, 2008
05:31:27 AM
Jeebus, real Moriarty, that's awesome. Now I'm never get my ego into this hat.

As your newly coronated King, I feel it is my duty to deeply and humbly offer my abject apology to any and all people here I may have offended. so, Edshrinker, Brighteyes, as Benjamin said to Johnathan, "I'm truly sorry that I've made your life so difficult." And Bob, sorry about that dingbat crack, chief.

Huzzah
by Fineus Fog
May 31st, 2008
05:37:38 AM
thats was fucking great and nice new music from Giachinno - look out John Willians - "you old as fuck and about to get yo ass beat!!"
Emerson
by Mazzke
May 31st, 2008
05:49:46 AM
Is Emerson really that good of an actor? Don't get me wrong. I think he's extremely effective, but 75% of that is just that he's creepy looking guy with bug-eyes. As evidence of this, consider that he had a recurring role as a serial killer in The Practice, and played the character in the *exact same way*. I think everything that comes out of his mouth just inherently sounds creepy and duplicitous, because of his physical characteristics. Even his real-life interviews kinda do.

Of course, that doesn't really matter. Only that he's effective matters, and he's that in spades.
superfast swimming hurley
by Mr_X
May 31st, 2008
06:25:38 AM
manages to make it in the raft before anyone else. and out of his life jacket asap
superfast swimming hurley
by Mr_X
May 31st, 2008
06:25:41 AM
manages to make it in the raft before anyone else. and out of his life jacket asap
The Fat Guy
by Napoleon Park
May 31st, 2008
06:28:41 AM
I liked Hurley's disturbed, worried look when Frank said they needed to lighten the chopper load by a couple hundred pounds. Hey, when someone says "hey you, die for the good of your group", you kinda have to think about it first. Hurley never volunteered for this stuff.

It was a cheat showing him being the first one in the raft after the chopper crashed. I need the ladder to get out of a swimming pool. Hurley definitely would have needed help getting into that raft - probably a lot of help. But he wasn't the only one still sitting in the raft as it was being dragged ashore by the natives. What was he supposed to do, stand up in a moving raft and try to hop out? He could have lost his balance, fallen on someone, overturned the raft - and there were women and a baby on board. I don't know how long it takes Mr. Garcia to rest up between takes when they have him marching and running all over the place, but he has a lot more stamina and it a lot more active than I would be. Cut him so slack - he's obviously not cut out to be an action hero (even if he did have an action fugure in his likeness).

hurley always has a food packet of something or another in his h
by Mr_X
May 31st, 2008
06:36:47 AM
the only way i would see to get hurley more active would be to chase him with the numbers 4 8 15 16 23 42. he tends to move quite sharpish when in the presence of those
Three Endings???
by JTWoods
May 31st, 2008
06:47:19 AM
Desmond would have been cool in the coffin too, Sawyer would have been a WHAT THE FUCK? moment - but Locke was the obvious choice to be in the coffin. Made a video comparing the three endings to the three endings of the Clue movie. :) http://tinyurl.com/4nc5cc
Who is Jin Kwon's second killer?
by Napoleon Park
May 31st, 2008
06:55:41 AM
Who Killed Jin Kwon, (who is dead by the way. Dead.)

Sun-Hwa told her father that two people were responsible for Jin's death and he was one of them. How does that work?

Jin and Sun fell in love. Mr. Paik did not approve, so he offered Jin employment but gave him the nasty job of being an enforcer. Job stress turned Jin cold and alienated Sun. She cheated on him and planned to run away. He decided to come with her to California. Their plane crashed. So in that thread Jin's death leads back to Paik (though Sun herself has to shoulder a lot of the blame as well).

Charles Widmore wanted Benjamin Linus caught. He hired Martin Keamy and his group of mercenaries. Keamy crossed the line when he killed Ben's daughter Alexandra. Keamy rigged the freighter with explosives. Keamy confronted his target, Ben, and told him of the dead man's switch. Locke stood by and did nothing. Benjamin lost his temper and control and killed Keamy with callous disregard for the lives of anyone on the freighter, which included Jin. Kate Austen gave Sun the baby and promised to go get Jin, but Jack stopped her and the chopper left, abandoning Jin who just missed his ride out and died in a fireball when Keamy's bomb and ship exploded. Frank Lapidus ignored sun's entreaties to return for Jin (and if he had they would have all died in the explosion.)

Where does this line lead? Who is the second person responsible for Jin's death? Widmore? Keamy? Ben? Locke? Kate, Jack and Frank for failing to save him? Or Sun herself, without whom Jin would never have been aboard Flight 815?

We see Sun wrest control of her family business from her father, dishonoring him for his complicity in Jin's death. We see her approach Charles Widmore and claim they have "common interests". Does she blame Ben and wish to ally herself with Ben's enemy? Does she blame Widmore and wish to betray him? Does she blame Jack or Kate and hope to lure them back to the island? Did she blame Locke and have something to do regarding his death? Or does she blame herself and have some intricate scheme by which she hopes to redeem herself?

Anybody? Thoughts?

ONLY EIGHT MORE MONTHS!!!
by Napoleon Park
May 31st, 2008
06:56:48 AM
What, too soon?
Re: Who is Jin Kwon's second killer?
by JTWoods
May 31st, 2008
07:06:09 AM
I reckon it's Ben. Locke and Ben are the only ones who know how the bomb on the freighter was actually detonated - the direct cause of Jin's death. Sun's going to find out from Locke aka Bentham about how Ben blew them all up and didn't give a shit when he comes to visit her.
Farewell Martin Keamy...
by Darth Rosenberg
May 31st, 2008
07:09:42 AM
Martin was a good soldier, and a good man. He was one of us. He was a man who loved the outdoors... and killing, and as a mercenary he explored the jungles of The Island, from The Beach to New Otherton and... up to... The Orchid. He died, like so many young men of his generation, he died before his time. In your wisdom, Lord, you took him, as you took so many bright flowering young men at Khe Sanh, at Langdok, at Hill 364. These young men gave their lives. And so would Martin. Martin, who loved killing people for money. And so, Martin Christopher Keamy, in accordance with what we think your dying wishes might well have been, we commit your final mortal remains to the cold concrete floor of The Orchid, which you loved so well. Good night, sweet prince.
http://octagonglobalrecruiting.c om/
by Napoleon Park
May 31st, 2008
07:11:12 AM
Not a lot happening at the Octagon Global Recruiting web site. The commercial that aired during Lost plays and they ask for your e-mail address. I hope this gets posted to YouTube or some other place where it can be watched in slow motion - that list of job descriptions they're looking for unpaid volunteers for goes by really fast, but it seems that most or all of them relate to some character on Lost (physicist = Faraday, ex-military = Keamy, etc.)
The music is very original
by Napoleon Park
May 31st, 2008
07:33:38 AM
Seriously, the scoring (other than the use of preexisting songs) is quite unique and rarely derivative of anything you've heard before. Oh, maybe like three piano notes that remind me of Kate Bush's "this woman's work" or tiny phrases that make me think "this is the James Bond moment" or "this is the Twin Peaks moment", but nothing more.

Speaking of, someone asked why Claire's Aussie accent dropped out and several people patiently explained that it wasn't really Claire/ghost Claire, it was Kate DREAMING about Claire. In that same dream sequence, did anyone think the backwards-whispering phone call was a Twin peaks homage? (Agent Cooper also heard backwards talking in his dreams.)

Less likely, did anyone think Kate suddenly awakening from her dream, springing up in bed and gasping was a deliberate "Medium" homage? Ehh, probably not. But I do think the Twin Peaks reference was on purpose.

Polar bears and the Black Rock crew
by Prof. Pop-Cult
May 31st, 2008
07:42:56 AM
I don't think the show will ever tell us directly what the polar bears were for. But they have given us enough clues for us the viewer to figure out the most likely reason: That the DHARMA Initiative trained them to turn the frozen donkey wheel whenever they needed to move the island, for whatever reason. As far as I'm concerned, this matter is resolved, and I predict the show won't ever address this (the polar bears) again. There won't be any characters who will explain to another character what the polar bears were for.

I think the show will take a similar stance regarding whether Richard and Abbadon were part of the original Black Rock crew, and Widmore being its captain. The show won't ever directly reveal this to us -- instead, more and more clues will be added which merely strongly suggest this. So there will never be a scene where Widmore says to Richard: "You mutinied against me when I was captain of the Black Rock!" Instead, Widmore will probably say something that is slightly ambiguous: "I was the one who found the island FIRST! The island is mine!"

So why won't Darlton reveal these things without any ambiguity? Well, I think it's because the ambiguity helps to add to the mysteries in thow. But, most importantly, let's face it: These revelations are pretty hokey -- I mean, polar bears that turn a wheel which sends an island forward into time? Immortal sea-faring pirates from hundreds of years in the past? C'mon.

The other man responsible for Jin's death
by alex138
May 31st, 2008
07:46:07 AM
I thought it was Jack? After all his 'Live together, die alone' bullshit he refused to wait for or go back for Jin (although admittedly, it was the logical choice). And in the funeral parlor Jack told Ben that Sun blames him for Jin's death.
During the scene
by Napoleon Park
May 31st, 2008
07:50:01 AM
when the chopper took off from the island and flew out over the mountains, did anyone else have the theme from M*A*S*H playing in the back of their heads?
so Charlotte is the fifth Cylon?
by Maniaq
May 31st, 2008
07:51:34 AM
just a theory about polar bears and donkey wheels...

I'm never letting "The Incident" go until I get some explanation dammit! Here's my NEW version for how it might have gone:

Dharma was using polar bears for "stupid experiments" that had nothing to do with moving the island. They knew there was "some" powerful EM force that they probably discovered after building Orchid station (maybe not) that they were able to harness by building the REAL Orchid station with the bunny shower stall next to it - they possibly didn't dare try to get too close to it because their occupational health and safetly officer wouldn't allow it (ok stay with me!)

One day they try doing the bunny rabbit experiment with one of the polar bears - only it's the eighties and not many people know about metal in microwaves just yet so they let the bear go into the shower with its metal manacles or dog collar or whatever, and
BOOM!!

They blow a hole in the frickin wall! Chaos ensues as a very fucking pissed off polar bear starts to freak and makes the hole even bigger and CLIMBS THROUGH - before anyone even knows what's going on, it's found the frozen donkey wheel and has already started turning it...

INSTANT INCIDENT - the island moves - bad shit starts to happen.

But it's ok because they got Apple ]['s that they can punch in some numbers into every 108 minutes and keep shit under control why they try to figure shit out - oh and they send out a memo: "after you rebuild that golden shower, make sure you keep your stinking metal objects OUT of it!"

Polar bear winds up on the set of Star Wars...

They make another video...

New job opening - Apple ][ operator - rotating shifts...

waddayathink - am I close?

couple more points. Michael wasn't exactly "wasted" this season - if nothing else, he introduced us to the whole "island won't let you die" phenomenon. I think he's got a point about the Brothers getting screwed on this show, tho - the Six get big settlements with Golden plane tickets and all that, while his kid gets to not tell anyone who he is or what happened to him and live in the ghetto and not even have someone to pay for his therapy? and now it looks like he ain't getting his 3.2mil either...

Also, about Charlotte. This is paper thin, but could she be Ben's REAL daughter?? We all know he stole Alex from Rousseau but I never got the WHY part? What if the reason is the same reason he got obsessed about the birthrate on the island - because he had a daughter once (maybe twins, knowing how much these guys like Star Wars) but he Lost or had her taken away from him? Holy Star Wars parallels Batman!

Ben to Locke:

"Richard never told you about your father, did he?"
"He told me enough to get the job done"
"No John - *I* am your father..."

Twin Peaks reference...
by theseventhshore
May 31st, 2008
07:54:10 AM
LOST has had more than a few...and I LOVE Peaks...but I find The Prisoner nods far more interesting =) And as for the fellow above who's desperate for a Darma-drop theory - I think it has to do with the angle of entry on the wormhole (sounds almost erotic, doesn't it?). Those drops could be coming from the 70's...but landing in '04. Discuss.
Darth Rosenberg
by Maniaq
May 31st, 2008
07:56:09 AM
very smirkworthy... dude =)
Where the food drops came from...
by Prof. Pop-Cult
May 31st, 2008
07:56:39 AM
They came from the past. Remember, the island time zone is effed up.

Maybe it goes like this: Back in the 1970s, a cargo plane was assigned to fly over a certain spot over the ocean. But there is no island -- just heavy cloud cover. The plane's crew was paid to air drop palettes of food over a period of 14 days (this is just a number I'm throwing in as an example) -- that's one palette a day, for two weeks.

But because space-time for the island is goofed up, each of these airdrops has been arriving individually at a rate of one palette every six months.

Based on what we've seen so far on the show with regards the goofed up nature of space-time, I would argue that this is most likely where the food came from -- it had already been dropped sometime in the past, but takes a long time to actually descend to the island. (And if this is not actually what Darlton have figured out yet, they can borrow my theory here to finally explain this. :) )

Hint that the food drops are from the past...
by Prof. Pop-Cult
May 31st, 2008
08:03:39 AM
Remember: earlier this season, the freighter fired a rocket towards Farraday's location on the island. But the rocket showed up late.
time travel is so 1996...
by Maniaq
May 31st, 2008
08:07:11 AM
does the doctor who washes up dead on the shore BEFORE he gets his throat slit count as "physical" time travel?
Napoleon
by Keeper Of Chimps
May 31st, 2008
08:27:25 AM
I think Sun must blame Jack. Why else would she be seeking out Charles Widmore? Since she wanted him dead a few months ago, she should probably be more understanding!
The difference between the doctor and the rocket...
by Prof. Pop-Cult
May 31st, 2008
08:27:33 AM
The only explanation (and this is a gimme) is that the time disparity between the island and the outside world is not consistent. It's not a constant, so to speak. Things sent to the island may show up late -- or early. I think what is important is literally WHEN an object (a rocket, airdrop, plane crashing, dead body) is sent towards the island. Like, if you launched a dropped food onto the island on a Monday at sunset, it will land on the island months earlier than if you dropped the food onto the island on a Thursday morning. (Also the time of year, and the year itself, could be additional factors that affect the differences between the island and outside world time. The DHARMA Initiative might have been also trying to chart out the schedule of this space-time anomaly.) Lame explanation, I know, but frankly it's the best one I can come up with to explain the inconsistencies we've seen so far.
Jack! I said all of them!
by zooch
May 31st, 2008
10:37:46 AM
Hurley and Sayid should be easily convinced to go back. Sun and Kate will be tough. Kate because she has Aaron and ghost-Claire warned her not to go (but Ghost-Charlie told Hurley different, ghostly mixed signals?). Kate might be convinced to go back for Sawyer. Sun seeked out Widmore because Ben is the other one responsible for Jin's death because he killed Keamy which set off the bomb. I predict she'll be getting a visit from ghost-Jin to convince her.
THis shit so mindblowingly amazing but...
by picardsucks
May 31st, 2008
10:45:03 AM
Please writers It's obvious one or more of you have scene and are influenced by the wonderful "Sympathy for Lady Vengeance" DO NOT TRY TO MAKE SUN INTO THAT OR A SIMILAR CHARACTER IT WILL BE CORNEY
Napoleon...Hurley The First Rafter!
by Cheif Brody
May 31st, 2008
10:49:04 AM
Yes...It would have taken a large dude a LONG time to get on that raft....especially to be the FIRST on the raft...without help from someone pulling him aboard.

But...you are forgetting something...Hurley's cursed LUCK! He didn't win all that $$$ for no reason. He pays for it by being one lucky motherfucker. From surviving plane crashes...helicopter crashes...horse shoes...to landing smack on the side of a rescue pontoon raft. I think Hurley's luck played a huge part...

They could have easily shot it so that he was the LAST one dragged aboard the raft by ALL the O-6...but they reserved that honor for Desmond...so he and Jack could kiss...(finally).

Keeper of Chimps! Sun's motivation...
by Cheif Brody
May 31st, 2008
11:07:34 AM
Sun's after Jack?...for Jin's death?...Why seek out Chucky Widmore to dispatch a suicidal spinal surgeon? No.

Even if Jin begins paying visits to Sun off island...and tells her Jack should have come back for him...I still don't think Sun would have enough anger to hold it against Jack...I mean...had they turned around...Sun and her unborn baby would have been blown to smithereens...along with the rest of the O-6. She understands that...demonstrated by her somewhat serene appearance in front of Jin's grave with Hurley.

But...I have a feeling once the bad shit begins happening on the island....and Locke can't control it...or save his people...he leaps off it to become Jeremy Bentham and try to get the O-6's help to come back...He probably let Sun in on Ben's selfish behavior in the Orchid...by killing Keamy...he killed Jin. I think Sun wants Ben dead...not Jack...that's what they have in common...but perhaps she finds out that Ben & Chuck can't kill each other. So, she gives Chuck her card in case he needs her help.

BTW...I'm in the camp that Jin is NOT really dead...that at the last second...he ran and dove off that freighter...just like he did from Michael's raft before IT blew up....however...

If Farraday and the people on the Zodiac transported with the island...and the island freakin disappeared...that leaves anyone in the water pretty screwed. So...I haven't figured out HOW Jin survived...but...I'm not convinced he's dead...yet.

Jin.....
by Chest_Rockwell
May 31st, 2008
11:08:02 AM
The one flashback/forward with Jin this year was the one where he's buying the stuffed panda. I think if you rewatch that episode, you'll see that there's no guarantee that HIS part is not a flashBACK. He COULD be dead, and that was simply a flashback to something he did 2 months after he and Sun were married, before they even got on the plane. The way they spliced it in, makes you THINK it's a flashforward, but there's no real way to tell.
changing the shows format
by zooch
May 31st, 2008
11:11:31 AM
If they go with the format of showing the O6 trying to get back on the island while flashing back to the island to show what happened after the island was moved, wouldn't that mean a whole lot of "non-centric" type episodes? If they are going to bring this show to a conclusion won't they have to eventually give up flashes altogether?
Temporary Move?
by Cheif Brody
May 31st, 2008
11:20:34 AM
Hey...after I just typed that Jin is pretty screwed because the island moved if he survived the freighter explosion/sinking...What if "move" the island is a relative term...what if spinning the frozen donkey wheel only temporarily FULLY cloaks the island from the outside world? So...it only "appears" to have moved?

I mean...we know the island is already partially protected...partially cloaked from the outside world...so that, as Ben said..."Not even God can see it"...but that didn't stop people from landing on it once they knew the coordinates. What if the FDW makes it completely invisible for, say, 108 minutes and then it simply reappears?

Makes more sense than it magically ending up in the Antartic somewhere.

Zooch...The Show's Format...
by Cheif Brody
May 31st, 2008
11:38:17 AM
You bring up an interesting point. What about the FB/FF structure?

I think what will happen is...when they are focused on the island...we'll see flashbacks...Like Sawyer flashing back to The Tampa Job. Locke flashing back to what happened after his talk with Abbadon. Juliette flashing back on island to what happened after she saw Goodwin murdered. While I think the O-6 will be a combination of FB/FF's...if the episode starts in 2007/2008...they may flash back to shit that happened to them in 2005/2006...like Jeremy Bentham visiting them...and if the episode starts in 2004/2005...it may flash forward to 2007/2008..like the O-6 all trying to reunite to go back to the island.

But...it will be hard to follow!! Without visual clues as to what year it is...(I totally missed Jack's Razor cell phone from "Through the Looking Glass" as a clue we were looking at Jack in the future.)...For instance...this season's premiere...Hurley running from the cops...Yes...it was in the future...but it wasn't 2007/2008...it was more like 2005/2006. (You can check Lostpedia or Room 23 for a timeline of when all these flash forwards are happening)...But you are absolutely right...the format will change.

We are use to the island as a stable date source...if you're on the island...it's late 2004...at least you always had THAT as a reference point. But whenever they show the O-6 off island...we can't assume they are also in late 2004...or in 2008. It's gonna get pretty confusing...as we no longer have our...constant.

The Dude From Mythbusters Weighs In...
by Cheif Brody
May 31st, 2008
11:56:16 AM
Dark UFO had a few links over to Popular Mechanics...with actual specialists nit-picking the shit out of the LOST finale (all in good fun, naturally...it IS just a TV show)...but they DO offer some interesting theories as to what it all means...from the island moving...to time travel...This link takes you to "Mythbuster" Adam Savage trying to defuse that whole C-4 nightmare!

http://tinyurl.com/3mzm8r

Make No Mistake
by Steve Young
May 31st, 2008
12:04:53 PM
The island is the bunny.
Oh boy...Wish I hadn't read this part!
by Cheif Brody
May 31st, 2008
12:25:25 PM
A quote from Darlton from one of those Popular Mechanics articles explaining the science of LOST...For those of you hoping LOST's mysteries are grounded in hard science...this may piss you off:

But text books can be left on the cutting room floor of a show that ultimately abides by "Jurassic Park rules," because it does, after all, take place on an island full of out-of-place creatures. "The science needs to be right enough that we create a sense of believability to the storytelling," Cuse says. "But we're always trying to skirt that line between the two possible explanations—the scientific one or a mythical and magical one—and we are purposefully ambiguous about which one might be correct."

"Hopefully it won't feel like it's a copout when the show does answer that question," Lindelof adds, "because we never promised a show that was based entirely and grounded in science."

There's that confirmation that not everything will stick to easily explainable hard scientific facts. I had a feeling the writers weren't going to be able to resist exploring the "fantasy" elements of LOST...science be damned.

Oh well...get ready for The Smoke Monster to get explained away as a mischeivious "Island Fairy". WEEEEEEEE!!!

Speaking of which...Every time is see a promo for Fox's "FRINGE"...and I see that plane crashing stuff...with "from the co-creator of LOST J.J. Abrams"...and then I see Abbadon delivering very, very "Abbadon" lines...I'm like...what the fuck J.J....are you some kinda one trick fuckin pony? Something weird happens on a fuckin plane...and it has a larger effect on the entire world?!! Gee...Thought I was already watching that happen on LOST!! Fer christ sake, dude...at least use different ACTORS in your own rip off!! Is the talent pool THAT small in Hollywood? Hey...maybe Michael Emerson can come on and play a villain called Menijiman Binus?!!

Why do I rant so hard? Cuz I wanted LOST to be able to stay more on the Fact side of the Sci-Fi scale...not the Fiction side. It looks like this FRINGE show will be geared solely to the Fantasy/Sci-Fi genre.

Great...now we get TWO sci-fi mash ups. I wish J.J. would focus solely on LOST while we get ready to wrap this thing up...instead of further clouding the gene pool with shit I don't have time to get committed to because I'm so wrapped up in LOST! AAAARRRRGGGHHH!!

Bose-Einstein Condensate
by tatoosh
May 31st, 2008
12:34:23 PM
This is the key to understanding the nature of the island. Read the Wikipedia on this, and realize that the Dharma initiative was there to experiment on the collection of BEC material inside the island. The octagon or umbrella shape of the Dharma logo represents the shape of a BEC reaction. From an American Institute of Physics article: Never seen before, these bizarre BEC excitations sometimes open up like an umbrella. Two of the excitations can collide and form a spherical shell (the vortex rings taking up the position of constant latitudes). Two such rings, circulating in opposite directions, will co-exist for a while, but after some period of pushing and pulling, they can annihilate each other as if they had been a particle-antiparticle pair. Also, keep in mind, BEC fluid is an extremely low temperature fluid, which is why the wheel room was frozen.
NAP - congrats
by rbrog77
May 31st, 2008
12:37:52 PM
Just reading through the last 20+ hours of posts and saw that you were crowned by Herc himself as king, so I wanted to congratulate you and bow as your humble servant.

One request

With great power comes great responsibility

Don't screw up...like I think Locke will.

;->

RE:Who is Jin Kwon's second killer?
by rbrog77
May 31st, 2008
12:41:52 PM
At the current moment I'm going with Widdy. I think Sun was being coy and is setting him up for a long con.
That was terribly written
by EjkoUSC
May 31st, 2008
01:14:24 PM
Just stick to the basics sir: When its on and what channel.
slkboxrman
by clockpolitiks
May 31st, 2008
01:14:56 PM
Yea, when Ben just said "so?" to blowing up the boat, my jaw dropped. Best line of the finale for sure. Not sure why. I think it was just too badass for my puny brain to comprehend.
RB
by edshrinker
May 31st, 2008
01:19:39 PM
Matt Fox said in an interview - then Dr Jack said it over Locke's coffin - Sun holds him responsible for Jin's death. You know from part one that her dad is the other one. Not sure why this is in question.

I think it was Brody above that mentioned it would be hard to believe she would want Jack dead. I agree. But it is never said she does. It simply means she is holding a grudge, anger, towards Jack and Daddy Paik. She is getting even with dad by taking away what HE loves the most - his company. Not sure if she intends on getting back at Jack or not. My guess is...not. She just wants nothing to do with him.

As far as the trip to London for that little encounter with Widdy - I like the idea this is a con. She might not be ready to give up on Jin. If Ben had a talk with her (considering they are looking at Locke in a coffin and the thinking is...maybe the island can change his current condition), I think he could manipulate her into helping find the island with the idea she could have Jin back. The island can do some amazing things - I think he could sell Sun on that.

So - in saying what she did (to Widdy) about those that are off the island that not many know about - I am quite sure she is playing right into his wheelhouse - IOW, I can help you find Desmond...and in turn your daughter. It is possible (possible) Sun has been turned to the dark side with the trauma of the events of the rescue. Watching her hubby die, not risking the helicopter to rescue him, knowing dad is responsible for the ride on Oceanic in the 1st place...some have been turned to evil by less. Sun might just be on the other team now and could be season 5's foil in the Des/Pen happy ending. How dare they (right in front of her still grieving face, no less) reunite and find happiness when all of hers was ripped from her? I would hate to think of Sun having thoughts like that. But she is human, and she is a character in a story. It could make for an interesting new angle to have Sun working against our gang instead of with them.

As always - opinions are like assholes and I could be off base. Kinda hope I am. I like Sun's character and would find it hard to see her as a villian. But it could be interesting. And as we see over and over on Lost...there is always time for redemption.

Why Time Travel is Risky...
by micturatingbenjamin
May 31st, 2008
01:20:10 PM
The Earth is not stationary. If you move through time but not space at the same time, you could find yourself hovering in what would be for you deep space, far, far away from Planet Earth.

The earth spins on its axis and rotates around the sun. If I jump back in time but not position five minutes, I may be on the planet still, but miles and miles and miles away.

I called this back a few months ago, and I guess I was right.

Brody and Kevlar...
by micturatingbenjamin
May 31st, 2008
01:26:56 PM
As I understand it, once Kevlar's taken an impact, being ceramic, it shatters. Flak jackets are metal plates, so you can re-use them without restocking. Like if you drop a motorcycle helmet, it busts the Kev and makes it useless. I'm no cop or nothing, just what I thought was the deal with Kevlar.
Brody
by edshrinker
May 31st, 2008
01:31:55 PM
Yesterday in Room 23 I posted (thanks to Gotilk) the Pop Mechanics article by Michio Kaku about Lost and with it the links to the Mythbusters and other PM stuff regarding Lost. I did not realize they had been so involved with the science of the show. I knew they had a few articles occasionally - but wow...they have some real fans at that Mag. Very cool.

Anyway - the mythbusters stuff was cool, but I have always been a HUGE fan of Kaku's stuff. His appearances on C2C are some of the best radio I have heard. Anyway - he sounds like a fan and it is always great to hear someone waaaay smarter than me put the pieces together like that. Am I wishing there was more science over magic? Yes. But I can live with anything Darlton decides. They really decided on the literal "frozen wheel" and with it a greater leaning on the mystical over the scientific. Little disappointed I guess - but at the same time I have an open mind and trust the mythical stuff will sold so well with great writing (Buffy/Angel anyone?) that I won't mind eventually.

Ender!
by edshrinker
May 31st, 2008
01:38:57 PM
Good to see you man.

Is technology and toys still working as the grand distraction? Or have you jumped back on the horse? Not the "old" horse mind you...new better, faster horsies. :>}

Charlotte Staples Lewis: Shades = Carpeting. Definately. And I bet that thing you speak of is not only firey but outgrown and wild...like a wildfire is happening south of the border.

That was crude. Fishy - please don't throw one of your Fishbiscuits at me.

walts afro
by Mr_X
May 31st, 2008
01:48:50 PM
adds at least two inches to his head.
id bang nadia
by Mr_X
May 31st, 2008
01:51:17 PM
she's quite lovely and not as slutty as the other losties. id have her obviously before she dies. even then i wouldnt be that fussy.
Ah - I see Napoleon asked the question
by edshrinker
May 31st, 2008
01:58:15 PM
But see Napoleon, I am not going to nit pick that you didn't pick up that Jack and Mr Paik are the 2 Sun holds responsible for Jin's death. Upon rewatch you will pick it up during the coffin scene. Your long post postulating on who the 2nd one could be, was well-written and gave great examples of why others could be considered. Except that - the discussion is moot because we know who the 2 people are. Wow, I just can't believe you made an actual mistake. I know I'm the one always making it so easy for you by my awful, incoherent posts so it can't be easy to hear this from me of ALL people. My sympathies. Carry on.
Speaking of Twin Peaks
by barfydog
May 31st, 2008
01:59:46 PM
Joost has all 30 episodes online. (Was there a pilot making it 31 episodes?) I started watching in bed this morning and didn't have to get up to go to the next episode, they just continued. Kinda' cool. Fun to watch. Love the snapping finger, one bass and one horn music.
Give Locke Something!
by PennyB
May 31st, 2008
02:02:48 PM
Locke is probably my favorite on the show--most complex. He's had a miserable life, though, and forgive me for being a romantic (eek!), but I'd love to see him get SOME comfort or resolution before he ends up in the coffin.
Greg Bears Moving Mars
by G100
May 31st, 2008
02:12:48 PM
Read that if you want speculative, plausable science for moving large objects. Like a planet for example never mind an Island.

As for the idea that we won't be able to build our own smoke monster because they MIGHT, just might, not be completely grounded in fact.... It'a a hard blow but I'll have to live with it.

This is science-fiction it's not reality TV. They have ALREADY flirted with stuff like Miles the Ghostbuster and Clairs Psychic but as long as they give me something that doesn't feel like a cheap throwaway explanation I can live with some inherent implausablity in a sci-fi show.

King of the TB?
by edshrinker
May 31st, 2008
02:36:15 PM
Wow Napoleon. I just saw that. Congrats. No words truer spoken then the ones regarding your ego. That being said - I sincerely do give you props...for pleasing Moriarty. And no worries - You have never made my life difficult. It takes a lot more than internet blather to accomplish that feat.

(Cue the clapping coconut shells in the background)

But - who made you King? I didn't vote for you. Just because some watery tart throws a sword at you is no basis for government. I thought we were an autonomist commune? Now we see the violence inherited in the system. Help Help, I'm being repressed!

Some moistened bint throwing a scimtar
by G100
May 31st, 2008
02:46:44 PM
Is no basis for a system of Government.
Kevin Durand
by vmj19
May 31st, 2008
03:13:31 PM
3:10 to Yuma and now this? Beware being stereotyped as Man Stabbed in Throat.
I couldn't POSSIBLY read this entire talkback, Thirr...
by Half-Baked-Goggle-Box-Do-Gooder
May 31st, 2008
03:34:21 PM
...but you know..... (Little shout-out to Hedley Lamarr there.) Anyway, forgive me if this idea has been floated somewhere else in the hyperventilating universe of "LOST" fanatics, but........ Does anybody else think that, quite possibly (as I have suspected for about two years now), that Locke, Charlotte, Walt, Christian, What's-His-Name that interviewed the young Locke and several other characters are all natives of the island, and some just don't know it? They've gone out into the world, sometimes of their own volition, sometimes not, and sometimes took a really roundabout way of getting back. Any ideas Jus' doin' my part to get this bitch up to 15,000 posts.
Sorry....
by Half-Baked-Goggle-Box-Do-Gooder
May 31st, 2008
03:40:57 PM
Meant, "Walt's MOM". A mysterious death AND it's related to Australia. Could be. With this show, nothing is off the table....
That too G100
by edshrinker
May 31st, 2008
03:42:13 PM
There's some lovely filth down here.

We could go on about the bunny attack (with big, nasty teeth)considering the Time Traveling Bunny 15 in the finale...I believe I see brother Maynard with the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch right over there reading from the Book of Armaments.

(And the Lord did grin)

First thou shalt remove thy holy pin. Then shalt thou countest to 3.

No more, no less.

3 shall be the number of the counting...and the number of the counting shall be 3.

4 shalt thou not count, neither count thee 2 - lest thou proceedeth to 3.

FIVE is RIGHT OUT

Once the number 3 be reached thou shalt lobbest thou thy holy hand grenade of Antioch towards thy fooooeee...

Who being naughty in Thy sight

Shall snuff it.

Must be a king. He isn't covered in shit.
by G100
May 31st, 2008
03:54:33 PM
To bring it back round to the King of the Talkbakcs.

Quoting Python, hehe, we are living up to a Geek stereotype. SO BE IT! (Draws sword and prepares to face the black knight)

Rewatched Grail the other night funnily enough. Age shall not sully it nor time make weary.

7 polls! Wow Pa!!
by edshrinker
May 31st, 2008
03:54:57 PM
Got to get over there. Barfy had a great for a poll...some ideas have been coming in from the request I made a few days ago. I'll wait for a few of these to expire though. I don't want to clutter. I do that enough with my own ramblings.

Walt's Mom - a casualty of the island manipulating events to its will. I like it. If it can prevent suicide, it certainly can cause a disease, 1/2 Baked. Good theory.

As for "another life, brutha" - that maybe these folks lived on this island, had another life, but don't recall it...that might be a tough one to sell. Course you never could have convinced me there was a literal "Frozen Donkey Wheel" either. I think you are right that there is an underlying connection most are not aware of....but to actually have lived there before...well you never know.

Well the pick an object spoke of reincarnation
by G100
May 31st, 2008
04:00:51 PM
When Richard Alpert presented the objects to young Locke and asked "which one is yours" that seemed to be leaning towards the whole reincarnation thing. There may be a different explanation of course but it certainly seemed that way.
The coffin might be shorter because Locke loses his legs
by RyanMurray
May 31st, 2008
04:18:07 PM
NEWS AT ELEVEN!

And by eleven, I mean Season 5.
MicturatingBen & Eddy
by Cheif Brody
May 31st, 2008
05:06:07 PM
Mic...STILL, Keamy's Kevlar would have been useless...where he was already SHOT...but he still had a ton of protection on his torso. I find it hard to believe a merc like himself would strip off what little protection remained. Too bad he forgot about neck kevlar! I also think his little "chat" with Locke was way out of character...I think he would have killed Locke in a second after John stepped out into the light suddenly....with only his bare hands. Locke shouldn't have gotten 2 words out. But...I think Keamy knew the endgame was nigh...that the helicopter was gone...so all he could really do now was face off with Ben and kill him...mano y mano...even tho Widdy requested him alive. But Keamy really went out like a lil bitch, IMO. Which saddens me.

Eddie...Yes...I'm gonna have to start bracing myself for the sci-fi aspects to take over the show...but there are a few "shark-jumping" liberties I'm afraid the writer's may force themselves to take in the next 2 seasons...that may make it tough for me to enjoy the show any longer. Which will piss me off to no end after investing 4 years of my life to LOST thus far. I pray they regroup and start back down the "reasonably plausible" path...But a show that started so grounded in character and believeability...with a lil mysterious "magical" elements mixed in...doing a complete 180 degree turn to all sci-fi fantasy mumbo jumbo is going to piss a lot of core fans off. I did NOT sign up for "Stargate:SG1" when I started watching LOST...It sucked me in by how fantastic this island was to these poor stranded people. If they are going to start explaining the exact whats and hows of why it's so fantastic ("wormholes", "time travelling", etc). I may get dicey for the core fans.

I dunno...kinda how I felt about the "crystal skulls" Indy is chasin after having "alien origins"...I don't mind the "wrath of God" stuff...but let's keep aliens out of it, please!!

But LOST has done nothing too far out to lose me yet...but I fear the future, edshrinker....I fear the future.

Coffin NONSENSE!!
by Cheif Brody
May 31st, 2008
05:17:18 PM
Jesus Criminy Christ on a fudge sickle!!!

The coffin is NORMAL SIZE, people! Yes...it was probably a "small adult" size...a prop snafu at best...but it would still fit a normal size adult person. When you look at a coffin from above...your spacial reference is off kilter.

So...let's just drop it already...Locke's legs are intact in the coffin! That's not even the question!!

The question is...why does Ben want to bring a deceased Locke back to the island? "Weekend at Bentham's" style? Even if he IS legless...who the fuck cares?

edshrinker......
by Half-Baked-Goggle-Box-Do-Gooder
May 31st, 2008
05:23:06 PM
I wasn't very coherent in my first post..........I'm of the idea (Not nearly enough effort put into it to call it a "pet theory", by the way) that natives of the island have been flapping around in the outside world for generations - kinda like when the Amish have their kids go out and experience the rest of the world before they commit to a "Plain" lifestyle. Quite likely mutated descendants of the Black Rock's survivors. Some DON'T come back, but their weird island DNA is getting spread throughout the rest of the world, causing strange shit everywhere.....at least that's THIS week's postulation......
The Coffin doesn't appear shorter
by edshrinker
May 31st, 2008
05:23:16 PM
And Locke is not in the coffin "wrong" with his legs on the end with the shorter hatch. From my memory, a person is placed in the coffin so that the lid that is raised for the viewing is the larger one, showing the deceased from the waist up. I could be wrong about this. What I believe I am not wrong about however, is that the coffin is for a normal sized adult.

Please drop by Room 23 for visual evidence...I checked and did screen grabs before I decided to post. I am not saying the speculation was dumb or unfounded...it was an interesting thought. And it made me look. Now - look for yourselves if you don't believe me.

http://lostroom23.blogspot.com

We can't complain about time travel
by Maximus Prime
May 31st, 2008
05:27:00 PM
I was dreading that Lost would down the time travel route but 2 things have put my mind at ease...

1...The Constant...probably teh best episode of any television show I have ever seen, actually there is no probably about it, IT IS THE BEST EVER...

2...Traveling through time has happened in this show from episode 1..with the flashbacks, and now flash forwards we have not been sticking to one normal timeline, ever episode were thrown about in different stages in peoples lives...

I have said in these talkbacks before that I hope that they don't go down the timetravel arc but they have, no the question is do I trust the writers enough to pull it off and at the end of season 6 will I accept it as part of what happened in the show...answer will probably be yes..

we accepted a disabled man could walk, we accepted a Scottish man can tell the future and we accpeted Juliets tits..

when we look back at Lost after its all said and done, I hope and pray taht teh timetravel arc now is just another peice of this fantastic jigsaw and that the show doesnt get too caught up in it...

would it surprise anyone if it didnt show up again, not really....the numbers of season 2 have fallen by the wayside, Des being able to see the future has fallen by the wayside after season 3..maybe Time travel is the device used in season 4 to carry the story on another 3 years and to show us that they have to get back...

I've rambled but what can ya do

I hear you Brodarlton
by edshrinker
May 31st, 2008
05:36:07 PM
Every time someone brings up Midichlorians I shit myself. I love the mix of the mystical, scientific, and WTF is that! Here we were, at the Orchid, Halliwax doing his thing, and I thought we were about to see chevron 6 lock into place and the water-effect, wormhole open. But they didn't. They went the totally opposite way with Ben pushing what looked like a wooden wheel, causing some mystical event to trigger. Maybe the science could harness and control it. Natives just knew it was there and how to trigger it (the wheel). The glyphs lead you to believe it's been doing funky stuff for a while.

So now what? I have NO clue. If there is a downed alien spaceship - I too will throw up my hands in disgust. I am NOT afraid though. I hate that you are. I know how much you love this show and it's potential. Let's hope Darlton has some stuff planned that will turn that fear into "Holy Shit THAT IS SO COOL!!!"

Keep the faith, brutha!"

ooo we cant decide best talkbacker of this thread yet
by Maximus Prime
May 31st, 2008
05:40:08 PM
There is a long time to go...a long time to go..

I plan to defend my crown of most posts on room 23 from last year..haha, I had alot of free time on my hands when the summer starts and teaching ends...4 weeks til im free again...

MP!!!
by edshrinker
May 31st, 2008
05:42:42 PM
Nice post my friend. I liked the time tripping and hope we can have some more mind bending, time jumping fun. Like Brody - I just don't want to see all the mystery explained away by alien tech, or a future civilizations building time machines. I want all of this balanced with the magic and miricles of the island. I don't want it all neatly explained.

When are we going to see your stuff in Rooom 23? Miss you over there.

aye been meaning to go over but
by Maximus Prime
May 31st, 2008
05:58:02 PM
been flat out at work my good man amoungst other things..but ow my time maybe freeing up I will def visit alot more...

so u ready to make this place ur home for the next 8 torturous months

big time pb
by Maximus Prime
May 31st, 2008
06:04:49 PM
u caught up on my early lead and if it had went on any longet you would well have thrashed me..haha.......and all hail Mr 10,000 may i add..

so take it u saw Indy, did u spot Mikhail??? what u give it out of 10?

cant believe
by Maximus Prime
May 31st, 2008
06:15:39 PM
Keamy beat Sayid in a fight, but Sayid wasnt really trying,,,he knew the others were behind him

well tahts what I keep telling myself so I can sleep at night

totally agree
by Maximus Prime
May 31st, 2008
06:21:54 PM
so to keep on topic, out of 10 what u give the finale??
so this conversation is not all one sided
by Maximus Prime
May 31st, 2008
06:24:48 PM
I give it a very good 9....only waiting for my second visit to it tomrrow so I can give it a full 10...it kept in the same tradition of season 4 so far, break neck(unfortunatly no Sayid neck break this finale)speed and mini answers..
Charlotte and her place of birth?
by MachThree
May 31st, 2008
06:29:02 PM
I've tried to read as much of the talkback as I could, but I've still got a ways to go. So, did anyone else pick up on this? If Charlotte is still looking for where she was born, and that place was the island (which seems to be implied), then does that mean that pregnant women did NOT always die on the island? Is that a recent development for the island? Ok, given all the time travel stuff that just happened, I hate to use words like "always" and "recent" because I'm not even sure what they might mean any more within the context of this show, but still, if Charlotte was born on the island and her mother didn't die from her pregnancy, that would be awfully interesting.
haha good work pb
by Maximus Prime
May 31st, 2008
06:40:59 PM
have to watch it again and post my thoughts, but until then Namaste my friends...
Why have people stuck with this show for so long...
by Avon
May 31st, 2008
06:43:49 PM
It's got so shit and samey and retreading ground all over the place. I am bored with the characters, and the show needs to end as soon as possible. People need to watch something decent like Doctor Who instead. Totally different and varied and brilliant (mostly).
While doing some ScreenGrabs
by edshrinker
May 31st, 2008
07:04:48 PM
I went ahead and took down a part of the dialog between Ben and Jack at the coffin, where Jack confirms what I read in an interview and also in the spoilers: Jack is the other person Sun blames for Jin's death:

Jack: "Sayid - I don't even know where Sayid is. Hurley (sigh) is insane. Sun blames me for... And Kate (laughs) She won't even talk to me anymore".

Ben: "Perhaps I can help you with that."

And then Jack, who many of us tease for being a bit wooden sometimes, really ACTS. He puts on a face I haven't seen him do very well. He looks truly pathetic and desperate and defeated. You can see he hopes Ben can help him. And that means he really is in terrible shape. I have a screencap of it - I need to find a reason to post it. Maybe I'll collect some faces of the O-6, showing where they are at 3 years after rescue...so we can decide if they are better off. Sun and Ka