"I Hope You're Happy Now, Jacob"--The LOST Season 5 Thread

ANYWAY, i don't even know who christian is.

Jack's dad the drunky surgeon, hangs out in the cabin w/ Jacob, etc

i almost called you tonight when i got off the train around 11:45 but i didn't know if you'd be up. drrr.

enh that's alright I don't think I was home yet then, I was out with j0n and v1c. but yeah I'm always up then pretty much.

Psyched about the new season, but I've forgotten so much stuff! What's a good way to get into it again, take a short course to freshen the memory, without having to re-watch the entiry previous season? Any ideas?

Lostpedia is pretty good for just clicking around, episode by episode, and picking out the juicy bits or what you've forgotten.

Gah, I totally forgot about Lostpedia, what being 'lost' in all the Lost-blogs out there. Thanks!

ABC has this handy LOST in 5 mins thingy:

...They enjoy the good life, and want to be left alone.

lol @ hotel where i work:

Thanks Roz!

So they bug out, and Jin is left behind. They have no choice but to return to the island, but it's gone.
"Where's the island?" "It's gone!" No way.

can't stand the way she pronounces "baby" as "bebeh" tho.

Haha OMG I was just gonna say the same thing Roz! Bebbeh! Love her otherwise though.

"we're going on vacation, bebeh!"

favourite lost theorizing blog: http://lost-and-gone-forever.blogspot.com/

first post on there has all the damon/carlton vids from over the break. nothing spoiler-y, just the usual ambiguous hints about stuff you've already forgotten about.

latest theory on 'Adam and Eve': they are stupid and i do not care about who they were/are

otm

uh you guys are so wrong

so the whole season is going to be about trying to get back to the island... that means how many seasons after this one? there's going to be a lot less questions and a lot more answers as time goes on, I suppose.

this is the second to last season.

good link roz

Andrew and I have been furiously watching season 4 (he bought me the DVD for Christmas). You should be bothered, the season was phenomenal and re-watching it has been really revealing, even for a hardcore psycho obsessive like me! I thought I knew everything.. I forgot a lot, including almost all of the Ben episode where he ends up in Tunisia. The doctor with his slit throat and the SOS! Sawyer's incredible imperviousness(no idea) to bullets and the red shirt death sequence!
I'm hosting a premiere party for 6 of us (oooh.. sounds like we need some sort of Oceanic Six theme) and am super excited. I even bought a couch!

― skeletal lexing (Finefinemusic),

Can you make a longer post about these things you forgot and other things the casual watcher might have forgot? Even if they are just short but detailed descriptions. It would be appreciated. Thanks for the consideration/

Here's a season four recap that might be handy - I don't know if I could do justice! There are a lot of nerdier Lost fans out there with better memories than me, and all are editing Lostpedia :) http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Season_4

Does ABC repeat Lost, usually? I'm going to LA a day or 2 after the 1st episode airs, but it's still a few days before it airs in the UK.

Get hip to the times: Watch it on teh internet, baby!

Won't have internet in LA unless I can leech next door's wireless again, and that was no way stable enough to watch video.

7 days. 7 days. 7 days.

PSYCHED

ONE WEEK FIVE HOURS THIRTY THREE MINUTES

btw ABC is replaying the final three episodes of season four tonight in "enhanced versions" tonight. (I assume this is like last year's replays with text at the bottom of the screen telling us that Jack is in love with Kate or whatever) for those of you that wanted a refresher.

http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/entertainment_tv/2009/01/lostabctv.html

That article has got me anticipating this series quite ridiculously.

Amazed they spent five weeks on The Constant - they must really love Desmond as a character.

I saw here that The Constant was a huge audience favorite. I love Desmond so that episode was one of my absolute faves too.
I am so excited for the new season. I've never watched those "enhanced versions" or even a recap before each new season, but last night I watched the entire 3 hour recap. So now i can barely wait until next week!

just watched the finale again, it is fucking amazing. it's v schlocky at times but I think after watching all the episodes you really feel for the characters, crazy and all as the plot is. something about how scarred and bruised they all are in that final few minutes and then their horrible pact of having to lie about it all, the perseverance of them all, the way their lives are all so fucked up by the entire thing...all accompanied by that tear jerking orchestral soundtrack....BRING ON THE NEW SERIES

btw I really like Lapidus...hope he's in the new one too. Sawyer/Lapidus back and forth is essential. "Hey Kenny Rogers"

Lapidus is the only freighter dude not on the poster.

But yeah he rules.

somewhere upthread or on another thread speculated that lapidus would have to be the one to fly them back, esp since he was supposed to fly 815 originally

they never really got into the Lapidus leaving story, did they? On Penny's boat Jack is all “I hope I never see you again” and they never mention him again – you’d think if Widmore’s ship blew up he would be sure to keep his eye out for any of the crew members suddenly showing up back at home..

totally agree/hope he'll be their pilot though

well they haven't had anytime to get into Lapidus leaving yet really

VERY MINOR SPOILER INDEED

Apparently in the early part of this season we will get to see Sayid killing someone with a dishwasher.

SECOND MINOR SPOILER INDEED, RELATED TO JIN

NYT article on the impossible job of srcipt-coordinator Gregg Nations

And don't forget to contribute to, or at least vote in, my heretofore unpopular poll

Had he a background in computer science, Mr. Nations now says, he might have approached the “Lost” project differently. “The best thing would have been to create a database where everything’s linked, and if we’re talking about Jack and what was established in his first flashback episode, you could click on something that takes you there,” he said. But as an accountant, he was more inclined just to make notes in a ledger. “I’ve just created these Word documents, and I just write everything down.”

^^interesting... they do know that such a database exists right? Lostpedia?

seen that sayid bit in one of the sneak peaks

Happy with the reports there'll be a lot more Sawyer in this season - he got kind of dicked over storyline-wise last year.

Just watched the s4 finale and the only thing I noticed that I'd forgotten was Miles & Charlotte deciding to stay on the island instead of going with Daniel to the freighter and Miles saying that Charlotte was 'back on the island' and later Charlotte saying she was still looking for where she was born.

Also Locke got some good laughs from me with Ben putting metallic stuff in the vault.

I'm not really sure what more they can do with Sawyer, though - it felt like his storylines reached a dead end by the beginning of Season 3. Like with Charlie they pulled the "he's a good guy, he's a bad guy, he wants redemption, but he's selfish" see-saw too many times without adding substantially to his story - after the Cooper strangling he feels rather pointless.

I am dying to finally see the flashbacks for Daniel, Charlotte and especially Miles.

still kinda expecting Sawyer and Juliet to get it on given her penchant for dodgy blokes

I'm not really sure what more they can do with Sawyer, though - it felt like his storylines reached a dead end by the beginning of Season 3. Like with Charlie they pulled the "he's a good guy, he's a bad guy, he wants redemption, but he's selfish" see-saw too many times without adding substantially to his story - after the Cooper strangling he feels rather pointless.

There's loads they can do with him - and they'll need to as well seeing as he's the only Season One big guy left on the island. Well, Locke as well depending which point in time we're talking. Plus there's that baby stuff that I don't really care about. I suspect quite a bit of it will be him looking for Claire.

CLAIRE WAS IN THE BLACK LODGE. wait what?

i hope she's been possessed by Jacob and officially now high priest queen of the volcano