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

Yes but what about the time travel? It'd make an interesting plot twist, no?

noooo

noooo seconded

But we already know all about Charlie's childhood, with jackass butcher father & piano-buying mom.

but guys, wouldn't that just be fucked up?

All you zombies... no.

We've already seen a young Charlie Pace (age 8 per Lostpedia) on Christmas morning:
http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/lostpedia/images/6/61/JeremyShada.jpg

Show would have to explain how the Pace family adopted him from Desmond and Penny in the early 80s.

plz stop

Smokey Alex pinning Ben to the wall and telling him to stop being a douche was pretty great

this season is more The Anubis Gates than The Stand

yeah, wtf @ Egyptian hieroglyphs? If Lost turns out to have anything to do with extraterrestrials, I will be angered beyond reason and prompted to wanton violence. Srsly, I would have a Twin Peaks-style total wtf series of unanswerable cliffhangers than some Stargate bullshit.

*would rather

pretty sure it was the egyptians who wrote in hieroglyphs, not aliens

I'm referring to the long-established relationship b/w aliens & egyptians, as extensively documented by science-fiction.

Are aliens really so much more unpalatable than say Jesus? (Mr. Eko & Charlie's Catholic ghostings, Locke's Christ-makeover)

was much more disappointed that Desmond didn't action-hero growl "see you in another lifetime, brother" at Ben before he threw him in the water.

"i haven't beaten anyone up this badly since Celtic won THE CUP"

xpost: I just feel that "it came from outer space" would be an unforgivable cop-out at this point.

Not that I'm actually afraid they'll do that, but given Lost's sci-fi leanings, the hieroglyphs did give me pause.

Somewhere in the Temple is a donkey wheel that activates the Stargate.

I get that a Lost/Stargate crossover would be barftastic, but there aren't a whole lot of options on the table. It's either aliens or jesus or jesus-aliens or coma-fantasy. What else could they reasonably do?

Wasn't Twin Peaks resolved as demonic anyway (and therefore in the jesus-realm)?

there were UFOs in twin peaks

xpost: Well, the Agent Cooper/Black Lodge thing could be construed as demonic, but Lynch unraveled all the more soap-operatic elements of the show to absurd lengths and then just left them hanging. There has bee some debate as to whether he did that with the intention of picking the show back up in some other context, or if it was a big "fuck you" to the network for forcing him to resolve the murder mystery and then moving the show to Saturday nights.

As for Lost, I'd be happy if they just stuck with the quantum mechanics/wormholes/electro-magnetism/time-travel, basic dualism, fatalism vs. free will etc. I mean, sure, these themes are time-worn to the point of cliche as well, but the show has done a great job with them thusfar IMO, and any further, significant cosmic extrapolation would be unnecessary, especially if it had to do with alien-egyptology, but maybe that is just a matter of personal taste.

there were UFOs in twin peaks - yeah, there was the whole Major Briggs/Project Bluebook thing, but that was pretty quickly dropped, if I am recall correctly.

there hasn't been any inkling of UFOs in lost. this show is about egyptian pirates.

we'll see..

well now that you said it, the writer's will see this thread and put UFO's in the show

yeah geez thanks a lot

xpost: yes, obviously that will now happen.

i am cool with the smokemonster being from space

ffs Ben tho "well, we don't even have a word for it..."

really. so you've just been referring to it as 'it' all this time. ok.

Some people on lostpedia think he calls it "Ammit", which would make sense, but he kind of stutters on the line and it isn't clear.

I think he said Amirite?

nobody has mentioned that next week is a miles-centric episode. i am stoked.

3.2 million dollars!

The podcast mentioned that that figure will be explained in this season, presumably in hoth.

I originally thought it was a coded message regarding coordinates, but now i'm guessing he just had a really huge student loan.

I already kinda love Miles, but I'm definitely awaiting/hoping to see how his ghost talking is going to be some kind of side effect from radiation/time travel.

I really want the next episode to move the plot forward rather than fill in gaps from the past but I will do a complete U-Turn on this stance if it involves Miles talking to dead pirates.

dopest thing in ages was the 816ers taking out lapidus. more of that plz.

I hope that when the Dharma people watch Star Wars Hurley starts dropping spoilers about Vader being Luke's dad and Jar Jar.

Bit disappointed Cesar got taken down though. Thought there was more to come with that dude.

maybe there is and the island will bring him back to life so that there is

The game of Risk we saw set up in the barracks indicates that we’re not dealing with an alternate timeline version of 2007. Back in 2004 (pre time jumping by our Losties) when the Losties were living in the barracks (before Keamy’s team invaded), Sawyer and Hurley were playing that same Risk game and it appears to be set up the same way (see 4×09 The Shape of Things to Come) in 2007. This leads me to believe that the version of 2007 we’re seeing is an extension of the version of 2004 we saw before all the time jumping occurred.

isn't hoth an egyptian god?

Thoth is.

what about the theory that the current version of locke (post-death, post-2nd-plane-crash) is a smoke monster apparition à la ben's kid and christian shepard?

Thoth supposedly wrote the Book of the Dead--so it would be Miles appropriate.

xp xp hoth is an ice planet

xp nah

I think Locke 2.0 is Smokey infected but not an apparition.

he did show up after ben flushed the toilet this ep!

there was something pretty spooky about locke yeah.