That LJ thread is freaking gold
― Nhex, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 17:12 (fifteen years ago) link
this one is pretty classic too:
http://i587.photobucket.com/albums/ss317/krilymccgifs/lost/lostfakeoutpm2.gif
sorry to derail convo, just looooved creepy Fahey .gif
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 18:11 (fifteen years ago) link
i just finally caught up with all the aired episodes last night (after watching the first 3 seasons all in January) and finished reading this whole thread and am all ready to watch the show at the same time as everybody else for the first time this week and next week and....i have nothing to add to this thread really.
except that it bugs me so much when most of you guys seem to continually just assume that Ben meeting people as a kid means now he'll remember them as an adult and would 'recognize' Sayid, which seems to me like not what they're going for at all. but i guess we'll see if that's the case or not.
― shipforbrains (some dude), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 18:15 (fifteen years ago) link
well Richard did say "he won't remember anything" when his innocence was lost... I am still kind of unsure about how Rousseau forgot that she once met a Korean on the island who just disappeared on her!
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 18:19 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah..the Alpert handwaving thing is lame, but i'm just saying even before that, all the "Ben's a dick to these people in the future because they were mean to him as a kid!" type speculation raises my hackles. maybe i just want the show's time travel to not work that way, though, i have no idea if it will.
― shipforbrains (some dude), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 18:21 (fifteen years ago) link
the only extent I'm willing to pursue that thread is the infamous "list" in s3 that had Sawyer, Jack, Kate, Hurley on it.. I like that at the time, Sayid, Jin & Sun were together in that little boat.. I feel like maybe the "new" characters (Juliette, Miles) are going to die and the "list" will be of people who survive/become known as past Dharma members, possibly with Sayid & Jin working together looking for Sun. I'm not explaining this well. I just hope the list ends up being more relevant than Hurley as messenger & Jack-Sawyer-Kate as love triangle. Remember how much they used to push it - "he's not on the list!" etc?
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 18:36 (fifteen years ago) link
lol this is a kick: http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Lists
― shipforbrains (some dude), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 18:57 (fifteen years ago) link
too many lists! I confused ben's list with jacob's list obviously. did we ever hear of any names that *were* on jacob's list? Claire perhaps? We're running out of characters still "alive" who could have been on it, unless the list is Hurley, Rose and Bernard
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 19:03 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah...i found that when i was trying to remember if that list was the same as Jacob's list.
really the whole Jacob thing is what nags at me most at this point, and Christian/Claire/cabin stuff in general. i hope the Alpert episode at least has something to do with Jacob.
― shipforbrains (some dude), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 19:06 (fifteen years ago) link
I feel pretty confident they're going to address that stuff in the final season, especially since (I think) Claire is coming back.
The Jacob lists were one thing - most notably used to decide who would be kidnapped from the tail section to inducted into the Others, this is really where the "good" and "bad" people were separated. These are the significant lists that have to be addressed at some point, since the whole Others kidnapping people angle is an important thread from all the way back in Season 1 that hasn't been addressed (besides Ben's obsession with pregnant women, which also hasn't clearly been explained - still think they're saving that one).
Ben's list of Jack/Kate/Hurley/Sawyer was likely just a plot device. There a lot of lists used, but they're not all for same purpose, it's a thematic tie more than a literal one.
― Nhex, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 21:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Ben's obsession with pregnant women, which also hasn't clearly been explained
i thought the phenomenon of pregnant women on the island all dying explained that to my satisfaction (although the phenomenon itself hasn't been totally explained yet)
― shipforbrains (some dude), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 21:54 (fifteen years ago) link
So present-day Widmore & Eloise obviously manipulated certain people (Locke, Faraday & the O6 especially, but also Miles, Charlotte) because they met them on the island or knew that they were in the DI back in the day, but how did they find out about Desmond? I think he must show up in the past at some point. I hope it's not some dumb thing like Jack detonates the H-Bomb and the Island summons Desmond to 1977 so he can course correct.
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 22:15 (fifteen years ago) link
the Alpert handwaving thing is lame
On an island where cripples have been magically walking again since the very start I'm not sure why you'd complain about one extra bit of handwaving magic.
― Enormous Epic (Matt DC), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 22:21 (fifteen years ago) link
there is presumably a unifying explanation behind the magic island healing pixie dust but doesn't look like there will be one for "he won't remember you" other than "for the purposes of moving the story along, we can't have him remember you" but there's always hoping.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 22:36 (fifteen years ago) link
i went and got a digi converter box so i can finally what it live for like the first time all season whut hwut
― MONUMENTAL_ARAB_HORSE.jpg (nickalicious), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link
― Enormous Epic (Matt DC), Wednesday, May 6, 2009 6:21 PM (54 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
On an thread where the whole "he won't remember you"/"he'll lose his innocence" thing has been criticized and mocked a dozen times already I'm not sure why you'd single out my one reference to it.
― shipforbrains (some dude), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 23:18 (fifteen years ago) link
!
― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Thursday, 7 May 2009 01:07 (fifteen years ago) link
!!
― President Keyes, Thursday, 7 May 2009 01:29 (fifteen years ago) link
that submarine was some babylon five shit
― amirite baraka (los blue jeans), Thursday, 7 May 2009 01:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Whatever it was, it was crappy CGI.
― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Thursday, 7 May 2009 02:03 (fifteen years ago) link
So I can kill him!!!
― dmr, Thursday, 7 May 2009 02:04 (fifteen years ago) link
lol awesome
great episode
woah
― mermaphrodite (nickalicious), Thursday, 7 May 2009 02:08 (fifteen years ago) link
what if jacob is also locke
― mermaphrodite (nickalicious), Thursday, 7 May 2009 02:09 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, I was referring to the crappy CGI of babylon five
― amirite baraka (los blue jeans), Thursday, 7 May 2009 02:10 (fifteen years ago) link
pretty awes
― cutty, Thursday, 7 May 2009 02:10 (fifteen years ago) link
"where'd you go?" "to give richard his compass back"
― dmr, Thursday, 7 May 2009 02:11 (fifteen years ago) link
― resistance is feudal (WmC), Thursday, 7 May 2009 02:12 (fifteen years ago) link
hurley & dr chang A+ stuff
― mermaphrodite (nickalicious), Thursday, 7 May 2009 02:12 (fifteen years ago) link
this was really great
― IPOD TOOCH (jjjusten), Thursday, 7 May 2009 02:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, usually when someone in a movie or tv show gets trapped in a factcheck argument like that, it's because they're trying to convince someone else they are from another time. I love how that got flipped.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 7 May 2009 02:14 (fifteen years ago) link
good thing for jack sayid showed up, wtf would a doctor know how to detonate a hydrogen bomb
― mermaphrodite (nickalicious), Thursday, 7 May 2009 02:16 (fifteen years ago) link
'ok dude, we're from the future'
lol
― tehresa, Thursday, 7 May 2009 02:17 (fifteen years ago) link
also love how eloise is fine coming out of the pool dripping wet but sayid has to stop and fix his hair before they can move onward.
eloise is fine coming out of the pool dripping wet
not what you meant but yes
― shipforbrains (some dude), Thursday, 7 May 2009 02:21 (fifteen years ago) link
hey where is little ben at/
also there's more others than just those with locke right/ and the ajira crash shadow of the statue peoples.
ws 77 eloise
― mermaphrodite (nickalicious), Thursday, 7 May 2009 02:24 (fifteen years ago) link
god i love that PEOPLE GOIN ON IMPORTANT ISLAND TREK music that they always play in the finales.
― Roz, Thursday, 7 May 2009 04:58 (fifteen years ago) link
i was pretty sure that locke/sun/ben/richard were going to walk right past rose, bernard, and vincent while trekking out to find Jacob
― akm, Thursday, 7 May 2009 05:17 (fifteen years ago) link
lol totally forgot about those guys.
― Roz, Thursday, 7 May 2009 05:24 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i41.tinypic.com/203v5x.gif
When a guy tells me that he witnessed all of my friends die, I can usually think of some follow-up questions for him. Just sayin.
― Brakhage, Thursday, 7 May 2009 06:03 (fifteen years ago) link
Otherwise jam-packed full of awesome, just the way I like it
― Brakhage, Thursday, 7 May 2009 06:06 (fifteen years ago) link
you are not a character on Lost! Lost characters don't ask follow up questions or this show would have been over three years ago!
― akm, Thursday, 7 May 2009 06:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Asking follow-up q's is pointless though, because every motherfucker on that island is as cryptic and dodgy as they come.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 7 May 2009 07:39 (fifteen years ago) link
..he's had that job for a very, very long time.
― Fyodor Lolstoevsky (Pillbox), Thursday, 7 May 2009 09:25 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.getlostpodcastmedia.com/wp-content/gallery/5x15-easter-eggs/03-notebook.jpg
time = OBAMA = ???
is this lols, i can't tell.
― a short guy with a lot of power (Clay), Thursday, 7 May 2009 10:04 (fifteen years ago) link
PEOPLE GOIN ON IMPORTANT ISLAND TREK
love this music too. and yeah eloise kind of hot in a weird way, though what's amusing is that in 30 years she looks like mrs doubtfire whereas widmore holds up fairly well.
did anyone notice the dharma guy in the black suit on the pier with the big blonde ponytail? I lolled.
also I wish kate would just die, she is basically just wandering around whinging and moaning and ruining stuff for everyone else. also her whole "killing a child how dare you" is a bit rich coming from a serial murderer.
― Local Garda, Thursday, 7 May 2009 11:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Got to say I did get big lols from Kate coming on to the sub and Sawyer and Kate just being like "oh, come ON"
― Suedey 2, Thursday, 7 May 2009 11:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Don't get me wrong, I loved this episode...but I wish it hadn't been hyped as Alpert-centric, cos it really wasn't.
― JimD, Thursday, 7 May 2009 11:48 (fifteen years ago) link
we'll buy microsoft...
― Roz, Thursday, 7 May 2009 12:01 (fifteen years ago) link