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

have to say, shouldn't the fact that the finale is next week be more exciting? I mean, it's not poised particularly well.

the preview certainly made it look like they could just be running around doing bad sci fi movie bomb cliches, but since it's a double they've gotta have something else going on. i'm thinking at the very least there will be some kind of crazy reveal that will open up a whole new level of speculation until next season, hopefully re: Jacob or Alpert or the hostiles in general.

Are the tunnels they're in anywhere near the Temple or do they go all over the island?

has the show ever had cornier-looking visual effects than the submarine and the Ben-smokey scene in the last few episodes? i know it's an expensive show but i don't know if i should worry about even worse CGI to come or if maybe they're saving up the effects budget for something really badass.

I hear they're going to reuse the atomic bomb explosion from the "Let's Dance" video next episode.

the submarine looked pretty shitty, like myst or something

which we know is no longer true from the coming attractions, sorry if you are in the UK and that is a spoiler

Really, how hard would it have been for you to rearrange that sentence and put the word spoiler at the beginning?

lol @ the sawyer nicknames. i forgot about the artist formerly known as henry gale, ha.

i'm thinking at the very least there will be some kind of crazy reveal that will open up a whole new level of speculation until next season, hopefully re: Jacob or Alpert or the hostiles in general.

― unban cowboy (some dude), Thursday, May 7, 2009 10:54 AM (53 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah alpert and ben were def sharing some uh o the jig is up moments - thinking were def gonna learn something abt he others

Really, how hard would it have been for you to rearrange that sentence and put the word spoiler at the beginning?

― JimD, Thursday, May 7, 2009 11:42 AM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

o come on u really thought sawyer/kate/juilete were going to just go hang out in 1977

btw here it is

oh, i thought the world spoiler goes at the end of the spoiler itself

also it was decided early on that whatever is in the coming attractions is NOT SPOILAGE

NO REGRETS

never apologise never explain

"o come on u really thought sawyer/kate/juilete were going to just go hang out in 1977"

I would pay good money to see Hurley's dream of an Ewok-free Star Wars trilogy realized.

So self-perpetuating Locke mythos again-- I thought it was weird that both Alpert & Christian told Locke that he had to die to get everyone back. Now we know that Alpert got that from Locke himself--who is infected by Christianity maybe?

yeah locke has def lost his innocence

looking forward to coming egyptian alien ghost power coup.

I'm thinking Locke was told by "the island" that he had to die in order to come back as a superghost and save the island from Jacob. or something. sometimes I can't believe I'm really typing this shit

NO REGRETS

In preview is that Alpert swinging a sledgehammer at the "don't drill an inch further" magnetic wall?

alpert's all "LOCKE YOU'VE CHANGED."

really hoping this season ends in a huge mushroom cloud

I bet it ends on Alpert's "watch them all die" moment whatever that may be

imo that would be too similar to the island 'disappearing' at the end of last season (xpost)

it would be a sweet parallel

Would like to see in finale:

-bodies of all people who died on the island found in egyptian style scarcophaguseses (including Locke)
-statue coming to life and stomping on people (what lies at the foot of the statue? you!)

or something equally jaw dropping

xpost probably will though, to parallel the hatch blowing up in season 2

similar thoughts/predictions: will somebody get kidnapped or hostages get exchanged? will the island get revealed to the outside world again, or will its connection to the world in '77 get severed?

i'm guessing w/ all the rumors/speculation upthread and elsewhere that someone major will die (although imo that doesn't carry as much weight as it used to, what with all sorts of rising from the dead and revisiting dead people in the past) -- should we have a poll thread to predict who?

im thinking the "major death" theyve been yapping about all through the season is faraday tho

My money's still on Sayid.

one site said at the beginning of the season that "the person who dies was on Oceanic 815," so i'm guessing it's someone more major than Faraday (who, c'mon, showed up in season 4).

or maybe that was referring to Locke? i dunoo.

Based on this, I would guess Faraday:
http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/watch_with_kristin/b103931_lost_major_character_death_coming.html

Didn't Jacob tell Locke to kill him? Or did he just tell him "help me" or something?

This show has been on so long I can't recall plot points from season's past.

he said "help me"

help, kill, it's good enough for me

Me too.

never asking you guys for help

I help me

"That's okay, we'll buy Microsoft"

My money's on Sawyer to get killed. They've been building his search for domestic bliss as a subplot for like a season and a half. Also we haven't had a Juliet episode yet and that's bound to contain either some big Other reveal or (more likely) a load of emo.

If this season has been about filling in what the deal was with the Dharma initiative and the hatch, next one will finally let us know what's going on with the Others. Still can't work Richard out at all. He seems such a bizarrely neutral character.

That scene with Locke and Sun was partly shit because Locke was obviously bullshitting her, but mostly because the woman who plays Sun is a shit actress. Loved the look on Jin's face when Hurley said the Korean war wasn't a real war, though.

yeah...on a narrative level i feel like the Sawyer thing is likely, because we've seen so much of him this season and it's kind of like that was his last hurrah, before we finish off with a season more about Jack or Locke or whoever.

also i kinda don't think we'll ever get another Juliet flashback episode or any interesting revelations via her. they've really tried to underline over and over that she doesn't really know much and probably isn't witholding anything from Sawyer or the other losties to try and retroactively make her part of their side.

they've had her drop a couple hints that she knows more ("I can speak Latin because I'm an Other," she seems to know who/what Richard is etc.)

When Sayid shot that Other I totally thought he shot Kate, hurray...
Eliose '77 looks weirdly like Penny.

i was really sad he didn't shoot kate

the submarine external shot looked pretty great to me (and i hated 'ben inside the smokemonster' scene visually). bloody ingrates.

the locke/alpert time loop closure was bugging me - did we really need to see it again? wasn't sure what the point was but i guess locke needed the compass to find the plane...or what?

I feel like it's sort of inevitable that Juliet knows more than she's let on, simply because she was an Other for several years before 815 landed. I mean, she certainly seemed full of secrets back at the beginning of Season 3. Obviously, Ben didn't tell her everything about the island's history, but she had to have known things that we still don't satisfactorily know the answer to -- like why the Others dressed in rags, what they wanted with Walt, what the Clockwork Orange room was for, etc. I was fine with her not talking about that stuff before this season, but now that she's been living with Sawyer for three years, I'd have thought that it'd come up between the two of them. I mean, maybe it has and they just haven't shown us because all that stuff is irrelevant to the bigger island-mythology stuff they want us to care about now.