yeah locke has def lost his innocence
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 7 May 2009 17:39 (fifteen years ago) link
looking forward to coming egyptian alien ghost power coup.
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 7 May 2009 17:46 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― dmr, Thursday, 7 May 2009 17:47 (fifteen years ago) link
NO REGRETS
In preview is that Alpert swinging a sledgehammer at the "don't drill an inch further" magnetic wall?
― mh, Thursday, 7 May 2009 17:48 (fifteen years ago) link
alpert's all "LOCKE YOU'VE CHANGED."
― cutty, Thursday, 7 May 2009 17:50 (fifteen years ago) link
really hoping this season ends in a huge mushroom cloud
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 7 May 2009 17:51 (fifteen years ago) link
I bet it ends on Alpert's "watch them all die" moment whatever that may be
― dmr, Thursday, 7 May 2009 17:57 (fifteen years ago) link
imo that would be too similar to the island 'disappearing' at the end of last season (xpost)
― richard alpert's tijuana brass (some dude), Thursday, 7 May 2009 17:58 (fifteen years ago) link
it would be a sweet parallel
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 7 May 2009 18:01 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 7 May 2009 18:07 (fifteen years ago) link
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?
― Nhex, Thursday, 7 May 2009 18:09 (fifteen years ago) link
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?
― richard alpert's tijuana brass (some dude), Thursday, 7 May 2009 18:12 (fifteen years ago) link
im thinking the "major death" theyve been yapping about all through the season is faraday tho
― IPOD TOOCH (jjjusten), Thursday, 7 May 2009 18:14 (fifteen years ago) link
My money's still on Sayid.
― resistance is feudal (WmC), Thursday, 7 May 2009 18:14 (fifteen years ago) link
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).
― richard alpert's tijuana brass (some dude), Thursday, 7 May 2009 18:17 (fifteen years ago) link
or maybe that was referring to Locke? i dunoo.
― richard alpert's tijuana brass (some dude), Thursday, 7 May 2009 18:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Based on this, I would guess Faraday:http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/watch_with_kristin/b103931_lost_major_character_death_coming.html
― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Thursday, 7 May 2009 18:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Didn't Jacob tell Locke to kill him? Or did he just tell him "help me" or something?
― Alex in SF, Thursday, 7 May 2009 18:20 (fifteen years ago) link
This show has been on so long I can't recall plot points from season's past.
― Alex in SF, Thursday, 7 May 2009 18:21 (fifteen years ago) link
he said "help me"
― richard alpert's tijuana brass (some dude), Thursday, 7 May 2009 18:22 (fifteen years ago) link
help, kill, it's good enough for me
― Local Garda, Thursday, 7 May 2009 18:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Me too.
― Alex in SF, Thursday, 7 May 2009 18:55 (fifteen years ago) link
never asking you guys for help
― richard alpert's tijuana brass (some dude), Thursday, 7 May 2009 18:57 (fifteen years ago) link
I help me
― Local Garda, Thursday, 7 May 2009 19:11 (fifteen years ago) link
"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.
― Enormous Epic (Matt DC), Thursday, 7 May 2009 19:14 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― richard alpert's tijuana brass (some dude), Thursday, 7 May 2009 19:15 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― richard alpert's tijuana brass (some dude), Thursday, 7 May 2009 19:30 (fifteen years ago) link
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.)
― dmr, Thursday, 7 May 2009 20:01 (fifteen years ago) link
When Sayid shot that Other I totally thought he shot Kate, hurray...Eliose '77 looks weirdly like Penny.
― Not the real Village People, Thursday, 7 May 2009 20:33 (fifteen years ago) link
i was really sad he didn't shoot kate
― tehresa, Thursday, 7 May 2009 20:45 (fifteen years ago) link
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?
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Thursday, 7 May 2009 20:48 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Thursday, 7 May 2009 20:48 (fifteen years ago) link
the sub has never looked that big so wtf they've really put all the Dharma women and children in there? c'mon
mynkowski wouldn't have let sawyer, juliet and kate just leave the island either
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Thursday, 7 May 2009 20:51 (fifteen years ago) link
haha i mean Radzinsky obv
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Thursday, 7 May 2009 20:53 (fifteen years ago) link
wondering if Radzinsky gettin all aggro and im in control now is the beginning of the Hanso/Dharma split
― IPOD TOOCH (jjjusten), Thursday, 7 May 2009 20:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Having to sit in the Swan and push that button again and again to the point that he is driven to blow his brains out from sheer despair is ample punishment for Radzinsky for being such a dick in this episode. I hope it turns out that he brought it all on himself.
― Enormous Epic (Matt DC), Thursday, 7 May 2009 20:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Hurley being questioned about his life was one of my favorite moments. Also, Miles realizing that his father had to be harsh to his mother to get her to leave. I thought that line was delivered really well.
― mh, Thursday, 7 May 2009 21:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, I guess Miles is the one character who got to resolve his daddy issue like 2 episodes after we first learned of it.
― President Keyes, Thursday, 7 May 2009 21:27 (fifteen years ago) link
I've got a feeling Claire will show up in the finale--like maybe Locke kills Jacob and she's all "Thank you, John" and takes control of the island.
― President Keyes, Thursday, 7 May 2009 21:28 (fifteen years ago) link
really enjoyed the episode, but gotta say, was really really hoping for an Alpert-flashback based sort of thing as opposed to him just connecting the times. The finale will be all whiz-bang-WTF, which is great, but doesn't that mean that next season will be comprised of a fuckton of infodump episodes?
― The Devil's Avocado (Gukbe), Thursday, 7 May 2009 21:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Well, at least it looks like we're going to find out what's in that fucking crate on the beach.
― President Keyes, Thursday, 7 May 2009 21:37 (fifteen years ago) link
doesn't that mean that next season will be comprised of a fuckton of infodump episodes?
I've been impressed by this show's ability to answer questions without bringing Basil Exposition out to do it.
― resistance is feudal (WmC), Thursday, 7 May 2009 21:42 (fifteen years ago) link
jaymc, i thought the others dressed in rags to scare the 815ers... didn't they admit that (dude's fake beard, etc.)?
― tehresa, Thursday, 7 May 2009 23:00 (fifteen years ago) link
wasn't it just to throw the survivors off the idea that there might be technology/resources on the island they could attempt to use?
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Friday, 8 May 2009 00:34 (fifteen years ago) link
right
― tehresa, Friday, 8 May 2009 02:49 (fifteen years ago) link
We're never going to get a real infodump. I am fine with this, the show has always be been based on unknowable, illogical mystery. After the series finale airs I'll be tempted to avoid message boards in general - the internet nerd rage at BSG's finale will be nothing compared to what we'll get for Lost, I'm sure.
― Nhex, Friday, 8 May 2009 02:58 (fifteen years ago) link
^ been tempted to make a joke for awhile now about how the lost season six thread is going to be so much more negative and vile than dudes could even muster for the battlestar season four thread.
― a short guy with a lot of power (Clay), Friday, 8 May 2009 03:29 (fifteen years ago) link
after obsessively rewatching a lot of the 5th season, I got one good extra bit. when Widmore is talking with Locke in Tunisia, he says that the Others (aka "my people") had peacefully protected the island for "more than three decades" before he was exiled. So that would imply that the Others arrived relatively soon before the 1954 events...
― sleeve, Friday, 8 May 2009 06:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Pretty sure Lost will have a better ending than BSG did.
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Friday, 8 May 2009 06:49 (fifteen years ago) link