Lost Season 6 - RE: LA X

i reckon it'll pan out. if the actress wasn't available, they wouldn't have made a thing of it -- could ahve shown stock footage of her on the plane or whatever. they certainly wouldn't have dialogue explaining it, i hope n e way. so far they haven't left the airport but maybe it'll be like the 1985 sections of back to the future 2 out there.

I think they're actually using this to set the stage for Boone's character to go in a totally different direction; most of his time on the island was defined in contrast to his sister and that tension is part of what pushed him into becoming Locke's disciple. How different would that dynamic have been without Shannon's needling?

― PIES! PIES! PIES! PIES! PIES! (HI DERE), Thursday, February 4, 2010 10:54 AM (55 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

according to lostpedia the actress who plays shannon wasnt available

sigh

yes I KNOW she wasn't available, I can actually read

I'm talking about a possible narrative coice I they may have had to make because the actress who played Shannon wasn't available

wtf is wrong with my typing ability

Too many pies.

imo they could easily have just not shown her rather than draw attention to her absence. i mean, did they show nikki and paolo? it's all part of the mystery i guess.

Nikki and Paolo were actually buried alive in Australia in this timeline

some real nerds work at newsweek huh

more like nerdsweek

more like nerdswork

at newsweek in max's o

Interesting theory that objects (or people?) used on the island are missing from the alt-timeline 815ers (Jack's pen, Locke's knives, Christian) or never made it onto the plane somehow. If so, I predict that Sawyer's note will be missing. (Also, maybe that's why Shannon didn't get on the plane.)

big reveal of season 6 is they find a pen

For what's worth, Jack's pen was stolen by Kate on the plane. But the theory can still work for the coffin and the knives.

one of those pens where if you turn it 180 the polar bear's clothes disappear.

he "lost" his clothes

.(Also, maybe that's why Shannon didn't get on the plane.)

lol

Boone is missing a Shannon

kind of frustrated that this episode made me remember that sayid and shannon were "in love"

SO WHY DID YOU HAVE TO REMIND THE REST OF US?!

totally forgot about all that

this episode made me remember that 'the hurt locker' star evangeline lilly is quite a striking lady.

yeah she's never looked better than when beating up ed mars in the toilet

kinda lol, mostly true

lol is he really called ed mars? that's a character in 'the big sleep'.

http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/lostpedia/images/thumb/7/73/6x01_SmokeyGoHome.jpg/180px-6x01_SmokeyGoHome.jpg

btw can I say how flat-out AWESOME it is to see Terry O'Quinn back in terrifying "Stepfather" mode again?

animated gif or it didnt happen

so are there 4 concurrent Lockes now?

MIB locke
smokey locke
corpse locke
wheelchair locke
?

that actually is animated.

don't think he's ever made that face in the show before. THE RANGE.

MIB locke

men in black locke?

There are 3 Lockes. There is the corpse on the beach, the smoke monster impersonating him and the dude in the parallel timeline who never went to the island.

altho wheelchair Locke is in 2004

if Smokey usually emanates from the temple, how does that square with UnLocke's ability to become it? 2 concurrent smokemonsters?

the kimmel interview suggests man in black and smokey are different dudes.

"i'm sorry you had to see me like that" tho

maybe smokey and MIB/Essau tag teamed?

What about the "the bomb went off = Hurley is the luckiest man alive" thing?

i can't really remember but could be something to do with the numbers??
weren't they transmitted over radio because they were written on the hatch because they are the equations to save the world because the horse said it would be so
maybe if the bomb went off somehow hurley didn't use those numbers to play the lottery? gah i can't remember any more... who cares?

loved the premiere tho. i'm along for the ride!

i'm slightly disappointed with the alternate universe plot. it always bugs me when these concepts are used on such a macroscopic scale.
if an alternate universe is created every time someone changes their mind then there are an infinity of universes created every second - somehow the idea that reality forks around some
central event just seems an over-simplification verging on complete misunderstanding.

still i have faith the writers will do something fun with it - i'm hoping that they are not in fact alternate realities and some crazy time jumping shit will explain it :D

loved the contrast between the new reality similar to the earlier seasons of the show (a set of characters with their lives overlapping) and the totally batshit insane indiana jones antics on the island. bravo

I think Hurley being unlucky is due to Widmore/Linus machinations to get him to the island perhaps? and with the bomb going off, no one's doing that anymore?

Hurley is somehow aligned with a certain string of events in both realities, with those events being chaotic/negative in the 815er one (lottery winner, insane, numbers line up with island numbers, horrible misfortune) and chaotic/positive in the "fixed" timeline (still wins lottery, luckiest guy, seems to have his shit together).

No matter what happens with Hurley, his love for fried chicken will always be.

"What did you do to become so successful?"

"I won the lottery"

Am looking forward to Hurley's epic legal battle with the Charles Widmore-owned Outback franchise.

good catch lostpedia, i missed this:

Flashsideways timeline: Sun & Jin are not married. Sun is called Ms. Paik, not Mrs. Kwon, by the customs officer at LAX. Neither Jin or Sun are wearing wedding rings.

― jergins, Wednesday, February 3, 2010 1:44 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

Totally caught this, *kisses own bicep*

Traveling under different names cuz they're hiding from her father? So they can have a new life?
(Sorry if someone suggested that already--had to wait a day to see this and I read through the whole thread pretty quickly)

To confuse things further about whether Sun & Jin married in the alt-timeline. The producers admitted that they fucked up from the beginning by giving Sun Jin's last name, since Korean women do not adopt their husbands' last names. Maybe in the alt-time line Lost hired more culturally sensitive fact checkers.

― President Keyes, Thursday, February 4, 2010 6:32 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Haaaa

Those people at Newsweek go a long way towards explaining the state of journalism in America. Blue shirt dude was so punchable I almost broke my screen.

how many times did you punch the screen?

unlocke does say "sorry you had to see me like that" which kinda suggests him and smokey are the exact same dude. also not sure if smokey coming from the temple is in any way a fact as such. and even if it is who says he didn't come from there and travel to the statue, he did enter via the door!

Yeah what threw me off was that UnLocke disappeared and then smokey entered from outside and I'm kinda wondering what UnLocke's word is worth on that one--more manipulation or I dunno what. He seemed surprised in last season's finale when Ben told him what went down between him in his meeting w/ smokey under the temple.

I sort of assumed that was MIB just acting shocked to fool them as he was believed to be Locke. Just cos appearing as Alex seems to be his modus operandi. what is weird tho is how ben was able to summon smokey before too...