Lost Season 6 - RE: LA X

Are they setting up possession after death by MIB as 'the infection'? Maybe the panic on the part of the Others stems from the fact that Sayid is one of the people selected by Jacob, and if he's infected/possessed/undead he'll screw up Jacob's plan in some way?

Wondering if had they known that Jacob was dead, they wouldn't have attempted to drown/heal Sayid as well

Has Jacob exhibited smokey-powers ever? He seemed to get killed just like a regular dude. Or was that a special knife?

yeah ever since his big reveal in s5 finale i've suspected more and more that jacob is just some guy who is only special for knowing so much of the going-on's of the island. which i guess makes him cuse+lindelof. well played, lost.

killed like a regular dude who lives forever and travels through time, i guess xp

doesn't everyone on the island live forever? (unlessing they don't get themselves shivved)

has anyone noticed that Desmond had a red mark on his neck in a scene in Season 2? He's getting ready for a job interview with Widmore and Penny points it out. THink he fell during one of his visions while painting a room or something.

xxxpost-- I'm sure I remember a scene where Jack or someone tells Sawyer that Locke died. Sawyer asked about him because he was waiting for him to return.

xp "He wakes up lying on a wood floor with what looks like blood all over him. He looks around and sees a spilled can of red paint and a fallen ladder. Penny runs over to him and asks if he's okay. He realizes that they are in his old flat in the past. Delighted to be back with Penny, he kisses and embraces her." -lostpedia

lostpedia also has a helpful image of desmond lying on the floor splattered with red paint. From the context of the episode the use of red there seems more like a general foreshadowing of death/bad things, whereas Jack's cut seems to be alluding to something more specific.

"He wakes up lying on a wood floor with what looks like blood all over him. He looks around and sees a spilled can of red paint and a fallen ladder. Penny runs over to him and asks if he's okay. He realizes that they are in his old flat in the past. Delighted to be back with Penny, he kisses and embraces her."

I thought this was a quote from an old text adventure game at first

go north.

http://tellywonk.com/2010/01/lost-season-two-episode-by-episode/#twopointseven

god damn why isn't that a real game?

The main problems with this episode were Claire's janky wigs. Mercy.

has it been suggested yet that the jacob that told hurley to take sayid to the temple was maybe the MIB? and that "infecting" sayid within the walls of the temple was maybe an easier way for him to get in because of the circle of ash or whatever?

Yeah I thought that might be the case.

Too complicated.

xp "He wakes up lying on a wood floor with what looks like blood all over him. He looks around and sees a spilled can of red paint and a fallen ladder. Penny runs over to him and asks if he's okay. He realizes that they are in his old flat in the past. Delighted to be back with Penny, he kisses and embraces her." -lostpedia

lostpedia also has a helpful image of desmond lying on the floor splattered with red paint. From the context of the episode the use of red there seems more like a general foreshadowing of death/bad things, whereas Jack's cut seems to be alluding to something more specific.

or Desmond has 'infected' off island Jack.

oops wrong quotes there.

pretend those are italics

Too complicated.

As if that would ever stop them from something ridiculous!

not just complicated but really fucking stupid. i guess that wouldn't stop them either.

Since it's been established that MIB can imitate people who have died or are corpses on-island, it makes total sense. (Can the audience handle MIB possessing two people simultaneously though? That would be what would stop me as one of the writers, it's too confusing, like you say. But I've been wrong before.)

I really don't think it's the case. 1) Because it is silly and needlessly overcomplicated and 2)because they were setting up this specific Jacob angle since last season with the guitar case and Hurley's reason for coming. Though of course, lol at it being just an ankh with another list inside.

I am glad they're finally tackling 'the sickness' though, even though I can't see where it's going. It must be related to MIB and possession in some way ('claimed'). Yeah, the guitar case was a major disappointment! I feel for Hurley lugging that huge thing around when all they needed was a slip of paper.

I hope the sickness is tied somehow into the broken statue and the whole pregnancy/kidnapping angle, and that gets a good explanation and back story.

we can dream, huh? couldn't help but laugh at Locke/Smokey in the previews saying "I promise I'll tell you everything", yeah right.

rewatched "What Kate Does" after initially not wanting to, I was glad I did. Lots of cringeworthy stuff and minimal plot advamcement, but a lot of interesting character development that suggests very different directions for all of the main folks this season - Hurley as leader, Jack as doubter, Kate as something less than pathologically narcissistic, Sawyer as more or less honest and ethical dude, Sayid as um the claimed one. No idea where Sun/Jin is going (probably an episode will follow in the same sequence as S1).

scene where Aldo angrily confronted Kate was my favorite by far. the whole Lennon/Dogen thing seems intensely annoying to me right now but I am hoping Dogen's backstory makes up for it.

Kate as something less than pathologically narcissistic

where???

in the new scenes with Claire in 2004 and also there was something new/interesting about how she was relating to Sawyer in 2007, asking about Juliet.

2nd time around I also noticed the fetching black and white color scheme on the plush orca doll.

i mostly assumed she was asking about juliet so that she could figure out her chances w/ sawyer.... and that she was being nice to claire so that clare would b eless likely to turn her in.

*be less

yeah I could definitely see that, it just seemed like it was left open that she might actually have been thinking about other people for once.

I can't remember but did all the Lost dudes except Hurley do the exact opposite of the advice Jacob gave them?

well he just asked Sayid what time it was, no advice there.

oh come on, clearly asking the time is a wakeup call to evaluate yr life and realize it's ~time~ to go back

Apparently Kate can never be the only sexy available chick on the show. Boone's useless sister -> Ana Lucia -> Nikki -> Juliet -> Claire.

It seems like the main character of each episode is going to have their wishes come true in the new timeline. First ep: Jack wanted to have the plane crash never happen. 2nd ep: Kate wants to reunite Claire and Aaron.

hurley gets to eat that hot pocket instead of throwing it at the wall

Fake Locke is sexy, says my mum.

I might've been confused when watching, but it seemed like Ethan called Claire's baby Aaron without being told that's what its name was going to be. Did anyone else catch this or am I just making it up?

hurley gets to eat that hot pocket instead of throwing it at the wall

Genuine LOL here.

Claire called him Aaron first.

thanks

Sorry - that was terse b/c I was typing on the phone. When the heart beat stopped she started yelling something either about or to the baybeee and that's when she called him Aaron, and Dr. Ethan repeated the name to her after that.

I think sayid being claimed is definitely mib related. I don't think it's that complicated to suggest that's his way around the ash etc either. I mean it's not complicated is it?

I sort of instantly thought it was mib when sayid woke up. Not sure it'll be the same deal as Locke tho.

V curious about ben summoning smokey when the mercenaries were around. Did the others cut some deal with him at some point?

does smokey have some kind of deal with widmore?
i mean, that seems like a way to get shit done off-island...
maybe they made a deal since smokey couldn't leave but widmore had to?

yeah in the whole sides of the war thing you've got to imagine the ben/widmore feud splits down smokey/jacob lines too

But Smokey killed most of the soldiers Widmore sent to the island.

I think sayid being claimed is definitely mib related. I don't think it's that complicated to suggest that's his way around the ash etc either. I mean it's not complicated is it?

Seems reasonable. What I thought was too complicated was the idea that MIB appeared to Hurley as Jacob.

smokey/MIB appears as dead people throughout the show & jacob just died