Lost Season 6 - RE: LA X

the lighthouse set looked like xena warrior princess

so every other episode's going to suck, is that it?

seems like they're trying to make us hate Jacob more. smug useless prick.

is Hurley gonna break the fourth wall?

this was a shitty episode but it was the kind of shitty lost episode im used, so it was still better than the awful kate episode

yeah at least Jack and Kate-centric eps are out of the way for a while now

Me, to television: JACK, YOU'RE A FUCKING DICK
Hurley, to Jacob: Why is Jack such a dick?
Jacob, to Hurley: Because he's a dick. You should realise that.
Me, to television: WHY HAS IT TAKEN 6 SEASONS FOR SOMEONE TO SAY THIS

guys you are so selfish. from jack's point of view this jacob character had been manipulating him his whole life. smashing the cool lighthouse mirror was still a douchebag move though.

got a small lol from me when jack walked into his son's audition there was a sign saying 'welcome all candidates'

ok so probably the only interesting thing in this ep was in the first few minutes with jack's appendix scar! what do people make of that?! is that just the writers fucking with us or is it tied in with the course-correction stuff? the past has changed to account for things that happened on the island??

'sometimes u just need a walking through the jungle episode'

oh god dogen being in jack's alt line. i assumed he was going to drop some bomb about none of this being real but no just PARENTING ADVICE. his moment with hurley was quite funny tho i guess.

Faraday has to have taught Jears Jr all that Chopin.

I think Jack's confusion about the scar echoed the cut on his neck he didn't realize- their involvement in future developments on-island leading to happy life reset.

part of me really hopes that the season continues with the characters resolving their boring daddy issues in the alt-timeline so that come the last episode everyone is happy and at peace with themselves. then in the last episode on-island jack will do something dumb and the alt-timeline will collapse back to the island timeline and everyone will be trapped on the island in eternal despair :D

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Seeing daddy Dogen in the alt-line makes me think he's not an eternal Richard-type but a dude brought to the island post-1977. Funny that he seems to know what a Candidate is, while Richard doesn't. Maybe it was in that note Jacob sent in the huge Ankh.

Any guesses as to who's coming to the island? Desmond? Newbie? Or was Jacob lying?

I think/hope Jacob was lying. Last thing the show needs now is a new set of mysterious characters searching for the island.

with the terrible cgi, crappy sets + constant acknowledgement that the characters on-island have no clear motivations for doing anything it's like they've given up with the on-island stuff being 'realistic' at all. either the writers have just given up or they are confident enough that the payoff from the candidates/alt-timeline stuff is going to be so great that the audience will just not care.

Also Jack's mom looked like Kate 40 years on + 3 facelifts.

I almost cry when I think about how hott she was in Hill St. Blues.

Any guesses as to who's coming to the island? Desmond? Newbie? Or was Jacob lying?

I figure Desmond is going to have something to do with the timelines coming together or whatever they're going to do since he's "special" and the rules don't apply to him or whatever Faraday was trying to explain at some point last season. So I'm hoping it's him.

desmond's episode will probably be him back on 815, the only one realizing he is in an alternate timeline

Loving Lostpedia:

Hurley and Jack's journey to the lighthouse may be an allusion to Virginia Woolf's 1927 book To the Lighthouse. Large parts of Woolf's novel investigate the means of perception, attempting to understand people in the act of looking. The previous episode alluded to another Woolf title, Jacob's Room.

Also, Jack's son was playing the same Chopin piece that we saw young Faraday playing.

This must mean that Jack is Daniel Faraday's real father

I see this episode generated a lot of discussion.

Why is Jacob crossing off names in two different locations? Inefficient.

I loved the moment when Jin was like, "Uhhhhhh.... you know what? I was lying before! LOL"

what exactly was that in the crib? looked like some kind of animal skeleton or something? I wasn't really that much attention and may be way off. Hopefully it's not Vincent.

Why is Jacob crossing off names in two different locations? Inefficient.

Noticed that Locke's name was already crossed off on the wheel, but not in the cave (until MIB did it.)

Why is Jacob crossing off names in two different locations? Inefficient.

Also the randomness of the writing on the cave walls. With that many names how can you remember easily where they all are. Just get a pen and pad ffs.

"Uhhhhhh.... you know what? I was lying before! LOL"

yeah this was cool. i'm guessing Claire will be saved but perhaps not Sayid. feel like Sayid should've just died really. sorry Sayid.

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I thought it was gonna be one of Ben's papier mache dolls in Claire's crib but no, it was spooky animal skull shit.
This season really feels like ppl just wandering around doing stuff when someone tells them to, maybe seeing a dead guy, maybe not. I'm not getting any sense of DREAD or DANGER like in previous seasons (e.g. from Keamy, Ben, freighters, Others, Juliet). I guess the samurai guy could go torture some more people but I'm not feeling it.

Perhaps one sweet day Jacob will explain how the hell Hurley can be a candidate for a role that probably requires you to order people to do bad stuff to keep an island protected. Whether you've killed anyone before (off or on the island, which Claire now has) doesn't seem to matter - was gonna say I don't think Hurley has blood on his hands here but then I remembered he ran over an Other with the Dharma van...so that just leaves Rose, Bernard and Waaaalt i think.

I caught last few minutes of the replay of the Substitute with the dumb pop-ups. The last one was "Sawyer is Locke's first recruit." Really? I figured their alliance would last about ten minutes.

Also, it seems like Claire is his first recruit.

Also, Jacob's job involves traveling around the world and speaking perfect Korean when he has to. I don't see any of the candidates as being particularly adaptable.

"Austen" was number 51 on the wheel thing, and not crossed out.

Jacob says to turn the wheel to 108. "Wallace" is crossed out at 108 (and of course 108=4+8+15+23+42), but we don't know who "Wallace" is yet. Maybe the man in black before he died?

Linus is crossed out at 117.

Of course if you add 51 to 108, you get 159.

lol

had a wtf @ swelling violin soundtrack over jack kids piano recital. this music is very moving and we will show you that playing other music over it.

They're covering up the part where he flubbed those notes, like a protective father.

sb Austen

That was the same piano piece young Faraday played.

Kids be lovin' Chopin.

kidz bop chopin edition?

Chopin of course paralleling Claire choppin' a dude's stomach with an axe.

women be chopin

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why the different handwriting?

I am referring to the top photo, btw. lol

Rousseau at 20!

Adam & Eve are just the original bodies of Jacob and the other dude aren't they?

Jack is a massive dick but I laughed at how predictable him smashing everything up was. I actually quite like axe murderer Claire though.

I quite enjoyed this, in a 'this is dumb shit but at least it's not the Kate episode' way. At least we got lots of Hurley.

Thought the most significant thing in the Alt-Timeline was Jack seemingly not being able to remember anything that had happened in his past - appendix scar, kid playing piano, etc. Maybe that second one was just Jack being a self-involved dick though.

Nguyen at 18!

http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Candidates

Adam & Eve are just the original bodies of Jacob and the other dude aren't they?

I thought this but remembered that Jack said they were a man and a woman in that first season episode.