Lost Season 6 - RE: LA X

ditto

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

― President Keyes, Wednesday, February 24, 2010 8:57 AM (13 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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

― david cam'ron (tpp), Wednesday, February 24, 2010 9:04 AM (13 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

pretty sure he was just referring to jack in an elusive way there. wasn't he like "you have to help someone find his way here?"

― nitzer Ed (s1ocki), Thursday, February 25, 2010 3:24 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark

idk if im missing s.thing but surely the impt person coming to the island is aaron?

Dunno if that "you have to help someone come to the Island" line was Jacob just trying to get Jack and Hurley out of the way before Smokey ravages the temple or whatever.

The bit that made me really angry was Jack just getting up and leaving Sayid sitting in the temple surrounded by the dudes who are trying to kill him. Okay Sayid is pretty hard and he had Miles with him but Miles is only really useful after someone's been killed.

I'll actually be quite angry if Aaron doesn't turn out to be the Messiah Ghost Child or whatever given the amount of time they've spent on his frankly rubbish character so far.

Yeah that baby's a terrible fucking actor, too.

If only he could take someone out with an oar now and again I'd forgive him.

Maybe a freighter is coming with Aaron, Des & Penny, Widmore, Ms. Hawking, Sun's dad & daughter, Walt, Kate's horse, Jack's ex-wife, Charlie's brother & Cheech on board.

If only he could take someone out with an oar a juice box now and again I'd forgive him.

the ONLY interesting thing in the LA timeline in this ep was jack's scars.

the writing ahs never been a++, but i can remember two stupid howlers. jack is going to his moms to look for dad's will. he tells his son he'll be back in an hour. no you won't! you're driving there! why not take your son? it is his access visit. (wonder if mom is juliet or... idk some1.) and then when jack gets there mom says: IT'S LIKE LOOKING FOR A NEEDLE IN A HAYSTACK. i suppose we do all use cliches but come on, make an effort.

btw the poll that had to be made:

LOST versus BATTLESTAR: The Poll

The disappearing coffin thing felt like such a wasted plot direction.

loved that in the end the will was just on a fairly obvious shelf

it's going to be so hard to find!!!! oh wait here it is. drink?

Jack's mum didn't seem that bothered that her late husband had included some random woman she'd never heard of in his will.

you're driving there! why not take your son?

Jack asked him if he wanted to go and he said no!

I'll actually be quite angry if Aaron doesn't turn out to be the Messiah Ghost Child or whatever given the amount of time they've spent on his frankly rubbish character so far.

He's always just been a device as far as I can tell--no claims have been made about him being special, certainly not like the build-up we got for Walt. I don't think they ever knew where they were going w/ "He cannot be raised by anOTHER!" Probably will end up meaning that Claire never should have left him behind to follow Christian.

Jack had his appendix taken out on the island in season 4. Alt-Jack having it taken out when he was 7 must have been a change that happened pretty soon after the 1977 explosion. How old is Jack anyway?

Jack was born around 65 iirc. It's fuzzy logic, but I read someones observations that at the time of the 1977 bomb, jack's appendix scar was about three years old, which would place the surgery (linearlyish) in 74 which corresponds roughly with his mom saying he was "7 or 8."

lolstpedia says dec 3 1969. so it would be very soon after the bomb.

"Jack's mum didn't seem that bothered that her late husband had included some random woman she'd never heard of in his will."

I forgot about this cause of the commercial break, but I *assumed* when it happened that they were going to follow it up with more drama. Would have liked to have seen Jack's mom do the obvious thing and try to Facebook her.

In 2004?

was facebook already around in 2004 in the alternate timeline?

Yeah the reason the plane didn't crash was because the pilot Tweeted for aid when they hit turbulence.

been on fb since 03 yall

he tells his son he'll be back in an hour. no you won't! you're driving there! why not take your son? it is his access visit.

jack did ask his son if he wanted to come!

kid was too busy being a secretive little prick

Probably trying to free an imprisoned Iraqi or something.

Wouldn't put it past the writers to actually make that happen.

And that Iraqi would be . . . Nadia!

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I'm getting more and more of a sinking feeling with each episode of this show. The mystical Jacob stuff has worn thin quickly, and the wrapup looks like it's just falling into 'search for The One/final battle' territory. There's no more eerie menace, just one weak gotcha after another. I'd be delighted to be wrong, but I don't see being anything but ultimately disappointed.

my guess is that the ending will be vaguely circular, and not tidy: like, even if it all ~ends~ for these characters, there will be the suggestion that the island is FOREVER and that another crew of ppl will wash up on its shores soon or something

another crew of THEM

but hey gbx, it only ends once..

Just watched the end of the final season of the Wire, so now I'm expecting the Lost finale will be similar with suggestion of new people taking over old roles etc
and lots of lingering shots of Baltimore.

Jacob will be sorry he made up all that bullshit!

i just want to know what the island is and why it moves

the only thing we're going to learn by the end of all this is why we hate these characters so much. lindelof and cuse are so delusional that we watch this show for character development. i'm sure they thought we'd get all choked up at the jack and his kid stuff...

I dunno, a lot of the things they introduced as character development turned out to be plot devices.

nah i'm into character development. as long as the character is kate and the development is death

Like:
Jack is a man, but his kid is a white Walt.
Walt. White. Man

Walt Whitman.

I would like to reiterate that Sawyer shooting Kate down on the escape fantasy bs last week (or whenever it was) was awesome.

nah i'm into character development. as long as the character is kate and the development is death

― david cam'ron (tpp), Thursday, February 25, 2010 3:04 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

agree

"Like:
Jack is a man, but his kid is a white Walt.
Walt. White. Man

Walt Whitman."

Had a totally hysterical Black Dynamite LOL moment with this.

Did anyone else feel like the pacing was really ... weird with this ep? Felt really rushed, like they were trying to sell too many things and not developing any one of them satisfyingly.

Jacob is beginning to really, really annoy me. It seems like he's training Jack to want to kill him, again. At this point I can totally see how MIB would want to take out anybody associated with him.

nah i'm into character development. as long as the character is kate and the development is death

I laughed long and hard at this

this son of jack's is the same one he accused his dad of conceiving with his ex-wife from happy gilmore right? i'm a bit confused cos they way he said "i'd be a terrible dad" to hurley in the jungle didnt seem wryly regretful or secretive or anything.

don't really get what the deal is with jack's dad either since youre getting both apparitions of the dead and corporeal bodysnatching on the island. if he's a ghost why bother with his corpse being missing? if his body was taken over, by jacob presumably, then why wasn't jacob still in it? guhh.

Jack is his own grandpa.

also the specificity of jacob asking them to dial 108 would suggest that yeah someone new is coming to the island rather than it just being a longwinded ruse? but then lostpedia says that 108.WALLACE was already crossed out so fuck knows.

please let it be billy dee

the funny thing about lost is how it's all about mystery and revelations or the anticipation of them and how slow and painful and obvious 99% of it is. not obvious like predictable necessarily but obvious like "yeah the wee dad at the recital is the samurai... ...yes we know... ...look it's obvious it's him the kid's japanese and the guy with his back to us is short and has the samurai hairdo... ...come on... ...yes it's the samurai we know... ...still got his back to us... ...still got the hairdo... ...yes... ...oh jack's walked past him and the samurai's said something to him and yes it's the samurai". so many rubbish and meaningless reveals have panned out like that and you spot it immediately and get bored almost even more immediately. actually that's not the funny thing it's one of the crap things.