Lost Season 6 - RE: LA X

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interesting, but the leaky Jughead would have been on the island before 1977, with no Daniel to tell them how to make it safe.

AAAAAAALT!

that doesn't explain how they started the flight crash timeline from the sideways world.

I can't figure out why Dr. Linus didn't just make a letter of recommendation for Alex one of his conditions for not releasing the e-mails.

now that she has the letter, he can once again blackmail the head teacher

ne way, so the oceanic six have eternal life now? whuuut

at least as long as they're candidates.

I don't think it's the Oceanic Six. There are six candidates, they don't necessarily correspond to the O6. Also I doubt it's eternal, they live until they fulfil their purpose, Michael-style.

Ilana said there were six remaining candidates - Jack and Hurley obviously, Sawyer probably, Kate possibly, either Jin or Sun or both, and Ilana said Lapidus was a candidate right at the end of last season. I suppose Aaron might be one as well.

Also my guess is that Widmore has Desmond tied up in that sub.

apart from lapidus, that is the O6 isn't it?

sawyer, kate, jack, hurley, jin/sun/their kid, aaron?

though maybe alpert too?

Sayid was in the O6, Sawyer wasn't

http://www.lisapaitzspindler.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/final_five_bsgrdm.jpg

Also I doubt it's eternal, they live until they fulfil their purpose, Michael-style.

Maybe Michael didn't die, he could still wash up somewhere. Jin did.

is this the "alt" timeline [via bttf2]

is the island "relevant"

I imagine Sayid has probably blown candidate status by now?

haaaa

xpost

There was at least one other name--Hanson, I think--on the wheel that wasn't crossed off. Mmmmbop.

Er, really?

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

Seems doubtful that Mikhail's list is the same as the list we're talking about now.

Also are you sure it wasn't Hanso on the list?

Or alternatively, that the list was something they changed their minds about several times, like the sickness. The same way it looks like they're not pursuing the fertility thing because, well, it's boring and no one cares.

I can't figure out why Dr. Linus didn't just make a letter of recommendation for Alex one of his conditions for not releasing the e-mails.

Didn't Dr. Hathaway (or whatever the Principal's name was) say something to the effect that she was toast or something? I got the impression he was going to do a little more to fuck up her trying to get into college than just not write a letter.

Surely mikhail was just lying

x-post Yeah, but what leverage did the principal have? Ben could've said, "You mess with Alex, I release the e-mails."

Well, it was something like she needed a recommendation from a Yale (or wherever it was) grad, and if he became a disgraced Yale grad then that'd make the recommendation worthless whether he went ahead and gave it or not, which is why Ben had to back down.

that seemed like such a dumb negotiation imo -- "i'll write her a letter that MAY get her into the college she MAY not be able to afford anyway unless she gets a full ride scholarship, if you don't do something that would DEFINITELY ruin my career (and possibly tarnish my credibility to the point that Yale wouldn't listen to me anyway"

Don't think that sort of thing would really ruin his career, just his job at the school. And after he was out of the school he could have gone after Alex's life chances with a hatchet if he wanted to.

eh i still think it was a lame and poorly set up trump card for him to be able to play

i think the end result for ben is more important plot-wise than picking holes in blackmail schemes

Yes, if we were meant to find out that alt-timeline Ben is kind of slow.

sigh

So yeah, there's no one running round on their own now, right? It's all set up between Good Guys (on the beach) and Bad Guys (on the other island). And I suppose Widmore to get in the way for a bit before any big fite takes place.

Also why are the Smokey dudes going to the Hydra and not to the frozen donkey wheel like any sensible island-abandoners would?

Jin is still on his own, though presumably he'll join the good side with Sun or get stuck with the baddies unwillingly when Claire comes back for him.

i think the end result for ben is more important plot-wise than picking holes in blackmail schemes

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you can handwave 99% of what happens on Lost in the name of 'the end result' but imo there's nothing wrong with having opinions about how well they do at getting from A to B without making you shake your head

So yeah, there's no one running round on their own now, right?

I figure there will still be a lot of switching sides, though. Kinda like at the end of season 4 when people kept running back and forth btw jack and locke and the helicopter

they'll keep you hanging on which side of the good/bad scale kate and sawyer are on

if you tried to diagram who's on whose 'team' or who's grouped up at any given time on the show it would be incredibly, incredibly convoluted and involved

i haven't read most of the posts on this episode but just wanted to say i nearly choked on my dinner when I read "Directed by Mario Van Peebles" during the opening credits. wtf i didn't even know he was directing an episode.

Wish it was Melvin.

without making you shake your head

isn't ~smh~ a given with lost?!

i thought we agreed to succumb to the insanity and just enjoy the ride

not nitpick blackmail schemes in an alternate, or non-alternate reality

Rose and Bernard are still somewhere. I wonder if they timeflashed to 2007 and their shack didn't..they may have to go live in the caves..errr though I guess hurley & jack wouldve seen them.

Oh man, rose and bernard! And vincent!

kill them all

Really looking forward to a Vincent episode.

Without Jacob interfering with their lives, alt-timeline Vincent is actually rabid. The series ends when he bites each character one by one and kills them.

i haven't read most of the posts on this episode but just wanted to say i nearly choked on my dinner when I read "Directed by Mario Van Peebles" during the opening credits. wtf i didn't even know he was directing an episode.

i had a hard time concentrating on anything else after this tbh. probably need to rewatch the whole thing.

re the uncredited quote upthread; Ergo, the Flashsideways depict the original, unaltered timeline and what we have been watching for five years has been the result of the time traveling in Season 5. this has been clear to everyone for some time now i would suppose. i'm not sure what laws of physics say when it comes to alternate universes, but i'm pretty certain a concept of what comes "first" would just be to complicate things at this point.

looks like everyone should have taken that vaccine after all (xpost)

smokey will prob lock them all in the bear cages at the hydra.

Ergo, the Flashsideways depict the original, unaltered timeline and what we have been watching for five years has been the result of the time traveling in Season 5. this has been clear to everyone for some time now i would suppose.

Not clear at all to me. The time traveling in SSN 5 was done by people from the timeline we've been watching for 5 years, not by people in the sideways timeline.