Lost Season 6 - RE: LA X

dude what the fuck is wrong with you?

huh?

NOT YOU THE SPOILER

ok nestor you are ridiculous

Oh smokey u gr8 manipulator you

guess that wasn't the Black Rock we saw approaching the Island in the ssn 5 finale then

the island all along may have been a prison colony for an evil spirit, with Jacob as jailer.

Looks like this is the case. And in the alt-timeline will we soon see evil rampant in the world?

pretty great tv right there! thanks lost

Jacob kicking Richard's ass was pretty unexpected.

Favorite episode of the season by far.

I'm not feeling positive about that ep.

You should consult your Lost analyst.

Re: Jacob's fighting Richard - I really liked that 150 years ago he actually wasn't quite as mellow as he is now (or as implied in the S5 finale flashback). If anything, he seemed very angry and Shepard-like. But it also very much is in line with his "What about you?" response to Ben's demands for answers in last year's finale.

loved the scene where richard was riding sawyer thru the jungle

Now that we know it was Richard's job to intervene on Jacob's behalf with the people he brought to the island, the last 5 seasons sure do make a lot of sense. lol.

If Jacob's goal is to keep MIB on the island. And MIB can't leave the island as long as Jacob is alive. And MIB can't kill Jacob himself. Then why is Jacob so eager to bring people to the island and MIB so opposed to it? Because those people Jacob brings are just opportunities for MIB to find his loophole. What's more important to MIB: getting off the island or being right about human nature? And the same question goes to Jacob: Is it more important to keep MIB on island or be right about human nature?

That's a solid point right there

Loved all the callbacks to Ben's being recruited as the loophole - Isabella/Alex, 'you'll do whatever I ask', etc

Favorite episode of the season by far.

― Religious Embolism (WmC)

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Also love the way MIB has adopted the use of self-help pop psychoanalysis for manipulating people in the modern age, whereas in olden times it was religion

All the actors were top-notch as well, Carbonell and Welliver especially

Fundamentally are people happy that the island is a cork keeping evil trapped? Are people happy with this turn of events?

I'm not. I think it's dumb. I don't think I could ever rewatch seasons 1-4 with that notion in my head.

Hopefully it's a lie.

I really hate being a downer. But I just don't think I like the direction this show is going in.

Agree on the acting x-post.

Favorite episode of the season by far.

― Religious Embolism (WmC)

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― the rolling bears (Z S), Tuesday, March 23, 2010 10:21 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark

I'll take good vs evil over an endlessly convoluted explanation. obviously you need some tolerance for that to be a fan of this show but I like when its tethered to something simple and clear.

I didn't think I would be down with the show ending up as some big quasi-religion good vs evil thing but the way they presented it is halfway interesting imo

I'm going to love finding out exactly why MIB is evil incarnate for Jacob, a lot of what MIB has perpetrated onscreen could be put down to his just trying to escape

i did like Action Jacob. so much better than Probst Jacob.

Favorite episode of the season by far.

― Religious Embolism (WmC)

100% Kate-free. Coincidence?

Fundamentally are people happy that the island is a cork keeping evil trapped? Are people happy with this turn of events?

this doesn't seem new at all, it just seems like a more clear metaphor for the stuff that was happening with the numbers, etc

psst tza look up two posts

wait... what just happened?

lol caught mistake and deleted

i mean... nothing. the island didn't want me to say that.

Not a bad episode! Must be a series first with Jack, Sun etc gathering around the camp fire sharing information without Jack punching someone, although still asking ridiculous questions "what do we do next?" "I don't know" "well who DOES know?" I mean who talks like that apart from a 3-year-old?

Explanation for busted statue was a bit lame.

omg tza is a very special boy

Explanation for busted statue was a bit lame.

But it does explain why Jacob would build a lighthouse...

I thought this was totally ridiculous, but I am sort of impressed with how ridiculous they went with it! And the acting was awesome.

It is a seriously weird tonal shift for the show, that's for sure.

So who is "evil"'s mother? (Or was he lying to Kate?) And who is the little boy? And how come Smokey stopped walking around like Titus Welliver? What does the sideways timeline mean?! Damn you, Lindelof and Cuse!

i really liked this episode! on paper the story was kind of broad and cliche, but the acting saved it and then some.

i thought of this thread at the beginning of the episode, when richard shouted at jack "you want to know the secret i've been keeping??" and jack just looked back at him with infuriating nonchalance. god i want to punch jack in the face.

So who is "evil"'s mother?

I've seen casting news on that, but some might consider an actor's name a spoiler.

Maybe Jacob & MIB were fairly normal dudes who ended up on the island in the distant past & got recruited into these roles--much like these new candidates.

There was a kind of hilarious uproar this week when the actress who plays Zoe (the Tina Fey chick) told Us Weekly that she'd received the final scripts for the season and her character was in every scene.

She later clarified that she was only sent the pages in which her character appears.

the stand + trading places = L O S T

jacob giving MIB the white rock is like the mortimer bros betting a dollar

i feel ppl that the wine-in-the-bottle thing isnt the best explanation they can come up with (not by a long shot) but this was still a pretty rad episode and the actors sold it well i thought

lol Keyes i didn't think about that but what a dumbass. i guess that still means she's in multiple scenes, though.

kinda neat after all this time to have nestor & jorge do a scene in spanish together

nestor really went in hard on this episode

Loved Jacob being a total dick. He doesn't seem that smart though. Or especially "good" - he needs to kill people by crashing their planes/ships on the island, then put more of them at risk of being killed by the smoke monster, so that he can test whether they make the "right" choices, without them knowing that they're being tested, and meanwhile put himself at risk of being killed?

yeah there's got to be something more that explains his motivations

So in Jacob's analogy he (or the candidate) is the bottle, right? The evil can still get out by smashing the bottle.

Anyway, I loved that all this episode did was explored fan theories that were around in Season 1 and still didn't reach any better conclusions than we did at the time. Still think there's potential for purgatory to be the answer and Smokey realising at the end after 'winning' that he can't escape anyway.