Lost Season 6 - RE: LA X

I think the photo was just Jack, Christian, and David.

anybody got an avi version they can check?

I do (& did) - the third person in the photo is just boring old drunk grandpa.

regarding constants..... they've gone with people they love now. daniel's constant wasn't des. it probably only affects people who were on the island, too. juliet's "it worked" seems to be a red herring as original timeline peeps can't see the alt timeline.

daniel -> charlotte
des -> penny
sun -> jin
hurley <-> libby
bernard -> rose
jack -> nobody (he's bleeding out)

xpost it was just Jack, Christian and David but tbh i think we know who the mother is

Yeah, it's Carol Vessey from Stuckeyville.

nikki?

smoke monster will ARISE through the cut in Jack's neck.

The constant thing was just to do with keeping your head together while time travelling or something, wasn't it? Maybe Jack does have a super-love, his ex-wife. I can't figure how the person I had down as David's mum fits into the alt, though...

I'm sad that Widmore got killed, I was really starting to enjoy him.

I never really 'got' Widmore, he didn't seem to live up to the position the show put him in and up against Ben could never really come off especially ruthless or interesting

The Shadow of the Statue people, the Temple people, and Widmore's crew were all pure cannon fodder and nothing more. Kinda lame.

didn't seem to live up to the position the show put him in

true of many many characters

Probably just an allegory for religions all over the world missing the point. xp

at least Widmore hired a few people that became memorable characters, those other groups were total flashes in the pan. it's been like 10 episodes since Dogen and I can already barely remember him.

at least Widmore hired a few people that became memorable characters

i guess. i mean, in the sense that when Smocke killed Zoe I was like, oh thank god

what was dogen up to mad wee guy

Widmore also hired Naomi, Daniel, Miles, Lapidus, Charlotte, and Keamy...so the Widmore contingent wins on the memorable characters quotient.

probably very satisfying for ben to shoot widmore, but maybe ben was trying to stop him from telling smokey secrets, then to cover, he's all, "BTW I hate this guy's GUTS"

yeah i think ben might be conning smokey tbh

also, locke's "i like the feel of ground on my feet" explanation seems fishy. maybe there's a vulnerability in smoke mode he's hiding?

Best thing about this episode was the return of the totally untrustworthy, creepy, morally ambiguous lying dick Ben rather than the gimpy emo Ben we've seen all series.

Still, he's probably going to get to shack up with Rousseau in the alt, so I hope he's happy.

No idea where this last episode is going at all, but I love that Desmond is at the centre. That concert is going to be fun.

odds on there being a scene where someone is performing some piece of music while we repeatedly cut to some kind of intense action-y thing coming to a head in sync w/the music

1:1

What exciting thing is going to happen at the museum, I wonder.

Ben conning Smokey seems kinda like a retread of what Sawyer just did a few episodes ago

chances are ben will be about as successful as sawyer, though, right?

funny that widmore assumes that ben will definitely want to destroy the island (i assume that's why he didn't want Ben to hear it - unless there's more to that secret whisper, which I doubt)

At least the producers let Mira Furlan be pretty. She was made to look facking horrible as crazy island Rousseau back in the earlier seasons.

Ben conning Smokey seems kinda like a retread of what Sawyer just did a few episodes ago

What Sawyer just did a few episodes ago was: get played like a bitch

true, especially considering how faux-gritty gorgeous most of the other island chix get to look (xpost)

I still fear the worst re: Aaron being worked into the finale/overall story.

Like, Claire's going into labor at the concert, right?

What if she names it Jacob.

What if she doesn't name him at all? And his swaddling blanket is BLACK?

oh god the horror of that vision, I hadn't thought about Finale Baby

did you picture a great plume of smoke shooting out of Claire's birth canal to neckpunch Jack?

Like, Claire's going into labor at the concert, right?

And taken to the hospital in Widmore's HELICOPTER?

oh god the horror of that vision, I hadn't thought about Finale Baby

:((((((((

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Claire's birth canal

MAH VAHJOINAH

LOL

odds on there being a scene where someone is performing some piece of music while we repeatedly cut to some kind of intense action-y thing coming to a head in sync w/the music

― gbx, Wednesday, May 19, 2010 5:12 PM (53 minutes ago)

ugh, this fills me with dread

taken to the hospital in Widmore's HELICOPTER?

Piloted by Lapidus, no doubt.

AUGH

You guys, I might just not watch the finale and work hard to never hear anything about it. There's no way it will be satisfying.

the seinfeld finale was pretty satisfying in retrospect. the malcolm in the middle finale was very 'lost'-esque.

tbf, Seinfeld was much easier to wrap up than Lost. I liked it at the time, and I like it even more now. The thing I've started to realize about Lost is that I like all the things about the show that I've cooked up on my own, and almost nothing that the creators actually explain or intend.

ok what is your satisfactory finale cookup?

Ideally, the MiB gets off the island and the parallel timeline turns out to be reality, proving that Jacob was just a manipulative goon who was killed with good reason. Or at least something partially along those lines.

As for what will actually happen, I have no idea. But every time the show actually offers a resolution, it sucks. I don't know why they would change their M.O. now.

it ends with everyone in the alt line together and conscious of the unalt one and being like "OK yeaaah let's go to island and FIX this thing" the end

In the season premiere, the island had been destroyed...if Smokey/Flocke/MiB is successful, the parallel timeline should become reality. The only wrench in the machine is what Smokey actually turns out to be. I'm hoping all the claims about him being pure evil are misdirection (i.e. things cooked up by Jacob to justify his own actions). Nothing Smokey has done has run counter to behavior of one person trying to escape captivity. Jacob, on the other hand, changes his story and his motivation all the damn time.

There's an interesting writing problem with what Smokey would do once he got out. Would he just bum around, or run for office or what?