***Official LOST Season 6 thread***

[Voltaire 4,817]

I read all the drivel you post.

 

I do too. Hopefully it doesn't take five minutes of reading for him to start this time.

[kutulu 1,598]

I am guessing he hasn't posted the other parts yet. So far, so good. Like i said, season 6 is just one big mystery, no one really has a clue as to the whole plot. We pretty much just know that we will see what happens if they had landed.

 

Part II

 

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Season 6 Preview - A Look Back On Season Five; Part One

 

I think I might have gone and burned myself out on LOST. Well, probably not, but watching five seasons worth in a couple of months and then typing out summary/theory about what you just witnessed can be laborious. But, it is the last time, the final offseason until retirement, and we are going to have a definite conclusion. Your hear me, Brett Farve? Retirement. I’m not typically an angry man. I don’t advocate going out into the world with a hammer, running into a nursery, and beating babies to death. Of course it’s less expensive than therapy, but you need to have some limits. Sure, these completely unnecessary series of rants have taken countless hours and countless liquor bottles. Jack, Kate, and Sun suck. They suck. It is probably not a coincidence that they were part of the Oceanic 6. Look at these characters that Season 5 spent so much time concentrating on, and how little their personalities changed from the day the plane crashed to the day each person decided to return to the island. Kate was selfish and manipulative, on and off the island. I suspect she is the reason for John Edwards getting a divorce. Jack was a man of stubborn principle and lack of commons sense. Sayid, a mercenary soldier and mercenary Romeo. Hurley is the cheerful comic relief who thinks he is cursed. Aaron has a big head. None of these people changed because of their island experience, and some only after 3 years passed off island and they decided to return, willingly or not. Sun was the only one who changed, from meek, cheating, manipulative house wife to brash, cheating, manipulative corporate monster. Sun only half returned, but I was struck by Jin making Locke promise that he will not bring Sun back, and it looks like The Nemesis held to Locke’s promise. It’s remarkable to see transformation in other characters like Sawyer, Juliet, Miles, Locke, Michael, to name a few. Not always for the good. But the island seemed to inspire characters to dig deep down and really become someone more honorable, a chance at redemption. Some excelled. Some failed. These Losties and Tailies are a bunch of murderers, for the most part. Geez, you can count on one hand the flashbacks don’t involve someone dying. Many people changed fundamentally. Not the Oceanic Boring 6. Time travel is a hell of a thing to comprehend. You can effect minor changes here and there. But it takes a super effort to get a game changing effect, something that affects the future forever. At first, I bought into the Whatever Happened, Happened, which was beaten into our heads for most of Season 5. Which I am feeling foolish about. Desmond tells Charlie that he has to die for Claire to board a helicopter and leave the island. Isn’t it strange that this NEVER HAPPENED. Well, in this loop anyway. Enough evidence is piling up to show up that Whatever happened, Happened was wrong. I became a heretic, and pointed out enough key changes in the future that WHH just was not possible. Without rereading any of my past write-ups from Season 3 to 5, and in between, I’m trying to see the show arc from a fresh perspective, and I will again plow through a whole season in this write-up. I would like to point out, I was right about a number of things during this 5th season, so I’m going to pat myself on the back just this once and not mention it again. The Loop Theory is for all the marbles. Season 6 is just days away. I plan on dropping anchor and spending a bit of time explaining in full detail a few examples of different loops scenes that occur, and you will have evidence of such shenanigans by pure dialogue, with some physical examples tossed in too. It’s going to be exciting. A “bingo”, as Christophe Waltz might say. Another thing I’m looking forward to is the finality. Last season. Anything can happen. Anyone can die. At any time. The writers haven’t been shy in killing off what looked like main characters throughout the episodes, and they were particularly rude to the background Losties and Tailies, so I suspect they get really blood thirsty this year. After all, we’ve had Ben and Widmore mention a war is coming, and war has casualties. We’ve seen the dynamic of Jacob vs the Man In Black, we’ve had the philosophical differences between Jack and Locke. Everything, absolutely everything is leading down a path of death and destruction I my incredibly non humble opinion, which makes you wonder why we needed for Jacob to find the loophole, because it’s going to get ugly. Of course, I should point out, you cannot have a loophole without a LOOP. Got it? And I certainly want to see more of my favorite character on the show, the Smoke Monster. I’ve been disappointed that Smokie hasn’t been a one man gang of bent steel and sex appeal, you don’t have to like him, but you sure better learn to love him, all the women want to be with him and all the men want to be him, well, if it is male, and I don’t particularly want to check it’s junk, especially after watching it get mad squish Mr Eko, but since then, it has only slightly injured one of Keamy’s men and done little else. Sightings have been few and far in between. Need. More. Smoke. Sure, Smokie wiped out the French, but how hard is that? The cast of Glee could invade France and be in charge within 2 days. OK. I think I’m ready to start. I do recall that I really enjoyed the time travelling scenes, Dharma was OK in parts, and that the Oceanic 6 sucked. Oh, one more thought. I’m finally convinced that the bomb was essential for the re-set that we get, sure it was obvious, but I wanted to be sure and explore other possibilities. Ill fated and sympathetic, and I note you can’t spell sympathetic without “pathetic”, Locke was crucial for the Man in Black to possess, and Ben had to stab Jacob. But let’s also consider what if the reverse of everything is true. What if the loophole, the game changer, the deal breaker is still the bomb. However, what if Daniel and Jack were wrong, and the bomb ended the world, and instead we get a reset on the island, with all the characters remembering the previous loop, knowing they have to work together to stop the bomb from going off in 1977, but they are trapped in 2004 or 2007. Yeah, this Season 6 is a complete mystery to me, since I don’t read spoilers at all. But I do stand by Multiple Loop Theory, and Season 6 is a re-set of some sort, with a bloody war upcoming. Can I be any more nonspecific?

 

Dr Chang wakes up and feeds Miles. Everybody knew it was going to be Miles. A skipping record is a precursor of things to come this season. As Chang is filming the orientation film for the useless Arrow hatch, he is interrupted. Might be why the films started and stopped so often, and some splicing to put it all together. Chang is a bit of a diva. There are problems at the Orchid. The engineering X ray showed a clear picture of the frozen donkey wheel. Behind that wall is “limitless energy that we can harness to manipulate time”. But there are some kind of rules that cannot be broken. They stop drilling as the bodies are piling up. Daniel shows up in Dharma time. Time travel, how silly. At the funeral of Locke, Jack has hit rock bottom of self pity, pills, and personal grooming. Ben continues to lie to Jack, and Jack doesn’t seem to have any useful information to share about what happened on the island after they left, other than bad stuff, as explained by Jeremy Bentham during his visit to Jack. You get the feeling that Locke could have said more by way of explanation, but you have to consider the audience. I don’t believe Jack could have grasped the meaning of the donkey wheel, moving the island, time travel, and other high concepts. Jack, bad stuff happened. Oh, OK. Ben claims he isn’t really sure what happened on the island either. Back on the island, the sky turns whitish purple, and John is all alone, the Others have disappeared. Daniel proclaims that the zodiac boat was inside the perimeter, which is how they time jumped with the Islanders. Juliet and Sawyer don’t see the boat smoke anymore. Rose and Bernard can’t find the camp. Daniel explains that they need to find the Swan hatch; the camp isn’t gone, it just hasn’t been built yet. I found it a bit odd that Sawyer and Daniel hadn’t met until this moment, but I guess Locke hasn’t either. Kate calls Aaron “Goober”, a fitting title considering her boyfriend Dr “Gomer” Shepherd. Have I mentioned that Aaron pisses me off. That kid is so worthless. What, are you 3 years old? Do something with your life?. By the age of three, I already had an IRA and putting in 60 hours a day at the old plastics factory. A lawyer shows up at Kate’s house, and claims he has a court order to get a blood sample to disprove custody. At the time, we were all curious who was behind all this nonsense. I correctly pegged Ben, especially after Sun had no knowledge of this threat. Realistically, it has to be Sun, Widmore, or Ben. And Ben it was. Did I mention I wouldn’t be patting myself on the back? Bullocks. Kate does the only thing that her maternal instincts will allow her to do, pack up a suitcase for herself, grab cash, a gun, and her kid’s hand as they go on “vacation” That is nice and all that jazz. But our favorite ditzy dame didn’t pack a single thing for Aaron. No clothes, no toys, not anything. She packed for herself only. Can you blame her? She’s been selfish all her life. Other people just don’t exist when she gets panicky. Sawyer demands answers and gives Daniel a smack. Ben dislodged us in time and the record is skipping. Ah, time travel, what a glorious concept. Locke watches Yemi’s Nigerian drug plane fly onto the island and crash. Creepy and well shot scene. Locke hustles and starts to climb up, but not good enough as Ethan comes out of the jungle and puts a bullet into his leg. Ethan had zero recollection of Locke, odd since Locke visited the Others in the past and Ethan had zero knowledge of “John Locke”. Sun is detained at the airport, as Widmore is miffed that she pulled a power move in public and demands respect. But they reach an understanding as Sun wants to kill Ben because Jin died, instead of blaming Kate, Jack, Keamy, herself, the island, or Widmore. Ben just didn’t have a good day during that Wheel of Fortune spin. Now, why does Sun blame Ben? She never talked to Locke off island, as Locke kept his word to Jin. Ben first met Sun off island on the marina. How on earth does Sun possess knowledge that Ben stabbed Keamy and blew up the freighter? The answer is she cannot, without loop knowledge and had remembered from a previous loop. She bought out her father’s company and declared two people were responsible for Jin’s death. What helped shape her decision? Hurley is a murder suspect on the run with the real murderer Sayid, going back to Sayid’s hotel. Just do the opposite of what Ben tells you. Um, that is a bit too broad of a strategy there, buddy. A terrific fight breaks out, Sayid tosses some no name off a balcony, gets shot with needles, and is the first person in Hollywood history to kill someone with a dishwasher. Daniel insists that you cannot change anything, which is surely bad news for Jacob, as that is EXACTLY what he is trying to do. Daniel with more philosophy. Time is like a street; you can move forward, you can move back, but you cannot create a new street. Whatever happened, happened. I suppose that means you cannot create an alternate reality, but surely you can change things, as we will see as we progress. And, again, this is Jacob’s objective. Daniel has spent his entire adult life studying space-time, learning about Dharma, putting his findings in his journal. John is visited by Richard.

J: When am I? R: It’s all relative. Richard gives the compass to John. The compass is one of those unexplainable objects on this show. Different people have it at different times, yet you can’t connect the dots of when it transferred hands. It’s best to avoid the headache of the compass and just assume that it changes in loops. You need them to come back, You’re going to have to die John. Sawyer is trying to get inside the Swan hatch. Again, we are hit with “If it didn’t happen, it can’t happen.” Again, I protest. This philosophy was hammered at us early and often in this season, so that the time travel concept didn’t get too involved and convoluted for viewers. But mistakes in the concept keep popping up. Daniel himself quickly works against his own words by actually talking to Desmond, telling him that he is uniquely and miraculously special, the “rules” don’t apply to you. The rules? Time travel rules, or loop rules? Desmond wakes up years later on Penny’s boat with a brand new memory of Daniel. Both are interconnected, but are never able to remember meeting each other in the past.

 

The hatching of the lie of the Oceanic 6, and Hurley is very reluctant to go along with the plan. As Hurley is driving along with 3 sheets to the wind Sayid, he is pulled over by Ana Lucia who is kind enough to give Hugo some survival tips and a quick hello from Libby. Hurley buys horrible clothes, Kate talks to Sun, the Boring 6 are inevitably moving together, like water circling in a toilet, about to flush. Cheech is making a rather disgusting sandwich topped with caviar, ready to settle in and watch Nikki on Expose. Kate goes to see Sun in her hotel. Ben goes to the butcher shop. “Is it what I think it is?” The butcher Jill seems to know a lot, which if you are in the course correcting business, it probably helps. Loop knowledge? Ben: keep him (Locke) safe, or everything we are about to do won’t matter at all.” Fore knowledge. Loop? Charlotte is getting headaches, and Daniel thinks “Oh, that old gag.” Miles find a boar for the group, but probably led the Others to the beach at the same time, and a flaming arrow attack commences. Sun explains to Kate that someone is running a con on her, and “wouldn’t you do anything you could to keep Aaron? Kate responds with “what kind of person do you think I am?” Hahahahaha. Sun: You did what you had to do on the freighter. What? Kate promised to bring Jin to the chopper. Epic Fayle. Sun poo poos that. I don’t blame you; how’s Jack? Well, at least Sun was able to dig that knife into Kate’s back with the Jack comment. What we have here in Kate and Sun is a collision of volatile evil so enormous; Desmond would need to push a button every 3 minutes to save the world. Cheech hands Sayid off to Jack. Hurley, at the urging of his mother, decides to tell her of his adventures. Much like I suspected, it sounded like the rambling of a mental patient. Hurley’s mother actually says: I believe you. That’s crazy. Until you realize that we are all the same crazy, as we are watching this crap, with one more season left. Word of note: don’t ever let Hurley keep a secret. He can’t help himself from spilling every bean possible. For fock’s sake, Kate got the location of Miles from Hurley at Dharmaville with one single question. Sawyer and Juliet are captured by a ruthless young Widmore as the Losties were trying to reach the creek. Jack wakes Sayid up in hospital, a hospital where he is no longer welcome. Hurley gallantly spins to face Ben and throws a hot pocket in his somewhat general direction. See, Ben looked positively presidential here, as he was able to dodge a silly object being thrown at him much like the world’s best dodgeball players, Vince Vaughn, Ben Stiller, and George W Bush. For the record, Bush might have been a retard, but he was our retard, and only we can mess with our retards. I think that was from a Winston Churchill dissertation. Or maybe the movie Animal House. I don’t feel like making the effort to look it up. Hurley turns himself in to the police and confesses to 3 murders, because nothing could possibly go wrong with that strategy. As the Others try to cut off both of Juliet’s hands, which would have made bomb crushing much more difficult. Sadly, I could see Juliet trying to smash the bomb with a rock in her mouth or maybe even using her skull, as Kate would freak out over a chipped nail. Locke arrives to lend a helping….hand. Get it? Booooo! Eloise Hawking is in a church, she is working with Ben, to get the Losties to come back to the island.

 

Penny has a difficult childbirth. That’s enough of that. Why does every show on TV have to have a gratuitous child birth, mother in distress scene. Hell, we get to see it practically every season on this show. Back to Quantum Leap LOST. While Sawyer and Juliet fled from the arrows at night, were captured at night, escaped capture at night, Charlotte, Miles, and Daniel arrive at the creek in broad daylight. Do you really think the creek was so far away, that it took 12 hours to get there? And while some Others captured Sawyer and Juliet, the same grouping of Others capture the Chopperies 12 hours later? Bullsh!t. Two similar scenes from different loops, with a half day time difference. A trip wire takes care of some disposable Losties, and the Others are wearing their military gear. Penny is nagging Desmond on the boat, specifically asking why did Desmond not remember his conversation with Daniel until 2 days ago? Let’s look at this more closely. It’s a freshly created memory, supposedly. But, Desmond is off the island 3 years now. Daniel is currently in a timeline where Desmond is in the hatch, pushing the button by himself, anywhere from 3 to 6 years in the past from this very moment for Desmond. And, it’s been, what, a couple of days in real time for the time jumpers, which would still put them 3 years behind Desmond’s memory flash. So, why now? Why, right at this exact moment. Why not a few days after Desmond fled the island? Penny: Promise me you will never go back to that island. First of all, this is selfish. Desmond already said those people need his help. Secondly, Penny has been overly familiar with this island since the start of this show. It’s like she is as puppet for her father, who wants her and Desmond to stay hidden. Hell, Widmore tells Desmond later to disappear. Desmond is a game changer, that Widmore is not looking to use. Penny is Jim Carey’s wife from the Truman show, marrying him, having his child, all for an acting role; Widmore is Christophe, the architect of a great lie. Why not? Oh, that would mean the love story between Penny and Desmond is fake. Well…yeah. The prisoners of Juliet and Sawyer are speaking Latin, no surprise to Juliet. She convinces one of the prisoners to take them to Richard, but Widmore kills the fool and takes off. Locke can’t pull the trigger to shoot him, since he is apparently one of Locke’s people. Ugh. Douchie. Miles is able to detect fresh graves of soldiers killed, including one from radiation poisoning. Ageless Richard is still constantly a figurehead for the Others, and inquires if the Chopperies are back for their bomb. Daniel deduces that the bomb is leaking, and then spills his guts about wanting to stalk Charlotte more right now than any other person in his lifetime. And something about love. I wasn’t listening. Charlotte was, however. Because after Daniel tells her he meant it, he leaves, and Charlotte has a look on her face like someone had just fished a corpse out of a lake after a month of rotting. Or seen Nancy Pelosi naked. Utter disgust and revulsion. She eventually figures out that Daniel is the creepy guy at Dharma that warned her to get off the island and never come back. Daniel was looking at her back then like a pedo sitting down for some lemonade and cookies, about to be filmed for national TV. It’s just wrong, people. Unless you want to club young Charlotte with a hammer. Not that I approve of such activities. Desmond encounters the ticket taker of Oceanic 815 who is now a secretary at Oxford. Yeah, that’s a coincidence. But it is the same character, or they are recycling actors. Desmond breaks into Daniel’s old lab. A janitor gives him some info on the cover up of Daniels work at the university. Yeah, the janitor is another coincidence. Desmond visits Theresa Spencer, who is Daniel’s former assistant and is in a long term mental time travel loop, hopelessly stuck in time, but oddly this condition has been ongoing for years instead of days and a quick and painful death. Widmore has been funding Daniel’s research and paying for Theresa’s care. So Widmore is helping Eloise’ son, but Eloise is working with Ben. That makes no sense, but that is exactly what is happening. Desmond barges into Widmore’s office and demands the address of Faraday’s mother. Desmond returns to the boat, and doesn’t want to go any further. Penny sensed Desmond was lying about the dead end, or she just remembered it from another Loop. Desmond is being selfish now. After Widmore cockily says some sodding old man doesn’t know the jungle all that well, Locke is looking over the Other’s camp and wants to go talk to Richard. Daniel tells Elli that she looks very familiar, mostly because this is his mother. Daniel examines Jughead, sees the leak, and says that they have to make it inert by burying it. He says he is from the past, much to Sawyer’s chagrin when he shows up for the rescue. Locke strolls into camp and proclaims that “Jacob sent me”. Well, maybe, maybe not. You told her? Richard is not impressed. “We have a very specific process in selecting our leader, which starts at a very young age.” This refers to Ben in the upcoming episodes. It’s 1954, visit my birth in the hospital in two years. Charlotte collapses after another flash.

 

Charlotte is still passed out. I’m reading over my preliminary notes, and I’ve notice that I jotted down “I hate Aaron” about 6 times so far. Sure, we haven’t seen Claire all that much this season, and we won’t. But with so many seemingly religious themes in this show, and the kidnapping, and miracle birth on island, and how the island tells Kate not to bring him back, I wonder if this Aaron is some kind of a super baby, and Claire is going to take on some kind of Virgin Mary role. Don’t forget the imagery of the heroin statues, and how Charlie was the closest person on the island to Claire. Charlotte is still passed out. Jack and Kate are on Penny’s boat, looking to make some shady deals to skew the voting in their favor. I guess you could call it a Congressional health care debate. Jack wants Kate’s support, Kate wants to abduct a baby. Kate comes through with an out of place line of “Once, Aaron is asleep, he’s asleep”. Of course , Aaron is awake and squirming around in the very next camera shot. Different shots from different loops. Kate: Jack, I have always been with you. That would be 100% correct xcept for when you were having sex with Sawyer. Come to think of it, Kate never had sex with Jack on the island. And she said she loved Sawyer at the polar bear cages. And kissed Sawyer to get Shannon’s medicine. Other than that, she has always been with him. Morton Downey Jr coming out of a bathroom had more credibility. Charlotte is still passed out. Sun receives a package which includes surveillance on Ben and a gun. Kate whines to a lawyer, who is doing this to men?. The lawyer zings her with you did this to yourself. Charlotte is still passed out. Locke wants to go to the Orchid to try to fix the time jumps and make the escapees come back. Jack gets yelled at in hospital, Sayid is attacked, they find Kate’s address in the assassin’s pocket. Are the people attacking Sayid with Widmore, or with Ilana’s group? After all, Sayid killed just about all of Widmore’s men, so I’m not really sure of their motivation. Jack calls Kate. Here’s my address. Hi, Jack. Glad you came. But I don’t want you here. So you can leave. Jumping Jehosophat, I tend to see less drama in a College of Creative and Performing Arts. They follow the lawyer. In the jungle, the group walks past a bright light beam going into the sky. Locke recognizes it immediately, as the time he was banging on that hatch as Boone was dying back at the caves. He leads the group around that location. But Sawyer goes to investigate a noise up ahead. Let’s drop an anchor here for a bit. This is the scene where Claire gives birth from Season 1. The scene is different. As Sawyer approaches, his vantage point is similar to the camera angles we had in Season 1. So, I went back and re-watched the scene from Season 1. Focus on the torch. Jin should have been next to the torch, and Charlie should have been across to the right of him pacing. They should absolutely be visible to Sawyer peaking through the vegetation in Season 5, and are not. Kate’s close up shots in Season 1 show Jin & Charlie in the background. Season 5, you can’t find them anywhere. Please take note of the words that I capitalized then compare to the other version.

Season One: Kate is on her feet.

"Do you want this baby NOW"

"Do you want it to be HEALTHY AND SAFE"

"THE BABY KNOWS THAT TOO"

"You are not alone in all of this we are all here for you"

"This baby is all of us"

"But I need you to push, ok ok"

“OK ON THE COUNT OF 3, READY 123 Push, GOOD GOOD GOOD Push”

"THAT’S GOOD Push, Push"

“RELAX RELAX RELAX, BREATHE, COME ON BREATHE”

“BREATHE, OK OK READY, I CAN SEE IT, IT’S CLOSE GO GO PUSH”

(Camera shot of Charlie)

“THAT’S REALLY GOOD, IT’S CLOSE COME ON, YES THAT’S IT

“OK GOOD GOOD GOOD I CAN SEE IT"

PUSH PUSH PUSH…

*Out pops baby*.

Season Five: Kate adjusts from her knees to her feet

"Do you want this baby"

"Do you want it to be Safe and Healthy"

"LISTEN you’re not alone in this, we are all here for you"

"This baby is all of us"

"But I need you to push, ok ok"

"1 2 3 Push, Push, come on Claire Push"

"Push push push"

"Push push push"

*Out pops the baby*.

Do you see the source of my obsession with Loops? This is simply one of many examples I’ve run across. Even if you edited down the Season 5 birth scene, take a really close look at the dialogue. Words are in the wrong order, characters are missing, Kate’s whole dialogue is way off. Ladies and gentlemen, this particular scene has happened more than one time in the LOST universe, at least 2 times, and I simply cannot blame this on shoddy directing and writing. For as much detail these people put into their product, and knowing how much idiots like nit pick over all the details, this is no accident. These happen much more often than you think. LOOP. Now, let’s pick up the anchor, for the time being, and keep sailing. I will point out a few more samples soon enough. Sawyer asks John why he didn’t go talk to himself, to spare himself the pain that he has gone through on the island. Locke responds with I needed the pain. Indeed, the reason these folks are going through this Looping is that they can learn from their missteps and mistakes, so they can learn from them, and maybe not repeat them in their next opportunity. Jacob probably is too. The boats are found on the beach, and I’ll just call them canoes for simplicity sake. They have Ajira water bottles, so the Quantum Leapers are now in 2007, the time of the Ajira crash, as the Leftovers have crossed over from the Hydra island. During the paddling, a gun fight breaks out with another canoe that is chasing. You can assume it’s the Leftovers, but I’m sure we will find out at some point during Season 6. Flash. Sawyer discussed with Juliet that he saw Kate. This scene was symbolic of Sawyer finally putting to rest his infatuation with Kate, and that he was going to move on. What’s done is done. The Leapers find French ship wreckage, signifying the arrival of Danielle Rousseau and her ill fated crew onto the island. That crew fishes Jin out of the water. Jin has been floating for days, but is alive. Meh, I’m not going to challenge the believability factor of that one; after all, we are watching a show with a homicidal cloud of smoke. Jack and Kate follow the lawyer to the hotel, and discover that Claire’s mother is the host for the visit. They both spring into action and do what they do best. Kate wants to run away. Jack wants to fix it by going to Mrs. Littleton and blathering on incomprehensibly about Aaron with all the subtlety of Shaquille O’Neal competing in the Midget Olympics. Who’s Aaron? Ouch. The lawyer is revealed to be working for Ben, and he is going to set Hurley free. Dropping anchor, at the marina. How fitting. The dialogue in the marina scene changes several times as we see it several times from several different vantage points over the next couple of episodes. I copied some transcripts and pasted. Kate’s sentence goes from version 1 to version 2 and back to version 1. Sayid’s dialogue is simply different.

Version 1 (note Kate and Sayid’s lines):

KATE: [To Jack] Is that what this is about? You knew about this?

JACK: No, no, I was...

KATE: And that is why you're pretending to care about Aaron, to convince me to go back there?

JACK: I wasn't pretending anything...

KATE: This is insane, you guys are crazy.

JACK: Kate...

KATE: Jack, don't! [Kate leaves]

BEN: Sayid, where are you going?

SAYID: I don't want any part of this. And if I see you, or him again, it will be extremely unpleasant for all of us. [sayid leaves]

BEN: 30 minutes, Sun. We can be there in 30 minutes. And you’ll have proof--proof that he's alive. Or you can shoot me and never know.

SUN: Let's go.”

 

Version 2 (again, take note of Kate and Sayid):

[A familiar scene at the Long Beach Marina. Sun is holding Ben at gun point.]

BEN: [To Sun] There's somebody--somebody here in Los Angeles. Let me take you to them.

SUN: Who?

BEN: The same person that's gonna show us how to get back to the island.

KATE: Is that what this is about? This is insane. You are all crazy.

BEN: Sayid, where are you going?

[Kate retreats to her car and drives away. Sayid turns away.]

(car door closes, engine starts)

SAYID: I don't want any part of this.

(tires sqealing)

SAYID: [Pointing at Ben] And if I see you again, it'll be extremely unpleasant for us both.

[sayid walks away.]

 

Version 3 (This time, just take note of Kate):

[The marina. Kate is putting Aaron in her car. Sun has Ben at gunpoint. Sayid and Jack are standing nearby.]

BEN: There's someone...someone here in Los Angeles. Let me take you to them.

SUN: Who?

BEN: The same person that's gonna show us how to get back to the island.

KATE: [Walking back to the group] Is that what this is about? [Looks at Jack] You knew about this.

JACK: No. No, I was o--

KATE: And that is why you were pretending to care about Aaron, to convince me to go back there?!

JACK: I wasn't pretending anything.

KATE: This is insane. You guys are crazy.

JACK: Kate--

KATE: Jack, don't!

Believe it or not, and I highly recommend that you believe, the writers have actually acknowledged the changes in the script and called them intentional. What wonderful news. Get it? Loops. Different scenes from different loops. On to the next episode.

 

Sun talks to her child on the phone, then grabs her gun, ready for some senseless killing. And, we get Version 2 of the marina this episode. Ben can prove to Sun that Jin is still alive. How does Ben constantly get himself into these perilous predicaments, and continually gets himself out again? Prior knowledge? Course correction? Evil genius? Dumb opponents? Jin is leading the French to the radio tower, crossing the Dark Territory. A member of the group, Nadine, disappears for a brief while, until she drops from the sky and goes thud and splat. This is no food drop. Jin yells “monster” as if he suddenly sees Sun. “Run”. Smokie is a bad ass this time, as he must have scanned Nadine, didn’t like what he saw, and started to drag some French guy underground a Temple wall. A human chain is formed to prevent him from being pulled under. Smokie turns into some kind of serpent like vapor, wraps itself around the poor guy, and drags him down, sans arm. The French castaways come up with a brilliant plan. Let’s go after that terrifying monster that he have no idea how to fight and go into somewhere we have never gone because we don’t leave anybody behind. This is like the children in IT deciding to chase the clown into the sewer, but instead of a spider, they find an actual clown with lots of hammers and he knows how to use them. Bravo. Jin prevents Rousseau from joining the schmucks, as even Jin realizes on some level that Rousseau needs to survive. I might speculate about what might have happened if Rousseau did go, but she obviously didn’t in the past, and didn’t when Jin time jumped, so it never happened. Unless it happened in another unsuccessful time loop. Jin flashes, finds dead bodies on the beach, and Rousseau is having a standoff with Robert. D: The monster made you sick. R: It’s a security system guarding the Temple. Yes, that is what we heard in Season 1 from Rousseau, but it makes even less sense today after we have seen what we have seen. Rousseau kills Robert after his gun jams. The real question is why did he pull the trigger? The island kept Michael from killing himself, I’m forced to assume. So then the island must have been protecting Rousseau from death. But if that’s the case, why is either Smokie or brain washed Robert who is doing Smokie’s bidding trying to kill Rousseau when it doesn’t want her to die. She needs to live and serve a future purpose, like Michael did. Do you see the contradiction? Doesn’t mean that is wasn’t a cool scene. Jin flashes, and runs into Sawyer. Jin can’t quite grasp what the fock is going on with the time jumps. Sun is in the van with Jack and Ben. Jack and Sun have a conversation about blame for the freighter and that if Ben is lying about Jin being alive, they will kill him. Other than pissing off Ben, this conversation pissed me off too. Ben just cleaned up Jack, clean and sober, and is trying to get him back to the island as Jack is obsessed with doing. Ben just told Sun that her husband is alive. And you ungrateful bastages are talking about killing him? Ben was right. They should never stop thanking him for all that he has done. And they probably never have in any loop up to now either. So that’s ungrateful many times over. Charlotte is mostly passed out. Big surprise. I can’t remember all the ways I described her character over the years. Ice Princess, a lizard, the snake, the White Witch from The Chronicles of Narnia, a space alien, etc. She seems to be transmitting random stuff out of her mouth, including “Don’t let them bring her back, this place is death” and “look for the well”. Well, the Leapers find the well, but how did Charlotte know? A message from the island/ Jacob/ Christian/ Man In Black? Knowledge of past events in a loop? Because she was on island before, growing up as Dharma. A man on the island warned her not to return to island and that was Daniel, and even though it hasn’t happened yet, Charlotte remembers it right now. This makes no sense whatsoever. Why now? Just like Desmond’s random recollection. Locke promises Jin that he won’t bring Sun back, and takes his ring as proof of death. A ring, in itself is a loop. Just thought I’d mention it. Locke climbs down rope, flash, and Locke falls. Let’s take another time out and take in the reactions of the Leapers as Locke is gone, as is the well.

Version One

“SAWYER: No... no no, no no!

[He falls to his knees and claws at the ground with his hands.]

JULIET: [Gently] James, stop.

SAWYER: No, no!

JULIET: James, stop.

SAWYER: [Frantically] C'mon and help me!

JULIET: [Calmly] James--we can't help him.”

 

Version Two

“SAWYER: No. No! No!

[sawyer pulls down the length of the rope.]

SAWYER: No! No! No!

JULIET: James, don't.

SAWYER: Come on! Help me! [Panting]

[Juliet kneels down beside Sawyer as he claws at the earth around the rope.]

JULIET: James... [Whispers] Stop.”

 

Charlotte dies, and I am as emotional about this as Jin catching and gutting a fish. Daniel cries. You loved her, and didn’t even kiss her. I’m not saying he should have touched her boobs while she was lying there mental time traveling, but come on. This was the worst romance in history, which includes Roman Polanski and a teenage girl, and a stripper in Tijuana with a donkey. Locke is lying at the bottom of a shaft, whining more than Juliet did later on. So you have a bone sticking out of your leg. Be a man. What’s the matter with you. Rub some dirt on it and walk it off. Christian shows up, outside of his cabin. C: What has listening to Ben ever gotten you? You can see an almost perceptible sneer on Christian’s face. Ben is not a favorite child of his, that’s for sure. Locke was supposed to move the island. Now, he needs to gather everybody, find Eloise Hawking. L: Richard said I was going to die. C: I guess that’s why they call it a sacrifice. So, Locke is the sacrifice the island demands, like Boone did at one time. So, dying for the island allows X to possess you? Probably not, as Christian didn’t sacrifice himself for the island. Oh, what a mess. C: Say hello to my son. Turns out this was an important tidbit, as it seems to be what finally pushed Jack into returning. Ben gives the ring to Sun, Desmond shows up. D: You’re looking for Faraday’s mother too? Ben did not see this coming. The end of this episode and close to the beginning of the next one feature this scene. Different dialogue, different inflection, different delivery, different body language.

Version 1:

BEN: This is all I could get on short notice.

ELOISE: Well, I suppose it will have to do for now. All right! Let's get started.”

 

Version 2:

BEN: This is all I could get on short notice.

ELOISE: Guess it'll have to do….. For Now. All right. Let's get started.

 

Jack wakes up in the jungle, a seeming loop to Season One’s opening scene. Hurley is yelling that he can’t swim. Wait, didn’t he do a cannonball early in Season 4 after they defeat the Others on the beach. He was in fairly deep water, over his head water. But now he can’t swim? Maybe he learned to swim in later loops. Speaking of cannonball, that scene bothered me forever, now I got it. When Hurley and Bernard are standing there, the horizon is empty. Then cannonball. Hurley comes up for air, and Desmond’s boat is less than 20 feet away. You’re telling me that Desmond managed to sneak up to the shore without Bernard and Hurley seeing him as they stared out at the water. Different scenes from different loops. Jack saves Hurley by telling him he was drowning in shallow water and to stand up, stupid. Kate is bashed on some rocks, but from the opening scene of this episode, to when they reshow the same scene at the end of this episode, Kate’s hair is different, two very large strands hang over her face vs no strands in the other version. Two versions. Are you seeing my point? Eloise Hawking is a school teacher and is lecturing her students about the Dhama station called the Lamppost, which I assume is an homage to the Lamppost in Narnia, signaling the entrance and exit of that magical land. Jack admires some military maps which probably helped Dharma’s search for the island, as the U.S. military got there before them, before getting whacked by the Others. This station allowed Dharma to find the island; it is built over a large pocket of energy (most likely the same exotic negative matter as on the island). This pocket connects with similar pockets all over the world (Tunisian desert, that psychic ranch in Australia, etc.) The island is always moving, so a brilliant man calculated where the island was going to be (most likely Daniel when he was with Dharma). There are windows to get to the island, to go back. Desmond freaks out about the going back part, blames Eloise for wasting many years of his life. But Desmond said something very profound. “These people are using us, they’re playing some kind of game, and we’re just the pieces.” Why Desmond, that’s absolutely correct. E: you need to recreate the circumstances that brought you here; “if not all, the result will be unpredictable”. Jack receives special instructions. John is to be the proxy for Christian, and needs some of his belongings. Loophole for X? Does this allow Locke to be possessed because has the belongings of Christian, who is also possessed? Jack takes a beating on his lack of faith by everybody in sight. Jack gets his father’s shoes from his grandfather. An intruder at Jack’s house turns out to be Kate, which after learning her identity, I would have shot Kate and then called the police about a break in. K: I’ll go with you, but don’t ever ask me about Aaron. Well, that’s certainly a healthy relationship built on honesty and trust. And since Kate is crying, it’s time for sex. Daddy issues. Sheesh. In the morning Kate talks about shoes and then. “Why hold onto something that makes you feel sad? Kate must die. Season 6, episode 1, 1 minute into the show. Kill her. Die. Die. Die. Redrum. Redrum. Redrum. Ben calls Jack from a pay phone after what looks like a 5 round competition with Brock Lesnar. Jack goes to pick up the Locke cold cuts, and the butcher knows exactly who Dr Shepherd is. Prior knowledge or current knowledge? Locke gets a new pair of shoes. At the airport terminal, we see the arrival of the Boring Six, Jack, Kate, Sun, Sayid in handcuffs, Hurley buying a bunch of tickets and a guitar, and Ben scrambles to make it at the last minute. Frank Lapidus is the pilot. Jack asks Ben a simple question? How can you read? Ben can’t help himself but lie: My mother taught me. (she died in childbirth) B: it wasn’t your fault Jack. No sh!t. Ben killed Locke. Jack reads the “suicide” note. I wish you had believed me, JL. Turbulance, flash, Jack wakes up in jungle, and version 2 where Kate’s hair is wrong as I previously mentioned.

 

Part Two will be distributed most likely Sunday, or at latest, Monday.

[CantTouchThis 23]

Cool. Rad. Awesome.

[nobody 2,387]

Are you preserving your "Return" key for something? Use some white space for god's sakes.

[nobody 2,387]

Also, I buy your loop theory. Can you explain where things are looping to and from?

 

For instance, was Jack in his loop since birth? Or does he get pulled into the loop by going to the island? I guess that's what all the "You were never supposed to leave the island" talk was all about or whatever. That would imply, we don't have a complete picture of what the original loop looks like only this modified timeline that was triggered by what? The part where Ben doesn't quite move the island correctly?

 

Tie this up for me right quick.

[Lackman 0]

Also, I buy your loop theory. Can you explain where things are looping to and from?

 

For instance, was Jack in his loop since birth? Or does he get pulled into the loop by going to the island? I guess that's what all the "You were never supposed to leave the island" talk was all about or whatever. That would imply, we don't have a complete picture of what the original loop looks like only this modified timeline that was triggered by what? The part where Ben doesn't quite move the island correctly?

 

Tie this up for me right quick.

 

We can't wrap anything up quickly, as we need more information. Loops start most likely when a group of people arrive at the island. When the Black Rock is trapped by the island, their looping begins. When Oceanic 815 is trapped by the island, their looping begin. As Jacob says, you need to just find one loophole, everything else (past loops) are progress. We can assume that the bomb detonating and Jacob being stabbed are game changers, with neither happening in past loops. But I assume each Oceanic 815 loop begins with Jack waking up in the jungle and the plane is in pieces on the beaches. Doesn't mean things haven't happened in the past to prepare for such a moment, as Jacob visits young Sawyer and kate, and course correction is happening with Widmore, Hawking, and the Others prior to the plane crash. Ben moving the island seems to be something that always happens, because Locke needed to die for the island and become a vessel for X. Maybe a loop lasts a certain amount of time (108 days?), or when something catastrophic happens, either of which can reset the loop to the beginning of Jack waking up in the jungle. If the plane doesn't crash and continues to Los Angeles, that loop is broken.

[CantTouchThis 23]

Hey Philly or someone, did Russo ever met Jin face to face in the "present" time? I forgot to go over that in the previous seasons and i am re-watching season 5 this weekend and tried to remember if Russo ever met him since they had interacted when she first came to the island.

[OakHeadFootball 1]

They're Coming

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Big Blue 06 195]

I'm going into the season spoiler free, with no idea what's really going to happen. I can hardly remember last season, so I watched the first 7 episodes today and I'm going to watch the rest of them tomorrow and Monday night. It's LOST BABY!!!

[Saint Elistan 106]

Just finished my Season 1-5 (re)watch tonight. Hadn't seen any of season 5 before...and have never really followed any theories on the internet. Have just watched the episodes. Read most of PBs stuff in this thread and am full of questions that I can't conceive an answer for. Can't wait til Tuesday but something tells me I'm going to want to kill myself having to wait a week between each episode.

[CantTouchThis 23]

I am actually pretty sure the producers are keeping a tight lid on the season, i know of no spoilers that have been exposed.

[OakHeadFootball 1]

Thousands attend 'Lost' sneak preview

 

 

HONOLULU – More than 10,000 fans greeted the cast of "Lost" on Waikiki Beach and were treated to a special screening of upcoming season premiere.

 

Fans started lining up 12 hours before the Saturday night's event in hopes of getting a glimpse of the actors. Sitting on beach towels and lawn chairs, they watched the episode that airs Tuesday night on ABC and kicks off the sixth and final season of the castaway drama.

 

Among the stars that made an island-style, red-carpet arrival were Matthew Fox, Evangeline Lilly, Josh Holloway, Yunjin Kim and Michael Emerson.

 

Actor Daniel Dae Kim called the event "humbling, outrageous and a lot of fun."

 

 

 

The last 2 seasons I recorded all the episodes before I watched any of them so I didn't have to wait a week in between but I don't think I can wait that long without running into a spoiler this time.

[OakHeadFootball 1]

They already have a camera recorded version of the sneak preview from last night floating around the web. Just a heads up is you are trying to avoid spoilers.

 

 

 

Some wallpapers I collected. I am totally digging the Lost Supper II

 

The 'Lost' Supper I

 

 

The'Lost' Supper II

 

 

Hatch Light

 

 

Cast Promo

[kutulu 1,598]

They're Coming

 

:banana:

[tikigods 76]

I'm just going to watch it and stop theorizing on it. What is the point? It will probably end with Jack sitting in a restaurant listening to "Don't Stop Believing" by Journey and the screen going black.

 

[Quickolas1 80]

As a last second tune-up, the season 5 finale which was on TV last Tuesday was the "Enhanced Version" and is now on ABC.com

i picked up a few little things from the on-going commentary they put on the screen in the Enhanced style

(for example, Jacob made physical contact w/ each of the survivors)

 

And they have the first two minutes of the season 6 first episode on ABC.com as well

 

here's the link (the season 6 first scene video is called 'Message in a Bottle')

http://abc.go.com/watch/lost/93372

[OakHeadFootball 1]

As a last second tune-up, the season 5 finale which was on TV last Tuesday was the "Enhanced Version" and is now on ABC.com

i picked up a few little things from the on-going commentary they put on the screen in the Enhanced style

(for example, Jacob made physical contact w/ each of the survivors)

 

And they have the first two minutes of the season 6 first episode on ABC.com as well

 

here's the link (the season 6 first scene video is called 'Message in a Bottle')

http://abc.go.com/watch/lost/93372

 

I can't bring myself to watch the new episode preview.

 

I watched the enhanced episode the other day. It was interesting. Learning what the tapestry said and just having it confirmed that Locke was in fact possessed by something.

 

Nothing groundbreaking but it was nice to see how pissed X Locke was when Jacob told him...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

They're Coming

[CantTouchThis 23]

Something i picked up, though i am sure it was mentioned before(like usual), was when Lapidus was landing the plane on the island, his co-pilot was on the radio and picked up a transmission you can barely hear. It was the numbers repeating. Like when that crazy dude and Danielle picked up when sailing around the island, i guess with Ruso's message not looping and the looking glass blocker disabled, it still sends out that transmission.

 

 

The producers did say the numbers will get explained.

[Lackman 0]

phillybear sends his regards. For anybody that copies and pastes this sh!t, be wary of the length, as if you repost, it might cut off some of the content. Thank you.

 

Season 6 Preview - A Look Back On Season Five; Part Two

 

Make no mistake. I love this show. I’m hypercritical, I obsess with certain characters, I go on rambling non sequiturs, and I tend to be long winded. But there are kernels of truth scattered throughout, I hit a robust percentage of the theories I throw out there, well maybe not robust, but I’m at least almost mediocre, and these write ups are a labor of love. Now go screw.

 

I finally finished up all the episodes and watched the Incident a couple of times. I know I toss around a lot of speculation, sometimes I’m right, sometimes I’m wrong, sometimes I forget stuff. We can't wrap anything up quickly, as we need more information, which is Season 6. We can only put together as many pieces of the puzzle as we can. But I am convinced of a few things at this point. We’ve been watching similar scenes from different loops, as the Losties and other characters have been reliving a loop of time, to put right what once went wrong. The loop continues all the way to Juliet beating on the rock, because her bleeding was different from scene to scene. Replay that scene, and watch the blood on her face. Hell, just watch the blood pouring out of her mouth, then it’s gone. Loops start most likely when a group of people arrive at the island. When the Black Rock is trapped by the island, their looping begins. When Oceanic 815 is trapped by the island, their looping begins. As Jacob says, you need to just find one loophole, everything else (past loops) is progress. The loophole can be one of many different things coming together, but the most important assumption is that the primary loophole is that only the leader of the Others can ask for an audience with Jacob, as X pretending to be Locke was able to do. Otherwise, he could not find Jacob without Richard’s help, and could not confront him in the statue. We can assume that the bomb detonating and Jacob being stabbed are game changers, with neither happening in past loops. But I assume each Oceanic 815 loop begins with Jack waking up in the jungle and the plane is in pieces on the 2 beaches. This doesn't mean things haven't happened in the past to prepare for such a moment, as Jacob visits young Sawyer and Kate, and course correction is happening with Widmore, Hawking, and the Others prior to the plane crash. Ben moving the island seems to be something that always happens, because Locke needed to die for the island and become a vessel for X. A loop lasts a certain amount of time, or more likely when something catastrophic happens, either of which can reset the loop to the beginning of Jack waking up in the jungle. If the plane doesn't crash and continues to Los Angeles, that loop is broken.

 

Starting with episode 7. This was a sad episode all around. The Selfish 6 are really sitting on a high horse, and as Locke is making the rounds and having a talk with all of these self absorbed lunkheads, he falls into more of a depression, loses his faith in the island escapees. Sure, I tend to run around yelling about milk shakes and beating up religious leaders with a bowling pin while sporting a pretty sharp mustache, but I’m not heartless. Locke was taking a pounding by some bad people all around him. The events leading up to the death of Locke and later Juliet were rather sad and touching moments. Caesar is searching the Hydra offices, finds maps, a gun, interrupted by Ilana because they found someone not on the plane, and his name is John Locke. I had to rewind here. I swear, I don’t see the scar that runs through the outside of Locke’s eye on his face. Sun and Frank have stolen a boat. A search is on for the passenger list. Locke bites into a mango and declares it the best mango I’ve ever eaten. Shades of that horrific movie City of Angels, don’t ask but I watched that dreck, and Nicholas Cage goes from an angel to a man, one of the dumbest things something with intelligence can do, but he eats some peaches or pears or something and he nearly sh!ts his pants over the taste explosion in his mouth. The point is, here is X eating something in a man’s body. Although Jacob has eaten fish, we technically don’t know if X can eat regular people food, despite telling Jacob that he had “eaten” earlier. He is a manifestation. I digress. Locke isn’t remembered on the plane, which Locke can’t really explain, but he remembers dying, meaning he is aware that Ben killed him. So he has no knowledge of the activities between being strangled and waking up on Hydra island, or who was on the plane and returned to island. John turns the wheel, and wakes up in Tunisia. He is tossed in a car, has surgery in a remote medical facility which is basically a tent, and I swear that Nadia is one of the nurses, or her exact twin, as I rewound that a few times. Abaddon is hovering in background. When Locke comes to, Widmore is at bedside. He has some interesting things to say. John came out the exit of the island, the poop shoot. Widmore was their leader, but Ben tricked him into leaving the island. Widmore protected the island peacefully. Stop for a second. It’s not like the Others have been peaceful for quite some time. They killed the military people, feuded with Dharma and eventually killed them, Widmore ordered the death of Rousseau and her kid, Widmore killed his fellow captured soldier by breaking his neck, the Purge, and if you want to include time jumping, the death of Daniel Faraday and the Incident where many people died on the island during the battle at the Swan station. Widmore is full of sh!t. Widmore says that he was exiled by Ben, which I believe, as all Ben has to say is “Jacob wants you to leave” and Widmore has to leave. Widmore deduces that Locke is here to bring back the Selfish 6. They’ve been back 3 years, they have normal lives, and they are lying. Widmore further explains that a war is coming, and if you are not on the island, when that happens, the wrong side is going to win. So, whose side is Widmore on? I tend to think he may be on X’s side. While both Ben and Widmore are feuding on a personal level, it would seem that Hawking is working for Jacob and the Others, as she was one of their leaders and is working with Ben to help Jacob’s chosen people. Widmore is trying to help Locke who is to be the vessel for X to return, and ultimately that leads to the death of Jacob. Widmore is so hell bent on revenge on Ben, he has joined the other side. Widmore gives John surveillance reports. I haven’t tried to kill you yet, unlike Ben. Well, this isn’t particularly true, as secondary protocol called for the death of everybody on the island other than Ben. CW: I needed Linus removed for it to be your time, the island needs you, it has for a long time. Um, Locke is not to have any time. The island needs Locke dead so he can become the vessel for X, and that is why it has needed John for a long time. Not John himself. JL: Richard says that I could die. CW: I don’t know why he said that, but I won’t let that happen. Right away, Widmore is working against the wishes of Richard and by extension Jacob. If Locke is to die, he needs to stay alive. I don’t know if there was much truth, but certainly there was no sincerity to anything that Widmore said. Abaddon is John’s tour guide for the Amazing Wheelchair Race. Sayid is working for a charity, building houses, trying to feel less guilt over killing so many people. Sayid mocks John “Why do you really want to go back? You have nowhere else to go?” In New York, Walt senses John’s presence on the street. W: I’ve been having dreams about you. You’re on an island, wearing a suit, and there are people all around you, they want to hurt you John.” Locke decides to leave Walt alone, since he has been through enough. It’s probably fair to say this is a good bye to Walt, as he looks nothing like the kid during Season 1, and it’s easier for the writers to simply write his character off than try to bring him to the beginning of a loop or something. Walt was a character I had no issues with, but I sure hated his name, as his father yelled it a couple of thousand times during Season 2. Abaddon is mocking John for his lack of success. JL: All I have to do is convince one; if I do that, the rest will come.” Prior knowledge? Assumption? Ben is watching. Locke visits Hurley, who is still constantly seeing dead people. JL: I need you to come back. Abaddon’s presence freaks out Hurley. A: I help people get to where they need to get to, John. Abaddon is a course corrector for Widmore, but the question is whether these activities have to happen over and over for the loops? Ah, now it’s a visit to the Kate monster. K: You made yourself perfectly clear, everybody on the island is going to die if I don’t go back, and the answer is NO. Holy fock balls. The selfishness is just oozing out of her. The hell with the lives of numerous people on the island. Kate has a nice cash settlement, is out of jail by way of probation, has a stolen kid, a nanny, and occasionally has sex with a junkie doctor. Life is good. Karma is a funny thing. Kate continues to pummel John for his outrageous request to help save people’s lives. K: Even been in love? You were so desperate to stay on the island. It was because you didn’t love anyone. Is Kate talking to Locke or Sawyer? Kate is the worst human being when it comes to issues of love. Yet, she is pontificating as if she wrote some kind of advice book and is sitting on Oprah’s couch. Instead of John punching back with what he read in Kate’s file, John goes the earnest route. Helen. I was angry, I was obsessed. K: Look how far you’ve come. And we can ask the same question of you, Katie Bates. You going to push Locke out of his wheelchair and smash his legs some more? Helen is dead. A: John, your path leads back to the island. JL: You say that like it’s inevitable. Reality is, John going back to the island is inevitable. Like Desmond going to the island in the first place. These course correctors are making sure certain things happen in the loop. Unfortunately for Abaddon, I don’t think anybody told him that he was going to get shot by Ben at the cemetery. John drives off and gets into a multi car accident. Some key dialogue in the most goose bump inducing, cringe worthy, misguided dialogue in the history of LOST. Jack SUCKS moment for the ages.

J: What are you doing here?

L: We have to go back, the people we left behind need our help.

J: Yeah, it’s our duty, how many times are you going to say that?

L: Someone is trying to kill me, I’m important.

J: Have you ever stopped to think that these delusions that you’re special aren’t real? There is nothing important about you at all. Maybe you are just a lonely old man that crashed on an island….that’s all.

L: You’re father says hello.

J: My father is dead.

L: He didn’t look dead to me. You’re supposed to help me.

J: It’s done, we left. We were never important. Leave me alone.

Wow. Just jaw dropping idiocy. Again, you have a person pleading for help because the people left behind are in trouble. The French people ran right into that hole to save their crew. But people like Jack and Kate and Sayid simply mock the messenger and have no regard for helping save the lives of their friends. Outrageous. And Jack and Kate were pretty much wrong about every single thing they said to Locke. Like usual. They just can’t wrap that concept around their tiny little flea brains. Locke writes a suicide note in his hotel room and prepares to hang himself. Ben arrives at the exact moment (loop knowledge, like seeing a death certificate with time of death in a past loop) to stop Locke from killing himself. B: Widmore used you. We waited until you showed up so that you could help him get to the island. That is exactly right, Ben, and ironically, that is your plan too. Ben starts to really butter up Locke. John, you have no idea how important you are. L: I’m a failure. B: You’re too important, John. Locke tells Ben about Jin being alive and that he has to go to Hawking. Ben was winding up the chord as we was planning to choke John no matter what, but with the Jin info to use against Sun, and with the Hawking info, Ben no longer needs Locke, and strangles him. Sad moment, as this is the last time we see Locke alive in Season 5, and possibly ever. Locke was a fantastic character, and deserved a hero status at the end of this series. He may not get that distinction, which is a shame. Ben’s motivation? Of course, Ben wants to lead the Others again and getting his only competition out of the way was the right play in his eyes. But does Ben not know that X will use Locke as a vessel, and he has just made it easier for X, who I guess he knows nothing about. It must be all about Ben, trying to get back to the island, and they need a corpse. Ben stages the crime scene. Back on Hydra island, Locke interrupts Caesar in the office. L: I spent over 100 days on the island. Caesar describes Hurley on the plane, who was among the passengers who disappeared, and Locke seems a bit surprised by that. But then he finds Ben among the injured and declares that “He’s the man who killed me.”

 

Version 2 of Sawyer and Juliet and other time travelers at the well with a rope sticking out of the ground. Miles points to the statue. While great debates raged across the internet about which Egyptian god was the likeness of that structure, I was on Team Tawaret from day one, thank you very much. Flash, and headaches are gone, John saved them. Horace is drunk and tossing around dynamite at the pylons. Sawyer is head of security of Dharma, LaFleur. Daniel is in shock over Charlotte’s death and is useless for a while. Gunshots, and Sawyer and Juliet kill a couple of Others. Amy shows her gratefulness of being spared death by asking who are you? Thank you would have been nice. They bury the Others and take dead Paul, Amy’s husband. I realize that Smokie can imitate the dead, but it doesn’t matter if they are buried or not. When the Others gave Pickett’s wife a Viking funeral in Season 3, was it to prevent her from every being manifested by the smoke monster? Amy further repays her rescuers by zapping them at the pylons. Early on, we can see the Dharma people are hippie assh0les. Juliet is pulled out of the motor pool to deliver a baby. Sawyer and Jin are looking for their buddies which working as security. Juliet explains with her group how she used to live in Dharmaville and the Others wiped out “most” of people currently living here in the Barracks. Well, Radzinksy survived as he was pushing the button with Inman in the Swan after the purge timeline. Anyone else spared? Daniel sees Charlotte in a red dress, an homage to her just dying. Red means dead. And, yes, Daniel is creepy the way he looks at young Charlotte. Get a grip, Pete Townsend. And can the Super Bowl entertainment get any more lacking? The Who? Really? Why not bring on Sha Na Na if you are going to allow 100 year old musicians butcher music. Next year, half time presents the Lawrence Welk Zombie Orchestra. Alarm goes off, and Richard waltzes into camp. Pylons? Pshaw. That thing can keep out other things, but not us. Sawyer goes out to talk to Richard. He references Jughead, Locke, shooting the Others. A deal is struck. The Others want Paul’s body for unknown reasons. My best guess is that Miles and Smokie have similar abilities. They can read the mind of the dead. If the Others bring Paul to Smokie, they will know what happened at the shootout earlier. Sawyer, looking positively homeless, unshaven, greasy, tattered clothes, and probably mushing a steaming log in his shorts as he sits on a dock, convinces Juliet not to leave just yet. Three years later, Sawyer and Juliet are living together. They give each other a believable kiss. That might be the first believable kiss I’ve seen all series. Horace awakes to find out he has a son. Paul has been gone 3 years. “Is that long enough to forget someone?” Sawyer: Yep. Sawyer is summoned, and discovers that Jack, Hurley, and Rocky Dennis are back on the island. Kate looks like a lion. You could crack open a coconut on her forehead.

 

The Ajira plane hits turbulence, night turns to day, Jack Kate Hurley Sayid disappear. Frank shows off his skill in keeping the plane together, unlike the doofus first pilot of Oceanic 815. As the co-pilot tries to send a mayday, he hears the transmission from the radio tower. But it’s not Rousseau’s French message, or silence as the broadcast was turned off by Jack and the Losties. We hear the 4,8,15,16,23,42 being broadcast. Now, is it that Rousseau was overriding the numbers with her message, and now the numbers are back? We heard the numbers when the French arrived on the island, and when Hurley was talking to the widow of the military guy in Australia, she said all he talked about were the numbers being broadcast non stop. Frank lands plane on runway that Sawyer and Kate were working on during their time in the cages, and that Juliet describes in the finale of Season 3. The co-pilot is dead. Caesar calls Ilana “lady” so we know they are not working together. Sawyer interacts with the new arrivals, and is already making googly eyes at Kate. Time for small talk. It’s 1977. John’s dead. Yep, that just about covers it. Jin runs off to Flame and roughs up Radzinsky, who I think looks like Paul Giammati, as he thinks Sun is on island somewhere. Frank gives a speech on the island, much like Jack’s live together die alone drivel from Season 1. Was anybody else taken aback by Frank’s blatant chest hair as each episode progressed. He kept popping open more and more buttons on his shirt, and exposing more of that awful sheep’s wool on his chest. Worst V-neck idea ever. It was a field of dandelions. It was a scouring pad. It was a toupee. The more I saw Frank, the more I had an urge to go grab some soap and scrub my sink. Ben walks off, Sun follows, Frank follows. Worst spy movie ever. Amy’s baby is Ethan. No plane lands on the island, but an Iraqi did. Jin and Radzinsky capture Sayid. Hurley brings up purge to Sawyer, who seems oblivious to it. He must know about it, but why doesn’t he care to prevent himself from being a victim to it. Also, we have recently found out how Richard can bypass the pylons, tunnels, so it shows just how the Others got to Dharmaville to pull it off. Ben takes Sun to hidden boats. It stands to reason that if Ben built a runway, he might have a few boats stashed just in case he knows what is happening, and he does. Sun hits Ben over head with oar. What, is this some kind of feel good moment for the audience, maybe laugh. NOOOOOO. Sun is a useless sack of suck. Ben is somewhat aware of what is happening. He says he might be able to help you find your husband. He got you back to the island. And you hit him? Sun is out of control with her obsession in being around to ruin Jin’s life and her monstrous ego. Jin tried to blow himself up not to be around you anymore. Take a hint. Jack is a workman. The humbling continues. Radzinsky wants to kill Sayid because he might have seen Radzinsky playing with his Swan model Legos. While Sun clobbered Ben in broad daylight, she and Frank reach the shore of the island half a mile away in the middle of the night. Loops. The dock is disheveled and falling apart. Way too much wear and tear. Something has changed. There is a rustling in the jungle in the trees. Reminded me of the pilot episode when the monster was checking out the Losties. But if was definitely Smokie, about to take the form of a character. Sun and Frank walk up to a battered Dharma processing station. If the Other took over the Barracks, and they did, they would not allow Dharma stuff to be prominently displayed like this. Whispers. A light in a house, and it’s Smokie Christian. In the clearly abandoned house, most likely abandoned by Dharma and never occupied by the Others, there are pictures of past years. Ah, here it is, 1977, he is with your friends. OK, so there was a 1978, so the bomb didn’t destroy the island. But something has fundamentally changed on the island, too many details look…off. Sayid is in basement jail. Jack goes to see Sawyer and is surprised to see Juliet there. Jack and Sawyer have a philosophical discussion. S: back when you were calling the shots, you just reacted. See you didn’t think Jack, and as I recall, a lot of people ended up dead. J: I got us off the island. S: But here you are, right back where you started. Sawyer is telling Jack he doesn’t have to think anymore. S: Ain’t that a relief. Jack actually agrees. The problem here isn’t that Jack is taking a verbal beating and being reminded of his thorough incompetence. And as pathetic as Jack’s excuse that he got 6 people off an island when 100 died, that isn’t the problem either. Sawyer was a downright hero Season 3 and 4, but now he is simply becoming a megolamaniac and completely self satisfied. He has the perfect life going, and is upset that some d!ckhead doctor and an ex-girlfriend with homocidal tendencies is going to ruin things. He is lashing out that his lovely life is ending. But the end of season, he is as dirty and soiled as the rest of the Losties. Well, he is always dirty and soiled, but I mean from a personality and mental attitude standpoint. Young Ben drops off a sandwich to Sayid. If that was my kid, I’d constantly yell at him “Stop being creepy” and then punch him in the stomach. Just out of principle.

 

Young Sayid breaks a chicken’s neck. I don’t know why I found this funny, but they say that killing animals as a child can lead you down a path to become a serial killer. I have a mass grave of parakeets with Dharma uniforms in my parent’s backyard. I have no idea how they got there. But it was difficult fitting those uniforms over their stiff bodies last week after a year of sewing. I mean, I imagine it would be difficult. Young Ben continues to bring awful sandwiches to Sayid in his cell. I bet it’s parakeet salad. Sayid kills another Widmore guy in Moscow. Ben tells Sayid that it’s over, no more jobs, and Mission Accomplished. Let’s see, that is a famous slogan for failure by Bush, and you just said it to an Iraqi. Oh, the layers of the irony. Horace and Radzinsky are interrogating Sayid, incompetently. Juliet to Sawyer: It’s over, isn’t it? This, us, all of it? S: Mission accomplished. OK, Sawyer didn’t really say that. Sawyer is unsuccessful in talking reason to Sayid. Sayid is being irrational in his hatred towards Ben. Sawyer is irrational because he doesn’t want his good thing in Dharma ruined. Hurley tells Kate about Juliet and Sawyer in the cafeteria. It’s like high school and they are passing notes back and forth. Yuck. Roger and Sayid match wits, and are exhausted by the process. Ben comes in with another sandwich. Ben says he made it for Roger. Roger knows that Ben never made him a sandwich, tells him not to lie to him, and roughs him up. What a rotten kid. Never made his hard working dad a sandwich? What, you think it’s easy to be drunk every day. Even I can’t pull it off. It takes dedication. And your lazy bones can’t slap some ham and cheese on some bread and give it to the old man and say thanks? Fock, this kid is the worst. Roger, this snooty punk kid needs to be taught a thing or two about a thing or two. And what’s with the kid’s eyes? Are you raising a wombat? Punch him in the face until he starts to squint. Ben visits Sayid in the Dominican Republic. Locke is dead. Our work is at fault. Hugo being watched. Ben continues to build up Sayid as a killing machine, setting him up to shoot young Ben when he time jumps. Ben is so crazed to be leader of the Others, once he is installed leader, he probably manipulates loops to his advantage to remain leader. And Sayid needs to shoot him for that to happen. Sayid is taken to Oldham, and is forced to swallow a truth pill. This is where the Marina Scene part 3 happens (refer to part one of this season’s writeup). Sayid in a bar is approached by Ilana. Sayid talking to Oldham, says he is not a Hostile, been on island before, been in 2 plane crashes, knew about different hatches and Swan, is from the future, and the Others ignored all this information except for the Swan. Way to go, Radzinsky. But ‘ole fussy britches isn’t done yet. As Dharma meets to decide Sayid’s fate, Radz rallies the other elders to his way of thinking of killing Sayid. Even Amy spouts “think of the children” like Reverend Lovejoy’s wife on The Simpsons. Vote unanimously to kill him. Dharma sucks. Ilana and Sayid fight in a hotel room, and it’s not over who gets to be on top. Sayid is the ladies man on this series. Who knew? She tells Sayid a story, and none of it is true, as she is in Jacob’s employ. Sayid explains to Sawyer he now knows why he is on the island. A flaming bus hits a house. Ben helps Sayid escape. Ben’s glasses are taped up as his dad hit him. Well, good for Roger. B: I hate it here, take me with you. They run through the jungle, Sayid knocks out Jin, takes his gun, and shoots Ben in the heart. I’ve re-watched this scene a hundred times. Through. The. Heart.

 

Jin picks up Ben, and the bullet hole is in the wrong spot. Not where the heart is, but on the opposite side of the chest, and about a foot lower. There is no mistake to be made here. Similar scenes in different loops. Ben actually dies in at least one loop. Sayid, in short range, is probably going to hit his stationary target. But the hole is all wrong, and this is a different loop. Dharma is cleaning up from the fire, Jack opens his cakehole, and Horace confirms the obvious that this was an inside job. Roger gets Kate to help him with his winch. If you know what I’m talking about. Nudge, nudge, wink, wink. He introduces himself. Then Jin pulls up with a bloody young Ben. Roger does the unthinkable, and actually says “That’s my kid, that’s my kid.” Good job. Everybody knows that’s your kid. How about an “Oh my God!!!” or “What happened?” or something more appropriate. You are seemingly identifying your kid out of a police lineup. Kate goes to visit Cassidy, Sawyer sent me. Cassidy rags on Sawyer for a while, not a hero but a coward, he was trying to get away from you, etc. A woman scorned. But if Sawyer never cared about Clementine, what happened to that reward money he set up in a bank in New Mexico for his daughter when he did the con in the prison. Oh, did Cassidy spend it all already. Maybe buy the fancy house she is currently living in? Cassidy figures out that the baby is not Kate’s. This visit isn’t going as planned. Jack, Kate, Hurley under friendly house arrest, where Hurley and Miles discuss time travel. Miles explains that you can’t change anything, Ben was always shot, we just never experienced how it all turned out. When Sawyer asks for Jacks’ help to operate on Ben, Jack refuses. J: I already saved Ben once for you Kate K: We caused this J: When we were here before, I spent all of my time trying to fix things; maybe the island wants to fix things itself; I was just getting in the way. Jack has apparently had a moment of clarity. K: I don’t like the new you. J: You didn’t like the old me. Kate has been punched in the face like Ben from Roger. She has been told by Jack: beat it, broad. Wow. I didn’t think Jack had it in him. He’ll crumble soon enough, but he stood up to Kate while sober for once, so good for him. Kate decides to stop sucking the life out of Jack like some kind of parasite only found in sewers, crocodile teeth, and Howard Stern’s wig, and gives blood to Ben. Before Kate has a chance to sleep with Roger, Ben’s heart rate crashes, no doubt sickened by their flirting. Hurley: this conversation already happened, that we are having right now. And if the loops are true, it gets more weird in how many times that conversation happened. M: for you and me, it’s happening right now H: why don’t I remember any of this? Miles: Time is not a straight line anymore; the past and the future happened before right now; any of us can die; this is our present. H: when was tortured by Sayid, why didn’t he remember being shot by him? Other than the last statement by Hurley, I followed the conversation much better this time around. You have to read it over a couple of times and think outside the box. As for the Ben part, either Richard was telling the truth and Ben would forget being healed, or Ben knows, and needs Sayid to shoot him so that he eventually becomes the leader. Juliet suggests only the Others can save Ben, and Kate runs off with him. A marina scene, and Kate takes Aaron to a supermarket where he disappears. Aaron is found by somebody that looks a lot like Claire in weird makeup. Kate visiting Cassidy again. K: I expected him to be taken C: You took him Kate. OK, fine, that’s pretty rational so far. I’m on board. Now, abandon ship. C: You needed him, Sawyer broke your heart, how else are you supposed to fix it? Cassidy is Kate’s drug addicted friend. As soon as Kate is ready to get away from insanity, Cassidy walks in the door with a giant bag of crazy and dozens of needles. Sawyer tells Kate the only reason he is helping her with Ben is for Juliet. Jake comes out of the shower, and Juliet sees his winkie. She suppresses a laugh, it’s shrinkage from cold water, shrinkage I tell ya, ask anyone, J: I came back to save you Juliet J: We didn’t need saving. J: I came back because I was supposed to. Jack sort of gets it, in a condescending sort of way. None of the other main characters are acting rational or selfless. Kate and Sawyer talk about Clementine and other stuff. S: You and me would have never worked out Kate. Ouch, that’s two guys that Kate was trying to entrap in her life of misery that told her to beat it, broad. I’m so happy I almost smile. The Others show up. Kate visit’s Claire’s mother. K: Aaron is your grandson, Claire is alive, we lied. A stunned Mrs Littleton: Why didn’t you come to me? K: Because I needed him; I’m going back to find your daughter, This is all just bullsh!t. Kate is crying not out shame or guilt or genuine sorrow. She is sad because the child she abducted has been returned to his relatives, and Kate no longer has a purpose in life. She isn’t a criminal right now, so she needs to hurry up and plan her next evil act. Richard appears to Kate and Sawyer. K: we need you to save his life. R: if I take him, he’s not ever going to be the same again, he will forget any of this happened, and his incense will be gone. He will always be one of us. Richard refuses to check with Ellie or Charles first. R: I don’t answer to either of them. Richard takes Ben to Temple, above ground. Ben wakes up on Hydra island, sees Locke hovering over him. Welcome back.

 

Widmore confronts Richard over Ben. R: the island chooses who is chooses. I suppose this means Ben is being groomed to eventually become their leader. Ben continues to whine that he wants to stay with the Others. Ben tells New Locke that he broke the rules, he was coming back to answer for what he had done, going back to be judged. Ilana moving the cargo, at this point must know what is inside. Yet, she does nothing, watching Locke walking around. Why not put a spy on him? Say something? A dead guy is prancing around this island. Young Ben and young Ethan are crouching in the bushes. Ben walks in the tent, and proceeds to steal Alex from Rousseau; tells her any time she hears whispers, to run the other way. Ben in his old office in Hydra station. Ben explains to Locke that killing him was the only way to get you (and me, mostly me) back to island. Locke had critical information, his death was in the best interests of the island. Overly smug Locke was simply looking for an apology. It was clear that when Locke was reborn, he was a different person. I thought it meant that his attitude was due to being more in tune with the island. Turns out he was literally a different person. Caesar interrupts Ben and Locke taking a boat, and Ben shoot him. Ben wants to summon the smoke monster from his old house. John calls him out on his lie and that Ben doesn’t care about the rules. You are here for killing your daughter. Young Ben returns to the Other camp, his orders were to exterminate Rousseau, as told by Charles who continues to have a thick British accent despite many years on the island. Widmore wants to protect the island, Ben challenges him to kill the baby. When you realize that Alex is killed by Keamy 16 years later, and Rousseau it is the fulfillment of what Widmore had ordered to Ben. Ben realized that the island wanted them dead and has course corrected, and is here to say that he was wrong, and Widmore was right. I think. Ben reprimands Locke: You don’t have the first idea what this island wants. So wrong, so very wrong. A light in Ben’s old house, Sun and Frank ransacking it, Sun shows Dharma photo to Ben, who is surprised to see Jack Kate Hurley in 1977. Sun: a man named Christian told us to wait here for Locke. OK. If I was Ben, my immediate question is about Christian. Maybe Locke told Ben about him, maybe not. But I’d certainly be curious. Frank is done with the excitement and leaves. Ben goes into his secret tunnel in his house, then sticks his arm elbow deep into an ancient toilet, and unclogs it. I can see a couple of floaters and some kernels of corn. Somebody needs to eat more fiber. We see Widmore leaving the island, being banished, the work of Ben. Ben: You left the island regularly, you had a daughter (Penny) with an outsider, you broke the rules. Widmore tells Ben that if he is wrong about letting Alex and Danielle live, he will pay for it, because you cannot fight the inevitable. Widmore leaves by sub. It’s very strange that Widmore was able to go back and forth from island, but can’t find it again over the next 20 years. You would think that you might have some general idea where it is. Sun doesn’t believe that Locke could have been dead. Ben assures her that he was and that he had no idea Locke would be resurrected. B: John walking around this island scares the living hell out of me. No monster shows up, but Locke knows where it is. Ben calls Widmore to gloat about how he is about to return to island and is going to kill his daughter. He name drops the boat Our Mutual Friend, allowing Widmore to find Desmond and Penny later on with this information. Locke leads Sun and Ben to Temple wall. Ben is familiar with top of Temple, but they are going underground. Ben: find Desmond, tell him I was sorry. Back at a marina, Ben shoots Desmond right in the old grocery bag. Problem is that there was no bullet hole on Desmond’s shirt, so the Twinkies and Romaine lettuce must have been body armor. While Ben is brandishing a gun at Penny, Charlie surfaces. Ben hesitates, and Desmond beats the crap out of him, much to my disappointment. Under the Temple, and Ben falls through floor to go really under the Temple, probably unexplored territory for the Others. As Ben is admiring the scenery, Smokie comes up from a vent leading to the really, really under the Temple. It scans Ben in a really breathtaking way. Really nice scene. But now Smokie owns Ben’s memories, secrets, thoughts, lies on file, and as an extension, X probably does too. Alex appears and hassles Ben. A: I already know you are planning to kill John Locke again; you hurt him and I will destroy you; you will listen to John Locke and follow his every order. Ben is happy to be alive. I thought it was humorous that the monster already knew Ben’s secrets, and that killing Locke was already in motion again. Good stuff, Ben.

 

Young Miles can hear dead people talking to him. He is given a simple task of erasing a security tape and fails. He is put in a circle of trust, and we all know that a circle is a loop. He is sent to a trespassing site, the Swan location, where Radzinsky gives him a body for his body bag. Seriously, how can the Others not know about Swan being built. The island isn’t that big, and large construction projects make a lot of noise. I guess at some point Eloise allowed Dharma to work on the island based on Daniel’s journal and based on Jacob’s recommendation. Miles’ mother is dying, most likely cancer from prolonged exposure to electromagnetism on the island. She explains that Miles’ father kicked them out when he was young, and his body is somewhere you can never go. No deathbed confessions here, is that right Mrs. Chang? Roger Linus freaks out that Ben is missing. Instead of raising an alarm, telling Horace, looking for missing Ben, Roger instead does the most helpful thing possible in sitting on swing and drinking his ass off. I gotta tell you, Roger is hardcore. K: I have a feeling he is going to be OK. Roger freaks out and thinks Kate is involved. Roger: You want to help Kate? Why don’t you just mind your own business. Roger is actually perceptive, and should be promoted to something other than Workman. Maybe he can swap jobs with Jack. Oh, he’s a workman too. Well, the world needs ditch diggers too. Hurley Skipper and his little buddy Miles Gilligan go to Orchid. Hurley and Miles identify each other as being able to speak to dead. Naomi has a proposition for Miles. Miles reads the thoughts of a dead guy in a restaurant. The guy robbed graves and bought planes for Widmore. Miles is offered 1.6 million for services, exactly half of what he tried to extort from Ben in Season 4. Hurley is in circle of trust. Chang threatens him with a job of weighing polar bear turds at Hydra station with their ridiculous experiments. Well, how ridiculous are they if a polar bear ended up in Tunisia? Dr Change is Miles’ father. Duh. Who didn’t see that coming? This was clear for a very long time. Jack erases a chalkboard full of notes on ancient Egyptian civilizations. Roger is drunk and pissed off and thinks Kate is guilty of something. Hi, My Name Is Roger. Kharma is a funny thing. Miles is kidnapped prior to the freighter trip by Bram and his merry henchmen. Don’t work for Widmore. So, this is confirmation that Bram and Ilana are not with Widmore, but squarely on Jacob’s side. Was Miles the only one threatened, as I would imagine Daniel or Charlotte or Frank might have been affected by such an experience. Bram: Do you know what lies in the shadow of the statue? Then you are not ready to go to the island. What kind of litmus test is that? Bram tells Miles that Bram’s team is going to win. Hurley is writing Empire Strikes Back. Jack tells Sawyer that Kate squawked to Roger. Before Sawyer could go and yell at Kate, Phil shows up with incriminating evidence against Sawyer. The sub is back, and so is Daniel, from Ann Arbor. Well, why was he allowed to leave the island and go to Dharma headquarters? Did he tell them he was a physicist? I’m sure he continued his research, but I though his memory had issues. Did the island heal him so that he could function off island, or was it like Rose and that the island healed you only while you were there?

 

Desmond is in the hospital from a phantom bullet wound, well at least in one of the loops. Eloise visits. Daniel is excited because he saw the orientation photo and that Jack, Kate, Hurley were in their time. Daniel to Jack: You don’t belong here at all, Eloise was wrong. Young Daniel is addressed by his mother when playing the piano EH: Destiny is having a gift that must be nurtured; it’s my job to keep you on your path. Thank you Kathy Bates from Misery. Daniel goes to Orchid to talk to Chang, and recreates the opening scene from this season. The drilling is killing. Daniel wants Chang to evacuate the island of all non essential personnel, so that means we should say good bye to Roger, Kate, weird eyebrow Phil, Horace, and Radzinsky. Oh, some of them have titles? Well, get rid of Kate at least. Daniel tells Chang the Swan will be like 9/11 but a thousand times worse, or something like that while Chang looks at him confused. I’m from the future, Miles is your son, and 60 minutes is still on the air. Daniel explains to Miles: I’m making sure your father does what he is supposed to do. A bit of course correcting by Daniel. Eloise shows her disdain for Theresa, Daniel’s girlfriend/research assistant. Over lunch, she proclaims: the women in your life will be terribly hurt. Well, Theresa, Charlotte, and Eloise basically were. Daniel expresses how he is upset by being pushed all these years. You know, I get tired of people who whine about verbal abuse, and their feelings, and their right to be happy. Shut up, you sissies. I’ll give you some five finger therapy. Eloise is not happy to hear that Charles gave Daniel a big grant. Widmore is Daniel’s father. Eloise gives Daniel his journal as a gift. The Losties are having a group meeting. Daniel needs to find his mother and the Others. Eloise can get them to where they belong. Daniel again is course correcting. We see the scene of Daniel crying over the Oceanic 815 wreckage, and it’s blatantly different, as Daniel’s hair is much longer than the first time we see this scene. I need to finish this writeup, or I would review the dialogue, as I think it is different. It’s Sunday night, and I’m running out of time before Tuesday’s Season 6 debut. Widmore visits. Daniel has a memory issue, and admits that he tested his devices on himself before Theresa, but she suffered much more consequences. This sound like the background story of the Green Goblin from Spiderman. Widmore confesses to staging the plane crash in the ocean, the island has unique scientific properties, will heal Daniel. The Losties are arguing what to do, Kate is willing to take Daniel to the Others. Daniel stops to warn Charlotte to leave the island. Still creepy. Daniel is trying to change things. Gun fight at the motor pool, with minor wounding. Eloise visits Daniel to discuss job offer. Did Charles tell her about it? Journal? Loop? Eloise clearly knows that she shoots Daniel on the island, and she has forsaken her son, sacrificed him, for a higher purpose. She convinces Daniel to go to the island. Daniel reminds us and Jack that anyone of us can die. Thanks for the obvious clue. We get it. You are about to die. Phil is discovered in Sawyer’s house. Daniel: in 4 hours, the Swan drilling will be catastrophic, Chernobyl, but if Desmond doesn’t push that button, the plane Oceanic 815 never crashes, the freighter never comes, we can change the chain of events. Chain of events. Loopy. D: You can’t change the past, whatever happened, happened, I spent so much time on the constants, I forgot about the variables, us. Daniel continues: We think, we reason, we make choices, we have free will, we can change our destiny. That could be theme to the whole dam show, from Daniel’s mouth. Daniel thinks he can negate the energy generated from the Swan, the plane will land in Los Angeles, and they need to detonate a hydrogen bomb. Eloise in hospital talking to Penny: Desmond is a casualty in a conflict bigger than him, that’s bigger than any of us, for the first time in a long time (loops), I don’t know what is going to happen next. Well, Desmond turns out to be OK. Daniel walks into the Others camp demanding to see Eloise. Richard must suck at Pictionary and police lineups, as people keep walking into his camp, he is constantly saying “Who are you?” Also, remember how hard it used to be to find the Others camp. Now, everybody finds it in a couple of minutes. They are now building a passing lane and a toll stop on the road there. Eloise shoots Daniel. D: You knew, you always knew, you sent me here anyway, I’m your son. Daniel is completely demoralized at knowing his mother set him up to have him killed by her hand.

 

Daniel is dead. Jack turns around and run’s face first into the butt of Widmore’s rifle. Kate is captured too. Eloise is browsing Daniel’s journal, muttering something about how she wished it was on a Kindle. Eloise realized right away that Jack and Kate aren’t Dharma. Locke strolls into the Others camp. Right away: You seem different now. JL: I have a purpose now. No, he’s different. Ben explains to Sun that Locke is the leader now, Richard is an advisor and has been for a very, very long time. Sun shows Richard Dharma photo. R: I remember them very clearly, because I watched them all die. Of course Richard never saw Hurley in 1977, but that’s just nit picking. Maybe they all die in the previous loops, but this time they are alive after the bomb. It’s not like Richard said they exploded, since the island and the Others are still around. I suppose they might die, Kate Hurley Jack in Season 6. Oh, how wonderful that would be. Road trip for John Ben Richard, the compass reappears. As Kate and Jack are waiting in a tent, Kate questions Jack about his plans. K: put things back the way they were supposed to be, what did you mean by that? J: land in Los Angeles and everybody we lost since we got here, they’d all be alive. Actually, this is a very noble gesture on Jack’s part. Of course, we learn that is not his primary objective later on. Still, it sounds good. K: And what about us? At this point, I wanted to hear Jacob’s voice booming from the sky, What about us? But, instead, it’s just Jack. K: we just go on living our lives because we never met? I nominate this for one of the most selfish speeches ever told. You are equating a fling with Jack to losing about a 100 people. What a cvvnt. I swear I’m trying to cut back on my cursing on these writeups, in case ABC Family channel wants to read the transcripts on their airwaves, but Kate is a CVVNT, and I meant it in capital letters. Please tell me people like this don’t exist in the real world. I think I need some reassurance here. Jack: All the misery we’ve been through, we just wipe it clean. Never happened. Kate: It was not all miserable. Jack: Oh, enough of it was. FACE. Jack getting his shots in, before heading down the idiot trail again. Eloise wants to know what they need the bomb for and answers in general. Jack: if we do what is written in that journal, none of this will have happened (or it loops). The bomb is under Dharma. Meanwhile, Radzinsky is beating up Sawyer, Horace has lost a power struggle, Juliet takes a punch from Phil better than Snookie did. Hurley grabs food, and Chang follows. Hurley Jin Miles are quizzed about current events and Hurley responds that there is no such thing as the Korean War. Chang and Miles connect. Look if I want a father moment, I’ll watch Big Fish. Or maybe call my father. But not now. Miles: Faraday has been right about everything so far. Charles thinks Faraday looks familiar, better memory than Richard I guess, and then holds Eloise’s stomach, telling us she is pregnant, with Daniel. Richard says he saw a bright light when John disappeared before, but nobody else has said the same, just that someone suddenly disappeared. No light. Locke wants a meeting with Jacob, and instructs Richard what to do when he sees someone in the jungle, setting up the Locke Richard scene from the first episode, removing the bullet from John’s leg. I wish I had time to compare the two scenes, but I have to plow forward. John’s timing is perfect, something that he couldn’t possibly do on his own. JL: the island told me. Locke tells Richard that Ben killed him. Chang wants an evacuation, but Radzinsky is now in charge, not Horace. Sawyer cuts a deal to be put on the sub with Juliet to leave. This is just a cowardly move by Sawyer, the first of several. Eloise, Richard, Jack, Kate, Others are by a creek, ready to swim into the tunnels. Sayid kills some background Others and then brags he killed Ben, which didn’t happen. Kate: since when did shooting kids and blowing up hydrogen bombs become OK. Jack: this is our destiny. Kate: Do you know who you sound like? Jack: Maybe he was right Kate: No, he wasn’t. I know you are but what am I? It’s a fight that could be taking place on an elementary recreation center. Juliet and Sawyer on sub. Kate decides to quit and run. Again. The rest swim to the tunnels. Locke is making life difficult for Richard. Some of the Others are at the Temple, so the ones on the beach are only some of them. Locke gives a speech. JL: You’ve all been taking orders from Jacob, no one has actually seen him, I want to know who he is, I’m going to go see Jacob right now, and I’d like all of you to come with me. Actually this is a smart way to keep Richard or Ben from killing him on the way. Plus, he has a bunch of witnesses for all that he is going to do. R: I’m starting to think that John Locke is going to be trouble. Ben: Why do you think I tried to kill him? Nice exchange. While Juliet and Sawyer are making plans for the real world, those are quickly dashed as the destroyer of all things nice Kate becomes a third wheel after being captured at the Barracks. It’s pathetic. Kate is rejected by Jack, and bounces back to Sawyer. Sayid Jack Eloise Richard find Jughead. Now what? Everybody looks at Jack, and such an absolute expression of pure idiocy on that mug of Jack was priceless. I had to rewind a few times and laughed every time. Others march towards Jacob. Ben to Locke: Richard is concerned. Locke: We are going to Jacob so that we can kill him.

 

Jacob is using a loom, weaving tapestry, and is surrounded by Egyptian symbols. The tapestry has three lines: may the gods grant thee all that thy heart desires, may the gods grant thee happiness, only those that have died have seen the end of war. This is fitting, as dead Locke as X is seeing the end of the war between himself and Jacob. The island is full of signs from many different civilizations. This is 140 years in the past. The Black Rock is approaching the island from a distance. The nemesis approaches Jacob on the beach. X: You brought them here. You’re still trying to prove me wrong; it always ends the same. J: It only ends once, anything before that is progress. X: Do you have any idea how much I want to kill you? One day I will find the loophole. There is their competition in a nutshell. Jacob wants to prove Jacob wrong, and X wants to kill Jacob. Simple enough, let’s move on. We are at the base of the statue Tawaret, the fertility god, again making me wonder about the importance of Claire and Aaron is the larger picture. And thus begins the central theme of the show, the cast are variables in this competition between these two beings. And it’s not as simple as good vs evil, as we don’t even know for sure which side Jacob and X are on. But it seems to be more about free will and choice vs. predetermined outcomes. X says that it always ends the same, fate, destiny, etc. Jacob is bringing people to the island to change what happens. Young Kate is stealing a lunchbox. When caught, Jacob pays for it, touches her like the creep that he is. Yes, we noted last year that Jacob touched every person we met off island, with the possible exception of Ilana, as we don’t know either way. Jacob touching people is how he draws them to the island. Jacob gets Kate to promise to never steal again And she never did, and lived happily ever after. Yeah, right. Stealing, assault, bank robbing, attempted murder, murder, kidnapping, vagrancy, and possibly buggery. Model citizen. Sawyer, Juliet and Kate are on a sub, and Sawyer realizes that his life is sunk. Get it? S: We were happy until you all showed up. At least some venom is finally being tossed at the Kate monster. Sayid and Jack are trying to take apart Jughead. Radzinsky and Chang argue over the drilling at the Swan station. Back to 2007, and the Others are on their way to see Jacob. Ben explains to Sun that Jacob is their leader, and that Ben has never met nor spoken to Jacob. Richard credits Jacob for his ability to never age. Locke says Jacob is responsible for his resurrection. Ajira Leftovers arrive on the island. “Is he a candidate?” talking about Frank. A candidate for being a vessel? A candidate for joining their group? They show Frank what is in the box. After the funeral for Sawyer’s parents, Sawyer starts to write him famous revenge letter. Jacob hands him a pen. What’s done is done is first spoken by Sawyer’s uncle. Despite Sawyer’s objections, Juliet leads the escape effort. As we know, Juliet has been flashing a red shirt for a couple of episodes, and she is not long for the world. As they move through the tunnels, Richard asks Jack about Locke, and how he doesn’t seem all that special. He visited Locke 3 times off the island. Well, I remember the nursery in the hospital, and at the foster home to pick items. When was the third? Jack points out that his lack of faith in Locke was disastrous. Locke is a bit surprised to find out that Ben is willing to do whatever Locke says based on what the monster told him. Jacob’s Leader of the Others is now on the hook to kill Jacob, as Smokie and X both maneuver Ben into a predicament. Jacob saves Sayid from being hit by a car, but Nadia is road kill. Richard won’t allow the leader Eloise to be harmed, so he knocks her out. Richard breaks open a wall to reveal the basement of a Dharma house. It’s odd that Dharma built right over the tunnels but never seemed to explore them. Surely, after the incident, someone in Dharma would have noticed the hole in a wall in this house and seen a tunnel and explored. Right? As Jack and Sayid try to escape, Roger Linus shoots Sayid in the belly, a fitting pendulum swing as Sayid had shot Ben in the heart. Hurley, Jin, Miles show up with the getaway car. Sawyer, Juliet, Kate wash up on shore, and find Vincent, Rose and Bernard. We’re retired. This is a goodbye to Rose and Bernard, or Adam and Eve in the caves from Season 1, the skeletons. They’ve had it with the shenanigans on the island. I thought the reunion of the two characters was interesting back in Season 2, but since then, they’ve been useless in almost every way. Wave good bye to these characters, barely one step up from a background Losties. Don’t come back. You want some tea? J: maybe another time. Aha!!!! Another loop, perhaps? Frank is shaken by the contents of the cargo box. The group needs to show somebody what is inside, what they are up against. We’re the good guys. Which is what Ben said Season 2. They notice the break in ash around the cabin, so whatever had been trapped there in the past has long since escaped. Most likely, Jacob was trapped in the cabin, as a way of controlling him and his movement around the island. Who let him loose? No idea. When did he leave the cabin? Not clear. Jacob visits Ilana in a medical facility and speaks to her in a Russian dialect. Hmm. Mikhail was Russian. Could Mikhail be related to…..nah. Because Jacob tells her I need your help. Going by gut feeling, Ilana seems to have a more ancient feel to her, like a Richard. Perhaps she is a bit ancient, and Jacob is recruiting her help for this supernatural war. Ilana declares that the cabin has been used, but not for a long time, and they should burn it. Now, a possibility is that X has been Christian and the other manifestations all this time. Maybe Jacob was always in the statue, but X has been pulling the strings of Locke and Ben, playing them for suckers until he got their help in killing Jacob. Not much is really that clear here, so we have to defer to Season 6. The bit of cloth that Ilana found seemed to be pinned to the wall that Jacob used to gut and cook the fish at the beginning of The Incident episode. The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire. We don’t need no water, let the motherf***** burn. Burn, motherf*****, burn!!! Locke falls from the hotel, and Jacob touches him. Well, Jacob can call you to the island, but his chosen people can still be possessed by X. That probably was the reason Jacob called on Locke to come to the island. John begins to manipulate Ben, talking about the first meeting in the cabin and how Ben lied, Alex was murdered, Jacob never talked to you, why wouldn’t you kill him? Sun finds Charlie’s DS ring. Jacob attends the Sun Jin wedding. J: Never take your love for granted. Don’t worry, they have, and then some. The Hurley van is stopped by Sawyer, Juliet, Kate. Richard brings the Others to the statute foot, the statue foot we first saw in the Season 2 finale. This is where Jacob lives. Sawyer demands a 5 minute talk with Jack.

 

Jack is struggling with a surgery. After a pep talk from his father, he goes outside and whines that his father embarrassed him. Go call a whaaaambulance. Jacob hands Jack a candy bar to calm down his childish tirade. Sawyer and Jack hash things out. Sawyer correctly deduces that Jack is trying to fix a screw up of his by blowing up the world. Oh, but which of Jack’s millions of screw ups was it. Like we didn’t know. J: Kate, I had her, and I lost her, it’s too late to get her back. Never mind that Kate is about 20 feet away and if you go talk to her, maybe you don’t have to set off a hydrogen bomb hoping that you don’t die and try to get her back. It’s called risk and reward, stupid. A pretty decent fight breaks out, Sawyer pissed off that he had a life here, well, he would have at least until the Purge happened. Juliet sabotages the fight, and tells Sawyer that Jack must blow up the bomb. She is tired of Sawyer making goo goo eyes at Kate, and apparently wants to end the world rather than have Sawyer end up with Kate. OK, not a single rational person in this bunch. Check. Juliet flashback, but no Jacob touching. J: Maybe we were never meant to be together. Sad. Kate: Remember when I first sewed you up? J: seemed like a million years ago. Yeah, in loop years. Jack talking about the detonation of a bomb: Nothing in my life has ever felt so right. OK, ladies and gentlemen, we are so focked. Hurley is kicked out of jail, and shares a cab with Jacob. Jacob assures Hurley that he is not cursed and that he is not crazy. He gives Hurley a guitar and information on what plane to catch. Sayid is dying. Jack is totally believing that they will end up in Los Angeles. When Richard and the eager Others reached the statue, it was daylight. Well, it is now the middle of the night, odd since Locke was so eager. That kind of time shift can only be resolved by seeing two similar scenes from two different loops. Only one leader can request audience with Jacob, but Locke insists that Ben is going with him. Into the statue they go. L: things will change once he (Jacob) is gone. Miles with an alternate thought: maybe Jack will cause the incident, but everybody else is gung ho to help Jack. A massive gun fight, people dying, Jack reaches his pinnacle moment of his life, drops the bomb, and MASSIVE FAILE. Nothing happens. Things are getting pulled into the hole. Chang has his arm crushed. Jack is knocked out. Phil dies. Juliet gets tangled in chains and is being pulled in. Sawyer is barely holding on to her, as Kate reaches out with alligator arms and declared I can’t reach her before actually trying to reach for her. I understand that they deleted the scene where Kate picked up a huge boulder dropped it into the shaft and yelled to Juliet “Catch”. Really stunning scene between Sawyer and Juliet, hell of a lot of emotion, and Juliet gets pulled down the shaft. We knew many episodes prior that Juliet was going to die, but this was….hey, I’m not that big of a monster. If I were to ever tear up watching TV, it would be….not here. What? You think I’m going to boo hoo over a TV show. No focking way. Do you know who you’re talking to? I laugh my way through the Saw movies. Go screw. Ilana’s group finds Richard/Ricardos. What lies in the shadow of the statue? He who will save us all. The cargo contains Locke’s dead body. Locke is not who he says he is. But you have to wonder. Doesn’t a mortician remove a person’s guts before a person is put on display in a coffin? How exactly do you get resurrected without internal organs? Ben and Locke are inside. Jacob: You found the loophole. Jacob to Ben: you have a choice. Ben: I did as I was told. All the lists. I was told to wait, be patient. So why him? What about me? Jacob: What about you? Ben goes stab, stab, stabbing like a sissy. Geez. Get some arm extension. Might as well hit him with a purse, Ruth Buzzi. J: They’re coming. Juliet wakes up, broken, bleeding from her face and mouth. Next shot, no blood coming from her mouth. Different scenes from loops. She finds a rock and while screaming pounds the sh!t out of the bomb. White light. I shed a tear….no I didn’t.

 

I’m done. No more previews. Enjoy Tuesday night. It will be better than the Super Bowl.

[Quickolas1 80]

Doesn’t a mortician remove a person’s guts before a person is put on display in a coffin? How exactly do you get resurrected without internal organs?

 

this is why i dont follow phillybear's write-ups. most of it is complaining about the characters who if they did what he wanted, we wouldnt have the story. the rest just feels like typing to type...example: Locke's dead body isn't resurrected. It's in the metal case. X doesn't need the internal organs because he's not using Locke's real (dead) body.

[Lackman 0]

this is why i dont follow phillybear's write-ups. most of it is complaining about the characters who if they did what he wanted, we wouldnt have the story. the rest just feels like typing to type...example: Locke's dead body isn't resurrected. It's in the metal case. X doesn't need the internal organs because he's not using Locke's real (dead) body.

 

 

I think you missed the point. About half the season, everybody on the 2007 island thinks Locke is resurrected. Hell, so did a lot of viewers. I didn't think it was X. That is why I brought up internal organs. He is being treated as if he is alive, but reality is that the body must have been gutted before being put into a coffin. Why does no one on the island question that? If I were on the island, I may have considered investigating this development. Did the island heal him of missing his guts? I don't think the island gave him a new kidney when Ben shot him. So, how is he walking around missing stuff? If someone thought of that sooner, maybe it would have been revealed sooner that X was in charge of the carcass. Sure, the plot device is to keep it hidden until the end of the season. But it's a real life look at the situation. Looking back on it, it didn't make sense.

 

Sure, the writeups have some complaining. The love stories are ridiculous. It is interfering with the true, important story lines. The writeups have been driven to point out the Loops more than anything else.

[kutulu 1,598]

Lindelof finally conceded that "by the end of the season premiere of season six, you will have pretty much all the fundamental building blocks you need to put together a hell of a theory as to what it all means and where the show [will] end."

 

[The Moz 69]

saw the bootleg copy -- terrible qaulity but show a lot.

[Voltaire 4,817]

saw the bootleg copy -- terrible qaulity but show a lot.

 

Hold on. So this thing hasn't aired yet?

 

I just saw a sh*tty copy myself. http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/-olZhnAgZ-s/

[posty 2,437]

Episode Title: (#600) "BEGINNING OF THE END"

Air Date: Tuesday, February 02, 2010

 

A LOOK OVER THE PAST FIVE SEASONS WILL SHED SOME LIGHT ON THE SURVIVORS BEFORE AND AFTER THE CRASH OF OCEANIC FLIGHT 815, THE MYSTERIES OF THE ISLAND, THE OCEANIC 6, THE VIOLENT SHIFTS THROUGH TIME AND THE DETONATION OF THE HYDROGEN BOMB, IN ANTICIPATION OF THE EXCITING SIXTH AND FINAL SEASON PREMIERE, IN THE NEW SPECIAL, "LOST: BEGINNING OF THE END," TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2 ON ABC

 

ABC once again invites new and avid "Lost" viewers to take another look at one of the most talked about and critically acclaimed shows. "Lost: Beginning of the End" will explore the series in a way that will bring new viewers up to date -- but which current viewers will also find illuminating in anticipation of the two-hour final season premiere. The special will take a look at the crash of Oceanic Flight 815, the mysteries of the island, its inhabitants, the Oceanic 6, the violent shifts through time on the island and the detonation of the hydrogen bomb. It will also delve into some of the questions that have been answered, and those that still remain a mystery. "Lost: Beginning of the End" airs TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2 (8:00-9:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.

 

Oceanic Flight 815 tore apart in mid-air and crashed, leaving 48 passengers alive and stranded on a remote island in the South Pacific. The survivors include a diverse group of people from different walks of life -- a doctor, an escaped fugitive, a con man, an Iraqi interrogator, a married Korean couple and a man formerly confined to a wheelchair who is now inexplicably healed. "Lost: Beginning of the End" will take an in-depth look at the original survivors before and after the crash, their struggle to stay alive and their attempts to get off the island, which led to the Oceanic 6's escape back to civilization. The special will also delve into Ben moving the island, which thrust the remaining survivors into violent shifts through time, Locke being tasked with leaving the island and convincing the Oceanic 6 to return, the survivors being stranded in the 1970s during the Dharma Initiative, and Faraday's game-changing plan which convinced Jack that, if the Swan Station were blown up, it could reset time and prevent the plane from ever crashing.

 

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Episode Title: (#601/602) "LA X (Parts 1 and 2)"

Air Date: Tuesday, February 02, 2010

 

SEASON PREMIERE

 

THE AFTERMATH FROM JULIET'S DETONATION OF THE HYDROGEN BOMB IS REVEALED, ON THE SEASON PREMIERE OF ABC'S "LOST"

 

A 2008 recipient of the prestigious Peabody Award and awarded the 2005 Emmy and 2006 Golden Globe for Best Drama Series, "Lost" returns for its final season of action-packed mystery and adventure -- that will continue to bring out the very best and the very worst in the people who are lost -- on the season premiere of "Lost," TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2 (9:00-11:00 p.m., ET) on ABC.

 

Oceanic Air flight 815 tore apart in mid-air and crashed on a Pacific island, leaving 48 passengers alive and stranded on a remote island in the South Pacific. The survivors include a diverse group of people from different walks of life -- a doctor, an escaped fugitive, a con man, an Iraqi interrogator, a married Korean couple and a man formerly confined to a wheelchair who is now inexplicably healed. As the castaways attempt to get home, flashbacks (and forwards) illuminate their troubled lives before and after the crash, when the island they find themselves stranded on begins to slowly reveal its mysterious nature. Faith, reason, destiny and free will all clash as the island offers opportunities for both corruption and redemption... but as to its true purpose? That's the greatest mystery of all.

 

With only 18 original hours left until the final episode airs, the island's violent shifts through time were ended by Locke when he traveled off-island in an attempt to persuade the Oceanic 6 to return. Back on the island, the survivors' stay in late 70s Dharmaville was over when their covers were blown and they were accused of aiding "The Others," and Sayid was gravely wounded during their flight. In addition, Ben killed Jacob at Locke's request. But since Locke's body was found to still be inside the coffin, exactly who or what is John Locke? And if Juliet was successful in detonating the hydrogen bomb, was she able to reset time, allowing Oceanic Air 815 to land safely in Los Angeles, or was the island destroyed along with all of its inhabitants?

 

On the season premiere episode, "LA X" Parts 1 & 2, the aftermath from Juliet's detonation of the hydrogen bomb is revealed.

[kutulu 1,598]

Tonight's the Night.

[kutulu 1,598]

No more previews.

 

Hey, PB...what do you mean by this? Are you gonna do write ups for season 6 or is this it?

 

Hope you don't mind when I've cut and pasted your writings on the 4815162342.com forum...I always tried to make clear they weren't my work...just thought some other people would enjoy them as well. I think they have. No one has responded to the last few I re-posted, but I just put up your most recent one and it had like 20 views in about 15 seconds.

[The Moz 69]

why is the Island Underwater from the view from the plane though?

why is the Island Underwater from the view from the plane though?

[Lackman 0]

Hey, PB...what do you mean by this? Are you gonna do write ups for season 6 or is this it?

 

Hope you don't mind when I've cut and pasted your writings on the 4815162342.com forum...I always tried to make clear they weren't my work...just thought some other people would enjoy them as well. I think they have. No one has responded to the last few I re-posted, but I just put up your most recent one and it had like 20 views in about 15 seconds.

 

I'm sure that PB meant no more previews, which is different from REVIEWS, which I expect will be completed every weekend following an original episode airing.

 

Copy and paste away. The blog is a copy and paste in itself. Line your birdcages with them. You could read them to your kids as a bed time story and fill them up with thoughts of rage as they fall asleep.

[kutulu 1,598]

I'm sure that PB meant no more previews, which is different from REVIEWS, which I expect will be completed every weekend following an original episode airing.

 

Copy and paste away. The blog is a copy and paste in itself. Line your birdcages with them. You could read them to your kids as a bed time story and fill them up with thoughts of rage as they fall asleep.

 

[BunnysBastatrds 2,094]

I just found this and thought it was kind of cool. "Choose your own Lost Adventure"

 

http://tv.gawker.com/5458253/

[CantTouchThis 23]

Anyone else going to cream their pants after the 8 month wait is over?

[jvirne 0]

LOST: Season Six. The year we learn just how full of !@#$ Phillybear is.

[Lackman 0]

LOST: Season Six. The year we learn just how full of !@#$ Phillybear is.

 

Enough to fertilize Kansas?

[Big Blue 06 195]

Well, the show's been on for about 7 minutes and I already have a "WTF" face!

[Vikings4ever 535]

Love this show

[Lackman 0]

Got a tweet.

 

The loops are over. The reset started. And we have 2 or 3 realities to follow.

1. What would have happened if the plane didn't crash.

2. The bomb sending the Losties back to the right time line.

3. Undetermined timeline with X manifesting as Locke. Could be same as #2.

 

And I don't have to refute my Loops theories yet, since the LOOPHOLE caused this mess.

 

[CantTouchThis 23]

Hold on. So this thing hasn't aired yet?

 

I just saw a sh*tty copy myself. http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/-olZhnAgZ-s/

 

I missed the first 10 minutes, and figured i can catch up really fast by viewing this. I can't make out what they are saying...at all. So i guess i am waiting till abc puts it on

[Vikings4ever 535]

Looks like Desmond disappeared in the alternate reality.