Comments on Lostpedia Blog: Lost Season 5 Review

Thinking back to when Richard said that he had 'wa...

2009-06-30T00:22:23.065-07:00

Thinking back to when Richard said that he had 'watched' all the people in the photograph 'die', I reckon S6 will start with....
Juliet falls down the hole, back at the surface Richard Alpert watches from the jungle as the metal crashes towards the hole, cars are overturned etc. Then Minkowski and his goons open fire on Jack, Sawyer, Kate etc. Just as they all die, juliet 'explodes' the bomb which - rather than creating a huge explosion - neutralises the electro-magnetic field and somehow creating the 'flash' which sends the main cast back to present day, thus making their bodies disappear in front of Richards eyes. We don't see the 70s again, other than to realise that the new underground force created by the exploision has to be contained by building the hatch etc etc.
The John Locke thing is less predictable. I agree with the anti-Jacob is Smokey is Locke but is the anti-Jacob also Widmore? and is Aarron the equivalent to the second coming? Or the Devil? I think whatever happens, the final season will have Jack and the gang eventually having a showdown with Locke, and will finish with them all deciding to stay on the island, under Jacks leadership of 'the others'.

My first time here and you folks are fascinating w...

2009-06-28T14:53:10.488-07:00

My first time here and you folks are fascinating with your theories and questions. Excellent. A couple of observations to pass along:
Jacob's Nemesis whom I call 'Blackshirt" til we get a name from the writers has been around since the beginning of the show. I too am sure he and the Smoke Monster are one and the same. Or at the least Smokey is an aspect of Blackshirt. And by extension Yemi, Christian, Alex, medusa spiders and others. So in a sense Blackshirt has been around since the beginning, heck even longer than references to Jacob. I also believe Claire died from injuries after her house was blown up by Keamy's boys. Not right away but right before she disaappeared with Christian, uncharacteristically leaving Aaron behind. However Claire and Charlie I think are aspects of Jacob hence their warnings to Jack and Kate. Charlie told Jack he wasn't meant to raise and Claire told Kate not to bring him back. We're left to think they're talking about Aaron but in reality its Locke, or Locke's body. This also leads to why Richard wanted the bodies of his people killed by Sawyer back. Dead people left lying around on the island tend to turn up again thanks to Smokey/Blackshirt. The one glimpse we had of an Other funeral ritual was Bea's way back in Season 3. Was her body not set adrift on a boat and burned? As to why Claire is hanging with Christian I haven't figured that out. Maybe Blackshirt is unaware of her Jacob connection? She's a spy so-to-speak? Sorry for the length but sometimes one can go on and on about this show. You guys rock!

Season ending flash: Is it merely the atomic blast...

2009-06-28T13:07:14.849-07:00

Season ending flash:
Is it merely the atomic blast? or as the game-changing blast occurs, do our heros experience another "time-flash"?

I'm confused about something. Isn't season 6 gonn...

2009-06-28T10:49:07.965-07:00

I'm confused about something. Isn't season 6 gonna have Locke and Jack "go at it" sometime? And why would Flocke do that with Jack?

And I'm also confused about the whole Flocke idea. Can someone explain to me where this "fake Locke" started?? :)

I'm wondering if Jack is perhaps Jacob reincarnate...

2009-06-23T11:09:54.225-07:00

I'm wondering if Jack is perhaps Jacob reincarnated. When Jacob burned and presumably died, the very next scene was back in 1977 at the Swan, and Jack springing up after being knocked out and helping out Kate and Sawyer. I believe the bomb does go off or at least sends the '77 Losties to the present time, and "Jack and Locke" reassume their rivalry. This whole show is one elaborate chess match, where Jacob is a few moves ahead of his nemesis

I am still wondering, is Juliet dead or not?? Juli...

2009-06-21T05:59:36.588-07:00

I am still wondering, is Juliet dead or not?? Juliet should have been killed by the blast, but im not sure about Jack and co.
And what about Jacob? Lost has been building up the character of Jacob since series 3 now and on his first appearance he dies! But what did his last words mean "they're coming" or something like that. Could he possibly mean Jack and co.?

very confusing

I still don`t understand either what Jacob`s nemes...

2009-06-20T11:27:25.311-07:00

I still don`t understand either what Jacob`s nemesis wants with Claire either. What could possibly make her choose to leave Aaron and go off with her dead dad/Jack`s Father. Was she even killed? I don`t think so so if she is alive, on the Island Where is she? In season four, remember she visited Kate in her home in LA and made her promise that she would never bring "him" back too the Island. did she mean lock or Aaron. Or was she also shape shifter/smoke monster/ Flock?

I disagree with the person that said that Jacob's ...

2009-06-19T14:28:12.216-07:00

I disagree with the person that said that Jacob's nemesis was introduced in the last episode as a late patch to fix something... In the very first episode of Lost, John Locke teachs Walt about backgammon game... he's talking about two forces, eternaly fighting... so, if we assume jacob is the light (the white pieces), then, this other character is the dark (the black pieces). It can be the other way around, too. The problem with Lost is this: you don't ever know who you are supposed to cheer for. It is what makes it such an amazing show.

I loved this season as well, but I have one questi...

2009-06-19T11:03:12.063-07:00

I loved this season as well, but I have one question when it comes to Richard...
Why would he allow Eloise, Jack and Sayid detonate the bomb??
He's obviously been on the Island for some time now, so wouldn't he atleast try and stop them instead of HELPING them?!?
I'm not sure I understand his motivations clearly enough just yet, and I really hope he explains his intentions next season.
For that matter, why did Hawking make Daniel go to the Island in the first place?
Obviously his death led her some place, presumabley after the Incedent, that had to happen again...?
Perhaps that's some clue to the outcome of the Incedent next season...
Ah well, thanks for listening!

@ CBT's comment to me above: Fair enough! :)

2009-06-18T05:17:52.491-07:00

@ CBT's comment to me above:

Fair enough! :)

Has anyone given any consideration to the question...

2009-06-17T23:46:08.607-07:00

Has anyone given any consideration to the question of what is in Hurley's guitar case? Jacob said the guitar didn't belong to him, so whose is it, or is it even a guitar? I think the most obvious answer is that Hurley will give the guitar back to Charley somehow. It seems the writers are setting up Hurley to have a huge role in the last season, since he was the only one that Jacob had a real conversation with, where he (Jacob) didn't hide the fact that he was associated with the island. Hurley is also the only person who Jacob talked to that he seemed to give a mission.

I think somehow or other, we're going to go back t...

2009-06-17T18:20:31.786-07:00

I think somehow or other, we're going to go back to that list the others made of the survivors: Jack, Kate, Sawyer & Hurley; that somehow those four characters have a profound destiny with the island.

ok so follow me with this one may the lock that ha...

2009-06-17T15:40:06.255-07:00

ok so follow me with this one
may the lock that has been walking around the island in the last season be/or have something to do with Jacks dad? A mix of some sort b/c of the fact that he is wearing jacks dad's shoes. Jacks dad was shown in the season before they returned but since then he has not appeared. Jacks dad also has a connection with Jacob (before we knew who jacob was - this might be motive for wanting him dead??) Jacks dad or his ghost appears in the hut, semi-in place of Jacob...
so this was just my thought process let me know what you guys think or is all of this just wrong wrong wrong?

I would like to think that Jack et al. don't get a...

2009-06-17T12:09:23.486-07:00

I would like to think that Jack et al. don't get atomized, though I do agree that they would live on in a parrell timeline where the flight landed as it was supposed to. I think they have been leading up to this the entire way along with Hurley.

He has been able to see "dead" losties (Charlie, Ana Lucia) and has even physically ENGAGED with them (Charlie slaps Hurley while he is at the mental institution). I believe that Hurley has an ability to see beyond whatever timeline he is personally in, and see the "completed" timeline. Those who were on the island hold some memory of their time in the alternate timeline, and when Hurley sees them he is actually seeing the flight 815 survivors in their "real" lives.

I other words, somehow the bomb accomplishes something in the grand scheme of the series. And Hurley already has experienced that.

I would be extremely disappointed with the program...

2009-06-16T12:06:38.272-07:00

I would be extremely disappointed with the program if the end result orbited around religion. Hopefully the creators of Lost will keep with the ambiguous dichotomy of faith versus science and let the audience gravitate towards whatever is closer to their views. Id rather leave it to viewers intellect to piece the remainder of the fragments together then have it spelt out and ultimately disappoint.

I thought this season was much better than season ...

2009-06-16T05:08:58.102-07:00

I thought this season was much better than season four, but Faraday's and then the rest of the Losties idea of detonating a nuclear bomb just seems phenominally stupid! Sure, the bomb would change the future, that chain of event I agree with. Bomb exploding = no hatch = no crash = Flight 825's passengers landing safely in America. Jack, Kate, Sawyer, Juliet and co. still die though. They get atomised! They won't suddely warp into different lives in America like Jack seems to think. Parallel versions of them would exist in those places, but all the main characters would die at the explosion! I'm sure this won't be the case though. My bet is that somehow all our main characters are thrown back to the present, maybe inhabiting their bodies on the day of the crash, with all their memories of the previous seasons intact.

In 'The Constant', when he learns that Desmond's c...

2009-06-14T09:23:56.185-07:00

In 'The Constant', when he learns that Desmond's conciousness is time travelling, Daniel asks Jack, "Has your friend been exposed to electromagnetism OR radiation?" When this episode first aired we knew that Desmond had been exposed to the first when he turned the failsafe key ('Live Together, Die Alone'/'Flashes Before Your Eyes') but after watching 'The Incident' I infer that the two - the radiation from the nuke - got rolled up together at The Swan.

Episode 4: "The Little Prince" The light from the ...

2009-06-13T22:21:37.129-07:00

Episode 4: "The Little Prince"
The light from the hatch on this episode is not from the night that Locke was yelling at the island, that was a small white light.

The big blue light which it shows on this episode is from when the hatch was on lockdown.

@ BEVIS - I am a huge Star Wars fan, and I definit...

2009-06-12T10:01:30.639-07:00

@ BEVIS - I am a huge Star Wars fan, and I definitely knew all that :)

But relating the title to "Some Like It Hot" just seems strange to me. I like the Star Wars references, but SLIH is just a strange title (not really a bad title).

Not sure why you think "Some Like It Hoth" is the ...

2009-06-12T07:10:52.010-07:00

Not sure why you think "Some Like It Hoth" is the strangest LOST title ever. Do you not understand the double-reference? It is actually equal parts cool, clever, relevant and extremely telling about the content of the episode.

Hoth is the ice planet featured in the opening scene of The Empire Strikes Back, which is the scene that Miles reads aloud from Hurley's script (despite Hurley changing the 'hero' of the scene in question from Han Solo to Chewbacca -- I've seen it written elsewhere that Hurley obviously has more of a connection to the burly comic sidekick character than the muscly hero, and this is clearly one of his supposed 'improvements' to the original).

Some Like It Hot is both a song (not relevant as far as I can tell) and a classic comedy film starring a young Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis. It's a buddy-film-cum-road-trip-film of sorts, and the pair argues and can't really stand each other until they kinda learn to accept one another. I'm describing the movie, but these same words could be used to describe Hurley and Miles' interactions and relationship throughout the course of this episode.

If you already knew all of this, I can't fathom why you think the title is so strange. If you didn't know it, then I'm glad to have helped explain the meaning behind the (quite clever) title.

Ok so I haven't got it all worked out but work wit...

2009-06-12T06:34:50.086-07:00

Ok so I haven't got it all worked out but work with me on these theories...

The combination of Juliet/Jughead/Electromagnetism merge with the blast.

Pregnancy problems start here in 1977 at the incident.

Liked the explanation of the Egyptian Gods/Goddess...

2009-06-12T04:03:29.769-07:00

Liked the explanation of the Egyptian Gods/Goddesses. However what if there's 2 statues, one being Sobek (repairer of evil) where Jacob lives amd the other being Tawaret (fertility god/begatter of evil deity) where anti-Jacob lives, except it presumably got destroyed in the tsunami that will eventually sweep the Black Rock inland and wash away most of the Sobek statue, plus since then anti-Jacob's been forced to keep travelling round the island, ending up in Horace's ('Jacob's') cabin.

Guys, come you can't expect it all to be given to ...

2009-06-11T12:23:39.000-07:00

Guys, come you can't expect it all to be given to you in one bite I like the way they go back and show that you weren't given it all in the first bite, and that there were other forces at work. remember the fun part is the journey following the mystery as it unravels. otherwise they might as well not had 5 seasons soon to be six, but instead put a press release saying a plane crashed but everyones ok and got home so don't bother tuning in cus we never made. If you catch my drift.....basically enjoy the journey as it's often more important than the destination bit like your life......

Thanks this was a good recap. Has anyone thought ...

2009-06-11T05:07:40.754-07:00

Thanks this was a good recap.

Has anyone thought about what Claire's involvement in all this is? What was she at the cabin? What did whoever the person/thing pretending to be Christian want/need with her?

I think because Desmond is "special" this means th...

2009-06-10T20:39:01.419-07:00

I think because Desmond is "special" this means that he is not affected by the rule "whatever happens, happens". Therefore, when Danial knocks on the hatch door and told Desmond to find his mom, he actually changed the past. When he did that, Desmond remembered the event that had not previously existed.