[andi*pandi]

as long as they use the time to advance the plot and not create filler, hopefully it will be ok.

[voodoo]

Originally Posted by TailsToo 

Not happy about this - I would much rather have two seasons with 24 episodes each. I don't want to wait a whole extra year for the answers!

I think on the bright side there will be less 'filler' episodes and more solid content. The more time the producers get between seasons can often be used to make good content, less rushed.

I think it is great to know that Lost will end decisively sometime and I'm sure the final episode will be a feature length episode ending it all in some really nice way. Well, here's hoping at least!

V

[design219]

But then they will leave some questions for a potential theatrical release. And then a another. And then...

[MOTHERWELL]

Ending spoiler: Everyone goes home.

[design219]

Damn. Why did you do that?

[MOTHERWELL]

Originally Posted by design219 

Damn. Why did you do that?

Free Paris.

[Wiskedjak]

Originally Posted by mdc 

It showed up, put all of these crazy plots, questions, and hardly any answers in front of us and then made us wonder what the hell is going on.

As the show goes on, more questions get answered and I feel that after the 'main' questions of LOST are answered, the show will lose it's greatness and almost be on tv for the sake of being on tv.

Basically, X-Files on an island.

I have a feeling that, like X-Files, the answering of the "main" questions will only reveal to us that they weren't the main questions after all ... cue "Lost: The Movie"

[Wiskedjak]

Originally Posted by MOTHERWELL 

Ending spoiler: Everyone goes home.

Or, it'll turn out that the whole thing was another one of Bob Hartley''s dreams. That would make me chuckle.

[design219]

Originally Posted by MOTHERWELL 

Free Paris.

Hilton?

You radical!

[RAILhead]

Originally Posted by Wiskedjak 

Or, it'll turn out that the whole thing was another one of Bob Hartley''s dreams. That would make me chuckle.

I wonder how many of actually get that joke?

[andi*pandi]

my prediction: one survivor is rescued from the island, and promptly locked up in hurley's insane asylum, where he mumbles numbers over and over...

[design219]

I did. Age showing.

Newhart was the funniest thing in the 70s and 80s.

[design219]

Originally Posted by andi*pandi 

my prediction: one survivor is rescued from the island, and promptly locked up in hurley's insane asylum, where he mumbles numbers over and over...

Hey, that's pretty good!

[Chuckit]

Originally Posted by RAILhead 

I wonder how many of actually get that joke?

Unless he means Bob Newhart, I'm stumped. Google suggests Bob Hartley is a hockey coach…

EDIT: D'oh, that's right. Dick wakes up as Bob Hartley in the finale. I just put it together.

[design219]

Yes, it's Bob Newhart. His second sitcom finallied with an episode where he wakes up at the end of the show in bed with his wife from the first sitcom he had years before. The joke was the second sitcom had all been just a dream.

It was a brilliant way to end.

Hah! your edit came in just as my post!

[Ghoser777]

No no no no!

 

Locke can't die!

[Velocity211]

Originally Posted by Ghoser777 

No no no no!

 

Locke can't die!

Locke isn't dead, he fell out of a 30? story building so no measly gunshot can kill him, i hope.

[JoshuaZ]

Wow, this ep answered a LOT of questions. Holy wow. Did not see any of that stuff coming. Not one bit.

[goMac]

 

Picture of Jacob here:
http://losteastereggs.blogspot.com/2...-of-jacob.html

[Naaaaak]

 

So the little girl in tonight's ep was actually the French girl when she was younger?

[Langdon]

Originally Posted by Naaaaak 

 

So the little girl in tonight's ep was actually the French girl when she was younger?

The French woman has an accent. Even if she left and came back she wouldn't have a french accent.

 

What was that ghost business all about? And how come that guy who is Ben's #2 didn't age?

[RAILhead]

"Exec producer Carlton Cuse offers this exclusive tease about the show's two-hour, sure-to-be-blockbuster season finale on May 22: "Let's just say the end of the season features a showdown between Jack and Locke — a showdown long anticipated and a showdown with an extremely significant outcome for the future of the castaways." Source: Ask Ausiello @ TV Guide"

[Wiskedjak]

I think we're gonna see Locke replacing Ben.

[design219]

I agree.

[scottiB]

In the eyes of The Others, I think he has already.

[voodoo]

Yay a 2 hour season finale!! (or 80 minutes without commercials)

Good episode, I always wondered what happened to the Dharma people.

V

[Ghoser777]

Isn't the finale on the 23d?

[mdc]

Yeah. An episode next week (16th) and then the 2 hour finale on the 23rd.

[andi*pandi]

definitely interesting. It was good to have a ben flashback, about time. no wonder he has daddy issues.

So we know where Hurley's van came from, and who was driving it. Finally, someone in the lostaway camp is talking to each other so they actually know what's going on.

Still, for the questions they answered, they added more:

Does juliet's recruiter not age, we see him with young ben and helping Locke and no aging--or is he the son of the first one?

is ben creating jacob psychicly? Is he split personality? is he like Walt then?

if ben's dad hated the island so much, why didn't he leave? it didn't appear that dharma prevented that. I was wondering at first if there was some kind of conspiracy to get ben to the island, but since they waited til he was 12...

Speaking of Dharma, we still don't know exactly what they were experimenting for...

what happened to ben's little girlfriend? did she die before ben exterminated Dharma, or did he decide to sacrifice her as well as his dad?

So jacob is the one who goes around luring people by appearing as their dead loved ones? Does that mean he's the First Evil?

[scottiB]

And why does Jacob have an aversion to technology - even flashlights?

Is Jacob one of the original sailors of the Black Rock?

I'm getting a definite Myst feel here - someone go look for a red page. I'd be grabbing and poking every item in that cabin.

[RAILhead]

There were 11 frames of Jacob visibly sitting in the chair. This is right after he throws Ben into the wall:

[Chuckit]

Originally Posted by andi*pandi 

is ben creating jacob psychicly? Is he split personality? is he like Walt then?

I doubt Ben is creating Jacob. He'd probably be a lot less scared of him if that were the case.

Originally Posted by andi*pandi 

So jacob is the one who goes around luring people by appearing as their dead loved ones? Does that mean he's the First Evil?

What makes you think that Jacob is the one who does that? I don't remember the show hinting at that. (Also, the First Evil was so much more entertaining the first time it appeared.)

[Velocity211]

They still haven't explained why Desmond was found by Kelvin, the guy working with the dharma initiative pressing the button. Did Ben kill everybody except for him?

[Chuckit]

Originally Posted by Velocity211 

They still haven't explained why Desmond was found by Kelvin, the guy working with the dharma initiative pressing the button. Did Ben kill everybody except for him?

He was down in an armored bunker. They probably couldn't get to him.

[Wiskedjak]

Originally Posted by andi*pandi 

Speaking of Dharma, we still don't know exactly what they were experimenting for...

Wasn't that covered last summer in the Lost Experience?
Lost Experience - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[voodoo]

Originally Posted by Velocity211 

They still haven't explained why Desmond was found by Kelvin, the guy working with the dharma initiative pressing the button. Did Ben kill everybody except for him?

Considering that the station where Kelvin was had not been taken over or destroyed like all the other stations it seems likely that the Others left it alone or that they could isolate themselves from the Others.

One reason being that perhaps the others wanted to have someone pressing the button so things wouldn't go haywire when the station would implode.

Whatever the reson, the people in the station could isolate themselves from the world and survived the chemical attack. I think the history between Dharma and the Others is far from over.

What I'm wondering is:

* why did the guy from the Others who met Ben when he was a kid not age like normal people?
* where did they get the gas from that killed everyone - I noticed Ben had a factory made cannister?
* why does Dharma still send airshipments of supplies and how do they locate the island?

and a few other things, but right now, mostly these.

V

[exca1ibur]

Originally Posted by RAILhead 

There were 11 frames of Jacob visibly sitting in the chair. This is right after he throws Ben into the wall:

He looks kinda familiar....


Alvar Hanso?

[Wiskedjak]

Except that Alvar Hanso put out a press release less than a year ago:
The Hanso Foundation

[exca1ibur]

Regardless of the press release, it sure looks like him.

[jokell82]

The un-enhanced photo looks very much like Kris Kristofferson, however the enhanced photo:

bears an uncanny resemblance to Dennis Hopper.

[JoshuaZ]

Let the long speculation begin! But as well all know, it always seems that the writers just make certain things up as they go along....

[lavar78]

Originally Posted by jokell82 

The un-enhanced photo looks very much like Kris Kristofferson, however the enhanced photo:

Am I the only one who thinks Jacob kind of looks like Locke?

[Rev-O]

Originally Posted by andi*pandi 

what happened to ben's little girlfriend? did she die before ben exterminated Dharma, or did he decide to sacrifice her as well as his dad?

I kinda of thought she turned out to be Isabel. Dunno why I made this connection, though.

And the powder surrounding Jacob's cabin... reaching way back in my memory I thought that in evocation a ring of ash or saltpeter or some such was used to contain spirits, but I couldn't turn anything up with a quick Google.

[Chuckit]

Originally Posted by lavar78 

Am I the only one who thinks Jacob kind of looks like Locke?

Wow, great picture. It's pretty much the same angle in both, only reversed. I made these for comparison:


They actually look a little different when you compare them side-by-side. Most of Jacob's features are identically placed, but he lacks Locke's fivehead.

[lavar78]

Originally Posted by Chuckit 

Wow, great picture. It's pretty much the same angle in both, only reversed. I made these for comparison:


They actually look a little different when you compare them side-by-side. Most of Jacob's features are identically placed, but he lacks Locke's fivehead.

Thanks for the comparison shots. You're right that Jacob's forehead doesn't look like it's big enough. Still, I think the strong resemblence could be important.

Anyway, I guess that powdered substance is what Ben is using to imprison Jacob, huh?

[Chuckit]

Originally Posted by Rev-O 

And the powder surrounding Jacob's cabin... reaching way back in my memory I thought that in evocation a ring of ash or saltpeter or some such was used to contain spirits, but I couldn't turn anything up with a quick Google.

Magic circles often use ash or salt or similar substances, though I think the purpose is usually to help with the invocation rather than to control a thing that's summoned, per se. Either way, the idea is that the circle creates a magic barrier. That's what I figured once I realized Jacob was a ghost(-like thing), too.

[Wiskedjak]

My money's on the Black Smoke being a projection of Jacob.

[TailsToo]

I am Jacob. I needed Locke to help me get a beer.

[JoshuaZ]

Wow.... so... is it me... or has LOST actually getting good again? This last ep was rather thrilling.

[Rev-O]

Thought this ep was dull myself; just a build up to the season finale. Nothing to see here, move along. I agree overall though, the second half of this season has been really entertaining.