[bunnyb]

Did he not go as a boy with his father (the van driver)? I forgot about that. Where would the photo have been taken?

[kittenb]

Any theories about why the people on the boat want Ben? I think he was a cult leader and escaped after giving out the kool aid.

But wasn't Ben raised on the island?

[bunnyb]

bunny: your post made me remember why i'm so addicted to the show. twists and turns around every bend, but if we can put it together, oh so great. i want to watch the next episode right now. ha.

It's like one big jigsaw puzzle with several pieces missing (they'll turn up eventually, we hope.)

Any theories about why the people on the boat want Ben? I think he was a cult leader and escaped after giving out the kool aid.

As for the "Oceanic 6"... remember at the end of season 2 Michael was bringing "the four" to The Others? Those four were Jack, Kate, Sawyer and Hurley and we know that three of them are definitely part of the six and Sawyer is likely to be the one Kate is with so they are four of the six. I think Ben was the short man in the coffin with nobody at his funeral but he wouldn't be part of the six as he wasn't on the flight and could Jack's father really be classed as being a survivor from the flight since he was a cadaver in a coffin?

[knorl05]

bunny: your post made me remember why i'm so addicted to the show. twists and turns around every bend, but if we can put it together, oh so great. i want to watch the next episode right now. ha.

[kittenb]

I think it is okay that we are all confused. We are not supposed to know what is going on. I kinda loved the episode.

[bunnyb]

Hmmm, I'm as usual ... lost.

I think it's fairly clear that the Oceanic 6 are not the only survivors but that they've left the remainder on the island (creepy guy: are they dead? charlie: they need you and jack: are you going to tell? all lead me to that idea). No wonder Hurley is in a poor state, as is Jack in the previous flash forward (which is later than Hurley's as he has the beard he's intending to grow.) So, the 6? Hurley, Jack, Kate, whoever Kate is with (please let it be Sawyer), the person in the coffin (who Jack goes to view in his flash forward) and one more person...

I read that the man in the chair (in the house Hurley saw) was Jack's father; he's credited as guest star. Um, wtf? I am so confused. It would make Jack's flash forward make sense; I thought him looking for his father was just a red herring though, I thought he was confusing past with present but if his father actually is alive then he would also be one of the 6.

sassy, there will be 8 episodes in total (as many as they could before the strike); hopefully the strike will end soon and they'll manage to produce the remainder.

[sassygrrl]

I'm very confused. It was an interesting thing about the Oceanica 6, but I'm just left with more and more questions. Also, wondering how they're going to do this season with the writers strike?? I'm glad that Charlie's back in flashbacks.



Knorl, there are biblicial references. I think Lostpedia has a link to them.

[adnarim]

I just watched last night's episode and I am sooo confused. I am tempted to hop over to TWOP to find out some of the things that I missed as far as hidden things and, yes, who that parachuter was.

[knorl05]

mermaid: ah yes the parachuter, i thought he looked familiar. wasnt sure why though..?

i'm kind of disappointed with the episode, it was almost too complicated. are they crazy, are they saved, are they dead, there were far too many questions i think.. and i felt it was more a tease than anything else. no questions answered, just more questions asked. makes me wonder if there will ever be any sort of resolution to this thing.

anyone else notice the biblical references in the story... ie: benjamin and jacob. have you heard anything to support the idea that there are biblical undertones to this show?

[mermaidgirl13]

So, I felt like last night's episode gave us some new weird stuff to think about. It was exciting when Hurley was screaming that he was "one of the Oceanic 6!" because it makes you wonder who else, other than he, Kate and Jack, get off the island. Pretty obvious statement, but plenty of delicious musing to be had from it.

I'm such a sucker, I actually jumped a little when Jack pulled the trigger to shoot Locke. I don't like Locke as in, I think he's a nice guy and I'd follow him (whereas, I'd follow Sayid ANYWHERE!), but I enjoy his character and I didn't want him to be killed off.

Speaking it was killed off, I was glad to see that even though Charlie was killed off, Dominic Mo-what's-his-name is still going to be around for weird visions and flashbacks and the like.

Was teh guy who parachuted at the end actually a rescuer of Penny's? For some reason, Mr. Mermaid thought the parachuter was guy that we've already seen, in that polar station that picked up the signal from the hatch explosion (the people who Penny was paying to find Desmond). Did anyone else recognize the parachuter?

[knorl05]

petty/weird observation:

i love the juliet character, i just hate that she's all face lifted with a nose job and shit. i could understand if she were some high profile corporate person before she got to the island... but she's a bad ass fertility doc with a big heart. it just doesnt jive with me. :-/

either way. yes think it's a thurs the thirty first... i can only imagine how many peeps are gonna be tuned in!

[sassygrrl]

I think it's Jan 31st? I got my season 3 dvd last night from Amazon, and plan to start watching (I missed a bunch of shows but did see the finale) before the new season starts.

[lananans]

When does Lost come back?

I wonder how they're going to swing the whole new season after the huge twist in the finale last season. I don't want to say too much because I don't want to ruin it for people who haven't seen it yet, haha.

[knorl05]

yes now i'm all connected to abc.com, watching consecutive episodes of season three. i'm kind of getting sick of it :-/ but i will push through so that i can watch the new ones without missing a beat. there are still shows in season one that i missed but i figure, ah well.

and now, all i have to say, is the greatest loss this show has suffered is that of mr. eko.

[sassygrrl]

I'm rewatching Season 1, and just bought Season 3 in time for Season 4. I'm trying to get Mcgeek into it, b/c there's a sci-fi twist..and he's a uber geek.

[knorl05]

u rock.. thanks bunnyb

soooooo... i know i'm kinda late on the lost train, but i'm fascinated with it all the same.

just watched the episode when michael kills annalucia and libby. then shoots himself. ack. bastard.

[bunnyb]

bump for knorl05.

[bunnyb]

By mistake I watched Pt. 2 of Through the Looking Glass rather than Pt. 1 then 2 so my head is completely blown. I need to download Pt. 1 to watch it.

The coffin was very small...

[edie52]

Yeah, that was pretty awesome. Now with every "flash" in every episode, I'll be wondering if it's in the future or in the past!

I kind of still think the series will end with them getting off the island. The writers probably chose to do the flash forwards (I'm assuming there'll be more) because they know we'll want to know what happens after, but they don't want to make episodes that don't show the island at all. I hope all the episodes have that island/outside world back-and-forth. However, it's also mighty predictable that it end when they get rescued.

For a second I was like "what- Jack and Kate knew each other before!!?" But then I wasn't that surprised when I realized it was in the future. So does that mean that Jack's Dad isn't dead, or does it have something to do with, like, folds in time and parallel worlds? (My friend was like "So it means his dad's not dead" and I was all "not neccessarily- folds in time!" but then I couldn't really back it up at all, and they talk about the island in past tense, so it must be in the future.)

And clearly they're not all going to die like Ben said they would. If she's not working for Panny, Naomi probably works for Penny's Dad, who knows about the island too, right, and who doesn't want her to be with Des. That would explain why she had the photo and knew his name.

I thought it was Ben's funeral, too, but we definitely can't be sure. Anything could happen in the next 3 seasons. Maybe it's Sawyer. (And of course they want us to think Kate's "him" was Sawyer, but really, anything could happen). But it is believable that there would be no one at Ben's funeral.

Man, Walt has hit some puberty! We were joking that when Locke was like "Walt?" it was not because he was surprised to see him, but because he looks 3 years older and it's only been 3 months.

[lunasol]

So. That finale has me obsessing, yo. Obsessing. That episode just blew my mind! It was also just really, really well done.
Some thoughts:


* That glimpse of FutureJack was pretty damn bleak, no? It got me thinking about how much Lost is about redemption. Jack seems to be on a path of redemption, but clearly hasn't really redeemed himself fully by the time they get off the island - in fact, he seems to be in even worse shape than before he got onto the island. Kate, on the other hand, seems more balanced and happy - and not in jail! So what's the deal? What's going to happen that will so unhinge Jack?

* Why do you think people still can't find the island, after they've gotten off? Clearly they made contact with someone, so it doesn't appear that the island is in some other dimension or something else.

* This new twist on the narrative format really opens up the writers to take the shows in a lot of interesting, creative directions. With three seasons left, we "know" that at least two people get off the island (plus the mysterious dead guy). I always assumed that the show would end with a rescue (or lack thereof). But maybe they'll get off the island earlier, and then some people will try to get back. Actually, that sounds kind of dumb, but anyway, there are a lot more possibilities now.


God, I can't believe we have to wait 8 months! :-o