The 'Lost' Thread (spoilers!)

[Stubblecat]

A day late and a dollar short, but here's a thread devoted to Lost.

We get a long strech now before season 5, so we can discuss the many details.

Begin!

[Binkleywalker]

Is it cool to spoil stuff? I almost went off the wall over in the Battlestar thread like I usually do at other forums

[Stubblecat]

I think it's safe to call this a full-spoiler zone. I'll try to add the 'spoiler' to the topic heading.

Speaking of spoiling:

So I waiting to see how long it would take for the producers to kill of most of the remaining background characters. The freighter explosion not only took care of Michael and Jin but also wasted probably a good 20 long-tern extras.

If you have a sharp eye you'll notice that they've used the same extras consistently.

[Binkleywalker]

I thought there were a few stragglers left on the island who chose not to go, among them that black lady with the cancer and her husband. Surely she knows how impressive the place is if she no longer has cancer. Why would she want to leave?

I did dig her chewing out that Asian freighter dude for hording the peanuts.

[fidget]

I don't consider Rose and extra. She had a falshback episode. Nothing like the rest of those "red shirts" as we like to call them around here.

I am curious about Jin though: remember the flashforward episode earlier this season when he was buying a teddy bear for his boss?

And what up with the Jeremy Bentham thing. Anyone wonder what's going on, with the producers choosing that name for Locke? John Locke, as you probably know, is a philosopher who wrote a lot about laws, and society. Jeremy Bentham was a philosopher who inspired John Stewart Mill: JS Mill took many of his ideas about utilitarianism based on Jeremy Bentham's works. So was Locke there trying to convince the Oceanic 6 to go back because the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the 6??

[Binkleywalker]

You raise a good point, Jin was in a flash forward. I'd forgotten all about it. I think its quite likely he's still alive and is probably going to get picked up by somebody - My best guess, maybe Desmond convinces Penny to go back and make a search, cause the island isn't where it was so if there are people in the water, they'll be swimming back to an island that's gone.

Along those same lines, I couldn't tell if the rescue boat making trips to and from the island before disappeared with the island or not. That's certainly another option. Also, did anyone else have in the back of their mind about that guy's constant? i.e. Desmond's constant was obviously Penny, but that nerd had scribbled in his book that Desmond was his. When I wasn't sure if Desmond was gonna die, I immediately thought of that nerd driving the rescue boat, wondering if he'd drop dead if Desmond did.

[Stubblecat]

Ah... Both of you forget that Jin 'flash forward' episode a little.

Sun's story was the flash forward and it was counterpointed with a red herring of Jin's story, which was a flashback.

Other thoughts:

The funeral home was called "Hoffs/Drawlar". That's an anagram for 'Flash Forward". Cute.
I was sure that it was going to be Michael in the coffin, because the funeral home was shown to be in a "black" neighbourhood with a black funeral director. And when Jack asked Kate if she was going to attend the funeral, she harboured some serious resentment towards the deceased.

What was with the Australian chick saying that she was on the island to 'see where she was born'?

In the Flash Forwards, we see Ben wake up in the desert wearing Dharma cold-weather gear. The same gear he was wearing when he moved the iswland.


All in all, I think this slightly shortened season made huge gains in the credibility and viability of Lost.
For neophytes, the show's being re-aired right from the start on the Space Channel in Canada.

[AKmaro1]

Also keep in mine that the raft with Daniel Faraday on it was pretty close to the Island when it vanished. Now if you noted, the small Island beside the main Island vanished as well, that's where Jack wanted the Pilot to set down on. So it possibly stretched out quite a distance beyond the Island, so it might have sucked Daniel along with it.

Lastly I wonder if Jin is actually dead, I mean we didn't see him go like we did Michael. So he could have jumped off the ship and been sucked in with Daniel when it vanished. We wondered if Jin had died a few Seasons back when they abducted Walt off of the raft, and look what happened then.

[Binkleywalker]

Sun's story was the flash forward and it was counterpointed with a red herring of Jin's story, which was a flashback.

Ah ok, you're right. It did look like Jin's was a flashback, not a forward. He gave that teddy bear to some mob dude's wife's kid.

[robodork220]

I don't think Jin is dead. Or at least I think it is very probable that they will bring him back.

How do you guys think they will structure next season? Will they start with the 3 years that are missing, with flash fowards to Jack trying to get everyone to go back? Or with the main story be trying to go back with flashbacks to the missing 3 years?