Let’s talk about Lost!

// May 6th, 2009 // fun

***SPOILERS***

Maybe it’s this way every season that I watch Lost when it’s getting close to the finish, but I feel completely “lost” as to what is going to happen next week.

I have no idea.

And I love it.

Probably why I am totally enjoying Fringe. That show keeps you guessing and you honestly have no idea where they are leading us.

Same with Lost.

Umm…Locke is going to kill Jacob? Will this bomb going off work? Will it even go off? I thought time couldn’t be changed?

We got to see some good stuff tonight. The tunnel under the waterfall was kind of cool. Interesting that the tunnels extend all over the place. If the Temple is off in some other part of the Island, but the tunnels extend under the Dharma camp…those are some massive paths under the Island.

Makes me think there are still people down there. The kids taken from the tail section right?

Kind of puts Eloise in a weird light. Is she going to light off the bomb knowing all her people aren’t safe? Or are they?

I guess the theory is this:

If the bomb goes off, they don’t build the Swan, the plane doesn’t crash, so none of this happens. But…does that mean Eloise will have no memory of it? Time corrects itself?

It’s a classic Back to the Future “paradox.”

My opinion is that they can’t do anything to change the course of time. But of course, if you agree with that, it makes Daniel Faraday pretty irrelevant.

But do you honestly think things will reset like it never happened? Certainly would make this whole journey kind of pointless. That’s why this plan is going to utterly fail. I’m sure it’s all part of the way it was supposed to happen, just like Sayid shooting Ben led to him becoming an Other.

Now, two moments in the show were fascinating to me.

The first was Locke taking Richard and Ben out to meet his time-jumping self by the plane. Awesome. That was simply awesome. I love how they seamlessly do this kind of thing. It just made so much sense seeing it from their point-of-view.

The second was Locke pointing out to Ben that he’s never actually SEEN Jacob.

Woh…that was kind of a shocker. Right? But it also makes perfect sense and kind of fits with Ben’s personality. He may have been controlling the Others with his own agenda.

However…tell me if I’m wrong…but what if Richard is Jacob? He appears to be the only one that doesn’t age…Ben calls him an “advisor”…I dunno, it just got me thinking.

I’m probably wrong, but that would be something else huh?

Of course, the way he seems clueless about what is going on sort of makes him an unlikely candidate. Or is Jacob even real?

We know SOMETHING is…Christian walking around, etc. But who is it?

Alright, that was kind of a tangent, I’m likely wrong about a lot of it, but that’s kind of where I am right now. I am just so clueless as to what happens next, I’m second-guessing everything.

How sorry did you feel for Juliet when Kate came down that hatch? I think I’m firmly in the Juliet belongs with Sawyer camp, so it just made me hurt for her.

How awesome was it when Sayid returned? Wonder what part he plays?

On a little nit-picky note…that was some pretty weak CGI for that submarine going under water *grin*

I’m still wondering what kind of impact Charles Widmore will have on the finale, be it in the 1970′s or the present. What is in that case? What lies in the shadow of the statue? Who is Jacob?

Can’t friggin’ wait for next week!

What did you guys think of the episode???

6 Responses to “Let’s talk about Lost!”

  1. nicky says:
    May 7, 2009 at 8:34 am

    yeah adrian and i were totally laughing at that sub scene. looked like sci-fi network movies! ha!
    i am soooo confused how they could possibly alter the past. it blows my mind. i can’t even theorize on this anymore. i just watch and try to keep up!

  2. Josh says:
    May 7, 2009 at 9:58 am

    My Theories:

    Since Miles gets off the Island, I think Sawyer, Kate, and Juliet ARE going back to 70′s USA.

    Also, who are the characters that are planning to detonate the bomb?

    Widmore (accounted for in future)
    Eloise (accounted for in future)
    Sayid (not accounted for in future)
    Jack (not accounted for in future)

    What if Jacob is Jack? The earliest mention of Jacob is AFTER all of these 70′s events. He wasn’t mentioned at all by the hostiles. They didn’t bring young Ben to “Jacob” but instead they just reference “the temple”. Perhaps the bomb blast, or whatever energy is released makes Jack some kind of disembodied power? 30 years would make Jack an old man (like the flash of Jacob in the cabin), and it would make sense if Christian was acting as his surrogate, and he brought his sister to the cabin too. Also, they’re always referring to Jack AND Jacob as “great men”. Even Jack’s tattoo means “He walks amongst us, but he is not one of us”. Ben’s never seen him either. If “the island” told Locke where and when to meet with his former self, perhaps that is Jack going back and forth, making sure certain events happen in order to produce a particular future?

    It also could be that there’s some kind of war, like Island/smoke monster VS Jacob. The smoke monster wanted Ben to help Locke. Locke is getting instructions from the Island too. And he’s planning on killing Jacob? Or is Jacob actually telling Locke this because it causes some kind of event?

    I don’t really see any holes as to how Jack “for sure” couldn’t be Jacob.

  3. D.L. White says:
    May 7, 2009 at 3:39 pm

    I think we already knew that Ben has never actually seen Jacob. Only heard him. Last season (or whenever it was) when Ben took Locke to meet Jacob in the cabin, he was shocked when Locke said he heard Jacob(and saw him?) Maybe I’m not remembering that correctly…

    I’m not into the romantic quadrangle, but I agree – I couldn’t help but feel terrible for Saywer and Juliet when Kate came down that ladder. Talk about an awkward moment!!! No surprise, that Kate ran away again…

    I love what Sayid said to Jack when he came up out of the water. “If this works, it might just save us all. If it doesn’t, at least it will put us out of our misery.”

  4. Mike says:
    May 7, 2009 at 5:06 pm

    Well, I just wonder if the idea that Ben never saw him also might mean Ben never even HEARD him.

    I mean, perhaps Ben wanted to be THAT guy, but really wasn’t? I dunno…maybe that’s too much of a stretch.

    I think the big thing right now is that suddenly no one has really seen him…and like Josh said above, maybe Jacob is someone we already know.

  5. Melissa Jill :) says:
    May 8, 2009 at 10:33 am

    I’m with you on many accounts. Except Sawyer does not belong with Juliette. Gotta disagree on that one.

    I think this was on the last episode, but do you remember when Eloise was talking to Penny in the hospital? She said something that really got me thinking. She said, “This is the first time in a long time that I don’t know what is going to happen next.” Makes me think that this whole time we’ve been seeing her as her old self that she is somehow from the future.

    Can’t wait for the next episode!

  6. D.L. White says:
    May 8, 2009 at 10:36 am

    I think Eloise “knows” the future because in 1977 she came into possession of Daniel’s journal, so by reading ahead, she’s known what would happen in the future, up until the point he died, of course. There the journal ends. That’s why she doesn’t know what happens beyond this point.

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