"Lost" Season 5 Excitement Thread — Page 5

yeah... he's not stuck at all... he's timeshifting with everyone else... and darnit.. i want to know what happened to bernard and rose!! they better survive the entire series!

btw... the actor playing bernard (sam anderson) was sitting behind me at Miss Saigon last year when it was playing at the Redondo Beach Playhouse... haha

ANother solid episode -- not the best, for sure, but very good.
Thoughts:
--I knew Jin wasn't going to be dead so I was happy they didn't keep us waiting on that one for too long!
--I also realized as soon as Locke (or was it Sawyer?) said "Anyone speak French) that we'd be seeing young Danielle soon.
--Speaking of Danielle, why were they in the middle of the ocean if their stuff had already wrecked on the shore - or was that the stuff from their ship and their lifeboat just happened to be floating along still?
--Anyone interpret the French?
--Did Jin and Danielle have any interaction before? How is this going to change that in the future? She should recognize him now!
--LOVED the scene with Kate and Claire in the woods -- the editor needs to win an award for how expertly that was put together. I can't imagine they re-staged that given the actress who plays Claire isn't around for other stuff, so that was probably done with old footage. Now my question is, did they foresee that and shot the far away shots and those angles before, or was that just extra footage or what?
--How is Ben going to "prove" Jin is still alive?
--The fake out with Claire's mom was the one big weak spot for two reasons: 1)it seemed irrelevant ultimately - just a trick to get us, and 2)although it's in Jack's character to want to fix things for Kate, why wouldn't he just bring her and Aaron to Ben right off, especially if Ben was behind the tests the whole time which HAD to be a ploy to get Kate to go with them? One of the few times I think the writers got a little sloppy...

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Do you think Ben did all of that business with Kate (hiring lawyers to request a paternity test) so that she would be willing to go back to the island?

I'm guessing yes, he did it to try and get her off the island. I think the idea was that she wouldn't figure out that it was him behind it all, and just feel that the island was the one place that she and Aaron might be safe from being separated.

i will say that it was nice to see Claire in last night's episode... i miss her and can't wait until next year when she rejoins the show...

a possible theory that i read... do you think Sawyer and company time jumped to the future? it was suggested that the Oceanic 6 took Ajira Airways back to the island and that they were the ones shooting Sawyer and company on the boat... which by the way... sawyer's reaction to the time flash during the boat shooting was hilarious...

oh... and seeing Hurley in the orange jump suit was hilarious! he just looked funny

well i think they started shooting because they stole their boat.... it would make sense...

and i think i'm liking the idea that Miles is the son of Dr. Marvin Candle... makes sense... can't wait to learn more about the dharma intiative

Ben's going after Aaron is perfect, because if he can use him as bait. Either..."come back to the island and I'll let you keep Aaron" or actually taking Aaron to the island, because Kate will come looking for him. I think it might be the only thing that could get her to go back to the island. And Ben, being creepy and brilliant, knows this.

And I just realized last night, that in "current time" there are two Lockes----the dead one in "the real world" and the live one on the island. How is that possible??

All of the stuff on the island is three years (by mainland time) before the off-island events.

Apparently Jim and Danielle meeting will become a pivotal part of the LOST mythology or so I read.
Pretty neat episode.

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I read a theory somewhere that the last episode is going to be a retread of the pilot seen with all new eyes - imagine if they can pull that off! Somehow, I do think looking back at the pilot once we've seen the whole series it will be VERY different!

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That's a very good question -- but I have a feeling somehow they're going to end up anchoring the island to a time three years in the future...

The writers took a huge risk with this time travel stuff - there's a lot to keep straight and with this vigilante a fan base, they damn well better have their i's dotted and t's crossed!

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Pick up the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly - the article in it is AWESOME -- spoilerish, but more just a vague mapping of where we're heading. If you want to know NOTHING, don't read it, but if you want to know how long till they get back to the island (um, duh) and how the season will unfold in general terms, definitely worth taking a look...

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Anyone want to speculate where Frank Lapidus is, when/if he is coming back, and how he fits in to all of this?

He had too significant a role to just disappear when they all returned to the mainland. He's gotta be involved somehow.

Adam - I think I read somewhere that actor is another show now. I don't know how that will impact Lost...

I'm GUESSING either A)Lapidus will be the one to fly them back to the island (Ben somehow has him in his employ already) or B)because he didn't spend much time there, he's not needed to return.

The twisty logic that's got my head spinning is: why does the island need Jack and Kate etc.? If "Destiny" or whatever declared they're going to be needed on the island to do something, then how can they escape it? Is this all the producers' statement on free will versus destiny? Here's where I get confused in the logic - if so, Locke has always stood for destiny -- so then if the destiny of the 815ers is to be on the island, how in the WORLD are they going to explain LOCKE leaving without betraying the core idea of Locke=destiny vs. Jack=free will. The only explanation I can come up with is that Locke is being duped AGAIN - and his "destiny" is to never be part of the island. Then again, if he needs to go back as well -- see why my head hurts?

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