Lost [FINALE SPOILERS PAGE 25 ONWARDS]

[Jobu]

Here's a good interview with the producers, kind of setting up Season 6 (http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/02/02/lost-premiere-damon-carlton/?ew_packageID=20313460)

LINDELOF: Right out of the gate, in the first five minutes of the premiere, you get hit over the head with two things that you’re not expecting. The first is that Desmond is on the plane. The second thing that we do is we drop out of the plane and we go below the water and we see that the Island is submerged. What we’re trying to do there is basically say to you, “God bless the survivors of Oceanic 815, because they’re so self-centered, they thought the only effect [of detonating the bomb] was going to be that their plane never crashes.” But they don’t stop to think, “If we do this in 1977, what else is going to affected by this?” So that their entire lives can be changed radically. In fact, it would appear that they’ve sunken the Island. That’s our way of saying, “Keep your eyes peeled for the differences that you’re not expecting.”...

LINDELOF: ...This is the critical mystery of the season, which is, “What is the relationship between these two shows?” And we don’t use the phrase “alternate reality,” because to call one of them an “alternate reality” is to infer that one of them isn’t real, or one of them is real and the other is the alternate to being real.
CUSE: But the questions you’re asking are exactly the right questions. What are we to make of the fact that they’re showing us two different timelines? Are they going to resolve? Are they going to connect? Are they going to co-exist in parallel fashion? Are they going to cross? Do they intersect? Does one prove to be viable and the other one not? I think those are all the kind of speculations that are the right speculations to be having at this point in the season.

[Draegan]

I kinda thought Desmond disappeared on the plane.  Like he's skipping through timelines or something.

[Lucas]

Just looked at a wonderful picture of Claire from next week's episode. Will put it in a spoiler, but really there is nothing spoily in it.


The blonde angel is finally back, she's always been my favorite female character of the series 

[Draegan]

What picture?

Here's one for you:

[Lucas]

Oh well, here is the link 

Lovely Claire pic from 6x03: http://i.iimmgg.com/images/gr/d6175825d350ad83b7c9c82a75cb7628.jpg

[HaemishM]

Still not working.

[Lucas]

Still not working.

Lies!

Posting a Claire pic, take three! And... Action!

[Draegan]

What a terrible picture.

[Signe]

She's cute in this one:



Not that it helps make her one of the interesting characters in the show. 

[Lucas]

You guys...

[Teleku]

Yeah.....I was never really a Claire fan.  Not an annoying character, but not one I really cared about.  Thankfully, Lost has done an excellent job of killing every character I didn't like.

[Rishathra]

Not that it helps make her one of the interesting characters in the show. 

I'm assuming by 'favorite' character he means 'most attractive.'  It's not like she did all that much in the show other than have a baby and pretend to like Charlie for a while.

[Rendakor]

Not that it helps make her one of the interesting characters in the show. 

I'm assuming by 'favorite' character he means 'most attractive.'  It's not like she did all that much in the show other than have a baby and pretend to like Charlie for a while.

Even that accord belongs to Shannon.

[Signe]

Yes, Shannon could win an Oscar for sunbathing.   

[Rendakor]

I said she was hot, I didn't say she could act.

[Signe]

No, I agree.  They might all be hot and maybe they can even act.  I don't think the writers had acting ability in mind for their roles.

[Mrbloodworth]

[Soln]

good one

that's how I remember her

[Rishathra]

That pretty much sums up her entire character arc.

[Paelos]

I remember her as, "Oh look, here's a blond bitch I want to die."

To be fair though, Kate is the brunette bitch I wanted to die.  

[Ozzu]

I remember her as, "Oh look, here's a blond bitch I want to die."

To be fair though, Kate is the brunette bitch I wanted to die.  

Kate still sucks and needs to die. She's basically the only character at this point that has annoyed me since almost the beginning that they haven't killed off.

I used to say the same about Jack, but over the last season's worth of episodes, he's come around a bit.

[Paelos]

It's started to grate on me more and more, but does anybody notice how often nobody answers questions on the show and they just change topics? Very rarely early on in the show was anybody called on it. That shit just doesn't fly in my fantasy world of a desert island with no laws. It's like everyone has a short term memory problem.

[Draegan]

Worthless episode tonight.  Nothing happened.  Nothing was answered.  Nothing changed.

You could of condensed that whole episode into 5 minutes.

[Paelos]

Worthless episode tonight.  Nothing happened.  Nothing was answered.  Nothing changed.

You could of condensed that whole episode into 5 minutes.

Yep, it was truly terrible. We're back to the old ways of "Give them something in the first shows, then ramble on with filler in the entire middle."

Sayid might have something bad in him, and the Others want to contain that. (We knew this already, or at least could infer it very simply given he died)
Crazy other people on the island ask for private meetings all the time, and never tell anybody anything. (Been there, done that, beat the horse we rode in on)
Kate and Claire experience similar events to the island in the other reality (Yes, they're setting a stage here, but it's really too long)
Sawyer is sad about Juliet. Kate continues to waffle her fucking ass off.  (I don't even need to say it)

No Ben, no Richard, no Locke-thing, no Jacob, absolutely no reason to bother with this episode.

[Ozzu]

Usually, if there's no Ben or Locke, the show really suffers. Tonight was no exception.

[tazelbain]

Ya, but we got our mandatory Kate episode out of way.

[Nonentity]

I liked tonight! I was seriously creeped out seeing Ethan in the hospital with Kate and Claire. Also, yay seeing Rob again! And pissed off. That's when he is at his best.

Maybe I was just hyped up on caffeine, but the scene with Sawyer being all pissy about proposing was... mildly touching?

Also, lol, Claire-Rousseau.

[Rishathra]

Viewed in a vacuum, I enjoyed this episode just fine, but we're in the final stretch.  I was hoping fluff like this would be absent.  It's giving me unpleasant BSG flashbacks.

Claire-Rousseau made me chuckle.

[HaemishM]

It's a setup episode. I liked it. We're going to have a few episodes like this that clear the table of baggage for other shit to happen. Hopefully, there won't be more table-clearing episodes than HOLY SHIT DO YOU BELIEVE THAT episodes this season.

[Johny Cee]

It's a setup episode.

This.  You have to move the characters and the story around to set up the next big plot event.  There was some decent story movement, though.

1.  Indirectly confirmed alot of stuff related to the black smoke.  The black smoke is the Big Bad Guy/Un-Locke, who is also responsible for the infection stuff from season 1/2.  Also confirms that Christian (and therefore everyone else who has shown up but is dead) is the Bad Guy/Smokey/Un-Locke, since Claire was with Christian the last few times we saw her and Claire is thought to be infected/"claimed".

2.  We had to have Sawyer mourning Juliet to set up whatever fucked up nonsense he would get up to later.  Otherwise it would come off as completely nonsensical when he showed up and did whatever awful thing he will definitely do. 

3.  Claire taking over Rousseau's role is an interesting callback, and sets up Jin's arc of trying to get back to Sun while dealing with crazy and/or infected Claire.  With any luck, Claire and Kate will kill each other!

4.  It did get a Kate-centric episode out of the way in a relatively painless manner, considering she sucks.

5.  The Jack/Other leader is setting up Jack for another crack at a leadership arc, hopefully after he learned his lessons in earlier seasons.


There was story/plot advancement here.  It wasn't a bullshit stand-alone filler episode that didn't do anything.  The weakest part about the episode is that it didn't deal with the most interesting characters, which are Locke (un-Locke), Ben, Desmond (does he even have a large role this season?), or Richard.

[Soln]

I don't care about Kate, Claire, Sawyer being emo tough guy at all.  I don't care about stupid, obvious circular allusions to Rousseau -- that's lazy.  They didn't do much to advance the plot, and this whole flash-present stuff is starting to feel like Touched-by-an-Angel.

If there's threat -- and there is with un-Locke -- they need to get on with that and then watch how everyone else falls into place around that conflict.  Including all the history.  Evil reveals itself.  Watch the drama unfold and understand all the previous conflicts and confusions.  But no.  More journey of discovery stuff with Kate.  Cripes.

Bringing back Claire was like as bad as getting into work and finding detergent stains all over your black jumper.  "Cripes, how did that not get washed out?"  Disappointing bridge episode.

[Lucas]

Claire is back, and she's pissed off, you bitches. 

[tazelbain]

So these infected people are other others we have been expecting/fearing.  If Claire is one Smokey's minions, that would make her quite different the Rousseau.  Rousseau killed her husband after he became minion-fied.

I guess Jacob could be a smoke monster as well.

[Evil Elvis]

I guess Jacob could be a smoke monster as well.

Back in season 2, Locke was talking to Eko about the monster, and said what he saw was beautiful and white.  So, yeah, probably.

[Teleku]

Which means the show will end with an epic smoke monster on smoke monster fight!