Lost Season 4

[Caley Martin]

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absolutely!

[beanzncheez]

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This show needs to finally end. That fat dude would have been eaten by now.

[emuler]

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This show needs to finally end. That fat dude would have been eaten by now.

he should have been anally raped by the black smoke.

[toasty]

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good episode last night, but clearly a set-up for the finale. Going to be gangbusters!!!

[dusk]

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Can't keep up with this anymore.. need it to end.

[toasty]

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Thought I'd share a completely random thought/theory I just had. It's kinda spoilery, though, so be warned if you're not up to date on your episodes:

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I'm kinda getting the vibe that Richard Alpert and his group of Others are special, and may be superior to the normal populace from an evolutionary standpoint. I'm also pretty sure that at least Richard can travel through time more or less at will, which explains why he doesn't appear to age. I've also heard people speculate that "moving the island" could refer not just to space, but to moving it in time. With those things in mind, what if the Richard Alpert that we're seeing is actually from well into the future? Remember the four-toed statue? When I think of my pinky toe, I think of something completely unnecessary, bordering on vestigial. If I had my way, I'd probably just lop it off so I didn't have to deal with trimming that tiny little nail. What if that statue isn't from the past (as compared to the Lostaways), but is actually from well into the future, and was constructed when people had evolved to only have 4 toes, but before the entire island was zapped back in time?

Believe it or not, I have not done any drinking today.

Thoughts?

[fisheye]

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The island is a wormhole connecting all possibilities of all realities of the space time fabric. Any thing subject to time can be altered on the island, making time-travel possible. The 'Others' are just people who are trying to protect the island from exploitation from corporate types like Whitmore.

[feather]

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Aren't there 2 more seasons to go?? The past few episodes look like they're building up to a finale for everything.

[toasty]

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Aren't there 2 more seasons to go?? The past few episodes look like they're building up to a finale for everything.

Yep, 2 more 17-episode seasons

[simonr]

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So on the basis of:

"ABC has approved an extra hour of Lost this season, extending the series to a total of 14 hours for season four.

The final two episodes are being branded as a Lost three-hour finale, with one hour on May 15 and two hours on May 29. Why no Lost on May 22? Apparently Lost masterminds Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse were able to convince the network that the final two hours of this season had to be shown together."

I assume ther's no episode next week ... but a double-header the week after for the finale ?

[feather]

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Sounds like it ... looks like it's really leading up to a gangbuster

[fletcher]

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hehe, the finale should be a good one.

I predict: big bada-boom!

[GerryD]

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Looking forward to tonight

[toasty]

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Whale of a Finale -- some thoughts and observations I had, from an email I sent out to some friends this morning -- kinda spoilery, so be warned:

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OK, haven't had a lot of time to dig on this, but here are a few interesting tidbits about the episode, some of which I have to credit the internet community that is somehow even dorkier than I am about Lost for finding -Towards the end of the episode, there was a commercial for "Octagon Global Recruiting," which suggested visiting octagonglobalrecruiting.com . That site indicates that OGR is doing recruiting for unpaid positions for the Dharma Initiative to begin July 24-27, 2008 in San Diego, which coincides with the ComiCon Convention, where the producers routinely give a preview of the upcoming season -During her flash-forward dream sequence, Kate receives a garbled phone call. When played backwards, the message states: "The Island needs you. You have to go back before it's too late." -Two alternate endings were also shot with Sawyer and Desmond in the coffin. A note about Locke's alterego, Jeremy Bentham -- Bentham was a philosopher who, incidentally, considered philosopher John Locke to be one of his influences. He's associated with the foundation of the University of London and -- particularly interesting in light of the fact that we're seeing Locke as a corpse right now -- Bentham's corpse is currently being displayed in a wooden box, per his will, at the University College London. There's a picture of him here (don't worry, not gross at all). Per Wikipedia: As requested in his will, his body was preserved and stored in a wooden cabinet, termed his "Auto-icon". Originally kept by his disciple Dr. Southwood Smith, it was acquired by University College London in 1850. The Auto-icon is kept on public display at the end of the South Cloisters in the main building of the College. For the 100th and 150th anniversaries of the college, the Auto-icon was brought to the meeting of the College Council, where he was listed as "present but not voting". Tradition holds that if the council's vote on any motion is tied, the auto-icon always breaks the tie by voting in favour of the motion. The Auto-icon has always had a wax head, as Bentham's head was badly damaged in the preservation process. The real head was displayed in the same case for many years, but became the target of repeated student pranks including being stolen on more than one occasion. It is now locked away securely." I've got way more questions than theories on what any of it means. Notably: -Charlotte was born on the island? Didn't see that coming. In any event, I didn't think that could happen, unless maybe she was conceived off-island? Or is it just that the mother doesn't survive childbirth? I honestly don't recall how that all breaks down -What happened to Faraday and his raft o' randoms? He's got no freighter to go to, and no island to return to... -Is Michael dead, or did Christian whisk him away to somewhere else? Saying, "you can go now" is a pretty hollow gesture if you're going to allow the freighter to blow up seconds later. Maybe he's referring to the fact that Michael has been trying to off himself, and that the island will now allow him to die, that he's made his peace? -This actually raises another question -- clearly, Christian is a mystical mo' fo', and I have every reason to believe that he could have stopped it from blowing if he wanted to, zapped the folks to another location, etc. if he wanted to save them. Why let that happen? -Did Jin die in the blast? If Faraday's boat was in the area, he might have headed over that way to check for survivors, and Jin wasn't in the "blast zone" as it were. I'm pullin' for him. -How does Locke get off the island? Does he have to "move" the island as well, just as Ben did? Did he kill himself out of depression over not being able to get back to the island? -Did the island move when Desmond turned the failsafe key? Did that same "purple sky" sort of thing when Ben turned the wheel... I go back and forth on whether Ben is truly a "good person" who has to do some awful things for the greater good, or just a purely self-centered, self-motivated and frankly evil dude. In light of his reaction to the freighter explosion, I'm inclined to believe its the latter. The odd thing is that it conflicts with his previous unwillingness to blow up the freighter because there were too many innocent people on board. Totally confusing.

Anyone else have any grand thoughts?

[GerryD]

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Great episode still trying to wrap my ahead around all the events. Hey Toasty wasnt Faraday and his raft of randoms encircled with the bright light? This would leave me to believe they that they were not far enough away from the island and they went with it.