LOST (Spoilers!)

The Asian one...i forgot the boy was a son (are you sure about this? did they call the baby's name?) and from what i remember from the woman lying next to him, the wife wasn't asian.

Season 4 is amazing. Season 5 is sloppy. I want to like it, but it keeps going way off the goony-crap-o-meter.

Either way, basic evidence would point to it being Miles.

S04e08

Fantastic Episode! Touching, setting the characters, a great move to beggin to explain things without losing the main characters in the screen.

Much better than the boring, Jeremy Bentham one.

Anthony, Did you notice you have some kind of rebel sindrome? I mean from some time you are disliking some of your favourite things: Powell, 24, Lost...

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A clue about s05e08 http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horus

Jordi,

Liking someone / something doesn't mean you're a blindfolded biased one who loves everything they throw at you just because of their source. Being as objective as possible is crucial and when you love someone, that's where you are their strongest critic.

I know, Demetris.

Remember How critic I am with Zimmer. And I could be very critic with Lost too.

No he needed because Paul is Jacob's father.

I don´t think Jacob is a human being.

Honestly, I don´t know. But first of all, we should know who/what is Cabin Christian. Is he Jacob´s pawn/messenger? Did he ressurrected (as Locke) when the first plane crashed and Jacob is using him? Or he is dead and it is like a ghost? And the main question: what does he do with Claire in the cabin? Hmmm....

I'm sure they'll come around to explaining the 316 crash/landing. Personally it's not one of my biggest questions. The Others, Jacob, why they kidnap certain people, Widmore Vs Ben, why Walt was special, Richard, the monster, the ruins of the temple, the Egyptian statue... These are bigger issues than how 316 came to land or whether Kate will hook up with Jack or Sawyer or both!

Now Locke's resurrection... Don't tell me you hadn't seen it coming! I think it falls in the category of other unexplained "miracles" such as: Locke's paralysis, Rose's cancer's cure, Rachel's cancer's cure, Mikhail's persistent survival, why Desmond wasn't killed after the hatch exploded (and Mr Eko and John) and finally why on earth a few people survived with minor scratches after such a horrible crash of the 815 flight.

I think Jacob is a spirit of some sort... Perhaps a person who died or a person who "went" from one state of existence to another. A few posts back I suggested that perhaps all of the people who crashed on the island are in fact dead or in a state between life and death, in another plane of existence if you want. Those whose purpose is fulfilled (Boone, Shannon, Mr Eko, Charlie, Ana Lucia, Libby, Michael, Nikki, Paolo, maybe even Claire?) "die" or move on. Those who still have unresolved issues or those who still have a destiny to fulfill, seem to still be "alive" and exist. But what if they are not? What if this is an illusion? Which could explain why "miracles" such as the above happen (cancer and paralysis do not exist for "dead" people or say people in another plane of existence) or why none of them were never supposed to leave. Their place is there now and not in the outside world...

I remember the producers refusing that but: a) Of course they weren't going to admit it in season 2 if that is the case and b) they might not be "dead" as we understand it. What happens on the Island is something beyond living and dead I believe.

There is something special about Walt. Which is why the Others kidnapped him. But we don't know the answer yet, as we don't know why they kidnapped other people and why some seem to be "converted" eg. Cindy. There was a mobisode (one scene not featured in one of the regular episodes) where Walt is locked up by the Others and seems to be upset causing some sort of chaos. Juliet and Ben are outside discussing over the bodies of dead birds and Juliet is telling Ben "no-one wants to go inside". So Walt does have some sort of power.

Locke is special too. As is Desmond. And Hurley (remember Ben's reaction when Hurley mentions that he can see the cabin?)

As for the answers already given, so far I must say I'm not disappointed personally. Lost is a "sci-fi" let's say show. The weird things happening on the island could not be explained by normal means. The island is a place with high energy, like many other places on earth. This in fact is true in real life. There are places on earth where they are suggested to be centres or cores of EM energy. Our knowledge and understanding though are still lacking.

The backgrounds of most characters and their motives have been well-explained. The reasoning of Dharma and the numbers have been almost resolved. The time-shifting theory was suggested some time ago and it just came into perspective. I think this is what bugs most people about this season. So far, the time factor has been an abstract theory but in Season 5 we actually see it happening. The idea that Time is yet but another dimension has been suggested from physicists years ago, so the perspective of time that Lost is giving us seems logical and even plausible dare I say.

Bottom line is that, what should we be expecting instead of that given? Would we be more satisfied if Kate woke up and all was a dream? Or if it's all nothing but Hurley's imagination? Lost deals with phenomena beyond our physical world. Sure there are things which I'm not happy with, like with other shows. For example, I'm not too fond of the love triangles/rectangles. And it bugs me that Sawyer has been shagging Juliet for 3 years, yet has demanded no explanation from her concerning the work of Others.

But Season 5 is the one to lead to the last one. Questions HAVE to be answered. Things WILL seem a bit rushed, since all this time we were getting only one answer per season, not per episode. Lost IS about energy, time, death, the paranormal, afterlife, destiny and God knows (if he does) about what else. Hopefully the writers will keep up the good work, since so far I believe all of this has been carefully planned. And everything will eventually form a bigger picture. There is no room for stupid or hastened answers. Jacob, the Others, Richard... They still have a story to tell and it's not (I hope and believe) a simple explanation that they are "special people" and simply do not age or whatever.

As for the monster; sure it might be a Dharma construct. But how and why was it made? How does it take other forms? What does it do to people? Why does it kill some of them and some not?

How do you mean?

Well, it hasn't been explained yet! I mean, it took us 2 seasons to find out how 815 crushed and 5 seasons into the show we still don't know why some survived and some not. So, I don't see the 316 crash/landing as badly-written at this stage because we still don't know how it came to land on the Hydra island and why.