LOST (Spoilers!)

Theres is somewhere out there where to watch the season finale in "real time"?

Because I want to know who is jacob!

So, here's what I got on the season 5 finale, The Incident:

Jacob - I liked the guy. For some reason I felt instant sympathy for this guy and I believe this was the writers' intention. I was certainly surprised by his response to Ben. Perhaps he was counting on Ben killing him? Perhaps Ben has been so evil and selfish that he did not deserve a better answer? I do hope though that this is not the last we have seen of Jacob.

Sawyer - He definitely stepped out of line when he started punching Jack around like that. When are those two going to realise they are part of the same team?

Kate and Jack - Just stop screwing around and make up already!

Juliet - So I really, really disliked her during the last 3 seasons. And not much changed in the last episode, especially with her the sudden change of moods and minds. But the scene that she lets go of Sawyer's hand was very touching. Also, when she woke up below and started crying, I noticed how Juliet always allows her emotions to re-surface when she is alone and not in front of other people.

Miles - When did he suddenly become so clever? Is he the only person to have realised that the bomb explosion could perhaps be the incident itself?

Phil - Good riddance. Loved the way he died!

Bernard, Rose and Vincent - What a very pleasant surprise!! I thought they were dead but damn I'm glad they're still around! And their words could not have been wiser!

Ben - This is the second time (first when he saw Alex shot) that I felt sorry for him. The way that he has been manipulated into this vendetta. The person who has been manipulating everyone else, suddenly becomes the puppet himself. It's justice on one hand. On the other hand, I cannot help but wonder: The Temple healing, Jacob's ignorance of him and his manipulation by Jacob's enemy - has he really had a choice all this time?

John Locke - Well, the guy is dead. He did not serve a greater purpose. He did not lead the Others. He was not destined for greater things. He did not have a destiny. He practically ended up being useless. And it's also ironic how Jack was telling him that all along, but suddenly he has turned into a believer now.

The fake John Locke / Jacob's enemy - Who is he? What does he want? How did he replicate John's body and memories? Is there anyone who can stop him? Is he as strong as Jacob, ie. can he cure people?

Also, I'm confused about the monster. Why would it tell Ben to follow John's instructions, if that guy is not John? Is the monster against Jacob as well? Is Jacob's enemy the monster? What about Christian? Is he the real deal too or Jacob's enemy? Why would he live in Jacob's cabin though? And why did Jacob move from the statue to the cabin and then back to the statue? What happened to the statue? And why does Jacob want to bring people on the island? What purpose did the touching of those people serve? Was he healing them? Choosing them? Protecting them? Making them immortal somehow? Maybe like Richard?

And the war that Widmore mentioned is between whom? Now that we know Illana is with the Others, who are they going to fight? Widmore's people? The Dharma people? Also, wasn't Illana's raft supposed to attack Sawyer's group when they were time-shifting? Or has that not happened yet?

Does this mean though that the bomb hasn't changed anything? Was Daniel wrong and the bomb is indeed the incident? Or has it changed everything, meaning that in season 6 we will not see of the Losties anymore but rather we will see Jacob's past, the arrival of the Black Pearl, the purpose of the Others and the destruction of the island when the bomb is left unburied (because Daniel never shows up to warn them). Is that at all possible?

I just watched the final episode. Reading some of the comments in this thread, I have to ask... you guys realise this is just a show, right?

The same way music is just music, and we spend hours posting about it here

I've wondered many things about you too.

Ratings of the season finale:

9:00 p.m. – Viewers: 9.16 million
9:30 p.m. – Viewers: 9.38 million
10:00 p.m. – Viewers: 9.19 million
10:30 p.m. – Viewers: 9.49 million

Not bad, but the times of 14 million viewers are long, long gone (This year's LOST finale is down 12% from last year).

Season finale = woah mother f**ker! That almost redeemed the entire season. And there's probably enough decent music in it to make a season 5 soundtrack worth while!!

Serve, not save. What a weird translation!

The riddle was for Illana to identify her "friends" and when Richard gave the right answer she knew she could trust him and tell him about John. I believe the person the riddle refers to is Jacob, as he is the one residing in the foot of the statue. She was just there to warn Richard that John was in fact dead and the living "John" was someone else. I don't see it as John was the man the riddle was referring to.




And this is a board to discuss this show, yes? If you're looking for real-life news, check the BBC website...

He was just a very useful pawn in Jacob's enemy's game... He got played just like he was played during his entire life. His weakness was that he always wanted so badly to be useful, that this clouded his judgement. He blindly followed some destiny and some fate, that even himself was uncertain of.

I don't know if Jacob plans on giving John his life back or if Locke will find peace now in the afterlife. But what I know for a fact now is that he died whilst following some greater destiny imposed to him by people like Ben and Widmore and by his own delusional beliefs, and he still remains dead.

Btw, excellent finale, LOST returned (even for just a double episode) at the arena it has always played better, i.e. the one of passion, love and hate, life and death; and it does it in a superb way.

However, i am really curious as to where they're going to take it with the final season;

Picture this:

Endless discussions keep going on from now 'till Feb '10, when the new episode starts...


Jacob is dead, the Evil Guy has taken over and the entire season goes on about how the evil now prevails on the island.
The incident didn't break the island apart, it's still there but under new authority.
The Swan gets built and since the evil is now reigning, they have to push the damn button or else the world blows up 'cause the island has been broken and can't handle a 2nd incident; it will go final kaboom if something like that happens.
The Evil Guy resurrects Locke just to mock the insignificance of his existence and tell him about what happened when he was dead; just for no other reason than the fact that he is Evil.
Various other bad things happen at the island with the Dharma people vs the monster (i.e. the Evil Guy's puppy).
Towards the last episodes, we see the Losties shortly before their flight to Sydney. They don't know each other yet but we keep getting various insignificant filler made up of little stories about themselves and their lives before anything happened, various useless coincidences and stuff like that.
Time passes, we flash forward to the interior of the plane, Oceanic 815.
We see the Losties, still strangers to one another.
Flight gets airborne, time passes, everything running smoothly.
Giacchino builds the tension up with the music.
Plane starts shaking violently. The then unknown to Kate, Jack, stares at her and smiles in order to comfort her.
Music builds more and more passionate, loud and intense.
Plane keeps shaking, more and more violent as seconds go by.
Camera pans over all the faces of the Losties.
Music at its apex.
Jack and Kate are staring at each other's eyes.
Loud music - white flash starts to fade in, in-flight mid-air break-up sounds of the plane, Jack and Kate see each other.

White.

Lost Ends.
J.J.Abraams either ends up beaten up in some trench or he doesn't get to work again, ever in his life

SO IF THE PLANE STILL CRASHES WE HAVE BEEN WATCHING THE ENTIRE SHOW FOR 6 YEARS FOR NOTHING.

IF THE PLANE DOESN'T CRASH AND NOTHING FROM ALL THIS HAPPENS, WE STILL HAVE BEEN WATCHING THE DAMN SHOW FOR 6 YEARS FOR NOTHING.

You do realize the 1) stupidity behind all those possible scenarios, not as in you carrying them,but the possibility of those actually happening during season 6; and 2) the urgent need for SOMETHING entirely different than those possible scenarios to be on the shelf for LOST, from the writers. They better have something entirely different in the shelf! ss

1 final season; starts Feb 2010