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How can a random piece of footage inserted by the suits in New York without any input from the creative team "prove" anything, one way or the other, about the story? It is like trying to prove something about a plot point in a novel by referencing the cover art or the jacket copy - both of...

This was a hoot. From Woot. I especially like numbers 5 and 8. Ten Spoilers To Ruin The Lives Of People Who Had To Wait Until Tonight For The End Of LOST by Scott Lydon on May 24, 2010 at 10:30 AM 1) Kate went back in time and had sex with Jacob, then told him it didn't mean...

Actually, a lot of people (here and elsewhere) are using the term Purgatory quite literally. See most of MattCR's posts and many of the replies to them for just one group of examples. That's the subset of Lost fans I was addressing. But even a lot of the people who aren't talking about a...

Sawyer, the con man and thief, ends up as a cop who spends his days and nights putting criminals away? I'd say that's paying off Karma at an accelerated rate. Regards, Joe

No, he DIDN'T. He never said that. Not once. As I've already explained in painful detail in this very thread the LAST time someone (was it you?) made this idiotic, false and unsupported assertion. Tolkein said that LotR was not an allegory of WWII (which anyone with half a brain knows from...

I agree that the island was clearly not purgatory and the the sideways world was much closer to that idea than anything else, while not quite being that. And Jack died on the island, watching Lepidus fly off with the remaining survivors. (Remember when those lazy, incompetent writers who had...

Just to correct an off-topic error. Tolkein never said anything like the statement you attribute to him. Tolkein wasn't an idiot, and he knew better. What he said was that The Lord of the Rings was not written as an allegory of WWII, and that is indisputable, since many key sections were...

"Too Jewish" -- Hedley Lamarr, Blazing Saddles. Joe

Sorry. I lost track of who Amy was. Do we know that the birth problem even existed in 1977? Weren't there kids running all over the Dharma compound at that time? They couldn't all have been imports. My impression is that the birth problem was something that arose after The Incident which...

Children conceived on the island could not be brought to term on the island. The three characters you name all conceived their children elsewhere and gave birth to them on the island. Sun, on the other hand, conceived her daughter on the island and would definitely have died had she stayed...

I'm willing to assume that there was an escape trunk of some kind with clear, simple, illustrated instructions as befits a civilian passenger sub. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it. My one nitpick with the episode was Sayid's failure to secure the hatch of the last chamber he...

There is a world of difference between "faith", a belief based on more (or less) than hard physical evidence, and "my faith", "THE faith", "this particular religion". Of course the whole series has been about the tension between faith and "reason" as (primarily) represented by Locke and Jack...

I don't remember all the details of Jack's interaction with Christian in LA, but I don't recall him doing or saying anything that could be called "interference". In fact, I don't recall Christian's saying anything at all. He simply appeared. That may have contributed to the erosion of Jack's...

Until the Losties returned to the island and unLocke brought them to the chamber beneath the ruined statue, there is no evidence that Jacob was appearing in physical form to those anyone on the island, at least in "modern times". There was no physical being to shoot, stab, strangle...

No one saw or directly interacted with Jacob on the island until very recently. Only the leader of The Others was allowed to enter the cabin, only Locke actually heard Jacob (Ben was shocked when he did, and it was implied that he himself had never communicated with Jacob that way.) So how...

Exactly. I quoted Gary's error (and referred to the fact that it was almost immediately corrected on this forum) to raise a question about whether similar mistakes which were not discussed and corrected in public forums might support the "script cheat" meme. And since I don't expect the...

Somebody's Russian is definitely rusty. Notes from the Underground (sometimes translated as Notes from the Underworld.) While Sartre claimed the book as an influence and called it the "first existentialist novel", I'm not so sure Dostoyevsky would agree, and I think the label does an injustice...

I'm not sure what is specifically "Star Trek" about a happy ending, but I hope so, too. Given that Desmond seems to be the Odysseus figure and that Penny (Penelope) Widmore is obviously the Penelope figure, I think the writers can get to that happy ending just by sticking with The Odyssey and...

And was it also illustrative of how evil works when MiB told Richard exactly the same thing when he sent him off to kill Jacob? Sayid was troubled, but not suffering from anhedonia before his death and that little dip in the pool. He clearly has changed since those events, and it is a change...

Did anyone else get the feeling that Richard understands Korean just fine? She learned that Locke was not Locke shortly after arriving on the island, but she didn't have any specific reason to fear him and he was her best shot at finding Jin. But I never had the sense that she trusted "New...

P.S. I was absolutely not surprised by Desmond's arrival. As soon as Widmore ordered them to bring "the package" from the sub, I knew it would turn out to be Desmond. And I've been "expecting" Desmond for a couple of weeks. When Jacob said that someone was coming I thought about "the...

I don't think the two timelines have been shown to have that kind of cause-and-effect relationship. Parallels yes, but it isn't like Ben becomes a high school teacher on the island. Besides, what makes you think Sun is dead? I think it is far more likely that Sun is going to lose the baby...

I think most of MiB's lies contain a seed of truth, and that all of his truths are tinged with lying, if only by omission. But I don't think that what he means by "being together again" matches Richard's (or Sayid's) at all. That doesn't strike me as much of a "catch", frankly, and I don't...

Actually, you inferred. They implied. Sorry. Pet peeve.

On a lighter note, at least we now know what finally happens to Kate. She ends up back in Australia where she leaves a trail of men with light wallets and big smiles. Not so sure what's "absurd" about a thirty or forty foot tsunami and the debris it is carrying taking out a statue, but to...

I doubt it. If that were the case they would have got the confession scene right. Regards, Joe

They couldn't have been using Isabel's "image" to fool Richard at the end of the episode, because he never saw her image, except in his own mind. Hurley's ability to see and hear the dead, like Miles ability to hear their last thoughts, are unrelated to the apparitions on of the dead on the...

If you assume that MiB is THE manifestation of Evil in the world, than clearly not. But if he is just one of many manifestations of evil who is being held in check under a system that has rules, then why not think he can be "ended". MiB looks for a loophole in the rules that will allow him to...

The MiB talks about the on-going "cycle" of people being brought to the island, becoming corrupt and failing in the "end". Jacob counters by saying there will be only one "end" - when he wins. Everything that happens up until then is "progress" - presumably meaning that he'll learn to hone his...