Dave loses his shoe on the island after he chucks it at Hurley.

The guy with the red shoes/ruby slippers crushed under building materials in “Flashes Before Your Eyes.”

Charlie loses a shoe as he dives down to The Looking Glass.

Does a lost shoe work as well as the wind blown hat of Miller’s Crossing? Not as a symbol of loss, but perhaps it means something else.

In addition to all of the eventual plot points raised throughout the seasons about why Jack didn’t bother to get new shoes for his dad…I think that the original intent was to use the image of Jack’s dad in the bright white tennis shoes to conjure the concept of “Follow the White Rabbit”.

I think that gave the right metaphor and mind-set for the series to follow.

just a thought but what if jack is imagining his dad? in the incident, christian tells jack to count to 5 after the dural sack thing, but in the pilot, jack never mentions his dad to kate when retelling the story. also jack blames christian for never being satisfied with him, but christian asks jack if he is sure its not himself that is never satisfied. christian never existing would certainly explain why the casket was empty when jack found it. just a toy for everyone to chew…

Hope you’ll have time to podcast during the hiatus!

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Good vs. Evil?

Redemption?

Does the island have any power or is the power all from Jacob and AJ?

Is the island in danger and all this is being done to save the Island?

Will this all end up like Field of Dreams where Jack and his father are reunited at the end? I think the last episode will be Christian and Jack, and Jack having to trust his father in order to save everyone else. I also think Jack will sacrifice himself for everyone else.

In Episode 1, Tabla Rasa, Hurly asks if the thing that moved the trees was a dinosaur. Jack responded that it couldn’r be a dinosaur because they are extinct.

As we know…pretty amazing things are possible.

So…will Season 6 reveal that the Smoke Monster has something to do with dinosaurs?

1) John Locke was the piece of the “game” or “loop-hole” needed to bring the war that was mentioned by Widmore.

2) What ever happened, happened! The fact that Jack thought he was going to erase everything and Hawking knew that she killed her son in 1977 before he was born, that is the way it always happened in 1977. So the fact that Juliet tried to blow up the Jughead bomb, only ended the time loop for the misplaced Losties.

3)Dead is Dead. Since it is confirmed that Locke’s dead body was in the Ajira crate, the Locke that we came to know and love is gone. We are dealing with the nemesis as people are calling this mystery person.

4) I loved this season for all the cool stuff that was presented but hated it for giving massive migraine headaches on a weekly basis. I am so looking forward to next season.

Oh, what a ride they were about to begin!!!!

A thought and a speculation…

The thought: (Hope this isn’t too obvious) The Jacob interaction with Jack seemed pretty pointless unless you see it as Jacob preventing Jack and Christian from really arguing, which could have led to Christian revealing that he really was proud of Jack and believed in him. It would have prevented all of the tension in their relationship which led to all the events that ended with Christian’s death and jack going to and returning from Austrialia. Christian was a sacrifice that The Island demanded.

The speculation: If Claire’s mom had already been planning on going back to Australia the day after Kate dropped off Aaron, then she might have already had a ticket on Ajira 316. If she got on that flight with Aaron, then she and Aaron could be somewhere/somewhen on The Island. There are still a few missing reveals from the pre-flight actions of Ajira 316 (that is…Hurley opening the guitar case), which I expect to be a part of Season Six at some point. If we are going back to the airport in LA for that, then we could easily see Carole Littleton boarding the flight with Aaron (prior to the Losties)…which would mean she would have been in the back of the plane and they would not have seen them.

I know it’s a stretch, but with the huge build-up of spectral-Claire demanding that Aaron not being returned to the island and with Aaron and Walt being the only ones not to return, from a narrative stand-point, I just think it makes sense. If assume somehow Walt will end up back at some point, but I can’t see how that would happen just yet.

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Additional thought (just popped into my head)…since we have seen Walt just appear where needed…can’t he just will himself back to the island? Maybe he’ll have another dream and realize that he needs to be back there. Then all of the living 8125ers will be back.

All left would be for Desmond, Penny and lil’ charlie to return on the boat and we’ve got a Very Lostie Renunion. With everyone home for the holidays…it’ll be the best Christmas ever. (You get the idea…it would not be a stretch or an unplausible leap to get the remaining Losties back)

Now regarding the «poor» French of Danielle’s team
This was nowhere near French Canadian accent
I should know I ive in Quebec
However Robert and Montand did talk in some international French accent
I guess they used the actors they could find
But for the American audience it was meant for, it must have sounded French enough

There were good wink/ties to some classics in this season 5 (as in previous) like Le Petit Prince The Wizard of Oz and Stephen King’s
but it unfortunately lost steam towards the end of the season
These references to literature have always been my favorite part of the show
It seemed that we would constantly learn something through this series, a rare feat in US TV …

The mystery I hope to be solved is how the hell was this Beechcraft ever wound up on the Island from Nigeria and why was EKO on O815
But there were others
like why were the Losties unmasked by the 74-77 Dharmaites?
Lafleur/Sawier talks Richard out of the truce crisis
Juliet delivers a baby
Razinsky gets thrown on the wall by Jin
and this goes unnoticed
I thought that the Dharmaites were supposed to be of superior intelligence

By the way, the H Bomb story seemed really out of place and not realistic
Like it was mentioned above
There was not a design for backpack carry…

My favorite moments must have been the various exchanges between Miles and Hurley

Favorite quote was by Captain Lapidus (of course)

My theory is increasingly leaning towards a closing of the loop going forward and finding the motivations of each person boarding flight O815 in 2004

john is not fake. if he were aj, then he would have recognized the foot of the statue. aj went there to talk to jacob, because jacob lived there. john tells richard its a nice foot but what does it have to do with jacob. to me thats an easy one.

the occupants of the black rock are characters we already know. the ship was lost in 1881 and left port travelling in the wrong direction, indicating it was heading for the island, which made it in the incident part 1. the ship might be the original sub, taking people to and from the island.

what better way to destroy a 200+ foot statue than to blow it up with dynamite?

adam and eve had a black and white stone in their pockets. these are clearly backgammon gamepieces, which indicates that the male can only be john, walt, sawyer, or hurley, as they are the only ones who played backgammon. that means the female can only be someone related to those males, if it is john then it would be helen, if walt it would be shannon, if sawyer kate or juliet, and if hurley it would be his mother or starla. logic dictates sawyer and kate, but the fate of juliet is unknown. as soon as timetravel was introduced into the show i immediately assumed that since kate and jack found adam and eve, in the style of the show it would be fitting that these two found their own long dead bodies.

walt is an enigma that will reveal himself in the final season.

jacob and aj have northern american accents. not the typical sort of english spoken in 1881, if that is the time they were in. they are not ghosts or gods, they are men who, as far as jacob is concerned, can travel in time, per the visits he made throughout the lives of select losties.

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Yes some froward cabins where dead on… but others weren’t. I kinda remember one about an helicopter. But I might be wrong.
But the question still remains: Jacob brings the players (as the Black Rock) so it’s understandable that he visits Sawyer, Kate…
But AJ? And even if they can bring them… how come AJ knew that way way back in the past Locke would be near the wheel and that he should use Christian to talk to Locke so that it would convince Jack to come back???

Sorry. I do hate spoilers, but couldn’t resist a bit of humor there. I’ve recently gone back to listen to some forward cabins and I don’t know how R & J do it. They had foreknowledge of Jacob not only being real, but visiting young Sawyer.

I don’t know about the magicbox… I discarded it (maybe to early) as “just another Ben lies”. It seemed far more logical to me that Mr. Friendly in his way to see Michael also brought back Cooper. But I might be wrong!

But the sub is still something really strange: how come everyone has to be unconscient while on the journey? And wasn’t the signal jammed since the sky turned purple (but Ben could have asked the girls to let the sub come in and out… and he talked to Michael on the boat so he already unjammed before)? And if the sub is a fake how did the Dharma arrived on the Island in the first place?

About the AJ comment… John had been told he would have to die to help his friends way back in the past (the 4toe statue was still there) by Christian. If Christian works for/is AJ then it means he has been working on all this since a long long time ago (with a knowledge on what would happen that is quite amazing… Really looking to know how much the two “players” had forseen)

I just had an amorphous thought. It confused me a bit when AJ declared that “You have no idea what I’ve had to do to get here.” What’s so difficult about assuming another’s form to trick people into doing your dirty work, if you’re some kind of demigod with superhuman powers? Unless he has to undergo the experience of death every time he vacates a form. So could AJ have been Anthony Cooper, for example, appearing out of nowhere and suffering a genuine death just to further his evil scheme? Is this somewhat reminiscent of the film, The Prestige, in which Tesla figures out how to manipulate space/time/energy? to create duplicates just as in The Orchid orientation film? The whole trick lies in the fact that the newly created man appears out of nowhere in a place he shouldn’t be while the original magician is sealed in secret box that kills him and is whisked away.

At any rate, the magic box is among my top 5 mysteries that require answers along with the numbers.

Cooper probably came back with “Mr. Friendly” Tom when he went to see Michael to recruit him… probably with the sub.

And, what about that whole Cooper (John’s dad) thing? Now that we know there are path ways or trajectories to access the Island how did Cooper get to the Island. Did he get thrust through some portal to the Island in an opposite fashion that Ben left the Island? Or was that smokey too?

@Carol: If the “tsktsk” is performed before smokey/aj happears. The maybe the “whispers” are performed before jacob does.

another quote: “Who is the president of the USA? … Ok dude I’m from the future”(but favorite is: “We are not going to Guam, are we?”)

re:Favorite lines – I still love when they are being shot at on the boats, and they start flashing in time and Sawyer says “Thank you God” and then when they turn up into a bad storm and Sawyer says “I take it back”.

I keep thinking of the quote we have been hearing for five years “live together or die alone”. Is this Jacob’s goal? Will Jack be the last man standing on the Island? I think he may die to save everyone else and finally fulfill his role as a hero.

I recently began thinking about the almost forgotten term “dark territory.”
Maybe AJ can only work his magic within its parameters. I want to go back to my subterranean grove on Dagobah reference, a place strong with the dark side. We definitely need a geography lesson in season 6 incorporating the maps of Rousseau and Radzinski.

So, I was thinking a typhoon to wash the Black Rock inland, but it’s such a clear day for its arrival. A tsunami? This could topple the statue as well. Maybe as a result of some ill-advised mining operations, ostensibly the purpose for its voyage, while the BR is anchored in the bay.

Favorite lines of season 5:
5. Wherever you are, I’ll bet you’re laughing your ass off-Jack.
4.Your mother’s an other? -Sawyer
3. Bloop. -Hurley
2. I just didn’t have time to talk you into hanging yourself again. -Ben
1. No such thing. -Hurley

I hope there is one at least one more show.. I love your podcast!
I have reviewed The man behind the curtain and I have noticed:
Young Benjamin is visited by her dead mother when he arrives to the island and then Richard ask him if she was dead on the island. This means that Richard knows at that moment that Benjamin has been visited by AntiJacob?
On the other hand the mysterious Annie gives Ben an Apollo bar when he arrives could it mean she is Jacob ?

Lack of skills in writing plots?
Or is that due to the fact the serie passed from 23 episodes format to 14/17?
Maybe.

I just know that Abrams worked on season 1, then other executive produces came in during season 1,2 and 3.
The problem is that now the two left LIndelof and Cuse had to justifiy and merge together all the storyline started along the years.
Because: its obviously clear that they are writing while the serie is going on.
There is no a main plan.
And whats the cheapes trick to justify and explain things?
Supernatural and magic.
It’s the Stephen King trick.
Fantastic atmospheres, characters and storys ,but all of his books turn out with a monster in the end.

And the LOST writers played safe aswell.
And its not even an idea: its clear that’s what happened.
Just watch the season finale of S 05 to understand. Jacob character popping out of nowhere, ant jacob, supernatural battle.

Its a shame.
And its a shame that most of the explanations seen in season 5 are cheap and 5 per episode (danielle, dharma as silly hippies, desmond going back to penny, etc etc)
so rushed and cheap.
They killed all the interesting characters to get to season 6 with the core of the characters from season 1.
Eko, Faraday all so interesting characters…

I was hoping in a theory that didnt happened.
Faraday being Jacob.

But thats it.
We will have to see season 6 and this stupid fight between light and dark, and forget about all those scary, sci fi atmospheres in season 2.

http://www.smh.com.au/world/woman-who-arrived-late-for-doomed-air-france-flight-killed-in-crash-20090612-c5lb.html

The fact that this happened in real life has left me with a very eerie feeling.

Just a thought: Will we see the “boat” thing with Sawyer/Juliet and others on the cannoe while they are shoot at? I hope so!

Season 5 seemed rushed. I suppose now that they have all these stuff to wrap up they need to throw answers our way. But compared to the previous season it just seemed completely 100% rushed. I’m glad we got all the answers we got, lord knows we needed them…but still…
Remember the first few seasons we’d get 1 answer every 5-6 episodes and be all “AWESOME!!” I’d talk for days with my friends about how amazing that episode was. Can you believe that Henry really was an other!!?!?! or “omg!!! did you see what happened when he didn’t push the button!!”
But having 5 answers in one episode is like a massive shock to the system…
I don’t know..
I loved the season, but I think something was missing.

My favorite moment of the entire season was Locke coming back to life and being a badass.
I was so happy to see Locke, who I always thought was the anti Jack (who for better or worse is without a doubt the main character) and being such, Locke would have to live til the end. When they killed him off I was bummed out. Not pissed, cause they said “he’ll still be alive in the past on the island” So I figured we’d get to see him the rest of the show or whatever, but just in the past. Fine.
But then to bring back the Locke of season 1 and then say “hah! gotcha! Locke is dead and this guy is evil!”
That’s agrivating… and I would say the worst woment of the season for me (besides the Jack did it all for love or silly Juliet and her mood swings). I mean… Locke’s character was so involved in everything the island did that for his fate to be this…
I was sure there was something bigger in store than just a pawn.
I wouldn’t care if he’s perminantly dead and being used as a meat puppet for the badguy at all if they just took the time to show us AJ’s plan…or maybe give us a glimpse into locke’s life again to show some purpose to it.
For a man who had a purpose and was saved by Jacob…he really had a crappy life.

Now for the questions that are driving me crazy:

10. What happened to Cindy and the kids?

9. What is the point of children on the island…more specifically Aaron and Walt… I want answers!

8. CLAIRE?!?!?

7. What’s the Black Rock Story?

6. Is Christian Shepard AJ or something else?

5. Why do pregnant women die?

4. WHAT THE HELL IS THE PLAGUE OR DISEASE THAT THEY TALKED ABOUT SO MUCH THE FIRST 2 SEASONS?!?! CLAIRE EVEN HAD TO VACCINATED!

3. What the hell was the dharma airdrop is season 2…. are they around still?

2. SMOKE MONSTER ANSWERS!!!

1. Who are Jacob and AJ?

This is the best tv show ever. And you know what… Almost no answered are given!
So Lost might still be one of the best tv shows ever even if they don’t answer the questions they rose in seasons 1 and 2 (Dirty others walking silently through the jungle with teddies on a string, the vaccine/quarantine, 4815162342, is Dave an illusion Hugo had and the AJ tried to use on him to kill him because he is dangerous to him (but the last 2 will be addressed I guess), Walt, the weather, the whispers, what about pregnancy and children, why was the computer on the Swan able to comunicate but the info cut on the film, Dharma droped food, the pearl purpuse and why tubes go nowhere, eyeglass and fake beard in the Arrow, why hieroglyphs in case of system failure of the Swan and what did they said, DeGroots and Hanso, who marked the sharks with Dharma logos, pillar of smoke but no footprints…)

Rich – great point about Miles, Daniel and Charlotte, I hadn’t really thought of it that way, probably since it wasn’t revealed till later that they all had a connection and season four was all about their being there to help capture Ben.

Sarah- I agree, the first couple of seasons to me were so much better, characters we came to really care about, rich storylines and some mythology. Then characters started dying and some with false purposes (Charlie, Daniel), now it seems to be mythology based with some character development thrown in to support the mythology. I for one do not like that all this is because of the egos of two men, Jacob and fake locke. Plus Jack doing it all for Kate, seems to be thrown in at the last minute. He seemed to be racked with guilt over leaving the island and that is what drove him to drinking and drugs, and I thought that guilt was his motivation in returning, not to make things right with Kate. (which he couldn’t have known about till Daniel told him about his jughead theory).

Even though the show has changed it still is my favorite show because it is the one show that really makes a viewer think. It is a lot of fun to come up with theories, how many shows do that?

This is my first season with this board and Ryan and Jen, so for me that has really opened up a whole different kind of enjoyment. Thanks Ryan and Jen. I have a non-lost viewing family so I enjoy discussing the show with all of you.

But the same with desmond.
He got penny, he got his kid, he called him Charlie, he went to Faraday’s mom with hands in his pocket saying daniel he needed help.
no reason why. no solution. He said that and he left.
Thats it.
I think the storyline of desomnd is over with the hospital scene.

But also the storyline fo them having to go back to the island was quite cheap.

question: Sawyer and Juliet have been together for three years.
In those years why didnt sawyer ask her: why were you Others chasing us? why were you making experiments on pregnant wemen?” Thats the first thing I would ask. Its quite not belivable.
Like its not belivable that Ben has been hanging out with jack nad some flight 815 memebers and none asked him whats the deal with the whole thing…

I think my least favourite aspect of Season 5 has been Jack. As a character, he doesn’t seem to have been himself, especially in all those episodes where we were waiting for him to be activated. When he was, it was on some headstrong mission to wipe out his relationship with Kate. I’ve come to expect more from a character that was set up to be the central protagonist of the whole show.

However, Sawyer this season has been excellent. When I look back at how Sawyers character has progressed from season 1, he has drastically changed, yet is totally believable, and still the same Sawyer at heart. I think he makes a much better central character than the current Jack.

I just felt for both season 4 and 5 (more in season 5) that everything got sort of a “staged” feeling. Few extras, really low budget off-island scenes, poor props…
The incident itself was so disappointing. Try to watch again the season finale of S 2 and this one and you really see what i mean.
and a lot, to many, mistakes…and errors.
Sayid sees the foot of the statue in season 2 and it’s the left one. Now it’s the…right one?
Is that an error or are they going to justify that with the supernatural thing: left, right, light darkness thing?
The whole Desmond flashback in Live together die alone, was really well done.
And the whole 70s science fiction feeling, the halo of mistery …

i got now a really bad feeling that the whole plot was not planned from the beginning…the ideas of season 2 have been adapted to another storyline.

the whole dharma thing is now secondary…
and ben?
and why the others were so so hostiles towards jack & co? killing, the lies, the camouflage with other clothes (pretending to live in savages camps)…

What happened with all that?
the kidnapping of kids, the experiments on pregnant women, the old science thing…it’s all gone forgotten.
From season 2 and part season 3, DHARMA seemed so hi tech, mysterious …
From season 4 and 5 they seem a bounch of hippies, the DHARMA village looks like a joke, 3 wooden houses, the same 10 people living there…

It will all turn out like a chess game between two gods/supernatural beings.
White and black, dark and like.
The key is in the loke/ Walt discussion in the pilot of season 1.
So poor and cheap to justify all with that….

The characters we followed for 5 seasons are nothing but pieces of a game between gods…

I’m a huge LOST fan, and i loved/love the serie. That’s why Im so disappointed…

I’m going with Anti-Jacob being the smoke monster, aka Smokie. I think the smoke monster took out people that couldn’t be used or manipulated. The pilot could have caused trouble, etc. I think Mr. Eko was taken out once he refused to be manipulated (by being penitent).

I also think that the monster of light that Locke saw in season one was Jacob. Granted I still think there’s always the possibility that Jacob is the bad guy and Smokie is the good guy… for twist sake.

Oh, and having naked Juliet running through the jungle to be found by Hurley is a great idea.

http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/File:JackEye.jpg

Exactly 12 seconds in is the shot of an eye, I then went to Lostpedia to look at eyes and it appears to be the exact same shot of Jack’s eye in the opening of season 1, the eye is just more of a close up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tdkjrrSpAI&feature=related

Wonder what that means! They plan to have Jack in the opening shot and just haven’t shot it yet, or they plan to start the season with the same opening of the plane crashing?

Anyway, thought I would share in case anyone else wondered whose eye is in the promo for next year.

Was Miles brought to the Island because he will know who is really dead, would he have sensed Locke was not the “real” locke? Why did Widmore choose him?

How can the “island” prevent people from dying off Island, such as Michael, Jack, etc.

How did Christian and Charlie appear off island? Is Christian a spirit? What is he?

On a final note, I had tivo’d the whole season of Lost to watch this summer. I had a direct tv installer over yesterday because I got a HDTV and I had him move my tivo to another room and he broke it!! Now I can’t get it to work and I lost my whole season. Any ideas anybody how to fix a tivo?

@Tawl: yes yes and yes. Time will change. And the pseudo “freewill” that Jacob used was a way for destiny to happen. The game is not over and even if Ben killed Jacob the next moves are coming.

In other “pasts” I believe Juliet did not return to save the Island, which allowed the incident to happen without the H-bomb exploding, and thus required the button-pushing in the Hatch which brought down the plane.

Why did Eloise remember the past, yet the Losties acted as if their past was happening for the first time.

Jacob setup the “past” like a chessboard, whereas Mr Blackie has fallen into his trap. Jacob arranged for all the Losties to be at particular places at particular times with his visits, and will now prove Mr Blackie is ultimately wrong about the good/evilness of mankind.

Question, will Jacob rise again thru his own loophole?

Made another examination and perhaps the statue does represent Taweret. For some reason, I thought she had a feline head, but it’s actually that of a hippopotamus with a pronounced snout similar to the crocodile. So maybe yet another theory goes down the drain. I’m going to check out the screencaps again and the article you cited. Thanks Carol.

I’m well into free association mode right now so I hope this pans out. Of what is Sobek the patron or symbol? In his oldest form, the crocodile deity was a figure that personified the terrible power of nature, the beast that could emerge from the murky water to drag us down with sudden finality. The Egyptians offered to him out of fear and to appease the spirit that animated this constant threat. It represents the reptillian heart of darkness, the twisted, subterranean grove on Dagobah. It is an emblem of raw power rather than one of empathy or fertility. As such, it represents a past vindication for AJ. Those who worshipped him built that monument. Somehow, Jacob is consigned to its base or “shadow.” One final thought, season one soundtrack has a spooky theme for Locke called “Crocodile Locke.” Just a coincidence?

Look foward to whatever you gather us all to this summer.

One thought at the moment to share:

All those touched by Jacob received a piece of him (soul or whatever) and will be what helps reconstitute Jacob to fight Anti-Jacob in the coming battle

Even though Juliet was not ‘touched’ by Jacob in the Finale, maybe, just maybe (I Hope) Season 6 opens with a Jacob/Juliet contact and she therefore lives into S6 as a key player.

My big questions echo those above: missing kids, Why Sun in 2007 rather than 1977 and I admit that I’d love to know more about why Walt was special even though that curiousity has faded a good deal.

Bye y’all from the Peach State.

the link is http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/index?pn=recap#t=162212&d=201648

What did you think of Season 5 overall?

I think 5 was a great season, but it really felt rushed…at least the DHARMA stuff did. I wish we’d have spent more time finding out about the studies being done and the true purpose of DHARMA ( at least what it’s own recruits and volunteers were told ).

I really liked the time-travel and shifting, but in a way I thought that the disclaimers “30 years ago”, etc. were annoying and I felt like it was dumbed down a bit for the newer viewers. I don’t like the idea of pandering to the rookies. People who have not seen it have told me they don’t plan to and I don’t think anyone who comes to the show new now should; I don’t think it’s a show anyone would get or appreciate without watching the entire seires. I guess I think that the time shifts could have been used to mess with us more than they did and in a little more mysterious way.

What was your favorite moment… or least favorite moment?

My favorite moment was realizing that we would not just hear about the DHARMA initiative or see more videos, but that we would actually get to experience it first hand through our Losties. Least favorite would be the relative information we were given as in my previous paragraph.

Top unanswered question(S) going into Season 6 (and your favorite answer)?

1: Walt was special. Now he’s been told he’s done enough. That’s not good enough. Ever since he left the island we have seen him appear to many people…to Locke, Shannon, and Mrs. Clue? I want to know more about him and I want to know his destiny.

2: Jack’s father and other ’seem to be dead’ people. Does the appearance of AJ mean that either Jacob or AJ have been doing this?

3: From season 1. Charlie says : “Where the hell are we?”.

4: What is DHARMA? What is Hanso? What are Jacob / AJ?

5: Smokey

6: I think that Jacob provided the “Lists” to Ben. Why and what or who are the people in “The Temple” which has not been revealed. Why were Cindy & the kids “here to watch”.

OK – - sorry so many… I do have one other thought / theory for now.

I want to preface this with the fact that Desmond is my favorite character.. ‘ve always thought his episodes were the best, production wise, artistically, etc. but I’m not sure if his story ended.

I don’t want the rest of the story of LOST to suffer at the expense of bringing him back to the show since I don’t think that his character was meant to be the phenomenon that it became. If his coming back brings the story down or keeps many of the main questions from being answered I would just assume he stay in the world w/ Penny and Lil-Charlie.

However, I think his connections to Widmore, Hawking, Faraday, his buddy at the college who he discussed time-travel with, and was telling a colleague that “You could repeat the same experiment many time and get many different outcomes”, etc. could be the key to unlocking the story. I have also thought that the ‘flashes’ could have been his memory being triggered of things that had happened to him on a previous time-loop. Perhaps he has been looping in time over and over and this is his chance to get things right. Thus “See you in another life, brotha”. Maybe he wasn’t seeing the future as much as he was seeing images of an altternate life / loop he had already lived. But…If he just shows up without investigating or bringing some critical information to the island with him then I would hope he stays put so we can get answers. I trust the writers to get this right, as time and again they have not let us down.

Looking foward to anything you guys do over the break – - Brian in Atlanta, GA

Cheers!

Jacob does NOT look like any Egyptian I’ve ever seen.

Then we have Richard talking in Latin which we know from Juliet that they were all taught.

Illiana calls him Richardus (sp?) which doesn’t sound like an English name, which one might have if he was on the Black Rock, or an Egyptian name but more like a Latin version of Richard.

I think Richard is a contemporary of Jacob. Could he be the young version of the man in black? Or maybe his son?

Besides that I loved the ending of Season 5, I too have many, many questions, and have read many of them posted here, but there is one question that has been bothering me, and not asked.

What happened to the little kids who were walking through the jungle, one of them was dragging a beat-up Teddy bear? Nobody has ever discussed who they are, and what their significance is the the story.

I hope the kids are not just another item to fall by the way. Anybody have any ideas?

Thanks Ryan and Jen for the wonderful podcasts. I am now putting you two on the top of my “who to listen to first” podcast list! Mahalo

Next year opening scene will be key: First season, Jack near the beach (the losties are on the Island). Second season, Desmond training in the Swan (there is some technology on Island by mad guys living alone to “save the world”). Third season, Juliet listining to CD cooking (there is not just some retro technology on Island… there is actual nomal “actual” life). Fourth season, Hurley driving around in the futur (there “6″ of them who have left… but who, how?). Fifth season, Pierre Chang in the 77 met Daniel Faraday (Ok… after expending the circle around the crash site in space, they did that in TIME!).

Now what is going to happen after expending space start to the whole world, they expended it to time… but now that space and time has been done. What is next?

Well I retake my theorie that time has changed, look at the last scenes from a season and the start of the other:
season 1 ends on the hatch beeing blown. season 2 opens on the hatch.
season 2 ends on the losties are taken by the others. season 3 starts by the others and how they live.
season 3 ends on Jack in the future wanting to go back to the Island. season 4 starts on Hurley mest up in the future.
season 4 ends on well… on Island: the Island desepearing, off Island: Jack and Ben wanting to go back with “him”. season 5 starts on the Island moving in time, and Jack and Ben wainting to go back with “him”.

Now… how did this season ends? The losties wants to detonate an hydrogen bomb to change time and AJ making Ben kill Jacob. So how will this start? If they can’t expend the start of this season thru space and time how can they? I think I have an answer. But it’s just a theory.

I also have thought about Cindy & the kids from the tail section. Though they will be much older, I wonder if they can bring them back in some way. There is a group that was sent to the ‘temple’ before the time travelling, and I’m not sure if we have seen them yet.

As for a quip from this season, I like the “I’m a pisces” line. And I still like Hurley’s “am I talking to a guy in a wheelchair” to the nurse when Locke showed up- then his reaction following. I love Hurley. I also want him to have a larger character role, than just being a ‘comic relief’ character!

Just think about it! We all think we can do a better job at writing the show than Darlton so why not give us a shot at it? They will record multiple scenes for each episode and at crucial points a screen will come up with ask questions like;

Should Kate continue to annoy Jack? Text KateDumb.
To have Kate accidentally fall into an abyss text FinallyKateIsGone.

Then after the live voting is tallied (you only get 10 seconds people so make it count) the show continues. This way we the viewers get to co-direct how the show ends! I’ll take my commission money how ABC!

I loved the time traveling gambit at the start of the season to give us a plot device for telling the past of the island and Dharma. I would have died if they did the traditional ‘flashbacks’ for these stories (let’s be honest they got old in S3) and I absolutley loved the finalie, but somewhere in the middle it got very by-the-numbers with answers and had very little character development. (Jack was a no-show along with Kate returning to plot device of scapegoat).

• What was your favorite moment… or least favorite moment?
Fav = Hurly and Miles discussion about time travel.
Least = Every single love-triangle scene, does anyone care anymore?

• Top unanswered question going into Season 6 (and your favorite answer)?
Question: Are they really going to leave John Locke as the ultimate ‘chump’ and leave him dead without any Charlie-like redemption story?

Answered: Jacob’s reveal as an actual person not one of our castaways from the past/future etc.

• Favorite lines, quotes, or quips?
Sun: What happened to the statue?
Ben: I don’t know, it was like that when I got here.
Sun: Am I really supposed to believe you?
Ben: …Probably not.

The second list is harder to accept, but if Lost has taught us anything, it’s that you will pay the price if you stray from the truth.

#5 Jacob Gives Jack….an Apollo Bar??
It appears Jacob visits the elected few at turning points in their lives. We see this quite clearly with young Kate and Sawyer. He meets them at a critical juncture and gives them just enough of a push so that they follow the binary branch of Fate he has chosen. He even helps them create the talismans that define their lives and that they carry with them on their quest to the island. Furthermore, he seems to grant Locke and Sayid the gift of life. So where is he in Jack’s hour of need and what boon does he bestow? Answers: nowhere to be found and a consolation candy bar. This segment would have been much improved if they took out the browbeating Christian and substituted a mysterious observer in the OR (Jacob) who offered Jack the count-to-5 trick as a suggestion along with a reassuring touch on his shoulder.

#4 The Life and Death of Caesar
“No time to say hello, goodbye, I’m late, I’m late, I’m late.” I was just beginning to get intrigued by this Caesar character, portrayed by a fine actor who conveys this whole package of intelligence, mystery, and fierce determination. They gave him 5 minutes of screen time and then disposed of him with a shotgun blast to the chest. The shock value of this deed was greatly minimized because we never had time to get invested in the character. In contrast, the death of Frogurt, after even less screen time, was a coup de grace because of how we felt about him. Either do these characters justice or use their precious screen time for the many characters and stories that do matter.

#3 Desmond’s Message for Ms. Hawking
This visit was totally pointless. Desmond didn’t aid in bringing the O6 together or convey any essential information about how to get back. All he did was say “Faraday needs your help,” (to which Eloise practically said “D’uh) and provide Ben a perfect opportunity to murder Des’s whole family despite the ample warnings from Widmore. Stupid all around.

#2 Jack says Losing Kate is his Reason for Detonating an Atomic Bomb
In the history of self-centered overreactions, this has got to be the Jughead of them all. Jack’s willing to risk all the lives he once would have gone to any length to save because his heart aches. Unlike so many previous characters who at least appear to be permanently gone, Kate is right there for him if Jack can summon the courage to begin anew. Instead, the writers have him take an absurd leap in the service of a plot point so that they have some way to manufacture The Incident. Not believable. Maybe they could have had a visitation from Christian/AJ to sway him and that might have made more sense.

#1 Kate Says Finding Claire Is the Reason She Came Back
I’m just going to reiterate what I said previously. I don’t get Kate’s motivation at all. She came back to the island for….Claire??? Aaron got lost for two seconds in a supermarket and that makes her feel vulnerable enough to abandon her well-established life for a quest she doesn’t even believe in? They didn’t even play up her “running away” trait which would have at least been plausible. Her resistance to returning was dramatized so heavily that we were led to believe that something really must have rocked Kate’s world to convince her to go along and what they came up with just didn’t deliver