Unless the people that rescue them assigned some of the Others (who may not have lived in civilization for years) new identities.
Just throwing it out there, I think your guess is more plausible though.
Clay
3042
A few things struck me about the season finale, which I just watched:
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Considering that FutureJack doesn’t know where the island is, it makes me think that he was rescued in a manner such as to obscure the island’s location. This makes me think that ultimately, the Others get him off of the island in exchange for something… or, that he didn’t want to leave but that they made him leave. If they were rescued under normal circumstances, the location of the island would be plastered all over the news, etc…
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My prediction for the next season is that the survivors and the Others will have to band together to get rid of the threat posed by the people on the other end of the telephone. Ironically, thinking that the Others were the bad guys, the survivors have just killed many members of the force that would help them. Tom is going to prove to be somebody quite important to all of this and Kate is going to end up distancing herself from Sawyer because of his inability to keep him alive.
Overall, great episode and it makes me look forward to the next season!
JD
3043
He did regret getting of the island though and called it a mistake, IIRC, which certainly makes it sound like they had a choice and weren’t forced off the island.
-Julian
DrDel
3044
Dude Tom (Mr. Friendly) got shot in the chest by Sawyer.
Kate is going to end up distancing herself from Sawyer because of his inability to keep him alive.
his - referring to Sawyer
him - referring to Tom
Clay
3046
Right. I was distracted while writing that sentence. Should be:
“Kate is going to end up distancing herself from Sawyer because of Sawyer’s inability to (control emotions) to keep Tom alive.”
I meant to just suggest that we’ll find out something about Tom that will make everybody think that Sawyer was the bad guy for killing him. Or something like that.
Ben is in the coffin.
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The coffin is short. Ben is short.
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At the start of the episode Ben is seen writing in his journal. When Jack goes to the viewing, the journal is laying on a table next to the coffin.
Plus it makes sense. For every episode the flashbacks (flashforward in this case) are thematically linked with the episode they show up in. All the flashforwards deal with what a wreck Jacks life has become after leaving the island. Who was there to tell Jack he was making a huge mistake by using the satilite phone? Ben. The call is where it all starts to go to hell for the Losties. And if Jack had listened to Ben it could have been avoided.
I didn’t notice that at all. You got a link or a .jpeg of that? Because I’m thinking you may be mistaking the journal for the funeral registry.
Screencap
It’s about a quarter of the way down the page. Click on it to blow it up full screen and you can see the registry by Jack next to the door.
Wow that actually makes some amount of sense (Ben being the dead one). Verrrrry interesting.
— Alan
IMDB says Ben’s actor is average height, so I think the coffin is too short to be his. But it would make sense.
Clay
3052
Right… when you consider that nobody shows up for his funeral, I guess it might point to the Others abandoning his silliness.
By the way, thinking back, I thought it was creepy to consider that Hurley, Sawyer, etc… were tossing around the head of Ben’s dead father.
I think the person in the coffin is someone who has already died on the island. When Jack is talking about going “back”, does he he ever specify spacially to the island? He doesn’t. I think he is talking about going back in time. I think they leave the island via traveling back in time quantumly and not letting the plane crash or even further, back to before Jack turns his father over and before Kate is on the run. They get second chances to do things differently but per Desmond’s advice, the universe keeps setting things “right”.
They may have paid a terrible cost to get off the island in their attempt to save everyone from the crash and the circumstances that lead them there. The death makes Jack realize that trying to short-circuit the crash didn’t accomplish anything and in fact derails their purpose:
“Because I wanted to crash, Kate. I don’t care about anybody else on board. Every little bump we hit or turbulence, I mean I, I actually close my eyes and I pray that I can get back.” “We made a mistake.” “We were not supposed to leave.” “We have to go back, Kate.” “We have to go back!”
I think setting this up was the whole purpose of the Desmond time travel bits this season.
If they never crashed then they wouldn’t have gotten a golden pass.
Intriguing idea that Ben is in the coffin, but what the hell kind of funeral is it where you put the dead dude’s diary on a table next to his coffin? Is that so people attending the funeral can leaf through it and see if they were ever mentioned?
If so, I need to go redact some stuff in my own personal diary.
-Tom
Unless they acted in some way to prevent the crash all together, in which case Oceanic might have rewarded them as well.
Cashing in air miles is hard enough. How the hell would you convince airline execs that you stopped a crash that they don’t know is going to happen?
Troy
Hahaha, good point. They’d arrest you and investigate you as a terrist!
So it aint air-tight. Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? I didn’t think so.
I do think there is more here than meets the eye, though.
Clay
3060
I’m going to guess that the series conclusion will be Jack returning to join Locke on the island, forming a new group of Others. Part of the final season will be him trying to figure out how to get there.
