Lost

bloo · 2010-02-24T18:51:31.000Z

Lloyd Heilbrunn:

Most signficantly, she also had her baby stolen…

Claire’s baby wasn’t stolen from her. She walked away.

Lostpedia:

During Keamy’s attack on the Barracks, her house was destroyed, but strangely Claire was unharmed. When the Monster attacked the mercenaries, she went with Aaron, Sawyer and Miles into the jungle. On the way to the beach camp, she saw her dead father, followed him into the jungle and disappeared, leaving Aaron behind.

Alan_Dunkin · 2010-02-24T19:05:16.000Z

madkevin:

Was he on The Practice? I never saw it, so to me he’s Ben.

Hmmm I don’t remember either; according to IMDB he was on 6 episodes but I don’t recall the character. Was he the stalker (or was that a woman, I forget now)?

— Alan

Lloyd_Heilbrunn · 2010-02-24T19:13:27.000Z

bloo:

Claire’s baby wasn’t stolen from her. She walked away.

Not according to Claire…

bloo · 2010-02-24T19:17:20.000Z

Lloyd Heilbrunn:

Not according to Claire…

Ok, so yes, Rousseau and Claire both believe they’re babies were taken away from them.
But, no, that is not true. Could be that the one with an animal skull in a crib is actually batshit crazy and the other, who seemed crazy, was not.

MatthewF · 2010-02-24T20:10:21.000Z

Yeah. She’s gone off the reservation for sure. She’s definitely not all there.

BigRedCat · 2010-02-24T20:11:53.000Z

Alan Dunkin:

Hmmm I don’t remember either; according to IMDB he was on 6 episodes but I don’t recall the character. Was he the stalker (or was that a woman, I forget now)?

— Alan

I know he had somebody’s head in his freezer, and he was claiming to be non-guilty at one point. It’s all I remember. He was not the cross dressing nun. Or crazy John Laroquette. Heh, I forgot all about that show.

BobJustBob · 2010-02-24T20:22:46.000Z

BigRedCat:

I know he had somebody’s head in his freezer, and he was claiming to be non-guilty at one point. It’s all I remember. He was not the cross dressing nun. Or crazy John Laroquette. Heh, I forgot all about that show.

Close except it was the complete opposite of what you said.

Does anyone care about The Practice spoilers? Anyway, spoilers.

He was claiming to be guilty, taking credit for a bunch of serial murders. His defense attorney didn’t believe him and brought in Lindsay to get him off against his wishes. She does so, but in the process comes to believe that he actually is the serial killer and concocted this scenario because he had gotten caught and it was the most far-fetched and convoluted plan possible and therefore must be true. And he confirmed it.

Then Ben was toying with Lindsay over a few episodes, during which he killed his defense attorney, and it culminated in Bobby paying a former client to go scare the guy. But it goes bad and Ben’s head ends up in his freezer and Bobby goes on trial for murder. Then Ben blows up the law office postmortem, just in time for the Boston Public crossover.

BigRedCat · 2010-02-24T21:05:43.000Z

BobJustBob:

Close except it was the complete opposite of what you said.

Thanks, I stand corrected! Derail: I remember liking that short slimy ADA(?) who got gunned down in a parking structure. For awhile my pet theory was that they faked his death.

Alan_Dunkin · 2010-02-24T22:21:34.000Z

Oh yeah… no, he was an asshat.

— Alan

Bill_Dungsroman · 2010-02-24T23:31:26.000Z

MORE DESMOND GOD DAMMIT.

MatthewF · 2010-02-25T00:58:39.000Z

Bill Dungsroman:

MORE DESMOND GOD DAMMIT.

This.

Andrew_Mayer · 2010-02-25T23:08:15.000Z

Loved that they went back to the cave.

Nice to see that they’re making call outs to the earlier episodes.

jason · 2010-02-26T07:26:25.000Z

The best part of that cave scene was Hurley and his “what if these skeletons are us?” theory.

Jazar · 2010-02-26T07:32:29.000Z

I like it too because it may likely invalidate the theory.

BobJustBob · 2010-02-26T07:51:34.000Z

Yeah way back in season one people were suggesting that somehow Jack and Kate would travel through time and become the skeletons. Which is lamer than ever post-BSG.

Kevin_Grey · 2010-02-26T07:59:40.000Z

There is also the Bernard and Rose theory about the skeletons and that may still come true since we haven’t seen them outside of the alternate reality in quite a while. Not sure how they would explain them going that far into the past when everyone went forward but…

I do think the visit to the cave confirms that they will answer that question before the series ends. The cave visit in this episode just served to remind people of the question.

newbrof · 2010-02-26T07:59:48.000Z

I have a feeling that this season will throw up more questions than answering … I demand answers. now!

Scotch_Lufkin · 2010-02-26T08:07:48.000Z

newbrof:

I have a feeling that this season will throw up more questions than answering … I demand answers. now!

That doesn’t make sense, considering this is the final season! :)

Rock8man · 2010-02-26T11:15:01.000Z

Kevin Grey:

I do think the visit to the cave confirms that they will answer that question before the series ends. The cave visit in this episode just served to remind people of the question.

I agree. I remember listening to an interview with a guy on Fresh Air (NPR) who was hired in Season 2. Basically they said Lost was a big hit, and this guy was hired solely for the purpose of watching all the episodes and keeping track of EVERYTHING. So he did. He kept this huge timeline and kept track of all the loose ends so that the writers could come up with answers to explain everything. (Apparently, they were just making stuff up in the first season, but when the show became a hit, they became concerned that they really had to come up with answers, which is why they hired this guy to keep track of it all).

Anyway, yeah, since they are bringing up a lot of things that I’d forgotten about this season, I’m pretty sure they’re bringing them up again for a reason.

mystery · 2010-02-26T12:38:54.000Z

Rock8man:

I agree. I remember listening to an interview with a guy on Fresh Air (NPR) who was hired in Season 2. Basically they said Lost was a big hit, and this guy was hired solely for the purpose of watching all the episodes and keeping track of EVERYTHING. So he did. He kept this huge timeline and kept track of all the loose ends so that the writers could come up with answers to explain everything. (Apparently, they were just making stuff up in the first season, but when the show became a hit, they became concerned that they really had to come up with answers, which is why they hired this guy to keep track of it all).

I’ve found out recently that this isn’t all that odd of a situation. Stephen King had nearly 30 years of novel writing under his belt before he hired a young writer to go through all of his novels page by page and create an encyclopedia for his shared universe. He’d forgotten so much by that time, he was worried he was going to break a rule or contradict something he’d said earlier. Once his helper was finished, the work was good enough that he helped get it published as a separate compilation.