I have a bad feeling the series will wind up the “dream” of alternate universe Locke on the operating table with Jack as surgeon.
We were certainly meant to assume he’d undergone some kind of transformation. The even-flatter-than-usual affect, the creepy look on his face during the temple massacre, his failure to intervene when Claire attacked Kate… he was made to look like a soulless zombie. He started to snap out of it a little when Locke asked him to kill Desmond, but he seemed clearly under the influence of something supernatural.
sluggo
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The problem I have with Lost right now is that none of this seems permanent. I watch last night’s events, and my first reaction is to go “huh” and wonder how they’ll hit the reset button in the coming weeks. The idea of “OMG! They killed XXX” doesn’t really compute for me yet.
Random prediction for the end: the universe we’ve been watching for the past six years is painted as the “alternate,” and the one introduced this year is positioned as the “real” one or “ours”. Desmond is sort of a conduit who can see or travel between them, and you can already see Parallel Jack starting to unravel the idea that there was something special about flight 815 that didn’t crash. All that’s missing is for Desmond to come along and explain, hey, these Island Yous died for your sins, but YOU still have a chance at redemption.
If nothing else, it allows you the fun of killing off major characters and then saying later, hey, we didn’t kill the real ones! They’re back home safe!
Holy shit. What an episode.
Locke terminator awesome.
DT1
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I’ll go one step further. I also think Jack dies as well. In fact, I think he will have to make the voluntary decision to sacrifice himself (in a Christ-like manner!) so that Jacob can be reincarnated in his image in much the same way that Smokey is now in Locke’s image. Jack is not an uber-powered being, Jacob is.
I also think the alt.universe is an afterlife where the consequences of their actions in their real life are played out. I think they are sprinkling in visual clues for this. When Hurley went to visit the mental asylum where Libby was located, there was a giant picture of an island on the administrator’s office wall. It seemed a little too obvious to be a coincidence.
That would make Desmond’s special ability the power to visit this afterlife with his consciousness when he is zapped with high amounts of EM energy.
I’m still crossing my fingers for something more science-fiction based than gods on an island but I’m less and less hopeful as we go along.
HRose
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I think Sayid is out the show. Meaning that the explanation of his behavior is to be looked in what we have already seen.
His transformation is the one of someone who, after death, has lost all points of reference. The only beacon is that he owes his life to Locke. Being reborn and without a real explanation means that he lost entirely his “moral”. As if you play a video game.
Then he regains a purpose as he understand Locke true motives, and so the reason why he was resurrected.
Senjak
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During the scheming leading up to the submarine theft, Sawyer asked Jack keep UnLocke from getting on the sub, and when Jack asked how, Sawyer said “just get him in the water.” Jack did successfully push UnLocke into the water, but nothing really came of it. I was expecting UnLocke to be magically disoriented by the dunking, or maybe Sawyer was planning to electrocute him in the water, or even use the sub to fire a torpedo at UnLocke…something.
Was Sawyer really working a clever angle with that “get UnLocke wet” plan, and I missed it, or was he just telling Jack to push UnLocke into the water because he figured it would delay UnLocke enough that they could leave without him?
jason
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UnLocke previously said he couldn’t cross the water to the other island, so I just assumed that he has a weakness for water.
He was just hoping Locke would kill Jack while they made their escape - two birds.
bloo
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The Fahey will be missed.
…until Machete!
What happened to the unkillable Russian guy? And why did the Others abandon their housing? Were all the Others that were left in the temple?
JD
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He blew himself up with a grenade or something outside that underwater station in season 3 or whenever it was that Charlie sacrificed himself.
Just like I wrote on my blog months ago!
On a different note, at some point I shall watch the whole show again and keep track of the number of characters that get killed as the result of something stupid Jack, Kate, or Sawyer did. I wonder who’d win.
Sayid’s demise was a given, but it felt rushed/weird. Like he couldn’t have thrown the bomb down the corridor instead of doing it runningback-style. I guess not killing Desmond will remain his actual contribution to end of the show.
Oh, I thought his deal was that he couldn’t be killed.
Since when does it take a sub 5 minutes to surface? Just how deep is the water around the Island?
The island is in the middle of the ocean, and isn’t attached to the surface of the earth, so I’m gonna say…really deep.
Apparently the sub captain had never heard about blowing the ballast tanks.
Huh, Lostpedia says the fence didn’t kill him because “the pylons were not set to a lethal level”. I guess I missed that line and just thought he was immortal. Oh, that and he looked dead after getting shot in the stomach with a speargun later.
And there’s apparently no way to jettison the bomb from the sub while underwater, and apparenty nobody thought of putting the bomb in a sealed compartment on the other side of the sub from where everybody was and letting it explode there. Too bad they couldn’t ask the captain about those things because…he was in another room?
Lost has always been an exercise in “what’s the worst way we can approach this situation?”
Well they do have a non-lethal level if you remember correctly…
— Alan
Would a small sub like that be equipped with an Emergency Blow system?
