The show always dances a little with reality, the whole Kate/Clair episode absolutely had characters doing things that normal people wouldn't have done. So if a Scottish guy showed up at my door and said "Have yew had any love flashes brutha?? Do ya knew Penny?" I might be inclined to close the door in his face. Also shame on whomever hoped that Kate was the main character who was killer, if she was I hope she is drowned in a white cotton top and cotton panties. I have tried to get a "five hottest women of lost" thing going but had no takers, I'm throwing them out now. 1. Kate- sweet, sweet Kate. 2. Claire- so hot that one of my friends began frequenting prego porn (we found it on his laptop I DO NOT approve, but he blamed his new fetish on sexy pregnant Claire. 3. Juliet, she just grew on me. 4. Shannon Rutherford, annoying and a complainer but she is sexy. Google Maggie Grace if you don't believe me. 5. Libby. something about her was sexy and for God sake's if she could kiss Hurley I can nail her, even if she's acting, and kissed Hurley It gives me hope. Sorry no love for Penny she looks like the joker to me, (old jack nicholson joker not the new heath ledger joker) and if anyone, anyone tell's me Sun belongs on this list I will ask a moderator to ban you. I can give some love to fake Tina Fey, there is a hot body under there. Jack's ex wife comes to mind but I stand by my choices.
Very annoying if Faraday suddenly decides that he wishes for the life he went out of his way to prevent from happening in the first place... Merely because the woman he suspects he should be in love with doesn't know his name. I think he is better off introducing himself (she works in the same town afterall) rather than reversing history again where both he and his Ginger girlfriend end up dead on a deserted island. I will be pissed if this show turns out to be nothing but a bunch of modern day jerks waxing poetic about what could have been. No matter which timeline they exist in.
Nikki may have been a useless addition to the cast, but she was an undeniably tasty little senorita. I'd shoehorn her into your list here at #2.
I think instead of answering all the questions of the previous seasons, they are just confusing us so much that we don't even care about the old questions even more. This season more than any others I've really stopped trying to keep track of all the loose ends and little "how the fuck..." thoughts I've had. They're flashing between 2 (and maybe more) realities with different timelines and character relationships - fuck me. I had a hard enough time with 1. It's like watching pulp fiction and memento at the same time.
After the Sayid episode I had a talk with my coworker who is batshit crazy about Lost, podcasts, multiple blogs and all of that. I've always enjoyed sitting back and watching, for the first 5 seasons I just didn't speculate (probably because I watched them straight) at all. Now this guy loved it, but we started talking about his flash-sideways and he asked "Oh, I wonder if Sayid was so nice to those kids because they were actually his." And I just looked at him and said "Dude, it doesn't fucking matter, they can't get into it, they don't have time. We seriously now, more than ever, have to sit back and let them spoon feed us the mind fuck. You can start falling in line with a theory or two and enjoy, they can't keep tossing up new shit, or dumping new shit." Great episode though.
It'll be pretty interesting to see if they make Whidmore the good guy throughout the seasons. Correct me if I'm wrong, but basically all the bad stuff he's done is actually looking like he was trying to save the island. He doesn't like Desmond in the previous seasons but it looks like Desmond is a candidate so he probably didn't want him getting attached to anything off the island, including his daughter. He also sends people to kill/kidnap Ben who turns out to not be working for Jacob and actually kills him. My guess is Whidmore knew he was full of shit so didn't want him messing it up.
Nope, as of yet Desmond isn't qualified as a Candidate http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Candidates When Widmore sent the freighter folk to the island, Ben was at that time working for Jacob as he always had, had he not Richard wouldn't have been enforcing his orders, Ben only ceased working for Jacob after the donkey wheel/Bentham/Ajira and even then he had no clue he was being used by the MIB, until it was too late.
Ben told everybody he talked to Jacob, but we found out later he had never spoken to him. My thinking is somehow Widmore knew he was full of shit and was trying to get rid of him before he fucked up the island and/or Jacob indirectly.
If that were the case Richard never would have abdicated the removal of Widmore from the island. Richard does speak to Jacob and is responsible for telling Ben what lists to collect for Jacob. I'm still hoping that at some point they will explain how the leadership of the Others was passed from Eloise to Ben.
I have little to add except a half baked theory on the last episode. I think the end game for this show will take place at Widmore's party, where all the original O815 crew will be present. I expect that event to parallel whatever armageddon comes to the island in the series finale.
Good point. It would be both interesting and fitting for the writers to frame this season with Locke/Smokey storylines.
Also the most plausible, as it's the only event that every character that matters could show up at, thus giving Desmond the best chance of enacting his plan. Hurley - Invite saying thanks for the job Jack - Invite saying thanks for the consult (Hasn't happened I know, but work with me here) Kate/Claire - No freaking clue Sawyer - There to kill Anthony Cooper Miles - There to stop Sawyer Jin - No clue Sun - Dead, just a hunch though. Sayid - hunch again, but comes with Nadia. Locke did help her way back when. Ben - Invited as work colleague One thing that is bugging me is where the hell is Lapidus in the sideways world, we've seen everybody but him.
I've always had the sense that Richard tolerated Ben but knew he was full of shit. But, we still don't really know how exactly The Others community works or what Jacob's role in their society truly was. All we know is that a) Jacob likes to bring people to his impossible-to-find island to prove the Great Fate Theory, and b) some of those people have been Candidates. Of all the "natives" that have inhabited the Island only one - Richard - has been shown to be privy to Jacob's plan. It doesn't strike me as inconceivable that Jacob/Richard would allow some "un-special" yet otherwise motivated believer like Ben to "lead" The Others since someone has to deal with all the day-to-day nonsense and it sure ain't going to be the demi-god or the immortal. For all we know Widmore may have been the same kind of patsy; he hinted as much when he told Smokey that most of what he knew about him was myth and legend (or something like that). And as for your last sentence...didn't Ben take over leadership directly from Widmore and not Eloise anyway? Wasn't that the point of showing us his explusion at the submarine pier? I'm wondering when after the series is done if there will be some kind of "LOST" companion that fills in the canonical holes...such as explaining how the US Army found the Island and why the DI was allowed to set up shop there in the first place.
No, young Jedi. You will find that it is you who are mistaken. About a great. many. things. You are also forgetting the incredible hotness of Alex Rousseau and sometimes Naomi and Charlotte when they have makeup on and aren't bleeding out the mouth.
Just caught up on this season. The last one with Chaaaalie and Des was great. Funny how those that died on the Island (Faraday, Charlie so far) have a wierd conection to Desmond in the sideways world. They know something, but now it's another puzzle to put togther. What's with everyone saying "What happens, happens" or the like, all the fucking time? I might be reaching but most people think there's a good v. evil battle to happen. I agree, but what if Des is the wild card. All this love talk between Desmond and Charlie makes me wonder if true love is the trump card. And whatever team has Desmond on thier side wins out. My Top 5, in no order: Penny Charlotte Juliet Sun but #1, Sayid's hot wife.
OK, to get it out of the way; I was one Mike Ness approached about a top five lost chicks, but he discounted me when I said Alex was hot. So here's my top 5. 1. Claire (sweet version). Gorgeous petite blond with vulnerability issues and an accent. Fucking perfect. I can deal with a kid for that girl. 2. Kate. She got a little muscular and mannish in season five (when she came back to the island in 77, she looked like Leila Ali, with those shoulders) but she's always been the quintessential girl next door. Middle height, brunette, cute as fuck with issues. That's wheelhouse, right there. 3. Alex. Gorgeous (the flaw in the nose makes her hotter, in my opinion) brunette with daddy issues. Very nice body. 4. Libby. Cute as fuck blondie with a mysterious past. Plus, I loved Cynthia Watros as Erin in Titus. 5. Toss up between Juliette (who, gods dammit, who doesn't love her after seeing her with Sawyer, and in Gia) and Jack's ex (Julie Bowen, currently enjoying a star turn on Modern Family, previously also hot on Boston Legal). To expand on actual show theory (which I think, at this point, is sort of futile) this last episode gave validation to the sideways world. There is a connection. The previous ten episodes of sitting through meaningless stories might be truly epic once it's all over and on dvd. Desmond is special, and the episodes themed for him have always been epic. I already pointed out the shit I thought while I was watching it, but check out all the theories the prominent Lost bloggers have.
Two things. One the name Linus was on the cave as a potential candidate, I'm reasonably sure it was crossed out after he got stabby with Jacob. Number 117 http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Candidates#Partial_list_of_candidates Second. It's never been established that Widmore ever led the Others. The point of the sub expulsion was to show how Ben and Charles' feud began. Every instance in the past we've seen except for the Jughead era, Eloise was leader of the Others. My Top 5 1)Juliet 2)Nikki 3)Libby 4)Claire - Batshit or sweet, either works 5)Penny
I didn't think to check the list of candidates, so nice catch there. But that said...didn't Widmore himself say that he led the Others for 30 years or something like that? I'm drawing a blank on the exact context (after he found Locke in 2007?) but I know I heard him say it.