Actually, it says "The boys are told... etc." People, including myself, started calling him Esau after the finale last year, but I think it's pretty clear that he either doesn't have a name, or we aren't going to learn it until the very end, if at all. Also, any descriptions in videos like that, and even in the enhanced episodes, are done by ABC, and are non-canon.
From what I've read more, it sounds like they changed it after people realized they released it on accident. It could be fake, but like you said, I guess it doesn't matter since they're non-canon.
I'm feeling a crazy massacre of sorts for this episode. I know we lost a few major characters last episode, but considering the episode title, I have this feeling that was nothing compared to what's coming.
Spoiler I hadn't bothered to check it until seeing this post--but I'd say it pretty much confirms my suspicion after seeing the promo that aired after last week's episode
Loved it. Jacob explaining himself at last. Jack accepting his destiny. Smokey finally revealing his plans. But my question is... why is Ben now helping Locke? Just because he's given up? Is he going to betray him? What is Ben's endgame? Simply surviving? Though shooting Widmore because he wanted Penny to die was fucking. awesome.
Whoa. Just whoa. I have mixed feelings about this episode. I did realize however that the reason all these characters dying keeps bugging me isn't about them dying, per se -- I'm fine with that -- it's how quickly they're killed off. After following these characters for 6 years and becoming somewhat emotionally attached, to see Richard just mowed down in about 3 seconds, never to be heard from again, really bugs me. I feel like they at least deserve a death-throes speech. And fucking Linus. That guy is both awesome and a huge douche. I love him and hate him.
So it's really an ancillary point, but it's probably the first prediction I have ever made that will come true. Otherwise, I loved the episode. Campfire scene was totally emotional. I have a felling the finale is going to get me. I don't understand what Ben is doing either though.
I thought so too, but wrong concert. I believe Des is actually going to David's concert to get Jack (and potentially Jack's ex wife Juliette?) Desmond had to get Charlie to go to Daniel Widmore's concert THAT night, so that party already happened.
I left with the feeling that Richard might still be alive. Usually when major people die, they've shown their last breath. See Boone, Shannon, Ana Lucia, Libby, John Locke, Charlie, Jacob, Nikki and Paulo, Eko, ad inifinitum. My question, is if the island is destroyed does the light go out? The island was destroyed in the parallel universe and everybody ended up OK.
If these are stupid questions...well, yell at me or something. But I don't get some of it. 1. How can they all see Jacob now all of a sudden? 2. I guess any liquid works for casting the island protector spell on people, instead of the wine used by Jacob's mother? 3. Richard's not really dead, is he? I thought he was supposed to "live forever". 4. Is it possible that the island really does get destroyed by Locke, and the point of the flash sideways is that they live on in an alternate reality, while all coming to the realization that they've lived this separate life on the island? So the "spirit" of the place carries on? Just a thought.
I'm just adding my own two cents here, but I highly doubt Richard was killed. For all the history he has with the island, to "kill" him off by just giving him a smokey-punch seems empty. I get that the whole live forever thing was with Jacob, but if in fact that was his last appearance in the show I for one will be very disappointed.
I can see this going in the way that the alternate reality is going to break the cycle of Island protectors. Before Jack was Jacob, before Jacob was Mother and I'm sure Mother had a predecessor just the same. My thought is that somehow the sideways world will come into play and altering that cycle, making Jack's appointment as protector a moot point. Or not, hell I don't know. I can also see Jack being left behind, along (or with claire), while Sawyer, Kate and Hurley return to their lives with renewed purpose or some shit. Of course that doesn't have anything to do with the sideways world, which we all know that they will end up coming together. Cant. Wait.
I liked the explanation as to why the names were crossed off the wall. Kate, for example, was crossed off because she a mother. She could still become the protector, but Jacob chose to cross her off because of that "obligation" or whatever. I enjoy that explanation as opposed to other theorized reasons -- she had killed someone, etc.
See, this is why I can't understand all the hate for "Across the Sea". That episode was completely necessary to know what was going on tonight and it paid off. For unrelated reasons (because it's awesome), I'm watching the classic 1995 movie "Mortal Kombat" right now, and I'm pretty sure that the island in that movie is the island from LOST; complete with faulty radios, wonky compasses, and one man dressed in white (Rayden) and another in black (Shang Tsung). So my prediction is, Flocke turns into Goro and Jack fights him to the death, beating him by uppercutting him into a pit of spikes.
I don't have anything to add really (other than if Richard is dead I will be quite pissed), but I need some help. For some reason they decided to do the Emergency Broadcast Test or whatever-the-fuck right during a scene and it blocked out my audio. Can someone recount to me what happened when Miles started getting confused/circling in New Otherton up to when Ben said "Thank you, Richard." I assumed for a while that he was sensing dead Alex but I didn't think she was buried there so...
Richard spoke for Miles and told Ben that after he (Ben) had left he'd buried his daughter right there. Verbatim? Mkay: "There something you want to share with us Miles?" ~Ben "..I...I dont think that..." ~Miles "What is it?" ~Ben "It's Alex... It's your daughter....After you left I buried her" ~Richard You've got the rest of it.
In the Bible, Esau is the first born and Jacob comes out 2nd. In Lost, it was the other way around. That actually bugged me for a little bit, but my best guess is they're trying to make an allusion to said biblical story w/out referring to it literally. And I'm glad to see badass/manipulative Ben back. But, where did Miles go? I guess it had something to do w/ the walkie-talkies and will be answered during the finale.