The Battle For The Island
Come one, come all! Post your predictions in the comments section for the L O S T season finale. There will probably be SPOILERS for you procrastinators who are not all caught up.
posted by d l wright at 5/12/2009 11:14:00 PM
9 Comments:
What happened, happened. Right?
No changing the past = the Hydrogen Bomb exploding is the reason why Desmond had to wear the radiation suit? Or at least causes the energy problem that requires Desmond pushing the button all the time? Although it does cause the time-traveler's paradox of the traveler herself causing actions that affect her later in life.
Any predictions on Jacob? I mean he/she has to be somebody we have seen before. Maybe it is Walt. Or Walt's grandfather.
There will be no proof of Jacob's existence. (But you can't prove he(she) doesn't exist!) Maybe there will be a miracle or something that keeps people believing.
No theory about the H-Bomb, I gotta think it's something more complex than causing the very energy problem they were trying to stop, but you might be right.
Or, it works and we follow the characters' lives as they would have happened without the crash ever happening.
Since Star Trek tipped J.J.'s hand, I'm pretty sure that they will change the past... but that nothing will change. (Just like how Kirk as his crew all ended up on the Enterprise, even though history had changed.) A very Sissyphian way to ensure the integrity of your plot line... and still play fast and loose.
Jacob is Alpert. And Alpert is Jacob.
Or maybe it's Charlie. Logan would love that.
I changed my mind, I like the charlie idea.
Wow. I can't believe that Jacob was Charlie in Locke's body. Or something.
Or it was that Jacob and his nemesis, who are at least several hundred years old, are the ones fighting over the island (and not Widmore and Ben like the first six
seemingly disposable seasons had set it). And there are Greek fates or something and the island is some sort of chess game. Just like in one of those old Greek stories. Alas. Poor Ulysses. You'll never find your home because it's on an island that moves and has weird electromagnetic properties.
You know the stuff that I complained about with Lost before? This episode had a lot of that. New characters. Cheap "twists" that introduce new elements (rather than properly using old elements). Et cetera.
@Mark: I can understand being dissatisfied with the episode and the cliffhanger, but I would hardly call Jacob a new character. He has been known since at least Season 3 (and alluded to since Season 2). And everything introduced in the finale seems about right with what we have been told before. Personally, I feel they are finally starting to tie the disparate stands together.
Now, whether you find that process or the resolution agreeable is entirely up to you ;)
@Logan you ignorant slut. Just because Jacob was discussed before, doesn't mean he was a character. He was just a MacGuffin. Now he's, a likely-to-stay character that can be developed, psychologized and broken.
And I meant more the other 2007 plane crash members. And anti-Jacob.
at what point does the audience decide to turn on abrams for the years of manipulation he's put them thru?
After a few years of watching In Treatment.
ba-dum-ching
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