I've finished Season 3 of LOST and I wanna talk about it. (open spoilers)

[Smid]

@ZipperJJ

I remember thinking at the time this aired that the dialog about Jack’s father was meant to be ambiguous. Why would they make Jack say “Don’t you look at me like that. Don’t you pity me!”?

This, to me, seemed like whoever Jack was talking to was looking at him “like that” because his father is very much dead and Jack is having delusions. His delusions might be as small as forgetting his father is dead, or as big as “I was on this island with a bunch of people, ya see…” leading us to believe that the entire series was from the deluded mind of Jack Shepard. "

I think it had to be ambigious, otherwise it would be a total giveaway… Theres loads of references to things we don’t understand inside the episode. Lots of people saying Jack was famous for something, but not saying what… So while you might be pitying him for something different…

If it was just that, then perhaps, but:

“JACK: That’s not me, that’s Doctor Christian Shephard, I’m Doctor Jack Shephard, he’s my father.”

Its present tense… He would have said “he was his father”. Its explainable by saying that he’s pretending his father is alive in order to prescribe himself drugs… However, two of them?

[Frylock]

@Millit the Frail

The twist may be that Ben left the island along with some of the Lostaways.

Exile!

That’s an interesting idea.

-Kris