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Seriously, I think Desmond’s got too much plot potential left–especially with the time travel and the reveal that he’s Daniel’s ‘constant’.
My money is on Claire or Jin (or maybe Sawyer, but I doubt it).
Maybe, maybe not. The writers have gone out of their way to keep it vague since that episode so it’s a mistake to automatically assume he’s got his memory back. Finding his constant might have just stopped his brain from leaking out his ears and that’s it.
I’m putting money down that it isn’t a principle member of the cast.
I’m thinking the black guy (sorry, can’t remember his name) who sent Naomi on her mission must have a connection with Widmore or Penny - because of the photograph Naomi had of Desmond and Penny, right? What the connection is, is obviously still a mystery.
Hmmm. On the other hand, Desmond has reconnected with Penny and they have declared their love. People on the island have a tendency to die once they wrap up their personal shit.
Quick question:
Do survivors of plane crashes usually get life-altering $ from the airline?
If not, did the O6 get all of their money from another person? I doubt through books since they seem reticient about talking about their experiences. Did they get it from Ben? Widmore? DHARMA? Someone else?
If not, maybe thats just deus ex machina of TV land that “We need the O6 to have a lot of money.” “Just write them an assload of money”
Well the Captain (who Michael says not to trust) implies that Ben did it. Ben (who is a known liar) implies that Widmore did it. So two untrustworthy groups are blaming the other one. I don’t think this will be resolved anytime soon.
Juliet’s various flashbacks have said that at a certain point the woman’s immune system turns on her (although for some reason the dialogue then says that the T-cell count plummets - wouldn’t it rise?). My theory is that the healing powers of the island boost the immune system, but that when the immune system is so powerful it can’t the baby apart from a foreign body and attacks it. On the other hand, this doesn’t happen if conception happens off island, so who knows? My other theory is that because Ben’s mom died in childbirth (or maybe he ended up marrying his childhood sweetheart Annie and she died in childbirth too) that he is somehow psychically projecting his childbirth angst onto the island.
Desmond’s boat arrived at the campsite the same day as Libby and AnaLucia’s funeral. Michael left the next day on his mission. So he probably ran into Michael very briefly.
But Desmond was also drunk when he first got back to the island. He probably doesn’t remember much for a different reason.
Given that the freighter folks had the (fake?) black box, were they expecting to find the survivors on the Island?
Frank (helicopter pilot) admits that he studied the manifest; had he done that before Jack contacted them and let them know there were survivors there? Or did he study it really quickly between the time they received the call and the time they took off for the Island.
Also, Naomi asked Abbadon what she should do if she encountered survivors. Abbadon states that there were no survivors. She then repeats the question with “Well what if I do?” Abbadon says, with some emphasis, “There were no survivors.”
So, did the freighter folks know there was some chance of them encountering survivors? And, does Abbadon’s statement imply that, even if they did, there wouldn’t be any when they left?
There were 324 people on the plane, yet Frank knew immediately that no one named “Juliet Burke” was among them. You don’t memorize 324 names overnight; Frank must have spent weeks studying that manifest.
Also, Miles showed a noticeable lack of surprise at finding survivors. One of the Losties even called him out on it, at which point Miles sarcastically pretended to be surprised.
At this point, I think it’s pretty clear that they were expecting to find survivors, or at least knew that it was possible. As for what they’re planning to do with the survivors, I’m guessing that they’re planning to either leave the castaways stranded, or have the mercenaries kill them. I really can’t imagine Daniel, Charlotte, Miles, and Frank launching any sort of widescale bloodbath; they’re probably out of the loop on that issue.
I was curious about this, so I re-watched the episode last night. I wanted to see if Sun dialed 911 or not… in S. Korea, emergency services isn’t 911, it’s 119. It certainly looked to me as if she dialed 119 and not 911; furthermore the sound went “beep-beep-boop” as opposed to “boop-beep-beep”. Nice catch by the sound people there, I think.
Something that caught my attention when Captain Whatisname shows Sayid and Des the “black box” was that the box was actually black. I was always under the assumption that they are bright orange or some other bright color to assist in recovery.
I also think Sun was in Korea. In fact, wasn’t her aparment the same one she shared with Jin pre-crash?
I thought the box was orange, but had sustained burn damage so that parts of it were black. I could be wrong, however - wouldn’t be the first time with this show.
Here’s how I see it:
Past Desmond switched places with present Desmond - there’s one of him who is stuck in a loop, living the same few years over and over, which is why he was having those flash-forwards, knowing Charlie was going to die, etc. Which leaves a second Desmond who has a huge gap in his memory because he jumped from that visit to Penny’s apartment straight to the phone call from the freighter.
Sorry if this was all covered in last week’s thread, I’ve been caught up with packing for my move next weekend and I’m out of touch with the Lost threads. I’ll be back next week, though, I swear!
By the way, is Miles still in the boathouse with a grenade in his mouth? That would be going on a couple days now.
I’m betting on Bernard. He’s been around long enough for viewers to feel sorry for him, he’s not all that important, and he popped in last week just long enough to remind us he’s alive.
-Joe
I’m trying to remember - at the grave, did Sun say anything explicitly confirming that Jin was dead? If Jin made some deal to stay on the island so that Sun could leave and have the baby, she might still give the “I miss you” that we saw. It’s a bit contrived, but I think still inside the margins for the kind of misdirection the show does. There have been some hints that some of the Losties stay behind on the island when the 6 leave.
There’s no way that Ji Yeon is number 6, right? When Sun was “rescued”, she may have been noticeably pregnant…
No, it’s not contrived at all. It’s actually pretty obvious. Jin stayed behind on the island with everyone but the six.
They made it obvious by showing his date of death matching the plane crash date. Part of the deal in getting off the island must have been to never attempt to go back AND stick with the story that all others had perished in the crash. She still misses him and has probably lost hope of ever seeing him again.
We’ll find out the specifics of the deal by season end.
Sounds like a pretty unrealistic deal to me - we’ll be forcing some people to stay on the island, and we’re letting others go…but we’re going to split up one of the two married couples. Oh, and the one we’re splitting up is pregnant, which would make things even less likely to go smoothly.
IMO, Jin, in that future, is dead.
-Joe