A very non-typical Lost finale: I think we got more answers than we got new questions.
A wrap-up to Penny & Desmond.
We know how Jin & Sun got separated.
We know what happened to the Oceanic (x-6).
We know how Ben got from the island to Tunisia.
We know who’s in the coffin.
I’m not used to this.
But did Vincent get blown up, or did he, too, decide to stay?
and we got zilch info regarding Jacob. If he’s behind all the decisions, who is he? and why did the island reject Ben and turn to Locke?
I’m confused as to who knows what: Does Sun know Widmore sent the freighter with the bomb? Do Penny and Des know what danger they’re in?
Vincent knows things and one of those things he knew was not to go to the freighter.
This is a pretty funny background on the Lost soudtrack
Simpler answer: Charlotte was born on the island. It’s her home.
-FrL-
And to think I muted that ad last night because I thought it was, you know, a real thing from our world.
Does anyone recall when in the timeline Ben appeared in Tunisia? It was sometime after the O6 returned, right? Sayeed’s wife(?) had just died. Are we to assume it was “instantly” (from his perspective) after he turned the frozen donkey wheel? My working theory is that the wheel moves the island forward in time - making it disappear temporarily. The turner is somehow expelled from island and transported God-knows-where (the other side of the world?). They probably tested it on the polar bears, hence the remains Charlotte found in the middle of the dessert. Perhaps (given the speculation above) Charlotte was even involved in those experiments and hence knew what to look for.
If the island is constantly moving forward through time maybe that’s why Alpert doesn’t seem to have aged…
Anyone who disputes the genius of Michael Giacchino, His Holiness of the Ten-Minute Space Monster Opera, will be shot on sight. :mad:
(Okay, it was pretty hilarious. :D)
October 2005. He arrived at the hotel on October 24, 2005. He appeared before that, presumably the same day or a few days earlier.
Yes.
When Kate had her Claire dream and picked up the phone, it was backwards talking. Anyone know what was said?
Also, am I the only one left still wondering what the hell the giant four-toed statue was at the end of the second season?
So that’s, what, ten months after he turned the big-ol’ wheel? The events on the island from last nights episode were December 30, 2004, right?
My wife said that she heard “daughter” as well.
Or, since Keamy helpfully explained his deadman’s switch to everyone present, why didn’t Locke take the heart monitor off his arm and strap it to himself while Keamy was lying there slowly bleeding out?
Give or take. Lostpedia has the 6 leaving the Searcher on January 7, 2005.
Oh dear! It’s a Wheel of Time!
I heard daughter too.
And Locke couldn’t disconnect the heart monitor because then it wouldn’t have been reading a pulse and… boom.
It’s got something to do with this:
The May 19th, 2008 Official Lost Audio Podcast gave credence to a theory that the Island is located at Tunisia’s antipode, which is in the south Pacific east of New Zealand.
and apparently there is a time jump associated with it, too.
I think Ben landed in the antipode for the island in its new location. That would give him “some ideas” about how one might return. I’m not sure whether the time skip gives him any clue about the new time differential between island and outside.
I knew it when they went down in the elevator - journey to the center of the earth!
Well, this is armchair-quarterbacking to be sure, but one would think that the switch mechanism would be triggered by a condition such as “no pulse in x seconds”, so that physiologic variation in heart rate or occasional random loss of signal (if the monitor shifts position during movement or combat) didn’t result in the bomb going off. Thus, if Locke got himself into position, he might have been able to place the monitor on his own arm between beats.
And yes, Locke probably didn’t think of all this at the time, but given a) Keamy told him how the switch worked and b) he could probably tell he wasn’t going to be able to keep Keamy alive anyway, I was surprised he didn’t at least try.
I would venture to guess that the monitor would be rigged to go off if removed while he was still alive. Perhaps there was a code that had to be punched in or something to remove it safely? I imagine it wouldn’t be a good deadman’s switch if you could just knock him out and remove it and put it on someone else.