“The island needs you. You have to go back, before it’s too late.”
Does anyone know how many red shirts were on the freighter when it exploded? I’m thinking just 9, unless Daniel made more trips off-camera. Nine from the island, I mean. Obviously there were freighter crew members as well.
I liked the finale quite a bit. I’m wondering if next season will begin with the Oceanic 6 returning to the island, and the flashbacks will be of both them getting back and what transpired on the island while they were gone. If not, I’m not sure that Sawyer, Juliette, Rose and Bernard can carry very many on-island plot lines.
I don’t watch Mythbusters, but I know many do, so you might be interested in Adam Savage’s feelings on last night’s show. It doesn’t answer whether the “deadman’s switch” is realistic, but he claims that the C4 on the boat itself wasn’t accurate.
Also, right here you can hear the audio of the telephone call being played in reverse. Unfortunately, you have to download it, but it’s tiny. Look at the top where it says “Update 2” and you’ll find it.
This tidbit was revealed to me in my sophomore philosophy class at SJSU. You can bet that Bentham was a topic at parties for several months after that!
I also wanted to mention that Frank is just about the worst helicopter pilot in the history of helicopters. I would have been a simple task to auto-rotate that thing after it ran out of fuel, resulting in a rapid but controlled landing in the water.
Interesting point: Ben appeared to arrive at a location, the Sahara Desert, that was globally diametrically opposite to where the Island is located. Or perhaps opposite to where it moved to.
Maybe it didn’t mean anything. Like when the Harry Potter series was still unresolved, and people thought Neville’s mom giving him gum wrappers was going to add up to something. It didn’t. It was merely supposed to be pathetic.
The island is weird, but we’re mostly seeing it from the POV of people who arrived by chance and know nothing about it. Maybe some people long ago wanted to carve a statue and abandoned the project for more pressing concerns, figuring it wasn’t worth it after they’d already messed up the toes. Not everything about the island is bizarre. Plants grow the way they’re supposed to. Water flows downhill. And there’s part of a statue on one of the cliffs. Well, New Hampshire used to have a mountain that looked like a guy’s face, until it fell apart. That doesn’t mean anything either.
Something that bothered me - When Sawyer got to shore, he seemed surprised that the ship was destroyed. What did he think that enormous BOOM was? Or did he somehow avoid hearing such a gigantic explosion?
Thats been a misdirection all season. No one chose to stay. Well except for Miles and beautiful eyed redhaired lady. But that wasn’t widely known to the rest. Most of them were waiting for the boat to come back and were stuck. “Chose to stay” basically fits only Locke, Miles and BERL.
No, but I’m working on a theory that it might be the island from the Tempest, with Jacob as Prospero, Richart Alpert as Ariel and the Smoke Monster as Caliban.
