So there’s this hidden place that’s really, really hard to get to, should you even find out where it is. Which is usually by accident. It contains a mysterious power that needs to be watched over. Two people live there. One never leaves, one occasionally makes excursions. One is waiting for a replacement, the other is secretly trying to find a way to escape. A riddle is used for identification. Eventually, one gets really angry about being trapped there and causes the other one to die.
Fingers crossed we get to see Kelvin (Clancy Brown is always interesting!) in the ATL sometime…maybe he’ll pop up when we get back to the Jin/Sayid ATL storyline.
So Ben gives up the chance to improve the education of thousands of students to get one girl into a college she can’t afford anyway.
Have we gotten our explanation of the whispers that have confounded us since the first season? They seem to occur when Smokey appears in human form.
Why was Christian Shepard’s body missing from the coffin? Was it done just to fuck with Jack’s head or did the body need to be used for some purpose? Smokey doesn’t need the physical corpse when he mimics other people.
There are certain keywords and phrases that admission committees look for. I know one person who is on a admissions committee at Penn and can easily discern the “good” letters from the “bad”. She herself has written letters for others, but when she truly does not want to recommend someone, she will not say bad things about them, but she will make sure the admissions committee receiving the letter knows that the person is not highly recommended.
On another topic-WAAALLTT!
Ok, so doesn’t WAALLTT! have to change his name when he goes back home after he and Michael get off the island so that no one knows that they survived the plane crash?
Did we find out what that name was? Could he maybe be Henry Gale who returns to the island at a much later date?
Yeah, this is bugging me too, now. All this time, I thought Zombie Christian had been mysteriously resurrected by the Island, and that’s why we always saw him wandering around. Now, it seems pretty clear that Zombie Christian was actually the Smoke Monster. So WHERE IS CHRISTIAN SHEPHARD’S BODY?! Aggh! Mystery…unsolved!
it probably landed in the jungle and is rotting or eaten by scavengers. Not too sure if the casket was opened by Jack or it was already opened/damaged when he opened it.
Because it’s easier to fuck with Jack (and the audience) about “what’s the DEAL with Shepard?” if there isn’t a body to just look at and say, “must be in his head”.
After all, once everyone saw Locke’s body it was pretty clear to everyone what was going on. Perhaps Smokey didn’t want to tip his hand quite yet?
Basically, I see this happening. The Smoke Monster is defeated and one of our main people is chosen to be the new “Jacob”.
This person is in charge of the island and can, to a certain extent, control it. He/She makes it so that for the others, it never happened. It isn’t a perfect “time retraction”, which might explain some oddities(Desmond??), but it is better than going through what they have had on the Island.
I wouldn’t be at all surprised if it ends with the insinuation that the cycle starts all over again, but with different people in control of the island.
I’ve been thinking about the little conversation from the season finale, when the Black Rock is on the way to the island:
Now, we’re meant to think he’s talking about new people coming to the island. But what if there is a cycle to the island? Esau is saying the cycle just repeats itself, but Jacob is say that there’s always progress and eventually the cycle will end. What if the alt-timeline is the end of that cycle?
I teach HS, and the letters are usually mailed in directly. The student doesn’t see it or know why he/she got rejected.
I especially was honest on a web-based recommendation to a military academy about a student once. The kid can’t pass AP classes; I don’t want the academy wasting its time or my money.
This confused me too, I thought they were father and daughter but this sideways flash showed them as teacher/pupil with some awkward sexual tension.
Living outside of the US Im not sure but is it standard for a pupil to show up at your house late in the evening to ask for a little ‘extra tutition’?
Can anyone confirm (or theorise) why they are not related off island?
In the regular timeline, I think Alex’s dad was some member of the French science team. Ben just adopted her after bringing her back to Othertown and raised her as his own (I think).