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Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Final Season of Lost Starts Tonight

Posted by on Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 12:30 PM

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Lost is on tonight! Finally! There is some sort of recap or something at 8:00 p.m. and then the two-hour premiere starting at 9:00 p.m. I can't breathe...

Discuss: Is John Locke alive or dead?

 

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Anthony Hecht 1
Oh goodie. I've been looking for a reason to yell at the TV again.
Posted by Anthony Hecht on February 2, 2010 at 12:34 PM
yelahneb 2
He's dead, dude; we saw his body roll out of the coffin. Smokey is pretending to be him.
Posted by yelahneb http://www.strangebutharmless.com on February 2, 2010 at 12:34 PM
3
Outrage! What a sacrilege! Imagine using the Last Supper for a TV show!
Posted by clearlyhere http://clearlyhere.livejournal.com on February 2, 2010 at 12:36 PM
Dee 4
I don't want him to be dead =\
Maybe the explosion sent them back to before he died, and now he's okay? Locke is my favorite character.

For the first time, I have no-one to watch it with. Anticipation mixed with self-pity is a weird state of mind.
Posted by Dee on February 2, 2010 at 12:38 PM
bella 5
Locke is dead and being possessed, just as Christian's dead body was being possessed by Jacob.
Posted by bella http://twitter.com/littlewords on February 2, 2010 at 12:40 PM
6
Dude, he's dead. Dead, dead, dead, face in the sand, decomposing on the beach, dead. The devil - er, the Man in Black - done took his body.

But oh yeah, the explosion. Maybe Locke will be still alive. maybe he'll return as the evil Man in Black, still disguised as Locke, and Locke's flyblown body will stay on the island. I don't know. It'll be interesting to find out.

And what about all the Tailies who died? Are they all coming back? Will we get to see them? And how the hell are they going to get Walt back?

Oh, hell, now I'm speculating on Lost mythology. HOW THE FUCK AM I SUPPOSED TO GET ANY WORK DONE NOW?!?!?!
Posted by Sky Bluesky on February 2, 2010 at 12:45 PM
Will in Seattle 7
He's dead.

It's not Smoky, he serves the man in black. Read up on your Egyptian mythology.

But if we do a way-back reset, then Locke may be alive - then.
Posted by Will in Seattle http://www.facebook.com/WillSeattle on February 2, 2010 at 12:45 PM
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Radzinsky!!!
Posted by Mark Price on February 2, 2010 at 1:15 PM
9
He is dead in the most current time frame, but clearly time is a variable here and not a constant, so the answer is: depends.
Posted by Jeffrey on February 2, 2010 at 1:49 PM
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I honestly believe that the big plot device this season will be alternate realities; One where the bomb blew up the island (so the Losties never crashed), and one where it didn't and the leaking exotic matter transported the Losties back to the future.

This way, we get to see an alternate reality where they landed safely and no one died (as well as Desmond, Rousseau and Juliet never making it there in the first place), and a reality where they're dropped in the whole Jacob clusterfuck in the present.

(So in that sense, Locke is both alive and dead- depending on which reality you believe to be true.)
Posted by UNPAID COMMENTER on February 2, 2010 at 1:51 PM
Will in Seattle 11
But is he ... undead?
Posted by Will in Seattle http://www.facebook.com/WillSeattle on February 2, 2010 at 2:05 PM
Eric F 12
Depends how far you trust wikipedia, but I'm going with dead: "John Locke (pronounced /lɒk/; 29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704)"
Posted by Eric F on February 2, 2010 at 2:07 PM
Dee 13
@10 - "So in that sense, Locke is both alive and dead", so... Locke is Schrodinger's cat? Awesome!
Posted by Dee on February 2, 2010 at 2:35 PM
IronHammer 14
Lost is horrible. That is all...
Posted by IronHammer on February 2, 2010 at 2:37 PM
15
Who is Jacob? Who is the Man in Black? Why are they fighting? Why are they on the island? What do they have to do with the Others?
Posted by Gillian Anderson on February 2, 2010 at 2:39 PM
16
The last supper-esque Lost photo is missing a Judas. No hints there.
Posted by sammielu on February 2, 2010 at 2:49 PM
Will in Seattle 17
@13 - yes.
Posted by Will in Seattle http://www.facebook.com/WillSeattle on February 2, 2010 at 2:50 PM
michael strangeways 18
1)In our primary timeline, Locke is dead.
2)It's no secret that this season features an alternate timeline...in that, Locke appears to be "alive"
3)Flocke=MIB=Smokey.
4)Flocke/Smokey is reportedly a bit of a hardass in tonite's episode.
5)A better question is: "Is Jacob the Good Guy and MIB the Bad Guy, or is there more to it than that?"
6)We will cry at least once tonite.
7)We will see "Dead" people again...
8)Richard Alpert is now a series regular!!! (and, he'd better have a shirtless scene this season) And, he gets his own epidsode (Ep 9).
9)Please let there be an end to the STUPID Kate/Jack/Sawyer love triangle...lame.
Posted by michael strangeways http://www.seattlegayscene.com/ on February 2, 2010 at 3:51 PM
Will in Seattle 19
If you go to the library you can read up on Hathor and all the other Egyptian dieties that are in Lost. My main question is who is Libby?
Posted by Will in Seattle http://www.facebook.com/WillSeattle on February 2, 2010 at 4:04 PM
Toad in the Hole 20
I totally read "Everything That Rises Must Converge" by Flannery O'Conner because Jacob was reading it in last season's finale. I thought it might give me some insights, but man was it a depressing book! Humans are bad!
Posted by Toad in the Hole on February 2, 2010 at 4:48 PM
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@19 Are you talking about the statue? Because it's actually of the goddess Taweret. JJ Abrams said so in Wired magazine.

http://lost.about.com/b/2009/05/29/the-s…
Posted by UNPAID COMMENTER on February 2, 2010 at 4:51 PM
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@19 And Libby was Hurley's girlfriend who got shot dead in season 2.
Posted by UNPAID COMMENTER on February 2, 2010 at 4:52 PM
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Michael: I agree. I think Richard Alpert is a very interesting character, and he knows a lot of stuff that we wish we knew. Plus, he looks great for an old guy!
Posted by Gillian Anderson on February 2, 2010 at 5:01 PM
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I thought this season would have one continuous timeline, without all the jumping back and forth of season 5. As for Locke, I thought he was genuinely dead, with a replica of his body being occupied and controlled by someone or something else.
Posted by brendan on February 2, 2010 at 5:34 PM
merry 25
I can't wait for this show to end so I can read a one-page recap of the whole thing on Wiki or something... Started watching the first season but realized I just couldn't make the time commitment, no matter how intriguing the plot lines....

Bottom line, baby! :-)
Posted by merry on February 2, 2010 at 5:55 PM
Greg 26
Last Supper parodies never get old.
Posted by Greg on February 2, 2010 at 10:16 PM

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