Lostposting

[psocoptera]

Man. On the plus side all of these episodes feel nicely momentous, like, Things Are Happening And The Story Is Advancing. On the minus side, "candidate"? That's really more of a question than an answer, wouldn't you say? Can *anything* be said to have been answered here?

More plus: Sun is finally heading towards Jin! More minus: but she's detouring and stopping to bury Locke? I loved the opportunity for Ben's eulogy, but this didn't ring true to me - Sun is a ruthless lady, I'd expect her to step over Locke if it got her on the way to Jin. Also, given that Ilana obviously knows waaaay more about what's going on than anyone else does, I'd like to see Sun asking her some pointed questions about, you know, WTF is going on.

So full of squee for the alternate timeline. Locke happily engaged and on the path to a more fulfilling career? Hurley's confidence and comfort with power? (And yet he still seems to be a nice guy.) Even Rose seems to be at peace with her cancer. Am now rethinking my theory that we're supposed to think the crash was good for the main cast. Am now predicting episodes in which we see Sayid happy with Nadia, Charlie writes his best album in prison, and Jack is less of a tool. Ok, maybe not those last two.

Sawyer: I don't care how much you're grieving over Juliet, do not release spooky imprisoned thing if you have no idea why it was imprisoned in the first place. Seriously, Sawyer, you, canonically, *read books*, how have you not picked this up?

Unanswered:
- who are Adam and Eve (the bodies in the cave)?
- what happened to Rose and Bernard and Vincent after the bomb went off?
- why did the psychic tell Claire she had to be on that plane? is there something special about Aaron? does who ends up raising him have any bearing on any of the big conflicts?
- Walt?
- haha. no, seriously, Walt? do his powers have anything to do with Jacob/Smokelocke? where is he in the new timeline? what made the Others interested in him, and did Ben really let him go because he was too powerful for him to control?
- Libby?
- why doesn't Richard Alpert age? who/what is he?
- why did flight attendant Cindy happily join the Others?
- will Sun and Jin ever make it back home to their little girl?
- why didn't Sun go back to 1977 with the rest of the Oceanic 6
Answer at least strongly implied:
- what happened to Claire, anyways, after she vanished on the island? (She's been living much as Rousseau did.)

Comments

[jere7my.livejournal.com]

That's really more of a question than an answer, wouldn't you say?

Hmm. Not sure I follow. The answer: Jacob had a list of people who he thought would be good to replace him as island guardian (a la the Knight Templar in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade), and manipulated their lives so they'd end up on the island. What's the question? We even have a good hint about the Numbers now — those were the numbers that were left after all the others were crossed off.

[irilyth]

> We even have a good hint about the Numbers now — those were the numbers that were left after all the others were crossed off.

Yeah, but do we have any sense of why they keep turning up in other contexts?

[jere7my.livejournal.com]

No, but we know where they come from, which is not an insignificant clue. If forced to guess, I would say either a) the numbers were found in the cave by Dharma and incorporated into their own plans, or b) they're further evidence of Jacob's subtle influence on the world — he's "got a thing" for those numbers, and managed to (e.g.) influence the lottery balls to provide Hurley with his fortune. Possibly both.

[psocoptera.livejournal.com]

So you think Smock is telling the truth?

I don't - I think Smock was telling the truth about wanting to go home, but almost everything else it says is about as reliable as Ben was a couple of seasons ago.

Also, what happened to the idea that the Numbers were the solution to the Zamboni Equation or whatever it was? (Valenzotti Equation?)

[irilyth]

I don't trust Smocke, but that doesn't mean he's not telling the truth. :^) Why do you think he went out into the world and interacted with all those people?

[jere7my.livejournal.com]

I think it's late in the endgame for another double-blind fakeout, and the explanation makes a lot of things make sense. But I could be proven wrong.