Lost reruns are useful !

[chani]

There are so many things we forget with the passing of time. For instance, I had forgotten how special John Locke was since the day he was born...

Nurses called him a miraculous baby, because he should have died many times after his premature birth, but he was a fighter and always pulled off. His surviving the fall after his father tried to kill him wasn't the first miracle that happened to John Locke, so I don't think that Jacob saved him by touching him.

And when Richard visited young John, he noticed that the kid had drawn...the smoke monster in killing action!
By the way we still don't know the reason Richard could come and go in and off the island like that (the way Mr friendly did), do we?

Anyway, John was already connected to the island in his childhood, or at least to the Man In Black. Now I think that he was meant to merge with the smoke Monster and got super powers.

Also in the episode Jack got his appendix out, Miles kept staring at Claire. Sawyer got angry, suspecting that Miles was interested in Claire, but I'm beginning to think that something was already off with Claire and medium-Miles could feel it. Later he saw her talk to Christian and walk into the jungle with him.

We know now, that Christian, whom Locke talked to in the cabin, was actually the Man in Black, so it's the Man In Black who asked them to move the island, who wanted to protect the island from Widmore's guys. Not Jacob. What was Jacob doing all this time? 

Comments

[lijability.livejournal.com]

Jacob, was just being Jacob. Doing nothing, allowing people to choose their fate, choose whether to love or hate, choose whether to let live or kill.

I do not know if the Island needed moving or not. I think the better question to ask is why were Jack, Hugo, Kate and Sayid, sent back in time? I think it was to retreive the other two candidates, Sawyer and Jin (I don't thing Sun matters). And then who sent them back? The Island? Or Jacob?

[frenchani.livejournal.com]

I disagree, Jacob doesn't do nothing. He did something to Richard, hence his not aging, he did something to wounded Ilana in Russia and he made her come to the island to fulfill a mission he had given to her. He convinced Hugo to come back to the island as well in the cab. He has been a guide to The Hostiles, speaking to them through Richard, until the MiB took his place in the cabin.

Jacob isn't the non-interventionist guy he pretends to be, he is very manipulative like any big player.

The Man In Black didn't want Widmore to reclaim the island (Widmore says its his!). My question wasn't really about what the island needed because I don't think the show is about the island (I think it's all about the characters, the island is just a plot device), but about understanding the sides, the relationships between the characters.

And there's the mystery that is old Eloïse...

Why were Jack, Hugo, Kate and Sayid sent back in time, but not Sun? Just a convenient way to keep Jin and Sun apart or because Sun isn't a candidate (but then neither is Kate)?

I'm afraid that the writing isn't perfect and some stuff will never make sense or won't be explained, because they were either a could-be storyline that was dropped or a simple wink, or a poetical licence or convenient plotholes.

As I said above, I think that it's all about the characters and all the mystical stuff an pseudo-scientific elements are just there to serve the characters' journey.

[sister-luck.livejournal.com]

I find myself frequently lost during Lost episodes because there is so much backstory to remember. Juliet was branded? Huh? I thought when I read the linked clue in your last post.

But the good thing is that I won't notice half the inconsistencies and plot holes that no doubt must be there.

I like how the show has become about missed opportunities, chance encounters that change lives and the (im)possibility of turning your life around and whether you can make other people do what you want (and whether things then turn out the way you want them to).

[frenchani.livejournal.com]

Yes, Juliet's trial wasn't something I had kept in mind either.