**LOST 5/24 Episode SEASON FINALE**

[CrazyEyez]

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Also, there is little evidence to suggest that the island is somehow shielded.

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"God can't see this island anymore than the rest of the world can."

That's an odd choice of words if you just mean that it's remote.

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"The theory, briefly, postulates the interrelatedness of the forces that comprise electromagnetic radiation and gravity. Through a special application of the theory, it was thought to be possible, with specialized equipment and enough energy, to bend light around an object, rendering it essentially invisible. "
From here.

[CharlieDontSurf]

How anyone thinks the show can only last aseason or two more is beyond me.
It will take all of next season just to go into detail on The Others and Rouseau/herreasearch vessel.

then we have Hanso/Dharma/Desmond/more plane survivors/the search for desmond/will walt/mike ever comeback(they arent not castmembers next year)the 14 main members stories/the island/ are there other people on the island besides the others/ etc etc

this doesnt include all the stuff CC DL and co. have planned that we are clueless about.

[jman220]

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1. how does a computer keep working after being in such a powerful electromagnetic field
2. what are the mechanics of the charging up in the hatch anyway? why didn't things just get permanently grounded? Why does someone need energy to build, then reset every 108 minutes?

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Why don't they write a computer program in [censored] basic or whatever that computer runs on to automatically enter the numbers every 108 minutes?

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Because the writers don't care, but I can give a sci-fi answer too... Because with the electromagnetic activity, the 100 MHz clock inside the computer will drift too much and be unreliable for keeping time.

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What about the timer that controls the 108 minute countdown?

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Beat me too it, seriously, even on 1970's or 1980's technology, basing it on an external clock wouldn't be that difficult. Also, even if they only had to do it post-incident, why not just write a program post-incident?

[jman220]

Also, as for the whole "giant magnet crashing the plane thing" I didn't take that to mean that the plane was literally pulled in by a giant magnet so much as a giant magnet's effects on a plane that was already in close proximity could have damaged the plane's equipment enough to cause it to crash.

[Gugel]

The guys looking for electromagnetic activity were NOT Russian. They were not speaking Russian. It sounded like Italian to me...which makes me wonder.....wtf are Italians doing way up north?

[pulledagroin]

Has anybody read the book "Bad Twin"? Saw it today at Costco but didn't pick it up yet.

edit: for those that don't know, its a book that is part of the Lost 'puzzle'.

I think it is the manuscript that Sawyer was reading earlier. The book jacket says this is the last thing the author wrote before going missing on oceanic flight 815. I skimmed through the book and one of the characters is a Widmore.

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It was Portuguese. They were speaking Portuguese.

[CharlieDontSurf]

From Kristin over at E! who is chummy with most the writers on a lot of the shows...this is a mix of some spoiler info she knows and some speculation...but its kinda interesting.

I whited it out for those that don't like to speculate.

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Created in: Forum: Watch with Kristin
Posted: May 25, 2006 8:49 AM
Oh my god. I figured it out.

The Others killed Marissa Cooper. How else would you explain Caleb being the big baddie and the boat leaving from Newport Beach?

In all seriousness, I *LOVED this finale! (And if you didn't get the joke above, fear not - you're just not watching the OC and good for you. It's just a reference to 2 OC connections last night.)

Of course, we ALWAYS want more info but there were some pretty fantastic reveals last night - what brought down the plane, why Desmond was there, etc. -- and most importantly, Josh and Naveen shirtless in the first two minutes!? Hello! You can't beat that with a Jesus stick!! (Though I did find it funny that Matthew kept his shirt on -- strange behavior for a nudist.)

Anyhoodles, here's what I'm thinking after last night's episode. And mind you, some of this is just speculation so take it with a heap of salt:

*Michael is gone for good. Eko and Locke will survive. Seems pretty obvious, right? They would NEVER kill off Locke or Ecko (I've already sent my threatening emails to Damon Lindelof on the matter). As I've been saying, Harold Perrineau is no longer a series regular next season (that is fact). So, it seems that Walt and Michael really will sail away. However, my hunch is that we'll see Walt again since he can "appear in places he wasn't supposed to be." Michael *could return if Harold returns as a guest star, but I know of no current plans to do so.

*Michael Emmerson (Henry Gale) should win an Emmy. No, he should win ALL the Emmys. And it seems clear now that FH (Faux Henry, not to be confused with a Future Husband) is the head of the Others on the island. However, I'm convinced that it's Daddy Widmore who is the big "Him" pulling all the strings ... from the mainland.

*That said, my *guess is that Widmore Industries (seen before in a sign on a factory in London and Sun's pregnancy test) is running the big experiment on the island, and Daddy W's (Widmore, not Warbucks) Race Around the World intentionally sent Desmond to that island to get him away from his daughter.

*Expanding on that, my theory is that Libby was in on it all along (I've smelled Eau du Other on her since day one!). Perhaps that crappy-ass, fake page-boy wig she had in the flashback was intentionally crappy-ass because she was indeed an Other (they do like that fake hair and seriously, ABC *should have the budget for a more realistic wig). 'Elizabeth' could have been a clinical psychologist working on the Dharma Initiative who was sent out in the real world (the coffee shop, the insane asylum) to get Desmond and Hurley to the island (which would explain the ridiculous coinkidink of her having a boat, and perhaps they needed to get Hurley away because he knew about the numbers from someone who had been on the island before and went berzerk). This would explain the whole thing with the backpack in 'The Other 48 Days' episode, when Cindy (flight attendant) was carrying a red backpack in one scene, then in the next, Libby was carrying it and Cindy was gone. Also, it's possible Libby wasn't even on the plane. Did we ever see her? Am I forgetting that? I'm pretty sure she just appeared in the water after the crash and later told a lame lie to Hurley that he stepped on her foot on the plane -- when she was in the tail section and he was in the fuselage, and I'm not geometry whiz but that doesn't add up.

*The Magnets: Every time the button isn't pushed it launches a deadly magnetic field which brought down the plane. And it makes the island detectable. Clearly, Penny knows of this and is using it to track down Desmond. The Brazilians (inspired by my Brazilian boyfriend, I'd like to think, since we had dinner with Damon a few months back and my B.F. told him they need Brazilians on the show - true story!) said something like “we can't miss it again,” perhaps referring to Sept 22 when the plane came down. One could guess that they are at the North or South pole where you would pick up electromagnetic frequencies more strongly. Perhaps if the island's magnetic balance isn't kept in check, the Earth's poles would go off their axis … ? Am I losing my mind?

*The bird called Hurley's name to remind us that there are mystical elements on this island that cannot be explained. And I keep thinking there's got to be something in the food - and that Hurley not eating it (it seems like he still isn't, right?) will make him hear and see things differently than everyone else. The food could be drugged. Just a thought.

*The Others might really be “Good.” Perhaps The Others are not willing participants … Just a thought. So far they have been stealing children and the “good” ones and taking them out of the game/experiment, to protect them or send them home. My sense is that the reason they're taking Jack, Kate and Sawyer is to take out the strongest players and to leave the Losties leaderless. Enter Mr. Eko vs. Locke vying for power next season …

*Charlie is evil now? Seems like it, doesn't it? If he is, I feel like it might be one of those twists that wasn't planned all along … but rather the producers finding a reason to keep Dom involved in the show because a) they love him b) he's had a crap-ass season and c) it doesn't hurt to keep your leading lady's man in happy and in Hawaii. I'm just sayin'.

*I keep waiting for the initial pitch of the show, that "Claire's baby is tied to the history of the island," to come into play. Is this why Charlie is so close to her? To keep an eye on Aaron?

*And finally, thanks to our friend Lala2460 for posting this recap of Dickens' “Our Mutual Friend” in a thread below. This is the book Desmond was carrying around and it has a pretty FITTING title, does it not? Well, turns out the storyline also ties into that Bad Twin manuscript Hurley found on the beach (which they're selling as a real book). Lala wrote: "'Our Mutual Friend' is about a rich young man named John Harmon, who while on a sea voyage to meet his future wife that his dad chose for him, meets another man who looks exactly like him (a twin!). They decide to swap identities, so that John Harmon can spy on his future wife to find out if she is worthy/see if he wants to marry her. However, after they switch clothes/identities, the lookalike guy betrays John Harmon (a BAD TWIN!!!), and tries to kill him. Unfortunately, the lookalike guy is himself betrayed by another man, who kills this bad twin in front of the real John, and then dumps the two of them in the sea. The real John survives, but the bad twin guy's body also washes ashore, and since the bad twin has John's I.D. papers on his person, the police and lawyers assume he is John Harmon, and thus declare that John Harmon is dead. Tramautized and "Lost", the real John decides he has nothing else to lose but to take on another false name, and go spy on the girl who would have been his future bride - testing her character, etc. The bulk of the novel is that.” Thanks, Lala!



LOST - OH MY GOD!

I'm dying!

I just rewatched the finale and I could SWEAR that at the end of the episode, one of the Brazilians in the frozen hatch speaking Portugese is:

JACK!!!!!!!!!

The guy with the glasses and cap is so Matthew Fox! If you add on a fake nose and a hat and a beard, it's definitely him.

I just got word from deep inside Lost headquarters regading my previous posting that:

"It's not Jack. I swear."

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[chicken10der]

Lost being 7 seasons is anything but confirmed. This is actually the first I've even heard of this rumor. They have only recently (about 2 months ago) signed the contracts for a third season.

http://lost.about.com/b/a/006812.htm

[CharlieDontSurf]

Obvious anyone
A cast is never hired for 5 or 7 years, let alone 2...especially when they may kill off a given character at any moment.

CC and DL have been stated as they plan it as a 7 year series so given they are the actual showrunners not JJ, you have to take them at their word.

anything can change though