**LOST 5/24 Episode SEASON FINALE**

[RacersEdge]

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So...this means Gale DID press the button..right? He said he didn't, and that it just reset and all.

Now, why would he press the button (meaning he wants them to not miss pressing the button), but yet, he tells Locke he didn't press it. Which, would make you think he doesn't want Locke to keep pressing it.

I'm confused.

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There is some kind constraint on the "game" where Gale wanted to sabotage the Losties , but he could only do it via psychological ploys - like his little stabs at Locke about Jack being the one in charge. For whatever reason, he wants the button to not be pushed, but it has to be the Losties decision not to.

[epdaws]

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here's how your theory plays out. libby's hired by desmond's girlfriend's dad, widmore, to bump into desmond in the coffee shop. libby offers desmond a free boat which widmore knows desmond will accept in order to race. widmore arranges for the boat to crash on the island (possibly because of the magnetic pull?)

later libby comes on the island and infiltrates the group of tailies.

last scene penny, desmond's old girlfriend, is woken up being told that a magnetic anomoly has been found. did penny catch wind of dad's plan and she has been scanning the globe for the magnetic area trying to find desmond?

bwana



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This theory is so good that writers ought not know that some viewers have figured it out, else they might change the story arc.

Nicely done. It also explains why no one remembered seeing Libby on the plane.

[Vehn]

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The "spook" from Shawshank

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He is and always will be the kurgan.

I think everyone knows/assumes that next year the others become protagonists in some form which is why I am somewhat disappointed by last nights episode.

[NeedsMoreNuts]

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So...this means Gale DID press the button..right? He said he didn't, and that it just reset and all.

Now, why would he press the button (meaning he wants them to not miss pressing the button), but yet, he tells Locke he didn't press it. Which, would make you think he doesn't want Locke to keep pressing it.

I'm confused.

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There is some kind constraint on the "game" where Gale wanted to sabotage the Losties , but he could only do it via psychological ploys - like his little stabs at Locke about Jack being the one in charge. For whatever reason, he wants the button to not be pushed, but it has to be the Losties decision not to.

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I was thinking along the lines that the whole reason they wanted Jack, Kate, and Sawyer was because they are the most powerful of the group, and are going to try and convince all of the Losties to join the Others against some evil third group. Therefore, notHenry didn't want the Losties to realize the immense power they had in not pushing the button until they were on the Others' side.

[epdaws]

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the people in the snow (Russians, Eskimos, whatever...) were monitoring electromagnetic pulses? What's the significance of them being in the snow as opposed to somewhere in the South Pacific?

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Um, snow=pole and pole=more magnetic. Easier to monitor EM activity.

[Badger]

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here's how your theory plays out. libby's hired by desmond's girlfriend's dad, widmore, to bump into desmond in the coffee shop. libby offers desmond a free boat which widmore knows desmond will accept in order to race. widmore arranges for the boat to crash on the island (possibly because of the magnetic pull?)

later libby comes on the island and infiltrates the group of tailies.

last scene penny, desmond's old girlfriend, is woken up being told that a magnetic anomoly has been found. did penny catch wind of dad's plan and she has been scanning the globe for the magnetic area trying to find desmond?

bwana



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This theory is so good that writers ought not know that some viewers have figured it out, else they might change the story arc.

Nicely done. It also explains why no one remembered seeing Libby on the plane.

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I think this is one theory the writer's wanted to make obvious enough so the viewer's would catch it the first time around instead of going back and saying "Ohhhh- now this makes sense." Maybe it they made it obvious so they can twist it later.

[Badger]

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the people in the snow (Russians, Eskimos, whatever...) were monitoring electromagnetic pulses? What's the significance of them being in the snow as opposed to somewhere in the South Pacific?

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Um, snow=pole and pole=more magnetic. Easier to monitor EM activity.

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I don't think so. Proximity would be the easiest way to monitor EM activity. Or being away from other EM sources/noise. If my electromagnetics classes have proven anything though it's that I'm often wrong when it comes to EM problems.

[onthebutton]

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the people in the snow (Russians, Eskimos, whatever...) were monitoring electromagnetic pulses? What's the significance of them being in the snow as opposed to somewhere in the South Pacific?

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Um, snow=pole and pole=more magnetic. Easier to monitor EM activity.

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Snow doesn't necessarily equal pole. And is it really easier to monitor changes in electromagnetism at a place where the electromagnetic field is more intense? I'm not being a nit, I'm asking. I would think a place where the EM field is lower would be easier to detect an EM spike (signal to noise ratio), therefore somewhere in the South Pacific would make more sense.

[Vehn]

anyone have infos on last nights website-mercial?

[_TKO_]

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here's how your theory plays out. libby's hired by desmond's girlfriend's dad, widmore, to bump into desmond in the coffee shop. libby offers desmond a free boat which widmore knows desmond will accept in order to race. widmore arranges for the boat to crash on the island (possibly because of the magnetic pull?)

later libby comes on the island and infiltrates the group of tailies.

last scene penny, desmond's old girlfriend, is woken up being told that a magnetic anomoly has been found. did penny catch wind of dad's plan and she has been scanning the globe for the magnetic area trying to find desmond?

bwana



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This theory is so good that writers ought not know that some viewers have figured it out, else they might change the story arc.

Nicely done. It also explains why no one remembered seeing Libby on the plane.

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This episode actually made me question whether Desmond and the Losties were brought to island or just ended up there coincidently. We used to think that Dharma purposely crashed the plane on the island. We now see that Desmond's failure to push the button is the reason the plane brought down. Working backwards, Dharma could only have expected this to occur if Kelvin was a Dharma plant.

Kelvin plays the exact role that Desmond played to us before: the mysterious origin of human life on the island. We know Kelvin was a spy (well, he claims he was a spook, anyway), so it's plausible for him to be playing the part of a Dharma volunteer, while in reality, he would have been expecting Desmond to arrive. His purpose may have been to train Desmond to believe certain things about the island. If this is the case, it is likely that the island is merely the remnants of an old experiment, which Penny's dad is using to ensure that Desmond never returns to his daughter. Assuming Kelvin is a Dharma plant, he would have had to receive a signal to lure Desmond out of the hatch in order to ensure that the button wouldn't be pushed.

In any case, it was not only Kelvin that drew the map, but rather both Kelvin AND his "partner". This could account for the two different handwriting styles present on the map. If Kelvin is a plant, then the intention of the map is to be found and followed. Then again, Kelvin may not know anything about the island. If we examine the Blast Door Map, and the location on which Kelvin was shown to be writing, we can learn what on the map he has written, and thereby determine how much he knows.

If Kelvin is not a plant, then it is clear that the Dharma experiment ended during his reign as a volunteer. Since he was expecting to be relieved after 540 days, it is very plausible that he has truly gone insane, found Desmond and his boat by chance, and is keeping up appearances due to his fear of what might happen should the button not be pressed. This means that the Losties are on the island only accidentally. Since it's becoming more and more clear that Dharma has abandoned this project (or, at least, the project's initial purpose), it's also plausible that the Losties are infected, which is where the Hostiles come into play. If the Losties were not meant to come to the island, then the Hostiles may not be certain of their intentions or what has happened to them. This is why I think the Hostiles should be the key focus of next season.

As for the "blast" caused by the failsafe, it appears that it altered the mentality of the Losties, and only the Losties. Everyone has noticed that the Losties appear to be acting differently post-blast. The blast appears not to have affected the Hostiles, and this is probably why Fenry wanted the button to be skipped...