That will be very cool. I'm also looking forward to next week's Richard backstory. And not just because I think Nestor Carbonell is smokin' hot, though it is a factor. :evil:

I saw him on channel 5 news this morning, and he hinted that he will be on at some point, perhaps the last ep.

Ewww....

A thought just occurred to me. We know it's impossible to get to the island unless one approaches at exactly the right angle. What if this is not so much to keep people out, but to keep MIB in?

Interesting thought.

I had an interesting thought yesterday. NOTHING HAS HAPPENED this entire season, more than half over.

Cough*Cough*Bullsh!t.





(As I've observed, other seasons seemingly meandered through nothingness for their first halves ... but this is unacceptable to me for the final season on a show like Lost that must now prove it is not the 21st century version of Twin Peaks.)

You're kidding, right?

Loved how we refer to Ol' Smoky as "the smoke monster," but UnLocke, when asked what happened to the people who stayed behind at the temple, called it, "the black smoke." And conveniently left out the information that it was himself. Wondering if Jacob could manifest as white smoke.

Want to know about Adam and Eve. Want to know about The Island at the Bottom of the Sea. Really want to know why Rose, in the first episode, recognized the sound of the Smoke Monster. Want to know about the healing spring inside the temple, and what was wrong with it. Want to know about the Hurleybird, the whispering in the grasses, the baby's mobile with little airplanes they found in the Dharma maternity ward, want to know about Walt and Aaron, want to know if Vincent is Jacob, want to know who or what Christian is, want to know about the whole island electromagnetic thing.

Is the MiB a Djinn? Is that why he couldn't kill Jacob? Would that explanation be beyond stupid, or does it fit in with antiquity of the Island, and the occasional references to Alice and Oz?

I really, really want to know why Rose thought she recognized the sound made by the Smoke Monster.

From Lostpedia

ETA: Of course, there could be a reason that they chose a sound that would be familiar to her, but it seems it doesn't sound like it's going to turn out that she had encountered the smoke monster before, just that the smoke monster incorporated something familiar to her.

And, no, I'm not kidding. A bunch of sideways slice-of-life stuff is not moving the plot along as far as I can tell yet. I'll give that time, but as I've posted - it seems more like giving each character their curtain call in orderly turn rather than storytelling.

On the Island - 8 episodes to reveal the names at the cave and the lighthouse? Other than that, endless waste of choosing-sides time which could have been accomplished in 20 minutes. And should have been. In fact, the whole season seems to be taking Episode I lessons.

Except for the excellent Ben Linus episode week before last, it doesn't seem like anyone posting in this thread is much more enthralled with this season than I am - so I really don't feel like my criticism is out of left field - but in any case, that's how I feel.


With the proviso, that I'm used to having things move along at a greater clip via watching the episodes one after another on DVD. Maybe it's just seeming too slow to me on a weekly basis.

Speaking of Smokey sounds, in Recon when Sawyer discovers the Ajira plane on Hydra Island, you can hear birds chirping that sound (to me) exactly like one of the component sounds of Smokey. Watch it again, it's around the 40 minute mark, IIRC.