<p>I thought Jacob was on the good side…but I wouldn’t bet on it. And I thing Jacob is on the others side.</p>
<p>I don’t know who is going to fight who.</p>
<p>I quit watching last season when it just became too much work to keep up, but the whole family had watched since the beginning and now I kind of want to see how it all turns out. My 17yo gets it inside and out.</p>
<p>Good review on NPR today.</p>
<p>I also like the Entertainment Weekly recaps. So, yeah, there are two scenarios playing out simultaneously – the bomb “worked” as planned and their plane lands as schduled in LAX, the bomb didn’t work as expected and they are now in present time (same time as the Ajira passengers and Fake Locke, etc.) on a different part of the island. In LA, the plane flight was slightly altered from the original, possibly because “what happened happened” so Kate became free on the island, she’s now free in LA, Christian Shepard’s body was missing from the coffin on the island, the coffin is now missing from the cargo hold on the plane in LA, Locke could walk on the island, Jack the spinal surgeon now offers to try to fix him in LA, etc. Back on the island Jacob is dead – but is he now inhabiting Sayid’s body? The smoke monster was inhabiting the man in black’s body on the beach a century ago in that conversation with Jacob, now he’s in Locke’s body. </p>
<p>That’s clear, isn’t it?</p>
<p>^uhhh. huh?</p>
<p>Did anybody else see the alien in “Locke’s” eyes when he told Ben he wanted to go home?</p>
<p>worknprogress - That’s a good idea. I’ll see if my son wants to talk about the shows via skype.</p>
<p>OHHH Wildwood, I now have to go back and rewatch the end to see if I can spot the alien in “Locke’s” eyes. There are always cool little planted clues around!</p>
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<p>What and where is NPR?</p>
<p>I watched a few episodes the first season but lost interest and I was hoping that I could somehow still be able to understand the ending, but after reading the synopsis by BurnThis, I think Lost is forever lost to me. Sawyer is still really hot though, right?</p>
<p>NPR transcript will probably be posted online tomorrow or so…last year it was posted on Feb 4th…</p>
<p>seiclan: NPR is National Public Radio…</p>
<p>I like the NY Times version of the show…I can understand this version…</p>
<p>[‘Lost’</a>; Watch: A Tale of Two Islands - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com](<a href=“http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/03/lost-watch-a-tale-of-two-islands/]‘Lost’”>'Lost' Watch: A Tale of Two Islands - The New York Times)</p>
<p>"But wait again! This was a two-hour episode of television’s most complicated show, so two story lines wouldn’t do. In plot No. 3, Ben, Sun, Pilot Frank, Ageless Richard and the newbies from Ajira Flight 316 dealt with the aftermath of Jacob’s death. Ben was surprised to see Locke’s dead body on the beach, given that he had just seen “Locke” — actually the Man in Black — inside the Big Foot. He went back in with a crew of armed newbies (but not Ilana, because it’s too early to kill off Zuleikha Robinson). Before they could shoot the Man in Black, the black smoke appeared and whacked them all. It was big-revelation time: “I’m sorry you had to see me like that,” the Man in Black told Ben. He is the black smoke! The black smoke is he! Or something.</p>
<p>Ben realized he’d been duped into killing Jacob, and his expression as he listened to the Man in Black do some Darwinistic rambling about the pitiful lives of humans was a signal — an alarming one — that before the show is over, he will have a change of heart and do the Right Thing. Then came big revelation No. 2: “I want the one thing that John Locke didn’t,” the Man in Black told Ben. “I want to go home.” So it would seem — at least for this week — that Jacob had been charged with keeping the Man in Black confined to the island, and it will now be up to our hardy band (with Jacob’s posthumous help) to keep him from getting away and wreaking whatever havoc he’s capable of.</p>
<p>That was pretty much it. The Man in Black told his followers on the beach “I am very disappointed” and walked off, lugging an unconscious Richard. Back at the temple, Hurley told the priest that Jacob was dead and panic ensued; there was much spreading of a dark powder that apparently wards off the black smoke. In the middle of it all, Sayid came back to life. “What happened?” he said. Indeed."</p>
<p>I think when Locke/Not Locke/Smoky said “I want to go home” he was referring to the Temple, not getting off the island.</p>
<p>Also, I think the writers have been setting us up for a false argument about whether you can change the course of events, about destiny, about free will. Faraday explained time in a linear way, but that was a red herring. They’re going now in the direction of parallel realities where all these scenarios can co-exist. </p>
<p>I sort of thought they were going to go that way. For one thing the previous free will vs. predestination argument was not logically resolvable, and also it was alluded to briefly in Flash Forward, a show that premiered last fall with quite a bit of overlap on the creative team. Free will vs. determinism is also an older argument. All the young hip geeks are into alternate, parallel realities these days.</p>
<p>Yes, the home Smokey refers to is likely the Temple.</p>
<p>cartera45: Yes he is.</p>
<p>BurnThis: I am so glad that I also read the EW recap this morning because the episode last night was so much to take in. </p>
<p>I was so proud of my 74-year-old mother today. She was over for lunch and we started talking about the show. She does not read/watch sci-fi or fantasy (other than LOST) and yet she got it that this season was about parallel universes (or flash sideways as the creators call it).</p>
<p>Flash sideways! What a great term. :)</p>
<p>I read a comment online that referenced the “parallel universe” thing:
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<p>I like this way of thinking about it. We’ll just have to wait and see if it happens.</p>
<p>patsmom, I like that explanation.</p>
<p>Very coy investigating crew…and I think it’s fascinating that those of us who have watched “Flash Forward” ( and “Fringe”) have picked up on some of these clues…both shows have these themes strongly running through them…</p>
<p>Finally, it took me a long time to find this thread. Who watched Lost last night? My HD was flaking out and I missed some dialogue. Why do the Others want to poison Sayid? Do they think that he has the Man in Black inside him or that he has the infection that the Rosseaus crew had? What is going on there?</p>
<p>I did, but I was under the influence of drugs, post-surgery, so I’m not sure I’m the best to comment on the nuances. He’s infected with something, but we don’t know what. It’s whatever Claire has.</p>