LOST: The Final Season (Spoilers)

[Jack7]

I don't know about tv schedules, but if you're willing to watch it online

Lost - Full Episodes and Clips streaming online for free - Hulu

It has all the old season episodes available for another few months.
And from the current season, it keeps the most recent 5 episodes available.

Hulu is legal and free (they show 30 second commercials in the normal commercial breaks). Though there is talk that eventually hulu will charge a subscription, at least for now, as said, it is free.

That's a good idea, and I remembered somebody mentioning it to me before (mighta been you), but I couldn't recall the details. Unfortunately we live too far out in the country to get high-speed internet (maybe Hughesnet but I've seen it in operation and wasn't much impressed) but now Verizon is offering me a card and router set up to my three home computers that may let me run through their system. If that works out then I may go your route. I appreciate the idea and am gonna keep it in the back of my mind.

 

[fba827]

That's a good idea, and I remembered somebody mentioning it to me before (mighta been you), but I couldn't recall the details. Unfortunately we live too far out in the country to get high-speed internet (maybe Hughesnet but I've seen it in operation and wasn't much impressed) but now Verizon is offering me a card and router set up to my three home computers that may let me run through their system. If that works out then I may go your route. I appreciate the idea and am gonna keep it in the back of my mind.

Yahoo's TV shows all upcoming episodes of a given show.
Lost Television show - Lost TV Show - Yahoo! TV (that should show you upcoming episodes for Lost - though, it's not the easiest list to understand in terms of what's a recent episode and what's an older episode unless you know the episode titles or are willing to click on titles to get the info as to whether it's recent or a previous season)

Mind you, at some point on that website, it should ask you what location you're in / what TV provider you have to know what your channels and time zone are if it doesn't already know (else it defaults to some LA/California availability listing)

A quick glance does show some local channels (here in DC, channel 68 and 50, in addition to channel 7 (ABC)) that shows repeats of previous season episodes.

Also it shows some ABC-affiliate that shows the current Tuesday's episode on the Wednesday midnight timeslot (i.e. tuesday night but technically falls on wednesday since it's midnight). Though I don't know if they have local equivalents where ever you live.

Though I do recall in the past (as you've mentioned) they've shown Lost on the SciFi channel ... but I don't see any sci-fi channel listings at least not within the coming couple weeks.

(note, i personally find yahoo tv listing it a little too unfriendly to navigate, so I don't use that, then again, I don't get to watch much regular tv on schedule and have to either tivo or watch online, so I haven't really taken the time to learn/understand that website much either)

anyway, someone else may know better/more specifically than i do!

 

[Felon]

I am starting to believe that Jacob and Flocke are acutally two guys playing Sims.

Last night, I was starting to think that after Jacob was killed Smokey started playing the part of Jacob to Hugo and Jack.

 

[LightPhoenix]

Man, I thought that was the crappiest episode thus far this season. Oof.

I suppose the thing we're supposed to take from the episode is that Michael was also touched by Jacob at some point, and that's why he couldn't kill himself. It was also Jacob that appeared to him at the end.

Last night, I was starting to think that after Jacob was killed Smokey started playing the part of Jacob to Hugo and Jack.

My thought was that Richard said that in case Jacob tried to get Hurley to stop him from killing himself.

 

[Felon]

Man, I thought that was the crappiest episode thus far this season. Oof.

My gripe is that the ads stated that Ben was going to meet his demise. Nobody died in either universe.

Also, the whole blackmailing bit didn't make much sense. Does the principal really think writing a bad recommnendation for one student for one university is really anything to weigh against what Linus had on him? Even if it was a bluff, it's not a believable one.

 

[Shayuri]

The impression I had was that the principal was aware of Ben's devotion to Alex's potential as a student, and as a person. Obviously if he'd believed Ben was REALLY after his position, he'd have tried something stronger. But I think he knew that the only reason Ben wanted power was to protect students. So he figured that he wouldn't sacrifice a student to obtain power.

More importantly, from a narrative perspective, this event is the photonegative of the choice Island Ben made...to preserve his power and let Alex die.

 

[fba827]

More importantly, from a narrative perspective, this event is the photonegative of the choice Island Ben made...to preserve his power and let Alex die.

Yeah, in an isolated view it did not come across (as presented) as a strong motivation for Ben to give in. BUT, a) you have to take in the fact that Ben was devoted to the students and just assume that the principal knew of this strong motivation and b) as the audience it's important to recognize that this is the opposite of his choice -- power vs. alex's life/well-being -- that he made on the island. And I think this later point ("b") is the main point the writers/show was trying to get across but did not necessarily succeed in demonstrating that the principal knew item "a."

just my take on it anyway.

 

[LightPhoenix]

More importantly, from a narrative perspective, this event is the photonegative of the choice Island Ben made...to preserve his power and let Alex die.

Actually, that was the part I didn't mind. As you said, it makes sense, especially given Miles' comment that Jacob thought/hoped Ben was better. It was the Island stuff that I was cool on. Except for Richard, of course... I love how he just appears out of nowhere. If there's on answer I hope we get, it's how the Others can do that.

 

[Felon]

Actually, that was the part I didn't mind. As you said, it makes sense, especially given Miles' comment that Jacob thought/hoped Ben was better.

Actually, Miles' comment was that Jacob hoped he was wrong about Ben, not that Ben was a better man. That's very much akin to the previous episode's comment made by Dogen that Sayid "tipped the wrong way" on the moralityometer. We are drawn to infer something benign, when that's not necessarily the case.

 

[Banshee16]

Hollywood teaches that exemplars of uncompromising righteousness are to be admired, but I'm old enough to know that's pretty much bullcrap. When I watch Gladiator, I don't think Maximus should be admired for adopting an inflexible attitude that cost him, his family, and his friends their lives. All he had to do was hug Claudius, ask for a raise, and then go rally his forces. But nooo.......

I think J.J. Abrahms wrote Jack and Sawyer as two daamged men who try to better themselves. When the people they care about are in danger, they put their lives on the line, even though they don't have any rosy notions about morality. That's a kind of heroism that I can admire.

Those are interesting points...but to be fair, and look at your Gladiator example from another angle....

What if Maximus *did* pretend to like Claudius and serve him, then go rally his forces? How many people would have died then? Claudius wouldn't have been likely to just give up, and I'm sure he would have had a legion serving his ends. How much death and destruction would have been wrought at Maximus and Claudius battled for control of the empire?

More people might have died than did when Maximus stood up for his principles. Obviously he lost his wife and son, and people who were involved in the plotting with him......but that was still probably a lower number than if civil war had erupted.

As to the Losties....do we *know* that Locke and his minions are evil, and those in the temple are good? I think it's a decent assumption....but do we know? If the inhabitants of the temple were evil, and Locke killed them, does that mean he's good?

Maybe it's going to be a twist at the very end. I mean, Locke is sure not acting very nice. But what did Jacob do that was good? I mean, if Richard's been on the island for 500 years, and nobody else was told what was going on, how good is that? Seems that Jacob spent a lot of time using people.

Banshee