Lost - Season Finale *Spoilers*

[Aaron2]

What about the discussions the characters had on this being a place where fate is punishing them?

It seems that the castaways will be divided into two groups, those that believe in fate and those that don't.


Aaron

 

[Tiberius]

I'm starting to develop a new theory on where they are. One of last week's screenshots on the official site is the back end of The Black Rock. Beneath the name it says Portsmouth. Looked it up, and it's a town in New Hampshire.

Well, there's also a Portsmouth, RI. And in Virginia. Also England. I suspect there's at least one more on the east coast alone, not to mention Canada, South Africa, Australia, basically anywhere the British colonized. Given a) it had people in chains, b) the island isn't terribly far from Australia (as these things go), and c) Australia used to be a British penal colony, I suspect the Black Rock was a prison ship transporting convicts from England to Australia.

 

[Ambrus]

My favorite moment of the episode was when Hurley asks Locke what he thinks is in the hatch. I mouthed the same word as he said it: "Hope", because that's THE ONE THING LEFT INSIDE PANDORA'S BOX ONCE IT WAS RESEALED! I knew that's what the hatch was from the first time I saw the thing mid-season. The rest of the episode I just kept screaming at Locke to not open the hatch. What will mankind have left once hope has fled?

 

[Fast Learner]

Someone beat me to it, but yeah, I vote for a non-North American Portsmouth. Of note, with some tie-ins from previous Lost discussions, is the Pandora, a ship that left Portsmouth, UK, in 1790, and sailed to Tahiti in search of the HMS Bounty, with the goal of recapturing it from the mutineers.

<insert eerie music here>

 

[AuroraGyps]

Anybody notice that Locke was calling Hurley "Hugo" while they were around the hatch? Has Locke ever called him by his real name before that I don't remember? Does anybody on the island know that Hurley's real name is Hugo?

 

[DMH]

I remember that Hugo did state his name to either Jack or Locke, but I don't remember who.

 

[Nellisir]

Well, there's also a Portsmouth, RI. And in Virginia. Also England. I suspect there's at least one more on the east coast alone, not to mention Canada, South Africa, Australia, basically anywhere the British colonized. Given a) it had people in chains, b) the island isn't terribly far from Australia (as these things go), and c) Australia used to be a British penal colony, I suspect the Black Rock was a prison ship transporting convicts from England to Australia.

As much as I'd love a New Hampshire tie-in, I'd have to go with this also. I think slaves were more often chained together in the hold than to the ship itself. There were certainly New England ships in the Pacific, but they'd be much more likely to be whalers out of Nantucket or Down East than slavers. The "slave triangle", if I recall, was something like America/Africa/Caribbean (or South America). Slaves from Africa, sugar from Caribbean or Brazil, and I dunno what from America. Manufactured goods, maybe. Slaving on the African East coast would probably be much more Africa/India or Africa/South America via Cape of Good Hope than Africa/America via the Pacific.

Also, I agree with the unnatural preservation of the ship. Rainstorms every afternoon? The -people- are probably growing mold, never mind the wooden stuff. Given it's extreme preservation, though, maybe that mysterious transmitter is mounted on the mast? And what happens when a wild animal knocks into that chest of nitro? Or even, if they were stupid enough to leave the lid open, it rains?

No more Black Rock.

Cheers
Nell.

 

[bodhi]

I remember that Hugo did state his name to either Jack or Locke, but I don't remember who.

He tells Jack. Something like: "My name's Hugo. Hurley's my nickname. Why? I'm not tellin'."

 

[Templetroll]

My daughter liked the way Sawyer looked with his hair pulled back. Even with the weird glasses. Sawyer didn't know Hugo's name - he was reading the notes in the bottle and exclaimed about someone leaving 160 million to his mother.

Do you think the girl that talked to Jack at the bar, told him she would be in the back of the plane, survived and is with the Others?

Has anyone in a state with a lottery played Hurley's numbers? I wonder if we can find out if they are being played?

 

[Maxboy]

Maybe the Loche calling Hurley "Hugo", was also the fact, that Hurley/Hugo owned a Box company, iam assuming the same one loche worked in and he may have recognised him as the owner