Lost Season Finale

[Cthulhudrew]

The the people on the frozen wastelan were speaking Portuguese or Brazilian... The island is nowhere near the arctic or antarctic.

I've seen where someone confirmed it was Brazilian. Could it be that the island is somewhere off the coast of South America- near to the Drake Passage? That region can get pretty darn frozen at particular times of the year. Even if the investigators weren't in the Arctic, they could be in Patagonia.

(Of course, that still doesn't really help explain the polar bears, unless one assumes they were transplanted to a "similar" climate to the arctic north).

 

[LightPhoenix]

One thing I noted, on the whole faith/science thing... Eko said the magic words, kinda: "Don't tell me what I can do," which is a slight variation on "Don't tell me what I can't do." Anyone have closed-captioning that can check that quote? I mean, only Locke and Jack have said it, and they're the two that have the faith thing going on.

Also, anyone think Gale looked kinda pissed when he saw the EM explosion?

I hope the third season brings together the mystery and the characterization better. This season felt really disjointed... there were a couple of good episodes, but otherwise it just seemed like the writing was too focused on the mystery and not enough on the characters who are part of it.

 

[RigaMortus2]

I was pissed at work today so I goofed off more than normal, as of about 3pm today I had dug through about 20 pages of posts here: http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=265286&page=28 and having read now up to page 28, I didn't see a single person mention seeing a second crash after the credits. Sounds like it was the HD glitch someone mentioned above.

Check out here http://lost-forum.com/showthread.php?t=40968
You may need to register to read it...

Anyway... The "supposed" and mysterious plane crash scene that only a handful of people saw...

1) Those who saw it here, are you in the Philly area by any chance? Or in PA? Apparenlty this only/mostly happened with people in that area.

2) What happened was a "glitch" or what have you, The TV station didn't air the news in time, so they started to re-show the Reckoning episode, which opens with the Tailes plane crash. If you watch this scene, and you watch the "mystery" scene that happened at the end of the finale (for those that managed to tape it), you will see they are the same exact scene.

Hopefully this "mystery" scene is solved and we can put it to rest now?

 

[LightPhoenix]

Also, ahhhhhhhhhhh. If they add another woman to the show next year, it needs to be Mira Furlan!!!!

 

[Mistwell]

Locke, Rousseau, and now Hume.

All social contract philosophers.

I'm waiting for Hobbes.

 

[majustismp15]

The the people on the frozen wastelan were speaking Portuguese or Brazilian.

Also the Pilot said in the first season, they traveled north northeast from Sidney to LA then headed in a westerly direction towards Fiji.

This episode Desmond said Fiji should be a weeks sailing west from the island.

The island is nowhere near the arctic or antarctic.

Don't Brazilians speak portugese? I know they were a colony of Portugal, and Portugese is the official language of Brazil.
I don't mean to be rude, but I split hairs about this kind of stuff
from all of the "Where are they?" hulabaloo, unless they are WAY off course, they are in the South Pacific. Judging from the most direct path to LA, They are pretty far off of Brazil itself (heck they're pretty far from S.A.)
Just thought I'd contribute my knowledge (geography) to this mess.
bye

 

[Fast Learner]

I don't see why the monitoring station would need to be anywhere near the island. As far as I know, you'd be more likely to pick up electromagnetic fluctuations at the poles, or in space, or on Everest, or whatever.

It's very possible (though by no means guaranteed, with at little as those two spoke) for a Brazillian or a person from Portugal to tell whether the Portuguese being spoken is from one country or the other, depending on accents and slang and such, so perhaps someone has done so, or will.

There's no reason to believe that the Portuguese-speaking fellows were in a country that speaks Portuguese, but if you want something in the general South Pacific area you could try Macau or East Timor, both still controlled (at least in part) by Portugal fairly late in the last century (70s). But neither place is snowy, certainly.

 

[BlueBlackRed]

The the people on the frozen wastelan were speaking Portuguese or Brazilian.

Also the Pilot said in the first season, they traveled north northeast from Sidney to LA then headed in a westerly direction towards Fiji.

This episode Desmond said Fiji should be a weeks sailing west from the island.

The island is nowhere near the arctic or antarctic.

I didn't know the language, so I just went with Russian because they were playing chess and the language sounded slavic. But the language they were speaking was the least of the things I was paying attention to.

The electro-magnetic pulse (caused by Desmond) could have messed with the plane's compass, GPS, and other functions. I'm not saying that is what happened, they're all "what-if's".

For another what-if, maybe the stewardess was in on the intentional-crash theory and she rigged the plane to go there. But I don't remember what happened to her.

 

[RangerWickett]

Locke, Rousseau, and now Hume.

All social contract philosophers.

I'm waiting for Hobbes.

Well, we already got a Kelvin.

 

[RatPunk]

Well, we already got a Kelvin.

Kelvin and Hobbes?

Interesting.

This could bring on a whole new set of theories...