LOST: The Final Season (Spoilers)
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They spent a fair bit of time off in the distance, so it's likely safe to assume he was informed. If they'd shown that then it would be like putting a gun in act 1: we'd expect going in there to come to something new when in fact the "don't go in there" bit has already been used in the last episode.
My thoughts...
Jack saves Flocke from death at Ben's hands. Ben kills everyone else, with his C4, which sends them to the happy world.
Everyone seems to have found love in the happy world but Jack, now I just have to see how he dies in that happy world that lets him stay on the island. Jack will see them in the happy world and will be content.
Who will be left with him...the man in black as Locke will be gone, no; it will just be Jack, there should only be one.
Then again...it may just end up being Kate, to restart the cycle.
Jack saves Flocke from death at Ben's hands. Ben kills everyone else, with his C4, which sends them to the happy world.
Everyone seems to have found love in the happy world but Jack, now I just have to see how he dies in that happy world that lets him stay on the island. Jack will see them in the happy world and will be content.
Who will be left with him...the man in black as Locke will be gone, no; it will just be Jack, there should only be one.
Then again...it may just end up being Kate, to restart the cycle.
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Quite simply, it's the Fountain of Youth.
It is the Grail, the Arc...it does not really matter, just that it is special, like what was in the case in Pulp fiction.
I don't think we will ever really know, just that it was wonderful, and meaningful.
Viking Bastard
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A lot of the details have been left vague, but I think we can surmise some things (off the top of my mind):
* The island has a huge pocket of electromagnetism at it's core, stronger that anywhere else (that we know of).
* Electromagnetism can be used to heal people, as claimed by the australian healer (played by Farscape's Scorpius) who Rose went to see. He said he protected/used a (much, much smaller) pocket of electromagnetic energy somewhere in australia's outback. This is how the island heals people.
* The electromagnetism seems to be strong enough to bend time and space as evidenced by the Dharma experiments. Explains the time travel and donkey wheel shenanigans.
* When people interact directly with the electromagnetism we see the light (like when Ben used the frozen donkey wheel or when Desmond didn't put in the numbers). So the light is the energy or is a byproduct of the energy.
* The temple had a healing pool. The waters from the light caves make you immortal. Maybe the light cave stream is the source of the pool's waters or maybe they come into contact to the energy from a less concentrated place.
* The australian healer claimed he controlled/channelled his pocket's energy. Maybe Jacob can do the same, which might explain how he brings people to the island.
* Some people are special in different ways. Like Walt with his Omen thing, how Hurley and the Man in Black could see dead people, Miles can speak to the recently dead and Desmond has a resistance to the energy. This may or may not be connected to the energy. Desmond at least probably is, Hurley didn't see dead people before he came to the island.
* The incredible series of coincidences that connect all the Losties together could be, like claimed by many (Locke, Eko, Jack in later seasons), fate or it could be Jacob's machinations.
As for the alternate timeline, the numbers or whatever happened to create the Smoke Monster, I have no idea.
* The island has a huge pocket of electromagnetism at it's core, stronger that anywhere else (that we know of).
* Electromagnetism can be used to heal people, as claimed by the australian healer (played by Farscape's Scorpius) who Rose went to see. He said he protected/used a (much, much smaller) pocket of electromagnetic energy somewhere in australia's outback. This is how the island heals people.
* The electromagnetism seems to be strong enough to bend time and space as evidenced by the Dharma experiments. Explains the time travel and donkey wheel shenanigans.
* When people interact directly with the electromagnetism we see the light (like when Ben used the frozen donkey wheel or when Desmond didn't put in the numbers). So the light is the energy or is a byproduct of the energy.
* The temple had a healing pool. The waters from the light caves make you immortal. Maybe the light cave stream is the source of the pool's waters or maybe they come into contact to the energy from a less concentrated place.
* The australian healer claimed he controlled/channelled his pocket's energy. Maybe Jacob can do the same, which might explain how he brings people to the island.
* Some people are special in different ways. Like Walt with his Omen thing, how Hurley and the Man in Black could see dead people, Miles can speak to the recently dead and Desmond has a resistance to the energy. This may or may not be connected to the energy. Desmond at least probably is, Hurley didn't see dead people before he came to the island.
* The incredible series of coincidences that connect all the Losties together could be, like claimed by many (Locke, Eko, Jack in later seasons), fate or it could be Jacob's machinations.
As for the alternate timeline, the numbers or whatever happened to create the Smoke Monster, I have no idea.
FoxWander
Adventurer
This isn't a specific reply to you VB, you just happened to close with a bit about the alternate timeline and I've had something to post about that since about episode 3 this season. Excellent observations btw. Probably about as good an explanation as we're likely to get.
About that alternate timeline- there's nothing "alternate" about it. It's what's going to happen whenever the losties on the island do whatever they do that sinks the island. Somehow that event will actually occur in the past (probably more flashes through time as whatever happens actually starts happening) and far enough back that Jacob never has a chance to interfere with the losties lives resulting in the "alternate" timeline we've been watching in the flash sideways.
Essentially it's their way of showing us what happened to all the characters after the island gets destroyed rather than just running the whole season, culminating with destroying the island and ending it there with no follow on- which would outrage a lot of people. Or showing all the "flash sideways" stuff as the second half of the season which would resolve everything but inevitably feel like it was dragging on too long. By showing the "ending" concurrent with the actions that cause it, they avoid both problems AND get everybody wondering "what the heck is going on" all over again.
As for what Desmond is doing in the sideways-verse, his unique ability allows him to know/see the other timeline. He's acting as an agent of fate, or something, and giving everyone that final "course correction" so they end up where they should be. Kate will go to the concert and meet Jack (and somehow be proven innocent so she won't be a fugitive). Charlotte will be there also (according to Miles) so Faraday will probably wind up there as well and get to meet her. Hurley is taking Sayid to somewhere he'll be able to escape with Nadia. And somehow Sawyer will meet up with Juliet- probably because she's Jack's ex so she'll be at the concert and Sawyer will decide to accept Miles' invitation and go there too.
And btw, if I'm right about this (and I think I am) the entire show will turn out to have never actually happened in the first place, leaving us with the ultimate "it was all a dream" ending!
John Crichton
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I don't think anything you just described is where they are heading at all. These writers aren't the type to have a cop out ending like that.And btw, if I'm right about this (and I think I am) the entire show will turn out to have never actually happened in the first place, leaving us with the ultimate "it was all a dream" ending!
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