Previously...on LOST!

[Steelie]

Honestly, if they flip this whole thing into 'figment if Hurleys imagination' I will have to lash myself for the wasted hours.

That said, everyone knows that they've padded it out for 4/5 seasons to satisfy the network, so it is plausible the ending they had planned right at the very beginning, isn't going to be that satisfactory several years on from when they wrote it.

[OumaFan]

That can't be it, would be horrible.

So Locke's still alive. Meh I guess I'd say that its a bit over the top but the whole show's about suspension of disbelief.

LOL at the fact that there are new plane crash people, I know that coming back wasn't a self-centered act but they really fucked those people over.

[OumaFan]

I'm definitely back into the show, as is obvious by my talking to myself on here. First season was great, second and three slight letdowns but the 4th was good and things are really starting to happen now.

Looking at one of the Lost forums makes my head hurt, these people have theories for everything, why Richard Alpert looked normal when he talked to Sawyer in episode 7 of the fifth season but looked like a hippie when he was talking to young Ben around the same time, in the 70's, etc., etc., etc.

But you would think Sawyer and everybody would have to meet up with young Ben at some point now that they're staying in Othertown in the 1970's. And the question is why didn't Ben know that as an adult, why didn't he mention anything about seeing Sawyer, Jack, etc. when he was a kid (of course he could have known and just didn't say anything) but I think it seems from the cases of Russo and Widmore that going back in time sort of changes their memory in the present. Russo didn't recognize Jin earlier on in the show but maybe if she had still been alive and in the present day (like Widmore) then she would have after the point in time during the present that they went back in time. Because Russo didn't know Jin but Widmore, who was alive in the present after the point in time in the present that they went back, knew Locke.

Haha, a paragraph of gibberish. It kind of makes sense to me I guess.

I will say these Lost forum people are fucking encyclopedias, I didn't know half of what they were talking about.

[RP33]

I'm definitely back into the show, as is obvious by my talking to myself on here. First season was great, second and three slight letdowns but the 4th was good and things are really starting to happen now.

Looking at one of the Lost forums makes my head hurt, these people have theories for everything, why Richard Alpert looked normal when he talked to Sawyer in episode 7 of the fifth season but looked like a hippie when he was talking to young Ben around the same time, in the 70's, etc., etc., etc.

But you would think Sawyer and everybody would have to meet up with young Ben at some point now that they're staying in Othertown in the 1970's. And the question is why didn't Ben know that as an adult, why didn't he mention anything about seeing Sawyer, Jack, etc. when he was a kid (of course he could have known and just didn't say anything) but I think it seems from the cases of Russo and Widmore that going back in time sort of changes their memory in the present. Russo didn't recognize Jin earlier on in the show but maybe if she had still been alive and in the present day (like Widmore) then she would have after the point in time during the present that they went back in time. Because Russo didn't know Jin but Widmore, who was alive in the present after the point in time in the present that they went back, knew Locke.

Haha, a paragraph of gibberish. It kind of makes sense to me I guess.

I will say these Lost forum people are fucking encyclopedias, I didn't know half of what they were talking about.

have you seen the latest season?

ben didn't say anything about seeing them in the past because you have to understand the timeline and how the time travel works..

it doesn't make COMPLETE sense, but you have to think of everything as the present.. So think of it as, lets say when Sayid saw Ben as a child, that doesn't mean it happened in the past, that means he just made it happen.. so it's not like ben will all of a sudden get a new memory in his adult/current state.

[OumaFan]

I'm on episode 9. So yeah I'm definitely on spoiler alert.

Isn't that how it worked with Farraday and Desmond though? He only remembered at a time in the present after they went back to the past.

And why didn't Russo remember Jin earlier in the series but Widmore remembered Locke? I guess Locke could have just made more of an impression but you would think Jin was a big enough deal for Russo to remember.

Not saying you're not right, I just think there are some questions about the whole thing. Of course it would be silly to think everything will be resolved in a neat fashion, I decided a long time ago that there would just be some inconsistencies that are never dealt with.

Another thing about the Lost boards is their hilarious. They get crazy heated, this one dude just lost it at someone else and was like "for god's sake that goes against EVERY rule of time travel"

[OumaFan]

Maybe Jin taught Charlotte Korean when she was on the island as a kid? He kind of looked at her like he expected her to know which was odd I thought although I could be overdoing that.

[RP33]

I'm on episode 9. So yeah I'm definitely on spoiler alert.

Isn't that how it worked with Farraday and Desmond though? He only remembered at a time in the present after they went back to the past.

And why didn't Russo remember Jin earlier in the series but Widmore remembered Locke? I guess Locke could have just made more of an impression but you would think Jin was a big enough deal for Russo to remember.

Not saying you're not right, I just think there are some questions about the whole thing. Of course it would be silly to think everything will be resolved in a neat fashion, I decided a long time ago that there would just be some inconsistencies that are never dealt with.

Another thing about the Lost boards is their hilarious. They get crazy heated, this one dude just lost it at someone else and was like "for god's sake that goes against EVERY rule of time travel"

HAHAHAH, that is classic.

You will understand it better as you watch the rest of the season.. The whole desmond thing was a different type of "time travel" compared to what you see in season 5 i think..

i believe it was faraday who explains it as when you go back in time, you're not in the past.. you're in the present.. I don't remember exactly when certain things take place so i'm not going to get into detail but rest assured that it will make sense to at least around 90% hahah.

[OumaFan]

Ok so I do remember that Farraday said something about Desmond being a special case so I'm probably wrong.

But still the Jin/Russo thing doesn't make sense in the context of the show. Assuming there's all one timeline (not that I really understand that, I just act like I do) and the Desmond thing was a one off Russo had to have remembered Jin. At first I entertained the possibility that she just forgot because it had been so long but that's totally un Lost like. Then I thought fuck that he dissappeared in front of her eyes. Haha, that's something you would remember. I can't remember people that I just fleetingly met twenty years ago, unless it was that guy who dissappeared in front of my eyes.

What probably happened is that although I've heard some quotes that the Lost people all along knew exactly what was going to happen throughout the show that they didn't really plan this and therefore didn't have Russo seem to in some way recognize Jin earlier and now she's dead. Its probably just an inconsistency.