El Diablo Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 I guess it doesn't have to make sense and the off island vision Jack has could've very well been a hallucination. Jack did, after all, tell the Doc from Las Vegas (the tv show) to find his dad and bring him down if Jack was drunker than he then they could fire him....although the smoke alarm going off could've been a clue or red herring during that scene... My interest with the situation is that when we see Christian (on island) in his suit he seems to be helping but we also see him later on in island attire and he seems to have smokey-like motives...so who knows.. didnt he help locke in his island attire when he fell down the well ? whatever happened happened.. I think its a testament to the show that we are here and on thousands of other places discussing 6 years of fictional bs ... great show, better then expected ending. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Revan Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 I do believe that he was the Christian that got Locke to rotate the Donkey wheel but I think he was lying about helping Jack... I think it was Smokie in that scene, as he told Locke he had to die (obviously, that was exactly what the MIB needed). As you stated in your later post, it looks like it was sometimes Smokie, sometimes real Christian on the island (clothes were the difference I guess). Like I said, this is one of those things they came this close to explaining in the finale and, of course, had to leave us scratching our heads anyway. Your theory about Walt seems right. Too bad they had to cut it like that. Well, I guess we can always try to put the puzzles into the right places anyway and assume the Others referred to Walt as "special" because they were, say, seeing a potential Jacob's succesor in him ("special" was the keyword in the whole Jacob-MIB story) and that's why they kidnapped him. We can only speculate now. Unless they release some kind of encyclopedia, games or anything to make more cash out of it and fill in the holes they left. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skullsmasher Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 (edited) That finale blew ass. Typical corny crap that you wouldn't normally find in this show. A much better ending would have had Jack/Hurley and Smokie eventually sit next to each other and have "Locke" say I am going to kill you Jack/hurley(whoever ended up protecting the island), and get off this island. And have Jack respond not as long as I'm here blah blah something similar to the conversation Jacob's had with him. I am glad that a lot of you were satisfied with the ending, but I was so irritated when they left it so lame like that. P.S. WHERE THE $%@& WAS EKO!?!?!?!?!?!? Edited May 25, 2010 by skullsmasher Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnderDogX Posted May 26, 2010 Share Posted May 26, 2010 well supposedly the complete series package will have some "entertaining ways to reveal answers to some of the questions left without a solution." At least thats what the IGN.com write-up of the package says... @ El Diablo, yeah in the island attire he did help Locke...and in doing so he got him off the island and believing that he would have to die to get the others back and make the island right again...exactly what got Smokey Locke's body so he could manipulate Ben and Richard into seeing jacob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devil Dan 56 Posted May 26, 2010 Share Posted May 26, 2010 I think Smokey was telling the truth -- I also think Ben was led by Smokey all the time -- I think the dude that said "help me" was in fact the smoke monster not Jacob - it's the only way it makes sense... or not... who said it had to make ANY sense? And if ghost Christian was wandering around off island why didn't he tell Jack the smoke monster was imitating him? and I LOVE the Walt idea! I think you are totally correct! If you watch the 'help me' scene (I went back to re-watch it) when the cabin starts shaking and Benjamin gets thrown back from the chair, Locke looks at the chair and for a brief moment, it looks like Christian is there. Which would, of course, be MIB as Christian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nieuwy25 Posted May 26, 2010 Share Posted May 26, 2010 Locke tells Jack he doesn't have a son after having flashbacks of his life and realising he's in some sort of purgatory and that in his life before the death, Shepherd didn't have a kid. Jack didn't understand what Locke meant, because he didn't realise it was purgatory yet (it took him a while - he finally realised that after having talked to Kate after the concert; you know good ol' Jackie isn't to be convinced easily). Thanks for that! That's the one thing that wasn't making sense to me about this "way station" timeline. My opinion on Walt is this, I think that at some point early in the series they had drawn this map out for him. What he was going to be, how he would develop but I think they didn't consider puberty. I think that it hit him too quick and very drastically so they weren't able to explain how, in 90 some odd days, he was able to grow so fast. So they decided they would work around it with a new character. And I think that character is Desmond. Everything that Desmond was to the series I think Walt was supposed to be. We were already given a hint with the electromagnetism and the bird hitting the window in Walt's flashback...given the "birds have use internal magnetic compassing to migrate" theory is correct. And I think that Walt's other abilities (the seeming polar bear manifestation..which could've been foreshadow rather than actual manifestation, and the astral projection...when he helped Locke out of the pit) were ditched and Desmond was given his time travel manipulation to differentiate between the two characters... Makes perfect sense. Man, I'm gonna miss this show. And for the most part, I loved the ending. I wish Eko and Michael and Walt had been included, but I suppose there were things going on with the actors that they couldn't or didn't want to work out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devil Dan 56 Posted May 26, 2010 Share Posted May 26, 2010 That finale blew ass. Typical corny crap that you wouldn't normally find in this show. A much better ending would have had Jack/Hurley and Smokie eventually sit next to each other and have "Locke" say I am going to kill you Jack/hurley(whoever ended up protecting the island), and get off this island. And have Jack respond not as long as I'm here blah blah something similar to the conversation Jacob's had with him. I am glad that a lot of you were satisfied with the ending, but I was so irritated when they left it so lame like that. P.S. WHERE THE $%@& WAS EKO!?!?!?!?!?!? That ending would have been pretty predictable. My room mate was calling for that one for a while, except he said it would be Jack and Sawyer. Eko really didn't have much reason to be there. He was only on the island for 3 months or so. His purgatory or whatever would have been with his brother. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnderDogX Posted May 26, 2010 Share Posted May 26, 2010 From what I've read the actor who played Eko signed on long term and they really wanted to push a Locke/Eko dynamic and make him a big part of the show...then he got homesick and wanted to leave the show so there were some very hard feelings...so needless to say there was no chance he'd be back. And Michael was stuck on the island as a "whisper" for his transgressions....And with the whole Walt thing, his life on island was cut short so he didn't really have a need to be in the "purgatory" sideline... To me the best part of the whole purgatory thing and certain events within triggering the character's memories, I really dig how with Jack it was a whole bunch of things that caused his memory to be fully triggered..obviously it helped the story telling part of it but to have the "fixing" Locke thing, Kate, and his dad's coffin all be a part of what triggered his life experiences was a nice touch...with all of the other characters it was just one specific event....on that note seeing as how Libby was Hurley's trigger I find it someone depressing since he ended up being the protector of island for who knows how long and didn't have any other life experience worth triggering it.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metallidevils Posted May 27, 2010 Author Share Posted May 27, 2010 When I have time I'll write some thoughts. But considering I watched the show for the mythology, not the characters, I was not happy. A coherent storyline was the very least that I was expecting, and we didn't get that either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zamode Posted May 27, 2010 Share Posted May 27, 2010 Now... who wasn't all choked up when Vincent came running up? I think the old shoe in the bamboo was evidence that the island happenings were real. He was too adorably fuzzy and young though -- he should have been a seven or eight year old dog. His adorable yellow paws and he made Jack smile and laugh. Everything is OK when dog is by your side!! My sentiments as well! http://www.yesbutnobutyes.com/archives/2010/05/about_that_lost.html I have some thoughts, too when I have some time but I liked it. It wasn't what I expected, left alot out and I think in some ways it was a bit of s scam by the writers but overall, it was a character study and that's how it ended but according to Jack, it was his story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pepperkorn Posted May 27, 2010 Share Posted May 27, 2010 good link, Z! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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