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"Lost" 6x0 "Ab Aeterno" Tues. 9pm NO SPOILERS UNTIL AIRED

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It's probably a metaphor, but when they keep saying "hell", I thought the producers said these people were not in hell / purgatory?
 
I froze the screen during the Bible passage but didn't see anything jump out at me other than the constant mentioning of Elias - which means nothing to me!

4:24 And he said, Verily I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country.

4:25 But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land;

4:26 But unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto Sarepta, a city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow.

4:27 And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian.
 
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BrownTown said:
well, if you know you are going to burn in a lake of fire when you die wouldn't you want to live forever?
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I guess I was thinking along the lines of he would want to die since he can't be with Isabella but I see what you're saying.

mattlear said:
It's probably a metaphor, but when they keep saying "hell", I thought the producers said these people were not in hell / purgatory?
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One thing that got me hooked on Lost was the mystery and the writer's assurances that everything had a natural and not a supernatural explanation. They obviously threw that idea away a long time ago. I still love it but I wish the story line hadn't gone quite so far off the deep end...

Point being, I don't trust what the writers have told us as to what and what not things actually are.
 
A very different Lost!

I had heard rumors that the island would be described using a 4 letter word, containing an "o". I guess that meant "cork".
I noticed the similiarity between what Flocke offered Sayid and what he offered Richard.
The thing I don't get, if Jacob is so 'good' why does bring people to the island knowing smokie will just kill most of them?

btw when its Richard, can we call it "guyliner"?
 
techs said:
The thing I don't get, if Jacob is so 'good' why does bring people to the island knowing smokie will just kill most of them?
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It would seem that it isn't about Jacob being the "good guy" as it is him simply working to contain something evil...

He knows people will die, but (if going by what this episode shows) if "it" gets out, everyone will die.....
 
this episode was great.

or rather, it would've been great, in like season 3. right now it's just another dumb pile of shit holding the hands of retards and posing 100x as many questions as it answers.

seriously, did this episode tell us ANYTHING related to the current losties that we didn't know? other than 'the black rock knocked the statue over?'
 
UberNeuman said:
It would seem that it isn't about Jacob being the "good guy" as it is him simply working to contain something evil...

He knows people will die, but (if going by what this episode shows) if "it" gets out, everyone will die.....
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So, is Jacob trying to teach the MIB the lesson that he can't escape, so he should stop trying? Which would explain that Jacob allowed himself to be killed so that a candidate could take over, ending the MIB's idea that all he had to do was kill Jacob?
Maybe the lesson he is teaching MIB is that he will never get off the island, so MIB should stop trying and be resigned to his fate?

I'm begining to think that maybe even Jacob and MIB don't have the answers as to what the island really is, only what it can do.

And ya gotta wonder. Has Richard spent his whole time on the island leading a solitary existience? Or could he have hooked up with someone, and we will find out maybe Ilana is his daughter, or someone else?
 
brblx said:
this episode was great.

or rather, it would've been great, in like season 3. right now it's just another dumb pile of shit holding the hands of retards and posing 100x as many questions as it answers.

seriously, did this episode tell us ANYTHING related to the current losties that we didn't know? other than 'the black rock knocked the statue over?'
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We learned a lot. We learned that the MIB getting off the island would be very bad. We learned the relationship of Richard to the Others and Jacob and MIB. We learned that MIB can appear as people who died off the island (Isabella). We learned Richard is not gay, despite the guyliner. We had it confirmed that Jacobs touch lets you live forever. And so Jack, and the other candidates will now live forever, unless killed.
 
I can't remember where I read this, but Smokey's sounds are actually made from the cash receipt maker on NY City taxi cabs (the sound effects the Lost producers use to create the ticka-ticka sounds).
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ROFL I KNOW I heard the smoke monsters sound in a Hess gas station. Its what they use to print credit receipts. I know that sound very well.
 
Who have we not seen yet? Juliet, Bernard, Shannon, Faraday, Libby, Mr. Friendly, Walt, Michael and Ana Lucia?
 
techs said:
We learned that the MIB getting off the island would be very bad.

We learned the relationship of Richard to the Others and Jacob and MIB.

We learned that MIB can appear as people who died off the island (Isabella).

We learned Richard is not gay, despite the guyliner.

We had it confirmed that Jacobs touch lets you live forever.

And so Jack, and the other candidates will now live forever, unless killed.
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this was already implied. this was just the official announcing of them taking the easy route and deciding to not to blur the good/evil lines.

we already knew this.

this is not known to be truth, i assumed she was merely one of the dead apparitions that appear throughout the series (and not just to hurley).

i this think those are his eyelashes, dude. he is el spaniard.

we already knew that jacob touched richard (lools).

and, finally, we don't know this, you're making another assumption with no real evidence to back it up. i'm pretty sure we can easily debunk that any one single touch by jacob gives eternal life.
 
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Who have we not seen yet? Juliet, Bernard, Shannon, Faraday, Libby, Mr. Friendly, Walt, Michael and Ana Lucia?
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Ana Lucia will likely not be back... Mr. Eko will 100% not be back.

both due to issues with the actor; neither left the show on particularly good terms.
 
mattlear said:
It's probably a metaphor, but when they keep saying "hell", I thought the producers said these people were not in hell / purgatory?
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I thought it was pretty clear that the MiB was just making that up to get richard to kill jacob. Though I'm not sure why Richard believed they were in hell in the beginning of the episode. I guess he was just really fed up after 140 years or however long. I thought it was pretty obvious that by the end of the episode he would be back on Jacob's side. I also think it is now clear that Jacob is good and the other guy is evil.

I enjoyed the episode, it was interesting and definitely set some major things in stone. There were no shockers, but it provided some major information. Are we half way through the season? I'd say half the episodes have been good, the other have borderline poor. I really wish we would get some better stuff so close to the end. I'm sure if they wanted they could give us one huge revelation every week, but thus far we haven't gotten too much. Good season, yes, but we are talking about a show that has set a new bar in television, and this is the last season. I want mind blowing episodes, and we haven't gotten anything that great. The series ending deadline was supposed to make them advance the story quicker, with less filler, but it seems like they've just been biding time until the last couple episodes which is very dissapointing. I think so far, without seeing what is going to happen, this season has been the weakest
 
Surprised to see Jacob put the smack down on Richard... 🙂

So - basically, from what Jacob / MIB tell Richard - "The island is a religious battlefield." Can MIB be killed? If so - would it be in the same manner as Jacob? Or how Dogen asked Sayid [stab him before he has a chance to say anything]...

BTW - he said only people who are invited into his temple [the foot] are allowed inside - correct? Did he invite "flocke" and Ben the night Ben stabbed Jacob?
 
Despite bring a decent episode, I'm convinced the finale will go down in history as one of television's most disappointing events ever.
 
mattlear said:
I froze the screen during the Bible passage but didn't see anything jump out at me other than the constant mentioning of Elias - which means nothing to me!

4:24 And he said, Verily I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country.

4:25 But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land;

4:26 But unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto Sarepta, a city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow.

4:27 And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian.
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You missed the obvious.

4 is one of the show's main numbers.
 
Great episode. Lots of answers. I guess some of you won't be happy unless there's some huge hollywood style twist. I don't need that, the story is good enough on it's own already.

Anyone catch the previews for next week? Locke was asking Sun to make a choice and then they briefly showed her laying there lifeless. I wonder if he kills her.
 
great great episode. All you negative people are insane. Last night was insanely good, and the writers are doing an incredible job wrapping this up. Anybody that thinks the final episode of this, or any other long, complicated series is going to be "perfect" hasn't watched much TV in their life.
 
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