Lost: Season 5

[Kaylia]

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Walt riding a polar bear

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John Locke is really the polar bear

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The polar bear is really Jacob.

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Jacob was in fact Walt

[ZarakiKujata]

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Would sort of help explain his powers, Other interest in him etc

[Rulke]

someone find me a clip of the Julia sub scene >.> i watched this EP late last night and I musta glazed over that goodness ; ;

[Moosey]

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Interview with Damon Lindelof from the NY Post

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LOST Spoilers: NY Post Article

This season of "Lost" has been the story of how five of the Oceanic 6 - all but young Aaron - returned to the island, which has jumped back in time 30 years.

When four of those five - Jack (Matthew Fox), Kate (Evangeline Lilly), Hurley (Jorge Garcia) and Sayid (Naveen Andrews) -- finally are reunited with Sawyer (Josh Holloway), Juliet (Elizabeth Mitchell), Jin (Daniel Dae Kim), Miles (Ken Leung) and the now dead Daniel Faraday (Jeremy Davies) - back on the island, they find themselves 30 years in the past.

Heading into the two-hour season finale on Wednesday, May 13, Sun (Yunjin Kim) is in the present with Ben (Michael Emerson) and Locke (Terry O'Quinn), who are battling over who will lead the island. "In the grand mapping out of things, one would assume Sun has a larger role to play," says Lindelof.

Jack, Kate, Hurley and Sayid are all in 1977. Sawyer, Juliet, Sun's husband, Jin, and Miles have made a home for themselves there among The Dharma Initiative, a group that's set up camp to study the island and construct research facilities. Sawyer, Jin and Miles are all part of Dharma's security team, but that cover has just been blown.

Dharma has enemies on the island, The Hostiles, so the Initiative is a bit jumpy. The arrival of Jack, Kate, Hurley and Sayid upsets the balance; exposed as outsiders, Sawyer and Juliet are forced to arm themselves and fight their way out.

Meanwhile, Jack and Kate must decide their next course of action.

"There are two fundamental approaches to the show. There's the Jack approach, which posits that there's no real explanation for what's going on. Or there's the Locke approach, which assumes that everything on the show is happening for a very specific reason. We are very strong supporters of the Locke approach," says Lindelof.

The reason some folks have traveled back to 1977 was explained by memory-challenged physicist Daniel Faraday (Jeremy Davies). Faraday thinks people might be the variables in time-travel equations. That means it might be possible to diffuse the electromagnetic energy that brought down Oceanic 815 by exploding a hydrogen bomb (named "Jughead") that just happens to be on the island, allowing the past - and thus the future -- to be changed. Faraday dies before he has a chance to test that theory out, now it's up to Jack, Kate, Sawyer and the rest to decide what to do - try to change the future or let it ride.

"Not everybody is interested in Faraday's mission," says Lindelof. "It's a very divisive issue and one that the audience is feeling too. It would be a big cheat, erasing the last five years of the show, and making it so that we never came to this island in the first place."

Jack, however, has already expressed interest in Faraday's mission, while Kate is clear she wants to stick with the life she has. Regardless of what Jack and crew decide, next season will find the show's core characters all back on the island resolving why they landed on the island in the first place.

In the finale, more will be revealed about such mysterious symbols as the four-toed statue and the Egyptian hieroglyphics, says Lindelof.

The show has been a wild and often confusing ride, but Lindelof and Executive Producer Carlton Cuse say they know exactly where it's all headed.

"That was a conversation that started back between seasons one and two of the show," says Lindelof. "We are following the plan pretty much to the letter, although there is room for improvisation." Lindelof says next season - which will be the Emmy- and Peabody Award-winning series' last - will bring things full circle.

"Season six will feel a lot like season one," says Lindelof. "The focus comes back to the characters with whom we began. We've been winnowing away everyone else who came along. The Tailies are gone, only Miles [Ken Leung] is left of the Freighter Folk and only Juliet [Elizabeth Mitchell] is left of The Others. We're getting down to the end now."

"The metaphor we like to use is that this is a road trip. We know we intend to end up in New York City, but maybe we'll pick up a hitchhiker or stop at a bar and get drunk along the way," says Cuse.

"And then linger there for six episodes," jokes Lindelof.

[Null]

I'm tired of seeing all the spoiler tags >.<

So psyched about this week, even the thought of it made my stomach tingle a bit. But it is also sad to think about how long we have to wait for next season. The last season on top of that.

I truly hope they don't pull that bullshit where Jack stops the events from happening. Or even say that Jacob is Jack, still continuing his quest to stop the events...Or even worse yet, one of the kids like Aaron or Walt trying to save their parents. Sorry, just the meer thought of them changing events has disappointed me as if they had actually gone through with it.

[Hitoshura]

I am not taking a peek at any spoiler tags or lost forums until Wednesday.. it's so damn hard lol.

I have always had a theory about Christian being Jacob, it would be real interesting if Jack runs into him, especially since "he has work to do". At this point I can't even imagine where the plot of Lost will go after this season.

[Insanecyclone]

Podcast for the finale is great

[Dimmauk]

I'm tired of seeing all the spoiler tags >.<

So psyched about this week, even the thought of it made my stomach tingle a bit. But it is also sad to think about how long we have to wait for next season. The last season on top of that.

I truly hope they don't pull that bullshit where Jack stops the events from happening. Or even say that Jacob is Jack, still continuing his quest to stop the events...Or even worse yet, one of the kids like Aaron or Walt trying to save their parents. Sorry, just the meer thought of them changing events has disappointed me as if they had actually gone through with it.

I dont think they change anything. Everything that has happend has happend.

[Tomiko]

I'm tired of seeing all the spoiler tags >.<

So psyched about this week, even the thought of it made my stomach tingle a bit. But it is also sad to think about how long we have to wait for next season. The last season on top of that.

I truly hope they don't pull that bullshit where Jack stops the events from happening. Or even say that Jacob is Jack, still continuing his quest to stop the events...Or even worse yet, one of the kids like Aaron or Walt trying to save their parents. Sorry, just the meer thought of them changing events has disappointed me as if they had actually gone through with it.

I hope Jack is Jacob and Locke succeeds in killing him. I'll be surprised if the closing minutes of the finale doesn't reveal Jacob. If its someone we know then it would be a big cliffhanger to wonder how Locke will react.

I am not taking a peek at any spoiler tags or lost forums until Wednesday.. it's so damn hard lol.

Most are joke posts like Vincent = Jacob. lol


Edit: Interview with Michael Emerson about the finale:

LOST Spoilers: Michael Emerson Reveals Finale Details to TV Guide

Interesting questions/responses including what would happen if Jughead was detonated. Should be safe for those avoiding spoilers as Michael Emerson is good at giving open ended answers.

Video Interview with Emerson:

LOST Spoilers: Michael Emerson on the Season 5 Finale

Beginning has a clip of Ben & Locke talking after Locke tells him his plan. VERY interesting.

[Insanecyclone]

Today is the day some shit goes down and were on hiatus for another 8 months to omgwtf at the ending and start of the finale season of lost.

[CaptainKacy]

If you search around the intrawebs you can find out who jacob is, or atleast the actor who will be playing him. Im pretty sure they will be showing him tonight too.

[Null]

I say we defiantly will get to see who Jacob is tonight. That will probably be the cliff hanger, and maybe we will get to see the people of 77 getting shot down.

[Null]

ANOTHER fucking hour long 'Information' show. I hate those damn things.

[Dimmauk]

ANOTHER fucking hour long 'Information' show. I hate those damn things.

WTF! dammit!

[Insanecyclone]

Yeah before the finale there is supposed to be a clip show

[Null]

Its not like somebody is gonna tune in tonight for the first time and learn / catch up on everything. Who are these things directed at? If you can't remember what happened last week you shouldn't be tuning in this week .

[ZarakiKujata]

Its not like somebody is gonna tune in tonight for the first time and learn / catch up on everything. Who are these things directed at? If you can't remember what happened last week you shouldn't be tuning in this week .

ABC just wants to be able to say that its 3hrs of original programming for advertisers.

Also, having Ben narrate these things is fucking creepy.

[Null]

I was just coming to comment on Ben's narration, nobody better.

[Null]

Spoilers for tonight.

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Why would you spoil a show 30 minutes away?

[Null]

Head writers just said that they went back in time cause they didn't replicate the first flight exactly, when was that explained, that is a rather anti climactic explanation of why it all happened.

err, triple post.