Lost Season Five

[Guynemer]

Locke's death was one of the more violent things I've seen on network TV; strangulation is always pretty hard-core.

Sawyer strangling Locke's dad was even more disturbing. And Montand getting dismembered was worse still.

[MarkG]

the episode was pretty good, answering a lot of questions without introducing new ones

my question though is, do we now, "officially", have a show that's something like 80% fantasy and 20% SF? cause i remember them saying that they were going for the opposite

[MarkG]

i also loved the part where everyone wants to help locke because he's "special" and his "time needs to come". poor guy....

[Solver]

I was pretty happy that I predicted something correctly, which is very rare for me on Lost. After the previous episode, I was thinking that Locke would come back to life / turn undead after returning to the island, just like Jack's father did. So at least I got that right.

[rah]

Yes, very unlikely that one of the most popular characters would remain dead.
Of course he might have gotten more lines and scenes if he stayed dead.

[Solver]

He could have stayed dead from that perspective, the show keeps jumping between timelines. They could just keep showing him in 2004 and let him remain dead in the 2007 parts. Although as much as I liked Locke's revival, I have to agree that the show has been rapidly moving from "believable" science fiction to something else.

[MarkG]

all in all though, it's certain lost has the all-time(!) record for most time-jumps during an episode

[Krill]

Lost was never believeable though, unless you were deluded...

[Solver]

Of course not, but there's different gradations of SF believability. An island with strange energy sources and healing properties is one thing, an island that travels through time and is populated by undead is slightly different

[Krill]

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" - Clarke

[rah]

Solver,
Agreed, but I think it stepped over that line quite a while ago.

[Naked Gents Rut]

Is it wrong that I found the reunion of Hurley and Sawyer to be far more emotionally affecting than the reunion of Kate and Sawyer? Sawyer/Hurley may be the best bromance on TV after JD/Turk goes off the air.

[rah]

But in the opening shot when they're standing by the well before the final flash and they showed the huge colossus type statue was probably the funniest scene every in LOST.

[Naked Gents Rut]

Juliet officially cemented her status as the most desirable women on Lost in last night's episode. She cooks, cleans, fixes cars, delivers babies, never questions you in public and always has your back in a gunfight.

[Japher]

Excellent episode. I wonder who the baby that was born is? 1973, the should be 35ish. Also, how was it that, that baby was born and the mom lived, but in the future that never happens?