LOST

[Cthulhu]

lawl.

looooool. Although he's more like a pedo than creepy, rly.

 

[Max Payne]

Fuck.

Ben's actor is always creepy.

Even when he's just being nice in day to day life, it just seems like it's a trick to make you complacent so he can put a shotgun shell in your face when you least expect it.

 

[Ⓐaron]

looooool. Although he's more like a pedo than creepy, rly.

The fact that he's reading a nursery rhyme doesn't exactly help there

Fuck.

Ben's actor is always creepy.

Even when he's just being nice in day to day life, it just seems like it's a trick to make you complacent so he can put a shotgun shell in your face when you least expect it.

That's because he gets so into his character that you find it hard to imagine him not playing his character. Reminds me of something Stephen Colbert said; he won't let his kids watch his show because he figures it'll make them doubt his sincerity in real life

 

[Cthulhu]

I can imagine all actors get that, .

Also, Lost is probably his most prolific role yet - people often get associated with their most popular role for a long time. What's-his-face is still Frodo, no matter what movie he plays in (even when he plays a creepy cannibal that gets dismembered and eaten by a dog), for example.

 

[Ⓐaron]

True enough, .

 

[cmXT]

this season has taken its time to pick up, but its got there, great so far

 

[Alex]

Tonight's episode looks seriously epic providing that the leaked synopsis is accurate

 

[Max Payne]

Hm. I thought season 5 was moving pretty fast imo.

A lot's happened in a few episodes.

 

[Alex]

Imo it was too, after LaFleur it seemed to slow down though with some of the weaker episodes of the season (Namaste, He's Our You, stand out here) but things look set to pick up again in time for the finale.

 

[Ⓐaron]

So yeah, awesome episode was awesome.

 

[Alex]

I thought it was fucking excellent, Jeremy Davies' acting in this episode has been one of the highlights of the season. I loved the comparison between Faraday's plan and the Trashcan Man from the Stand and that it's basically set the scene for the story thats set to be told in the finale.

Radzinsky is a marvelous dickhead also.

Where abouts do you guys stand on the whole can the future be changed, or has whatever happened happened?

 

[Ⓐaron]

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What happens to Faraday kind of indicates that it probably can't, except maybe by Desmond

But then, I've been wrong about this series before

 

[Alex]

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That was well sad imo, his bright shining new idea about changing his own destiny shot in the gut so that his final thoughts would be the realization that he was bound to his own circular fate and that he was never meant to change anything

Tbh I'm pretty worried about Desmond, his story arc seems to be pretty done by this stage, with the exception of the huge plothole about how he's the only one who can change the future ofc, but it just seems difficult logistically to bring him back into play at this point.

Other reasons the episode winrars is for having Richard Alpert show up yet again.

Actually, all the recurring characters (Widmore, Eloise, Radzinsky) were awesome in this.

 

[Ⓐaron]

The acting in this episode was terrific btw, especially Daniel's.

And actually my impression was that

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his final thoughts would've been about how his own mother raised him so austerely knowing that she'd end up inadvertently killing him as a direct result of him traveling back to the past, which would be even more crushing

. The writers seem to like piling on horrible last thoughts for characters; see also

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Alex

in season four.

I also liked the way they worked in the explanation of

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Charlotte

's last words.

 

[Alex]

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I enjoyed that they made Eloise so sympatheitc, for such a normally cold person her 'Don't you talk to me about sacrifice' line outside the hospital did a great job of humanising her actions and the why she raised Daniel the way she did. But yeah, talk about a crushing last few moments, you discover your theory of changing the future is all wrong, that your mother has raised you your entire life just so that you would be sent back to the past to be killed by her AND knowing that as a result of all this you still couldn't save Charlotte's life. It's a pretty soul destroying combo breaker

 

[Ⓐaron]

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Yeah he has arguably the most depressing storyline out of any character in Lost so far I think.

 

[Ⓐaron]

So, according to Wikipedia, the central character for this week's episode is

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Richard Alpert

.

FUCK. YES.

 

[Max Payne]

That's awesome.

I'm not so sure I like where the plot is going though.

I mean, I hope crazy guy's plan doesn't work, but at the same time I sorta want it to, given all of the awful shit that has happened, but if it did, it'd be a massive cop-out, not to mention could cause a huge paradox and be a recipe for even more disaster.

 

[Ⓐaron]

It won't work. At least, it won't prevent anyone from coming to the island, since doing so would result in Jughead detonating and causing a time paradox. That's exactly the thing "temporal policemen" like Eloise are working to prevent. I'm not entirely sure WHH is actually true, but the writers have shown us enough competence thus far that I trust they wouldn't write themselves into a gigantic plot hole

Let's be honest, the way people seem to think of WHH is as a destiny vs. free will issue, but really, it isn't a free will issue at all. Of course the time travellers are exerting their free will - the thing is, the people in the past are exerting their free will as well. It's natural to think of their actions as "destiny" since to the time travellers they're part of the past, but really, when the time travellers are in the past, it's concurrent to their own actions.

I do think the last season is going to focus quite heavily on destiny vs. free will though; probably when they get back into main time. Hell, Hawking has explicitly said that for the first time in a long time, she has no idea what will happen next.

 

[Max Payne]

I don't know man, seems like it might happen, and the 6th season winding up focusing on the consequences of the madness that ensues.

I mean, it's a possibility.

 

[Ⓐaron]

Seriously, something so simplistic from this team of writers? It would be ridiculously out of character.

 

[Max Payne]

I wouldn't really call it simple, considering the effect such a event would have on the timestream, I mean really, the world would be really fucked up.

In fact, that might be too complicated, I mean how would you even fix something like that? It's better left alone.

Also, I find Sawyer's relationship with Juliet endearing, and hope they survive this season and the last.

 

[Ⓐaron]

It's simplistic in that it gives them all an easy out, they never had to worry about the shit in the first place. I mean granted the havoc it would wreak upon continuity would be ungodly but from the way you're describing it it sounds like you're expecting them to cop out on that. Which I guarantee they wouldn't do.

 

[Max Payne]

Well, the resulting chaos from such a thing would wind up being anything but simplistic.

But yeah, I don't think it'll happen, but you never know with these people.

 

[Alex]

So, according to Wikipedia, the central character for this week's episode is

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Richard Alpert

.

FUCK. YES.

Hate to burst the awesome bubble but like I can't find any reliable spoiler site that confirms this So I wouldn't get my hopes up *just* yet

That said I really do hope its true.