In “The Onion’s” trade paperback collection that essentially operated as if the gag newspaper had been around for over a century, one of the most memorable articles was about the moon landing. The headline was something along the lines of “HOLY SHÍT, WE LAND ON FÙÇKÍNG MOON!” and the entire article was written with that same sense of over-the-top incredulity. They literally can’t believe it.
In the spirit of that article…
Holy fûçkìņg šhìŧ, Michael fûçkìņg shot Ana Lucia and Libby, son of a bìŧçh, he capped them both, and then gave himself a self-inflicted wound to cover his ášš! Either he’s flipped over to the Others, or he’s doing whatever he can to drive his own people into war with the Others, but I’m thinking the former is the more likely. Jesus! My fûçkìņg jaw is on the fûçkìņg ground! I mean, I should have realized it since Michelle Rodriguez is doing jail time while they’re filming the season ender and the producers expressed no concern over it. Now we know why: Michael FÙÇKÍNG SHOT Ana-Lucia and Libby! SON OF A BÍTÇH! SON OF A…HOLY SHÍT, I did NOT see that coming.
SHÍT!!!
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The actor playing Jack’s dad sure gets a LOT of airtime for his character being dead.
Kinda reminds me of Highlander…
Jack’s dad is probably the master planner. remember his “ghost” in the jungle?
I don’t think so; I think it’s someone they’ve been hinting at all season.
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Alvar Hanso.
I can see the last image of the last episode of this season being one or more castaways being captured by the Others, taken to their hatch, and being taken to the Leader. There might be a fake or two to make us think Henry’s the leader, but the last shot will be the Mysterious Mr. Hanso.
I think all the hints that have been dropped as to someone these people respect/fear/revere point to Mr. Hanso; it’s sufficiently left-fieldish to suit this show.
Just my $.02 USD
Wow.
I haven’t had my mind blown like that since that dude got sucked into the engine in the very first episode.
To paraphrase H2T2G: It was like having my brain smashed out with a brick wrapped in a Dharma-Institute-issued generic lemon wedge.
Fûçkëŧÿ Shìŧ.
SciFiWire today has this item (Abrams: Lost Finale Will Shock) about Lindelof’s season-ender (apparently Abrams didn’t have much to do with it due to M:I III).
The piece also mentions the Hanso Foundation ad…
“Producers of Lost, meanwhile, kicked off the alternate reality game The Lost Experience with a commercial for the Hanso Foundation inserted into the May 3 episode, ‘Two for the Road.’ The ad contained a phone number for the fictitious and mysterious foundation, 1-877-HANSORG, which led viewers to recorded messages with clues. Disney, which owns ABC and produces Lost, has also completely revamped the Hanso Web site with Flash-enabled features and buried game elements.”
And then there’s this…
“At the same time, Hyperion (a unit of Disney) has released Bad Twin, a detective mystery by Gary Troup and the manuscript that Sawyer (Josh Holloway) was seen reading in this week’s episode. Troup is a fictitious character who was on Lost‘s ill-fated Ocean Flight 815, but the book is real: Hyperion has ordered an initial printing of 365,000 copies, and after this week’s Lost episode, the book went from 311 to 67 on Amazon.com‘s best-seller list.”
Sorry, last post (as “Rich”) was my first ever here and though I thought I knew HTML well enough, but I guess some things work differently here.
Trying this post in a simplified manner and after having created a typekey account…
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The SciFiWire item about the Lost finale is here (or if it goes as expected, click the name “Daddy G.” at the top of this post):
Abrams: Lost Finale Will Shock
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=35861
The updated Hanso Foundation site is here (or click the name “Rich” in my previous non-typekey first post):
http://thehansofoundation.org/
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Not Lost-related, but possibly of interest…
Prisoner Remake On Tap
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=35865
Stunned. I knew something was wrong when Michael gave the absurd story of finding the others. (If he wasn’t lying, the most likely explanation is that there are 2 groups of “others,” but that seemed unlikely). But when he said sorry, I knew what would come next (except for Libby walking in right then — I thought it would be Jack and company).
One constant theme since they met the “French Woman” (forget her name, but it was Delynn on Bab 5) has been how people go crazy on the Island. While I initally thought Michael was doing it to get Walt, I am not so sure. I think he may, in a twisted way, be doing it to *protect* his son. The French Lady loses her kid and has to kill her ship mates because they were “infected.” The “Others” have said a few times (including this week) that they are “good” and that some of the plane occupants are “good” and some are not. What if Michael is not just “brainwashed” as much as truly infected. He is truly one of them now.
Whatever is true, his cold blooded killing of Ana was more than disappointing. It has changed his character into one who is not good (in my eyes). There is no excuse for it. I am interested to see where it goes, but I almost am more upset at loosing the original Michael than Ana. (Like some of you, I am not sure Libby is actually dead, though it would make things difficult for Michael if she were still alive.)
Have to say, this season seems to actually be ending much better than the last. It was slow at parts, but it looks like there may actually have been a point to all of it after all.
Iowa Jim
I haven’t seen this theory thrown out there yet:
What if Michael isn’t brainwashed/infected/coerced, but he has met/seen the Others and realized that whatever their larger scheme is is worth supporting. Maybe the Others needed Lostaways eliminated or, more likely, “Henry Gale” freed to complete their plan.
My current theory is that the Others have opened a gateway to Heaven/God and need “good” people and children to do something there.
Well, there’s two cents I won’t see again.
And didn’t he shoot Henry Gale as well????
No, Michael looked at Henry, then turned the gun around and shot himself in the shoulder.
A question? If there is some healing nature to the island, example of Locke and the African American woman whose name escapes me (Rose), then why can’t these that are shot or injured be healed?
The “healing power” didn’t do any good for Boone or Shannon. They died. I think if there is some kind of healing power, it has limitations. Maybe it doesn’t work on fatal injuries.
Alex-
Maybe it is limited to injuries BEFORE they came to the Island
Kath
I had the Holy SH*T moment too!
When he talked about how they are just living in tents, I figured it was a trap. Not that he was in on it, just that they suckered him.
Now.. he’s gotta be doing it for Walt or he’s been brainwashed. My bets on Walt.
Just LIbby was a shock. She still has a story to tell.
It was their best ending. I really enjoyed the Holy Sh*T cliffhanger of last season, “We just want the boy.”
Eric
>>Speaking of the hospital – Jeffrey R. Lindholm, it looked to me like she did have a reaction to Hurley’s mention of it. Just a quick – not even quite a wince – an askew look? – which she did quickly try to cover up, of course; but the mention did make her nervous.
I may have missed someone posting this, but she was a patient in the hospital the same time Hurley was. It clearly showed her a few weeks back sitting there. She looked like crap, but it was her.
“I realised something was wrong with Michael, given that what he said about the others being simple folk worse off than they were made no sense given the clues dropped in the Clare episode that they were just wearing the clothes and the fake beard to appear like they were savages when they seemed to be more like scientists…”
But what if there is more than one group of Others? One group is feral – the barefoot savages dragging stuffed toys through the jungle – whose members were driven insane by some kind of man-made virus/nano-technology. The second group is civilized – the science people in the the medical bunker – whose members have been innocluated against the virus/nano-technology.
Michael’s description would be completely true in describing the feral Others, but it’s not the civilized Others.
And the civilized Others would consider themselves “Good”.
Doesn’t matter: I’m assuming Michael has already been infected. That’s why he imagined that Walt was chatting with him on the computer in the bunker (no one else has seen any kind of messages!). Michael is going insane!
My guess is Michael made a deal that if he sets “Henry” free, the others will give him Walt. At the end he seems to be making it look like “Henry” shot him before escaping. He’s also wearing diferent clothes to when he left, which puts a major dent in his story.
My guess is Michael made a deal that if he sets “Henry” free, the others will give him Walt. At the end he seems to be making it look like “Henry” shot him before escaping. He’s also wearing diferent clothes to when he left, which puts a major dent in his story.
My guess is Michael made a deal that if he sets “Henry” free, the others will give him Walt. At the end he seems to be making it look like “Henry” shot him before escaping. He’s also wearing diferent clothes to when he left, which puts a major dent in his story.
I got my buddy watching my dvds of the first season trying to get him caught up with me and last wednsdays episode more than any has made me wish that he were caught up with me so we could scream about the three shades of fûçkëdņëšš of the episode together… rather than me screaming in my head…
yeah, micheal’s commentery on The Others reaks of BS. Libby has to be alive for the big reveal that she’s a psycho crazy hurley stalker. And Locke needs to pull his head out of his ášš and stop being ingratiated by the fact that the others want him.
I really think that the fate of the Libby character is kinda in limbo right now…she does still have plenty of story to tell…but if the sitcom pilot Watros is doing for CBS is picked up…then the shots will probably kill her…and the story will become watered down with just guest appearances to finish off the flasbacks…if the sitcom is not picked up…then Jack will probably save her…and we will get to see the full story that Abrams is going for…
“I may have missed someone posting this, but she was a patient in the hospital the same time Hurley was. It clearly showed her a few weeks back sitting there. She looked like crap, but it was her.”
Thanks, Tim Robertson; but I and Jeffery R. Lindholm did both know this. I was just responding to his question a ways up the thread about what Libby’s reaction to Hurley’s Flintsontes/hospital bit was. He mentions in his post that “they both were in the hospital”; so I think he just missed Libby’s visible response, if any, to Hurley mentioning the experience she doesn’t want him to realize they shared, and I was just trying to report it as I recalled it.
But yeah, I did see her there, spacey and with darker hair… does the island give dye-jobs, too? 😉
I was checking the sites about Libby’s show on CBS. She is being listed as a “guest star” in order for her to keep her committment to Lost.
She could be sticking around.
Could be…but I don’t know how the female lead in a show can only be a “guest star”…my guess is they listed her as such so the shooting would be a surprise…
I don’t think that both LIbby and ana lucia are dead. If only because during teh preview Jack (or someone) tells someone else “She’s dead” (not “they’re dead”)
This is *very* flimsy reasoning, I know. There are many questions that could precursor a “She’s dead” response.
Now that I think about it, I’d love to see Jack tell Sawyer, “She’s dead, James” and have Sawyer slug him saying, “That is not funny.”
Jim “Spooon” Henry
By the way – over at The Futon Critic there is a press release saying that tonight’s episode of LOST will be running 5 mintues over instead of the usual 1 minute. So – it goes to 10:05 EDT.
http://www.thefutoncritic.com/listings.aspx?id=20060509abc01
Neil