Lost - 4/29 (spoilers)

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Bayerithe

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Whoaz, great episode. Sh** is hitting the fan!

Faraday was one of my favorite characters, I hope that's not the last we see of him.

Next week's episode looks tight!
 
all i can say is that if they somehow change the future as to what happened to them on the Oceanic flight and wake up one day like none of this ever happened to them, i will be pissed.
 
The only thing I didn't like about that episode was that his getting shot seemed contrived. I mean, why does he walk into the camp brandishing the gun and threatening to shoot people? That just seemed very out of character of him, and seemed designed basically just so that he'd get shot.

Other than that, very good stuff - the basic premise of the show, IMO, has shifted a little now. At times we've been led to believe that the Oceanic 6 was a key to this whole thing, but it's looking mroe and more that they were simply a bi-product. If Faraday's right, they never should have been there.

HOWEVER... that makes the assumption that he's not missing a bigger picture thing. If they want to continue the theme of the island as a personage, it may well be that the plane going down was not simply an accident, but it was the island trying to accomplish something and using Dharma's screw-up to accomplish it.
 
"all i can say is that if they somehow change the future as to what happened to them on the Oceanic flight and wake up one day like none of this ever happened to them, i will be pissed"

Now I'm scared. 35 finally said something I agree with. I can see it now. In the final episode, flight 815 lands in LA and everybody disembarks without incident.
 
I took tonight to mean that the future couldn't be changed by anyone going back to the past, even if they tried. Faraday was in the constant camp, and then declared himself to believe in variables, but as he discovered when he was shot, that in the end, the constant wins. How that effects things going forward, I have no idea, but I'm guessing that means the plane would go down no matter what.
 
I had been thinking that the show would end with the plane landing as if nothing happened. But that would be a messy ending because their lives were so screwed up prior to the crash. Many of the characters have really turned their lives around and that ending would negate that.
 
If the ending is that the plane lands as though nothing happened, then they shot the last scene of the show when it first started 5 years ago. It also means that most of the cast knows the end and has known it from the very beginning.

I think Faraday's original theory of "whatever happened, happened" is correct. They can't change their past, or the past of the Island, but they can do whatever they want with their present as long as it doesn't affect anyone else's past. Thus, this plan of "set us up the bomb" will not work.
 
Why would Kate agree to help a plan that effectively took them back to their status on the plane? She was headed to prison, and wouldn't have the factors that helped exonerate her in her post-crash trial (sympathy from being a member of the 6, Aaron's "mom", Jack's support, etc.).

As soon as Faraday explained the scenario, I was thinking Kate would have no interest in going back to her prior life, even though she was now an outcast on a bizarre island in 1977.
 
Or maybe the bomb is really the cause of the Swan disaster anyways. We've already seen attempts at preventative measures actually become the cause of the event they were trying to prevent. Ben's evil, so Sayid decides to try to kill him as a boy. It turns out that Sayid's attempt is what makes Ben evil. The same could occur with the bomb and the Swan.
 
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