There’s No Place Like Home
I LOOOOVE this scene between Jack & Locke. And Locke is so 100 % right in that conversation: “And what am I supposed to do? Oh, I think I remember. What was it that you said on the way out to the hatch–that crashing here was our destiny?” “You know, Jack. You know that you’re here for a reason. You know it. And if you leave this place, that knowledge is gonna eat you alive from the inside out…until you decide to come back.” and “Lie to them, Jack. If you do it half as well as you lie to yourself, they’ll believe you.”
The man of science vs. man of faith has been the heart of the show for me ever since ‘White Rabbit’. It’s amazing how determined Jack is to disprove everything Lock has to say. That’s why it’s so funny when he’s putting his father’s shoes on Locke’s body (there’s that shoe motif). “I bet some where you’re laughing your ass off”.
That still keeps bugging me, in the Season 5 FFs, Locke never told the Oceanic 6 that he had an alias named Jeremy Bentham!
I remember thinking that and finding an explanation. I just don’t remember what it was. I think He told Jack his alias.
Do you also sometimes say the lines of the characters aloud? Like when Des sees the chopper and mutters “Oh, bloody hell”?
No, but I sometimes call people ‘brotha’.
Do you remember how/when Sun learned about Widmore?
She first saw his name on her pregnancy test. 
I think Ben told her about him and I think Widmore had some business dealings with Paik Industries.
Ben must have so been lying…but wait…he didn’t knew that the Island would be skipping through time. So was it coincidence or intentional when he moved the FDW?
Never mistake coincidence for fate.
The Shape Of Things To Come
Hurley’s “Australia’s the key to the whole game.”…that must be a clue for us fans, doesn’t it?
Wasn’t there some clips of the Losties in Australia at Comic-Con?
That was one of the best action scenes of the series, and Claire couldn’t have survived that blast. Do you think she died back there?
I thought that when I saw ‘creepy Claire’, but I hope I’m wrong.
Jacob knew that she would be killed. But he only saved Sayid. Which again turned him into a hitman,…maybe so he would shoot Young Ben and the events occurred how they should?
Seems like part of the Chess game. The strange thing is that when Sayid tortures Ben in the armory, Ben doesn’t remember Sayid because Richard said he wouldn’t, Sayid doesn’t remember Ben because he hasn’t gone back to 77 and met the 12 year old Ben yet.
What went through your minds watching it?
With the way their faces were lit, I thought of the Star Trek episode ‘Let That Be Your Last Battlefield’.
Live Together, Die Alone
Were you surprised by Ben being the leader?
No. That was one of the few things in the show that I predicted.
So sad and at the same time beautiful, watching desperate Des wanting to commit suicide and hearing Penny’s letter:
Yes it was. I could be wrong, but don’t we find out later that this was the same time Locke saw the light from the hatch?
Please tell me, turned the sky violet or white on your TV??
It was white with a purple tinge. There was an earthquake here in the Bay Area during the fail safe scene. no joke.
That cliffhanger of the arctic station receiving the signal of the Island and reporting it to Penny. Wasn’t that the best one up to that point of the series?
I think “We have to go back” was a little better, but I do say the opening of this season was the best.
Bear with me here. When Desmond is released from military prison, does he have the memories of what happened to him in his conscience-jumping events a few years earlier? And does Widmore know what an important role Desmond will play for the Island? So he pushes him on the sailing race?
That’s a great question. I think in retrospect he did. I still want to know why Libby was there to give him the boat.
