re: Lost Season 5 Episode 10 "He’s Our You"

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Pre-Lost, which actor had the most notoriety? Seems that they'd would have made his part important...otherwise, couldn't they just gotten a cheaper fill-in character?

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who ever played Anna Lucia

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Wow. Sayid is cold blooded. I guess we already knew that. He tortured people and killed people, but we were sort of able to dismiss that from necessity.

Shooting a kid. That is cold blooded.

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Normally I'd agree. But he wasn't "killing a kid." He was killing Ben.


And come on, fellas...Michelle Rodriguez and Cheech Marin aren't exactly top-notch actors. Hell, even Locke was in better movies (Tombstone for example).

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now what about this???

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I remember that episode well..... Since Horace was buidling, what we assume is Jacobs cabin, does he have some sort of relationship with him

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And you could tell he was struggling with it

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Right.

Wasn't cold-blooded about it at all really.

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Problem with time travel is that any use of it puts you into an infinite loop.

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I really don't get the infinite loop thing. To me time travel as presented in the movie, Deja Vu, makes more sense where changing a significant event in the past creates a new reality path and the old path simply no longer exists or never existed depending on your perspective.

For instance in your Hitler example, if Hitler was killed when he was 20 years old then he would not have been the leader of Nazi Germany; a new reality path. Another leader might have still led Germany into war but probably not with the atrocities/horror of Hitler's administration, etc.

In the context of LOST, the ultimate question the writers raise is fate/destiny vs free will. Locke believes in destiny. Jack up until recent experience champions life being about choices/free will.

It is clear that the O6 going back to 1977 has created a new reality path. The question is will their actions change the ultimate outcome. For instance if Ben really is dead (which I doubt) then everything that Ben did after his death has been erased. Will all the Dharma folks still be purged? It's entirely possible since obviously there is a tenuous truce in place between Dharma and the Hostiles.

I think the key to LOST is in the properties of the island and it's relationship to earth. Was the island a natural phenomenon and Dharma tampered with something that threatened world destruction causing a preventive measure to be put in place? (Desmond typing in the disaster prevention sequence) What exactly happened when Desmond turned the fail safe key supposedly saving the world? Or were the properties of the island created by an ancient race of people (Egyptian-like) to prevent a man made or naturally occuring disaster.

My guess is Richard Alpert is descended from this ancient race. Alpert's agelessness might be explained by either traveling far back in time (hasn't caught up to his present yet) or the properties of the island/Temple have kept Alpert and the Others from aging.

Regardless, LOST is a very interesting series that I thoroughly enjoy. Carry on...

But how does he know who jacob is?

I, like some other people, beleive that there were people on Oceanic 815 that were trying to get back to the island during the crash.

Any ideas who could've been on that plane.

Richard, Jacob, Ben, etc.

Chances are they would not have ended up in the same time period as in the pilot episode.

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I, like some other people, beleive that there were people on Oceanic 815 that were trying to get back to the island during the crash.

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Christian Sheppard

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I believe the flight attendant turned out to be an other as well.

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she was an other because she was kidnapped with the kids and converted.