Totally agree! I didn't want to mention it to open up another can of worms, but it is implied they are one and the same, but not stated. I just want to know what the writers at the time thought the monster rules were. Did he need Christian and Yemi's bodies to inhabit (meaning he couldn't really transform), or was…

And I'm ok with a show going for the mega happy ending. I get it. But I agree with you completely in the sense that sci fi was such a part of the dna of the show, Lost should have died as it lived, an amazing, mind bending, thought provoking convergence of character, mythology, and big ideas. The final episode really…

I kind of think we already live in a world where the light has gone out. (Sad!)
I should point out that the cork is only there because people messed with the Source. Also, I hated the simplicity of the cork, but I loved the implied story of what went on down there, with people dying to seal the fissure. The cuneiform…

Sure, but it's the Island protector who continues to bring people to protect the island from nefarious people. And those new people become protectors or they become nefarious, and they bring other people. See the problem? The Island and the Source don't need protecting, they need to be left alone. If Mother hadn't…

just before the lost podcast was going to air, they asked people to send in questions for Darlton. Mine was going to be "the show seems to be walking a delicate line between science fiction and the supernatural. At what point do you think the show will place a foot firmly on either side?"
I didn't submit it, because…

It was the best of comments, it was the worst of comments.

There was an issue where teenage Jenni has to save baby Bart. She's about 14 years older than he is, according to 90's Legion continuity, which is the only one, in my mind.

Well, he never got directly involved, but if Eko is out there making a big philosophical noise, Jacob's gonna scratch him off the list.

I can see where the freighter bit is lore breaking, or he could have been lying in S6 when he said he couldn't smoke that far. Who knows.
Great call on the well, it probably exists outside of time and space, being the center of the phenomenon. Or Locke flashed to a different, more current time while the castaways…

But Terry o'Quinn is amazing!

Stupid writers.

You guys have the time sickness! Stop reading that book upside down! You're not fooling anyone!

Cut out all of the flash-sideways (except maybe a weird dreamlike mystery where they are all called to the church in the finale.). Use that 40% of the final season to explain the Sickness and the Rules, to give Claire a proper resolution (she's on the plane! But wait, she's still undead and sick), to develop beloved…

I agree with him. I hate the modern dude like nature of Jacob, though that grew on me. I hate that it introduced such a pivotal element 100 episodes in. I hate the on the nose Jacob touching flashbacks (and the incongruous Juliet scene). I hate the flip-flopping motivations. I hate the way the Incident played out…

How far can Hurley toss a hot pocket y' think?

So he had you every week for twelve weeks? That quote was in every single Previously On segment. It's burned into my brain from the repetition.

"You just killed everyone on that freighter!"

Yeah and Smokey may be carrying out his duties as security without realizing it. He may be a machine that thinks he's a man.

Goddammit.

It's late for me now, and the ends of all my posts have devolved into rambling, but I would be remiss if I didn't take this moment to point out my loony theory that everyone died when the plane crashed.