I only sort of agree. I definitely would have liked the final season to reaffirm the island having its own voice and will in light of the human conflict, but there's plenty to establish that already and it's a topic that needs to be handled carefully to avoid deus ex machina.

As much as I try to re-contextualize events post-finale, I really don't know how to approach the appearance of Walt in this episode. My instinct is that it's not the Man in Black, because it just doesn't seem like his style of apparition. It's more like the appearances of ghosts/whispers, which are shown to be more or…

As much as I try to re-contextualize events post-finale, I really don't know how to approach the appearance of Walt in this episode. My instinct is that it's not the Man in Black, because it just doesn't seem like his style of apparition. It's more like the appearances of ghosts/whispers, which are shown to be more or…

It's exactly what happened in the '90s. There was a semblance of language policing that went too far, the media declared it a trend, the right wing went nuts over it and used it to claim there was a leftist conspiracy to brainwash the children, and then the backlash against political correctness got extremely popular…

I would have expected "Roy Orbison singing for the pony, that's me and I want you, brony…"

I dunno, but I have most of this thread tattooed on my biceps already.

If that is what happens, it hurts their whole 'this is canon' claim. The Han in ESB and ROTJ doesn't act much like a character who experienced personal loss recently.

They weren't allowed to tell these stories because Lucas was overprotective of certain areas of the story. Lucas thought Han shooting Greedo first set a bad example for the kids and made sure Luke and Leia's parents were married before having children, how would he handle Han having a divorce? (unless this character…

Yeah, well my D&D character is 1/4 half-orc, 3/8ths half-elf, and the rest is good old American halfling, and you wouldn't believe the Charisma points I get. And there's a winter fey bloodline in there somewhere, but I only took it for the skill bonuses. I don't get what all this fuss about race is all about.

Or maybe he was a soldier who got wounded, discharged, and became a defense contractor?

I don't know that source, but it's pretty apparent from the show that Dharma was in decline. By the end you have the Horaces who are true believers and the Rogers with nowhere else to go. And Radzinsky trying to take responsibility for the Incident.

I don't think it makes sense for Jacob to bring the army there only to get killed, even if you argue that his plan somehow required the bomb to be brought there. They were just looking for an island to test the bomb on and the Island's properties caused them to land there. Jacob may have some control over bringing…

This actually can be answered. Going to them directly and explaining what's going on would alert MIB that they're a major part of his plan, at which point MIB would find some indirect way to kill them all right away to be on the safe side. He could just try to convince Ben and the Others to kill them on the spot. The…

At this point the sanest way to approach this is to assume it's an artistic conceit of the show that it exists in a universe where human beings do not discuss the strange things they don't understand amongst themselves except indirectly and in the vaguest terms possible.

The Others were pretty aggressive in defending the island in the 1950s scenes, and that was when Richard was in charge. Though the island was in genuine danger of getting nuked, about the only situation where Jacob ordering attacks on outsiders made sense.

I won't pretend it's a satisfying explanation, though. It's logically consistent, but there is no real rational reason why Jacob would allow this situation, because locking Ben out with no explanation could go so horribly wrong and it could all collapse the instant Ben and Richard talked to one another about anything…

The whole issue is that Richard doesn't seem aware that Jacob has never communicated with Ben, despite decades of contact with both of them. It's not a problem that he expects Ben and Locke to meet with Jacob at the cabin, since Jacob is known to use it at times and he might think Ben meets Jacob there.

Lindelof and Cuse hinted that she was somehow important, though mostly at the prompting of the obsessive fans. I'm of the opinion that they were simply alluding to the hints that Ben's unrequited feelings for Juliet came from her having a similar appearance to Annie.

This movie was bullshit. Even decades later, no one has written a virus on a Mac.

So, Blink-182 replaced the Angels & Airwaves summoner with the BMX bandmate? They got it backwards!