And here it is. Disc 5 is the Season 5 finale – The Incident. One of the most mind-blowing episodes yet.
- Rope sandals. Spinning. Weaving a tapestry by firelight. Catching fish in a reed trap. Cooking it on a rock. And there’s the Black Rock. Setting up the time for us.
- So are Jacob and his nemesis nearly immortal guardians of the island? It seems they’ve played this argument out many times before. Two conflicting philosophies. Black and white. The man in black wants to protect the island at all costs - meaning he doesn’t want people there. Jacob wants to give people a chance.
- If Kate wanted to steal something – a New Kids on the Block lunchbox? Really? And she lied to Jacob. She did steal more.
- So Daniel didn’t just expose himself to radiation through his experiments… his mom was helping to move a hydrogen bomb – which she intended to have blown up – while he was still in utero. No wonder he was such a mess.
- I have to wonder if they told Terry O’Quinn to act differently after he was “resurrected.” Cockier or whatnot. I’m not sure I see the difference, but it could be there. To justify Richard’s claims that Locke seems different.
- You have to feel so bad for little James Ford. Although the promise he made not to finish the letter wasn’t made to Jacob, so when he broke it, it wasn’t quite the same as Kate promising not to steal.
- For the first time, I realized that Sawyer’s DHARMA suit has a star inside the emblem. So his “there’s a new sherriff in town” line has another layer of depth. Hehe.
- So if Jacob knew that Nadia was going to be hit by the car, who was driving the car? I’d always assumed it was Ben, setting up Sayid to want revenge and kill all of those men for him. But Ben never met Jacob. Was it one of those “What lies in the shadow of the statue?” agents like Ilana? And why? For what purpose? How was killing Nadia supposed to help the island?
- Richard showed a lot more chutzpah that normal by pistol whipping Eloise and sending Jack and Sayid ahead with the hydrogen bomb.
- So Jack and Sayid are hiding in plain sight in the DHARMA uniforms. Jack just walks with his eyes straight forward and head down, but Sayid has seen war. He’s got his eyes everywhere, watching every angle while mostly appearing not to. Well-played.
- Juliet looks so resigned once they left the sub. It’s as if she knew that it was all over for her, in the most final sense.
- “You traveled back 30 years in time, and you still find a way to shoot each other?” This is why Rose and Bernard are awesome.
- So with all of those bandages in Ilana’s flashback, it would seem that Jacob’s gift to her was healing. Like his gift to Richard was eternal youth.
- I wonder how many fire crews they had on hand when they burned Jacob’s cabin on set.
- And are we to assume that Locke’s fall really did kill him, but Jacob revived him with a touch?
- I want to know how Jacob picked out these people to bring to the island from so far in advance. When Sawyer and Kate were kids. At Sun and Jin’s wedding. He knew about Locke for a long time because of Richard, I suppose. How does he know where they are? Who they are? What they’re doing? What they’ll become? He’s not just (mostly) immortal, he’s omniscient.
- So does Jacob really like Apollo bars, or did he just get one so he could share a moment with Jack?
- I love good fight choreography. And for a LOST fanatic like me, the Sawyer/Jack fight is almost as climactic as the Star Wars Obi-Wan/Anakin fight.
- I love Hurley’s personal effects that were returned to him at the police station. “One Fruit Roll-Up.” LOL. Jacob can travel rather quickly, too. How does he get around? He was with Hurley a day before the Ajira flight, then he’s back on the island after the flight crashed. Does he teleport? Can he move around with just a thought? He’s obviously out of phase with the “real world.”
- Out of everyone, is it Sawyer who has the most to lose if Jack succeeds in preventing the crash of Oceanic Flight 815? He found his redemption on the island.
- So… having pontificated that Jacob is omniscient, does he know that Locke is not Locke?
- DHARMA gunmen are a bit like Storm Troopers. They’re easy to shoot and can’t hit the heroes.
- Waiting for the bomb to go off after Jack dropped it must have been intolerable for the LOSTies. Waiting for destiny. And then… something is wrong. “This don’t look like LAX.”
- There goes Dr. Chang’s arm.
- I can’t imagine how much that must have hurt Juliet, those chains threatening to tear her apart at the waist.
- Sawyer crying. I’m in tears again, even knowing what would happen.
- Sun to Richard. “Do you have any alcohol.” “No. I sure wish I did.”
- A second Locke’s dead body reveal. Creepy.
- Ah yes. Jacob did know that Locke’s not Locke. That’s right. I’d forgotten.
- You almost feel bad for Ben in his monologue talking to Jacob.
- I think it was quite fitting that the last line of the season was “Come on, you son of a bitch!”
Is it Tuesday yet?
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