I'm pretty sure there was a food drop in somewhere in season 3 after the hatch imploded.

did you see what kind of budget they got for the submarine in years past? Do you really want to see a Lost CGI Tidal wave?

Since one was dropped during the Lockdown episode, another shouldn't come for months. Unless, Patchy ordered it manually.

Darlton said on a podcast that the food drops will be explained but they may not be explained on the actual show. (aka perhaps another Podcast) Watch Mysteries of the Universe as it is the only thing we have to go on so far. They faux documentary suggested that the food drops were connected to

It was absolutely the wave that took down the statue. The Black Rock just rode right through as it broke apart and surfed to the middle of the island. The tsunami was as tall as the statue. They showed the POV going right toward the head of it.

Yeah, I thought that was a no-brainer, even for Lost. I'm usually at the head of the line for errors or stupid shit, but that seemed pretty self-explanatory.

I did notice that the Black Rock crashed on the island the same year dynamite was patented, 1867, thus explaining the dynamite on the ship. Many assumed the 1845 date given in S4 was the year it actually came to the island.

I won't believe it until it shows up as a pop-up in the explanation episode.

Which is NOT on this week because of Dancing with the Crap.

Bloody hell.

Which, if true, is fucking DUMB.

The whole "reveal" of the ship they did at the end of that scene with a big swell of music is only "cool" if that ship is the Black Rock. Because it, as far as old ships go, is the only one involved with the TV show LOST. So revealing it does two things: dates that scene in a neat way and promises some semblance of an explanation in the next season about a story that needs some explanation.

"It was a different ship" is so stupid I don't even know what to think. The simpler (and more believable) explanation is that the writers didn't know the Black Rock would be on a tsunami wave taking out the statue in Season 6 when they wrote the scene in Season 5. Which would be par for the course with LOST these days.

Well, one of them said "there will be others", so that could either mean other ships, i.e., the black rock. Seems unnecessarily complicated, though.

Just re-watched the episode and have been thinking about a few things. First they made it pretty clear that the Black Rock took out the statue with the sound effects, not to mention MiB said that the ship took it out. I'm with everyone else on the insta-storm though, very confusing.

Second, Nestor Carbonell needs to be nominated for an Emmy. Amazing work.

I dont get it. Didnt it say in big huge letters on the back of the ship Black Rock??? did I miss something?

From what I can gather is that isn't the question. The questions are whether a wooden ship could take out the stone statue (others think the wave did it) and whether or not we saw the Black Rock heading towards the beach in the S5 finale since it was a bright and sunny day.

You guys are funny.

The Black Rock coming in on a clear day and then crashing at night in a violent storm is just silly. Unless they want us to believe that those on the island could see them but they couldn't see the island until the passed through the "portal". I'm referring to the area that Faraday told them that the helicopter had to go through to make it back to the freighter. This is the only explanation that would be understable on why the ship crew didn't see the island until it was too late. Now, that doesn't explain how the homebrewed storm happened so quickly.

As I said before, I'm attributing the storm and/or The Black Rock's 2nd/later visit as Jacob "bringing" the ship to the island.

And I'm attributing it to "the writers screwed up" which is the easiest explanation of all.

Didn't things go haywire for the helicopter gang when they slipped through the "portal" from one side to the other?

I don't think that the writers would mess up on something like forgetting that in the season finale of season 5, that is was a nice day out when we see the ship, and then 8 episodes into season 6, that it was a horrible storm when we see it arrive. It seems blatantly in our faces concerning the difference in weather. Desmond was in a horrible storm as well when he was brought to the island.

Then the reveal of the "Not Black Rock" at the end of season 5 was anti-climactic and dumb.

Not really. It served to establish an approximate time period for the conversation between Jacob and Mib (as in "a long time ago"). Plus it indicated that Jacob has brought people to the island before and the results are always the same, at least according to MiB.

Well, didn't the writers say that the ship we saw at the end of 5 was the Black Rock?

Maybe when we saw the ship in season 5, it was the first time the Black Rock had headed for the island and then this season they went back for reinforcements for their second trip. maybe?