Constructive, well-reasoned negative feedback is welcome. I've provided some of it myself through the years.

Profanity-laden tirades about how much the show sucks and how much Cuse & Lindelof suck are tiresome and serve no purpose for the rest of us.

I'd say no. I always took that to be what happened to the island in the alternate reality which is why Oceanic 815 did not crash.

Someone gonna 'splain Hugo's/the hatch's damn numbers?!?!

I have a feeling Richard has at least one more bush to jump out of.

Didn't they say they had abandoned the numbers two or three years ago?

"The Shape of Thing to Come"



hardly

I will be pissed if Richard and Widmore are dead after the whole "immortality/rules" shtick we've been fed all along to keep them alive.

These were explained this season!

Not really. We got what the numbers are but we don't know why Hurley picked them, we don't know why Dharma put them on the hatch, we don't know why there were being broadcast.

Definitely. I was sick of him just sort of wandering around, whimpering.
Bring on Sunday~

Ben is playing Locke.
Richard isn't dead.
Jack won't be the "Jacob" of the island, Hurley will.

one thing i didn't get was it seemed that we were led to believe that once you die on the island, in the flash-sideways world, you know what is going on. last night with anna lucia, she didn't know what was going on. sure, desmond said "she's not ready yet" but that seemed to be a cop out.

I love how nobody actually asked Jacob "what exactly is the light, and why is it so special that it needs protecting?"

I don't think this is the case, even though it seemed that way at first because we were introduced to a couple of formerly-dead characters who did know what was going on (Charlie, Libby). Anna Lucia, Boone, Locke, Sayid, Widmore - I may be forgetting details in some of their cases, but for the most part they don't seem to have any special knowledge.

so, people hate LOST because of trivial shit like polar bears, numbers, and outriggers getting shot @

LMAO

just admit the anger is really about the show coming to an end after entertaining you for 6 years.

Things they spent whole seasons on and then forgot about are trivial?


And for me personally there is no anger, just disappointment. Still love the show just not happy that the one thing they decide to tie up was introduced in the season 5 finale.

do they need to ask? i mean there sitting round a fire talking to a dead guy? anyone that got magic mirrors and 2000 yrs old, i'd be trying to be down

the outrigger shit bugged me, but i'm not tripping...i like funny theories like them shooting at themselves, lol

as far as numbers... i thought Locke mentioning that Jacob had a thing for numbers were enough

and polar bears... wasn't dharma their basically to conduct experiments?

But wouldn't they want more explanation as to "what they died for"? I think at least Sawyer would say something.

They spent a whole season on the outrigger shooting? Nobody mentioned it for a year in these threads, but then suddenly last week it's become THE MOST IMPORTANT ANSWER IN THE SHOW.

i *guess* Jacob telling 'em how they were flawed shut them up?

It's because it's a MacGuffin. So's the magic wine/water. So are the 'rules' governing all the stuff going on. So are Jacob's powers. So is Smokey. That's my biggest problem with last week's episode and the series in general. Throughout it's run, we've been led to believe the creators had a very clear explanation for the grand mystery of the island. Last week, they completely destroyed my faith in that. We'll see if the finale proves me wrong, but I'm not hopeful.

But how did Hurley have access to the numbers before Jacob "touched him"? How did Dharma get access to the numbers? Hell quite a few of the numbers weren't crossed out in season one time, Kate would have just been crossed out during season 4.

The polar bears have been explained as much as they need to be explained IMO.

The outrigger is more of a curiosity then a major question.

The outrigger isn't a major question but it's another in a long line of smaller questions that people are just using as an example.

so, Jack is the man now

is Ben gonna kill him?

Ben gonna let Locke manipulate him again so he can have a sunken island?

Locke had his psuedo godfather keamy vibe going last nite

Just some thoughts off the top of my head:

This is based on a line from Matrix that popped into my head, so buyer beware:

"Knowing the path and walking the path are not the same thing" Could MIB actually be the protector of the island? He kills people who come to the island, which would keep the island safe. Jacob brings people to the island endangering the light. He has been acting like the islands protector more than Jacob. Maybe destroying/sinking the island would keep the light safe.

I think Widmore wanted to kill Ben because Ben was resurrected by the corrupted light which he knew would change him forever.