Comments on: Rate and Rant – LOST 5.14 – The Variable

By: jon

jon — Sat, 02 May 2009 04:21:08 +0000

What about the people that died. I would argue things didn’t work out so well for them.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 02 May 2009 00:17:59 +0000

season 5 is great.

end of story.

By: ghanima

ghanima — Fri, 01 May 2009 03:15:32 +0000

It was raining, right? And we are in a post-316 time frame? I’m rooting for a scenario where the 77′s one and all have returned to ’07, are in pursuit/flight from, presumably, the other side in whatever war is supposed to be coming, in canoes/Zodiacs. The flashers flash into the middle of the fight, fire back, then flash out, and Sawyer has unknowingly managed to shoot…. his future self.

Future-Sawyer stares from his bleeding arm to the empty ocean, realization dawning on his face, “Son of a b-.”

By: elijahmoon

elijahmoon — Fri, 01 May 2009 00:29:31 +0000

I would MURDER Radzinsky day 1… MURDER. hes such an ass.

By: elijahmoon

elijahmoon — Fri, 01 May 2009 00:25:12 +0000

lol @ greater good… A blind person could “see” that Ellie Hawking is not “good” the bitch is wicked and thats it…. dull people…

By: elijahmoon

elijahmoon — Fri, 01 May 2009 00:19:31 +0000

he is as dead as a door nail. hes dead. D-E-A-D DEAD. hes dead.

By: Phil is Jacob

Phil is Jacob — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:11:01 +0000

Dude, you got the point about S5! It was anticipated by Jack’s “We have to go back, Kate!” in the dark.. and ends up with our heroes sleeping and doing nothing!
.. FARA CANNOT BE DEAD!!!!….

By: RosellaVattene

RosellaVattene — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:58:28 +0000

No no.. killing faraday just can’t be true.. It was my fav char as well!
..and ol’ damned boring Sayid still hangs around, damn it!!!

By: OmegaSora

OmegaSora — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:02:14 +0000

Oh yes it most certainly was. Why don’t you rewatch last season’s finale, particularly the scenes at the Orchid

By: coheed 2113

coheed 2113 — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:01:10 +0000

i agree completly because it might be present time for the losties, but the island is in 1977 so everything that leads up to the 815 crash happens because it happened in the past regardless if the losties are there or not

By: Jacobs Lather

Jacobs Lather — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:59:01 +0000

I pretty much agree. I mean, I’m willing to reserve judgment until the whole show is in the can, but I definitely feel like after Season 3′s mindblowing “We have to go back, Kate!”, the result of them actually *getting* back has been tremendously underwhelming. Sadly, all this sitting around doing nothing after getting back on the island really undermines the tension and mystery that was season 4 and the first half of season 5. I guess that’s why I feel confused and disappointed: they made getting off the island the most important thing…until getting *back* was the most important thing (wow!)…and now…what exactly *is* the most important thing? It seems like the series ended when they got back to the island and now all the characters are just hanging around going, “Are we still rolling? Uh…”

Anybody remember The Truman Show, where Truman manages to outsmart the producers and get on a bus–and then suddenly the bus driver has to buy improvise to keep the ruse going?

By: DRich

DRich — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:00:53 +0000

Exactly! It makes me feel like they’re wasting my time by having the characters believe something that the writers have said they wouldn’t do. So why waste our time with the survivors trying to negate the whole story. Because we know that’s not going to happen. And worse, if it does happen everyone will be pissed off. I am so confused/disappointed. And I feel like only the finale can help me.

By: DRich

DRich — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:56:20 +0000

Is it just me or is anyone else completely underwhelmed by the revelations of this season and whole dharma arc in general. The ajira folk are cool, the shadow of the statue = cool, john and ben, always cool. But as far as why they are in 1970 and now supposedly not meant to be there is very boring. I’m tired of Jack being all sad because he’s a janitor. Nobody likes Kate anyway, Hurley is a big ball of not important. Sawyer hasn’t been able to be sawyer. And Sayid is off chillin in the jungle. Season five has almos,t with the exception of a couple episodes, been a waste of my “time.” But I can MAKE time (*sigh* be more corny daniel)

By: neoloki

neoloki — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:26:40 +0000

But Locke is in 2007 and Jack is in ’77. How is Locke going to convince Jack of anything?

By: neoloki

neoloki — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:22:08 +0000

No. The video before season 4 with Chang and the 2 number 15 bunnies was NOT in the show. Comic-con videos are not cannon, only what appears in the show.

By: JJStrange

JJStrange — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:08:44 +0000

Especially since the previews are VERY deceiving!

By: elephant in the room

elephant in the room — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:28:23 +0000

I also hoping he is healed by the island if the bomb isn’t detonated. There has to be something more with the Mrs. Hawking & Widmore deal and them making such a big deal about the island having such healing properties. Sure his memory was healed but id little Ben can be healed from a gun shot, why not Faraday?
I really don’t want to see a plane land in LA, I’m hoping they don’t course correct.

By: DarthBubba

DarthBubba — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:14:11 +0000

Yes, f##k that guy!

By: ErasedSlate

ErasedSlate — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:46:50 +0000

Remember in flashes before your eyes, Eloise is surprised that Desmond changes what he was supposed to do. He was supposed to put the ring back and chicken out, instead he resolves to marry Penny. If Eloise doesn’t put him back on the path, then no one will be there to turn the key. Desmond has the power to change the past after he turned the key. The “Variables” are the two that have died. One is Desmond (when turning the key), the other is Locke.

By: DarthBubba

DarthBubba — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:46:40 +0000

Greater good or not, paradox will still make them all ride the train the same way every time. . .so there’s nothing she could have done anyway, even if she tried something would get in the way.

By: DarthBubba

DarthBubba — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:43:49 +0000

Yes, but first we will get at least one episode in which those whose lives would be worse if the plane never crashed argue with those who want to get off the island.

By: Ed Holden

Ed Holden — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:16:28 +0000

Also, I bet they stole the Zodiac. It was missing from the beach when Locke, Sawyer, Juliette etc reached it. That’s why they took the outrigger canoe. Also, one of the outriggers contained an Ajira water bottle, so everything is pretty much adding up nicely … except who got shot.

By: Muad'Dib

Muad'Dib — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:12:00 +0000

That’s exactly what I told my girlfriend last night. This whole idea reminds me of a short story by Phillip K. Dick (a huge Lost influence) called “A Little Something For Us Tempunauts.” It’s about this exact situation – whether or not to maintain a time loop, and if it is even possible to break out of one. Dick comes down on the side of “No. Whatever Happened, Happend.” It’s a very interesting story that may have relevance to Lost. Check it out if you can.

By: AxMan

AxMan — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:25:33 +0000

My guess is Lapidus gets shot.

By: Samuel

Samuel — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:07:33 +0000

It’s a contradiction I hope they address. I thought the same thing when daniel said he was going to detonate the bomb, that if he changes the future and the freighter never comes than how could he have detonated the bomb in 1977? He would have never gone back in time to be there to detonate the bomb and everything would just play out like it did the first time. The fact that they are there on the island means that they do not change anything, the plane crashed and the freighter arrived.