**spoilers*** Lost Season Five **spoilers**

[beattyfamily]

I did!!! I explained the whole thing!

The statue is of Anubis the Egyptian guardian and judge of the dead. He is holding a huge ankh (same as the necklace), which is the egyptian symbol for eternity and reserrection.

Also the Egyptian god Horus (pronounce Horace) is also really important. He's VERY similar to Jesus. Many people think Christianity ripped off some of his story to make the Jesus story.

Go to lost.cubit.net for way more info...

Oh, sorry I missed it. Thanks for re-posting this information.

That is so intereting, the judge of the dead!!!

 

[brerrabbit]

My understanding of it is that how things happened can change, the final results cannot. In otherwords in one time series Amy could have gotten beat up and left for dead but she survived and got back to the compound and the two guys who assaulted her were killed in a later in a battle with Dharma. In the show the other night Sawyer and Julliette rescued her and killed the two guys. The way it happened was different but the outcome was the same. That's what I sense when Daniel gives his examples.

That example is why I think that Daniel was able to knock on the door and get Desmond to answer. I think Desmond will show up back on the island. Even though he told Hawking and the others when he went to deliver Daniel's message to his mother that Hawking took three years of his life, and even though he swore he would never go back, he will at some point go back. Desmond had the choice it seemed the first time he time flashed back and met Hawking and tried to buy the ring to propose to Penny and not go to the island it seemed but Hawking said no he had to go and he could not change that. So while it looked like Faraday was altering time by talking to Desmond at the hatch, nothing he did changed the outcome. The other example that is most obvious in the death of Charlie. Desmond intervened again and again but the outcome was inevitable. Charlie was going to die. The real interesting question was did Desmond get the premonitions and the responsibility of keeping Charlie alive so he could solve the code?

 

[bigmerle1966]

I'm beginning to wonder if maybe we are not only dealing with time travel but alternate realities. Maybe what happens happens because they are in the reality where what happens happens!

This could explain why Amy had no problems having the baby, could also explain why some of the Losties ended up in 1974 and other in a differant time frame.

It could also explain the question I asked before:

Someone found things from the second airliner, who was it and when?

 

[Kycha]

Re: the woman in the hospital bed in Cambridge... if you can go back, I would love to hear what you find about this woman. Especially since we learned that people CAN be in two time places at the same time (young Ben and old Ben). Maybe young Charlotte is alive in 1974 at Daniel's camp, and is being held on life support as a young woman in Cambridge in 2006 (or whatever year it was when Desmond went there and found her)?? And that is why Daniel is paying to keep her alive at any cost, and also why Daniel can't return to see her himself: he's stuck in 1974 on the island. But he has hope that he'll see her again if he can solve for time travel to a specific time.

Two things I do know are that it is Charles Widmore that is paying the woman's medical expenses. Not Daniel. And the woman is not Charlotte. Her name is Theresa Spencer. See pic below...

And I saw an interview with the woman that played Charlotte. She pretty much confirmed that her character is dead and she is not expected to come back to the show. Of course, that could always change according to whatever the writers fiendish little minds come up with.

 

[harleyquinn]

I don't see it as arguing....especially since I agree with you! It's really difficult for people to NOT think of time as linear. Anybody remember the string theory from Quantum Leap?

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Don't forget, though, that the premise of Quantum Leap was that you could change the past. Sam beckett's whole purpose was to 'set things right'.

I think the linear line just seems so futile. But you can't think of it that way, especially with Lost. Sure the purge is going to happen, but the events leading to it and the reasons for it will be really important to everyone.

It's just a way of storytelling when you use linear time. I really think it's a way for us to learn some of the biggest Lost questions in a new and exciting way (as opposed to straight flashbacks). That's why we know so little of the past, because the ending isn't as important as the journey...

I think so much of popular sci fi uses the other time theory, because it's a bigger payoff to know you're changing the future for the better. You've got a 2 hour movie or a 1 hour episode that has a beginning, middle and end. But Lost is really about 6 seasons worth of storytelling. So the payoff is the slow reveal of why things are what they are.

Maybe the Losties are responsible for Smokey??!

 

[harleyquinn]

It could also explain the question I asked before:

Someone found things from the second airliner, who was it and when?

Sawyer's crew found a water bottle from the airline in the canoes. They then took one and the other followed them, shooting at them...

 

[harleyquinn]

Oh, sorry I missed it. Thanks for re-posting this information.

That is so intereting, the judge of the dead!!!

Actually, I looked back through this thread and saw that I posted the link and just a little info...I was having computer trouble yesterday, so maybe I didn't actually post what I thought I did...or it's on the other thread...

Also don't forget the ticker in the Swan station. Remember when they let the countdown get to 108 and then Egyptian symbols flashed up there? The writers said at Comicon that the translation they intended was "Underworld." Which alos ties into the whole, "This place is death" thing from Charlotte.

ETA: Sorry I keep posting a bunch in a row-- I hate it when people do that...

 

[Kycha]

I posted this in the non spoiler thread. But thought it would be helpful here too.

About the time travel thing. Here is a direct quote from a transcript of an Official Lost Podcast from 2/28/08.

" Damon Lindelof: Just a quick sort of side note in terms of the way that we deal with time travel on the show - we are very paradox averse; that is to say, when our characters are time traveling, nothing that they do can change the present or the future that you have seen. Which is different than you know, the conventional Back to the Future time travel story telling."

So, there is no going back to the past to change the future. BTW, Damon Lindelof is an executive producer of Lost. Here is the link to the transcript page
http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Offi...08_%28audio%29

 

[yecats]

My belief about Richard Alpers is the same with Locke and Christian. I believe all 3 arrived on the island dead and are sentenced to their afterlife on the island which means that they will never age. I don't believe that Jacob is in this state, I think that Jacob is in the 4th dimension (remember that a bunny rabbit was placed in a chamber in one of the stations and disappeared) on the island (explains why you can hear him but not see him) and needs someones help to come back into actual reality (place him back in the chamber to return him to normal). It may also be possible that Jacob may turn out to be Horace and Amy's child (just a little theory). Now going to the Egyptian theory with the statue and temple; now that we have a Horace then since there is a war coming then who is Set or Seth (god who fights Horace) - Richard, Locke or Ben?????

Lastly, have any of the producers or actors stated that they will be returning for a 6th season? I think E. Lilly recently denied a rumor that she wouldn't be back for another season. I am wondering if the producers are lining up the recent aijira airliner victims as the new members to come in for original actors who may decide not to come back/kill their characters off next season. If this comes to fruision then all of the new characters would have to be on the island for specific reasons and would the producers be looking to show their back stories as well??? Two weeks is too long. Oh the headache I am giving myself.

 

[Disney1fan2002]

Lastly, have any of the producers or actors stated that they will be returning for a 6th season? I think E. Lilly recently denied a rumor that she wouldn't be back for another season.

I thought this was the final season? I am sure they said from the get go, it was a five year show? Lost was originally aired as a 13-hour mini series, but it was such a hit, they picked it up as a regular series.

 

[beattyfamily]

I just did a search and everything I could find said the show would end after Season 6.

 

[CindyCan]

I thought this was the final season? I am sure they said from the get go, it was a five year show? Lost was originally aired as a 13-hour mini series, but it was such a hit, they picked it up as a regular series.

I just did a search and everything I could find said the show would end after Season 6.

My understanding, and I've watched since episode one, is that they always knew/planned on 6 seasons. They knew (in a general sense) where they were going to end up, and everything they've done since episode one is leading us there.

 

[MouseMomx2]

I thought this was the final season? I am sure they said from the get go, it was a five year show? Lost was originally aired as a 13-hour mini series, but it was such a hit, they picked it up as a regular series.

Lost was never a 13-hour miniseries. Its first season was a full, 23-episode season and the show was always an open-ended, multi-season series. A couple of years ago they settled on 6 seasons. The producers needed a firm end-date so they could have a time frame for the entire story arc. Knowing the ultimate end date allowed them to lay the story out in the remaining number of hours. The final 3 seasons are 16-episode seasons, rather than the traditional, 23-episode seasons. Season 4 was truncated due to the writer's strike and only 13 episodes were made. Seasons 5 and 6 will be 16 episodes each, with the series ending in May, 2010.

 

[Tiggeroo]

Is there any truth to the rumor that there will be full length movie after the series?

 

[Tiggeroo]

also is Desmond the exception? He is able to change the future I think. Or is the fact that Charlie kept having to die proof that Desmond couldn't change the future?

 

[Kycha]

Lost was never a 13-hour miniseries. Its first season was a full, 23-episode season and the show was always an open-ended, multi-season series. A couple of years ago they settled on 6 seasons. The producers needed a firm end-date so they could have a time frame for the entire story arc. Knowing the ultimate end date allowed them to lay the story out in the remaining number of hours. The final 3 seasons are 16-episode seasons, rather than the traditional, 23-episode seasons. Season 4 was truncated due to the writer's strike and only 13 episodes were made. Seasons 5 and 6 will be 16 episodes each, with the series ending in May, 2010.

Because the writers strike shortened Season 4, they have added an additional episode for Seasons 5 & 6. So, we get 17 episodes instead of 16.

 

[MouseMomx2]

Because the writers strike shortened Season 4, they have added an additional episode for Seasons 5 & 6. So, we get 17 episodes instead of 16.

Oooh...that is excellent news! I hadn't heard that. Last year they said they rolled all of the necessary information from those three episodes into the remaining episodes for the season. I'm thrilled that they've decided to add more episodes this year and next. I'll take all the Lost I can get!

 

[Saxsoon]

So apparently 2 people are going to die. It is reported a MAJOR character beloved by fans is going to die at the end of this season. It is either Ben, Jin, Sawyer, Miles, or Daniel. It is also confirmed a major-ish character will die. I would consider Miles to be majorish because he has very little purpose in the show . . . yet. Oh well, just reporting what I heard.

 

[beattyfamily]

It is either Ben, Jin, Sawyer, Miles, or Daniel. It is also confirmed a major-ish character will die.

Oh boy! I hope is ISN'T Ben or Sawyer and I'd be pretty bummed about Jin as well (I doubt it's him because he already almost died).

I'd like to see Daniel stay but wouldn't be too surprised if it was him. Miles is funny and I feel we haven't got the whole story about him yet but I could live without him.

Thanks for the spoilers.

 

[wdhinn89]

I hope it isn't Sayid. Didn't the Dharma guy want to kill him in the coming attractions?