I just finished listening to the most recent LOST audio podcast. If you’re a LOST fan and you’re not subscribing to the podcast, you’re missing out. There’s nothing here that is essential for watching the show; the producers have always tried to make things like the podcast and the ARG available to fans who enjoy that kind of thing, but all of the essential information is revealed on the show itself. Still, Cuse and Lindelof are always entertaining on the podcast and they often help clarify what’s going on for me. So check it out.
If you’re not listening to the podcast, you may want to avoid reading the rest of this post. I’m very sensitive to the fact that many people like to avoid any kind of information about upcoming episodes and, while I wouldn’t consider any of this to be spoiler-ish material, I respect the fact that some of you like your LOST to be completely free of any outside information. So, this is your warning. Proceed at your own risk.
I did want to comment on a few things from the podcast and get some of your feedback. At the beginning of the podcast, the producers address what they think fan reaction will be to the Season 5 finale. This isn’t a verbatim quote, but here’s the gist of what they said: People will like the finale; the show’s mythology will be advanced in some fairly significant ways. But the producers are anticipating that there will be a fair share of annoyance that we have to wait 8 months to find out what happens next. That sounds a lot like the reaction to the Season 1 finale, when Jack and Locke blew open the hatch, but we had to wait until the start of Season 2 to find out what (who) was down there. The producers go on to say something to the effect that Season 6 will seemingly share a lot in common with Season 1. Whatever that means.
We’re told that after we see the Season 5 finale and the Season 6 opener, we’ll have pretty much all the information available to us to finally put together a valid “theory of everything” that will help us understand the ultimate direction of the show. And this upcoming episode will reveal a piece of information that will move things forward in a very significant way. While I have no idea what this means, it’s exciting to hear. Makes me even more interested in what we’ll get to see in the finale.
Also, in the podcast the producers address the whole “good guy” / “bad guy” thing we’ve been debating since the Season 2 finale when Ben quipped, “We’re the good guys, Michael”. When a viewer asked which side she should be rooting for, the producers basically avoided that question by addressing specific characters, designating them either good, bad, or “haven’t decided” (which I guess means the jury is still out on said character’s motivation or ultimate allegiance). Here are the results for the characters they mentioned:
Hurley – good guy
Kate – good guy / gal
Alpert – haven’t decided
Lapidus – good guy
Sayid – kind of a bad guy, could be a good guy, but he’s done some bad things
Jacob – good guy
Jacob – a good guy? If Locke is truly committed to killing Jacob, does this mean Locke is actually playing on the “wrong” team, the team of “bad guys”? Is it even possible to kill Jacob? I’m thinking no. And I’m thinking Locke might know that. I’m thinking maybe he’s just telling Ben this to get a rise out of him. After taking Ben’s junk for the past several seasons, maybe Locke’s just toying with Ol’ Bug Eyes. Or…maybe Locke really has no idea about Jacob and he really thinks he can kill him. Either way, I’m doubting this can even happen.
I’m once again drawn to the ways in which Locke and Jack have exchanged places on this show. For 4+ seasons, Locke was the Island mystic who spouted pithy lines about “destiny” and what was “supposed” to happen. Jack, conversely, played the role of the man of science, the man of reason who has little regard for things like “fate” and “destiny” and “miracles”. Now, in differing eras, the two have completely traded places. Locke 2.0 is imbued with some sort of Island knowledge, but he’s also demanding empirical evidence of Jacob’s existence and he has about 50 redshirts following his every move. Jack, meanwhile, finds himself stuck in the bowels of the Island, looking straight at Jughead, pondering a cataclysmic event (sort of like Locke’s decision to stop pushing the button at the end of Season 2) that will potentially change everything, all because he believes it to be his destiny.
So, what do you think “The Incident” will be? And who else would fall in the “good guy” or “bad guy” camp? What about Ilana and Bram and their “shadow of the statue” peeps? Good or bad? What do you think?
already & not yet 
yeah, I listened to this one last night. It’s definitely worth the 20 minutes or so every week.
I’m kind of gun shy, because I don’t want to spoil anything for anyone with my guesses, so read at your own risk.Who knows what the incident will be tonight, but not since season 1 have I been so eager for the next season to begin, so it excites me that the finale will be of that caliber. What will it be that leaves us hanging on the edge of our seats? Theories:1. Jack explodes the bomb. A time continuum problem occurs. Both the Bram and Ilana / Ajira group co-exist at the same time as the 70’s Dharma group.2. Locke has figured out how to warn past Alpert of Jack wanting to blow up the bomb, so Alpert is leading Jack/Sayid into a trap.3. Could there be an instance of everyone interacting with their ulterior self?4. Widmore makes it back on the island.5. Faraday is not dead.6. Maybe the bomb goes off, but nothing happens like what Jack was hoping.7. The bomb goes off, and everything Faraday says is true.I don’t know if any of these will happen, just guessing, obviously. I think Locke’s main purpose in wanting to expose/locate Jacob is to take over Richard Alpert’s position, whatever that is. Never in any season has Richard looked so alarmed as he did when Locke said he wanted to find Jacob and show him/it to everyone.
Jason,My guess is that Locke’s killing of Jacob MIGHT be a mercy killing. In other words, he is actually doing him a favor and this is what Jacob meant when he said “Help me.”
If Locke is able to kill Jacob (and if Locke actually IS Jacob as many of us suspect), then wouldn’t Locke be committing suicide? Maybe there’s a connection here with Ben not allowing Locke to kill himself in “The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham”. Maybe he couldn’t commit suicide yet off the Island because that was his fated destiny ON the Island.As I type this, it sounds utterly ridiculous.
After watching last week’s episode, my husband thinks that Jacob is just a figment of people’s imagination, that John going to “kill” Jacob is him just going to kill the “idea” of him. Because no one has really seen Jacob, have they? Maybe Locke thinks its ridiculous that everyone has been fearing this person who they’ve never seen. Ok, now you’re all off watching this as I type….so by the time you read this you’ll know the answer!