They're Kate and Jack. They could have returned to die of old age together on the Island. With all the temporal hijinks lately, what's to stop them?
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They're Kate and Jack. They could have returned to die of old age together on the Island. With all the temporal hijinks lately, what's to stop them?
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I think it's Desmond and Penny.
I originally thought it would be Jack and Kate, but I, too, believe it's Desmond and Penny. Their story is far more romantic and interesting. Jack and Kate are two bleah characters in an extra-bleah romance.
Nah, that's too boring. It's Desmond and Penny.
Boring or not, I think most of the mysteries are going to be hand waved away with a simple it's "time travel" answer.
I mean if you think about it, there are only 2 season left of 16 episodes each season. So, that's 32 episodes + the 3 left this season. That means there is only 35 episodes left to solve... what about 100+ mysteries? That would mean starting this week they would have to solve about 3 mysteries an episode (and not add any new ones) in order to solve everything by the end of the series.
I can't see that happening, so I can only assume that they are going to explain away lots of the "mysteries" all at once with a single answer. Be it "Time Travel", "Probability manipulation" or what not.
How do the Other's know so much about the Losties? "Time travel" Someone if the future sends back the information to them.
Why doesn't Alpert age? "Time travel" he keeps jumping through time, While only a few years has passed of him, he's been way in the past, present and future during that time and, obviously, always looks the same.
You get the point...
There is no way the writers have time to come up with different or "cool" answers to every mystery they have given us. At best we can hope for a few general answers that cover lots of mysteries at once.
I mean if you think about it, there are only 2 season left of 16 episodes each season. So, that's 32 episodes + the 3 left this season. That means there is only 35 episodes left to solve... what about 100+ mysteries? That would mean starting this week they would have to solve about 3 mysteries an episode (and not add any new ones) in order to solve everything by the end of the series.
I can't see that happening, so I can only assume that they are going to explain away lots of the "mysteries" all at once with a single answer. Be it "Time Travel", "Probability manipulation" or what not.
How do the Other's know so much about the Losties? "Time travel" Someone if the future sends back the information to them.
Why doesn't Alpert age? "Time travel" he keeps jumping through time, While only a few years has passed of him, he's been way in the past, present and future during that time and, obviously, always looks the same.
You get the point...
There is no way the writers have time to come up with different or "cool" answers to every mystery they have given us. At best we can hope for a few general answers that cover lots of mysteries at once.
I think it's Kate & Jack because
1) Kate & Jack discovered the skeletons (and Des & Penny didn't even exist then)
2) Kate & Jack are the lead characters and
3) I want Des & Penny to live happily ever after (over Ben's dead body, which I'm sure can be arranged) but Kate & Jack can and should die in the last episode.
Hmm, there might be a way to use the teleportation-style time travel (which seems distinct from the Quantum Leap-style mental-only time travel) to preserve yourself by going into a state of suspended animation within the transporter buffer or whatever you want to call it. Why Alpert would do this is another question but maybe he has a way of being alerted to come out if anything interesting happens on the Island.
1) Kate & Jack discovered the skeletons (and Des & Penny didn't even exist then)
2) Kate & Jack are the lead characters and
3) I want Des & Penny to live happily ever after (over Ben's dead body, which I'm sure can be arranged) but Kate & Jack can and should die in the last episode.
Hmm, there might be a way to use the teleportation-style time travel (which seems distinct from the Quantum Leap-style mental-only time travel) to preserve yourself by going into a state of suspended animation within the transporter buffer or whatever you want to call it. Why Alpert would do this is another question but maybe he has a way of being alerted to come out if anything interesting happens on the Island.
That's assuming that he even needs to do that. If time travel is possible, then Alpert might have been born in 1967 lived quite normally until 2002 when Dharma sent him back in time to meet up with young Ben. Since then, they have sent him back and forwards through time every once and a while. So he keeps showing up in different time periods, but always looking the same age since not much time has actually passed for him. So he's not "immortal" or "unaging" its just that he keeps jumping to different time periods.
They can still do that and be the two skeletons. They go backwards in time and live a quiet life on the Island long before DHARMA showed up.
Because he's really still Batmanuel from The Tick.
I'm more pessimistic than that. I think there'll be one central mystery with a cluster of BS corollaries. If the mystery isn't a good one, we're all going to be let down. The episodes seem more concerned with dropping cliff hangers and introducing mysteries than with moving the story forward (The Shape of Things to Come excepted). Whenever they get around to solving a minor mystery, I've stopped caring. Michael? Who cares at this point? The coffin occupant? I've stopped wondering.
The numbers have already been explained outside of the show. Click the link if you want to be spoiled.
http://www.lostpedia.com/wiki/Numbers
I've been wondering if they would ever do a reveal during the actual show for people who don't follow the outside sources.
http://www.lostpedia.com/wiki/Numbers
I've been wondering if they would ever do a reveal during the actual show for people who don't follow the outside sources.
Well heck then. They should be Boone and Shannon.
Yep.
Central mystery = Island can do all sorts of groovy stuff (because it's a "magnetic energy point" a la the Mystery Spot franchise, a piece of alien planetoid consciousness that crash landed in the Pacific long ago, or some such). Widmore, Dharma, the Others, etc are fighting for control as a result.
BS corollaries = One of the powers is time travel (in fact there appears to be two separate types of time travel - one the mental only Quantum Leap type and the other a physical, transporter-aided type). With time travel, you can do anything. That explains anything that can't be explained via other Island powers like healing or altering probabilities.
I don't think the show writers are going to feel constrained by outside-the-show material. Maybe they'll follow that and maybe they'll chuck it. I'm not going to bother worrying about it in the meantime.
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Uh...how? They're already dead.Well heck then. They should be Boone and Shannon.
Uh...how? They're already dead.Well heck then. They should be Boone and Shannon.
Time travel!
Remember, we saw the physical kind - with Ben transporting himself to the Sahara and not knowing what year it was - not just the Quantum Leap kind.
That means all bets are off.
You didn't answer my question. We saw both of them die and get buried. With Desmond and Penelope (and Jack and Kate, and Rose and Bernard), they can go back into time alive, playing on the romantic theme. Just transporting two bodies is just...well dumb and pointless.Time travel!Uh...how? They're already dead.Well heck then. They should be Boone and Shannon.
Remember, we saw the physical kind - with Ben transporting himself to the Sahara and not knowing what year it was - not just the Quantum Leap kind.
That means all bets are off.
Another question I'd like answered, is exactly where was Walt when he was typing (eg IMing) to his Dad on the Swan Computer? I'm guessing he was either at the Temple or the Orchid station. I guess he could have been at the Flame or the Pearl (both of which had computers) but maybe not? I guess it doesn't really matter now, but I would like to know.
^ I think it more likely that it was either Ben or someone acting under Ben's orders.
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