"The Variable" Live Commentary

[cubbie]

Ah. There's the jughead reference.

 

[Capn Flukie]

Daniel set us up the bomb.

 

[Brent]

Whoa! He's going to use the bomb from Jughead to stop The Incident! That willl indeed change the ENTIRE future! OMG

I am glad we finally know what The Incident is all about now!

I'm starting to think that maybe it was The Incident that changed things on the Island and made it so babies could not be born there.

 

[Gertch]

So the question becomes, does Kate really want to avoid crashing on the island? Kate will end up in jail for murder.

 

[DarthPipes]

So Oceanic will never have crashed. That means Locke will be crippled, Kate will be in jail, Sawyer and Jack's lives will continue to suck (Jack's always had), Charlie will still be a junkie and probably get arrested on the plane, and a bunch of people will still be alive.

 

[DeafPoet]

Oh shit! Is Charles full of shit?! Probably not.

 

[Jaron]

Holy crap!

 

[Gertch]

I KNEW IT!!! Widmore is his DADDY!

 

[DeafPoet]

Well that's a big SNAP!

It's been set up as the sister episode in many ways to "The Constant" and while it was pretty damn good, it wasn't that similar either in structure or quality to it.

I'm not ragging on it, but when you overtly reference the best Lost episode ever you expect something really wicked.

 

[cubbie]

Yeah, I thought he'd be daddy

 

[DeafPoet]

I KNEW IT!!! Widmore is his DADDY!

Yeah. You called it. I kind of rolled my eyes when you called it, but you have a better bullshit detector than I, sir. Good call.

 

[cubbie]

Whoa!

 

[Gertch]

Wow, that was a powerful scene. Well written and well acted. Just wow.

 

[Brent]

AH! Don't end there! I want the next LOST episode RIGHT NOw!

 

[Capn Flukie]

Stupid spoilers.

 

[DarthPipes]

Wow! I did not expect that ending.

Widmore being the father isn't a surprise though.

 

[Trippy]

Noooooooooooooooooo!

Is Dan dead?!?

Promo...Oh my!

Of course Kate doesn't want to go back to before...she'll be in jail!

 

[Brent]

So Daniel and Penny are siblings and they don't even know it!

She sent her son back knowing she was going to shoot him!

 

[DeafPoet]

Wow, that was a powerful scene. Well written and well acted. Just wow.

It was very good, wasn't it? I can see why they killed Daniel. He's packing nothing but answers in his backstory. He's a liability for the producers. But he still made an indelible impression on the audience and I'm sad to see him go.

It's going to be interesting to see how our layman Losties interpret his words from this episode.

 

[Capn Flukie]

Daniel (to Charlotte) "Remember."