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Clue to the identity of the person in the coffin... (Spoilers)

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it's been said by Damon and Carlton that we will learn who is in the coffin by the end of the season. I don't know if this constitutes an extra or "new" clue, but I took a look at the blowup of the newspaper obituary that Jack sees while on the airplane and I picked up on something I hadn't considered before. Here's the clip:

http://images.lostpedia.com/images/d/d4/Newspaperclipping2.jpg

Now, although the name of the person appears to be J... ...ntham and this doesn't seem to correspond to a known character's name or alias, it is mentionned that the person is originally from New York. Consider for a moment that Jack says that the person in the coffin is neither family or a friend (back in the S3 finale), this could very well be Micheal... he had to use SOME name while living in New York before Tom gave him the Kevin Johnson identity which may only have been used on board the freighter... Do we know anyone else we could link to New York? (considering this is even accurate at all?)
 
Personally I'm fully expecting the coffin reveal to be another WTF moment, and it won't be Michael, simply because that's who we're expecting it to be. the mystery will then be why did nobody turn up to the funeral when it was some other character we knew and loved?
 
That's what I'm expecting, too. It's not going to be Michael no matter how much we want it to be him. ;)
 
Someone who works on the show said they might not use the contents of the newspaper article prop that they used in the 3rd season finale. So we might not be able to draw and conclusions for it.
 
Yeah, I think Carlton or Damon said that they didn't mean for that much of the obituary to be visible because it was just a prop.
 
Well, the obvious answer would be Michael given the funeral parlor's location and lack of people attending and Jack's answer about Michael....therefore it can't be Michael.

Of course, given how blindingly obvious Michael's return to the boat was, maybe they've lost their touch and the obvious is now (unfortunately) possible.
 
label said:
Well, the obvious answer would be Michael given the funeral parlor's location and lack of people attending and Jack's answer about Michael....therefore it can't be Michael.

Of course, given how blindingly obvious Michael's return to the boat was, maybe they've lost their touch and the obvious is now (unfortunately) possible.
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We only knew that Michael was on the boat because we knew the actor was coming back, the actor's name was in the credits for the first 6 weeks and Ben kept referring to "his man on the boat". It was easy to put 2 and 2 together. I wish they had somehow managed to keep it all secret and not include his name in the credits. That would have been a real WTF moment when he popped up. Not many people would have seen that coming.
 
Demonland said:
label said:
I wish they had somehow managed to keep it all secret and not include his name in the credits. That would have been a real WTF moment when he popped up. Not many people would have seen that coming.
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I'd agree with that. I still can't believe they couldn't keep his name out of the credits until he showed up......it completely ruined any suprise we would have had.
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After the third season finale I was convinced that the guy in the coffin was either Locke or Ben. Then I heard Michael was coming back so I added him to my guess. But then The Economist showed Ben alive in the future off island so I took him off my list. We also found out Locke didn't get off the island so I took him off and now I'm utterly convinced it's Michael. It seems obvious now but at the start of the season it didn't.
 
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It's been my impression that "Through the Looking Glass'" flashforward showed Jack in early April 2007 and all of the flashforwards this season showed the characters at some point between when they got off the island and when we saw Jack, distraught and intent on returning to the island.

Which means they take place sometime in that 2 year gap (seeing as how Desmon and Sayid were on the boat Christmas Eve 2004 and Lostpedia puts Jack's flashforward in "Through the Looking Glass" as April 5, 2007).
 
DeafPoet said:
Yeah, I think Carlton or Damon said that they didn't mean for that much of the obituary to be visible because it was just a prop.
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well, phooey! That ruins some of the fun if we can't obsess over the details. It looked to me like the obit indicated that it was a suicide by hanging.
 
Given the huge antagonism between the two and given Jack's crybaby reaction, I bet 50€ on John Locke! It will be a helluva wtf moment!
 
Michael would be far too obvious(although very possible); it could also be Locke. However, it could also be someone out of left-field---someone like Sawyer, perhaps?

I'm thinking it's Locke. We shall see.
 
MadBaggins said:
I think it will be Charlotte and Temis the Horta will finally have gotten her wish. :mad:
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Heh heh. :evil:

Seriously folks, nobody get attached to any of the new folks. Remember what happened to the last batch of new folks, aka the Tailies?

And the Lost writers aren't above doing the painfully obvious. Just look at Charlie's incredibly well foreshadowed death. For Michael to follow suit wouldn't surprise me, tho it would be disappointing. Why ever do the obvious thing?
 
Temis the Vorta said:
And the Lost writers aren't above doing the painfully obvious. Just look at Charlie's incredibly well foreshadowed death. For Michael to follow suit wouldn't surprise me, tho it would be disappointing. Why ever do the obvious thing?
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I agree. And for the first three seasons I wouldn't have guessed that the Lost writers would do the obvious but making Michael the man on the boat the way they did it was incredibly obvious.

Perhaps if they had removed Harold's name from the credits and it wasn't all over the internet it would have been somewhat suprising but as it was, it was incredibly underwhelming when they did the "reveal".

Hopefully they'll learn from their mistakes and suprise us yet again.
 
Apparently, keeping someone's name out of the credits is a major pain for the studios. There's some hard and fast union rule about excluding--for whatever reason--anyone from the credits. If they do, they end up paying a big fine, and any studio that violates the union's rules x amount of times can find itself in pretty hot water.

This happened when ER had George Clooney make his last, "surprise" visit. I remember reading how the producers had to beg, plead and offer money out of their own pockets to get his name kept off the credits and keep the surprise.

Now, I can certainly see why they have this rule, but it seems that they could be a little more flexible with it.
 
auntiehill said:
Apparently, keeping someone's name out of the credits is a major pain for the studios. There's some hard and fast union rule about excluding--for whatever reason--anyone from the credits. If they do, they end up paying a big fine, and any studio that violates the union's rules x amount of times can find itself in pretty hot water.
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Must have been a hell of a problem for the BSG folks at the end of last season.
 
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