Lost 6x10: "The Package"

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Perhaps I missed it, but when did we learn who killed the Ajira passengers?

Well, you're right, I guess it could have been some unknown third party who killed them, but I don't think that's very likely.

Regardless of what Flocke has said, I think it's entirely possible FLocke is somehow responsible. Remember at the end of last Season that Flocke told Richard that after he saw Jacob that they would need to "take care of" the ajira passengers and when Richard asked what he meant by that FLocke said "You know what I mean".

I could certainly be wrong, but I think Flocke is as likely a candidate as Widmore.

 

[RoJoHen]

This is the first episode in a couple weeks that I haven't gotten bored with in the middle of watching. I think there was just enough going on to keep me interested, plus it's also the first episode in a while to get pretty much the whole cast involved.

I loved Sun's Korean tirade at Richard.

 

[Stone_Cold_Sisko]

I thought Sun's head injury stealing her English skills to be a really, really dumb move on the part of the writers. Come on. Is this some artificial attempt to continue the "Season Six Feels Like Season One" theme they're shooting for? ... Here's something I don't get. If Cerebus needs the Ajira plane to leave the Island, which will destroy our reality (and takes us to the sideways timeline I guess), then why the hell did the Others spend months making the runway for it to land safely? Or maybe this is a daring lure, forcing Cerebus into mortal form in order to kill him once and for all.

I was hoping that she wouldn't know who any of them were, and the Flash-Sideways Sun who didn't know English had passed over into our timeline. That would have been a LOST-ian twist and hopefully begun the road to bring the Flash Sideways into relevance. Alas no. It was pretty stupid.

The final indictment that I give to this episode is, after watching it, I completely forgot about it and didn't bother reading blog reviews and message board theories/speculations about what it all means. The entire episode could have been a subplot of 'Recon'.

Meh, whatever, moving on until next week.

 

[Danny99]

A typical Lost filler episode, even with a tagged-on big ending to make it worth something.

I really really hope the flash-sideways are going somewhere because so far they have done nothing to add to the storyline. Sure it was nice seeing Alex in some catchy outfits, but that seems to have been the only worthwhile thing coming from them.

 

[WeAreTheBorg]

I got a real kick out of the fact that Jin was delivering payment to have himself killed unknowingly.

So is Dezmond "the package" then? I figured there would be a shocking reveal of someone behind a door.

 

[Obiwanshinobi]

Well they didn't blatantly say he was the one in the room with the chained locks, but widmore just referred to the package as not a what but a who, so one would assume it's gotta be Desmond

 

[RoJoHen]

Does Desmond have his own episode coming up? If so, I bet we see him getting kidnapped and shoved in that room on the boat.

 

[Obiwanshinobi]

Uhh well

Spoiler: Spoiler

Tune in next week

 

[Ryan8bit]

Well they didn't blatantly say he was the one in the room with the chained locks, but widmore just referred to the package as not a what but a who, so one would assume it's gotta be Desmond

A package being a who makes practically no sense. Were they just trying to do this to make a parallel to the sideways story? If so, lame.

 

[Obiwanshinobi]

Rewatch it dude. And no i don't think it was a parallel perse, just a title of an episode with a double meaning. Like here we thought it was just focused on Jin's package to Keami, but in addition to that Widmore is in a sense delivering a package to the island which may or may not be Desmond, but i think its pretty clear at this point that it is. It is what it is man. Just sit back and enjoy the ride. Answers will come. 6 episodes left! I will be definitely lost without Lost.

 

[RoJoHen]

Well they didn't blatantly say he was the one in the room with the chained locks, but widmore just referred to the package as not a what but a who, so one would assume it's gotta be Desmond

A package being a who makes practically no sense.

Why not? The real question is who is the package (Desmond) being delivered to.

 

[Checkmate]

A package being a who makes practically no sense.

Eh? "The/A Package" is often used to refer to an important someone in code. You see it all the time in film and television, particularly when dealing with a president by his security detail or a kidnapped individual.

 

[Mr Light]

Maybe Cerebus can't fly over moving water like a vampire?

 

[RoJoHen]

Maybe Cerebus can't fly over moving water like a vampire?

Or a hoverboard from the year 2015!

 

[Brent]

I have a theory, they have to send Desmond back in time to push the button, to reset everything or something, so Desmond's fate in life will be to always press that button.

 

[RoJoHen]

I have a theory, they have to send Desmond back in time to push the button, to reset everything or something, so Desmond's fate in life will be to always press that button.

Oh no! I hate this! I just want Desmond to be happy!

Can Penny and Lil' Charlie come with him at least?!

 

[Plomeek Broth]

Average.

Lighthearted romp.

I am getting frustrated with the ALT for one reason and a big one- I don't know how to emotionally invest myself in these characters because I don't know if it's real or not or how it applies to the OT. Seems like a lot of work to make the fans watch 50% of each episode and they don't even know how or whether or not to care what happens to the characters in this timeline or not. Is it just a what if scenario? An epilogue? Very frustrating. TPTB better have a reveal that knocks our socks off, otherwise it is a colossal waste of time.

Liked seeing Mikhail again.

Didn't have any high expectations going in, so no surprised disappointment from me.

But I did love the Sun "unbuttoning" scene.

 

[Stone_Cold_Sisko]

I have a theory, they have to send Desmond back in time to push the button, to reset everything or something, so Desmond's fate in life will be to always press that button.

I actually have a similar theory. At one point I began writing up a thread about it, got about halfway through my convoluted explanation, then gave up

Basically the idea was, to prevent everything bad from happening, instead of detonating jughead, they need to prevent the hatch getting blown up. The idea was, you can track back everything that happened to the point the hatch blew up and Desmond got 'future seeing' powers. He prevented Charlie's death long enough for Charlie to shut off the jamming station, which let them call the freighter people, which set in motion everything that happened in S4 and 5.

 

[RoJoHen]

Basically, they need to be prevented from ever finding the Hatch in the first place.

I will laugh if everything leads back to the Hatch by the end of the show. In a weird way, it would make perfect sense. Locke did believe it was his destiny to find it.

 

[Brent]

Basically, they need to be prevented from ever finding the Hatch in the first place.

I will laugh if everything leads back to the Hatch by the end of the show. In a weird way, it would make perfect sense. Locke did believe it was his destiny to find it.

For all we know it was the MIB that lead him to it!

I actually think this has a lot of logic to it, everything could lead back to that!