What happened to Rose & Bernard?

[The Nth Doctor]

Their scene was great. Why is everyone running around in the jungle like idiots? But I have a sad feeling that's the last we'll see of them (or Vincent).

As much as I love them, I content with their appearance in "The Incident" as their swan song. At some point, I would like concrete proof that they are "Adam and Eve," but otherwise I think their story is over.

 

[exodus]

Their scene was great. Why is everyone running around in the jungle like idiots? But I have a sad feeling that's the last we'll see of them (or Vincent).

As much as I love them, I content with their appearance in "The Incident" as their swan song. At some point, I would like concrete proof that they are "Adam and Eve," but otherwise I think their story is over.

..but are Rose & Bernard the only ones that got the "test" right?

"Esau" said: "It's always the same. They come, they fight, they destroy, they corrupt..."

By Rose & Bernard not doing that and settling down peacefully, did they buck the system?

 

[Mallet]

And, since they were leaping around in time like everyone else, if Jack's plan works will they also end up where ever/however the rest of the Losties do? It would suck for them to be living happily all this time, then suddenly be transported back to the present and all the troubles that that will bring.

 

[chrisspringob]

So does this mean that all the other Flight 815 redshirts are dead? Sawyer searched the Island for three years, and never found any other survivors, but now they've found Rose and Bernard, but they're living alone. Seems kind of implausible that there would be yet more survivors who managed to elude Sawyer's search in yet another location. So I imagine that any additional Flight 815 survivors died in the flaming arrow attack on the beach.

(Of course, there are still a few other 815ers who were absorbed into the Others some time ago, like Cindy, but I presume they stayed in the present and never did any time jumping at all.)

 

[McCoy]

And, since they were leaping around in time like everyone else, if Jack's plan works will they also end up where ever/however the rest of the Losties do? It would suck for them to be living happily all this time, then suddenly be transported back to the present and all the troubles that that will bring.

My guess is that in order to be brought back to the present you had to be near the blast, as all the others were. Only Rose and Bernard were not, and would have been left in '77. They will die together (maybe the gas from the Purge? they weren't that far from the Others' barracks) and their skeletons found by Jack almost 30 years later.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

And, since they were leaping around in time like everyone else, if Jack's plan works will they also end up where ever/however the rest of the Losties do? It would suck for them to be living happily all this time, then suddenly be transported back to the present and all the troubles that that will bring.

My guess is that in order to be brought back to the present you had to be near the blast, as all the others were. Only Rose and Bernard were not, and would have been left in '77. They will die together (maybe the gas from the Purge? they weren't that far from the Others' barracks) and their skeletons found by Jack almost 30 years later.

While I agree that's all logical and I hope that's what I want to happen, something has been nagging me in regards to proximity. When John turned the wheel and the Island began jumping, all of the Losties jumped through time no matter where they were (including Jin in the wreckage and Daniel and company in the boat), but Richard and company (presumably including Cindy, the two kids and other fellow Oceanic 815 survivors) did not jump. Why not?

 

[Alidar Jarok]

Probably those at the temple were protected and those who had some kind of "Other" ceremony were protected (I don't think Ben would have jumped because of what Richard did to him as a kid). Of course, this would make sense only if Juliet never had anything done to her, but since she was always set up as the outsider other, this isn't that implausible.

 

[McCoy]

^ Sounds logical to me.