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Lost 6x12: "Everybody Loves Hugo"

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An excellent from me - just one thing and I apologise if this has been covered before - what's the theory on the identity of that kid popping up now an then and freaking Not Locke out?

Yeah, I just started looking in this forum after catching up on the last two episodes... and desperately needing a place to commiserate with fellow fans. LOL

My initial thought, especially after the smile is that it's Jacob. I don't think Jacob or the MiB can die.

But then Desmond's behavior is very Jacob-like too. I dunno.
 
Most seem to think the young boy is the reincarnation of Jacob OR a third entity who is more powerful than Jacob and Cerebus. I go with number two. I think the boy is the "god" who created the Island and installed Jacob as the jailer.
 
Ilana's death up the stakes because it took away the one person the good guys had that could fight and defend them (now that Sayid has gone to the dark side). Now they are truly on their own and will have to out think the MIB's side, rather then out fight it.
 
Desmond better NOT be dead or I will be pissed hes one of my favourite chracters and last week set him up for something big. Desomond is the key to all of this I know it and hes has to be alive or what a waste from the writers.
 
Desmond better NOT be dead or I will be pissed hes one of my favourite chracters and last week set him up for something big. Desomond is the key to all of this I know it and hes has to be alive or what a waste from the writers.
I figure he isn't dead... yet, but I also look at it like this. I think what Alt-Desmond is doing, in the sideways, is going to be much more important than anything he might do on the island, & even if he does die on the island, that isn't the finish to what he has to do. This might have been why Island Desmond seemed so passive, after the magnetic event. He has existed in both realities, & both versions of him retain that knowledge.

Alt-Desmond is anything but passive, being he's mowing down people with his car, but island Des might just figure that his real power is in the sideways reality, & therefore isn't too worried about whatever might happen on the island

I agree, Des is very important, & he's also one of my favorites. Maybe number 2, right behind Hurley
 
Desmond is basically in the same position Juliet was at the end of Season 5; he's just lacking a bomb. But considering he's at the base of one of the island's power nexi, and he has some kind of weird ability himself, you just know he's going to be the catalyst for whatever's going to happen in the same way Juliet was.
 
Am I the only one who found out that the discovery of Desmond being only a few feet underground was woefully lame? This episode made it sound like it was some incredibly deep well, complete with waiting for the torch to fall into the pit of darkness and despair. Now, he's like maybe 10 feet down with barely any water in the place.

/boggle
 
^ Maybe the island's magnetic field slowed down the torch's fall. Or maybe the time dilation made the fall seem longer. So why didn't we see the torch fall slowly? It was obscured by dark matter. The same stuff that made up Jack's beard.
 
I also feel that the smoke monster can't kill candidates (or at least people Jacob selects for a purpose) until they are done with their purpose. That's why he could only leave Desmond there for safe keeping, but had to send Sayid to kill him.
 
Am I the only one who found out that the discovery of Desmond being only a few feet underground was woefully lame? This episode made it sound like it was some incredibly deep well, complete with waiting for the torch to fall into the pit of darkness and despair. Now, he's like maybe 10 feet down with barely any water in the place.

/boggle
That was definite trickery, yes. It's pretty funny. In the last episode Desmond falls, goes, "Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa..." After seeing how deep, or rather how shallow, the well was, the scene must have actually gone like this.

Desmond falls. "Wha--" slash! "--aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa..."

Locke: "Why are you still making that noise?"
 
I also feel that the smoke monster can't kill candidates (or at least people Jacob selects for a purpose) until they are done with their purpose. That's why he could only leave Desmond there for safe keeping, but had to send Sayid to kill him.
Uh, when was Desmond ever shown to be a candidate? I don't remember seeing his name on the cave wall or the lighthouse wheel, nor do I remember a scene of him interacting with Jacob.
 
This has probably been posted elsewhere, but just in case it hasn't this link:
http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Whisper_transcripts
It features most of the whispers and they do seem to be from disembodied observers.
Shit, what the hell kind of audio equipment do these people have that they hear these things. Here's what I hear, my transcript to every whisper ever used on the show:

"Fssswwwsffffwfwssssss..."
 
Yah, we've never seen anything to put Desmond as a candidate.

He's more of a wild-card.

Which is probably why the MIB wanted him out Widmore's hands and out of the way, so he wouldn't mess up his plans.
 
Re: the whispers...

Since we know what they are now, I guess it really was Frank Ducket, the guy Sawyer killed in Australia, the whispered, "It'll come back around," probably to mock Sawyer.

Cool.
 
^^ Yeah but they said the Whispers were people who died ON THE ISLAND, so the Frank Duckett thing is actually the one part that doesn't make sense. Though I suppose we could take it to be one of the ghosts reading his mind, seeing that event, and playing it back to him.
 
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