"The Candidate" Live Commentary
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I think, when you are getting so close to the end and revealing more and more story points, things seem obvious when they're really not. Or weren't not long before anyway. The closer you get to the end, the easier the end is to predict. At least the main core of it.
I've thought that Jack would be the final candidate when they introduced the idea of candidates early on in the season. My opinion, however, has changed. I seriously do believe that the person who will replace Jacob will be John Locke. Not MIB or Flocke or whatever you want to call him, but the original John "Don't Tell Me What I Can't Do" Locke. Why? Because he is the one who cared about the island the most. It makes sense that it would be him. How that's going to happen? Well, I couldn't begin to tell you, but I think it will.
I don't think there's going to be another Jacob. I think they're going to put an end to the island once and for all. And before everything's over, Kate will be important somehow.
Considering the fact that the producers have discussed there being an open-ended series and that ABC would be stupid not to capitalize on the franchise some time down the line, I disagree with the assessment that the island will be gone.
But, yes, Kate will be important.
But, yes, Kate will be important.
"Okay Jeff, it's your big scene. Ready? And... ACTION!"
"We ain't goin' to Guam, are we?"
"And... CUT!"
CHA-CHING!
Yet still not as pointless a character as Ilana.
Is there any possibility that the bomb on the Ajira plane wasn't set by Widmore? Could it have been set by Richard, Ben & Miles? That is exactly what their last known plan was, to go to Otherville & collect the explosives there, & blow up the plane
Is it possible that since none of them are candidates, they could not be allowed to kill the candidates, & that the candidates must kill one another?
Is it possible that since none of them are candidates, they could not be allowed to kill the candidates, & that the candidates must kill one another?
Okay, I haven't cried over Lost like this since Charlie died.
Pretty much. That scene combined the sadness I had when Charlie died with the shock of Anna Lucia and Libby's deaths. Genuinely powerful scene. Although the death rate is pretty damn high at the moment. There are literally less people now with speaking dialogue than there was in the first season. There are 8 good guys and Locke - that's it!
I liked Sayid, but I thought it was a fitting ending. The shock came when the scene didn't end, Frank died suddenly and ambiguously (along with the sub captain, fwiw), and then Jin and Sun's last scene. Wow, just wow.
That was my first thought when I saw the wires. Here we were waiting to see what these guys do next, and it all happens off-screen. I guess it would explain why they seemed to have disappeared for so long.Is there any possibility that the bomb on the Ajira plane wasn't set by Widmore? Could it have been set by Richard, Ben & Miles? That is exactly what their last known plan was, to go to Otherville & collect the explosives there, & blow up the plane
Is it possible that since none of them are candidates, they could not be allowed to kill the candidates, & that the candidates must kill one another?
But then I remembered two things:
1) they were going after grenades to destroy the cockpit, not C4 to boobytrap the cabin
2) even if they did end up finding C4 instead of grenades, none of these guys would have rigged it to explode once the Losties were already on board, not even Ben
It's apparent that Locke didn't put it there himself as a con for the others.
Unless there's another faction we haven't been told about yet (seems highly unlikely), Widmore is the only option left.
Maybe Widmore is compliant in helping Smokey get off the island.
I've seen that theory too. Getting to the sub, which was as woefully underguarded as the plane (seeing as how Widmore knew the MiB had helped his prisoners escape), was just too easy. Was MiB's reaction to the wired plane ambiguous enough to suggest something other than surprise at the presence of the C4? For a man who seems to be able to anticipate and plan, leaving access to the sub virtually wide open was uncharacteristically short-sighted.
As Widmore wants the candidates to remain on the island, he probably intended either to simply destroy the plane, or was attempting to use it as bait to destroy NotLocke, and failed utterly.
Kate Austen: Adventures of a Lingerie Model, coming this fall to ABC.
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