Comments on: LOST 6.7: “Dr. Linus”

By: BrettC

BrettC — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:26:33 +0000

Hurley pretty much stayed on the Dharma side of things back in 1977. He never went to the Others camp, and was never introduced to Richard to my knowledge. Kate? Yes. Jack? Sure. But never Hurley… unless I am forgetting something. But then we also have Jin saying that Kate took Aaron to Claire which may be more forgiveable because maybe someone told him that. But also remember the LOSTIES from the Ajira flight were only in 1977 a very short time. Maybe a week or week and a half tops.

By: MHansen

MHansen — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:29:06 +0000

“I thought it was strange Hurley remarked on Richard’s apparent lack of aging. It was cute to have him ask about Terminator and vampire, but I do not recall Hugo ever meeting Richard before this. He would not know to ask.”

Wouldn’t Hurley have seen Richard sometime in the ’70s?

By: Erich Asperschlager

Erich Asperschlager — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:27:58 +0000

An interesting thought from Doc Jensen over at Entertainment Weekly: this season will take place over three days, mirroring the three days between Jesus’ death and resurrection.

I’d noticed that we’ve only just made it into the second (or is it third?) day of this season, but wasn’t sure what it meant. He may be wrong, but the slow moving of time sure seems important this year. Add the pseudo real-time storytelling to the axe kill and torture scenes and season six of Lost is more 24 than season eight of Fox’s current snore-a-thon.

By: BrettC

BrettC — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:23:44 +0000

Overall I say this is the second best episode so far only eclipsed by THE SUBSTITUTE. Very good hour! Michael Emerson is always masterful in his portrayal of Ben no matter what the situation calls for. This time out he had to play Ben as two different extremes, and that was rather cool to watch. I like the sly nod to him giving his father life support gas rather than life ending gas, a hugely different take on the mythos of Ben. But you see all his traits in both timelines, just one is more grounded in good while the other is jaded and bad. Well… until the end anyway when the two seem to crash together. I will say it’s a great solid story.

Hmmm, on the whole “being touched by Jacob results in a gift” idea. Apparently Alpert got eternal life, but the rest of them just can’t die by their own hand? I mean obviously Sawyer and Kate aged after being touched by Jacob. Does this explain why some of the Others seem not to age as quickly and can’t reproduce? Remember the whole Juliet scene of this is a seventy year old woman’s reproductive system inside someone in her mid-twenties….? Just throwing that out there, but seems like this candidate thing gets more and more involved.

And why does Richard seem not clued in to all of this when both Dogen and Ilana seem to even know the NAMES of the candidates? I wish Ilana had recited the six likely new protectors of the island… echoes of the Oceanic six come to mind. Is she still counting Sayid, Sawyer, and Claire even after they have made it to the darkside?

Did anyone else wonder if the deal Smokey was offering up Ben was going to result in Ben becoming the new MAN IN BLACK? I sorta saw that in my head as a resolution, always a dark and a light one.

I would be interested to see how Alex and her mom ended up in Los Angeles. Too bad Danielle Rousseau couldn’t be shown, the actress was not willing to come back (silly silly woman).

I thought it was strange Hurley remarked on Richard’s apparent lack of aging. It was cute to have him ask about Terminator and vampire, but I do not recall Hugo ever meeting Richard before this. He would not know to ask.

I was actually glad to see WIDMORE heading to the island. Really his and Ben’s struggle with each other was too important just to sweep under the rug. Yet I do not think for a second he is the one Jacob wants to come and find the island. Remember he seemed to want to “kill every living thing” on the island with his freighter team. I think he bats for Team Smokey! Just my bet.

By: Erich Asperschlager

Erich Asperschlager — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:37:02 +0000

So maybe Ben stopped Locke from killing himself because he didn’t want John to know he couldn’t die. If he’d found out, his faith would have be renewed——a serious threat to Ben’s bid to retake his place of power on the island. Even though I don’t think Ben knew about the candidacy thing, he must have had some clue that certain people were more “special” than him.

By: Brandon B.

Brandon B. — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:32:15 +0000

Locke was about to kill himself…but then Ben showed up to stop him. And then killed him anyway. Tough luck. More tough luck: Richard was tossing that dynamite around like it was play-do, and all I could think was, “He’s pulling an Arzt! ;__________________;” I guess Arzt’s death-by-boom was in the stars, lol.

The power of Jacob’s touch might explain how Jack recuperated from Sawyer’s beating so quickly in the S5 finale, too.

I think those are the only almost-suicides, though.

By: Erich Asperschlager

Erich Asperschlager — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:25:51 +0000

Good call Michelle! I’d forgotten about Michael’s failed attempt to kill himself. I’m pretty sure we saw Michael’s last name among the crossed out on Jacob’s list. Was the car crash that stopped Jack’s suicide attempt island intervention, too? Does anyone remember other failed suicides that might tie into Richard’s revelation?

By: Michelle

Michelle — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:55:49 +0000

The best part was Miles’ line about the 2 idiots buried with $8 million in diamonds. LOL Here’s my question. Richard said that if Jacob touches you, you can’t kill yourself. Didn’t he touch all the candidates? And I guess that means that Michael was a candidate as well because he couldn’t kill himself either.