Lost

Well, FUCK.

(Those who read this thread before watching the show, are making a mistake).

Re-watching the old ones on DVD recently, I have an absolute man-crush on Locke. I would totally have been Boone, his acolyte, doing whatever the hell he said, because dammit, he's smarter than everyone else. So when I heard there were going to be five deaths including Locke's dad, I thought maybe Locke would be one. He's the only person everyone respects, and he's my favorite character, and they have done all they can do with hie (damn heartbreaking) flashbacks. But I said "Hurley" because I didn't want Locke to buy the farm.

Great episode. Especially loved the reasoning behind the Volkswagen van being there . . . kind of a nice slap to the impatient who whined after the Hurley and the van episode that "It didn't advance the PLOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Also: wasn't that the crazy hitchhiker guy from Something about Mary as Ben's dad?

But that ending . . . . . . . .FUCK.

:'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(

 

It was John Gries.

You may know him better as Uncle Rico from Napoleon Dynamite

Seriously, give him some facial hair and have him eat some steak and pretend to throw a football and you'll see what I mean.

 

Evangeline Lilly is looking spectacular (and braless) on Jimmy Kimmel at this moment.

 

If you slow-mo the scene where Jacob is acting up, for a split-second you'll see somebody sitting in the chair while Ben is standing there.

 

OK I can't remember the dude's name but.... the guy who gave Locke Sawyer's file and told him to have Sawyer kill his old man.... is that the same dude who meets up with young Ben in the jungle and is there after an older Ben helps them kill everyone in Dharma? If so that dude hasn't aged a minute since at least Ben was a kid. Does any of that make sense?

 

Looked like Ben Franklin with a white beard.

 

Yes, same guy. "Richard." Why he hasn't aged like Ben did from kid to adult -- well, that's the mystery?

 

Such as how come Ben's cancer didn't heal when Rose's did.

Also, how come he couldn't walk immediately after the surgery while Locke could.

Do you guys think Locke is actually dead? I'm still not sure he's going to be one of the casualties.

 

So now we know there were folks on the island well in advance of the Dharma Initiative. We know that Ben most likely helped these people, the "hostiles" with some sort of genocide. We know they also have not appeared to age since Ben was a boy. We know Ben has Daddy issues, just like everybody else on the island (and all the cowboys).

Oh, and there is an invisible man who lives in a hut in the jungle and Locke is sprawled in a ditch, surrounded by bones, with a gunshot wound to the chest.

This show ...

 

Some sort of genocide? They mustard-gassed the entire Dharma colony, wiping them all out. Ben was clearly in cahoots with them, given the chance to kill his dad individually, and be away when the shit hit the fan.

Dude had a different haircut to look younger. Doesn't mean he hasn't aged. Oh, it might mean that, but the flashbacks have always done a good job of showing these people as younger, thanks to hairstyles and makeup.

 

Genocide, mustard gas, purge ... all the same. The "hostiles" and Ben killed Dharma. That's the long and the short of it. And because Ben provided the Others with a means with which to finally kill off Dharma, he rose to some sort of prominence among them and, immediately or eventually, became one of their leaders.

And then there's Jacob. That whole scene just made me shake my head. Crazy ish.

And say what you want about the aging, or lack thereof, but Richard did not appear as if he had aged between when he first met Ben in the jungle and when he handed Locke the folder last week. Maybe he has good genes (or a good makeup artist), or maybe there is some sort of Fountain of Youth. Nothing would surprise me anymore.

 

So why does Richard wear eyeliner?