Comments on: LOST: There’s No Place Like Home (Parts 2 and 3)

By: John K.

John K. — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 06:42:18 +0000

I don’t mind the idea of a one off episode either. But the characters and story stunk in my opinion. There isn’t much left for me to like after that.

By: Eric Russell

Eric Russell — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 03:36:39 +0000

I wouldnâ€™t mind finding out they are stuck underground in a half alive/dead state.

If it involves their perpetual suffering, I wouldn’t mind it either.

By: BTD Greg

BTD Greg — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:58:59 +0000

I actually liked the Niki and Paolo episode okay, but I didn’t really like the whole Niki and Paolo concept. It was clunky and poorly executed. The writers have admitted it was an experiment that didn’t work.

By: Ivan

Ivan — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:55:11 +0000

No -

I liked the Niki & Paolo episode as well.

By: Clark

Clark — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:37:28 +0000

I liked the idea of one off episodes. In the X-Files the only episodes I liked were the one off ones. I was excited that Heroes was going to do one off episodes as well. (And I hope they return to that idea this fall)

Plus, I really thought it was a cool story and riff – an new twist to a classic Alfred Hitchcock episode.

By: John K.

John K. — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:24:28 +0000

I think you really might be the only one to like that episode.

I think Locke being a part of the show going forward may have something to do with time when they return to the island. Who knows “when” they will be returning to.

By: Clark

Clark — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:03:38 +0000

Am I the only one who liked the Niki and Paolo episode?

I wouldn’t mind finding out they are stuck underground in a half alive/dead state. It’d be an interesting episode. Although all the evidence suggests that the body remains where it is despite ghostly movement. (See for instance Eko’s brother)

By: Brian G

Brian G — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:20:20 +0000

There’s only about a zillion ways that Locke could not be dead, and/or be available to fight alongside Jack. For one thing, he could have faked his death. There could be a clone/twinning effect going on. Or he could be resurrected once his body hits the island, as you suggest in your last comment, Greg, which is very astute, by the way.

Or he could have dies a long time ago, long before the death that put him in the coffin. In fact, a lot of the cast could already be dead.

As long as we’re suggesting theories, here’s one of mine. One event has been conspicuously skipped over in the Lost timeline in a major way–and that’s what exactly happened when the hatch exploded. It’s very suspicious. I think it’s possible that Charlie, Desmond, Eko, and Locke all died in the explosion. At least they died in the sense that we’re familiar with, and since then perhaps, they’ve been existing in a different way.

What has become increasingly clear is the show’s writers are playing fast and loose with the concept of death.

By: BTD Greg

BTD Greg — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:33:58 +0000

I have a theory about Ben and Jack lugging Locke’s corpse back to the island: some combination of the Island, Jacob and/or the Smoke Monster can inhabit or use the personage only of corpses that physically exist on the island. Thus, the island could use Christian Shepard (his casket fell on the island from Flight 815), Yemi Eko (corpse in the Nigerian drug plane), Libby (shot in the Hatch and buried on the beach), Charlie (died off the coast), Claire (assuming she’s now dead), and anyone else whose dead bodies reside on the island.

Of course, the one major downside to this theory is that it could potentially mean we see visions of Niki and Paolo.

By: Clark

Clark — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:02:00 +0000

I think both Aaron and Walt will be very important next season. I’m not sure they are ‘the key’ but I think they will be quite significant.