Archief - Lost seizoen 6 (ABC) The Final Season

through screencaps, figured out what the books were that both The Frenchman and Desmond were reading.

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The book the frenchman in the temple tunnel had on him was Soren Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling (it was a French copy, obviously, so the title was in French). It's yet another existentialist philosophical book to go along with the Sartre and Dostoyevsky we've had on the show already.

from Wiki:

"The title is a reference to a line from Philippians 2:12, "...continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling."

Fear and Trembling presents a highly original and provocative interpretation of the Binding of Isaac story as told in Genesis Chapter 22, and uses the story as an occasion to discuss fundamental issues in moral philosophy and the philosophy of religion, such as the nature of God and faith, faith's relationship with ethics and morality, and the difficulty of being authentically religious."

"In Fear and Trembling Kierkegaard introduces the "Knight of Faith" and contrasts him with the "knight of infinite resignation". The latter gives up everything in return for the infinite, that which he may receive after this life, and continuously dwells with the pain of his loss. The former, however, not only relinquishes everything, but also trusts that he will receive it all back, his trust based on the "strength of the absurd".

For Kierkegaard, infinite resignation is easy, but faith is founded in the belief in the absurd. The absurd is that which is contradictory to reason itself.

[en.wikipedia.org]

The book Des was reading on the plane was Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie.

From Wiki:

"Haroun and the Sea of Stories is a 1990 children's book[1] by Salman Rushdie. It was Rushdie's first novel after The Satanic Verses. It is a phantasmagorical story set in a city so old and ruinous that it has forgotten its name.[2]"

The book includes the following things:

- an ancient city so old that people forgot it existed
- a war between the rulers of that ancient city
- a main character who is represented by two sides of himself: an "anthropomorphic shadow" and a "diminished man"
- a "poisoned ocean" caused by above man's splitting of himself into two parts
- a potential mutiny of one of the warring tribes led by a man who isn't the leader
- the anthropomorphic shadow has the ability to "appear identical" to some of the people in the city
- a plan to destroy the ocean using "complicated machines powered by electromagnetic induction"
- the Big Bad is killed at the end after his ice palace melts and his giant statue falls on him
- "a landscape whose weather changes to reflect the emotions of the people currently present in it"
- the two tribes are kept apart "by a force field named Chattergy's Wall"
- "At the South Pole of Kahani is a spring known as the Source of Stories, from which (according to the premise of the plot) originated all stories ever communicated. The prevention of this spring's blockage therefore forms the climax of the novel's own story."

I was particularly struck by the "man divided in two: anthropomorphic shadow and the diminished man" reference from Rushdie's book. That seems to describe the Man In Black/Fake Locke/Smoke Monster to a T.

Also of note, the title of Flannery O'Connor's "Everything That Rises Must Converge" (which Jacob was reading in "The Incident" as Locke fell out the window) seems to take on a new meaning with the revelation of divergent timelines in "LAX".

Seizoen 6 zal zich concentreren op twee verschillende tijdlijnen. Aan het eind van seizoen 5 werd er een bom opgeblazen die de hele toekomst zou moeten veranderen, waardoor het ongeluk dus nooit zou hebben plaats gevonden. Tijdlijn 1 concentreert zich op wat zou zijn gebeurd als de bom daadwerkelijk was ontploft en het vliegtuig dus gewoon in Los Angeles aankomt, terwijl tijdlijn 2 laat zien wat er zou zijn gebeurd als de bom nooit was afgegaan en de groep nog steeds vastzit in 1977. Ze zullen ontdekken dat John Locke niet John Locke is, krijgen te maken met een gevaarlijke groep piraten op het eiland en de overlevenden van Oceanic 815 die allemaal ooit zijn benaderd door Jacob zullen ontdekken wat hen de rest van hun leven te wachten staat. Dit alles zal gepaard gaan met veel gevechten en de dood van vele personages, en eindelijk de antwoorden die iedereen al zolang zoekt.

Ik zie iedereen nog wel sterven in de tijdlijn op het eiland en terechtkomen in de veranderde tijdlijn

*Every season of lost has started by showing us how the flashes of each season end. Season 1 flashbacks show how they end up on the beach, Season 2 flashbacks show how Desmond ends up in the hatch, Season 3 flashbacks show who the others are, Season 4 flashforwards show how Jack concludes "We have to go back", the Season 5 time flashes show how Daniel was at the Swan construction site and met Dr. Chang.

*Season 6 will be the same. The first thing we saw was how the season ends. This time there is a new story telling device. Now we are seeing flashforwards of flashbacks. The off island LA X stuff IS NOT an alternate reality created by Jughead. We are seeing the reset timeline that has not been created yet.

*Jack looks older in the season 6 premiere. That's because he is.

*In the same way that Charlotte mumbled about chocolate when she was dying, Juliet talked about coffee and going dutch. Her mind is flashing to another period of time... I think in the off island scenes, we are going to see a lot of character resolutions. Juliet will meet Sawyer, they will flirt with each other, and she will ask him if he would like to go get a cup of coffee, for instance.

Basically the idea is that the off island alternate we are seeing right now is going to be the result of what happens on the island this season... not the result of Juliet hitting Jughead.

What I want to add to this theory is this: I think I know how Jack will reset everything AND how the island ends up at the bottom of the ocean.

We know this is the final season and the writers have promised us that all of the major questions that are important to the characters will be answered. One major question that is of obvious importance to the Losties is how the island can move through both time and space.

I predict that at some point in this season, probably somewhere around episode 12-14, Jack will learn what the island is and how it can be moved and the nature of time travel. In the mean time, I predict many of the characters on Lost will die. In fact, I would not be surprised if by the end Jack is the only one still living.

I predict that Jack, the man obsessed with fixing everything all the time, will come to the conclusion that blowing up the swan's pocket of energy was not sufficient to change everything. I predict the major battle we are all predicting for season 6 between "Good" and "Evil" will involve Jack deciding that the island itself has to be destroyed.

Jack is going to move the island. This time he will move it to a place where it can't possibly cause 815 to crash. He will move it to the bottom of the ocean (space) and at some point around 1970 (time).

This explains why the island was at the bottom of the ocean, yet everything seemed to be basically normal there. It didn't look like a nuke had exploded. It didn't look like a volcano had erupted. It simply looks like it ended up there.

I predict it was placed there around 1970 because I think Ben will be seen off island, which means he never made it to the island in 1973. Yet the New Otherton was seen, so it was moved to a period in time after The Dharma Initiative arrived.

Because Jack moves the island to the ocean floor at this point in time, all of the people Jack cares for will be saved, including Juliet since she will never go to the island. Heck, he might even realize he can save Ben by ensuring he never goes there and is never shot by Sayid. Heck, Ben might even be a decent guy when we meet him off island.

The show is going to end with Jack, who's neck was scratched up in the final battle, on Flight 815 headed to LAX. At this point, I think Jack remembers everything that happened. That is why he was frightened this time at the turbulance, That is why he was looking at everyone so curiously and why he looked confused when we first saw him. I think he asked Desmond if he knew him simply to try to gauge whether or not he was the only one who remembers what happened.

This is also why Jack told Locke, "Nothing is irreversible."

The off island flashes we see this season will turn out to be the true ending of Lost. Everything else was just progress.