Locke jumps down the hole, high 5's Jack's dad, and turns the donkey wheel. In theory, that gets the island to stop jumping around like House Of Pain, so what other "saving" does the island need?

At that point, does this just boil down to a custody battle between the two bad guys(widmore vs. linus)? I just don't see the point to "jeremy" having to off himself, nor the point of the O6 reunion, or their need to return.

They have not painted any story that the outside world is impacted by the events happening on the island, and since the island has stopped jumping around...everyone still on the island is no longer in any mortal danger.

If this entire story is narrowed down to two dudes fighting for "possession" of this island, it will be rather disappointing.

If this entire story is narrowed down to two dudes fighting for "possession" of this island, it will be rather disappointing.

I'm pretty sure the stakes are more "cosmic".

I'm pretty sure the stakes are more "cosmic".

I'm putting "20 on red" that it's going back to the characters. Lost was always about the characters and their redemption, but somehow it has deviated to other things like the Island and the Ben/Widmore battle and time travel and other things like red herrings e.g. a bomb on the Island, Danielle's back story and a temple being guarded by a smoke monster.

I'm not betting on any "cosmic" ending. I'm betting that the end is going to be very disappointing to most of the viewers. This is based on how this season's story is being told; not very well.


P. S. Vincent! Don't drink the Kool-Aid.

We havent seen all the players yet. And yes I think when you have an island that has an energy that can move it and people through space and time Id say having it in the wrong hands could be quite disastrous.

Yes indeed...just what is the problem anyway?

Regarding saving the island from, there have been suggestions of The End Of Days...."God help us all" etc. Some apocalypse-type event possibly affecting the real world too.

But it is absolutely not clear, what the problem is!

The time shifts? The bomb? The island in the hands of Ben/Widmore?


curiouser and curiouser...

If this entire story is narrowed down to two dudes fighting for "possession" of this island, it will be rather disappointing.

With the way that the show has presented the "black/white" good/evil juxtaposition...I found it interesting that we are now presented with evil/evil/maybe good (whom we don't know?). That being Ben/Widmore/and some unknown? Richard? Jacob?

I feel like the stakes of life and death aren't really that interesting anymore. After Jin and now Locke it seems that the characters decisions have no ramifications so why should we care what they do at all? That whole if they die they stay dead thing was apparently the writers lying again. Myself I was hoping for the spider paralysis being used to trick Jack and company, but apparently that was not the case.

I don't mind it when it was the gun jamming because you still have things to do, but it's far too crazy now and I care less and less each time.

I feel like the stakes of life and death aren't really that interesting anymore. After Jin and now Locke it seems that the characters decisions have no ramifications so why should we care what they do at all? That whole if they die they stay dead thing was apparently the writers lying again.

I also had a problem with this: I love Jin, he's a sweet guy, but he should really be dead, and the story would not really suffer as a result. I thought it was gutsy and bold to have Locke in the coffin last year, but my first thought was, they better not bring him back to the island and have him immediately brought back to life. I know Locke has always been integral, but I think he could have remained so without coming back to life. I expected him to take over as CS, or even turn out to be a time travelled Jacob, etc. But apparently not. I hate to bring up this comparison, but Lost just suffered a major bout of Heroes syndrome with those two resurrections.

But back to the original question: this has definitely bothered me as well, and I guess we are meant to be left in the dark. I'm inclined to agree with PapaThor that it will relate to their characters, and how the timeline of the island included the O6 never leaving when and how they did -- so to make things right, they had to come back to correct the island's history. That is, the island has always seemed to decide who lives and dies on it (Boone, Eko, etc.), so I'm guessing "it" wasn't done with the O6.