“I broght you here becuase you were all like me…Alone!”
I think this might be one of the most important lines in the entire series…becuase it answers why they were there, and at the end, you get that resolution.
In the end, none of them were alone, becuase they all had each other.
See, I’m not so sure about that. Richard knew where Jacob lived…he knew he was in the foot of that statue. Yet, without Richard there, Ben took Locke to that cabin which he seemed to think was the home of Jacob. Remember, when Bran and Ilana first got to the island, they went there too and saw that he wasn’t there (and Jacob had left a note to where he actually was). I doubt Richard was going to that cabin and getting orders…he already knew that MIB was a trickster so he knew not to be fooled again like MIB had tried before…I’m sure he knew to not take orders from anyone but Jacob in that statue and not some mysterious voice in a cabin. Again, I think Ben never heard anything from Jacob OR MIB…he was just “winging it” by pretending that he was taking orders from Jacob to get everyone to go along with his orders. I do wonder why Richard didn’t speak up but he seemed to go along with a lot of the bad stuff that Ben did. Widmore did the same thing and you even see Ben call him out on whether he REALLY had seen Jacob during that scene when he takes Rousseau’s baby.
I agree. I think Jacob told Richard SOME things for sure, especially with the lists, but I think Ben did some other things (like purging the Dharma camp) on his own.
I’m not disagreeing with a guy who worked on the show with the writers. I’m disagreeing with a guy who CLAIMS he worked on the show with the writers. Given his error on Desmond being in the church at the end, and his error with the claims on Ben’s character originally being a three-episode character (disputed by Cuse himself in that podcast I linked here) then I have reason to question him, especially since he won’t give a name which is beyond fishy.
Good point, Golgi…the show was always about the characters. I think we kind of forgot about that until the very end.
^Haha! That was actually a pretty common theory for a while. The fans would have been pissssed! 
LOL@DWW. That would have been even better than a Bob Newhart ending. It’s all Vincent’s dream.
That would have been priceless
People’s reactions to an ending like that would make it all the more funny.
^Can’t wait to steal those scenes off the internet!
^^^That site just wreaked havoc on my computer. First froze everything and when I tried to close it, it kept opening the same page over and over, at least 10 of them, one on top of the other, before I could get it under control.
I’m curious (among many things) about how MiB was “trapped” in that cabin by the ash ring, but was wandering the island as the Smoke Monster and various dead people and then how he was ultimately freed from the cabin as demonstrated by the disruption in the ash found by Ilana and her crew.
That is a lovely sentiment.
I disagree that this series was a character study, from my perspective. Six Feet Under (the other best 1 hour show ever) was a character driven show, Lost was an event/mystery driven show. Not to demean the characters, but their personal stories were not what kept me coming back each week (except maybe John Locke). With that said, I did not love the ending any less because of that opinion. In the end, even with a lot of questions left unanswered and some abandoned story lines, it came together beautifully and was a superb finale.
this is great. watch ben get beaten up over the years
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li8WGHtmv4U&feature=related[/youtube]
“if we can’t live together, we’re going to die alone.” --Jack (Season 1, Ep. 5)
I laughed, I cried.
Just finished the last episode. What a great show. Here’s a little insight… I found an interesting quote from the movie Jacob’s Ladder:
Maybe it’s me but the more I think about this show, the less I think of it. I always said that each episode taken on its own was quite good as each was filled with neat twists and nice acting and all that good stuff. But man, thinking about the show as a whole, there really are a fuckload of things they either never answered or never addressed or that happened for no reason except to say that it’s the “power of the island.” Even the overall mystery of the island itself is never explained. Maybe I should stop thinking about it and enjoy it for the ride that it was.