BafflingBeerMan

Except for Kate's "awakening" face, I thought Evie Lilly really hit it out of the ballpark in this episode.

Going from skeptical with Desmond to enlightened with Jack, it was a fine piece of work in the sideways. And on the Island, we finally got kick-*** Kate back.

Actually, I have an idea for Lost: The Next Generation. It would take place twenty years after the original (and actually be made 20 years from now). If you allow me to indulge myself:

The pilot would center on a thirtysomething, married Walt (Malcolm David Kelly comes back). He has been having dreams of his father calling out to him. He decides to go back to the Island to find his father. He takes along his wife as they join the relaunch of...The Dharma Initiative. He joins DI because he remembers what he saw on the Island.

In the new DI it is the work of grad students at UCLA after the DeGroots were kicked out of U of Michigan. Chief among the new crew going to the Island is Aaron Austen-Littleton. At this point, Kate and/or Claire is dead, as I doubt they would allow Aaron to join. Could be a rebellion thing. He doesn't remember anything about the Island, naturally, and he doesn't really know anything about Kate and Claire's experience there. He is as wily as Kate, but is smart.

Elsewhere, Ji Yeon Kwon has finally inherited Paik Industries through the trust fund set up by Sun before she left to go back to the Island. She is a bit of a ruthless business woman. She has a bit of a love/hate rivarly with another young up and comer: Charlie Hume, who helps run Widmore Industries. They see each other a lot, as Paik and Widmore Industries have a long history of working together. In an attempt to get away from the pressures of their every day lives, Ji Yeon and Charlie decide to what rich folk do and sail across the Pacific in Charlie's dad's yacht: The Elizabeth. Of course, they crash onto the Island (paralleling Desmond's arrival).

So you have the kids coming back as adults, with Walt only really knowing what is going on. I think the major plot points should be Walt, his specialness and visions drawing him back to the Island. Ji Yeon and Charlie Hume are basically the only heirs left to their family's business (Ji Yeon much more so, since Sun bought controlling interest in Paik Industries before she died) with Widmore Industries basically being a tool of Charles Widmore to return to the Island for a long time.

The thing is, I think the key would be having the offspring of the Losties be more at peace (save for Walt) with their lives than their parents. You wouldn't want to repeat yourself with having them be as obviously flawed. And you would have to have as big a cast as the original Lost, because the main focus shouldn't only be the offspring. Mix in some other folk to round it out.

True.

But there won't be anymore seperate entertainment concerning Lost with Team Darlton at the helm. So, they are planning no spin-offs or big movie adaptations. The extra stuff on the DVD is just that: extra stuff, not an extension of the brand.

However, they have admitted that they don't own the rights to Lost and recognize it is a big money maker for ABC, so they wouldn't be surprised if ABC continues the brand in some way.

Ah, but he said mothers, not parents! Techincally, Sawyer is a dad. Which ties into Jacob's mother issues.

Also, a possible explanation as to why Sun did not travel back to 1977 (other than plot contrivance to keep the Kwons apart): All the candidates were reunited in the past...plus Kate.

I like the Valenzetti Equation and Jacob's Number explanation cause I can fanwank them together: if one of the Numbers changes (as in, another candidate takes over), then the world is DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED!

They were the final 6 candidates that Jacob thought would want to take the job. While he said Kate could still take over, he did cross her off for becoming a mother.

And 51 is 15, backwards

As Michael Emerson said, he believed he was in a comedy sometimes

And they may have been brought to the Island via Jacob (I believe the name "Goodspeed" was a name of the cave wall).

I do like what someone in this thread suggested (I forgot who, so I apologize): Dharma represented the science side of "saving the world" to Jacob's faith side. Is it any coincidence that Dharma found a way of controlling the Smoke Monster, in terms of the sonic fence and maybe even building the Barracks ontop of the Plug of Smokey Ben has used?

Thing is, everyone had a different list of things that HAD to be answered. Some questions overlapped, of course, but it just goes to show you the show would never be able to please everyone

I like people who said the Hurleybird question had to be answered. Lost already "answered" that in the Season 2 finale, via Hurley remarking upon and Sawyer mocking him about. In other words, Lost was saying "That isn't even a question!"

Actually, the reverse, sorta. Valenzetti Equation came between Seasons 2 and 3. The Midichlorian excuse, I first heard last year. Previously, their answer to the "How will you explain everything?" was along the lines of "We will use pseudoscience (fringe science, heh) to try to explain everything." Which was obviously a misdirect of sorts.

On the other hamd. this season they did adress the Numbers as being Numbers assigned to the Candidates, so they did end up explaining something they previously said didn't matter or weren't going to.