The island wanted LOST SEASON SIX THREAD to happen (***CLICK CAREFULLY -- CONTAINS SPOILERS***)

xpost there's also that time she met desmond in an airport and gave him a boat.

i believe it was a coffee shop.

wasn't it?

now you have me questioning my whole world oh my

hmmm... coffee shop in an airport? des didn't have any american dollars or something?

i feel like desmond's story is pretty well wrapped up actually.

here's a short list of things i'm pretty confident won't be addressed in season 6 that i wish they had gotten around to, maybe instead of like the jack's tattoo episode or something:

-what happened to annie (ben's ladyfriend)
-who was eko's wife (remember he said he had been married, but that she wasn't on the plane)
-how/why widmore was banished from the island
-where the fuck are the children that the others took

been watching from the beginning with my girlfriend who has never watched it and i am almost willing to believe by the way jack and claire interact in season 1 that just maaaaybe they had always intended them to be secret siblings.

is Annie the lady in the butcher shop?

oh wait n/m -- i totally forgot about the Annie episode

xp
No, the little girl who was in DHARMA when he joined as a boy, gave him papier mache figures as a birthday present. Yeah, I think Ben's still got a few juicy bits of backstory to go.

Surprised not much has been made of Aaron's father considering the show's themes and the significance of the baby early on.

They really could've just let Desmond and Penny ride off into the sunset after season four, but of course, the island isn't done with him... Not really sure why they did that, honestly - dude's been through enough!

My Annie guess remains that she was pregnant with Ben's kid and died in childbirth, leading to his obsession with the pregnancy research - at least we'll find out for sure this season (I think) why Ben initiated it all in S1 with the kidnappings. Pretty sure the producers said they'd finally get back to that now - makes sense with the seasonal mirroring (4/3, 5/2, 6/1), Claire coming back, I think Walt does too, at least briefly. But yeah - I do think they've been holding it back for THIS long because it'll be the final Ben flashback story - there have been too many mentions/hints about her for Annie to be dropped entirely.

There might've been an incident, but basically we know that Widmore was kicked off because of Ben - he used Widmore getting married off-island and having kids as an excuse - whatever actually happened during the 80s I think might just be too much junk to delve into at this point. But who knows, I'm still dying for a full Libby episode.

the spider who killed nikki and paolo was smokey!

i know this sounds batshit but i read damon and carlton confirming this somewhere...apparently you hear the smokey clicking noise too

yeah wasn't it some kind of mix of cash register/typewriter noise or something?

lol even Smokey found them irritating and useless

what about the bigass bird that said hurley's name

there's some rumor going around where all the characters are animorphs in season 6 or something

-what happened to annie (ben's ladyfriend)

I guess Annie was evacuated from the Island when all the other Dharma women and children were. It'd make sense.

-who was eko's wife (remember he said he had been married, but that she wasn't on the plane)

Yeah alright they probably won't bother with this.

-how/why widmore was banished from the island

They are totally going to address this, surely?

-where the fuck are the children that the others took

Richard or Ben said there was another group of Others hanging out at the Temple, I suspect they'll get to this as well.

I'd like to see how the Temple cured Ben...

probably just some awful CGI rapid healing

awful CGI rapid loss of innocence forever

Ooh, here's a theory (from http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2010/01/13/DI2010011304368.html) - Lost Hour Q&A with fans & Lostpedia admins.

Regina, SK: Where do you think the character of Aaron will lead to in Season 6? Will he still be important, perhaps as much as he was thought to be in seasons 1 and 2? -Alex, Regina Saskatchewan

Jen Chaney: I think Aaron will be significant, for sure. Actually, I thought he was fairly significant in season five. Kate's decision to leave him with his grandmother was one of the more emotionally wrenching (and memorable) moments of S5, I thought.

Kevin Croy: I think he will be significant too. I suspect that we'll find out we've known Aaron the whole time as someone else.

Sam McPherson: That would be interesting. Could he be Jacob? Both are blondies.

Liz Kelly: Okay, now my head hurts.

OK I don't actually believe that.

he could be jacob. but why, if his name is aaron.

wasn't Widmore sug-banned from the island just because Ben found out he'd fathered Penny off it?

I think Claire and Christian are significant but somehow i just don't feel like there's anything really important going on w/ Aaron. was there any indication that he was important early on beyond just that the others wanted him, which it turned out was because they couldn't have babies?

-how/why widmore was banished from the island

They are totally going to address this, surely?

They already did!

Some time after the Purge, Ben had Widmore exiled from the Island and supplanted him as leader of the Others. As Widmore was led to the submarine by armed guards, Ben came to say farewell. Widmore, however, felt Ben had come to "gloat" about his victory in having him exiled. Widmore had been exiled for "breaking the rules": namely, for regularly leaving the Island, and for having a family off the Island (specifically, a "daughter with an outsider"). Widmore scornfully told Ben that one day he would have to choose between Alex and the Island. He was then led to the submarine and exiled. ("Dead Is Dead")

Kate's decision to leave him with his grandmother was one of the more emotionally wrenching (and memorable) moments of S5, I thought

lol, emotionally relieving more like

I think we'll find out aaron has been a dumb stupid part of the show all along.

would love to see walt's weird bird flinging powers get explained...but don't expect to.

hey if nothing else it led to the secret Hurt Locker crossover

I think we'll find out aaron has been a dumb stupid part of the show all along.

Paolo?

i feel like now that they've established a reality where lots of people are apparently born w/ different supernatural powers (Miles, Desmond, etc.) it doesn't seem nearly as likely that Walt is as central as he once seemed. which maybe they're doing on purpose.

Breathlessly awaiting the "Aaron = Charlie" reveal

really thought Jack would've come face to face with Christian on the island by now, no longer giving a shit about this (or anything about Jack tbh...altho it will be nice when he is re-united with Claire i guess)

that would be especially lame considering that another character now has a baby NAMED CHARLIE

Don't forget that the Others rejected Walt for whatever purpose they wanted him for (though tbh this development could've just been written into the show due to the actor's growth spurt), and that was as far back as season 2. They can easily write this off - Walt was just another kid of many that they did kidnap in the aftermath of the crash. Odd that pretty much all the kids were in the tail section, though. I'm sure there will be some kind of explanation - maybe unsatisfying - for why all the kids in 2004 were important.

Also, Claire is probably dead, right? Well... OK I'd say that if I didn't think she was coming back as a regular.

(and please no that baby is his own grandpa shenanigans, i beg)

Of the chopper people who were selected and sent to the Island by Widmore/Abbadon we know that both Miles and Charlotte were born on the Island, Daniel was at least conceived on the Island and possibly born there as well, so I'd assume that means Lapidus was also an island baby? Actually I really want to know what Frank's deal is all round seeing as the Island clearly wants him for something.

reckon claire might come back as possessed by smokey...

xpost frank is just a drifter...ain't no island wants him

Still watching season 5, and Jack still keeps on saying "that doesn't matter" to every question. And isn't even remotely curious about how or why he's landed in 1977. He really is the worst TV character ever written.

TO HELL WITH THIS SHOW

can't wait

p much

I want to know Cindy the Flight Attendant's story. How did she end up an Other? What happened to her between her going missing and turning up as nanny to (presumably) the taken children?

would guess that they brainwashed her in the DnB room and it worked (unlike with Carl or indeed Waaaaaalt). that's very silly tho.

Her hotness might be a factor in my curiosity. They could surely devote 20 minutes to wrapping that story up just for the hotness.

Um have you seen the women on the show? There is plenty of hotness to go around, they don't need that much more otherwise we'll all "explode".

We need to explode to fix the timelines.

was a big fan of naomi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XCcMwJNT08&feature=player_embedded

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/8/2010/01/500x_ben-2.jpg

GREAT photo

Awesome. I never knew that baby Ben's mother Emily is Michael Emerson's real-life wife!