aintnosin

They used the nuclear trigger (which is basically a fission bomb inside the fusion bomb). Without it, Jughead is basically a big can of nothing.

cracksky

Desmond turned the failsafe key and the bomb would have to have been close underneath and encased in concrete. The hatch imploded and the impact barely reached the surface but caused the sky to turn purple and a loud buzzing sound. The door blew off and into the air, landing at the beach camp. Desmond flashed out of the hatch and into the jungle naked. Juliet's bomb was over at the bottom of the hatch entrance where the broken ladder will be. If the same thing happened to Juliet then she will flash out of there as well (and hopefully end up naked).

The question is where another bomb would come from but my guess is that Radzinsky knows where to find one.

MoviePage

I agree with most of your points in this thread, but not so sure about this one. Now that we know what happened with Locke, and that the same (or very similar) thing happened with Christian, I'm pretty convinced that the producers' declaration of "dead is dead" is true. What else are you basing this on? (And even though I was disappointed in the Jin death fake-out, we never saw a body or an actual death there.)

cracksky

There was no fake-out there. They showed Jin on the boat then Sun screaming then they cut away for 22 seconds (for Christian's appearance) then cut back for the explosion. Plenty of time for Jin to leap off and into the water.

Draven

...and be the only survivor? Sure, that makes sense. See how far you can get away from a big boat in 22 seconds.

I'm just saying that death means nothing because you get to see all of the actors again and again, they still interact with other characters and there is no sense of loss because they are always popping back up.

Aphex Twin

Jin could actually have died and his real corpse will turn up in season 6. You don't know if Jin pulled a Locke too.

Groucho

I think EVERYBODY died in the plane crash, and the island is just purgatory.

DID I JUST BLOW YOUR MIND?!?

cracksky

Jin was probably the only one on the boat that knew of the C4 and how imminent the explosion was. All he had to do was jump in the water and dive down underneath as far as he could until the main fireball subsided then resurface away from debris. Not easy but doable.

I don't get that feeling at all from this show. I don't feel cheated from the writers.

It's not a cheat if a character dies then you see them again in flashback or talking to others. This show does not have linear storytelling so it's not A->B->character dies->C->D->character dies->etc...Any show that bounces back and forth in time and uses flashbacks is bound to reuse actors after their characters have died.

Aphex Twin

Interesting theory. I can see that as a possibility. Sayid got to have sex with Shannon though. Sawyer did it with Ana Lucia and Juliet. Jack boned Kate. Hurley did the deed with Libby. Rose and Bernard screw all the time. I thought that wasn't possible in purgatory?

Flave

And knock your socks off. Good luck getting them back on.

Mordred

I realize this is a few days old, but I just finished reading the thread.

The FDW ISN'T used for transporting a person off the island, they use a sub fro that. The FDW is used for moving the island. The transportation to Tunisia is an unfortunate side-effect which is why they would breed and train polar bears to do it instead of just having some guy put on a heavy coat and go turn the wheel.

d2cheer

OR someone survived and they are in a coma and they are imagining the whole thing...


They suddenly wake up and LOST.... ends.

Flave

Why did they need a POLAR BEAR? Why not use a...well...donkey? I mean, donkeys are a heck of a lot more manageable than polar bears. And please don't tell me that they used bears because it's a little cold.

I guess not much drama in finding dead donkeys in the Tunisian desert.

MoviePage

They showed Sun screaming right as the explosion happened, and crying immediately after it.

I don't think you can argue that it wasn't shot and edited with the intention of making us think that Jin had died.

maxfisher

Read this very carefully. You need to find someone important to you. Someone that you'll still know in 2009. The next time you have one of your flashes, you MUST call this person.

RoboDad

I would argue that it was shot and edited to allow people to jump to the conclusion that Jin had died. But there was nothing in the scene that gave any kind of definitive proof that he had died. Not the way they did when any of the other major characters have died.

MoviePage

Yes, exactly. Which is why I referred to it as a "fake-out" rather than a "lie."

RoboDad

OK, maybe it's just a matter of semantics, then. No one made anyone think Jin was dead. They may have led viewers up to the edge of a cliff and shouted "JUMP!", but they didn't push anyone over the edge. Everyone who jumped did so on their own.

cracksky

They definitely wanted us to think he was dead but they cut away for a reason.

Classic subtle audience manipulation with great editing and a wonderful performance by Yunjin Kim with her chilling scream to sell Jin's death.

Of course, since we now know that Jin plays a part in '70's Dharma, maybe the island helped him survive the explosion.

Boba Fett

I'm pretty sure you're being sarcastic, but in case not, the creators actually confirmed that this theory is false.

Decker

When you see ANY post by that particular author, that is a VERY safe assumption.

Mordred

Simple explanation: You can't train a donkey to walk down a ladder. Any more questions smart guy?

cracksky

They were already doing experiments with Polar Bears at the Hydra station so they borrowed one and had it turn the wheel because they didn't want to risk the life of a human without testing it first. I'm sure they did their testing in the chamber at The Orchid but this is completely different. It vanished but they didn't know where it ended up. They eventually figured out that the exit point was Tunisia probably via an very scared volunteer. I'm thinking that Ben might have been the first to try it. The assistant in the Orchid video looks like a Ben that might be around 19 years old (in 1981). They might've sent the dead guy (with the tooth that flew out of his head) through the chamber first to make sure a human would come through in one piece.

RoboDad

Well, I don't know what else to say except that if they wanted all of us to think Jin was dead beyond doubt, they failed miserably, at least in my case. I wondered whether he might be dead, and it was clear that Sun thought he was dead, but I never assumed that to be the case, not even for a minute.

Maybe having observed such "classic audience manipulation" for over 40 years makes it easy to not make such assumptions. But then, I wasn't completely convinced that Charlie was dead for a long time.

DarkestPhoenix

Neither did Kate's horse.