That reminds me... An Italian site uploaded supposedly leaked script pages of the final episode, and I'm not sure how anyone could doubt they're the real deal, considering this part:Walter said:WOW! This was by far the best episode yet in LOSTfor the foley artist responsible for creating all the gratuitous and unnecessary gun cocking sounds.
Suddenly, CLIC-CLICK, a RIFLE BOLT being COCKED, and Sawyer feels the cold steel of the BARREL on the back of his neck.
Anyway...
I love how Sun and Jin keep talking to each other in English. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. "Our viewers are too dumb to be moved if they had to read "I love you" instead of hearing it!"
Thing is, I think I'm not dumb enough to be moved by that death scene anyway, considering how nonsensical the whole thing was.
So Smocke can't kill the candidates directly. Because he's not allowed to. By "the rules". Remember how Ben couldn't kill Widmore or vice versa? Yeah, same kind of deal. It would seem whoever wrote "the rules" might be completely arbitrary but sure cares a lot about drama.
Anyway, Smocke can't kill the candidates directly. So what does he do?
Well, simple enough: he takes a watch from one of Widmore's goons, immediately spots the bomb that Widmore planted on the plane (for some reason? were the candidates just a Smocke bait, as far as Widmore was concerned? and can Smocke be killed by an explosion, now? wait, why am I even asking questions? 'guess the show needed another bomb, so there it is!), grabs it, says "let's go take the sub" (that should be easy, considering he's a smoke monster, and all... OK, so he doesn't turn into smoke form in the end, but it was easy anyway), quickly turns the goon's watch into a timer (now, there's someone who plans ahead), puts the bomb in Jack's unexplained-but-so-convenient backpack (seriously, it looks like Jack had been carrying a backpack these past episodes just so Smocke could pull that trick.. if you were wondering why he kept the mysterious backpack when he swam back to the main island, two weeks ago, well, there you go!), and assumes our heroes would try defusing the bomb (because the timer Smocke added so quickly is also a tricky one... and it would seem that, according to "the rules", them trying to defuse the bomb counts as if they, not Smocke, set it up in the first place... don't ask... say, if Jack couldn't kill himself with dynamite, maybe Sawyer should have kept the bomb he just tried to defuse, and it wouldn't have blown up? that makes sense, right?!) without resurfacing with the sub.
A sound plan.
I mean, it's either that, or letting Widmore's bomb kill them all in the plane, and... Oh. Yeah, he could have done that, too!
Just like he could have let Jack die in the mortar strike. What was the point of saving him, again? Even the inconsistencies are predictable, on this show.
So we get four deaths (yeah, Lapidus probably died, too... and no, nobody cares... why should we?), and judging by the obnoxious violins or pianos, we should be sad instead of wondering what the hell the writers were thinking.
(gotta love how they show that Jin is fine in the flashsideways immediately after the death scene, too... yeah, we get it: you think your viewers are a bunch of idiots)
In the end, Sayid turning "evil" (?) proved to be about as essential to the plot as Sun forgetting how to speak English.
Yeah, he killed Dôgen (who was the one who kept Smocke out of the temple, apparently? why did they let Contagiously Evil Sayid roam around the temple and near Dôgen, then? and what about the ash? why am I asking questions, again?), but since I'm still not sure as to what the point of the temple "plotline" was anyway... Apart from finally showing us the "famed" temple (without telling us anything about it, naturally), that is...
Same thing for Sawyer's little adventure last episode: They're all back together less than a hour later. What was the point? Oh, yeah: "exciting television". I keep forgetting.
Gratuitous cameo of the week: Bernard.
Thing is, I think I'm not dumb enough to be moved by that death scene anyway, considering how nonsensical the whole thing was.
So Smocke can't kill the candidates directly. Because he's not allowed to. By "the rules". Remember how Ben couldn't kill Widmore or vice versa? Yeah, same kind of deal. It would seem whoever wrote "the rules" might be completely arbitrary but sure cares a lot about drama.
Anyway, Smocke can't kill the candidates directly. So what does he do?
Well, simple enough: he takes a watch from one of Widmore's goons, immediately spots the bomb that Widmore planted on the plane (for some reason? were the candidates just a Smocke bait, as far as Widmore was concerned? and can Smocke be killed by an explosion, now? wait, why am I even asking questions? 'guess the show needed another bomb, so there it is!), grabs it, says "let's go take the sub" (that should be easy, considering he's a smoke monster, and all... OK, so he doesn't turn into smoke form in the end, but it was easy anyway), quickly turns the goon's watch into a timer (now, there's someone who plans ahead), puts the bomb in Jack's unexplained-but-so-convenient backpack (seriously, it looks like Jack had been carrying a backpack these past episodes just so Smocke could pull that trick.. if you were wondering why he kept the mysterious backpack when he swam back to the main island, two weeks ago, well, there you go!), and assumes our heroes would try defusing the bomb (because the timer Smocke added so quickly is also a tricky one... and it would seem that, according to "the rules", them trying to defuse the bomb counts as if they, not Smocke, set it up in the first place... don't ask... say, if Jack couldn't kill himself with dynamite, maybe Sawyer should have kept the bomb he just tried to defuse, and it wouldn't have blown up? that makes sense, right?!) without resurfacing with the sub.
A sound plan.
I mean, it's either that, or letting Widmore's bomb kill them all in the plane, and... Oh. Yeah, he could have done that, too!
Just like he could have let Jack die in the mortar strike. What was the point of saving him, again? Even the inconsistencies are predictable, on this show.
So we get four deaths (yeah, Lapidus probably died, too... and no, nobody cares... why should we?), and judging by the obnoxious violins or pianos, we should be sad instead of wondering what the hell the writers were thinking.
(gotta love how they show that Jin is fine in the flashsideways immediately after the death scene, too... yeah, we get it: you think your viewers are a bunch of idiots)
In the end, Sayid turning "evil" (?) proved to be about as essential to the plot as Sun forgetting how to speak English.
Yeah, he killed Dôgen (who was the one who kept Smocke out of the temple, apparently? why did they let Contagiously Evil Sayid roam around the temple and near Dôgen, then? and what about the ash? why am I asking questions, again?), but since I'm still not sure as to what the point of the temple "plotline" was anyway... Apart from finally showing us the "famed" temple (without telling us anything about it, naturally), that is...
Same thing for Sawyer's little adventure last episode: They're all back together less than a hour later. What was the point? Oh, yeah: "exciting television". I keep forgetting.
Gratuitous cameo of the week: Bernard.