Season 6 Episode 7 - Dr. Linus [Spoilers]

[Franklin Payne]

So, this episode is basically about the redemption of Benjamin Linus. He is a "good one" after all. I am more and more concerned that this will end up in a cliché good vs. evil story.

Also: Charles Widmore is apparently one of the people who are coming to the island (as Jacob foretold).

Richard is most definitely a slave from the Black Rock. Any doubts I had about this are gone now.

EDIT: Spelling.

[Qhost]

Uh, should have noticed the spoilers..
Downloading it now - will come back once I have watched it

[Qhost]

Im pretty happy for Ben, he is one of the characters I never want to see go. Same with Richard but something tells me he is going to die soon?

Amazing Widmore is making his play now, wonder how he is going to react to Flocke etc..

Great episode!

[AtrainV]

So here's something I've been a little confused about:

My understanding of the parallel universe is that it's the universe in which the bomb was detonated and therefore stopped the incident from happening (so that the hatch is never built, Desmond never leaves the hatch unattended, and plane never crashes). If this is the case, that doesn't erase the fact that the people who detonated the bomb in the '70s are still the characters we know, but not the same versions who land safely in present day. Sayid did shoot Ben and he was brought to the others.

That's the inconsistency I'm seeing. Because if Ben was brought to the others for healing, then he wouldn't have escaped the island with his Dad when the bomb was detonated and, if somehow he managed to get off the island, he probably wouldn't be as amicable with his father as he was in this episode.

Now, if in fact the reason that the island is underwater is from something entirely different from the atomic bomb being detonated, then all of this is fine, but the only reason for it to be detonated is because the 815 survivors came back and detonated it.

[Franklin Payne]

Originally Posted by Qhost

Same with Richard but something tells me he is going to die soon?

Well the next episode is about Sawyer and the one after that "Ab Aeterno" is going to be focused on Richard.

But you are right, they tend to kill people who might know too much on this show.

Juliet - who was the only one with insider knowledge about the Others (apart from Ben, but he is so secretive, it is within his character to keep his mouth shut)

Dogen - who probably knew a shitload about what is going on.

Richard is certainly a threat to the writers.

On a similar note, it annoys me to see how the writers avoid the issue of deeper knowledge about the island that some characteres are bound to have.

For example, the first thing coming out of Jack's mouth when he sees Richard should be: "Tell me everything you know about the island and why we are here."

[Franklin Payne]

Originally Posted by AtrainV

My understanding of the parallel universe is that it's the universe in which the bomb was detonated and therefore stopped the incident from happening

There you go. We don't know that yet.

Actually a theory has been posted in one of the first threads, that the parallel universe is the outcome of something yet to happen on the island.

Edit: http://www.zoklet.net/bbs/showpost.p...7&postcount=17

[dij314]

My theory: the alternate timeline is their lives if Jacob had never met them and influenced them to go to the island.

[Qhost]

If I recall:

The current timeline, is what would happen if Mile's theory was correct (the bomb cause's the crash), and the alternative timeline is if Faraday's theory was correct (bomb screws up island). I think thats pretty significate, and I swear Miles is becoming more significant character, he is awesome.

[Fish]

*spoilers from episode 8 below*
I think the "bizzarro world" that we're seeing is a world without Jacob. Remember how he stepped in to everyone's lives and "touched" them somehow, at a crucial moment? And keep in mind that the island is underwater. It's as though all of the "islandy" stuff never happened to anyone. And notice that some people were affected more than others. Some characters have had only a small detail of their lives reversed (like hurley having good luck), while other people have their entire character inverted (like sawyer being a cop).

That's just one possible idea, though. I really haven't thought about it hard enough to see all the possible consequences of a "world without Jacob," and I'm sure there's more to it than just that.