Think there will be more than a single back story, like several.

Hopefully

I'm all for that Jeritron!

Just found out the translation between Richard at the end of season 5 with the people who had Locke's real body.

'What lies in the shadow of the statue?'

Richard's reply translates as 'He who will save us'.

Its not Jacob they are referring to, it's Locke :D

Makes sense considering Richard has always been very concerned with Locke. He visited him as an infant, a child, and a teen to attempt recruiting him.
Then he helped him several times while the island was time travelling.

Yeah, but when he was talking to Jack about Locke, he mentioned that he didn't see anything special in him when he visited him.

Whoever Richard is, and whatever he does with or for Jacob, he, like Ben and Widmore, I think are not completely sure either as to the size of importance as to what's going on and how important Locke and his friends are to the Island and the upcoming revelations.

No clue why Richard has always had short hair, except when young Ben ran into him and he had long hair. Seems random since we saw him in years prior to that with his normal short hair.
Doesn't seem like a "huge deal". Maybe just an oversight by the creators.

So I bought the Lost S5 today, but I picked up the special one instead.

Instead of being a regular DVD box set, it's an orientation packet for the Dharma Initiative. It's got some pamphlets, fliers, a VHS cassette (yes, a REAL one), and several Dharma patches (the Lighthouse, the Cafeteria, Security, and the Submarine one).

It was like 30 bucks more, but I'm not regretting it at all. Even the DVD's come in paper cases that look like old school floppy disks. Pretty awesome stuff.

I bought the DHARMA Box set for season 1,2,3

Gonna wait for all season box set is released. Long time away but still.

Shit, that exists?

I might have to get in on that action. The Dharma thing is awesome to me.

I got my mate into LOST, he works as a chef, he's planning on getting the DHARMA Chef badge and stitching it onto his kitchen whites lol.

I've started rewatching in anticipation of Season 6.

One more question...anyone remember the bird that "calls Hurley's name"? What was that about!?

Ah yeah, 'The Hurley Bird'.

Not too sure about it, could be something, could be nothing. Was a big bird, and without him pointing it out, I doubt we would think or know it said his name.

There are a few things to do with animals on the Island - Kate's horse (although there was a farm at The Flame), Nadia the cat (Sayid), Locke telling a story to two people I forget about a family member being reincarnated into an animal, the dog picture in Jacob's cabin.

Dunno, nothing to suggest that theres anything with animals or anything.

I didnt know I was such a big part of the show.

My guess on the black rock....It was sailing wherever and the Island was moved via the wheel and landed right where the rock was.

Possibly the same thing with the Army and A-bomb?

Well you can see The Black Rock approaching the island in the last episode of season 5. It's sailing off shore and Jacob and his enemy talk about it.
His enemy mentions that they'll crash and destroy eachother just like everyone else has. Jacob says that every new group makes progress. Presumably this means that Oceanic 815 is one in a line of groups, and "the end" of some ongoing experiment or trial.

I don't know, the whole Jacob vs his enemy thing, and what they say about island visitors is beside the point. Either way The Black Rock is sailing towards the island while they're talking.

Perhaps whatever shipwrecks The Black Rock so far inland is the same event that causes the statue to be left with just the foot

Cloverfield?

Could somehow blowing up the hatch destroy the statue? Some sort of way to show that what they do has already influenced the future? I dunno.

Do you mean the hatch exploding in season 2, or them blowing up the construction site (hypothetically) at the end of season 5?

I have a crazy ass hunch that whatever maroons the Black Rock inland, it happens and is because of whatever destroys/takes away the statue.

That's a crazy ass hunch! Good thing I didn't post it

This show is confusing as hell. I watched a bit of some episode some time ago, and this bald guy gave another guy a gun and told him that he's gonna walk out of some bushes in few minutes and ordered that he shoots him. I had no idea what that was all about, but in fact he walked out. Also, they were talking about being form future and some guy was another's father even though they were like same age. No idea what it's all about, but I never got the hype about that show.

You can't just watch a random episode from the middle of the show and know whats going on. Would you pick up a book and start on chapter 10?

That actually depends. Some shows you can watch no matter where you start from. And yeah, I watched the first episode and it didn't interest me a bit.

Then my friend told me that theye were supposedly on a desert island, then found out there were others liviing there, and eventually even found a city there. Fucked up.

Yea some shows you can watch no matter where they start from. Some you can't. Lost is continuous. Every episode is tied to the one before it, and leads into the next.

There's just subtle differences between a show like Lost and a show like The Office

Probably my main complaint about people that 'hate on' this show. Like, most of them bitch because it doesn't make sense, and they watched an episode here or there and it didn't look interesting, or it looked stupid. Hell, I did that before I started watching it.

Well that's because just as Jeritron said, you CAN'T do that with LOST. You have to watch it from the beginning, and you have to watch more than one episode to get involved in it. Once you do, you realize you can't stop watching.

Now is a good time to get started too, because the 6th and final season begins in February. So you could go through most of it without having to wait for new episodes, which is IMO the worst part about watching the show.. having to wait.

A typical story shape could been seen as a line, from start finish.

Another could be a circle, starts with the ending etc.

LOST is pretty much a '8' shape.

I really want to know what happend to the Degroots and Hanso

Feb? Feb!

I was under the impression that Season 6 started this month!!

Febuary 2nd, unless Obama has his way.

Is he that big of a fan he wants to bring it forward?

OK...not long now...

Think I'll post my theories and thoughts nearer the air date.

Pretty obvious why they have not released ANY new footage of the new season, kinda prefer it that way.

ALTHOUGH...

There is ONE FRAME of new footage on their newest promo, most people prob missed it as did i, here it is....

http://www.sl-lost.com/claire_badass.jpg

Just got a semi, this looks fucking amazing...

Was is just me or did the Man in Black look like Survivor's Richard Hatch? It's fitting since Lost is like Survivor trapped on an island with hatches.

It's probably been said already, but the relationship between Jacob/Man in Black is the same deal with Ben and Widmore since they both can't kill one another.

I havent read many spoilers

Yeah pretty much can't wait.

Gotta watch it online wednesday morning being over here in the UK. Getting up pretty handy to watch it.

From the preview, there are already loads of images I like the look of...

- The Temple - where the rest of the others are situated looks very interesting, esp with that Eastern bloke turning the sand timer upside down.

- The smoke monster attacking inside Jacob's 'tomb'.

- Flocke picking up the white stone off the scales.

- Sawyer?...someone climbing that ladder and falling.

I prefer to watch it on my big TV, but I'm always out on Friday nights when its being shown in the UK so gonna keep watching it on Sundays repeat.

i just want to know what the hell the black smoke is, exactly, and how Richard is seemingly immortal. i agree with kano that Jacob is probably someone we already know.

I'm not sure if I now think Jacob is actually 'someone else', rather he/it/whatever/whoever is, is able to be represented in the form of someone who is dead.

Smoke Monster is a tough one, big time. Seems be to in the middle of good and bad so far. It is some kind of good/evil stabiliser or equilibrium measure or something.

That whole thing with Jack being all "Why is my name written down on this?" seems quite interesting.