Here is another tidbit for tonight's Jack episode and it has to do with his father Christian and perhaps us learning tonight why Jack began popping pills.
Thanks to Odul for the heads up.
We begin with some cryptic intel provided by exec producer Damon Lindelof at the request of the author seeking illumination about tonight's 10th episode of Lost's fourth season, ''Something Nice Back Home'' — a flash forward affair focusing on Dr. Jack Shepherd, whose Island-present circumstances are currently marked by a squirmy stomach and shameful despair over trusting these freaky freighter folk...
Sayeth Damon: ''Remember after the finale last season when everyone was asking us why Jack was blathering on about his father in what turned out to be our first flash-forward? It was just the booze and pills talking, right? And hey...why did he start taking pills in the first place?''
Sounds like a case of Physician: Heal thyself!
Source: EW
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If it turns out that Christian really is alive and physically upstairs in Jack's flashforwards, I will have SO many words to eat... Better stock up on some Tums...
What they said about Jack has nothing to do with Christian. It was only about they are hinting at us finding out why he started to pop pills.
More hype for the episode which in the end won't deliver and fans will be annoyed by that.
does anyone know whether or not christain gonna be in the episode (even just as a vision?).
"Remember after the finale last season when everyone was asking us why Jack was blathering on about his father in what turned out to be our first flash-forward? It was just the booze and pills talking, right?"
I dunno...that kind of sounds like Damon's intimating that it WASN'T just the booze and pills talking. But who knows with that Damon...he's such a trickster.
I am much more interested in this thatn I am if Jack ends up with Kate in the future. Give me the mystery and what the heck moments more than the romance any day.
as a lost-fan you have to accept a lot of the impossible, otherwise the show would be intolerable. i like to accept almost anything on the island. already the thing with michael who could not kill himself was way over the line. but the resurrection of jack's father (even in ghost-form). no way! this CAN simply NOT be true. it would bring lost to the heroes level, and that would suck.
At a guess Hurley has visions of Charlie and Jack gets his dad.
My bet is that he'll be visited by Christian's ghost in much the same way that Hurley was haunted by Charlie and Michael was haunted by Libby and that that'll be why he turns to the pills and the alcohol.
Perhaps ghost Christian tells him that he had a sister, and that she's still alive on the island.
Or maybe we get a Claire ghost?!?
well, if christian is alive, I think he will probably be the reason who brought all the losties to the island.
i think jack will find out about claire being his sister at the funeral or when the will is read and it talks about his TWO children and claire is named. and i think claire will find out on the island from ghosty, vision, apparition (or whatever it is) christian.
I'll bet it's an apparition, Hurley/Charlie style. Jack's first serious confrontation with the faith/unexplained side of Lost and it drives him over the edge :/
I'm guessing:
a)Jack has a vision of Christian in the flashforward; this pushes him off the edge
b)Jack has a vision of Christian on-island as he's in pain; helps to push him off the edge (uncertainty as to whether his father is still alive and on the island)
c)Christian is alive on-island and saves Jack when Juliet fails to do so (maybe she screws up the operation); helps to push Jack off the edge
Out of these choices I like A the best and B second best. I don't want C to be true, but admittedly it would be really interesting, and a lot more than I expected from this episode.
I definitely think something is going to happen with Jack starting to become a "main of faith" in this episode. After all, this is the first time that Jack is the one that's in trouble and needs to be saved, so maybe it fits with his character in some way that this will be the first time he starts to "have faith" (I think most of us will agree that the Jack of the future in Through the Looking Glass is a man of faith).
I also think that Jack is likely to find out about his sister in this episode, as some have said above.
And finally, while I always look forward to Lost (highlight of my week!), this is not an episode I've looked forward to especially. I think that this will be a "relationship" episode since we just got a "mythology" episode (The Shape of Things to Come). The writers don't want to pile too much on us. But then again, based on one of the Sneak Peeks, this episode may include a return to The Staff station, which would be cool.
So correct me if I'm wrong, but Jack doesn't turn into the bearded druggie until sometime AFTER his visit to Hurley at Santa Rosa, correct? I'm going on the knowledge that all of this season's FFs have been in reverse order, working their way back through time towards the present (2004). So even though we may see events tonight which lay the foundation for his pitiful future self, it won't necessarily be something that instantly crushes him. (Too bad, I know.)
I definitely think something is going to happen with Jack starting to become a "main of faith" in this episode. After all, this is the first time that Jack is the one that's in trouble and needs to be saved, so maybe it fits with his character in some way that this will be the first time he starts to "have faith" (I think most of us will agree that the Jack of the future in Through the Looking Glass is a man of faith).
Jack became a "Man of Faith" in MOSMOF when he performed the miracle on Sarah. Island Jack has been a man who found faith, but has since lost it. He allowed himself to believe in fate/destiny, believing that his saving Sarah meant something more than just getting lucky with the scalpel. When his marriage fell apart along with his relationship with his father he lost the faith he'd found and that is why he scoffs so passionately at the notion of destiny.
I don't agree that the Jack we saw in TTLG was a man of faith again, but Jack will no doubt be forced to give "faith and destiny" another try, and I think having his suicide attempt interrupted was probably the beginning of rediscovering it.
JMO
vandelay said...
So correct me if I'm wrong, but Jack doesn't turn into the bearded druggie until sometime AFTER his visit to Hurley at Santa Rosa, correct? I'm going on the knowledge that all of this season's FFs have been in reverse order, working their way back through time towards the present (2004).
The answer to your first question is yes.
The second part of your statement is incorrect. The FF's WERE going in reverse order... until last week. "The Shape of Things to Come" clearly happens AFTER "Ji Yeon." We know that "Shape" takes place in late October 2005, about 1 full year after Ji Yeon was conceived.
I just love Doc Jensen! You all should really read the entire article rather than just the blurb shown here. Doc Jensen has some rather great theories and this weeks theory - I'd say - is probably the closest he's ever come to figuring out what's really going on with Lost! EW.COM click on Lost Coverage.
isabelle said...
does anyone know whether or not christain gonna be in the episode (even just as a vision?)
apparently a scene with jack and christian in a FF in jack's hospital office was filmed...but john terry the actor that plays CS is NOT listed....
so could be a BIG twist or just a vision...
thanks odi :)
Maybe John Terry just isn't listed in the press release....that's actually happened before. Unlikely, but possible.
I guess we'll just have to wait to see the credits in the beginning of the ep to get definitive confirmation.
You are all assuming that "Jack's father" he mentions is the *real* Christian Shepard. Is it possible that one of the events surrounding the "rescue" of the Oceanic 6 involves another individual acting as Christian Shepard.
In this scenario, the fake Christian Shepard will be reported as being on the rescue vehicle having searched for his son. In reality, he is either an Other or one of the Freighter people depending on who actually rescues the 6.
My bet is on Richard Alpert changing his appearance to be Christian Shepard.
I am thinking that maybe Christian could be alive since TTLG.
The scene in the hospital where Jack screams 'Get him down here' was to creepy.
And I also think that Jack's future drug addiction refers to something he found out about his father and himself after they returned. Just my two cents.