LOST - the Candidate

IGN Editors discuss this episode's stunning losses, The Man in Black's true plan and more.

LOST - the Candidate Matt Fowler: Hey guys. Eric and Matt here we go talk about last night’s Lost’s episode, the candidate and it’s too bad nothing happened on this episode. Eric Goldman: Yeah. If you miss this one, you’re fine. Just come back next week and everything will be exactly as it was when you left off two weeks ago. Matt Fowler: That's a joke. Eric Goldman: Yeah it’s a joke because actually this was a pretty crazy episode. I mean look, the fact that they could kill four of the regular cast members like that just in one fell sloop. Pretty amazing—I mean this is the kind of thing you think that will save for the finale. Matt Fowler: Well, and we were talking earlier about how there’s so many characters. Now they have to stagger the deaths a bit. Eric Goldman: Yeah. Maybe— Matt Fowler: So, there are probably a lot more deaths to come. Eric Goldman: Either you're wondering about one of the deaths. Matt Fowler: I think Luke might be alive. He wasn’t mentioned on the beach instead they had a moment the entire season. I think that he might show up with a gun and rescue them at some point. He was also a pilot and they need that plane to get off the island. We’ll talk about that in a bit. But also, Sun and Jin, it is very sad. More drowning. It was a bold choice to have Jin stayed there. That was very touching sort of harrowing. The though some people are complaining that Sun didn’t say, “Go live for our daughter.” Matt Fowler: Right. I have to say I agree with that to some extent because I feel like should have said it. At the same time I believe that Jin would have stayed just because he couldn’t bear to leave her you know. He just found her. Eric Goldman: But it worked. Matt Fowler: And we got to see Saïd sort of doing a sacrificial move there even after they're consumed by darkness. And then Sawyer who has lived through all this— but he was the one who caught Kwon. He got long Kwon by the man in black, the master manipulator who Kwon locked for all those years. Eric Golman: Yeah. I mean it’s a big deal. Because when you look at the whole season, we talked a lot about man in black and you know—the fact that we didn’t get to be a good guy. He killed a lot of people already but maybe he was something more ambiguous. But look, he just killed a bunch of people we love on the show. He tried to kill everyone. He is the villain. He must be stopped. Matt Fowler: And we think he might have had some help. Because when he went ahead to the plane which was there—“original plan” to get off the island, he knew that there was a bomb inside like he knew someone’s up because he grabbed that watch, he knew where to look and he could have put that bomb there himself. Eric Golman: Yeah. And I don’t think he were supposed to think at this point that he’s sort of all-knowing. I don’t think were supposed to see that he’d sense that there’s a bomb in there. so him taking the watch off that guy, you got to think he had a partner and that partner we think is Charles Widmore. Matt Fowler: Yeah. And he and Widmore must have stuck up some sort of deal. I know mentioned like the fact the Widmore was there and then he wants to get off the island so there’s some partnership going on. Eric Golman: Yeah. It just makes a lot of sense when you think about you know—if Widmore wants Alan, men in black wants off it and their obstacles are Jacob and the candidates, so what if they work together to get rid of those. Matt Fowler: And then we flash sideways where we get to see Jack and Locke trying to convince Locke to undergo this sort of new surgery that he thinks is going to help in the feel in his legs or Locke again. He’s also slowly piecing together the fact that everyone he sees is from Flight 815. I don’t know what revelation he’ll come to but he’s definitely noticing it. We also got to hear Locke’s story about how he got allies. They didn’t choose to make Anthony Cooper who’s also in James Ford’s flash sideways, Locke’s father. He still could have been a con man, who maybe he redeemed himself but we got to learn that they both got injured in a plane crash and Locke has a pilot’s licence. Eric Golman: Yeah. That’s a really interesting fact to throw at us right before the end of the series. Matt Fowler: Yeah. You know I was thinking like Lapidus, they need Hume’s skill make to fly the plane but there’s someone else who can fly a plane and that’s Locke. Eric Golman: Yeah, because right now the plane is their only way off the island which is why first of all – will be alive because he’s got to get them off. But yeah, suddenly we know the that the flush sideways Locke can fly a plane, we've all been waiting to see—will the flash sideways characters merge together, make it to the island. I think a lot of people want to see Locke meet the Man in Black and now you got to wonder about the fact that this John Lock can fly a plane. Matt Fowler: Yeah. The worlds have to come together somehow but we got to know you guys’ thoughts. Just send your feedback as always to IGN TV at ign.com Eric Golman: And please check back on Friday for the next edition of Channel Surfing, the IGNTV podcast. We’ll be reading some of your email there. Matt Fowler: Thanks.