Did you guys know they are going to start running this on Sci Fi (in the U.S.) in syndication starting this September? In 4 episode blocks (4 hours) on Monday Nights. Should be awesome for people who don't have the DVD sets or always wanted to start watching it but didn't want to drop $50 a pop for the DVD's.
maybe Faraday rescued Jin... remember how the Doc appeared dead on the island before he was killed?
are Rose and Bernard alive?
what's up with the 4 toe statue?
and most importantly... why's Locke's casket so small??? (that was something we all noticed last season, and thought it was Ben because of it)
Here is the conventional wisdom from the theories I've read.
Faraday is alive and was 'moved' with the Island. Jin is dead.
When the helicopter left the freighter it began heading in the 305 bearing right towards the Island. Then the frozen wheel is pushed ,the noise begins. You see a shot of Daniel on the raft reacting to the noise, boom, the Island disappears. The helicopter is further out than Daniel and is not moved. Neither is the Freighter because the Freighter (or what is left of it, like a floating Jin) is not moved. So the helicopter runs out of gas, crashes and then they end up in the life raft. In broad daylight in the vicinity of that 305 bearing, for who knows how long and they are finally rescued at night, after hours and hours had presumably passed. Jin never showed up. So he had to have moved w/the Island, if he were alive.
So if Jin were rescued by Daniel, he would have been on that raft when we saw Daniel react to the Island's movement (during the freaky noise event). Because Daniel just took a trip in sapce/time. So Jin has to be dead, methinks. Farady is alive because he is the science vehicle of the show. He has a ton of storyline left and quite frankly Jin was useless other than sentinmental attachment to a familiar face. His story arc was pretty much wrapped up when he got Sun off the Island carrying his baby.
Besides this, with Penny Widmore, Richard Alpert and Charles Widmore, you've got a great chance that at least two of these characters (if not all 3) will be made full time cast members. So they probably just made room as well. Bye bye to Michael and Jin, hello Richard and one or both of the Widmores. Nothing says they couldn't keep them all but considering the dip in ratings that all series tend to see as they go on, budgets probably get tighter as well, you'd have to think. Furthermore, besides that, they pretty well telegraphed the event. Sure we've seen stranger things happen and if Jin were shown to be alive it wouldn't shock me but I'm betting he's dead.
Bernard and Rose are presumably just as alive as the rest stuck on the Island.
I don't know why they wouldn't be.
The 4 toed statue was supposed to lead into a deeper Dharma backstory in Season 3 but the ABC executives were spooked by it being too weird. I think with the introduction of the frozen wheel and the hieroglyhpics down there, the door than Ben ran into to unleash the smoke monster (as well as everything else), Daniel, Miles and Charlotte (and maybe Juliet etc. ) are going to be exploring the Island all over again. This time, hopefully with crazy pants Faraday telling us what is what. At least that's kind of what I hope.
In other words, they (the ABC asshole execs) can't put it off any longer.
The other idea is that they've had to dwell on storylines concerning relationships moreso because that's the pull for the majority of their audience. So with Daniel and Charlotte having a nice little Island affair and maybe even Juliet and Sawyer, they can tell those stories through them. Juliet flashbacks and Daniel/Charlotte flashbacks.
That's the truth too
