On the last episode of Lost, we learned that the Island won't let people die. Well, some people. Michael, for instance. And we can assume the Oceanic Six--Kate, Jack, Hurley, Sun, Sayid, Aaron--experienced the same inability to die as Michael.
But a lot of people have died. Some of them are missed and some of them... not so much. And there will be a lot more deaths over the final two seasons of the series, which returns with a new episode tonight. It seemed like a good time to look back on some of the island's most notorious deaths. And the strange manners in which characters died:
(S02E19) Tonight's episode, S.O.S. (or as I like to call it: Couple's Night), centered around two
characters' back stories which we've all been longing to see (or at least Ryan has as he's mentioned it in nearly every
single one of our Lost podcasts): Rose and Bernard. Rose and Bernard aren't just an interracial married couple
marooned on an island. They would seem to be symbolic of lots of the dichotomies going on in Lost land. One of
them was a front-ender and the other a tail-ender, so to a certain degree they are the link that brings the two
non-Other "tribes" of the island together. In the opening scene, we also discover that they represent another
all-too-common dichotomy of the island: those who want to escape from the island and those who are satisfied to stay and
begin building a life on the island. Bernard very vocally notices to Rose that while his end of the plane were fighting
to survive, her end was busy building kitchens on the beach, and he claims that they've "given up on being
rescued."
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