tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78773841751232024252024-02-08T12:26:30.547-06:00LOST...and soon to be foundThis blog will discuss, analyze, and hypothesize the concluding season of Lost.Stevenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05520908431122197393noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7877384175123202425.post-68583216963712743912010-05-31T13:52:00.001-05:002010-06-01T20:58:58.624-05:00"The End"- Episode 6.17<meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5COwner%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><link rel="themeData" href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5COwner%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_themedata.thmx"><link rel="colorSchemeMapping" 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mso-level-number-position:left; text-indent:-.25in; font-family:Symbol;} ol {margin-bottom:0in;} ul {margin-bottom:0in;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal">“There are no shortcuts, no do-overs. What happened, happened. Trust me, I know. All of this matters.”- Jack</p> <p class="MsoNormal">And they “lived” happily ever after….</p> <p class="MsoNormal">I’m glad I waited a few days to write about the finale because I’ve turned out liking it a whole lot more the more I thought about it and after watching most of it a second time.<span style=""> </span>I feel so dumb for not guessing that an eye closing would be the last shot.<span style=""> </span>It only makes sense.<span style=""> </span>The show started that way, and has used “the eye opening” theme all throughout the show.<span style=""> </span>So I applaud them for the cyclicality and pattern that they used and followed.<span style=""> </span>This was somewhat like Avatar, one of the first shots was a human eye opening and the very last shot was a Na’vi’s eye opening.<span style=""> </span>But this is <i style="">Lost</i> blog, not <i style="">Avatar</i> blog.<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Now I’ve only read half of the <i style="">Chronicles of Narnia </i>series but I’m pretty sure <i style="">Lost</i> just stole some of their ending from the <i style="">Narnia</i> series.<span style=""> </span>Go research it and read some summaries for yourself, but I believe in the last book at some point they die and are in Narnia and are told they are now dead and that Narnia is their afterlife.<span style=""> </span>All the other times they went to Narnia were real, just the last time it was a different Narnia…maybe.<span style=""> </span>The point that makes this more like the <i style="">Narnia</i> series is that every character (well, nearly all characters) are together in the end, in the afterlife.<span style=""> </span>Like I said, I don’t know this for sure.<span style=""> </span>This blog encourages you to find answers for yourself.<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">In the end, everyone was right, we may not have gotten everything answered, but I don’t really care.<span style=""> </span>So what if I don’t know:</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family:Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->What MIB’s name was, if he even had one?<span style=""> </span>(Kind of cool to have an unnamed bad guy, something ominous about that)</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family:Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Where the Dharma food drop came from in season 2?</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family:Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Who built everything on the island? (i.e. Taweret statue, ruins, etc.)</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family:Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Why Walt was special? (i.e. him summoning birds)</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family:Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Why only some people were going to enter the afterlife at a certain time?</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family:Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Why and how Eloise Hawking was so knowledgeable?</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family:Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->How Jacob could leave the Island?</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family:Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Why the Island has powers to heal and why it was always moving?</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family:Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Why Jack and Ben got sick on the Island (appendicitis and a cancerous spinal tumor respectively) while it heals everyone else?</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family:Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Who did we see in Jacob’s cabin when Ben first took Locke there and who was in it with<span style=""> </span>Christian Shepherd in season 4 when Hurley looked in the window.<span style=""> </span>And what the significance of the ash was around the cabin?<span style=""> </span>(We know the smoke monster can’t cross ash, but had he been trapped in the cabin at one point, or kept out of it?)</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family:Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->What was that cork at the bottom Desmond moved over a volcanic like crater and why when he moved it, it made water stop flowing from another place onto it? (see, I told yall there was a volcano, I’m counting it.<span style=""> </span>Also, I’m told the cork had <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuneiform_script">Cuneiform</a> on it.)</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family:Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->How will Richard assimilate into the modern world and live there for the rest of his life? (sounds like a good 80’s sitcom idea)</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family:Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->How does Frank explain where the plane has been the past like two weeks, where all the passengers went, and how he got new passengers?</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family:Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->The world would have been looking for the plane.<span style=""> </span>Kate cannot leave the state, much less the country, as we saw in her flash-forward because of her trial results.<span style=""> </span>How will she explain where she went?<span style=""> </span>Will she be thrown in jail for breaking her parole?</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family:Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Why was the Island sunken in the Flash-Sideways?</p> <p class="MsoNormal">While I wish some of those would have been answered, I don’t care that much.<span style=""> </span>The show was a character study filled with mythology, not a mythology tale with characters interspersed in there.<span style=""> </span><i style="">Lost</i> was at its core or a character study, and the viewer must recognize that if they are to understand and be pleased with the show.<span style=""> </span>The ending itself serves testament that the show was all about the characters and their relationships.<span style=""> </span>I could not help but think of the famous quote from <i style="">It’s a Wonderful Life</i> in the final scene.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="rkr">“No Man is a Failure who has Friends.” - It’s a Wonderful Life.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Also, C.S. Lewis says “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.”</p> <p class="MsoNormal">We cannot get too frustrated about the unsolved mysteries of the show, after all we live in a world full of mystery, we are just so used to not getting the answers that we accept things they way they are. Just like when “Mother” said to Jacob and MIB’s real mom, “every question will simply lead to another question.”<span style=""> </span>That’s true in our world.<span style=""> </span>If you believe in the Big Bang then what was there before the Big Bang for things to clash into each other.<span style=""> </span>If you believe in Creation account of the Bible it says “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.<span style=""> </span>The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters.” (Genesis 1:1-3).<span style=""> </span>Then the creation account follows, the whole 7 day story.<span style=""> </span>What was here before the creation account?<span style=""> </span>When was it made?<span style=""> </span>On to more trivial questions:<span style=""> </span>Why is the sky blue?<span style=""> </span>What’s in Area 51?<span style=""> </span>Who built Stonehenge?<span style=""> </span>What killed King Tut?<span style=""> </span>(maybe the Smoke Monster?)<span style=""> </span>Is Elvis still alive?<span style=""> </span>Who is Titus?<span style=""> </span>(That’s a shout out to my HUG summer 2009 group.)<span style=""> </span>How does cable work?<span style=""> </span>(that’s a shout out to a long, on-going conversation between me and Sam Barker)<span style=""> </span>We have all of these conspiracies, myths and a few legitimate questions that we will never know the answer to.<span style=""> </span>This show is the same. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">I’m cool with not getting answers or not understanding everything because usually when you explain something too much it ruins it.<span style=""> </span>Their needs to be enough for you to believe it, but not fully understand it.<span style=""> </span>Season 6 brought in a lot of new things that just didn’t get explained in the least bit.<span style=""> </span>Like the source, the fountain in the temple and Claire and Sayid being “claimed” or zombified. <span style=""> </span>It was a little unfortunate that we didn’t get to understand these better, especially when they were brought into the game so late.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">I am a little confused about the whole source thing.<span style=""> </span>Why did unplugging the hole make water stop flowing into it?<span style=""> </span>Why did it turn the MIB into a Smoke Monster and not Desmond or Jack?<span style=""> </span>The idea I subscribe to is that Desmond was obviously immune to it because he has a high tolerance to electromagnetism and Jack was immune to it because it was off when he was in it and maybe it didn’t fully come back on while he was laying in the edge of the pool and/or he still had “Island protector powers.” </p> <p class="MsoNormal">I also was not aware that the light could go out and come back on.<span style=""> </span>They made such a big deal that” if it goes out there, then it goes out everywhere and we are all in trouble.”<span style=""> </span>What happened in the real world during the time the light was out?<span style=""> </span>Was the whole world shaking like it was on the Island?<span style=""> </span>I don’t think so, but still, why was it such a big deal for the light not to go out.<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">We also never learned why it was so bad for the Smoke Monster to leave the Island?<span style=""> </span>Unless he was planning on going Smokey and conducting a mass, world-wide genocide, it seems like he just wanted to see the world.<span style=""> </span>However, I guess by turning the light out so he could leave, he could no longer go Smoke form to kill people.<span style=""> </span>We never really knew why he could not leave.<span style=""> </span>Either way, it was rather tragic, the one thing he wanted to do in life, his whole 2,000 year-ish lifetime, he never got to do.<span style=""> </span>If there is one thing we can learn from this, it is to never give up on your dreams.<span style=""> </span>This guy had dedication.<span style=""> </span>Also, you should never get near to cliffs.<span style=""> </span>Honestly, he had Locke’s body and memory and he knows the show is one big pattern, he should have known he was going to get kicked off and paralyzed.<span style=""> </span>I choose to believe he was paralyzed in the end, had he survived, it only seems fitting.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">I know at one point I did not think I was going to like Hurley being the Island Protector, but when it happened I was cool with it.<span style=""> </span>It seemed right then.<span style=""> </span>I did like how Jack was it long enough to accomplish something.<span style=""> </span>Why didn’t Jack recite the incantation over the water?<span style=""> </span>Wasn’t that necessary?<span style=""> </span>Once again, this is what I choose to believe.<span style=""> </span>Earlier this season Richard said if Jacob touched you it was a gift.<span style=""> </span>So, Jack gave Hurley water, it was a gift, a symbolic gesture.<span style=""> </span>Passing the torch if you will.<span style=""> </span>The real transfer of power came when he touched Hurley and said, “Now, you like me.”<span style=""> </span>Risky move for Hurley trusting Ben, even until last episode he was still wanting to run the Island, but even in the afterlife it seems like no foul play had been done by him on Hurley.<span style=""> </span>So I guess it worked out and Ben was able to really be good.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Also, big news alert here.<span style=""> </span>We interrupt your regularly scheduled blog post to bring you this breaking announcement <b style=""><i style=""><u>Lost</u></i><u> is not completely over!<span style=""> </span>When the final series DVD is released there is going to be 14 minutes showing the time of Hurley and Ben reigning on the Island.</u></b> Read more about it <a href="http://www.collider.com/2010/05/26/lost-epilogue-12-14-minutes-michael-emerson-jorge-reyes/">here</a>.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">I liked that Richard was now shown aging.<span style=""> </span>That was pretty cool.<span style=""> </span>I guess he can do that because the one who gave him immortality is dead, no longer a binding contract.<span style=""> </span>And what do you know, Lapidus somehow survived, MIRACLE!<span style=""> </span>In general I was surprised at how many people survived in the finale episode.<span style=""> </span>I really thought nearly everyone would die.<span style=""> </span>Yes, a lot of people did die, but a lot more people made it than I thought would.<span style=""> </span>Is it a little funny that Locke has been shown to be dead, in some form or another in every season finale since season 3.<span style=""> </span>Season 3: closed coffin that we would later learn was Locke’s.<span style=""> </span>Season 4: we learn it was Locke in the coffin.<span style=""> </span>Season 5: we see his dead body dumped out of a cargo bin on the beach.<span style=""> </span>Season 6: Smoke-Locke is killed while in Locke form.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">In the end, the finale further expounded and showed where they believed things were pertaining to free-will.<span style=""> </span>Jack chose to be Jacob and Kate also told him that nothing was irreversible (talking about their relationship that had fallen apart, but in the end she showed her true colors for him).<span style=""> </span>Speaking of which, the whole love triangle, that became a quadrangle, was a big deal earlier in the series, it appeared that they forgot about it this whole season until the final episode.<span style=""> </span>However, I guess that makes sense, the world needed saving, it was more important than Kate’s fickle heart.<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Speaking of Kate, when she shot Smoke Locke I was a little disappointed, I didn’t want her to be the hero.<span style=""> </span>I actually yelled I was angry, me and the person I watched it with, both yelled I think.<span style=""> </span>However, thankfully Jack really finished him off.<span style=""> </span>Also, I was glad that Kate’s realization moment was Aaron’s birth, I think that spoke volumes.<span style=""> </span>(P.S. shortest birthing ever, I guess in purgatory the rules are different.)<span style=""> </span>While on that subject, I will address the end.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">We finally understand the phrase, “See ya in another life brotha.”<span style=""> </span>Did the producers mean for it to be that powerful when they introduced Desmond saying it at the beginning of season 2.<span style=""> </span>At first we thought the whole “other life” part meant Desmond saw Jack in the real world and in the Island, two different “lives.”<span style=""> </span>Remember they all said they were going to start their lives over when the plane crashed.<span style=""> </span>The Island allowed them a fresh start. Now it appears that phrase <i style="">really</i> did mean another life.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Apparently people have been very confused by the ending.<span style=""> </span>It’s very simple.<span style=""> </span>In fact, it’s one of the few out right, explicitly given answers that we have ever gotten.<span style=""> </span>Thankfully Christian Shepherd came back and was important.<span style=""> </span>So yes, it was always the MIB on the Island, but Christian turned out to be important.<span style=""> </span>I’m glad they made a shout out to his name.<span style=""> </span>Maybe that was proof they had this ending planned from the start.<span style=""> </span>I’ve read a lot of comments on internet articles and people are like, “I called it from the beginning of the series, they were in purgatory the whole time.”<span style=""> </span>How dense and unobservant can people be?<span style=""> </span>Here is what you need to know: <b style="">THE WHOLE THING WAS REAL.<span style=""> </span>IT WAS NOT ALL PURGATORY, ONLY THE FLASH-SIDEWAYS SCENES IN THIS FINAL SEASON WERE SOME SORT OF PURGATORY.</b><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Christian said that their lives had been real, that some people died before Jack and some long after him and that the most important part of their lives was the time they spent together, and that is why they made this place in the afterlife, to be together so they could start the next journey of their “lives” together.<span style=""> </span>All of this shows that yes, the whole series was real and not a waste of time.<span style=""> </span>It was cool to see that they were all sitting in pews in the church almost like rows on a plane. By the way, Shannon and Sayid were true loves?!<span style=""> </span>Come on he was meant for Nadia.<span style=""> </span>I guess not though, even in the flash-sideways utopian-esque world, she was not with him.<span style=""> </span>Maybe Shannon and Sayid were true loves.<span style=""> </span>A little weird, but I’ll go with it.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">It may not have helped viewers that they showed images of an empty plane crash at the end during the credits. <span style=""> </span>A few days after the finale aired, ABC came out and said that they added those pictures, not the producers, to help soften the mood for the evening news.<span style=""> </span>They should have known that people analyze every scene and second of this show.<span style=""> </span>People were going to read too much into that.<span style=""> </span>I for one just thought it was landscape shots showing us where it all started, not that they all died in the plane crash.<span style=""> </span><b style="">Regardless, these pictures were not part of the story, just extras the ABC executives put in to help the psychology of the viewer.<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style=""> </span></b>Relating to the flash-sideways, here are a few things I choose to believe.<span style=""> </span>Pierre Cheng did not look old because according to Christian Shepherd “there is no <i style="">now</i> here,” so he looked just as we would remember him from the Dharma days.<span style=""> </span>The Island was at the bottom of the ocean because eventually, at some point in the course of human history it would be at the bottom of the sea.<span style=""> </span>Maybe Hurley sunk it, or maybe someone long after him did, but that happened much later in human history (maybe this will be explained in the epilogue scene I mentioned and linked above).<span style=""> </span>Time does not matter in the afterlife.<span style=""> </span>As for David Shepherd I’m a little confused of why he existed.<span style=""> </span>However, this is what I believe.<span style=""> </span>The sideways world was what Christian said, a place they made together to meet up before they all moved on.<span style=""> </span>So it was made to be like a near Utopia, but with just enough flaws for the people to need to find each other.<span style=""> </span>Having a son must have been something important to Jack and he helped make him have a happy life.<span style=""> </span>In the original timeline Jack had no one and was alone, in this world he had someone before re-finding his true love, Kate.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">So with them all moving on we leave David an orphan, Ben probably wanted to look after Alex because he realizes what she meant to him (why he chose to stay a while longer) and Mrs. “Widmore” (Eloise Hawking) gets to have her son back.<span style=""> </span>After knowing she killed him life, and would kill him, now she can have him to love as her son for a long time or at least until Charlotte realizes she loves him.<span style=""> </span>But did she really?<span style=""> </span>Did Charlotte ever really say she liked him, I don’t remember?<span style=""> </span>It may have been a one-sided love.<span style=""> </span>But honestly, how long did they know each other, the boat ride and like 2 weeks they spent on the Island together. <span style=""> </span>Nonetheless, when he begged her 5 year old self to never come back to the Island, that was very emotionally powerful.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Before I wrap this up I want to give one more shout out to my favorite character, John Locke.<span style=""> </span>I know for a while I was kind of wanting him to return, but I’m glad he didn’t.<span style=""> </span>As Jack said, “There are no shortcuts, no do-overs. What happened, happened. Trust me, I know. All of this matters.”<span style=""> </span>Locke was immortalized and vindicated.<span style=""> </span>It was great to hear Jack tell the Smoke Monster, “You're not John Locke. You disrespect his memory by wearing his face, but you're nothing like him. Turns out he was right about most everything. I just wish I could've told him that while he was still alive.”<span style=""> </span>I wish Jack would have told him he was right in the church scene.<span style=""> </span>Either way, every scene between him and Locke in the Sideways world was amazing and it ended aptly with them shaking hands with Locke telling him, “We’ve been waiting for you.”<span style=""> </span>Just like they always were, waiting for Jack to open his eyes to both the spiritual in the world and in the afterlife.<span style=""> </span>Locke was the forerunner that laid the path for others to believe, he played his part well.<span style=""> </span>He wanted to be the hero, and indirectly he was. <span style=""> </span>Props to the actor, Terry O’Quinn, for playing a bad guy so well this season.<span style=""> </span>At times he truly was terrifying. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">It is only fitting that a show this spiritually based would end with all of them dead and “letting go” and “moving on,” two other big themes in <i style="">Lost</i>.<span style=""> </span>Did anyone else notice the stained-glass window in the room where Jack and Christian talked?<span style=""> </span>It had “the star and crescent of Islam, the Star of David (Judaism), the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aum" title="wikipedia:Aum">Aum</a> (widely used as a symbol of Hinduism, but also present in Buddhism and Jainism), the Christian cross, the <a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Dharmacakra" title="Dharmacakra">Dharmacakra</a> (Buddhism) and the Yin/Yang disk (Taoism).” (That was all in quotes because I copied it from the Lostpedia article about <a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/The_end">“The End.”</a>)<span style=""> </span>This was <i style="">Lost</i>’s final shout out to all the different faiths and religions they had drawn on and alluded to throughout the entire series.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style="">Lost</i> has challenged the viewers for years with such eternal struggles as fate vs. free will, faith vs. science, and good vs. evil.<span style=""> </span>While all of these combined made for an incredibly interesting, mysterious and compelling show, in the end, the show showed us that relationships with those around us are what make the human condition bearable.<span style=""> </span>(I just really wanted to use the term “human condition” in the blog, and now that I have, I can end it.)<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">I thank you for following this blog.<span style=""> </span>The finale was cryptic and there are many different ways to interpret it.<span style=""> </span>For me, my explanations make sense for myself and maybe for you as well, but, if you have any comments or opposing views to how I interpreted the ending or anything else you want to add, please, comment below.<span style=""> </span>I’d love to hear from you.<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Remember…</p> <p class="MsoNormal">“It only ends once. Anything that happens before that is just progress.”- Jacob</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Namaste, and goodluck.</p> Stevenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05520908431122197393noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7877384175123202425.post-32915955424668985422010-05-23T14:04:00.000-05:002010-05-23T14:05:53.864-05:00What They Died For/Finale Theories- Episode 6.16<meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5COwner%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:officedocumentsettings> <o:relyonvml/> <o:allowpng/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><link rel="themeData" href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5COwner%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_themedata.thmx"><link rel="colorSchemeMapping" 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margin-left:38.25pt; text-indent:-.25in; font-family:Symbol;} ol {margin-bottom:0in;} ul {margin-bottom:0in;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal">“It only ends once. Anything that happens before that is just progress.”- Jacob</p> <p class="MsoNormal">This is final post for us to speculate on.<span style=""> </span>After this, we will know everything we are going to know about <i style="">Lost</i>.<span style=""> </span>This time I will not so much talk about what happened on the most recent episode, but pose some theories and things I hope we get answered and get to see.<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span>There are just a few things I want to mention from this past episode to work off of for my final predictions.</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 38.25pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Widmore, Zoe and Richard all seemed to die.<span style=""> </span>We think.</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 38.25pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->The Flash-sideways characters look like they are all about to meet up. </p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 38.25pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Flash-sideways Locke is now ready for the surgery to give him the ability to walk.</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 38.25pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Desmond was let out of the well, we don’t know how, but he was. </p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 38.25pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Jack is the new Jacob.<span style=""> </span>(but really, who didn’t see that one coming.<span style=""> </span>I loved that whole speech, it was awesome and further explained the purpose of the show)</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 2.25pt;">I’m going to try to address these points in order as best I can.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 2.25pt;">Is Widmore dead?<span style=""> </span>I don’t know.<span style=""> </span>He slumped behind something we did not see him actually die after being shot; and remember the rules?<span style=""> </span>Ben and Widmore seem to have these rules that govern between them.<span style=""> </span>Remember, Ben said that Widmore “changed the rules” when he killed Alex.<span style=""> </span>Now are these “rules” or “laws.”<span style=""> </span>A rule can be broken, maybe not respectable, but it can be.<span style=""> </span>The way I’m using a law is like the law of gravity; you cannot break it.<span style=""> </span>So, maybe it was against the “rules” for Ben to kill Widmore, but what are you going to do?<span style=""> </span>Or he tried to break a law and he is not really dead.<span style=""> </span>What do you think?<span style=""> </span>I guess he is really dead, but maybe we should not write him off so fast.<span style=""> </span>Zoe, gone.<span style=""> </span>Richard…hmmm.<span style=""> </span>Probably dead, which is kind of good for him now, after all, he probably was ready to be done with this world after being alive for like 160ish years.<span style=""> </span>Still kind of sad.<span style=""> </span>However, maybe he just got speared into the jungle and will heal up and wake up and come back into the fray.<span style=""> </span>Once again, I’m not counting on that.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 2.25pt;">The flash-sideways world looks like it is getting ready for something cosmic, but I’m not sure what yet.<span style=""> </span>I’ll predict that at the end of this post with my overall predictions.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 2.25pt;">Desmond is now out of the well.<span style=""> </span>Who let him out?<span style=""> </span>I think we will be pretty surprised by this.<span style=""> </span>Do we think that Penny came to the Island?<span style=""> </span>They better live happily ever after or these producers are sick.<span style=""> </span>Surely they wouldn’t kill off another couple.<span style=""> </span>Did Widmore or Zoe do it before going to New Otherton?<span style=""> </span>I really am at a loss.<span style=""> </span>I feel like this is going to be a big twist.<span style=""> </span>Oooohhh, maybe Claire?<span style=""> </span>Eh?<span style=""> </span>I just thought of that one.<span style=""> </span>She is about to do something big.<span style=""> </span>She’s kind of fallen off the bandwagon; they are going to bring her back for something big I bet.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 2.25pt;">So Jack is the new Jacob, big shocker.<span style=""> </span>I loved that whole scene with Jacob, his speech, and Jack’s response to it.<span style=""> </span>We see especially in the last three weeks that Jacob is not as perfect as we might have wanted to originally think.<span style=""> </span>Even with all of his power and wisdom (I’m guessing he’s wise) he still had some flaws.<span style=""> </span>No character on this show is without their baggage, even a “deified” 2,000 year old guy.<span style=""> </span>I’m surprised that they would give us the new Island Protector now and not in the finale.<span style=""> </span>Do you think Jack will make someone else the new Island protector in the finale?<span style=""> </span>I think it is a very good possibility.<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 2.25pt;">So, here are my predictions</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 2.25pt;">One, I think we will see Rose and Bernard again.<span style=""> </span>They always put them in the finale.<span style=""> </span>Think about season 5.<span style=""> </span>They were only in the first episode and the finale I think.<span style=""> </span>Now as far as hard-hitting predictions, expect more people to die, probably Sawyer and Ben.<span style=""> </span>I do not think Ben is really with Smoke-Locke.<span style=""> </span>I think he is trying to pull a long-con over Locke.<span style=""> </span>He wanted to kill Widmore because it was personal, not saying it was right, but that explains why he felt he was justified in doing that for Locke and letting that play into him playing Locke.<span style=""> </span>I just feel that Sawyer will also do something heroic and die in the process.<span style=""> </span>After all, he’s always got a plan and was the first to really talk with Locke, knowing he was not really Locke, that would be poetic, I guess. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 2.25pt;">When Ben was a student in the DI, his teacher mentioned there was a volcano on the Island.<span style=""> </span>The producers mentioned that the volcano would be “of seismic importance.”<span style=""> </span>This was said in season three.<span style=""> </span>Did they forget or change their mind about going to the whole volcano reference?<span style=""> </span>If not, then this is it!<span style=""> </span>Is that where they are going to blow up the Island? (did seeing Smoke Locke say that remind you of when Locke ended the penultimate season 4 episode that they were going to “move the Island?”<span style=""> </span>It definitely did me.<span style=""> </span>“Same” character, parallel sentence structure, used the episode before the finale both times.)<span style=""> </span>Is this where Desmond is going or is he going to the Source?<span style=""> </span>Could he even find the Source since it now appears that it is hidden until you are the Island protector or are taken there (I called that in the last post or two!)?<span style=""> </span>I think Desmond might be going to the volcano, but maybe I’m wrong.<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 2.25pt;">I now think that since Jack can now go where the Source is, then it isn’t the Temple.<span style=""> </span>He’s already been there.<span style=""> </span>I guess the Temple just probably had some connection to the light that is under the Island.<span style=""> </span>So I guess my Temple Building theory is probably shot, or at least mostly is.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 2.25pt;">In the flash-sideways why did Desmond say that Ana Lucia is not ready yet?<span style=""> </span>Are some people going to jump timelines?<span style=""> </span>What is going to happen when these timelines resolve?!<span style=""> </span>That may be one of the biggest questions for this finale.<span style=""> </span>Also, what is the significance of Jack’s neck cut and his son, David?<span style=""> </span>I’m hoping that since Locke has a “body” in the original timeline, that when this timeline event happens that Locke will return and fight for control of this body that MIB has constructed.<span style=""> </span>Maybe that is how he will be defeated?<span style=""> </span>Locke will come back and banish him.<span style=""> </span>I’ve always been a Locke fan and liked how they have made him so important after his death and how they now believe in him.<span style=""> </span>Finally, Locke has been vindicated!<span style=""> </span>Maybe we should not taint that by bringing him back, or is this a case of “The Once and Future King?”<span style=""> </span>Locke was “king” of believing in purpose and maybe he will come back.<span style=""> </span>The idea of “The Once and Future King” is about King Arthur who left, never actually dying so his people could think that one day he might come back and save them.<span style=""> </span>I would love to see Locke do this, but I don’t know, he might really be gone.<span style=""> </span>If he really was dead then why was getting his ability to walk in the sideways world such a big deal?<span style=""> </span>Maybe he will come over to the original timeline?<span style=""> </span>His surgery could be the lynch pin between the two timelines, however, the concert seems to be another big gathering point.<span style=""> </span>Is this (the surgery) what will make him be able to walk in the original timeline?<span style=""> </span>Maybe.<span style=""> </span>Time will only tell.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 2.25pt;">I could see Locke coming back and the group somehow getting rid of Smoke-Locke and Jack then turning over the job of Island Protector to Locke.<span style=""> </span>He really was the man meant for the job.<span style=""> </span>I really am not sure I see Jack really being the Island Protector for long-term.<span style=""> </span>Or I could see this happening, and this is what I really feel will happen:<span style=""> </span>You cannot get rid of Smokey; good vs. evil is an eternal motif.<span style=""> </span>So, as I’ve already predicted, the series will end, with Jack, the new Jacob, and Locke, still the MIB, sitting on the Island ready to start the whole thing again.<span style=""> </span>Someone or something will be seen coming to the Island and the show will end.<span style=""> </span>It’s a pattern.<span style=""> </span>Now it’s Jack and “Locke’s” turn to fight it out for the Island.<span style=""> </span>Oh, and what if, on this boat, plane, or whatever that is coming to the Island is everyone’s kids, such as Ji Yeon, Aaron, Charlie (Desmond’s kid), Walt, Clementine and maybe, just maybe even David Shepherd.<span style=""> </span>They are grown up, as years have passed, and it is their turn to do what their parents have done, or could not do.<span style=""> </span>Whatever, I’m giving you gold here in fragments, you put it together!</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 2.25pt;">Maybe the flash-sideways is about to be created by Jack.<span style=""> </span>I think the flash-sideways might be created and planted back in the timeline so Jack could have spared everyone from pain and death.<span style=""> </span>After all, he did at one point say he felt somewhat responsible for all the people that died under his watch.<span style=""> </span>He’s giving them a perfect world to live in.<span style=""> </span>Which reminds me, did anyone think that Jacob was giving a shout out to the flash-sideways when he said, “I didn’t pluck you from some happy existence?”<span style=""> </span>That seemed to perfectly written.<span style=""> </span>Was it just a reference or foreshadowing of the flash-sideways about to be created?</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 2.25pt;">I could see this episode beginning or at least at some point showing flight 815 crash again, especially from the perspectives of Jacob and MIB.<span style=""> </span>They used to re-contextualize the crash by showing it to you from different points of view, I’m surprised we haven’t seen it from theirs, maybe we will.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 2.25pt;">Should we expect Jack or whoever the final Island Protector is to give “gifts” to some of the characters?<span style=""> </span>Like make Hurley his Richard Alpert.<span style=""> </span>That would be funny.<span style=""> </span>I do not know about all of this though.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 2.25pt;">What of the love triangle?<span style=""> </span>That seemed to just fall out.<span style=""> </span>Where they done with it?<span style=""> </span>Can Jack even have a girl as Island Protector?<span style=""> </span>Who knows, but Kate won’t end up with Sawyer.<span style=""> </span>He’ll die doing something heroic and she will be left crying, like she does in almost all of her scenes.<span style=""> </span>I would be so angry if tonight was a Kate centric episode!<span style=""> </span>Haha.<span style=""> </span>I’m sure it will be an everyone-centric episode.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 2.25pt;">Really, who can say about any of this stuff.<span style=""> </span>In true <i style="">Lost</i> fashion they have left us guessing right up until the very end. <span style=""> </span>We have 2.5 hours of <i style="">Lost</i> left and these are some of the things I hope to see get answered.</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 38.25pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Where did the DHARMA food drop come from back in season 2?</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 38.25pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->What is the MIB’s name and can he die?</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 38.25pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Who will be the long-term Island Protector?<span style=""> </span>I don’t see Jack really being it.</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 38.25pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->What is “the sickness” that infected Claire and Sayid?<span style=""> </span>Can you cure it?</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 38.25pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->What is the purpose of the Flash-Sideways, the Island being sunk in it, David Shepherd and the cut on Jack’s neck?</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 38.25pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Will anyone leave the Island in the end?<span style=""> </span>Will it be purged of everyone?<span style=""> </span>(tabula rasa, clean slate.<span style=""> </span>That would be a crazy huge genocide unless they kick people off.)</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 38.25pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Are we done with Christian Shepherd?<span style=""> </span>Was every appearance of him really the MIB?<span style=""> </span>If not, then I need to know more about him!</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 38.25pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Is Walt coming back?<span style=""> </span>Is he still special?</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 38.25pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Why was it so important for Claire to have and raise Aaron?</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 38.25pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->When/who built the Taweret statue?</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 38.25pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Why did Jack and Ben both get sick when the Island normally heals you?</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 2.25pt;">I’m sure there is more things I would like to know but who cares at this point.<span style=""> </span>It’s been an awesome show to watch and I have enjoyed the story they have told.<span style=""> </span>In the end, it will be what it will be.<span style=""> </span>Let me know of things you want answered and what theories you have.<span style=""> </span>Post them below.<span style=""> </span>I’d love to hear from you.<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 2.25pt;">“It only ends once. Anything that happens before that is just progress.”- Jacob</p> <p class="MsoNormal">In the words of Smoke-Locke “You are so close; it would be such a shame to turn back now.”</p> <p class="MsoNormal">“Can’t change the past.<span style=""> </span>Can’t do it.<span style=""> </span>Whatever happened, happened.<span style=""> </span>All right?<span style=""> </span>But then I finally realized…I had been spending so much time focused on the constants, I forgot about the variables…We’re the variable.<span style=""> </span>People.<span style=""> </span>We think.<span style=""> </span>We reason.<span style=""> </span>We make choices.<span style=""> </span>We have free will.<span style=""> </span>We can change our destiny.”- Daniel Faraday, “The Variable,” episode 5.14</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Hope tonight’s finale is awesome.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Namaste and good luck.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">
<br />Steven</p> Stevenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05520908431122197393noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7877384175123202425.post-72410455010520902922010-05-18T14:44:00.000-05:002010-05-18T14:45:41.622-05:00Across the Sea- Episode 6.15<meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5COwner%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:officedocumentsettings> <o:relyonvml/> <o:allowpng/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><link rel="themeData" href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5COwner%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_themedata.thmx"><link rel="colorSchemeMapping" href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5COwner%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_colorschememapping.xml"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> 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when you go back and explain too much, you risk losing some of the mystique, wonder and mystery.<span style=""> </span>I felt that this episode did a superb job explaining a lot, but still leaving and creating more mystery.<span style=""> </span><i style="">Lost</i> is a mystery show, you would not want everything answered, that would not go with the nature of the show.<span style=""> </span>This episode received reviews that ran the gamut.<span style=""> </span>What did you think?</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Let’s list some of the things we learned or that I thought were interesting.</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 41.25pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Jacob and MIB are twin brothers!<span style=""> </span>Very interesting.<span style=""> </span>Notice they were swaddled in their respective colors, white and black, as soon as they were born.<span style=""> </span>Even as they aged they always wore their color.<span style=""> </span>Also, when they were first laid out in their blankets Jacob was very peaceful while MIB was fussy, crying and flailing around.</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 41.25pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->We see MIB’s crazy mom that he referenced a while back.<span style=""> </span>Was she crazy, or just taking some extreme measures to ensure things worked out?</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 41.25pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->We learn more about the point of the Island.<span style=""> </span>We see the cave of Light, what I will call, the Source.<span style=""> </span>(It was called that one time by <a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Mother">Mother</a>.)<span style=""> </span>On the podcast the producers said this was meant to be a further explanation of what was meant when Jacob compared the Island to a cork to Richard in the episode <a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Ab_Aeterno">Ab Aeterno</a>.<span style=""> </span>They even said we might get more of an explanation of it as the series draws to a close.</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 41.25pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Interestingly enough, MIB created the <a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Donkey_Wheel">Donkey Wheel</a>, assuming that is the same Donkey Wheel that Ben and Locke pushed.</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 41.25pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Since we saw Jacob as a child we see that they mysterious boy that has been following Smoke-Locke is in fact Jacob in some capacity.</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 41.25pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Mother also tells MIB that Jacob cannot lie.<span style=""> </span>Later on in the episode he does, but I think she is implying that does not like to lie and is honest more often than not, or that he is not good at lying.<span style=""> </span>I think Jacob just does not like to lie.</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 41.25pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->We saw the “birth” of the Smoke Monster (possibly) and what MIB meant when he said Jacob stole his body and his humanity.</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 41.25pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Alas, the identity of the Adam and Eve skeletons were revealed.<span style=""> </span>I really thought it was going to be Rose and Bernard or possibly even Desmond and Penny or Sun and Jin.<span style=""> </span>I really thought it would be my first or last guess because the writers said that was a mystery put at the beginning to prove that they knew what they were doing from the start.<span style=""> </span>Yes, I see how it is proof but at the same time I don’t think it is proof.<span style=""> </span>They basically just made up these characters just now.<span style=""> </span>We did not know the Smoke Monster was going to be a person until the end of season five, but I guess that is what they meant by it was all planned.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 5.25pt;">A few questions that are brought up from the episode </p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 41.25pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->We still never learned MIB’s name.<span style=""> </span>Did he ever get a name?<span style=""> </span>His real mother did not have a name for him, did Mother ever name him?<span style=""> </span>Is he going to be the equivalent of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janitor_%28Scrubs%29">Janitor</a> from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrubs_%28TV_series%29"><i style="">Scrubs</i></a>?</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 41.25pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->What is the nature of the Source?<span style=""> </span>Why could the MIB never find the Source again?<span style=""> </span>Was there some sort of “magic” that hid it from him?<span style=""> </span>Is the Temple built over the Source?<span style=""> </span>I think so.<span style=""> </span>I think that was what was meant when they noticed that the water was “dark” when they brought Sayid in there earlier this season.<span style=""> </span>The Light is growing dim, MIB is growing stronger.<span style=""> </span>Possibly.</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 41.25pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->What did Mother mean by saying MIB was special?<span style=""> </span>Why did Mother love him more than Jacob?<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 41.25pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->How did Claudia, the real mother, appear to MIB?<span style=""> </span>Was that what they meant by him being special?<span style=""> </span>Does he have Hurley’s power too?<span style=""> </span>Was she an Island apparition or was there another Smoke Monster out there? </p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 41.25pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->When did this take place?<span style=""> </span>2,000 years ago?<span style=""> </span>Who knows.<span style=""> </span>I got a theory for this.<span style=""> </span>Keep reading.</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 41.25pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Was that really the birth of the Smoke Monster or had he been around earlier?<span style=""> </span>I liked this so I thought I’d put it in here.<span style=""> </span>
<br /><object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/SxXMf4SD2WI&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/SxXMf4SD2WI&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 5.25pt;">Let’s go through the episode real quick.<span style=""> </span>Well, as quickly as we can.<span style=""> </span>The episode starts with Claudia, a pregnant shipwrecked woman coming onto the Island and meeting who we will soon learn is just called Mother. <span style=""> </span>They converse in Latin for a few moments before changing languages for audience convenience.<span style=""> </span>Mother claims that Claudia, like her, got to the Island by accident and that she will find her people, if any survived.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 5.25pt;">Claudia soon gives birth to the twins, Jacob first and then MIB.<span style=""> </span>She did not know she was having twins and only had one name picked out.<span style=""> </span>Mother kills Claudia and raises Jacob and the MIB as her own children.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 5.25pt;">We see a very important scene next.<span style=""> </span>A roughly 13 year old Jacob and MIB play a game that MIB finds.<span style=""> </span>It resembles <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senet">Senet</a>, an ancient Egyptian game that claims that luck and determinism is the key component of winning.<span style=""> </span>Could we make a connection that luck is possibly equivalent to fate?<span style=""> </span>After all, fate is a major component of <i style="">Lost</i>.<span style=""> </span>The one who wins was said to be in the good favor of the gods.<span style=""> </span>Also, the pieces that Jacob and MIB played with were black and white stones.<span style=""> </span>Also, when Jacob tries to make a move in the game MIB says he can’t do that because it is against the rules.<span style=""> </span>MIB says one day you can decide the rules and everyone will have to follow them (Jacob).<span style=""> </span>Eerie, foreshadowing…possibly.<span style=""> </span>I took this to mean more than rules for Senet.<span style=""> </span>Is that why Smoke-Locke cannot kill the candidates and child-Jacob has told him that he knows the rules and that he cannot kill Sawyer?<span style=""> </span>Or was this a rule created by the Mother?</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 5.25pt;">The boys are told that they will never have to worry about experiencing death because the mother has made it where they can’t kill each other (why would she do that?<span style=""> </span>Is that a common concern with twins? <span style=""> </span>That they will grow up and want to kill each other?<span style=""> </span>Does this rule apply to what I was talking about in the last few sentences of the paragraph above?).<span style=""> </span>They did not even know what dead is (very interesting.<span style=""> </span>How sheltered were they?!).<span style=""> </span>She also feeds the boys the line that all men are evil.<span style=""> </span>She says exactly what we saw MIB said to Jacob the first time we ever saw him in <a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/The_Incident,_Part_1">the Incident Pt. 1</a>.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 5.25pt;">“They come. They fight. They destroy. They corrupt. It always ends the same,” MIB said, quoting his Mother from years earlier.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 5.25pt;">Mother then takes the boys and shows them <a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/The_Source">the Source</a>.<span style=""> </span>It is the reason they are on the Island.<span style=""> </span>The Source is a cave that emits Light with water flowing into it.<span style=""> </span>That same Light that exists in the cave is in every man, according to Mother.<span style=""> </span>If it goes out there, on the Island, it goes out everywhere.<span style=""> </span>Due to man’s greedy nature they will try to get more but they cannot, it is impossible to and if they mess with it, it might go out.<span style=""> </span>It is her job to protect it and soon it will be either Jacob or MIB’s job to protect it.<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 5.25pt;">Later, a dead Claudia, the real mother of the twins, presents herself to MIB, but Jacob cannot see her.<span style=""> </span>She shows him who his people are, the ones she came with to the Island 13 years earlier.<span style=""> </span>She tells him that he is not from the Island and that he is from across the sea and that many things are across the sea, contrary to what Mother has raised him and Jacob to believe.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 5.25pt;">MIB leaves to go to the men on the Island.<span style=""> </span>He has always wanted to know what is across the sea, and now that he knows the truth about his parentage, he hopes to finally leave the Island.<span style=""> </span>Before he ultimately leaves Jacob and Mother, she tells him that no matter what he hears, he will never be able to leave the Island.<span style=""> </span>(Is this true, NEVER?)<span style=""> </span>Jacob agrees to stay with Mother for at least a while, but it is obvious that he is contemplating eventually going to the men.<span style=""> </span>He never does though. <span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 5.25pt;">Thirty years later we see the two as we normally see them, grown up, however Mother looks the same as when we first saw her.<span style=""> </span>This should not be a surprise since she is “the Jacob” or protector and I guess that comes with prolonged life.<span style=""> </span>This makes me wonder, why do they even need a replacement?<span style=""> </span>They plan for a replacement, why don’t they plan to live forever?<span style=""> </span>Do they know that someone will kill them?<span style=""> </span>After all she thinks men are corrupt.<span style=""> </span>Jacob never inherits that philosophy.<span style=""> </span>Jacob and MIB espouse the Nature vs. Nurture debate, to some degree at least.<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 5.25pt;">Jacob visits with MIB who is working with the men on the Island.<span style=""> </span>While visiting they play a game of Senet again, for old time’s sake.<span style=""> </span>Based on what he has seen, Jacob says he does not think that men are bad.<span style=""> </span>MIB basically says he is wrong and that their Mother was right.<span style=""> </span>They are “greedy, manipulative, untrustworthy and selfish,” but they are “means to an end.”<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 5.25pt;">MIB explains that the men are smart and think they have found a way off the Island.<span style=""> </span>He pulls out a his dagger, the same one he gave Richard to kill Jacob with, and the same one Dogen gave Sayid to kill MIB with, and throws it into the open when magnetism pulls it to a well they are digging.<span style=""> </span>Let’s address these two points separately.<span style=""> </span>Can this dagger help us date this episode?</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 5.25pt;">Swhoosh…(That’s my flashback sound; this is from a post I wrote back about Ab Aeterno, Richard’s episode from this season.)</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 10pt;">Other interesting things, the knife. Is the knife only able to kill people before they speak? One could easily think that because both times it has been seen it was given the same “don’t let your target talk or it is too late” speech. The knife is said to be a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pugio">Pugio</a>, a dagger used by ancient soldiers of Rome. I have read that the sheath of the one in <i>Lost</i> has depictions of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romulus_and_remus">Romulus and Remus</a> on it. Click <a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/File:606-18.jpg">here</a> to see a picture of it. What are we to learn from this? Who knows? Maybe just more insight into how old the Island is, or how long it has been drawing people to it. Maybe Jacob and MIB were from Rome? However, assuming the Egyptian hieroglyphics show the Smoke Monster talking to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anubis">Anubis</a>, the Egyptian god of mummification and afterlife I must assume the Smoke Monster has been around even longer than ancient Rome. Although maybe I do not have my timelines down about when Romulus and Remus found Rome. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">Swhoosh…(Back to this blog post.)</p> <p class="MsoNormal">It seems pretty certain that this episode takes place somewhere around when B.C. becomes A.D.<span style=""> </span>The people that land on the Island speak Latin, the boys’ true mother was named was Claudia, a name often seen in classic Roman times (i.e. emperor Claudius).<span style=""> </span>Also, the Roman Empire stretched so far could we have assumed that they could have been sailing in the Pacific?<span style=""> </span>Maybe, I don’t know <b style="">that</b> much Roman history.<span style=""> </span>However, Mother told Claudia that they each got their by accident.<span style=""> </span>So regardless if they were in the Pacific or chillin’ in the Mediterranean, Claudia and her people could have easily gotten to the Island via a window that we have heard about before from <a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Eloise_Hawking">Eloise Hawking</a> at <a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Lamp_post">the Lamp Post</a>.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">I like how MIB did not specifically say magnetism.<span style=""> </span>He said that metal behaves strangely at some places on the Island.<span style=""> </span>I think this helps us possibly date when this took place…a really long time ago.<span style=""> </span>That’s the best I can do.<span style=""> </span>Aristotle possibly mentioned some about magnetism.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Mother learns of MIB’s possible ability to leave and so she goes to confront him.<span style=""> </span>He is in the well, presumably the same one Locke and Ben used to turn the wheel.<span style=""> </span>Something I saw and read others talk about was that in the well Mother was standing in light while MIB was fiddling in the dark.<span style=""> </span>A neat contrast between light and dark that they do so often.<span style=""> </span>Although that could just be how things happened.<span style=""> </span>Even if it is reading too much into it, it is still cool and has power behind it.<span style=""> </span>MIB tells Mother that he never found the Source again since he was first shown it by her years ago.<span style=""> </span>He has searched for it for years and never came close to finding it.<span style=""> </span>Then they came up with the idea of finding the Light underground.<span style=""> </span>As he speaks he digs into the wall and pulls out a rock to show that the Light is behind it.<span style=""> </span>We also see the Donkey Wheel that will be used with a system to manipulate the water and Light to provide a way off the Island.<span style=""> </span>Mother smashes his head against the wall to stop him.<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Mother takes Jacob back to the Source and tells him he must be the new protector. <span style=""> </span>We learn that in the cave is “Life, death, rebirth; it’s the Source, the heart of the Island.”<span style=""> </span>He is also commanded to never go down into the cave because it would be much worse than dying.<span style=""> </span>She gives him something to drink (presumably wine) out of what looks like the same wine bottle he used to explain the Island to Richard and later gave MIB to “pass the time.”<span style=""> </span>She recites some incantation and if he drinks the wine that he is accepting the job as her replacement.<span style=""> </span>He must guard the Source and then find his replacement.<span style=""> </span>Someone thinks that the translation of Mother’s incantation reads like this, “<span style="">For we do not accept this just as a common drink, but as if that (he?) should be one with me.</span>”<span style=""> </span>I don’t know if this is true or not, so take it as you will.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Jacob is sad because he knows that Mother always favored MIB over him.<span style=""> </span>He says that he is only her replacement because she is all he has now.<span style=""> </span>She tries to comfort him by telling him that she had been wrong, he was always meant to be the one and now she understands that.<span style=""> </span>Jacob takes the drink and Mother tells him, “Now you and I are the same.”<span style=""> </span>The next morning she tells Jacob to go look for firewood and that she will meet him back in the caves.<span style=""> </span>She looked concerned, like she knew she was going to die.<span style=""> </span>Then again she should know that MIB is going to be ticked that she torched everything he loved and his way off the Island.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">MIB awakens to find he is outside of the well.<span style=""> </span>It is filled in, all his people are dead and his village is burned.<span style=""> </span>He storms back to the caves that (ironically the same caves that the survivors used for a while) and stabs Mother in the back without even letting her speak.<span style=""> </span>Is there significance to that?<span style=""> </span>When Richard was given the dagger to kill Jacob, MIB told him not to let him speak; if he does then it is too late.<span style=""> </span>Same for when Dogen gave Sayid the dagger to kill Smoke-Locke.<span style=""> </span>Both times they let the other one speak and were unsuccessful.<span style=""> </span>Though we have to ask would that have mattered.<span style=""> </span>Sayid plunged the dagger into MIB, it didn’t matter.<span style=""> </span>No effect.<span style=""> </span>However, was this because he had already spoken to him?<span style=""> </span>Also, when Jack told Claire he wasn’t sure about coming with them (Smoke-Locke’s crew) she said that he had already made the decision when they let him (Smoke-Locke) speak to him.<span style=""> </span>So I must ask this question again: Is there power in some of these mythical character’s words?<span style=""> </span>Was MIB only able to kill Mother because she did not talk to him?<span style=""> </span>Jacob could not convince Ben not to stab him though.<span style=""> </span>Maybe I am reading too much into the whole speaking thing but I think it is worth pointing out because the characters have pointed it out a few times.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">How was Mother able to destroy a whole village and why did she let the people live there for decades before killing them?<span style=""> </span>Did she wait to kill them when they became a threat?<span style=""> </span>I guess.<span style=""> </span>Could she have Smoke Monster powers to massacre a village?<span style=""> </span>Smoke Monsters tend to be able to massacre things.<span style=""> </span>Jacob finds Mother dead and takes it out on MIB.<span style=""> </span>He takes him to the Source, beats him up, and lets the current carry him into the cave.<span style=""> </span>Suddenly, the Smoke Monster emerges.<span style=""> </span>It was dark as he emerged.<span style=""> </span>I don’t think he put out the Light, otherwise I do not think we would need the candidates in the present day.<span style=""> </span>I think he was merely in the way of the Light.<span style=""> </span>Or did Smokey take the Light with him.<span style=""> </span>When Locke first saw the Monster in season one he said, “I looked into the eye of the Island, and what I saw was beautiful.”<span style=""> </span>When comparing stories with Eko about their encounters with the Monster, Locke compared him to “a bright light.”<span style=""> </span>Did the Light kill MIB and “rebirth” him as a Smoke Monster?<span style=""> </span>Was the Smoke Monster down there and absorbed his “life,” memories and identity into him?<span style=""> </span>After all, the Smoke Monster was called Cerberus by the DI.<span style=""> </span>Cerberus was the guardian of the entrance into the underworld in Greek Mythology.<span style=""> </span>This still applies, with all the reference to this place being like the cork to pure evil.<span style=""> </span>But, and I made this point in an earlier post, I think in the one about Ab Aeterno, Cerberus had three heads.<span style=""> </span>Could MIB be one of three identities that make up the Smoke Monster?<span style=""> </span>Perhaps.<span style=""> </span>But I got a better theory that I’m sticking with until proven otherwise.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Jacob and MIB cannot kill each other.<span style=""> </span>Did Jacob kill him though?<span style=""> </span>He beat him up and let nature, i.e. the water, take its course and pull him down into the cave and kill him.<span style=""> </span>So did Jacob really kill him? <span style=""> </span>I guess not according to the rules. Or did he break the rules and that is why he was “reborn” as the Smoke Monster?<span style=""> </span>Is that why we see a little kid Jacob running around now?<span style=""> </span>MIB broke the rules and Jacob is back in some capacity?<span style=""> </span>Maybe some of that is correct but what I’m going with is that MIB basically had his soul ripped from his body.<span style=""> </span>That is why he said Jacob stole his body and humanity form him.<span style=""> </span>I would like to have seen the first time Smokey took shape before Jacob.<span style=""> </span>Do you think Jacob knew that was his brother when he billowed out of the cave?<span style=""> </span>I really don’t know. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">Clearly Jacob was upset his brother died. <span style=""> </span>He was angry at him but did not probably mean to kill him, even though he knew it would be bad if he went down in the cave.<span style=""> </span>Jacob then takes Mother and MIB and lays them to rest in the cave.<span style=""> </span>Why was his body spit out so far away anyways?<span style=""> </span>If viewers couldn’t pick it up enough on their own, they show old clips form season one which reminds the reader, “These are the Adam and Eve skeletons!”</p> <p class="MsoNormal">A few last minute questions we must ask before we close this out.<span style=""> </span>Who put the Donkey Wheel into place after the well was filled up?<span style=""> </span>And my personal favorite, where is the source now?<span style=""> </span>My hypothesis for these two will be answered in one theory.<span style=""> </span>I really think it is why the temple was built, over the Source, as I already stated at the beginning.<span style=""> </span>If so, did Egyptians come to the Island next?<span style=""> </span>Remember when Ben was judged by Smokey (part of his con over Ben to kill Jacob) we saw Anubis and the Smoke Monster carved on a stone together.<span style=""> </span>If this episode really showed the first time Smokey was “born” or ever even existed, and he is the only one in existence, then when and who built this.<span style=""> </span>I guess this would help my Temple building theory.<span style=""> </span>Egyptians soon came to the Island, built the Temple under Jacob’s orders to cover the Source (or built it of their own accord), finished the well (maybe under Jacob’s orders as well.<span style=""> </span>Is that how he got off the Island) and also built the Taweret Statue, of which Jacob would take residence in.<span style=""> </span>It’s kind of funny and said that MIB always wanted to leave the Island, still does, and Jacob has left it numerous times that we know of.<span style=""> </span>Ironic isn’t it.<span style=""> </span>If MIB would have done what was expected of him maybe he could have been protector and able to leave the Island from time to time.<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">It’s funny, everyone has always speculated about Ancient Egyptians on the Island and this episode gives us Ancient Romans.<span style=""> </span>We always want and expect something with <i style="">Lost</i> and we get something else.<span style=""> </span>I could have talked about this episode for much longer.<span style=""> </span>Let me know what you think.<span style=""> </span>I’d love to hear your input, theories, comments on what I’ve said or overlooked.<span style=""> </span>I will write again in a few days about tonight’s episode and then again after the finale when the show ends.<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">In the words of Smoke-Locke “You are so close; it would be such a shame to turn back now.”</p> <p class="MsoNormal">“Can’t change the past.<span style=""> </span>Can’t do it.<span style=""> </span>Whatever happened, happened.<span style=""> </span>All right?<span style=""> </span>But then I finally realized…I had been spending so much time focused on the constants, I forgot about the variables…We’re the variable.<span style=""> </span>People.<span style=""> </span>We think.<span style=""> </span>We reason.<span style=""> </span>We make choices.<span style=""> </span>We have free will.<span style=""> </span>We can change our destiny.”- Daniel Faraday, “The Variable,” episode 5.14</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Here are the sneak peeks ABC has put out for tonight’s episode.<span style=""> </span>Watch at your own risk.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/FDAJJ27Ww7Q&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/FDAJJ27Ww7Q&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/P29Q1rojCdE&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/P29Q1rojCdE&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object></p> <p class="MsoNormal">
<br />Until Sunday when we have seen the last bit of <i>Lost</i>, Namaste.
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just aired.<span style=""> </span>Let’s try to keep this one short and sweet.<span style=""> </span>I say that every time, but I just get to writing and can’t stop.<span style=""> </span>I’m going to start this one by breaking the mold of my usual blogs.<span style=""> </span>This time we are talking original timeline first, then flash-sideways.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">The crew minus Jack, Locke and Sayid are locked in the cages by Widmore for their protection.<span style=""> </span>However, like usual, no one tells anyone anything on this show so they escape from Widmore’s cages.<span style=""> </span>It might have been best for them to stay there, but Widmore did not tell them he was on their side (assuming he roughly is) so they escaped when Jack, Sayid and the Smoke monster come and ravage through the cages on Hydra Island.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">During their time caged, Widmore says that he has a list of names of people he is supposed to keep safe (the candidates) and Kate is not one of them so it doesn’t matter to him what happens to her or not.<span style=""> </span>(That will probably be big, it at least comes back to play later in the episode.)</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Locke then takes his people, which exclusively includes the candidates, Lapidus, Kate and Claire (the rest of Locke’s people scattered into the jungle during the mortar attack), to the plane to leave the Island. <span style=""> </span>He killed Widmore’s guards and inspects the plane to ensure it is safe to leave.<span style=""> </span>(Or was this inspection part of the plan?<span style=""> </span>Was he really expecting to leave the plane or was that all a con from the start?)<span style=""> </span>Locke pulls out some C4 from and tells the people that Widmore just wanted to get them into a small space and blow them up, using the C4 as evidence.<span style=""> </span>He suggests they take the submarine because they cannot be sure the plane does not have more C4 or traps on it.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">While walking to the sub Jack makes it clear that he will help them all leave, but he doesn’t feel that he is meant to leave.<span style=""> </span>Sawyer tells Jack that he does not trust Locke at all and is going to get them all on the sub and Jack needs to make sure Locke does not get on the sub.<span style=""> </span>While some of the people are making their way onto the sub, Locke hands Jack a backpack.<span style=""> </span>(Was it just me or was anyone else suspicious from the start that that was not the backpack Jack originally had?)</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Mayhem ensues and Kate is shot by some of Widmore’s people while the group is getting on the sub.<span style=""> </span>With all the people about to die (I’m flash-forward referencing here) she actually makes it.<span style=""> </span>Maybe they should have traded her for another person.<span style=""> </span>Oh well.<span style=""> </span>Jack pushes Locke into the water after telling him “John Locke told me I needed to stay.”<span style=""> </span>(You all know I’m going to like that, giving real Locke his credit.)</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Unfortunately for “zombie”-Claire’s self-esteem, she is left behind once again by everyone.<span style=""> </span>However, it could be argued that she left everyone else behind back in season four, but she’s crazy so it would be pointless to argue with her about it.<span style=""> </span>However, she feels left behind, but Locke comforts her because he has a plan for that sub, and it’s not good…. (As if you didn’t already know that)</p> <p class="MsoNormal">They discover Locke has put a bomb in Jack’s pack and it was his plan, like Locke claimed Widmore had a plan of getting them all in a tight space and blowing them all up.<span style=""> </span>They do not have enough time to surface the sub, so Jack deduces that Locke can’t kill them, that they will be ok.<span style=""> </span>If they mess with the bomb, then it will be death by their hands.<span style=""> </span>(Where did Jack get this knowledge from?<span style=""> </span>It seems that he is probably right, but we have picked this up from numerous other places.<span style=""> </span>We (the audience) are like third-person omniscient to the story line.<span style=""> </span>We know every little bit that the individual characters know, so we can piece the big picture together.<span style=""> </span>However, we still are left in dark quite often in <i style="">Lost</i>.<span style=""> </span>So are the viewers really third-person omniscient, or are we more “third-person, thinks their omniscient until proven otherwise?”)</p> <p class="MsoNormal">I think Jack was right about the bomb, it would not have gone off if they had not messed with it.<span style=""> </span>Any thoughts?</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Regardless, Sawyer thinks he has to do something, pulls the wires, which causes the bomb to tick away faster.<span style=""> </span>“Zombie”-Sayid tells them all that Desmond is in a well and that Locke wanted Desmond dead so he must be important and that they will need him.<span style=""> </span>(Obviously the time-flasher-jumper is important, who else is going to “resolve” the timelines.<span style=""> </span>But they did not know that.<span style=""> </span>Score one for us, “the third-person, thinks their omniscient until proven otherwise audience.”)<span style=""> </span>When Jacks asks why Sayid is telling them all this he responds, “Because it’s going to be you, Jack.”<span style=""> </span>(Like they haven’t made that clear enough, Jack is the new Jacob.)</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Will Jack be the new Jacob?<span style=""> </span>Yes it seems now that the whole series has been a character arc, transforming him from a man of science to a man of faith but whenever something is so obvious in <i style="">Lost</i> it’s usually not right.<span style=""> </span>Maybe this is obvious because it is so important, basically the whole crux of the show.<span style=""> </span>I’m hoping for a good twist, maybe there will be.<span style=""> </span>After all, as I said in one of my last two posts, it only says “Shepherd” on the candidate list.<span style=""> </span>Could Christian be a candidate?<span style=""> </span>Remember Christian was talking to someone in “<a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Jacob%27s_cabin">Jacob’s cabin</a>” (is Jacob’s cabin even a good name for it) in the season four premiere.<span style=""> </span>Let’s say one of those is the MIB.<span style=""> </span>Who was the other one?<span style=""> </span>They better answer that, otherwise, that was just a good ole scare tactic for nothing.<span style=""> </span>Maybe David will be the new Jacob, somehow.<span style=""> </span>Is that the purpose of the flash-sidways?<span style=""> </span>It’s looking like Jack will be the new Jacob because Jacob told Hurley he needed Jack to see what was in the <a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/The_Lighthouse">lighthouse</a>.<span style=""> </span>However, Jacob could have needed him to see that for another reason.<span style=""> </span>I feel that Jack will probably be the new Jacob, but I think we need to be aware that it could be a different Shepherd.<span style=""> </span>Don’t jump to conclusions yet.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Sayid takes the bomb and runs down the hallway far away, and blows up with it.<span style=""> </span>Now before you think that sounds heroic consider a few things.<span style=""> </span>This was the worst character suicide ever, in a literary sense and a literal sense.<span style=""> </span>He has been zombie-fyed and this, like a few other instances, proves that he had some freewill.<span style=""> </span>Will we ever learn the nature of being “claimed by the darkness?”<span style=""> </span>If we don’t that is a major cheat to introduce something like that so late in the game and not really explain it.<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Really, what kind of redemption did he get?<span style=""> </span>He had such a tragic character that always wanted redemption but was always sucked back into things that he did not want to do but felt that he had to do, such as torturing people.<span style=""> </span>Ben also made him kill Widmore’s people for him while he was off the Island.<span style=""> </span>In hindsight, was that really good?<span style=""> </span>I say no.<span style=""> </span>Widmore still seems to be good, but he could pull a fast one in the end.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Also, in the literal sense his death was unnecessary.<span style=""> </span>Could he not have just taken it far and thrown it the rest of the way, maybe even lock it in a room with the door?<span style=""> </span>Yes, it would have exploded, but he would have stayed alive and maybe by locking a door he could have reduced the speed at which the sub sank.<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">In a same way, I have a bone to pick with Charlie’s death.<span style=""> </span>I mean come on, that little window would have taken a while to fill a room and he stared awhile while <a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Mikhail">Mikhail</a> pulled the grenade.<span style=""> </span>He could have been running towards the door and probably gotten out before it exploded, or at the very least gotten out of the room with like 3 inches of water only in the room.<span style=""> </span>He and Desmond could have shut that door.<span style=""> </span>Even if they couldn’t, Desmond had scuba gear for them; they could have gotten it on before that whole big room even got close to filling with water.<span style=""> </span>Yes, Charlie’s death was a big watershed moment for the series, but come on, how am I to take it seriously when it could have easily been avoided.<span style=""> </span>I mean, why did he think locking himself in the room was the right thing to do?<span style=""> </span>Was it just that his brain was still messed up from all the drugs he had done?<span style=""> </span>I was not a huge fan of Charlie.<span style=""> </span>That, surmounted with his dumb way of handling the flooding of <a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/The_Looking_Glass">The Looking Glass station</a>, makes it hard for me to sympathize with him.<span style=""> </span>(I will say that I liked him more as I’ve gone back and watched the series with people as they are watching their way through it.)</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Sorry for the Charlie bashing but that needed to be said.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">With the bomb going off Sayid died and Lapidus most likely did (there was a lot of blood when that door hit him and I’m not sure how he would get out of there).<span style=""> </span>Actually as I watched them getting on the sub I thought to myself, “Frank is really the odd man out here,” and then he died.<span style=""> </span>Do I have that Walt prophecy-like-commanding-like power?<span style=""> </span>Hope not.<span style=""> </span>(I’m referencing when he talked about birds and then one crashed against the window in his first, season one flashback episode, <a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Special">Special</a>.)</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Finally, Jack and Hurley escape the sub each taking Sawyer and Kate with them, respectively.<span style=""> </span>This leaves Jin and Sun to die together on the sub because Sun is pinned against the wall.<span style=""> </span>Jin will not leave her and they die together.<span style=""> </span>I really did not think they were going to kill them yet, if at all because they put them together last episode.<span style=""> </span>It seemed cruel to do that to them.<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Notice they mentioned that Ji Yeon is currently being cared for by Sun’s mother earlier in the episode.<span style=""> </span>They did not want all the social workers in the world to wonder what was going to happen to her.<span style=""> </span>Now she is going to be raised and spoiled by the corrupt Paik’s.<span style=""> </span>At least Mr. Paik is corrupt.<span style=""> </span>(I’ll admit I got that last part from the producers joking on the podcast.<span style=""> </span>They said this was a hard dilemma because what should Jin have done, left to be a father or stayed with his wife?<span style=""> </span>A lot of people had very different thoughts and reactions to his course of action.<span style=""> </span>Any thoughts on that?<span style=""> </span>What would you have done?<span style=""> </span>If anyone responds to these opinion questions I’m going to psychoanalyze their answers….)<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Notice that they did go back and show their lifeless bodies floating.<span style=""> </span>They have tried to make the audience think they have killed Jin so many times that it would have been ridiculous to pretend to kill him, or at the very least, leave his fate uncertain another time.<span style=""> </span>Think about it, the season one finale ends with the raft being blown up.<span style=""> </span>We soon saw Michael and Sawyer, but it is a little bit longer until we see Jin.<span style=""> </span>For a bit of the season three finale they want you to think he might have been killed along with Sayid and Bernard when Ben ordered his people to kill them.<span style=""> </span>Luckily his people did not follow his orders.<span style=""> </span>In hindsight was that candidate intervention?<span style=""> </span>The Island and/or Jacob was not done with them yet.<span style=""> </span>I think we need to ask these questions often when we look back on the past episodes of <i style="">Lost</i>.<span style=""> </span>Also, when the freighter blew up in the finale of season four it appeared that Jin might have died.<span style=""> </span>It was not until the fourth episode of season five, <a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/The_Little_Prince">The Little Prince</a> that we learned he was alive.<span style=""> </span>Sorry Jin, you were just <i style="">Lost</i>’s whipping boy.<span style=""> </span>Now you can rest in peace with your wife.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">The episode ended with everyone upset that so many of their friends had died.<span style=""> </span>I was amazed that they killed so many people this episode with a few more episodes to go.<span style=""> </span>I knew a lot of people were going to die, but I thought that would mainly happen at the finally.<span style=""> </span>I’m sure we will still lose a lot then as well.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Locke somehow knows that his plan was not fully successful and intends to get everyone killed so he can leave.<span style=""> </span>How would he have known if his plan had worked?<span style=""> </span>Would he have just felt it?<span style=""> </span>Would Eloise Hawking teleport to the Island and say, you are free to go now?<span style=""> </span>She does seem to know a lot, maybe she could help him out…maybe she is helping him out.<span style=""> </span>As stated in my last blog or so, I’m curious how she knows so much.<span style=""> </span>Is she a guardian of the rules?<span style=""> </span>Hopefully we will learn more about her role before the end.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Man this is already a long post.<span style=""> </span>Let’s address the flash-sideways real quick.<span style=""> </span>I really liked this flash-sideways because it was very reminiscent of season one between Locke and Jack and philosophies they espouse.<span style=""> </span>However, this time their roles were basically reversed.<span style=""> </span>This time Jack is trying to convince Locke he can fix him.<span style=""> </span>He throws in a couple of <a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Regularly_spoken_phrases">regularly spoken phrases</a> from the show such as “Let it go” and “Whatever happened, happened.”<span style=""> </span>Jack even said to him, “I wish you believed me” which was almost exactly what Locke wrote on his suicide letter to Jack in the original timeline.<span style=""> </span>It read “I wish you had believed me.”<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Did anyone else think it was a little ironic that Locke became paralyzed in a plane crash in the flash-sideways while a plane crash helped him get the use of his legs back in the original timeline?<span style=""> </span>However, I’m still holding out that Jack will do the surgery, make Locke able to walk, the timelines will “resolve” and because of the flash-sideways world, that is why Locke can walk.<span style=""> </span>We will see.<span style=""> </span>I’m starting to think that prediction won’t come true for a few reasons but I won’t waste your time with that here.<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Also, Locke is responsible and blames himself for his father’s condition whereas in the original timeline, Anthony Cooper is responsible for Locke’s condition.<span style=""> </span>Now ,Cooper is brain dead.<span style=""> </span>Is this why Sawyer is having a hard time hunting him down?<span style=""> </span>Talk about total jerk if Sawyer found him and still wanted to kill him, a brain dead person. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">Perhaps the most interesting connection is that in the sideways world Jack wants to help Locke because he considers him a candidate.<span style=""> </span>(Glad they used that word there.)<span style=""> </span>In the original timeline we know that Locke wants to kill Jack and the others because they are all candidates.<span style=""> </span>Hmmm.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">While Locke was recuperating in the hospital he mumbled in his sleep, “Push the button….I wish you had believed me.”<span style=""> </span>Was that just a dream or was he seeing his other life?<span style=""> </span>The characters are starting to realize things are weird.<span style=""> </span>Even in this episode Jack meets with Bernard to discuss Locke’s previous condition that put him in a wheelchair and they determine they were all on Oceanic 815.<span style=""> </span>(I want to know who remembers their flight numbers.<span style=""> </span>I mean yeah, if you crashed you would learn it.<span style=""> </span>However, I have never remembered a flight number of one I was on.<span style=""> </span>Many times I never look at it.<span style=""> </span>I just go to the right gate and see if the destination and time match up.<span style=""> </span>Risky?<span style=""> </span>Probably not.)<span style=""> </span>This is getting very interesting.<span style=""> </span>I’m looking forward to learning what the point in the sideways world has been.<span style=""> </span>Hopefully we will get our answers soon.<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">In the words of Smoke-Locke “You are so close; it would be such a shame to turn back now.”</p><p class="MsoNormal">Please feel free to leave your comments and theories. I'd love to hear from you.
<br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span>“Can’t change the past.<span style=""> </span>Can’t do it.<span style=""> </span>Whatever happened, happened.<span style=""> </span>All right?<span style=""> </span>But then I finally realized…I had been spending so much time focused on the constants, I forgot about the variables…We’re the variable.<span style=""> </span>People.<span style=""> </span>We think.<span style=""> </span>We reason.<span style=""> </span>We make choices.<span style=""> </span>We have free will.<span style=""> </span>We can change our destiny.”- Daniel Faraday, “The Variable,” episode 5.14</p> <p class="MsoNormal">
<br />Until next week when we have seen a little bit more <i>Lost</i>, Namaste.
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class="MsoNormal">Since this is a catch up post I’m going to keep it simple, you all watched the episode.<span style=""> </span>“The Last Recruit” definitely got things moving, specifically geographically.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">This episode did not do a whole lot other than move the characters around on the Island.<span style=""> </span>We finally see that Sawyer is indeed not really with Locke and wants to get the other people off the Island.<span style=""> </span>They try to sneak away from Locke on Desmond’s old boat.<span style=""> </span>Claire, who does not want to be left behind, again, joins them, even though Sawyer did not trust her or Sayid and wanted to leave them behind.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Sayid was on a mission by the MIB to kill Desmond in the well, to which Desmond had a very handy defense ready.<span style=""> </span>No one would think that well (see the pun.<span style=""> </span>Haha.<span style=""> </span>I only noticed this once I started proof reading) on their feet, but it was still impressive.<span style=""> </span>Even though Sayid told Smoke-Locke he killed Desmond we all knew to be suspicious of this.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">While leaving for Hydra Island on Desmond’s boat, Jack makes some statements to Sawyer that proves that Jack is now a man of faith.<span style=""> </span>He said that last time he left the Island he felt like a part of him was missing, that they were brought to the Island for a reason and if Locke wants them to leave maybe he’s scared of what will happen if they stay.<span style=""> </span>Sawyer makes Jack jump off the boat to which he swims to the main Island’s shore where Locke saves him while they are being shot at with explosives by Widmore.<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Sawyer and crew arrive at Hydra<span style="display: none;">Widmore</span> Island where Sun and Jin finally get their reunion (did I say finally?) and Sun get’s her English back.<span style=""> </span>Widmore’s people take all of the survivors captive and start their already mentioned attack on Locke and his few people and Jack (I don’t think they meant to hurt Jack or immediately knew that he was with them, however, this point probably does not matter).</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Let’s hit the flash-sideways now and then go back to something that happened at the start of the episode in the original timeline (I know, a very weird order to hit things but it’s my blog!)</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Once again my first paragraph holds true for this timeline too.<span style=""> </span>This paragraph just moved people closer geographically.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Sun and Locke are wheeled into the hospital at the same time and Sun is terrified of him.<span style=""> </span>Is she mind-melding?<span style=""> </span>Is she associating him with his scary form taken by the MIB?<span style=""> </span>Seems like there is some mind connections happening.<span style=""> </span>Jack and <a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/David_Shephard">David Shepherd</a> are going to hear Christian’s will be read and run into Claire because of Desmond’s “divine” intervention, placing her in the same lawyer’s office, who is actually Ilana.<span style=""> </span>This episode is the first time, in each timeline, that Jack and Claire meet since learning they are related (this, in the original timeline will be discussed in a moment).<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Sayid is caught by Sawyer and is now also a prisoner.<span style=""> </span>Both plane prisoners Kate (Oceanic 815 prisoner) and Sayid (Ajira 316 prisoner) are now prisoners in this timeline.<span style=""> </span>Jack is also the surgeon assigned to treat Locke.<span style=""> </span>(You know this is going to be good!)</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Going back to the beginning (I feel that this is a famous line from a movie or book or something.)<span style=""> </span>Jack talks with “Locke” for the first time and is puzzled by who he is.<span style=""> </span>It comes out that MIB had taken the form of Jack’s dad back at the beginning of season one to help Jack and survivors find water in the episode “<a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/White_Rabbit">White Rabbit</a>.”<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">I wonder, does this mean that ever dead person we have seen has been MIB?<span style=""> </span>I do not think so at all, certainly not the ones that talk to Hurley.<span style=""> </span>Although maybe some of them were.<span style=""> </span>Who knows?<span style=""> </span>This makes you wonder: when we’ve seen dead people, were they MIB, Island manifestations, or the Smoke Monster?<span style=""> </span>Why do we get more questions now, so close to the end?!<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">I always felt that Christian Shepherd was very important.<span style=""> </span>There are some times I am certain that Christian was MIB.<span style=""> </span>Other times I am not so sure.<span style=""> </span>Surely Jack’s dad will be something bigger and better.<span style=""> </span>I feel like if not then we might have been cheated a little bit.<span style=""> </span>It’s starting to look that way.<span style=""> </span>It is still interesting that MIB wanted to help.<span style=""> </span>He doesn’t see that bad all the time.<span style=""> </span>His motives need to be better explained.<span style=""> </span>Is he really as evil as we are lead to believe?</p> <p class="MsoNormal">In Smoke-Locke’s talk with Jack, Smokey bashes Locke.<span style=""> </span>I love that they do this.<span style=""> </span>It just further vindicates real Locke, my all-time favorite character.<span style=""> </span>MIB says real Locke thought he was special but was just a “sucker.”<span style=""> </span>By MIB bashing Locke I feel that he is trying to taint Locke’s legacy when it was noble, true, and on the right path, unfortunately he got played. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">For a long time I thought it was ridiculous that Locke died.<span style=""> </span>He was too important.<span style=""> </span>I’m now glad Locke was killed; the best people never make it.<span style=""> </span>The old phrase, “Only the good die young” is applicable here.<span style=""> </span>Yes Locke was older than most survivors, but he died young in the sense that it was before his time. He needed to be killed to be idolized and immortalized.<span style=""> </span>Locke’s death has been inspiration for so many now, especially Jack and even Ben, based on his Ben’s “speech” at his “funeral.”</p> <p class="MsoNormal">After Jack talks with Locke he talks with Claire for the first time since he learned that she is his sister.<span style=""> </span>When Jacks tells her he’s not sure if he’s “with them (them being Locke’s side),” Claire says that he joined Locke as soon as he talked to them.<span style=""> </span>This further hits the point about Locke being very, very persuasive, to the point that we must wonder does his voice have power?<span style=""> </span>Remember, Dogen told Sayid not to let Smoke-Locke talk to him, if he did, it was too late.<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Hitting up an earlier point, the episode ended with Locke rescuing Jack and telling him, “You’re with me now.”<span style=""> </span>This was a very creepy and worrisome way to end.<span style=""> </span>I mean come on, it’s feeling pretty obvious that Jack will be the new Jacob and with this closing line this theory is put in potential Jeopardy.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">One quick thought.<span style=""> </span>I really thought the two timelines were going to “resolve” in this episode.<span style=""> </span>I’m now feeling that this won’t happen until the final episode.<span style=""> </span>Everyone is getting together at the hospital.<span style=""> </span>I feel that once everyone is together in both timelines something weird will happen, maybe even through Desmond doing something.<span style=""> </span>I think we should be very alarmed by the existence of David Shepherd, flash-sideways Jack’s son.<span style=""> </span>No one else exists or ceases to exist in the flash-sideways that does not exist in the original timeline.<span style=""> </span>This is going to be a big deal.<span style=""> </span>Maybe a sacrifice Jack will have to make.<span style=""> </span>Or, maybe David is the real candidate.<span style=""> </span>That would be a little cheap, not being someone we have grown with, but definitely a big twist.<span style=""> </span>Just be ready for David to be a big deal.<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">By the way, please feel free to leave comments below.<span style=""> </span>I would love to hear what you have to say about the show, theories or reactions to anything I say.<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">“Can’t change the past.<span style=""> </span>Can’t do it.<span style=""> </span>Whatever happened, happened.<span style=""> </span>All right?<span style=""> </span>But then I finaly realized…I had been spending so much time focused on the constants, I forgot about the variables…We’re the variable.<span style=""> </span>People.<span style=""> </span>We think.<span style=""> </span>We reason.<span style=""> </span>We make choices.<span style=""> </span>We have free will.<span style=""> </span>We can change our destiny.”- Daniel Faraday, “The Variable,” episode 5.14</p> <p class="MsoNormal">
<br />Until next week when we have seen a little bit more <i>Lost</i>, Namaste.
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<br />Steven</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> Stevenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05520908431122197393noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7877384175123202425.post-32309793917273752452010-05-10T19:50:00.003-05:002010-05-10T19:55:47.297-05:00Everybody Loves Hugo- Episode 6.12<meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5COwner%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:officedocumentsettings> <o:relyonvml/> <o:allowpng/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><link rel="themeData" href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5COwner%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_themedata.thmx"><link rel="colorSchemeMapping" 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class="MsoNormal">Alas, the school year is done so I will catch up with my blog posts.<span style=""> </span>This one and the next one will be very short and I will be back on target for the episode that aired this week.<span style=""> </span>All I want to do with this post and the next one is alert people to things we should be aware of.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">“<a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Everybody_Loves_Hugo">Everyone Loves Hugo</a>” is a play on the season two episode “<a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Everybody_Hates_Hugo">Everyone Hates Hugo</a>.”<span style=""> </span>This shows the cyclicality (is that a real word, Word accepts it.) that this season has been having with the beginning of the show.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Let’s hit the flash-sideways first.<span style=""> </span>Did anyone else think that <a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Pierre_Cheng">Pierre Cheng</a> looked the same age he did in 1977?<span style=""> </span>Maybe I was wrong, but he did not appear to age.<span style=""> </span>The Hanso Foundation website (the alternative reality game between season 2 and 3) talked about how they Hanso Foundation, those backing the DHARMA Initiative, did research in many areas, one of which was called the “<a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Life_Extension_Project">Life Extension Project</a>.”<span style=""> </span>Could some of this work have made Dr. Cheng have an “extended life?”<span style=""> </span>It is believed that <a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Alvar_hanso">Alvar Hanso</a> may have extended his life through his corporation’s studies.<span style=""> </span>Also, there was a monkey, <a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Joop">Joop</a>, who was born in 1900 and is still alive, a Hanso Foundation experiment. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">All of this being said, if Cheng really was not older like he should have been, was it because he was affected by something on the Island?<span style=""> </span>Was he even on the Island in the flash-sideways timeline?<span style=""> </span>He had both real, natural arms.<span style=""> </span>So, did the incident not happen?<span style=""> </span>What is the cornerstone difference of the flash-sideways?<span style=""> </span>It seems to be more than just the bomb going off.<span style=""> </span>I will stop speculating because the truth is coming soon and I still don’t have much to base a speculation on.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">However, what was the deal with <a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Libby">Libby</a>?<span style=""> </span>Has she always believed in two timelines?<span style=""> </span>Was that why she was in an institute in the original timeline?<span style=""> </span>Has there always been some correlation?<span style=""> </span>If the timelines resolve are they offset a little?<span style=""> </span>I ask that because, is what we are seeing in the flash-sideways what is happening at the same time as the original timeline?<span style=""> </span>If so, then the timelines are off by about 3 years, what will that mean when the timelines “resolve?”</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Lastly, relating to the flash-sideways, did Desmond hit Locke with his car because he felt Locke was evil because he is inhabited by evil, the Smoke Monster, in the original timeline, or was it because he wanted to give him a near death experience to see the two timelines.<span style=""> </span>I’m going with the first one.<span style=""> </span>Although I’m not sure how Desmond determined he was evil.<span style=""> </span>Maybe he should have learned it is not the same guy before running him down.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">In the original timeline we got a big answer in this episode, we learned that <a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Whispers">Whispers</a> belong to dead people who are unable to move on.<span style=""> </span>The episode begins with a dead <a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Michael">Michael</a> telling Hurley that if they blow up the plane then a lot of people will die.<span style=""> </span>The group gets ready to go and Ilana sets down the pack of dynamite and blows up, very similar to how <a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Artz">Artz</a> died at the end of season 1.<span style=""> </span>(See the cyclicality of season 1 to season 6?)<span style=""> </span>Hurley then blows up the Black Rock (a little sentimental, last time we’ll see that….probably) to keep them from getting more dynamite to blow up the plane.<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">The group splits with all the candidates going to meet with Locke’s camp and Richard, Ben and Miles going to the DHARMA Barracks to get grenades and explosives to blow up the plane.<span style=""> </span>It was interesting to see Jack go along with Hurley’s lie that Jacob told them to talk to Smoke-Locke.<span style=""> </span>Jack has faith they can do this and that things will be ok.<span style=""> </span>I am liking Jack more and more now.<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">I’m going to backtrack a little before we get to the final scene.<span style=""> </span>Locke takes Desmond to a well and tells him that the Island apparently has it in for him and that he is not special at all.<span style=""> </span>(Similar to what Eloise Hawking said to Desmond in the season three episode, <a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Flashes_Before_Your_Eyes">Flashes Before Your Eyes</a> ).<span style=""> </span>While there, they see the same mysterious boy that Sawyer saw when he was with Locke near the beginning of this season.<span style=""> </span>However, this time his hair is noticeably darker.<span style=""> </span>Locke is very annoyed by him and when Desmond asks who he is Locke tells him to ignore him.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Smoke-Locke explains that the wells were dug on the Island because people wanted to know why their compasses freaked out, they were looking for answers.<span style=""> </span>I’m glad we now have an answer for why <a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Frozen_wheel">Frozen Donkey Wheel</a> had a well dug above it.<span style=""> </span>Smoke-Locke then shoves Desmond down the well.<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">The final scene shows Hurley, Sun, Frank and Jack arriving at the MIB’s camp, no Sun and Jin reunion yet (biggest, longest joke done by the writers ever).<span style=""> </span>This merging of the two groups was very cool because it was the first time that Jack had seen the “resurrected” Locke. <span style=""> </span>Very intriguing.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="">A few quick thoughts<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal">I looked it up and the mysterious boy is played by the same actor both times, despite his hair color.<span style=""> </span>I am really thinking that maybe he is what Jacob looked like as a child, especially considering what I have seen in the commercials for the next episode (keep in mind I am writing this way after this episode aired, <a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Across_the_Sea">Across the Sea</a> is going to air tomorrow).<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">However, this boy may be the form of Jacob when he was a child but that form may have been taken on by another force.<span style=""> </span>I think the boy and Mrs. Hawking represent referees or representatives for higher powers.<span style=""> </span>That is why he told Smoke-Locke that he could not kill Sawyer, presumably because he is a candidate.<span style=""> </span>Does his hair color represent the score of the game?<span style=""> </span>It is darker now because MIB is winning?<span style=""> </span>It was lighter when Jacob was winning?<span style=""> </span>Just a theory, a little weird I know, but then again a mysterious boy has hair that changes color.<span style=""> </span>I seriously doubt that he is dying his hair in one of the ancient wells.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Mrs. Hawking knows about time and course correction.<span style=""> </span>She has told Desmond that he cannot break “the rules” and that certain things he wishes to do would “be a violation.”<span style=""> </span>She also appears to be aware of the two timelines.<span style=""> </span>She helped them get back to the Island and knew how to do that.<span style=""> </span>She knows a lot, maybe too much; this should be brought into question.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">I was glad we finally learned what the Whispers were and that we could see that Michael was very sorry that he killed Libby and Ana Lucia, but, do the Whispers work for anyone or are they on their own?<span style=""> </span>Remember, Ben told Rousseau not to come looking for her daughter, Alex, when they kidnapped her, and that if she heard Whispers she should run the other way.<span style=""> </span>And why have we heard Whispers off the Island?</p> <p class="MsoNormal">I hope I have raised your awareness to certain things.<span style=""> </span>If you have anything else to add please feel free to leave your comments, thoughts, theories or whatever.<span style=""> </span>I am hoping to catch up quickly on the next episode.<span style=""> </span>Please stayed tuned to this blog for the next two days or so and we will be back on top of everything.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">In the words of Smoke-Locke “You are so close; it would be such a shame to turn back now.”
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<br />Until next week when we have seen a little bit more <i>Lost</i>, Namaste.
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<br />Steven</p> <p class="MsoNormal">P.S.<span style=""> </span>No sneak peeks this time, we are already past this episode.<span style=""> </span></p> Stevenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05520908431122197393noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7877384175123202425.post-13088991606770597862010-04-29T12:41:00.000-05:002010-04-29T12:42:41.414-05:00Portfolio Number Review II<meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5COwner%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><link rel="themeData" href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5COwner%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_themedata.thmx"><link rel="colorSchemeMapping" href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5COwner%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_colorschememapping.xml"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> 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update.<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Clicking <a href="http://thelink.harding.edu/index.php/features/2-harding/800-spring-sing-participants-adjust-back-to-life-without-it">here</a> will take you to the fourth story I wrote. This article was about how students that were involved heavily in Spring Sing were adjusting back to life without it. <span style=""> </span>This story was timely at the time because it was the week after Spring Sing and it asked students how they would spend their first free weekend and time after that. <span style=""> </span>This story was fun because I talked to five sources and covered many different aspects of Spring Sing involvement.<span style=""> </span>I was once again able to use a bulleted list in this story, a technique that is often easier and more accepted to do on the web than traditional print journalism. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">In the true sense of transparency that we talk about in PR classes all the time, I was a little disappointed with my video.<span style=""> </span>I used the tripod but at one point the camera wiggles for just a second or two; I’m really not sure why.<span style=""> </span>This was the first time I’ve ever filmed and put something on YouTube, so this was definitely new ground for me.<span style=""> </span>This exercise showed me that I need to expand my skills in the video realm so I can be more versatile in backpack journalism.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->This <a href="http://thelink.harding.edu/index.php/news/1-harding/843-tnt-helps-reroof-a-house-for-bisons-for-christ#yvComment843">link</a> will take you to my fifth and final story on the Link for this class.<span style=""> </span>This story was an audio slideshow covering a group involved with Bison’s for Christ.<span style=""> </span>I did some research to see how many groups were involved and what all they were doing.<span style=""> </span>Once I got the list I determined that TNT was a good group to cover because they were helping reroof a house which I figured would be a good story to cover for an audio slideshow. <span style=""> </span>While on the site I used my iPhone to record audio interviews with two of the leaders of the site.<span style=""> </span>I was really proud of these two interviews because I got a lot of good “natural sound.”<span style=""> </span>After taking pictures I returned back to the dorm to work. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">This article was fun because I got to “learn by doing,” a favorite pastime of mine.<span style=""> </span>I had never used Garage Band before and only used iMovie once on the project mentioned above, but certainly not for a slideshow.<span style=""> </span>It took a while but I figured out how to edit the audio, merge the two clips, set up the slide show with Ken Burns effects on some, sync the audio with the video and upload it to YouTube.<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">Today (Thursday, April 29), I decided to update this article.<span style=""> </span>I went back and re-edited the video some to change some Ken Burns effects in order to help it flow a little better.<span style=""> </span>One thing I hope you notice, but I certainly want to point your attention to, is the “natural sound” that lines up at 1:09-1:13 on the video.<span style=""> </span>It is showing a guy hammering. <span style=""> </span>While Mark Baur is talking you hear hammering in the background.<span style=""> </span>I just really thought that was neat how the “natural sound” matched up really well with the photo there.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->When the last portfolio was due I had turned in a story early.<span style=""> </span>I am not sure if it was graded then or if it was held off until this portfolio but I will link that story <a href="http://thelink.harding.edu/index.php/features/2-harding/496-lost-engagement-ring-is-found">here</a> as well.<span style=""> </span>It was just the story with an audio clip about Zach Cantrell finding Beth Anne Colvin’s lost engagement ring.<span style=""> </span>Honestly I was a little surprised by how this article took off.<span style=""> </span>It is still, at the time of posting this, the number six most visited article on the Link.<span style=""> </span>I am very proud of that, especially because it hit that number very soon after I first uploaded it.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->This does not really necessarily pertain, but <a href="http://thelink.harding.edu/index.php/news/1-harding/704-benson-to-receive-150-new-seats-to-accommodate-combined-chapel">this</a> is a story I wrote for the Bison that was also teased on the Link.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->This <a href="http://lostandsoontobefound-steven.blogspot.com/2010/03/portfolio-number-review-i.html">link</a> will take you to my first portfolio that was put on the Link.</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->This <a href="http://lostandsoontobefound-steven.blogspot.com/">link</a> will show you more of my blog posts.<span style=""> </span>I have hit the limit necessary of posts for this class but will continue it until <i style="">Lost</i> is over.<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">This class has been exciting and I had hoped to write more for the Link this semester, but between this class and writing for the Bison weekly it was hard to find time to write extra for the Link.<span style=""> </span>Next year I will be able to spend more time on the Link.<span style=""> </span>I hope to be able to be a part of this project and lend my help to expand it further.<span style=""> </span>As mentioned earlier, I’m a big proponent of “learning by doing.”<span style=""> </span>This class has allowed me to do that with the different techniques I was asked to employ in my articles.<span style=""> </span>While on that note I want to stress again 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<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">The job that I found was one for IMDb.com. The job posting is asking for someone who can help promote their website in terms of mobility and social networking. This job wants a person that can think critically and come up with good strategies to promote their service.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">I need to be able to effectively communicate with people, as well as have an understanding of social networking. Social networking is the new emerging way to communicate.<span style=""> </span>I need to be able to understand how it works and how to effectively and accurately use it to reach the maximum amount of people successfully. Being able to write is also a necessary skill with a job like this that wishes to reach out to people.
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<br /><span style=""><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">Since I am already involved in social media I need to keep using it to stay current with what the trends are and exactly how it operates.<span style=""> </span>In addition, I need to keep writing in order to get better at it. I should also read good writing to get ideas on how to write better.
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<br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p>Harding has been instrumental in teaching me how to write better. Also, through my classes here I have learned how to write for the web.<span style=""> </span>This will obviously be needed to communicate for a website. Recently, many of my classes have been stressing the importance of social media. I now see that it is a fundamental shift in the way in which we communicate.<span style=""> </span>I want to be a part of the shift. This is a new revolution and I want to be able to be a part of it from the start. I feel that my classes at Harding have reduced the learning curve to jump into this constantly changing industry.</span></p> Stevenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05520908431122197393noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7877384175123202425.post-4434528935863250922010-04-13T18:07:00.000-05:002010-04-13T18:08:53.458-05:00Happily Ever After- Episode 6.11<meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5COwner%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:officedocumentsettings> <o:relyonvml/> <o:allowpng/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><link rel="themeData" href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5COwner%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_themedata.thmx"><link rel="colorSchemeMapping" 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out with Desmond finding out that he was brought back to the Island.<span style=""> </span>When Widmore tells him this, needless to say, Desmond is very upset, to the point of physically attacking Widmore.<span style=""> </span>Soon after, Desmond is placed in a “room” to see if he can survive another “catastrophic electromagnetic event.”<span style=""> </span>From what Widmore has been told, Desmond is the only person in the world that has survived this, and if he can again, then he will be asked to make a sacrifice. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">When the infamous white light from electromagnetic events goes off we now see Desmond’s flash-sideways persona.<span style=""> </span>He is seen getting off of flight 815 and being picked up by <a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Minkowski">George Minkowski</a>.<span style=""> </span>This is interesting because Minkowski was the other person on the freighter whose consciousness was jumping between two timelines, as Desmond’s was when he arrived on the freighter.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">In this timeline Desmond works for Charles Widmore, and Widmore looks on him with great favor.<span style=""> </span>(Did anyone notice the artwork in Widmore’s office?<span style=""> </span>A scale with white stones on one side and black stones on another.)<span style=""> </span>Widmore gives Desmond a glass of MacCutcheon whisky because he is worth it.<span style=""> </span>In the original timeline we see that in Widmore’s eyes, Desmond is not worthy to have such a “fine” drink.<span style=""> </span>(I guess when you have a thing for the boss’s daughter it can make you easy to dislike.)</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Desmond is charged with the task of looking after Charlie Pace, because he is going to play a charity concert with Widmore’s son, Daniel Widmore aka Daniel Faraday. <span style=""> </span>In this timeline “Faraday” (how I will refer to him in this timeline) is a musician.<span style=""> </span>In the original timeline we knew he was a piano aficionado but his mother persuaded him to go into science because it appeared that was his destiny, to help the Island.<span style=""> </span>However, with the Island sunk in this timeline, I guess he can stick with music.<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Charlie seems to be on to something between the two timelines.<span style=""> </span>Charlie tells Desmond that when he nearly died on the plane by choking on his bag of drugs he saw Claire (although he doesn’t know her name in this timeline) and felt as if he had loved her.<span style=""> </span>There was a true, real feeling in him when he saw Claire when he was about to die.<span style=""> </span>In an effort to show Desmond something, Charlie jerks the wheel of the car away from Desmond and they crash into the water.<span style=""> </span>Desmond swims out of the car and goes around to Charlie’s side of the car.<span style=""> </span>He thinks he sees Charlie holding his hand up to the window which says “Not Penny’s boat.”<span style=""> </span>Desmond snaps out of this vision and gets him out.<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">At the hospital Desmond goes into an MRI machine.<span style=""> </span>Inside this machine Desmond starts seeing flashes of his life with Penny from the original timeline.<span style=""> </span>He leaves the MRI machine and runs into Jack, who is a doctor in the hospital, and reminds him that they were on the same plane.<span style=""> </span>Desmond meets up with Charlie again in the hospital and Charlie tells him that he will not play in the concert because none of this matters and that Desmond should start looking for this girl named Penny that he saw written on Charlie’s hand and also from the visions in the MRI machine. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">Desmond then goes to tell Mrs. Widmore, Eloise Hawking, that Charlie will not be playing at their event.<span style=""> </span>Despite how everyone told Desmond she would react, she did not seem to mind this news.<span style=""> </span>As Desmond leaves the event site where he was meeting with Mrs. Widmore he hears the name Penny Milton being read off the guest list.<span style=""> </span>When he asks to look at the list Mrs. Widmore jumps all up in his conversation and says that:</p> <p>ELOISE: Someone has clearly affected the way you see things. This is a serious problem. It is, in fact, a violation. So, whatever you’re doing, whatever it is you think you’re looking for...You need to stop looking for it. </p> <p>DESMOND: Do you, do you know what I'm looking for, Mrs. Widmore? </p> <p>ELOISE: I don't know why you're looking for anything? You have the perfect life. On top of it, you’ve managed to attain the thing you wanted more than anything--my husband's approval. </p> <p>DESMOND: How do you know what I want? </p> <p>ELOISE: Because I bloody do. </p> <p>DESMOND: I need to see that list...or you need to tell me why I can't. </p> <p>ELOISE: You can't because you're not ready yet, Desmond. </p> <p>DESMOND: Ready? Ready, for what? </p> <p>Desmond then talks with Faraday who basically gives him the same Charlie speech.<span style=""> </span>He felt as though he loved this redhead girl who works at the museum.<span style=""> </span>We of course already know this to be Charlotte.<span style=""> </span>Faraday says that after seeing her he felt as though he had already loved the redhead; he woke up that night and wrote down some crazy advanced quantum mechanics equations.<span style=""> </span>Only someone who had studied that field a lifetime would understand them.<span style=""> </span>He knew this because he showed it to a friend of his that is in the mathematics field.<span style=""> </span></p> <p>Faraday then concludes that things must have been changed, that this life was not meant to be.<span style=""> </span>Faraday said that things could have been changed by releasing a large amount of energy, like exploding a nuclear bomb.<span style=""> </span>Faraday then speculates that he has already set off a nuclear bomb.<span style=""> </span>Faraday tells Desmond that Penny is his half sister and he tells Desmond where to meet her.</p> <p>Desmond finds Penny running in the same stadium that we saw Jack and Desmond running in from the original timeline.<span style=""> </span>When they shake hands Desmond faints.<span style=""> </span></p> <p>Desmond comes back into consciousness in his original timeline persona.<span style=""> </span>Widmore says that he was only out for a few seconds.<span style=""> </span>Widmore expresses to Desmond that his ability is paramount to the success of their mission.<span style=""> </span>Desmond does not even let Widmore finish and says that he is ready to do what he must.<span style=""> </span>Moments later, Desmond is being lead away by Zoe and two other of Widmore’s men.<span style=""> </span>Sayid jumps out and neutralizes the two men and tells Zoe, at gunpoint, that she should run.<span style=""> </span></p> <p>SAYID: Desmond, I don’t have time to explain, but these people are extremely dangerous. We need to go now. </p> <p>DESMOND: Aye, of course. Lead the way. </p> <p>The episode concludes by flash-sideways Desmond waking up in front of Penny where we last saw them talking.<span style=""> </span>Penny agrees to a coffee date and Desmond returns to his limo still being driven by Minkowski.<span style=""> </span>Minkowski asks if he can get Desmond anything to which Desmond asks for the Oceanic 815 flight manifest.<span style=""> </span>When asked why he needs it, Desmond says, “I just need to show them something.</p> <p>This episode shows that the flash-sideways are starting to go somewhere and actually serve a purpose.<span style=""> </span>A few quick questions I think we should ponder:</p> <p style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Was Desmond in control of his flash-sideways self, or was he merely “watching” himself do things?<span style=""> </span>I think he was “watching” from his flash-sideways perspective. </p> <p style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Is Mrs. Widmore/Eloise Hawking aware of the two timelines?<span style=""> </span>It seems that she is.<span style=""> </span>How much is she aware of them?<span style=""> </span>Did she create one of them?<span style=""> </span>Can she operate between the two of them?<span style=""> </span>Is she a “master” of one of them?<span style=""> </span>She has always known <b style="">too</b> much about <b style="">time</b> and <b style="">fate</b>.<span style=""> </span>She talked about Desmond violating things pertaining to rules, presumably of time.<span style=""> </span>Are we finally going to get back to all these rules we keep hearing about.<span style=""> </span>Remember, Ben said that Widmore had “changed the rules” when Widmore killed Alex.<span style=""> </span>Although Widmore’s relation to killing Alex can be questioned since Keamy was the one who pulled the trigger and Ben blames himself for her death.</p> <p style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Why are Widmore and Eloise still together in the flash-sideways?<span style=""> </span>How did he even have a step-child, Penny?<span style=""> </span>Who is the other parent?<span style=""> </span>Does it matter?</p> <p style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Is love the key thing combining the two timelines?</p> <p>I am not sure how I feel about love being the thing that connects the two timelines.<span style=""> </span>It seems a little childish, or fairy-tale-ish.<span style=""> </span>However, that would go right along with the name of the episode, “Happily Ever After.”<span style=""> </span>I’m ok with it showing them other things from the timeline, however, if that is what brings them together I’m going to be a little upset.<span style=""> </span>I do not think it will be though.<span style=""> </span></p> <p>Why did Desmond just go with Sayid?<span style=""> </span>Does he really trust Sayid more than them?<span style=""> </span>Was he simply afraid to stand up to Sayid?<span style=""> </span>This will be interesting to see in the next few episodes.</p> <p>I do wonder if they will tell us why Desmond is so special, able to handle high levels of exposure to electromagnetism.</p> <p>Also, in this timeline Penny’s last name is Milton.<span style=""> </span>Is that meant to imply anything?<span style=""> </span>John Milton is the author of <i style=""><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost">Paradise Lost</a></i>.<span style=""> </span>This is what Wikipedia has to say about <i style="">Paradise Lost</i>:</p> <p>It deals with diverse topics from marriage, politics, and monarchy, and grapples with many difficult theological issues, including <b style="">fate</b>, <b style="">predestination</b>, the Trinity, and the introduction of sin and death into the world, as well as angels, fallen angels, Satan, and the war in heaven. Milton's epic is generally considered one of the greatest literary works in the English language.</p> <p>Sounds like it might be why she was given that last name.<span style=""> </span>There are a lot of common themes from <i style="">Lost</i> discussed in it (I bolded two big points, but others apply in some degree at least.)</p> <p>Another quick note about Penny, according to the Lostpedia, there is no actual coffee shop at corner of the two streets where Desmond set up his coffee date with Penny.<span style=""> </span>In real life, there is an antique shop there called, “Thanks for the Memories.”<span style=""> </span>Was this a coincidence or done on purpose?<span style=""> </span>I don’t know, but it is very interesting.<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">I have few quick predictions.<span style=""> </span>In the flash-sideways timeline I believe that Sawyer might be looped into going to the hospital where an injured and pregnant Sun will be seen by Juliet, a baby doctor.<span style=""> </span>He will see visions of him with Juliet.<span style=""> </span>Sawyer will either end up at the hospital because Sun and Jin go to the police station looking for help with Sun’s gunshot wound or, Sawyer could end up at the hospital because he just found Kate and he will need to take her to Claire, who is in the hospital, for some reason, such as asking Claire questions about Kate.<span style=""> </span>Either way, Sawyer will need to end up at the hospital to see Juliet I feel like.<span style=""> </span>I am not sure how Jack will end up running into Kate.<span style=""> </span>Unless they switch it on us and say that Sawyer is going to be with Kate.<span style=""> </span>Maybe now that he caught her running he started seeing some visions.<span style=""> </span>I think something in this paragraph will be right.<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">As far as Desmond goes, I think Widmore will need him at the volcano (which has been mentioned once and we have been told it will be of “seismic” importance).<span style=""> </span>There he will tap into an electromagnetic pocket and “resolve” the two timelines.<span style=""> </span>However, doing this will put him at great danger; hence the sacrifice Widmore alluded to.<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">As far as the next episode goes, “Everybody Loves Hugo,” I think we will get an answer to another big mystery. This episode title is a play on the season two episode entitled “<a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Everybody_Hates_Hugo">Everybody Hates Hugo</a>.”<span style=""> </span>The producers said we would eventually give an answer to why there was a DHARMA supply drop near the end of season two.<span style=""> </span>In a podcast last month they said that they intend to tell who dropped it and why but that it may not be revealed on the show.<span style=""> </span>I’m hoping it is revealed on tonight’s episode or at least hinted to since they said it probably won’t be shown on the show.<span style=""> </span>Often, Hurley’s episodes deal with food.<span style=""> </span>He was in charge of the Swan food that they found in the hatch.<span style=""> </span>He also worked for the kitchen during his short stint in the DI.<span style=""> </span>Other than that, I have no more predictions.<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">By the way, please feel free to leave comments below.<span style=""> </span>I would love to hear what you have to say about the show, theories or reactions to anything I say.<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">In the words of Smoke-Locke “You are so close; it would be such a shame to turn back now.”
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<br />Until next week when we have seen a little bit more <i>Lost</i>, Namaste.
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and Jin have a functional relationship in this timeline and this time around Sun wants to run away to America <b style="">with</b> Jin.<span style=""> </span>We find out that the money that Jin lost at customs was to pay for Keamy to kill him.<span style=""> </span>(Sounds a little poetic)<span style=""> </span>Jin is taken to the restaurant that we saw him at in Sayid’s flash-sideways.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Sun’s father apparently found out about her secret bank account and closed it, thus keeping Sun and Jin from paying Keamy.<span style=""> </span>Jin gets free thanks to Sayid helping him.<span style=""> </span>Once Jin is free he shoots <a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Mikhail_Bakunin">Mikhail Bakunin</a> in his right eye (the same one in the original timeline…Karma, close to the word DHARMA…like the DI…snap!).<span style=""> </span>In this shootout Sun is shot in the stomach and then tells Jin that she is pregnant.<span style=""> </span>That is where this flash-sideways ended; only some closure, but adding a new twist.<span style=""> </span>I bet they get to the hospital and Juliet treats them.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Moving to the original timeline, Jin is kidnapped and taken to Hydra Island to help Widmore and his people.<span style=""> </span>During this time Jin is kept in the infamous <a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Room_23">Room 23</a>.<span style=""> </span>(This was the same place the Others kept Walt. <span style=""> </span>As seen in a flashback, Walt exhibits a connection with birds and while being kept in Room 23 he shows this ability again.<span style=""> </span>Watch this video; it is part of the “<i style=""><a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Missing_Pieces">Lost<span style="font-style: normal;">: Missing Pieces</span></a></i>.” collection.)<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/uyoL_Ng7Vl4&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param 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and thus looses the ability to speak English; she can still understand it and write it, but she can only speak Korean.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Locke returns to find his people tranquilize-ed.<span style=""> </span>He revives Sayid and takes him to Hydra Island.<span style=""> </span>Before they leave, Locke tells Claire that the reason Kate is with them is that she can get the last three people he needs in order to leave the Island.<span style=""> </span>After that, “whatever happens, happens,” thus implying Claire can kill Kate.<span style=""> </span>(So much for true forgiveness.)<span style=""> </span>Locke gets to Hydra Island and talks to Widmore with Widmore’s portable sonar fence between them.<span style=""> </span>Widmore says all he knows about “Locke” is “a combination of myths, ghost stories and noises in the jungle at night.”<span style=""> </span>(A very cool thought and way to write that.<span style=""> </span>Touché writers)<span style=""> </span>The sonar fences would suggest otherwise.<span style=""> </span>Smoke Locke then tells him that war is now upon the Island.<span style=""> </span>(Finally, we have been hearing about this war for a long time and it’s between two sides we didn’t even know it could be between.<span style=""> </span>When war was first suggested in season 4 we assumed it would be between Jacob’s people, the Others, and Widmore.<span style=""> </span>Now it might appear that Widmore and Jacob are on the same side, but certainly the other side is the Smoke Monster.<span style=""> </span>Didn’t see that coming until this season, or for those of us who assumed the Smoke Monster was the Man in Black last season.)</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Richard returns to the camp and tells Jack and followers that they must destroy the plane.<span style=""> </span>Sun is not happy about this and rants; however, no one can understand her.<span style=""> </span>The last scene of the night was Sayid seeing Widmore’s people pull out “the Package,” Desmond, from the submarine.<span style=""> </span>(Boom, twist!)<span style=""> </span>Desmond is back on the Island!</p> <p class="MsoNormal">A few quick thoughts.<span style=""> </span>Is Jin fertile in the flash-sideways?<span style=""> </span>He wasn’t fertile off-island in the original timeline.<span style=""> </span>Or, is the baby someone else’s?<span style=""> </span>Has Sun been having an affair in this timeline?<span style=""> </span>Probably not since her relationship with Jin is good here, but who knows.<span style=""> </span>I know Jin said they were not married, but are they really?<span style=""> </span>Was that just to throw people off the scent of them having a relationship?</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Between this episode and the previous one (Richard’s episode) I can now work out a theory I had for a long time.<span style=""> </span>If you remember from season one and maybe even two, there was a lot of sexual tension between <a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Michael">Michael</a> and Sun.<span style=""> </span>He walked up on her bathing; he connected with her well because he was one of the first, if not the first, to know she speaks English.<span style=""> </span>They had a couple of awkward moments so until Ji Yeon was born I thought that Michael might have been the father.<span style=""> </span>If you still do not believe that there was tension between them watch this video that ABC put out right before season 4 aired.<span style=""> </span>It was part of a set entitle “<i style=""><a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Missing_Pieces">Lost<span style="font-style: normal;">: Missing Pieces</span></a></i>.”<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/SPQwawO4jBo&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed 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class="MsoNormal">It is interesting that Sun can only speak Korean now.<span style=""> </span>This season is mirroring season one in many ways, this is another.<span style=""> </span>When her and Jin get back together only one of them will be able to speak English, just like season 1.<span style=""> </span>Speaking of which, when are they going to get back together?<span style=""> </span>Please say before the finale.<span style=""> </span>I was hoping they would have gotten back together in this episode.<span style=""> </span>I just don’t want this to be hyped up too much and made into too much of a big deal.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Smoke Locke told Claire he needed three more people in order to leave the Island.<span style=""> </span>I guess we are to assume he is talking about Jack, Hurley, and Sun, the other three potential candidates that are not in his group yet.<span style=""> </span>Can he really physically not leave if they are still on the Island or is he covering his tracks to make sure that if he leaves the Island they will not become the new Jacob and have power over him?</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Finally, a quick thought about the final scene.<span style=""> </span>Was Desmond the thing Widmore had locked away in the Submarine?<span style=""> </span>I guess so, but I’m not sure we can fully make that assumption. <span style=""> </span>Unless when they told Sawyer about it if they used the word “Package” we could safely assume Desmond was what was locked up.<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Now I’m going to make a few predictions about tonight. <span style=""> </span>It appears that tonight’s episode is going to be a Desmond centric episode.<span style=""> </span>I say we should expect to see Daniel Faraday, after all, “If anything goes wrong, Desmond Hume will be my constant.”<span style=""> </span>Are we going to see some crossover or connections between the flash-sideways and original timeline tonight; I think there will be something.<span style=""> </span>Remember, the rules of time/time travel do not apply to Desmond.<span style=""> </span>Did Widmore take Desmond out of the hospital and straight to the Island?<span style=""> </span>Maybe.<span style=""> </span>What if the Desmond we saw was actually flash-sideways Desmond?!<span style=""> </span>I doubt it, but who is to say.<span style=""> </span>However, seeing as how Desmond became time travel important by imploding the Swan Hatch, exposing him to electromagnetism, this would help explain why Zoe, Widmore’s geophysicist, needs to know where pockets of electromagnetism are.<span style=""> </span>Is Widmore or anyone aware of the flash-sideways?<span style=""> </span>At the very least I would not be surprised at all if Desmond’s conscious jumped between his two bodies like it did between his present and 1996 self when he arrived on the freighter.<span style=""> </span>I am hoping for great things from tonight’s episode.<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">By the way, please feel free to leave comments below.<span style=""> </span>I would love to hear what you have to say about the show, theories or reactions to anything I say.<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">In the words of Smoke-Locke “You are so close; it would be such a shame to turn back now.”
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<br />Until next week when we have seen a little bit more <i>Lost</i>, Namaste.
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<br />Steven</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Here are the sneak peeks ABC has put out for this week’s episode. 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research papers aside we can continue to the more important things, like the episode “Ab Aeterno.”</p> <p class="MsoNormal">“Ab Aeterno” (which means “from eternity” It is used to mean “for long ages” or “since the beginning”) was an episode that we have been waiting for since we first learned that Richard could not age back in season three.<span style=""> </span>This episode proved to be very revelatory; we got 4 big mysteries solved.</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->We now know when and how the Taweret was destroyed.</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->We finally explicitly see that Richard was in fact a slave on the Black Rock.</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->We know what the purpose of the Island is. (This could still use some expounding).</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->We finally know where Richard came from and just about how old he is.<span style=""> </span>(At least 160, assuming that he was at least 20 in the oldest of his flashbacks.)</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Note:<span style=""> </span>MIB stand for Man in Black/Smoke Monster and DI stands for DHARMA Initiative.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Starting with the flashback, the episode shows that Richard is from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife">Tenerife</a>, one of the Canary Islands.<span style=""> </span>(It seems that Richard spends his life jumping from one island to another, the true originator of Island Hopping.<span style=""> </span>Just call him Douglas McArthur…No laughs?<span style=""> </span>Alright, fair enough.)<span style=""> </span>When Richard’s wife, Isabella, is very sick, Richard rides a long way to a doctor to see if he can help.<span style=""> </span>When Richard does not have enough money for the medicine for his wife he ends up accidently killing the doctor in a similar manner that Desmond killed <a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Kelvin_Inman">Kelvin Inman</a> right before 815 crashed.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Richard is sentenced to death by hanging.<span style=""> </span>When Richard tries to confess his sins before a priest, the priest tells him that murder is a sin he cannot forgive, he would have to make things right by a life time of penance.<span style=""> </span>However, because he is going to die the next day, Richard would go to Hell because he could not make right his sin.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Richard is saved (which is up for debate) by Jonas Whitfield who buys Richard on behalf of Magnus Hanso to go on the Back Rock.<span style=""> </span>Richard was purchased partly because of his ability to speak English, which he had been practicing by reading an English Bible (to be discussed later).</p> <p class="MsoNormal">The Black Rock approaches the Island by night during a storm.<span style=""> </span>Do not be alarmed, this is the same ship shown in last season’s finale, “<a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/The_incident">The Incident Pt.1</a>.”<span style=""> </span>The producers said in a podcast that once Jacob and the MIB left the beach a storm popped up that the Black Rock had to come through.<span style=""> </span>If you still find this hard to believe remember in season one when they talked about how the weather was weird on the Island, storms would popup out of nowhere.<span style=""> </span>This all fits.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">So I was a little disappointed with how the Black Rock appeared in the middle of the jungle.<span style=""> </span>The Black Rock was taken inland by a massive tidal wave.<span style=""> </span>As it was flung inland, it crashed through the Taweret statue, thus leaving it the way we know it.<span style=""> </span>However, before it crashed through the statue, one of the other slaves believed that Taweret looked like the Devil (quoted from Wikipedia, Taweret “became the demon-wife of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apep" title="Apep">Apep</a>, the original god of evil.” (interesting, eh?)); he assumed that the Devil watched over the Island.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">They awake in the jungle to find that Whitfield is coming down to kill all the slaves and before he can kill Richard, the last one, the Smoke Monster kills Whitfield and then stares down Richard, presumably getting his memories through his “flash” technique.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">For days Richard tries to escape his chains.<span style=""> </span>At one point he sees Isabella who tells him that the Devil is on the Island.<span style=""> </span>Richard believes she is talking about the Smoke Monster.<span style=""> </span>When they hear it coming Richard begs her to leave. <span style=""> </span>As she gets out of eye sight, it sounds as if she was killed by the Smoke Monster.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">The MIB comes and confirms Richard’s thought that they are in Hell.<span style=""> </span>MIB tells Richard that the Devil has Isabella and that he will free Richard if Richard agrees to do anything that he says.<span style=""> </span>Richard (I know I use “Richard” a lot here, but I do not want to use ambiguous pronouns.) agrees and is taken out by the Man in Black, who upon freeing Richard says, “It’s good to see you out of those chains.”<span style=""> </span>Sound familiar?<span style=""> </span>It should, Smoke Locke said this to Richard in the season premiere.<span style=""> </span>This was the first pretty strong indicator that Richard came on the Black Rock.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">The MIB says that Richard needs to kill the Devil in order to leave Hell (a.k.a. the Island).<span style=""> </span>MIB promises that if he does this Richard can get his wife back.<span style=""> </span>A similar promise that MIB made to Sayid.<span style=""> </span>Also, similarly, MIB gives Richard a dagger to kill the Devil (a.k.a. Jacob). <span style=""> </span>This is the same dagger Dogen gave Sayid to kill Smoke-Locke (a.k.a. the Man in Black).<span style=""> </span>Both MIB and Dogen say the same thing when giving the dagger to be used on their respective targets: “Do not hesitate or let him speak because he is very persuasive.”<span style=""> </span>(not a direct quote I believe, but a rough estimate.)<span style=""> </span>One other very important thing is that the MIB tells Richard that he is the Black Smoke Monster and that the “Devil” betrayed him and stole his humanity and body from him.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Richard approaches Jacob to kill him by the statue wreckage.<span style=""> </span>Jacob disarms him and asks him where he got the knife and if he ran into a man wearing black.<span style=""> </span>Jacob tells Richard that he does not have his wife and that he is not dead and not in Hell.<span style=""> </span>To prove this, Jacob repeatedly submerges Richard in water, four times.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Perhaps the most pivotal scene of <i style="">Lost</i> thus far was this next discussion, the likening of the Island to a wine bottle and its cork.<span style=""> </span>The Island serves as a cork keeping all the evil in from spreading to the world.<span style=""> </span>Is the evil the MIB?<span style=""> </span>Or can he bring this evil force be brought about by him.<span style=""> </span>MIB is cynical and believes that everyone is corruptible; people are naturally bad.<span style=""> </span>Jacob thinks he is wrong and brings people to the Island to prove him wrong; people are naturally good.<span style=""> </span>However, Jacob has not been successful in the past; everyone he has brought in the past has died.<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Jacob hopes people know the difference between good and evil without intervention.<span style=""> </span>Richard informs him that if Jacob doesn’t help people then the MIB will step in and lead them away.<span style=""> </span>With this, Richard is given the position of advisor, to speak on behalf of Jacob for him to his people.<span style=""> </span>By taking this job, Richard asks for his wife back, Jacob says he can’t do that.<span style=""> </span>He then asks for forgiveness of sin so he will not go to Hell.<span style=""> </span>Once again, Jacob says he cannot do that either.<span style=""> </span>Finally Richard asks for eternal life so he never has to die and go to Hell, this he is granted.<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Richard goes back to MIB and gives him a white rock.<span style=""> </span>MIB says that his offer is always there for him to switch sides.<span style=""> </span>Jacob then goes to talk with the MIB who is seen throwing the white stone recently given to him by Richard.<span style=""> </span>MIB tells Jacob he just wants to leave the Island, to which Jacob replies that he can’t let him go.<span style=""> </span>MIB says he will kill Jacob and whoever replaces him so he can leave.<span style=""> </span>Jacob gives him the infamous wine bottle to pass the time and says that he’ll see him around to which MIB says “Sooner than you think.” While he says this he breaks the bottle, letting all of the wine spill out.<span style=""> </span>(How creepy is that?)</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Present day time, Richard is asked by the whole beach camp where they need to go next.<span style=""> </span>According to Ilana, Jacob had told her that Richard would know what they need to do.<span style=""> </span>Richard is still lost and confused by Jacob’s death and thus runs into the jungle.<span style=""> </span>He then digs up an old necklace that belonged to his wife that he had buried when he turned down MIB’s offer.<span style=""> </span>Upon this he starts saying that he was wrong and wants to know if the MIB’s offer still stands, he wants to change side.<span style=""> </span>Isabella appears beside him and Hurley serves as the translator to tell Richard that he has to stop the Man in Black or else “We all go to Hell.”<span style=""> </span>Now Richard has his purpose back and remains on Jacob’s side.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">This episode was amazing; one of the best, if not the best <i style="">Lost</i> episode yet.<span style=""> </span>It was very mythological, metaphorical, and theological.<span style=""> </span>Let’s tackle a few things first.<span style=""> </span>I liked how Jacob cannot forgive sins.<span style=""> </span>It shows that he is powerful, yes, but not all-powerful.<span style=""> </span>He is a representation of good, but not the apex of what good is and maybe not fully, wholly good.<span style=""> </span>Not bad, just not pure.<span style=""> </span>While on the subject of religion, when the priest takes Richard’s Bible away he opens it up to Luke 4.<span style=""> </span>This is the story of the temptation of Jesus.<span style=""> </span>Interesting that this was the passage it opened up to.<span style=""> </span>Set aside the fact that the number 4 is already incredibly significant in this show, but this is a foreshadowing of what Richard will face.<span style=""> </span>Richard is in a “wilderness” and approached by what we believe at this point to be, the embodiment of evil.<span style=""> </span>He tempts Richard.<span style=""> </span>The stories differs as they both progress and not all participants exactly mirror one another, but nonetheless, very similar, certainly done on purpose.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Other interesting things, the knife.<span style=""> </span>Is the knife only able to kill people before they speak?<span style=""> </span>One could easily think that because both times it has been seen it was given the same “don’t let your target talk or it is too late” speech. <span style=""> </span>The knife is said to be a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pugio">Pugio</a>, a dagger used by ancient soldiers of Rome.<span style=""> </span>I have read that the sheath of the one in <i style="">Lost</i> has depictions of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romulus_and_remus">Romulus and Remus</a> on it.<span style=""> </span>Click <a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/File:606-18.jpg">here</a> to see a picture of it.<span style=""> </span>What are we to learn from this?<span style=""> </span>Who knows?<span style=""> </span>Maybe just more insight into how old the Island is, or how long it has been drawing people to it.<span style=""> </span>Maybe Jacob and MIB were from Rome?<span style=""> </span>However, assuming the Egyptian hieroglyphics show the Smoke Monster talking to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anubis">Anubis</a>, the Egyptian god of mummification and afterlife I must assume the Smoke Monster has been around even longer than ancient Rome.<span style=""> </span>Although maybe I do not have my timelines down about when Romulus and Remus found Rome.<span style=""> </span>This leads to another point.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">The Smoke Monster/MIB said that Jacob stole his body and humanity from him.<span style=""> </span>Was the Smoke Monster an entity that allowed Jacob’s nemesis, the Man in Black, to incorporate himself into it, or was that was left of the man when his body was stolen?<span style=""> </span>I’m going to work with the first guess.<span style=""> </span>It (the Smoke Monster) was called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerberus">Cerberus</a> on the <a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Blast_door_map">Blast Door Map</a> in the Swan hatch.<span style=""> </span>Is another entity apart of this force (Cerberus)?<span style=""> </span>Cerberus was the three-headed dog that guarded the entrance to the underworld in Greek mythology.<span style=""> </span>Are there three parts that make up the Smoke Monster?<span style=""> </span>Is the Island really the “gateway” to Hell or evil, or is that reading too much into the metaphor?<span style=""> </span>Probably reading into it too much, but still very interesting to see how all this talk of Hell merges Greek and Egyptian mythology and Christian afterlife thoughts into this episode.<span style=""> </span>Remember, the hieroglyphics on the Swan countdown timer translated to “Underworld.”</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Interesting as well, although nothing to really definite to say, the Blast Door Map has marked the last known resting place of Magnus Hanso/the Black Rock.<span style=""> </span>What do people know about Magnus Hanso and the Black Rock, especially what did DHARMA people who made the map know about him.<span style=""> </span>Remember, it was started by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anubis">Radzinsky</a> and finished by Kelvin Inman.<span style=""> </span>Radzinsky was at the very least on the Island from 1977-1991.<span style=""> </span>He killed himself sometime before 2001 when Desmond came to take up residence on the Island.<span style=""> </span>This means that Radzinsky started making the map between 1977-1991.<span style=""> </span>How did he know about the Black Rock, let alone who Magnus Hanso was?<span style=""> </span>Did <a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Horace_Goodspeed">Horace Goodspeed</a> lie to Sawyer when Sawyer said he and the rest of the time jumpers were looking for the Black Rock and Horace responded by saying he had never heard of it?<span style=""> </span>Do other members of the DI know about it?<span style=""> </span>Sawyer was lying too, but still, is the Black Rock that important?<span style=""> </span>I say yes.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">If you remember from season two, one of the DHARMA orientation videos mentioned that the DHARMA Initiative was funded by an <a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Alvar_hanso">Alvar Hanso</a> (read more about him by clicking on his name) who happens to be the great-grandson of Magnus Hanso (we find that out later).<span style=""> </span>I believe I remember the producers saying that we will see more of the DI’s connection to Ann Arbor (where Faraday went when he left the Island in the 70s) this season.<span style=""> </span>In an <a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/The_Lost_Experience">alternate reality game</a> (ARG) for <i style="">Lost</i> during the time between season 2 and season 3 much was revealed about Alvar Hanso.<span style=""> </span>He is still alive, and estimated to be very old, maybe around 112.<span style=""> </span>This would not be shocking if we knew that he went to the Island at some point and somehow received a gift from Jacob, or something else. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">We know that Tovard Hanso, an unknown relation, left a journal that Widmore bought at an auction.<span style=""> </span>I say all of this to say that I believe the Island revolves around the Hanso family.<span style=""> </span>Jacob brought the Black Rock there to set things in motion (we know he did bring them there.)<span style=""> </span>From there the Hanso family had a connection to it.<span style=""> </span>A hundred years later, a descendant of Magnus Hanso has the money to fund the DI, a research team to understand the Island that his great-grandfather mysteriously disappeared to. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">Do not forget, it was a mysterious disappearance.<span style=""> </span>As far as we know, the Island resides in the Pacific Ocean.<span style=""> </span>Yes, it moves, but we only know it to move in the Pacific.<span style=""> </span>The Pendulum room in the <a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Lamp_post">Lamp Post Station</a> has the pendulum only swinging over the Pacific.<span style=""> </span>So, the Black Rock leaves from somewhere in Europe (I say Europe because it is disputable where it finally left from. “Evidence” presented in “<a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/The_Constant">The Constant</a>” say it set sail form Portsmouth, England.<span style=""> </span>This could have been a stop before they went to the Canary Islands, after, or a lie.)<span style=""> </span>If we are still to assume that the Island is only in the Pacific, then the Black Rock must have gone through a “window” (which we know exists) to transport it to the Island.<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">This could be all the motivation the Alvar family needed to find what happened to their heir.<span style=""> </span>However, I’m not sure how they could have known what happened or to look for an island and not assume his ship had sunk. <span style=""> </span>Maybe the ledger left by Tovard Hanso, the ship’s first mate, indicated something and it was somehow taken off Island or it never quite made it to the Island.<span style=""> </span>Also, in an interview I read of the actor that plays the MIB, he said that his character has a name, a very important name that not even he knows yet.<span style=""> </span>He just knows it is important.<span style=""> </span>Could his name be that of an older yet to be mentioned Hanso relative?<span style=""> </span>I say: possibly.<span style=""> </span>Seems like a plausible theory.<span style=""> </span>I just suggest that we be aware and ready for the rarely mentioned Hanso’s because they may become more important this season.<span style=""> </span>After all, people and things are rarely done without a purpose on <i style="">Lost</i>.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">A few more quick things.<span style=""> </span>The <b style="">Black</b> Rock destroyed the statue of Taweret, which is <b style="">white</b>.<span style=""> </span>(Is that reading too much into the black/white motif?)<span style=""> </span>I’m a little disappointed by how the Black Rock ended up being so far inland.<span style=""> </span>I wanted something crazy, plus Dr. Artz hypothesized that this was how it ended up their all the way back in season one. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">I like how Richard was manipulated by the MIB to think he was in Hell and that the Devil was there.<span style=""> </span>The MIB worked all within Richard’s worldview. <span style=""> </span>Very, very interesting and compelling.<span style=""> </span>Also, it was interesting to see that Richard is immortal because he is afraid of dying and going to Hell.<span style=""> </span>Once again, I liked the whole religious worldview work-in that this episode provided.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">By the discussion between Richard and Jacob are we to assume that the wine represents the MIB?<span style=""> </span>I mean, is the MIB the evil, or would he bring the evil with him?<span style=""> </span>Is the Island like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora%27s_box">Pandora’s Box</a>?<span style=""> </span>In the old myth, Pandora’s Box was actually a jar.<span style=""> </span>Interesting that Jacob chose a jar to illustrate his point, the jar is holding all the evil in, similar to Pandora’s Box/Jar.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Also, we see that Jacob has been stingy for years about who he lets in his house.<span style=""> </span>Did he ever leave the statue for the <a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Jacob%27s_cabin">Cabin</a>?<span style=""> </span>If not then I am thoroughly confused about why Ilana knew about the Cabin, saw the picture of the Taweret Statue in it and knew that Jacob hadn’t been there for a long time.<span style=""> </span>Can Jacob be contained by ash?<span style=""> </span>Maybe the MIB had trapped him in there and so Jacob used it until he could get out and return to his real residence.<span style=""> </span>I’m just a little confused about why Jacob ever started using the Cabin, if he did.<span style=""> </span>Maybe Ilana was mistaken, but I doubt it.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">We see that with Richard serving as an advisor for Jacob he starts becoming more successful with keeping people alive.<span style=""> </span>By 1954 he has a following of people, of which Charles Widmore was a part of.<span style=""> </span>We see that Jacob just wants people to be good and give them their chance for redemption.<span style=""> </span>He does not want to interfere; he wants people to prove that they can do good without being told.<span style=""> </span>However, he must have changed his mind over time or been misleading when he talked to Richard because he has been very active in our survivor’s lives, as seen in the season five finale and the scene of Jack at the Lighthouse.<span style=""> </span>Jacob wants people to be good and allows them a chance at redemption on the Island.<span style=""> </span>We just now learned that this is one of the major functions of the Island; however, we have seen it at work for years.<span style=""> </span>Since the first season, our characters have been finding redemption on the Island, and at the heart of it all that is what <i style="">Lost</i> is about, a character show.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Last but certainly not least, I want to make an end prediction.<span style=""> </span>They are making it very interesting that Jack is about the only one who has not seen “Locke” yet.<span style=""> </span>In fact, this episode is the first time Jack hears that “Locke” is around.<span style=""> </span><i style="">Lost</i> has been focused on the dynamic between Jack and Locke, a “man of science” and a “man of faith.”<span style=""> </span>Now the tables have turned.<span style=""> </span>Jack is a man of faith and “Locke” is very cynical man.<span style=""> </span>I predict that the series will end with Smoke Locke still around and Jack being the new Jacob.<span style=""> </span>The series has revolved around them and it will end with “them” (the quotations are more for “Locke” not Jack) being on the beach waiting for the next group of people to come to the Island. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">I know this is ridiculously long, but I hope you found it entertaining and eye-opening.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">By the way, please feel free to leave comments below.<span style=""> </span>I would love to hear what you have to say about the show, theories or reactions to anything I say.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">In the words of Smoke-Locke “You are so close; it would be such a shame to turn back now.”
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<br />Until next week when we have seen a little bit more <i>Lost</i>, Namaste.
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<br />Steven</p> Stevenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05520908431122197393noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7877384175123202425.post-49164126593533642872010-03-23T18:06:00.001-05:002010-03-23T18:12:57.131-05:00Recon- Episode 6.08Recon was a decent episode of <span style="font-style:italic;">Lost</span> this past week. It lacked a little in some areas, but definitely moved the story along. We are going to keep it short this week. Let’s take a look.<br /><br />Flash-sidways first, Sawyer is a cop. Didn’t see that one coming. Interestingly enough, Miles is Sawyer’s partner, just like the good ole days in the DI (Dharma Initiative) security force. It was cool to see that Saywer goes by James in this timeline and that LaFleur, his fake last name in the DI, was the code word for his sting operation. <br /><br />Apparently Miles’s dad, <a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Dr._Chang">Pierre Chang</a>, made it off the Island before it sunk, or never went to it, or Miles has someone else he refers to as “dad.” I say this because his dad works at a museum with Charlotte. Due to this connection, Miles sets Sawyer up on a date with Charlotte. Things go south when she goes snooping around in his dresser and finds a book about Sawyer’s parent’s murder. He snaps on her, then tries to reconcile with her later, possibly days later, and she tells him that he blew it. On a completely different note, we also saw <a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Liam_Pace">Liam</a>, Charlie’s brother, in the police station looking for Charlie. (Minute but interesting crossover.)<br /><br />Later, Sawyer tells Miles that he went to Australia to find Anthony Cooper, his only lead for the murder of his parents. He also admits to Miles that once he finds Cooper, he is going to kill him. At that moment a car slams into their car and immediately the driver jumps out and flees. James chases the driver down only to find that it is Kate, the person he allowed to escape at LAX in the season premiere.<br /> <br />And that’s it! A second unresolved flash-sidways plot, the first being Sayid finding Jin tied up in a pantry in a kitchen where Sayid had just killed Keamy. It will be interesting to see when they come back to both of these and how. I sure hope this doesn’t mean we have another Kate episode in store. Honestly, if Kate never showed up in another episode I don’t think I would mind. <br /><br />On to the continuing story line that we do know, the original timeline. From the start some interesting promises are made that could affect how the story plays out. Jin does not want to be with Locke. (Thank goodness) Sawyer says he knows that it is not Locke but he just wants off the Island, however, he promises Jin that they will not leave without Sun. (Can Jin and Sun just get back together? They’ve been apart so long I’m even starting to feel sorry for them. That’s a more compelling love story that Jack/Kate/Sawyer. Kate is just the worst (Is my disdain for Kate clear enough yet?))<br /><br />Locke tells his people that the <a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Smoke_Monster">Smoke Monster</a> attacked the Temple. (They are so ignorant.) He explicitly tells Sawyer that he is the Smoke Monster, but we already knew that. Locke seems like a decent enough guy now. Sure he killed people, but he tried to explain that he was the victim. He just wants to leave the Island. I do not quite buy that he is the victim and just wants to leave the Island but he at least seems to have a purpose. I’m glad he is not evil for the sake of being evil. Most bad guys are just bad for story convenience, however it is always good when they make it where the bad guys do what they think is right but are just a little twisted. Locke seems to be this way; he is just trying to achieve his goal, sure he may do a few sketchy things like cause a genocide, but hey, he’s not recklessly killing…..(There is a lot of sarcasm in that.) He tells his people he will answer all of their questions as soon as he can. He even protects and apologizes to Kate when Claire tries to harm her for taking Aaron. Locke set Claire straight and now she is cool with Kate.<br /><br />Locke sends Sawyer to Hydra Island to see who is on it because Locke intends to go there with his people, take the Ajira plane and fly away from the Island. Sawyer finds a woman who is piling all the bodies of the Ajira flight together, somehow they all mysteriously died. I have a hunch Locke killed all of them in Smoke Monster form. I think Locke really knew that they were all dead, and probably was suspicious of Widmore being there so he sent Sawyer to test him and see what he would do. <br /><br />Meanwhile, Locke talks with Kate and tells her that he had a crazy mother. Is he talking about real Locke’s mother who was crazy or his own mother? If it is his own then that is very interesting to see another human side to this bad guy. Judging by how he has been civilly handling things among his own people I could see him going off the deep end and going crazy on people in the end. A psycho Smoke Monster, that would be interesting!<br /><br />The mysterious woman, who was posing as an Ajira passenger, takes Sawyer captive and down into a submarine where he talks to none other than Charles Widmore. Widmore’s people are currently setting up a <a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Sonar_fence">sonar fence</a> system to trap or keep out Locke. (Interesting) How does Widmore know all of this about the Smoke Monster?<br /><br />Widmore wanted Sawyer to lead Locke straight to them and lie to Locke about finding anyone on the Island. If Sawyer does this then Widmore agreed not to harm any of Sawyer’s people and to provide them a way off the Island. (This might be a moot point. Does Widmore even want to hurt Sawyer’s people? I don’t think so. He’s good and I’m sticking to that!) Sawyer agrees to this but does not hold up to his agreement. He goes back and tells Locke of the deal he “agreed” to and about the sonar pylons.<br /><br />In the end, the “big” twist was subpar at best. Sawyer insists, as he even said at the start of the episode, that he works for no one. While Widmore and Locke fight it out Sawyer and Kate and presumably others will leave the Island. Kate points out that neither of them can fly. To this Sawyer simply replies, “We ain’t taking the plane, Freckles. We’re taking the sub.” Boom…Twist…?.... Is that a twist? Can they even pilot a sub? I guess it could be important that Widmore would not have his sub. Not a good twist though. As a friend of mine, Garin, said, the <span style="font-style:italic;">real<span style="font-weight:bold;"></span></span> twist was so far at the end it was after the episode when they revealed that next week would be a Richard Alpert centric episode. (More on that later.)<br /><br />Sawyer has been a little aggravating to me lately. He’s just playing the middleman, not committing to anything or anyone and using everyone. I’m afraid that they are going to have him do something heroic and self-sacrificing in the end that will make me feel like I have to like him. I don’t like those cheap tricks! <br /><br />Let’s talk about the next episode, Ab Aeterno. This is Latin for what I believe to be meaning something like “Counting from Eternal.” (There is probably a better translation, but I used a free online system.) This episode is Richard Alpert centric. I have wanted to see this since the first time we found out he was unique and unusual, the man that seemingly does not age. <br /><br />I am interested to see how they will delineate that this is a flash-back episode not a flash-sideways. Or is it going to be a flash-sideways? I think we will be given a lot of answers tonight. We will see that Richard did come from the Black Rock as a slave. (All but already explicitly stated.) We will probably see Jacob give him his gift. I wonder if it was meant as a curse at first, maybe Jacob and Richard were not always on good terms. Hopefully we will see the dynamic between Richard, Jacob, the Smoke Monster and maybe even Christian Shepherd. It would also be nice to see more of Charles Widmore at any age. I think tonight is going to be a big night for answers!<br /><br />By the way, please feel free to leave comments below. I would love to hear what you have to say about the show, theories or reactions to anything I say.<br />In the words of Smoke-Locke “You are so close; it would be such a shame to turn back now.”<br /><br />Until next week when we have seen a little bit more <span style="font-style:italic;">Lost</span>, Namaste.<br /><br />Steven<br /><br />Here are the sneak peeks ABC has put out for this week’s episode. 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That’s not hard to believe though since all Ben episodes have been awesome! Let’s get started with the flash-sideways.<br /><br />This episode was more of a philosophical and faith based episode than anything, and that is why I liked it. Right from the first flash-sideways scene I knew we were in for something deep. Ben Linus, who has a doctorate in modern European History in the flash-sideways, is shown in his class discussing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_Bonaparte">Napoleon</a>’s exile on the isle of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elba">Elba</a>. Watch the video below for the full effect. This perfectly mirrors Ben’s life in the original timeline.<br /><br /><object width="480" height="295"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/M3yOA6Qm44E&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/M3yOA6Qm44E&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"></embed></object><br /><br />We learn that Ben still went to the Island in the flash-sideways timeline but that he and his dad left for some reason and seem to regret it. (In this timeline it seems that his dad actually likes him) What made them leave it? Do they know that it is sunken now? Did they leave it when everyone was ordered to leave before the bomb went off? (Assuming the bomb went off in this timeline)<br /><br />Ben finds his redemption in this timeline when he does what is best for someone he cares about instead of doing what he needs to do to keep/obtain power. Alex Rousseau is a student of Ben’s that tells him that the principal is having an affair with the school nurse. Ben tries to blackmail the principal for his job, but the principal says that he will not write a recommendation for Alex that she desperately needs to get into Yale if Ben goes through with blackmailing him. Unlike what we would think Ben would do, based on his decision of choosing the Island over her in the season four episode, “<a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/The_Shape_of_Things_to_Come">The Shape of Things to Come</a>,” Ben backs down from blackmailing the principal thus letting Alex get a good recommendation from the principal. <br /><br />Now we also have to ask, why is Alex where Ben is in this timeline? I guess if <a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Rousseau">Rousseau</a> and her people really went on their expedition they would have returned home. Still, it was interesting to see that Alex ends up being decently close to Ben. I wonder if this is meant to show that people will always be drawn to each other if destiny says they need to be close regardless of the timeline. Is that why there are crossovers in the flash-sideways? It was pretty cool to see Locke in Ben’s flash-sideways, as well as Dr. Artz.<br /><br />Now for the original timeline, Miles “talks” to Jacob’s ashes to discover that Ben killed Jacob. (Interesting, I thought, based on another Miles flash-back, he needed a body to talk to a person. Is this an inconsistency? Maybe. However, he told the guy in the flash-back that he needed a body to read the deceased person’s thoughts and that he could not help him since the man had scattered his son’s ashes. Since Ilana presumably had all of Jacob’s ashes maybe Miles could read his thoughts. So it might be an inconsistency, but maybe not.) When Ilana discovers what Ben had done she order’s him to start digging his own grave. She intends to kill him because Jacob was the closet things she had to a father. <br /><br />Meanwhile, Richard Alpert meets up with Jack and Hurley and claims he is taking them to the Temple but ends up taking them to the Black Rock. He says that everyone at the Temple was dead or gone. Richard, in total desperation tries to go and kill himself. It is revealed that if Jacob touches someone it is a gift. Richard’s gift appears to be some form of immortality. Richard cannot kill himself. I guess Richard is like the race of elves in the Lord of the Rings series. They cannot die unless someone kills them. Does this mean that Richard can’t get sick either? I guess you are not supposed to get sick on the Island anyways, but we have seen that happen. <br /><br />With all of this being said, when Jacob touches someone does that mean they all get “immortality” or are there other gifts? Remember, we have seen Jacob touch Jack, Hurley, Sayid, Kate, Sawyer, Sun, and Jin. Are they all gifted with immortality? If Jacob touches anyone at all does he pass on the gift or is it a willful touch and thought that is needed to pass on the gift? When Jacob grabbed Ben when he stabbed him does that mean that Ben is now gifted as well? Also, do we think that Jacob has touched others? I think so. I submit that he has touched at least Claire and Christian Shepherd. <br /><br />The producers have said that Christian Shepherd is “undead.” Now, assuming that Christian is a separate entity from the Smoke Monster (which I have not always been sure about and am still not sure where I stand on this) has he ever been touched by Jacob? He was dead, but when he came to the Island, Jacob’s domain, he was brought back in some capacity. Is this what brought Sayid back? I personally thought that Claire might have died when the barracks were blown up in season four. Did she come back because she had been touched by Jacob? If this is true about Sayid and Claire then we are still missing a point as to why they are “evil” now. All I mean to say by this is that I think that it is very possible that Jacob may have touched others than the ones we already know about. We cannot be too arrogant or ignorant to think that we know who all Jacob has touched.<br /><br />Getting back to the story, Richard goes into the Black Rock and says that this is the first time he has been back here in all of his time that he has been on the Island. (He all but explicitly said that he came on the ship. Isn’t that frustrating?! I’d go as far to say that he was a slave, but who knows. That would imply that he came to the Island in the late 19th century.)<br />It was so powerful to see Richard, who has been with Jacob and has followed him for centuries, completely lose his way. <br /><br />RICHARD: I devoted my life, longer than you can possibly imagine, in service of a man who told me that everything was happening for a reason, that he had a plan, plan that I was a part of, when the time was right that he'd share it with me, and now that man's gone so...why do I want to die? Because I just found out my entire life had no purpose.<br /><br />Sounds a lot like Elijah of the Bible. In I Kings 18:20-46 God answers Elijah’s prayer and proves that he is the real God. Then, Elijah kills the 450 prophets of Baal. One of the greatest victory stories of the Bible. However, just a few verses down Elijah has lost his confidence and faith and hopes to die, similar to Richard eh? “It is enough; now, O LORD, take my life, for I am not better than my fathers.” (NASB I Kings 19:4) A little further down he says some more things, “I have been very zealous for the LORD, the God of hosts; for the sons of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars and killed Your prophets with the sword. And I alone am left; and they seek my life to take it away.” (v. 10)<br /><br />Here, Elijah had been a part of some great things and great victories but when things started to go bad he lost his way, only for a time though. Similarly, Richard has been at Jacob’s side for centuries and in a moment of despair he lost his way, but as we already saw, it did not last long.<br /><br />Jack tried to light a stick of dynamite to blow Richard up since he wanted to die. Jack chooses to sit with him because, after seeing what Jacob wanted him to see in the Lighthouse, Jack is slowly starting to think like real Locke and become a Man of Faith. He feels that he was brought to the Island for a purpose, and it’s not to blow up with Richard. Jack was right and the two survived and went with Hurley to join the other followers of Jacob at the old beach camp.<br /><br />While Ben is digging his own grave Miles comes to talk to him and tells him that Jacob did care that he was about to die, despite what Ben thought.<br /><br />MILES: Right up until the second the knife went through his heart, he was hoping he was wrong about you. I guess he wasn't. (Wow. Today is not Ben’s day)<br /><br />Smoke-Locke then comes to Ben and provides him an escape from Ilana and tells him that he can join his group on Hydra Island. (Apparently Smoke-Locke is also a Jedi because he can telekinetically move things, as seen by the brace on Ben’s leg. Talk about a crossover. I mean, we knew the producers love Star Wars, but wow, a Jedi. Or would he be a Sith? I’m going to go with Sith; he’s got to be bad.) Smoke-Locke tells Ben that when he and his people leave the Island the Island will need a new leader and he wants Ben to do the job. Is this a new leader in his position or Jacob’s position? Or is it a way to tempt Ben to joining his side? It does not appear that Ben is one of Jacob’s candidates so what exactly did Smoke-Locke mean by this leadership position?<br /><br />Ben tries to escape to the jungle to get a gun left for him by Smoke-Locke to use on Ilana. She chases after him and we see one of what I believe is the most emotionally powerful moments of <span style="font-style:italic;">Lost</span> thus far. I do not feel I can do it justice by writing it so here is the clip below.<br /><br /><object width="480" height="295"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Bc5D8p30j0g&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Bc5D8p30j0g&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"></embed></object><br /><br />It appears that Ben has finally found his redemption. <span style="font-style:italic;">Lost</span> is all about redemption and its characters. This was an amazingly beautiful scene. This whole scene has shown just how much this season is boiling down to good vs. evil. Like Richard, Ben lost his way, his faith. We already saw right before Ben killed Jacob that if anyone he mirrors Job in the Bible. <br /><br />BEN: Oh... so now, after all this time, you've decided to stop ignoring me. Thirty-five years I lived on this island, and all I ever heard was your name over and over. Richard would bring me your instructions--all those slips of paper, all those lists--and I never questioned anything. I did as I was told. But when I dared to ask to see you myself, I was told, "You have to wait. You have to be patient." But when he asked to see you? He gets marched straight up here as if was Moses. So... why him? Hmm? What was it that was so wrong with me? What about me?! <br /><br />JACOB: What about you? <br /><br />When bad things started to happen to Job he dared to confront God about why he had to suffer. God basically tells Job that he is in control of all things and really shows Job how much he does not know. With all respect, in this similar parallel, Ben complains to Jacob how he was been treated and complains about all the bad things that have happened to him and by Jacob’s response it shows that Jacob has always been in control on the Island. <br /> <br />I realize that both the Elijah and Job metaphors are not perfect, but very similar and worth noting. After all, most metaphors are not exact; otherwise it would be considered copyright infringement. <br /><br />Finally, we see that Jacob’s people are finally getting together. (About time, Locke’s probably already put all his people through basic training.) I am looking forward to seeing Richard interacting more with the other main characters. The episode ended with something big, <a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Charles_Widmore">Charles Widmore</a> on a submarine mere feet from the Island! I am excited to see how he will change the dynamic of the show by being on the Island. Was he the person Jacob was trying to help get to the Island? It is possible, but where is he going? Is he going somewhere for Jacob? Or is he going to Hydra Island to meet up with Smoke-Locke? Is he aware of Smoke-Locke? Widmore told Locke when he was off Island that he needed to get back to the Island because if he was not there then the wrong side was going to win the war. Was this because he knew Locke needed to have his form stolen by the Smoke Monster so he could win the war? These are a lot of questions. I still think Widmore is good! I’m holding to that until further plots develop. I believe Jacob has a different mission for him and that is where he is going to right now.<br /><br />By the way, please feel free to leave comments below. I would love to hear what you have to say about the show, theories or reactions to anything I say.<br /><br />In the words of Smoke-Locke “You are so close; it would be such a shame to turn back now.”<br /><br />Until next week when we have seen a little bit more <span style="font-style:italic;">Lost</span>, Namaste.<br /><br />Steven<br /><br />Here are the sneak peeks ABC has put out for this week’s episode. 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I believe it really moved the plot along and further intrigued the audience. As usual, let’s discuss the flash-sideways first.<br /><br />This episode was a Sayid episode and true to Sayid episodes it really did an outstanding job. Just a few basic things. In this timeline Nadia is married to Sayid’s brother, Omer, however, it is obvious and explicitly stated that Sayid has feelings for her. We see Omer for the first time, other than when we saw him as a child in the season five episode, “<a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/He%27s_Our_You">He’s Our You</a>.” <br /><br />Due to a bad business deal that Omer gets into with some loan sharks he is injured, forcing Sayid to confront the loan sharks and “handle” the problem. Interestingly enough, it was none other than <a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Martin_Keamy">Martin Keamy</a> that Omer was in debt to. In the original timeline, Keamy was the mercenary that came on the freighter in season four to take Ben off of the Island. In the process, Keamy killed Alex, Ben’s daughter. (Biologically Rousseau’s) Keamy was killed by Ben in the original timeline, however, in the flash-sideway Sayid killed him. (Interesting that it was the two of them that killed him both times.)<br /><br />Maybe the most interesting thing about this flash-sideways was the fact that it did not have much resolution. Everything was fine until Sayid found Jin locked up in a pantry in the kitchen where he just killed Keamy. Where did Jin come from? Why was he there? More importantly, why was this the last scene of the flash-sideways?! Was Jin delivering a watch or package to someone in there on Mr. Paik’s behalf? That was why he was originally coming to America. It also seems that in this timeline he came to America to deliver things, as seen in the season premiere when he was taken by the customs office by not declaring his watches and large amounts of money.<br /><br />Now, onto the original timeline’s story. Dogen tells Sayid that he thinks it would be better if he was dead. This turns into a huge and impressive fight scene between (as Hurley would put it) a Samurai and a former Iraqi Republican Guard soldier. Pretty epic fight scene. We were informed that according to Dogen, every man has a scale with good and evil on the two sides. Sayid’s scale “tipped the wrong way.” This is very interesting. As easily seen, Egyptian mythology is everywhere in the show, that being said, does anyone see where I’m going with this?<br /><br />In the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_the_Dead">Book of the Dead</a>, an ancient Egyptian writing, the process of being judged at the end of one’s life is described. The deceased’s heart is weighed on a scale against the Feather of Truth. If the heart weighed less than the feather then the person was able to enter into the good afterlife. This meant that their heart was not full of evil that was weighing it down. So does this sound eerily similar to what Dogen said? I’d say so! Sayid “dies” and then they run tests on him, sounds like a modern day retelling of mythology.<br /><br />Sayid is fooled into thinking he can redeem himself by killing Smoke-Locke. He is unsuccessful which makes me wonder how Jacob was able to be killed. Anyways, Smoke-Locke entices Sayid to join his side by hinting that it may be possible for him to get back Nadia, even though she died. Sayid then goes to the Temple and warns everyone that if they want to live they can join Smoke-Locke by leaving the Temple and he will eventually take them off the Island with him.<br /><br />The episode comes to an end when a huge brawl breaks out in the Temple. The Smoke Monster rampages the Temple and takes his new followers with him. Sayid also kills both Dogen and Lennon. However, they fell in the pool. Does this mean they will come back to life? I doubt it, but still something that needs to be considered. Kate confronted Claire about Aaron so it will be interesting to see how this knowledge will play out over the rest of the season. For now, it appears that Jin is with Smoke-Locke (probably just out of convenience/against his will) as well as Sayid, Claire, Kate and Sawyer. Kate seems pretty lost and confused so I could definitely see her and/or Jin switch sides. Who knows what Sawyer will do, but Claire and Sayid seem like they will be in service to Smoke-Locke, but who knows, maybe things will change and they will not be “infected.”<br /><br />I kept this one short because it is a little late.<br /><br />By the way, please feel free to leave comments below. I would love to hear what you have to say about the show, theories or reactions to anything I say.<br /><br />In the words of Smoke-Locke “You are so close; it would be such a shame to turn back now.”<br /><br />Until next week when we have seen a little bit more Lost, Namaste.<br /><br />I am not going to put the sneak peeks up because this post is old and it would be redundant. 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mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="">For those of you reading this blog you will notice that this post is different than most. As you probably already know, this <i>Lost</i> blog is for a class I am in, Writing for the Mass Media. Today, this post is going to show what I have done in class so far this semester.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="">Here is the link to my <a href="http://thelink.harding.edu/index.php/component/bio/?author=138"><span style="color: blue;">bio</span></a> on <a href="http://thelink.harding.edu/"><span style="color: blue;">The Link</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul> <ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="">All of my blog post can be read by scrolling down or by following this <a href="http://lostandsoontobefound-steven.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: blue;">link</span></a> which will show them all. This has been a fun exercise for me where I have put up my thoughts and predictions about my favorite television show, <i>Lost</i>. I have tried to let it have its own personality. I follow grammar rules but occasionally break certain norms to efficiently get my point across. This just means in some rare instances I speak in incomplete sentences. Another technique that I have just started using is to include humor. Since it is <i>my</i> blog, I want it to be informative and entertaining. I have started using parentheses to allow me to include a humorous voice. In keeping up with Mass Media Writing techniques I also include many hyperlinks and video content in each post. Currently, I have three registered followers; however, I know many more of my friends read it because they talk to me about it. I drive traffic to it by linking it to my Facebook and sending out texts to my close <i>Lost</i> friends that I have a new post up. Not only has this been a fun exercise but it has allowed me to practice practical and real-world web journalism techniques.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul> <ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="">This <a href="http://thelink.harding.edu/index.php/arts/1120-harding/385-cousins-set-to-play-original-song-at-burksys-auditions"><span style="color: blue;">link</span></a> will take you to my first story on The Link. This story was a basic feature story that included a photo slide show. This story told two cousin's story of trying out for the Burksy's auditions. Once the Burksy's happened I went back in and updated this story by placing three hyperlinks to other stories. One of the stories I linked it to was one that I wrote for the Bison. This story told more about the format of the Burksy's. The other two stories were written by others. One showed all of the nominees and who won. The other link was a video package with footage of the Burksy's in it. While my story was a feature, I wanted readers to be able to see exactly what the Burksy's were and how they turned out. I wanted to display every angle.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul> <ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="">This <a href="http://thelink.harding.edu/index.php/news/1-harding/420-sarah-palin-speaks-to-republican-party-of-arkansas"><span style="color: blue;">link</span></a> will take you to my second story for The Link. This story was about Sarah Palin coming to Little Rock and speaking to the Republican Party of Arkansas. This story allowed me to do something different, bullet points. Since I was covering a speech, I took advantage of that web journalism technique. There was not much I could do to go back and update the story. However, I wanted to do something so I added two more pictures. I was originally going to add just one, but I played around with the content uploader and found that I could make it where when the mouse is over the picture it changes to another picture. I decided to put this new technique into my article because I wanted to do something new. Both of these pictures just give a broader view of the event venue.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul> <ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="">I decided to write a third story for fun because I had time, I knew the people it involved and it was at least interesting, if not slightly Harding newsworthy. This <a href="http://thelink.harding.edu/index.php/features/2-harding/496-lost-engagement-ring-is-found"><span style="color: blue;">link</span></a> will take you to my third/extra story on The Link. This story covers how Zach Cantrell found Beth Anne Colvin's lost engagement ring. I decided that I could cover this using an audio clip. I guess this could count as my story with photo, cutline and audio clip, however that is not down to be due until April 15. Regardless, it was fun to experiment with the audio capabilities. This was a fun story to cover. I edited to the best of my abilities but I'm not sure it was looked at very extensively by the editors of The Link. Either way, it is content that I will gladly edit/update if and when necessary.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul> <ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="">I'm not sure if I am expected to include this or not, but the news site that I evaluated was <a href="http://www.al.com/"><span style="color: blue;">www.al.com</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;">This is all of the content that I have written for my class. I hope that you have enjoyed seeing what I have done and I hope that you will continue to follow me and others on <a href="http://thelink.harding.edu/"><span style="color: blue;">The Link</span></a>.</span></p> Stevenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05520908431122197393noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7877384175123202425.post-70777930186356379032010-02-28T22:43:00.004-06:002010-03-01T12:29:00.666-06:00Lighthouse- Episode 6.05This past week’s episode, “Lighthouse” was an overall interesting and story moving episode, but it does not provide much to talk about. Let’s jump on into it!<br /><br />I’m going to tackle the Flash-sideways first. In my opinion, this was the most compelling flash-sideways yet. I now know that this timeline has more to do than just the bomb going off, at least we are pretty sure. The reason why, Jack has a son, that happened way before the crash. Now unless people’s lives kept interacting over and over with each other since the incident that lead Jack to meet his wife and allowed them to have a kid, we can say that something else is the source of why things are different in this timeline. Plus, they could never set the bomb off in the flash-sideways because they never crashed on the Island in the first place to go back in time to detonate the bomb. It’s a circle. (I’m getting a nosebleed, like Charlotte and Desmond.)<br /><br />So, Jack has a son (interesting), and his name is David (very interesting.) David Shepherd… Can’t you just hear the biblical metaphor screaming at you? Not to mention his grandfather’s name is Christian. This family is seeping religious overtones. Things to think about. One of biblical David’s most famous songs is Psalm 23. 23 is one of the infamous numbers and Jack is numbered 23 according to Jacob’s cave writings and on the Lighthouse dial. Also, biblical David, who was a shepherd, was also known for his musical abilities, just like Jack’s son David. Now, this doesn’t mean much to the story (most likely), but things like this are what make <span style="font-style:italic;">Lost</span> even more enjoyable, making the connections.<br /><br />Did anyone else see that Jack has been acting weird since the not-crash happened? (I don’t know what to call that) He was a little weird on the plane and now he can’t remember getting his appendix taken out. I called that his little appendectomy would be important back in my third blog post, second to last paragraph. I was a little off in my prediction, but still called that the appendectomy would certainly come back up. <br /><br />Not a whole lot happens in the flash-sideways other than Jack finds out about Claire (minimally interesting) and we see Dogen at the recital. I was expecting to see Faraday since we knew that he was a stud at the piano as a child. Still, seeing Dogen means a lot, not sure what though. Perhaps the two biggest things (other than seeing Dogen) we should take away from the flash-sideways was how Jack handles being a father (as off-handedly joked about to Hurley later in the episode’s original timeline) and that we don’t know who the mother is. I like Jack in the flash-sideways, he’s a little calmer, friendlier and more mild-mannered. Was Jack married to Sarah in this timeline? He did only meet her because she crashed into <a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Adam_Rutherford">Shannon’s dad</a>. Did that happen in the flash-sideways? Maybe he never met her. Maybe he was married to someone else, another character from the show perhaps? <br /><br />Basically, this episode killed a lot of time until the end. We see that our people can now start playing the “I’m a candidate” card to get away with stuff. A dead Jacob meets with Hurley to get him to perform a task, get Jack and yourself out of the temple and go to the <a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/The_lighthouse">Lighthouse</a>. We run back into Kate and see that she is still stubborn as ever and wants to be alone (shocker). Let her go I say. Smoke-Locke can have her! She’s not even a candidate! Speaking of which, why isn’t she?<br /><br />As Jack and Hurley continue on their quest to the Lighthouse, they run into their old stomping grounds, <a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/The_caves">the Caves</a>. I have no doubt the producers put them their just so they could readdress the <a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Adam_and_Eve">Adam and Eve skeletons</a> and get us thinking about that again if we had forgotten about it. Now some might be frustrated with them bringing in something as big as the Lighthouse this late into the game. I’m ok with it. I think it is a very cool aspect. I hope to see more ancient “footprints” all over the Island. Maybe these will start to show us more answers. <br /><br />One quick thing I want to note about the Lighthouse. They specifically said:<br /><br />JACK: I don't understand. How is it that we've never seen it [the Lighthouse] before? <br /><br />HURLEY: Guess we weren't lookin’ for it. <br /><br />Is this similar to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_of_Requirement#Room_of_Requirement">Room of Requirement</a> in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter">Harry Potter series</a>? It seems to be very close to the caves, their old stomping ground. Surely they would have seen it back in season one. I have faith that the producers have known that they wanted to have that there. I think it only appears when they need it. Some claim that it sparkled when you first saw it. I’m not sure if that is true or not, but maybe that was the first time our people were able to see it, because they were told about it and/or needed it. Invite only to the Lighthouse.<br /><br />In the Lighthouse, we see that it appears that Jacob has been able to watch the candidates for a long time. Seeing the numbers lineup with degrees on the Lighthouse “mirror-table” was very cool. I’m glad to see the numbers making a comeback, especially so recently. However, as usual, Jack goes crazy and acts without thinking. NEWSFLASH: <span style="font-weight:bold;">It’s not your lighthouse! You don’t know what the ramifications are for breaking it!</span> I really can’t stand it when people don’t think before they act, so needless to say this scene did not make we want to become a Jack fan. However, with Jacob saying, “He has what it takes,” it can only mean that he will probably be the next Jacob. After all, he is the main character, and it will have been a total character redemption arc to get him there. I guess that makes for a compelling story. <br /><br />Now, we can’t overlook why Jacob sent them to the Lighthouse. One reason was to get them out of harm’s way. Someone bad is going to the temple. My first guess, Claire and then after that Smoke-Locke. Possibly both. The other reason was that someone is coming to the Island. They were moving the dial to 108 degrees (the sum of the Numbers, the amount on the timer for the <a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/The_swan">Swan</a>, and the number of suitors seeking Penelope’s hand in marriage in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Odyssey">the Odyssey</a> (Desmond was a slave to the timer and he represents Odysseus and his longing to return home to his Penelope) Maybe you didn’t catch that the first time around). I’m told that the name “Wallace” was on the 108 spot. Now either that is a new character, or it was just a dummy name to hold the spot. I’m going to go with the second idea. I have a hunch it could be <a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Widmore">Widmore</a>. Or it could be someone else like Ilana. Who knows, but I sure hope it is Widmore. It would be really cool to see him back on the Island, all the major players in position for this war we keep hearing about. <br /><br />We have been hearing about a war coming for some time now. We now see sides being taken. I think all of this must be happening now because it appears that almost all of Jacob’s candidates have been eliminated. The next Jacob, Island protector, will be chosen soon. Smoke-Locke realizes he is so close to stopping Jacob, it’s the final push!<br /><br />Last but not least (although maybe it should be least). We finally get to see and hear from Claire. Apparently she did not flash through time. I say that because she knew the Other that was with Jin and talked about how she had been taken to the Temple. Something is certainly wrong with her. She doesn’t remember just leaving her baby behind. She feels that it was stolen from her, and thinks the Others did it. Similar to Rousseau, hmmm. I do not think Rousseau is inhabiting Claire, as I once speculated based on another’s comment, but she is definitely acting a lot like Rousseau. Although, I guess we would all act similar if we had been basically alone in the jungle for years on end. I’m not sure if it was supposed to be a twist or not that Smoke-Locke was Claire’s “friend,” but either way, it was kind of creepy for her to call him that. (It was also creepy that Claire had a freaky baby-like doll in a crib in her tent.) It seems that Locke now has Sawyer and Claire (possibly even Sayid). Jacob hasn’t really gained anyone but Hurley’s trust (out of our crash people, of course he has the Others and Ilana, but are we in trouble? He doesn’t seem to be too worried). <br /><br />Once again, I’m still confused as to what role Christian Shepherd is playing. I no longer think he is a manifestation of Smoke-Locke, since Claire says that her father and her “friend” have been helping her. I wonder if they have been helping her together or have just had a similar agenda. Claire said that her father, Christian, told her that the Others had Aaron. Are Christian and Smoke-Locke in the same league? Do they know about each other? Maybe I’m wrong and Smoke-Locke sometimes appears in Christian’s form to gain her trust and further manipulate her. However, I’m pretty sure he is something else yet to be determined. This is based on how he has acted in the past. I’m sure he will be a major component for this show’s resolution. <br /><br />By the way, please feel free to leave comments below. I would love to hear what you have to say about the show, theories or reactions to anything I say.<br /><br />In the words of Jacob, “Jack is here because he has to do something. He can't be told what that is. He's got to find it himself. Sometimes you can just...hop in the back of someone's cab and tell them what they're supposed to do. Other times...you have to let them look out at the ocean for a while.”<br /><br />Here are the sneak peeks ABC has put out for this week’s episode. Watch at your own risk!<br /><br /><object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/kt-InXXQj6k&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/kt-InXXQj6k&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object><br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/nTGDR0opd6A&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/nTGDR0opd6A&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />Until next week when we have seen a little bit more <span style="font-style:italic;">Lost</span>, Namaste.<br /><br />StevenStevenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05520908431122197393noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7877384175123202425.post-62467551942644829292010-02-23T16:17:00.005-06:002010-02-23T16:49:40.270-06:00The Substitute- Episode 6.04I think <span style="font-style:italic;">Lost</span> is finally gearing up to something, especially after seeing this episode. Let’s jump right into it!<br /><br />We’ll discuss the flash-sideways first. I feel like this episode furthers my thought that the bomb isn’t the sole reason why the flash-sideways was created. For instance, Locke is with Helen. They had been broken up for a long time in the original timeline. Also, the comment that Helen made that they should just get Locke’s dad and her parents and do a small wedding. Why was Locke still cool with his dad in this timeline? I feel like that doesn’t have to do with the Island blowing up. However, if that is the case, why is Locke in a wheelchair? It was his dad that put him there. I think other things have changed in the flash-sideways than just dealing with the bomb blowing up the Island. Plus, can a hydrogen bomb really sink the Island? Maybe if it reacted with the pocket of electromagnetism it could have greater ramifications but I don’t know. <br /><br />Going back to the actual flash-sideways, I thought it was very fascinating to see everyone showing up in Locke’s story. We have already known that even in the original timeline Hurley owned Locke’s box company. However, seeing Rose and especially having Ben appear was really cool. It is very interesting to see that Locke isn’t a man of faith in this timelime. Does this mean that Jack isn’t a man of science? Have they reversed roles? Don’t count Jack out for fixing Locke. I’m sure it will happen.<br /><br />Someone shared this theory with me not too long ago, and I could possibly believe it. As I’ve already stated numerous times, I think more than just the bomb going off has changed the timeline. Could it be that we are seeing a timeline where Jacob did not touch people? He met and touched many of the survivors at various points in their lives as shown in the season five finale, “<a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/The_incident">The Incident</a>,” and also re-shown within this week’s episodes. This is an interesting theory that still needs more to make it work, but I’d be willing to think about it having some truth to it.<br /><br />Now as far as the original Island timeline we have had a lot of interesting developments this past week. Locke was buried. Maybe we should take that very seriously. Two big reasons why. One: Is that why the Smoke Monster is now stuck in that form permanently? After all, he took <a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Yemi">Yemi</a>’s and possibly Christian Shepherd’s forms and they weren’t buried. Is that why in season three the others cast <a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Colleen">Colleen</a>’s body out to sea and set it on fire, so nothing could happen to it? Seems like a possibility. Two: The other thing we should take note of is that people keep saying things like “yesterday” or “one day ago.” Days keep getting specifically referenced. Will Locke come back alive after three days? In a photo shoot for this season Locke was sitting in the middle seat as the shot resembled the famous painting, “<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Supper_%28Leonardo%29">The Last Supper</a>.” (Click <a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/The_Lost_Supper">here</a> to see the <span style="font-style:italic;">Lost</span> picture.) However, that Locke could have been Smoke-Locke. I do not mean to be sacrilegious at all by saying this and I hope they do not use this metaphor, but it is a possibility. The show does borrow from a great deal of things such as religion. Maybe he won’t come back alive, maybe three days after he was buried the timelines will “resolve” in some way and Locke will come back alive because something will happen between flash-sideways Locke and original timeline Locke. However, they can’t have two Locke’s running around, so <span style="font-weight:bold;">IF</span> he came back to life then I feel like something would have to happen to Smoke-Locke and I’m not sure I see that happening.<br /><br />Does anyone trust that the Smoke Monster <span style="font-weight:bold;">just</span> wants to leave the Island? I believe he does, but not without doing harm to it or the people on the way out. Maybe he does want control of it, but to also be able to leave it. Which leads to the first big question, who was the little blond kid? I have a few theories. Jacob reincarnated, an Island manifestation of a younger Jacob, or Jacob has a kid and this is him. (Why was there blood on his arms?!) After all there is a huge father-son motif on this show. Almost all, major character’s have daddy issues on this show. Either way, why could Sawyer see him and not Richard? Does this correlate to Sawyer also being able to see <a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Kate%27s_horse">Kate’s horse</a>? Why did the boy say, “you know the rules, you can’t kill him.” What are these rules we keep hearing about? Remember in the season 4 episode, “<a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/The_Shape_Of_Things_To_Come">The Shape of Things to Come</a>,” Ben told Widmore that he (Widmore) had changed the rules. Did anyone else notice that Smoke-Locke yelled to the kid, “Don’t tell me what I can’t do!” This was an interesting homage to one of real Locke’s most recognizable phrases. <br /><br />A real quick point needs to be made before we go any further. I am interested to see what power Jacob’s ashes will have. We saw Ilana picking them up before going to bury Locke. Will all of the ashes that people have been using be revealed to be former Island protector’s ashes? (I highly doubt this) I also want to point out that I like where Ben is now, totally lost and confused, and I really enjoyed his words at Locke’s burial, a serious but comedic eulogy. <br /><br />Perhaps the biggest thing we need to address is the cave. That was possibly the next big game changer we have been looking for. We now know a little about what the term “candidate” means, Jacob’s replacement as Island protector. Locke, Hurley, Sawyer, Sayid, Jack, and one of the Kwon’s were all written in the cave with the numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, and 42 respectively corresponding to each one’s last name. This is interesting to see that “Jacob had a thing for numbers.” Seeing their names means they are all candidates for Jacob’s job as Island protector. I was blown away by the black and white stones sitting on the scale. I thought that was very cool and intriguing. The episode ended with Smoke-Locke presenting Sawyer with what we believe are his only three options at the time concerning his role as a candidate.<br /><br />• “Do nothing. See how all this plays out. And possibly your name will get crossed out”<br />• “Take over Jacob's job and protect the Island…from nothing, there's nothing to protect it from, it's just a ____ island”<br />• “We just go. We get the ___ off this Island and we never look back. We do that together.”<br /><br />Sawyer heartily agrees to the final response, thus further dividing our survivors up. One literary thing I want to point to before I end this is Sawyer’s discussion of the book, <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Of_mice_and_men">Of Mice and Men</a></span>. This was cool because he mentioned this book in a season three episode titled “<a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Every_Man_For_Himself">Every Man for Himself</a>.” Also, Smoke-Locke said that <span style="font-style:italic;">Of Mice and Men</span> was a little after his time. The book was released in 1937. Now we knew he is old, but it was still cool to hear him say that. Other interesting things about the Smoke Monster were that he said that he is trapped and has been for so long that he has forgotten how it feels to be free and that he was once a man that experienced emotions too. If that isn’t an eerie thing to hear then I don’t know what is. <br /> <br />For tonight, if the season 1 to season 6 pattern is still holding up then tonight will be a Jack episode. While Jack is annoying (I say that because I am a Locke fan) his episodes are usually pretty good.<br /><br />Here are the sneak peeks ABC has put out for tonight’s episode. Watch at your own risk!<br /><br /><object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/swaAQrL0o9I&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/swaAQrL0o9I&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object><br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/fERphIj4y_4&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/fERphIj4y_4&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><br />In the words of Smoke-Locke “You are so close; it would be such a shame to turn back now.” <br /><br />Until next week when we have seen a little bit more <span style="font-style:italic;">Lost</span>, Namaste.<br /><br />StevenStevenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05520908431122197393noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7877384175123202425.post-72523001355203608942010-02-16T11:55:00.004-06:002010-02-16T12:18:10.679-06:00What Kate Does- Episode 6.03I’m going to keep this post short for two reasons, I am late putting this up and it was not a good episode. Seriously, what a horrible episode. Let’s knock this one out real quick though.<br /><br />We learned a few things, Sayid is definitely inhabited by something and the Others do not think that is a good thing. I don’t think it is the Smoke Monster, maybe Jacob and the Others just don’t realize it. I just am not sure when and how the Smoke Monster could have gotten to Sayid. This goes back to my thought that it definitely could be some other force on the Island, maybe the Island itself. If they aren’t careful though, my prediction will come through about Sayid biting the big one. <br /><br />As usual Kate was annoying in her centric episode. She carries way too much baggage these days. This may not be true, but I think I heard that Kate episodes are consistently the lowest rated episodes of <span style="font-style:italic;">Lost</span>. Rightfully so, she just ends up crying over the dumbest stuff, over and over, no one wants to watch that. Did anyone catch the significance of this episode title, “What Kate Does?” It is similar to the season two episode called, “<a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/What_kate_did">What Kate Did</a>.” They have done this a few times, and I think it is clever. I’m sure the name of this means something, relative to how the two timelines resolve, we will just have to wait and see.<br /><br />In the flash-sideways I thought it was really cool how Kate, Claire and the planned adoptive mother were all together. All three “moms” of Aaron were in one place, kind of neat. For me, the biggest twist was that Ethan was in the hospital. This can mean a few things. Either <span style="font-style:italic;">Lost</span> is sticking to the whole concept of everyone being connected and he was just born in the real world and grew up to be there or he moved their once the Island sunk. The first can be true with little expounding. Let’s say the Island has always been sunk in the flash-sideways, or at least for a long time, then Ethan was born off Island and never knew about the Island. However, if the hydrogen bomb sunk the Island in the flash-sideways Ethan still could have been safe because all the women and children were told to leave the Island on the submarine right before the bomb was detonated. So, Ethan and his mom could have gotten on the sub, the Island sinks, and then they decided to continue on with life in the outside world. So, seeing Ethan really did not help me determine the relationship of the two timelines.<br /><br />As far as the twist went, it was subpar at best. I mean honestly, didn’t we all think Claire was different the last time we saw her in the Cabin in the season four episode "<a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Cabin_fever">Cabin Fever</a>?" I mean, how could she have survived living in the jungle for 3 years all by herself? Sure Rousseau did it for 16 years, but Claire had some kind of help I think; she’s not that strong. It only makes sense she was possessed or under the care/authority of another. It will be interesting to see how this plays out. I’m just glad we finally got to see her again. <br /><br />One last thing to get us ready for tonight’s episode, “The Substitute.” This is a Locke episode (my personal favorites). Last week was a Kate episode and the week before that, the two-hour premiere, was a multi-centric episode. Go back to season one. The two-hour premiere was a multi-centric episode, the next one was a Kate episode and the fourth one a Locke episode. We are following a pattern here. The producers said they wanted to go back to a season one type feel, I just did not know it would be this literal. I expect tonight to be a good episode because whether you like Locke or not (I’m talking about real Locke) his episodes have always been big. You get some answers or light shed on things. Now I’m sure this will be a little weird tonight because it will focus on Smoke Monster Locke in our current timeline and real Locke in the flash-sideways. Remember this, the fourth episode; Locke's first centric episode revealed he was in a wheelchair before coming to the Island. That was a major game changer; I hope to see something like that tonight, something huge, especially if they really are holding to the pattern. As you can easily see, I have high hopes for this one, plus look at the name, “The Substitute.” Doesn’t that just sound intriguing?<br /><br />Here are the sneak peeks ABC has put out for tonight’s episode. Watch at your own risk! <br /> <br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/XVu9Xy9IZsI&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/XVu9Xy9IZsI&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/RQKeIcCHi90&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/RQKeIcCHi90&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object><br /><br />Until next week when we have seen a little bit more <span style="font-style:italic;">Lost</span>, Namaste.<br /><br />StevenStevenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05520908431122197393noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7877384175123202425.post-29810864803196508702010-02-07T23:00:00.005-06:002010-02-16T12:14:57.717-06:00LA X- Episode 6.01/6.02It has finally happened; the final season of Lost has begun. This week’s episode, “LA X,” started the season off with a bang; the Island is underwater, in an “alternate timeline.” I want to take a moment here and repeat what the producers have said, the strange timeline is not an alternate timeline, it is called a “flash sideways.” They said that by calling it an “alternate timeline” it implies that one of the timelines is not real, and they are both very real. They would not create these to waste time in the sixth season; too much has to be answered to just send the viewers on a wild goose chase.<br /><br />Well this episode hit me with so much stuff that I don’t know much about what it is going on. We can see though, that I was right on a few predictions from last week’s post. I called the alternate timeline thing, for lack of a better word at the time. Hurley now talks to a dead Jacob. Plus the Sayid dying thing may be true, as well as the Jacob coming and inhabiting someone’s body may be true too. Sayid might have legitimately died, and now Jacob is choosing to inhabit his body. So the “horcrux” concept might come true, we will have to wait and see. Also I failed to include that the Smoke Monster was fake Locke, but if you’ve talked to me for the past year you know that I have thought that. It was pretty obvious by how Fake Locke was missing when the Smoke Monster appeared in “Dead is Dead” and why the Smoke Monster didn’t show up when Ben called him the same episode. He could not show up because he was there, in Locke’s form. That is also why Fake Locke knew where the Smoke Monster’s lair was, it was his home. In fact, it has been pretty obvious since season two that the Smoke Monster can take the forms of people and animals; this has been seen and spoken of by the producers about Yemi (Eko’s brother), Kate’s Horse, Alex (Ben’s daughter), the Medusa spiders that killed Nikki and Paulo and possibly some appearances of Walt all being manifestations of the Smoke Monster. <br /><br />Now for some discussion points I suggest you listen to the Official Lost Podcast. The producers discuss things, answer questions and tell the viewers what they should look out for. It is very helpful; it is where some of my points will come from.<br /><br />First, I want to discuss the flash sideways. The producers have stated that this will happen for a while and then the two timelines will resolve in some way. I believe that some things will carry over from one timeline into the one we have known the whole time. I believe we have already seen some of these things merge into our old timeline. For instance, Locke was able to walk in the current timeline, because it seems that Jack will fix him in the flash sideways. Now I’m not sure if that is one of the things that will happen when the timelines merge, but that is an example. I do think that this will somehow explain how the Black Rock ended up in the middle of the jungle. In the flash sideways the island was underwater, the Black Rock will sink and land in the middle of the jungle and somehow jump to the timeline we have been watching. This could explain how Horace had not heard of the Black Rock when Sawyer and the rest of the people flashing through time made up the story that they were a part of a team looking for the Black Rock before they integrated with the DHARMA Initiative in the middle of season five. It did not appear in our timeline until after the hydrogen bomb went off and made the timelines merge. Or Horace and the DHARMA Initiative never made it to that part of the Island, very possible that it was in the hostiles’ territory. <br /><br />Second, I’m not sure the bomb is what caused the flash sideways. Now it might be a contributing factor, but I don’t think that by it blowing up and affecting the pocket of energy is what single handedly caused the flash sideways. I have a long theory about that which is hard enough to explain in person using a dry erase board. However, I’ll try. Sun, in 2007 asks Richard Alpert if he remembered Jack and everyone from 1977. He says he saw them die. I believe he said this because he gave them the hydrogen bomb, knowing they were going to use it, saw it go off and assumed they died because they were so close to it; however, this was merely an assumption which proved to be wrong. Now, if the bomb went off then in our timeline’s 1977 and if we are assuming that it single handedly sunk the Island then that would be impossible, since our 2007 has Sun on the Island talking to Richard, he should be dead at the bottom of the ocean. Furthermore, people like Faraday, Eloise, Widmore, Ben, and possibly Penny would not be alive in our 2007. Now the bomb could have triggered something else that skewed and made two timelines, but I do not believe it single handedly sunk the Island. It was merely the “Incident” we have heard about since season two which made the Swan station have to have the code entered in every 108 minutes. After all, the season five finale where they used the hydrogen bomb was called “The Incident.”<br /> <br />Third, pertaining to Island mythology we got a lot thrown at us. We finally saw the temple, something I’ve wanted to see since it was briefly mentioned in passing in season three. In fitting with the Egyptian Mythology it could have been a step pyramid. I highly doubt it is of any Mayan decent since it had hieroglyphics inside of it even though it resembled a Mayan pyramid. Also, we finally saw Zack and Emma again, the kids taken from the tail section of the plane, shown in an episode from season two as well as Cindy the stewardess. It was also revealed that the Smoke Monster cannot cross “ash.” Was he trapped in the Cabin at some point? (It did have ash around it, and Ilana said that someone other than Jacob had been using it for a while.) Perhaps the biggest mythological thing we saw was the spring inside the temple. I believe we are suppose to assume that this was the same thing that Ben was healed in as a child, so kind of ironic that Sayid is the other person we know that was put in it. I think it should be viewed more of as a “baptism” than anything. Was this what allowed Ben to be able to kill Jacob, or can anyone but the Smoke Monster kill Jacob? If the first part is true, then maybe Sayid can now kill the Smoke Monster. Too much is unknown about the spring and the color of the water to say much more than this so I won’t bother wasting any more time until more information has come to light thus allowing an educated guess to be made.<br /><br />Fourth, it seems that something, possibly Jacob, might be inhabiting Sayid now. The producers said we will have to wait a few episodes and see if this thought fleshes itself out in any way. I am afraid that Jacob might be the bad guy and the Smoke Monster the good guy. It would not be the first time Lost has led the viewers to believe one thing and then completely changed it or re-contextualized it. I have to have faith that there is an absolute good and an absolute evil and that they are what the producers have led us to believe. The whole light v. dark conversation between Locke and Walt in season one is so paramount that Jacob has to be good based on his shirt he was wearing in the opening scene of the season five finale and likewise the Man in Black. If they break away from the white and black motif I could see both Jacob and the Smoke Monster being bad, or both being good. Maybe there is another force on the Island we have yet to meet. Who is Christian Shepherd? Is that Jacob or the Smoke Monster as well? Is it someone else? Or is it really Christian Shepherd somehow alive? I think at least some of the time we have seen Christian it was actually the Smoke Monster impersonating him, possibly every time. <br /><br />The producers have said we do not know enough to make a prediction as to how the show will end. However, they said that after the third episode or so you won’t be able to talk to a Lost fan about anything other than Lost. Something big must be coming soon! If it really is the third episode then that is this week! Let’s get excited and see what awaits us. Please feel free to comment, challenge, modify, or add your own theories. <br /> <br />Here are the sneak peeks for this week’s episode that ABC has put out.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/4ShlMSe51t8&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4ShlMSe51t8&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/YkSPna5WPpY&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/YkSPna5WPpY&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />Until next week when we have seen a little bit more Lost, Namaste.<br /><br />StevenStevenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05520908431122197393noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7877384175123202425.post-33682901284183148812010-01-31T19:19:00.004-06:002010-01-31T19:31:46.344-06:00My Pre-Season TheoriesThis is the final pre-season stall blog. By the next time I write in this we will have seen two brand new hours of Lost. The end is quickly approaching! As mentioned in previous entries, the purpose of this entry is to share my hypothesis of what I think will happen this season. This is based on what I have gathered from the show and occasionally clues that the producers have alluded to. Spoilers have NOT been consulted to create my theories, so if I end up being right then it is purely coincidental based on educated guesses. Also, my theories are under the assumption that the hydrogen bomb went off last season, however, I do not think it will completely, permanently, change things. With all of this being said, let us begin. <br /><br /> For starters some pretty significant characters are going to die. I’m not really sure who they can afford to kill off but I would say Sayid for sure. Every character has had their chance at redemption and he took his but then soon fell back into a bad life of killing people. For goodness sakes he shot a young teenage Ben Linus. In addition he has nothing left to live for. His love, Nadia, was killed. There is nothing for him so he is expendable. I’d say that Hurley is safe; you can’t kill the lovable fat guy. Sawyer will probably do something heroic, but who knows, that would be very predictable. <br /><br /> Jack is probably safe as well, but I will discuss that later. The only reason he may not make it is that when they originally wrote the first few episodes the producers wanted to kill him off. I feel that Sun and Jin will be together in the end. They have had them separated too long and nearly run that story into the ground. Really I’m just babbling at this point as to speculate people’s fates so I will go on, but I feel that Sayid won’t make it.<br /><br /> I do not think that Locke is completely out of the picture. I am not sure if he is ultimately dead or what, but I’m sure that if he needs to be alive then the writers can find a way for him to be alive. Whether it was the fact that Jacob touched him and others or some other reason, Locke will probably be alive. Plus, the whole Man of Science, Man of Faith thing will be the culminating dynamic of the series, so I feel that Locke must come back to assume his role as the Man of Faith. I believe that Locke and Jack will become the new Jacob and Jacob’s nemesis respectively. They represent such strong opposing forces that if Jack does not continue to believe in faith like he was starting to in season five then he will take Jacob’s nemesis’ spot. Possibly Jack will end up taking Jacob’s spot, but someone will assume Jacob’s role, if not also his nemesis’. <br /> <br /> I think the island has some sort of pattern that Locke and/or Jack will serve as for the next group of people that come, just as Jacob and his nemesis have for our people. It should be noted that Jacob and his nemesis wore white and black shirts in the one time we saw them together in what we believe to be their true forms. This goes back to the season one scene where Locke explains backgammon to Walt. Since then black and white has been a symbolic theme throughout Lost. Also, to help further the pattern theory, Jacob tells his nemesis that “It only ends once. Anything that happens before that is just progress.” Now I don’t put a lot of stock in my speculation of this, but just a possibility. <br /><br /> While on the subject of Jacob, I’m not sure he is ultimately dead. I feel that he was careful to cover his bases. Either he knew he was going to be killed and that is why he touched everyone for some reason, to be resurrected or have something to bring him back. Now, go with me here, what if Jacob touching everyone is similar to Voldemort creating <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horcruxes">horcruxes</a> in the Harry Potter series. (Lost draws on many books and movies for ideas, why not Harry Potter here.) This may be similar in the fact that maybe by Jacob touching people he can inhabit their body especially if they are dead now. Maybe Locke can come back again in the spirit of Jacob. Locke could be a pawn of both sides. Or the fact that Jacob touched Locke and the others means that they cannot serve as the “loophole” for the Man in Black (Jacob’s nemesis). <br /><br /> Even if Jacob is dead, he is not out of the picture. Too many people on this show can talk to dead people (i.e. Miles and Hurley). Hurley has been able to and it really has not served hardly any purpose yet, but I’m sure it will. Also, we cannot forget that the brief conversation that Jacob had with Hurley was about how Hurley is not crazy, that he really can talk to dead people, and that it is a blessing that he can talk to the dead. This little ability may help the characters as it can provide a channel to communicate with Jacob. Everything in this show has a reason and purpose and I think this may be the reason for Hurley’s ability to talk to the dead.<br /><br /> As the season progresses I believe that it will be revealed that the famous Adam and Eve skeletons belong to Rose and Bernard. They are expendable and will probably be left in the days of the DHARMA Initiative, die there, and be placed in the caves. If just makes sense for it to be them. <br /><br /> The relationship between Widmore and Ben will finally be revealed this season and I have always believed this, both are good guys, relatively. They are both on Jacob’s side of the war and work for him, but there is one major difference. Widmore wants what it best for the Island. Ben wants what is best for the Island as long as he benefits and can lead. As soon as he had to give up his position to Locke he tried to kill him multiple times and was finally successful. There are some instances where Widmore seems a little excessively hostile, but I feel that his actions can be explained if we knew the whole story.<br /><br /> Another aspect we must cover is the new story telling form that Lost will undoubtedly employ. The producers have hinted that like the past few years they will employ a new narrative. Seasons one through three used flashbacks, then season four started and took advantage of the flashforward. Seasons five started a new thing where they toggled between the past and the future. I think that this season will have the characters flashing through alternate timelines. (This will include their bodies shifting through time, or maybe just their conscious, like Desmond’s conscious time jumping in season four. Maybe that is why Desmond’s mind did that in season four, to prepare us for this happening again later in season six). That is what will allow certain dead characters to “legitimately” reappear for a short while. I believe that is why Jacob gave Hurley a guitar when he was going back to the Island. Not only did it help recreate the circumstances of the original flight, but I feel that he knew that Charlie will briefly show up. My prediction: the season will open up with Oceanic Flight 815 (the original flight) safely landing in LA. (This will help meet the shock value that they usually have for the first scene of the season opener). From then on they will toggle through alternate timelines for a short while before they end up syncing up with the correct timeline. <br /> <br /> I’m going to make a finale prediction now too. Each finale has an explosion, some bigger than others, but they are generally getting bigger and bigger. (1:the hatch door, 2:the Swan Station, 3:barrels at their camp and the window of the Looking Glass, thus flooding it, 4: a whole freighter, 5: the hydrogen bomb). With all that being said, what is bigger than a hydrogen bomb going off? How about a natural explosion? Maybe a volcano? Yes, there is a volcano on the Island. Like I’ve said over and over, they rarely do and say things for no reason. In the season three episode “The Man Behind The Curtain,” young Ben is told that there is a volcano on the Island that hasn’t gone off in a “very long time.” I’m not sure yet what the ramifications will be yet for it going off, but I think it will. <br /> <br /> One last finale prediction, the series will end with the “pattern” I’ve already theorized about starting all over. Is no one else intrigued that the show has suddenly picked up a great number of kids? We already know Walt is special and goodness knows they talked Aaron up so much to be something special. If they don’t revisit that then that whole story arc and dilemma will have been made up just to scare and intrigue us for a while. Jin and Sun had Ji Yeon. Desmond and Penelope had Charlie too. I think due to the strange time abilities of the Island these children will show up at the end of the show grown up or we will see the future when they are naturally grown and they will have their turn on the Island. We’ve already seen how the Island likes to keep it all in the family. I may be off a little, but I’m sure the kids will be of the utmost importance.<br /><br /> Finally, a few quick thoughts. We cannot overlook the strong Greek mythological overtones throughout the series. I think that explains why a loophole was the only way for the nemesis to kill Jacob. The Greek gods used heroes to do their work; there were rules about how the gods could intervene. Will other characters be used as pawns by the Island “gods” to do things just as the ancient Greek heroes were? Look for Greek symbolism to help predict things. Also, if the Island ends up having a name I guess it would be <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogygia">Ogygia</a>. This is an island in the Odyssey where Odysseus was kept for seven years by the nymph Calypso. It is said that you can’t find Ogygia twice. So, similar to the Island, it is hard to find. However, our Island differs since people have come to it multiple times. Not a perfect metaphor but a possibility. Although, I do not have a lot a stock in this postulation, however, I guess it could happen. My guess, they have gone this long without naming it, they will not now. <br /> <br /> Now I do not know when the statue of Taweret was destroyed, Ben claims it was like it currently is (just a foot) when he first arrived on the Island, but who knows. If that is true then it will most likely throw this theory out the window. However, I cannot help but wonder if its destruction was what made it impossible for women to have babies on the Island. After all Taweret is the goddess of childbirth and fertility. It just seems weird for this possible connection to be there and it not really connect.<br /><br /> My final prediction before the season starts deals with a medical procedure that many may have forgotten about that took place a little over halfway through season four, Jack’s appendectomy. When writers strike happened during the fourth season the producers went on record saying they had to put off some things they wanted to do in season four until season five, like furthering the freighter folks’ flashbacks. They said though that they needed some things to happen in season four, like Jack’s appendectomy. My question: why is an appendectomy so important? I thought it would end up being more important when he was off Island, like somehow it would be revealed that he “lost” his appendix while allegedly being lost at sea for 3 months, thus exposing up their lie. That never happened though. I have two ideas. One, if they do start flashing through alternate timelines, it will be like their whole bodies are shifting, he’ll notice a scar on his body which will affect these alternate timeline flashings. Call it a constant. I don’t know; a weak theory I know but go with it. Or maybe that story is finished and it simply was done to show that Jack had fallen out of the Island’s good graces and allowed to get sick which is unusual since it normally heals you and prevents you from being sick. The second is probably most likely, but who knows!<br /><br /> That is all! I know this has been a very lengthy post but I hope you enjoyed it and I hope it got you thinking. Please, respond with any comments, questions or theories of your own. Until next week when we have seen a little bit more Lost, Namaste.<br /><br />StevenStevenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05520908431122197393noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7877384175123202425.post-54140810982725357282010-01-22T11:54:00.005-06:002010-01-22T12:55:47.823-06:00What Exactly Has Been Going ON<span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >The purpose of this entry is to remind us all of what has happened on Lost so far. Undertaking that feat would take hundreds of printed pages to do so I am just going to hit the highlights, particularly moments from last season that I believe we might need to know for this coming season. My next blog entry will use this one to help explain my hypothesis for this climactic final season.<br /><br /> Before we delve into this I want to take care of a few housekeeping items. Occasionally for quick references I might use Wikipedia.com or Lostpedia.com. It should be noted that I do not view these as scholarly and absolute but this is just a blog and I will use the reference section on the two sites to make sure what is mentioned is factual. Using these sites make it quick and easy to check things (so long as they are used correctly) and will help in the discussion.<br /><br /> Season five (last year’s season) proved to be a total game changing performance. Since Lost has been scheduled since 2007 to end after six seasons I expected the fifth season to be a stall, however, it was anything but that. The producers decided to introduce a new form of narrative. For the most part they abandoned flashbacks and flashforwards and told the story from two timelines’ perspectives with half the cast in 1977 and the other half in 2007.<br /><br /> The season began with those who remained on the island flashing through time on the island. What I don’t understand is did only our survivor flash through and not the Others. Even Juliet who had been an Other flashed through time with our survivors. Why was she not immune? Does anyone else think Jacob might have had a hand in the time traveling of our characters? A famous line from the series does say, “What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?” <br /><br /> Anyway, those left on the island ended up residing on the island from 1974-1977 by integrating into the DHARMA Initiative. This was an incredible way to allow the viewers a more detailed picture of what the DHARMA Initiative was about. Those who escaped the Island spent the first half of the season figuring out how to get back to the Island and once they returned some were split between 1977 and 2007. Those in 1977 spent the remainder of the season trying to figure out how to get to the correct timeline to reunite with their other people.<br /><br /> In short, let’s sum up some of the mysteries we have gotten major light shed on or altogether resolved during this past season.<br /><br />The purpose of the DHARMA station The Arrow was revealed to be a place where defensive strategies were developed.<br /><br />We have gotten closer to seeing the temple.<br /><br />We have seen more ancient sites on the Island including some ancient tunnels, some of which that lead to the Smoke Monster’s lair.<br /><br />We learned how Rousseau got to the Island, that the monster is what she thought was the sickness and how Montand lost his arm.<br /><br />Radzinsky was shown to be the mastermind behind the Swan. We knew this name because he worked with Kelvin Inman (who made Sayid interrogate his own people during Desert Storm) in the Swan station. Inman went on to work with Desmond in the Swan as well and told him about Radzinsky.<br /><br />It seems that John Locke was only ever “special” because he said he would be and people such as Richard Alpert believed him. He self-promoted himself like none other. (This all happened before Locke was born due to the time skipping effects of the island.)<br /><br />We saw that John Locke may not have been resurrected on the Island but he was when he first became paralyzed.<br /><br />This season we finally saw how John Locke died, as a pawn in an increasingly dark plot by some unnamed ominous, presumably evil figure.<br /><br />It was finally revealed how Dr. Chang lost his arm as already alluded to in the old DHARMA station films we saw in Season 2.<br /><br />Apparently Jacob has the Others in his service as well as Ilana and her people who are off the island but knowledgeable about it. Have they been there before?<br /><br />The cabin was burned.<br /><br />The four-toed statue was finally seen in all of its glory and revealed to be of the Egyptian goddess <a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Tawaret">Taweret</a>.<br /><br />Jacob was finally seen as well as his apparent rival. Also, Jacob was documented as having a “touching” history with many of the survivors of Oceanic 815.<br /><br />Jack and all those in 1977 just detonated the hydrogen bomb in order to keep the Swan station from ever being built and thus hoping to unravel time so that their original flight from 2004 would land safely and none of the misery from the last 3 years of their lives would have ever take place. Ignorance is bliss! Or did they create the incident that we heard about in the Swan’s orientation video?<br /><br />Jacob was killed by Ben Linus under the orders of Jacob’s nemesis who has apparently been posing as Locke since Locke’s corpse came back to the island midway through the season after himself being killed by Ben.<br /><br /> While all of these mysteries are very fun an entertaining Lost, at its heart, is a character show. On that note perhaps the most important thing to take away from this season is the change in character dynamics, most importantly Jack. The season two premiere entitled, “Man of Science, Man of Faith” has aptly encompassed the relationship that existed between Jack Shephard and John Locke respectively. Jack has to see things to believe them, does not believe in destiny or anything that is out of the ordinary. Locke is not afraid to embrace the mysteries of the unknown and has faith in the island’s power and will. However, due to Locke’s death, letter to Jack, and Jack opening his eyes to things, he slowly started to become a man of faith as season five progressed. It will be interesting to see how this dynamic carries out through the final season.<br /><br /> Next week I will use much of what was just covered to make my hypothesis and theorize about what we can expect this year. Until then, Namaste.<br /><br />Steven</span>Stevenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05520908431122197393noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7877384175123202425.post-88951473107574794942010-01-14T11:55:00.008-06:002010-03-02T17:57:45.683-06:00The Way Things Are Going To Go Down<a href="http://abc.go.com/">ABC</a>'s <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://abc.go.com/shows/lost">Lost</a></span> has been a show that has, well for lack of a better term, captivated the minds of people all over the world for the last six years. It has imprinted itself as a dynamic force in pop culture that is about to come to a close. The point of this blog will be to analyze and hypothesize about the show during its final climactic season.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Lost</span> is a show built on multiple levels. If you like action stories, you get that. There are guns, fights, and explosions (even a hydrogen bomb!) around every corner. If you like character stories then you definitely get that. From its inception, <span style="font-style:italic;">Lost</span> began with an interesting format of having each episode focus on a character’s life. For the first three seasons this meant that you would spend each episode toggling back and forth between the present and a flashback to better understand a character’s story and development. However, in true <span style="font-style:italic;">Lost</span> fashion, they changed the game by introducing a rare technique, the flash-forward. After introducing the concept of toggling between the present and the future of a character we were able to be teased to see how they will get from their present state to the future story that we are seeing unravel. <span style="font-style:italic;">Lost</span>’s choice of storytelling devices never ceases to amaze, perplex and keep its viewership guessing.<br /><br />Certainly if you are interested in mystery stories then <span style="font-style:italic;">Lost</span> is for you as well. The franchise has made a living off of mysteries. The whole show is based around an airplane that crashes on a remote island believed to be in the South Pacific. This island is steeped in a history, mystery and mythology that draw on many elements of real history, mythology and literature. Many of the common mysteries that bug the audience are as follows:<br /><br />Where is the island and what are its powers?<br /><br />What is the deal with all of the Egyptian hieroglyphics and references?<br /><br />Why does a certain character, Richard Alpert, never age?<br /><br />Who is this seemingly omnipotent and omniscient character known as Jacob?<br /><br />What is the smoke monster?<br /><br />What are the whispers that are occasionally heard in the jungle?<br /><br />Why is there a 19th century slave trade ship known as the Black Rock located in the dead middle of the jungle?<br /><br />What is the whole point of the show? For what purpose are the characters brought to the island?<br /><br />All of these and more have had us guessing for years now, but no more. We will soon have all of our answers, and that is the point of this blog. As already mentioned, Lost is built on multiple levels. You can enjoy the surface level of watching people try to accomplish a mission. However, I find that the smarter and more knowledgeable you are, the more you get out of the show. Lost is full of allusions and allegories to literature and pop culture beyond number. Some character’s names are biblical or literary. Even story lines are sometimes near copies or at the very least allusions to other stories, some of which are fiction, others historical. Lost thrives off of religions including Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism and so much more.<br /><br />I hope to analyze and give my take on the week’s episode. Sometimes outside sources will be consulted, references and listed to aid in better understanding what is going on so that we can best understand and enjoy this final season to what I believe to be the best show on television (I know, I’m a little biased).<br /><br />This was just an introductory post. From here on out the usual post will appear on Wednesday or Thursday. It will analyze the literary worth and allusions in each episode and show what mysteries we have gotten answered so far. I will also be hypothesizing as we go along. The show starts on February 2nd, which means we have two more weeks without <span style="font-style:italic;">Lost</span>. Next week I plan to give a brief recap of last season and list some things we should take away from that one to get ready for the new season. The week after that I will give my hypothesis on what I think will happen for season 6. From then on each week’s format will be the same, analyze and hypothesize. I hope you feel free to comment on anything as we make the journey to the end. Until then, Namaste.<br /><br />StevenStevenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05520908431122197393noreply@blogger.com0