New Ideas

Ok, so now that the finale is over and I've had a chance to talk to quite a few people about it, here are some new thoughts about what we have in store for the final season and what it all means:



- I think the guy I will referr to as the anti-Jacob (the guy who was w/ Jacob at the beginning of the episode who ends up killing Jacob) is in fact the black smoke somehow, or at least related to it. This explains how anti-Jacob can become Locke: he's able to take the form of anyone who's dead and on the island. For example: Yemmi (Echo's brother), Christian Shepherd (Jack's dad), and, of course, Locke. I also think he can take their form off the island viz. Charlie and Anna-Lucia appearing to Hurley. Which leads me to my next thought...

- I think we will see an episode, possible the season premiere, where we see anti-Jacob do all the same things that Jacob did in trying to influence our heoroes off the island. Just like we saw Jacob interract w/ Kate, Sawyer, and Hurley, I think we'll see the anti-Jacob interract w/ our firends off the island and help orchestrate their coming (and in some cases coming back) to the island.

- Ok, now about time travel. I've maintained that I think the bomb did NOT change the timeline and that, in fact, Faraday was right the first time when he said you can't change the past "what's happened, happened." Well, I just saw Star Trek (which was AMAZING, btw) and am now beginning to doubt that a bit. Here's why: the movie delt w/ time travel and how it changed the future. Star Trek was directed by JJ Abrams, the creator of LOST, as well as Damon Lindelof who produced Star Trek and, you guessed it, LOST. Because they both worked on Start Trek and LOST, it makes me second guess my hypothesis that they can't change the past/future (depending on your perspective). Still, I think one big reason Abrams had the change the future approach in Star Trek was so he could make more ST movies w/o having to follow the original storyline/arch. We'll see...

Episode 516 - The Incident

- Ok, so we start w/ more Egyptian stuff...somehow that seems to be connected to the island, both with the underground stuff around the H bomb and the mysterious statue

- The ship in the background...the Black Rock?!

- Ok, so Jacob is a real person, at least at some point in time.  The question is: is Jacob still alive at the time when Locke is going to kill him.  Oh, and, who is the other guy who was talking to Jacob who wants to kill him?

- Ok, so there's a whole new spin on things w/ Jacob that I've never considered.  I have NO idea what it means that Jacob was off the Island and helping Kate

- Hmm, hearing that Eloise is pregnant (w/ Faraday, I'm sure) makes me wonder...did the accident at the swan station, or maybe something related to the H bomb, cause the issue where people couldn't have kids on the Island.

- I wonder if Locke is just telling each person what he things they need to hear and none of it is actually what he plans or why he wants to see Jacob

- Hey now, I want to know what's in that box!  I also want to know how these people are associated w/ the others.  They asked the question related to the statue, if I remember correctly, and therefore are part of the others/hostiles/whatever group that follows Jacob.

- Ok, so now we see that Jacob visited Sawyer too...so Jacob specifically picked everyone who arrived on the Island it seems.

- Seriously?  Its only 9:30?  There's alread been soooo much in this episode and we're only a quarter of of the way thru it!

- Can I just say, the way they are carying the box is just like the Ark of the Covenant.  Just saying...

- Why does Jacob have to touch each of the people we're seeing him interact w/ our main characters in the past...

- Did Kate & Juliet talk while Jack & Sawyer were fighting and somehow that conversation led Juliet to change her mind?

- So Jacob was a part of getting the Oceanic 6 back to the Island as well...

- Nice, climb into the METAL vehicle to try to get away from the giant magnet!  Soooo smart!

- Wow, talk about an emotional roller coaster!  Juliet appears to be gone, which is sad both for Juliet and also for Sawyer: he finally has gotten over his issues to be able to love someone else and she "leaves" him.  Heart wrenching!

- What lies in the shadow of the statue? Something in spanish or italian, maybe?  Sounded like liquid something?

- Is the person we thought was Locke actually widmore?  Or maybe the other guy from the beginning of the episode who said he wanted to kill Jacob.

- SUUUUUUUUUUUUKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!   I knew I'd hate the end of the season, but cummon!  I'm mean really?!?!?!?!?  What's the deal w/ this other guy who apparently kille Jacob?  Who is he and what's the loophole he found?  Did blowing up the bomb actually prevent all the events that happend, or was it the cause of everything in the first place?

And, ok, what's w/ the WHITE?  For the first time since the series began, the LOST logo was on a white background!  I mean its cool, but why? They ALWAYS do stuff for a reason.

Ok, a few closing thoughts on the season.  First, it wasn't as good as season 4, in my opinion.  Granted, it was still a great season, but 4 is still my favorite.  We've learned quite a bit that we didn't know before and have a much more complete picture of what's going on.  However, in the last 2 hours of the show we've gotten several very new questions that I don't even know what to think about or how to address some of the new ideas/concepts/events that have occured during this episode, especially surrounding Jacob and the other guy he was with.

One final thought:  While I am, of course, frustrated that I have to wait unitl nearly next February before seeing anything new realted to LOST, I still love the show and, though it drives me crazy, do enjoy thinking about all the posibilities and tyring to figure out what's going on, what's going to happen, and how its all connected.  I love this show!

Episode 515 - Follow the Leader

Ok, I missed the beginning of this episode, but I think I got most of it.

- I really don't think that the group is going to be able to change what happened so that the plane doesn't crash.  And I'll say that I really hope they can't, or at least that that's not the ending, 'caus that'd be totally lame!

- Once again, I love that Locke is in charge and knows what's going on while Ben doesn't.  :)

- Ok, I'm still frustrated about Richard.  Somehow he's a really important figure on the island, but he really doesn't know what's going on any more than Ben does.  How can that be?

- WHAT?!  Kate got shot?!  Would they kill Kate?  I hope not, but I woudn't put it past the LOST people...then again, the island has healing powers, so maybe she won't die.  I really hope she doesn't.

- Ok, she didn't get shot.  I feel better now.

- Ah, new hypothesis.  They are on the island now, they ARE going to blow up the bomb and that's why Desmond gets in the hazmat suit when he goes outside and has to be protected all the time.  It's all already happened and it can't be changed...unless maybe Desmond gets involved somehow.  That's the only way I can see anything changing.  

- "The Tunnels" look just like the inside of the Temple...I wonder if they are 'indigenous' to the island

- And what's the deal w/ Sayid?  Where has he been?  I can't remember the last time we saw him.  He shot Ben, was that the last time?  Then he disappeared?  Must have been (enjoy that stream of consciousness?)

- Of course, they have to put Kate & Juliet together w/ Sawyer, don't they.  "Good Television" or something like that.  Oh yeah, its called "conflict"!

- Jack, you're dumb.  In 30 years Eloise does tell you how to get back to the island, but she does it so that you can tell her about the bomb so that she can blow up the Dharma Initiative!

- Does Locke really intend to kill Jacob?  If so, why?  And how on earth does he plan to do that?

- So what's happened to young Ben?  Is he still with the others?  I think that's the last place we saw him, but that was several weeks ago and I dont remember him getting back w/ the Dharma folks...

...and that doesn't work w/ continuity, since Ben's supposed to be the one who wipes out the Dharma Initiative and not for many many years, so maybe I was wrong about the H-Bomb going off...

  Oh my goodness, next week is the season finale!  That's crazy!  I'm excited and afraid of what the ending/cliff hanger is going to be.  I'm sure what ever it is will make me crazy and give me lots of stuff to wonder over the summer.  Let's see, what have they done in the past?

Season 1 - Opening up the Hatch

Season 2 - Hatch blowing up, the sky turning purple, and Jack, Kate, Hurley, and Sawyer being captured by the others

Season 3 - An actual boat arrives to take them off the island

Season 4 - The island disappears!

Season 5 - ???  We'll find out next week!

I LOVE THIS SHOW!

Episode 514 - The Variable

I missed this episode live and had to watch it via my comptuer this evening, so my comments aren't quite as stream-of-conciousness as normal, but here you go anyway...

- Why on Earth would Faraday tell Marvin Candel that Miles is his son? He has to know that Candel won't believe him and think he's crazy. And what about the whole "you can't change the future" thing? I know he mentions that they are the variables, but the problem is that they are surrounded by constants, so I'm not convinced they could change anything from the past

- Dan's notebook seems to have writings of what's going to happen. He consulted it several times and then somehow knows where people are or where they are going

- Ok, I get what Dan's trying to do, but if he stops the plane from crashing, then none of them were there on the island, so they didn't go back in time to stop the plane from crashing...which is your typical time-travel paradox issue. It just can't happen.

- I've never really been a fan of Eloise Hawking, but now I really don't like her. She sent Dan back to the island knowing full well that she'd kill him! I understand the whole 'destiny' thing, but even Faraday trys to change that, you'd think a mother of all people would at least TRY!

- I'm really curious to see if we get to find out what happens when the EM energy explodes under the Swan station and we get to see the aftermath! It may blow our heroes back to the 'present' but I'm really hoping we get to find out what it caused!

Ok, those are my meager thoughts this week. Still enjoying the show, though sadly now the end of the season is in sight!

Episode 513 - Some Like it Hoth

-I don't know know how I feel about an episode that focuses on Miles.  He's not a real lost-y in my mind.  

-His dad's body is somewhere he can never go...is it maybe the island?

- Hmm, that does bring up an interesting question: why DID Widmore want someone who can speak to dead people?  Was there someone in particular that Widmore wanted him to talk to?

- WHAT?!  Marvin Candle whatever his name is if Mile's dad?!  I was at least right that he was on the island.

- Since they are taking the dead body to the Marvin Candle guy, I wonder if they are going to run an experiment to see if they can bring him back to life.  That might help explain the Locke thing ever so slightly...at least that the island has that ability

- I wonder why Widmore thought they could find Ben using dead people.

- I love Hurley and his attempt to bring people together and reconcile.  :)

- I wonder what DOES lie in the shadow of the statue

- LOST & Star Wars!!!  My life is complete!

- I must say, as a Jack fan, I really like the way he just tells Sawyer what's happened and let's him deal with it, especially after Sawyer made such a big deal about how he's in charge and he thinks first and basically better than Jack.  Well, clearly he's not.  :)

- You know, this is more in the old-school LOST style, where we focus on one character and get flashbacks that gives you insight to the current character's plight.

- And I TOTALLY disagree w/ Hurley that the Ewoks suck.  Ewoks are cool!

- Ha!  Faraday is now back!  Looks like his 'disapearing' was actually working for the Dharma Initiative doing science work.  I' m interesting in finding out what he's been doing and all the stuff he can now contribute to helping decode what's happened/happening w/ the island.

One final comment, not directly related to the show: next week is a "sepecial event" which makes me think its not an actual episode, which kinda' annoys me.  The whole deal w/ the show being only half a season is that they'd play the episodes back to back w/o interruptions or reruns.  They've already done one rerun this seasons, now potentially another one?  Not cool.

Episode 512 - Dead is Dead

- Boo, why did the island want to save Ben?

- So, now we see when Widmore first meets Ben.

- Ben's lying.  I don't think he really wanted to go back to the island because he broke the rules and to be judged.  I do think he was headed back to the temple and maybe even the monstor.  Ben is the king of half-truths and I don't think this is any exception.

- I HATE Ben.  I HATE the way he manipulates...and gets away with it.

- YES!  Way to call his bluff Locke!  I'm really enjoying this episode so far.  :)

- In an interesting twist, we actually see Ben showing compassion to Alex, Rouseau's daughter, and to Rouseau herself, actually.  I'm not really sure why he shows that compassion as I wouldn't peg him as a compassionate person.  The flipside that's interesting is that we see Widmore and he's not so compassionate.  We get to see a bit of the rivalry between the two men.

- So it appears that Ben knows who Christian Shepherd is.  Is that because he's encountered him before, or because he was a part of getting him onto the island in the first place, either in reality or in the form that he's currently in?

- I LOVE that Locke is in control and Ben isn't!  It feels sooo good for Ben to be on the defensive and not knowing/understanding what's going on.

- Way to go Desmond.  Yet, I'm still a bit confused as to why Ben hessitated.  Why does he have compassion on children?  Is it because he remembers his horrible childhood, perhaps?  Its the one thing that I can't really understand about Ben.  He's so purely evil with everything except for children, apparently.  Don't get me wrong, I'm glad he is, but it just surprises me.

- Hmmm, the whole smoke monster thing has been really interesting.  First, the fact that it is just smoke blows my idea that its mechanical out of the water (unless there are 2 parts to it and we only saw one part tonight).  Second, it let Ben live, which is somewhat surprising on one hand, but not from a storytelling standpoint.  Third, when we saw Alex alive again, I'm pretty sure its not Alex, but actually the smoke monster, just like Yemmi was for Echo.  Fourth, Ben's supposed to follow Locke and not kill him like he planned (which doesn't surprise me that he was planning on re-killing Locke), but I'm not sure if Ben will actually follow Locke or not.  Only time will tell

This was a really good episode, I thought!  We got more answers/additional information, but with it came many different ideas and things to think through and process.

Have I ever mentioned that I love this show?!

Episode 510 - Whatever Happened Happened

I just watched the episode today since I was in France when it aired originally. These are my thoughts about seeing it, though keep in mind that I'm pushing myself to stay awake, so if it doesn't make sense, blame it on jet lag.

- So Sawyer wanted Kate to deal w/ helping Cassidy/Clementine, huh? Interesting that that's what the whole big deal was about. Why couldn't Kate tell Jack?

- Wow, the weird loop of Ben needing Jack to save his live again (or for the first time, depending on how you look at it: Hurley), yet this time he doesn't do it, and it looks like that's what leads to Ben being the way he is, at least in part (I still believe you are responsible for your actions, even if the situation pushed you in one direction over another).

- Go Hurley! I love the connection w/ time travel and Back to the Future!

- Everthing seems to be pointing towards Faraday's assessment of time travel: you can't change what's already been done, you can only discover how it came to be. This seems to be proving true w/ Ben as well.

- The conversation between Hurley and Miles where they talk about Ben not remembering Sayid shooting him could be resolved in 2 ways. 1) Richard said Ben wouldn't remember any of it and it could go back as far as being shot. 2) Ben could remember, yet not tell Sayid that he remembers, but that could influence why Ben is convinced that Sayid is a killer by nature.

- Is Kate being 100% truthful when she says she went back to the island to find Claire? I guess I doubt that that's her only motivation, though it could be the deciding factor, if you understand the difference.

Ok, I've got to clear off some stuff from my bed and then I think I'm heading that direction...