4 8 15 16 23 42 - Official Lost Season 3 Thread

4 8 15 16 23 42 - Official Lost Season 3 Thread

WARNING - Spoilers and Speculation Allowed

Lost is returning to ABC’s Wednesday night line on October 4th (9pm)

Again, they’re messing with us with their idiotic (IMHO) scheduling. But instead of a 1 week on, 1 week off, we’ll get 6 episodes, followed by a 12 week break. It will then come back in February for 17 straight episodes.

Returning Characters:

Losties
Sayid Jarrah
Claire Littleton (and Aaron, the "baaabby")
Hugo "Hurley" Reyes
Dr. Jack Shephard
James "Sawyer" Ford
Jin Kwon
Sun Kwon
Kate Austen
Charlie Pace
John Locke
Walt Lloyd
Mr. Eko
Michael Dawson
Rose
Bernard

The Others
Henry Gale/The Other formerly known as Henry Gale
Ethan Rom
Tom/Mr. Friendly/Zeke
Pickett
Alex Rousseau
Bea Klugh
He/Him

Newbies - Actors joining the show (Character names to be added when known):
Rodrigo Santoro - recurring character (double swoon). Allegedly, he plays a survivor from the plane who has been on the island this whole time
Elizabeth Mitchell - contracted to be a regular
Kiele Sanchez - recurring character. Rodrigo's love interest

I know I’m missing some characters, especially the Losties, but that’s probably because they aren’t very memorable.

- Look for Desmond (swoon) to become a regular this season and for Ethan to make a few appearances (obviously more Island flashbacks, since Charlie filled him full of bullet holes)

- And of course Danielle Rousseau will be back.

- Michael has been downgraded to recurring character, instead of regular character.

Season 2 finale

When we last left our Losties, Kate, Hurley, Jack, and Sawyer were taken hostage by the Others, after they were betrayed by Michael. In return for helping the Others, Michael and Walt are given a boat to supposedly get off the island. Yeah, okay, good luck with that. Be seeing you again real soon.

Oh, and the hatch exploded. No more showers for our Losties. Guess, I'll just have to picture Sawyer lathering up...oh excuse me, back to the matter at hand. So, did Locke, Desmond, and Eko survive the explosion? Well, if you’ve read this far, you can probably answer that one on your own.

And Penny (Desmond’s long lost love) is seen answering a phone. On the other end of the line are 2 men in a very cold location (the opposite of our very sweaty island). 1 says “I think we’ve found it.” Hmmm. Very interesting. Or not. Tune it to find out.

Season 3 - questions to be answered

1. Kate will finally decide between Jack and Sawyer (my money is on Jack, but Sawyer would be so much better)

2. The Hatch is gone. Forever. Get over it. Oh, but wait. There might be an underwater one. Cue the Splash theme song.

3. We will find out why Locke was in the wheelchair. Promises, promises.

4. We will also find out why Libby (R.I.P.) was in the mental hospital. So obviously, she isn’t completely off the show. But, thankfully, Michelle Rodriguez is. Worst. Actress. Ever. Anybody got any scoop on who she is dating in real life? I got $100 that says it is someone of the female persuasion.

5. It has nothing to do with nanobots. Okay, maybe that won’t be answered exactly. But please. Horrible theory.

6. The polar bear returns.

7. The monster will be revealed.

Unanswered questions

1. Are Jack and Claire siblings?

2. Where is Cindy?

3. How does a show go from being the Emmy winning best drama to not even being nominated??? Stupid Emmy’s.

4. Who is Sun’s baby daddy?

Episode 1 08/07 - Jack, Kate and Sawyer open the season in captivity as prisoners of "The Others." Just who these "Others" are and what they want are primary questions Season Three will explore. Michael Emerson joins the regular cast in his ongoing role as Henry Gale, leader of "The Others." Romance looms on the horizon as Jack's interests veer towards a mysterious new woman, whose motives may be questionable. Sun and Jin will continue to celebrate their pregnancy - but is the child really Jin's? Locke and Sayid will band together with some of the other survivors and journey across the island in an attempt to free Jack, Kate and Sawyer. Charlie will attempt to return into the good graces of Claire and her baby, Aaron, but can he be trusted to stay clean and sober? The fates of Locke, Desmond and Mr. Eko in the aftermath of the implosion of the hatch are answered. Will Penny Widmore find the island and her long, lost love, Desmond, and can the survivors find a way to interact with the outside world? The band of friends, family, enemies and strangers must continue to work together against the cruel weather and harsh terrain if they want to stay alive. But as they have discovered during their 60-plus days on the island, danger and mystery loom behind every corner, and those they thought could be trusted may turn against them. Even heroes have secrets. Source - ABC

My Serious, Logical Thoughts on The Brig

Greetings and welcome to the LOST report. Today is the review of The Brig. (As seen on TV) I write this four you about 8:15 am. Special guest star: The Black Rock.

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Refers to the brig on the Black Rock where Cooper is held. The Black Rock gets another 16 minutes of fame! Notice James has never seen the Black Rock.

WHERE THE HE** ARE WE?
The writers have gone very far in trying to convince us that they are all dead and in hell. How many writers do they have? As many as 23? We have not one but two characters on the island who say that flight 815 has been found and everyone on board is dead. The man from Tallahassee even refers to Locke as his dead son. This is ambitious, but I hope you did not fall for it. They are not dead. They are not in hell. How do I know this? Well, for one reason, when you are in hell, you will not die because you are already dead. James did kill the man from Tallahassee. Now he might be in hell however. So, how do I explain the plane underwater that they found? Well, you underestimate the influence of mister Widmore. He has something to do with the island and probably knows the LOSTaways are there. He could have had digital footage of the plane wreck created. In the 21st century they can do all kinds of things with video. With bribes in the right places, I believe he could pull it off. I do not believe that they are all dead and that their souls are on the island in some kind of hell\purgatory. We saw the plane crash on the island. Did the plane have a soul? Richard brought back live video feed from the mainland where Juliet saw her sister. Ben had a video of the Red Sox winning the series. Evidence abounds that they are not dead.
Now, how did Penny know where to look for Desmond? Although this is not entirely clear, we do know that she had people working for her monitoring for EM pulses. We know that two Portuguese speaking gentlemen detected an EM pulse from the island and that Penny hired a search and rescue team to look there. But exactly how she knew to look for an EM pulse is a mystery. Clues come from the relationship of her father with the island. If she somehow had got wind of a strange island, Desmond and an EM pulse, then that would explain it. Perhaps she overheard a conversation her father had or gained access to one of his secret documents.

LOOK WHOS CONNING NOW
As has long been suspected, Cooper is the actual Sawyer who conned the mother of James which lead to the death of his parents. What we did not know is that his alias was Tom Sawyer, the character made famous of course for that story, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

HOW DID HE GET TO THE ISLAND?
How did Cooper get to the island? After hearing his story, one gets the impression that the others ambushed him in his car and brought him to the island. A car could have been set up to rear end Cooper, and then a fake ambulance sent to get him. Then they could have drugged him and brought him to the island. Of course the reason behind this would be to get Locke to kill him so he could shed his past weak life. Doubtless we have noticed a transformation of the character of Locke since coming to the island. He has been changed but not completely enough for the tastes of Ben. However, Ben said the Locke brought Cooper to the island. Do I believe Ben? Yes, and here is why.
I am reminded of the plane found on the island that carried the brother of Eko. Kind of a coincidence eh? But it fits here. Locke brought Cooper to the island. Eko brought his brother to the island. Although I do not know how exactly, each seemed to have been brought to the island under incredibly coincidental circumstances. Also, the experiences of Hurley with the numbers border on the miraculous, and this would be no more incredible than that.

IS LOCKE AN OTHER?
No, Locke is on his own journey. No stranger to outdoors after preparing for a walkabout, we see Locke sleeping outdoors with the others with not even a tent. Notice that Ben uses the words of Locke to refute him. When Locke says you cannot leave me here, he responds, do not tell me what I cannot do, which is a favorite saying of Locke. I find it hard to believe that the saying was in a file about Locke. They must have heard it somehow. Notice how the hand of Locke is miraculously healed after his dad bit him. Also, when Locke got near Ben, he started to recover. It makes you think that the healing ability of Locke is contagious.

OTHER RAMBLINGS
We learn that the magic box is just a metaphor. Based on the previews, it looks more like a room.
We see that Cindy the flight attendant has practically joined the others. This may indicate that when the others make lists of people, the people on the list are those they think will join them. The bad people are those they think will not join them. Cindy says they have been waiting for Locke. Notice the word special is used to describe him as it was Walt. Locke may be even more special that Walt.
Kate has no problem telling Jack about Naomi even though she was supposed to keep it a secret.
When Juliet says to Jack, I think we should tell her. What secret is she talking about? I would say that it is the knowledge that Kate is pregnant, but the context of the conversation is about Naomi and the global phone. A phone that Mikail was also very interested in getting. Jack does not want to tell Kate this secret now because he wants to tell the group as a whole. Does this secret have something to do with Naomi?
When Ben says they are going to a very old place, I am reminded of the four toed statue Sayid saw last season. Ancient societies built large statues, so the island may at one time been inhabited by an ancient civilization now gone. They may have known about the magic box. Did they worship it? Was it part of their religion? Ben and the others may be on their way to the magic box now.
The inability of Kate to sleep in another tent may be caused by all her years on the run. I took it to mean she wanted to sleep alone.
Sawyer is using nicknames again, calling Locke Tarzan. Remember he previously was banned from using them. The ban is over.
When mister Alpert told Locke that Ben purposely humiliated him, was Alpert actually playing a con with Locke? Did he manipulate him into getting James to kill Cooper?
Since Locke did not actually kill his father, he did not set himself free as Ben wanted. What will be the consequences of this? That Locke can never become a true OTHER now?
The device Naomi is holding in her hand looks like a black box. Is this the black box used to locate planes after crashes?
Hurley is a very bad liar. Did James really believe that Hurley and Jin were taking a leak? And he said they found a satellite phone in the luggage which Kate did not buy.
When James refers to the con that Ben played on him, he is referring to the incident where Ben told James he had an implant in him. He did not actually have an implant. The phrase bunny with a number painted on it is unknown to me. A little help anyone?
This episode has left me with more unanswered questions than a single episode ever has. I wish there was an easy solution. I cannot help but think of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy where the answer to everything is 42!

The LOST Report

My Serious, Logical Thoughts on The Man Behind the Curtain
Welcome to the review of The Man Behind the Curtain.

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Wizard of Oz reference. It is a line from the movie. Quiz question. Who said: Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain? There have been other references to The Wizard of Oz in the show such as: Ben calling himself Henry Gale, a character in the movie; two feet sticking out of debris which look like the feet of the dead wicked witch as seen in the episode flashes be4 your eyes; and of course the balloon. The man behind the curtain is Jacob, not Ben as Locke thinks.

THE BIRTH OF BENJAMIN LINUS
Ben was born 32 miles outside of Portland. The name of his mother was Emily. Thirty two is 8 x 4. 16 is evenly divisible into 32. This is not the first Portland reference in the show as there was an episode called Not in Portland. This gives us direct proof that Ben is a liar, since he has stated more than once that he was born on the island. Also, Ben makes the statement that most of the things he tells his followers are lies. What else has he lied about? Most of the flashbacks take place on the birthday of Ben including his original birthday. By the way, is it ok for a 7th month pregnant woman to go hiking? Just wondering.

NAMASTE
This Asian greeting is given to all newcomers to the DHARAM Initiative. Notice that Marvin Candle appears on the orientation video to newcomers, and that his left arm does not move during the video just as it did not during the Swan hatch Orientation video. But his left arm did move during the Pearl hatch video when he went by another name. He possibly could have lost or injured his arm during combat with the hostiles. They did use explosives as well as guns as we saw in this episode. Did anyone wonder why the DHARMA people stayed on the island with such a potential threat around them?
The friend of Roger said they use the fence to keep out wildlife. If so, it may be a reference to the wild boars and other animals. No mention is made of the smokey monster. I have seen at least one source that says DHARMA quit in 1987, but this simply is not working for me. For one thing, Kelvin did not join DHARMA until after the gulf war and that puts at least in 1991 and probably after. Also Rousseau arrived around 1984 with her comrades when DHARMA would sure have still existed. Why did she not ask them for help in leaving the island say, via the submarine? Would DHARMA not have noticed a ship crashing on the island?
We see clearly that the others have simply taken over all of the stuff of DHARMA including their barracks and food drops. Do the people making the DHARMA food drops know that everyone has been gassed? They might continue to supply the Swan hatch because of the deadly urgency. You would think someone from the mainland would have checked up on them by now after not hearing from Roger and company for all these years.
We do not see Marvin Candle or the Degroots on the island when Roger arrives. They may have been absent. It is unclear whether they were gassed or not. Also, what happened to Annie? Was she gassed?
Mikail said that DHARMA attacked them and that is why they were eliminated, but we see no evidence of that in this episode. Either Mikail is lying or DHARMA conducted attacks against the others that we have not seen yet.
Does anyone wonder how old Alpert is? He was on the island before Ben arrived and is surely at least ten to fifteen years older than Ben. Also, how did the others get on the island without a sub since DHARMA owned the one sub that brought them there? Put your money on another shipwreck. This could be a very old wreck too like the Black Rock. However, the others do speak perfect English and do not talk like they came from the 18th century. Ben may not have been born on the island, but Alpert surely could have. Also, since Alpert has been on the island longer than Ben and is older, how did Ben get to be leader?
Mikail once claimed in a lie that he was the last surviving member of the DHARMA Initiative. But, in a surprise, that honor now goes to Ben. In a previous episode, we see the refrigerator of Ben stocked with DHARMA brand stuff.

THE WHOLE JACOB THING
Well, this is one of the most peculiar episodes I have seen. You might think that Jacob is a product of the imagination of Ben or is a poltergeist, but if you look closely at the show, you will see a third person in the room with Locke and Ben. He looks like a man older than Ben wearing beat up clothes like the others wore when they were in disguise. If Ben can hear Jacob speak, then why did he not hear what he said to Locke? Perhaps Jacob can selectively make people hear and not hear him. Did Jacob ask for help because Ben is keeping him prisoner or was it simply a gag. Jacob may have a warped sense of humor as Ben implies when he says you have had your fun. On the other hand, notice just before arriving at the location of Jacob, Locke discovers a line of what looks like gunpowder on the ground. I am reminded of the movie, The Skeleton Key. In this movie, a woman discovers nefarious voodoo going on at a large house where she baby sits a sick man. She puts this line of power on the floor and supposedly if a person intends to do you harm, they cannot cross this line. Does this mean that Ben is keeping Jacob prisoner using a line of power around the domicile? Why? To get information from him. That would certainly explain why he said help me to Locke. But Ben says Jacob summons him. How? Mental telepathy? One gets the feeling that Jacob is a trapped spirit. Notice that even though we catch a glimpse of Jacob, Locke sees nothing. If only Haley Joel Osment were there!
Ben seems to have to no real motive for shooting Locke. He shot him because Jacob spoke to him. Is this because Locke was going to tell everyone that Ben was a fraud? At one time, I thought Ben was going to Make Locke an other. But it was not to be. ABC has killed a man who at one time was the most enigmatic character on the show. Why kill him? Because his flashback story has run its course. We now know how he got crippled, and he got revenge on his father. Locke died without knowing the true secrets of the island. But is he really dead? We saw Mikail come back, so we have a slight hope, but I would not bet on it. One might also include the possibility that Jacob will indeed save Locke.
Another question. Is Jacob the great man spoken of by Mikail? I believe there is a link between the smokey monster and Jacob. Either Jacob is or controls the smokey monster that is really a shapeshifter like Odo from Deep Space Nine. Why do I suspect this? Because when the image of the brother of Eko appeared in front of him, he said: You talk to me like I am your brother. To which Eko replied, Who are you? So that was really not the ghost of the brother of Eko and neither are the other images such as the father of Jack, Walt, the horse, and Emily.

WHO FRAMED ROGER BUT NOT THE RABBIT BEN PUT IN THE BAG
The body of Roger is later uncovered by the LOSTaways in the episode where Hurley gets the van to work and drives it. By the way, the supplies for the Pearl station included as significant amount of beer. Beer? That was a priority? No rabbits were harmed in the making of this episode.

QCOTMS SPEAKS
A message to the LOST writers: Ok, I am ready for some answers. There is too much mystery and too little resolution. I would like to know what the smokey monster is, who is Jacob, what is with the four toed statue and the other forty two mysteries on the island. Thank you.
Also, how about an episode about the back story of Rousseau? We could see how she crashed on the island and what the sickness was that her friends got. Call the episode, Her Story.

QUIZ ANSWER
The Wizard of Oz.

Check this link for more “recaps” of Lost: http://darkufo.blogspot.com/

Here’s another review by someone who outlines things pretty well:

Things I Noticed - “The Man Behind the Curtain” by Vozzek69

There will of course be those who disagree, but I’m officially declaring this to be the best season of LOST yet. Each episode seems to top the last, and we haven’t even seen the finale yet. Things I Noticed:

Jack, Juliet, Kate, Sayid, Blah Blah Blah...
Just like its characters, LOST is evolving. What were considered main characters in seasons one and two are suddenly back seated, and what were once side stories are now the main event. I don’t think this was intentional. In fact, I’ll bet just the opposite is true. I think the writers have expanded in the direction of what’s most interesting, on a constantly changing basis, no matter what that may be.

Back at camp, Kate’s mad about Naomi. Sayid’s mad at Kate. Sun supports Jack. Sawyer doesn’t. Truth be told I really couldn’t give much of a crap about all that stuff this episode. I’ve loved these characters for so long I felt almost guilty not giving a crap about them, but the story back at the 815 camp really isn’t all that interesting right now. Especially not in light of everything else.

So I’m skipping that whole scene this week. I just hope this end-of-season “The Others Are Coming!” storyline explodes into the full-scale battle shown on the previews instead of a dead-end cop-out the way it did in season one.

Roger Linus - Master of Bad Timing
There are some things that you just don’t do... like take your 7-month old pregnant wife on a nature hike in the middle of nowhere. Little Ben arrives early, which just might be a lifelong metaphor for how far ahead of everyone he always seems to be. His mother’s death during childbirth was sad, but it went a long way toward explaining Ben’s later obsession with fertility and the dying mothers of LOST island.

Bolting the forest Roger then meets Horace, the man who would later sell him the one-way ticket to DHARMA’s janitorial program. If he’d been a minute faster or a minute slower he would’ve missed that car - just another perfectly timed ripple in the waters of LOST.

Tom’s Coffee... Good to the Last Drop
Alright, it’s taken a long time but I’m finally willing to admit it: Ben’s losing control. From the nervous desperation of “Tom, have you seen my recorder?” to his utter shock at Mikhail’s mentioning of Naomi, things are, at long last, not going according to Ben’s plan. On top of that, Locke’s reappearance in camp couldn’t have been at a worse time for him.

I laughed my ass off watching Tom casually sip coffee while Locke beat the snot out of poor Mikhail. I actually felt bad for him. He’s filthy dirty, was 99% dead, just got his ass kicked by Jin, and ran halfway across the island just so Locke could deliver more punishment? I’ll bet right after this scene someone manifested him some vodka.

Ben’s henchmen might’ve obeyed his orders and stepped in to stop the fight had it not been for the line Locke delivered just before the beating: “He and I are going to see Jacob”. This is why no one intervened. Seeing Jacob was BIG. Richard, Tom, everyone else - either they disbelieved Jacob was real or (more likely) they disbelieved Ben’s translation of Jacob’s agenda all this time. Richard has already told Locke he thinks Ben has lost sight of their true goals, so if Ben really is the only person able to communicate with Jacob the rest of the Others can only benefit from having Locke tag along. Especially the demolition specialist no-bullshit ‘I wanna know what the hell going on’ version of Locke everyone has seen lately, who will no doubt deliver them the truth.

At Least They Have Guns And Beer
We got our first real look at DHARMA’s hippy Communist regime this episode, where everyone got classified and categorized and assigned a crisp new jumpsuit and a very important job (like beer-running, for example). A fleet of jeeps to get around the lush undergrowth of the island you say? Nah, let’s buy a bunch of cumbersome VW vans - in periwinkle blue, no less. A community in the middle of nowhere supplying beer to subterranean specialists watching other subterranean specialists while filling notebook after marbled notebook with useless minutia... and then vaccuum-launching them into the middle of nowhere. It all makes perfect sense now.

Sorry, but DHARMA is still bullshit.

As Ben said last season “This? This place is a joke!” We now know that Ben was a part of that joke, which only must’ve added to his cynicism toward it. Ben’s DHARMA days were not happy ones, with the exception of Annie, which is why he took the doll with him on the day of the purge. It was the only thing pure... the only thing that reminded him of anything joyful, so it was the only thing he took from that time. When Ben says he was born on the island, he means it in the metaphorical sense - not the physical one. He was born again on the day of the purge; born on the day he killed his father just as he was born on the day he killed his mother. See you in another life.

Harry Potter And The Swashbuckling Immortal
Of huge interest this episode was Ben’s first meeting with Richard. We learned many things here, the most important of them being that Richard doesn’t seem to age. He looked exactly the same in Ben’s flashback as he does now - at least twenty-five or thirty years later. No attempt was made to ‘age’ him whatsoever.

Richard’s also a part of the hostile natives, and not from the DHARMA initiative. A local of the island, he was dressed in some very dated (yet non-descript) clothing. Add this to the non-aging factor, and he really could be from any period in history. “You do remember birthdays, don’t you Richard?” Not if he hasn’t had them in a long, long time.

Ben became a whole lot more interesting to Richard once he mentioned he’d seen his long-dead mother. This made Ben special to Richard the way Walt was special... in much the way Locke is special to him now. His mother had even spoken to him, which instead might’ve been the island speaking through him, perhaps even delivering the message to it’s intended recipient: Richard. “It’s not yet time” could’ve been Richard’s cue to wait on young Benjamin Linus. To give him the time necessary to kill his father and prove his commitment to the island, or even more far-fetched, to become of proper AGE before joining. If the island can heal, can it not prevent aging? With no new children being born, surely it must protect its children in some other way?

This is all due to the TIME anomaly on the island. Perhaps aging does occur, but at a very VERY slow pace. Slow enough even to make time stand still. Slow enough to make cancer non-existent. Which makes the fact that Ben developed cancer extremely important, because it can only mean one thing: the island has forsaken him as one of it’s children.

The Purge... Now With 50% More Sarin Gas!
The most human thing Ben did so far, even more human than keeping Annie’s doll, was to close Horace’s eyes after the purge. For some reason this seemed touching to me. It was as if Ben was being apologetic to Horace and the DHARMA crew, who in retrospect had never truly wronged him.

The body of the guy holding the hose really got me thinking. Somehow, after all this went down, Ben was able to persuade the Others (hostiles) to take over the Dharma community. He taught them to run the generators, to live in the homes, to hold a weekly book club. In the end they were cutting the grass and mending the fences and had every bit become those who they’d deemed must be purged from the island. In the end, they became the same enemy they couldn’t co-exist with.

This explains much of Richard’s displeasure with Ben’s leadership. He led them to stray from the native paths of the island. He introduced technology under the guise of fixing the fertility problem, but in doing so he destroyed their purity.

Jacob Needs an Extreme Home Makeover
Alright, let’s get to the good stuff. This scene is the reason we all watch LOST. I usually watch an episode twice before writing this, but I put this scene through the paces at least a half dozen times - and two of those were on slow-mo. Lots of important stuff here.

First impression: Ben’s a lunatic. He really REALLY didn’t seem to want Locke to go in there, and did everything he could to talk him out of it. I originally thought Ben was bluffing. Once inside the empty shack, I figured his bluff was called. So did Locke. The whole invisible man thing seemed a put-on, and for a moment I thought the writers were going to pull the ultimate cop out. Man was I wrong.

“Help me” was easily one of the creepiest things I’ve heard in a long time. It was skin-crawlingly perfect. Locke’s incredulity at what he perceived to be Ben’s continued ruse was shattered by his realization that someone really was in that chair. And in that one moment, everything changed. Even Locke’s fearless demeanor, as he bolted the house.

What really changed however, was Jacob’s org chart. Here’s the breakdown, so stay with me:

BEN (To Jacob): “I told you he wouldn’t”.

Ben’s telling Jacob that Locke can’t see him. As the only one to see and hear Jacob, Ben wants it to stay that way. To keep in power he’s vehemently kept anyone else from Jacob - especially someone as special as Locke.

BEN (To Locke): “You can’t see him?” (slightly mockingly) “He’s sitting right there, in this chair”.

Ben’s giddily relieved that Locke can’t see Jacob. He thinks Locke doesn’t have the faith. He doesn’t want him to.

BEN (To Jacob): “Yes I know, but he insisted”.

Jacob just told Ben that Locke wasn’t ready. Apparently Jacob wanted Locke to come, but only once he would be able to see him. Ben’s half apologetic and half making excuses. Secretly, he’s glad Locke came early.

BEN (To Jacob): “I am not. He made me bring him here, did you think that it was my-”

Jacob just accused Ben of conspiring to fail by bringing Locke early. Jacob’s smart. He knows Ben wants to maintain control... he knows Ben doesn’t want Locke to see him. Jacob is realizing that Ben’s agenda is not his own.

LOCKE (To Ben): “Do you think there’s someone there?”

BEN (To Locke): “I KNOW there is. I’m sorry John, (snootily) that you’re too limited to see”.

Ben’s not sorry at all, he’s glad as hell. With Locke unable to see or hear Jacob Ben maintains control over his people AND he fulfills Jacob’s orders to bring Locke to see him (if a bit early). He’s in the clear on both counts.

What happens next is Jacob gets pissed. Forget Locke’s flashlight, Jacob is angry with Ben’s complete lack of progress. It is at this point that Jacob abandons Ben. The transition occurs here. This is when he speaks to Locke, and for the first time Locke can hear him. For the first time, Ben cannot.

After tossing stuff around the cabin, Jacob suddenly becomes visible to Locke (yes I missed it too the first time around). And if you watch Ben’s reaction, I think Jacob actually disappears out of the chair to him. Ben’s expression makes me think he just saw Jacob for the last time - at least while Locke is still alive - and I think Ben knows it.

Okay, now here’s my Jacob theory: Jacob is trapped in time. Something happened with the island phasing in and out, maybe the sky turned purple, the monkeys threw poo... who the hell knows at this point. Whatever happened, Jacob is stuck in a Langolier-type limbo that he can’t escape from. A hellish, Jaunt-like, endless eternity. Maybe Jacob IS the island. Maybe Jacob IS the smoke monster. I’m not sure of that stuff, but one thing is for certain: Jacob needs help. Jacob is LOST. Hell, Jacob may be the reason that LOST is called LOST.

Relying on Ben all this time has gotten him nowhere, so Jacob now speaks to Locke. Ben’s gamble that Locke wasn’t special enough has failed. With nothing else to do, he steals Locke’s gun and tries to off him (I think Jacob will save him of course). Alex knew Ben might do this, which is why she armed Locke in the first place. And I have to say... I’m a bit disappointed in knife-throwing island-gear dynamite Locke. After all the times he was chumped, I thought he’d be smarter than that.

Two More Things
First, watch the Jacob scene again in slow motion and you’ll pick up on something. The lantern Ben placed on the table smashes to the floor, throwing fire everywhere. Locke’s looking right at it. We see a few frames of the firelight glinting off Locke’s face, and then suddenly - BAM! The next frame shows a firelight-free Locke in a slightly different position with a disbelieving look on his face. And after he bolts the cabin, guess what? Ben walks out with the lantern INTACT.

You can’t chalk this up to sloppy editing. I think something happened here, timewise. I think Jacob’s rage might’ve caused a hiccup in time. Maybe leaping back five seconds or so, to before the lantern broke. I wouldn’t be surprised to see all the jars of red liquid intact on the shelf just before Locke left, despite the fact Jacob threw one across the room.

The second thing, of course, is Jacob himself. I’ve seen the screencaps and I have to side with team Locke. The nose is 90% right, but the forehead is dead on. The rest of the facial characteristics fit him too. Could Jacob be another version of Locke, trapped in time, maybe because of something that happened (the hatch implosion), or maybe because of something that’s going to happen (series finale?) in the future? Dunno for sure, but I’ll say this: the exact same thing happened on Land of the Lost, episode ‘Elsewhen’. ;)

Talk about a filler episode...

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My Serious, Logical Thoughts on Greatest Hits
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Refers to the list of the greatest moments in the life of Charlie. His greatest hits. Also Naomi says that a new album of greatest hits of Drive Shaft has been released. Ironically, this album is selling! His band only had one so that would be a greatest hit. I am reminded of the top ten list of David letterman.

SAVING PRIVATE CHARLIE
Charlie said he was a good swimmer, however, in the episode White Rabbit Charlie does not try to save Joanna from drowning and wakes up Jack to save her instead. Also, Desmond had a flash that Charlie would drown swimming out to save Claire. So was Charlie telling the truth about being a great swimmer or did he volunteer because it was his destiny? We do see Charlie in a flashback jumping into a pool but that is it.

THE ROBBER OF MISFORTUNE
When Charlie saves the woman from the robber, notice the woman looks like Nadia the girl of Sayid. She also speaks with an accent.

ALEX I AM YOUR FATHER, NOT
Alex starts to question if Ben is really her father in this episode. I believe he is not since Danielle said she capped her husband. This may make Alex more acceptable to the idea of meeting her mother. Ben is a liar. He lies about being the father of Alex as he told Locke quote: Many of the things I tell my people are simply not true - unquote. Do any of you wonder why Alex, who was raised by the others, cares so much about the LOSTaways? She seems to have different values than the rest. Or does she? Juliet did hint that there were others in the group who wanted a change, and Ben himself did say that some of his people were not ready to make a full commitment.

DYNAMITE!
In the episode The Brig, we see Danielle getting dynamite from the Black Rock but we do not know why. Now we know. She was actually working with Jack. Also we finally see some sort of preparation 4 military action against the others. Jack has referred to this before when he asked Ana Lucia about starting an army. We have not heard anything about it since.

THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
The underwater station is called the Looking Glass. This is an Alice in Wonderland Reference. This joins the other reference the episode named White Rabbit, and if you want, the white rabbit Ben had as a child or the white rabbit Alex was fixing for Karl. There was also a star trek Deep Space Nine episode called Through the Looking Glass. In this one, a few of our finest went into an altern8 universe. One gets the impression that the writers are trying to make us believe that they are in an alternate universe, but I believe it to be a red herring, not unlike the great purgatory scare we had a few episodes ago. Now I have a thought. The Looking Glass is supposed to be jamming any signal from the island, not just the message from Danielle playing for 16 years. But is that possible under water? Would they not have to be above ground to block all transmission? Also even if it does work, why not just cut the cable leading underwater? Why send Charlie in to possibly drown when all you have to do is cut the cable? The only explanation is that the cable must not be a power cable. But this makes little sense to me. I wonder if I have uncovered a loophole. When Charlie is confronted by two women in the looking glass, we get the feeling that they are members of the others. It would be nice if some day we find a DHARMA survivor, but that hope is fading. I wonder if these women are trapped in the hatch just like Desmond and Kelvin were bound to the Swan hatch. Do these women also have some sort of task to perform? Perhaps it is making sure the jamming equipment always works. Will they also have some sort of clock which tells them to do something every so often like perhaps every 23 minutes or so?

DESMOND FLASH
What did Desmond see? Did he really see Charlie die or did he withhold from Charlie what he really saw? There are two ways to look at this. 1. That Desmond did see Charlie die just as he said. 2. Desmond deliberately told Charlie a lie knowing what he would do, thus setting fate on its course. Note, we do not know exactly when Claire and Aaron will get on the helicopter. Although usually his visions come true very quickly.

DRIVE SHAFT
We learn the Drive Shaft was named after Dexter Stratton who is probably an ancestor of theirs. Anyway, they have the same initials. D.S.

ONE RING TO RULE THEM
Notice the ring in the crib of Aaron after Charlie leaves. Charlie passes on his legacy to a child (not his) trying to fulfill what Liam asked him to do when he told him that the ring must stay in the family. Charlie must feel as if Aaron is his adopted son.

OTHER RAMBLINGS
If a tree blows up in the forest, do any OTHERS hear it?
Who are the parents of Karl? Was he kidnapped like Alex?
If Hugo is presumed dead, who has all his money now?
Sun does not mention to Jin that she is slated to die because she conceived on the island
Ben can still walk. Ben credits Locke for making him walk again. But Locke might be dead, and is at least severely wounded so what does this say about the healing power of Locke? Once he has healed someone they stay healed regardless of what happens to him?
The scene where Charlie is in bed with two women may have been referenced in a previous episode when Charlie is confessing to a priest what he did. Although Charlie could have done this kind of thing more than once.
The two previous albums of Drive Shaft are Drive Shaft and Oil Change. There may be others but I do not know their names. Could there be 15 or more albums? Also Locke is a fan. He likes Drive Shaft better than Oil Change.
When Charlie is playing his guitar on the street corner, we saw a similar scene in a Desmond flashback.
Naomi said that they found the dead bodies of everyone on the plane and the plane. I season one, Jack said that they all died, although he was speaking figuratively it is interesting to note.
They only have three guns? What about the stash of guns that Sawyer has?
The three left behind to shoot the dynamite are Jin, Sayid and Bernard.

Some of the top ten of Charlie

#5 The first time I heard my self on the radio
#4 Dad teaching me to swim at Butlins
#3 The Christmas Liam gave me the ring
#2 Woman outside Covent Garden calls me a hero
#1 The night I met you

THE TOP TEN SIGNS YOU ARE A LOST GEEK
10. You start every day by playing the song Make your own kind of music and typing numbers into a computer.
9. You never go outside your house for more that 108 minutes and you refer to your house as the hatch.
8. You see dead people whenever you visit an island.
7. Your favorite musical artist is Geronimo Jackson.
6. You are still waiting for that free Apollo candy bar.
5. You keep trying to book a flight on Oceanic but can’t seem to find them on Travelocity.
4. You own at least three shirts with the numbers 4,8,15,16,23,42 on the front.
3. You think the Beyond part of Bed, Bath and Beyond is the island.
2. You know the name of the actors who played Scott Jackson and Joanna. You also know who I mean without looking up the episodes.
And the number one reason you’re a LOST geek is:
1. You are Matthew Fox!

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