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Gitsie Girl’s Thoughts On “Follow The Leader”

GitsieGirl — Sun, 10 May 2009 11:18:20 +0000

I think Dan was wrong. Not that they cannot change the future because truth be told, any of us can change our future. We can chose to turn right instead of left and save our own life unknowingly. But, not all of us are transported to the past and therefore that decision has ramifications on the course of our lives on a whole. Dan was wrong that the Losties weren’t supposed to come back to the island. Yes they were. In fact, they had to come back in order to save Ben and set off the bomb, creating the *incident* which lead to the quarantine of the hatch, the button pushing and so forth. If the Losties had not have returned none of that could have happened and there is where their fate could have been changed. Yes, my head is going in circles too.

1. Looks like the old Locke is completely gone. The boars of the island aren’t safe with him around. This scene reminded me of the good old days on the beach were Locke went around killing stuff for them to eat.

2. I’m glad that Locke’s compass can still find North, according to Richard, because they *always* go North.

3. I believe Locke. If he gives Sun his word that he will help get Jin and the others back I think that he will. And, did you notice that he called the Losties “our people?” Maybe he thinks he leads them all now.

4. Jack and his insatiable need to fix things. Why does he have to fix it? Why does he have to try and change the course of the future/past? Doesn’t look like our Jack has changed one little bit. And, he convinces Ellie to go along with it (in her hopes of changing the fact that she shot her own son).

5. Was it just me, or the scene where the guy brings in the manifest and starts telling Radzinsky about who was on the sub remind you of when Hurley brings the manifest to Jack and points out that Ethan wasn’t on it? Ethan probably had to split because he knew there was no way he could explain what was really going on.

6. Tell the truth, how many of you out there could name the president in 1977 when Pierre asked Hurley? I was just a little girl then so I didn’t know off hand. But this was one terrific scene with Hurley and Pierre and had me laughing out loud.

7. So we answered the question of how Richard knew when to come and help Locke but now we don’t know how Locke knew when to send Richard there.

8. Radzinsky trades Sawyer a map to the Hostiles for a ride on the sub. First off, Sawyer doesn’t know where they are as he hasn’t seen their camp. Second, I can’t wait for next week to see exactly where he did draw the map to. Knowing Sawyer, it’s going to be good in a funny way (funny to the audience I mean). Plus, Sawyer promised to kill Phil so he has some revenge to take when they get back off of that sub (which we know they do from watching the previews).

9. Kate says that she can’t go with Jack in the water and into the tunnels this time. Why? Kate is always up for adventure and always wants to come along so why not this time? Was she thinking of Sawyer or can she not go around the hydrogen bomb? This is very much not like the Kate who used to steal guns and sneak around if necessary to be a part of the action.

10. Tell me when Kate became the moral majority? She thinks that blowing up hydrogen bombs and killing children is so wrong but this is the same woman who robs banks and blows up step dads. Typical, people think that if they do something for the greater good it’s ok but when someone else does it suddenly it becomes a moral issue.

11. When the Freighter people showed up on the island remember that they thought that Dan and Charlotte went to the hatch to detonate a bomb? They said that the bomb would kill everyone on the island? Sound like a bomb that we know about (Jughead)? Dan turns out to be stopping the bomb from going off but if he didn’t show up would the bomb have exploded? It seems too coincidental these two events then and now but not sure yet how they play into the story unfolding.

12. Red flowers! These have been around forever in this show.

13. Any guesses how the get the bomb moved? Richard says by the same way they brought it in. Hm…. I don’t think teleportation is an option. Maybe the same way the pyramids were built. The little cart it’s on seems kind of rickety. Plus, it’s been sitting there for 20 years rotting.

14. “We’re not alone here and we all know it!” Oh wait, wrong season.

15. Oh boy. Locke wanted to kill the Hatch because he didn’t believe that pushing the button saved the world. Well, we know how that turned out for him and he admitted he was wrong. Now Locke thinks that upsetting the apple cart again by *exposing* Jacob is a good idea, that killing him will somehow set him free. Hopefully past events/decisions of Locke isn’t an indicator of future events.

16. I watched it again and Ben totally says that he “tried” to kill Locke. Tried? Ben has a plan here and I think that Locke is 100% mortal and never died. Maybe he had the crazy paralyzing spiders in that box he was hiding from Jack. Being a doctor, maybe Ben thought Jack would recognize the spiders and then know he was using them to paralyze Locke. Crazy theory you say? I guess we will see!

17. No more knock out drugs on the sub?

18. So here it is, cheesy CGI from the greatest show on TV. Looks way more cheesy when it’s running that it does in these screen caps. One can only hope that there’s not some tech sitting at a desk somewhere uber proud of this work. I hope this was noticed and let go because of sheer campy-ness.

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Gitsie Girl’s Thoughts on “The Variable”

GitsieGirl — Sun, 03 May 2009 13:52:34 +0000

I was thinking about the choice of being able to take a pivotal moment in your life and change the event. I’m sure all of us have at least one moment in our life where you wonder, “what if…” But would you really change it if you could? Should the Losties mess with their fate? What if they were meant to die in that crash? What if Jack manages to change the future and instead of crashing on the island, the plane crashes in the ocean and they die? What does Jack have to go back to anyway that he’d want to change the crash? Wouldn’t he be better changing his actions with Sarah, his dad or the drugs?

Click here for my initial thoughts.

1. I don’t think the Mrs Hawking does know what happens next (she tells Penny in the hospital). Let’s assume that she picks up the journal when she shoots Dan back in 1977. She has the events up until the time that Dan goes back and then shoots him. Now she doesn’t know what is going to happen because the journal ends.

2. Why would Dan think that Jack and the others don’t belong there in 1977? What does he know or what did he learn back in Ann Arbor that we haven’t learned yet?

3. I think that when we see Eloise go to Dan playing the piano as a young boy, this isn’t a flashback, if you consider 1977 as the “present.” I think that we are seeing her after she shoots him on the island and gets the journal. That is how you would explain that she knows Dan has a destiny to be fulfilled.

4. Everyone is in a jumpsuit except Juliet and she’s in a red “death shirt.” I think that the writers are going to use the overworked plot device that someone is going to have to stay behind and die so that the others may live and return to modern times. Juliet will be the one. Think about it. She loves Sawyer but knows the moment he calls Kate “Freckles” that their life there together is over. She also still loves Jack. She can save them both by sacrificing herself to get them back where they belong. This is my prediction.

5. When Dan has Miles take him to the Orchid station and Pierre/Marvin pulls up, he looks at his watch and says, “right on time.” OK, I can believe that Dan understands the physics of the island but how can he know the movements of Chang?

6. And Dan spills the beans to Pierre about Miles knowing it will lead him to send the children off of the island. How could he know this stuff? I’m wondering if we are going to see that Dan is the one who made all the calculations under the church where older Mrs Hawkins talks to the Losites. That is how he figured when the incident would be on the island and that is why he has to get back.

7. OK, the scene where Dan is crying over the news footage of the plane crash totally changes in the middle. At the beginning Dan’s hair is wet and slicked back. Then 30 seconds later it’s dry and longer. Bad editing or does something in time change like it did with the pictures at the lady’s house that Miles “talked” to her dead son?

8. There is never much product placement but turns out JJ Abrams is a guest editor for the magazine this month. The magazine we see is “The Super Power” Issue from August 2003. Issue 11.08. See a large picture of the cover here.

9. When Dan approaches Charlotte I wonder if he tells her the same thing about not coming back to the island or if he tries something different this time. If I were Dan I’d probably try a somewhat different strategy.

10. Dang, Jack sure is a good shot! Is there anything he can’t do?

11. If Dan’s plan is to detonate the hydrogen bomb, was he going to let them all die? I didn’t hear anything in his plan about getting them out of there before he bombs them. But, we also don’t really know why he wanted to see his mom on the island so badly. Maybe she will be the catalyst to getting them back to current time. Maybe in 1977 she sees the journal and knows she has to help the Losties get back to real time.

12. And I think that Desmond is going to end up being the Variable. Why would he let them change anything? I can see him doing anything to preserve his path that leads him back to Penny.

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Gitsie Girl’s Thoughts on “Some Like It Hoth”

GitsieGirl — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 11:48:45 +0000

I’m wondering if Adult Miles will meet with Baby Miles and that will somehow relate to why he’s “special.” I’m pretty sure that Miles is either going to tell Chang/Candle about the Dharma purge or something that will cause him to send Baby Miles and his momma off of the island.

Click here for my initial thoughts and comments.

Don’t forget that this week is a clip show. The previews make it look interesting. Guess we’ll see.

1. Cute, the dead guy hid his key under a white rabbit. We’ve seen a lot of rabbits in this show.

2. The Circle of Trust. Was anyone else thinking of Meet the Parents and Robert DeNiro?

3. I’m frustrated with what they have done with Kate. She had redeemed herself somewhat and now she’s back to meddling in things. I know I’m not the only one who feels this way. When we had a campaign to get rid of Ken and Barbie it worked, hopefully the writers will hear our call to bring back the old Kate too.

4. For as much as he’s a jerk, Roger caught right on to Kate didn’t he? Guy may be a drinker but he’s pretty observant. “You want to help Kate? Why don’t you just mind your own business!”

5. There were so many good lines and dialog with Miles and Hurley this week. I was glad that some humor was brought back in.

6. There’s a lot of dead bodies around food. We have Alvarez in the van by the sandwiches. Then there is Felix in the restaurant. Gross.

7. Miles was chosen to return to the island not only because of his “ability” but also because he’s Pierre’s son. Mrs Hawkins knows all about course correction and probably was instrumental in the choice of him being on the freighter.

8. The more we see of Ben the more I’m not convinced that it’s Wimore versus Ben. Ben wasn’t chosen by the island, Locke was. But neither was Widmore. I’m wondering now if it might be Widmore versus Ellie/Mrs Hawkins. After all, when Richard agreed to take Ben they asked him if he had discussed with Widmore or Ellie which makes me think she was pretty powerful on the island. Why isn’t she there anymore?

9. Coincidence that the kids on the island are learning about ancient Egypt? And how many kids are there anyway? We haven’t really seen that many. Perhaps the education is, in Juliet’s words, Others 101. Also interesting is the alien drawing hung above the chalkboard.

10. Looks like Bram knows how to get back and forth to the island and is working on the same “team” as Ilana.

11. It sure does look like Pierre cares about Miles as a baby. And ironically, he’s reading him a book about polar bears. Unlike Luke, maybe Miles will communicate with his dad so he doesn’t lose his hand.

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Gitsie Girl’s Thoughts on “Dead is Dead”

GitsieGirl — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 21:31:23 +0000

Oh Ben, what have you done? He broke the rules by coming back (according to Widmore) and he used the guise that he was coming back to be judged. So Locke gave him the little *push* he needed to go to Old Smokey for the judgment but I think Ben ended up worse than he started. Was he judged, yes he was. But what he ended up with was instructions by the one person he loves the most telling him to do what he dreads the most – following Locke. Can I get a “HA HA!” Be careful what you wish for people because you may get more than you bargain for, just ask Ben.

Click here for my initial thoughts.

1. I don’t know how long Ben will follow Alex’s instructions and Smokey, or whatever entity appeared to him, may have known this. Setting Ben up to fail?

2. I love how Ben “Dr Phil’d” Frank by asking him how the plan of having a boat of commandos come to the island worked out for him. Dr Phil always asks people who are making bad life choices how it’s working out for them. But Frank does make a good point to Sun.

3. I’m not loving the Mediveal Widmore look.

4. When Widmore questions Richard on why he saved Young Ben Richard says two items of interest. First he says that Jacob wanted it done followed by “The Island chooses who the island chooses.” I took this to mean that Jacob IS the island and therefore if Jacob chooses Ben to live then The Island chooses Ben to live. What this means… Jacob somehow is a manifestation of the energy of the island? The second item of note is that when Richard tells Widmore that Jacob wanted Ben saved Widmore doesn’t question this. I assume that this means Widmore cannot talk to Jacob. I don’t think everyone can talk to Jacob, only a few chosen few. I still question whether Ben could really talk to Jacob and that is why he was so shocked that Locke could hear Jacob. Only a special few can hear what Jacob says.

5. Are we really sure Locke was ever dead and didn’t just appear dead? I know, I know… the episode is titled “Dead Is Dead.” Which is true, but if he wasn’t DEAD then he is alive now. In other words you have to be DEAD to be DEAD. So if John was always alive then it explains how he’s back up and walking around the island. To back me up, I believe and have read that when you have lost everything then those are the most brave and free people in the world because you are already at the bottom. If Locke believes that he really was dead then there is nothing else that he can lose at this point thus freeing him to be this new and improved Locke we see on the island. It’s a more believable explanation then that he has somehow been resurrected. I guess only time will tell.

6. I can’t wait to see what’s in the big silver crate. Kind of reminds me of Season One when Kate was so desperate to find the silver suitcase that the Marshall had been carrying. I’m still thinking there is some type of honing device that is going to help Widmore locate the island. Ilana has some boys helping her too which makes me think she had some people on this plane with her even though they weren’t sitting up front with her. It reminds me that Sayid had them taking the transceiver to the highest point they could in order to send a signal out to anyone trying to locate and save them. If this equipment is going to send out signals they may have to move it for a similar reason.

7. I would have loved for the writers to have had Ben introduce himself as “Henry Gale” to Ceaser.

8. The question is, why did Danielle tell Sayid that she never saw who took her baby but that she does hear them? Watching the epi back, it looks like (per the screencap below) this is all she really sees of Ben in her tent. I can’t see that she really ever gets a good look at him. This would also explain why when she had Ben trapped in her net that she didn’t realize it was the same man from that fateful night.

9. The island must have wanted Alex and Danielle dead, for whatever reason. First Robert tries to kill pregnant Danielle, then Widmore sends Ben to do the job but ultimately it’s Keamy’s group that finishes the job. Maybe in the grander scheme of the chain of events Danielle and Alex don’t fit in and have somehow interfered so in order to course correct they must both die. Really, Alex does later help the Losties live and escape so maybe she somehow changed the course of what was going to happen.

10. The shoes!

11. I know there is some chatter about those in the past changing the future. I’m starting to think that there might be something to it. When Ben first gets off the boat with John (after leaving the second island) he does have somewhat of a confused look on his face, almost as if he can already see that things have been changed. Is it just me here thinking this?

12. They’ve been off the island for three years. I would assume by the state of Otherville, the Others that did leave for the Temple didn’t go back there. But, the interior of Ben’s house is in such disarray it seems to point to the fact that more happened there after they left three years ago. Why would the houses be such a mess (like books all over the floor)? Unless the past was changed which made the future different which means we haven’t seen yet why the houses are in such disrepair.

13. Ben does tells Locke earlier in the epi that all 6 (5 really) are back but he doesn’t know yet where they are. So I believe it when Ben looks at the picture and seems surprised to see Kate and the others in the picture.

14. I still want to know what Locke had to go do while Ben was down summoning Smokey.

15. It’s still bizarre to me that Ben keeps Smokey contained by a water trap. Is Smokey like the Wicked Witch and can be killed by a little water? And how do they get Smokey back? Does Ben have to go back to the cave and plug the hole back up or is it somehow self containing and the water fills back up and slowly draws Smokey back in? Are there other places on the island that can also control the Monster? Mysteries everywhere.

16. You know I love this show but seriously, they needed to do something better with Ben’s hair. I’m sure there was somewhere in the budget that they could have made a better wig for him. And Mandak you are right, he does look a little bit like Hitler.

17. Locke assures Sun that he’s the same man he’s always been…. because he was never dead!?

18. Maybe it’s not such a mystery how Locke knows where to go and how Locke knows where Smokey is. Remember that Locke spent a lot of the first few seasons wandering around in the jungle. The island can’t be so big that he couldn’t have found his way around quite a bit. And, Locke is an explorer, an adventurer, a tracker, so he knows a lot about keeping track of things in this kind of environment.

19. Ben wants Sun to apologize to Desmond but for what? Sure, trying to kill Penny was bad, but bad enough that Ben sends back an apology? Yes, we saw Des beat the living daylights out of him but it doesn’t explain why his arm was in a sling and it surely doesn’t give Desmond a reason to come back to the island (which I think he will). I think that there is more that Ben does that we haven’t seen yet.

20. Seems like Ben and Sawyer have something in common. Sawyer was ready to walk away with the couple’s money until the little boy walked out and saw him. Then Sawyer leaves the money and walks away. Ben is ready to shoot Penny then little Charlie comes walking out and he lowers his gun. Would he have shot her anyway if Des had not come and stopped him?

21. What lies in the shadow of the statue? I’ll tell you what lies there… the well. And what is in the well? The donkey wheel! I still think that this is a riddle that Ilana has been instructed to use to make contact with … whoever she is supposed to make contact with. But, I also think it’s a real question and if she finds the Orchid Station and the wheel there could be terrible consequences.

22.This hieroglyph has already been discussed to death (no pun intended) in other places but feel free to add your comments or further discussion. I think it speaks for itself with the image.

23. I’ve said it before, but the smoke scene with Ben is a) cheesy and b) way too similar to the scene where Dorothy is whirling around in the tornado. Either there were too many budget restraints and this is the best they could do or they did it on purpose. I really don’t want to believe that somewhere in a production room they were sitting there saying how great this scene looked. I choose to believe it was done on purpose.

24. I think that the difference between when Eko meets Yemi and Ben meets Alex is that Ben repented and Eko did not. The question is now, will Ben stick to his word or will his urge to control and run the island get the better of him?

[SPOILER]

25. I’m so excited that Miles gets to do his thing next week. Also, check out the upcoming episodes as it looks like the Season Finale is going to be fantastic!

[END OF SPOILER]

26. I was also wondering if Ilana and the contents of the mystery box will somehow assist in bringing the 1977 Losties back to current time.

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Gitsie Girl’s Thoughts on Ep. 5.11 “Whatever Happened, Happened”

GitsieGirl — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 11:45:41 +0000

Should the Losties really be going back and course correcting? What if their purpose is to go back and change something? I appreciated that Jack refused to help Ben. Sure, it violates the Hippocratic Oath, but I appreciate that he’s operating more on faith now and doesn’t have to control and fix everything.

See my initial thoughts here.

1. Are we so sure that Claire’s mom is on the up-and-up? After all, she was meeting with Ben’s lawyer. And, just a few short months ago was in a coma and now miraculously, and conveniently, she’s up, walking around and meeting with shady lawyers. I’m going to hold judgment on her until we see a little more. I still think that Aaron is going to show up on the island and maybe she’ll be the one to bring him.

2. Jin says that Sayid is headed North. Everybody heads north in this show. When Michael went looking for Walt remember which way he went (North)? Remember Eko’s stick… “Lift up your eyes and look North.”

3. I want to know if Hurley is still seeing his dead friends now that he’s back on the island? Any more chess with Mr Eko?

4. Kate is using Cassidy as her confessional. She tells her about the crash, the survivors and even that Aaron is not her son. Is it fair that she puts all of this on Cassidy? I don’t want to believe that this will come back to haunt her but on the show you never know what kinds of connections people have. Heck, for all we know Cassidy is a Widmore.

5. Listen to Jack, new man of faith, “Did you ever think that the island wants to fix things itself?” Poignant moment or Jack making excuses? I like to think that Jack is going to let whatever happened, happen.

6. I don’t think that it’s such a far stretch that Juliet is now “doctoring” Ben and that none of the DI is questioning it. According the conversation between Roger and Kate, when you get to the island you just get “stuck” in a job until they deem you worthy of a better position. So Juliet was working on cars and they had a doctor so they really didn’t need her to step up until now. If I was Roger and it was my kid who had been shot, I still would have been asking questions about her qualifications to be able to operate on my child. I’d also be insisting that they pull the doctor out of the Looking Glass and get him up on land to help my kid.

7. Hurley’s question to Miles about why Ben doesn’t remember getting shot by Sayid as a kid is answered by Richard. His memory of the event will be gone. Not all of his memory, just of that event. However, I think that someone must tell Ben about it because Ben is convinced that Sayid is a cold blooded killer and I think that is because he knows that Sayid is capable of shooting even a kid for the greater good.

8. Yet another example of no one asking questions. Why doesn’t Kate ask Juliet why she thinks that the Others can help Ben? Wouldn’t you wonder if they had a surgeon or a doctor or what her thoughts were? I guess you wouldn’t think to ask if it might be a mystical temple with healing powers, but you would want to know something. It’s season five with only one season to go, I want answers!

9. There is just no way it’s a coincidence that the woman with Aaron looks just like Claire. Ben probably has someone following Kate just looking for opportunities like this to mess with Kate and the others.

10. So Cassidy sure is working hard to convince Kate that Sawyer is a bad guy. Kate must not have told her everything because Sawyer didn’t necessarily break her heart, she left him. Yes, he was a real jerk acting so excited when he found out she wasn’t pregnant, but he did want to be with her and he was upset when she left him in Otherville. I remember Kate mockingly asking Sawyer if she was supposed to stay there and play house with him. So Cassidy has her own motives and wants kate to hate him as much as she does.

11. Uh oh, Claire’s mom is in a red shirt. You know what that means…

12. Kate is done running. As much as it hurt her, she stopped. She did the right thing by giving Aaron to his grandmother. She is even going back to the island to find Claire which had to be incredibly hard for her. Now maybe we can move forward with the evolution of Kate from being “lost” to somewhere good and I hope that in the end it doesn’t mean Jack or Sawyer (sorry guys, I think this chick needs to move on from the island after she finds Claire).

13. I think that part of her insistence to help young Ben also has to do with her feelings of protecting the children. That she would do anything to protect them.

14. If Richard doesn’t answer to Ellie and Widmore, then who does he answer to?

15. The Temple, circa 1977. Why does Ben and the Others in “current” time go there to hide from the Freigther gang? Why does Smokey live there? What are the healing powers? Does any of it have to do with the “Dark Territory” that Danielle had mentioned?

16. I think that Locke’s welcome to Ben to the Land of the Living was meant to be an ironic statement and didn’t have anything more behind it. And, might I add, I missed Locke!!!!

17. Ben’s judgment day is next week. That could mean lots of things but one thing is for sure, it’s bound to be a great episode and hopefully full on answers.

18. Hopefully we’ll get some Desmond next week too.

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Gitsie Girl’s Thoughts on “He’s Our You”

GitsieGirl — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 11:45:47 +0000

One of the things that I love about Lost is that you have to think. I appreciate that the “powers that be” give us credit for being intelligent and give us information without full explanation. For instance, at first blush I assumed that this week’s title came from Sawyer’s line to Sayid about Oldham. But after watching the episode back several times (for this blog, not because I’m obsessed…. ok, yes I am obsessed) I started to realize the duplicity of it’s meaning. Sayid is to the past what Ben is to the present in so far as he has to kill for what he believes is right for the greater good.

Initial thoughts and comments are here.

1. Isn’t it horrifying cute that Young Ben brings Sayid a chicken sandwich immediately after we see a scene of Sayid killing a chicken with his bare hands as a boy?

2. I still can’t get over the fact that Ben was living among the DI and Sawyer didn’t mention anything or make a big deal about it. When Jack showed up wouldn’t you totally be like, “You won’t believe who is here! But you can’t say anything when you see him.” I know that Sawyer says that he had no choice, but to not even mention it?

3. Young Ben is already quite the little sneak. He keeps coming to Sayid and just starts chatting about Richard. And, Ben knows that the cameras only have pictures, no sound. Ben also knows how to break out a prisoner. So, as much as Sayid may be an influence on the killer in Ben, it seems like Young Ben was already well on his way to being the conniving man he becomes. Plus, Ben was already working with the Hostiles when Sayid shows up so he’s not quite the innocent we may want to think he is as a young boy.

4. I was thinking about the O6 and how they had to live a lie back home. There was no freedom for them because they had to live with the weight of knowing they left all the others behind. But, things weren’t so easy for those back on the island as they also had to live a lie. They couldn’t tell the truth either and at least for Juliet, had settled into a life they thought was it for them. So I can understand why Sawyer wanted Sayid to lie and join the *Dharma Party* because their life really wasn’t all that bad for them there in 1977. It seems a heck of a lot better there than it was for Sawyer back home but they weren’t totally free from guilt either.

5. I really hate feeling this way, but I just cannot stand where they have taken Kate’s character. Right now I wish they could have left her behind. But, I am hoping that there is something positive to come for her and that she can stop crying and whining and go back to being strong and independent. I know that next week is Kate-centric so here’s the chance.

6. I’m sure it’s not there, but when Sayid first *senses* Ben behind him then he turns around, I swear you can hear the rattling noise that you hear sometimes when Smokey is sneaking around. Go back and listen! Watching this scene back also has new meaning now that I know Sayid shoots Young Ben.

7. My first question is, how does Oldham get power out in the middle of the jungle? He’s playing a record in this tent. My second thought was that it looked a lot like the tent that Locke built when he was going on his magic carpet ride to find out what the island wanted from him. Lastly, Oldham is not nearly the bad a$$ that Sayid is unless there is more to come from this guy. A drug laced sugar cube, really? That’s the best he’s got?

8. I’m still curious to know what the side affects of the sugar cube are going to be for Sayid. I know that Boone was chased by Smokey and saw Shannon die from his trip. Wonder what Sayid might see?

9. Sayid is drinking McCutcheon Scotch (with his pinkie up I might add). This is the same scotch that Desmond bottled, that Widmore said Des wasn’t good enough to drink, and the scotch that Charlie used to get Des drunk.

10. Why doe Amy want to kill Sayid so much? I understand that she’d be mad at the Hostiles, but to just kill him? Maybe there is more to her that we haven’t considered yet.

11. Why does Radzinski want to call Ann Arbor? The DeGroots are there but why would they have any say in this? In a psychology class I took, we learned about an experiment at Stanford University where they took groups of students and made some of them prisoners and some of them guards. You can read the whole thing here but long story short, the students became so enmeshed in their roles that they had to end the experiment early. Could that be what’s going on here? They all could have started from the same place, just split them into two groups and see what happens – one group civil, the other living in the wild.

12. Why do they have to kill Sayid? Why can’t they just wait for Richard and send him back? Maybe the DI isn’t as peaceful as they seem.

13. New job for Jack! Firefighter!

14. Ben has to know when he sees Sayid on the flight that Sayid is on his way *back* to shoot him. Back to the island and back in time, I mean. Ben is so insistent on all of them going back that each one has a chain of events that they each must set in motion. I don’t think that they are going to save anyone. For instance, Sayid shoots Ben, he’s not saving his life, he’s just there to keep the record playing on the right song, so to speak. I’m very interested to see what the role of each of the others will be, including why Ben gets to or *has* to go back to the island.

15. When Ben is saved, which he will be, no one saw him in the jungle so it will be easy for him to say Sayid kidnapped then shot him to escape. But, Ben has to hear the conversation between Sayid and Jin so he also knows that there is more going on here then just Sayid being a Hostile. Will the other Losties know that Sayid shot him for the greater good?

16. I hope next week that Sawyer is going to ask Kate if she did the favor him that he had asked her in the helicopter. Sounds like his daughter will be appearing next week so I’m guessing he will.

17. Who will end up saving Ben? My money is on Juliet. Although, Jack does end up feeling guilty and helping others and he took an oath as a doctor. But, I could see it being Juliet and that is why Ben is so enamored with her as an adult.

18. I also think that however the O6 end up returning to present time, that is going to be the big *incident* that has been referred to. My guess is that Sayid is going to end up running into Daniel. He will tell him the story. Dan is going to figure out how to get them back to the present but it will involve something drastic. But I do hope that we get to see how Radzinski ends up being quarantined down in the hatch and how the numbers came to be.

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Gitsie Girl’s Thoughts on Episode 5.08 “LaFleur”

GitsieGirl — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 16:31:32 +0000

Click here for my initial thoughts.

1. We know from past dialog that there is going to be an “incident” that changes things on the island (like fertility presumably). I originally thought that Jughead was going to start to leak, but I’m now wondering if the Losties have to do some crazy donkey wheel turning event to propel themselves back into the present time. My guess is that it’s before the big DI purge as by leaving that will give the Losties a whole new sense of guilt for not staying to help. I’m also guessing that Daniel is going to have to convince them that they can’t change the past and therefore the Losties cannot interfere with the purge. I can see this being especially hard for Sawyer as he is their head of security and from the looks of things he really cares about these people (like begging Juliet to help Amy deliver the baby).

2. I think that the O6 had to come back because each has a specific role that they will play and they must be there for the course of events to happen. Course correction. Do we know what that is yet? I don’t think so. In an interview awhile back Darlton said we wouldn’t find out until late Season 5 into Season 6 why they had to come back. In the meantime, I’ll sit back and enjoy watching Sawyer’s evolution (go home Kate! He’s doing great!)

3. It must have been very strange for whoever found the rope just sticking out of the ground. Could this have possibly been what lead someone to dig the well, find the cavern and eventually to digging the Orchid Station?

4. The giant statue is holding a giant Ankh. Coincidence? It’s the same symbol that was on Paul’s necklace.

5. I’ll tell you why I think the turning of the donkey wheel caused the statue to crash. After the flash Miles says that “that one was more like an earthquake.” Unless anyone has a better explanation, I’m thinking that an earthquake would be a reasonable explanation for a statue going down.

6. For any doubters, the spelling for this episode is “LaFleur.” I’ve heard some chatter about this and maybe there are alternatives, but for us this is the correct spelling.

7. I’m curious how they buried the bodies of the hostiles so quickly. They don’t have shovels. The logistics of it doesn’t make sense.

8. I think Mr Friendly may have been trying to call a truce with the Losties back in Season Two where they meet up with Locke and company out in the woods. Mr Friendly says that it’s their island and they allow them to stay there (I remember thinking at the time that they should just let them go home then…). Part of the problem with that truce is that the Losties refused to stay put and were always traipsing around the island.

9. OK so the “Internest” says that the mothers always give birth on the mainland. The possibilities are that there have been problems giving birth or that these peace loving hippies have enough common sense to get their people proper health care. Either way, it’s a good thing for Amy that Juliet was there.

10. I wonder if who the baby is even matters. But, if it does then I think it would have to be one of the male characters in his 30’s. That would be Jack, Sawyer, Ben or Desmond. It’s not Ben because we were witness to his birth. My guess would be either Jack or more likely Desmond since we know he is “special.” Plus, we really know nothing about Desmond’s parents.

11. I can also see why Richard would specifically recruit Juliet back to the island as she may be the last person who delivered a baby on the island.

12. Look how cute Sawyer looks when he’s all happy and stuff. Yes! I like this version!

13. OK, so Sawyer does say that they were looking for the Black Rock, not on it. But has Horace really not heard of the boat? He seems to know later on when he brings back the dynamite.

14. How can the little girl Daniel sees be Charlotte? They are in 1974 and it was said earlier on that she was born in 1979. The only reason I can think of is that in her mother’s effort to cover their tracks and change her identity post-island was to also change her DOB so that no one would know that it was her.

15. I’m thinking that Sawyer’s revelations to Richard about who he was and talking about Locke is what turns Richard around and has him send for Locke (remember the “science camp” that they tried to recruit “high school Locke” to go to?). If Locke “failed” the test when he was a young boy Richard may have been doubting that Locke was special. Then along comes Sawyer and restores his faith in Locke.

16. Looks like things have also changed for Juliet. When we first met her she was burning muffins that she tried to make for the book club. Now she’s making Sawyer a big meal.

17. Didn’t Patchy say that he was one of the last remaining DI? He even still wore the jumper. We haven’t seen him yet. Will be curious if they bring him into the story.

18. I wonder where Jin called Sawyer from? He only had a walkie and no cell phones.

19. I’m thinking that Sawyer will have to say that Jack and co. are his long lost ship mates. Hurley might be hard to explain as he kind of sticks out. And where the heck are Rose and Bernard… and Vincent!

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Gitsie Girl’s Thoughts on “The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham”

GitsieGirl — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 10:59:31 +0000

Click here to read my initial thoughts on this episode.

Watching the episode back, I wonder how much of the “life” we saw of Jeremy Bentham. There has to be more we haven’t seen yet. Maybe Locke in whatever form he’s in now, travels back to the mainland because I can’t believe that the chinsy little visits he paid the O6 (well, four at least) were enough to get them back to the island. Especially seeing how distraught Jack was with the obituary. And wanting to jump off of the bridge after seeing Locke just for that brief moment in the hospital?

1. My money is on Widmore, that he sent Cesar to the island on the plane. The guys works his way around that office very purposeful and finds the maps of the island. He also seems to find the gun easily so I don’t think it’s a far stretch to assume he has specific orders of his purpose there.

2. Here are some screenshots of the Life Magazine Cesar leafs through, but I’m not convinced it’s not just a red herring.

3.Frank is pretty amazing that he could land the plane on the island without crashing. It’s not like the put lights on the runway or anything.

4. I wonder if Locke noticed that he wasn’t wearing his own shoes?

5.It’s odd to me that Locke doesn’t have any marks on his neck. One would think he’d have bruising after being strangled with an extension cord.

6. Under the category of “don’t ask unless your prepared for the answer” is Ilana asking Locke to guess why he was dressed so nice. And gotta love him for being honest.

7. Not that it matters to the story line, but keeping with the theme is the shot of Locke’s eyes when he wakes up after turning the donkey wheel.

8. I still think the scene of the Tunisian’s taking Locke from the desert, to the hospital and treating him resembles birth. I can imagine that a baby must feel a similar fear.

9. Here is a shot of the Tunisian license plate:

10. So Widmore says he was the leader of the Others until Ben has him exiled. At what point would Ben have done this? If it was before the purge then it would have been during the Dharma days and Widmore would have been very young. Or it would have been after the purge which means that Widmore was not part of DI. Or, he was part of DI and helped to orchestrate the purge and after that time is when Ben had him exiled. I’m sure that there is a woman involved here too. We have seen how possessive Ben is over women.

11. Someone on the island must be reporting back to Widmore. How else would he know that Ben tried to kill Locke?

12. I also want to know why the island needs Locke to be the leader. Widmore says that it has needed him for awhile. So does this mean that Widmore doesn’t even want to go there? If he was the leader before Ben had him exiled, then he’s saying he no longer wants to lead but to have Locke go back and do the job? This isn’t adding up yet for me.

13. I was expecting so much more from the Locke and Walt reunion. Agreed, Walt isn’t surprised to see Locke. They seemed to have such a bond on the island. Now he just chats for 30 seconds and then takes off. I have my fingers crossed that this relationship will transpire to much more back on the island. Walt is special just like Locke so I would hope that the writers will give some sort of ending to Walt’s story. I’d love to see Walt and Locke living like father and son. They are both orphans. And Walt didn’t even ask what ever happened to Vincent! I would ask. This was just a very fulfilling scene.

14. If Mr. Creepy Eyes helps people get to where they need to go, then where was he trying to help Hurley get to when he wanted to send him to his own private room? Would they have sent him back to the island at that point? I don’t think he approached the rest of the six so what makes Hurley special?

15. If Helen died of a brain aneurysm, could it be the same kind of “aneurysm” that killed Charlotte or is it just a coincidence? Out of all the ways she could have died, it had to be something suspiciously close to the after affects of time travel. I would like to hope that Helen is actually alive, but somehow I suspect she is dead because it moves Locke even more back to the island, that he has absolutely nothing left back at home.

16. So maybe I can see why Jack was so upset if he really thinks that Locke killed himself. Jack seems to transfer his own feelings of inferiority and loneliness onto Locke when he sees him in the hospital. Jack tells Locke that he’s nothing special, that he’s nothing more than a lonely old man. Jack probably thinks that he somehow lead Locke to kill himself. Then he starts to wonder if Locke is right, that maybe he should go back to the island. Jack was special in his own way on the island, too. And, Jack promised not to leave anyone behind so I can see how the guilt starts to really sink in with Jack.

17. Now I wonder if Ben had something to do with Christian’s death also. Christian did hire Ana Lucia to be his body guard when he went to Australia. Perhaps he had been told that he would have to die in order to go back to the island.

18. I was trying to get a screen shot of the white board in Locke’s hospital room but in reading it, I happened to notice in the bottom of the screen that Locke’s foot looks like it only has four toes! I know that the smallest piggy is hiding there, but what a funny coincidence to the mysterious four toed statue on the island.

19. Haha, I’m watching the next scene and here are the four toes again. I think it’s just funny more than meaningful.

20. So I think that Ben was the doubting Thomas, not Jack. Ben started to doubt that Locke had to die to save the island until he starts talking about Eloise then he knows that it’s true and that is why he changes his mind about Locke’s death and kills him.

21. Is it possible that the moment when Locke turned the donkey wheel, that was the exact moment that the plane was directly over the island? That could be the flash that brought them back to the island. That would also explain how Kate and the others end up back in time with the Losties on the island (except for Sun – but we have to have a big set up for when she reunites with Jin so her story can’t be easy). Maybe this is also how it’s possible for Locke to still be alive. His dead body didn’t come back to life in as much as his spirit or whatever from the donkey wheel body transfers to the corpse on the plane. I know it’s a weak theory but I’m sure it could be *fleshed* out and work since it all happened at that exact moment.

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Gitsie Girl’s Thoughts on “316″

GitsieGirl — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 14:27:01 +0000

I like marinating on the show for a few days and going back and watching the show again, especially after talking things over with other Lost fans. Thanks to everyone out there who also comes on and leaves comments. I love hearing what other people are thinking as well.

Click here for my initial thoughts (the day of the show, immediately after it aired)

1. I have been going back through some of the first four seasons as I was trying to find where Jack’s dad mentioned the grandfather Ray. See my previous post, but the only time he’s mentioned is in the mobisode. Anyway, it has me looking at things and thinking how it all connects. The opening scene this week with Jack back in the bamboo had me look back at right before he ended up on the bamboo the first time. There have been questions since Season One about how Jack was thrown so far off from the wreckage with only minor injuries. While on the plane Jack is drinking heavily. Here’s what Jack first tells Kate about what he remembers of the accident:

JACK [off camera at first]: We must have been at about 40,000 feet when it happened. Hit an air pocket. Dropped, maybe, 200 feet. The turbulence was: I blacked out.

Also, the flight attendant *slips* him two extra bottles of booze. So we could almost assume that someone wanted to make sure that he wasn’t hurt in the crash and perhaps doped him so he’d pass out? I think Jack may have *flashed* to the island the first time much like he did this time. He blacked out just like this time too. Coincidence? The first time he would not have been mentally accepting of the flash whereas this time he’s coming to be the Man of Faith and would be more open to the idea that he got there through some type of time travel versus just being another survivor of the airline crash.

Oh, and we were missing Vincent standing there looking at him.

2. Here we have a board figuring all the new numbers for us. Will 4, 8, 15, 16, 23 ,42 be obsolete now? If the flight coordinates that Mrs Hawking gives Jack indicate anything, they will be 1, 3, 14, 16, 18, 34.

3. Almost 50 years ago to the day that The Military took this picture of the island (from the date of the original crash, I mean). Coincidence? As Mr Eko would have said, “Don’t mistake coincidence for fate.”

4. How could Ben have not known about The Lamp Post? I’m not buying it. Maybe he’s never been in it (judging from the look on Mrs Hawking’s face when she’s opening the door) but I would venture to guess he knew it existed.

5. What if Mrs Hawking is actually working with Widmore? What if she stole all of Daniel’s work in order to find the island? After all, Dan thought she was at Oxford, not in LA. Maybe in some crazy attempt to use his work to get back she and Widmore were really responsible for frying Teresa’s brain and not Daniel? Maybe they want him to think it was his fault to play him into their hands and further Widmore’s attempts to find the island. Maybe they have some way to track the O6 and follow them back to the island. It’s pretty obvious that it’s Dan’s work that is all over the chalkboards and we know he was headed to LA after he left Teresa. Widmore and Hawking would have also known that he was leaving on the expedition to find the island so they can easily go to where Dan’s work was in LA and find the next window to get to the island. They could use the O6 as their own guinea pigs to see if the theory of the Lamp Post station really works or if it fries their minds and they have to find another way back.

6. Desmond makes a good point. Daniel tells him that his mother can help them, not Jack, Sun or Ben. They are using them but unfortunately I think Desmond’s piece isn’t over yet. Actually, I’m glad because every Desmond-centered episode so far have been my favorites.

7. They don’t recreate the circumstances of the original flight because Aaron is not there. I don’t think that the six that did go (six because Ben went otherwise there would have been seven) end up in the same time and place because of this. Somehow they are going to have manipulate time on the island to reunite. Mrs Hawking said that the results would be unpredictable if they didn’t all go. I guess we’ll see but I do say that little Aaron is going to end up there on the island at some point.\

8. Ah Ben. Always hanging around in the most opportune times. I really doubt he’s praying here as much as he’s planning his next move. Including the lovely story he tells Jack about Thomas.

9. The bunny at the magic show reminded me of some of the other bunnies we’ve seen so far. Click here to watch the orientation video for The Orchid station. Apparently #15 somehow makes it back but they can’t get them near each other. Assuming this was some type of foreshadowing for if the Losties would come across themselves in another time. And who could forget #8, the bunny that supposedly had the pace maker installed that killed it when it’s heart rate went too high (to scare Sawyer from escaping) ?

10. OK, seriously, it just so *happens* that Ray has packed a pair of Christian’s shoes? The guy only had a couple of shirts and pants and the shoes he picks to take aren’t even his? Either Jack is the most naive person ever, or the writers have taken a serious short cut here. It just so *happens* that Jack needs something of his father’s to put on Locke and it just so *happens* that Jack has a sentimental story about his father’s shoes? This Ray guy better show up later for this scene not to be pure laziness on the writer’s part.

11. What did Kate do this time? There are multiple things that she could have done with Aaron and Jack really should have found out what happened. Back in Season One he said he didn’t want to know what she did in order to be arrested then later changed his mind. It created a rift between them for awhile. I think the same thing is going to happen as I’m sure that the Losties on the island are going to ask where Aaron is.

The most likely choice is that she left him with Claire’s mum. She could have also left him with whoever Sun has watching Ji Yeon or with Clementine (Sawyer’s baby’s momma). The bigger question is why? Did Sun somehow manipulate her into going back to the island to atone for *killing* Jin? Did her guilt over knowing she promised not to bring him back get the better of her? Or was it something to do with Widmore? I’m sure we’ll eventually find out.

But, I think Aaron is going to show up on the island anyway. They ALL had to go back and Aaron was one of the Six. It can’t be a coincidence that Claire’s mom has the same attorney as Ben and that he conveniently led them to her. So Kate knew where she was and knew that she’d take care of Aaron. But, in the end if Claire’s mom does have him I think she’ll show up on the island with him. No matter how, the kid is coming back. He has to.

[SPOILER]

12. So Cesear (Saïd Taghmaoui) is also listed in the cast for next week. Assuming this means that he was purposely placed on the plane with the O6. Maybe he’s in charge of tracking them and helping Widmore to find the island – maybe somehow transmit back to land their location?

[END OF SPOILER]

13. If Cesear does travel to the island with the O6 then he must be a proxy for someone on the original flight, right? Who would that be? Was there a mole on the original flight?

14. Here’s a thought … if the Losties have been shifting time and we assume that Rose and Bernard have as well, then where ever Claire is (if she’s still alive) then she should be shifting also, right?

15. I understand why Sun left behind her baby and went back to the island. I don’t think that Sun believes that she’s going back forever, like Jack does. I’m sure Sun has worked out something where she thinks that she can get back once she finds Jin. There is no way she’d leave her baby behind.

16. Somebody turned in Sayid to get him on that flight. I’m sure it’s whoever also talked Hurley into going back and I’m sure we’ll find out who that someone was very soon.

17. Here’s another thought, wouldn’t someone at Ajira Airlines notice that five of the survivors from 815 were boarding the same plane? They are boarding in LA so you’d think that as big as a story as it was someone might find it odd that the survivors of that crash just happened to be getting on a plane together. I know if I saw them I’d be asking to get on a different flight. And Kate must be using a fake name because she agreed not to leave the area as part of her plea bargain.

18. It’s sweet that Hurley bought all the extra seats that he could in order to keep people from getting on the plane knowing it’s fate. 78 tickets, wow!

19. If all the passengers end up on the island, then we know it’s more than just those in first class. You can see a lot of people back in coach. Maybe it’s just those in first class. See, you shouldn’t fly first class.

20. Whatever Ben had in the mystery box (remember, he had it hidden in the vent?) he must have in his carry on bag here. Will be interested to see what it is.

21. Yeah Frank! I can’t wait to see him interacting with Sawyer. The guy had to fly this plane considering he was supposed to be the original pilot. I hope the smoke monster doesn’t get him like the first pilot.

22. By the way, Ben’s mother could not have taught him to read because she died in childbirth. Remember, Ben’s dad says he can’t celebrate his birthday because he can’t celebrate the day he killed his mother. Not important to the story, just thought I’d point it out.

23. Ben says that he didn’t know Locke killed himself… probably because Locke didn’t kill himself. We see in next week’s preview that Ben is there when Locke is about to hang himself. I’m guessing that Locke finds something out right before he goes through with it and changes his mind only for Ben to give him a little *help* hanging himself. Ben talks in technicalities so really, he’s not lying to Jack. And, it really wasn’t Jack’s fault because it was Ben’s fault!

24. Is it a coincidence that right as Jack reads the letter they flash to the island?

[SPOILERS]

25. Jin in a Dharma van. In reading the descriptions of the next couple of weeks and seeing the promo pictures (don’t read on if you don’t want to know…)…

… it appears that when Locke turned the wheel he froze them in that time, which happened to be back when DI was still in full force. The Losties on the island have somehow assimilated themselves with the DI. Somehow Jack, Kate, and Hurley have landed in this time with them.

[END OF SPOILERS]

26. As far as where Sayid, Sun and Ben are that is still up in the air. They may be in the current time or they may just be somewhere else on the island. If they are with Ben my guess is they can go whenever and where ever they want since Ben seems to be able to manipulate his way around pretty well here.

27. The Losties being back in time opens a whole realm of possibilities regarding course correction. Also, we might be closing in on who is Adam and Eve back in the cave. Right now, my money is on Rose and Bernard.

28. And is Kate preggers – the proxy for Claire? Does she find out while on the island and panics knowing she has to get the hell off the island or she’ll die?

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Gitsie Girl’s Thoughts On “This Place Is Death”

GitsieGirl — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 12:58:33 +0000

Ratings were down again for Lost. Is it really a surprise? We are down to the nitty gritty now with the show. Things are now making sense (well, sort of) to those of us who have maintained our commitment to the show. Lost isn’t one of those shows that doesn’t delve into character development, the characters (including the island) *are* the show. You can’t just pop in and out like a soap opera and a year later it’s the same story line. The show has evolved and yes, it does take thinking to keep up and understand what is going on. So for those viewers who have lost interest, I’m sure they are glued to the set every week wondering who’s going to get voted off their favorite show. Lost isn’t for those with a short attention span and those who don’t want to think and commit. But I know that there are at least still 9 million of us in the US still watching Lost and I don’t think that those ratings are too bad all things considered.

Click here to my initial thoughts.

1. Ben the bad guy vs. Ben the good guy. I have to say that a guy who can unemotionally gas his own father cannot possibly be a good guy. But, I’m still shocked by Ben defending Jack to Jill. I hope by the end of next year the question is answered but perhaps there is some middle ground? Like anyone who has read the book “Hannibal” can relate, you can be a horrific killer and still somehow there is a human being inside somewhere who does have feelings and the capability of being kind to others. I’m also wondering what Ben means when he tells Sun and Jack that they have no idea the things he’s had to do to keep them safe.

2. Is Locke a sacrifice the island demands? Remember how Locke says this about Boone? I’m thinking this – Smokey is a security system for the Temple. The Others are headed to the temple when the Freighter is headed to the island. We know that when Danielle’s team gets close to the Temple Smokey pops out and takes one of them in what looked to me like a sacrifice. So how does this all tie together? The Temple is the heart of the island so when you reference the Temple you are in essence talking about the island. So I think we are going to see that some force around the Temple is what is demanding these “sacrifices” and Smokey will factor into the mix. I would assume that the group of Others headed to the Temple probably had to sacrifice one of their group to Smokey in order to enter the Temple. Maybe the Temple is where Locke will re-enter the island either in his flesh or in whatever form Christian has taken to move around.

3. I’m questioning the nature of the “sickness” that Danielle’s team had. Many of us assumed when we saw the Freighter gang getting sick from the time travel that we had figured out the “sickness.” But after seeing how Robert duped Danielle then almost killed her I’m questioning what sickness they had. Danielle indicates it was something infecting them down Smokey’s hole. We haven’t seen any of the Losties go down there yet so perhaps we are going to see a whole new “sickness” we didn’t expect. Perhaps the Others had the anticdote to whatever it is (remember the injections that Desmond was taking and that they were giving Claire? We never have really gotten a satisfactory answer to what that was.) Perhaps next season they will go down Smokey’s hole and get sick and Juliet will save the day with the injections.

4. I’m sorry guys but I can’t remember who pointed it out, but yes, Theresa is the name of Boone’s nanny that he said fell down the stairs when he was young. Theresa is also the name of Ana Lucia’s mother, but I would think the more probable connection would be to the nanny.

5. Black and white. This has been a theme since season one (sorry, my brain is on overload looking back at what it all means and how it’s coming together). Someone had a good point that Christian is not a manifestation of Jacob at all but they are two separate forces. Could Christian be the black (bad) and Jacob is the white (good)? Why does Jacob need Locke to help him? The ashes around his cabin are probably to keep out the evil (Christian). An ancient rivalry perhaps (Widmore did say that the rivalry went back a looong way). Could have started at the time of the four-toed statue or the Black Rock.

6. Remember how Jack picks up his father’s body at the morgue? Could Christian at that point have sacrificed his mortal body in order to return to the island (like what we think Locke is going to have to do)?

7. When we saw Dan at the construction site of the Orchid, could that have been when he traveled back to warn a young Charlotte not to return to the island? Perhaps the had to live there for awhile in order to get close to her as a child. Perhaps he was also there to keep them from digging into where Jughead was buried. Charlotte just remembers now that Dan (the crazy man) told her not to come back to the island, like when Desmond woke up with the “new” memory of Dan telling him to find his mother?

8. In case you forgot about the obituary for Locke, here is the transcript. Who is the teenage son they refer to?

The body of Jeremy Bentham of New York was found shortly after 4 am in the 4300 block of Grand Avenue. Ted Worden, a doorman at the Tower Lofts complex, heard loud noises coming from the victim’s loft. Concerned for tenants’ safety, he entered the loft and found the body hanging from a beam in the living room. According to Jaime Ortiz, a police spokesman, the incident was deemed a suicide after medical tests. Bentham is survived by one teenaged son. Memorial services will be held at the Hoffs-Drawlar Funeral Home tomorrow evening. (source; The Tailsection)

9. Opening with a close up of Sun’s eyes (well, her face but the closest we have had to the old opening technique of a close up on someone’s eye).

10. Translation, “I’m going to kidnap Aaron so he’ll be safe and bring him back to be raised as your brother. I have to do it since Kate is such a whiner and can’t do it herself.”

11. Here are the best screencaps I could get of Smokey. The scenes move so fast it’s hard to get a clear shot, but I don’t see anything new.

12. To go along with my theory that they are jumping to very specific places… Jin stops Danielle from going down the Smokey hole because of her baby. Had Jin not been there she would have followed them and could have potenially been infected with the “sickness.” Not necessarily course correction, but just keeping the course… on course.

13. The Temple doesn’t look so much like a temple but more like a wall left from what used to be a temple. I wonder if what is on the other side is what Danielle has referred to in the past as “the dark territory.”

14. Montaud’s arm. The same arm we see Vincent bringing back to camp in 3X12?

15. I think that the sound that they hear before they flash sounds just like what we used to hear right before we used to see a flash back/forward. A simple device used by the producers to indicate time change.

16. Could Charlotte be the child of Ben and Annie? They moved away and her mother wanted her to believe it was all a dream. Maybe Annie was in hiding from Ben and couldn’t have Charlotte talking about the island in case it could lead Ben to them.

17. Is it just a coincidence that Locke says to Miles, “I’ll see you when I get back.” Miles can talk to dead people. Locke knows he has to die to come back and Miles is capable of talking to dead people. On a side note, I really want to know when Miles will start talking to Jacob.

18. The light at the end of the tunnel for Locke. Interesting imagery. Looks like that would have been one heck of a fall for him.

19. Christian meets John under the well to correct the course since Locke was supposed to move the wheel, not Ben. He can’t help John up because he has to do it himself without any help or it won’t work.

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5.04 “The Little Prince” – Gitsie Girl’s Thoughts

GitsieGirl — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 12:22:41 +0000

Who is The Little Prince in the show? On first glance I thought it was Aaron. But then I went and read the book online and I’m thinking now that it’s Locke. You have a young boy who leaves his star and goes on an adventure to 6 different stars, including landing on Earth. While there, he discovers that even though it’s small, he wants to go back to his star, B-612, but the only way to get home is to be “killed” by the snake. But, he doesn’t really die, just has to leave behind the empty shell that is his body. You can read the story here.

1. Is it right that Kate keeps Aaron? If Kate knows that Claire was flying to LA to give him up for adoption then I’m sure Claire told her other personal things like about her mother. Sure, Kate probably thought mom was in a coma until they met at the funeral home, but was she OK just to keep him without a word to anyone? I understand that she probably has an emotional connection to him relating to the island and the loss of Sawyer, but I’m not convinced that Kate did the right thing by lying about being his mother. She doesn’t even know if Claire is alive so maybe her redemption should come by going back to the island to give him back to Claire.

2. Sun says, “Don’t worry about us Kate. There’s candy and a mini-bar and 100 channels on TV.” Geesh, what’s she going to get him from the mini-bar?

3. Sun’s report on Ben doesn’t seem to say too much. Looks like he went to the mailbox a lot.

4. A couple of thoughts on Sawyer. I’m loving all the screen time so far this season. I also really like the way a calm Juliet plays against the irritated Sawyer. And he listens to her! She tells him to go away and he does. He must trust her because later her tells her about seeing Kate.

5. If you recall, originally Jack was going to be killed by the smoke monster and Kate was going to become the leader of the Losties. However, it seems like her character development has been to a whiney, whimpy woman. What happened to the outlaw, tough chick from season one who could use a sewing kit to close Jack’s wound? The Kate that robbed banks and killed her step-father for being a jerk? Now she believes things at face value and is always on the edge of a good cry. Geesh, let the chick have her cry and bring back the Kate from season one! Can you imagine if this lawyer would have come to her back then? Tough checks aren’t scared of attorneys!

6. Are they purposely making her eyes look this scary? Wow!

7. I don’t remember Locke’s light being that bright from the hatch. And why wouldn’t the Losties, any of them, noticed this beam?

8. I’ve discussed my thoughts on Sawyer seeing Kate and Claire in my initial thoughts, but I wanted another excuse to post a screencap of him… OK, OK, the look on his face is very touching as well.

9. This water *has* to be from after the O6 come back to the island. But it does beg the question “where are they?” Where are the Losites and the O6? Guess we’ll eventually see!

10. I couldn’t get a good shot of the boat that chases the Losties but I’m sure when they shot and edited the episode that is what they intended. Our choices of who they are: O6, Other Others, Richard & the Others, Rose and Bernard?

11. This was not my catch but apparently “Canton-Rainier” is an anagram for “reincarnation.” Ironic considering Locke’s dead body is in that van.

12. Apparently, this box reads “612″ like the Little Prince’s star!

13. I think we know why Danielle didn’t get *the sickness.* She is hanging on to her music box here. If you recall, it was very important to her and Sayid fixed it in Season One while she held him captive.

14. Wow is Jin in for a big shock when he starts time jumping! First he meets young Danielle, then she just disappears in front of his eyes.

15. Is Ji Yeon going to be allowed to return to the island? She’s not considered one of the O6 so will the *island* allow her?

See my initial thoughts here.

5.03 “Jughead”: Initial And Afterthoughts By Gitsie Girl

GitsieGirl — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 12:31:55 +0000

Initial Thoughts

A couple of thoughts from last week. Hurley and Kate *just* miss each other at the gas station. This goes along with the idea of the show that everyone is connected somehow, like six degrees of separation. Or I saw a movie once and the whole time it followed an item as it got passed from person to person. I think it was Madonna’s pap smear but don’t quote me. Anyway, how we are all connected somehow.

I don’t really like the pop ups. Maybe I’m missing stuff, you tell me if you watch them. But it’s like ABC’s attempt to get new viewers up to speed. To me, I feel cheated somehow that newbs are getting catch ups and we’ve had to do four years of hard work. But, if it brings new viewers and ratings then that’s a good thing.

Ben helped Jack overcome his Oxy habit. Locke helped Charlie kick his heroin habit. I think Ben actually cares somewhat for Jack. Yes, I know he has other reasons for him to be sober, but coupled with his defense of Jack to Jill, I think he cares. Some.

1. Let’s just start but talking about how freaking cute Desmond’s son is. Wow!

2. Desmond talking to his son about the island, Great Britain, like it was “the” island was interesting. There are mountains and glens and monsters… And is he foreshadowing saying he’ll be there again?

3. They sure are killing a bunch of the extras off. Economy is bad, must save money somewhere I guess.

4. Was it just me, or were the colors weird in tonight’s episode? I’m hoping it’s just because of the film they used and not supposed to resemble something with time.

5. Here is my sister’s theory (and some embellishments by me). Penny has the baby, Charlie. Could this be our Charlie? When Des is on the island “seeing” Charlie die, it’s not because he sees the future but because he’s lived it already. Charlie could have been raised by the parents we saw initially because they had to “hide” him from Ben or maybe Widmore Sr. wanted to get his hands on him.

6. Or, they just named him after our Charlie.

7. Penny sure is a downer. “Also where he broke her (Penny) heart.” and “You forgot to tell him about his grandfather.”

8. Why are there government soldiers invading the island? Somehow, Richard’s people manage to eliminate them. Then they figure out how to “move” the island so that they can’t get back.

9. Jughead. The bomb. Must be buried in the hatch (what used to be the hatch). Remember that Sayid talks about the concrete wall down in the hatch and how thick it was. And that it was magnetic.

10. So the blonde woman that has Dan under the gun and takes him to the bomb is the same as “Teresa Spencer” the woman in the “coma” back in London. She must be the “poor woman” that the guy who finds Des in Dan’s old office is referring to.

11. Does Penny know more than she let’s on? Why does she make him promise never to go back to the island? I understand that she had a terrible time finding him, but as long as they are together why would she be so dead set against it? Maybe she knows things about the island in her research to find Des.

12. And, the government was trying to bomb the island? Why? What do they know?

13. I love that Juliet calls the soldiers “Others.” Like the writers are saying “Yes, we know you call them that,” and that is how they get the point across to us who they are.

14. Apparently these are also the “Others” that kill off the Dharma Initiative.

15. “Four” US soldiers. There is one of our numbers.

16. Juliet says, “Richard has always been here,” assuming she means the camp. But the camp looks like where they end up building “Otherville.”

17. Interesting that they took Dan out of the system showing he was a professor.

18. What I don’t understand is that if Dan’s work was to be kept secret, why did they leave all of his equipment (beside the fact that Des has to find it in the storyline). And what’s up with the mystery “janitor” that happens in and gives Des a little bit of information. And why is the janitor dressed so old fashioned? Does anyone besides Brad Pitt wear those hats these days? And who else was poking around for Dan’s work?

19. Looks like “Ellie,” the girl that has Dan at gunpoint, is the girl who is in the “coma” back at Oxford. oops, I already said that. Must be tired.

20. Dan knows the bomb is unstable because it was probably what was behind the wall when Marvin Candle’s group was drilling there.

21. Glad Sawyer got some good lines this week. “Well, maybe I should have said it in my secret language.”

22. So Locke owns this island my friends. The Losties are his people and The Others are his people. All your base belongs to…. Locke!

23. Teresa is traveling big time. It reminds me of the Matrix when they have them in the pods, feeding them, and their minds live in the “world.” I’m sure Mr Widmore was so kind to pay for Teresa’s care so no one found out about her. If she’s seeing her dead dad then she’s definitely traveling around.

24. Widmore has to be Dan’s dad. Could be Richard but more than likely Widmore. Explains why he funded his research (beyond interest in the topic). Age is appropriate.

25. Yeah, some “sodding” old man knows the island better than you Jones!

26. Richard is “old” but by what standard? I watched Aeon Flux this past weekend and it got me thinking. In the movie, the women can’t have children so until they figure out the problem, they clone children from their own DNA. Then the “leaders” teach the cloned child of themselves all about their lives and give them their memories. So in essence it seems like they have years and years of memories. Maybe Richard is a clone. Does it make more sense that he doesn’t age? Or is he just an aberration created by the smoke monster (like Yemmi or Christian)?

27. So if the blonde holding Dan at gunpoint isn’t Teresa, could she be Mrs Hawkins? Still thinking she’s his mother, too. She knows the island. She must be smart is some capacity to be chosen to be on the island. Why she wants to get back to the island. How she knows about the island.

28. Desmond, Desmond. What are you thinking going to Widmore? Like the guy was just going to tell him what he wanted to know with no strings. Widmore is so good that I wanted to believe that he was genuinely pooping himself when he saw Des but he probably already knew he was off the island and left him alone so as to not lead Ben to Penny. I do believe that Widmore wants Des to hide because Penny won’t leave him and Ben really would like to retaliate and kill Widmore’s daughter.

29. And I love Locke just marching into the camp. And how *did* Richard know when he would see Locke again unless Richard already has the memories when he meets up with Locke so he knows the next time we’ll see him.

30. I think that Widmore came to see Penny on the boat. That’s how she knows that Desmond is lying. Plus she just seems to be hiding something.

31. Now we know why Richard went and saw Locke in the hospital.

32. Maybe I’m tired but it looks like the coloring goes back to normal after they leave the “past.”

* back on the ranch… aka; thoughts a few days later *

1. The title “Jughead.” We know that the bomb was called “Jughead” but there has to be more significance. I still think that the leaking radiation has something to do with why women can’t carry babies to term. Maybe Dan, Charlotte and Miles are the last babies conceived on the island so they are special. Since we know that the island has healing qualities, we have wondered how Ben got a tumor on his spine. He was probably working too close to Jughead and was exposed to small quantities of the radiation. If Dan hadn’t have shown up and told them what to do with it, what would they have done with the bomb? Maybe all of this has happened before and Jughead represents a serious problem that could not have been fixed without Dan so all of the events must happen this way. And unless all of the events (starting with the plane crash) happened then the island may not have been been there.

2. The American government is coming in 1954 to the island. Why do they want to kill the “Hostiles?” Couldn’t they have just rounded them up and put them in a prison camp? Are we sure it’s the government or perhaps ex military? Keemy and the gang looked to be military also but weren’t working for the government. Maybe it’s a “Hatfield and McCoy” scuffle that has been going on for hundreds of years and not just Ben Vs. Widmore.

3. So it’s Oxford University and in the 10 – 20 years in between when Des met Dan on campus and now they haven’t cleaned up the office for other use? Or, did Dan *just* abandon the office right before he left for the island and it hasn’t been long enough to get it cleaned out? If that’s the case, there must have been an incredible offer to just leave all of his time travel research like that. Maybe *someone* convinced him to leave (like, say, Widmore)? From the state of the office I’d say he left in a big hurry.

4. Dan tells Miles and Charlotte that they just have to hang tight until everything disappears but can’t predict when. What if it’s every 108 minutes that they travel? I’m thinking that the numbers might come in play here as to how the time shift works.

5. Watching back, Juliet doesn’t know how far in the past they are so how does she know to ask if Richard is at the camp? I just don’t want to believe that he’s really, truthfully “very” old but how else would she know he’d be there?

6. Locke can’t shoot “Jones” because he’s one of his people. Remember that Juliet was branded for killing Pickett (the guy who was going to kill Sawyer and Kate) so it must be against their rules to kill one of your own. Keemy also broke the rules when he killed Alex.

7. It does look like Teresa is the same girl that is in the picture, but the picture is old (check out Dan’s mullet). Dan doesn’t seem the type to leave someone behind that he cared for so again, something must have happened to make him just take off and then Widmore to take care of Teresa in his absence.

8. I can’t make up my mind about Ellie. Dan is walking with her and she tells him to quit looking at her to which he apologizes and tells her she looks just like someone he used to know. She does look like Teresa (see picture above) but it also could be because he realizes he’s talking to his mom.

9. Widmore was on the island as a young man (at least probably about age 18 if not younger). He probably thinks as well as he knows the island that he’s the one that’s going to take over as the leader. Then along comes Ben. Ben is groomed to be the leader. I’m guessing somewhere along the way Widmore is exiled from the island. Now he holds a grudge against Ben for that and because Widmore is obviously a hot head (breaking the neck of his colleague who tells Juliet where the camp is). But he hasn’t been to the island in at least 20 years so I wonder if at some point he had come back after his younger days as a solider. Perhaps he stayed for quite a while. Maybe Ellie was the love of Ben and Widmore and that had something to do with it (we know how Ben falls madly in love with women and wants them all to himself). I think this all speaks to where the rivalry between Ben and Widmore started for the island.

10. I found this arrow theory from Doc Jensen very intriguing and something I had not caught: My “Arrow” Theory. Adam mentioned this in his recap. Have you noticed the recurring arrow symbolism this season? Episode 1: Pierre Chang produces the orientation film for a Dharma station called “The Arrow.” Episode 2: The Left Behinders are attacked by flaming arrows. And now, Episode 3: Arrows everywhere, in the text (see: the Others’ archery brigade) and the subtext. A leaking or missing hydrogen bomb is known as a “Broken Arrow” event in military parlance. In physics, the “Arrow of Time” is the name of a body of theories pertaining to the nature of time; the term “broken arrow” is used to characterize an idea like time loops. Google “broken arrow” and you’ll get any number of movies, TV shows and songs about Native Americans… and wouldn’t you know, “Jughead” was a peek into the past of the Island’s indigenous peeps, the Others. But the coolest arrow connection comes via the Other cutie with the shot gun, British accent, and terse line readings: Ellie. Short for Eleanor, which is French for “the Other.” (Or so wikipedia tells me; I don’t speak it. Me stupid American.) On a whim, I combined “Ellie” and “Eleanor” and “Arrow,” and came back with an awesome connection: Ellie Arroway, the heroine of Carl Sagan’s novel Contact, which was adapted into the Jodie Foster film of the same name. I’m going to leave it to you to explore the significance, but Sagan’s story certainly resonates with Lost themes, and perhaps functions as a clue to wormhole theory.

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5.02 “The Lie” Recap By Gitsie Girl

GitsieGirl — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:57:03 +0000

Could Jacob be Alvar Hanso? I was thinking about the way we saw him the first time from the window, turned sideways. I know this doesn’t really pertain to this episode, but in trying to make links between old and new information this possibility came to mind.

1. I was also thinking back to some unsolved issues. Like the cages that Sawyer and Kate were in – I know they were for the animals, but what were they doing with the animals and why? And the landing strip that Kate and Sawyer were helping to clear rocks for – another plane coming to the island? Is this where the O6 will land, conveniently, when they come back? Kate’s airplane – did she forget about it? She robbed a bank to recover so why wouldn’t she be obsessing if she hadn’t taken it home with her? Will we ever see Libby’s connection to Hurley in the institution? There are so many for them to wrap up!

2. I was also thinking back to when Ben was looking at those dolls that Annie had made for him and Richard comes in. Ben asks something to the effect of “You remember birthdays, don’t you Richard?” Has Richard harnessed the healing power of the island to also maintain his youth? I like sci-fi and I’ll buy into the time travel, but never aging is going to be a hard sell to me.

3. I have more thoughts but I think I’ll save them for the next post after the recap.

4. So the O6 has been off of the island for 3 years. I can’t imagine that the Losties are going to have to suffer for three years with time moving. Remember that Walt had amazing growth and the writers promised they would explain why. Well, if Walt was off the island for years he would have grown quite a bit. But, if that same time frame was island time it would have only seemed like days. So time off the island is moving much faster than on the island. The O6 come back after 3 years but the Losties only think they’ve been gone a few days to a week.

5. Hurley tells Sayid that someday he’ll need his help but he won’t get it. But Hurley goes through great lengths to help him back home. Change of heart or foreshadowing?

6. Ana Lucia tells Hurley not to get arrested. Hurley purposely gets arrested to avoid Ben. I guess we’ll see what kind of ramifications that decision has.

7. Must pay homage to the shirt.

8. Sun is up to something. It’s too convenient that she was in such a hurry to make her plane and then right after Kate goes on the run, Sun shows up! Does she blame Kate somehow for Jin’s death? Is she really trying to help Kate or is she setting her up for some future purpose?

9. Ben’s secret box. Reminds me of when Miles visited the lady whose spirit he talked to, he took something out of the air vent also (but I think his was money). Why was it in the vent – someone must have placed it there before Ben showed up.

10. Ben tells Jack that he’s never coming back once they return to the island. Is Jack really OK with this? I guess outside of his mother we haven’t seen that he has anything left to live for at home but wouldn’t Jack be looking for ways that he could bring them all back home? Jack seems too heroic to just accept that they will all live happily ever after on the island, which makes me think he’s got his own plan. After all, we don’t know what he planned with Juliet before they left.

11. I’m not convinced that anyone is really out to kill Hurley and Sayid. I think they were hired by Ben to scare them and send them right into his trap for the O6 to get them to agree to go back to the island.

12. Jill tells Ben that Gabriel and Jeffrey have already checked in. The flight crew perhaps? Ben then goes on to defend Jack and his drug abuse. Wow, a little empathy from Ben. Not sure outside of his daughter we’ve seen Ben express true feelings (of kindness, at least).

13. Vincent! The one character the writers have promised will live to the end. But with Vincent, there always comes trouble and sure enough, flaming arrows coming their way.

14. That was some crazy arrow shooting at the Losites. The Others were violent but not like this. Had to be the hostiles and my guess would be it was from the distant past. I wonder if the dead Losties bodies will time travel or since they died in that time then they will stay there?

15. “Why is there a dead Pakistani on my couch?” Hurley has the best family!

16. Sun really is not the person we thought she was. I think back to The Glass Ballerina and that Sun blamed the maid for breaking the figurine knowing that she would lose her job. I don’t know if she really expects Kate to kill the attorneys, but she wants her to “take care of them.”

17. Watching the scene again where Hurley tells his mom the whole truth about the plane and the survivors makes me question how more of the actors on this show don’t get Emmy or other award nominations. I’ve watched a lot of the other shows that get nominated and most of them don’t sustain the believability or momentum that Lost has. I watch Jorge and Jeremy Davies and they are so great in this show. Yes, a few of the actors have been nominated (and won, yeah!) but not enough in my opinion.

18. NOW we see hostiles! Wow, cutting off her hand “just because.” And dang it Sawyer, take their shoes!!!

19. Loving the hot pocket thrown at Ben. That thing was hot too, that could have hurt!

20. The cloak and dagger outfit was a little silly here. But the dichotomy between the science and faith was interesting (science in the basement, faith upstairs). Ms. Hawking comes across as a leader in the way she speaks to Ben and he reacts.

Gitsie Girl

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5.01 “Because You Left” Recap By Gitsie Girl

GitsieGirl — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 02:38:43 +0000

Please welcome our third and final recapper for the season: Gitsie Girl.

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Here is part one of a VERY loooong blog post. My Lost brain is in high gear and with two episodes to recap I think I need to break it down. I’m pretty excited about this season and thankful that things are starting to come together. Our obsessive breaking down of the episodes is paying off now in double time. If you can make it to the end of this post, please leave your thoughts and comments and come back tomorrow (or later tonight if I really get to obsessing) for my recap of “The Lie.”

My initial thoughts.

1. Maybe the reason the O6 must ALL go back is because of course correction. If Des hadn’t been late in pushing the button that fateful day then the plane would have went on it’s way to LA and landed safely. This is how fate meant it to be so all 6 must be there to fly back and land safely in order for the course of events in time to put upright again. Therefore, FRANK will also have to be the PILOT because he was originally supposed to be flying the plane (as he told us).

2. However, if the Losties need to leave safely as the original group then that would mean that Dan, Miles, Charlotte and JULIET would not be able to leave with them. I could see Dan and the gang staying to re-start DI but Juliet… if Sawyer grows to care for her (which seems inevitable at this point) and then he has to leave her behind? Ugh, I don’t know how that will play out for him. Seems like it would be a heart-wrenching choice but not really a choice as they all must be saved which means Sawyer could not chose to stay behind with her.

3. Could the baby in the beginning be Miles? He was chosen by Widmore to come back with the “rescue” operation and probably not just because he sees/hears dead people. Seems like when Naomi was questioning Mr Creepy Eyes about why the would chose such a rag-tag group to go with her to the island, there would have to be a plausible reason why. Also, women who have babies die on the island before giving birth. Wouldn’t this make the baby “extra” special if it was born there?

4. There have been many references throughout the seasons about an “incident” on the island. We know that the energy behind the wall being drilled in the Orchid Station, well, according the Candle if it were released, “God help us all.” I think Dan may have caused the “incident” and that is what fried his brain. We know he was there and we know that his memory is mush so it seems possible that he was the creator of the “incident.”

5. I wasn’t sure Dan was hiding his face from Candle (aka Pierre Chang) but I want back and watched the video shown at Comic Con and now I think he was. Dan for sure is the one video taping here (you can hear his voice) and you can hear th baby in the back ground. It makes much more sense now as Dan must have told Candle what was going to happen to DI and the way to save them. But…. he also says something to the effect of changing the past, but he as much as called the construction supervisor an idiot for suggesting that you could change the future. So was the video perhaps made for Locke or for Desmond to see since they seem to be the two that might be able to alter the future?

6. If Dan was “traveling” to the island then it would make the scene with Dan and the supervisor amusing as he says, “Did you hear that? Time travel, how stupid does he think we are?” Dan just has this look on his face and nods… Context makes all the difference, doesn’t it?

7. Ben tells Locke that he is sorry for making his life so miserable. At first glance we think it’s a reference to island life. But what is Ben is really referring to Locke’s “whole” life? We know Richard has been around 3 or 4 times in John’s life prior to the island so it’s definitely possible that it was their version of the Truman Show, orchestrating events and making sure Locke was on the right path.

8. Another possibility of what the “incident” was… the wheel somehow gets exposed. Dan knows it’s buried in the wall in the past when they are digging. Maybe Dan is the one who blows out the wall and exposes the wheel since he knows it has to do with time travel and he is obsessed with time travel. Candle says it would release something horrific if they kept drilling in the wall. The contractor knows where to place the detonators and doesn’t believe in time travel so I’m sure it would be easy for Dan to talk him into blowing up the wall.

9. Did the island somehow get moved ahead just a few minutes in time and that is why it can’t be found? Does the electromagnetic events (like Desmond’s turning the key) somehow correct the island in time and that is why it could be found and seen?

10. In the first scene with Locke after the donkey wheel is turned, why does just Locke move in time? He is standing there talking to Richard and The Others, why didn’t they move? All of the Losties on the island moved together (Sawyer and the gang) why not Richard’s group?

11. Do attorney’s and their associates really go to people’s houses to collect blood? Seems first of all like a qualified skill, something a phlebotomist would do. But I agree with Sun, the attorney wouldn’t show up to the house in private, they would have her somewhere public to do the test. I also think Ben could have easily have put these attorney’s up to scaring Kate so she will do what she knows best, run. Where better to run to and take Aaron so no one would find her then the island? After all, outside of Aaron, what does she really have back home?

12. Kate still keeps a picture of Jack and Aaron on the table? How many of you out there that are broken up with your child’s parent keep a picture of them on your front table? I can see keeping it in your kid’s room and keeping albums of pictures, but out by the front door? Someone is obviously still carrying a torch for him.

13. Thinking back a few seasons, remember that Eko and Jin and walking through the jungle and come across some of the Others and they are traipsing through the woods with no shoes on? Now we see Sawyer with no shoes on? First of all… OUCH! Second, instead of looking for a shirt, why wouldn’t he be more interested in shoes? I’m not complaining…

14. I like the way Sawyer is playing surrogate for the viewers and asking the questions about time travel. I agree with Dan that I doubt someone like me could fully grasp it, but the explanations we have are somewhat understandable.

15. Dan says the island is dislodged from time and skips like a record player. This reminds me of Danielle’s message that had been also playing the same message over and over for 16 years.

16. Ethan comes across this guy in the jungle who says Ben appointed him to be their leader, then the guy disappears right in front of his eyes. Ethan goes back and tells the Others. X-years later here comes the plane and who is on it, John Locke! Yes, I’m sure that when Danielle caught Ben in her net he WAS coming the meet John!

17. Speaking of disappearing people, could time travel have something to do with the “dead” people we’ve seen on the island? When Christian appears to Jack, could it have been the Others somehow projecting him to the future (would explain how he just disappears)? There was also Dave, the black horse, Walt (although he’s not dead), Locke’s mom, Boone, Ana Lucia, and Yemmi.

18. This also brings me to the idea that time travel might have something to do with the Whispers. I haven’t been able to hammer out a complete theory on this yet as the Whispers are actually talking about the people so if they were phantoms of real people slipping by in time I’m not sure why we wouldn’t also see them.

19. Another thought, remember the guy Lenny who was in the institution with Hurley who kept repeating the magic numbers? I’m thinking this guy was also a worker on the island who was around during the “incident” and it also fried his brains.

20. Three years later and Sun is still wearing her wedding ring.

21. This is weird, it looks like the word “chicken” was photoshopped and put the right way in the puddle. It’s a reflection so shouldn’t it be backwards or distorted? I don’t think it means anything besides the writers or editors being silly. Also, Hurley is on the run and wanted for murder but they still take the time to pick up chicken. Priceless. Then Hurley’s line to Sayid, “You know maybe if you ate more comfort food, you wouldn’t have to go around shooting people.”

22. Every time I saw Sayid and Hurley together I kept hearing the theme from the Odd Couple. Neil Simon couldn’t have come up with a more mis-matched duo then these two!

23. Locke is the only one that can stop the time from moving or so we would believe. When Sawyer asks who can stop it the next flash is to Locke.

24. How does Richard find Locke? Unless there is some predictable way that time moves and Richard understands this. Then he would have calculated based off of when Ethan came back to the camp and spoke of shooting the mysterious Locke. Kind of like when Desmond told Penny to be home on Christmas Eve 2004 because he was going to call her.

25. Now the issue of the compass and Locke dying. The compass may not be the “same” compass that Richard showed Locke when he was a kid, but it has to have significance to that scene. Here is a link to a clip of the scene. I hate to bring up the time loop theories (go back to season one, there are lots of them out there, including by me), but it could somehow come to play here. Time loops back around so Locke can correct it? But why would Richard say the knife wasn’t his “yet?” This is still a mystery to be unlocked (no pun intended).

26. Does Locke really die? Ben never answers. Right after Jack asks Ben it flips to Hurley’s dad watching Expose, the show Barbie was on. Ken and Barbie were bit by spiders and *looked* like they were dead but they were only paralyzed. With no traceable heart beat they thought they were dead. Maybe Locke has to look like he’s dead because the island won’t let him back if he’s alive. The writers have said that Ken and Barbie were more than just an annoyance and somehow an integral part of the story, could this be it!

27. I don’t think that Dan means that Sawyer literally can’t meet Desmond. I think he’s telling him he can’t change the past, or shouldn’t change the past. Des obviously hears him because he comes out and asks why he’s making all that noise on the door (to Dan). Plus, if Des is freaked out by Sawyer then he wouldn’t be listening to Dan when he tells him about going to Oxford.

28. Dan tells Desmond he is uniquely special. Then Desmond wakes up and suddenly he remembers the talk with Dan. I don’t think that Dan changed the past necessarily but since Desmond is special somehow Dan created a new memory at that moment. Also, Desmond’s seeing the future is nothing more than like when Dan changes the past by talking to him at the hatch, he suddenly “remembers” the event. Maybe the events are taking place in the future and Des being special all of a sudden “sees” the future while in some “time” it’s actually happening. Des is there to course correct and make sure current events lead up to the future that he is “seeing.”

29. Speaking of course correction, Des stopped Charlie from being KILLED several times but he allowed him to live long enough to push the button and consequently several of the Losties left the island. Mrs Hawkins is the one who introduced the concept of course correction so it makes sense that they all have to go back because of course correction. Whatever is going to happen,they all have to be there. Charlie should have died one of those times and therefore the six would have never left. Now that has to be corrected.

30. And for the record, I think Mrs Hawkins might be Dan’s mother.

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