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After a couple of busy weeks we are back with the SL-LOST podcast discussing last week’s episode: “This Place Is Death”. Enjoy!

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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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Previously, on Lost: Kate meets Jack at the docks and is surprised to find Ben there. Jack tells her Ben’s with him. That doesn’t sit too well with Kate because she knows that Ben’s the one that’s trying to take Aaron. Ben admits to it. Meanwhile, in a car not too far away, Sun is watching all this going down while petting the gun in her lap. She’s got some vengeance on her mind. Back on the island, the left-behinders continue to jump through time, and just about everyone is developing nosebleeds. Locke wants to get everyone to the Orchid so he can go off-island and bring the Oceanic Six back to stop the time flashes. Out at sea, Jin is picked up by some Frenchies in a liferaft and they turn out to be Danielle Rousseau and her crew. Jin’s a bit confused, but alive. Woot.

This week, on Lost: Sun, while waiting to attack Ben at gunpoint, gets a phone call from her daughter, Ji-Yeon. She’s a cutie pie, and Sun tells her that she met a new friend for her in America – Aaron. She hangs up, grabs her gun and proceeds to get all up in Ben’s grill. She wants Ben to pay for killing Jin, to which Ben responds by telling her that Jin is still alive.

Back on the island, Jin is, indeed, still alive and still confused, but starts getting the picture when he and Danielle chat some more. The other Frenchies have picked up the radio signal that repeats the numbers over and over and want to know if there is a radio tower on the island. They want Jin to take them, but all Jin wants to do is get back to the beach camp. He doesn’t know the way, though, so he eventually agrees to take them to the radio tower so that he can get his bearings and then head to the beach. Uh, okay, whatever. I didn’t quite understand this logic, nor do I know how Jin knows where the radio tower is since he wasn’t one of the ones to go there in “Through the Looking Glass” back in Season Three. I can only shrug.

Anyways, they don’t quite make it because Ol’ Smokey decides its about time he got in front of the camera again since we hadn’t seen him since he had to kill all those dirty mercenaries last season. First, he makes off with Nadine, who the Frenchies find after she falls out of a tree, all bloody. Jin tells them it’s a monster, and to run, but it’s too late. Cerberus gets one of the Frenchies and drags him into the jungle and to The Temple, then tries to pull him into a crack under the stone wall. The group try to pull him out, but manage to only bring half his arm back. Talk about a bad day. The guy is still alive, though – they can hear him down in the crack – and the team head down there to see if they can get him. Jin and Danielle stay behind, the sky goes all wonky, and Jin is suddenly in another time.

Just before Jin jumps, at the temple. You can see the gross, amputated arm by his feet.

In the other time, Jin is still at the temple, and we see by the barely-decomposed arm that he hasn’t jumped too far. He stops for a moment to look at the hieroglyphs at the temple (we’ll discuss those later), then heads out into the jungle. In a clearing he sees a pillar of smoke rising in the distance, and follows it to the beach, where a makeshift camp has been put together. Danielle’s music box – the one Sayid was asked to fix way back in Season One – is open and playing in the sand. Two of Rousseau’s team are dead, nearby, apparently shot in the chest. A bit down the beach, Rousseau has her husband, Robert, at gunpoint and is arguing with him, saying that he hasn’t been himself ever since they went down in the Temple after the monster. He tells her that it’s no monster, it’s a security system that guards the Temple. Yeah, yeah, we’ve heard that one before. Rousseau lowers her gun and Robert raises his and pulls the trigger. Unfortunately, he didn’t notice that Rousseau had removed the firing pin and it fails to fire. We know that she set him up because she told us about all this back in Season One and did the same thing to Sayid. Anyway, she raises her gun and blows Robert away. Seeing Jin there, she yells at him that he was “the carrier” and starts shooting at him. He makes it into the jungle just as another flash jumps him to another time.

In this other time, Jin finds himself at gunpoint once again, only this time it’s Sawyer. There’s a tearful reunion until Jin realizes that Sun isn’t with them. With some help from Charlotte, the walking translator, they explain to Jin what’s been happening and Locke explains that he’s going to bring Sun back to the island if they can just get to the Orchid. The group mounts up and heads toward the Orchid, jumping a couple of times in short succession. This is too much for Charlotte to withstand and she collapses. Speaking somewhat incoherently, it’s obvious that this might be the end for our resident hot redhead. Locke says that they need to get to the Orchid quickly and that Charlotte is only going to slow them down. Daniel stays behind with her as the others leave, but not before she tells Locke that he will find what he needs if he looks for the well. Alrighty, then, thanks Encyclopedia Brown.

Locke and the others make it to the Orchid and are thankful to find that they are in the same time period when the station existed. Just then, they jump to another time and the station is gone. Undeterred, Locke searches around the perimeter until he finds an old stone well. Being a man of action, he starts to head down the rope hanging there. Jin stops him first, making him promise that he won’t bring Sun back to the island. He gives Locke his wedding ring and tells him to give it to Sun when Locke sees her. Locke reluctantly agrees, and then shimmies down the rope. Halfway down another time jump starts up, of course, and Locke has to drop the rest of the way just in case he might be jumping to a time when the well was nothing but a bunch of rock. Good call, because that’s exactly what happens. Bad news, though, is that Locke has suffered a compound fracture to his right leg. This might be what kills him when he gets back to the real world.

Back on the surface, Sawyer is a bit confused because he’s now holding a rope that’s just sticking out of solid ground. I’m guessing this is either way before or way after the well.

Back with Daniel and Charlotte, Charlotte is fading fast. Daniel explains to her that she has to hold on because he has a plan – Desmond is going to find Daniel’s mom so that she can help them get off the island. Charlotte, though, just needs to tell Dan her story, and it turns out that it’s pretty much what we expected – she grew up on the island and left with her mother when she was a child. Her mom tried to convince her that the island was something that Charlotte had made up, but Charlotte knew that wasn’t true. She studied anthropology and made it her life mission to get back to the island. Daniel wants to know why she’s telling him all this, and Charlotte says that she remembers a crazy man from when she was a kid, and this man told her that she needed to leave the island and never come back, or she would die. She now knows that the man was Daniel. Awesome. Just awesome. Not-so-awesome, however, is that a few seconds later, beautiful Charlotte’s mind gives out and she dies in Daniel’s arms.

Alas, poor Charlotte – we barely knew ye.

Back down in the well, Locke finds that there’s someone else shuffling down there with him – Christian Shephard. Christian tells Locke that he’s a bit peeved about Ben turning The Great Wheel. He says that he told Locke to do it himself. Locke says that Ben said he know how to do it, to which Christian replies, “Since when did listening to Benjamin Linus ever turn out to be worth a damn?” Touche, you old saucehound. Christian tells Locke that, if he’s ready, his mission is to go into the other room and give the Great Wheel a little nudge because it’s jumped off its axis. Locke asks for help from Christian, but Christian can give none. I reckon he’s only corporeal enough to hold a lantern, but not quite enough to give the wheel a shove. There’s some fascinating spectral rules taken straight from Patrick Swayze in Ghost.

Locke gets to his feet and heads over to The Great Wheel. Despite his pain, he manages to shove the wheel back onto its track. As the room starts to get white, Christian tells Locke to say hi to his son. Locke asks who his son is, but it’s too late as the entire room is bathed in white light.

Back in Los Angeles, Ben takes Sun and Jack to a church where he says he can prove that Jin is alive. Outside, Ben gives Sun Jin’s wedding ring. Ben tells Sun that it was given to him by Locke. Sun wants to know why Locke didn’t give it to her himself, and Ben says that he doesn’t know. Ben tells Sun and Jack that they need to go inside because there is a woman in there that can help them get back to the island. Just then, Desmond pops up and wants to know if they’re all there to see Faraday’s mum, as well. Ben has to pick his jaw up off the ground, but he doesn’t give away his shock, otherwise. The four head inside to find Mrs. Eloise Hawking, which everyone had to see coming. Desmond is a bit shocked because the last time he saw her, she was running a jewelry shop and giving him a lesson in temporal by-laws. At any rate, she notes that there are only four of them there, which Ben explains is the best he could do at a moment’s notice. With a mischievous grin and a twinkle in her eye, Mrs. Hawking simply says that they should get this party started.

Does anyone else get a little uncomfortable when Mrs. Hawking shows up? She’s just got that look as though she could eat your liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.

Cue the thonk!

We got quite a few answers to some old questions and some new looks at some more of the Island’s mysteries this week. We also lost another character when Charlotte kicked the temporal bucket. So sad. Anyways, there’s no time to mourn because we’ve got an ancient temple, an old smokey adversary and some mysterious hieroglyphs to take a look at.

HERE THERE BE DRAGONS
This week, we got our first glimpse of The Temple. We first heard mention of The Temple back at the end of Season Three when Ben sent Richard there with the Others to keep them safe from the mercs that were arriving by boat. Now we can see why they were sent there – it’s one of the main locations guarded by Cerberus, aka Ol’ Smokey. Cerberus had been referred to as a security system in the past, but we got full confirmation that tied together Ol’ Smokey, the Temple and it’s guardianship in this episode when Robert told Danielle that it was a security system that guarded the Temple. There has been much speculation as to what Cerberus’s real mission is, and who created the monster. It’s pretty clear from all the clues over the past couple of seasons that Cerberus has been protecting parts of the island well before the Dharma Initiative. In “The Shape of Things to Come” Ben accesses a secret entrance in his barracks house that leads to an old stone door, covered in heiroglyphs. Once inside this door, Ben somehow calls out to Cerberus to alert it of the danger of the mercenaries outside. Cerberus comes, kicks some mercenary butt and takes off into the jungle.

The entrance to the security system control room.

The existence of this “control room” and its hieroglyphs ties Cerberus much more closely to the Others and the ancient secrets of the Island than it does with the Dharma Initiative. The DI was fully aware of Cerberus and it’s system, however, as they built the barracks on top of that control center for a reason. Every Dharma construct on the island seemed to be built on top of one of the ancient technologies, really, much like how The Orchid sat on top of the Great Wheel.

Why Cerberus is set to protect the Temple is still a mystery. We do know that Danielle’s party seemed to suffer some sort of “sickness” after they went down into the Temple. Did this really turn her lover and the others into something evil? Perhaps the sickness is another defense mechanism of the Island. Could the sickness be related to the emphatic devotion that surrounds the Others?

We do know that Cerberus doesn’t just patrol the Temple, as Ol’ Smokey has popped up in several locations around the island throughout the seasons. It tried to pull Locke down into a hole back in Season One. That hole has since been identified as a “Cerberus vent,” one of many places around the island that lead to an underground area where Cerberus can travel to and from various spots. We first got a glimpse of these vents back on the blast door map from Season Two. They are marked on the map as CV, and apparently the Temple sits on top of one.

Remember this crazy thing? I’ve spent more time going over this blast door map than any other artifact in the history of the show.

At some point, the Dharma Initiative must have been able to control Cerberus, or at least keep him at bay. This is because the Temple used to be a Dharma station, just like the Swan or any other. If Dharma had no control over Cerberus, it would never have allowed anyone near the Temple long enough to build a station. The blast door map above does make mention of something going wrong with Cerberus at some point. The Caduceus Station (The Staff – where Claire was taken by Ethan in Season One, and where Juliet took Sun for her sonogram) was noted on the blast door map to have been abandoned “due to AH/MDG incident of 1985 or possible catastrophic malfunction of Cerberus system.”

This is the map that Ben hands to Alex to show her how to get to the Temple last season before Keamy tracked them down. See? Dharma station.

WRITE LIKE AN EGYPTIAN
During our first good look at the Temple, we’re also treated to another set of hieroglyphs. They seem Egyptian (or at least a derivative – some of the bird glyphs are a bit off, but that could just be an anomaly from the hand of the engraver), just as the glyphs were on the countdown clock at the Swan, on the stone door that Ben enters in order to call Cerberus, and down in the well – or Orchid – in the chamber of the Great Wheel.

A closeup of the hieroglyphs at the Temple.

The glyphs on the countdown timer, as seen in the finale of Season Two.

Glyphs in the chamber of the Great Wheel – on the column behind Ben.

The translation of the glyphs from the countdown timer were eventually revealed by Damon Lindelof to mean “underworld.” What’s interesting to note, though, is that the vulture and the stick (the two glyphs in red) mean “evil enemy” or “dangerous trespasser.” Marvin Candle, or Edgar Halliwax, or Pierre Chang, or whatever you want to call the Asian doctor who appears in all of Dharma’s orientation videos, said in this season’s premiere that the Swan was created as a way to protect the initiative from anyone who lived there before the Initiative got there. In other words, it was supposed to protect the Initiative from the Others. Why the DI chose to put those hieroglyphs in the Swan is still a mystery, but if the countdown timer was there as a suicide switch in the case of all of Dharma dying at the hands of the Others, the translation of “evil enemy” or “dangerous trespasser” would be very appropriate.

It would also fit if the Swan was reconfigured by the Others after the Dharma Initiative was taken down by Ben. The Others could have decided to put the Swan to use in protecting the Island from intruders, but this theory is unlikely. At any rate, the Dharma Initiative seemed to not only understand the hieroglyphs, they used them as part of their system in tapping into the Island’s potential.

Lindelof has also stated what the hieroglyphs from the Great Wheel chamber mean: “resurrection.” I’m not sure what any of these individual glyphs represent, like “evil enemy” from the Hatch. What’s interesting to note, though, is that the bird, the three lines and the rectangle with a break from the wheel chamber are matched on the Temple wall, and in the same order. I can’t correlate any direct, symbolic translations for these symbols, as the bird is indeterminate and doesn’t exactly match any on Gardiner’s Sign List (a list compiled by Sir Alan Gardiner, considered to be the standard list for translating hieroglyphs). The three lines with the rectangle above them don’t match any known Egyptian hieroglyph. This makes it likely that the hieroglyphs that appear on the Island are simply a derivative that evolved from a common Egyptian base that spread and evolved to include other glyphs not in the Egyptian alphabet.

I’ll be taking a closer look at the Temple wall and indexing it with the Gardiner list this weekend to see if I can come up with a decent, or at least related, translation. If anyone figures something out beforehand, please let me know.

TIME TRAVEL LAID BARE
One of the fundamental things about “cinematic” time travel that sometimes bugs me is how people just jaunt around time with all their clothes and possessions still intact. Of course, those that choose to jaunt in devices, such as DeLoreans, etc. have a good explanation, as they were in a capsule of sorts that transported the good with them. The left-behinders in Lost, however, don’t have that going for them. They are jumping through time much like in The Terminator, which, coincidentally, is one of the only films to have time travelers come out of temporal flux in the buff.

At any rate, after a few-minute-long gripe session about such phenomena, my girlfriend Lindsay – always the practical mind – actual posited a theory that made me rethink my temporal pet peeve. She calls it the “Upside Down House” theory. When we were shopping for a house, we wondered exactly what items we would have to list as “keepers” when we put in our offer. The realtor told us that we should think of everything in the house that we were considering, then pretend to turn the house upside down. Whatever fell out wasn’t really “attached” to the house and would be something we’d probably want to list. Things like the stove, diswasher, etc. were items that were an integral part of the house and would not, theoretically, shake out when the house was overturned. Lindsay applies this same logic to the time travelers. When they are sent through time, whatever is attached to them goes with them – their clothes, shoes, weapons, etc. because they are in such close proximity. In tonight’s episode, we saw that Sawyer was still holding the rope from the well when they jumped. That really bothered me, until Lindsay shrugged and said “upside down house rules.” God help me, but it made sense.

Now all they need to do is find a copy of a future Sports Almanac and they’re all set …

LIKE A SCARY MARY POPPINS
So … Eloise Hawking is Daniel’s mum. I think just about everybody had that figured out. Well, not everybody – Ben was honestly surprised. He’s usually pretty good at knowing everything that’s going on. What’s going to be interesting to see is how Desmond is going to fit into the plan. Neither Ben nor Mrs. Hawking was probably expecting Desmond to show up, especially at the exact time they needed everyone to be back on the island.

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Next week, we get to see the pendulum in action and see exactly how they plot out the Island’s reemergence from temporal flux. Exciting!

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That about wraps it up for this week. There’s more we could talk about, but I think I’ve hit the main points. If there’s something any of you out there would like for me to take a closer look at, let me know. And, of course, if any of you have any epiphanies in the meantime, please clue me in.

Namaste.

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Lost got down to brass tacks this week. And by brass tacks, I mean One-Armed French Dude. It was a great gag, on par with Arzt. The timing was impeccable. Montand was pulled into the “declivity in the wall” just long enough for me to think, Eaten, and then, That’s what she meant by ‘lost his arm’? before he called out for help. Which led to the darkly funny realization that he was just standing (or laying, squatting, what have you) a few feet down this hole. With one arm. Which later led to the genuinely creepy realization that something did happen to all of them down there and, in a moment, they were changed.

There were some updates on non-peripheral characters, too. Jack and Ben got a new recruit when Ben used his Dharma mind tricks to convince Sun to join the Go Back Squad. Here’s a woman with a gun in his face and every intent to kill him over her husband’s death. He not only convinces her to drop the weapon but to get in the car with him and let him drive her to see a woman who can prove that her husband, who was last seen 3 years ago on an exploding freighter, is alive and well. Which is two lies. He has the proof – Jin’s wedding ring – on him and the woman they’re going to see has no time for reunions. And he has the nerve to stop the van on the ride over just to call her an ingrate. Seriously, the guy is magic.

The Island 6 became the Island 5 when Charlotte finally succumbed to her time wounds. She was able to tell Jin not to bring Sun back and Locke how to get to the donkey wheel before she died. She also had some interesting departing words for Daniel, though. She said that she lived on the island as a child. Her parents were members of the Dharma Initiative but that she and her mom left the island and her dad stayed. Her mom would later try to convince her that the island wasn’t real, that she’d just imagined it.  That’s why she spent her life looking for it. And she told him that she remembered now a scary man who told her as a child on the island that she could never come back or she would die. She told Daniel that she thinks that man was him. Faraday: Actual-past Dharma volunteer or future-past volunteer? A few weeks ago, I would have said future-past, but I think my mind is changing. And I may be done theorizing anyway. At the rate Lost is spilling the beans these days, I won’t have to wonder about Faraday for more than a couple more weeks.

Locke finished his death march at the well Charlotte had told him to look for. Jin gave him his wedding ring and made John promise not to bring Sun back. He said for him to tell her his body washed up on shore and to give her the ring as proof. John promised only that he wouldn’t look for her. Then, assuredly and confidently, John climbed down the rope, ready to meet his destiny. Then there was a flash and the rope broke and John fell down and broke his leg. He was met there in the bottom of the was-a-well next to the ancient time machine by disgraced, alcoholic L.A. surgeon Christian Shephard. He got a tongue lashing for sending Ben to do his dirty work before Christian told him it’s not too late. Ben, it seems, didn’t lock the donkey wheel back into its’ proper position after use. John had to finish pushing it. I hope it’s Ben’s “oversight” that’s been causing the time flashes. That’s a scene I can’t wait to see. I can hear Ben’s  I-totally-did-it-on-purpose “oops” now.

Locke’s departure made the I5 the I4. Sort of an odd crew we’re left with. Sawyer, Juliet, Miles and Faraday. Only one original Lostie. Wow. And, of course Rose, Bernard, and Vincent, where ever they might be. That, in fact, is my biggest question right now – where’d they go?

This was a much stronger episode than the last one. Death, murder, madness, history, lies, manipulations, Smokey, and One-Armed French Dude? Now, that’s what I call Lost.

Five out of five

-Jeremiah

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Nielsen TV Ratings: ©2009 The Nielsen Company.

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On last night’s episode we were able to hear once again the radio message that kept repeating the numbers over and over. You can listen to it on the audio player below:

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It sounds a lot to us like Hurley, what do you think?

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Here’s a new Q&A from LA Times with Rebecca Mader. Do NOT read it unless you have watched last night’s episode!

How did the producers break it to you that Charlotte was going to die?

I’ve known since June of ’08, because that’s when we negotiate contracts between seasons. Originally when I started on the show in August 2007, I was only supposed to do eight episodes. I ended up doing 20. I was on the show a lot longer than I thought I was going to be. A lot of it has to do with the writers strike. Less episodes in Season 4 meant back stories were compromised for the new people. I think that’s why my character carried into Season 5.

And how did you take it?

I was disappointed when I found out. When I got to the end of Season 4 and found out Charlotte had been born on the island, that was huge. So when I found out I was leaving, I was disappointed. Like all things, it’s for the best.

How much did they tell you about Charlotte initially?

When I first got the job, I was told nothing about my character. She’s an anthropologist and she’s tough; she’s a female Indiana Jones. That’s what I went into the show knowing. That’s all I knew all of Season 4, until the very end, when I learned I was originally from the island. I was on a break reading my script, and I said, “Bloody hell!”

It seems like the actors spend a lot of time just walking across the island. True?

[Lots of laughter] Traipsing. It’s a lot of traipsing. You have to do it a lot of times. First you walk up the hill, then you go down the hill, then you go back up the hill. By the end of the day, you don’t want to be on the hill anymore.

So many people who “die” on the show keep showing up. What’s your sense of how likely you are to return?

I may end up coming back in Season 6. Some people say, “You’ll be back!” If I’m not, never mind. If they turn around and ask me to come back, I’d be happy to do it.

Fans spend so much time obsessing over the clues on this show. How much time do the actors who make the show spend thinking over the creation of those clues?

[Laughter] I have to be careful how I answer this. I think they’re more concerned by what’s for lunch.

Source: LA Times

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Tell us what you thought about the episode!

Episode 5.05 “This Place Is Death”

Locke takes on the burden to stop the island’s increasingly violent shifts through time. Meanwhile, Ben hits a roadblock in his attempt to reunite the Oceanic 6.

Written by Edward Kitsis & Adam Horowitz.
Directed by Paul A. Edwards.

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