So I was thinking more on this Flash Forward thing. Then I wondered if there is a support group for Lost fans such as me. There is. It’s called blogging. The Fuselage is my fix. Lots of links there to feed my fury even more (she says as she maniacally rubs her hands together). Blogging helps the lostaddicts (sounds like lost a dick, not so good but I’m a girl so who cares) deal with our issues. Brings us together so to speak. I’m hearing crickets here, so maybe not so much.

So my title’s aren’t always witty. Maybe never.

1. OK, so where did Locke get the crossword puzzles? Was he scavenging Sawyers “stuff?’ Would Desmond have such pop culture material lying around? Anyone slow down and scan any other questions on the page he was working on?
2. Locke was working on item #42. Something about Enkido’s friend. The answer was Gilgamesh. Did some research and turns out Gilgamesh was some mythological king and Enkido was sent by the “gods” in answer to Gil.’s people’s prayers to “tame” his arrogance. Gil. And Enk. End up friends but in the end Enk. Dies. There are some parallels being drawn to Lock and Eko but I’m not sure this isn’t just a red herring thrown in by our friends, the writers.
3. Ana’s mother was the captain of the police force. Another mother issue to go with our theme this season. Ana was a “to be” mother.
4. Numbers: 8 Adam 16 (Ana’s call number on her police car), 3 blocks to the crime. 4 bullets. Ana was shot 6 times. 4 left from the tail section.
5. My theory: Ana shoots Jason (revenge). She realizes that her cop days are done and resigns from the “force.” She takes on being a bounty hunter. This would make sense with her personality. Heck, she just came back from being shot and her baby killed and throws a tantrum when mommy doesn’t want her to jump right back on the street. So let’s say Ana gets a bounty on Kate. Makes sense she would follow her to Australia. Maybe she is so happy in the airport because she was a cohort of the marshal and ½ the reward for Kate is probably still good money.
6. Here’s an idea: What if the guy that Ana shoots (Jason) turns out to be the “wrong guy?” Maybe this will give her a connection to Sawyer (remember, he gets a false lead and shoots the wrong guy, too).
7. Did you notice that Ana was shot in “Echo Park?”
8. I think we are going to see this week that Kate’s crime is what I have been saying since last season – she killed her dad in a mercy killing, but with poison. Again, a clue when we see her with Sawyer and she knows how to get the dying man to take the pill. Those of you who I’ve chatted with weekly know that there are many examples to make us think Kate killed her dad (the only man she ever loved, per her words) but I think that she was misunderstood and “everyone” thinks that she just murdered him in cold blood. When we see the scene this week where Sawyer wakes up and grabs her it could be two things: 1) He is just hallucinating. Or 2) The reason Kate looks in the bottle is because she confessed her “crime.” Sawyer, being the funny guy he is, read all the notes. He knows Kate “killed” her dad and freaks (much like her mom did) when he wakes and finds her hovering over him. I could see her note: “ I killed my father out of mercy and love. Please understand…” or something like that.
8. Did you notice that Jason was wearing a red shirt when Ana shot him?
9. I wonder if we’ll see Ana’s back-story with her boyfriend Danny? I didn’t catch much, if anything, about him and wonder if there is a crossover there with our survivors.
10. Off subject: I just learned that the hotel owned by Sun’s father was called “The Swan.”
11. BYW, epi 2.11 is called “The Hunting Party.” I think that the two groups join here to hunt down Walt and the other children that were taken. This is supposed to be Jack-centric, which I have a hard time believing since we’ve got a lot of other characters yet to explore this season.
12. Ana’s partner (the actor) is also listed for this week’s epi, What Kate Did. Does he perhaps arrest her or we are surely going to see crossover!
13. Upcoming epi for Eko to be called “ The 23rd Psalm.” Better get reading! Supposed to reveal why Eko is so religious (duh!).
14. Is there more to the Jack/Ana Lucia relationship? My sis thinks there is a possibility that Jack and Ana could have been playing some sort of romantic “game” in pretending they didn’t know each other in the airport. Was the look at the end of last week disbelief? I don’t think so but there is “always” room for speculation and far-fetchedness (is that a word) in this show!
15. OK, I’m now reading that the writers are telling us we are also seeing some flash forwards. Wha … ??? So maybe some of them do escape the island, is that what they are telling us? Does this now cause me to go on Zoloft to slow down the enormity of the theories that I could create with this information? (lol) Ana did tell Sayid that they never caught Jason… maybe in her new training as a bounty hunter she tracked him down (FLASH FORWARD) and killed him.
16. I’m thinking that we are going to see that Eko was a priest. Perhaps his brother stole his garb and it was him up in the tree from the drug plane (remember, Locke and Boone stumble across the “priest” in the tree?).

The episode aired on Wed. and at first my excuse was that I was tired. Here it is SUNDAY and I am still obsessing and reading about various ideas and observations. I have formally decided that I cannot possibly find everything about The Other 48 Days. So here are some of my thoughts…

1. I found it interesting that the producers labeled the days for us. Why? They have been evasive so far about creating ANY type of timeline, why give us one now? Are they trying to create a parallel for us between the ways the two groups organized themselves during this time? I just don’t see the point in doing this now.
2. Libby says on day one that she went through a year of med school. Why tell us this? Because the producers know that we are out there going, “Hey, we already know she is a psychologist, how does she know how to dress a wound?” Or are we going to see a possible crossover with Jack?
3. Remember the guy who Libby fixes his leg? His RIGHT leg? (Recurring theme, for those of you who haven’t been in all of my other threads).
4. Where did the chicken come from? We have seen boar (makes sense on an island), polar bears (exotic, possible talk of a circus plane crashing on island), but a chicken? A domestic animal? Cluckety Cluck!
5. Poor Canada … getting such a bad rap on this show. Ethan said he was Canadian. Nathan says he was too. Libby says something about being in Canada for a company retreat.
6. We still don’t know who gave Nathan the banana when he was in the hole. We are led to believe it was Eko because he doesn’t want to see him starve, but we don’t know. And where did the banana come from? This was on day 23 so wouldn’t a banana on the flight be looking pretty brown by now? If you left bananas on your counter just sitting there for 23 days they would be brown, let alone through a plane crash and tossed around on an island.
7. I am sure everyone saw the door to the tailies hatch said “Quarantine.”
8. The box they find in the hatch. Seems like the items in the box were more military-esque than what we saw in Desmond’s compound. Blankets, a bible, a glass eye (HUH?), and a radio. Why a radio? Desmond didn’t have one (that we know of). Is this where the Army knife came in? I don’t suspect much about the knife right now because anyone can go to Army surplus stores.
9. The glass eye. The only theory I have, and I found this on thefuselage.com, is that it belongs to Marvin Crandle. BUT, we have seen many episodes start with an eye so maybe it is just a token to those on the island from whoever has put them there. Much like some people would carry a cross, a Buddha, a troll doll. Just kidding. Plus, speaking of eyes, there is much speculation out there that Eko was blind before the crash. Much like Locke, he found something mystical and healing on the island.
10. I have seen SO FREAKING much out there on all of the religious symbolism of 40. Here are a few: God gave Moses a staff and he was on an exodus through the desert for 40 years. Mr. Eko carries a staff, he did not speak for 40 days, Eko (or I have seen EK) is the biblical abbreviation for Exodus. The 40 days of Lent are a significant period. Noah floated in his ark for 40 days and nights; the chosen people wandered in the desert for 40 years, Jonah led the citizens of Nineveh through 40 days of penance. In the Eastern Orthodox Church when someone dies you mourn for 40 days also. Was Eko not speaking in honor of those that died? 40 days is also when it used to be considered that a soul enters a fetus in pagan religions…. Moses fasted for 40 days before receiving the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai. Jesus spent 40 days fasting in the wilderness in preparation for his ministry. Allah, the Most Exalted, the Most Glorified, has stated this fact in the Qur’aan: During the first 40 days of gestation, all the body parts and organs are completely, though consecutively, formed.
11. The magic bullet theory. JFK conspirators take note! We have witnessed another instance of a single magic bullet! How could Ana Lucia POSSIBLY have shot Shannon? MAYBE you could have convinced me at the end of last weeks show, but now that I have seen the previews for next week, I cannot accept that one bullet shoots Shannon and then goes on to shoot a warning shot at Sayid. Do we see the shot actually come from Ana Lucia? We DO when she shoots at Sayid in the preview but never when Shannon is “shot.” Maybe Sawyer comes out of his near death state to tell everyone that there was only one bullet, in essence saving her from being an outcast from the group, even as much as he seems to hate her. But, Michael did know that there was only one bullet because he and Sawyer have the discussion on the raft and again when they are in the hole.
12. Also, on this note, if you pause the scene where she supposedly shoots Shannon you can see a bloody knife stuck in a tree. Could Shannon have been stabbed first?
13. Black and White. We see this theme again. Bernard and Rose. Locke and Eko (who, from reading about upcoming episodes, befriend one another).
14. I need to go back and watch this, but it is being said that when the tailies find their hatch you can see the radio tower behind the hatch.
15. Why didn’t the tailies hear any whispers before they went to the other side of the island? Why didn’t they see the smoke? What about the “monster” and the rain? They didn’t know that the whispers meant the others were near, but Sayid did because he has heard them before (remember his quest when he found Danielle?). Could it be much like we have two groups from Flight 815 that there are two groups of “others?” Yes, the “others” did attack our group, much like they did to the tailies. But the “others” killed the original group members because they wanted Claire back. The “others” that attacked the tailies did not kill, they just took the people.
The conversation with Goodwin and Ana Lucia was also very interesting. When she asks him why the “others” would keep attacking them if they were good, he states that maybe they aren’t attacking them. I wondered last season if when they took Walt they were taking him somewhere to “protect him” from the sickness, perhaps? Goodwin also states that they are choosing whom to take because they are Good. Does that mean that our original group is not good, except for Claire and Walt?
16. I saw the way the tailies landed on the island as a type of baptism in the water. Just symbolism.
17. It makes sense that Bernard strapped himself in when he was going to the restroom. But, how did he end up in tact, still strapped in, in his seat after the crash? The rest were thrown and in the water.
18. If Nathan was not an Other, what WAS he doing out in the woods for 2 hours? WAS he an Other? Maybe Goodwin knew that Nathan would have hurt Ana Lucia and he was in some weird way protecting her? He did seem to be a little flirty with her. Or, maybe Goodwin was worried that if Ana Lucia cut off his finger that Nathan would rat him out as well as tell all of their secrets, including where the children were?

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As promised, here are my (continued, for my work friends) thoughts from last week’s Lost “Abandoned.”

1. Wondering what Walt was saying to Shannon? ‘’They’re coming and they’re close.'’ (backwards)

2. What if it was DANIELLE that killed Shannon? She had access to a gun. What if she shoots Shannon and runs. Ana Lucia could have been standing there ready to shoot Danielle but doesn’t take her shot. Everyone thinks it’s Ana Lucia, maybe they don’t see Danielle as she does know the forest. It’s an interesting set up because everyone will just know that they heard a shot and Ana Lucia has a gun. What will save her butt is when Sawyer wakes up and he tells everyone that there was only one bullet. Of course, then Ana Lucia will produce the gun and show them one bullet.

3. Danielle did warn Sayid to watch his group for anyone acting strange. Maybe she saw Shannon running around and was somehow “protecting” Sayid in her mind. We did see some odd POV shots last week and my sister made the comment that it was like someone was watching them. I kept thinking someone was going to jump from out of the trees the way they kept framing Sayid and Shannon in the shots. Danielle probably heard the whispers as did everyone out in the forest and thought Shannon was one of the others.

4. Maybe Sayid DID see Danielle shoot Shannon. That would explain the look on his face. Maybe the reaction we see in the previews from Ana Lucia is from her grief knowing she could have saved Shannon but didn’t take the shot. This could lead to her flashbacks as a cop. OR Danielle used something else to kill Shannon and Ana Lucia DID take the shot at Danielle. OR Danielle kills Shannon and almost simultaneously Ana Lucia shoots Danielle to stop her. Danielle is laying on the ground but Sayid looks up and only sees Ana Lucia. Lots of possibilities but I would guess that this somehow leads back to Ana Lucia’s days as a cop and how she thinks she should have saved someone. Maybe the cross over is that she arrests Kate!

5. Previews from this week’s show a clip on the beach after The Other’s had just taken some of the survivors (tail enders), and Ana Lucia finds a paper on the beach that The Others had left behind. What if it was a list with all their names on it. Maybe the tailenders weren’t supposed to survive and that is why they are killing them. OR maybe they are checking of the children or survivors that they need.

Here are synopsis of the next upcoming episodes:

The Other 48 Days
* Scheduled airdate: November 16, 2005
* Flashback: Tail-section survivors
The harrowing first 48 days in the lives of the tail section survivors are revealed. Source: ABC
Matthew Fox revealed that this episode will not feature any of the season 1 cast. Source: E!

Collision
* Scheduled air date: November 23, 2005
* Flashback: Ana-Lucia Cortez
Violence erupts when Ana-Lucia and her group stumble upon the other castaways. Includes a character called “Old Nick”, played by Garry Jackson.

What Kate Did
* Scheduled air date: November 30, 2005
* Flashback: Kate Austen
Kate’s original crime that started her life on the run is revealed. Meanwhile, the survivors lay one of their own to rest, Kate sleeplessly watches over a feverish Sawyer, and Mr. Eko has a surprise for Locke regarding the hatch. Locke and Eko make an interesting discovery about the film, and Michael has a mysterious encounter with the computer.

Merged
* Scheduled air date: December 14, 2005
This episode has some big questions answered. It shows flashbacks of the island. Yes, the island and tells you how the hatch came to be, what will happen if the ‘numbers’ aren’t typed into the computer, and how the ‘others’ came on the island.
Source: E!

The Hunting Party
* Scheduled air date: January 11, 2006

Vindication
* Scheduled air date: January 18, 2006

Here is a link to a strange Lost promo video that was shown in Europe: http://video.google.com/videoplay?do…q=title%3Alost