5 X 07: The Life and Death Of Jeremy Bentham
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.
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2. Here are some screenshots of the Life Magazine Cesar leafs through, but I’m not convinced it’s not just a red herring.
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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.
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4. I wonder if Locke noticed that he wasn’t wearing his own shoes?
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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.
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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.
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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:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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19. Haha, I’m watching the next scene and here are the four toes again. I think it’s just funny more than meaningful.
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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.
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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.
March 1st, 2009 at 7:54 am
It’s the first theory from me since the beginig of Lost, but it is an idea that came to my mind, after watching all these shots of yours, of Lock’s four-fingered foot. You say that it is funny more than meaningful, but what if this statue-foot is indeed Lock’s and has been built years, perhaps centuries ago (considering the time travelling), when Lock was the leader of the ancient civilization that inhabited this island.
Just a thought..
keep blogging
March 2nd, 2009 at 1:15 pm
Ok, so this post doesn’t really have a point…but I was riding on the couch riding out a snowstorm yesterday, watching the Ben Stiller/Edward Norton movie Keeping the Faith. There is one part where they are in a music store buying a Karaoke machine. The salesman looked awefully familiar…but I coudn’t quite place him. Then it hit me….It was Miles!! Like I said, no point at all, just thought it was funny.
March 2nd, 2009 at 4:06 pm
GG, your Helen ideas got me thinking.
Suppose the time travel does continue in some capacity on the island. At this point, I think this much is a given. Knowing that there is a so-called “magic box” that can give you whatever you want on the island…is it possible that, at some point after Locke returns to the island, but in a time before he originally visited the cemetery (say, 2005), she appears on the island courtesy of the “magic box”? We already know the island is capable of giving John people from his past. And what might be the only thing missing from John’s life (once he’s back)? Helen. Imagine John getting to bring Helen to the island, only to have something tragic happen (like with Charlotte). A brain aneurysm due to violent shifts in time. She dies. Somehow her body is brought back to the real world and buried in 2006…before John ever originally saw it. Ties up neatly, wouldn’t you say?
It’s a big stretch, but when I started thinking about it, it seemed plausible.
March 2nd, 2009 at 5:15 pm
GG, I like #16 about how maybe Jack thinks he “persuaded” Locke to kill himself. I never thought of it that way.
I also was not satisfied with how much of Jeremy Bentham’s life we saw. I think the whole thing in the will about him being survived by a teenage son is something that Widmore put in there to make him seem like a normal person. unless maybe Locke does have a son and nobody knows about it. Maybe that will come into light but i don’t think it will have enough time to go anywhere.
Alex G., that’s a good thought. Maybe he has something to do with Helen’s death but just doesn’t know it. But would someone who comes to the island in that way be that effected by the time flashes.
Something i want to know is–are Sun and Lapidus the ones who were shooting at the sawyer and co. or do the shooters think that’s who sawyer and co. are? That’s of course assuming that the woman Lapidus sailed off with is Sun.
April 20th, 2009 at 5:11 am
#19 lmao
but of course with all this time travel, who knows. i can just see locke of all people going wayyyy back in time and becoming the “god” for some ancient people. haha