5 X 11: Whatever Happened, Happened
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.
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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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…
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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?
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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!!!!
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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.
April 4th, 2009 at 11:20 pm
Man I’m excited for next week!
April 5th, 2009 at 9:15 am
Hi G
I don’t comment much, but I read your blog after every episode – alot of good comments and theories. After last night’s episode, I have a new theory of my own. When Eko looked into Smokey, I think the images that he saw were souls that smokey collected. If you’ve ever read Stephen King’s book “Pet Semetary”, you’ll remember that if someone was buried in the ancient burial ground, they “came back to life”, but they were different.., soulless, evil. When Danielle’s crew went down the “hole” by the temple, they emerged different.., evil. What if Smokey collects souls? That would explain why the “others” of season 1 & 2 were only collecting the “good” people. Maybe Smokey isn’t interested in any “bad” souls.
I love this show
April 5th, 2009 at 11:09 am
Locke also looked into the eyes of the island (aka Smokey) and he says what he saw was beautiful. Smokey judges them. I have thought for awhile that Smokey has some type of electricity or energy that stimulates their brain and memories. Smokey will judge Ben next week, too.
But you are right, something down there changed Robert.
April 5th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
#2 – the north is masonically called a place of darkness
#14 – he answers to jacob!
April 5th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
Dane, are you *sure* Richard answers to Jacob? Do we have anything so far to support that? Ben goes to Jacob for answers but we haven’t seen Richard indicate yet that he follows anyone. That is the beauty of this show, you don’t know what’s around the next corner.
April 5th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
We do know one thing about Richard. I did mention this before, that he doesn’t always follow the orders of the leader. He didn’t consult Widmore or Ellie about Ben. He also side stepped Ben when he gave that folder on Sawyer to Locke so Locke could convince Sawyer to kill his father.
I’ve been thinking about this too with all the Biblical references in this show. Remember back when Juliet got in trouble and they “marked” her with that symbol on her back? In the Bible, when Cain kills Abel, God “marks” him and condemns him to wander the earth forever. I think there were a couple others in the Bible who were also condemned to walk the earth forever, but I can’t really remember. So I’m wondering, maybe Richard has such a mark and he is one of those who has been condemed by God to live forever. Maybe he has to right his wrongs? Just another theory.
I wondered about Claire’s monther’s miraculous recovery as well. It happened just in time for her to attend Christian’s funeral and tell Jack about his sister.
About smokey. Whenever we see him, the sounds he makes sound like a combination of electric, mechanical and animal. Way back when we first hear smokey in season 1, Rose says it sounds familar and someone answers, where are you from. I’ve always tried to identify what those sounds remind me of that would make them familiar. But what if those sounds are familar to Rose not because she heard them in the real world, but because she heard them “on the island?” Maybe as a child? It would have had to be an earlier time than 1977, because at that point in time, Rose would have been a younger adult. Or Rose could have had dreams about the island like Locke did. Remember when Richard visits Locke as a child and there’s that drawing on the wall of smokey ripping someone’s head off? Widmore mentions dreams to Ben when Ben sneaks into his bedroom and asks him about the scotch and why it’s there – Widmore answeres, he has had it there since the nightmares began. He says it in a way as if he knows Ben would understand why. Is Ben having nightmares too?
To Cassidy and Sawyer. Don’t forget that Sawyer was given a choice. He could take Cassidy’s money and leave her, or they could both get a bullet in the head. Sawyer never was the type to explain his actions. His past has always made him a loner. I think he was freed from that when he killed Locke’s father, the burden he’s been carrying around since he was a child. I think that changed Sawyer the same as Jack was changed when he learned of Locke’s death. I think Kate was changed by taking on Aaron and so establishing roots.
April 6th, 2009 at 11:02 am
I think of Richard as a guide/helper of sorts; someone who delivers the message or will help, but isn’t there to judge or answer to anyone. A sexy angel?
I don’t know if the smoke monster is good or evil, but a friend of mine came up with an interesting theory – what if the island (smokey) is bad and Ben is being judged for being good – I know it’s strange and Ben hasn’t exactly been earning Boy Scout badges, but it would be a twist.
April 7th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
maybe smokey is richard in human form, if he goes into the temple, does that mean his soul has already been taken by smokey or that he is immune to smokey or that they are one in the same? just a thought. all of danielle’s crew were changed, so why not richard unless they are connected in a special way
April 7th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
Anne: I was thinking about what you wrote. What if Ben managed to throw off smokey’s influence. Maybe that’s why the Others were so eager to have him replaced because they knew he was no longer one of them. But for some reason, Ben is still bound by the “rules” and that’s why he must come back to be judged by smokey.
April 8th, 2009 at 12:14 am
Jacob is connected with smokey. I’m sure of it. I don’t know to what extent it is, but he is. The writers basically told us this in the episode where Jack has to turn off the smoke detector and then Christian is sitting right there.
April 8th, 2009 at 1:52 am
We know Locke is there to take Ben’s place as leader of the Others. I think I said this before, that Jack may be there to take Jacob’s place.
April 20th, 2009 at 6:08 am
#14 – Who does Richard answer to? It’s been postulated in other places, here’s one just for example:
http://www.lost.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5903
Link references Richard being similar/same to Roman soldier who pierced Christ’s side with a spear and was then doomed to live forever. So, in Lost mythology perhaps Richard is the one who “killed” Jacob… and now is forced to serve all those that can then communicate with Jacob. When there is not a “Ben” or a “Locke” around, Richard just has to keep the Others together and either search out or wait for his next master.