Faraday will be on the show!? Yes! And I love the dig on Ken and Barbie (aka Nikki and whats his name).

I am thrilled to see Lost up for “Outstanding Drama Series” but I was definitely expecting more.  Especially after that final scene with Juliet and Sawyer.  Hopefully the actors know how much we appreciate them.  And to the writers, directors, and everyone else that is lucky enough to be involved with the making of perhaps the best show ever on television.  *sigh*

Here are all the nominations this year.  I predict tons of nominations next year after the series finale (I shiver just writing those two words).
* Outstanding Drama Series

* Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series – Michael Emerson as Ben Linus

* Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series – Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse

* Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing For A Drama Series – Editors Stephen Semel, Mark Goldman, and Chris Nelson

* Outstanding Sound Mixing For A Comedy Or Drama Series (One Hour) – Production Sound Mixers Robert Anderson and Ken King, and Re-Recording Mixers Scott Weber and Frank Morrone
The 61st Primetime Emmy Awards will air September 20 on CBS.

Hi Friends!  I can’t believe Season Five is over.  It’s like when a relative (one that you like) comes to visit and at some point you are ready to get your house back but in another way you are sad to see them go.  I was thrilled to see the season play out and there wasn’t even one episode that I was disappointed with but I was also very sad for it to end, especially knowing we only have one season left!  Argh!  What will our new obsession be?

So for me I want to start with the Sawyer / Juliet scene at the hatch.  H-E-A-R-T-B-R-E-A-K-I-N-G.  I don’t cry for very many shows and that scene did it for me.  But I keep thinking of what our softened up 1977 Sawyer is going to become after this event.  Look out folks, you aint see nothing yet!  The sheriff is back in town and he’s got one hell of a chip on his shoulder!
  Ugh, the heartbreak!
  Way to go Juliet!  Push through the pain!

1.  So we know Jacob likes to weave rugs.  If anyone can read what is on this one that would be super cool and appreciated.  But the rug is always the same in the end, right, it’s just a rug.  Anything he learns in the making of the next one or does different is progress.  Just like what he says about people coming to the island.
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2.  Did Jacob catch a red herring?  The significance of that would be huge!  Or, it was just be amusing.
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3.  Black and white shirts.  How fitting.
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4.  Thank goodness Dan was so detailed regarding the bomb.  Maybe he had some sort of inkling that he may not be the one to do it or he knows how bad his memory is so that is why he was so very detailed.
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5.  Locke wants to kill the rest of the passengers from the Ajira flight, I assume.  He tells Richard that once they are done with Jacob that they need to “deal with them.”  How interesting.  Perhaps he knows that Ilana and the others are there to help Jacob.  I don’t like the new Locke anymore.

6. Frank being a “candidate” must have something to do with how Jacob will take form and speak to them after his death.  Ultimately, it’s going to be either Miles or Hurley, I think, that does the talking for him.  Heck, Hurley may even be able to get a game of chess going.

7.  It makes sense that Smokey, the man in black, and undead Locke are all the same entity.  Smokey came to Ben and told him he had to do whatever Locke told him.  duh!  Like killing Jacob.  Smokey was *reading* everyone on the island as it/he needed to find the right person that it/he could manipulate.  No wonder it didn’t kill Locke!  It wanted him for later use.

8.  Jacob didn’t kill Nadia, he actually saved Sayid from being killed.  He made Sayid pause before crossing and thus he didn’t get hit by the car that ran the red light.
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9.  Vincent!  Unfortunately, I’m sure that this will be the last time we’ll see this dog.  No back story. No more showing up when there’s trouble.  Unless… Jacob chooses Vincent to be his vessel around the island now that he’s dad.  That would be cool.
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10.  This is the last of Rose and Bernard, too.  But, I love that they found a loophole of their own.  They don’t play the game anymore, they just live.  They’ve embraced the island and it is what it is for them.  I would venture to say that they are the “Adam and Eve” that were found in the cave back oh so many seasons ago.  Too bad Sawyer and Juliet couldn’t have found the same Garden of Eden for themselves.
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11. The circle of Ash was broken from around Jacob’s cabin.  If memory serves, it was Locke that bent down and picked up some of the ash.  Perhaps that is when it was broken?

12.  Ilana’s eye opening.  It also kind of reminds me of Michael from the Halloween movies.  Eeeek!
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13.  Ilana didn’t just go back to the island to help Jacob.  She also made a little pit stop and nabbed Sayid to bring him back with her.  That is why I don’t think that Sayid will die from the gunshot nor will he did from the bomb.  Jacob needs him there for some purpose.

14.  Here is the part of the rug (I assume) that Jacob made at some point which Ilana knows already what it means.  I am hoping that we see some back story next year on their relationship.  Maybe she’s really old like Richard.
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15.  It’s interesting that they’re carrying around the big old cargo crate like it’s the Arc of the Covenant.  Did they really have to pick such a huge friggin’ box that took four guys to carry around the island?    I guess the writer’s couldn’t have used such blatant biblical imagery if they would have thrown him in a body bag or a knapsack.
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16.  Maybe it’s not the content of the book Jacob is reading that is important, but more about the author, “lead readers—whom she sees as, for the most part, spiritually lost in the modern, secular world—back toward the path of redemption.”
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17.  I miss Charlie!
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18.  Sun finding this ring makes me think back to when she (ironically) found her wedding ring in the sand.  How unlikely was that?  Perhaps some *divine* intervention helped her out there?

19.  The scene at the funeral of Sawyer’s parents, there is the sound of a large bird right before Jacob shows up.  Then, as he leaves you can hear the sound of a bird again (like a crow perhaps).  Could that be how Jacob gets around?  Remember the bird on the island that we thought sounded like it said “Hurley?  I keep thinking back to The Stand and in the book Randall Flagg gets around this way – he takes the shape of a bird.  Only, he’s the bad guy in that book and I like to think that Jacob is the good guy.

20.  I’m not liking that is was Jack’s dad that taught him about counting to five.  One of the most meaningful and life changing events and we find out that it was his dad who told him to do it.  Doesn’t seem as moving knowing this.  Oh, and Sawyer wanted just “five” minutes with Jack.  Lucky number I guess.

21.  Everyone that Jacob “touched” (except for Sun and Locke) were on the list of people that Jacob wanted from the survivors.  And, they are “coming” back from the past.  He somehow prepared them for this moment in the touches I think.

22.  The Sawyer and Jack fight was 5 seasons coming.  Glad they finally got that out of their systems … I hope.

23.  My bets are on Hurley for taking over as the leader of the Losties.  He was an indirect leader before (back on the beach Hurley had a subtle way of getting people to do things) and I can see him doing it again.  The war is coming between the black and white, the good and evil on the island and it doesn’t get much better than Hurley.  Plus, he’ll be able to talk to Jacob and what to do next.

24.  I loved the scene in the cab with Jacob and Hurley.  Someone to calmly tell him that he’s not crazy and getting to talk to those he lost is a blessing.  But I don’t believe that him coming back to the island was a choice.  Jacob knew once Hurley saw that guitar that he would go back (remember that Charlie told him that the people back on the island needed him).
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25.  The fact that Mrs Hawking and Jacob both were working to get the Losties on the plane and back to the island tells me that she is actually a “good” guy.

26.  Creepy Locke.  Nice shadowing on the face – black and white / light and dark.
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27.  Marvin Candle had a gimpy arm in the Dharma videos.  We see that during the *incident* that his arm gets trapped and Miles helps to free him.  So…. wouldn’t that mean that this event *has* happened before?  How likely is it that another event was the cause of hurting his arm? Like Miles said, Jack is creating the exact event that he thought he was preventing.  Free will be damned, this was meant to happen.
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28.   What if Jacob decides to take over the Locke body from the plane?  Locke versus Locke?  Like the old Spy versus Spy cartoons!
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29.  Jacob tells Ben that he has a choice – either to do what Locke asks or leave.  Kind of like he told Hurley he had a choice.  I don’t think Ben had much choice and Jacob knew it.  But Jacob won’t be dead in the spiritual sense.  Maybe he’ll even become one of the “whispers.”

30.  I think once Ben realizes next season that Jacob wasn’t the bad guy he’s going to have some big regrets.  Ben has been trusting and believing in Jacob for a very long time.  I’m sure he still cares about him in a sense too.

31.   If I were an actress and I knew I was going to be killed off of a show, I would ask for the exact death Juliet had.  That was amazing.  And she is an amazing actress.  Oh, and in the context of the show, I guess the island wasn’t done with her or she would have been so dead at the end of that fall.

32.  THE greatest season ender…. ever.
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33.   So where do we go from here?  It’s safe to say the Losties aren’t dead.  Matthew Fox did an interview after the finale and admitted that they weren’t dead.  But, from knowing this show there is no way that they will just suddenly appear back in regular time.  There will be a cool and interesting way that they are brought back.  Maybe they will be a big troop of Locke’s.  lol  Maybe they will be the whispers.  Maybe they will inhabit all the dead bodies around the island.

34.  Desmond had a small roll this season but truly I think Des is the one and only person who can truly be a variable in all of this.  Des is special.  Once he shows up then all bets are off.  Maybe ultimately Des will become the new Jacob in the end.

35.  Sayid will be alive.  He has to be.  Jacob saved him for a reason.

36.  Which side of the war will Richard chose?

37.  What does Locke need with all of the Others?  He told him that they would need rest to be ready for what he had prepared for them.  Which is what?

38.  We still don’t know what was in the box that Ben was hiding from Jack when he was in the hotel room.

39.  Walt *saw* Locke, in a suit, running from lots of people trying to kill him.  Will Locke rise again in Jack’s dad’s shoes?

40.  Will Walt return to the island?

41.  How will Claire come back into play?  Aaron is surely coming back as well.  Will Desmond’s vision of them leaving the island on a helicopter come true?

Wow. Now *THAT* is how you do a season finale.

So bittersweet.  Two hours of amazing tv but now the season is over for another 9 months.

1.  Why the big fancy metal box to carry around Locke’s dead body?  Whatever / Whoever has taken over Locke apparently doesn’t need the corpse to take his form.  Unless there is a twin out there of Locke.  I hate that it’s not Locke though.  I thought this guy had finally found his mojo but turns out he’s the man in black.

2.  I can’t help to think again to Stephen King and the bad guy he has running around (Randal Flagg, Walter, whatever you want to call him).  I’m thinking it’s the same “bad guy” concept that has a hold of Locke’s body and I also think it’s the same guy from the opening scene that wants to kill Jacob.

3.  We are back to our black and white theme.  Very first scene, Jacob has on white, the other guy has on black.

4.  I really want to stew on my thoughts of that opening scene.  If you’ve seen the 80’s movie “Clash of the Titans” then you’ll remember the scenes where the “gods” were moving the people around.  It almost reminds me of the opening scene.  It’s like Jacob brings people to the island out of some “power” he has.  I think maybe he is hoping that on one of the boats / planes that crashes someone will kill him and end the seemingly endless loop of events.  According to the man in black, they come, they fight but it always ends the same.

5.  Jacob seems like such a kind man.  He goes to each one of our Losties at an important moment of their life and is so gentle.  Except with Locke he actually brings him back to life after he falls out of the tree.  But, Jacob goes to each of the survivors which surely means there is a larger purpose for them.  And when they crash on the island Jacob makes the list of who he wants from the survivors.

6.  Jacob must want Sawyer to finish the letter.  He gives him a pen.

7.  Should Jack really be carrying the inner part of the bomb around on his back?

8.  I think that Richard is suspicious of the *new* Locke.  He keeps staring at him (or so Locke keeps pointing out) and even says he’s different.  But Jack tells Richard that he shouldn’t give up on Locke so I think that Richard might be second guessing his suspicions.

9.  So Eloise is their leader.  Richard says so when he makes Jack and Sayid go ahead of him through the Dharma houses.

10.  I’m not clear on what Frank might be a “candidate” for according to Ilana.  Guess we’ll have to wait until next year to see.  Maybe a new *body* for Jacob to inhabit?

11.   Hurley is a rock star in that van.  How many times can he be a hero driving that thing into dangerous situations.

12.  I love Rose and Bernard.  I truly hope that they leave those two exactly where they are.  Give someone some happiness people!!!

13.  “It’s always something with you people.”  I agree with Rose.  They can’t just sit still and live a calm life, they are always shooting at someone.  But I guess it would make for one boring show if they didn’t.

14.  Ilana has her face wrapped and all we see is her eye.  We haven’t had an eye opening for awhile.  When Jacob comes to her in the hospital she obviously knows him.  What must he ask for her help with?  I’m thinking it’s to stop the man in black from whatever evil he’s spreading.  Maybe she is one of the good guys.

15.  AND, if Jacob wasn’t the one in the cabin then there are some people on the island who have been talking to the evil / black spirit on the island.  And, Claire was in the cabin so she is somehow involved with him.

16.  Book that Jacob is reading, Flannery O’Conner “Everything That Rises Must Converge.”

17.   The first time that Ben took Locke to the cabin the man in the black shirt is the one who asked Locke to help him.  I don’t think that Jacob was there at all.  And I think Richard knew that.

18.  I was sad when Sun found Charlie’s ring in the baby cradle.  Made me miss Charlie for one and for another I missed the old, more simple days of the show.  Charlie gave his life so that Claire and Aaron can leave the island and I still think that we will see that happen.

19.  Maybe Jacob going to all the important events was like Dan going to Charlotte as a little girl.  He’s trying to subtly influence their behavior and thus change the course of events and therefore breaking the loop.

20.  I think it’s cute that Jacob is the little old lady who lived in a shoe.

21.  I thought that it was going to be Jacob that actually put the woman back together during Jack’s surgery.  Such a poignant moment in his life that I’m glad Jacob didn’t heal her.  But, we can see that both Jack and Jacob like Apollo bars.  I’m not clear yet on what his role was in that scene.

22.  Sawyer is 100% right, a man does what he does because he wants something.  But, I don’t think that Jack is trying to change the future because of Kate alone.  I think it’s all of his regrets collectively that he wants to change.

23.  The Jack and Sawyer fist fight was five seasons coming.  I think they needed to have it out once and for all.

24.  Juliette learned early about being in love but not being with that person that you love.  The scene with her as a little girl was a wee bit cheesy though.

25.  Jacob wanted Hurley to have Charlie’s guitar.  But I love that out of everyone, he only straight talks Hurley.  And he also reassures Hurley that he’s not crazy but rather that he’s blessed because he has the ability to talk to his dead friends.

26.  Sayid will live.  Killing of Juliet (as I thought she would be) was the sacrifice for the season.  They can’t also take him away from us.  They just can’t!

27.  I don’t think that the man in Locke has the capability of killing Jacob.  Having Ben do it is the loop hole he had been looking for.  But I’m also not convinced that Jacob didn’t want to die.  He doesn’t do anything to make Ben feel better about not seeing him all those years.

28.  Notice the black and white shadows on Locke and Jacob’s faces in Jacob’s foot/house?  Ben doesn’t have the shadows but the two of them do.  Will have to screen cap.

29.  Yeah Miles!  Finally pointing out what we’ve been thinking.  That the Losties are actually causing the event that they think they are preventing.

30.  So the scene at the Swan construction site was crazy intense, once the bomb actually went off that is.  Like when Locke first let the numbers run out and all the metal started coming.  Miles saving his dad.  And of course the Juliet in the tunnel scene.  OMG, heart wrenching!  I was very teary eyed in that scene.  You can also believe that Locke is not going to take losing her well.  If he was bad before then he’s going to be totally off the charts now.  I can see him blaming Kate and Jack for her death since he seems to think that they had a very happy life until they came back.

31.  Yes, Juliet waking up at the bottom of the tunnel was unrealistic but if the island wasn’t done with her then it makes sense that she lived in order to set the bomb off.

32.  Anyone able to translate what Richard says lies in the shadow of the statue?

34.  I really hate that it’s not *our* Locke running around the island.

35.  Jacob says “They’re Coming.”  I think that he means the O6.  They *were* meant to come back and I think it’s to stop the dark man that has taken over Locke.  That is their purpose.

36.  Elizabeth Mitchell has to be beyond pleased with the way they wrote her character off of the show.  Sure, it sucks that she’s gone but if you are going to go, THAT is the way to do it!

37.  I also was moved with the flash that Lost’s final season is next year.  What!  Can it be true?  I knew that was coming as well but it’s going to be such a bittersweet season.

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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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7.  So we answered the question of how Richard knew when to come and help Locke but now we don’t know how Locke new 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.
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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.
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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.
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14.   “We’re not alone here and we all know it!”  Oh wait, wrong season.
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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!
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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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OK, so who is the leader?  Looks like we’re back to Jack and Locke leading the packs.  Will be veeeery interesting when they hit the “present” to see who does what when new and improved Jack meets up with new and improved Locke.

1.  Too much dead Dan for me tonight.  It’s bad enough they killed him, I didn’t need multiple dead body shots.

2. OK, so I may lose people here but I want Kate gone.  I know why they keep her … because she’s the wrinkle in the plan (always, ugh she drives me crazy) but wow, Sawyer had a real shot at happiness.  Come on Darlton, you can’t just give *someone* happiness on this show?  I could totally see Sawyer and Juliet running off and making a nice life for themselves. Geesh, even in real life once in a while a guy can catch a break.  Guess the island isn’t done with him.

3.  I know why Locke has to kill Jacob.  Locke now believes that he had to be *killed* in order to be set free.  Jacob asked Locke to help him.  Locke’s way to help Jacob is to *kill him* in order to set Jacob free as well.  How will he do it, who know exactly but I have a feeling he needs the whole gang there in order to make it happen.  I really doubt that Locke wanted everyone to meet Jacob.  He needs their help and couldn’t just come out and ask them now could he.

4.  I love it, 30 years later and Locke is back on the beach carrying around a dead boar just like he started at the beginning of this show.  The irony of them on the beach didn’t escape me.

5.   So Richard is an adviser of sorts.  Adviser to who exactly?  I think that Richard plays a similar role that Abbadon played in that he is there to help people get to where they need to go.  Richard helps them stay on course or on the right “record” if you will.

6.   Did you catch Ben at the end tell Richard that he “TRIED” to kill Locke?  Either Ben is denying the truth (which why would he to Richard) or that sneaky little you-know-what is playing Locke right to where he wants him to go.  Not sure where that is yet but remember dear friends that Mr Ben Linus *always* has a plan.

7.   Richard thinks that he saw Jack and the others die back in 1977.  I’m holding on to the idea that someone (Juliet) will somehow move them forward in time just at the right second before the bomb goes off.  So of course Richard thinks that they die.

8.   Compass points them North.  Again with the North.

9.  BRILLIANT writing getting Richard back to the plane right at the exact second that Locke would flash with his injured leg.  I am in awe tonight, ok so most nights, but completely 100% in awe of the writing on this show.  To think that scene through from these various angles took some serious brain power.  Bravo Paul Zbyszewski & Elizabeth Sarnoff.  Bravo to the writers who also led up to this epi.

10.   Oh no not again.  Sawyer getting beat up.  He’s totally going to get back at Radzinsky, I’m sure of it.

11.   And hello, remember in Season One that Sawyer gets beat up by a “genuine Iraqi Soldier.”  He can surely handle a few blogs from a pasty guy living on an island.

12.  Ok, and here’s another flash back.  Sawyer would have completely left Hurley behind just a few short seasons ago.  Now Hurley says that they can’t leave him because Sawyer would never leave them behind.  Oh really?

13.   Best line of the night.  Pierre/Marvin comes in the jungle questioning Hurley, Miles and Jin about where they are going and who they are.  Hurley says, “But we asked you first.”  LOLs

14.   So Locke sends Richard over to help “past” Locke and his injured leg.  Locke knows he has to convince his “past” self to die and come back to the island.  He also knows that his past self needs some medical attention.  Wouldn’t it be cool if you could watch an event in your life and send one of your buddies to help you and convince you to do the right thing?  Another variable perhaps?

15.   Richard comes out from the pond into the tunnel and has fire.  Where did it come from?

16.  OMG, get Kate away from Sawyer.  And how many times must Kate come trying to save the day and ends up muddying the waters instead?  She has turned into Jack.  Always trying to fix things and sometimes things don’t need fixing!
17.  Locke gave his word to Sun that he would help to unite her with Jin and I think he will.  It may be on his terms and on his time but I do think he’ll help.

18.  Yeah, Sayid is back!  He always makes a dramatic entrance.  I guess they’re paying him enough they better bring him back on screen.  Plus he’s such a bad a$$ Jack will probably need him to help with the bomb.

19.  I’m curious where Sawyer drew the map to.  I’m thinking that it’s somewhere that will either hurt or kill Radzinsky.

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.

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.
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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.
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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.
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10.  Looks like Bram knows how to get back and forth to the island and is working on the same “team” as Ilana.
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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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Hoth, check it out here.  Freaking amazing that they can work this stuff into the show.  I just hope that this doesn’t open the door to all of those theories that they are on some distant planet.

1.   Wow, did Mile’s mom in the opening look like an older Sun or what?

2.  The numbers are back in full force.  Opening scene, 316 on the microwave.  Room Mr Vonner is in, #4, Sawyer is on screen #4.  Sector 334.  Can’t wait to see the source of the serial number for The Hatch (the famous original numbers).
3.   Sawyer tells Miles that he “owes him one” for erasing the security video.  But, since Miles kind of messed up his job I wonder how that will play into the relationship with Sawyer and Miles.  Now he owes him one in another way.

4.   It looks to me like workers who have “accidents” at the Hatch construction site get taken to the Orchid to be experiments for the Donkey Wheel.  Why send live people when you can shoot dead bodies through it.  Sure, you don’t know what happens on the other side, but you can see what happens on the Island end of things.

5.   Alvarez didn’t get a bullet hole in his head digging the ditch.  Remember the magnetism in the hatch (think Sayid’s cross)?  I think that it pulled the filling out of his mouth and through his head.  Oopsies!  Horace is also talking to Pierre and says that he “doesn’t know if it was caused by the electromagnetism.”
6.  I’m digging the punk Miles with the spiked hair and the piercings.

7.  Miles has daddy issues.  No wonder he fits in with the Losties.  I’m not convinced that Pierre kicked Miles and his mother out when he was a baby.  I’m thinking that Pierre may have known that that the Hostiles would take them over or something bad was coming and actually saved them by making them leave the island.
8.   I’m also convinced that Pierre knows that adult Miles is his son.  We’ve been told that Pierre knows about time travel and remember the video from Comic Con?  He knows it’s possible and doesn’t seem the least bit surprised when Hurley points out that they have the same name.

9.  Having Hurley back on screen was a very welcome sight.  He’s hilarious and I love that he asks so many questions.  And re-writing The Empire Strikes Back?  Excellent!

10.   Maybe Hurley isn’t so crazy afterall, that he can talk to dead people and play games with dead people.  His gift is just a little bit *different* then Miles’. But what I want to know is why Hurley never talks to Libby?
11.   Mr Gray is the brother-in-law from Breaking Bad.  For anyone that hasn’t seen that show you must go immediately and rent a coyp and watch season one.

12. Oh boy, back to whiney Kate.  I agree, she needs to keep her mouth shut about Ben.  It’s nice that she feels bad for Roger, but she helped to save his son so can’t she take any relief in that?  She’s meddling where she needs to just back off (take a tip from Jack, Katester).

13.   I guess we can see where Miles gets his sense of humor from.  Pierre tells Hurley to keep quiet or he’ll be shoveling polar bear turds on Hydra Island.  But that douche is Miles’ dad.  Some great lines tonight.

14.  Looks like a major reveal tonight.  Widmore was the one who purchased the plane and sunk it in the ocean to look like 815.

15.   Jack in the classroom – erasing the information about Egypt on the blackboard.  Considering hieroglyphics are Egyptian, I would like to know why they are teaching the kids about the culture and what it has to do with the island.

16.   Jack defends Kate to Roger.  How sweet.  *cough, cough*

17.   Guess we also know now why Miles asked Ben (when Ben was captive) for $3.2 million.  He wants the money not to turn him in to Widmore’s people.
18.  OK, how does all of this huge construction equipment get to the island?

19.   Hm, shadow of the statue riddle again.  Makes me think that Ilana (with the same riddle) is working for Ben.

20.   Uh oh, Juliet’s in a red shirt.  Not a good sign for her.

21.   Remember the eye from the cabin that appears when Hurley is there?  I’m thinking that was Pierre.  I’m starting to think that Pierre might actually be Jacob.  If not, then he’s in that cabin for some reason.

22.   DAN!!!  I was just as glad to see Dan as I was when Locke came back.  But what the heck was he doing in Ann Arbor, hanging out with the Degroots?  And now that Dan is back, he can help the Losties get back to modern time and probably causing the “incident” in the meantime.  AND!  The tie is gone!

23.  The 100th episode.  Dang!

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.

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.
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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.
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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.
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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 Keemey’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!
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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!

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.