What did they die for? I was thinking back to Season 2 (I think) when Locke had Ben trapped in the “safe” with Sayid.  Jack tried going to stop Sayid from torturing Ben.  Locke stopped him and said something to the effect that anything happening behind that door was necessary because they are in a war.  My point being, everyone being brought to the island and perhaps even their deaths is part of that same war – the war between good and evil.  The people brought to the island both Flight 815 and before are soldiers in the war.

I also think when Jacob told Richard he brings people there to “prove a point” to MIB that people can make the right choice.  But so far what choices is he talking about?  Ben chooses to be with MIB but does that make him immediately bad?  The killing people part was before he agreed to side with MIB and at that point he was supposedly on Jacob’s side.  And why bring people to prove a point?  Is he lying?  Which is the correct answer- bringing them to prove a point or bringing them to take over for him?  Or, and I think the most accurate, bringing them there for company because being alone on an island for all those years sure can make one pretty lonely.

1.  On an aside, I just watched Josh Holloway on Jimmy Kimmel and he mentioned the best show idea.  If there would be a spin off I’d watch this is the one!  Sawyer and Miles cop show.  Now, wouldn’t that be fun to watch?  No island mysteries, just a good old fashioned cop show.

2.  Is this eye opening thing ever going to amount to more than just a common thread between episodes?  Now that we are down to the wire I have my doubts.  However, I have decided that I’m OK not knowing all the answers.  Sure, it would be nice to have some explanations but I am OK with my theories on things and I don’t need everything explained.  I’m hoping mostly just for a killer ending (which I have a theory on and will post later here).
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3.  Looks like the original timeline is literally “bleeding” through.  I cannot believe that the writers would show us this twice without it having significance.
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4.  How odd that Desmond calls Jack to lie about finding his father’s body.  Jack is already going to the concert so it will be interesting to see how this plays out.

5.  Out of the four left Hurley has suffered the most loss.  He has lost Libby and Charlie on top of Sun, Jin and Sayid.  They’ve put him through a lot and I’d like to see somewhat of a happy ending for Hurley.  I’m not sure the other three will get that but seems like Hurley also has the most to lose back home too if he would decide to stay on the island.

6.  Here’s Ben getting beat up again.  A couple of things about this scene.  First of all, Desmond is acting like Jacob here beating people up.  Seems like Jacob had a hot temper.  Also, Desmond didn’t need to beat the crap out of Ben but when Ben asked the question of who he is Des seemed less interested in getting Ben to “see” something as far as enlightening him and more interested in some overdue revenge from when Ben tried to kill Penny.  Lastly, Des says he’s there to get Locke to “let go.”  Maybe someone by getting Locke to let go he’s trying to really get to Flocke and have him let go of the hold he has on Locke’s body?  What else is Locke holding on to that he needs to let go of?
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7.  I want to know what Alex said that Miles was picking up.  Perhaps we will still find out in a moment where Miles needs some ammunition to calm down Ben?  Why else show this to us and remind us that Miles can hear the dead?  Miles even started to say, “I don’t think…” before Richard stopped him.
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8.  Ben says that he was told he could summon the monster.  He also says that was before he discovered it was actually summoning him.  Who told Ben about the monster?  I’m thinking Smokey himself.  Maybe for a real reason and maybe just to mess with The Others and have a little “fun.”

9.  I know you’ve said that you really like the mean & evil Ben and I agree, he plays a fantastic bad guy.  I think that Ben did intend to help the Losties until he saw Widmore.  I imagine he was REALLY irritated when Widmore started bossing him around too.  Then for Widmore to say he talked to Jacob (knowing now that Jacob talked to Ben for the first time in the foot) must have just put him over the edge.  Ben decided then that he wanted his control back and the only way to do that was to side with Flocke.  Guess he got part of his wish, too, when he got to kill Widmore.

10.  Ben’s reflection looked somewhat distorted to me.  But that just might be my perception.  I did got back and watch this several times and it looks like Ben furrows his brow almost like he knows something or suspects his own reflection.
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11.  Sawyer tells Miles that he isn’t going to the concert.  I guess if Des clues him in that 3 fugitives are there he can get him to go there!

12.  It is really weird that Des asks Kate “… and how are you doing today?”  I can see why she and Sayid would think he was insane.

13.  Every once in awhile Sawyer’s humanity pokes through.  I figured he was going to feel responsible for Sun and Jin’s death but not enough to volunteer to take over Jacob’s job.
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14.  Jacob must pick and chose who he “reveals” himself to.  When he appeared as a little boy originally Sawyer could see him and now Hurley can see him but not Kate.  And why show up as the little boy to get the ashes from Hurley?  Hurley would have readily handed them over to adult Jacob.  Again, may be an unanswered question so let’s make our own reasons!  Because like the magical spell put on the water that turns an ordinary man into a timeless island man, Jacob can only set the spell as a boy that will enable him to appear to all of them and have a fireside chat.  There, I don’t need their reasons, I have my own!

15.  Red flowers all around Jacob.
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16.  The last we saw of Richard he was flying through the air.  I am not on board with believing he is dead.  It was just too abrupt for a character of his importance.  Plus, I think that at some point Ben will show a morsel of kindness to Richard in appreciation of him burying Alex.
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17.  Cute, Alex tells Ben he looks like Napolean.

18.  Alex asks Ben why someone would beat him up and Ben says “I guess they had me confused with someone else.”  Yes Ben, Des sure did.

19.  I liked seeing Danielle all cleaned up.  And if this is not the last couple you would put together in Lost then I don’t know who is!
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20.  Widmore says he brought Des back because of his resistance to electromagnetism.  Could they be planning to throw Desmond in the cave of light?  Will that be what stops MIB?  Or maybe Des can go into the light cave and extinguish whatever source keeps MIB alive.  We know Des can survive it.

21.  I thought for sure that Flocke was going to cut Widmore’s throat when he leaned in to whisper.  Who knows, he might have if Ben hadn’t shot him first.  And, I wonder if Widmore didn’t really give him the reason he is there or maybe not all the information.  They better hope so!

22.  Ironically, Flocke tells Ben that he got the info that he needed before Ben shot Widmore so “no harm done.”  Yeah, no harm, just two dead bodies.  Ho hum.

23.  Sawyer asks a good question, why should they pay for Jacob’s sins?  He doesn’t really answer the question but rather goes on to speak about their lonely existence back home.  I also wonder if Jacob also answered the infertility question.  He took Kate off the list because she became a mother.  Perhaps those on the island were all candidates and Jacob couldn’t use a mother so he selfishly ended their pregnancies?  He did say to them that he chose them because they needed the island as much as the island needed them.  I suppose when you become a mother there is someone that now needs you more than the island.
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24.  I love Sawyer’s line, “And I thought that guy had a God complex before.”

25.  However, Hurley follows by stating he’s glad it’s not him (taking Jacob’s place).  Makes me wonder… it really seemed far to easy to have Jack take over.  Perhaps Hurley just gave us some foreshadowing?

26.  Jacob really needed to get some MacCutcheon whiskey to inaugurate Jack into the Island Protector job.  Now that would have been an ironic twist!  Crappy pond water isn’t nearly as special.

27.  Now that Jack is the great island protector can he start making up his own rules since Jacob got to?

28.  Right after Jack drinks the magic pond water he sure looks like he suddenly knows stuff.
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29.  Kate tries her best to flirt her way with Saywer and get out of jail but he isn’t having it.  That is good because he needs to be single for when he meets up with Juliet.

30.  Flocke really made a big mistake in telling Ben that he’s going to destroy the island.  I believe that Ben was totally on board with Flocke until he found out that Flocke is going to destroy the one and only thing left in his life that he cares about and that is the island.  With a backpack full of C4 I’m sure that Ben is now going to be devising a plan to off Flocke and regain control.  Perhaps a Ben versus Jack ending to all of this?

31.  My thoughts on the ending are this.  I cannot believe that the writers are going to give us a happy ending.  If it was up to ABC that is exactly what we would get.  But these are the same writers that killed off Charlie, Sun and Jin (knowing they had a little kid at home) and just had Flocke slit Liz Lemon’s throat.  I think that when everyone converges at that concert Faraday is going to do a little course correction and kill them all.  This new timeline was not supposed to happen and he told Des that he is responsible.  The enlightened ones will know that, like Jake in The Dark Tower series would say, there are other worlds than this.  If he blows them up they will still exist somewhere.

32.  Or we may have a Stephen King ending where Jack opens the door only to find himself right back where we started, only with one tiny change that shows the viewer that he has another shot to get it right.  Perhaps Jack will wake up in the bamboo with Vincent by his side.

33.  One last thought, Miles hasn’t heard Flocke speak yet, right?  Does that mean he’s the only one left that can kill him?

OK so wow, more deaths.  I didn’t expect that Widmore would be killed off so easily.  I expected many more explosions and action from him and his group!

1.  Anyone else thinking that Jack drinking the water and taking over was just way too easy for this show?  I’m not buying it.  On one hand I think that Hurley is a good candidate because of his innocence.  On the other, Sawyer is a good pick because he’s a good guy at heart.  Either way, I’m not believing that Jack is going to stay and protect the light.

2.  Jack seeing another cut.  I’m wondering how the new time line is now literally “bleeding” through.

3.  How cute seeing Claire with Jack and David.  This new time line is just so happy that it cannot last.  It’s like when someone is telling you a joke and you keep wondering when they are going to get to the punch line.  We know something is coming up at that concert but who knows what its about!

4.  I haven’t commented a lot on the obvious things that we’ve seen before that have come up again (Jack now sewing up Kate, the phrase about mistaking coincidence with fate, and you know others) but I’m wondering if there is a subtle hint there.  A hint that things are coming full circle now and perhaps will continue to circle through Lost time.  Like holding two mirrors up to each other and the reflection goes on to infinity.  So will the events, sayings, relationships and so on in this Lost universe.  Perhaps in our own lives the same thing happens if you are paying attention?

5.  Maybe Kate won’t raise Aaron.  Maybe Kate will go back for Ji Yeon.  Wouldn’t that be a fun twist?

6.  Did you text your message to ABC?  I had to use my daughter’s phone because she’s with Verizon.  I asked them to use Gitsie Girl if they used mine so here’s hoping!

7.  Sawyer should know where at least one of the wells is located.  He helped lower Locke into the well when they were time traveling.

8.  I wonder if Ben didn’t stop Des if he was going to hit him again or just drive away.  And is Ben constantly being beat up or what?  I want to feel sorry for him but boy, I just don’t.

9.  I loved having Miles back.  We needed some comic relief.

10.  I’d really love to know what Alex “said” to Miles.

11.  Ben now has all that dynamite in his backpack.  Something is going to blow.  We’ve seen an ongoing theme that everyone has good and evil in them so the question is, who or what is Ben going to end up blowing up with all of that C4?

12.  Ben checking himself out in the mirror in the nurse’s office.  Guess he’s starting to really “see” isn’t he?  So much faith starting to show up in these people!

13.  Why does Des need Locke to “let go?”  Perhaps he needs Locke to die so that when Flocke is killed it doesn’t cross over or something along those lines happening between the two timelines.  I still think that Locke is going to be key in stopping Flocke.

14.  How convenient for Des that Sayid and Kate are in cells with one another.

15.  Sawyer’s guilt just might lead him to agree to protect the island as well.  It’s a powerful motivator.

16.  Here’s an answer – Jacob can appear as himself as a kid.  Guess it explains why he was following and taunting Flocke.

17.  Good thing they showed us all that equipment in Widmore’s canoe by the dock.  The Losties are going to need that to fight Flocke and we needed to know it’s there so when they get it we know where they got it.  Make sense?

18.  Smokey didn’t kill Richard.  Richard will be back in some form as I cannot accept that quick moment was his end.  He’s been far too important to this show.

19.  Why would Ben want the island now?  Alex and all of his people are gone so what is left there for him?  I can see why he would rat out Widmore, he wants him dead.  But there is good in everyone as we saw in the new timeline.  I’m till holding out hope that Ben will help the Losties out of love for the island since he has nothing else left.

20.  How weird seeing Danielle in a dress!  And I for one like the idea of Danielle and Ben hooking up.  After their rocky relationship on the island I like the idea that Ben can legitimately be part of Alex’s life in the new timeline.

21.  I really don’t think that Flocke knows what is off the island.  He’s never been “across the sea” so outside of what people have told him he really doesn’t know.

22.  Yeah, Widmore may have told Flocke some but I have a real feeling that he didn’t tell Flocke everything.  After all, Flocke didn’t even know why he was there so how would he know if Widmore told him everything?

23.  Apparently Jacob can reveal himself when he wants to so all those years he chose not to show himself to Ben.

24.  I still think at this point Sun and Jin did die for nothing but, until I see the last 2 1/2 hours on Sunday nothing is hopeless.  There may be meaning there yet!

25.  Here comes Locke, Mr Man of Faith in the new timeline.  Reminds me of Season One where Locke was so full of faith and Jack was so full of …. science.  That certainly turned around so I guess it can in the new timeline.

26.  Jacob is the anchor that hold Flocke there.  The rules state that Flocke and Jacob can’t kill each other and apparently Flocke can’t kill the candidates.  Now that Jack has been “baptized” by Jacob is he invincible like Flocke (can’t be killed by bullets)?  And how on earth will they kill Flocke unless Des being the fail safe will “turn the key” so to speak once again.

27.  Hurley saying “I’m glad it’s not me” in reference to taking over the island makes me think even more he could take on the position.  Jack taking over is just so simple and obvious.  Unless the island is somehow destroyed by the new timeline and it ends up that none of them have to take over.  That they can all live in the new timeline happily and not so lonely.

28.  Des is pretty creepy around the Losties in the new timeline.

29.  Somewhere along the line Des convinced Hurley and then some that whatever they are doing in the new timeline is vitally important.  I love Des and Hurley working together.  He’s shown him “whatever” to the point he even recognizes Ana Lucia!  And Hurley and Sayid back together too.

30.  OK, first Flocke tells Ben that if he helps him he’ll leave and turn the island over to him.  Now he says he’s going to use Des to destroy the island.  Will this be what turns Ben around and has him end up killing Flocke to protect the island?  Ben only ha s the island left.  His people are gone and Alex is gone.  The island is the only thing that he really cares about that is still around and now Flocke wants to blow it up.

31.  And where is Vincent?  I know that we won’t get all the answers and really I’m OK with that.  But I really want to know where that damn dog is.

I love when a story can take the bad guy and make you feel sorry for him. I will give Darlton credit for making me feel sorry for the MIB.  He didn’t chose his fate and essentially he just wanted to get the heck off of the island to see what else is out there.  Reminds me of a kid raised in a small town that just wants to leave and explore the world but then gets stuck through circumstance out of their control but never loses the yearning to leave.  MIB never gives up his quest to leave.  Can’t say I blame the guy!

1.  Claudia is wearing the dreaded red.  I love the contrast here of her in the red dress but the color may have doomed her from the start.
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2.  This was a new use of the reflection.  I can’t help but think that there was more meaning than just New Mother showing up, but then again this is Lost so it could just be nothing.
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3.  I keep waiting for the reemergence of Locke’s wacky paste that he used on Boone so he could have a “vision quest.”  But New Mother didn’t give Claudia time to do anything really before she smashed her head in and stole her babies!  Didn’t see that one coming.
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4.  I noticed watching back that there appear to be graves inside of the cave.  Note the crosses in the background.  Could these be from New Mother’s original crew?  My guess is that she was like Danielle and that they got the “sickness” and she killed them.  Or she went nuts and killed them.
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5.  Black and white from the start.  Can you imagine (moms out there) if twins were really this big when they were born?  She’d probably be screaming a lot louder than that!
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6.  New Mother has set these two boys up from the start to fight amongst themselves.  She gives MIB special treatment (ie: the game) then tests Jacob by asking what he’s doing to see if Jacob will rat out his brother.  Which he does.

7.  New Mother has to know about the Others living on the island yet she lets the boys run around freely.  Makes me think that she has some sort of bargain with them that makes them leave them alone.

8.  When Jacob and MIB are watching the Others kill the boar it reminded me of Jin and Eko in a similar position.
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9.  THIS is the reason they are there, really?  I’m going to try and be positive here.  We’ve devoted almost 6 years to this show and I’m going to be a woman of faith and assume that since Darlton wrote this episode there is going to be more involving this cave.  I really hope.
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10.  The way New Mother describes the light really reminds me of birth or the light at the end of the tunnel during birth.  She says that the light is bright and the warmest light you’ve ever felt, that a little of it is in all of us.  Very symbolic.  But she says it’s not enough for regular men – is that where the science comes in?  We can’t just accept and live in the light?

11.  Nice red flowers by the entrance.
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12.  I think that MIB is the protector and/or the balance of this light and especially now that he has part of that light in him.  Jacob isn’t the protector as much as he has to keep MIB there.  That is why Danielle called the “monster” a security system because he really is protecting the island.  Although he may want to leave, he can’t or the the balance of dark and light would go out and it’s Jacob’s job to keep him there to keep the balance.

13.  A few words on Claudia appearing to MIB.  First of all it reminded me of the “vision” Charlie had back in Season Two of Claire and his mother.  Second, I think that New Mother is actually appearing to him.  I’ll say that I think she’s her own version of the smoke monster and that part of that being is the ability to appear as the dead.  It goes along with how New Mother is pitting these two against each other.  Why would she do this?  Perhaps there has to be that balance between good and evil in order to keep the light on the island.  Maybe like Jacob said, people have to chose to be good and New Mother wants MIB to chose to stay on the island.
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14. Here’s the infamous dagger.  The dagger that can supposedly kill MIB and the same dagger used to kill New Mother.
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15.  OK weird-o mom putting a spell on the wine she gives to Jacob.  I looked back and when Jacob gives Richard “everlasting life” he also has him drink the wine.  But perhaps MIB smashes the bottle not only because it symbolizes his being stuck there but also because he can’t drink the wine, it’s too late for him.

16.  There is no way New Mother pulled MIB out of the well, filled it with dirt and then proceeded to kill and burn all of the Others. Further proof that she’s special as well, perhaps another form of a smoke monster?  Maybe that is also how she knows so much about the light, what is down there, what it feels like and also what happens when you go into the light.
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17.  I understand that there has been a lot of talk amongst them, but MIB stabs New Mother before she has a chance to speak to him in the cave.  perhaps it’s a little more open to interpretation regarding not letting MIB talk before you can kill him?

18.  MIB asks Jacob a very good question – why did New Mother bring him back to the light?  Perhaps she wanted Jacob to throw MIB in there.

19.  I think that MIB is still alive, even though we saw his body.  My theory is that by throwing him into the light he had his “rebirth” and shed his earthly form, if you will.  The smoke is still the essence of him much like now that he’s in Locke’s body he still has his memories and feelings.

20.  The young Jacob that is appearing to MIB has blood on his hands which makes me think it’s symbolic of Jacob essentially killing him.  But he’s watching him mockingly perhaps because he knows that MIB cannot leave the island and that he has to follow whatever rules HE made up for this game.
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21.  The cave also put me in mind of the Cave of Voices from the Dark Tower series.  There was also a portal there where they could travel to other worlds.

22.  Jacob represented the man of faith while MIB was the man of science.  It’s ironic that MIB eventually took over Locke’s body who was the original 815 man of faith.

23.  In watching this one back I didn’t dislike it nearly as much as I did initially.  The writing was excellent and Jacob and MIB were really great in their roles.  So I’m going to chalk this one up to poor acting on New Mother’s behalf.  I still have faith that this Tuesday and then the finale are going to be amazing.  If this show had not been amazing we would have never stuck with it for this long and one bad episode isn’t going to damper my spirits.

Hi everyone.  I’m going to try and be objective but wow was I disappointed tonight.  The writing and acting just wasn’t doing it for me tonight.  I was so looking forward to this week and with one epi left after tonight I expected to have my socks knocked off.  One of the reasons I think so many of us love Lost is that they don’t dumb things down for us and tonight I felt like they did.

1.  I found the reflection of the “new mother” in the water interesting.

2.  Are we to believe that the “new mother” was chosen to protect the island and that there were people here before her?  Did she get the “sickness” and kill them all like Danielle?

3.  The “new mother” seemed OK with the babies until MIB was born.  And cute that they are in black and white blankets from the start.  Then MIB won’t stop crying and “BAM” she beats her on the head.  OK, was that necessary?  I think MIB is right when he says his mother was nuts.  She didn’t have to kill Claudia.  They could have lived all together.

4.  The new mother is so playing favorites with MIB.  Leaving him that game.  And how interesting that he “just knows” how to play.

5.  Little Jacob is the bloody kid running around the island mocking Flocke.  It’s the same kid.  But what the heck is that all about?  His guilty conscience is chasing him but if so then why can other people see him?

6.  Locke was told all his life that he was “special” and now we see that MIB was told he was “special” too.  Not sure what that means unless they are truly the ones who protect the island.  Maybe MIB can’t leave because in some ’special’ way it is him and not Jacob that holds the light there.

7. How can the boys grow 30 years into men and then stop aging? ”

8.  Jacob and MIB watching the others kill the boar reminded me of Jin and Eko when they saw the Others walking through the jungle.

9.  What makes all men dangerous according to the New Mom?  The same thing that they said before, “They come, they fight, they destroy, they corrupt and it always ends the same.”

10.  OK people, was I the only one who groaned when the found the cave with the light?  REALLY!  This is it?  I liked the red flowers there though.  What is this light?  Is it the light one sees when the die or the birth canal as they are born?  Why is THIS the light of the world?  Why can’t they both protect the light?

11.  I thought Jacob’s purpose was to keep MIB on the island? It sure doesn’t look like he’s looking for someone to guard the light?

12.  What was the purpose of Claudia coming back and leading MIB to the others?  Why can’t Jacob see dead people?  Oh lordy, there are so many more questions than answers this week.

13.  I did think it was pretty cool that they are living in the cave, the same cave MIB led Jack to so that they would have water.

14.  I don’t even know what to believe that New Mother says since she’s obviously nuts.  She just goes around beating people in the head to get her way.  Maybe they can leave the island.

15.  I want to think on this but there seems to be something to the fact that New Mother thought she had to raise the boys.  Should Claire be the one to raise Aaron?  Raised by another?

16.  We didn’t get any answers about that knife and why it can kill MIB or Jacob. Or what the sickness is.  And why did New Mother thank MIB for killing her?  Was she just tired?  The same reason, perhaps, that Jacob let Ben kill him?

17.  We did get to see the origin of the donkey wheel.

18.  MIB has to be the one that is special.  Otherwise why was New Mother so set on keeping him there?  Seems like she kept Jacob around more for company and to spy on MIB rather than to truly take over as guardian.  That really didn’t work out so well and Jacob ended up with the job anyway.

19.  The light seems to be what was under the pool in the temple.  They resurrected Sayid in the light as they did with MIB and what they had was much worse than death.

20.  What’s up with the drinky poo to make Jacob responsible for the island?  And her line sounded remarkably similar to what Sayid said to Jack last week about it being them.  Being them for what – to take over the island.  But the drinking of the wine seemed a pretty cheesy story device.

21.  And I can see why MIB is so angry.  New Mother killed his birth mom, killed his people, buried the well that they worked so hard on and took away his dream just to leave the island.  She was nuts and he was angry for a very good reason.

22.  There’s a storm coming all right.  New Mother knows that MIB is there waiting but since she’s passed the torch, literally, to Jacob she can now die in peace.

23.  Jacob made MIB what he is today.  Whatever is down in that cave is what is left of his brother and his spirit is still po’d and wants to just leave the island.  It’s like taking over Locke but he didn’t really take the body over, just the image.  It’s like they are a shell of what they once were filled with some strange spirit from down in the light cave.  But I still think that even though we found who our Adam and Eve skeletons belonged to, we still have MIB wandering around the island in some form.

24.  I need to take a day and watch this one again.  My initial reaction was of disappointment but maybe thinking it over will bring me to more insight.  It just seemed tonight that the way the story was presented to us was weak and I was expecting more to this.  Yes, there were some answers and I don’t judge an episode on whether we got answers because I love that this show doesn’t always give them.  But what we do get is amazing story telling and tonight just was a weak episode.

Your thoughts?

Does “everybody” love Hugo?  I don’t think that Hugo loves Hugo.  Seems that although he has a pretty good life his self esteem is seriously lacking.  This Hugo doesn’t seem all that different that the original timeline Hugo.  Outside of his *good* luck, he seems pretty much the same guy.  I don’t know if that is going to figure in to the future of our Losties, but interesting to note.

1.  In the “previously on Lost…” Desmond tells Widmore that he’s ready to start whatever important project he was brought to the island to do.  I do not believe for a second that by being in that well Desmond won’t go on to do whatever job he needs to do.  If the island has a job for him then it will be done and neither a well nor Flocke will stop him.

2.  Jorge’s dog Nunu! How cute!  I would totally bring my cat into work if I could too.
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3.  Wasn’t Pierre Chang’s left arm crippled?  If the time lines split in 1977 that would not have changed.  If memory serves the arm was injured during the “incident.”  But, at the Man of the Year Ceremony he’s holding on to the podium and clapping with his left hand.  Is this an oversight on the writer’s behalf?

4.  Hurley tells his mom they have “The Human Fund” next Saturday night.  Really?  Wasn’t that George Costanza’s fake charity?  Pretty funny!

5.  Was I the only one rolling during the dialog between Hurley and his mom about dating?  They have the best scenes together.  She wants some grandbabies!  I guess Starla isn’t around in this time line.
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6.  I’m disappointed because I wanted to hear the story of how Hurley got his nickname.  Everyone in the new time line was calling him Hugo so I assume whatever the reason that it didn’t happen in this time line.

7.  At first I thought that Flocke was carving a new Jesus Stick, similar to Eko’s.  But then I remembered in the Dark Tower series that Eddie had a piece of the wood that he was carving but he didn’t know what it was, that the wood would decide what it wanted to be.  Which it ended up being a key.  I’ll be curious if Flocke makes something similar and what the “key” will be used for.
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8.  Don’t worry Hugo, you aren’t the first one to drown your sorrows in food brother.  Mine may not have been in a family sized bucket of chicken, but I’ve done some serious damage to a pint of ice cream.
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9.  How will any show ever again have this kind of moment?  Flocke is talking to Desmond and asks if he knows who he is.  My breath was held as I was expecting Desmond to speak Flocke’s real name.  But he doesn’t he says “You’re John Locke.”  Yes, his body is John Locke’s.  Is there still an essence of Locke inside of him?  Some say that it IS really still John Locke in there.  How this simple moment can mean so many things to so many people speaks to the brilliance that is Lost.

10.  When Flocke offers his hand to Desmond, Desmond is the first we’ve seen who accepts his hand.

11.  Why are there always island scenes on chalkboards?  It could be an alligator but it also looks like a cloud of smoke over the island.
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12.  I didn’t spot Lenny in the institution.  He was pivotal in Hurley’s original time line because he chanted the numbers over and over thus giving Hurley the winning lotto numbers.  He still wins the lotto in the new time line so he must have met him somewhere else in his life.

13.  I like the little creepy ghost boy mostly because Flocke is annoyed by him.  I can’t wait to see what the kid finds so funny about annoying Flocke.  Maybe he’s smiling because he knows that Desmond is going to play a role in keeping him trapped on the ‘God Forsaken Rock’ as Flocke calls it.
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14.  If the Whispers are of those who can’t move on then where does Christian fit into that?  He appears but why would he be trapped?  He didn’t do anything to anyone on the island.  He didn’t die on the island either.

15.  How convenient that the three Losties Flocke needs to get off the island fall right into his lap along with a pilot!  Maybe they really do need to blow up that plane.  I’m not seeing yet how this is going to play out as they need all of the Losties on the plane to leave but how are the going to stop Flocke from boarding?  Could they be on board and Widmore stays behind to keep MIB there?  I can envision them taking off with Widmore standing on the ground waving to them, happy to be back where he thinks he belongs.  I doubt that scene will play out however.  Plus Desmond told Charlie that he saw Claire boarding a helicopter when she leaves the island.  Might have to be the creepy squirrel headed thing but no matter, she’s leaving.  Maybe.

16.  How ironic that Locke gets pushed to his death (well, near death since Jacob brings him back to life) and Flocke pushes Desmond to what he thinks will be his death.  But Flocke pushes Des because he may not know exactly what Widmore is going to use him for but he does know that Des is important as Widmore had him kidnapped and brought to the island including protecting him with armed guards.  Plus Desmond is not afraid of Flocke which makes him special just in that respect.  But Widmore is looking for these wells so I can’t imagine that this was a great idea and I think that Widmore will find and pull Des out of the well.

17.  Of course Flocke promises not to hurt Hugo and the others!  He needs them to escape!

18.  Jack was shocked to see Flocke because the last time he saw him he was putting his dead father’s shoes on Locke’s dead body.  This should reinforce Jack’s new found faith.  I’m also interested to see the interaction with Jack and Claire as he now knows that she is his sister.

19.  Another amazing moment that will not be matched in any other show.  Why does Desmond hit Locke in his wheel chair.  My initial theory is that the body is needed to recapture MIB in the new time line.  But in talking to some friends there are other very valid theories.  Injured Locke will need to go to the hospital which is Desmond’s intent because while there he will meet Jack.  No, it’s not a love connection but instead they need each other to find their dual time line reality.  I wonder if Des will then be arrested by Sawyer and Miles leading to him also meeting Kate while in jail.  With only 4 episodes left they need to get Desmond’s mission on high speed and they could get many of the Losties realizations going in just one episode.  Ben will also come and see Locke in the hospital so there is another person to bring in.

20.  Maybe now Jack will also get to do the spinal surgery on Locke as well.

21.  If Locke realizes he’s got this alternative life going what might he see through the eyes of Flocke?  Will Locke, being what we can assume is a good guy, try to stop his alternative self?  Will new time line Locke become a horrible person?

Some episodes I’m surprised, tonight I actually jumped when Ilana blew herself up.  My cat even jumped when it happened!  I kind of hoped from some smart remark from Hurley about having “Ilana” on his shirt, but that would be tasteless.  And a black and white (pun intended) answer regarding the whispers.  I am not a fan of the characters just telling us the answer, I like getting them through subtleties better.

1.  Instead of an eye opening there was a very long screen of black.

2.  I really want to know if the picture of Hurley and the dog was his real dog.  He always blogs about it and it sure did look like Nunu.

3.  I was hoping to get the story behind the nickname “Hurley” tonight.  Sigh.

4.  I can’t wait to screencap this week.  Why is Hurley giving money to an “experimental farm?”

5.  Pierre introducing the new Hugo Reyes paleontology wing of the Natural History Museum.  Very cute writers!

6.  I love Hurley’s mom.  She’s giving him a pep talk about finding someone to love him then proceeds to smack him.  Priceless!

7.  Nice red flower by Libby’s grave.  The red flowers return!

8.  So who is Michael?  Is Michael really an apparition or is there a third party embodying him?  How else would dead Michael know what Hurley is supposed to be doing unless it’s not really him?  We’ve seen other dead people wandering around talking and leading the Losties and it’s either ghosts or one “thing” that can embody them and talk to them.

9.  I think that anyone that goes to the plane to blow it up are going to be killed by Flocke and that is why Michael didn’t want Hurley to lead the Losties over to the plane.  Plus, they are going to need that plane to get off of the island themselves.

10.  Oh boy, I hope they don’t all board the plane with Flocke then send it crashing into ocean.  But if they find out they have a “better” life in the new time line and what Dan told them about what would happen if the bomb exploded was true, then I can easily see them all agreeing to let the plane crash.

11.  What happened to Hurley’s original date Rosalita?  Could Des have “shooed” her off so that Hurley would have to meet Libby?

12.  And Libby staring at Hurley across the restaurant.  Reminded me of her eerie stare way back when in the mental institution.  We have all been wondering why she was just staring and how she knew him.  Well, I think that original time line Libby also knew Hurley from both time lines.  I think that Libby was staring at him both times because she “mind traveled” even back then and knew that she and Hurley were meant to be together.  Plus she knew his name in the restaurant and that was not because she overheard anything, this girl knows stuff!

13.  Libby touches Hurley first but nothing happens.  I guess they need to have an open mind before they can “see” through the touch.

14.  I guess the island was done with Ilana, just as Ben said.

15.  I like how Flocke is now making his own “Jesus Stick.”  Wow, so many things coming back from the last seasons!  I’ll get a screen cap along with Eko’s stick.

16.  No one followed Sayid and Flocke into the jungle when they were talking?  Sawyer is a pretty curious fellow and I think he might know that Flocke pushes Des into the well. Looks like next week though they are going to try and find lots of ways to kill him down there.

17.  Hurley better hang on to those ashes that Ilana was carrying.  May come in handy with Old Smokey.

18.  Of course Desmond’s number was 42.

19.  Des has no where to run to, brotha.  Because maybe he knows that this “life” is limited on the island.  He’s not afraid because he knows that he can face Flocke (the elecro magnetism in Smokey) and not die.  He is meant to do something here.  I really expected when Flocke asked Des if he knew who he was that Des was going to say MIB’s name.  Dang them!

20.  Same picture in the psychiatrist’s office as was when we first saw him.  I remember it because we all talked about if it meant something.  I was also expecting Dave to show up.  Or Leonard chanting the numbers.

21. Maybe Creepy Eyed Man came to visit Hurley in the original time line at the Loony Bin because he was trying to get Hurley to remember something.  His job was to take people where they needed to go.  Did he need to take him somewhere so he could remember something too?

22.  Hurley’s momma isn’t going to be happy with his choice in dates.

23.  I think the little dirty boy out in the woods has it in for Flocke.  He seems pretty irritated by him and the boy has a very taunting smile on his face.  And how can Des see him if he’s dead?

24.  Richard is right, Jacob never tells them what to do.  Jacob wants them to find their own way.  That is why he doesn’t give them the keys to the handcuffs, they have to want the answer.

25.  Either Richard, Miles and Ben are going to die trying to blow up the plane or they are going to end up saving the others from Flocke’s group.

26.  I’m still loving Jack this season.  Mr Fix it is giving in to fate, who would have thought it!  But now that Jack “gets it” what happens to him?  Does he become the candidate or does he have to die for the island now?

27.  Flocke needs to trap Des because he needs to stop him.  He has to know that becoming the smoke won’t stop Des because he’s faced the electro magnetic energy and it doesn’t hurt him.  So perhaps something down in the well acts like kryptonite to Des?  Maybe whatever is down there will keep Des there.  And the other wells are probably in the same areas where there are “pockets” of energy that Widmore is looking for.  And if that is the case then his group has a chance of finding him there.

28.  Flocke has to be happy that the other Losties he needs came right to him!  However, he is still missing Jin so he can’t go anywhere yet.

29.  The scene of Flocke and Jack meeting, PRICELESS!!!!  The last time Jack saw Locke was when he was putting his dad’s shoes on his dead body.

30.  Here is my theory on why Des tries to kill Locke in the new time line.  Locke needs to die because his body is needed to get MIB back into it.  Right now MIB is wandering the earth in the new time line.  The way to catch him is to put him back in the body of Locke and then either send him back to the island or destroy him forever.

31.  Creepy Willy Wonka music in the scenes for next week!

32.  The note Sun is showing says “You did this to me!”

33.  Sayid is pointing the gun down the well at Des and he’s just sitting there smiling and the light goes dim.  Looks like the same effect as when Locke fell down the hole and the time changed.  Maybe Des “mind travels” out of there and can’t be killed at that moment?

34.  So if it’s your true love that will lead you to discover your alternate life then who will Sawyer and Jack see?  I’m voting and hoping for Juliet and Sawyer, Jack and Kate.  Truthfully I’m not very excited about this direction in the story but at least we’ll see Juliet and Sawyer back together.

I think the title this week is ironic.  I don’t know based on our known history of these characters that any one of them will have a happily ever after – except maybe Rose and Bernard.  Things look good as of the end of this week for Desmond and Penny but I’m very skeptical if it’s going to turn out where they can sail off into the sunset.

1. Typical opening scene with Desmond’s eye.  I can’t help but think back to Jacob’s cabin a few seasons ago when the eye appeared and freaked out Hurley.  Whose eye was that?  I’m not saying it’s Desmond’s eye but knowing that he can manipulate time and space then why couldn’t it be?  It could also be that at the time 4 X 01 was filmed they didn’t have Jacob and MIB cast so they just used “someone” but it’s far more fun to speculate.
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2.  If the generator hasn’t run for 20 years then does that mean they’ve been preparing all these years for this moment? What else could they have needed this large of a generator for?

3.  Call me crazy but this sure does resemble the inside of Jacob’s cabin.  Insert a crazy dog painting and there you go.  Could Jacob’s cabin have been more than just a place for Jacob to sit and wait on Ben to come for orders?  Could it have been some kind of portal between time lines?
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4.  Maybe they should have drug the fried dead guy out of the cabin before bringing in Desmond.  Might have not been such a scene that way.

5.  How does Widmore know that Des survived an electromagnetic blast?  Technically a lot of people, including Charlie, survived when Des turned the key.  But someone from the island got word to Widmore about the blast.   Also, this “test” that Widmore does this week is not the blast that he needs Desmond to survive and is not what he needs Des for yet.  They still need to channel the energy from the pockets on the island.  Maybe Des is going to be the conductor to the MIB and that is why is so OK going with Sayid.

6.  I don’t think we’ve seen what Des is going to have to sacrifice but I’m guessing that it’s his life in one of the two time lines.  Widmore showed him that he will have Penny either way so he can die in one and still have her in the other.

7.  OK, so they are using electromagnetic energy on Des so he can mind travel.  But I still think he’s got more work to do with this energy and that this experiment was just to set events in motion.  I like the “flux” gauge the best.
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8.  This show has had some pretty weak special effects but I thought they did a good job with this one.  Des almost looked like he was in a “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids” scene though.
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9.  Also, right after Des gets “lit up” the screen goes white then to the clouds.  This all reminded me of Juliet hitting the bomb, flash to white then start this season in the clouds.

10.  SKID, you are right.  Two Desmond reflections.  I would guess that yes, it’s of major significance.
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11.  So many things about the Losties lives are the same in both timelines and it brought them aboard flight 815 even down to the outfits that they have on.  Yes, there are some major differences in their lives (Saywer and his job, Jack having a son) but many things are the same.  In the original timeline Desmond was not on board the flight because he was already on the island.  There are many, many differences in Desmond’s life.  In science experiments you throw in variables to see what the difference in the outcome will be.  I would say that whether it be Jacob, MIB or Widmore playing this game, Desmond is for sure a variable on the board.  His choices, his fate affect the direction of all of their lives.

12.  Desmond reflecting on things that could have been, or were, or might still happen.
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13.  Widmore tells Desmond that unless he can get Drive Shaft to the charity even that his wife (Eloise) will “destroy” him.  Nice wording.  Probably literal.

14.  Desmond is finally worthy of Widmore’s MacCutcheon whiskey.  Widmore needs him now whereas before Desmond didn’t appear to be on the right path.  Maybe previously Widmore thought Des wasn’t “ready” and in this time line it’s Eloise that thinks he’s not ready/
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15.  I’m sure we will look back on this painting and it will mean more by The End.  For now I’m guessing it’s a wish for the scales to balance again.  I’m going to firmly take sides and speculate that MIB is free in the new timeline.  Widmore needs to use Desmond to balance the scales which does make him a good guy.  Maybe he was a good guy in the original too.  I still think that him wanting to kill Ben was to stop Ben from killing Jacob.

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16.  How cool was it to see Desmond and Charlie back together again?  They were having drinks again just like they did by the campfire.
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17.  There is something very surreal about Charlie in the new timeline.  When they go in the water while Desmond is struggling to get out Charlie just closes his eyes and succumbs to his fate.  When they are the in the hospital he runs to be free and tells Desmond that there is nothing that they can do for him there.  Why?  I don’t think the guy is suicidal and there is something very special about him here.

18.  Not Penny’s Boat.  How does Charlie know to lift up his hand?  But the doctor says Des bumped his head and it appears from Sun’s experience that you can cross over when you bump your head.
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19.  And why aren’t these people on shore helping?  Why not throw over a life preserver or something?
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20.  The guy with Des at the MRI tells him to try and not press the button because then he’ll have to start all over from the beginning.  Ironic, don’t you think?

21.  OK, there is no way that the MRI machine sounding like Smokey is just a coincidence.  And Smokey also “reads” people like the machine does (like when Smokey comes, Desmond is having flashes of his past/other life).  Not that Smokey is an MRI machine but it’s still pretty ironic.

22.  Gratuitous Charlie screenshot.  I don’t know if we will get anymore for the remainder of the show so I just had to get one more in here.  I love his character and thought it was fabulous to see him again.
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23.  Eloise does not look very happy to see Desmond.  While everyone else is finding their happily ever after mates something tells me that Eloise and Widmore aren’t the happiest married couple.  Widmore has his agenda moving forward and she doesn’t seem to agree by trying to stop Des from finding out who Penny is.  And SKID you are right again, the same symbol that Juliet had branded on her.  I’m leaning towards Eloise being on the “black” side of the scale.
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24.  I think that Eloise wants to stop Desmond because she does not want him to interfere with this timeline.  My guess is that she probably made a deal with MIB to have her son back and doesn’t want Des to interfere with that.  Remember that MIB does try to deal to bring back dead people (Nadia, Richard’s wife).  She probably helped to free MIB in this time line in exchange for her son (Dan).  She reminds Desmond that he has the “perfect life” including the thing that he wanted the most, Widmore’s approval.  That was true for the old time line as well.

25.  Another list.  Eloise tells Des that he’s not ready to see the list.  Who knows how many Losties are on that list.  By the time he leaves the stadium, however, he is ready for the list and asks for a different one, the flight manifest.

26.  Two dead people from the island and both reflections are black.  Mankowski and Dan.
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27.  I’m thinking that the “museum” is special.  We know that Pierre Chang and Charlotte work there.  Eloise has a connection (the fundraiser is there) and Dan hangs out there.  I would guess we are going to see more Dharma connections come along at the museum this season.  Maybe the new lighthouse station is there.

28.  Why would Dan pull Des aside to talk about Charlotte and his crazy dream?  Could it be because Dan wrote more than just one page of crazy equations?  Maybe the page is in there where Dan wrote that Desmond Hume is his constant? Seems that Dan’s mind crossed over in his dream after being “sparked” by seeing Charlotte and that is how he remembered some of his physics.

29.  Yes, Dan is a musician but his book was left behind in 1977.  You can believe that Eloise and Dharma got their hands on that book and is probably how they know so much about time travel, Desmond, and the alternate time line.

30.  I also wanted to get a gratuitous shot of Dan in here.  He’s another one of my favorite characters and we might not see him again this season.   Oh and yes, of course he’s wearing the tie!  Now they need to bring in Juliet!
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31.  OK, did Dan tell us that this new timeline wasn’t supposed to be an that maybe the energy needs to be released to end it?  He speculates to Des that maybe “this” isn’t the life they were supposed to live.  He may very well have to kill off all of the Losties in one time line or another to set things straight and it sounds like from Dan’s speech that the new time line has to go.

32.   Anyone expecting Desmond to tell Penny, “See you in another life, brother sister” at the stadium?

33.  Des wakes up on the island and is ready to go with Widmore’s plan.  I think it’s part because he knows he will still be with Penny and part because he’s working for Widmore and gained what he wanted, his respect.  There is a remote possibility that Des’s consciousness switched places between the two timelines so that the Des that didn’t have Penny can continue without her (on the island) and the Des that loves her now has her again in the new time line.

34.  Did anyone else chuckle when Sayid just killed two people yet told Des that “these people are extremely dangerous?”

35.  The fact that Sayid doesn’t kill Liz Lemon Zoe shows that he still has a little humanity left in him. There is good and bad in everyone.

36.  What could Penny be training for when she’s running these stairs?  Could it be for a sailboat trip around the world?

37.  Is Des going to show the Losties through love that they have another life on the island?  What about those who didn’t have it?  Is he going to show him the way back to that love so that if he has to kill them all here they will understand or agree to go?  Locke had to find a way to convince them to all go back, maybe Des does too.

Naomi had a picture of Desmond when she first parachuted to the island.  Widmore hired Naomi and the others to go to the island.  We assumed then that their primary mission was to kill Ben.  Yes, killing Ben was one of their goals.  Widmore had access, probably through Mrs Hawkings, to know that Ben would kill Jacob and therefore had to be stopped.  However, Widmore’s second mission in sending the freighter was to get Desmond and use him for (insert next week’s episode).  So…. it explains why Naomi had that picture of Desmond as the was her second goal on the island.
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1.  The island is not done with Jin.  We have seen (ex; Michael) that you cannot die if the island still has a plan for you.  Now I now how Jin really survived the freighter blowing up.  He still has something to accomplish.

2.  Is it really a surprise that the airport was going to confiscate the cash?  I don’t know the regulations for flying with that kind of cash (I’ve only had to check on liquids) but I can’t imagine that Sun’s dad didn’t know that carrying that kind of cash was against the rules.  He also knew about Sun’s secret bank account, which he closed.  He really set Jin up!

3.  Just because Sayid can’t feel anything doesn’t mean he doesn’t know what is going on.  He still has the capability of making choices.  I’m still holding out that Sayid will make the right choice when it comes to doing bad things to the Losties.
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4.  Flocke talked to Sun and she still wasn’t influenced by him.  Or is it just that you can’t let them talk to you if you plan on killing them?

5.  Further proof that Sun is now straddling time lines – as she’s running away from Locke and approaching the tree that she ultimately hits they are playing the sounds the segues from one time to another and right as she hits in Sun in the new time line opens her eyes.  It reminds me of when the hatch imploded and Desmond flashed to his past.  Not a normal transition.
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6.   Here is Sun’s mirror shot.  Going back and watching this it seems like she’s having  a “Jack” moment, like she almost knows that she’s in two worlds.
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7.  When Flocke comes back to his camp and finds them all passed out he goes to Sayid first.  He’s obviously important to Flocke’s plan but Flocke will kill Sayid just like any of them as soon as he’s done with them.

8.  Some new characters come along and fit so well into the story that I hate to see them go (Faraday).  But Zoe aka Liz Lemon really needs to go.  She’s not a great actress to begin with and her character just doesn’t fit into the story.  Perhaps if there was a different actress I would be buying it but as far as I’m concerned they can bury her alive any time now and give us more Widmore screen time instead.
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9.  Liz/Zoe asks Jin about the pockets of energy diagrammed on the map.  I think they are going to harness the energy to stop Flocke.
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10.  When Keamy is asking to get the translator there he calls him “Danny’s friend.”  Could he be referring to Dan Faraday!?

11.  And speaking of Keamy, here is a good example of a new character (yes, I know he was around before) who is welcome because he fits so seamlessly into the story.  Not to mention that this guy is either really evil in real life or he’s one heck of a great actor.
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12.  This seems like a heck of a lot of equipment to be hauling in a sub.  Anyone out there know how much space there is on a sub to haul large equipment like this?  And how did they get it out?
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13.  I think that MIB is not only using himself as a distraction so that Sayid can sneak up but I also think that he’s there to check out what kind of security and defense Widmore has going on.  Just like when Bram surrounded himself with ash in the temple and Smokey found a way to get him, he will also find his way around this.

14.  Outside of seeing Desmond (yeah!) this was my favorite scenes.  Flocke versus Widmore.  Bring it on!
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15.  Flocke says, “A wise man once said that a war was coming to this island.”  If memory serves, Widmore is the one that said that.  How does he know that?  So far it seems like all the big players are on Team Jacob.

16.  It was weird seeing Patchy/Makail being so helpful.  I don’t think that he would have hurt Jin either.
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17.  Sounds to me like Widmore is upset with Zoe because she blew their cover.  He says that she should have waited and taken Jin in the jungle.  I can only think that is because taking him from the camp really exposed what they were up to in taking Jin.

18.  There are two weird things about this picture.  First, why is the sign in English?  Second, there is a very large amount of space to the right.  Almost looks like a photoshop.
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19.  I was really moved by Jin’s reaction in looking at these pictures.  I would really love to see Sun and Jin get together and then find a way off the island to be with their daughter.  Ben used to travel back and forth.  Maybe they can use his route.

20.  Interesting that Flocke is using Sayid because of his total lack of emotions and Widmore is using Jin by bring forth all sorts of strong emotions.

21.  Widmore says if Flocke gets off the island everyone would simply “cease to be.”  Meaning…?  That they would cease to be in an emotional sense (ie; the sickness) or the world would literally end?  They might be about to find out in the alternative time line.

22.  If Sun had not left the island then she would not have had her baby.  The baby was not meant to be.  Sun very well, therefore, lose the baby in the alternative time line.  Seems like those with babies lose them and those with no children now have them.

23.  How is it that people can miraculously heal on the island but fruit cannot grow and dies?  Guess it’s not a Garden of Eden there.

24.  I don’t think Jack plans on leaving the island.  He promises to get Sun and Jin on the plane but doesn’t say “us,”  he only says “you.”

25.  Interesting that Saywer tells Kate that it looked like her brain “took a little stroll.”  If they end up like Charlotte all of their brains will be strolling.

26.  Desmond!
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It was cute, in a weird way, that they book-ended this episode with Sawyer’s famous line “Son of a B*tch.”  I kept expecting someone to bring up Sawyer’s daughter (remember Clementine?) but it was more like Sawyer is the lonely bachelor which is weird because it seems like characters who didn’t have kids before (Jack, Sayid’s niece and nephew) now have kids but Sawyer, who did have a kid, now is childless.  Just seems odd to me.  Does that take care of his daddy issue?  And if he doesn’t have offspring then we can definitely say that it is his name on the list?

Which makes me think of one more point before discussing this week’s episode – are we going to find out what was up with the fertility “problem” on the island?  It played such a huge role in this show I’d like to find out what Darlton was thinking about this and why it was such a big deal.

1.  I forgot that Sawyer promises Jin in the opening scene this week that if Sun is on the island they won’t leave without her.  More proof that Sawyer is going to gather up his “friends” before leaving, and not just the ones that are with Flocke.
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2.  Speaking of, could they get Jin and Sun together already?  Jin and Sun have their episode coming up in a few weeks but in the meantime this separation is just annoying.  It’s played as far as it can go (or that is how it’s been going the past 7 episodes).  Maybe they will somehow end up being the Adam and Eve in the cave.  The only problem I have with that is that they would have to leave their daughter behind.  I’d rather see Adam and Eve end up being Rose and Bernard.  I can appreciate building a story but the outside of being on opposite teams in the upcoming “war” (which could be easily overcome by walking away) I don’t see how the separation is adding anything to the story.

3.  So Miles is the one that set up Sawyer and Charlotte and he knows her because she works at the museum with his dad.  His dad – Pierre Chang?  The name plate of Miles’ desk shows the last name of “Straume.”  I suppose they could have changed their name back home.  But did Pierre get off of the island before the bomb went off?  Does he remember his encounter with Miles back in 1977?  To know that would answer some important questions of how the time lines split.  And who is Miles’ girlfriend? It would be funny it is turned out to be Juliet.
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4.  In the new time line Sawyer has become a really bad liar as opposed to the “best liar” Flocke has ever met.

5.  Are we assuming that the Christian that appeared around the island was some type of MIB manifestation?  Because “Christian” is the one that drew Claire away the night that she took off and left Aaron behind.  I got the impression this week from the conversation Flocke had with Kate that he does want Kate to raise Aaron.  So my conclusion is that yes, MIB/Flocke was the one who played the part of Christian.  I think that question deserves and answer in the show but not sure it will be clarified.  But Claire originally told Jin that she had a friend AND Locke so from that comment I think that maybe Christian is playing a third role in the MIB/Jacob tug-of-war.  But the psychic told Claire that she had to raise Aaron making me think that Jacob would want Claire to raise Aaron because if he’s “raised by another” then he can take over Flocke’s position on the island.

6.  If I remember correctly, in one of the time flashes when the Losties were talking to Richard he said that they gave the Army the chance to leave peacefully and when they didn’t they killed them (I think Miles even stepped on one of their graves).  This is the same thing that Flocke says about the Temple dwellers.

7.  Terry O’Quinn is an amazing actor.  I’m already starting to get “fuzzy” on the way our original Locke acted.  I was watching him with Sawyer totally engaged and then realized how well I’m sold on Locke now being “Flocke.”
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8.  In the original story Charlotte became an archeologist because she was on a quest to get back to the place she was born, the island.  Here we are in the new time line and Charlotte still has pursued archeology and to add to that we can assume that she’s working with Pierre at the museum and he has intimate knowledge of the island.  We know that Dharma is/was around in the new time line because Roger Linus talks about being in the group on the island.  I think we are somehow headed back to the island in the new time line from the hints that they are dropping AND that I don’t know why we would even be seeing what is going on in this split universe if there wasn’t some point to the larger story arc.

9.  I agree that Charlotte should not have been snooping through Sawyer’s book but wow, talk about an overreaction!
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10.  Frank can fly that plane off the island.  Why isn’t MIB trying to get Frank if he is sincere in wanting to get to the Ajira plane?  Another lie, what a surprise!

11.  This doesn’t look at all like a trail of ash or ash around the bodies.  To me it looks like a trail left by a big cloud of smoke (ie; Smokey). Probably the trail of where he chased these people then mass murdered them.
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12.  The character seeing their reflection is becoming what the eye-opening was in the past.  Probably nothing more then a tiny piece that strings the episodes together – like a “Where’s Waldo.”
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13.  The irony of how Kate hid from Smokey in these trees in Season One and now he’s sitting in them chatting with her.
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14.  This season is about “mommy” issues whereas the past has been about “daddy” issues.  Flocke, Locke, Claire and Aaron, Danielle and Alex, (I’m sure we’ll see Eloise and Daniel), Kate and Aaron.

15.  Looks like Sawyer’s MO hasn’t changed much in each time line.  He brought a similar flower to Juliet back when they were still happy in Otherton.
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16.  When Saywer was on the sub telling Widmore that he’d help him get Flocke I kept yelling “no, don’t do it, they are working together!”  But glad to see that Sawyer went back and told Flocke  the same thing.  I think it was his best move yet.  Let them fight it out… or let them join forces to do whatever they are going to do here on the island.  When this all comes to a head it is going to be one crazy special effects episode.  Hope they can hire some good CG people before then.

17.  I’m not buying the Claire trying to make amends with Kate.  First of all we know she’s nuts and second, we don’t know what Flocke has told her.  He could very well be telling Claire to kiss and make up for now then she can get her revenge later.
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18.  I think that Flocke knew someone was on the other island but he didn’t expect it to be Widmore.  Makes me wonder who is in that locked door that he might have really been expecting.
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19.  Kate asks Sawyer who is going to fly the plane and he tells her that they are taking the sub.  OK so same question, who is going to be able to drive it?

20.  Next week is Richard centric and I am so excited.  I am expecting answers to big questions.  Let’s hope!

The age old question of “what if…?”  But the new parallel time line isn’t just about what if flight 815 had not crashed.  Jack having a son was not a result of the flight not crashing.  Ben now being chummy with his father is not the result of flight 815 not crashing.  Juliet setting off the bomb has had a significant impact on the future of all the Losties, maybe even others we don’t know.  At some point we will see why it’s important that we know what happens in this other time line  but I suppose it’s human to wonder what your life would be like “if” you or your ancestors had made other choices.

1.  If Miles has to be near the body in order to pick up the last thoughts, how did he speak to that lady’s grandson a few seasons ago?

2.  Reflection.
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3.  The irony that Ben is tending to his father’s oxygen tank (looks and sounds like gas) when he gassed his father back in the original story.
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4.  They didn’t show us that Ilana is carrying this toolbox and collection wires for nothing.  My bet is on her helping signal Widmore to the island.  However, there is a chance that Jacob knew Widmore would be coming so he instructed her to set up a signal to help someone else, perhaps Desmond, to find the island?
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5.  Six candidates are left: Jack, Hurley, Kate, Sawyer, Jin/Sun, and Sayid.  Seems that Sayid and Sawyer would be long shots at this point.

6.  This scene is very reminiscent of The Wizard of Oz and the scene in the field of poppies.  Only I don’t remember anyone waking up thinking about cheese curds.  And they took a nap (albeit involuntarily) on the way to see the Wiz (like on the way to the Temple).
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7.  Frank questions how different his life would have been if he had been flying Oceanic 815.  Yes, there could be yet another alternate reality out there where Frank was the pilot.  This series of “what ifs” reminds me of when you put two mirrors together and they just keep reflecting back in to each other indefinitely.

8.  Sure looks like the Black Rock.  The number 19 had heavy significance in Stephen King’s Dark Tower series… and we know that Darlton is a fan.
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9.  It’s funny that Artz gets so frustrated with Ben for stalling when he wants answers.  Kind of like how we feel, huh?

10.  Ben sure does dig a perfect rectangle.
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11.  “That guy is crazy and I know crazy!”
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12.  Man of faith.  We always see the eye opening so it’s interesting to see the change in Jack along with the eyes closed this time.
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13.  I think that Smokey may be tethered to the island by chains.  All the noise that he makes and the fact that he can’t jump fences makes me think that he might still be in chains and it keeps him on the island.

14.  I was surprised that Ben chose to stay with Ilana.  His shot at power was with Locke.  Maybe there really is remorse inside of him and hope that his sacrifices for Jacob still mean something.

15.  I was really disappointed not to see a Dharma patch on Alex’s backpack.
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16.  Never one to pass up on an opportunity, I love the Miles dug up the diamonds.
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17.  The final scene with Widmore was yet another reminder of the brilliance of the writing on this show (and the crappy CGI but I can live with that).  Who would have guessed this turn of events!  Who can imagine what crazy things are going to happen with this guy around?
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