NUMBERS!

I never would have guessed that the numbers correspond to each of those on Jacob’s list.  I didn’t even expect an answer to the number question.  But I for one am more then satisfied with this answer.  And to all the naysayers that thought they made this show up as they went along, this is proof positive that the answers were there from the start.  Too many connections to the numbers not to have been a plan.  Darlton rules!

1.  What I want to know is how Locke became paralyzed in the new time line.  If his dad didn’t push him then what happened?  Was he “meant” to be paralyzed?  Is this is cross to bear in life?

2.  Ironically the sprinklers come on.  The water seems to be associated with trouble in this show.

3. Helen says that she wants to take her parents and his dad to their wedding.  Locke’s dad?  Can’t wait to see that dynamic.  His dad is the original Sawyer.  I can’t believe that his dad is not a con man in any time line.

4.  I also LOVED that we got to see from Smokey’s point of view.  I thought that was a terrific camera shot.  But, I want to know what is up with all of the noises Smokey makes.  The cricket sound, the growling and the mechanical ticking.  Plus remember when Smokey looked like he was taking pictures of Juliet and Kate?

5.  Not-Locke says that people seldom get a second chance.  Is that what this is about?  The island has given them a second chance?  We can see that their lives back home were pretty crappy in the non-crash time line.  Redemption?

6.  Randy is back.  Wow, that guy is a huge douche (like Hurley said).

7.  Hey, maybe we’ll find out where the nickname “Hurley” came from.  Or why Libby was obsessed with him.

8.  I’m glad we’re getting a Richard episode.  I want to know what Jacob did use Richard for.

9.  I’m also curious to see who the little boy that Not-Locke is chasing.  I don’t think we have enough back story yet to know who it is.  My guess is that it’s someone from long ago.  Obviously quite important to Not-Locke since he’s chasing him around like the White Rabbit.

10.  How very interesting that Sawyer could see the little boy but Richard couldn’t.

11.  Ilana has more connection to Jacob then we know yet.  She wasn’t crying over her team mates.  And collecting the ash will surely come in handy later.  She also knows a whole lot about this island.  I’m sure she’s spent some time here before.

12.  OK, I really think that Sawyer had part of the bomb at his kitchen sink.  I’ll screen cap it later.

13.  Saywer had “the best” lines this episode.  I hate what they did to his character (killing Juliet) but I love that they have brought back the slick con man from Season One.  We know there is a good guy down in there now so it’s hard not to like him.  Also, I will gamble and say that there is no way Sawyer will leave this island without at least Kate.  We know there is a good part of Sawyer down there.  No way he’ll leave.  Remember that Sawyer is a professional con man.  He could very well be playing a con on Not-Locke right now.

14.  So remember that Hurley owned a box factory in our original time line that blew up.  He made a lot of money off of it.  Guess Locke may have dodged a bullet getting fired from there.

15.  Hm, and Hurley introduces himself in the new time line as “Hugo Reyes.”  Maybe he is the only one whose life really was better without the crash.  But…. without the crash this new time line would not have happened.

16.  The little boy tells Not-Locke that according to the rules he can’t kill Jacob.  Not-Locke supposedly found a loop hole.  But did he?  Or, is the boy telling Not-Locke that he can’t kill Saywer?  He only says “you can’t kill HIM.”  So the little boy may very well be Jacob.

17.  Ben had said before that Widmore wanted to kill everyone on the island.  That if the freighter got there that they would kill everyone on the island.  Now Richard tells Sawyer that Not-Locke is going to kill everyone.  Coincidence?

18.  It’s pretty cool that Rose is working for Hurley.  She’s still the calm voice of reason.  And she still has her cancer.  Guess she’s about the same in both time lines.

19.  There is the possibility that Not-Locke is trapped much like Juliet felt trapped on the island.

20.  Ilana says that Not-Locke cannot change his face again, “he’s stuck this way.”  Guess burying Locke’s body was a good idea since he won’t be coming back then.

21.  This burial reminded me of the ones in the past.  No one had anything to say.  I was very shocked that Ben admitted to murdering him.  Right now Ben has to be so lost.  He’s not the leader, he doesn’t have Jacob to follow and his “family” is dead.

22.  The irony of the title of this episode.  Locke is the substitute in two ways.  Not-Locke and the substitute teacher.  Looks like this teaching job Rose found him will prove to be very meaningful in his new time line life.  And meeting Ben!  Wow, Ben was grouchy too!  Maybe because he’s teaching European history.

23.  Locke’s life has to be somewhat different back home.  He’s still engaged to Helen and she didn’t leave him.  He must have done some things right.  but, was interested that he lied to Jack about going on the walkabout. But he’s not as much of a man of faith, more like a good faker.

24.  Did you notice that Helen’s shirt said “Peace and Karma?”

25.  Now that Locke and Sawyer are down the ladders how on earth are they getting back up?  Not-Locke had to save Sawyer for now.  He must need him alive…. for now.  Maybe has something to do with his name on that cave wall?

26.  Three choices – do nothing, stay and “protect” the island, or leave.

27.  What answers is Sawyer looking for?  Does he even know?

28.  4- Locke, 8- Reyes , 15-Ford , 16-Jarrah, 23- Shephard, 42-Kwon (he didn’t know if it was Sun or Jin).

29.  Where was Kate on the list?  What do the numbers signify?  Why are the candidates to the be the leader?  What makes them qualified?  And what about Vincent?

30.  In the preview for next week I heard Ben’s voice stating that “someone is coming.”  I’m thinking that Desmond is coming.  He’s coming back.  He’s special, as Daniel pointed out.

32.  I’m expecting Walt to show up at the school where Locke is teaching.

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!

Could Jacob be Alvar Hanso? I was thinking about the way we saw him the first time from the window, turned sideways. I know this doesn’t really pertain to this episode, but in trying to make links between old and new information this possibility came to mind.
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1. I was also thinking back to some unsolved issues. Like the cages that Sawyer and Kate were in – I know they were for the animals, but what were they doing with the animals and why? And the landing strip that Kate and Sawyer were helping to clear rocks for – another plane coming to the island? Is this where the O6 will land, conveniently, when they come back? Kate’s airplane – did she forget about it? She robbed a bank to recover so why wouldn’t she be obsessing if she hadn’t taken it home with her? Will we ever see Libby’s connection to Hurley in the institution? There are so many for them to wrap up!

2. I was also thinking back to when Ben was looking at those dolls that Annie had made for him and Richard comes in. Ben asks something to the effect of “You remember birthdays, don’t you Richard?” Has Richard harnessed the healing power of the island to also maintain his youth? I like sci-fi and I’ll buy into the time travel, but never aging is going to be a hard sell to me.

3. I have more thoughts but I think I’ll save them for the next post after the recap.

4. So the O6 has been off of the island for 3 years. I can’t imagine that the Losties are going to have to suffer for three years with time moving. Remember that Walt had amazing growth and the writers promised they would explain why. Well, if Walt was off the island for years he would have grown quite a bit. But, if that same time frame was island time it would have only seemed like days. So time off the island is moving much faster than on the island. The O6 come back after 3 years but the Losties only think they’ve been gone a few days to a week.

5. Hurley tells Sayid that someday he’ll need his help but he won’t get it. But Hurley goes through great lengths to help him back home. Change of heart or foreshadowing?
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6. Ana Lucia tells Hurley not to get arrested. Hurley purposely gets arrested to avoid Ben. I guess we’ll see what kind of ramifications that decision has.
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7. Must pay homage to the shirt.
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8. Sun is up to something. It’s too convenient that she was in such a hurry to make her plane and then right after Kate goes on the run, Sun shows up! Does she blame Kate somehow for Jin’s death? Is she really trying to help Kate or is she setting her up for some future purpose?

9. Ben’s secret box. Reminds me of when Miles visited the lady whose spirit he talked to, he took something out of the air vent also (but I think his was money). Why was it in the vent – someone must have placed it there before Ben showed up.
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10. Ben tells Jack that he’s never coming back once they return to the island. Is Jack really OK with this? I guess outside of his mother we haven’t seen that he has anything left to live for at home but wouldn’t Jack be looking for ways that he could bring them all back home? Jack seems too heroic to just accept that they will all live happily ever after on the island, which makes me think he’s got his own plan. After all, we don’t know what he planned with Juliet before they left.

11. I’m not convinced that anyone is really out to kill Hurley and Sayid. I think they were hired by Ben to scare them and send them right into his trap for the O6 to get them to agree to go back to the island.

12. Jill tells Ben that Gabriel and Jeffrey have already checked in. The flight crew perhaps? Ben then goes on to defend Jack and his drug abuse. Wow, a little empathy from Ben. Not sure outside of his daughter we’ve seen Ben express true feelings (of kindness, at least).

13. Vincent! The one character the writers have promised will live to the end. But with Vincent, there always comes trouble and sure enough, flaming arrows coming their way.
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14. That was some crazy arrow shooting at the Losites. The Others were violent but not like this. Had to be the hostiles and my guess would be it was from the distant past. I wonder if the dead Losties bodies will time travel or since they died in that time then they will stay there?

15. “Why is there a dead Pakistani on my couch?” Hurley has the best family!
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16. Sun really is not the person we thought she was. I think back to The Glass Ballerina and that Sun blamed the maid for breaking the figurine knowing that she would lose her job. I don’t know if she really expects Kate to kill the attorneys, but she wants her to “take care of them.”

17. Watching the scene again where Hurley tells him mom the whole truth about the plane and the survivors makes me question how more of the actors on this show don’t get Emmy or other award nominations. I’ve watched a lot of the other shows that get nominated and most of them don’t sustain the believability or momentum that Lost has. I watch Jorge and Jeremy Davies and they are so great in this show. Yes, a few of the actors have been nominated (and won, yeah!) but not enough in my opinion.

18. NOW we see hostiles! Wow, cutting off her hand “just because.” And dang it Sawyer, take their shoes!!!
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19. Loving the hot pocket thrown at Ben. That thing was hot too, that could have hurt!
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20. The cloak and dagger outfit was a little silly here. But the dichotomy between the science and faith was interesting (science in the basement, faith upstairs). Mrs Hawkins comes across as a leader in the way she speaks to Ben and he reacts.
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1. “Love” the irony in the opening scene. Looked eerily similar to the opening with Desmond in the hatch. Then the record player skipping, like now time is skipping.

2. The clock showed 8:14 but alarm didn’t go off until 8:15. I thought it meant they were going to go ahead in time.

3. So, Dan was on the island before the hatch was built or was it some type of time travel that he was there when they were drilling? It would explain how his brains got scrambled (remember when we first met Dan he was crying over the plane crash but didn’t know why). He was probably messing around with the “energy” on the island and cooked his brains. He would no longer be of use to them and that could be why they let him go home and why they wanted him to go back. Also, seems like now we see that Dan has a prior connection to island, we think Charlotte does and my guess is we will find out what …. ’s is too. That is why they chose those three to go on the mission back to the island on the freighter.

4. I’m wondering why they were drilling underground to begin with. Maybe to somehow get closer to the energy? Also, I wonder if they somehow “unleashed” the smoke monster when they were drilling around the island.

5. It was raining on Locke when he first “wakes up” after the time shift. Rain has always signaled weird things on the island.

6. Lots of Rose and Bernard this time around. Lots of shirtless Sawyer too. I found it funny that Sawyer is on a mission to get a shirt. Kind of a “shout out” to the viewers like me.

7. Kate should be good at running from the lawyers, it’s what she does best. I need to think on who would hire attorney’s to question her paternity. My first thoughts are that Ben has hired people to come after the six in order to “persuade” them or give them reason to join together and to want to go back to the island. Sun will be the hardest. Maybe show her that Jin is alive and that will stop her from wanting to kill Ben and want to get back to the island.

8. I think that Locke may be the “him” that Desmond referred to when we first met him. If you recall, he asked Jack fi “he” sent him. Since Locke is floating through time maybe he somehow meets up with Desmond and tells him that someone will come to relieve him. Remember the snowman joke?

9. Dan tells Desmond that he’s “extra” special. Why? Or is he just extra special because he’s Dan’s constant? I know Desmond can see the future but maybe there’s more that we’re about to see. Maybe it’s Desmond that is going to stop the time from slipping all around, but must be through Dan’s mother. Why else would Desmond need to go see her?

10. I was thinking back to Desmond’s flash where he saw Claire and the baby getting on a helicopter and getting off of the island. Since we have been told many times that you can’t change events, then this must be the end when they all get saved. Desmond told Charlie that through his sacrifice they would all be saved.

11. Do they all need constants now? Why can’t they be each other’s constants?

12. Sayid can kick some serious butt.

13. So how did Richard find Locke after he was shot by Ethan? How could he possibly know on the island where Locke would be or that he was shot. It’s possible that Richard heard Ethan come back and tell the story, but then how would Richard be able to calculate “when” to find Locke? I’m sure we’ll get the answer but it’s still interesting to ponder how he does it. And didn’t Richard offer Locke the compass when he was little boy and he didn’t take it?

14. Although Hurley said he wouldn’t help Sayid, he’s too sweet not to help him when he needed it.

15. It was kind of sad that Ana Lucia told Hurley that Libby said hi.

16. It was also a funny moment when Hurley puts the glasses on Sayid.

17. Anyone get a look at what Ben took out of the heating vent at the hotel and hid in his bag?

18. NO! Hurley’s dad was watching Expose… the show Barbie was on. Ugh.

19. I think it’s safe to guess that the slipping around in time is what drove Danielle’s people crazy and will start to affect those on the island. Frogurt was showing signs.

20. I love Hurley’s family. They get the best scenes.

21. Did you notice Sun in the red shirt when she is talking to Kate? I don’t think it means her death, but the death of others.

22. Hurley had the best line, to his mom, “… and pushing the button every 108 minutes or… I was never really clear on that.”

23. Yes! It was great to see Locke. He’s going to start bang-a-rangin’ this time travel I think. He’s a go with the flow guy.

24. So 70 hours to round them up and get back. I guess they will be going back this season. yeah!

25. The lady Ben talks to in the last scene is the woman who sold Des the ring for Penny and told him he had to go back to the island.

26. Vincent is back!

Will get this one screen capped. More to come!

I was snooping around the internet and came across this photo from the 2006 Screen Actors Guild Awards.  Looks like the island has about a 70% death rate.  One note, out of the nine that are *dead* four had drunk driving charges at some point while on the show.   Don’t drink and drive kids!

My sister is the only person I know whose theories make me even say, “Gosh, Julie, I think you’re reading too much into that.” So it was no wonder she came over last night with Cosmos trying to dull my Lost senses. Apologies if my initial thoughts were off, blame it on my sis.

1. I can’t stop thinking about the podcast I listed to a few weeks ago with Darlton. They were talking about theories and how different they were is Season One just because we didn’t have all of the information that we have now. I think about that a lot when I’m writing and/or thinking about the show because just like in life, I’m basing my ideas on what I know now and what I’ve experienced. It is going to be so interesting in a year or longer to look back and read past ideas. I have to say that in Season One I had very vastly different ideas about what was going on here.
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2. Ben tells Michael that if he follows his coordinates he will find rescue. That makes me think that he had people waiting to take them back to land. That would make sense of how Michael went from a little tugboat all the way back to New York.

3. At first I thought the opening scene where Locke brings in Miles was very odd. They’re all just standing there looking at each other. Then, after listening to Locke’s speech it made me think that it was a very subtle way the writers were talking to us, the viewers. Locke says, “Thank you all for your patience… you deserve to know everything that I do. So, no more secrets.” We are past the Beginning of the End (in more ways then one) so it only seems fair to start answering some questions, don’t you think? And it seems like we have been getting some answers.

4. Dictators usually have a backup plan if they ever get caught. What if Ben was the one who actually gave the orders that if he ever gets caught to kill everyone on the island? Maybe he wants any *witnesses* (so-to-speak) to die if he is caught. Kool-Aid drinkers if you will. If he dies, they all die. Why would Miles defend himself or go against anything Ben says? He’s exactly where he wants to be, according to his own words, and doesn’t seem to give much credit to the Losties so he probably doesn’t really care what they do or don’t think. Miles is working his own agenda.

5. Desmond, sleep with your shoes on!
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6. This map to the temple really sucks. “Yeah, take a left at the mountain tops after you pass over those other mountaintops over to the right.” Seems that Danielle should have circumnavigated this island a few times (remember her map that Sayid stole?) so she probably has a good idea where it is.
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7. I’m thinking that Danielle might know that something is up when Ben wants to send Alex off to the Temple. She has that look on her face here.
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8. Eye opening about 12 minutes into the show this time.
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9. Michael’s tell-tale heart is catching up to him.
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10. Maybe the reason Walt is waking up screaming in the middle of the night is because he’s doing a wee bit of the time traveling. Heck, he saw Locke almost dead laying on top of a pile of skeletons, that would probably freak me out too! Darlton did confirm that Walt can time travel and we saw how Desmond reacted coming and going.

11. Michael is healing really fast for not being on the island. Makes me think that the island has some leftover effect on people after they leave. You can see he still has a cut on his face when he goes to see his mom but he was just in the hospital with a neck brace after hitting a wall at over 60 miles and hour.
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12. Red flowers by momma’s door. Ergh, they’re taunting me now.
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13. That is so not Walt in the window. Nice try. Need better photoshop editors next time or an actor that looks more like him.
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14. Guess we know why Jack couldn’t kill himself. The island isn’t done with him yet. Michael thinks that he’s on the boat to die, but he might have even more work to do after the boat mission is complete. I think that this whole deal with the island keeping people alive goes along with course correction. Michael needed to live in order to put forth a chain of events that were supposed to happen. Again, maybe not on the freighter, but there is something that he needs to be around for. Maybe it has to do with Walt. I can’t believe that we’ve not had a resolution nor will we have one as to what makes Walt so special. I think we’ll be finding out over the next 3 seasons.
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15. Cute. Michael has a gameshow on when he’s about to shoot himself and the category is literature. The answer is Kurt Vonnegut. There has been a lot of chatter online about Slaughterhouse Five and how it applies to Lost.
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16. Guess we also found out why there isn’t an issue identifying the bodies that were found in the fake 815 remains, where the bodies came from, and how in the world you would find a plane to stage that no one would miss.

17. Wow, Ben must have some fat cash to be able to put Mr Friendly up in the penthouse.

18. Good thing Mr Friendly just happened to have a folder laying around with information regarding the fake plane crash. With pictures!
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19. Kevin Johnson is awfully happy in this picture. And I like how the number starts with “HNSO.”
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20. Isn’t it bad luck to change the name of a boat? How strangely obvious that the name was changed.
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21. I found it interesting when Mr Friendly was listing off some of Michael’s friends on the island he listed Sun first. Especially considering they had somewhat of a flirtatious relationship.

22. If Widmore hired this boat to search out the island, wouldn’t he have done extensive research into who was on the boat? My point being, Kevin isn’t Kevin and surely someone on the freighter knew it!

23. When Naomi and Frank are arguing on the ship, she says she has to go first. I guess I had forgotten that there was a second helicopter that Naomi crashed. I wonder if at some point they will find the wreckage. Maybe be able to salvage it?

24. Don’t push the button. The button’s bad.
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25. If Smokey or Jacob are sending the ghost people to the survivors, then wouldn’t blowing up the ship (if it was truly on a mission to kidnap Ben and wipe out the rest of the people) be a good thing? Wouldn’t Jacob want the boat stopped? And if so, then wouldn’t ghost Libby tell Michael to go for it?

26. Cruel.
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27. Ben calling as Walt. Also cruel.

28. Ben gets a lot of use out of that closet. And with Sayid off the island, the other survivors don’t know that it’s there. But I would bet we will see even more uses for Ben’s “magic box.”
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29. Future Sayid must have stolen Desmond’s hairstyle.
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30. I don’t think that the captain looks all that surprised to find out that Kevin isn’t Kevin.
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31. At first I was surprised at Sayid’s decision to rat out Michael to the captain. But then as I watched the show again I see that Sayid had plenty of time to consider what action to take. I would think that even if the freighter crew weren’t there to save the survivors, there is a chance that Sayid could still use the boat to rescue them and he would need the crew to make it happen. Therefore, he doesn’t want the crew dead. Plus he builds trust with the captain by ratting out Michael, especially if the captain already knew about Michael. If I were ever in a plane crash on a crazy island, I would want Sayid there. So far, out of all the survivors he has acted the most pro actively in keeping them safe and saving all of them.

32. What in the world in hanging from Alex’s ear? Prop error?
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33. I think it’s Ben’s people that kill Karl and Danielle. Remember when they were using the poison darts on Kate, Jack, etc? Looks like they are using the darts again only this time to kill.  Also, Ben wants Alex all to himself and he is so ruthless that he would kill her mother, right in front of her. I still hope that Danielle is alive, but I’m not counting on it. I could see her coming back to the compound to warn the others of what has happened.

34. You can see someone off to the left in the grass, but it doesn’t help to figure out who it is.
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I’m still disappointed with the whole Michael returns story line. I *almost* had sympathy for Michael tonight, however. He keeps making really bad choices and getting himself into some very bad situations. Not sure I thought it was a tremendous cliffhanger either.

1. What I want to know is when Michael and Walt found rescue how did they explain who they were and how they got that boat? They obviously didn’t admit to being part of the Oceanic survivors.

2. I would guess that it’s Michael in the coffin, but it almost seems too obvious. On the other hand, it would explain why no one came to the funeral – he was using a fake name. Again, how does Michael get back to the mainland if he doesn’t die on the freighter? Jack would have to know Michael’s pseudonym in order to know it was his obituary which means Michael meets back up with the survivors.

3. So the sanctuary is the last safe place on the island? I’m thinking it must be a bunker similar to the original button pushing bunker. Remember those thick doors that Michael was checking out?

4. Are we supposed to believe that the people on the boat are the one’s who are coming that Ben is so afraid of? I’m thinking we may see the “Other” Others that have been on the island. They could be the remaining Dharma’s that weren’t killed by Ben. Besides the fact that the men on the boat have machine guns, they don’t seem to be in very good shape (think Minkowski) and the boat is trying to get AWAY from the island but Michael sabotages the engines so they can’t get away. I’m just not convinced that the freighties are the ones coming to kill them all.

5. Michael’s eye opening in the hospital. Interesting it wasn’t at the beginning of the episode this time.

6. Did you catch that nurse Libby was bringing Michael blankets? Just like when she walked into the hatch when Michael shot her. So why is Libby haunting Michael? We’ve seen a lot of hauntings in this show. Charlie, Christian, Ana Lucia, Eko’s brother, Boone, and Dave who technically wasn’t ever alive.

7. So the time frame is that Michael has been gone two months according to his mother. Mr Friendly didn’t have too much more time to live after this episode if my memory is correct.

8. Could they have at least used the original actor for Walt? Seemed too cheesy.

9. Someone needs to read Korean! what was on the back of that watch? I haven’t thought about that watch for awhile. Good thing Jin didn’t make it back without it.

10. The island won’t let Michael die? Is that why Mikael kept living through those crazy accidents that should have killed him? This idea is very strange. If everything on this show has some explanation, how do you explain this outside of pure coincidence? Reminds me of an XFiles episode. I forget how that guy finally died.

11. Michael sure seemed to heal fast after trying to kill himself. He was out running around in no time. Did the island somehow give him the ability? Not like a Heroes power, more like some magnetic *hangover* if you will that allows your cells to heal faster. Or at least for awhile.

12. Mr Friendly tells Michael that he has work to do. Boone told Locke the same thing in his airport magic carpet ride dream and Walt also tells Locke this when he’s laying there dying after Ben shoots him.

13. It wasn’t a secret that Mr Friendly was gay. Remember that when Kate is first in the Others locker room after being kidnapped, he tells her not to worry because she’s not his type. He indulges when he’s not on the island.

14. I still don’t believe that Widmore staged the crash. Mr Friendly knows so very many details about how it was done, seems like maybe he knows just a little *too* much about it. I did appreciate that the reason the bodies weren’t pulled out of the wreckage and identified.

15. No one in Thailand noticed all those bodies missing?

16. Miles could have been talking to the ghost Libby that is following Michael around and that is how he knew it wasn’t really his name.

17. Maybe Michael sees that the effects of the island are killing the freighter crew and that is why he doesn’t want the ship to move away.

18. Is Frank really a good judge of character? He confides that the survivors of 815 might still be out there. Or since he has the manifest memorized does he perhaps know this is Michael somehow?

19. Michael killed Ana Lucia on his own. Wow, makes him seem even worse.

20. Ben wants a list of people on the boat. Makes me wonder if he is the one who orders the list of survivors on the plane. Makes me even think that there could have even been a mole on the plane who had the list before they crashed. Who is good on that boat that they want to save and why would Ben care?

21. Looks like Sayid must like Desmond’s hair this week because he has the same ‘do’ in the future. Yucky.

22. Ben is totally communicating with the Others – how else would they know Alex was coming? Ben is really a very selfish person – wanting Alex all to himself and he’s willing to kill to make that happen. However, it would be a cool twist if this explains where Frank and the other freighter guy went on their *errand.* They went to capture Alex because she is a great bargaining chip to get to Ben.

23.  They can’t kill Danielle!  We haven’t seen enough of her story yet!

24. April 24th. Doesn’t sound like too bad of a wait.

25. I could hear the monster outside of one of the houses in the previews. Looks like old Smokey must find a way around the security perimeter.

26.  Instead of whispers, Michael hears a song right before Libby shows up to tell him not to push the button (remember Walt’s “Push the button, don’t push the button.  The button’s bad?”).  And the Execute button was just like the one in the hatch.

27.  I thought for sure Michael would ask Sayid how Vincent was doing.

So I had half the post done and WordPress decided to kick me out. Nice! Save your work people!
On with the show…

Yes, I’m still stinging from the beating the writers gave me, the viewer, from this episode. If I wanted to watch fighting I’d turn to ESPN. If I wanted to watch the bad guy intimidate the good guy I’d go to work (you decide who’s who). I watch for the mystery of the show! You say, the mystery is in whether or not the pacemaker was real. *Insert me rolling eyes.* There was no mystery there. It was Them again torturing our Sawyer and I for one am raising my hand to be excused from this story line.

My boyfriend told me that maybe our expectations have become so high that there is no room for any error in this show. True, but it wasn’t necessarily the writing that I take issue with as much as the content.

I will still watch because I do want to see Sawyer’s redemption song (remember him singing this on the raft?)

1. Here is a little something to cheer you up. Follow this link. Warning: you will be earwormed for the day.

2. Bravo to Desmond for knowing when to walk away. Claire was a little freaked and the *new and improved* macho Charlie was fluffing his feathers when Desmond came to her about fixing her tent. For the record, Desmond appeared to know lightening was going to hit her tent and that is why he built the lightening rod. Seems like more people, especially Hurley, are starting to know that there’s something going on with Desmond.
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3. Jack is watching a cartoon about Swan’s. How appropriate. But why? Seems like the crafty Others didn’t plan for a purple sky explosion that wiped out their Comcast Cable. At this point, I think it’s fair to say that much of what they know about these Losties comes from internet research. Maybe I’ll be proven wrong, but info about Jack, Sawyer, and Kate would all be out there considering what we know about their histories. Now they are cut off. This could be what starts the cookie crumbling because they seem to be depending on technology as much as we do!
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4. Bravo to Jack for the mind games with Juliet! This distinctly reminds me of when Ben (the hostage formerly known as Henry) was playing the *who’s in charge* game between Locke and Jack knowing full well there was already tension there. Jack is toying with Juliet by implying that Ben is in charge. I think that Jack has seen the tension and is playing on it. Finally, I can get behind Jack on this one!

5. OK, I missed this point but it is true. When Ben barges in and tells Juliet he needs help, he distinctly says, “The SUB is back, we have a situation.” I guess we know how the Others have been sneaking around now. It explains how they could have boarded the sailboat without Sayid and Jin seeing them. It explains how Steve/Scott was killed on the beach without being detected. I am wondering if they got the sub from someone in the past who has crashed on the island. They are scavengers. Now they have the sailboat, too. Desmond won’t be happy about that one.

6. The scene where Sawyer is scheming to shock one of The Others, Kate asks about Jack and Sawyer at first act slike he doesn’t care, then he indicates that they don’t even know if he is alive. I think that is part of why they march him past them. They want Kate and Sawyer (who indeed does have a conscience) to know that he is still very much around. Another way to keep them from escaping?

7. Funny. Sawyer calls Munson “Costanza.”
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8. Two days since the sky turned purple, they’re blind, the comms are down and they can’t get them back up, and Colleen is in critical condition. I agree with Sawer, “We happened.” The Other’s don’t even realize, I think, what has indeed happened. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.

9. BTW, on top of being annoyed with the endless Sawyer torture, I’m also annoyed that there are more new Losties being introduced. I’m sure these two are fine actors, but come on! We don’t get enough screen time with the characters that we know (hello, where are Rose and Bernard?) but now we have to have new survivors? Could the writers have at least made their introduction more interesting? Make them have been lost since the crash, something! Them just running up and we are supposed to accept them is just not right. Now we have to share airtime and flashbacks with the noobs. I’m not liking it!

10. Cassidy and the mystery of Clementine. I don’t believe that there is a baby. Sawyer has been locked up for nine months so the timeline makes sense. However, Cassidy seemed to be as much of a sheister as Sawyer and I think she wants her revenge on him for conning her. She doesn’t need the money, this is about saving face.

11. Looked up the words to “Oh My Darling, Clementine” and they probably don’t have any significance, but still interesting (btw, I still wonder if there is mining going on here):

In a cavern, in a canyon,
Excavating for a mine
Dwelt a miner forty niner,
And his daughter Clementine.

Refrain:
Oh my darling, oh my darling,
Oh my darling, Clementine!
You were lost and gone forever
Dreadful sorry, Clementine.

Clementine goes on to drown in the song, too.

12. Didn’t Kate rob the bank in Albequerque? That is also where Sawyer sent the money for his “baby.” Will we see a connection later?

13. I’m also not convinced that the Other’s don’t know that there is periodic sound coming through the intercom that Jack keeps hearing. Conveniently, he keeps hearing the good stuff. Why isn’t the boring stuff crackling through? “Hey Ben, pass me the salt.” “Juliet, where did you put the gauze?” Stuff like that. I think Jack should be noticing this too.
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14. I can’t believe that I am siding with Sawyer on this, but I would not be sad if I saw one of the Others hurt and I thought that “my people” did it. Think about everything that they have done to Sawyer alone, let alone everyone else. Kidnapping kids, killing their mates, injecting who knows what and etc… yeah, they’re the good guys all right.

15. I watched back the scene where they are taking Jack to help Colleen and he distinctly pauses and turns towards Kate and Sawyer. He is facing forward (left of the screen) and his head turns to the right. You can see this by the line in the bag over his head. This will come into play during the great escape that must be coming. He heard them for sure.
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16. Whose xray is this *really* going to be? Is it Ben? Is it Locke? Could it be someone we haven’t met yet? Obviously it was meant to be here for him to see – no coincidence there. I found two very significant things about this scene. For the first time Jack seems to realize that he is not just in this room, but on this island for a very specific reason. Secondly, if there is this amazing healing power here, why is this person still plagued with cancer in their spine?

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17. Did Jack really do everything he could to save Colleen? Juliet had her stabilized and then Jack starts working and she dies. Plus, I could not believe that Jack didn’t pause and demand something for himself or his friends in order to help her. My boyfriend thinks that perhaps the surgeon in him took over and the rationale of where he was, was forgotten.

18. There is more than one operating room wherever they took Jack. He walks to Area Op-4 but behind Ben we see Area Op-5. Why all the operating rooms? Also, notice the observation area above the Op room that Jack and Juliet are in. We know for sure there are fertility experiments happening. Is Sun unknowingly involved? Are they trying to breed super-humans (intelligence and immune to disease)? No crash cart? Do they kill people and not even try to save them if something goes wrong?
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19. When Juliet brings Jack to the operating room Ben is upset and Juliet says he can help, he’s a doctor. Ben begins to say, “That is not why we …” and Juliet cuts him off. Not why what? They brought Jack here? Not why they are here? Not why he brought Colleen here?

20. How is it that Ben is always in front of the monitors just in time to see the important stuff? He is like the Wizard in Oz, isn’t he? This is way too convenient and not believable.
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21. When the warden brings in Sawyer to get the information about the money, why does he ask him, “You remember Agent Freedman from the Treasury Department?” Why would Sawyer remember him? I assume other meetings, but was he also involved in the investigation into Sawyer’s con?

22. After exchanging info with the warden, wouldn’t Sawyer be wanted by some very powerful people? When it comes time, will he want to leave the island? What will be waiting for him back on land?

23. If there are two island’s why didn’t Danielle see it when she mapped the main island? Is is possible that they brought Sawyer to see the other island in the morning because of the tide? Maybe there is a land bridge connecting the two islands and depending on the tide it might not be visable in the morning. If they brought him in the evening he would see the connection. In the season opener Ben tells Goodwin and Ethan to go join the survivors and gives them a very short time frame to get there. If there were two islands how could they have done that so quickly? I still have some serious doubts about what Sawyer has been shown. Maybe there *is* another island but that these Others and the Losties are indeed only on the one island.
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24.  What does Ben mean a man gets sick if he lives alone?  Connection to “the sickness” that is always referred to?  Maybe it’s not a virus that they need to fear, but more of a physchological illness.  Goes along with these experiments we have been seeing.

25.  Who is the patched man next week?  Remember last season when Eko opened the trunk in their hatch they found a glass eye.  Is this the owner?
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Initial thoughts.  Those two hours were JAM PACKED and it needs another *looksie* for more thoughts.

1.  Charlie is having serious post-traumatic issues.  He doesn’t seem to understand what happened.  He seems surprised Locke and Co. aren’t back yet when Bernard asks where they are.  He seems confused when Claire mentions the “violet sky,”  He is just way to jovial to not be in shock.

2.  Michael is going to die.  Will he come back to help his friends first?  Who knows, but there is no way that they are just going to let him go that easily.  Maybe Walt will talk him into going back for the DAMN DOG and something will happen to Michael.  It would be cool if it was set up that Sawyer ends up being a foster parent for Walt.

3.  What was Desmond in prison for?  Seems he was set up by Penny’s dad.  Mr. Widmore sure doesn’t want his daughter with Desmond.  He goes so far to send him to this experimental island?

4.  How does Penny know about the island?  I loved the last scene, it was so X-Files-esque.

5.  I don’t think that Desmond, Locke and Eko are dead.  But I sure wish someone would go check out the hatch.  Especially after the Quarantine door came flying to camp.  Hello?

6.  Sayid will go and save Jack, Kate and Sawyer.  We could see Sayid back on the boat during the *incident* and I’m sure once he hears Hurley’s story he will find a way to save them.  Plus we are talking about the 3 main characters.  They have to be saved.  But it sure would be cool to see where The Others are going to take them.

7.  What was the look between Jack and Kate right at the end?  It seems they have something in mind but by the look on Sawyer’s face he was not part of the plan.

8.  Libby so set up Desmond.  She *HAD* to be put up to giving him that boat.  Did she have a deal similar to Michael – was she trying to get someone back and had to deal to help get all of the survivors on that island in order to get her loved one back?  Plus, she really looks crappy as a red head.

9.  I don’t believe that Desmond made the plane crash.  You are telling me that the magnetic force was so powerful that it pulled down a plane from the sky, but the cans of food on the beach only fell off of the shelves?  No way.  Yes, the instruments were probably messed up and yes, the people on the plane were meant for this island, but I don’t think that Desmond’s close call with the buttons was the cause.  I think that the pilot may have made errors because of the instrument malfunction, yes.  But there are too many connections not believe they are supposed to be there.  I think that the reason *The Others* wanted the list so badly was because they needed to know who survived the crash.

10.  Desmond knows about The Others, but how?  He refers to them as “The Hostiles.”  At some point he must have left the hatch and had some sort of encounter.  Desmond just has way too much story left to tell for him to be dead. 

11.  What was up with the $42,000 reward from the boat race?  42 is one of the numbers.  Coincidence?

12.  The big bird that flies down towards Jack and co.  I had read last season during my research that the Black *Roc* is a mythological bird.  Connection?  Does it have a connection to the *monster*?

13.  The big foot on the beach.  Four toes?  Where *is* the rest of the statue?  Was it destroyed in the last *incident*?

14.  Desmond’s story is so disturbing and sad.  It’s one of those life stories that makes you look back and say, “What if…”  What if Desmond had read Penny’s letter back in prison?  Would there have been a happy ending to his love story or would he have ended up exactly in the situation he is in?

15.  We hear the whispers right before Sawyer & friends get poison darts.  We assume it’s these Others but could it have been the “good” Others warning them that the “bad” Others were coming?

16.  There is much more to discuss…. will continue since we have *all summer* to go over this one.  But I thought this had to be the best season finale I have ever seen…. 

17. Still to discuss: Kelvin, rip in his suit, volcanic rock, Rudinski (I think that was his name), fabric softner paint, stuck in a “snow globe,” Mr Widmore, Desmond in prison, more on Libby, answer to riddle, Charles Dickens, Sawyer’s comment about aliens, Sayid praying, Hanso commercial, the original incident, the Swan key, the new incident, the hole in Kelvin’s suit, the boats, the ferry, Fenry, ah, and I’m sure there is much more!

It’s official and has been said by the writers, we will find out why the plane crashed this season. So this Wednesday or next week we will have an answer. Of course, as any *true* Lost fan knows (I say with a smug look on my face) it will also lead to more questions. But that is what we love about this show, right folks!?

So I thought I better hop on the computer and put my theory out there. Now I can’t speculate the logistics of *how* the plane crashed, but I am sure that Libby had something to do with it.

Think about it, the writers have been kind enough to give us a good story before offing anyone. What about Libby? We know she was in Hurley’s backstory and we saw her briefly talking to Eko at the airport, but what else to we know about her? She gave us bits and pieces but could have been half-truths just like Goodwin was a Peace Corp worker (wasn’t that the irony of the season?). Libby never got an episode devoted to her past, coincidence?

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Here is what I’m thinking. Libby is 100% connected to the Others. Probably the bad Others. We WILL get a backstory on her but it will come through bits and pieces and be intertwined with the other character’s backstories. There won’t be one big epi devoted to her, but rather, we will learn of her past through her interaction and so-called chance meetings with the survivors. I think that back home as she was somehow responsible for making sure the survivors got on that plane. Maybe she was paid by Hanso, Widmore, or the illusive HIM, but at any rate, this was her purpose.

I can’t say why, but if you go to the upcoming episodes page, you can read how Libby will appear [back home] in the season finale. Totally goes with my theory. Yeah, she was in the asylum with Hurley, but we don’t know her role there yet. Remember she came up to Eko in the airport last week when he was talking to the *hypothermia* chick. She was probably panicking when she saw them talking because perhaps he would believe the resurrection story and not board the plane.

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Man, Michael is s-c-r-e-w-e-d for shooting her! Deliverance will have nothing on what the Others will do to him.

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To add, I just found this:

“Damon Lindelof [reveals]: Libby’s got this mysterious backstory, of which we’ve only given you the tip of the iceberg. We know she’s spent some time in the mental institution with Hurley, and the idea of killing her before she had an opportunity to explain how she got there… we have a master plan for how we’re going to tell that story, but it’s all posthumous. You’ll start to learn Libby’s moves through flashbacks over the course of the next season. So we’re not done with Cynthia, but Libby is dead.” Source: The Ausiello Report

Do I need to break out the “I told ya so” dancing man?