I think I may still be crying from last night! I know that I am biased to this show but I challenge any show out there to come up with a better and more satisfying ending than what we just saw on Lost.  After six years of building and building you would have to wonder just how brilliant and involved the writers would have to be to come up with just the “right” ending, and they managed to do it.

Do we still have questions, YES!  But I’m OK with that.  I really started getting it in my head that I didn’t want them to answer everything.  I like my ideas and my theories and sure, they could have addressed a few of the bigger issues but I really am OK going out like we have.

NOTE: I don’t have a copy of the epi last night so I don’t have screen caps yet.

1.  Yes, I watched Jimmy Kimmel live and he addressed two items that I thought about as well.  One, why weren’t Michael and Walt in the church?  The first thought is that Walt isn’t dead yet so he can’t be there.  As for Michael, is he not headed to the same white light they are?  Harold Perrineau said it is because Michael is “trapped” on the island, like he told Hurley earlier this season.  I like that better than what I thought.  The other idea he presented is that the show was Jack’s redemption song, if you will and I like that too.

2.  However, I was laying there last night and still crying… and thinking that there were many of them that found redemption on the island.  Yes, Jack was our main character and the show really focused on his redemption especially this season but I like to think that the reason they can all meet in the church is that they all found their redemption.

3.  I also like the idea that in many religions that there is the theory that you are reincarnated, if you will, until you get “it right” and at that point you can go on to heaven.  I don’t think that everyone in that church died at the same time but that they were all kind of wandering around waiting on each other to come before they could all go.  I think the message there is of hope.

3.  So I guess Jack and Jacob had a little more talking off camera.  Sounded like Jack knew that he was only the temporary carrier of the torch.

4.  I was thrilled that Richard didn’t die so easily at the hands of Smokey.  I loved that by releasing the light Richard was set free and started showing a gray hair.  I just wonder after being on an island for hundreds of years what on earth could he possibly do back on land?  Imagine the culture shock!

5.  And I also never would have guessed Claire and Kate BOTH raising Aaron.  Nice touch.

6.  When Jack was down in the cave I kept expecting him to come roaring out as a plume of WHITE smoke.  Especially when he woke up in a very similar position as MIB after he was thrown in the cave.  His death, if I may, was beautiful and poetic.  And when Vincent came over and laid down beside him it was all over for me.  I couldn’t actually fully see the ending because I had a good “ugly” cry going on.

7.  So Des got a look at “the other side” when Widmore had him in the cabin with the electromagnetic energy and that is why he did whatever they needed him to do.  He knew that on “the other side” he would end up with Penny and his friends and he knew that everything that happened on the island didn’t matter.  I like when he is about to go into the cave how he tries telling Jack but Jack seems to still be holding on to one little bit of his science minded side.

8.  I love that this episode opens basically telling us the end.  The coffin is not for Christian at all.

9.  So David was what?  Just a wish of Jack’s?  That in an of itself is totally heartbreaking.

10.  I can’t believe that the big Jesus statue with it’s arms open didn’t clue me in to what was really going on.   Then there was Kate asking why she was “here” and Des telling her that no one could tell her why she was there.  And him telling her that he just wanted to leave.

11.  I was totally expecting Eko to show up and preside over Jack’s funeral.  That was disappointing actually.

12.  Them all being dead in the side time line explains why they could see the flashes of the island (life flashing before their eyes) but the island folks couldn’t see to the side.

13.  Miles and Sawyer both got off the island.  I guess those two really could become cops back home.

14.  I love that Hurley is the real care taker of the island and that Ben agrees to help him.  I bet Hurley could come up with some crazy rules for that island.  Did the writers know this way back when?  I remember Hurley coming out of the forest in a robe looking very angelic back in one of Charlie’s weird dreams.  I worry about Ben though because we have seen that he’s got a very, very bad side.  I would hope by Hurley telling him he was a “good number 2″ that means that Ben was good to him on the island.

15.  I guess Desmond’s flash of seeing Claire get off of the island in a helicopter was wrong.

16.  The smile on Hurley’s face when he first sees Charlie is priceless.  Sweet.  I loved when Sayid asks him “what was that” he says “that was Charlie.”  LOL’d

17.  And Vincent!  Hooray!  I’m so glad, even though it’s silly, that we got to see the fate of that dog.  I guess we can assume that Rose and Bernard do live happily ever after too now the Hurley is running the show on the island.  They are the new Others, only they don’t get involved.

18.  Des is the only one that crossed to the other side and came back.

19.  Since this seemed to be Jack centered redemption, then the show ending on the 23rd makes even more sense.

20.  Cracked me up when Flocke asked Jack how he planned to kill him and he told him it was a surprise.  Sounded like something Sawyer would have said.

21.  Dan and Charlotte aren’t “ready” yet and thus no flashback and they are not in the church.  Plus, they weren’t really a huge part of the Losties lives so I can see why they wouldn’t be there.  Plus it was nice that they left Dan behind to be with his mother.  As mothers we can understand why she would want him to stay with her.

22.  I loved the look on Charlie’s face when he sees Claire.

23.  MIB cracks Jack a good one upside the head with a rock.  Like mother like son!

24.  The Jack and Locke fist fight was a long time coming and it did not disappoint.  Especially the part where Jack pushes him off of the edge of the cliff.

25.  Did I mention yet that it’s a good thing Des got them all dressed up since they are all going to their funeral (s)?

26.  There has been a lot of speculation about the rain.  I think that the rain is brought on by the light or the island.  What it means is still to be discussed but after Des uncorked the light it started raining.

27.  I’ve rethought (already) why Ben didn’t go inside the church.  His real love is Alex.  Alex is probably not ready yet to cross over.  Ben logically wants to wait for her.  Christian says everyone wants someone to cross with and it makes sense that Ben would want to cross with her.

28.  Duct tape.  I think that they have a new use they could show in their ads.

29.  Did you guys have the Lost-related Target commercials?  I really loved that someone on-staff is obviously a Lost fan and they would make special commercials just for us.  I will do more shopping there just for that.  I already do shop there but I may think of them first for other things now too.  I couldn’t TiVo through them so at least they were entertaining.

30.  Fitting for MIB to die the way the Locke should have.  Locke was thrown from the window and landed just like MIB did on the edge.  I’m also glad they let him go before the end because I didn’t want the end to be a scene of them fighting.  This gave time to really build to a meaningful conclusion to the show.

31.  After Hurley drank the water (which was filthy, btw) he looked like he kept waiting on something to happen.  Can Hurley give Ben everlasting life like Jacob did for Richard?

32.  I was holding my breathe until the plane made it up in the air.  This show is so unpredictable I wasn’t sure if they would really make it or not.  But I’m glad they did.  And I’m glad that I can make up what happens from there for myself.  And if you’ve ever seen Stephen King’s The Langoliers you were probably wondering what they would face once up in the air too.

33.  So the plug in the cave is like one big button to press?

34.  Jack wakes up in the same pool area that we’ve seen many times.  Kate and Sawyer took a swim there and Kate, Jack and Hurley woke up there after being transported off of the Ajira flight.  It must be close to The Source and would explain why it’s special.

35.  I will post some screen shots of the office Jack enters at the church.  Appears to be religious symbols from every religion you can think of.  Bravo Producers.

36.  Jack and his daddy issue = RESOLVED!  And wow was it moving.

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Faraday said that they could not change fate.  Charlie is supposed to die.  Mrs Hawkins explained course correction.  Their destiny called from the island.  Their destiny will still have it’s way.  Kate will keep running.  Sawyer keeps conning.  But Not-Locke put it best when he said to Ben that the survivors don’t even realize how pitiful their lives are back home.  Guess we are seeing that.  Will like to see how this destiny fixes itself.

I think we are dealing with two time lines running parallel to each other.  Jack did change history but I think that the two time lines are going to intersect at some point.  Thus proving Faraday’s theory that you cannot change your destiny.

1.  You could see right away that the plane ride was different.  The stewardess only handed Jack one bottle of vodka and in the original she handed him two.  Boone was without Shannon.  Claire must have changed her mind about adopting Aaron.  Charlie didn’t run past Jack to the bathroom. The cops didn’t take Kate, they took Charlie.  (and btw, YEAH CHARLIE!!!).  But these things would not have been different because Jack / Juliet set the bomb off.  And the island was underwater which Jack could not have changed with the bomb.

2.  Desmond.  Where are thou Desmond?  What was that all about? But omg he looked good!

3.  I need to screen cap but I swear that was a Dharma shark.  Graphics were pretty bad though.  And the foot was there so history wasn’t completely changed.

4.  Kate’s eye opens.  And she’s in a tree.  Cool!

5.  So at first I was pretty upset that they just didn’t leave Juliet where we last saw her.  Then I remembered an interview with Elizabeth Mitchell where she stated she came back as Juliet because her role was pivotal to the season.  She tells Miles that “it worked.”  Of course no one will think to question him further on this but this is a huge clue to what is going on with the alter-universe of their lives that we are seeing.  She also talks to Sawyer about going for coffee, dutch.  Was she traveling to the other time line?  Is she in some state like Faraday had Eloise (the rat)?  Traveling back and forth in her mind?

6.  So back on the plane Hurley tells Sawyer that “nothing bad” ever happens to him.  Back with the original Hurley only bad things happened.  He thought he was cursed!

7.  Like Ben, I also want to know why Jacob didn’t fight back?  Unless he knows that like the survivors back on the plane, you cannot change your destiny so he gives in to it.  Plus, can he possibly take over Sayid’s body?  Is that why he wanted Sayid at the temple so badly?  Is Sayid now Jacob?  Oooo, Locke versus Sayid?  Show down!

8.  I wasn’t sure if it was on purpose, but I remember in the Pilot Boone really wants to get a pen to help save Rose.  When Jack is trying to save Charlie on the plane he asks for a pen.  I found it amusing.

9.  So with Rose back home is she now going to die of cancer?

10.  Why did the Dharma van travel forward in time but nothing else tangible did?

11.  Wow, Jack is really going to be screwed up in his head with all these people dying on his watch.  We’ll have angry Sawyer, depressed Jack and not-Locke.  What a trio!

12.  Now we know why Locke was the only one old Smokey didn’t kill.  He looked inside and what Smokey saw was what he wanted.  He needed to keep Locke alive to take over his body.

13.  Did you notice Not-Locke sitting in the old rocking chair?  Just like the old rocking chair in the cabin.

14.  So where did Desmond disappear to on the plane?

15.  Sayid told us not to mistake coincidence for fate.  It’s no coincidence that Christian Shepherd’s body isn’t on that plane.

16.  Remember last season when Hurley told Sayid that he was going to have a time that he needed help and that he wouldn’t help him?  Guess he changed his mind because twice Hurley literally saved his life.

17.  And was Hurley hilarious tonight or what?

18.  Kate heard the whispers in the temple.  Then we see the Others in the temple.  Not sure I know what the significance of the whispers in the jungle were if it’s just these people.  I’m hoping there is more explanation to come.

19.  I’m worried about Hurley running around in that red shirt.  There was a problem in the past with people wearing red and then dying.

20.  I like how they “baptized” Sayid in the temple.  I think the Japanese guy knew exactly what they were doing in the water.  He knew that Sayid wasn’t going to die.  And we know from the past that bodies left out and not buried seem to be resurrected.

21.  Another question – who is this Japanese dude?  Will be interested to hear his story.

22.  Locke broke the circle of ash around Jacob’s shack last season.  Guess he must have let Not-Locke in at that moment.  I will have to come back o the significance of the ash.  Also, the guy in the temple was OK until he stepped out of the ash.

23.  Claire either was on the plane or lives in LA.  She was in the cab with Kate.

24.  Jack also had a pivitol line to Locke, “nothing’s irreversable.”  Interesting.

25.  Why didn’t Richard want them to shoot Locke?    Looks like Richard knows Not-Locke from way back.  I’m thinking Black Rock history?

26.  Is Terry O’Quinn the best actor ever?  He really gets to exercise his acting chops this season!  I love it!

27.  Where is Vincent?

28.  The bullet hit Non-Locke but seemed to bend (didn’t go straight through him).  What exactly is this guy?

29.  My hope is that this is the last of the Saywer and Kate love affair (with his grief over Juliet).

30.  On a limb here – MAYBE the plane didn’t crash because the circumstances weren’t right.  Last season they had to recreate the flight as close to the original in order to crash on the island again.  If Jack’s dad’s body wasn’t on the plane then maybe they couldn’t crash?

I have to go back and watch again.  Come back in a few days for more thoughts and screencaps!  Welcome back, looks like we’ve hit the ground running.

Apparently Maggie Grace (Shannon) so far has opted “not” to come back for the final season of Lost.  I’m not sad as I found her character annoying but to be fair to the story if they are bringing back the original cast that would logically include Shannon.  But, I also have faith in Darlton that they’ll make the last season amazing even without all the original cast.

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One of the things that I love about Lost is that you have to think.  I appreciate that the “powers that be” give us credit for being intelligent and give us information without full explanation.  For instance, at first blush I assumed that this week’s title came from Sawyer’s line to Sayid about Oldham.  But after watching the episode back several times (for this blog, not because I’m obsessed…. ok, yes I am obsessed) I started to realize the duplicity of it’s meaning.  Sayid is to the past what Ben is to the present in so far as he has to kill for what he believes is right for the greater good.

Initial thoughts and comments are here.

1. Isn’t it horrifying cute that Young Ben brings Sayid a chicken sandwich immediately after we see a scene of Sayid killing a chicken with his bare hands as a boy?

2.  I still can’t get over the fact that Ben was living among the DI and Sawyer didn’t mention anything or make a big deal about it.  When Jack showed up wouldn’t you totally be like, “You won’t believe who is here!  But you can’t say anything when you see him.”  I know that Sawyer says that he had no choice, but to not even mention it?
3.  Young Ben is already quite the little sneak.  He keeps coming to Sayid and just starts chatting about Richard.  And, Ben knows that the cameras only have pictures, no sound.  Ben also knows how to break out a prisoner.  So, as much as Sayid may be an influence on the killer in Ben, it seems like Young Ben was already well on his way to being the conniving man he becomes.  Plus, Ben was already working with the Hostiles when Sayid shows up so he’s not quite the innocent we may want to think he is as a young boy.

4.  I was thinking about the O6 and how they had to live a lie back home.  There was no freedom for them because they had to live with the weight of knowing they left all the others behind.  But, things weren’t so easy for those back on the island as they also had to live a lie.  They couldn’t tell the truth either and at least for Juliet, had settled into a life they thought was it for them. So I can understand why Sawyer wanted Sayid to lie and join the *Dharma Party* because their life really wasn’t all that bad for them there in 1977.  It seems a heck of a lot better there than it was for Sawyer back home but they weren’t totally free from guilt either.

5.   I really hate feeling this way, but I just cannot stand where they have taken Kate’s character.  Right now I wish they could have left her behind.  But, I am hoping that there is something positive to come for her and that she can stop crying and whining and go back to being strong and independent.  I know that next week is Kate-centric so here’s the chance.

6.  I’m sure it’s not there, but when Sayid first *senses* Ben behind him then he turns around, I swear you can hear the rattling noise that you hear sometimes when Smokey is sneaking around.  Go back and listen!  Watching this scene back also has new meaning now that I know Sayid shoots Young Ben.
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7. My first question is, how does Oldham get power out in the middle of the jungle?  He’s playing a record in this tent.  My second thought was that it looked a lot like the tent that Locke built when he was going on his magic carpet ride to find out what the island wanted from him.  Lastly, Oldham is not nearly the bad a$$ that Sayid is unless there is more to come from this guy.  A drug laced sugar cube, really?  That’s the best he’s got?
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8. I’m still curious to know what the side affects of the sugar cube are going to be for Sayid.  I know that Boone was chased by Smokey and saw Shannon die from his trip.  Wonder what Sayid might see?
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9.  Sayid is drinking McCutcheon Scotch (with his pinkie up I might add).  This is the same scotch that Desmond bottled, that Widmore said Des wasn’t good enough to drink, and the scotch that Charlie used to get Des drunk.
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10.  Why doe Amy want to kill Sayid so much?  I understand that she’d be mad at the Hostiles, but to just kill him?  Maybe there is more to her that we haven’t considered yet.

11.   Why does Radzinski want to call Ann Arbor?  The DeGroots are there but why would they have any say in this? In a psychology class I took, we learned about an experiment at Stanford University where they took groups of students and made some of them prisoners and some of them guards.  You can read the whole thing here but long story short, the students became so enmeshed in their roles that they had to end the experiment early.  Could that be what’s going on here?  They all could have started from the same place, just split them into two groups and see what happens – one group civil, the other living in the wild.

12.  Why do they have to kill Sayid?  Why can’t they just wait for Richard and send him back?  Maybe the DI isn’t as peaceful as they seem.

13.   New job for Jack!  Firefighter!
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14.  Ben has to know when he sees Sayid on the flight that Sayid is on his way *back* to shoot him.  Back to the island and back in time, I mean.  Ben is so insistent on all of them going back that each one has a chain of events that they each must set in motion.  I don’t think that they are going to save anyone.  For instance, Sayid shoots Ben, he’s not saving his life, he’s just there to keep the record playing on the right song, so to speak.  I’m very interested to see what the role of each of the others will be, including why Ben gets to or *has* to go back to the island.
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15.  When Ben is saved, which he will be, no one saw him in the jungle so it will be easy for him to say Sayid kidnapped then shot him to escape.  But, Ben has to hear the conversation between Sayid and Jin so he also knows that there is more going on here then just Sayid being a Hostile.  Will the other Losties know that Sayid shot him for the greater good?
16.   I hope next week that Sawyer is going to ask Kate if she did the favor him that he had asked her in the helicopter.  Sounds like his daughter will be appearing next week so I’m guessing he will.

17.   Who will end up saving Ben?  My money is on Juliet.  Although, Jack does end up feeling guilty and helping others and he took an oath as a doctor.  But, I could see it being Juliet and that is why Ben is so enamored with her as an adult.

18.   I also think that however the O6 end up returning to present time, that is going to be the big *incident* that has been referred to.  My guess is that Sayid is going to end up running into Daniel.  He will tell him the story.  Dan is going to figure out how to get them back to the present but it will involve something drastic.  But I do hope that we get to see how Radzinski ends up being quarantined down in the hatch and how the numbers came to be.

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!

I know you think that I’m at home right now still doing the happy dance…

But this is what I want to remember about EVERY SCENE (except the last one, of course) that Ken and Barbie were in:

1. I wasn’t going to watch it but when I found out that Ken and Barbie were probably going to be a goners I just had to. Except now I have to send apologies to Scott because he has probably not heard such a constant stream of curse words from me ever (yet there was that one time…). Plus he probably wanted me to shut up already about the horrible acting and how I stayed up until freaking 10:00 to watch this and after last week how could they, blah, blah blah. You can all argue away with me but my feelings stand that I cannot stand Barbie as an actress and the big payoff of satisfaction watching them die was stolen by an entire HOUR of suffering having to stomach those two and their cheesy dialog. I’d rather watch Billy Ray Cyrus dance for an hour than suffer through that episode again. *blech!*

2. I truly think that the powers that be at ABC know that they made a huge mistake just plopping Ken and Barbie down on the beach and expecting fans to just accept them. So they had to hurry and clean up their mess = last night’s episode. Wasn’t there supposed to be some big mythological reveal last night? Maybe the revelation is that Ken isn’t the chronic pooper that we thought he was but rather just some tv-executive killing con man. I mean, were we really supposed to believe all the reshoots of the famous scenes in the show (plane crash)? “Oh, gee, guess I must have missed them the first time.”

3. I’m not going to post a shot from Nikki’s breakout role, but let’s just say my theory on why they *really* cast her was just reinforced.

4. “Plywood.”
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5. So is Boone supposed to be the gay character that was revealed? In the airport, Shannon says, “If you would quit flirting with random guys maybe we could actually get on the plane.” Yes, I know what you are thinking… but he slept with Shannon. Ever heard of bi? Maybe he had a moment of weakness. Who knows. But in our conservative society I doubt they are going to make a prominent character gay. But it’s on at 10 now so maybe they could get away with it. Hurley, Charlie, Desmond love triangle? Ew, creepy!

6. How ironic. In the airport Barbie makes Ken promise her that they will never end up like them (Boone & Shannon). Both couples are dead. Guess he didn’t keep his promise!

7. Yes, I know she was on the Cobra show and that is the same show Locke was watching last week.

8. There is a theory out there that when Desmond *went back in time* his decisions changed the course of time and somehow instead of Rose and Bernard on the plane, Ken and Barbie ended up there. That is why we haven’t see R&B and K&B just suddenly showed up. However, being the obsessive fan that I am I looked through my screencaps because lo and behold, Rose is getting CPR on the beach as Barbie runs around looking all sweet in her clean dress. So there, they *have* to still be on the island somewhere.
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9. Oh, like her acting wasn’t unbelievable enough, look how clean her dress is after surviving a plane crash and running all over the place looking for Ken. OK, so she has a little scratch on her arm. Boo hoo.
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10. Sawyer, “He wasn’t saying You’re Next about them he was saying You’re Next as in you’re all next.” Hurley, “Yeah, that’s not really better.” Crack me up!

11. Artz has been dead at least several weeks and all these bugs, especially the butterfiles because they are they only one’s that I’m remotely familiar with, are still alive?
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12. Now here is an interesting piece that might come back into play in the future. A walkie talkie from The Others.
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13. I found it interesting that Sawyer was so angry when he came back to find his tent ransacked yet he doesn’t waste a second going through K&B’s stuff.

14. The scene where Kate was arguing with Artz and Shannon was very out of character too, at least, it was not the Kate that I remember from Season One. Why would she be discussing the guns with anyone? I remember that she kind-of hung back from the crowd as they didn’t know that she was a fugitive.

15. Hey, the pigs are walking!
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16. OK people! So tell me that Ben and Juliet didn’t notice that the hatch was open when Paulo was down there hiding! Let’s give him the benefit of the doubt, let’s say he closed it to be extra sneaky. So wouldn’t they have noticed, then, that the dirt was off of the cover and the latch was really easy to open? Then, as Nate said in the last comment section, Ben just blurts out his plan? Ben? Remember Henry? Ben doesn’t reveal anything in black and white (he’s like an ethics professor!).

17. Good boy Vincent!
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18. Yeah, we haven’t seen the end of Sawyer and those diamonds. He’s a con man. He didn’t throw them all down there.

19. Opened her eyes just in time to see the dirt coming. I would think with a couple hundred pounds of dirt coming at you, there is no way to dig out of this one. Do you think that the actors will have nightmares about shooting this scene?
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The producers [of Lost] have been deluged with calls and emails from irate viewers after [Shannon] Rutherford joined the lengthy body count in the second series, which is halfway through its run. But nothing in Lost is quite what it seems – the show is told through a series of flashbacks, and she is due to make her next appearance in a scene about another character’s past.

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The episode aired on Wed. and at first my excuse was that I was tired. Here it is SUNDAY and I am still obsessing and reading about various ideas and observations. I have formally decided that I cannot possibly find everything about The Other 48 Days. So here are some of my thoughts…

1. I found it interesting that the producers labeled the days for us. Why? They have been evasive so far about creating ANY type of timeline, why give us one now? Are they trying to create a parallel for us between the ways the two groups organized themselves during this time? I just don’t see the point in doing this now.
2. Libby says on day one that she went through a year of med school. Why tell us this? Because the producers know that we are out there going, “Hey, we already know she is a psychologist, how does she know how to dress a wound?” Or are we going to see a possible crossover with Jack?
3. Remember the guy who Libby fixes his leg? His RIGHT leg? (Recurring theme, for those of you who haven’t been in all of my other threads).
4. Where did the chicken come from? We have seen boar (makes sense on an island), polar bears (exotic, possible talk of a circus plane crashing on island), but a chicken? A domestic animal? Cluckety Cluck!
5. Poor Canada … getting such a bad rap on this show. Ethan said he was Canadian. Nathan says he was too. Libby says something about being in Canada for a company retreat.
6. We still don’t know who gave Nathan the banana when he was in the hole. We are led to believe it was Eko because he doesn’t want to see him starve, but we don’t know. And where did the banana come from? This was on day 23 so wouldn’t a banana on the flight be looking pretty brown by now? If you left bananas on your counter just sitting there for 23 days they would be brown, let alone through a plane crash and tossed around on an island.
7. I am sure everyone saw the door to the tailies hatch said “Quarantine.”
8. The box they find in the hatch. Seems like the items in the box were more military-esque than what we saw in Desmond’s compound. Blankets, a bible, a glass eye (HUH?), and a radio. Why a radio? Desmond didn’t have one (that we know of). Is this where the Army knife came in? I don’t suspect much about the knife right now because anyone can go to Army surplus stores.
9. The glass eye. The only theory I have, and I found this on thefuselage.com, is that it belongs to Marvin Crandle. BUT, we have seen many episodes start with an eye so maybe it is just a token to those on the island from whoever has put them there. Much like some people would carry a cross, a Buddha, a troll doll. Just kidding. Plus, speaking of eyes, there is much speculation out there that Eko was blind before the crash. Much like Locke, he found something mystical and healing on the island.
10. I have seen SO FREAKING much out there on all of the religious symbolism of 40. Here are a few: God gave Moses a staff and he was on an exodus through the desert for 40 years. Mr. Eko carries a staff, he did not speak for 40 days, Eko (or I have seen EK) is the biblical abbreviation for Exodus. The 40 days of Lent are a significant period. Noah floated in his ark for 40 days and nights; the chosen people wandered in the desert for 40 years, Jonah led the citizens of Nineveh through 40 days of penance. In the Eastern Orthodox Church when someone dies you mourn for 40 days also. Was Eko not speaking in honor of those that died? 40 days is also when it used to be considered that a soul enters a fetus in pagan religions…. Moses fasted for 40 days before receiving the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai. Jesus spent 40 days fasting in the wilderness in preparation for his ministry. Allah, the Most Exalted, the Most Glorified, has stated this fact in the Qur’aan: During the first 40 days of gestation, all the body parts and organs are completely, though consecutively, formed.
11. The magic bullet theory. JFK conspirators take note! We have witnessed another instance of a single magic bullet! How could Ana Lucia POSSIBLY have shot Shannon? MAYBE you could have convinced me at the end of last weeks show, but now that I have seen the previews for next week, I cannot accept that one bullet shoots Shannon and then goes on to shoot a warning shot at Sayid. Do we see the shot actually come from Ana Lucia? We DO when she shoots at Sayid in the preview but never when Shannon is “shot.” Maybe Sawyer comes out of his near death state to tell everyone that there was only one bullet, in essence saving her from being an outcast from the group, even as much as he seems to hate her. But, Michael did know that there was only one bullet because he and Sawyer have the discussion on the raft and again when they are in the hole.
12. Also, on this note, if you pause the scene where she supposedly shoots Shannon you can see a bloody knife stuck in a tree. Could Shannon have been stabbed first?
13. Black and White. We see this theme again. Bernard and Rose. Locke and Eko (who, from reading about upcoming episodes, befriend one another).
14. I need to go back and watch this, but it is being said that when the tailies find their hatch you can see the radio tower behind the hatch.
15. Why didn’t the tailies hear any whispers before they went to the other side of the island? Why didn’t they see the smoke? What about the “monster” and the rain? They didn’t know that the whispers meant the others were near, but Sayid did because he has heard them before (remember his quest when he found Danielle?). Could it be much like we have two groups from Flight 815 that there are two groups of “others?” Yes, the “others” did attack our group, much like they did to the tailies. But the “others” killed the original group members because they wanted Claire back. The “others” that attacked the tailies did not kill, they just took the people.
The conversation with Goodwin and Ana Lucia was also very interesting. When she asks him why the “others” would keep attacking them if they were good, he states that maybe they aren’t attacking them. I wondered last season if when they took Walt they were taking him somewhere to “protect him” from the sickness, perhaps? Goodwin also states that they are choosing whom to take because they are Good. Does that mean that our original group is not good, except for Claire and Walt?
16. I saw the way the tailies landed on the island as a type of baptism in the water. Just symbolism.
17. It makes sense that Bernard strapped himself in when he was going to the restroom. But, how did he end up in tact, still strapped in, in his seat after the crash? The rest were thrown and in the water.
18. If Nathan was not an Other, what WAS he doing out in the woods for 2 hours? WAS he an Other? Maybe Goodwin knew that Nathan would have hurt Ana Lucia and he was in some weird way protecting her? He did seem to be a little flirty with her. Or, maybe Goodwin was worried that if Ana Lucia cut off his finger that Nathan would rat him out as well as tell all of their secrets, including where the children were?

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As promised, here are my (continued, for my work friends) thoughts from last week’s Lost “Abandoned.”

1. Wondering what Walt was saying to Shannon? ”They’re coming and they’re close.” (backwards)

2. What if it was DANIELLE that killed Shannon? She had access to a gun. What if she shoots Shannon and runs. Ana Lucia could have been standing there ready to shoot Danielle but doesn’t take her shot. Everyone thinks it’s Ana Lucia, maybe they don’t see Danielle as she does know the forest. It’s an interesting set up because everyone will just know that they heard a shot and Ana Lucia has a gun. What will save her butt is when Sawyer wakes up and he tells everyone that there was only one bullet. Of course, then Ana Lucia will produce the gun and show them one bullet.

3. Danielle did warn Sayid to watch his group for anyone acting strange. Maybe she saw Shannon running around and was somehow “protecting” Sayid in her mind. We did see some odd POV shots last week and my sister made the comment that it was like someone was watching them. I kept thinking someone was going to jump from out of the trees the way they kept framing Sayid and Shannon in the shots. Danielle probably heard the whispers as did everyone out in the forest and thought Shannon was one of the others.

4. Maybe Sayid DID see Danielle shoot Shannon. That would explain the look on his face. Maybe the reaction we see in the previews from Ana Lucia is from her grief knowing she could have saved Shannon but didn’t take the shot. This could lead to her flashbacks as a cop. OR Danielle used something else to kill Shannon and Ana Lucia DID take the shot at Danielle. OR Danielle kills Shannon and almost simultaneously Ana Lucia shoots Danielle to stop her. Danielle is laying on the ground but Sayid looks up and only sees Ana Lucia. Lots of possibilities but I would guess that this somehow leads back to Ana Lucia’s days as a cop and how she thinks she should have saved someone. Maybe the cross over is that she arrests Kate!

5. Previews from this week’s show a clip on the beach after The Other’s had just taken some of the survivors (tail enders), and Ana Lucia finds a paper on the beach that The Others had left behind. What if it was a list with all their names on it. Maybe the tailenders weren’t supposed to survive and that is why they are killing them. OR maybe they are checking of the children or survivors that they need.

Here are synopsis of the next upcoming episodes:

The Other 48 Days
* Scheduled airdate: November 16, 2005
* Flashback: Tail-section survivors
The harrowing first 48 days in the lives of the tail section survivors are revealed. Source: ABC
Matthew Fox revealed that this episode will not feature any of the season 1 cast. Source: E!

Collision
* Scheduled air date: November 23, 2005
* Flashback: Ana-Lucia Cortez
Violence erupts when Ana-Lucia and her group stumble upon the other castaways. Includes a character called “Old Nick”, played by Garry Jackson.

What Kate Did
* Scheduled air date: November 30, 2005
* Flashback: Kate Austen
Kate’s original crime that started her life on the run is revealed. Meanwhile, the survivors lay one of their own to rest, Kate sleeplessly watches over a feverish Sawyer, and Mr. Eko has a surprise for Locke regarding the hatch. Locke and Eko make an interesting discovery about the film, and Michael has a mysterious encounter with the computer.

Merged
* Scheduled air date: December 14, 2005
This episode has some big questions answered. It shows flashbacks of the island. Yes, the island and tells you how the hatch came to be, what will happen if the ‘numbers’ aren’t typed into the computer, and how the ‘others’ came on the island.
Source: E!

The Hunting Party
* Scheduled air date: January 11, 2006

Vindication
* Scheduled air date: January 18, 2006

Here is a link to a strange Lost promo video that was shown in Europe: http://video.google.com/videoplay?do…q=title%3Alost