They have been delayed several times, but the release date that I have found is July 2007.

Here is my complaint: Two girls in bikini’s (first Shannon, now Sun). Come on! Then why does Saywer have his shirt on? Fair is fair!

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(Yes, Eko has his Jesus stick)

Series 3 (no set release date- supposedly in October) will be very exciting!
- Sayid
- Desmond
- Claire
- Henry Gale

For more details on the props, sound, etc… check out this link.

I cannot believe that Juliet knows for sure the “Date of Conception.” She asked Sun the last time she was with her husband, but shouldn’t she have been asking the last time she had her period? Isn’t that what doctor’s normally ask? Or are you always ovulating on this island (whew, imagine the PMS!). Couldn’t Juliet also be lying to Sun because she wants to manipulate her into letting her be Sun’s caretaker? Maybe Sun did get pregnant off the island, how would she really know? She is depending on Juliet for a truth and that, my friends, is scary.

1. Here’s a possibility for Jack. Ben/The Others have somehow forged another bargain with him. He gets all the info that he can (whatever it is that they want) and they let him go. Jack thinks that if he gets off the island he can save them all. The whole scene with Jack coming up to Sun about her pregnancy was just too suspicious. But, his dialog and actions are so ambiguous right now it’s driving me crazy! It’s like the old days when something seemed so obvious on this show but you still just weren’t sure you had it quite figured out. Could our suspicions of Jack be throwing us off the scent of someone else?

2. I was just wondering why in Korea you would have the name of your company written in the English alphabet. Everything else is in Korean. I guess I also didn’t realize Sun’s father was in the automotive business either.
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3. I’m wondering if Sun’s father found Jin’s mother and offered her the $100,000 to scam Sun. Bear with me here. Mr. Paik wants Jin to work for him so he can “own” him. He knows that he can’t just ask him, Sun would never let him take the job (she knows what he really does, remember?). So he digs up some dirt on Jin (who, by the way, he doesn’t like anyway). Mr. Paik hires his mother to pull of this scam knowing that Sun will do anything to protect her new husband but she has no money of her own so she will have to come to him. Now Sun cannot possibly tell Jin ‘no’ that he can’t work for her father. So Jin and Sun are basically scammed into Jin taking this job.

4. Jin’s been in the army. That explains the Jackie Chan moves later and it leaves the possibility for lots of crossovers (Sayid, possibly Jack and Sawyer, Desmond, Kate’s dad).
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5. OK, so is Kate working with the Others? It all seems very set up how Kate is evasive about Jack possibly working with the Others then reveals to Sun about Juliet being a fertility researcher. Then when Sun confronts Juliet right at the moment she tells her pregnant women die, Kate pulls Sun away. Seems a bit fishy here. Screw that Kate! I would stand there and want more answers. Someone told me I was going to die I wouldn’t just walk away and get answers later.

6. Mikhail wanted to be caught by Desmond and co. He probably had something to do with the helicopter crash, he sees the flare and knows someone lived. There is no way that he doesn’t have some sort of backup for the communication station. Especially since his “house” was rigged with all those explosives, he surely had a back up plan and parts of it could have survived (remember how the original hatch had blast doors and then we see the huge door that Juliet opens in the medical hatch?). So he comes running only to find these guys got to her first. He knows the only way to talk to her is to somehow get in with these guys. He can’t just say “Dudes, I’m a medic. Let me help!” But he has to know she is hurt and runs his own scam to get near her.
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7. It was translated at another site that outside of saying that she’s dying, she also says that she is not alone. She says this to Mikhail. A threat or information?

8. Check out the trophy that Jin’s dad has. It’s sitting behind Sun. I think it’s safe to assume that this was Jin’s. It explains the karate moves (or whatever fighting style it was).
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9. Here’s more reason to think that Mr. Paik set up this scam. In his safe, there is only enough cash to cover the bribe. He doesn’t count it, he just takes it out and puts in in the envelope. It’s not like there is a bunch of cash in there. When he takes out the $100,000, that’s it besides what looks like a book.
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10. Mikhail taunts Charlie when he says, “Sorry, what?” knowing that Charlie lost part of his hearing in the blast (remember Charlie telling Claire when he came back to camp that he was having trouble hearing out of his left ear?). I have a feeling these two will meet again but I’m not so sure Charlie could take this guy on.
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11. So people heal on the island more quickly than other places. It’s reasonable then that Mikhail wasn’t dead. But why did Boone die? Would the Marshall have lived? And it must be that whatever healing force is on this island sees that a pregnancy is like a cancer/foreign invader and that is why the baby dies but it doesn’t explain why the mother also dies. Wouldn’t she just miscarry? Plus, why solve the mystery at all? Why not live on the island, conceive off the island and go about your business? Is this leading us to what the big mystery is that Sayid would kill Juliet if they knew the truth of what the Others were doing?

12. If Sun did get pregnant on the island, check this out that I found:
And get this … according to the Lostpedia Timeline http://lostpedia.com/wiki/Timeline:October_2004, the day of conception was Day 35, Tuesday, October 26, 2004.

The problem is that two days earlier, Sun speaks English in front of Jin, embarassing him (and surprising everyone else) which causes him to move to the beach. It appears they are not on speaking terms until the raft is launched on Day 44, Thursday, November 4, 2004. (Exodus Part I)

So it appears that they did not speak to each other for 9 days … 9 long lonely days.

13. Hopefully Sun followed Juliet back into the hatch when she said she was going to “cover their tracks.” Sun has been very questioning up until now and I would think that she would find this suspicious.

14. What kind of samples are they trying to get from the women? What kind of sample did they just get from Sun? It wasn’t invasive. It was an ultrasound.

15. It was brought up that back on the Oceanic Airlines website (remember this from season one) that when you moved the cursor over flight 815 the number changed to 777. I also remember talk that the passengers were routed to a different gate and got on a different plane, not 815. So, to play back on those theories, maybe each and every one of these survivors were meant to be on this island but they never were really on the right flight. That would explain why they could find flight 815 and no one would have survived. Crash the plane, burn it up, and everyone thinks the passengers are dead.

Kate is preggo. No surprise there.

Saywer has super sperm!

Jin is the island’s Jackie Chan!  Rethinking who I’d side with now.

Desmond just did them all a big favor letting Mikyal go.  Yeah, yeah, I know he’s a bad a*s.  But I think Mikyal is a man of honor and I think that Desmond just scored a huge favor to come.  Charlie, well, not so much.
Ending shocker - but who is shocked that Dharma staged a fake plane?

Forget Sawyer, Lost needs some serious redemption or they are going to *lose* viewers over the next 12 weeks. I will come back, but I’m obsessed so I don’t count. I have talked to more people who have *lost* their faith in the writers of this show. Did old Smokey eat Damon, Carlton and JJ and now we have ABC execs *insert shiver* writing and producing? Who said we need to sex up and dumb down the show? Not just with Kate and Sawyer but also bringing in Ken and Barbie, too. I just hope that you, my fellow Lost fans, can have faith that they will somehow revive this show. It has happened to other shows, I hope it can happen here, too. First, they must kill Ken and Barbie. Sorry, it needed to be said.

1. How perfectly fitting to have Kate marry a cop. How very sad how it ended for her. She wanted the “taco night” life but knew that wasn’t her. Edward (the cop formerly known as “The Marshall”) knew she couldn’t sit still. You could see the little girl in Kate living her *fantasy* when her mother-in-law gave her the necklace. As soon as she came around the corner with iced tea I knew that it was over. She could never get a passport to fly to Costa Rica (notice it was Oceanic Airline tickets?). On an aside, did she have to wear the silly 1950’s hairstyle? Or was that just so that for the first 1/2 of the show we would be questioning the timeline?
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2. It appears that this Kate backstory served to show us that Kate can never be with Jack. Jack is like Kevin, he is the *good* guy. Kate obviously loved Kevin very much, but in the end, as The Marshall told her, she had to run. As Sawyer said so long ago, a tiger doesn’t change it’s stripes. Kate *chose* Sawyer but her heart is not there. We could see it on her face when she first sees Jack. I LOVED that scene, btw. She never tells Sawyer she loves him, and when Jack tells her to leave him and run Kate is devastated. This was not the end of the love triangle. *If* Kate does get to safety she will do everything she can to get back to Jack and save him, too. Kate thinks that the criminal, Sawyer (I know that *we* love him, don’t get mad at me), is all she deserves.
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3. How did Ben know he had a tumor if the XRays were only a week old? Ben told Jack last week that he found out that he had a tumor and two days later a spinal surgeon fell from the sky. But the crash was about 70 days ago. Was it from the blood work? The timeline isn’t making sense of when he found out he has the tumor.

4. Points to the writers for getting *someone* on this island to wake up besides Desmond. When Jack threw the file at Juliet then told Ben he just wanted him to know how he would die, I was cheering! They lost me when Jack saw Kate and Sawyer together but I came back around knowing that Jack was conning Ben. Who is conning who here?
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5. I’m thinking that once Kate radio’s back to Jack that they are safe he is going to let Ben die anyway. Then, he is going to turn to Juliet and say, “I kept my end of the bargain.” Then she’ll have to leave the *Others* knowing that the game will be up for her since they will know she made this deal with Jack. She told him she would keep him safe in exchange for letting Ben die. Maybe Juliet will be their ticket off this rock. She is set for the first backstory when we get back from the break so it seems she must be going to join as a regular cast member and they can’t keep Jack there forever.
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6. Thankfully, we only had to hear a line or two from Barbie this week and Ken just stood there. Ugh. That was *still* too much. Where is a big smoke monster when you need one, huh?

7. When Locke says that a bear killed Eko you can see by the look on Sayid’s face that he knows he is lying (a trained interrogator, remember?). He also knows that Locke is not heading back to camp to get shovels. But, Sayid is not unfamiliar with the *monster* as it appeared. Sayid has been around the monster before, albiet only in sound, when Danielle was holding him captive. He heard it and asked her if it was a monster and at that time she told him that there were “no such thing as monsters.” (Later on she told several Losties that it was a security system). Maybe they should go and talk to her, but that would make too much sense *groan*.
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8. Does Locke really believe that the smoke monster is what brought them there? That is what he tells Sayid in this scene.

9. Is it just me or does Kevin look remarkably like Tom? When he first opened the door I said, “It’s Tom!”
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10. So the alarms go off when the compound has been breached. Is smokey the security system here? Are the two even related? When the alarms first go off, Pickett gets on the radio and before he even knows that it’s Alex he asks, “Where is she?” Who? Juliet? Then he goes on, after he asks if the doctor got out again, “Well does he know?” Does the doctor know or does HE know? Maybe the illusive HIM is getting upset with the Others and the trouble that they have been getting from the Losties. Maybe Pickett is hoping that HE doesn’t know there is a compound breach.

11. Even though I don’t like Pickett hurting Sawyer, I think it would be cool if he becomes some sort of *stalker* trying to regain his pride after Sawyer escapes. This could provide some very interesting scenes back on the beach! This guy is a great actor and this is a great role for him. Kill Ken and Barbie and write this guy in!
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12. During the “breach” Pickett asks “how the hell did she get *OVER* here?” Does this mean that there are indeed two islands and if so, how DID she get there? Alex may be Kate and Sawyer’s ticket to safety.

13. Is Ben Alex’s daughter? Is she not the Alex that we assumed was Danielle’s daughter? Why does she ask to talk to Ben and later, why does Ben ask if Alex asked about him?
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14. Speaking of kids, in one of Pickett’s tirades he says, “Shepard wasn’t even on Jacob’s list.” In the Christian Bible (maybe others too, I don’t know) Ben is Jacob’s son. Connection or red herring? I’m guessing that Jacob is *Him* not Ben. Anyhow, why does Jacob have a list? I thought that Ethan and Goodwin were making the lists based on Ben’s orders? Maybe Jacob got the lists, did some research and then directed who they wanted. Did Ben modify the list because he knew that he had this tumor and wanted Jack to fix him?

15. What are they building here? Kate’s only says that it’s big. I’m thinking another hatch perhaps? But they are digging rocks, too, so they are also clearing the area. Do we even know enough about these Others to predict what is being built or are we just grasping at straws? They could just be using this as a distraction and a way to beat down Kate and Sawyer’s spirits.
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16. Speaking of the clearing site, those red flowers (remember, the poppies?) are all around this area. I doubt it’s a coincidence that the flowers keep popping (no pun intended) up around the islands.
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17. I was going to talk about the Kate-Sawyer and where Jack fits in love triangle thingy but it’s just too daytime soap opera-y for me. Talk amongst yourselves.

18. Was there supposed to be some weird imagery connection between Kate putting on the hood and Monica taking up her veil? They showed the one scene right before the other.
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19. Why does Kate continue to call and taunt the Marshall? She knows that he will never leave her alone. Why does she call around the holidays? Maybe he’s her reality check and she knows that she can’t stay with Kevin so she uses the Marshall as that reminder. Like a big sister that has to remind you sometimes when you are out of your element.
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20. OK, so Jack gets a call over the intercom (sounded like Alex) right at the moment that Kate and Sawyer are on camera snuggling (we’ll call it that). Then he wanders through the hall and *bingo!* the one door open is the room with the cameras. How convenient. More importantly, though, Jack gets the handgun and has access to enough guns for Kate and Sawyer yet chooses to *save* Kate the other way. This doesn’t make sense. Jealous or not, he wants out of there and considers at least Kate his friend, why wouldn’t he take advantage of this?

21. We saw Jack able to run, Kate can get out of her cage and Sawyers lock is off of his cage yet they all stay. I’m not buying this. Either poor writing here or everyone had their own agenda but it’s not very obvious what it was. Even if Sawyer thinks they are trapped on *this* island, with his free spirit I could still see him trying to escape captivity. I don’t understand this.

22. Speaking of Sawyer, he KNOWS that there are cameras around yet he still gets down and dirty with Kate right there? Then, they spend the night nude together knowing that the Others could walk up any minute. I guess he must be thinking he doesn’t have anything to lose at this point. Ick!

23. We know that when Michael went looking for Walt he went North. Then, Locke looks at the stick and it tells him to go North. I guess we will find out what it up there because Locke is on a mission. Good thing he has Sayid along, but wouldn’t it have been better to have a whole army of people to help? Locke keeps going out on these missions like some lone militia but last time it got Boone killed!
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24. Speaking of this scene, this is a good example of how this show has been dumbed down. Did they really need to highlight what they wanted us to read? In the past, we would have been given a screen shot and the producers trusted that we, the viewers, were astute enough to figure out what we were supposed to see. I mean, we screen shot and analyze *everything!* Come on ABC, give us back *your* faith that we can figure it out!

25. The *only* reason I am posting a screenshot of this scene is because Scott pointed out how clean Kate’s feet are here. Little distractions are easy to find when you are having trouble staying *in* the show.
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26. Did Kate *accidentally* kill Kevin when she drugged him? I hope that she didn’t but remember that the Marshall made a snide remark about her getting more juice to drink and how *they might believe her story* when they were on the plane? Is Kevin the man that she loved but killed (not Tom)? Or is this just her *MO* before she runs (drugs them and then leaves them)? She does drug Jack to get him to sleep, drugs Jin, well technically Michael drank the water (for Sun) and helps Sawyer drink the water to take his medicine.
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27. With all the weird fertility stuff going on here I would bet money that Kate ends up pregnant by Sawyer. Ew, again with the stupid soap opera story lines! If this does happen, I hope the story line is twisted enough to fit the Lost ideology. For instance, we don’t know what the Others *did* to Kate before they brought her to the cage. They are fertility doctors…

28. Jack gives Kate an hour head start. Isn’t that what Kate asked her *dad* for when she went and saw him last season?

29. In the upcoming episodes it looks like we are going to find out what did happen to Desmond after the hatch blew. Should be interesting!

Last season in the Sun flashback episode they showed many relections.  They did it again last week.  Check it out:
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Finally! Sawyer got some action, but not the kind you were thinking. They have been building up to Sawyer getting his revenge and tonight was just a peek of what’s to come. I don’t want to see a shootout at the “Others” Corral, I want to see Sawyer get down and dirty with his revenge. Maybe Sayid will find them on the “long walk” he is referring to and will help Sawyer and Kate escape. Hm, this is proving so far to be a very exciting season! I can’t wait until next week! AND, Eko gets pulled underground by the monster… ugh! I can’t stand the wait!

1. Falling glass ballerina. I think this had two purposes. One was to show us Sun is so not above lying. She even knew the maid would get fired for what she did and she looked right in her dad’s face and lied. More on this to come I’m sure. Second, the fallen ballerina symbol. First she was innocent and then fell and broke, just like the statue. Sayid knew she was lying about why she was on the boat. I wonder why.
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2. Sayid “was” circumnavigating the island using Danielle’s map. Does Danielle know where the Other’s camp is? She knows that the monster is a security system; maybe he should ask her what it’s for. Would Sayid have found the camp had they kept going? I can’t believe they outsmarted him when they came from the water. Back in season one they came from the water when the killed Steve/Scott, has he forgotten in 69 days? But he does tell them they have a long walk ahead, I think he is going to keep looking for Jack and co. What does he have to lose now that Shannon is dead?

3. I am still undecided which way Juliet is going to go. She seems so cold yet has a hold on Ben. He seemed actually jealous that she made soup for Jack (No soup for Ben!). My initial reaction is that Jack intrigues her because of whatever they know about him and what they want from him. But the fact that she could kill Kate without flinching shows that she has a very different side. However, if Jack stays with the others, like I suspect he will, there could be some silly little love affair they are going to develop with Juliet and Jack. (*gag, cough*)

4. Jack appears to be giving up his will to fight. More to come on this later. But the way he just sits in the corner…. is his story line about over now that he has made peace with the Sara story? I want to see him at least reunite with the Losties!

5. Ben was genuinely surprised that the Losties *had* a sailboat. He seems to be the know-it-all voyeur on the island, how could Desmond have had this boat all this time and he didn’t know it? Kelvin was restoring it even. Guess maybe that is the sign to viewers that Ben can’t know everything.
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6. Again, Colleen comes up to the cages so quickly after supposedly being “underground” where Jack is being held. Makes me think that they just have him in some type of aquarium, not underwater.

7. Sun is not looking well. Now that the magnetic pull is gone (from the hatch) are we going to start seeing the medical miracles fail? Will her miracle pregnancy miscarry? Will Rose get sick again? Will Locke lose his ability to walk (of course not fellow skeptics because his was all psychological). But she could have the *sickness.*
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8. OK, did Sun or didn’t she with Mr. Teacherherenglish (Lee)? I gasped at first because I didn’t want to believe that she did it, or him. Then she said she couldn’t and when he stood up he had pants on. So ha! She didn’t! Doesn’t mean she doesn’t with someone else right before she gets on the plane, but not with Lee!

9. Have you seen the movie or read the book Holes? These writers are definitely readers. In the book, these juvenile delinquent boys are brought to the middle of the desert to dig holes as punishment for whatever crime they committed. The idea is the break their spirit. I think that is exactly what is going on here. I don’t think that any of the people in the background were doing any real work, they were just props put there by the Others to appear as if there was a chain gang. But the Others want to see these two break, much like they did to Jack. Lucky for us Sawyer is so much stronger and smarter than that. I only wish he would realize there is a DAMN CAMERA watching them. OF COURSE THERE IS! But, in the book there is actually buried treasure the boys are digging for, they just don’t know it. I have said before there might be some “gold in them there hills” (maybe not gold, but it fits the phrase) and that there is mining going on here.

But what were The Others looking at under the tent? Was it blueprints? Plans for what? More houses, airstrip, a hatch perhaps?

10. So does Jin really know that Mr. Lee was trying to hook up with Sun or is he just taking his frustration at Mr. Pak out on him? I knew he wouldn’t kill the guy, didn’t he have a similar issue in an earlier episode when the guy in the white suit showed up to finish the job? Someone obviously threw Mr. Lee off the balcony and purposely onto Jin’s car.

11. Sayid says they’ve only been sailing for one day when they find the dock where Jack and co. were taken. So it can’t be that far from the camp. Why hasn’t anyone ventured out after 69 days to try and find this kind of thing? Fear my friends. Fear of the unknown, of the Others. The scary, dirty savage costumes the Others wear. The plan worked.
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12. Alex asks Kate about Karl. Will Kate at some point have more conversation with her and somehow bring up Danielle? Kate knows that her daughter was taken and my guess would be that there aren’t very many female Alex’s that you will run into on this island!

13. Sun wanted Jin to run away from her father together and start a new life. Guess she got her wish. Why would she want to even go back - oh yeah, outside of the Others that kill people now and again.

14. Jin understands English better than Sun thinks, huh? Does he know about the Cluckety Cluck? Did he understand Hurley telling him that his wife was hot? What else does he know?

15. I don’t like soap operas and definitely DO NOT want to see this show lean towards daytime crapola, but I really enjoyed the scene where Sawyer just drops what he’s doing and kisses Kate and she doesn’t seem to mind. Sure, he had motives outside the kiss but come on! That was passion! My boyfriend says he dumps the water as if to say, ” I don’t need your water, I need her!”
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16. Sun had a red shirt on when she was on the boat. I thought for sure she would die but I guess she hasn’t changed yet!

17. Jin yelling for the sailboat was heart wrenching, just like when Michael was calling for Walt. But overall this week he seemed like he was going back to his old jerky ways (grabbing Sun, yelling at her to obey him. Ick!)

18. New nickname for Kate: Shortcake. She tastes like strawberries. He tastes like fish biscuits so should his nickname be SeaBass?

19. I’m going to have to get into my screen caps for this one, but Ben is watching 6 screens. Looks like two views of Jack, one on Sawyer, one on Kate and maybe two on the entrance to whatever hatch they are in?
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20. Benjamin Linus (?) and has been on island his whole life? Need to check this out more… must be some significance in that name.

21. Why would they send Jack home if he cooperates? Is there a home to send Jack to? What does he even have to go back to? His career, maybe. His wife and dad are gone and perhaps his reputation over the Sara/lover witch hunt that he was on last week. Will Jack want to go home or will he think that whatever is going on here is good in the name of science? Will he fall in love with Juliet (*gag, cough*)?

22. Gets me thinking we are seeing a theme here this week… did they or didn’t they infidelity. Sara and ??, Sun and Mr. Lee. Who will it be next week because it’s Locke’s flashback!

23. Reflection of Red Sox on Jack. You could just feel his pain and desire to be home. How much would you miss your life if you were here? Plus Jack’s dad told him some line about the Red Sox never winning the world series. Ironic for Jack.

24. I think that the writers were talking to us (viewers) again this week through a Jack/Ben dialog. Jack wants to know where Kate and Sawyer are and Ben gives them a short answer and says that is all he can tell him. Jack says he can tell him anything he wants and Ben responds that he can but that is all he wants to tell him right now. Then he tells Jack that he needs patience. Hmm, seems like a message to me!

25. Next week looks SO GOOD! Locke running from the monster! Eko getting taken underground! Desmond with no underpants!
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26. Oh crap, they took the sailboat! Maybe now Desmond will be p-od too at The Others.

27. I’m still questioning if the *whispers* in the jungle were coming from this group of Others. Seems like they are into observing but I haven’t seen much more that that….yet!

“THE MAID DID IT!”

It just wasn’t bad enough that they put Kate in this ugly dress, but now they have to go and torture her physically, too!
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Looks like Freckles isn’t the only one getting “special” treatment!
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Boring! More Others coming to hate on our Losties. I’d rather see more story focused on the survivors.
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Just put your hand down there Mr. Testosterone!
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Well, well, well. Look who’s baaaack. Check out the numbers on the door.

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I have a theory.  In this theory Rose and Bernard have just shown us the path to the rest of this show and the ending.  Here is where I see Lost ending….

In the book “The Lost Chronicles” JJ Abrams states (and I paraphrase here from memory) that this show will end.  They will not leave us hanging (of course, unless they jump the shark and ABC decides to kill it).  We will see what happens to the survivors.

Rose does not want to leave the island.  Much like Locke, she has found her peace, her Garden of Eden if you will.  Now that Bernard knows the WHY he is also OK with never leaving this island.  The stage is now set.

Sun … she is now pregnant.  A miracle.  Will she want to leave?  Will Jin want to go knowing that he wants this family so badly, he certainly doesn’t want to go back and face Sun’s father so why not settle here?

Claire.  She was warned that Aaron should and cannot be raised by another.  We know she doesn’t get along with her mother and Thomas (baby-daddy) doesn’t want anything to do with her.  What does she have to go back to?  Add the relationship with Charlie back to the equation and neither of them will want to leave.

Eko.  Building a new life as the priest.  Knows now the fate of his brother.  Maybe he will find his life here.

Hurley.  Hello??? Libby and Darmalars.  Need I say more?

Locke.  This is a given.  He is out of the wheelchair and is The Great White Hunter (to quote Charlie).  What does he have to go back to?  Helen is gone.  His dad betrayed him.  His mom is nuts.  He will be the pride of the pack here on the island.

At this point in the story we could argue that the rest of the characters that I haven’t mentioned have plenty of reasons to return home.  But we only know some of their past.  We didn’t know even one little bit about Rose last week and now we know that she will never leave the island.  Who knows what other revelations we might encounter over the next season or so.

So here is how I would LOVE, LOVE, LOVE to see Lost close. 

A Coast Guard ship spots the island.  The survivors see it coming.  As the boat approaches the shore the survivors are hiding in the trees, watching.  The soldiers on the boat are searching.  Maybe they see some of the remaining fuselage down the shore. 

No one is coming out from the trees.  Their hearts are beating fast, pupils dialated, palms are sweaty, yet no one moves out.  Minutes go by, maybe a soldier steps ashore.  Stillness.

Vincent comes bounding out from the trees.  He’s Sawyer’s dog now.  He is Sawyer’s companion (maybe he’s the only one who can stand him or he hasn’t isolated himself from).  Long pause.  Sawyer steps out from the trees.  Sawyer cannot stay here.  His life is the con and he craves it back.  Sawyer now looks like one of the so-called “Others” we have gotten to know.

The soldier is surprised and pulls his gun.  Sawyer puts up his hands and in his suave way calms him and explains who he is.  The soldier asks where everyone else is.  Sawyer pauses.  A long, long, thoughtful pause.  He is waiting to see if anyone else emerges.  Nothing.  Sawyer states two words, “They died.”

Soldier, Sawyer and Vincent board the Coast Guard ship.  Sawyer doesn’t look back as the boat leaves but lifts his hand in adieu.

Like any great show, we don’t have all the answers in the end.  What we are left to speculate is how the survivors who are now left behind will live their remaining days here.  Will they become the illusive “Others” to anyone else landing here?  At this point our survivors will know all the secrets of the island and may carry out many of the same actions we are now seeing from the current “Others.”  Nothing is told.  We just have to sit ….. and wonder.

THE END.

1. Did you know that you can’t play the trumpet in Korea? Check out the sign in the distance:

2. So, the big news, Sun is expecting. Like we didn’t have enough to speculate about already, now we have *even more!* If Jin is truly sterile, here are our possibilities for daddy material:

a. Arificial insemination. Maybe after Dr. What’s His Face told Sun that Jin was the problem, she decided that they needed a baby so that he could stop working for her dad. Or maybe she saw this as an opportunity before she left him so that she could move to the States and raise baby on her own.

b. Mr. Teachherenglish a.k.a Jae Lee. They did leave us hanging in the last flashback when he asks her why she is there in the hotel room with him. Sun gets that look, you know the one, in her eyes.

c. The Others, Hanso, or the DeGroots. Remember that Claire was supposed to be on the pill and she got pregnant. Who knows who else may end up preggers. Hope Sawyer has extra tests! Maybe they are trying to breed super immune babies.

d. Simply put … Jin. Maybe it truly is a *miracle* and that is all there is to it. Sun and Jin are both in a more relaxed environment and it is not unheard of that someone who thought they could not conceive ends up pregnant.

3. Kate took a pregnancy test? Maybe during her brief marriage to Tom. What were the results, where is the baby?

4. It’s probably just a red herring, but Locke told Ana that she was running like the devil was chasing her. Almost the same phrase Desmond used when he met Jack on the bleachers. Coincidence? How often do *you* hear that phrase in every day conversation?

5. Why does Locke come to Ana to extract “the truth” from Henry? I think he does it purposely in this game he is playing with Jack. He tells Ana that it is because she is the most qualified to tell if Henry is being truthful. Sure he does. I think that Locke would trust Sayid much more over Ana, especially since she has only been with them for one week. OK Locke in the bathroom the same time as Jack? That is just too Brokeback Mountain for the general viewing public.

6. So how does Rose know it is Saturday? I thought it was sweet that they were arguing on the beach because he forgot her birthday. Who on earth would be able to keep track like that? Apparently Rose knows time much like she knew Bernard wasn’t dead.

7. OK, so could Sawyer pull off a con in these glasses? Sexy.

… and his reading material has left alot to be desired:

8. Does anyone on the island know the story of the Wizard of Oz? First, we have Henry GALE who flies his BALLOON across the ocean. Now he says he buried his wife under the balloon because it was the closest thing to HOME that they had. Get a clue!

9. The pregnancy test that Sun has was from Widmore Labs. Henry’s construction co. was Widmore. Connection… YES! Maybe Widmore is an anagram? More importantly, who the HECK carries a pregnancy test on the plane? Were these planted in the wreckage by the Others? Did Sawyer go back to the medical hatch where Claire was taken and ransack the place?

10. I just loved the scene where Hurley walks up on Sun in the jungle. BUSTED!

11. What are Charlie and Sayid working on? Charlie said to Sayid something regarding the pole was awfully long for a table and Sayid responded that they would cut it in half. Looks like some sort of building?

12. Are Sayid or Ana wondering where Charlie got the gun? Why doesn’t anyone here ask questions? “Gee Charlie, I thought that Sawyer had all the guns secured. How did you get one?”

13. So Jack tells Sun that he advises her to tell Jin the truth, the Whole Truth but then proceeds to tell Kate that “everything is fine.” OK, so why isn’t anyone else taking shifts in the hatch? If only Jack and Locke essentially know about Henry (take out the Sayid and Ana incidents) wouldn’t Sawyer, Kate, or anyone who had signed up to press the button know that Henry was in the hatch?

14. OK so it starts to rain when Sayid and co. wake up the next day in the jungle. All of the experiences on the island where it started raining have not ended with a rainbow. Next week looks like trouble as Ana and Charlie are standing below the balloon and we see only Sayid back in the hatch pulling a gun on someone. Remember Henry’s little ambush speech? Oh, he is going to so suffer if this does happen.

15. Notice Sun was wearing a red shirt last episode. This has also not turned out to be a good omen for whoever was wearing the shirt.

16. Didn’t Locke say last season that the island giveth and the island taketh away when Boone died and Aaron was born? So if Sun is indeed pregnant then what or who will be taken?

17. Why did the producers play Sawyer and Bernard backwards when Jin was there and they were discussing Sun’s pregnancy? Obviously they were trying to convey that Jin could not understand but remember that the “whispers” in the jungle are backwards also.

18. Someone on one of the boards pointed out that about 2 months passes each season. So this would mean that Sun would be preggers for six seasons? Either timelines are going to be sped up, she is going to be further along than we speculate, or something tragic has to happen.

19. I thought in the beginning of the season when they found the pantry full of food that Hurley agreed with Jack to divy the food out to everyone? So why did Locke tell Henry that the pantry is full? And how fair is it that Locke and Jack are eating cereal and the rest of the survivors only have fruit and maybe some boar?

And what about the mysterious code on the box:(9)FFTR731?

20. I wasn’t sure what, if anything, was being implied with the reflections of Sun. Check it out:

21.  Check it out, Locke is listening to Jeronimo Jackson!

22. So Claire and the gang are back from the medical hatch. Did anyone ask where they were? Did Claire and company think that maybe it was important to mention to a DOCTOR that there is a MEDICAL hatch here on the island (I’m thinking that the operating room could come in handy now and then). And shouldn’t they be going back again to scour the place for goods? What about the disguises Kate found? Couldn’t they use the lockers or things potentially inside for their camp?