The only thing missing was the ruby slippers. I like the irony of the title, though. On one hand, the Oceanic Six are home. On the other, the island became their home.
Click to enlarge

1. Here’s a link back to the original translation of the newspaper article Jack is carrying around with the obit from Jeremy Bentham. What I find the most interesting is that it states that Bentham is survived by a teenage son. Holy crap this is going to get good!

2. What is Locke going to possibly come to the Oceanic Six and say that convinces Jack of all people that they have to go back. Going back is the only way to keep Aaron and Kate safe.

3. The only reason I can come up with for having Michael die such a dramatic death is that the fans were hungry for Michael to pay the price for what he had done to the other Losties. I let it go last season and had moved on to new people to want to see dead – like Keemy. Maybe there was more plot development that just couldn’t happen because of the writer’s strike. I still would have like to have seen a Micheal and Walt “happy” ending though. Walt has lost both parents now, not cool.
Click to enlarge

4. I’m glad, however, that Desmond didn’t suddenly have powers of bomb disposal. I like that he said he learned just enough to blow himself up.

5. Keemy asks Ben the question of the season – why is Ben so important? Why does Widmore want Ben back alive?
Click to enlarge

6. So you have top military trained men (Keemy’s people) that are there to take Ben away. They split up into the weeds to try and find the Others that are there to save Ben and the Others overpower Keemy’s men? Wow, I would think that the Others must have had some serious military training to pull that off. Sure, they have the advantage of being natives to the island, but they come bearing electrical darts vs. machine guns. Impressive. (OK, they had some guns, but still…)
7. Here’s my suggestion to the Others. When you are trying to sneak up on armed military men, don’t sound out the whispers, it kind of gives you away.

8. I guess I shouldn’t laugh but when Keemy kicks the grenade over to his buddy, duh!

9. Sayid kicked some butt! Keemy was smart, however, that he played dead and then went to the one place he knew Ben would go.
Click to enlarge

10. I can tell you why none of the O6 went to see Walt – no one wanted to tell him that Michael was dead. Locke was always straight up with him, though, so I’ll be interested to see that conversation.

11. I don’t understand why Locke insisted to speak with Jack without Sawyer and Hurley present. Men are so dramtic (lol).
Click to enlarge

12. Interesting that the crackers that Ben dug up aren’t stale. Sawyer even eats one. Meaningless? Why wouldn’t the crackers be stale after all those years? Tupperware ought to look into the technology of the tin those crackers were in.
13. Random shot that I thought was pretty cool.
Click to enlarge

14. Here you go SKID … a last look at Dan and his tie. I think we’ll be seeing this guy again and will he still be wearing a tie?
Click to enlarge

15. I wasn’t crazy about the obvious set up for next season to find out why Charlotte wanted to “get back” to the island. I like my set-ups to be much more subtle. They either need to make her story very fascinating or I’m just going to have to campaign to kill her off the show. I think there are still some of those scary petrifying spiders running around! Could she be Annie? Not sure that I really care right now. I’m more interested to see Miles chatting with Jacob or find out how Dan gets rescued.

16. More random shots. I love the way the light hits Locke.
Click to enlarge

17. This was one squeaky elevator ride. Not sure I’d want to be on that one.
18. The Orchid was built for experiments with space and time. The bunny was going to be shifted 100 milliseconds forward in time. I’m thinking that’s how the move the whole island. It’s always ahead in time.

19. Was anyone else thinking about Jeff Goldblum in The Fly when they saw the pod? Hope Ben didn’t travel with any insects!
Click to enlarge

20. Halliwax = Dr Crandel. Why did he have a winter coat there (the one Ben travels in)? Where is he? Was he Ben’s predecessor?
Click to enlarge

21. Sawyer whispers to Kate, “I have a daughter in Alabama. You need to find her. Tell her I’m sorry.” I will post an enhanced video but not in this one (it’s long enough as it is).
Click to enlarge

22. “Checkmate Mr Eko.” This shot was very Jacob-in-the-cabin-like.
Click to enlarge

23. I wonder where Sayid can take Hurley that is safe. Hurley must know some about Sayid’s lifestyle because he’s not surprised to see him carrying a gun or that he just killed a man outside the hospital.

24. That’s awfully nice of “the island” to let Michael go now, but could the island really have saved him from 500 pounds of c4? Any have you noticed that the neat, clean cut Christian appears here? And of course the whispers.
Click to enlarge

25. Is he or isn’t he? We can see the last place Jin was standing then where the bomb tears apart the boat. I think there is still the possibility he made it although, not sure he was close enough to the island to be there when it ‘moved.”
click to enlarge

26. Sun says several interesting things to Widmore. She tells him that they have “common interests.” She also states “As you know, we were not the only ones who left the island.” I think she means Ben. I truly doubt she’s referring to Desmond as he is her friend. I agree that her intent coming to Widmore wasn’t to help him, but rather she is going to use him in her revenge plot.

27. OK this really sucks for Sawyer. He sacrificed himself to save Kate and Hurely and now he thinks they blew up on the boat. They had just softened him up and now this. Yeah, I think there are some dark days ahead for Sawyer.
Click to enlarge

28. There are hieroglyphics all over this island. As long as we don’t have any more *ahem* interruptions we may actually get to see their meaning (along with the four toed statue). Remember that there were hieroglyphs on the counter in the original hatch that have never been explained either.
Click to enlarge

29. Instead of looking at the meaning behind the imagery, I’m wonder about the technology of how moving this wheel moves them in time. It’s like they took the energy of the hatch and somehow control it with this wheel. Maybe the more they move it the more the island moves?
Click to enlarge

30. The sky is turning purple again. Just like when the hatch imploded.
Click to enlarge

31. Now you see it, now you don’t! I hope that Dan was close enough to go with it but I have a feeling they are going to need him *off* the island as he is the one who originally figured out the coordinates to get there. Then they’ll have a big Dan and Charlotte reunion. Yeah, there is a ripple but it’s pretty small for an island to have physically have gone somewhere. And it doesn’t last very long either. My vote is on some time shift.
Click to enlarge

32. Another crash that they all survived. Guess it’s not their time to go yet.

33. Here is one of the scenes where the color is all wonky. Is it just bad production?
Click to enlarge

34. What Kate hears on the phone is a series of clicks and then that crazy backwards talking. But, and I’ll get it posted soon, played forward it says, ” The island needs you. You have to go back before it’s too late.” I think it also sounds like Locke’s voice.
Click to enlarge

35. Nice white rabbit and conveniently right before Claire shows her face.
Click to enlarge

36. Is it just me or does Aaron sleep a lot? I don’t remember my 3 – 4 year old sleeping that much.

37. Hurley asks Kate (on the raft) if Aaron is ok and she says yes, that it’s a miracle. Jack had just told Locke he doesn’t believe in miracles. Irony. Aaron is definitely special to live through what he has just like Locke was a miracle baby.

38. Now this is a love story! I’m glad that we didn’t have to wait until the last season wondering if they would meet up again. There should still be a lot of story to tell but now we can go on to other story lines. Still, a great, great scene.
Click to enlarge

39. We still haven’t found out why Naomi was carrying that picture of Desmond and Penny. There was no reason for Widmore at the time to think Desmond could protect her so will we find out her motive? It had to be from Penny because if Widmore had her looking for him wouldn’t she just be carrying a picture of Desmond and not a sentimental photo of the two together?

40. Frank has been on the yacht for a week yet he still looks this grungy. We’re not done with this guy yet. He knows too much. I’m sure he’ll be important in getting them back when the time comes.
Click to enlarge

41. On an aside, I’ve been thinking, won’t Sun be of great interest since she conceived on the island? She wouldn’t have lived if she had stayed but won’t they want to know about the baby?

42. Jack says to Ben that Locke told him some very bad things had happened on the island since he left and they were his fault. Not that I want to see bad things happen back on the island, but this is great set up for seasons to come. What bad things, to who, how is it Jack’s fault and how can he fix it?

43. Jack agrees in the last scene that he needs to go back to the island. What are they going to do with Locke until they can get there?

44. So when we see flashes (what will they be now, flash backs again?) if Locke is back on the mainland will he be back in the wheelchair? The island didn’t necessarily heal him and it could just be he can walk while he’s there.
45. Desmond is Dan’s constant. If Dan is still around won’t he have to find Desmond? Jack warns Desmond not to let *them* find him which makes me think he’ll somewhat be in hiding.

46. Walt’s going to have some Daddy issues now with Michael gone (if he heads back to the island). Walt should do well though because Locke taught him some mad knife skills when he was little.

So, with this all said I bid goodbye to Season 4. I’ll be around this summer so keep checking back and leaving comments.

GG

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.
Click to enlarge

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!
Click to enlarge

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.
Click to enlarge

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.
Click to enlarge

8. Eye opening about 12 minutes into the show this time.
Click to enlarge

9. Michael’s tell-tale heart is catching up to him.
Click to enlarge

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.
Click to enlarge

12. Red flowers by momma’s door. Ergh, they’re taunting me now.
Click to enlarge

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.
Click to enlarge

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.
Click to enlarge

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.
Click to enlarge

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!
Click to enlarge

19. Kevin Johnson is awfully happy in this picture. And I like how the number starts with “HNSO.”
Click to enlarge

20. Isn’t it bad luck to change the name of a boat? How strangely obvious that the name was changed.
Click to enlarge

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.
Click to enlarge

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.
Click to enlarge

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.”
Click to enlarge

29. Future Sayid must have stolen Desmond’s hairstyle.
Click to enlarge

30. I don’t think that the captain looks all that surprised to find out that Kevin isn’t Kevin.
Click to enlarge

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?
Click to enlarge

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.
Click to enlarge

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.

I don’t want to say that this episode stunk because it really was OK, but certainly not in my top favorites. Even if it didn’t follow the amazing episode last week, I think that this one would still be just mediocre at best. Still not a stinker yet this season though.

Click here for my initial thoughts. 

1. OMG! It’s a black rock in the Zen garden! It must mean something! (sacrasm people!)
Click to enlarge

2. Juliet is going to die. We know about Ben’s obsession with her and I doubt he would ever let her leave the island. BUT… what if she dies helping Aaron leave the island? She obviously cares about children (she asked Ben about Zach and Emma not to mention she’s a baby doctor) and that would also explain why future Jack can’t bear to see Aaron off of the island.

3. Way to go Harper! Not only does she have a Certificate of Recognition from the Hanso Foundation, she also belongs to the Experimental Social Psychology Society. She is obviously well qualified to be counseling people on *this* island.
Click to enlarge

4. Wow, Harper, jealous much? I can understand the animosity once she finds out that Juliet is a home wrecking ho sleeping with her man, but in their first meeting she’s already cutting her down (“You’re not a celebrity…. you’ll find out soon enough that you’re no different than anyone here.”). Claws are out!

5. Yeah Tom! They really should have kept him. I would have loved to have seen his flash back story.
Click to enlarge

6. I’m thinking that Juliet is of so much interest to everyone not only because she is the baby doctor, but also because Ben has obsessed about her for some time and I would guess they’ve all heard or know about it. “So, this is the woman he’s been so infatuated with.” Sounds like Ben did quite a lot of research and work to get her to the island.

7. AND, we’ve finally found Ben’s Achilles Heel. Juliet.

8. I’m wondering if Juliet somehow did figure out why the women keep dying but that Ben has sabotaged her research because it will keep her on the island. He knows how passionate she is about her work and if she can’t solve the puzzle it will keep her there until she does.  Juliet probably has no clue that she has solved the mystery because Ben is a very sneaky little man.
9. Those are pretty amazing torches that can stay lit in the rain.
Click to enlarge

10. If you heard scary whispers in the jungle wouldn’t you be like “What the hell was that!?” Juliet and Jack never discuss, at least that we see.

11. Of course Ben would send Harper as an unspoken reminder to Juliet that she still *belongs* to him.

12. It was pretty good timing that Harper showed up during the whispers then vanished. It reminded me of the old Walt apparitions.

13. Why is it safer for Jack not to know about The Tempest? He’s not prone to freaking out over new information, so why not at least give this guy a clue about the gas? If I were Matthew Fox I would not be pleased with how naive they make Jack all the time. You can’t just chalk it up to trust.  At some point doesn’t he want answers?

14. I really like Kate’s new, darker hair. She must have gotten a touch up from Claire while she was at the barracks.
Click to enlarge

15. Michael Emmerson is truly an amazing actor. He goes from a love sick little puppy in this scene to the crazy mad man who practically drags her to the dead, rotting corpse of Goodwin. I thought the scenes where Ben is doting on Juliet were great. He is practically skipping around his house getting ready for their dinner together.
Click to enlarge

16. There must be a lot of (ahem) *coupling* going on here at the island for all these pregnant women to be running around. They have to conceive on the island in order to be part of the experiment. I’m just saying that they can’t all be using in vitro fertilization.

17. I miss the old crazy, jungle running, knife throwing, sneaking around Locke. This domesticated version isn’t nearly as interesting.
Click to enlarge

18. I found it interesting that the writers hinted that Ben had something to do with the plane crash. I thought that it was settled that Desmond’s error caused the crash. But Goodwin asks what Ben is going to do then they flash to the plane breaking apart mid air.

19. This is definitely a new tape of Widmore. Ben just showed Jack the Red Sox game a few weeks back in island time.

20. Does the tape of Widmore really prove anything to Locke? I think I would have had a heck of a lot more questions for a man that had just shot me and left me for dead days ago.
Click to enlarge

21. When Locke asks Ben what Widmore wants, Ben goes into the story about the mold. I’m thinking that is our answer why Widmore wants to find the island – for the healing powers.

22. Locke wants to keep this island to himself just like Ben wants to keep Juliet. They do have this obsessive side to their personality in common. I think that Locke will help Ben keep Widmore away so he can keep the island secret.

23. Ben’s man on the boat. We all think it’s going to be Michael, but it just seems so obvious. It’s torture because on one hand we know Michael is coming back and it makes sense. But on the other hand it seems to go along with the show to have a twist. Maybe have Michael as his man but Christian Shepherd be the captain? I would love it to be Charlie but that is just asking too much. Any wild and crazy theories out there?

24. Cool new hatch.
Click to enlarge

25. Notice the painting over Ben’s shoulder. I think that this is the “her” that Harper was referring to that Juliet resembles. I think that it’s Annie. Annie probably got preggers, died, lost the baby and that is what fueled Ben’s fire to fix whatever is killing the women. Then he found Juliet and kind-of, sort-of started to forget about Annie.
Click to enlarge

26. Daniel sure can type fast in those heavy rubber gloves!
Click to enlarge

27. Here are a bunch of screenshots from the computer:

28. I forgot to mention the map that Faraday is looking at to find The Tempest. My guess is the original was taken out of the Black Rock log but since they are using it to find the hatch (that could not have been there in the 1800’s) then someone who has been to the island would have had to give them the location. Michael perhaps? Maybe that is why they were holding off going to the island because they needed the one last piece to be sure they wouldn’t be killed when they stormed the island. I know that Charlie had to flip the switch to get them there, but they needed to be able to find The Tempest and the Losties on the island didn’t know about this hatch.
Click to enlarge

29. They have to be either purposely filming where these red flowers on the island are, the red flowers do mean something, or there are just a whole bunch of these around Hawaii. Anyone from Hawaii know?
Click to enlarge

30. If Juliet was so in love with Goodwin, then why is she so hot and bothered for Jack (outside of the fact that he’s a hottie)?

31. Awesome camera shot.
Click to enlarge

32. Oops, here are some shots of inside the new hatch:

Click to enlarge

33. Hurley is darned good at horeshoes. But remember how good Walt was at throwing that knife? They both apparently have some special *abilities.* Either that, or they’ve spent some serious time in the Southern US learning these skills.
Click to enlarge

34. First we have Hurley questioning Locke out in the jungle on the way to the barracks. Then Claire wants to talk to Miles. Now Sawyer sees Ben just wandering around. Yes friends, I think we are going to see a revolution just as Ben predicted, against Locke.

35.  Now we know what Daniel’s purpose was in being chosen to come to the island. Didn’t see that one coming. Now it will be interesting to see what Miles and Charlotte’s uses are. I’m not so convinced that they are good guys or really care what happens to the Losties. Well, Daniel and Frank seem to care, but Miles and Charlotte are certainly more self centered.

36. Could Smokey be the by-product of a gas leak from The Tempest? I think there is more to it than just gas (like it cloaks something solid) but it appears that this gas is deadly and could certainly kill people.

1. If they had to dump supplies out of the helicopter to reduce the weight load, not to be rude, but how in the world are Hurley and five others going to get into the helicopter and off the island? There must be another way.

2. Cute with all the daddy issues over the past three seasons that Mr. Friendly tells Juliet that after a week with Harper she’ll have you crying about your daddy.

3. I must be deaf because I can’t ever understand what the whispers say. I think I heard Juliet but I don’t know for sure. Then Jack heard them too. I don’t remember him hearing them before. Probably freaked him out pretty good! I was just waiting for the black smoke… which they say will reappear in the next couple of episodes.

4. The Tempest. Appropriate name. Play about people stranded on an island and a spirit trapped in a tree (jacob).

5. Remember that there was an “incident” once on the island? Could it be possible that the gas was released before (and not when Ben killed off Dharma)? It would explain why the hatch was quarantined (couldn’t leave to the poison air), why they originally had gas masks and perhaps whatever poison was in the gas has something to do with women not being able to conceive on the island.

6. I thought it was hilarious that Ben asks Locke if the rabbit happened to have a number on it.

7. Juliet is the other woman in more ways than one.

8. I figured since Locke had Ben trapped in his own house, Ben knew ways to communicate and probably even leave if he wanted to. Duh Locke!

9. The picture on the wall in front of Ben’s safe looked like the place where Rose met her healer, Isaac of Uluru.

10. I can’t believe that Locke didn’t question Ben seven ways from Sunday about how he got the secret video of Mr Widmore. And if Widmore is so bad then why does Ben have the tape locked in a safe? Could this be another reason to believe (as viewers) that Mr Widmore isn’t the bad guy? If Charlotte and Daniel are really there to make the chemicals inert, then maybe he’s trying to stop Ben from killing Desmond. Maybe Widmore is dying and knows that the island has healing powers and he wants to get there himself. We know one thing for certain, you cannot trust Ben.

11. I’m interested to see screencaps of the secret video and see if we can tell who Widmore has blindfolded.

12. Doesn’t Locke wonder why someone was secretly taping Widmore? And doesn’t he wonder how, on the island, that Ben got a copy from the outside world? And why even make the video?

13. I liked that Juliet mentioned the kids that they took from the tailsection survivors. I know I was wondering about them.

14. Girl fight! Juliet versus Charlotte. I wouldn’t mess with Juliet, but we haven’t seen yet what Charlotte can do.

15. Yes! If Daniel ends up *really* being a good decent guy then maybe they will keep the character on the show. Last week in the podcast Darlton acknowledged that they knew the fans really liked Daniel. Please keep him!

16. What a sick-o … Ben taking Juliet to the dead body of Goodwin with the flies buzzing around his body. That man is evil.

17. So I guess we know that Ben wants to kill Jack but we’ve seen flash forwards so we know he at least makes it a little while off of the island. But we also know that Ben has a double life off of the island.

18. Claire asks to see Miles. I’m worried that she’s going to get hurt trying to talk to him.

19. It appears that Ben is keeping the gasses on the island just in case he ever needs to wipe out another population. Why else keep them around? Why does any government keep dangerous chemical warfare knowing it could get in the wrong hands.

The looking glass. I kept thinking to myself, the mirror was the “looking glass” in Alice in Wonderland but it was also the portal to the other world. “Through the Looking Glass” is also the sequel to AIW and here is some of the major themes, according to Wikipedia, “In it, there are many mirror themes, including opposites, time running backwards, and so on.” Then, I watched the special on Thursday, “Answers,” and despite the fact I don’t think we really got but a few resolutes to hot questions (like, NO they are not in purgatory people! Give it up!), they did say, regarding Charlie’s question “Guys, where are we?” that they are in a time space continuum. So I think it’s a pretty sure bet that we will find that something about time is not quite right here. It could explain why people heal so fast (time speeds up) or why babies die (time going too fast for the fetus to develop) or why Richard doesn’t age (time going slow). My theory isn’t fully formulated yet but I’m interested to hear yours. Oh yeah, and next weeks episode is titled “Through The Looking Glass.”

1. Juliet says that she’s been leaving tapes for Ben. Duh, and they just stand there like “OK, thanks for the honesty!” WTF is up with these people? I would be wanting to know what the heck she was saying on those tapes. Who is pregnant (considering the women DIE during pregnancy)? How is she getting her *samples?* Man, it’s like a bunch of 5 year olds that just start to ask the right questions then you can distract them with the pretty butterfly going past.

2. When exactly did Jack hook up with Danielle? We never did find out how she got out of the Other’s compound. And what were they thinking by a) wasting all that dynamite blowing up a tree and b) making such a HUGE commotion which would surely attract some unwanted attention? “Hey Ben, did you just hear something?” “Yeah, the losties are just playing with explosives. No big deal.”
Click to enlarge

3. Radio was on channel 23. One of our numbers.
Click to enlarge

4. Check out the license plate. I read it “You’re Too Old.” Symbolic for what’s to come for our Charlie?
Click to enlarge

5. Is it just me or does Liam look like the devil? (and yes, I have seen the devil so there!)
Click to enlarge

6. Charlie was making his “list” before Desmond told him of the most recent death flashforward. Charlie is writing his own greatest hits.
Click to enlarge

7. What plane wreckage is Jack referring to when he tells Danielle that he will have some of the people strip it for wire? I remember in season one they had to move down the beach away from the wreckage because the water was going to wash away the fuselage. Plus, they burned it because of the bodies inside. Did they pull some of it away from the water? Sawyer has a piece of it that he has his tent in but it’s nothing significant. I keep seeing them walk by with pieces of the plane with wires sticking out. Yeah, almost as believable as Ken and Barbie being there the whole time, too.

8. I know that Ben shows up back at his camp in a rage and wants to go to the camp *now* rather than the next night but what if he and Juliet were planning this all along? Think about it. She is the *good* guy and tells Jack what is going on. Finding out that they are coming “early” Jack rounds all of the WOMEN up and treks them out into the open (see the scene from next week) where who of all people do the come across? Ben! Conveniently. Or it could also be Jack that is working with Ben – he doesn’t stay behind to fight, he doesn’t argue with Sayid when Sayid tells him to be the leader and go, and then he rounds them up making it look like he is trying to save them. Jack told Danielle and Rose that they couldn’t stay behind when they suggested it but when Sayid said he was Jack didn’t put up any fight. And who stays behind? Conveniently, their best shooters! Who will protect the women from being captured? There wasn’t enough time to rig all the dynamite so the casualites for the Others is going to be less. This reeks of set up to me.
Click to enlarge

9. Hey look, they have hair extensions on the island, too. Which station are these kept at?
Click to enlarge

10. We know there are three seasons left on the show so how can Claire and Aaron get saved? I’m thinking this… who are you going to put in the rescue vessel first? Women and children. Claire and Aaron. They are saved thanks to heroic Charlie pushing the button. But the signal that they receive to find them is only a blip in time. Charlie dies, the switch goes back on, the helicopter can’t find it’s way back and no one else is rescued at this time. Desmond swims back to the surface (yeah, you can see him in the underwater hatch next week) at some point in the season to let the survivors know what happened. Now you have a whole new dimension to the show. They can get help but have to fight the underwater Others. Juliet is once again (who is shocked?) a liar because it’s not flooded. Lots of story lines could happen here. Getting Claire and Aaron off of the island makes sense because *aw shucks* the most innocent are saved. Now the Others can really hack them up on tv!

11. Charlie has expressed several times that he cannot swim. I thought for sure that his dad wasn’t going to catch him, but he did and the moment made his “Greatest Hits” list. Then he says later that he was Junior Swim Champ in Northern England and can hold his breath for four minutes. He was either lying or something happens later to make him afraid of the water. And, does this mean we will see Charlie back next season so we can resolve his story line, so he can find his redemption? Ah, this is killing me! I saw an interview with him on Jay Leno from last week and Dominic is asked if he will be back and he just smiled and said something ambiguous. I want Charlie AND Desmond back. I don’t want either to die for the switch.

12. Pictures of the Looking Glass map:

Click any image to enlarge

13. Check out the rabbit on the logo for this station:
Click to enlarge

14. In “The Answers” they showed a clip of Locke being drug by “the monster” down into a hole. A rabbit hole perhaps? Goes with the theme. And why haven’t they come across more of these holes? Surely if there are holes out in the jungle the size of this one there have to be more and people surely would have come across them.

15. I wonder what other secrets Sayid has in this book where he had the Looking Glass map? And why is he trusting Jack so easily now?

16. Hm, maybe ABC is listening. We wanted you-know-who to go bye-bye and they did. We wanted Rose and Bernard back and here they are! And Rose went to the Beauty Salon hatch where Claire has been. Now give us a Mr. Friendly backstory next year!
Click to enlarge

17. Ironically, Alex is cutting up a white rabbit.
Click to enlarge

18. Rabbits are also a sign for fertility. Maybe they are used in fertility experiments on the island. But Alex likes them for lunch.

19. Alex has daddy issues. It’s cute that she’s hiding Karl out in the woods. But I was thinking, what if some guy was dating my daughter that I didn’t like? Would I cage him? Put him in a sensory *overload* chamber? Anything to keep him away from my daughter? No, of course not. I don’t have the space for a chamber like that in my house!

20. Dexter Stratton – Couldn’t find any real significance of this name. No anagrams that stuck out either. Maybe it’s just background with no more significance than that. Buggers!

21. Lord of the Rings fans – did Charlie’s character ever get the ring? I’ve never seen the movies so I don’t even know the significance of the ring. But I found the passing of the ring from Charlie (who was in the movie) to Aaron must have some meaning, if only tongue in cheek.

22. What happened? Charlie went from Rock God to playing Oasis on the street? Did we miss a huge chunk of time here?

23. Nadia.
Click to enlarge

24. What if Jack has the *sickness?* He looks terrible. He seems to be unstable. Danielle never did fully explain what the sickness was, only that her mates got it and she had to kill them. Will Jack’s fate be the same?
Click to enlarge

25. Check out the far left of the screen. You can see the camera person’s foot in the sand and part of the camera. Oopsies!
Click to enlarge

26. Same scene. Very sad. Hurley wants to go and Charlie has to make something up because he doesn’t want his friend there when he dies. Guess it’s hard to come up with something kind to say when you know you are about to die.

27. I don’t understand why Sawyer wasn’t the third shooter. He was pretty dead on killing that polar bear way back when so they know he can shoot. They know that he’s not above killing also. Must have other plans for him. I am also shocked that Sun agreed to let Jin stay. Didn’t she tell him once that she lost him but would never lose him again? Now they are separating the pregnant couple. I smell something fishy!

29. This lost Lost scene worked for me. It was simply done. There weren’t lots of our favorite characters running around the scene in an effort to get us to believe it. It was just Charlie and Claire and at that moment, that is probably how he felt. Applause, applause to ABC for K.I.S.S. (keeping it simple stupid!).”
Click to enlarge

30. Remember Joanna, the drowning woman from season one? Could they have drug her under the water and brought her here, or have been drug under by these women? They want women for their experiments so it makes sense why.
Click to enlarge

31. Why did Juliet lie about the hatch being flooded? Wouldn’t they have been more apt to go to the hatch (if they Others wanted them) if they thought it was functional?

32. I am thinking since they can jam the signal from here that this is another communication station (we see Mikhail down here in next week’s preview also). So could this station have crashed Naomi’s helicopter? After “The Answers” we can’t blame them here for the crash of 815 because they said decidedly so that Desmond caused the plane to crash.

33. Remember how the hatch (Desmond’s) had tunnels that had recently been filled with concrete (sorry, I don’t have a screenshot right now for this)? Juliet said that there was an incident. Does the Looking Glass lead to the other hatches, but when the incident happened they had to close off the tunnels?

34. “I’m alive, I’m alive.” Oh crap, maybe I’m not going to be for long! Poor Charlie!
Click to enlarge

35. New characters. Guess we’ll find out how long they’ll be staying this week. They don’t seem amused to see someone new in their hatch.
Click to enlarge

36. So in the previews for this week it looks like Desmond will be joining Charlie and a surprise visitor arrives (Mikhail). Looks like the 3 shooters are going to be captured (which is odd because Ben told Ryan to kill the men). And surprise, surprise, Ben finds Jack and ALL THE WOMEN wandering in an open field. Who will be the snake in the mailbox? Should be very exciting and TWO HOURS friends!

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.
Click to enlarge

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).
Click to enlarge

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.
Click to enlarge

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).
Click to enlarge

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.
Click to enlarge

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.
Click to enlarge

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.

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.”
Click to enlarge

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.
Click to enlarge

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.
Click to enlarge (dig the jumping pose I got)

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?
Click to enlarge

12. Now here is an interesting piece that might come back into play in the future. A walkie talkie from The Others.
Click to enlarge

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!
Click to enlarge

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!
Click to enlarge

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?
Click to enlarge

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?
Click to enlarge

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.
Click to enlarge

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?
Click to enlarge

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.
Click to enlarge

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*.
Click to enlarge

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!”
Click either image to enlarge

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!
Click to enlarge

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?
Click to enlarge

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.
Click to enlarge

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.
Click to enlarge

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.
Click to enlarge

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.
Click to enlarge

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!
Click to enlarge

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.
Click to enlarge

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.
Click to enlarge

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!

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.
Click to enlarge

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!
Click to enlarge

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.”
Click either image to enlarge

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.
Click to enlarge

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.
Click to enlarge

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?

Click to enlarge

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?
Click any image to enlarge

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.
Click to enlarge

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.
  Click image to enlarge

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?
  Click image to enlarge