Locke won’t die.  I think I know who will, but see my Spoiler page to read it. 

I think that Mikhail is the one and only Dharma survivor.  He said so when we first met him (well, Mrs. Klugh might have been the nurse we saw but that is up for debate).  He is still loyal.  He knows what Ben did to the real *Others.*  I think he followed Ben to Jacob.  I think even though Locke kicked his booty that he will save him (conveniently, he’s a medic).  I foresee these two working together.  No one wanted to help Mikhail when Locke was kicking the snot out of him.  The Others don’t like him and now Locke is also anti-Other.

Jacob is some sort of shape shifter.  I know, I know, it sounds supernatural/science fiction.  My sister first suggested that Jacob is the one taking the form of the dead loved ones and I thought it was kooky.  Then I started thinking about it.  It makes sense.  Think of all the dead people they have seen.  How?  How is Jacob doing it?  So much to ponder!  Why is he asking Locke for help?  Is that why Ben wants Locke dead - because he is the only person who can *see* Jacob?

I can’t believe that they didn’t go back to the camp when Jack said they had catching up to do.  Maybe he’ll help them fight the Others but don’t forget, my friends, that he and Juliet didn’t look a bit surprised about Naomi or the boat out on the water. 

Volcano?  I’ve thought for awhile that there was something volcanic there.  Look at the patterns on the beach.  My Scott mentioned lava tubes and how they could be traveling through them and that is how they get around so quickly.  Locke found volcanic ash on the way to Jacob.

What happened to Annie?  Did Ben also sacrifice her?  I guess we can see why Ben was so adamant about Locke killing his own father.  And Mr. Richard.  My my.  Seems there is a bit more to him that we don’t know.  He’s creepy.

Why doesn’t Richard age?

So much to think about.  Must go back and watch it again.  Ahhhh, just like the good old days!

“I’m on my own journey now.”

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1. Hey John, since you’ve been on the island, when were you not on *your own* journey?

2. Cool camera shot. Oooo. It’s hell! NOT!
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3. If you can, go back and listen to the background noise in this scene. It sounds just like the *cricket* sound that you hear when the black smoke is swirling about. I didn’t see anything but it makes me wonder what they know about it since they can just traipse around the island with no worries yet the Losties keep seeming to have big issues with it. It’s a security system, but for what? SOMEONE ASK DANIELLE! Geesh, these people!
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4. Hm, it’s not the first time they’ve gone into a camp and stolen the pregnant women? Or it’s not the first time they’ve taken people for their experiments?

5. Killing Locke’s dad seems to be more of a redemption for Sawyer than it does for Locke. He couldn’t do it so he enlisted Sawyer (which, duh, the Others knew. They gave him the red folder didn’t they?). I am impressed, however, that they knew this guy was the real Sawyer. Which brings me to another question. Once someone finds their redemption, they are killed off the show. *Fingers crossed* that is not the fate for Saywer. (Think Ana Lucia, Boone, Eko). So anyway, this killing didn’t release Locke from anything besides the burden of doing it himself. This was Saywer’s redemption song.

6. Next question. Did they really kill Cooper dead, dead? Remember that Mikhail was down but apparently not out and he came back. I wondered when I saw him laying there if the same thing could happen and then would Sawyer believe this hell thing?

7. “Remind me not to rescue you Sayid.” Uh, hello? You can tell little miss attitude hasn’t been around very long. Don’t make me hate you already lady and have to photoshop your death until the writers imagine a slow and painful death for you too. I think it will be down to Sayid and Locke anyway as far as who gets them rescued (of course, Locke wouldn’t go but I could see him saving them.).
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8. OK. Naomi was on a search and rescue mission following coordinates to the middle of the ocean. It wounds believable. What is it that Sayid didn’t like? Per the map below, Bali is close enough that this sounds reasonable to find the plane there. Sure, they were off course but at least this looks reasonable. Notice all of the islands here.
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9. I think that there is definitely an element of jealously between Ben and Locke. Each is running their own game but Ben was probably for the most part unchallenged until Locke came along. Ben would know Locke’s history, just like they know all of their backstories. So he would know that Locke isn’t a killer. Which on an aside, I’m convinced Locke never killed that cop out in the woods. But do the Others like to watch murder? Is this like their gang initiation? Cindy told Jack when he was in the cage that they were also there to watch. Sickos.

10. Good thing they got to use this expensive set again!
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11. So they brought the slaves there to mine the island huh? As a reminder, GG has been saying for at least two seasons now that they are mining. I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see some underground tunnel exploration next season.

12. Oh boy, never trust a woman in love not to tell the man she’s in love with a secret! Especially if you know the man and he’s an evil guy from the Other side who you suspect is up to no good. Never.

13. They have really made Kate’s character into a ditz which is horribly disappointing. Uh, did Jack or Juliet look surprised that there is a woman in camp from a ship nearby that might save them? No, they didn’t and so why didn’t Kate notice? She was just upset that he didn’t seem to care that the boys didn’t trust him. Hmpf. Then Juliet wants to tell Kate something and he says no. WTF Kate?! Pull you head out of that swollen up love sick heart and get a clue here!

14. Possibilites of what Juliet is going to tell Kate: That the boat out on the water is actually there to drop off supplies but that she and Jack made another pact with Ben that they would be able to get on that ship.

15. Danielle is there for dynamite. She is working on getting her kid back.

16. Richard is one sneaky SOB. Conveniently he has Sawyer’s file. He tells Locke that they are getting sick of Ben and his limited view of the island’s power. Telling Locke that his dad has to go so he can fulfill his purpose. John needs to be a little more skeptical about these people.
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17. Naomi says the clouds opened and she saw land. Really? At night, in a helicopter, and cloudy to boot.

18. Where did Juliet get the makeup?
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19. If Desmond’s button pushing is what took the plane down, then what took Naomi’s helicopter down? I don’t think that it was the button alone that caused the crash.

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.

Let me digress for a moment.  Ken and Barbie.  They are dead.  Face it folks, no one is going to get dug out by some golden lab and if Vincent should happen to be that industrious, how would they live being under a mountain of sand?  They’re gone.  TTFE!

1.  Cassidy.  This backstory ranks right up there with the dumbest, biggest waste of story time.  I kept waiting for betrayal.  Nothing.  Waited for the name Sawyer to come up.  Nothing.  Waited for Mom to do something cool and shocking (like show up in a magic box on the island).  Nothing.  Have I lost my imagination here?  I feel like I’ve eaten the forbidden apple and now my eyes are open to the reality of the nothingness that gets thrown into this show sometimes.  OK, a crossover, big time.  Big deal!  I’d rather have someone with a crossover actually realize it (remember when Saywer told Jack about meeting his dad?  Classic!). 

2.  Agreed to gnid gnid (see last post comments), Juliet has some skills!  But so does Kate so where in the world did Juliet train (anyone seeing Kill Bill images with me … more like Kill Ben!)?  Plus her shoulder has been dislocated four times before. 
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3.  Kate always has the same song playing in her flashbacks.  Is she going to finally go walking after midnight one of these episodes already?
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4.  So let me get this right.  There is a village, with houses and TOILETS and showers and they are just going to take a few things and LEAVE!!!??? Screw Jack as the leader.  Sawyer would be all over that village if he knew about it.  Plus there is a security system!  I love this show but come on!!!!  Leave a few people back at the beach in shifts to watch for rescue and live at the houses with beds!  And kitchens!  OK, you have a few hippies that probably like sleeping on the beach, but not people like me.  They have a rec hall and bikes.  Come on! 

5.  Here’s something to blog about… the gas is $1.32 and $1.81 for the *expensive* stuff!  Talk amongst yourselves…
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6.  I love it that Sawyer has it counted down to the minutes until he can use nicknames.  But check it out, he’s got a watch!!!  Again with the watches!
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7.  Where is Rosseau?  Simple.  She found her daughter and is not going to lose her again.  Which means she is following the Others.  Why haven’t we seen a backstory on her?  She is far and away more interesting than the You-Know-Whos (the one’s who won’t be named) and they got a whole episode.

8.  There is supposed to be a backstory coming up featuring (maybe) the Degroots.  The reason I mention this is because they were college hippies back in the 60’s and 70’s and there were a lot of riots going on back then and what did the cops wear?  Gas masks.  They threw the smoke bombs at the students to break up the riots.  I can’t say that I think that there were riots on the island but maybe they brought along gear from home just in case anyone tried to come to the island and disturb the compound.  I’m just trying to speculate why the would have this kind of gear on the island.
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9.  Lies, lies, lies.  Juliet asks Kate what happened and says she was making tea when they threw a canister through her window.  But then how did she voluntarily get handcuffed to Kate?  And not only does she know about Old Smokey, she looks at it like she knows far more than she is going to say.  Also, she knows the fence is off.  It doesn’t make sense.

10.  I think that The Others have another camp in the middle of the island. Remember when the Tailies were taking Sawyer & Co. back to the beach they avoided the middle of the island because that is where *They* came from.  I also think that there is still another group of Others that we haven’t seen yet.

11.  In this scene where Kate and Juliet are arguing and it starts raining, you can hear a loud squealing noise in the background three times.  I asked Scott if he heard it, which he did not (maybe because I was talking, lol) but I just watched the scene back now and there is definitely something there.  Then Smokey shows up for a little paparazzi action… so I wonder if there is some connection (remember the bird that said *Hurley* then swooped down on him?).
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12.  I wonder if a little picture popped out after this.  lol.  I guess this is another clue as to what the Smoke Monster is.  Security system that takes pictures.  Yeah, that’s it. 
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13.  The last time I remember Kate seeing the *monster* it had just pulled out the pilot and shredded him.  No wonder she’s so scared!  Juliet doesn’t seem nearly as frightened though, does she?  Smokey makes his loud *roar* and Kate tells her to run yet Juliet just sits there whining about her arm.  We know now that Juliet does know about Smokey yet she didn’t run.  Why?

14.  Well, he’s not as wrinkly as he was a couple of weeks ago.  Man, to be a fly on the wall in the writer’s room….
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15.  I think that it’s Hurley who is the real leader.  He can even get Sawyer to “join in” now that is a leader.  He is always trying to find a way to bring people together.  Golf, van and now working on Sawyer.  Who would seriously follow what Hurley said?  But then again, like Hurley said (ba dum pum) people need a leader and will follow Sawyer.  Hurley’s the Dick Cheney to Sawyer’s George Bush (only not as evil or dumb, and much more honest).

16.  Too funny to see Sawyer and the boar again.  Only disappointment is that I was expecting *something* to happen after all the hullabalo he had before with the boar.

17.  When Smokey is chasing Kate & Juliet the second time they come up on the fence.  Juliet yells to Kate twice that they are off, then grabs the key and unlocks the handcuffs.  Hello, McFly?  How does she know they are off?  How did she gets gassed but still had the key?  How did she get the choice to be with Kate anyway? 

18.  I don’t know if you can tell from this shot, but there are three distinct puffs of black smoke that come up and join into the one cloud that comes to the fence.  Plus other shots.
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19.  Why didn’t Smokey go *over* the fence?

20.  Then Kate comes up to Juliet all po’d and when Juliet admits they know about Smokey it turns out she was upset about the handcuffs! Wha…. let’s see, the importance of handcuffs vs the unexplained phenomena of a black cloud that floats around killing people.  Think, think, think.  What should Kate question first?

21.  Wow, Sawyer is sharing his beer.  The writers were right, we are seeing a side of him that I never thought we would see… a side that he had to eventually face.  Sharing his beer.
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22.  And the cheese stands alone, drinking water.
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23.  I saw at least two gas canisters on the floor in Jack’s house.  I guess that is why he was passed out for an entire day longer than Kate.

24.  OMG, when will they listen to Sayid?  Leave the woman behind Jack!

25.  One thought on Locke… remember folks, he runs his own agenda.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

19. Opened her eyes just in time to see the dirt coming. I would think with a couple hundred pounds of dirt coming at you, there is no way to dig out of this one. Do you think that the actors will have nightmares about shooting this scene?
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No, there are no reruns this season. But there are huge breaks in story lines. For instance, Locke sees his dad tied up on a mysterious island that he is trapped on but we won’t be seeing any more of what happens from there for five weeks! But, there aren’t any reruns!

1. Locke did not age well after he did/didn’t shoot the cop/kid on the commune. In these shots he looks as old as his dad!
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2. How many people go on disability for depression? Not to mention that Locke was some type of home appraiser/fix it man (remember he was at Nadia’s house?) so I would assume his benefits wouldn’t be that great. I think this is *another* indication that he was a former military man. VA benefits for depression make more sense that just a regular health insurance carrier. Later, Ben asks John how he is going to navigate the sub, it’s complicated machinery (Ben knows something) and Locke says, “For all you know, I was a commander in the Navy). It all goes along with Nate’s comment on the last blog.

3. What is on Jack’s arm? It looks like a new tattoo but when would he have gotten this? Oh yeah, Claire is a tattoo artist (just kidding).
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4. I can’t make out what these metals are, but here is a screenshot of them (they are said to be Navy metals-see the comments after my last post).
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5. When Kate comes upon Jack playing the piano, it sounds like the same song he was playing in the lobby before his wedding (remember that Sara finds him there?).

6. Ben asks “Richard” to bring him the man from Tallahassee. He HAS to know that this is Locke’s dad. Why else would Ben ask for him but more importantly, WHERE did he come from, WHERE have they been keeping him, WHY is he bound and gagged and HOW does he know that he is Locke’s dad. My sister thinks his dad is a hallucination. This makes sense considering they drugged Kate when they captured her, maybe Locke has been given some of his own wacky paste. He could see anything in that *magic box!*

7. Do you remember Richard — he tricked Juliet into going to the island. Richard was in Florida and “The Man From Tallahassee” was Locke’s dad. Is there a connection? Did Richard also get Locke’s dad to come to the island for some reason (redemption) or maybe he really was some type of computer entrepreneur and they wanted him for his *skills.*
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8. Ben and Locke both had some really good lines this time. Ben: No, unfortunately we don’t have a code for “There’s a man in my closet with a gun to my daughter’s head. Later, Ben: … it was immediate… and you were just walking…. right away… the same day of the crash? Locke: That’s what immediate means Ben. More, Locke: Where do you get electricity? Ben: We have two giant hamsters running in a massive wheel in a our secret underground hatch.

9. More of those red flowers.
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10. I’m not so convinced that this is the *real* Sawyer. It’s hard to tell with Lost because sometimes the most obvious answer *is* the answer! Locke’s dad scams single women. The real Sawyer seemed to scam couples (sure, he probably woo’ed the wives first) for their money. Plus Anthony is a killer. Sawyer’s dad killed himself. Maybe it is, maybe not.

11. Locke needs to stop pressing the damn proverbial *button.* He really seems to have a big heart and means to do well (except for blowing up the sub which was purely selfish) but it keeps ending up really badly (things blowing up, people dying, etc…).

12. Mr. Friendly and Jack have made friends somehow. When he brings Jack to see Kate he tells him to “Be careful in here” and points to his ear (obviously the Others are listening to him). Cool, maybe he’ll head back to the camp and we’ll get that backstory on him now.
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13. Jack asks Kate again if they hurt her. It’s the same question he asked her when Juliet brought her down to ask him to do the surgery. I like the chemistry between Kate and Jack better, but Lord help us please don’t make this show a soap opera.

14. I loved that when Ben is questioning Locke intently about walking again Locke stops and asks “You got anything to eat?'’ just like when Ben stopped and asked (in the hatch) if they had any milk. Excellent dialog.

15. Finally! Someone tells Alex about her mother (well, sort-of). I think she’s eventually going to find out the Ben is not her father at all. At some point I could see Danielle emerging from the shadows. That was her goal from Season One, right? Remember when she had Sayid tied up and kept asking where Alex was?

16. Sayid has a watch on. Again, I ask, why is everyone wearing watches? They take a licking and keep on ticking but can they never said anything about a magnetic, mysterious island. Oh, and a clock in Ben’s house.
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17. What is the magic box? Is it like Locke’s “Sweat Lodge” only on a much larger scale? Damon Lindelof states in the last podcast that there isn’t really a physical box, it’s just a metaphor that Ben uses to put it into perspective for Locke what is on the island.

18. I know this is just a tv show, but the scene where Danielle sees Alex just broke my heart. Maybe it’s because I’m a mom and I can’t imagine wondering for 16 years the fate of your daughter on a island with sicknesses and violent strangers then suddenly knowing she was OK but not being able to run out and hug her. *Ugh!*
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19. Most excellent shot of the show.
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20. (See comments on last post). I wondered the same thing but didn’t draw the same conclusions. Why was Locke soaking wet? How did he know how to just flip on the light switch without a thought?

21. This makes Locke looks so evil! But at least he said he was sorry! And all who noticed the explosion is in the middle of the pier and not off to the side where the sub was, I would say you are all right. That sub is not gone at all.
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22. I guess we know now where Locke found his determination (don’t tell me what you can’t do)! I like this guy. He’s like the angel that comes to Locke after being attacked by the devil.
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23. Posting a spoiler for tomorrow. Whether it’s real or not I do not know but I sure HOPE it’s for real!

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!

Oh yeah! Looks like Jack’s getting smart. Hopefully there will be some Sawyer revenge in here somewhere, too.

Extended preview:

This one came from ABC.com:

I was pretty upset when they killed Eko. What a supreme dichotomy of good and evil wrapped into one character. But then I got to thinking… and I said to myself that the *only* way that I would accept that the writers know what they are doing is if the actor himself wanted out of this show. Well, what do you know? He did. You can read the full article here, but if you love this character you may not want to read it. He comes off sounding very arrogant. You are on the number one show on television and after just one backstory you don’t like what they are doing to the character and want out? Now his big project is an autobiography. Yeah, I am almost happy that he is moving off of this show.

That doesn’t mean that I want Ken and Barbie there, but I would rather Eko bow out of the story gracefully, or violently, before I know anymore about what kind of person this guy is outside of the show. I like my little pretend world where all the actors are *just* like their characters. Don’t spoil that for me!

1. I thought this was an interesting shot of the priest, only with half his body showing. Almost foreshadowing that Eko would be back although he would in his heart only be 1/2 priest.
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2. Interesting that they chose to have the eye this episode closed. Eko wasn’t blind to his *sins* any more than any other character on the island. Maybe, however, he was the only one that was making a concious choice to have his *eyes closed* because the pain of his life was too much and he didn’t want to face them.
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3. Thank goodness some of the writing is still alive. When Sayid is beside an unconscious Eko he asks Charlie what happened to him. Charlie responds, “Before or after we saved him from the polar bear cave?” Savid walks away in disgust. Ah, just like old times.

4. Poor Hurley. He asks Eko to stay alive. We know why. And we know what happens later on this episode.

5. Obviously from the way Eko was running around seeing things, Locke got to him with his special wacky paste. First of all, who put Locke in charge of making everyone let go of their past (Boone, himself, Charlie, now Eko)? Anyway, I wonder who was really standing there in the tent? My bet is Locke. The tent burns up. I doubt this was a mistake, I dont’ think, however, he meant to burn the tent down. But, Locke was forcing this vision quest for Eko. On the other hand, Shannon saw Walt inside of her tent before she died and I don’t think it was Locke in that case. Is someone on the island leading them to their doom by inducing hallucinations of people from their past?
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6. I still think it’s Locke in Eko’s *sweat tent.* He runs up right after the fire starts and asks where Eko is (making sure he got out?). Then when Charlie looks around and says he’s gone Locke doesn’t look too surprised. Locke also sends *Charlie* and *Hurley* to look for his tracks. Doesn’t sound like Locke was *that* worried what happened and where Eko went.

7. Ok so Ben just lets Jack wander about during Colleen’s funeral? Obviously it’s part of the mind game but get real, would they not have him somehow shackled?

8. I think for the first time since his appearance, Ben actually looks surprised when Jack mentions his tumor. Is it there, is it a set-up, who knows. But I believe that it was Juliet who put the X-rays there and Ben did not know about it. It’s her con that they are playing now. I do believe that she wants Ben dead but I don’t think it’s because he is some sort of tyrant leader but something more sinister with *her.*
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9. Not sure what to make of the white, I’m sure there is some religious significance to it. What is more important is that these Others know that their dead must leave the island. Think about it, Jack’s dad and Yemi both were not buried, their bodies disappeared then reappeared to the person who would know who they were and then led them somewhere. Eko died and Jack could have as he slipped off the cliff (Locke came and saved him). Is whoever is running the smoke monster resurrecting the bodies and using the image against the survivors?

10. Like the *family* Locke lived with back home, this group of Others is looking more and more like a cult. I doubt it’s religious, but imagine what the Hale-Bop gang would have done with some technology and an operating room. Creepy!

11. This dog is not Vincent, but where has he been? The dog always show up when there is trouble (like Scooby Doo!) so where is he? Maybe he’s with Rose, Bernard, Jin and Sun since we haven’t seen them either. Do the writers think we aren’t going to notice this? Forget writing for Ken and Barbie, keep the characters on screen that we know. Flesh them out more and forget trying to liven up the joint with a hot chick and a perfect haired man.
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12. The little swarm that swims around in the jungle is definitely different and another entity from the *big* black smoke. It seems almost as if it’s the look out, that finds something interesting to report back. As far as Eko’s hallucination of the people he killed in the church, first the little boy shushes Eko eerily similar in the way Walt did to Shannon. Then, to clear the record, he says “confess,” not something backwards. We know the meaning. End of comment.

13. What a stupid set-up about anybody coming along with Locke and then Ken and Barbie volunteer. Could they have just left it with Hurley asking because he’s too afraid or whatever cute and charming thing Hurley might be thinking? Barbie turns around, RAISES HER HAND and says, “I’ll go.” Enough said. *Insert groan of disbelief here*

14. Reflections. This one was the most symbolic so far to me. This is from when Locke was dipping his bottle for water. Very dark.
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15. ABC, can you please give Desmond more screen time? To me, he is now the most interesting character. True, we know the least about him, but he asks questions, he is doubtful of intentions, he pays attention, he does what the viewers keep yelling at the tv! If *he* runs across Danielle, I bet they will have quite a chat! Is Desmond the only one who truly wants to get off this island? For the record, however, Sawyer still gets the best lines.
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16. These must be some religious writers and cinematographers. This scene was like the Lord’s prayer all wrapped up in a nice screenshot. Oh yeah, except for the smoke monster part.
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17. The scene where the men come to the church for the vaccination is interesting. First you think that Eko is some bad-a** standing up for the church. Then you remember that he is a drug dealer after all and it looking to get his own cut. But then you remember that he has something to make up to Yemi so would he or wouldn’t he take off with the medicine?

18. Smokey retreats here. But is it because Eko startles it by standing up to it or is it because Locke & co. are coming? I think that this thing somehow feeds off or can sense fear and Eko startles it.
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19. What is up with this cheeseburger? This chick is psycho and probably did kill the cow, etc… But Desmond appeared to be eating eggs that weren’t really eggs so who knows what the cheeseburger might *really* made of. “Soylent Green is people!” lol
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20. Ben vs. Juliet. Ben comes in and *reveals* to Jack what the con was going to be. For the record, I don’t think that Juliet looks like Sarah. Anyway, all part of the con Jack, WAKE UP BUDDY! The two are obviously at odds. Is Jack that naive?

21. Here is my sister’s theory, and I like it! What if Jack cuts open Ben and doesn’t find the tumor? Jack won’t kill him, I don’t believe it. But Ben will awake and tell Jack that it was the only way to get him to believe that the island heals. Of course, Ben is hoping that as a scientist Jack will want to stay and as a surgeon who desperately wants to fix everyone.

22. But, what if that X-Ray actually was Locke’s? Or someone else we don’t know about? Jack would believe the con. Especially with Ben’s big speech about God dropping a surgeon out of the sky. Come on Jack! Has he forgotten that Kate and Sawyer are caged too?

23. I’m not going to discuss the rolling away of the stone from the plane. It’s been discussed to death on all the boards.

24. I was expecting more of a reaction from Desmond over going down into the hatch. He spent *years* down in one and I would think that a person would have some post traumatic stress from that! The writers missed a big chance here. Of course, they found it more important to show Ken coming out of the toilet. Yeah, good choice ABC.
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25. The patched man. I think he’s running smokey. He’s the *wizard* behind it. I have a feeling that after meeting him we will truly start believing that Ben’s Others are *not* the bad guys after all!
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26. Juliet supposedly puts in “To Kill a Mockingbird.” One of the major themes of the book, “To Kill a Mockingbird is an exploration of human morality, and presents a constant conversation regarding the inherent goodness or evilness of people.” Pretty obvious meaning there.

27. Could this be a field of poppies? Ironically, it is the same type of field where Hurley met Dave. It is also from a famous scene in the Wizard of Oz. Hallucinogenic possibilities?
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28. This is so creepy because whoever is messing with Eko put on this burnt suit to trick him. What I love about this show was right on track in this scene. When Yemi says, “You speak to me as if I were your brother,” they were right on track. Of course we were all saying, “What the….” just like we love from this show. I don’t want to know right now all the answers. I don’t want the obvious resolution to who Fake Yemi is. I want to keep guessing!
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29. Eko finally appears afraid of old smokey. That is why I think he dies.
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30. I don’t think that smokey is really just smoke. This is a machine, to use my daughter’s words, “shrouded in smoke.” I couldn’t have put it better. I think that we see the bigger part of the machine rise up from the ground and then a mechanical arm reaches out for Eko. I think that Mr. Patch is running the thing, too. Remember when it had Locke by the leg it didn’t look like smoke had him.

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31. “We’re next.”
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So I had half the post done and WordPress decided to kick me out. Nice! Save your work people!
On with the show…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Clementine goes on to drown in the song, too.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

25.  Who is the patched man next week?  Remember last season when Eko opened the trunk in their hatch they found a glass eye.  Is this the owner?
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