maybe i’m just getting punchy this late/early in the night/morning. someone somewhere has probably already mentioned this, but i’m reminded of the old saying about either “to know someone” or “do not criticize someone” until you’ve “walked a mile in their shoes”.

locke is now traveling in “christian” shephard’s shoes. some symbolic insight to the path locke is on?

I know it’s getting to a point when they wanna start tying things up, but I felt this episode was lacking, even for the amount of new info given.

I’m definitely looking forward to your next blog! :0)

I think Aaron will show up on the island, but I’m going to expand on that though in my next blog.

Good comments, thanks! GG

I’ve been wondering how/if Charlie and Daniel Faraday are connected. And what did Daniel do to that poor girl? And how do the two Theresa characters fit into this whole wormhole?

And is Teresa Cortez (the woman on flight 316. John 3:16? John Locke?

And when did they bring the easter eggs back? http://www.ajiraairways.com/home

I’m still enjoying everything…it’s just all a bit flat. No one else feels this way? Ah well.

To start theorizing…

My friends and I thought perhaps Kate left Aaron with something she could trust… Sawyer’s old flame (mother of Clementine), perhaps? Or maybe she even turned him over to the authorities or dropped him off at a hospital, police station, orphanage…? The most appropriate thing she could have done, of course, was to take him to Claire’s mother. If the possibility existed that she’d never see him again, it would only be right. They almost played it like she’d killed him or something crazy, but I think she was just heartbroken.

The introduction of Ray feels like really weak writing to me. For four seasons we’ve only been introduced to Jack’s mother and father and suddenly there’s a granddad in the mix? Seems like a very convenient way for the writers to write themselves out of a problem. Perhaps this is a character they should have introduced or at least MENTIONED in an earlier season. If someone knows of a time that Jack makes reference to him in an earlier episode, I’ll eat my words. But…meh. It just felt contrived.

I too found it strange, the John being Christian’s proxy thing. Again, the conversation between Jack and Ms. Hawking seemed like the writers edging their way out of good storytelling. Having her call him out on thinking everything is ridiculous and then shrugging it off is so lazy and it’s…I hate to say it…it’s become a trend on the show this season. Almost like the writers want us to all “just go with it”. I can certainly understand the need to create exposition and move the pieces into position, but after telling us there would be no filler, it doesn’t seem like they’re really making good on that promise. But I digress. Getting back to the Locke business. Strange that they would have to go so far as to put something of Christian’s in the casket, but yet Aaron doesn’t have to be there?

Now, I know this is probably just something I got my hopes up for, but I thought for SURE that at least Aaron was going to have to go back. If it went further, I would have guessed Walt and Ji Yeon would have had to return as well. This is seemingly not an issue, though, so it’s probably something I was reading too much into when all the “EVERYONE has to go back. EVERYONE. Even the dead guy. I’m talking EVERYBODY…” stuff was flying at us.

All of this being said, I am SO intrigued to know how Hurley and Sayid ended up on the flight. It all felt a bit easy during the actual episode, but I’m guessing there will be a good payoff to everything.

Oh! Wouldn’t anyone have noticed that 5 of the Oceanic 6 were on the same flight?! No red flags popping up on the screens at Ajira airlines, I guess. Bad security, if you ask me.

Ok, so one more thing… Jin at the end. My best guess is that after Locke moved the wheel, time stopped flipping all over the place, landing our group in Dharma times. What with Juliet knowing so much about them already and Daniel being a scientist, it seems to me they could have easily assimilated into the Dharma Initiative. Or perhaps just some of them. Or maybe just Jin. I’m guessing we’ll have our answer soon enough. I agree, he MUST recognize them. I don’t see any reason why he wouldn’t. None. At all. To add to the Dharma intrigue, I have to wonder if perhaps some of the things we’ve heard about through old Dharma footage and flashbacks could have been caused or directly involved our Losties? Could Sawyer have been down in the hatch pushing the button? Was Juliet assigned to the Pearl to observe? Probably not these things, of course, but it gets the gears working in my brain.

…and now I must sleep. :0)

And what is up with the guy on the plane, I’m wondering if he is one of Ben’s “people”

I’m so glad Frank is back!

But I couldn’t help thinking about Walt…will he come back?

And what about Wigmore, Eloise and him were on the island at the same time, so how come she knows about the church and Wigmore dosen’t?

And by the way, I live in Carolina Tarheel country, so every week, a basketball game is on instead of Lost and abc plays Lost after 1am, and this week, they have not even showed it yet-it comes on tonight at 1am, I watched it online today, but I do want to say that I have some hardcore friends that don’t have a dvr so they set the alarm and watch it at 1am.
Gotta love the true fans! We’ve been with Lost since the beginning

And Gitsie girl, I think you do an awesome blog, I read every week, and you always manage to fill me in on the stuff I miss, and it keeps me thinking, so thanks!

“he Dharma van looks new and I doubt there’s paint laying around”

What is the impliation here, theres a chance that the van is actually not new, but just repainted and fixed up??? Ridiculous! Not even worth saying!

“And if he’s traveling in time, why would he be driving the van around and why would the road still be open?”

Uh, because he’s in the past, he’s infiltrated Dharma (we already saw Faraday did that, he’s time traveling in the same way as Jin). The road is still open because he’s in the past, before they were closed. This whole sentence I’ve quoted indicates to me that there was little or no thought behind it when it was typed.

“If it’s the past…. then why would Jin recognize them?”

???? They travel to the past, but they still remember things from the present. Sawyer was in the past (presumably) when he met up with Jin again, he recognized him. Time travel hasn’t interfered with their memories (yet?). Jin is not a little kid, obvioulsy this isn’t before he met Jack, hurley, and Kate. This is after he met Jack and company, we know that because we know that Jin never time travelled before he came to the island, and he never met Jack and co. before he came to the island. If this were a TEENAGE Jin or something, I MIGhT understand the idea that Jin shouldn’t recognize them. Otherwise, I haven’t a CLUE what Gitsie Girl meant by this statement.

I mean seriously, what reason can you give for Jin not being able to recognize them? It doesn’t make any sense.