Initial Thoughts: Because You Left & The Lie
1. “Love” the irony in the opening scene. Looked eerily similar to the opening with Desmond in the hatch. Then the record player skipping, like now time is skipping.
2. The clock showed 8:14 but alarm didn’t go off until 8:15. I thought it meant they were going to go ahead in time.
3. So, Dan was on the island before the hatch was built or was it some type of time travel that he was there when they were drilling? It would explain how his brains got scrambled (remember when we first met Dan he was crying over the plane crash but didn’t know why). He was probably messing around with the “energy” on the island and cooked his brains. He would no longer be of use to them and that could be why they let him go home and why they wanted him to go back. Also, seems like now we see that Dan has a prior connection to island, we think Charlotte does and my guess is we will find out what …. ’s is too. That is why they chose those three to go on the mission back to the island on the freighter.
4. I’m wondering why they were drilling underground to begin with. Maybe to somehow get closer to the energy? Also, I wonder if they somehow “unleashed” the smoke monster when they were drilling around the island.
5. It was raining on Locke when he first “wakes up” after the time shift. Rain has always signaled weird things on the island.
6. Lots of Rose and Bernard this time around. Lots of shirtless Sawyer too. I found it funny that Sawyer is on a mission to get a shirt. Kind of a “shout out” to the viewers like me.
7. Kate should be good at running from the lawyers, it’s what she does best. I need to think on who would hire attorney’s to question her paternity. My first thoughts are that Ben has hired people to come after the six in order to “persuade” them or give them reason to join together and to want to go back to the island. Sun will be the hardest. Maybe show her that Jin is alive and that will stop her from wanting to kill Ben and want to get back to the island.
8. I think that Locke may be the “him” that Desmond referred to when we first met him. If you recall, he asked Jack fi “he” sent him. Since Locke is floating through time maybe he somehow meets up with Desmond and tells him that someone will come to relieve him. Remember the snowman joke?
9. Dan tells Desmond that he’s “extra” special. Why? Or is he just extra special because he’s Dan’s constant? I know Desmond can see the future but maybe there’s more that we’re about to see. Maybe it’s Desmond that is going to stop the time from slipping all around, but must be through Dan’s mother. Why else would Desmond need to go see her?
10. I was thinking back to Desmond’s flash where he saw Claire and the baby getting on a helicopter and getting off of the island. Since we have been told many times that you can’t change events, then this must be the end when they all get saved. Desmond told Charlie that through his sacrifice they would all be saved.
11. Do they all need constants now? Why can’t they be each other’s constants?
12. Sayid can kick some serious butt.
13. So how did Richard find Locke after he was shot by Ethan? How could he possibly know on the island where Locke would be or that he was shot. It’s possible that Richard heard Ethan come back and tell the story, but then how would Richard be able to calculate “when” to find Locke? I’m sure we’ll get the answer but it’s still interesting to ponder how he does it. And didn’t Richard offer Locke the compass when he was little boy and he didn’t take it?
14. Although Hurley said he wouldn’t help Sayid, he’s too sweet not to help him when he needed it.
15. It was kind of sad that Ana Lucia told Hurley that Libby said hi.
16. It was also a funny moment when Hurley puts the glasses on Sayid.
17. Anyone get a look at what Ben took out of the heating vent at the hotel and hid in his bag?
18. NO! Hurley’s dad was watching Expose… the show Barbie was on. Ugh.
19. I think it’s safe to guess that the slipping around in time is what drove Danielle’s people crazy and will start to affect those on the island. Frogurt was showing signs.
20. I love Hurley’s family. They get the best scenes.
21. Did you notice Sun in the red shirt when she is talking to Kate? I don’t think it means her death, but the death of others.
22. Hurley had the best line, to his mom, “… and pushing the button every 108 minutes or… I was never really clear on that.”
23. Yes! It was great to see Locke. He’s going to start bang-a-rangin’ this time travel I think. He’s a go with the flow guy.
24. So 70 hours to round them up and get back. I guess they will be going back this season. yeah!
25. The lady Ben talks to in the last scene is the woman who sold Des the ring for Penny and told him he had to go back to the island.
26. Vincent is back!
Will get this one screen capped. More to come!
January 22nd, 2009 at 12:51 am
Those clock times at the begining, 8:14… 8:15, seem familiar… 4, 8, 14, 15 23 42
When the 2 cops are talking to Hurley’s dad outside the house, one is a tall bald black man and you never get to see his face, but he looked a lot like Abaddon.
Dan, what are you doing down there in the hatch? Are you there before or is it you coming back from the future to be there? Dan later tells Sawyer you can’t change things, maybe he tried. Remember Charlotte was having problems remembering her mother’s maiden name? Remember in Season 4, Charlotte doing that card thing with Dan and he could only remember 2 out of the 3 cards?
Sawyer steps on that dart, I wonder if it was the same dart he stepped on when he was with Kate in Season 3.
I think the reason Dan says Desmond is special is because he can change things. Desmond said it himself in Season 3 that things he sees, if he does something different, he changes the outcome. I don’t think he was supposed to go down to the Looking Glass with Charlie. If he hadn’t gone down there, he wouldn’t have got the message from Charlie, “Not Penny’s Boat,” and Claire would have gone with Jack instead of going with Locke. So he changed things so Claire didn’t get on the helicopter.
I was laughing like crazy through the Hurley scenes. Hurley rocks!
Yep, that was the same compass Richard showed Locke when he was a child. I have a theory on that. Remember when Locke’s mother is being wheeled through the hospital. There’s another hospital bed being wheeled the other way past them and you can hear them say his heart rate is dropping. I’m wondering if that guy died the same moment Locke was born and if that guy’s soul jumped to Locke. The items that Richard showed Locke, 3 of those items belonged to that man. That’s why Richard said, choose the items that already belong to you.
The thing Ben took out of the heating vent may have been the real black box to Flight 815. But I’m not sure, it looked a bit thin to be a black box. I’d have to see it again.
Yep, the time cop is back. She was in one strange looking room.
I wonder who Dan’s mother will be? What if it turns out to be the time cop?
According to the writers, Vincent is the only one they are willing to fess up that’ll survive to the end of the show.
The show was awesome!!!
January 22nd, 2009 at 12:57 am
Oh, here’s something funny that happened to me the other day. I was in the supermarket and that song came on that Desmond played at the begining of season 2 just before they blow open the hatch. Then I realized the price scanners sound exactly like when the computer starts to beep down in the hatch. I felt like looking around for an old Apple II to type in the numbers…lol.
January 22nd, 2009 at 2:07 am
One final thought before bed. I wonder if Dan is the cause of “the incident” that’s mention in the Swan Station’s Orientation film and the reason why the numbers needed to be entered and the button pushed every 108 minutes?
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:35 am
Hey just a thought. Has Desmond ever met Faraday previously in earlier seasons. If Not then this might be his Constant moment. Not sure though because he has not shown any signs of being sick so he might have already seen desmond. But who knows with this show now. That first episode was such a game changer. Love every minute of it. Stay Lost. Good job Gitsiegirl, love the blog.
January 22nd, 2009 at 12:01 pm
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January 22nd, 2009 at 12:57 pm
I’m still trying to absorb it all. We got some answers, but I am still confused. If they cannot change time, then what happens when they kill on of the Dharma(?) people shooting at them? Isn’t that events? Why does Richard know who Locke is, but the next time he sees him, will not know him?
Loved Hurley throwing the Hot Pocket at Ben.
January 22nd, 2009 at 12:58 pm
I’m still trying to absorb it all. We got some answers, but I am still confused. If they cannot change time, then what happens when they kill one of the Dharma(?) people shooting at them? Isn’t that changing events? Why does Richard know who Locke is, but the next time he sees him, will not know him?
Loved Hurley throwing the Hot Pocket at Ben.
January 22nd, 2009 at 1:45 pm
i believe in another time shift faraday joins dharma to find out whats going on down there
January 23rd, 2009 at 8:35 pm
I’m curious what was in Bens bag too. I like Jack better with the beard! Could Ms.Hawking, the one Desmond met… and now knows BEn…. could she be Farradays mom? Thanks GG!!
January 24th, 2009 at 2:02 pm
Thank you for commenting on the lady at the end in the church. I could not remember where I had seen her. I knew you would remember:)!
January 24th, 2009 at 10:38 pm
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January 25th, 2009 at 10:04 am
heres a thaught! remember in season 3 where ben and his dad first went to the island… and ben was in class learnin about volcanoes wen all of a sudden there were gunshots… and his little girlfriend sayin “dont worry, its only the hostiles”. people that live on the island and the dharma dont know how they got there. well i rekon that the hostiles are the losties that got left on the island, and because of the time shifts, have gone back in time and are know fightin with the dharma, like they did with the others. I think in followin episodes we will soon see them fightin with the dharma initiative. well, we’ve already seen it startin to happen, juliet and sawyer gettin into a tussle and locke saves the day! also the dharma sayin to sawyer and juliet, “howd u get on the island”! u know why, COS THEY’RE THE HOSTILES!!
April 20th, 2009 at 2:42 am
Hm. Going back and looking at it again… #10. Thought the same thing, that maybe sometime in the future (although time is so relative at the moment) that Desi’s flash would come true with seeing Claire get on the helicopter with Aaron. One problem… Aaron was a baby in the flashback! Now he’s a toddler (well, and not on the island – but this part is cheating since we are so many epi’s forward).
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