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This actually refers to something Jacob said a few episodes ago when he told Hugo that they were nearing the end. It can also be taken as this is the end of the series.
Ok, the show is over. It answered questions and didn’t answer questions. Here are some things that did not get answered.
WHAT DISSAPOINTED ME
What disappoints me about LOST is Locke. Here he was this man who had faith in the island and in the end he gets murdered. In season one he was the wise man who knew more about the island than anyone. He was mystical and mysterious. In the end he was a broken man and was trying to commit suicide just before he was murdered. That was kind of anticlimactic for me. The only redemption is that Jack states that Locke was mostly right about everything.
We never learned the name of the man in Black.
We never learned what the light in the cave really was, or who put it there or why removing a stone makes the island explode.
We never really learned why the Hurley numbers were special. We do know that Jacob told Hurley they were a blessing and that Jacob used these numbers for people and put their names along with the numbers on the wall of a cave and those people with Hurley numbers were all on flight Oceanic 815. But what did the numbers have to do with Hurley’s string of bad luck including the meteor hitting the chicken joint and other calamities?
Why was Walt so special? How did he make birds fly into windows? Why wasn’t Walt in the finale?
Where did Claudia come from? How did she make it so that Jacob and Esau could not harm each other? Who taught her about the light in the cave? What year did Claudia come to the island?
The psychic told Claire that Claire needed to raise Aaron. He implied that it would be disastrous if anyone else raised him. Why? This was never explained. What is the deal with Aaron?
Who built the statue on the island and why?
What was the connection to Egypt and Greek gods like Apollo?
In season one Rose says that the noise of the smoke monster sounds familiar. Why?
Where did the lighthouse come from in the Church? How did DHARMA know how to use it to find the island?
Who was still sending supplies to the swan hatch? How did they know how to find the island? Remember the pallet of food that landed with DHARMA supplies in season two?
Who was Henry Gale? What was he doing in a balloon over the island?
Why didn’t DHARMA ever return to the island?
It was disappointing to see Richard lose all his faith in Jacob for a while and even tell others not to listen to Jacob.
The Others were very interested in children in seasons one and two. It was interesting to speculate why, but the answer that the Others could not procreate on the island left me feeling flat. That’s it?
We never really got a definitive answer on how the Others made lists of people and determined who was “good” and “bad”. Sayid was determined as “bad” through an odd test of torturing. Why? How did that test work? What was the “disease” that infected Sayid and Claire that worked its way into their hearts that destroyed the person they once knew?
Why was Esau not allowed to kill some people but was allowed to kill other people – Eko, Seth Norris and so forth.
Was Esau the one who appeared as Walt? This happened a few times including the day Shannon was shot. Walt also appeared to John Locke right after Ben shot him, and he was lying in a ditch of dead DHARMA people.
WHAT I THINK IT IS
So, what was this show all about? A very difficult question to answer, but I will try. The island was created by God, and the light represents spiritual goodness that emanates a signal out to all of humanity giving them the choice to do good. Without the light they would not have a choice and fall into darkness with corrupt minds. The island is a test for humanity. God decreed for man not to mess with the light in the cave. That is why when you remove the stone from the light the island goes all crazy.
Claudia made a deal with God that Jacob and Esau could not harm each other. But when Jacob destroyed the body of Esau, because of this deal he could not be destroyed completely and so he became an ethereal being – the smoke monster.
There were actually clues to the show’s end. When Desmond says “see you in another life” this actually happened at the Church when Desmond met Jack. In season one Jack is quoted as saying “we all died” which could be interpreted as a vague hint at the final destination of everyone in the finale. This unfortunately led to the theory that the survivors were actually already dead in season one, and the island was purgatory. That turned out to be wrong.
Esau had not been human for a very long time – perhaps thousands of years. If Claudia was part of the Roman Empire then that could have been roughly 2,000 years ago when she came to the island. Thus the smoke monster could have been without his body for that long. In that long time the smoke monster lost touch with his humanity. He forgot what it was like to be human and became desensitized. Human life meant nothing to Esau in the end.
WHAT I LIKED
The Black Rock saga was explained in detail, and it did double duty by explaining Richard’s backstory and how the statue was broken. For once Ben told the truth. When Ben arrived on the island the statue was already broken.
I am really glad that the alternate timeline was not really an alternate timeline. None of those events actually happened. Whew!
I liked it that all the couples got together in the end.
All the plot twists. The phrase “I never saw that coming” definitely applied to the whole series.
If you haven’t seen it, the three alternate endings to LOST shown on the Jimmy Kimmel show are priceless!
ERROR?
When Miles tells Ben that he lived in the compound 30 years before he did that was not quite true since Ben had lived in the compound as a child and was there even before Miles traveled back in time to the 1970s.
LOST SPINOFF SERIES
Here are some LOST spinoff series I’d like to see
Vincent the Time Traveling Canine – after becoming “unstuck” in time Vincent now travels through time encountering people on the island. Using his superintelligent mind he aids hapless humans in the different problems they encounter, and they never know that it is a dog that saves the day.
The Agira Six – follow the adventures of six people who arrive on a plane in LAX that was bound for Guam. Not being able to tell where they actually have been, the six make up lies, but soon their lies begin to untangle all the while a private detective tries to solve the mystery of where they have been.
Walt the Seeker – Join physicist Walt all grown up as he now teach physics at a university while secretly trying to find a way back to the island. Quirky millionaire Alvar Hanso junior gets in on the action.
Thinking Clairely – Claire becomes a radio therapist helping callers with their problems. Her specialty is crazy. This mom has her hands full with a son bent on world domination.
Ghost Horse Whisperer – After seeing the ghost of a horse on the island Kate finds that she is able to speak to the ghosts of dead horses. Now she aids the former owners of these horses helping them find peace. Her sidekick Miles Straum is also on the case!
Smokey and the Bandit – The smoke monster is frustrated by a gopher who keeps stealing his stuff. Each week the smoke monster tries in vain to capture the smart rodent while Jacob sits back and laughs. The result is hilarity.
So, that’s it. I have now officially written a report on EVERY episode of LOST. This show is undoubtedly the best show of the decade and then some. I will miss it. I hope you have enjoyed reading my blog. You can see me on youtube as qcotms and read my future novels at www.qcms.biz.
Q
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Sunday, May 23, 2010
My Serious, Logical Thoughts on What They Died For
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Refers to those who have died of the LOSTaways most notably the Kwons and Sayid the most recent victims.
Ben finally gets revenge for his daughter on Widmore by killing him. This is strange because Ben also invaded Widmore while he was in bed and when Widmore inquired if Ben would kill him Ben said “We both know I can’t do that”. Well, apparently Ben killing anybody is not against the rules so why could he not kill Widmore at his home but could kill him on the island?
QUIZ QUESTION: What cereal did Jack give to Claire in this episode?
Jacob states what we have known all along that these characters were lost in their personal lives. LOST has several meanings: lost literally in geographic space, lost in time and lost in their personal lives.
What did Ben mean when he said that when he summoned the monster that the monster was actually summoning him? Also who told Ben how to summon the monster? Jacob perhaps? Sounds likely until you know that Ben had never actually seen Jacob until the day he killed him.
We learn what we have known all along that Sayid did not kill Desmond showing that there was still at least some humanity left in Sayid. The plan of Widmore was to use Desmond to do something in an electromagnetic experiment. Was it to kill the monster using electromagnetism? He could still do that if Jack and the rest can find him.
We see the monster knock out Richard, but I do not believe that Richard is dead though we never see him again after the monster knocks him. I think it is against the rules for the monster to kill him just like he could not kill Desmond. Why? I do not know. Surely Locke-ness would have killed Desmond if he could rather than just trapping him in a well. Why would he get Sayid to do it if he could to it himself? Strangely Locke-ness has no problem killing other people such as the pilot of Oceanic 815, Eko and Widmore’s men. What makes it ok to kill some but not others? Are some people bad and others good?
Kate was crossed off the list because she became a mother. Perhaps this showed that Kate had something she cared deeply about off the island and that she most likely would not take on the role of Jacob because her heart would not be 100% in it.
I think we see now that Locke was mostly right in what he believed rather than Jack. The man of faith triumphs over the man of science. Jack sees that now and he himself has become a man of faith – a believer in the island. That is why he takes over the role of Jacob now. Strange that the drink that turns Jack into another Jacob is simply water. Also the ghost of Jacob is now materialized in this episode so that he is not just a ghost and can interact with the world around him. Notice how all the LOSTaways can see Jacob. The body count is so high now that it is easier to count survivors of Oceanic 815 than those who are dead. Here are the ones I remember:
Cindy with 2 kids
Hurley
Jack
Kate
Sawyer
Claire
Rose
Bernard
Aaron
Walt
(Vincent)
So that is 12 people and a dog. Did I miss anybody? The last we saw of Bernard and Rose they were in the past. We have no idea if they were transported into the future with the others when the H bomb detonated. If they remained behind in the past and lived out their lives they may be dead.
The alternate Desmond apparently can see the other timeline very clearly as does Hurley. That’s why Hurley knows Anna Lucia from his visions of the other timeline. Desmond it seems gets people to see the regular timeline by causing a traumatic event in their lives that may resemble an event they had in the regular timeline. Somehow this triggers a window into the regular timeline. Once this window has been opened then you continuously get to see the other timeline – that is, the more you remember from it. The regular timeline then seems to be the dominant timeline and the other timeline is a less timeline. That is why those in the regular timeline do not see visions of the alternate timeline. Now what is this thing with Jack getting cuts on himself that mimic what happened to him in the regular timeline. One way to explain this is that Jack is doing it to himself while he sleeps because he is dreaming about the regular timeline. Another explanation is that the alternate timeline is nothing more than a dream of one of the LOSTaways in the regular timeline. That would explain a lot. Another explanation is that the regular timeline is somehow bleeding through into the alternate timeline.
Notice that Jacob says we are getting close to the end and the final episode is called The End.
MY PREDICTION
Somehow DHARMA will be involved in the final episode. I do not know how. My prediction for the final episode is that it ends with Jack taking over the role of Jacob and the monster is still there trapped on the island. In the final scene we see another plane crash in the future and Jack introduces himself.
ANSWER
Super Bran
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Refers to those who have died of the LOSTaways most notably the Kwons and Sayid the most recent victims.
Ben finally gets revenge for his daughter on Widmore by killing him. This is strange because Ben also invaded Widmore while he was in bed and when Widmore inquired if Ben would kill him Ben said “We both know I can’t do that”. Well, apparently Ben killing anybody is not against the rules so why could he not kill Widmore at his home but could kill him on the island?
QUIZ QUESTION: What cereal did Jack give to Claire in this episode?
Jacob states what we have known all along that these characters were lost in their personal lives. LOST has several meanings: lost literally in geographic space, lost in time and lost in their personal lives.
What did Ben mean when he said that when he summoned the monster that the monster was actually summoning him? Also who told Ben how to summon the monster? Jacob perhaps? Sounds likely until you know that Ben had never actually seen Jacob until the day he killed him.
We learn what we have known all along that Sayid did not kill Desmond showing that there was still at least some humanity left in Sayid. The plan of Widmore was to use Desmond to do something in an electromagnetic experiment. Was it to kill the monster using electromagnetism? He could still do that if Jack and the rest can find him.
We see the monster knock out Richard, but I do not believe that Richard is dead though we never see him again after the monster knocks him. I think it is against the rules for the monster to kill him just like he could not kill Desmond. Why? I do not know. Surely Locke-ness would have killed Desmond if he could rather than just trapping him in a well. Why would he get Sayid to do it if he could to it himself? Strangely Locke-ness has no problem killing other people such as the pilot of Oceanic 815, Eko and Widmore’s men. What makes it ok to kill some but not others? Are some people bad and others good?
Kate was crossed off the list because she became a mother. Perhaps this showed that Kate had something she cared deeply about off the island and that she most likely would not take on the role of Jacob because her heart would not be 100% in it.
I think we see now that Locke was mostly right in what he believed rather than Jack. The man of faith triumphs over the man of science. Jack sees that now and he himself has become a man of faith – a believer in the island. That is why he takes over the role of Jacob now. Strange that the drink that turns Jack into another Jacob is simply water. Also the ghost of Jacob is now materialized in this episode so that he is not just a ghost and can interact with the world around him. Notice how all the LOSTaways can see Jacob. The body count is so high now that it is easier to count survivors of Oceanic 815 than those who are dead. Here are the ones I remember:
Cindy with 2 kids
Hurley
Jack
Kate
Sawyer
Claire
Rose
Bernard
Aaron
Walt
(Vincent)
So that is 12 people and a dog. Did I miss anybody? The last we saw of Bernard and Rose they were in the past. We have no idea if they were transported into the future with the others when the H bomb detonated. If they remained behind in the past and lived out their lives they may be dead.
The alternate Desmond apparently can see the other timeline very clearly as does Hurley. That’s why Hurley knows Anna Lucia from his visions of the other timeline. Desmond it seems gets people to see the regular timeline by causing a traumatic event in their lives that may resemble an event they had in the regular timeline. Somehow this triggers a window into the regular timeline. Once this window has been opened then you continuously get to see the other timeline – that is, the more you remember from it. The regular timeline then seems to be the dominant timeline and the other timeline is a less timeline. That is why those in the regular timeline do not see visions of the alternate timeline. Now what is this thing with Jack getting cuts on himself that mimic what happened to him in the regular timeline. One way to explain this is that Jack is doing it to himself while he sleeps because he is dreaming about the regular timeline. Another explanation is that the alternate timeline is nothing more than a dream of one of the LOSTaways in the regular timeline. That would explain a lot. Another explanation is that the regular timeline is somehow bleeding through into the alternate timeline.
Notice that Jacob says we are getting close to the end and the final episode is called The End.
MY PREDICTION
Somehow DHARMA will be involved in the final episode. I do not know how. My prediction for the final episode is that it ends with Jack taking over the role of Jacob and the monster is still there trapped on the island. In the final scene we see another plane crash in the future and Jack introduces himself.
ANSWER
Super Bran
Q
Sunday, May 16, 2010
My Serious, Logical Thoughts on Across the Sea
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Refers to the place which the brother of Jacob comes from and longs to be. His Other Mother told him there was nothing across the sea. She said this so that they would want to stay on the island.
THE MAN IN BLACK
In this episode we find that the man in black or the Locke-ness monster is actually the brother of Jacob. Since we do not learn his name in this episode either I will refer to him as Esau from the biblical brother team. In the original biblical story Esau sold his birthright to Jacob for a single meal so he wasted his inheritance. In this episode we see Esau abandon Jacob and his Other Mother and Jacob ends up being the chosen one to guard the mysterious light in the cave. So this story vaguely mirrors the biblical one. In the biblical story the mother of Jacob also favored him over Esau and she even disguised Jacob like Esau so that his ailing father would bless him instead of Esau. It worked.
NO, A BUD LIGHT!
What is the mysterious light we see in the cave? We don’t know but the clues point to this being the “light of the world”. If this light goes out then it goes out everywhere the Other Mother said. Is this light the source of all goodness in the world? If so then that would make this island extremely important.
I think this episode raises more questions than it answers, but I will try.
Q: How was Jacob able to kill Esau when the Other Mother said she arranged it so they could not harm each other?
A: Jacob really did not harm his brother but only succeeded in transforming him. What the Other Mother did worked. When Jacob did try to harm his brother he only succeeded in killing his body but not his soul. His soul still survives and can appear as a dead person or as a smoke monster.
Q: Why did Esau turn into a smoke monster when Jacob through him into the cave? Somehow there was a rule that Jacob and Esau could not kill each other even if they wanted to. Esau turning into the smoke monster was the way the island handled the attempt of Jacob to break the rule and kill his brother. The island ensured that the rule was not broken. Esau still exists. Though how this rule was implemented nobody knows.
Q: How was Other Mother able to kill all those people and burn their village all by herself? Was she the mother of all smoke monsters or she set fire to their village while they were asleep. The latter would not require supernatural powers if she set their huts on fire and blocked the exits. The people would have died by smoke inhilation. Still, you have to wonder exactly how she pulled that off.
Q: Where did the bad people come from who brought with them the real mother of Jacob and Esau? There is no unique answer to this question. Since the island can move we have no way of knowing exactly where the island was at this time. Nor do we know the exact year. However we do know that the Other Mother and the people who crashed on the island spoke Latin. Latin is a dead language and has not been spoken as a national language in centuries. Latin was the official language of the Roman Empire. Could these people have been part of the Roman Empire? The name of the real mother of Jacob and Esau was Claudia which was definitely a Roman name. The clothes that the people wear resemble clothes worn in the Roman Empire and also into the Dark Ages (See the TV series ROME from HBO). It should also be noted that the Others who followed Jacob also spoke Latin. In this episode we see the connection of Jacob to Latin. Jacob spoke Latin as a boy. That was his original language.
But we do not see any Roman Soldiers among the crash survivors or any Roman insignia. Also where were these people traveling to when they crashed on the island? And did the Other Mother bring their boat to the island to crash as Jacob in later years also brought people to the island? It could be. Jacob and Esau were candidates as Jack, Hurley and Sawyer are also candidates to replace Jacob. It could be that the Other Mother made the boat crash and then found the pregnant woman and somehow she knew that her two sons were candidates to replace her, but she did not which one. She believed it was Esau, but later it turned out she was wrong and it had been Jacob all along. You can see the jealously that Jacob feels in this episode.
Q: Who built the statue that the Black Rock smashed into? Don’t know for sure but since Jacob has said there were many people before Ricardo to come to the island we can guess that it was built by previous followers of Jacob that he brought to the island long ago who are now dead. Though there is also the possibility that the statue was built pre-Jacob as we are never told if the statue exists at the time that the mother of Jacob crashed on the island. I only assume that it did not exist at that time because if it did then the Other Mother and the boys could have lived in the shoe instead of a cave, and the shoe would have been a nicer place to live.
BAD, BAD, LEROY OTHERS
Since season one they have been talking about the “bad people”. But who is “bad” and what makes them bad? In this episode the Other Mother calls the people who crashed bad except for Jacob and Esau. Esau who lives with these people says that they are bad. He calls them manipulative. So bad people then are people who have bad traits?
The Other Mother seems to believe that murder is ok if it serves the greater good. That is, it is so important that someone replace her for the good of humanity that she cannot take the chance of Claudia taking the candidates away that she feels it is ok to murder Claudia. But did she have a choice? If the light in the cave ever goes out then the light goes out for all of humanity whatever that means. But I do believe that it is something bad. So Other Mother kills Claudia to save all of humanity.
UNANSWERED QUESTIONS
Q: How did the Other Mother of Jacob and Esau come to the island? How did she know to protect the light and how to make the drink that she gave to Jacob to drink that made him like her?
A: The Other Mother came to the island by accident which we can assume was in another boat crash though we do not know the year that happened. She probably learned what she knows from the previous caretaker of the island. Since Jacob became like the Other Mother after drinking the potion we can assume that the Other Mother had longevity and did not age.
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Refers to the place which the brother of Jacob comes from and longs to be. His Other Mother told him there was nothing across the sea. She said this so that they would want to stay on the island.
THE MAN IN BLACK
In this episode we find that the man in black or the Locke-ness monster is actually the brother of Jacob. Since we do not learn his name in this episode either I will refer to him as Esau from the biblical brother team. In the original biblical story Esau sold his birthright to Jacob for a single meal so he wasted his inheritance. In this episode we see Esau abandon Jacob and his Other Mother and Jacob ends up being the chosen one to guard the mysterious light in the cave. So this story vaguely mirrors the biblical one. In the biblical story the mother of Jacob also favored him over Esau and she even disguised Jacob like Esau so that his ailing father would bless him instead of Esau. It worked.
NO, A BUD LIGHT!
What is the mysterious light we see in the cave? We don’t know but the clues point to this being the “light of the world”. If this light goes out then it goes out everywhere the Other Mother said. Is this light the source of all goodness in the world? If so then that would make this island extremely important.
I think this episode raises more questions than it answers, but I will try.
Q: How was Jacob able to kill Esau when the Other Mother said she arranged it so they could not harm each other?
A: Jacob really did not harm his brother but only succeeded in transforming him. What the Other Mother did worked. When Jacob did try to harm his brother he only succeeded in killing his body but not his soul. His soul still survives and can appear as a dead person or as a smoke monster.
Q: Why did Esau turn into a smoke monster when Jacob through him into the cave? Somehow there was a rule that Jacob and Esau could not kill each other even if they wanted to. Esau turning into the smoke monster was the way the island handled the attempt of Jacob to break the rule and kill his brother. The island ensured that the rule was not broken. Esau still exists. Though how this rule was implemented nobody knows.
Q: How was Other Mother able to kill all those people and burn their village all by herself? Was she the mother of all smoke monsters or she set fire to their village while they were asleep. The latter would not require supernatural powers if she set their huts on fire and blocked the exits. The people would have died by smoke inhilation. Still, you have to wonder exactly how she pulled that off.
Q: Where did the bad people come from who brought with them the real mother of Jacob and Esau? There is no unique answer to this question. Since the island can move we have no way of knowing exactly where the island was at this time. Nor do we know the exact year. However we do know that the Other Mother and the people who crashed on the island spoke Latin. Latin is a dead language and has not been spoken as a national language in centuries. Latin was the official language of the Roman Empire. Could these people have been part of the Roman Empire? The name of the real mother of Jacob and Esau was Claudia which was definitely a Roman name. The clothes that the people wear resemble clothes worn in the Roman Empire and also into the Dark Ages (See the TV series ROME from HBO). It should also be noted that the Others who followed Jacob also spoke Latin. In this episode we see the connection of Jacob to Latin. Jacob spoke Latin as a boy. That was his original language.
But we do not see any Roman Soldiers among the crash survivors or any Roman insignia. Also where were these people traveling to when they crashed on the island? And did the Other Mother bring their boat to the island to crash as Jacob in later years also brought people to the island? It could be. Jacob and Esau were candidates as Jack, Hurley and Sawyer are also candidates to replace Jacob. It could be that the Other Mother made the boat crash and then found the pregnant woman and somehow she knew that her two sons were candidates to replace her, but she did not which one. She believed it was Esau, but later it turned out she was wrong and it had been Jacob all along. You can see the jealously that Jacob feels in this episode.
Q: Who built the statue that the Black Rock smashed into? Don’t know for sure but since Jacob has said there were many people before Ricardo to come to the island we can guess that it was built by previous followers of Jacob that he brought to the island long ago who are now dead. Though there is also the possibility that the statue was built pre-Jacob as we are never told if the statue exists at the time that the mother of Jacob crashed on the island. I only assume that it did not exist at that time because if it did then the Other Mother and the boys could have lived in the shoe instead of a cave, and the shoe would have been a nicer place to live.
BAD, BAD, LEROY OTHERS
Since season one they have been talking about the “bad people”. But who is “bad” and what makes them bad? In this episode the Other Mother calls the people who crashed bad except for Jacob and Esau. Esau who lives with these people says that they are bad. He calls them manipulative. So bad people then are people who have bad traits?
The Other Mother seems to believe that murder is ok if it serves the greater good. That is, it is so important that someone replace her for the good of humanity that she cannot take the chance of Claudia taking the candidates away that she feels it is ok to murder Claudia. But did she have a choice? If the light in the cave ever goes out then the light goes out for all of humanity whatever that means. But I do believe that it is something bad. So Other Mother kills Claudia to save all of humanity.
UNANSWERED QUESTIONS
Q: How did the Other Mother of Jacob and Esau come to the island? How did she know to protect the light and how to make the drink that she gave to Jacob to drink that made him like her?
A: The Other Mother came to the island by accident which we can assume was in another boat crash though we do not know the year that happened. She probably learned what she knows from the previous caretaker of the island. Since Jacob became like the Other Mother after drinking the potion we can assume that the Other Mother had longevity and did not age.
Q
Saturday, May 8, 2010
My Serious, Logical Thoughts on The Candidate
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Has a double meaning with Locke being a candidate for surgery in the AT and he was also a candidate on the island along with others. The candiate may also refer to Jack alone in the regular timeline. Recall just before Sayid blew up he told Jack that it was going to be him.
QUIZ QUESTION: Of the original passengers who survived the crash of Oceanic flight 815 and who were not in the tail section, how many have been seen dying by drowning and what were their names?
QUIZ QUESTION: How many survivors of the tail section of Oceanic flight 815 are still alive as of the episode The Candidate that we know for sure?
QUIZ QUESTION: What is the maiden name of Sun Kwon?
REQUIUM FOR SAYID, SUN AND JIN
It was sad to see Sun and Jin die, but we also see a great love story here and Jin is unwilling to depart his love for the chance of survival. Note that Lepidus also dies so now they have no one to fly the Agira plane. I also grieve for Sayid. But in the AT we also see Jin who has come to the hospital to visit his wife. It is in the scene where Locke is wheeling himself in a hallway in the hospital right before Jack comes to speak with him. After seeing them die we then see Jin in the hospital and he is ok, and we assume that Sun is ok too. Recall Sun had earlier been hit at the shootout at the restaurant. The deaths of these three beloved characters was difficult to accept and was a sad end to their stories. Sayid does not get the girl and gets killed. The only real conclusion about Sun and Jin is that they did find each other again before they died though their reunion was short lived. They will never see their daughter again.
IRONY
In the AT Locke was in a plane crash with the father whom he loved. The plane crash made Locke crippled. In the regular timeline Locke was in a plane crash and he was able to walk again after being crippled. In the regular timeline Locke hated his father and had him killed. In the AT the father of Locke is practically dead already as Jack hints to when he says that he is gone. So in effect in both timelines the father of Locke is dead. In the regular timeline Locke is dead. In the AT Locke is alive yet still crippled as through it was his destiny to be crippled. But some things in the AT are very different like Jack having a son. Also we know that Daniel Faraday is a musician in the AT. So it was not his destiny to be a physicist.
CLEVER
The Locke-ness monster was beyond clever in getting all the LOSTaways together on that sub. First he had to act like he cared about them and save them to show he was on their side while at the same time still being deliberately sneaky and devious enough to want to get Sawyer and the rest to turn on him, as he knew they would. I believe that Jack was right on the sub. That Locke cannot kill the LOSTaways. If they had just let the clock tick down nothing would have happened. Recall the scene between Jack and Alpert on the Black Rock. Jack knew he would not die even though a stick of dynamite had been lit in front of him. The same reasoning can be used here. The question is why are their rules about who Locke can kill and not kill? I think the rule to not kill applies only to Candidates and also to Alpert from some reason. I believe this because when Locke was with Alpert in the jungle the young blonde-haired boy appeared and said you know the rules you cannot kill him.
My theory is that Locke-ness being a demigod is bad son to one of the gods and spreads spiritual impurity wherever he goes. If he gets off the island he will contaminate the rest of the world and cause all humans to become like zombies losing feelings of love and hate. To prevent this from happening the gods imprisoned Locke-ness on the island with Jacob until such time as Locke-ness had learned how to control himself and not spread his evil. Jacob was there to try to teach him this but failed. The two had been on the island together for centuries, but Locke-ness did not learn anything or change. Occasionally a new Jacob would be appointed so there have been many Jacobs but only one Locke-ness. The gods themselves made the rules about not killing candidates. You may have seen that the Others had lists of people every once in a while for example when the others raided the camp of the tailies and stole 9 people they had a list of names. These people were also originally candidates. We know Locke-ness killed Eko a tailie so he was not a candidate at the time of his death. But yet they seemed to be interested in taking Eko when their camp was attacked. There is some evidence that your name can be crossed off the candidate’s list. For example, the name of Kate was crossed out in the cave. So she was a candidate at one time but not anymore. Perhaps Kate did something that the gods did not like so they crossed her name off. The same could have happened to Eko. When the smoke monster first appeared to Eko and did not kill him, it could have been analyzing him to see if he was a candidate.
MY GUESS FOR THE FINALE
I see Jack becoming the new Jacob and in the final scene the frustrated and again trapped Locke-ness has to deal with Jack now. Another plane crash happens on the island and the series ends with Jack introducing himself to the survivors. And so we begin again … SCENE!
Look for the real name of the Locke-ness monster to be revealed. My guess is that he is a demigod, the son of the Greek god Apollo and a human female. Whoever this female was she went kind of nuts.
We will be told who that blonde-haired child is who keeps appearing to Locke-ness.
ANSWERS
4 people have been seen dying by drowning: Joanna, Charlie, Sun Kwon, Jin Kwon
There are 3 known survivors of the tail section left: Cindy the flight attendant and two children. They were not on the beach when Widmore fired on Locke and company and killed a few of them. We were told that the survivors fled into the jungle so we may assume Cindy and kids are on their own somewhere in the jungle.
The maiden name of Sun Kwon is Paik.
Q
Has a double meaning with Locke being a candidate for surgery in the AT and he was also a candidate on the island along with others. The candiate may also refer to Jack alone in the regular timeline. Recall just before Sayid blew up he told Jack that it was going to be him.
QUIZ QUESTION: Of the original passengers who survived the crash of Oceanic flight 815 and who were not in the tail section, how many have been seen dying by drowning and what were their names?
QUIZ QUESTION: How many survivors of the tail section of Oceanic flight 815 are still alive as of the episode The Candidate that we know for sure?
QUIZ QUESTION: What is the maiden name of Sun Kwon?
REQUIUM FOR SAYID, SUN AND JIN
It was sad to see Sun and Jin die, but we also see a great love story here and Jin is unwilling to depart his love for the chance of survival. Note that Lepidus also dies so now they have no one to fly the Agira plane. I also grieve for Sayid. But in the AT we also see Jin who has come to the hospital to visit his wife. It is in the scene where Locke is wheeling himself in a hallway in the hospital right before Jack comes to speak with him. After seeing them die we then see Jin in the hospital and he is ok, and we assume that Sun is ok too. Recall Sun had earlier been hit at the shootout at the restaurant. The deaths of these three beloved characters was difficult to accept and was a sad end to their stories. Sayid does not get the girl and gets killed. The only real conclusion about Sun and Jin is that they did find each other again before they died though their reunion was short lived. They will never see their daughter again.
IRONY
In the AT Locke was in a plane crash with the father whom he loved. The plane crash made Locke crippled. In the regular timeline Locke was in a plane crash and he was able to walk again after being crippled. In the regular timeline Locke hated his father and had him killed. In the AT the father of Locke is practically dead already as Jack hints to when he says that he is gone. So in effect in both timelines the father of Locke is dead. In the regular timeline Locke is dead. In the AT Locke is alive yet still crippled as through it was his destiny to be crippled. But some things in the AT are very different like Jack having a son. Also we know that Daniel Faraday is a musician in the AT. So it was not his destiny to be a physicist.
CLEVER
The Locke-ness monster was beyond clever in getting all the LOSTaways together on that sub. First he had to act like he cared about them and save them to show he was on their side while at the same time still being deliberately sneaky and devious enough to want to get Sawyer and the rest to turn on him, as he knew they would. I believe that Jack was right on the sub. That Locke cannot kill the LOSTaways. If they had just let the clock tick down nothing would have happened. Recall the scene between Jack and Alpert on the Black Rock. Jack knew he would not die even though a stick of dynamite had been lit in front of him. The same reasoning can be used here. The question is why are their rules about who Locke can kill and not kill? I think the rule to not kill applies only to Candidates and also to Alpert from some reason. I believe this because when Locke was with Alpert in the jungle the young blonde-haired boy appeared and said you know the rules you cannot kill him.
My theory is that Locke-ness being a demigod is bad son to one of the gods and spreads spiritual impurity wherever he goes. If he gets off the island he will contaminate the rest of the world and cause all humans to become like zombies losing feelings of love and hate. To prevent this from happening the gods imprisoned Locke-ness on the island with Jacob until such time as Locke-ness had learned how to control himself and not spread his evil. Jacob was there to try to teach him this but failed. The two had been on the island together for centuries, but Locke-ness did not learn anything or change. Occasionally a new Jacob would be appointed so there have been many Jacobs but only one Locke-ness. The gods themselves made the rules about not killing candidates. You may have seen that the Others had lists of people every once in a while for example when the others raided the camp of the tailies and stole 9 people they had a list of names. These people were also originally candidates. We know Locke-ness killed Eko a tailie so he was not a candidate at the time of his death. But yet they seemed to be interested in taking Eko when their camp was attacked. There is some evidence that your name can be crossed off the candidate’s list. For example, the name of Kate was crossed out in the cave. So she was a candidate at one time but not anymore. Perhaps Kate did something that the gods did not like so they crossed her name off. The same could have happened to Eko. When the smoke monster first appeared to Eko and did not kill him, it could have been analyzing him to see if he was a candidate.
MY GUESS FOR THE FINALE
I see Jack becoming the new Jacob and in the final scene the frustrated and again trapped Locke-ness has to deal with Jack now. Another plane crash happens on the island and the series ends with Jack introducing himself to the survivors. And so we begin again … SCENE!
Look for the real name of the Locke-ness monster to be revealed. My guess is that he is a demigod, the son of the Greek god Apollo and a human female. Whoever this female was she went kind of nuts.
We will be told who that blonde-haired child is who keeps appearing to Locke-ness.
ANSWERS
4 people have been seen dying by drowning: Joanna, Charlie, Sun Kwon, Jin Kwon
There are 3 known survivors of the tail section left: Cindy the flight attendant and two children. They were not on the beach when Widmore fired on Locke and company and killed a few of them. We were told that the survivors fled into the jungle so we may assume Cindy and kids are on their own somewhere in the jungle.
The maiden name of Sun Kwon is Paik.
Q
Sunday, April 25, 2010
My Serious, Logical Thoughts on The Last Recruit
TITLE
Refers to Jack being the last recruit for the flock of the Locke-ness monster. However I may point out that Locke-ness did not acquire all the people he needs to leave the island so Jack should not be the last recruit.
QUIZ QUESTION: What time travel book did Sawyer read on the island long before any time travel occurred?
QUIZ QUESITON: What is the name of the boat that Sawyer steals and takes to Hydra island in this episode?
We learn in this episode that Locke-ness can only appear as dead people. Why? We have seen several dead people on the island that were certainly Locke-ness in disguise. We learn in this episode that in the first season episode White Rabbit when Jack saw his father that it was actually Locke-ness impersonating his father. We also saw the dead brother of Eko right before Eko was murdered by Locke-ness. Again why? But Kate saw a horse. Are we to believe that Locke-ness also became a horse? Also we have also seen live people impersonated on the island such as Walt. Recall that Walt has appeared to Sayid, Shannon and Locke and it has been shown that Walt is very much alive. My theory is that Locke impersonates dead people and Jacob impersonates live people. Who are the young boys we keep seeing on the island? Is this Jacob? The Christian seen in the shack with Claire was also Locke-ness. That was the first time we heard Claire say that she was with him now. Claire also said that to Jack in this episode and also Locke-ness said the same phrase to Jack. Clair indicates that Jack hooked up with Locke-ness the moment he let him talk to him. We have seen two different warnings about this one for Jacob and one for Locke-ness. The warning was the same for each: Once he talks to you it is too late. Now the question is, is Jack really with Locke-ness? I never took Jack to be one to go over to the dark side especially since it was the idea of Jack to jump off the boat in an attempt to stop Locke-ness. Is Jack infected like Sayid and Claire? Recall that the Others said that the infection eventually penetrates your heart and the person you were before dies. Sayid has stated that he feels nothing now. He does not feel anger or happiness. Did Sayid kill Desmond? We never see him do it and are sort of led to believe he did not. And this despite the phony previews which clearly show Sayid firing into the well where Desmond was. But in the actual episode Sayid only points his gun into the well. He is never shown firing into it. ABC!! Don’t lie like that. Hurley indicates that one can come back from the Dark Side and recalls Anakin Skywalker (a.k.a. Darth Vader) who in episode 6 did kill the emperor and redeem himself. If Sayid did not kill Desmond does this show that he still has a heart? If so then the infection has not completely taken him over.
At the hospital notice the reaction of Sun to John Locke. She obviously thinks something bad about him. This is most likely a crossover between the two timelines where Sun is recalling the Locke-ness monster.
I SPY A HURLEY NUMBER
When Desmond and Claire go to the office of the lawyer it is on floor 15. Did you catch it? How did Desmond know that Claire would be at the Lawyer office and how did he know to hook her up with that Lawyer?
Sawyer is one of the few to notice the strange coincidence of members of flight 815 meeting up and mentions this to Kate. We see a recurring pattern here. That members of this flight seemed to be destined to cross paths in either timeline. The regular timeline seems to be the more dominant timeline. In the alternate timeline there has been much attention paid to 815 flight members feeling like they do not belong in the timeline they are in. This revelation does not occur in the regular timeline. Thus the alternate timeline is the weaker one and does not belong. I sometimes wonder if the alternate timeline is really happening at all. Maybe it is just a dream of someone.
I was wondering what if Jack in the AT repaired Locke and so he could walk again. This happened in the regular timeline when Jack miraculously repaired his future wife and so she could walk. Also since Locke could walk in the regular timeline on the island because he got healed, will the AT reflect the regular timeline and allow Locke to walk again?
Notice when the missile hits near the camp of Locke-ness that there is no time delay as we have seen when the payload was fired from the freighter. Perhaps this is because the people of Widmore are firing much closer to the island that the freighter did.
RAMBLINGS
The boat that Sawyer steals is the original boat of Desmond.
When Saywer tells Kate why Claire cannot come on the boat he tells her that the Claire she knew is gone. “That was before she started drinking Locke’s Kool-aid”. This is a reference to the Jonestown massacre in 1979.
Kate mentions that it should have been Claire that raised Aaron. This agrees with what the psychic told Claire that only she should raise him. Is this because that since Claire did not raise him she went a little insane? We did see Claire create her own “child” out of bones in her camp. Kind of creepy.
Notice Alana is the lawyer in the AT.
Another mirror we see between the two timelines is that Sun can only speak Korean in both timelines at least for a short period of time. This comes to an end though with the Sun-Jin reunion when English finally returns to Sun. Will we find that Sun also speaks English in the AT now?
Notice that the fence is turned off just before Sun and Jin cross it. This is good because we recall what happened to Mikail when he crossed the fence when it was not turned off.
Notice that Locke-ness seems unworried about the bombs blasting around him. Pay close attention. He does not even flinch. This is because those bombs cannot hurt him.
ANSWER TO QUIZ QUESTION
A Wrinkle in Time
Elizabeth
Q
Refers to Jack being the last recruit for the flock of the Locke-ness monster. However I may point out that Locke-ness did not acquire all the people he needs to leave the island so Jack should not be the last recruit.
QUIZ QUESTION: What time travel book did Sawyer read on the island long before any time travel occurred?
QUIZ QUESITON: What is the name of the boat that Sawyer steals and takes to Hydra island in this episode?
We learn in this episode that Locke-ness can only appear as dead people. Why? We have seen several dead people on the island that were certainly Locke-ness in disguise. We learn in this episode that in the first season episode White Rabbit when Jack saw his father that it was actually Locke-ness impersonating his father. We also saw the dead brother of Eko right before Eko was murdered by Locke-ness. Again why? But Kate saw a horse. Are we to believe that Locke-ness also became a horse? Also we have also seen live people impersonated on the island such as Walt. Recall that Walt has appeared to Sayid, Shannon and Locke and it has been shown that Walt is very much alive. My theory is that Locke impersonates dead people and Jacob impersonates live people. Who are the young boys we keep seeing on the island? Is this Jacob? The Christian seen in the shack with Claire was also Locke-ness. That was the first time we heard Claire say that she was with him now. Claire also said that to Jack in this episode and also Locke-ness said the same phrase to Jack. Clair indicates that Jack hooked up with Locke-ness the moment he let him talk to him. We have seen two different warnings about this one for Jacob and one for Locke-ness. The warning was the same for each: Once he talks to you it is too late. Now the question is, is Jack really with Locke-ness? I never took Jack to be one to go over to the dark side especially since it was the idea of Jack to jump off the boat in an attempt to stop Locke-ness. Is Jack infected like Sayid and Claire? Recall that the Others said that the infection eventually penetrates your heart and the person you were before dies. Sayid has stated that he feels nothing now. He does not feel anger or happiness. Did Sayid kill Desmond? We never see him do it and are sort of led to believe he did not. And this despite the phony previews which clearly show Sayid firing into the well where Desmond was. But in the actual episode Sayid only points his gun into the well. He is never shown firing into it. ABC!! Don’t lie like that. Hurley indicates that one can come back from the Dark Side and recalls Anakin Skywalker (a.k.a. Darth Vader) who in episode 6 did kill the emperor and redeem himself. If Sayid did not kill Desmond does this show that he still has a heart? If so then the infection has not completely taken him over.
At the hospital notice the reaction of Sun to John Locke. She obviously thinks something bad about him. This is most likely a crossover between the two timelines where Sun is recalling the Locke-ness monster.
I SPY A HURLEY NUMBER
When Desmond and Claire go to the office of the lawyer it is on floor 15. Did you catch it? How did Desmond know that Claire would be at the Lawyer office and how did he know to hook her up with that Lawyer?
Sawyer is one of the few to notice the strange coincidence of members of flight 815 meeting up and mentions this to Kate. We see a recurring pattern here. That members of this flight seemed to be destined to cross paths in either timeline. The regular timeline seems to be the more dominant timeline. In the alternate timeline there has been much attention paid to 815 flight members feeling like they do not belong in the timeline they are in. This revelation does not occur in the regular timeline. Thus the alternate timeline is the weaker one and does not belong. I sometimes wonder if the alternate timeline is really happening at all. Maybe it is just a dream of someone.
I was wondering what if Jack in the AT repaired Locke and so he could walk again. This happened in the regular timeline when Jack miraculously repaired his future wife and so she could walk. Also since Locke could walk in the regular timeline on the island because he got healed, will the AT reflect the regular timeline and allow Locke to walk again?
Notice when the missile hits near the camp of Locke-ness that there is no time delay as we have seen when the payload was fired from the freighter. Perhaps this is because the people of Widmore are firing much closer to the island that the freighter did.
RAMBLINGS
The boat that Sawyer steals is the original boat of Desmond.
When Saywer tells Kate why Claire cannot come on the boat he tells her that the Claire she knew is gone. “That was before she started drinking Locke’s Kool-aid”. This is a reference to the Jonestown massacre in 1979.
Kate mentions that it should have been Claire that raised Aaron. This agrees with what the psychic told Claire that only she should raise him. Is this because that since Claire did not raise him she went a little insane? We did see Claire create her own “child” out of bones in her camp. Kind of creepy.
Notice Alana is the lawyer in the AT.
Another mirror we see between the two timelines is that Sun can only speak Korean in both timelines at least for a short period of time. This comes to an end though with the Sun-Jin reunion when English finally returns to Sun. Will we find that Sun also speaks English in the AT now?
Notice that the fence is turned off just before Sun and Jin cross it. This is good because we recall what happened to Mikail when he crossed the fence when it was not turned off.
Notice that Locke-ness seems unworried about the bombs blasting around him. Pay close attention. He does not even flinch. This is because those bombs cannot hurt him.
ANSWER TO QUIZ QUESTION
A Wrinkle in Time
Elizabeth
Q
Sunday, April 18, 2010
My Serious, Logical Thoughts on Everybody Loves Hugo
TITLE
This clever title is actually a play on words with the season two episode entitled Everybody Hates Hugo. Nice touch. Things have certainly turned around for Hugo in the AT.
In the AT we see that Hugo has become a philanthropist donating money everywhere and starting his version of the Ronald McDonald house. And it is all because he purchased Mr. Clucks the Fried Chicken joint where he used to work. It should be noted here that there is no mention of a meteor hitting Mr. Clucks. If that is true then that means the power of the numbers curse is very strong indeed being able to alter the orbits of meteoroids in space. But what could possibly have happened on Earth to alter the trajectory of a meteoroid in space or perhaps the trajectory of Earth so that the meteor would not have hit? I point to the major difference between the two timelines and that is the detonation of the atomic bomb on the island. Still, even that should not have made that much difference. Though I have been told that a recent Earthquake in Chile slightly altered the length of a day on Earth.
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local-beat/Quake-Might-Have-Shortened-Day-Scientists-85972347.html
Did the bomb slightly alter Earth’s rotation so that the meteor hit somewhere else? Is this correct or did the meteor really hit in the AT and it was just not shown? What do you think? QUIZ QUESTION: What was the name of the reporter inside Mr. Clucks who was killed when the meteor hit in the regular timeline?
Oddly Jacob did indicate to Hugo that the numbers were not a curse but a blessing. Recall Jacob also used the Hurley numbers to classify the candidates. Also there is no mention in the introductory video that Hugo ever won the lottery. We can assume that he did not win the lottery in the AT but became rich anyway. The AT for Hugo is the complete opposite compared to the regular timeline. In the regular timeline Hugo said that winning the money was the worst thing that ever happened to him. In the AT the money seems to be his friend. He even uses it to bribe a guy to see Libby. Libby of course was in the institution with Hugo in the regular timeline though he does not know this. If you look closely you will also see the man in the institution playing connect four who in the regular timeline told Hugo to go to Australia to see Sam Toomey who also used the Hurley numbers in his life and which he believed brought tragedy. It was because of this man that Hugo was on flight 815. In the AT Hugo gets to go on the picnic with Libby that he was denied in the regular timeline.
When Hugo goes to the institution to visit Libby notice the blackboard in the background. It has the same drawing of an island on it that was there when Hugo was in the institution in the regular timeline. There is also an alligator.
We now know what Desmond meant when he told his limo driver that he wanted to show something to the passengers of flight 815. He wants to show them the life they had in the regular timeline. That is why Desmond ran over Locke so he would have a near-death experience and relive his other life. Undoubtedly Locke saw himself walking on the island. When Dr. Linus confronts Desmond notice that when Linus asks Desmond the name of his son he says Charlie which is the real name of his son in the regular timeline. But in the AT Desmond has no son. Just like Claire, Desmond subconsciously knows the name of his child in the regular timeline.
In this episode a long awaited secret is revealed. The whispers which we have heard since season one are revealed to be the voices of lost spirits on the island who are trapped there due to the misdeeds they have done. Is the island then an island of lost souls created to punish those who have floundered in their lives? Richard stated that Jacob once told him what the island was. It would be interesting to hear what Jacob actually said to him and if it had anything to do with lost souls. Perhaps before the series finale we will know what he said. Does anyone wonder if the island was artificially constructed? The island has the ability to move yet retains its odd magnetic field. This shows that the magnetic field source should be near the surface rather than buried deep inside Earth. Locke mentions the weird magnetic field when he discusses the well with Desmond. He says that the well is very old. How old? Thousands of years or hundreds? Who built the well? Was it the same people who built the statue? What happened to them? Before we knew the story of Richard it was said that he was very old and had been at his job for a very long time. I interpreted this to be thousands of years only to find out it had only been since around the year 1867.
The Locke-monster throws Desmond into the well because he believes that Desmond is the secret weapon of Widmore. Whatever Widmore has planned it involves Desmond and probably something electromagnetic.
Ilanna getting blown up was a shocker. After what happened to Dr. Arzt the LOSTaways were clearly aware of how unstable the dynamite was. Would they not have shared this information with Ilana so that she would have been more careful with the dynamite rather than dropping to the ground like that and getting herself blown up. It was also a shock to see the Black Rock get blown up. I guess that is the end of the dynamite. What did Michael mean when he told Hurley that he was about to get everyone killed? Does this mean that if Richard and the other tried to blow up the plane that they would blow themselves up with the dynamite? This seems like a likely theory since Hurley blows up the Black Rock to prevent them from getting anymore dynamite. I have a solution. Ask Widmore to blow up the plane. Here are some reasons why:
He could easily do it because he has the firepower
He would want to do it since he does not want the Locke-ness monster to leave the island either. We can conclude this from some of the things Widmore has said.
Michael also tells Hurley that if he ever sees Libby again to tell her he is sorry. This is not out of the realm of possibility. We get a hint from an episode in which Hurley was back in the USA as part of the Oceanic Six. In one episode while Hurley is driving he is pulled over by none other than Ana Lucia who is dead. She says to Hugo that Libby says Hi.
ANSWER TO QUIZ QUESTION
Tricia Tanaka
Q
This clever title is actually a play on words with the season two episode entitled Everybody Hates Hugo. Nice touch. Things have certainly turned around for Hugo in the AT.
In the AT we see that Hugo has become a philanthropist donating money everywhere and starting his version of the Ronald McDonald house. And it is all because he purchased Mr. Clucks the Fried Chicken joint where he used to work. It should be noted here that there is no mention of a meteor hitting Mr. Clucks. If that is true then that means the power of the numbers curse is very strong indeed being able to alter the orbits of meteoroids in space. But what could possibly have happened on Earth to alter the trajectory of a meteoroid in space or perhaps the trajectory of Earth so that the meteor would not have hit? I point to the major difference between the two timelines and that is the detonation of the atomic bomb on the island. Still, even that should not have made that much difference. Though I have been told that a recent Earthquake in Chile slightly altered the length of a day on Earth.
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local-beat/Quake-Might-Have-Shortened-Day-Scientists-85972347.html
Did the bomb slightly alter Earth’s rotation so that the meteor hit somewhere else? Is this correct or did the meteor really hit in the AT and it was just not shown? What do you think? QUIZ QUESTION: What was the name of the reporter inside Mr. Clucks who was killed when the meteor hit in the regular timeline?
Oddly Jacob did indicate to Hugo that the numbers were not a curse but a blessing. Recall Jacob also used the Hurley numbers to classify the candidates. Also there is no mention in the introductory video that Hugo ever won the lottery. We can assume that he did not win the lottery in the AT but became rich anyway. The AT for Hugo is the complete opposite compared to the regular timeline. In the regular timeline Hugo said that winning the money was the worst thing that ever happened to him. In the AT the money seems to be his friend. He even uses it to bribe a guy to see Libby. Libby of course was in the institution with Hugo in the regular timeline though he does not know this. If you look closely you will also see the man in the institution playing connect four who in the regular timeline told Hugo to go to Australia to see Sam Toomey who also used the Hurley numbers in his life and which he believed brought tragedy. It was because of this man that Hugo was on flight 815. In the AT Hugo gets to go on the picnic with Libby that he was denied in the regular timeline.
When Hugo goes to the institution to visit Libby notice the blackboard in the background. It has the same drawing of an island on it that was there when Hugo was in the institution in the regular timeline. There is also an alligator.
We now know what Desmond meant when he told his limo driver that he wanted to show something to the passengers of flight 815. He wants to show them the life they had in the regular timeline. That is why Desmond ran over Locke so he would have a near-death experience and relive his other life. Undoubtedly Locke saw himself walking on the island. When Dr. Linus confronts Desmond notice that when Linus asks Desmond the name of his son he says Charlie which is the real name of his son in the regular timeline. But in the AT Desmond has no son. Just like Claire, Desmond subconsciously knows the name of his child in the regular timeline.
In this episode a long awaited secret is revealed. The whispers which we have heard since season one are revealed to be the voices of lost spirits on the island who are trapped there due to the misdeeds they have done. Is the island then an island of lost souls created to punish those who have floundered in their lives? Richard stated that Jacob once told him what the island was. It would be interesting to hear what Jacob actually said to him and if it had anything to do with lost souls. Perhaps before the series finale we will know what he said. Does anyone wonder if the island was artificially constructed? The island has the ability to move yet retains its odd magnetic field. This shows that the magnetic field source should be near the surface rather than buried deep inside Earth. Locke mentions the weird magnetic field when he discusses the well with Desmond. He says that the well is very old. How old? Thousands of years or hundreds? Who built the well? Was it the same people who built the statue? What happened to them? Before we knew the story of Richard it was said that he was very old and had been at his job for a very long time. I interpreted this to be thousands of years only to find out it had only been since around the year 1867.
The Locke-monster throws Desmond into the well because he believes that Desmond is the secret weapon of Widmore. Whatever Widmore has planned it involves Desmond and probably something electromagnetic.
Ilanna getting blown up was a shocker. After what happened to Dr. Arzt the LOSTaways were clearly aware of how unstable the dynamite was. Would they not have shared this information with Ilana so that she would have been more careful with the dynamite rather than dropping to the ground like that and getting herself blown up. It was also a shock to see the Black Rock get blown up. I guess that is the end of the dynamite. What did Michael mean when he told Hurley that he was about to get everyone killed? Does this mean that if Richard and the other tried to blow up the plane that they would blow themselves up with the dynamite? This seems like a likely theory since Hurley blows up the Black Rock to prevent them from getting anymore dynamite. I have a solution. Ask Widmore to blow up the plane. Here are some reasons why:
He could easily do it because he has the firepower
He would want to do it since he does not want the Locke-ness monster to leave the island either. We can conclude this from some of the things Widmore has said.
Michael also tells Hurley that if he ever sees Libby again to tell her he is sorry. This is not out of the realm of possibility. We get a hint from an episode in which Hurley was back in the USA as part of the Oceanic Six. In one episode while Hurley is driving he is pulled over by none other than Ana Lucia who is dead. She says to Hugo that Libby says Hi.
ANSWER TO QUIZ QUESTION
Tricia Tanaka
Q
Monday, April 12, 2010
My Serious, Logical Thoughts on Happily Ever After
TITLE
Refers to Desmond living his happily ever after in the AT, but it is not so happily as it turns out.
The opening scene with the eye of Desmond opening up is classic LOST. How often have we seen eyes opening on LOST? Even the series started with the eye of Jack opening up. Also there is a song on the CD called the Eyeland.
QUIZ QUESTION. When Charlie is drinking in the bar with Desmond he is wearing a ring with the initials DS on it. What do these initials originally stand for before driveshaft?
The circular electromagnetic device looks surprisingly similar to the device used to travel between other dimensions in the TV show SLIDERS (1994 – 1999) I keep expecting Desmond to travel through that ring and into the AT. Now would that not be cool? He could meet himself in another dimension. The device in this episode is a solenoid which is a real electrical device. When you run AC current through it it creates a voltage of its own which opposes the applied voltage. A slinky is an example of a solenoid. It should be noted that DHARMA was very interested in experimenting with electromagnetism and in fact it was their drilling into a pocket of electromagnetic energy that caused “the incident” that was first described in the episode Orientation. We have also seen that compasses do not work correctly on the island showing that the island probably has its own magnetic field. The name of the rabbit in this episode is angstrom. An angstrom is a unit of measurement and equal to one tenth of a billionth of a meter. Though he was told he was next, angstrom never entered into the electromagnetic device room. Now the big question is when Desmond was exposed to the electromagnetic radiation was he able to see into the AT? I am hoping that the AT does not really exist but it just a vision that shows you what might have been. How does that grab you?
This episode more than any other AT episode shows how characters in the AT can recall people and events from the normal timeline. This makes me believe that there is something wrong with the AT. Otherwise why would people say that they feel like they don’t belong here? Is the AT then an unstable timeline or perhaps like a dream showing us what might have been? If the AT is unstable is there any way that it can be erased so that only one timeline exists? The encounter between Desmond and Eloise may hint at just such a possibility. Eloise states that Desmond is not ready and she wants to shut him down. But what is he not ready for? Look for Desmond to be the key in future episodes for erasing the AT and getting everything back to normal.
It was wild to see Faraday not a scientist but a musician. His physics equations carried over from the other timeline. Somehow people in the AT can sense that they do not belong there and can get information from the regular timeline. Charlie apparently has figured out a way to gain information from the other timeline by having near death experiences.
It was also wild to see Desmond apparently happily working for Widmore in the AT. They are not so friendly in the regular timeline. Keep in mind that Desmond was not on flight 815 in the regular timeline but was on the flight in the AT. He was doing business in Australia which is why he was on that plane. They have not mentioned yet if Hurley is having problems with the numbers in the AT. That is why he was in Australia. He was investigating Sam Toomey and the numbers. But was he doing that in the AT or did destroying the island also destroy the curse of the numbers? But I digress.
The limo driver used to star in a show called Early Edition about a guy who got the newspaper of tomorrow today.
Note the scene where Penny meets Desmond for the first time in the AT. In the AT it is Penny that is running the steps while in the regular timeline we see Desmond running the steps and Penny and Desmond did not meet at the stadium in LA but met in Europe.
When Desmond picks up Charlie from the police station his brother is not there even though we saw his brother at the police station in a previous episode trying to get Charlie out of jail. I guess he was not successful.
When Desmond returns from his dream state he is eager to do whatever Widmore wants. What is the sacrifice Widmore wants Desmond to make? Perhaps it is to stay on the island for the rest of his life? I think it has something to do with stopping the Locke-ness monster from leaving the island because Widmore is worried that his daughter and everyone else will be gone forever. This hints of what has been said on previous episodes that if Locke-ness gets off the island darkness will spread. We have seen that Sayid has been contaminated by this darkness somehow and now he feels nothing – no emotion like in the movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers in which the pod people had no feelings after taking over the bodies of humans. Maybe it is like that. Wherever Locke-ness goes he contaminates people making them lose all emotion. We were warned by the Others that when the darkness penetrated the heart of Sayid that the man they knew before would cease to exist. That kind of thinking totally agrees with the statement of Widmore when he states that is daughter and everyone else would cease to exist.
When Sayid gets Desmond at the end Desmond is eager to go with Sayid. Was this part of the plan all along? Did Widmore know this would happen? Else why is Desmond so content about it? Also I thought Sayid was there to get Jin back. After all Locke-ness needs Jin to leave the island. He must have all the candidates in order to leave. Sayid will return to Locke-ness with Desmond so if Desmond wanted to get up with Locke-ness this was certainly a good move to allow himself to be taken.
We will see soon find out how important the role of Desmond is in saving the world.
THINGS TO WATCH FOR
In the office of Widmore look for the Black Rock replica in the background. Also look for a painting of scales on the wall of the office of Widmore. In the regular timeline he had a painting with the word Namaste on it.
The scotch that Desmond and Widmore drink may be the same kind of scotch that Desmond found on the island in the regular timeline.
The bar where Desmond and Charlie drink is called JAX and has a kangaroo showing in front. And where do we find kangaroos?
ANSWER
Dexter Stratton
Q
Refers to Desmond living his happily ever after in the AT, but it is not so happily as it turns out.
The opening scene with the eye of Desmond opening up is classic LOST. How often have we seen eyes opening on LOST? Even the series started with the eye of Jack opening up. Also there is a song on the CD called the Eyeland.
QUIZ QUESTION. When Charlie is drinking in the bar with Desmond he is wearing a ring with the initials DS on it. What do these initials originally stand for before driveshaft?
The circular electromagnetic device looks surprisingly similar to the device used to travel between other dimensions in the TV show SLIDERS (1994 – 1999) I keep expecting Desmond to travel through that ring and into the AT. Now would that not be cool? He could meet himself in another dimension. The device in this episode is a solenoid which is a real electrical device. When you run AC current through it it creates a voltage of its own which opposes the applied voltage. A slinky is an example of a solenoid. It should be noted that DHARMA was very interested in experimenting with electromagnetism and in fact it was their drilling into a pocket of electromagnetic energy that caused “the incident” that was first described in the episode Orientation. We have also seen that compasses do not work correctly on the island showing that the island probably has its own magnetic field. The name of the rabbit in this episode is angstrom. An angstrom is a unit of measurement and equal to one tenth of a billionth of a meter. Though he was told he was next, angstrom never entered into the electromagnetic device room. Now the big question is when Desmond was exposed to the electromagnetic radiation was he able to see into the AT? I am hoping that the AT does not really exist but it just a vision that shows you what might have been. How does that grab you?
This episode more than any other AT episode shows how characters in the AT can recall people and events from the normal timeline. This makes me believe that there is something wrong with the AT. Otherwise why would people say that they feel like they don’t belong here? Is the AT then an unstable timeline or perhaps like a dream showing us what might have been? If the AT is unstable is there any way that it can be erased so that only one timeline exists? The encounter between Desmond and Eloise may hint at just such a possibility. Eloise states that Desmond is not ready and she wants to shut him down. But what is he not ready for? Look for Desmond to be the key in future episodes for erasing the AT and getting everything back to normal.
It was wild to see Faraday not a scientist but a musician. His physics equations carried over from the other timeline. Somehow people in the AT can sense that they do not belong there and can get information from the regular timeline. Charlie apparently has figured out a way to gain information from the other timeline by having near death experiences.
It was also wild to see Desmond apparently happily working for Widmore in the AT. They are not so friendly in the regular timeline. Keep in mind that Desmond was not on flight 815 in the regular timeline but was on the flight in the AT. He was doing business in Australia which is why he was on that plane. They have not mentioned yet if Hurley is having problems with the numbers in the AT. That is why he was in Australia. He was investigating Sam Toomey and the numbers. But was he doing that in the AT or did destroying the island also destroy the curse of the numbers? But I digress.
The limo driver used to star in a show called Early Edition about a guy who got the newspaper of tomorrow today.
Note the scene where Penny meets Desmond for the first time in the AT. In the AT it is Penny that is running the steps while in the regular timeline we see Desmond running the steps and Penny and Desmond did not meet at the stadium in LA but met in Europe.
When Desmond picks up Charlie from the police station his brother is not there even though we saw his brother at the police station in a previous episode trying to get Charlie out of jail. I guess he was not successful.
When Desmond returns from his dream state he is eager to do whatever Widmore wants. What is the sacrifice Widmore wants Desmond to make? Perhaps it is to stay on the island for the rest of his life? I think it has something to do with stopping the Locke-ness monster from leaving the island because Widmore is worried that his daughter and everyone else will be gone forever. This hints of what has been said on previous episodes that if Locke-ness gets off the island darkness will spread. We have seen that Sayid has been contaminated by this darkness somehow and now he feels nothing – no emotion like in the movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers in which the pod people had no feelings after taking over the bodies of humans. Maybe it is like that. Wherever Locke-ness goes he contaminates people making them lose all emotion. We were warned by the Others that when the darkness penetrated the heart of Sayid that the man they knew before would cease to exist. That kind of thinking totally agrees with the statement of Widmore when he states that is daughter and everyone else would cease to exist.
When Sayid gets Desmond at the end Desmond is eager to go with Sayid. Was this part of the plan all along? Did Widmore know this would happen? Else why is Desmond so content about it? Also I thought Sayid was there to get Jin back. After all Locke-ness needs Jin to leave the island. He must have all the candidates in order to leave. Sayid will return to Locke-ness with Desmond so if Desmond wanted to get up with Locke-ness this was certainly a good move to allow himself to be taken.
We will see soon find out how important the role of Desmond is in saving the world.
THINGS TO WATCH FOR
In the office of Widmore look for the Black Rock replica in the background. Also look for a painting of scales on the wall of the office of Widmore. In the regular timeline he had a painting with the word Namaste on it.
The scotch that Desmond and Widmore drink may be the same kind of scotch that Desmond found on the island in the regular timeline.
The bar where Desmond and Charlie drink is called JAX and has a kangaroo showing in front. And where do we find kangaroos?
ANSWER
Dexter Stratton
Q
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