My Serious, Logical Thoughts on He's our You

HE’S OUR YOU

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This refers to a comment Sawyer made to Sayid that Oldham was their version of Sayid since Sayid was also a torturer. As a side note, the actor playing Oldham was once a star of the sitcom Newhart in the 1980s.

AGIRA, WE GET YOU THERE. SOMETIMES

So we finally learn how Sayid got on the plane. The big question is if Ben planned this. It could go either way. Either that woman was who she said she was or she worked for Ben and just wanted to get Sayid on that plane. It would be just like Ben to be this diabolical. We know that Ben flat out lied to Sayid when he was in Santo Domingo when he told Sayid that the people of Whitmore killed John Locke. Of course we all know that Ben did it. Ben lied of course because he needed to get Sayid back to the island. Note that the manipulation worked. Sayid does eventually kill the man staking out Hurley at the institution. The reinforces the idea that Sayid is a natural born killer.

There is also a third option. The island got Sayid on that plane by using the female bounty hunter. Recall when Michael was about to kill himself in New York, Tom showed up and told him that the island would not let him kill himself and of course Michael was never able to shoot himself despite trying. Also at the lamppost Mrs. Hawkins told Desmond that the island was not done with him yet. It is kind of like the island has a consciousness. You could also say that it was the fate of Sayid to get on that plane.

THY WORD IS A LAMPPOST UNTO MY FEET

We know that DHARMA used the lamppost to find the island, but how did they know that there was an island out there to look for, and how did they know what to do to find it? I have an idea. Go back in time thousands of years ago. On the island lived a group of people who worshipped a four-toed god. It turns out the being they worshipped was real. They even built a temple to him. Through the help of this being these ancient people built the smoke monster to protect their temple. The smoke monster is the judge. It reads your mind and judges you to see if you are “good” or “bad”. Bad people are terminated or if it can capture you underground, replaced with new personalities that are “good”. That is why Desmond said he killed one of the tailies because he was a “bad” man. The smoke monster killed Eko after judging him to be bad. The OTHERS are well aware of the smoke monster, statue foot and temple and what they mean. They do not really come out and say that to anybody in the show though. The only clue we have is when Ben orders Richard to “take everyone to the temple”. This being also has the power to bring back folks from the dead and heal folks. This entity is the island itself. It is for all practical purposes, alive.

The island also helped the ancient people build the time traveling wheel room for time traveling purposes. So what happened to these ancient people? They are still there they just evolved. These people are the OTHERS. They are the descendants of this ancient civilization. But perhaps some of these people were able to leave the island and carry away with them the knowledge of the island. Or they could have been banished from the island as Widmore was. Over time this knowledge was passed down from generation to generation. That is how DHARMA knew about the island. The Degroots and\or Alvar Hanso obtained this information about the island and scientists determined how to locate it based on the properties of the island.

To remind you, the Degroots are a man and woman team of scientists from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. You can see them in the DHARMA orientation video for the swan hatch. See the episode ORIENTATION. In this episode he’s our you when Horace discusses what to do with Sayid he says at one point: “.. or I call Ann Arbor” this is a reference to the Degroots who are in charge of DHARMA with funding from Alvar Hanso. This begs the question of what happened to the Degroots and Hanso? Are they aware of what happened to DHARMA? The evidence for this is scanty so we can only really guess. We do know that someone from the outside world knows how to find the island because the swan hatch was still being restocked before it blew up. That food drop had to come from somewhere. This is evidence that Hanso and the Degroots are able to find the island (the lamppost?). and send supplies there. Why then do they not send reinforcements? It could be that they have given up on the whole DHARMA idea after almost their entire DHARMA team was wiped out by the OTHERS. I say almost because DHARMA still had people in the swan hatch pressing the button. The swan hatch is most likely unknown to the OTHERS as DHARMA kept it a secret. What happened to DHARMA members in other stations is not known. They were probably also killed. It should be noted that recruitment for the DHARMA initiative continued well into the 1990s. We know this because the CIA agent who worked with Sayid in the first gulf war ended up in the swan hatch. This man said he joined the DHARMA initiative thereby confirming that it still has some kind of existence though not in form it used to in the 1970s. This means they could still have people out there recruiting.

THAT CANT BE RIGHT

So Sayid kills Ben Linus as a young boy forever altering the future. Now DHARMA will not be destroyed, Ben will not be captured by Danielle and so forth right? WRONG! What you are forgetting is that the island has power over life and death. The island will not let Ben die because it wants Ben to be the leader. Look for young Ben to have a miraculous recovery and wonder why Sayid shot him. The evidence for this is pretty conclusive. I present the following evidence:

The island healed Locke instantly from being crippled

The island brought Locke back to life

The island brought Mikail back from the dead twice

Faraday said that it did not matter what they did because whatever they did already happened. In other words you cannot change the future.

KILL BILL I MEAN BEN

So can you change the past by going back in time? According to Faraday the answer is no, and we should believe him. In my novel Chaotic Planet: Origin I address this very issue. In my novel there are two ideas about time travel. One is that you cannot change the future by going back in time because whatever you do just becomes part of the future you already know. I call this idea deterministic. The other idea is that you can change the future by altering the past. This idea I call chaotic. Which is correct? Find out in my novel available at www.qcms.biz.

WANTED: NATURAL BORN KILLER

One major point of this episode is to show that Sayid is a natural born killer. We see this even when he is a young child killing the chicken. Also notice that Sayid is disappointed with Ben when there are no more people to kill. A similar thing happened to Alexander the great. When there were no more kingdoms to conquer he cried. Though the movie by Oliver Stone does not show this. Sayid cannot accept that it is over. Somehow Sayid is convinced that he has come back in time to kill Ben and change the future for the better. Little does he know that he is only playing into the hands of fate because shooting young Ben is a part of the future that he already knows.

FUTURE EPISODES

We will see how Kate and Hurley got on the plane.

We will see what happened to Aaron. Is he being “raised by another?”

My Serious, Logical Thoughts on LaFleur

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Refers to the name that Sawyer has used for himself at DHARMA. Since Sawyer used to be a con man this comes natural to him. The name is Creole.

THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN LINUS

Now that they are back at DHARMA are they going to see Ben as a young boy? Will they even recognize him or know he is even there? Although we the audience have seen Ben as a young boy with DHARMA, there is no reason to believe that the LOSTaways have any knowledge about Ben ever being part of the DHARMA initiative. They have only encountered Ben as an adult being part of the Others.

LOVE DHARMA STYLE

Welcome to the love quadrangle (not just triangle). The members are Jack, Kate, Sawyer and Juliet. Let us review. After the plane crashed Jack got close to Kate and had talks with while bad boy Sawyer made no move on her. When Sayid tortured Sawyer he said he would divulge information if Kate kissed him which she did but Sawyer had no info. Later Kate kissed Jack in the jungle and Jack told Kate he loved her. When Jack, Kate and Sawyer were captured by the Others Sawyer slept with Kate in a cage while Jack watched on video. Later while being rescued by a helicopter, Sawyer whispers something into the ear of Kate and then jumps out. When they return home Jack and Kate at first cannot get together because Jack cannot cope with his nephew Aaron living with Kate. Later jack and Kate hook up anyway. Then they break up because Kate has to keep doing things for Sawyer. Later after something happens to Aaron (we do not know what) Kate tells Jack she will go to the island with him and she kisses Jack. Meanwhile back on the island Juliet and Sawyer time flash into the 1970s where they fall in love and are now apparently living together. Now enter Jack, Kate and Hugo arriving on the island and scene!

BERNARD AND ROSE WHERE ARE YOU?

Anybody wondering what happened to Bernard and Rose? The last we saw them was on the beach. Then those flaming arrows came and everybody was supposed to meet u p later. But we never see them again. Also there are probably a few people with Bernard and Rose from flight 815. I do not think the arrows killed all of them. Perhaps they are part of DHARMA now, but we have not seen them yet.

HORACE

We have seen Horace Goodspeed before (the guy blowing up trees). He has appeared to Locke in a vision, and we saw him in the episode the man behind the curtain. That is the episode where we see Ben Linus as a boy at DHARMA. Horace ends up dying at the end of that episode. We see him dead as he is sitting on a bench with his mouth open. This brings up the question: were the LOSTaways there when this happened and were they also killed? The LOSTaways have no idea that this event is going to happen. Locke knows about it as Ben showed him the dead DHARMA bodies. But Locke does not know the exact date that it happened. Will Locke be able to return to the island and save the LOSTaways?

HOLD THAT BABY

Juliet is a mechanic now and has retired from the medical field. Her retiring has a lot to do with her seeing those 9 mothers die on the island before they give birth. Amy gives birth ok despite the fears of Juliet. Which as Sawyer says means that whatever happens that causes the mothers to die happens after 1977. However Juliet should have known at least the strong possibility that it would be ok since in the episode D.O.C. she says that most women made it to the middle of their second trimester. Obviously Amy is well beyond that. The question is what happened on the island that will cause mothers to die sometime after 1977? Will the LOSTaways be involved in this incident? Is this the same incident referred to by Marvin Candle in the Swan hatch? That incident probably had something to do with the electromagnetic anomaly that the button pushers in the Swan hatch protected us from. Candle says that the incident occurred shortly after the experiments began so this may have happened already. If so are the button pushers there in 1977, the year Amy gives birth? The orientation video made by Marvin Candle for the Swan hatch is dated 1980 so the incident happens before that or in that year.

TIME KEEPS ON A SLIPPIN

The LOSTaways see a large statue in one time flash which they interpret as them having time flashed to a long ago time. We have seen the foot of this statue before. Sayid noticed it on the sailboat of Desmond when they were sailing to rescue Jack, Kate, Hurley and Sawyer. The statue reminded me of an idol worshipped by some ancient culture. Ancient cultures were known to worship idols and erect statues to them. I am reminded of the Colossus of Rhodes and the statue of Zeus at Olympia. Both are wonders of the ancient world. The temple that we saw in the episode This Place is Death is probably the temple of this god. And this god has its own security system. Was the security system put in place by these ancient people? If so then how did they get the technology to do it? The monster (or security system) seems to have some kind of built in morality. The brother of Eko judges Eko and shortly thereafter he is killed by the smoke monster. Does this “god” have something to do then with ethical values? This statue has its back facing us but seems to have an animal looking head two arms and two legs. I wonder if we will see an episode about these ancient people, the statue and the temple? Also amy removes an Egyptian ankh from the neck of her dead husband Paul. Could this mean that the statue is an Egyptian god? Also in the Swan hatch after the counter goes past zero Something that looks like Egyptian hieroglyphics appear. We also see some kind of symbols on the temple. The question is what is the relationship between DHARMA and these symbols? Is DHARMA aware of the four-toed statue? Do they already know what it represents? It seems strange because DHARMA is supposed to be a group of scientists. What is up with the symbols?

LOOSE ENDS

According to Horace, DHARMA does not know about the Black Rock. This seems strange. That means that they are not familiar with the whole island. Do they know about the temple and smoke monster?

How can the Others get past the sonic fence? Well, it seems pretty easy. Apparently all you need is a pair of ear plugs! If so that would seem to be a huge security breach. Although there is a slight possibility that Amy set the fence to allow one person threw first and then activate, this theory falls by the wayside when Amy takes the ear plugs out of her ears.

What technology does the sonic fence actually use and do we have that technology today

Amy walks past the sonic fence ok presumably because of ear plugs in her ears, yet she still seems to hear Sawyer when he says “you first”. Also when did she put the ear plugs in? She probably had them on her because that is how the DHARMA people go through the fence when they want to leave.

The English of Jin has improved a lot in three years. That is good because now he can talk a lot more without the need for an interpreter.

At the end of this episode when Jack, Kate and Hurley arrive the year is 1977. We did not see Sun or Sayid. Look for the Sun-Jin reunion soon.

I heard the actor who plays Jin Daniel Dae Kim said his character was dead. I hope this is a mistake else Jin will be really dead soon.

We see the same kind of van that we saw in 316, Through the Looking Glass, The Man Behind the Curtain and Tricia Tanaka Is Dead. This is either the same van or one that looks just like it.

Horace seems to exert very little authority. LaFleur blows right past him to go talk to Alpert despite the objection of Horace.

Amy is not the only one we have seen give birth on the island. Claire gave birth to Aaron on the island.

Faraday sees Charlotte as a little girl. We know that he will warn Charlotte and her mother to leave the island.

Charlotte did not time flash to the 1970s with everybody else so that means dead bodies do not time flash, yet the rope Sawyer was holding did time flash and so did the boat they were paddling in at one point during a time flash. That means the body of Neal and other dead LOSTaways stayed in 1954. They were killed in the flaming arrow beach attack in the episode The Lie.

When Sawyer tells Richard that he killed his men that is not exactly true since Juliet shot one of them.

When Faraday says “no more flashes. The record is spinning again, they're just on the wrong song.” We see the comparison to the time flashes and a record playing as we saw in the episode Because You Left when a record of Marvin Candle gets stuck.

When Horace asks LaFleur if three years is long enough to get over someone this actually has a double meaning since Sawyer has not seen Kate for three years.

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