TITLE
Spanish for "Since the beginning of time". But of course Richard is not from the beginning of time so this might be slang for “a long time ago”. Or it could be a reference to the battle between good and evil being since the beginning of time.
So we finally get to see some exciting things in this episode. We see the story of Richard and how he came to the island. He is a little less mysterious now. Richard is Catholic and from the Canary islands which are owned by Spain. They are located off the west coast of Africa. When Richard was put on the Black Rock he was on his way to America yet he ends up on the island. Recall that our LOSTaways were flying over the South Pacific when they crashed on the island. This means that either the island was not located in the South Pacific in 1867 or that the whole ship was supernaturally transported to the island. Also recall that the drug plane from Africa also wound up on the island. Same possibilities for that situation. This is not impossible since we saw the man from Tallahassee was transported from Florida to the island. So why not a plane or boat?
Did you catch the name of the captain of the Black Rock? His name is Magnus Hanso. I wonder if he is any relation to Alvar Hanso who is apparently the financial backer of the DHARMA Initiative in the 1970s? It could very well be. Magnus Hanso was killed when the Black Rock crashed.
Notice also that we finally see how the statue got broken which is something I have been wondering about for a long time and I know you have too. It turns out the Black Rock broke the statue when it crashed into it during a storm. One problem I have though is that the ship hit the statue at the top so why would it break way down there at the foot and yet take the other foot whole? Any engineers out there think this is the most likely outcome? As most of us have suspected, we learn the reason why the Black Rock is in the middle of the jungle. It was simply because of a storm. That is what I thought. I did read one explanation a few years ago where someone theorized that a group of people moved it there with their minds! But we have all had theories that did not pan out. We get to see why there are skeletons on the Black Rock in chains. It is because an officer on the ship executed them because he did not think they had enough supplies to feed all of them since they were in a jungle. And the black smoke killed the surviving officers. QUIZ QUESTION: Who was the first LOSTaway to see the black smoke monster?
We learn from Jacob that the island is like a cork in a bottle keeping the evil in where the evil is the Locke-ness monster. Jacob also mentions that if the evil gets out it will spread. The similarities to the box of Pandorra are unmistakable here. Man, who is the Locke-ness monster? I am leaning toward him being a demigod, that is, he is the offspring of either a Greek god like Apollo or one of the Egyptian gods. Locke-ness has mentioned that he had a crazy mother. Who was she? Could she have been a human who had a relationship with a god? If he left her then that might be the source of her madness. There is a similar theme in a recent movie called Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightening Thief.
It was cool to see how the gift of Hurley could be used to communicate with Isabella and help Richard. Note also that Isabella as far as we know was never on the island when she was alive. So far I think all the dead people we have seen on the island were people who had been on the island when they were alive so this is actually a first. Can anyone of you confirm this? Do you remember seeing any dead person who appeared as a ghost on the island who was never on the island when they were alive? I cannot. When Isabella appeared on the Black Rock that was Locke-ness. Probably Locke-ness is responsible for many if not all of the appearances of dead people on the island except for the ones where only Hurley can see them. In one instance Walt appears to John Locke when he is lying shot in a ditch. Walt also appeared to Hurley and Shannon and Sayid just before Shannon was shot. But Walt is still alive. That may be the only person who has been impersonated while the person was still alive. This gives me an idea. Maybe living people are impersonated by Jacob and dead people are impersonated by Locke-ness. What do you think?
The rhetoric used by Locke-ness to persuade Richard to kill Jacob is identical to the one used by Durgan to convince Sayid to kill Locke-ness. It is practically the same speech. The part about if he speaks it is already too late was just used so that Jacob would not have time to speak to Richard and talk him out of it. That is the only reason he said that. But we know that many years later Locke-ness will succeed in killing Jacob and rather easily at that. If keeping Locke-ness trapped on the island is so important you would think Jacob would have put up more of a fight. Perhaps he thinks that someone will easily replace him since there are so many candidates on the island.
On the beach around the campfire where was Kate? We saw everybody else.
That whole part about we are dead and in hell is not true. They are on an island. This may be an inside joke as for a long time fans theorized that the LOSTaways were all dead in purgatory or hell. This theory was debunked first by JJ Abrams and later by the show itself when six LOSTaways returned home. They are NOT dead.
WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO SEE
Walt will return and somehow his special powers will play a part in the story.
Desmond will have a small role this season, but what he does is important.
The DHARMA-Michigan connection will play some kind of role this season
We will finally learn the identities of the two bodies in the cave named Adam and Eve
The Sun-Jin reunion
WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE
I hope later episodes show:
Who built the statue and why?
Who built the room with the wheel that can move the island if you turn it and why?
How can a man turn into black smoke?
What is the real name of the Lock-ness monster?
Why did the psychic tell Claire that only she could raise Aaron? Because Aaron right now is not being raised by her. What will be the consequences of this?
What is with all the whispering that we have heard on the island over the years?
We do not have much time left until the series finale, so I do not think they have time to answer all my questions. I may be disappointed in the finale.
ANSWER TO QUIZ QUESTION
John Locke – he described it later as they eye of the island and said it was beautiful. I think he was wrong do you not?
Q
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Saturday, March 20, 2010
My Serious, Logical Thoughts on Recon
TITLE
Refers to the mission of Sawyer to Hydra island to scope out the people over there.
It was cool to see Sawyer as a cop now. We not only get to see what would have happened to the LOSTaways had the plane landed but it is them in an alternate timeline with very different lives, yet their lives are destined to cross. Notice in the hotel room that the secret word Sawyer uses to summon the police is Lafleur. This is the fake named he used in the regular timeline when he was part of the DHARMA initiative. It was also the name of a previous episode.
The writers are so clever. We think that Sawyer is a con man again when we see the briefcase of money fall open. We also had seen this in one of the previous cons of Sawyer in the episode the Long Con. In that one, he ended up with the money at the end but ended up in prison. It was great to see Charlotte again and this time she hooks up with sawyer. That was a nice twist. Notice the book that Sawyer is reading called Watership Down. He also read the same book in the regular timeline. This book is about rabbits whose home is destroyed and they make a new home on a hill called Watership Down. The analogy here may be that the LOSTaways are like the rabbits and Watership Down is the island.
We see in the AT that the parents of Sawyer were still murdered and he is still after the guy who did it but now as a cop. He may have become a cop just so he could track this guy. Notice that the con man Sawyer is the same guy Cooper who is the father of Locke.
Crazy Claire finally makes good on her threat to try to kill Kate. But if she really wanted her dead, would she not have just stabbed her from behind? Why wrestle her first? When Locke-ness talks with Kate we find Locke-ness had a crazy mom and whatever she did to him still affects him to this day. Locke-ness is emotionally damaged somehow. He sees that Aaron may suffer similar damage from crazy Claire. But after he says this to Kate does he tell her anything else? Like perhaps she should kill Claire herself to save Aaron? We do not know because we are not shown this, but I think it is not quite a leap to make that assumption. What do you think?
When Sawyer gets to Hydra island he finds a lot of dead bodies. Widmore claims he did not kill them but is he lying? We now know how Widmore found the island. He followed the Agira flight. QUIZ QUESTION: What was the flight number of the Agira flight? Lepidus was supposed to be the pilot of Oceanic flight 815 but overslept. QUIZ QUESTION: What was the name of the pilot of Oceanic flight 815? Not the actor the character.
When we first saw Widmore in the sub he tells his captain to proceed even though there were people on the island. But proceed with what? At the time he was looking at the main island at the LOSTaways and not at the Agira flight survivors. Looks like Widmore has hired more cronies again. Meet Zoe another hired gun. The lead guy with the gun behind Sawyer does not look like a military man. I predict bad things for all of these people and Widmore. They are going to lose against smokey. They are prepared to do battle with smokey because you can see them putting up the pylons that are able to repel smokey.
Sawyer in the regular timeline shows his con man skills again by conning the Locke-ness monster. He wants Locke-ness to battle it out with Widmore so he and Kate can escape the island.
THE WORD ON THE STREET IS
I heard that before the series is over we will know the identity of Adam and Eve, the two skeletons found in the cave. It is no coincidence the Hurley has already offered a theory about the identity of these two. He guesses that they are skeletons that went back in time to dinosaur times. We will see if he is right! Though previously it has been said that the skeletons are only 50 years old which puts us back to the time of atomic bomb testing. Who do you think these people are? We know that a white ball and a black ball were found on them in a bag.
I hear the DHARMA-Michigan connection to the island will play a part this season. I do not know what that may be but it seems DHARMA is not done with the island yet.
I will be back brotha. Yes, that is correct. Desmond will be back. Though we have not seen him in any episodes after lax this season, he will return to the show before the series finale and will do something important. This agrees with what Eloise said to Desmond when she said the island is not done with you yet.
There are so many unanswered questions that I fear that even a 2 hour series finale will not be enough to answer them all. I am bracing to be disappointed. While we are on this topic, let us review some bad series finales:
THE PRISONER (1967) – this interesting show about a former spy being held prisoner in a village is actually a social commentary. I can only describe the series finale as a gibberish mess of nonsense that even Albert Einstein could not comprehend. After it aired, it left viewers across nations in a state of bewilderment and the star of the show Patrick Mcgoohan had to lay low for a while. In his own words, he said he wrote the finale because he wanted fists in his face. He got it!
SLIDERS (1999) – This once promising show stumbled in its third season and this was followed by the removal of most of the cast and then amazingly even one of the replacement cast members! The series finale shows these inter dimensional travelers meeting themselves in another reality in which their adventures are a TV show! So why is this so bad? Because it ends on a cliffhanger as Remmy jumps into the vortex bent on destroying the evil Kromaggs and you never find out what happened.
QUANTUM LEAP (1992) – Though the series overall was one of the best SciFi series’ ever the finale was bizarre and undid the entire series! Sam is in a bar where he meets God I guess it is him. Then cast members from previous episodes appear in the bar as completely different characters. It ended with Sam traveling back in time to fix the marriage of Al which is something previously dealt with and it was said that Sam could not do this. After he fixes it, it negates every previous episode which featured Al as a previously six-time married woman chaser.
CAROLINE IN THE CITY (2000) – funny show but it ends on a cliffhanger at the wedding of Caroline. We are led to believe that Caroline will ditch her own wedding but we never see it happen.
SPACE ABOVE AND BEYOND (1996) – Great series very underrated. Ends on a cliffhanger because Fox canceled it. If you have not seen this series it is a real SciFi gem.
So now how do you think LOST will end? Let us hope that the writers do not mess it up like these other shows. Here are some things we might see:
The two timelines communicating with each other. What if Sawyer the cop could meet Sawyer the con man or Jack could meet himself with a son?
The box of Pandorra – what if the island is like the box of Pandorra? The smoke monster represents all the bad stuff that could be unleashed in the world. The problem is that the world is already messed up. But what if smokey wants to take over the world?
One of the timelines evaporates – what if somehow one of the timelines is erased so that only one timeline exists?
They have to reveal the actual identities of Jacob and the Locke-ness monster. Who are they?
Sun and Jin finally reunite.
What happened to Rose and Bernard in the regular timeline?
ANSWERS TO QUIZ QUESTIONS
The Agira flight was 316
The pilot of flight Oceanic flight 815 was Seth Norris
Q
Refers to the mission of Sawyer to Hydra island to scope out the people over there.
It was cool to see Sawyer as a cop now. We not only get to see what would have happened to the LOSTaways had the plane landed but it is them in an alternate timeline with very different lives, yet their lives are destined to cross. Notice in the hotel room that the secret word Sawyer uses to summon the police is Lafleur. This is the fake named he used in the regular timeline when he was part of the DHARMA initiative. It was also the name of a previous episode.
The writers are so clever. We think that Sawyer is a con man again when we see the briefcase of money fall open. We also had seen this in one of the previous cons of Sawyer in the episode the Long Con. In that one, he ended up with the money at the end but ended up in prison. It was great to see Charlotte again and this time she hooks up with sawyer. That was a nice twist. Notice the book that Sawyer is reading called Watership Down. He also read the same book in the regular timeline. This book is about rabbits whose home is destroyed and they make a new home on a hill called Watership Down. The analogy here may be that the LOSTaways are like the rabbits and Watership Down is the island.
We see in the AT that the parents of Sawyer were still murdered and he is still after the guy who did it but now as a cop. He may have become a cop just so he could track this guy. Notice that the con man Sawyer is the same guy Cooper who is the father of Locke.
Crazy Claire finally makes good on her threat to try to kill Kate. But if she really wanted her dead, would she not have just stabbed her from behind? Why wrestle her first? When Locke-ness talks with Kate we find Locke-ness had a crazy mom and whatever she did to him still affects him to this day. Locke-ness is emotionally damaged somehow. He sees that Aaron may suffer similar damage from crazy Claire. But after he says this to Kate does he tell her anything else? Like perhaps she should kill Claire herself to save Aaron? We do not know because we are not shown this, but I think it is not quite a leap to make that assumption. What do you think?
When Sawyer gets to Hydra island he finds a lot of dead bodies. Widmore claims he did not kill them but is he lying? We now know how Widmore found the island. He followed the Agira flight. QUIZ QUESTION: What was the flight number of the Agira flight? Lepidus was supposed to be the pilot of Oceanic flight 815 but overslept. QUIZ QUESTION: What was the name of the pilot of Oceanic flight 815? Not the actor the character.
When we first saw Widmore in the sub he tells his captain to proceed even though there were people on the island. But proceed with what? At the time he was looking at the main island at the LOSTaways and not at the Agira flight survivors. Looks like Widmore has hired more cronies again. Meet Zoe another hired gun. The lead guy with the gun behind Sawyer does not look like a military man. I predict bad things for all of these people and Widmore. They are going to lose against smokey. They are prepared to do battle with smokey because you can see them putting up the pylons that are able to repel smokey.
Sawyer in the regular timeline shows his con man skills again by conning the Locke-ness monster. He wants Locke-ness to battle it out with Widmore so he and Kate can escape the island.
THE WORD ON THE STREET IS
I heard that before the series is over we will know the identity of Adam and Eve, the two skeletons found in the cave. It is no coincidence the Hurley has already offered a theory about the identity of these two. He guesses that they are skeletons that went back in time to dinosaur times. We will see if he is right! Though previously it has been said that the skeletons are only 50 years old which puts us back to the time of atomic bomb testing. Who do you think these people are? We know that a white ball and a black ball were found on them in a bag.
I hear the DHARMA-Michigan connection to the island will play a part this season. I do not know what that may be but it seems DHARMA is not done with the island yet.
I will be back brotha. Yes, that is correct. Desmond will be back. Though we have not seen him in any episodes after lax this season, he will return to the show before the series finale and will do something important. This agrees with what Eloise said to Desmond when she said the island is not done with you yet.
There are so many unanswered questions that I fear that even a 2 hour series finale will not be enough to answer them all. I am bracing to be disappointed. While we are on this topic, let us review some bad series finales:
THE PRISONER (1967) – this interesting show about a former spy being held prisoner in a village is actually a social commentary. I can only describe the series finale as a gibberish mess of nonsense that even Albert Einstein could not comprehend. After it aired, it left viewers across nations in a state of bewilderment and the star of the show Patrick Mcgoohan had to lay low for a while. In his own words, he said he wrote the finale because he wanted fists in his face. He got it!
SLIDERS (1999) – This once promising show stumbled in its third season and this was followed by the removal of most of the cast and then amazingly even one of the replacement cast members! The series finale shows these inter dimensional travelers meeting themselves in another reality in which their adventures are a TV show! So why is this so bad? Because it ends on a cliffhanger as Remmy jumps into the vortex bent on destroying the evil Kromaggs and you never find out what happened.
QUANTUM LEAP (1992) – Though the series overall was one of the best SciFi series’ ever the finale was bizarre and undid the entire series! Sam is in a bar where he meets God I guess it is him. Then cast members from previous episodes appear in the bar as completely different characters. It ended with Sam traveling back in time to fix the marriage of Al which is something previously dealt with and it was said that Sam could not do this. After he fixes it, it negates every previous episode which featured Al as a previously six-time married woman chaser.
CAROLINE IN THE CITY (2000) – funny show but it ends on a cliffhanger at the wedding of Caroline. We are led to believe that Caroline will ditch her own wedding but we never see it happen.
SPACE ABOVE AND BEYOND (1996) – Great series very underrated. Ends on a cliffhanger because Fox canceled it. If you have not seen this series it is a real SciFi gem.
So now how do you think LOST will end? Let us hope that the writers do not mess it up like these other shows. Here are some things we might see:
The two timelines communicating with each other. What if Sawyer the cop could meet Sawyer the con man or Jack could meet himself with a son?
The box of Pandorra – what if the island is like the box of Pandorra? The smoke monster represents all the bad stuff that could be unleashed in the world. The problem is that the world is already messed up. But what if smokey wants to take over the world?
One of the timelines evaporates – what if somehow one of the timelines is erased so that only one timeline exists?
They have to reveal the actual identities of Jacob and the Locke-ness monster. Who are they?
Sun and Jin finally reunite.
What happened to Rose and Bernard in the regular timeline?
ANSWERS TO QUIZ QUESTIONS
The Agira flight was 316
The pilot of flight Oceanic flight 815 was Seth Norris
Q
Sunday, March 14, 2010
My Serious, Logical Thoughts on Dr Linus
TITLE
Refers to AT Ben because in that timeline he has a doctorate degree. Quiz question: What is AT Ben’s degree in? Answer below.
RICHARD
So Jacob gives Richard a gift by touching him and suddenly he ages slowly or not at all? Jacob also ages slowly or not at all. Why then is Ben able to kill Jacob so easily? Could not Jacob have fought him off. And even Ben commented that Jacob did not defend himself.
Richard arrived on the island on the Black Rock in the 1840s I believe and apparently was a slave or criminal. Of course if you have been reading my blog you know that I already stated that this is where Richard was from. When the Black Rock was first found Locke said that it was a mining ship and these chained men were on their way to work in the mines. Richard is white and therefore was not part of the slave trade. He could have been a criminal who was sentenced to work in the mines. That would explain the chains and the dead bodies on the Black Rock. And spoiler alert I hear that an episode is coming showing the Black Rock arriving at the island and explaining the story of Richard. Who he is, what he is and so forth. End Spoil. Should make a great episode. That was either brave or stupid of Jack to stay with Richard with that lit fuse. Especially since he knew Jacob was dead and therefore had no influence on the situation. Or does he? Richard needs Jack to kill him because for some reason Richard cannot kill himself. What he means by that is even if Richard did try to kill himself he would not be successful because something would happen to stop his death. Which of course is exactly what happened in this episode. We saw something similar when Michael was in New York and tried to kill himself. He pulled the trigger but the gun did not go off. It is like that.
ALEX AND BEN
This episode shows a nice parallel between AT Ben and regular Ben. In the regular timeline Ben gets his daughter killed because he makes a decision that lead directly to her death. In the AT Ben makes a different decision about Alex that saves her academic career. In the AT the career of Alex replaces her life from the other timeline. In the scene where Alex and Ben are studying together Ben says that it is just a test and Alex replies: just a test it is only my entire life. Ben chooses not to pursue going after the principal so that the principal will write a favorable letter of recommendation for Alex and then she can get into a good college. It is like Ben getting a second chance with Alex.
The parallels between the two Bens and the different decisions that each made are interesting. In the regular timeline Ben loses his authority as leader over the Others. Remember when he shot Locke? He shot him because he felt threatened. He thought he would lose his power which of course he eventually did. Notice the segue when it shows AT Ben teaching in a classroom and the first thing he says is this is the island where it all happened. He tells his class that this is where Napolean lost his power. So this story parallels what happened to regular Ben. AT Ben tries to get power by blackmailing the principal, but he refuses to do it at the cost of ruining the future of Alex.
It was nice to see Arzt again, this time at his job which he had spoken of on the island. He said that he taught 9th grade science so we knew this before. Quiz question. After Arzt blew up on the island, what did Hurley say to Jack? The answer is below. Again, people in the AT are brought together just like they were in the regular timeline. It is their fate to meet each other. So far we have had so many meet it is hard to keep track. AT Locke plays a crucial role in this episode convincing Ben to go after the principal job.
Regular Ben gets in big trouble when it is revealed that he killed Jacob. The Locke-ness monster does give him a way out, but he does not take it thanks to the mercy shown him by Ilana. The previews said that Ben would meet his destiny in this episode hinting at his death. As usual this was misleading. When AT Ben talks with his father about DHARMA, Roger Linus states that they left the island. But when did this occur? Roger Linus shot Sayid and that was shortly before the bomb was detonated. Did he and young Ben then get on the sub? Apparently but we never see this. Also were any of them aware that the island just got nuked? Quiz question. In this episode AT Arzt tells AT Ben that Ben is a real killer. How many people has regular Ben killed while facing or touching them and who where they?
ENDING
At the end notice that Widmore is planning something bad for the island. He may have to get in line. Richard has already stated that the Locke-ness monster wants to kill everyone on the island.
UNANSWERED QUESTIONS
Where is Mikail, the guy with the eye patch?
Is Jacob really dead? By the way, who is Jacob how did he come to the island and who hired him? Was it the blonde boy we saw a few episodes ago?
When Richard appears in the jungle he tells Jack that he would not believe where he just came from. And where was that exactly? Richard was not at the temple when it was attached. Why?
How did Widmore find the island after it had been moved?
SIDE NOTES
The actor who played the principal also played a physics professor in the movie Real Genius starring Val Kilmer 1985.
ANSWERS TO QUIZ QUESTIONS
European history
“Dude You’ve got some Arzt on you”
Ben has killed three people in close proximity: John Locke, Roger Linus and Jacob. Though when it was revealed the Ben killed Locke, nobody flinched when Ben said he killed Locke in a previous episode.
Q
Refers to AT Ben because in that timeline he has a doctorate degree. Quiz question: What is AT Ben’s degree in? Answer below.
RICHARD
So Jacob gives Richard a gift by touching him and suddenly he ages slowly or not at all? Jacob also ages slowly or not at all. Why then is Ben able to kill Jacob so easily? Could not Jacob have fought him off. And even Ben commented that Jacob did not defend himself.
Richard arrived on the island on the Black Rock in the 1840s I believe and apparently was a slave or criminal. Of course if you have been reading my blog you know that I already stated that this is where Richard was from. When the Black Rock was first found Locke said that it was a mining ship and these chained men were on their way to work in the mines. Richard is white and therefore was not part of the slave trade. He could have been a criminal who was sentenced to work in the mines. That would explain the chains and the dead bodies on the Black Rock. And spoiler alert I hear that an episode is coming showing the Black Rock arriving at the island and explaining the story of Richard. Who he is, what he is and so forth. End Spoil. Should make a great episode. That was either brave or stupid of Jack to stay with Richard with that lit fuse. Especially since he knew Jacob was dead and therefore had no influence on the situation. Or does he? Richard needs Jack to kill him because for some reason Richard cannot kill himself. What he means by that is even if Richard did try to kill himself he would not be successful because something would happen to stop his death. Which of course is exactly what happened in this episode. We saw something similar when Michael was in New York and tried to kill himself. He pulled the trigger but the gun did not go off. It is like that.
ALEX AND BEN
This episode shows a nice parallel between AT Ben and regular Ben. In the regular timeline Ben gets his daughter killed because he makes a decision that lead directly to her death. In the AT Ben makes a different decision about Alex that saves her academic career. In the AT the career of Alex replaces her life from the other timeline. In the scene where Alex and Ben are studying together Ben says that it is just a test and Alex replies: just a test it is only my entire life. Ben chooses not to pursue going after the principal so that the principal will write a favorable letter of recommendation for Alex and then she can get into a good college. It is like Ben getting a second chance with Alex.
The parallels between the two Bens and the different decisions that each made are interesting. In the regular timeline Ben loses his authority as leader over the Others. Remember when he shot Locke? He shot him because he felt threatened. He thought he would lose his power which of course he eventually did. Notice the segue when it shows AT Ben teaching in a classroom and the first thing he says is this is the island where it all happened. He tells his class that this is where Napolean lost his power. So this story parallels what happened to regular Ben. AT Ben tries to get power by blackmailing the principal, but he refuses to do it at the cost of ruining the future of Alex.
It was nice to see Arzt again, this time at his job which he had spoken of on the island. He said that he taught 9th grade science so we knew this before. Quiz question. After Arzt blew up on the island, what did Hurley say to Jack? The answer is below. Again, people in the AT are brought together just like they were in the regular timeline. It is their fate to meet each other. So far we have had so many meet it is hard to keep track. AT Locke plays a crucial role in this episode convincing Ben to go after the principal job.
Regular Ben gets in big trouble when it is revealed that he killed Jacob. The Locke-ness monster does give him a way out, but he does not take it thanks to the mercy shown him by Ilana. The previews said that Ben would meet his destiny in this episode hinting at his death. As usual this was misleading. When AT Ben talks with his father about DHARMA, Roger Linus states that they left the island. But when did this occur? Roger Linus shot Sayid and that was shortly before the bomb was detonated. Did he and young Ben then get on the sub? Apparently but we never see this. Also were any of them aware that the island just got nuked? Quiz question. In this episode AT Arzt tells AT Ben that Ben is a real killer. How many people has regular Ben killed while facing or touching them and who where they?
ENDING
At the end notice that Widmore is planning something bad for the island. He may have to get in line. Richard has already stated that the Locke-ness monster wants to kill everyone on the island.
UNANSWERED QUESTIONS
Where is Mikail, the guy with the eye patch?
Is Jacob really dead? By the way, who is Jacob how did he come to the island and who hired him? Was it the blonde boy we saw a few episodes ago?
When Richard appears in the jungle he tells Jack that he would not believe where he just came from. And where was that exactly? Richard was not at the temple when it was attached. Why?
How did Widmore find the island after it had been moved?
SIDE NOTES
The actor who played the principal also played a physics professor in the movie Real Genius starring Val Kilmer 1985.
ANSWERS TO QUIZ QUESTIONS
European history
“Dude You’ve got some Arzt on you”
Ben has killed three people in close proximity: John Locke, Roger Linus and Jacob. Though when it was revealed the Ben killed Locke, nobody flinched when Ben said he killed Locke in a previous episode.
Q
Friday, March 5, 2010
My Serious, Logical Thoughts on Sundown
TITLE
Refers to the Ultimatum of Claire that the Others have until Sundown to leave the temple.
WHY?
Why does the Locke-ness monster hate the Others so much? Well, it must have something to do with the fact that the Others followed Jacob who is the arch enemy of Locke-ness. However now that Jacob is gone and Locke-ness being as powerful as he is are they really a threat? And why kill them if you are going to leave the island? One might speculate that he is not really going to leave or perhaps because when he does leave if he left the Others alive then another Jacob would rise up to give him trouble wherever he is. Remember it is Jacob that had Locke-ness imprisoned on the island in the first place. He can only leave now because Jacob is dead.
SAYID
Sayid it seems has been tricked into becoming a bad guy. As Turgo said, once the darkness reached his heart there would be nothing left of the friend of Jack. That would seem to have happened. Sayid has now turned to the dark side and there is no turning back. This is why when Ben tries to get Sayid telling him there is still time Sayid replies not for me. Did you ever think that Ben would seem like more of a good guy than Sayid? So what Turgo said would happen has happened.
Locke-ness woos Sayid to his side by promising him his one love, Nadia, if he helps. Ben has referred to a box on the island and whatever you wanted could appear in that box. Perhaps Locke wished that his father would arrive on the island so much that he actually did. If so then this is a sad end to a character that I would have liked to have seen redeem himself after having been a torturer. But we see in both timelines that he kills people. It is the destiny of Sayid to be who he is and not with Nadia. I am reminded what Nadia wrote on her photo: I will see you again in this life or the next. Notice Keamy makes an appearance in AT. He was the bad guy on the freighter who shot the daughter of Ben. Nice to see he dies in both timelines.
But will Locke-ness make good on his promises or is he all smoke? Pardon the pun there. Who is Locke-ness? How old is he and how does he turn into smoke? Questions that beg for an answer. Richard said that Locke-ness would kill everyone on the island. Well, that would include Sayid to whom he made the promise. We have no reason to doubt Richard. Recall Locke-ness is guilty of indiscriminant killing. Remember Mister Eko?
WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
Where was Jin in the normal timeline in this episode? I thought Jin was leading Claire to a back way into the temple? Where was Richard? Is he not a leading member of the Others? Was he not on his way back to the temple after he spoke to Sawyer trying to get him to come with him? Do you think Bernard and Rose are out there somewhere? Perhaps they also got transported through time.
We do see Jin in AT when he is tied up at the end. Recall why Jin was on that plane? He was delivering a watch to someone in L.A. That watch was most likely a message to someone whom the father of Sun was dealing with. No doubt a bad person. So perhaps it was Keamy. Jin seems to have been beat up. They may have been trying to get information out of him.
Is it a surprise that so many of the Others left to join Locke-ness. They do not seem concerned that many of their friends are now dead and the man(being) they are following killed them. Let us go back to when Ben talked to Locke about the submarine. Ben mentions that the submarine gave the illusion that his followers could still leave at any time. Ben states that not all his followers have made a full commitment. Based on this, we are not too surprised then to see so many abandon the cause to follow Locke-ness. Also Jacob is dead. With no one to follow now why stay on? I mean what would be the point really?
We learn how Turgo came to the island. Jacob promised him his son back. A very similar promise was made to Sayid to gain his loyalty. So it seems that the two sides use similar tactics to gain followers. It should also be noted that Jacob was instrumental in the death of Nadia by distracting Sayid. Jacob and Locke-ness use the desires of people to recruit them. One wonders though if they get what they want? Did Jacob bring back the son of Turgo? By the way we probably saw this son at the conservatory where the son of Jack was performing.
Another question to ask is will the new Claire kill Kate now that she knows that she took care of Aaron?
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Refers to the Ultimatum of Claire that the Others have until Sundown to leave the temple.
WHY?
Why does the Locke-ness monster hate the Others so much? Well, it must have something to do with the fact that the Others followed Jacob who is the arch enemy of Locke-ness. However now that Jacob is gone and Locke-ness being as powerful as he is are they really a threat? And why kill them if you are going to leave the island? One might speculate that he is not really going to leave or perhaps because when he does leave if he left the Others alive then another Jacob would rise up to give him trouble wherever he is. Remember it is Jacob that had Locke-ness imprisoned on the island in the first place. He can only leave now because Jacob is dead.
SAYID
Sayid it seems has been tricked into becoming a bad guy. As Turgo said, once the darkness reached his heart there would be nothing left of the friend of Jack. That would seem to have happened. Sayid has now turned to the dark side and there is no turning back. This is why when Ben tries to get Sayid telling him there is still time Sayid replies not for me. Did you ever think that Ben would seem like more of a good guy than Sayid? So what Turgo said would happen has happened.
Locke-ness woos Sayid to his side by promising him his one love, Nadia, if he helps. Ben has referred to a box on the island and whatever you wanted could appear in that box. Perhaps Locke wished that his father would arrive on the island so much that he actually did. If so then this is a sad end to a character that I would have liked to have seen redeem himself after having been a torturer. But we see in both timelines that he kills people. It is the destiny of Sayid to be who he is and not with Nadia. I am reminded what Nadia wrote on her photo: I will see you again in this life or the next. Notice Keamy makes an appearance in AT. He was the bad guy on the freighter who shot the daughter of Ben. Nice to see he dies in both timelines.
But will Locke-ness make good on his promises or is he all smoke? Pardon the pun there. Who is Locke-ness? How old is he and how does he turn into smoke? Questions that beg for an answer. Richard said that Locke-ness would kill everyone on the island. Well, that would include Sayid to whom he made the promise. We have no reason to doubt Richard. Recall Locke-ness is guilty of indiscriminant killing. Remember Mister Eko?
WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
Where was Jin in the normal timeline in this episode? I thought Jin was leading Claire to a back way into the temple? Where was Richard? Is he not a leading member of the Others? Was he not on his way back to the temple after he spoke to Sawyer trying to get him to come with him? Do you think Bernard and Rose are out there somewhere? Perhaps they also got transported through time.
We do see Jin in AT when he is tied up at the end. Recall why Jin was on that plane? He was delivering a watch to someone in L.A. That watch was most likely a message to someone whom the father of Sun was dealing with. No doubt a bad person. So perhaps it was Keamy. Jin seems to have been beat up. They may have been trying to get information out of him.
Is it a surprise that so many of the Others left to join Locke-ness. They do not seem concerned that many of their friends are now dead and the man(being) they are following killed them. Let us go back to when Ben talked to Locke about the submarine. Ben mentions that the submarine gave the illusion that his followers could still leave at any time. Ben states that not all his followers have made a full commitment. Based on this, we are not too surprised then to see so many abandon the cause to follow Locke-ness. Also Jacob is dead. With no one to follow now why stay on? I mean what would be the point really?
We learn how Turgo came to the island. Jacob promised him his son back. A very similar promise was made to Sayid to gain his loyalty. So it seems that the two sides use similar tactics to gain followers. It should also be noted that Jacob was instrumental in the death of Nadia by distracting Sayid. Jacob and Locke-ness use the desires of people to recruit them. One wonders though if they get what they want? Did Jacob bring back the son of Turgo? By the way we probably saw this son at the conservatory where the son of Jack was performing.
Another question to ask is will the new Claire kill Kate now that she knows that she took care of Aaron?
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