My Serious, Logical Thoughts on Ab Aeterno

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