For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life. John 3:16
Of course, the title of this episode could have been John (Locke) 3:16, but we get the obvious reference from possibly the most widely quoted Bible verse amongst Christians, summarizing the New Testament in a nice, neat little package. The answer to salvation, to entering heaven. John pulled the ultimate sacrifice in dying so that he could save the people on and off the island. Another angle is that his death is the key to getting the Oceanic 6 to the island, entering heaven, if you will. Sure looks like Richard has eternal life. Jack finally confronts his lack of faith, which is the backbone of the Bible passage, a need for faith and belief. You can keep peeling back the layers, but it’s clear the messages the writers are establishing here.
I was disappointed with this episode. Last week, I took over 3 pages of notes, this week, a little over a page. Just not much to sink my teeth into; a hunk grizzle, cold and barely cooked. I am bored to tears by the off the island shenanigans of the Oceanic 6, and seems like the writers are too. I figured this season was going to focus on the return to the island of the O6 and time travel on the island. Well, we might have seen the end of both for this season by episode 6. Sure, there are a few loose ends to tie up and explain for the Oceanic 6, but it sure looks like the future of this season will focus on the Dharma Initiative, which I welcome. As cool as the time travel was, and I am sad to see it go away as it probably will, the biggest remaining unknown group associated with the island is Dharma and their time on the island. We have seen far too little of their back story, mostly described by other characters and not really shown, and we may get a bunch of answers about them going forward. Don’t forget the first scene of the season, Dr Chang waking up, and we see the construction of the Orchid along with Daniel sneaking around. It’s probably not an accident the season started with Dharma. It seems like every season starts with an introduction of a central theme of the upcoming season. Well, onto the exploration of the episode. Of course, needing some publicity for this blog, I would appreciate somebody report my writings to Al Sharpton. I don’t do anything all that controversial, but I need some free publicity, so send your emails to the Round Mound of Blathering Sound.
Jack wakes up in the jungle, a scene very similar to the pilot episode opening during Season 1. Except, when Jack woke up originally, Vincent was staring at him and an object looking a lot like Ben’s baton was lying next to him. Not this time, so instantly I was trying to figure out where this was a course correction of the original scene, or something else. Turns out it was different, but you can see how this kind of question will arise more and more in the future. Jack jumps head first into an unknown body of water with unknown depth from great height. This is the Jack S….nah. But I guess we find out that fat people can’t float, as Hurley was trying very hard to drink the contents of the lake until Jack saves him. Looked a lot like the lake that Sawyer and Kate were swimming in, when Sawyer found the gun in a suitcase from the marshal back during Season 1. Kate was lying on the rocks, and for a moment I got excited that her head was smashed in. Nope, I had to choke down my joy, which was a lot like eating a dirty, dry sock with no condiments. She’s alive. And, now we get a flashback announcement, 46 hours earlier, and have we ever seen an announcement of a flashback before? Usually, we have to figure it out. They just handed us the information. Ms Hawking leads the group assembled by Ben into the bowels of her church, and we discover our first hatch off the island or island perimeter, the Lamppost. Equipped with old computers, a swinging pendulum, flipping numbers like the Swan, top secret US Army photos, and all sorts of Good Will Hunting math all over several chalkboards. In other words, I liked it. This is where Dharma found the island.
Jack asks Ben did you know about this place. Ben says no. Mrs Hawking says that Ben is probably lying without missing a beat. She is used to Ben’s bullsh!t, but it’s so goooooood the way he lies about everything, or does his misdirection or doublespeak. Such a smooth guy. Dharma was very aware of pockets of electromagnetism on the planet, and was specifically looking for the island, confirming speculation that I and others mentioned during previous seasons. When Hawking says a clever man constructed the pendulum, I had to think this was Daniel. He has been working on time travel all his life, and possibly at some point in the past, I’m not sure how or when, he came up with the pendulum solution. It was nice to hear confirmation what we’ve known for a while. The island moves, in time. There are windows open at different points in time. Ben knew all about this, as his people could come and go as they pleased. Desmond freaks out on everybody about going back, tells Jack it’s all crap, they are pawns, and he eventually storms out. Hawking points out the island isn’t done with him yet. We have seen the power of the island in the real world, as we saw how Michael was unable to kill himself because the island wasn’t done with him. Desmond will come back at some point. The group needs to be on an Ajira flight to Guam and have to recreate the Oceanic 815 flight as much as possible, which sounds like fun. I thought there was such a sharp contrast between Desmond’s passion, and everybody else’s dispirited, zombie like attitude.
Let me pause for a second and ask, why doesn’t this island have a name? Nobody has ever referred to it as anything other than “the island”. If anybody would have known it, it would have been Hawking, and even she calls it “the island”. Hawking gives Jack the suicide note of Locke, revealing his cause of death at the same time. Another example of the John 3:16 sacrifice by Locke. I was rather surprised at missing the obvious, that Locke was to be the proxy for Christian Shepherd, a guy in a coffin that the island wants. Before I forget, I have posted at a couple of places before how odd that Jacob can be deconstructed as the following anagram with matching characters…
J John, Jack
A Aaron
C Christian, Claire
O
B Benjamin
Anyway, Hawking tells Jack he must put something of his father’s in the coffin with Locke. “This is ridiculous”. Here is our Jack Sucks Moment of the Week…..yeah, this one will do. THIS is ridiculous. You were on an island where smoke, SMOKE, kills people. You watched an island disappear into thin air. But giving Locke a souvenir is crazy. Shut up, stupid. When Jack wanders back into the church above, Ben retells the story of Doubting Thomas, who needed physical proof of the Resurrection, which was very appropriate considering Jack’s lack of faith for 5 seasons now. So many religious, Christianity references in this episode, which didn’t seem that out of place considering that they spent some time in a church. Ben doesn’t know what Hawking told Jack, and I bet it’s eating him up not knowing something. Ben leaves telling Jack he needs to keep a promise he made to an old friend, tie up a loose end. No doubt, Ben is going to visit Penny and do his best to kill her, keeping the promise he made to his buddy Charles Widmore. He realized that since Desmond had come out of hiding, and Penny was going to be with him, here was a chance to finally get revenge for the death of Alex. And, as I’ve said before, as much as I like the Penny character, I hope Ben pulls it off and kills off one of the most popular characters on the show. The fan outrage would be magnificent. And nobody would stop watching. I mean, how does anybody stop watching at this point? Jack is sitting in a bar, apparently unconsciously mirroring what his father was doing pre Oceanic 815. His grandfather is pulling a Kate and running away from his retirement home. It was kind of cool seeing the magician introduce a rabbit, as those creatures keep appearing in this show, at the Hydra, the Barracks, the Orchid, etc. In a moment of universe or purposeful course correction, Jack finds his father’s shoes in the suitcase. Either this was completely useless scene in a season of quick editing and no wasted time, or Granddad Ray will be significant for some reason at a later point in this series. Call me suspicious. It was just too convenient for Jack to come across those shoes. Jack goes home, hears a noise, then wanders around his house in the dark without a weapon because that is exactly the right way to confront a potential burglar. Jack Sucks Moment of the Week, Part Two. It’s Kate, pulling a Kate and is on the run again. She demands that Jack never again ask what happened to Aaron. Well, she obviously finally came to her senses, and finally realized that she is NOT Aaron’s mother. She saw that Jack was going away forever, and she had to decide whether Aaron or Jack was more important to her. She chose Jack. But don’t forget, that if she took Aaron back to the island, and if Claire is still alive, and Kate has no reason to doubt it, how could she remain Aaron’s mother. She can’t. So rather than bring Aaron back to his mother, she selfishly gave him away. To who? Well, she knows that Aaron’s grandmother is in town and where she is staying. That seems like a good place to take him to. Maybe she takes him to Cassidy, the mother of Sawyer’s child. Maybe Kate’s sick mother is looking after Aaron. I guess we will find out at some point, but I think Claire’s mother is the likely destination. Kate and Jack have sex, and mercifully a commercial comes on. These two selfish people deserve each other, but I’m sure we will have to endure the torturous Jack, Kate, and Sawyer stuff soon. Yuck.
If you recall, Christian Shepherd was sporting tennis shoes was back in Season 1 in the episode that Jack sees him walking in the jungle. Jack finally explains why in this episode. It’s that attention to detail that makes this show so special. Hey, nobody is going to see his feet in the coffin. Jack takes a phone call from a bloody and beaten Ben. I expected Ben to explain that he was in Buffalo and a 200 lb monkey got pissed at him. But no explanation was forth coming. Did Ben kill Penny? Did Desmond pound Ben for trying to kill Penny? We can be fairly certain that Ben did not kill Desmond, as Ben has to realize by now that Desmond is special to the island, although he wasn‘t around during the Constant episode, so maybe Ben doesn‘t know everything. Jack visits Ben’s favorite butcher Jillian, from a few episodes ago, to retrieve Locke’s body. Jillian asks Jack what’s in the bag. Seems like Ben and his cronies are very interested in what Jack is up to, especially after the private talk with Hawking. As Jack talks with the corpse of Locke, I find his brand spanking new attitude as more humble, slowly turning the corner with his faith…he is more likable. Wow, I actually wrote that. Jack is more likeable. He’s still as sharp as a bowl of oatmeal, but more likeable. He does his beaten down Al Bundy chore, and reluctantly changes Locke’s shoes. Not much to read into Jack’s talk with Locke. It just seemed like a bit of fluff. Whatever.
At the airport, we start to see parallels to the original Oceanic 815 trip, reconstructed from early episodes and flashbacks. Jack is having trouble getting a corpse on the plane, like in Sydney. Some guy tells Jack “My condolences”, and he ends up on the plane. Who is he? Yet another Widmore associate who possibly staked out Hawking’s church which Widmore knew was a place of interest after Desmond’s visit, and saw Ben with other familiar faces, and just so happened to buy a ticket? Otherwise, why waste screen time on him. Sayid walks by in handcuffs, like Kate did before. But why is somebody bringing a prisoner to Guam of all places? Kate, Sayid, Jack, Sun, and here’s Hurley. Sitting, reading a sci-fi comic/magazine, like Walt did on the plane. Um, did anybody consider bringing Walt along? He is the only one off the island that was on the Oceanic 815 plane that didn’t make this flight. Desmond didn’t get on the plane, but he reached the island by sailboat, so odds are he will go back the same way. I wonder if he gets the same side effects? And what if Penny is dead? Does Desmond go to the island to get revenge on Ben, but his constant is dead, so will he survive the trip? Hurley bought 78 tickets to prevent more people from getting on the plane, no doubt trying to keep more people from dying from a plane crash, but those that bought tickets in advance seemed to fill up the coach/tail section. I wonder what the significance of “78” is? Could it be that there were 48 original Losties, 108 is the sum of the “numbers” and 78 is the exact middle? Could the year the Jungle 5 are in be 1978? Maybe I’m reading into it too much. And how did Hurley know about the flight? To be answered in a flashback. Probably a visit from Charlie, who also gave him a guitar. Hurley is now Charlie on the plane. Ben arrives at the last second, like Hurley originally did. Lots of parallels. Jack asks Ben what will happen to the other people on the plane, and Ben delivers the line of the episode: Who Cares? Beautifully done. Jack goes to make some horrible small talk with moody Kate. God, I hope Jack didn’t get Kate pregnant with that last roll in the sack. I can’t imagine Kate being even more annoying while pregnant with the spawn of Doctor Stupid. Maybe’s she will give birth to a 4 toed baby that make a mechanical whirring sound as it pops out of her womb. Hey, we get to see our buddy helicopter pilot Frank, not looking like a shaggy hippie, but as a clean shaven pilot. “We aren’t going to Guam, are we?” Well said. Yet, Frank doesn’t panic at all. Nothing phases him; he put a helicopter down in the ocean after watching an island disappear, and nobody died. Go fock yourself, Sully.
Ben is reading Ulysses, which parallels with Homer’s Odysses. I never read either, but I did a little bit of research. Apparently, the book is full of enigmas and other tough to follow stuff, that I got bored trying to learn about it. But I noticed that the last episode of the book is titled Penelope, which could be a clue to what Ben was doing bleeding all over a phone booth, calling Jack. A confirmation. Ben tells Jack that he didn’t know how Locke died. Sigh, it’s starting to get easier to spot Ben’s lies. No, Jack it wasn’t your fault. Well, to be fair, Jack didn’t help. Jack gets a moment alone to read Locke’s note. “I wish you’d believed in me, JL.” Nice, short, and to the point. Good thing is was short, as the plane starts to shake. We see the familiar flash of bright light, and TIME TRAVEL happens. No crash. We see that Jack, Kate, and Hurley have time traveled off the plane, seemingly. What happens to the plane? Depends on who leapt. Did Sayid, Sun, Ben, Frank, Locke make it off? Did any of the new characters, like the My Condolences guy, or the marshal attached to Sayid. If Frank is gone, who is flying the plane. If the plane crashed, did anybody survive? And if they did, are they the ones that were shooting at the Jungle 6 in the canoe race? As we get the Jack, Hurley, Kate scene replays, we see a Dharma van pull up. A man with a Dharma security patch points a gun at J, K, H. It’s Jin. But he shows no expression of recognition on his face. First of all, it sure looks like Jin is a Dharma person, and has been for a while, as he is a full fledged member apparently. As are probably Juliet, Sawyer, Miles, Daniel. Which means they have stopped leaping in time. Locke fixed the wheel, and they are all stuck in the past. Jack, Hurley, and Kate are now in the past, at the same time. The wildcards are did Ben time jump, and if Desmond returns to the island, will he be all alone in the present. If Ben did time jump, will he have to try to prevent himself from doing the purge, in order to prevent himself from killing himself. Ah, how great is that scenario. And if the purge doesn’t happen, maybe Jin is actually in the present time, where Dharma was never killed off, and they survived to the present day, as the island course corrected itself with the time traveling to save Dharma because all the stuff that came afterwards was not palatable to the island. Jin doesn’t look older, but neither does Richard, so all bets are off. So does Jin recognize them? Does he carry a grudge against them for leaving him behind to be blown up on the freighter. Many questions opened up, but we didn’t get many interesting answers. Well, at least we are back on the island.
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Monday, February 16, 2009
5.05 This Place Is Death
I thought this was a terrific episode, and one of the best in Lost history. I don’t know how the writers can keep this pace up. But I’m enjoying the ride. Not coincidently, this is the longest write-up of the season, by 20%.
Prior to this episode, I posted at several of my favorite message boards that I was prepared to consider the idea that the island was course correcting itself by moving people around in time like so many chess pieces, trying to preserve history, or change what had gone wrong in the past. Little did I know, there were several very clear examples of this very idea during this episode. Among previous references to this idea, during the enhanced episode preceding the new one, it was pointed out that Sawyer watching Kate and Claire was interesting, but to me the most interesting part of that image was that it was missing Jin and Charlie, who appeared in that scene in Season 1. So this scene was different. Why? Alternate timeline/universes are popping up, where even though the main events remain the same, some of the details are changing. Sure, Claire still gave birth, but not exactly the same way. So where Daniel and Sawyer have said that was happened, happens., but what they fail to realize is that there are changes anyway.
Even though I want to go back to the island right away for the incredible time travel storyline, answers to our questions, and references to past seasons, we get stuck with the Oceanic 6 on the dock. Sun gets a phone call and does what any other mother will do “I’ll be going home tomorrow (after I kill somebody for no reason) and by the way, here in the backseat I found a playmate for you (who will be traumatized the rest of his life for witnessing a cold blooded murder). Sure, keep trying to make Sun out as a sympathetic figure, you douchey writers. It’s not going to work when she brought Aaron along in the backseat. Cold. Hearted. Ben again points out to Kate that Aaron is not her son. Ben gets it. We get it. Everybody gets it. Kate is delusional. As Sun threatens Ben with a gun, he tells her what we already know “nobody killed Jin, he is alive, I can prove it.” Jin and the French 6 are on the island. Did anybody else notice how the groups are broken out right now, the Jungle 6 (Locke, Sawyer, Juliet, Miles, Daniel, Charlotte), the Oceanic 6 (Jack, Kate, Sun, Sayid, Hurley, Aaron) and now the French 6 + Jin. Then again, 6,6,6 and you have to wonder about the island, since that carries serious religious connotations as the mark of the Beast from the book of the Revelations from the New Testament, a true symbol of evil. Don’t expect me tell you all the Frenchie names, I have no idea nor care. We hear one of the French guys listening to a radio transmission of 4,8,15,16,23,42. If you recall, when Hurley traveled to Australia back in season one, investigating the curse of the numbers, the woman he talked to in the ranch house told a story of how her husband was stationed in the South Pacific to monitor transmission and communication, and he would hear those numbers over and over again. He eventually went mad over the numbers. So, connecting the dots, when Shannon tells up in Season 1 that the distress signal is in French, and Sayid determines that the message has been broadcasting for 16 years, we now can confirm the original transmission and that Danielle did indeed end up changing the message. By the way, how odd that we have a Daniel and Danielle on the same show. Even though they apparently never met. Through a series of questions, Jin let’s us know that it’s 1988. As the group makes for the radio tower, Danielle does not know who Jin is, nor did she in the future? This is simply odd, but most likely just another example of alternate universe. Also, if Jin is so gung-ho in finding his wife, and he knows it’s 1988, how the hell does he expect to accomplish this? Makes no sense, but, whatever. Weak premise for a jaunt through the jungle. Walking along, Danielle feels the kick of her baby, and we find out this is absolutely Alex, Robert is the father, not Ben as some might have suspected. Ben kept saying Alex was his daughter, but he kidnapped her from a “crazy woman” he admitted this all too obvious plot vehicle just before Keamy put a bullet in Alex’s head last season. Uh, oh, Nadine is missing. Gee, what are the odds she is dead. Considering that Naomi, Nadia, are dead, and a Nadine is missing, it sure looks like the third of these alliteration sisters will soon be taking a permanent dirt nap. An eerie silence grips the jungle. I sit up on my couch, and I’m crouching, ready to react. There are those familiar sounds. Jin tells us the magical, wonderful news. “Monster”.
YEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The French 6 and Jin are looking for Nadine while trees are exploding around them and the monster is about to appear. And not as the namby-pamby version that merely wounded one of Keamy’s men. No, this is the same bad ass monster that was such a menace the first 2 or 3 seasons, especially season 1. And just like in Season 1, the monster kills Nadine in a seemingly similar way it killed the pilot. Nadine falls from the sky. Jin points out that it might be a good time to run away. Before they get going, the monster grabs Montand and starts to drag him through the jungle, exactly like it was dragging Locke in Season 1, trying to pull him underground into a hole. The rest of the group chases and does a pig pile while trying to keep Montand from disappearing into the hole. The smoke curls around Montand even more so like a snake or octopus might, and gives a tug, leaving the group with an arm souvenir. I have to wonder if this might be the same severed arm from Season 3, which Vincent found during the episode of Hurley and the Dharma van; mostly because it was never clearly established to my satisfaction that the arm came from the dead guy (Ben’s father) in the van. In a matter of seconds, Montand is shouting from the hole, it’s gone, I’m hurt, help me. Now, this is a classic horror movie plot device, not that it’s good, but that is what almost horror movie does. Consider as an example of this psychology, you jump into some murky lake, and the water is much colder than expected. When the people you are with ask you “how’s the water?” what do you say. “The water’s great, jump in!!” Bullsh!t. But you are trying to get the rest of the group to experience what you just went through. For what possible motivation? The evil in human nature. Wanting others to suffer like you. Also, consider that the smoke monster is apparently guarding an ancient wall, which we see in another 2 minutes, full of hieroglyphics, making it seem like Smokie is much like Cerberus, the 3 headed dog guarding Hades in mythology. So either Mortand is being evil, or has instantly been converted to an evil person, in seconds, and is asking his colleagues to march right into the cold water of death of life itself or maybe their consciousness. This reminded me so much of that creepiness of a character in Dreamcatcher, the movie based on the Stephen King novel. An alien being begins to possess a main character in the movie, and he acts just enough “off” to alert his friends. Either way, creepy scenario, especially as the French decide to climb in after him. Are you people nuts? Have you never seen Dreamcatcher, even though it was made over a decade in the future. Afterall, only fooks are enslaved by time and space, so no excuses. My first instinct would be to run away, screaming through the jungle. And you people are French. All of the sudden you get brave. Bah. And I don’t want to hear about my French bashing. My father lived in France for 20 years, and he hates it more than the British, frog‘s that want to keep their legs, and the French themselves. Maybe I’m just pissed off that Steve Martin continues to make Peter Sellers spin in his grave with another awful Pink Panther movie. Sacre Blue. Anyway, in an island course correcting moment, Jin prevents Danielle from climbing in with the others. And she was going to do it. Jin/the island saves her, keeping her around for later. This also struck me a division between the purpose of the island vs. the purpose of the smoke monster. They are not on the same page. While Smokie is tempting Danielle into death/brainwashing, the island sent Jin back to a specific time and place to make sure Danielle is safe, and around to greet the Oceanic 815 Losties 16 years from now. There are dueling forces on the island, as well as there should be. The hieroglyphics give us a poke as to maybe this is the Temple that Ben has referred to a couple of times during Season 4. But Ben called is a safe house for Richard and the Others, and even sent Danielle, Alex, and Karl to the Temple to avoid Keamy’s men. How exactly is it safe, when a loose cannon like Smokie is hanging around? Can the others control it? Somehow, I doubt it. Did Ben actually summon it in Season 4 to attack Keamy’s men? I still don’t know for sure. Whenever we learn anything new about Smokie, it opens up more questions. Jin time jumps. He spots some smoke on the horizon, and sets off in that direction. This was very reminiscent of the beach scene during Season 1, when Danielle foretold of an attack by the Others, and then kidnapped Aaron. She lit a fire at the beach as foreboding yet fake signal. As Jin wanders around the beach campsite, we see the broken music box which Sayid will eventually fix in Season 1 when he is captured by Danielle and taken to her torture chamber. Aha, two dead bodies, no doubt shot, but both have arms. Danielle and Robert are in a stand off on the beach. Danielle is accusing Robert of having the sickness, the same sickness she spoke about during Season 1 as to what happened to rest of her castaways. She went on to explain that she had to shoot them all, and this was mostly true. After Robert convinces Danielle to lower her gun, creepily he tries to kill her. Click. Nothing. The island is protecting Danielle for a second time, against the wishes of whatever it was that the puppy dog Cerberus was dragging his prey back to, in the darkness of the underground. But Robert said something very interesting. The monster is a security system for the Temple. Is Robert trustworthy at this point? Is he telling us truth, or a lie to convince Danielle to lower her gun? Danielle believes it, as that is what she tells the Losties during Season 1, but do we believe it? I mean, we see what could be A temple, maybe not THE temple. Seems plausible. Danielle kills Robert and tries to up her kill count by taking out Jin too, but we all knew that wasn’t going to happen. You have to wonder, if Danielle saw Jin 16 years ago, and saw the guy disappear right before her eyes, and recognized him the very next time she saw him, why didn’t she recognize him when Oceanic 815 crash happened and Danielle was interacting with the Losties. Did she figure out that Jin time traveled and saved her life, but still didn’t say anything? Did she never meet him in the past universe? Well, the Danielle chapter closes, but three questions linger which may never be answered. What happened when Ben was captured by Danielle in Season 2? Why/How did Ben take Alex away from Danielle? Why did the Others allow Danielle to roam around the island? After Jin time jumps, he is reunited with the Jungle 6, now renamed in my world as the Jungle 7, for now. Where is Sun? I suppose he thinks she survived the freighter explosion, drifting in the seas for a while, and is in 1988 like he is. That is a lot of hope for something so remotely possible.
Sawyer is trying to explain to Jin that they are time traveling. Everybody seems surprised that Charlotte can speak Korean, but we saw this during Season 4, as during a trip to the medical hatch, Jin realized that Charlotte could understand the dialogue between himself and Sun. He threatened the safety of Daniel to Charlotte if Sun did not get off the island later that episode, the one where Jack had his appendix removed. She tells Jin that Sun is alive, according to Locke, and they are trying to bring her back to the island. Ben has a gun pointed at his face, and I swear, Ben gulped. I rewound to make sure. Is this a convincing acting job, or an actual moment of concern by Mr. Smooth And In Control At All Times. I think that he realizes that it has to be Widmore that is helping Sun at this point. Someone in LA can show you proof that Jin is alive. So many people are apparently busy in LA, dealing with the island. After all, that was the destination of Oceanic 815, where Claire was going to give up Aaron, where Jin was conducting an errand for Mr Paik, and so on. Now, post crash, we see Desmond headed there with Widmore’s help, and all of the Oceanic 815 in the area. Eloise Hawkings. It’s a magnet of some sort. Or course correction by the universe, of course. Kate is trying to leave, and throws a hissy fit in Jack’s direction. “You pretended to care about me and Aaron and blah, blah, blah, me, me, me, me, me…“ Oh, just shut up already. We get it. Everything is always about you. Maybe not on the island, at least until you got Sawyer and Jack jousting because of you. But once you got rescued, the world revolves around you. Holy smokes, Kate is probably the most selfish person on the show. Sayid leaves too. So, that leaves Ben, Jack, and Sun for the road trip. Meanwhile, back to the Jungle 7. Locke is explaining how leaving the island is a one person job. Another time jump, and yet another one seconds later, each more violent than the next. So, either they are jumping further and further into the past and future, or the effects are getting more severe, or both. Sawyer is now the 4th member of the group to start bleeding. Interestingly enough, Daniel is not bleeding. Nor is Locke. Nor Jin. Well, Locke is protected by the island. But why not Danielle. Didn’t he say to Miles last episode that he thought the bleeding had something to do with the amount of time somebody had been on the island. Well, Charlotte then Miles then Juliet then Sawyer is the order. We know that Juliet has been on the island for about 3 years, and Sawyer about 3 months. So, aside from tracking down the back stories of Charlotte and Miles, why not Daniel? Is he special like Desmond? Because he time traveled in the past, and can handle the side effects? Jin is probably going to be next, as he was unconscious for a while, so the effects were less severe on his consciousness. Charlotte speaks to Jin as if possessed, and very much echoing Claire’s appearance at Kate’s house last season, “Don’t let them bring her back, this place is death.” Again, another example of the island having contradictory agendas. Richard says they have to come back. Here we have the opposite. A battle of good and evil on the island? But, who are the good guys?
So as Ben drives on, Jack apologizes to Sun for leaving Jin behind. Let’s all welcome back our Jack Sucks Moment of the Week. It’s not bad enough that you are now following Ben around like a beaten puppy, with sad eyes, doing whatever he wants you to do. You are a beaten man. Now, you apologize to Sun for essentially saving her life, and yours, and the other people in the helicopter. You’d be dead, stupid, if you waited for Jin. We as the viewers know it’s Jin’s fault he went Ka-boom. He was dawdling with the wires of the explosives for no good reason, after Desmond the expert gave up on them. Why are you hanging out with Michael when you know you have to prepare to evacuate. What Sun needs to come to grips with, what someone needs to tell her, is it’s Jin’s own stupid ass that got him killed. Ben is trying to help Jack, even if it is for selfish reasons. He got him off the pills and cleaned him up. So when Sun and Jack start talking about killing Ben, Ben pulls over like an angry parent with some unruly kids in the back, and I was hoping he would pimp slap Jack. “I’m helping you. You’d never stop thanking me for what I’ve done.“ Don’t make me turn this car around or I‘ll beat you with my shoe when we get home. OK, Ben, it was a bit over the top. But how can Sun and Jack be so obtuse? The guy just told you your husband isn’t dead, and he is saving your pill popping broken down life, and you are talking about killing Ben.. Ben needs to take Sun and Jack and bonk their heads together like Larry and Curley. Yeah, Ben always acts in his best interests, but all of the sudden he is being more truthful and actually stopping the Oceanic 6 from screwing up their lives so badly So, the real question is, was Ben telling the truth when he told Michael on the dock at the end of Season 2, “We’re the good guys.” We will probably find out for sure by the end of this season, and maybe by the end of the episode. As Charlotte is falling apart after the last Jungle 7 time jump, she starts a stream of consciousness that tells us a lot about her background/past. “Why can’t daddy come with us?” So, would it possible that Charlotte was born on the island, but left with her mother, leaving her father behind. So who is Charlotte’s father? Not sure at this point. Who is her mother? Well, since the natives don’t leave the island for good, it’s Dharma, so her father was probably killed during the purge. “You know what mother would say about marrying an American.” Was this a reference to Daniel’s affection for her. Or a reference to her past in a conversation to someone. Either way, her mystery mother hates Americans, which means that her father is likely American. Whilethe rest of Jungle 7 argue over leaving Charlotte behind, another time jump, and Charlotte babbles about Geronimo Jackson, a band referenced in Season 2 in the Swan hatch, and Season 4 as Locke has a poster of the band in his locker when we see him in a flashback to his time in high school. Charlotte tells them to look for the well, as they take off for the Orchid, leaving Charlotte and Daniel behind. As they approach a broken wall near where the Orchid station is, Juliet says “Thank God we are in the same time as this thing….” they time jump. Again, I am convinced that Juliet knows a lot more than she is saying during these time jumps. What exactly was the broken structure? Locke finds the well Charlotte referenced. I have to wonder if Charlotte knew about it, or if she was possessed again, by the opposite of what said this place is death, and was trying to get Locke off the island. Tug of war. Charlotte has moment of clarity, enough to tell Daniel that she was on the island before, she was Dharma, explains why she was happy when she found the Dharma polar bear collar in the desert. Also, Miles accused her at the end of last season of being born on the island. And why Charlotte said she has been looking for this island her whole life to Daniel as he was shuttling people on the Zodiac. All true, from Season 4. She moved away from the island with her mother, never saw her father again who was probably killed in the purge, her mother denied this island existed, and that she just NOW remembers a crazy man warned her to never come back to the island, that she would die, and that man was you. Now, that’s a plot twist. I have little doubt this is related to the opening scene of this season, when Daniel was sneaking around in the Orchid as a Dharma worker. When he got to this time frame, Charlotte was probably on the island, and he tried to warn her to stay away. In this case, this was a major event, and Daniel was not able to prevent what happened, happens. The island simply didn’t want Charlotte to stay away. And so many characters have memories that are conveniently remembering randomly NOW about some fact that is important.
Locke is preparing to climb down the rope into the well. Jin doesn’t want Sun to come back, threatens the rope, then hands over his ring, tell her I’m dead because the island is bad. I guess I’d be shaken up too if I just saw a monster drag somebody underground, a bunch of sick people shot to death, have been time traveling all day, and see Charlotte speak to him in tongues. Yeah, I might be freaked out too. Locke promises he won’t bring Sun back, knowing full well that he will be dead, so it will probably be somebody else, like Ben, bringing her back. Sneaky. Juliet again gives off the vibe that she knows exactly what is happening and will happen tells Locke, “For what you are attempting to do if it actually works, thank you.”. Let’s compare that to Jack and Sun. If Ben is wrong, let’s kill him. And down Locke goes. Uh, oh, the time jump happens as Locke is swinging from his rope. From last week’s writeup…
Revisiting the Jungle 6, Locke hatches a plan to return to the Orchid, but no idea what to do when they get there. You know, this probably isn’t very bright. If they go into the hatch, and time jump to a time before the hatch was built, would they just leap inside the ground, basically burying themselves alive?
…and we see the bright light at the bottom of the well as the sky turns bright, and John finds out what is at the bottom of the well, the hard way. The Jungle 7, now Jungle 6 are horrified to see the rope leading into the ground and the well gone. Now, considering the difficulty in constructing a well, and no Orchid station around, the Jungle folks are no doubt deep in the past. Daniel tells Charlotte that Desmond will find his mother and they will help us. Well, sparky, you better hope for some really, really, really quick help, because Charlotte mumbles about chocolate before dinner, and dies. Of course, without Daniel ever kissing her or going on a date or at the very least having sex. Daniel is devastated that the woman he loves is dead. Oh, by the way, Happy Valentine’s Day everybody!!!! Charlotte Staples Lewis was a reference to C.S. Lewis, noted author, who conjured up a series of children’s books loosely based on the New Testament of the Bible, otherwise know as the Chronicles of Narnia. The premise was a group of youngsters stumbling onto a hidden world of magic and miracles, where time moved in a very different way than their own native world. Charlotte’s last words of chocolate reminded me so much of Edmund asking the White Witch for Turkish Delight, a kind of sweet treat in the book The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. Anyway, she’s dead. Charlotte was about as popular as Nikki and Paulo, our favorite buried alive Losties. I felt as much sadness as watching a mango fall out of a tree.
Locke is in pain at the bottom of the well, and nobody is coming to rescue baby Jessica. Seems like Locke gets a hell of a lot of leg injuries, for a guys that shouldn’t be walking. Hey, it’s Christian, out and about, away from Jacob’s Cabin, not that the cabin has been built yet by Horace Goodspeed in the future, and the disappearance of the well most likely predates Dharma. So Christian is hanging out in the chamber of the frozen donkey wheel instead. I wonder if Christian is time jumping as well, afterall, he is in the past, much sooner than when he arrived in a coffin on the island. Let’s face it, when Jack found the coffin of his father during Season 1, he never found the corpse. He saw him walking around in the jungle. Is Christian reincarnated, or simply the island/Jacob spokesman, a manifestation? “I said that YOU had to move the island”. Well, we don’t know for sure if he did or not. If you recall, at the end of last Season, Locke asked Christian “What do we need to do to save the island?”. Christian told him this was the correct question. But next we see Locke emerge from the cabin to tell Ben and Hurley, “WE have to move the island.” We never saw anybody specific cited as the person that needs to move the island. Locke stammers out “Ben said….” And Christian delivers a powerful statement “Since when did listening to him get you anywhere worth a damn?” Sweet. Now we are getting somewhere. This is as clear of argument you can make for the island course correcting itself, to undue the damage Ben did. The island is pissed off at Ben, and pissed off Locke listened to Ben. So Ben was/is trying to manipulate the island. If Ben comes back with the Oceanic 6 and possibly others (Walt, Desmond, Frank), he is going to be in a world of trouble, if Jacob is unhappy with him for his shenanigans. So, if Ben a good guy? Well, for sure, he is competing with Kate as the most selfish character on the show at this point, even though Ben tends to do more good works as opposed to, say, Charles Widmore, and Locke is the run away winner of most easily manipulated. It’s almost like the island was stuck with Ben because he was less evil than Widmore, bt when Locke came along, here was a true champion for the island instead of a competition of who is the least evil between Ben and Charles. While Locke was absolutely correct in his instinct of going back to the Orchid to fix everything, he was too driven by pride as the man to lead the Others carrot that Ben dangled in front of him to see that Ben was still pulling his strings. You must visit a woman in LA, Eloise Hawkings. Los Angeles again!! Hawkings again!!! The whole world is headed to her church for Woodstock 2009. John has to bring back all of them, sacrifice his life, fix the donkey wheel, all without any help getting up. Christian no doubt is trying to teach Locke a lesson on stopping his annoying habit of depending on other people. The wheel is going back and forth, slipping on it’s axis. Was this because Ben moved it instead of Locke, or because Ben purposely disobeyed the Dr Chang instructions on the orientation tape in the Orchid station. Still, this bottom of the well chamber looked different than the one that Ben was inside at the very end of last season. It seems that Locke is on the OTHER side of the wall, the opposite side of the frozen wall and chamber. After all, only a part of the wheel is showing, so it’s certainly plausible. Locke fixes the wheel, and as he starts to disappear, Christian tells Locke to say hello to my son for me, to which Locke is baffled since he has no idea Christian is Jack’s father. Sawyer knows who Christian is and is Jack‘s father, based on Season 1 and meeting him a bar, but I don’t think anybody else does, except for maybe Kate, if Jack told her. And where is Claire this season? Odd how characters can just disappear like that. Ben arrives with his motley crew at the Hawkings church. He presents Sun with Jin’s ring, which Locke gave to Ben. Apparently, Locke kept his word not to visit Sun. Desmond walks out of the shadows and says howdy. Ben is very surprised. What are you doing here? Same as you, looking for Faraday’s mother. Ben is thunderstruck. He had zero idea that Eloise Hawkings was Daniel Faraday’s mother, unlike many of the Lost fans who had this pegged during the Season 5 opening two episodes. Ben brings the group inside, and Hawkings tells them let’s get started.
That’s it for this week. I need to get busy gift wrapping a Valentine’s Day gift for the Smoke Monster. Maybe a Whitman’s Sampler of chocolate covered French arms.
Prior to this episode, I posted at several of my favorite message boards that I was prepared to consider the idea that the island was course correcting itself by moving people around in time like so many chess pieces, trying to preserve history, or change what had gone wrong in the past. Little did I know, there were several very clear examples of this very idea during this episode. Among previous references to this idea, during the enhanced episode preceding the new one, it was pointed out that Sawyer watching Kate and Claire was interesting, but to me the most interesting part of that image was that it was missing Jin and Charlie, who appeared in that scene in Season 1. So this scene was different. Why? Alternate timeline/universes are popping up, where even though the main events remain the same, some of the details are changing. Sure, Claire still gave birth, but not exactly the same way. So where Daniel and Sawyer have said that was happened, happens., but what they fail to realize is that there are changes anyway.
Even though I want to go back to the island right away for the incredible time travel storyline, answers to our questions, and references to past seasons, we get stuck with the Oceanic 6 on the dock. Sun gets a phone call and does what any other mother will do “I’ll be going home tomorrow (after I kill somebody for no reason) and by the way, here in the backseat I found a playmate for you (who will be traumatized the rest of his life for witnessing a cold blooded murder). Sure, keep trying to make Sun out as a sympathetic figure, you douchey writers. It’s not going to work when she brought Aaron along in the backseat. Cold. Hearted. Ben again points out to Kate that Aaron is not her son. Ben gets it. We get it. Everybody gets it. Kate is delusional. As Sun threatens Ben with a gun, he tells her what we already know “nobody killed Jin, he is alive, I can prove it.” Jin and the French 6 are on the island. Did anybody else notice how the groups are broken out right now, the Jungle 6 (Locke, Sawyer, Juliet, Miles, Daniel, Charlotte), the Oceanic 6 (Jack, Kate, Sun, Sayid, Hurley, Aaron) and now the French 6 + Jin. Then again, 6,6,6 and you have to wonder about the island, since that carries serious religious connotations as the mark of the Beast from the book of the Revelations from the New Testament, a true symbol of evil. Don’t expect me tell you all the Frenchie names, I have no idea nor care. We hear one of the French guys listening to a radio transmission of 4,8,15,16,23,42. If you recall, when Hurley traveled to Australia back in season one, investigating the curse of the numbers, the woman he talked to in the ranch house told a story of how her husband was stationed in the South Pacific to monitor transmission and communication, and he would hear those numbers over and over again. He eventually went mad over the numbers. So, connecting the dots, when Shannon tells up in Season 1 that the distress signal is in French, and Sayid determines that the message has been broadcasting for 16 years, we now can confirm the original transmission and that Danielle did indeed end up changing the message. By the way, how odd that we have a Daniel and Danielle on the same show. Even though they apparently never met. Through a series of questions, Jin let’s us know that it’s 1988. As the group makes for the radio tower, Danielle does not know who Jin is, nor did she in the future? This is simply odd, but most likely just another example of alternate universe. Also, if Jin is so gung-ho in finding his wife, and he knows it’s 1988, how the hell does he expect to accomplish this? Makes no sense, but, whatever. Weak premise for a jaunt through the jungle. Walking along, Danielle feels the kick of her baby, and we find out this is absolutely Alex, Robert is the father, not Ben as some might have suspected. Ben kept saying Alex was his daughter, but he kidnapped her from a “crazy woman” he admitted this all too obvious plot vehicle just before Keamy put a bullet in Alex’s head last season. Uh, oh, Nadine is missing. Gee, what are the odds she is dead. Considering that Naomi, Nadia, are dead, and a Nadine is missing, it sure looks like the third of these alliteration sisters will soon be taking a permanent dirt nap. An eerie silence grips the jungle. I sit up on my couch, and I’m crouching, ready to react. There are those familiar sounds. Jin tells us the magical, wonderful news. “Monster”.
YEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The French 6 and Jin are looking for Nadine while trees are exploding around them and the monster is about to appear. And not as the namby-pamby version that merely wounded one of Keamy’s men. No, this is the same bad ass monster that was such a menace the first 2 or 3 seasons, especially season 1. And just like in Season 1, the monster kills Nadine in a seemingly similar way it killed the pilot. Nadine falls from the sky. Jin points out that it might be a good time to run away. Before they get going, the monster grabs Montand and starts to drag him through the jungle, exactly like it was dragging Locke in Season 1, trying to pull him underground into a hole. The rest of the group chases and does a pig pile while trying to keep Montand from disappearing into the hole. The smoke curls around Montand even more so like a snake or octopus might, and gives a tug, leaving the group with an arm souvenir. I have to wonder if this might be the same severed arm from Season 3, which Vincent found during the episode of Hurley and the Dharma van; mostly because it was never clearly established to my satisfaction that the arm came from the dead guy (Ben’s father) in the van. In a matter of seconds, Montand is shouting from the hole, it’s gone, I’m hurt, help me. Now, this is a classic horror movie plot device, not that it’s good, but that is what almost horror movie does. Consider as an example of this psychology, you jump into some murky lake, and the water is much colder than expected. When the people you are with ask you “how’s the water?” what do you say. “The water’s great, jump in!!” Bullsh!t. But you are trying to get the rest of the group to experience what you just went through. For what possible motivation? The evil in human nature. Wanting others to suffer like you. Also, consider that the smoke monster is apparently guarding an ancient wall, which we see in another 2 minutes, full of hieroglyphics, making it seem like Smokie is much like Cerberus, the 3 headed dog guarding Hades in mythology. So either Mortand is being evil, or has instantly been converted to an evil person, in seconds, and is asking his colleagues to march right into the cold water of death of life itself or maybe their consciousness. This reminded me so much of that creepiness of a character in Dreamcatcher, the movie based on the Stephen King novel. An alien being begins to possess a main character in the movie, and he acts just enough “off” to alert his friends. Either way, creepy scenario, especially as the French decide to climb in after him. Are you people nuts? Have you never seen Dreamcatcher, even though it was made over a decade in the future. Afterall, only fooks are enslaved by time and space, so no excuses. My first instinct would be to run away, screaming through the jungle. And you people are French. All of the sudden you get brave. Bah. And I don’t want to hear about my French bashing. My father lived in France for 20 years, and he hates it more than the British, frog‘s that want to keep their legs, and the French themselves. Maybe I’m just pissed off that Steve Martin continues to make Peter Sellers spin in his grave with another awful Pink Panther movie. Sacre Blue. Anyway, in an island course correcting moment, Jin prevents Danielle from climbing in with the others. And she was going to do it. Jin/the island saves her, keeping her around for later. This also struck me a division between the purpose of the island vs. the purpose of the smoke monster. They are not on the same page. While Smokie is tempting Danielle into death/brainwashing, the island sent Jin back to a specific time and place to make sure Danielle is safe, and around to greet the Oceanic 815 Losties 16 years from now. There are dueling forces on the island, as well as there should be. The hieroglyphics give us a poke as to maybe this is the Temple that Ben has referred to a couple of times during Season 4. But Ben called is a safe house for Richard and the Others, and even sent Danielle, Alex, and Karl to the Temple to avoid Keamy’s men. How exactly is it safe, when a loose cannon like Smokie is hanging around? Can the others control it? Somehow, I doubt it. Did Ben actually summon it in Season 4 to attack Keamy’s men? I still don’t know for sure. Whenever we learn anything new about Smokie, it opens up more questions. Jin time jumps. He spots some smoke on the horizon, and sets off in that direction. This was very reminiscent of the beach scene during Season 1, when Danielle foretold of an attack by the Others, and then kidnapped Aaron. She lit a fire at the beach as foreboding yet fake signal. As Jin wanders around the beach campsite, we see the broken music box which Sayid will eventually fix in Season 1 when he is captured by Danielle and taken to her torture chamber. Aha, two dead bodies, no doubt shot, but both have arms. Danielle and Robert are in a stand off on the beach. Danielle is accusing Robert of having the sickness, the same sickness she spoke about during Season 1 as to what happened to rest of her castaways. She went on to explain that she had to shoot them all, and this was mostly true. After Robert convinces Danielle to lower her gun, creepily he tries to kill her. Click. Nothing. The island is protecting Danielle for a second time, against the wishes of whatever it was that the puppy dog Cerberus was dragging his prey back to, in the darkness of the underground. But Robert said something very interesting. The monster is a security system for the Temple. Is Robert trustworthy at this point? Is he telling us truth, or a lie to convince Danielle to lower her gun? Danielle believes it, as that is what she tells the Losties during Season 1, but do we believe it? I mean, we see what could be A temple, maybe not THE temple. Seems plausible. Danielle kills Robert and tries to up her kill count by taking out Jin too, but we all knew that wasn’t going to happen. You have to wonder, if Danielle saw Jin 16 years ago, and saw the guy disappear right before her eyes, and recognized him the very next time she saw him, why didn’t she recognize him when Oceanic 815 crash happened and Danielle was interacting with the Losties. Did she figure out that Jin time traveled and saved her life, but still didn’t say anything? Did she never meet him in the past universe? Well, the Danielle chapter closes, but three questions linger which may never be answered. What happened when Ben was captured by Danielle in Season 2? Why/How did Ben take Alex away from Danielle? Why did the Others allow Danielle to roam around the island? After Jin time jumps, he is reunited with the Jungle 6, now renamed in my world as the Jungle 7, for now. Where is Sun? I suppose he thinks she survived the freighter explosion, drifting in the seas for a while, and is in 1988 like he is. That is a lot of hope for something so remotely possible.
Sawyer is trying to explain to Jin that they are time traveling. Everybody seems surprised that Charlotte can speak Korean, but we saw this during Season 4, as during a trip to the medical hatch, Jin realized that Charlotte could understand the dialogue between himself and Sun. He threatened the safety of Daniel to Charlotte if Sun did not get off the island later that episode, the one where Jack had his appendix removed. She tells Jin that Sun is alive, according to Locke, and they are trying to bring her back to the island. Ben has a gun pointed at his face, and I swear, Ben gulped. I rewound to make sure. Is this a convincing acting job, or an actual moment of concern by Mr. Smooth And In Control At All Times. I think that he realizes that it has to be Widmore that is helping Sun at this point. Someone in LA can show you proof that Jin is alive. So many people are apparently busy in LA, dealing with the island. After all, that was the destination of Oceanic 815, where Claire was going to give up Aaron, where Jin was conducting an errand for Mr Paik, and so on. Now, post crash, we see Desmond headed there with Widmore’s help, and all of the Oceanic 815 in the area. Eloise Hawkings. It’s a magnet of some sort. Or course correction by the universe, of course. Kate is trying to leave, and throws a hissy fit in Jack’s direction. “You pretended to care about me and Aaron and blah, blah, blah, me, me, me, me, me…“ Oh, just shut up already. We get it. Everything is always about you. Maybe not on the island, at least until you got Sawyer and Jack jousting because of you. But once you got rescued, the world revolves around you. Holy smokes, Kate is probably the most selfish person on the show. Sayid leaves too. So, that leaves Ben, Jack, and Sun for the road trip. Meanwhile, back to the Jungle 7. Locke is explaining how leaving the island is a one person job. Another time jump, and yet another one seconds later, each more violent than the next. So, either they are jumping further and further into the past and future, or the effects are getting more severe, or both. Sawyer is now the 4th member of the group to start bleeding. Interestingly enough, Daniel is not bleeding. Nor is Locke. Nor Jin. Well, Locke is protected by the island. But why not Danielle. Didn’t he say to Miles last episode that he thought the bleeding had something to do with the amount of time somebody had been on the island. Well, Charlotte then Miles then Juliet then Sawyer is the order. We know that Juliet has been on the island for about 3 years, and Sawyer about 3 months. So, aside from tracking down the back stories of Charlotte and Miles, why not Daniel? Is he special like Desmond? Because he time traveled in the past, and can handle the side effects? Jin is probably going to be next, as he was unconscious for a while, so the effects were less severe on his consciousness. Charlotte speaks to Jin as if possessed, and very much echoing Claire’s appearance at Kate’s house last season, “Don’t let them bring her back, this place is death.” Again, another example of the island having contradictory agendas. Richard says they have to come back. Here we have the opposite. A battle of good and evil on the island? But, who are the good guys?
So as Ben drives on, Jack apologizes to Sun for leaving Jin behind. Let’s all welcome back our Jack Sucks Moment of the Week. It’s not bad enough that you are now following Ben around like a beaten puppy, with sad eyes, doing whatever he wants you to do. You are a beaten man. Now, you apologize to Sun for essentially saving her life, and yours, and the other people in the helicopter. You’d be dead, stupid, if you waited for Jin. We as the viewers know it’s Jin’s fault he went Ka-boom. He was dawdling with the wires of the explosives for no good reason, after Desmond the expert gave up on them. Why are you hanging out with Michael when you know you have to prepare to evacuate. What Sun needs to come to grips with, what someone needs to tell her, is it’s Jin’s own stupid ass that got him killed. Ben is trying to help Jack, even if it is for selfish reasons. He got him off the pills and cleaned him up. So when Sun and Jack start talking about killing Ben, Ben pulls over like an angry parent with some unruly kids in the back, and I was hoping he would pimp slap Jack. “I’m helping you. You’d never stop thanking me for what I’ve done.“ Don’t make me turn this car around or I‘ll beat you with my shoe when we get home. OK, Ben, it was a bit over the top. But how can Sun and Jack be so obtuse? The guy just told you your husband isn’t dead, and he is saving your pill popping broken down life, and you are talking about killing Ben.. Ben needs to take Sun and Jack and bonk their heads together like Larry and Curley. Yeah, Ben always acts in his best interests, but all of the sudden he is being more truthful and actually stopping the Oceanic 6 from screwing up their lives so badly So, the real question is, was Ben telling the truth when he told Michael on the dock at the end of Season 2, “We’re the good guys.” We will probably find out for sure by the end of this season, and maybe by the end of the episode. As Charlotte is falling apart after the last Jungle 7 time jump, she starts a stream of consciousness that tells us a lot about her background/past. “Why can’t daddy come with us?” So, would it possible that Charlotte was born on the island, but left with her mother, leaving her father behind. So who is Charlotte’s father? Not sure at this point. Who is her mother? Well, since the natives don’t leave the island for good, it’s Dharma, so her father was probably killed during the purge. “You know what mother would say about marrying an American.” Was this a reference to Daniel’s affection for her. Or a reference to her past in a conversation to someone. Either way, her mystery mother hates Americans, which means that her father is likely American. Whilethe rest of Jungle 7 argue over leaving Charlotte behind, another time jump, and Charlotte babbles about Geronimo Jackson, a band referenced in Season 2 in the Swan hatch, and Season 4 as Locke has a poster of the band in his locker when we see him in a flashback to his time in high school. Charlotte tells them to look for the well, as they take off for the Orchid, leaving Charlotte and Daniel behind. As they approach a broken wall near where the Orchid station is, Juliet says “Thank God we are in the same time as this thing….” they time jump. Again, I am convinced that Juliet knows a lot more than she is saying during these time jumps. What exactly was the broken structure? Locke finds the well Charlotte referenced. I have to wonder if Charlotte knew about it, or if she was possessed again, by the opposite of what said this place is death, and was trying to get Locke off the island. Tug of war. Charlotte has moment of clarity, enough to tell Daniel that she was on the island before, she was Dharma, explains why she was happy when she found the Dharma polar bear collar in the desert. Also, Miles accused her at the end of last season of being born on the island. And why Charlotte said she has been looking for this island her whole life to Daniel as he was shuttling people on the Zodiac. All true, from Season 4. She moved away from the island with her mother, never saw her father again who was probably killed in the purge, her mother denied this island existed, and that she just NOW remembers a crazy man warned her to never come back to the island, that she would die, and that man was you. Now, that’s a plot twist. I have little doubt this is related to the opening scene of this season, when Daniel was sneaking around in the Orchid as a Dharma worker. When he got to this time frame, Charlotte was probably on the island, and he tried to warn her to stay away. In this case, this was a major event, and Daniel was not able to prevent what happened, happens. The island simply didn’t want Charlotte to stay away. And so many characters have memories that are conveniently remembering randomly NOW about some fact that is important.
Locke is preparing to climb down the rope into the well. Jin doesn’t want Sun to come back, threatens the rope, then hands over his ring, tell her I’m dead because the island is bad. I guess I’d be shaken up too if I just saw a monster drag somebody underground, a bunch of sick people shot to death, have been time traveling all day, and see Charlotte speak to him in tongues. Yeah, I might be freaked out too. Locke promises he won’t bring Sun back, knowing full well that he will be dead, so it will probably be somebody else, like Ben, bringing her back. Sneaky. Juliet again gives off the vibe that she knows exactly what is happening and will happen tells Locke, “For what you are attempting to do if it actually works, thank you.”. Let’s compare that to Jack and Sun. If Ben is wrong, let’s kill him. And down Locke goes. Uh, oh, the time jump happens as Locke is swinging from his rope. From last week’s writeup…
Revisiting the Jungle 6, Locke hatches a plan to return to the Orchid, but no idea what to do when they get there. You know, this probably isn’t very bright. If they go into the hatch, and time jump to a time before the hatch was built, would they just leap inside the ground, basically burying themselves alive?
…and we see the bright light at the bottom of the well as the sky turns bright, and John finds out what is at the bottom of the well, the hard way. The Jungle 7, now Jungle 6 are horrified to see the rope leading into the ground and the well gone. Now, considering the difficulty in constructing a well, and no Orchid station around, the Jungle folks are no doubt deep in the past. Daniel tells Charlotte that Desmond will find his mother and they will help us. Well, sparky, you better hope for some really, really, really quick help, because Charlotte mumbles about chocolate before dinner, and dies. Of course, without Daniel ever kissing her or going on a date or at the very least having sex. Daniel is devastated that the woman he loves is dead. Oh, by the way, Happy Valentine’s Day everybody!!!! Charlotte Staples Lewis was a reference to C.S. Lewis, noted author, who conjured up a series of children’s books loosely based on the New Testament of the Bible, otherwise know as the Chronicles of Narnia. The premise was a group of youngsters stumbling onto a hidden world of magic and miracles, where time moved in a very different way than their own native world. Charlotte’s last words of chocolate reminded me so much of Edmund asking the White Witch for Turkish Delight, a kind of sweet treat in the book The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. Anyway, she’s dead. Charlotte was about as popular as Nikki and Paulo, our favorite buried alive Losties. I felt as much sadness as watching a mango fall out of a tree.
Locke is in pain at the bottom of the well, and nobody is coming to rescue baby Jessica. Seems like Locke gets a hell of a lot of leg injuries, for a guys that shouldn’t be walking. Hey, it’s Christian, out and about, away from Jacob’s Cabin, not that the cabin has been built yet by Horace Goodspeed in the future, and the disappearance of the well most likely predates Dharma. So Christian is hanging out in the chamber of the frozen donkey wheel instead. I wonder if Christian is time jumping as well, afterall, he is in the past, much sooner than when he arrived in a coffin on the island. Let’s face it, when Jack found the coffin of his father during Season 1, he never found the corpse. He saw him walking around in the jungle. Is Christian reincarnated, or simply the island/Jacob spokesman, a manifestation? “I said that YOU had to move the island”. Well, we don’t know for sure if he did or not. If you recall, at the end of last Season, Locke asked Christian “What do we need to do to save the island?”. Christian told him this was the correct question. But next we see Locke emerge from the cabin to tell Ben and Hurley, “WE have to move the island.” We never saw anybody specific cited as the person that needs to move the island. Locke stammers out “Ben said….” And Christian delivers a powerful statement “Since when did listening to him get you anywhere worth a damn?” Sweet. Now we are getting somewhere. This is as clear of argument you can make for the island course correcting itself, to undue the damage Ben did. The island is pissed off at Ben, and pissed off Locke listened to Ben. So Ben was/is trying to manipulate the island. If Ben comes back with the Oceanic 6 and possibly others (Walt, Desmond, Frank), he is going to be in a world of trouble, if Jacob is unhappy with him for his shenanigans. So, if Ben a good guy? Well, for sure, he is competing with Kate as the most selfish character on the show at this point, even though Ben tends to do more good works as opposed to, say, Charles Widmore, and Locke is the run away winner of most easily manipulated. It’s almost like the island was stuck with Ben because he was less evil than Widmore, bt when Locke came along, here was a true champion for the island instead of a competition of who is the least evil between Ben and Charles. While Locke was absolutely correct in his instinct of going back to the Orchid to fix everything, he was too driven by pride as the man to lead the Others carrot that Ben dangled in front of him to see that Ben was still pulling his strings. You must visit a woman in LA, Eloise Hawkings. Los Angeles again!! Hawkings again!!! The whole world is headed to her church for Woodstock 2009. John has to bring back all of them, sacrifice his life, fix the donkey wheel, all without any help getting up. Christian no doubt is trying to teach Locke a lesson on stopping his annoying habit of depending on other people. The wheel is going back and forth, slipping on it’s axis. Was this because Ben moved it instead of Locke, or because Ben purposely disobeyed the Dr Chang instructions on the orientation tape in the Orchid station. Still, this bottom of the well chamber looked different than the one that Ben was inside at the very end of last season. It seems that Locke is on the OTHER side of the wall, the opposite side of the frozen wall and chamber. After all, only a part of the wheel is showing, so it’s certainly plausible. Locke fixes the wheel, and as he starts to disappear, Christian tells Locke to say hello to my son for me, to which Locke is baffled since he has no idea Christian is Jack’s father. Sawyer knows who Christian is and is Jack‘s father, based on Season 1 and meeting him a bar, but I don’t think anybody else does, except for maybe Kate, if Jack told her. And where is Claire this season? Odd how characters can just disappear like that. Ben arrives with his motley crew at the Hawkings church. He presents Sun with Jin’s ring, which Locke gave to Ben. Apparently, Locke kept his word not to visit Sun. Desmond walks out of the shadows and says howdy. Ben is very surprised. What are you doing here? Same as you, looking for Faraday’s mother. Ben is thunderstruck. He had zero idea that Eloise Hawkings was Daniel Faraday’s mother, unlike many of the Lost fans who had this pegged during the Season 5 opening two episodes. Ben brings the group inside, and Hawkings tells them let’s get started.
That’s it for this week. I need to get busy gift wrapping a Valentine’s Day gift for the Smoke Monster. Maybe a Whitman’s Sampler of chocolate covered French arms.
5.04 The Little Prince
100% not proofread. The write-up is a little late this week. The American government decided that according to the Fairness Doctrine, I had to give equal time for someone to gush how much they like the character Jack, and for a screen capper to prove that Sun does indeed blink once in a while. I beat the Men in Black off with a stick, and so here I am again, to provide angst, outrage, insane theories, and sometimes even talk about the most recent episode of LOST. I’ve been spending time thinking about alternate time lines/universes that this episode seems to make a case for.
The title of this episode seems to refer to a popular children’s book which I never heard of before. It has something to do with drawings, people in a desert, and an asteroid B612 that the Prince comes from. There are characters on this asteroid that seem to correspond to some of the LOST characters. It would take forever to make all the connection, so I suggest you look up The Little Prince on wikipedia, and I’m not prepared to write 2 pages on a literary reference as such you are not prepared to read the same, but the way I seem to read it, the King = Jacob or Locke, The Conceited Man = Benjamin Linus, The Drunkard/Tipplar = Jack, The Businessman = Charles Widmore, The Lamplighter = could be Locke, Daniel, Desmond, and The Geographer = Richard. Read about the story, but there is a later reference in the episode to this story. And the obvious connection is that Aaron is The Little Prince, as the main theme of the episode is the tug of war over the kid.
We start with the Oceanic 6, specifically Jack and Kate cutting a deal on the rescue boat, about 2 days off the island. Kate reminds everybody that Claire was going to give Aaron up for adoption, so in her mind Kate felt justified in keeping Aaron to raise. Sawyer is discussed as being gone. Jack and Kate strike an unspoken deal that Kate will support Jack and the Oceanic 6 cover story for Aaron. Felt very clinical and just like, well, an auction like Charles Widmore bidding on the Black Rock diary. Just struck me as creepy. Kate tells Jack that she has “always been with you”. Yeah, except for those times you were having dirty sex with Sawyer in the polar bear cages. Or the time you jumped Sawyer’s bones on the beach. Or…well, you get the idea. 3 years later, in Sun’s hotel room, Kate is dressing up for an appointment. Finally, somebody had the good sense to tell off the island Kate to stop applying makeup with a trowel. As Kate leaves, Sun receives a delivery full of intel, candy, and a gun. Life is like a box of chocolate. You never know what you are going to get. Oh, yeah? You know what you get? A box half full of crap. As we approach the horrific annual Valentine’s Day like a drunken grizzly approaching a bear trap, we are reminded how awful a box of Whitman Samplers are. Sure, over the years, you recognize some of the good candy, the ones filled with caramel, or almonds, or solid milk chocolate. But woe is the victim of a chocolate covered purple fluff, or a chocolate covered pink fluff, or some other weapon of mass destruction. And if get to an already open box, you can bet someone has been jamming their thumb into the bottom of every piece of candy to see what is inside, and if it is unpalatable, then that candy goes right back to where it started. How many manhandled, half filled boxes gets discarded year after year after year. Hey, candy companies. Here’s a concept. Fill up the heart ahaped boxes with stuff people actually want to eat, and charge a little bit more. Everybody will be much happier. I can’t tell you what is worse, a box of mystery chocolates, or a sharp stick to the eye.
The Jungle 6 (Daniel, Charlotte, Miles, Locke, Juliet, and Sawyer ) are tending to the bleeding Charlotte. Of course, Rose and Bernard, the other Losties who all jumped before, Claire, etc. but nobody else seems to be around. Just the 6. Well, I’m glad that they are still being featured at this point, as they are probably the 6 most interesting characters on the show at this minute. Juliet tries to extract information from Daniel about what is going on. Daniel continues to be a lunkhead and mostly says he doesn’t know what is going. Bah. I do believe that he doesn’t really know why it isn’t happening to the others. Kate goes to the lawyer to cut a deal with no leverage. Interesting how the client refuses to be known, at all costs. But the “you’re going to lose Aaron” is a vehicle of manipulation and course correcting. Revisiting the Jungle 6, Locke hatches a plan to return to the Orchid, but no idea what to do when they get there. You know, this probably isn’t very bright. If they go into the hatch, and time jump to a time before the hatch was built, would they just leap inside the ground, basically burying themselves alive? Well, they have to go back to the Zodiac raft. Locke insists that the Oceanic 6 are still alive, no doubt echoing what future Richard told him. Locke then jokes about bring the Oceanic 6 back, “even if it kills me”. He then addresses the elephant in the room, and asks Sawyer if he wants Kate to come back. Holy hell, did anybody else in this show’s history, other than Jack, ever mention this before? It’s like a family secret or something. Charlotte wakes up “Who are you?” Looking at Daniel. Oddly enough, after an introduction, Charlotte focuses on Daniel, closes her eyes, “Oh!!“ and snaps back. Is Daniel somehow her constant? I doubt it, but for some reason she regained her mind when she acknowledged him. Jack is tending to Sayid in the hospital, who has been out 42 hours (4,8,15,16,23,42) on horse tranquilizers. Jack gets called out of his room and gets yelled at for breaking his suspension due to substance abuse. In mid rebuke, Jack gets a call from Hurley, which of course is a brilliant use of your phone call from jail. Don’t call Mom or Dad, or a lawyer. Call Jack. Our Hurley Sucks Moment of the Week. As Sayid is twiddling his thumbs, a nurse comes in to give him some medicine. As the nurse spins just in time to put two tranquilizer darts into a pillow, Sayid attacks. For fock’s sake, he is choking a guy to death with an IV cord, a nice follow up to killing someone earlier this year with a dishwasher. Sayid has shaken is inconsistent tough guy/stupid guy on the island to become a certified bad ass. It is never made clear who this guy is working for, but Sayid pulls out Kate’s address from his pocket, 42 Crescent Place (4,8,15,16,23,42) .
Jack, Ben, and Sayid huddle up. Hannibal Ben, Face Jack, and Mr. T Sayid split up to rescue Kate and Hurley. So they can meet at marina 23 (4,8,15,16,23,42). The Jungle 6 are stomping through the jungle as Sawyer asks Locke what he will tell Kate to get her to come back. Yeah, that’s a tough one. But just at that moment, we see a shaft of light going up in the sky. Locke immediately recognizes this as the Swan hatch light from Season 1, as Desmond hit a light switch. Actually, this is the second time the time travelers has encountered Desmond on the island. Locke steers the hikers away, no doubt fearing a time paradox, interacting with themselves from the past can cause serious ripples for the future. Course correcting, and Daniel saying what has already happened, happens. But I am having serious doubts about that. Miles starts to bleed. Sawyer goes to investigate screaming in the jungle, despite Locke’s protest. Sawyer spends a minute in the bushes, watching Claire give birth to Aaron while Kate assists. No doubt, one of the most touching moments in LOST history. And only this show can deliver an emotional punch from a time traveler from the recent future watching a child birth scene with two people he really misses. Time jump.
Kate meets Jack at her car. The lawyer pulls out, wide open window, pauses at edge of parking lot driveway blatantly, just begging for somebody to follow him, which Jack and Kate promptly do. As the Jungle 6 march on, Locke really badly wants to know what Sawyer saw. Locke explains the light shaft, concluding that it was just a light. I have to disagree. It was a crucial moment of doubt in his faith in the island, and he got a sign to carry on with his work. Sawyer suggests that he could have told himself to do things differently. Locke said he needed the pain to get to where he is now. I have two other problems with this. If you try to change the future, there is no guarantee that the change will matter, as this series has demonstrated an unyielding theme of course correcting from the universe. Next, if you do change the past, you could theoretically change the future, and there is no guarantee the future events transpire exactly like they did the first time around. Also, no future Locke talked to past Locke on the island, as far as we know. So if it didn’t happen, it can’t happen. Miles questions Daniel about the nose bleeds. Here we have 6 people moving through the jungle in a group, but they are still having individual secret conversations. Daniel theorizes that it might be related to time spent on the island, and basically questions Miles’ statement that he was never on the island before. How would he not remember being on the island before? Maybe as a very young child, much like Dr Chang’s kid. But this also means Charlotte was on the island for a while, but how? We just don’t know yet. The Jungle 6 stumble on the facsimile Losties camp at the beach, but no food or beer is left. The Zodiac is gone. A pair of racing canoes are on the shore. An Ajira Airways water bottle is in a boat. Let’s call a time out here. A new website was just set up at Ajiraairways.com, much like when we were visiting Oceanic Airlines website. Here is s scene that is universally accepted as a future scene. But no evidence of Oceanic is there, but instead Ajira. Is it that inconceivable that this is an alternate time line/universe. Something changed in the past where Oceanic never crashed on the island, but the island needed help, so they grabbed another plane from the sky. Not Oceanic 815, But Ajira. How interesting that the motto of Ajira is Destination, Destiny. Yeah, destiny is leading your destination, maybe to hidden island in the Pacific Ocean. Daniel said what happened, happened. But what about the future. What if somehow along the way of time jumps, the future changed?: The past is intact so far, the 1950’s, Danielle, etc. But maybe something is very amiss based on the time jumps. Sawyer asks about Other Others, which is a theory I continue to push since Season 2, when a mysterious group kidnapped Tailies at the beach, obviously not Ben’s Others, who were instructed to do nothing for 3 days until Goodwin got a list together. As the paddling is happening, Sawyer admits to Juliet that he saw Kate in the jungle. The other canoe, populated with God knows who starts to shoot at the canoe. How weird would it be if Juliet was shooting at Juliet. Sawyer proclaims to the heavens as the time jumps starts “Thank you, Lord” to a scene of a driving rain storm “I take that back.”. Lucky for these mooks that the canoe didn’t disappear. I’m still not clear the rules of what objects can time travel with you. And exactly how many days has it been since the Jungle 6 ate a meal? Jack and Kate arrive at what I believe was the hotel where Locke helped his dad swindle some cash, got caught by his girlfriend in aiding his dad, then got rejected as he proposed to Peg Bundy. The lawyer is there to meet Claire’s mother. Which is obviously a plot device to throw us off.
Jack wants to fix things. Which is nice. Seems like he is earnestly trying to repair the damage he has caused by leading them off the island and his relationship with Kate. Stupid Fairness Doctrine. Jack talks to Claire’s mother, and she doesn’t know who the hell Aaron is. Well, aside from Jack all but admitting that they stole the baybeeeeee, he resolves that plot twist. Kate tells Sun to bring Aaron and meet them at the marina. Duh. Stupid. Ben and Sayid pull into a parking garage in their Canton-Rainer van to meet Ben’s lawyer. First of all, Canton-Rainer is an anagram of “Reincarnation“. Secondly, the lawyer calls Ben “Mr. Norton”. Thirdly, Hurley will be released in the morning. Ah, the justice system at work, or jut merely course correction. The Jungle 6 reach shore, and discover a brand new wreckage site, one that features containers with French language, mainly Besixdouze. Using a mix of French and English, Be-six-douze = B612, as in The Little Prince story. Next, we see a number of French folks on a raft seeing an island in the distance, and paddling towards it, discovering a castaway, who they pull aboard, who is none other than Jin. First of all, I predicted Jin being alive way back in the Season 5 preview in early January….
Jin: sadsack. He really pissed me off in Season 4. He spend quite some time being pissed at Sun because she learned English behind his back. But when he found out she cheated on him, a few hours later, he came back to her sheepishly and didn’t even ask for an apology. Are you kidding me? That is a defeated man. He had the role of buying a panda for the baby in the hospital in the episode that had a flash back and flash forward running simultaneously. The 2nd panda he purchased was an example of the universe course correcting. Is Jin really dead? Remember, when the kidnapping of Walt happened, the Others blew up the raft. We didn’t see Jin until Michael and Sawyer washed up on shore and met the Tailies who were chasing Jin. Jin could still be alive. The problem is, he is too far away from the island, and might be doing a doggie paddle in the middle of the ocean with zero islands of any kind near by. Maybe he can be lucky enough to find the island if he swims in the direction of the right coordinates. Then lands on the island and has Desmond type of time travel episode where Sun is the constant. Or he is just dead. And why was he continuing to look at snipping wires while Michael was freezing the charge on the freighter? Desmond couldn’t do it, and gave up. What makes Jin think he could have done it? Then he stayed too long and was blown up. Dummy. Jin is/was a hapless pawn.
I have a real problem with Jin being found here. How do we reconcile that the helicopter practically on top of the island was not pulled along with the island moving, but somehow Daniel and the Zodiac passengers being further out being included in the move, and now apparently Jin, who has 5 miles off shore. Don’t forget, When the first time jump happened, the frozen donkey wheel move by Ben, Sawyer and Juliet could not see the freighter anymore, it didn’t jump, but Jin did? Wow, the rules of the island are really illogical. Therefore I choose to ignore a lot of these time travel inconsistencies, unless they really bother me. Most of the Oceanic 6 are now at the marina. Jack finally tells Kate about the assassin with the address in his pocket. Kate is mortified when Ben shows up with Sayid. She accuses Ben of hiring the lawyer to take away Aaron, to which Ben readily agrees. What? After many seasons of complicated Ben lies, he actually admits to something that sleazy. I realize that Ben is an evil genius, but what possible positive outcome can happen from him admitting to Kate that it was him pushing her. Even Jack, who mere seconds ago was defending Ben, is dumbfounded. Jack Sucks Moment of the Week. Stunning.
Also, from a few weeks ago…
Lawyers came to see me, and Sun is curious about who they represent. Being that Sun only recently told Widmore about wanting Ben dead, and that the lawyers flushed out Kate before Sun ever called, I have to think at this point that Ben sent the lawyers
Sun is hiding in the shadows with Aaron in the back seat, and emerges with a gun. I swear, Sun reminds me of that psychopath astronaut that drove thousands of miles wearing a diaper, trying to kill someone. She had the same crazy eyes that Sun has. A reader of my awful rambling pointed out that Sun blinked almost 5 times in this episode. I counted less, but I may be biased. Jin wakes up on the beach, a dehydrated, sunburned mess. I have to wonder if Jin simply drifted in the LOST island waters after the explosion, and is just NOW time traveling, or has he been traveling unconscious all along. Either way, the island clearly wants him alive. I don’t think anybody else is going to be found as survivors of the freighter explosion. The island powers did extent that far, as we saw Libby on the boat when she was talking to Michael. Jin is able to communicate his situation in broken English to a pregnant French woman, no surprise, who is Danielle Rousseau. Which I was very happy to see. I very much wanted to see a Rousseau flashback, and how we will get it, somewhat. Danielle said that she gave birth on the island, and the fact that she is pregnant right now, means she was truthful. So what happened between Rousseaus’s child birth and Claire’s child birth, where all the Others kept dying in child birth. What happened there? Plus this is probably after the Dharma genocide, and the Others’ ruled the island. Ben admitted to Keamey last season that he stole Alex from a crazy woman. So, what happened to the French castaways. Meanwhile, Jin and Rousseau co-existed on the island during the Oceanic 6 heyday. Jin obviously recognized her or at least her name. But Rousseau did not recognize Jin at all before she was killed off by Keamey’s men. Why? Is it that the future is somehow affected by these time jumps. I really need more information here.
OK. Shorter writeup this week. So far, every episode was been full of caramel goodness. I hope we don’t get any chocolate covered yellow fluff.
The title of this episode seems to refer to a popular children’s book which I never heard of before. It has something to do with drawings, people in a desert, and an asteroid B612 that the Prince comes from. There are characters on this asteroid that seem to correspond to some of the LOST characters. It would take forever to make all the connection, so I suggest you look up The Little Prince on wikipedia, and I’m not prepared to write 2 pages on a literary reference as such you are not prepared to read the same, but the way I seem to read it, the King = Jacob or Locke, The Conceited Man = Benjamin Linus, The Drunkard/Tipplar = Jack, The Businessman = Charles Widmore, The Lamplighter = could be Locke, Daniel, Desmond, and The Geographer = Richard. Read about the story, but there is a later reference in the episode to this story. And the obvious connection is that Aaron is The Little Prince, as the main theme of the episode is the tug of war over the kid.
We start with the Oceanic 6, specifically Jack and Kate cutting a deal on the rescue boat, about 2 days off the island. Kate reminds everybody that Claire was going to give Aaron up for adoption, so in her mind Kate felt justified in keeping Aaron to raise. Sawyer is discussed as being gone. Jack and Kate strike an unspoken deal that Kate will support Jack and the Oceanic 6 cover story for Aaron. Felt very clinical and just like, well, an auction like Charles Widmore bidding on the Black Rock diary. Just struck me as creepy. Kate tells Jack that she has “always been with you”. Yeah, except for those times you were having dirty sex with Sawyer in the polar bear cages. Or the time you jumped Sawyer’s bones on the beach. Or…well, you get the idea. 3 years later, in Sun’s hotel room, Kate is dressing up for an appointment. Finally, somebody had the good sense to tell off the island Kate to stop applying makeup with a trowel. As Kate leaves, Sun receives a delivery full of intel, candy, and a gun. Life is like a box of chocolate. You never know what you are going to get. Oh, yeah? You know what you get? A box half full of crap. As we approach the horrific annual Valentine’s Day like a drunken grizzly approaching a bear trap, we are reminded how awful a box of Whitman Samplers are. Sure, over the years, you recognize some of the good candy, the ones filled with caramel, or almonds, or solid milk chocolate. But woe is the victim of a chocolate covered purple fluff, or a chocolate covered pink fluff, or some other weapon of mass destruction. And if get to an already open box, you can bet someone has been jamming their thumb into the bottom of every piece of candy to see what is inside, and if it is unpalatable, then that candy goes right back to where it started. How many manhandled, half filled boxes gets discarded year after year after year. Hey, candy companies. Here’s a concept. Fill up the heart ahaped boxes with stuff people actually want to eat, and charge a little bit more. Everybody will be much happier. I can’t tell you what is worse, a box of mystery chocolates, or a sharp stick to the eye.
The Jungle 6 (Daniel, Charlotte, Miles, Locke, Juliet, and Sawyer ) are tending to the bleeding Charlotte. Of course, Rose and Bernard, the other Losties who all jumped before, Claire, etc. but nobody else seems to be around. Just the 6. Well, I’m glad that they are still being featured at this point, as they are probably the 6 most interesting characters on the show at this minute. Juliet tries to extract information from Daniel about what is going on. Daniel continues to be a lunkhead and mostly says he doesn’t know what is going. Bah. I do believe that he doesn’t really know why it isn’t happening to the others. Kate goes to the lawyer to cut a deal with no leverage. Interesting how the client refuses to be known, at all costs. But the “you’re going to lose Aaron” is a vehicle of manipulation and course correcting. Revisiting the Jungle 6, Locke hatches a plan to return to the Orchid, but no idea what to do when they get there. You know, this probably isn’t very bright. If they go into the hatch, and time jump to a time before the hatch was built, would they just leap inside the ground, basically burying themselves alive? Well, they have to go back to the Zodiac raft. Locke insists that the Oceanic 6 are still alive, no doubt echoing what future Richard told him. Locke then jokes about bring the Oceanic 6 back, “even if it kills me”. He then addresses the elephant in the room, and asks Sawyer if he wants Kate to come back. Holy hell, did anybody else in this show’s history, other than Jack, ever mention this before? It’s like a family secret or something. Charlotte wakes up “Who are you?” Looking at Daniel. Oddly enough, after an introduction, Charlotte focuses on Daniel, closes her eyes, “Oh!!“ and snaps back. Is Daniel somehow her constant? I doubt it, but for some reason she regained her mind when she acknowledged him. Jack is tending to Sayid in the hospital, who has been out 42 hours (4,8,15,16,23,42) on horse tranquilizers. Jack gets called out of his room and gets yelled at for breaking his suspension due to substance abuse. In mid rebuke, Jack gets a call from Hurley, which of course is a brilliant use of your phone call from jail. Don’t call Mom or Dad, or a lawyer. Call Jack. Our Hurley Sucks Moment of the Week. As Sayid is twiddling his thumbs, a nurse comes in to give him some medicine. As the nurse spins just in time to put two tranquilizer darts into a pillow, Sayid attacks. For fock’s sake, he is choking a guy to death with an IV cord, a nice follow up to killing someone earlier this year with a dishwasher. Sayid has shaken is inconsistent tough guy/stupid guy on the island to become a certified bad ass. It is never made clear who this guy is working for, but Sayid pulls out Kate’s address from his pocket, 42 Crescent Place (4,8,15,16,23,42) .
Jack, Ben, and Sayid huddle up. Hannibal Ben, Face Jack, and Mr. T Sayid split up to rescue Kate and Hurley. So they can meet at marina 23 (4,8,15,16,23,42). The Jungle 6 are stomping through the jungle as Sawyer asks Locke what he will tell Kate to get her to come back. Yeah, that’s a tough one. But just at that moment, we see a shaft of light going up in the sky. Locke immediately recognizes this as the Swan hatch light from Season 1, as Desmond hit a light switch. Actually, this is the second time the time travelers has encountered Desmond on the island. Locke steers the hikers away, no doubt fearing a time paradox, interacting with themselves from the past can cause serious ripples for the future. Course correcting, and Daniel saying what has already happened, happens. But I am having serious doubts about that. Miles starts to bleed. Sawyer goes to investigate screaming in the jungle, despite Locke’s protest. Sawyer spends a minute in the bushes, watching Claire give birth to Aaron while Kate assists. No doubt, one of the most touching moments in LOST history. And only this show can deliver an emotional punch from a time traveler from the recent future watching a child birth scene with two people he really misses. Time jump.
Kate meets Jack at her car. The lawyer pulls out, wide open window, pauses at edge of parking lot driveway blatantly, just begging for somebody to follow him, which Jack and Kate promptly do. As the Jungle 6 march on, Locke really badly wants to know what Sawyer saw. Locke explains the light shaft, concluding that it was just a light. I have to disagree. It was a crucial moment of doubt in his faith in the island, and he got a sign to carry on with his work. Sawyer suggests that he could have told himself to do things differently. Locke said he needed the pain to get to where he is now. I have two other problems with this. If you try to change the future, there is no guarantee that the change will matter, as this series has demonstrated an unyielding theme of course correcting from the universe. Next, if you do change the past, you could theoretically change the future, and there is no guarantee the future events transpire exactly like they did the first time around. Also, no future Locke talked to past Locke on the island, as far as we know. So if it didn’t happen, it can’t happen. Miles questions Daniel about the nose bleeds. Here we have 6 people moving through the jungle in a group, but they are still having individual secret conversations. Daniel theorizes that it might be related to time spent on the island, and basically questions Miles’ statement that he was never on the island before. How would he not remember being on the island before? Maybe as a very young child, much like Dr Chang’s kid. But this also means Charlotte was on the island for a while, but how? We just don’t know yet. The Jungle 6 stumble on the facsimile Losties camp at the beach, but no food or beer is left. The Zodiac is gone. A pair of racing canoes are on the shore. An Ajira Airways water bottle is in a boat. Let’s call a time out here. A new website was just set up at Ajiraairways.com, much like when we were visiting Oceanic Airlines website. Here is s scene that is universally accepted as a future scene. But no evidence of Oceanic is there, but instead Ajira. Is it that inconceivable that this is an alternate time line/universe. Something changed in the past where Oceanic never crashed on the island, but the island needed help, so they grabbed another plane from the sky. Not Oceanic 815, But Ajira. How interesting that the motto of Ajira is Destination, Destiny. Yeah, destiny is leading your destination, maybe to hidden island in the Pacific Ocean. Daniel said what happened, happened. But what about the future. What if somehow along the way of time jumps, the future changed?: The past is intact so far, the 1950’s, Danielle, etc. But maybe something is very amiss based on the time jumps. Sawyer asks about Other Others, which is a theory I continue to push since Season 2, when a mysterious group kidnapped Tailies at the beach, obviously not Ben’s Others, who were instructed to do nothing for 3 days until Goodwin got a list together. As the paddling is happening, Sawyer admits to Juliet that he saw Kate in the jungle. The other canoe, populated with God knows who starts to shoot at the canoe. How weird would it be if Juliet was shooting at Juliet. Sawyer proclaims to the heavens as the time jumps starts “Thank you, Lord” to a scene of a driving rain storm “I take that back.”. Lucky for these mooks that the canoe didn’t disappear. I’m still not clear the rules of what objects can time travel with you. And exactly how many days has it been since the Jungle 6 ate a meal? Jack and Kate arrive at what I believe was the hotel where Locke helped his dad swindle some cash, got caught by his girlfriend in aiding his dad, then got rejected as he proposed to Peg Bundy. The lawyer is there to meet Claire’s mother. Which is obviously a plot device to throw us off.
Jack wants to fix things. Which is nice. Seems like he is earnestly trying to repair the damage he has caused by leading them off the island and his relationship with Kate. Stupid Fairness Doctrine. Jack talks to Claire’s mother, and she doesn’t know who the hell Aaron is. Well, aside from Jack all but admitting that they stole the baybeeeeee, he resolves that plot twist. Kate tells Sun to bring Aaron and meet them at the marina. Duh. Stupid. Ben and Sayid pull into a parking garage in their Canton-Rainer van to meet Ben’s lawyer. First of all, Canton-Rainer is an anagram of “Reincarnation“. Secondly, the lawyer calls Ben “Mr. Norton”. Thirdly, Hurley will be released in the morning. Ah, the justice system at work, or jut merely course correction. The Jungle 6 reach shore, and discover a brand new wreckage site, one that features containers with French language, mainly Besixdouze. Using a mix of French and English, Be-six-douze = B612, as in The Little Prince story. Next, we see a number of French folks on a raft seeing an island in the distance, and paddling towards it, discovering a castaway, who they pull aboard, who is none other than Jin. First of all, I predicted Jin being alive way back in the Season 5 preview in early January….
Jin: sadsack. He really pissed me off in Season 4. He spend quite some time being pissed at Sun because she learned English behind his back. But when he found out she cheated on him, a few hours later, he came back to her sheepishly and didn’t even ask for an apology. Are you kidding me? That is a defeated man. He had the role of buying a panda for the baby in the hospital in the episode that had a flash back and flash forward running simultaneously. The 2nd panda he purchased was an example of the universe course correcting. Is Jin really dead? Remember, when the kidnapping of Walt happened, the Others blew up the raft. We didn’t see Jin until Michael and Sawyer washed up on shore and met the Tailies who were chasing Jin. Jin could still be alive. The problem is, he is too far away from the island, and might be doing a doggie paddle in the middle of the ocean with zero islands of any kind near by. Maybe he can be lucky enough to find the island if he swims in the direction of the right coordinates. Then lands on the island and has Desmond type of time travel episode where Sun is the constant. Or he is just dead. And why was he continuing to look at snipping wires while Michael was freezing the charge on the freighter? Desmond couldn’t do it, and gave up. What makes Jin think he could have done it? Then he stayed too long and was blown up. Dummy. Jin is/was a hapless pawn.
I have a real problem with Jin being found here. How do we reconcile that the helicopter practically on top of the island was not pulled along with the island moving, but somehow Daniel and the Zodiac passengers being further out being included in the move, and now apparently Jin, who has 5 miles off shore. Don’t forget, When the first time jump happened, the frozen donkey wheel move by Ben, Sawyer and Juliet could not see the freighter anymore, it didn’t jump, but Jin did? Wow, the rules of the island are really illogical. Therefore I choose to ignore a lot of these time travel inconsistencies, unless they really bother me. Most of the Oceanic 6 are now at the marina. Jack finally tells Kate about the assassin with the address in his pocket. Kate is mortified when Ben shows up with Sayid. She accuses Ben of hiring the lawyer to take away Aaron, to which Ben readily agrees. What? After many seasons of complicated Ben lies, he actually admits to something that sleazy. I realize that Ben is an evil genius, but what possible positive outcome can happen from him admitting to Kate that it was him pushing her. Even Jack, who mere seconds ago was defending Ben, is dumbfounded. Jack Sucks Moment of the Week. Stunning.
Also, from a few weeks ago…
Lawyers came to see me, and Sun is curious about who they represent. Being that Sun only recently told Widmore about wanting Ben dead, and that the lawyers flushed out Kate before Sun ever called, I have to think at this point that Ben sent the lawyers
Sun is hiding in the shadows with Aaron in the back seat, and emerges with a gun. I swear, Sun reminds me of that psychopath astronaut that drove thousands of miles wearing a diaper, trying to kill someone. She had the same crazy eyes that Sun has. A reader of my awful rambling pointed out that Sun blinked almost 5 times in this episode. I counted less, but I may be biased. Jin wakes up on the beach, a dehydrated, sunburned mess. I have to wonder if Jin simply drifted in the LOST island waters after the explosion, and is just NOW time traveling, or has he been traveling unconscious all along. Either way, the island clearly wants him alive. I don’t think anybody else is going to be found as survivors of the freighter explosion. The island powers did extent that far, as we saw Libby on the boat when she was talking to Michael. Jin is able to communicate his situation in broken English to a pregnant French woman, no surprise, who is Danielle Rousseau. Which I was very happy to see. I very much wanted to see a Rousseau flashback, and how we will get it, somewhat. Danielle said that she gave birth on the island, and the fact that she is pregnant right now, means she was truthful. So what happened between Rousseaus’s child birth and Claire’s child birth, where all the Others kept dying in child birth. What happened there? Plus this is probably after the Dharma genocide, and the Others’ ruled the island. Ben admitted to Keamey last season that he stole Alex from a crazy woman. So, what happened to the French castaways. Meanwhile, Jin and Rousseau co-existed on the island during the Oceanic 6 heyday. Jin obviously recognized her or at least her name. But Rousseau did not recognize Jin at all before she was killed off by Keamey’s men. Why? Is it that the future is somehow affected by these time jumps. I really need more information here.
OK. Shorter writeup this week. So far, every episode was been full of caramel goodness. I hope we don’t get any chocolate covered yellow fluff.
5.03 Jughead
100% sober. Well almost sober. I can see three computer screens in front of me, so I'm aiming for the one on the right. So, this writeup should have more analysis than rants. But those of you that want more rants, take heart. Those will be undoubtedly be a part of future writeups. Or maybe if I finish this bottle of wine before I stop typing. I don't like wine, but I've had it in the fridge for a couple of months. Is refrigerating wine a bad thing? Who cares. This episode felt a bit like filler, just a simple episode to advance storylines. But after some digging, some thought, and some screencap info, well, this episode is full of surprising importance to the overall show plot. I really enjoyed the way the story split up the 6 main Lefties (the official nickname I am calling the time travelers left behind on the island) into Locke, Sawyer, Juliet and then Daniel, Miles, Charlotte. When I refer to those groups further in the writeup, I will use initials. Two very unique perspectives to deal with the island situation. And how focking great was it that we saw not a second of Jack and Kate. I was so sick and tired of the Oceanic 6 at this point. While it’s cool to see Ben and Widmore off the island, I am just sick of the super boring, completely lifeless, terrible acted parts, the Oceanic 6. Obviously Hurley and Sayid have their moments. But the other 4, and yes I’m not letting Aaron off the hook, just put a damper on the show. Really. Be honest with yourself. What is more interesting at this point? The Lefties on the island traveling through time, or the Oceanic 6 trying to get back to the island to end the interesting stuff.
First of all, let’s look at the episode title. I spend some time Googling, and the only significant reference of Jughead is the the Archie Comics, as the slacker character Jughead’s true name is Forsythe Pendleton “Jughead” Jones. The connection to the this episode is two fold. First, the hydrogen bomb we see later is named Jughead. Also, the guy in the military uniform with a nametag of “Jones”, they guy SJL capture, ends up being an alias for another name, just as Jones is really Jughead in Archie Comics. Meh. Not much here to dig into.
We start with Desmond running willy nilly around a South East Asian port, looking for a doctor. Penny gives birth to a boy, sometime in the future after she and Desmond leave the Lost island folks behind and go into hiding. The boy will turn out to be called Charlie, remembering the junk head who died right before Desmond’s eyes at the end of season 3. I can’t help but think this seals the deal on Penny’s fate. She is going to die this season, and probably within a couple of episodes. Giving birth to a baby tends to bring about death in this show. It’s like a balancing out of the beginning and ending of life. Sun gives birth after Jin dies. Claire gives birth, but Charlie dies soon afterward. All the Other’s mothers kept dying during child birth. Penny will die at the hands of Ben. Yeah, viewers will be upset. Do you think these writers care about that? They killed off Charlie. Look at how clinically they slaughtered Alex, Danielle, and Karl. Death is a part of the show. Characters we like will die, and often. We then seem to jump forward in time, and the kid is more grown, most likely now 3 years in the future, the same time line as the Oceanic 6 storyline. Desmond is doing a bit of a soliloquy about returning to the isle of Great Britain. Penny is very skeptical, mentioning what if Charles Widmore finds them. Desmond says that Daniel told him he was the only one who can help the people on the island. However, Ben and Locke and Richard are saying that the Oceanic 6 need to return to the island to save the Lefties. So, which is it? Desmond finding Daniel’s mother, or O6 returning to the island? Or both? Or neither? Dammit. A contradiction in the plot. D.C.M. and two red shirts arrive at the creek safely, only to discover that nobody else is there. A trip wired kills the two background Lefties, and the Lost cast members keeps dwindling. Charlotte keeps getting sicker, and the romance nobody cares about keeping awkwardly going forward. Come on, now. Daniel is a likeable character; I have not seen a single person talk crap about the guy. He is a solid likeable key character, and impressively enough, a newbie who everybody adopted early on with his disarming quirky mannerisms and offbeat speech patterns. At this point, every body knows that we need him to help explain the increasingly confusing time travel shenanigans. But Charlotte made a terrible first impression. She came off very frigid, very inhuman, very unlikable. A few minutes after we meet her, Ben pumps some bullets into her, and we were all disappointed that she survived. Now, the writers are trying to build some sympathy for her by trying to rub some heat from the Daniel character onto her. Guess what? It’s just not working. Sorry. But if you dropped her into a kettle and boiled her for a week, she would still be frigid. And it has nothing to do with being British. Penny comes across as a very warm person. Charlotte is a penguin with a red headed wig. Yeah, she is attractive. But come on, Daniel. Flirt with Juliet or something at this point. Hell, you have a better chance of getting a kiss from a polar bear than Charlotte. I’m starting to go off on tangents and rant. Buckle up your seat belts. Long way to go. Anyway, the trip wire goes off and kills two nobodies. The noise brings the hostiles out of the woods to capture M.C.D The prominent woman with the shotgun looks at Daniel with curious familiarity and says “You just couldn’t stay away, could you. “ Now this is cryptic. It could refer to Daniel being a military guy, as the episodes goes on to explain that possibility later on. Or, it could be that this woman sees Daniel as somebody that she has seen before. Interesting to note.
Penny is asking Desmond a couple of very smart questions. Why now? If Daniel told you about this quest on the island, why are you only remembering 2 days ago? I’ll admit, I can spend hours trying to point inconsistencies now that time travel is the theme, but that would drive me insane. I’m not going to spend the time to dissect it that clearly unless it becomes too obvious to ignore. But with Desmond, the rules apparently do not apply. Desmond says that after he finds Daniel’s mother at Oxford, it will be over with forever. Penny asks Desmond to promise he will never go back to the island. Desmond conveniently says “Why would I ever go back?” He avoided answering the question. Desmond doesn’t want to lie, and Penny knows what is now inevitable. Desmond will go back. The Others have captured MDC, and are asking where the rest of their group of 20 were? This harkens back to my point from last week. There were a lot of people on the beach. When I kept pausing, I swear I counted a minimum of 30 Lefties on the beach. Yet, we are being told there are much less. I don’t get it. We are told the captors did not set up the line mines which killed the two red shirts. SLJ are holding two faux military officers captive. Locke is trying to tell us the rifle is from the 1950’s when he gets interrupted. Sawyer asks who shot Locke. Locke is about to answer when he gets interrupted. This was a theme throughout the episode. Characters being interrupted before they revealed something important to another character. The two guys are talking in Latin because they are Others. Now, Latin in a dead, old language. It really isn’t used much in today’s world. But if the Others have been on this island for many, many centuries, Latin would have been a natural, universal language to learn. Seems like we are getting closer to finding out the explanation of the 4 toed statue and what the Temple is. The Others are talking about themselves, asking whey SLJ are not in uniforms, again referencing military invasion. MCD, Miles picks up the scent of recently killed soldiers, shot and/or dying from radiation poisoning. He is unable to convey to Daniel what year it is. The Others are taking them to a location that looks exactly like the spot Ben took Locke and Hurley to as he flashed a mirror to the top of a cliff on the way to the Orchid hatch. Richard makes a grand entrance, looking exactly the same age as always, sweeps in, and askd MCD if they have come back for their bomb.
Desmond shows up at Oxford University and is having trouble locating Faraday’s mother. The lady in the library tells Desmond that there is no record of a Daniel Faraday ever being a member of the university. Here is a real swerve. According to screen caps, the librarian is the same exact woman as the ticket agent that let Hurly board Oceanic 815 many seasons ago. If you recall, Hurley went to Australia trying to track down what the numbers meant. He was told the person he was looking for died and had pretty much lost his mind prior to that. Hurley overslept the next morning at the hotel, and was in a huge rush to get to the airport. Running as fast as he could without getting a heart attack, he stumbled up to the ticket counter just as they were closing up the boarding gate/tunnel to get to the plane. He begged a lady to let him get on the plane. He talked her into it, saying something like it was his lucky day, if I recall correctly. So, we now have another instance of somebody steering a key Losties character in a particular way to get them to do something important for the island and/or search for the island. We saw Ms Hawkings (don‘t marry Penny), the Monk (stop being a monk), Libby (take my boat), etc steer Desmond towards the island. How often have we seen some insignificant character have a huge impact on a character in a flashback or flashforward. I guess the real question is who is behind the course correction activities. Is it Ben and the Others, or Charles Widmore, or the universe, or the island/Jacob, or some combination of these. One thing for sure, it that I feel coincidence no longer can possibly exist in this show. The game has changed to figuring out WHY things are happening instead of "gee, that sure was convenient". Desmond breaks into Faraday’s old office, and starts to snoop around amidst the dust and blankets covering old equipment. The place has been thoroughly searched. Desmond finds a photo of Daniel with his arm around somebody who turns out to be Teresa Spencer, who we meet later. He is interrupted by seemingly a maintenance man, who tells him about destroying Faraday’s rats and about the accident. M.D.C come up with a plan of pretending to be military. Apparently, the military has been doing bomb testing on the island, and attacked the native Others/hostiles. Daniel notices the radiation poisoning some of the Others are suffering from. He insists that he get a chance to fix the leak to a hydrogen bomb and that he can be trusted because he is in love with Charlotte. At this point, I’d like to point out that the time traveling Lefties are special in many ways, and if you buy into my looping theories, it gets even more interesting. Starting from the movie Groundhog Day, a wonderful film by the way and shame on you if you haven’t seen it before, I tried to piece together a theory on how people on the island were reliving a certain period of time, longer than just a single day, but still looping and repeating back around Season 3, and was talking about it freely throughout that season and finale. It was just that a handful of them were able to remember those past loops. Such as Desmond being able to remember the upcoming ways Charlie was to die, like Ben being a few steps ahead of everybody. But the reality is that instead of a Groundhog Day Loop, it turns out that time travel was the trigger. This is why Daniel is able to know so much about what is happening to them, like having to disarm a bomb on the island. This is why Locke seems to have so much good instinct in knowing the island. This is why Juliet, Sawyer, and anybody else that is time traveling is going to be able to remember past and possibly future events, as they lived through them before. This is a springboard to a devilish scenario where the Lefties will travel to a time where they can see themselves on the island, hopefully soon. I guarantee they will not be able to talk to themselves as this is a paradox, and the island won’t allow it, but how creepy would it be if this was the source of the whispers we hear in the woods, the Lefties can only try to whisper to themselves. Interesting, no? Remember, the first time we saw Daniel, he was watching news of the Oceanic 815 crash on TV, and weeping, but he didn’t really know why he was so distraught. But deeply ingrained in his mind, he must have time traveled to a point where Charlotte died, and it made him upset, although he couldn’t remember the event. Or was recalling subconsciously all the people that were going to die, in the future. Now that is a wild sentence: Remembering all the people that will die in the future. Locke knew, absolutely positively knew the freighter was bad news, and not just because of Taller Ghost Walt; he knew they needed to get inside the Swan hatch; he seemingly shows up in the nick of time to save somebody in trouble, over and over and over again. S.J.L. are told that the rest of their people are either captured or dead, since the Others knew exactly where they were heading. One of the others is convinced to take SJL to Richard, but Jones scurries over, breaks his neck, and runs away. Locke is unable to pull the trigger once he knew they were Others, as opposed to last episode when he shot one in the head, and threw a knife through another. He didn't know who they were. The man is loyal to people he won’t lead for another 50 years. I wonder what Locke would do if he had to choose between the Others and the Losties/Lefties at some point.
After his trip to Oxford, Desmond double checks a house address vs. something written on paper, no doubt from the “maintenance man”. He is to learn that the woman in the photo with Daniel that he found is Teresa Spencer (no Google info on this name), someone that has been having mind traveling effects for the last ten years, no doubt brought on by Daniel’s experiments. Surprisingly, Charles Widmore is Daniel’s benefactor and paying for Teresa’s care. Now, it’s not surprising that Widmore is involved with Faraday, since Daniel was on the freighter to begin with. But that he is paying for the medical condition of Teresa. Could it be that Widmore was sponsoring Daniel’s work and was demanding faster results, including human testing, which seems to be the beginning of every comic book story. Instead of gaining super powers, she fell into time traveling purgatory. Daniel is now feeling pressure to fix this woman, and the way to do it is through time travel, apparently. MCD are in the military tent. Charlotte tells Daniel that he didn’t have to lie to Richard. Daniel tells her he was being sincere. She has some reaction bordering on heartburn mixed with gas pains. Not even much of a smile as Daniel is led out of the test. Richard gives Daniel a run down, and gives up some pieces to the LOST jigsaw puzzle. The military arrived on the island, 18 men, and started the war. Richard explains that he follow a chain of command, whether he was talking about Jacob or not, I’m not sure. The escaped Other shows up, explains that they were outnumbered (bullsh!t) and calls the young woman with a shotgun “Elle”. Which to me means Elle is one of two people. It’s possible that this might be DaniELLE Rousseau. But I think Danielle 50 years from now probably would have looked a bit older than she did when we were seeing her the last few seasons, unless the time element of the island would keep her a bit younger than her age to some extent, maybe not like Richard, but a little help. The other possibility is Eloise Hawkings, where Elle would be a natural nickname. We learned that Eloise was Ms Hawking first name through an enhanced episode repeat. Then again, don’t forget that the first rat Daniel trained to run through the maze in his lab was named Eloise, obviously a name that meant a lot to him since he told Desmond to bring up that name when they met at Oxford in last year's Desmond time traveling episode. And how weird is it to think we have a bunch of time travelers in this episode, and Desmond is not one of them. Anyway, could this be the person that becomes Hawkings? Could she be Daniel’s mother? Then, who is the father? Is it crazy to think Charles Widmore is Daniel’s father? Charles and Eloise would be about the same age off the island, both were young 50 years in the past. Maybe they left the island because Charles got Elle pregnant, and mothers were dying on the island. Or
Widmore was forced off the island because he is an assh0le. Widmore is funding Daniel. Hawking and Widmore are both interested in the island, but seemingly not working together, if Ben is working for Hawkings. So Charles and Elle had a falling out. Let take it even further. Desmond is Scottish, and I believe Penny is too. We now that Penny is possibly Widmore’s kid. Daniel might be. But let’s remember, Charlotte is redheaded. Aren’t there a lot of people with red hair from the British Isles, moreso than any other ethnicity. Maybe Charlotte is a Widmore, Hawkings offspring, therefore making Daniel and Charlotte brother and sister. I’d say it’s a good thing they haven’t kissed yet. Did I make your brain melt yet? Back to young Widmore telling Richard that the leader of the militants is some old guy and there is no way that they could have tracked him back to camp. What, you think he knows the island better than me? Pan camera to Locke watching the camp. Arguably one of the funniest scenes in Lost history, maybe since the Ben and Hurley waiting outside Jacob’s cabin, sharing a chocolate bar, sitting on a log together. Locke is alarmed at how old Richard is. SJL split up, to save Faraday and stroll into the camp. As Daniel is walking along with Elle, he tells her that she seems so familiar. Well, for one thing, she looks a bit like the woman laying in a bed back in Great Britain. And if Elle is really Daniel’s mother, then Daniel would think she is familiar if he is looking at a younger version of her. Which brings us to the bomb.
Meet Jughead, the leaking, shaken bottle of coke that you are trying to open with just mild fizzing and not a full explosion bomb. Daniel is telling Elle very emphatically that the bomb needs to be treated with lead and then buried in concrete. If you bury it, it won’t go off, then spills the beans on time travel as Sawyer sneaks up and disarms her. Juliet stops by and Elle and Juliet give each other some type of peculiar look. I’m not imagining things. It looked like some kind of knowing glance. First of all, how many more episodes until Sawyer and Juliet start to have sex. The two that were rejected from Jack and Kate are destined to form their own relationship. A cool scenario if Jack and Kate return to the island. Four's company, five's a crowd. Next, where did the Others bury the bomb? At first thought, the Swan hatch was full of concrete and a button to save the world. I’m not buying that for a second. First of all Dharma who still hadn’t arrived on the island, built the hatches Next, the hatch blew up, and their was no bomb explosion. A fail safe key is not going to keep the island from becoming 100% shrapnel from a hydrogen bomb. A bomb isn't going to diffuse itself. That bomb is somewhere else, and might figure into the endgame of next season. Desmond barges into Widmore’s office. I’m not going to answer your questions. Well, that seems fair, Desmond. Why am I finding it so hard to like these characters anymore. I might have to start a list of characters I like, and see if it's more than 5. Anyway, he wants to find Faraday’s mother, which Widmore complied with. Really? What the fock? The only possible reason is that Widmore needs Desmond to find her, as a course correcting action. He must know that Ben is in LA and that Penny is with Desmond, so why would he put Penny in danger by sending Desmond to LA unless it was vitally important to do so. And then maybe follow Desmond to Ben. Widmore is a wily fellow. Remember when Naomi was putting together the invasion plan with the scientists to get to the island last season. Plan B was the Keamy team. Plan A was gathering a group of people that the island may draw in, a theory Jack tried out years later, flying over the Pacific over and over again. Frank, who was to be the original pilot. Charlotte, who claims was born on the island. Miles, who might be Dr Chang’s son. And Daniel, possibly the son of two others. Now, he is helping Desmond eventually get back to the island by meeting Daniel’s mother. His mother probably is Hawking, as Ben is in LA and visited her last week, probably in LA. It’s all falling into place. Widmore tells Desmond “…deliver your message…” Um, what? How does he know that Desmond has a message to deliver. Specifically, a message. Of all reasons to find someone, why theorize it’s a message. Desmond never told him that. Widmore knows some of the future events, and is course correcting. Stay in hiding, this fight goes back many years. Yeah, I guess so. It’s as if Widmore is seeking to extract revenge against someone or something. I’m starting to think it’s against Richard. Widmore and Richard had a falling out. Maybe over Locke, and his appearance in the past. Hell, maybe Widmore was to be the new leader, but Locke came strolling out of the jungle. Locke calls out Richard. Jacob sent me. While the name John Locke meant nothing to Richard, Jacob seemed to carry significance, and Richard told Widmore to lower his gun. Locke turned to the prissy Widmore and seemed amused to meet him. Of course, Widmore's uniform said "Jones".
Desmond is back on the boat, and tries to lie to Penny about his end result. She sees through the falsehood, and with a sigh, agrees to go to Los Angeles. Inevitable. She knows Desmond is going back to the island. She probably doesn’t know that she will probably die soon. I really do think it will happen. It seems like all the very recent off island people are slowly being nudged to leave the outside world and go back. We just don’t know about Walt and Frank at this point. But Desmond is a pawn, and I think he powerless to do anything about it. Remember, when the Swan hatch was first invaded by the Losties, Desmond took off into the jungle. He apparently try to use a sailboat to leave the island, but the island would not allow him to leave, as he kept sailing in circles. He first arrived on the island on a boat. Now, like a magnet, he is being called back. On a boat. Locke shows Richard the compass, which Richard doesn’t recognize. Now the presence of the compass in that point in time to a specific person was too confusing to work out on paper, so I gave up. Whether this is a plot hole or not, I’m just rolling with it. Locke tells Richard “it hasn’t happened yet.” Locke tells Richard the exact details of Locke’s birth, which absolutely explains why he watched the birth of Locke and tested him through the early years so to see when he was to become the person he was meant to be . Which is why we kept hearing things from Richard and the Others in Season 3 about waiting a long time for Locke; this conversation was going on behind Ben’s back, during the time when Locke’s father arrived and got killed by Sawyer. How do I get off the island? And, the camp disappears. Charlotte collapses with a massive nose bleed. You know Daniel, if you love this woman, why don’t you stop delaying and tell her what the fock is wrong with her. The viewers already know, and you are killing her. Daniel knows she needs a constant. So help her find one, for fock’s sake. I know you are carrying guilt over Teresa, and now Charlotte. But tell her. Constant. The super intelligent Daniel is a dummy. And where is the smoke monster? Come on, when are we going to see the younger Smokie, or does it not age, like Richard? The wine bottle only lasted until paragraph 3.
First of all, let’s look at the episode title. I spend some time Googling, and the only significant reference of Jughead is the the Archie Comics, as the slacker character Jughead’s true name is Forsythe Pendleton “Jughead” Jones. The connection to the this episode is two fold. First, the hydrogen bomb we see later is named Jughead. Also, the guy in the military uniform with a nametag of “Jones”, they guy SJL capture, ends up being an alias for another name, just as Jones is really Jughead in Archie Comics. Meh. Not much here to dig into.
We start with Desmond running willy nilly around a South East Asian port, looking for a doctor. Penny gives birth to a boy, sometime in the future after she and Desmond leave the Lost island folks behind and go into hiding. The boy will turn out to be called Charlie, remembering the junk head who died right before Desmond’s eyes at the end of season 3. I can’t help but think this seals the deal on Penny’s fate. She is going to die this season, and probably within a couple of episodes. Giving birth to a baby tends to bring about death in this show. It’s like a balancing out of the beginning and ending of life. Sun gives birth after Jin dies. Claire gives birth, but Charlie dies soon afterward. All the Other’s mothers kept dying during child birth. Penny will die at the hands of Ben. Yeah, viewers will be upset. Do you think these writers care about that? They killed off Charlie. Look at how clinically they slaughtered Alex, Danielle, and Karl. Death is a part of the show. Characters we like will die, and often. We then seem to jump forward in time, and the kid is more grown, most likely now 3 years in the future, the same time line as the Oceanic 6 storyline. Desmond is doing a bit of a soliloquy about returning to the isle of Great Britain. Penny is very skeptical, mentioning what if Charles Widmore finds them. Desmond says that Daniel told him he was the only one who can help the people on the island. However, Ben and Locke and Richard are saying that the Oceanic 6 need to return to the island to save the Lefties. So, which is it? Desmond finding Daniel’s mother, or O6 returning to the island? Or both? Or neither? Dammit. A contradiction in the plot. D.C.M. and two red shirts arrive at the creek safely, only to discover that nobody else is there. A trip wired kills the two background Lefties, and the Lost cast members keeps dwindling. Charlotte keeps getting sicker, and the romance nobody cares about keeping awkwardly going forward. Come on, now. Daniel is a likeable character; I have not seen a single person talk crap about the guy. He is a solid likeable key character, and impressively enough, a newbie who everybody adopted early on with his disarming quirky mannerisms and offbeat speech patterns. At this point, every body knows that we need him to help explain the increasingly confusing time travel shenanigans. But Charlotte made a terrible first impression. She came off very frigid, very inhuman, very unlikable. A few minutes after we meet her, Ben pumps some bullets into her, and we were all disappointed that she survived. Now, the writers are trying to build some sympathy for her by trying to rub some heat from the Daniel character onto her. Guess what? It’s just not working. Sorry. But if you dropped her into a kettle and boiled her for a week, she would still be frigid. And it has nothing to do with being British. Penny comes across as a very warm person. Charlotte is a penguin with a red headed wig. Yeah, she is attractive. But come on, Daniel. Flirt with Juliet or something at this point. Hell, you have a better chance of getting a kiss from a polar bear than Charlotte. I’m starting to go off on tangents and rant. Buckle up your seat belts. Long way to go. Anyway, the trip wire goes off and kills two nobodies. The noise brings the hostiles out of the woods to capture M.C.D The prominent woman with the shotgun looks at Daniel with curious familiarity and says “You just couldn’t stay away, could you. “ Now this is cryptic. It could refer to Daniel being a military guy, as the episodes goes on to explain that possibility later on. Or, it could be that this woman sees Daniel as somebody that she has seen before. Interesting to note.
Penny is asking Desmond a couple of very smart questions. Why now? If Daniel told you about this quest on the island, why are you only remembering 2 days ago? I’ll admit, I can spend hours trying to point inconsistencies now that time travel is the theme, but that would drive me insane. I’m not going to spend the time to dissect it that clearly unless it becomes too obvious to ignore. But with Desmond, the rules apparently do not apply. Desmond says that after he finds Daniel’s mother at Oxford, it will be over with forever. Penny asks Desmond to promise he will never go back to the island. Desmond conveniently says “Why would I ever go back?” He avoided answering the question. Desmond doesn’t want to lie, and Penny knows what is now inevitable. Desmond will go back. The Others have captured MDC, and are asking where the rest of their group of 20 were? This harkens back to my point from last week. There were a lot of people on the beach. When I kept pausing, I swear I counted a minimum of 30 Lefties on the beach. Yet, we are being told there are much less. I don’t get it. We are told the captors did not set up the line mines which killed the two red shirts. SLJ are holding two faux military officers captive. Locke is trying to tell us the rifle is from the 1950’s when he gets interrupted. Sawyer asks who shot Locke. Locke is about to answer when he gets interrupted. This was a theme throughout the episode. Characters being interrupted before they revealed something important to another character. The two guys are talking in Latin because they are Others. Now, Latin in a dead, old language. It really isn’t used much in today’s world. But if the Others have been on this island for many, many centuries, Latin would have been a natural, universal language to learn. Seems like we are getting closer to finding out the explanation of the 4 toed statue and what the Temple is. The Others are talking about themselves, asking whey SLJ are not in uniforms, again referencing military invasion. MCD, Miles picks up the scent of recently killed soldiers, shot and/or dying from radiation poisoning. He is unable to convey to Daniel what year it is. The Others are taking them to a location that looks exactly like the spot Ben took Locke and Hurley to as he flashed a mirror to the top of a cliff on the way to the Orchid hatch. Richard makes a grand entrance, looking exactly the same age as always, sweeps in, and askd MCD if they have come back for their bomb.
Desmond shows up at Oxford University and is having trouble locating Faraday’s mother. The lady in the library tells Desmond that there is no record of a Daniel Faraday ever being a member of the university. Here is a real swerve. According to screen caps, the librarian is the same exact woman as the ticket agent that let Hurly board Oceanic 815 many seasons ago. If you recall, Hurley went to Australia trying to track down what the numbers meant. He was told the person he was looking for died and had pretty much lost his mind prior to that. Hurley overslept the next morning at the hotel, and was in a huge rush to get to the airport. Running as fast as he could without getting a heart attack, he stumbled up to the ticket counter just as they were closing up the boarding gate/tunnel to get to the plane. He begged a lady to let him get on the plane. He talked her into it, saying something like it was his lucky day, if I recall correctly. So, we now have another instance of somebody steering a key Losties character in a particular way to get them to do something important for the island and/or search for the island. We saw Ms Hawkings (don‘t marry Penny), the Monk (stop being a monk), Libby (take my boat), etc steer Desmond towards the island. How often have we seen some insignificant character have a huge impact on a character in a flashback or flashforward. I guess the real question is who is behind the course correction activities. Is it Ben and the Others, or Charles Widmore, or the universe, or the island/Jacob, or some combination of these. One thing for sure, it that I feel coincidence no longer can possibly exist in this show. The game has changed to figuring out WHY things are happening instead of "gee, that sure was convenient". Desmond breaks into Faraday’s old office, and starts to snoop around amidst the dust and blankets covering old equipment. The place has been thoroughly searched. Desmond finds a photo of Daniel with his arm around somebody who turns out to be Teresa Spencer, who we meet later. He is interrupted by seemingly a maintenance man, who tells him about destroying Faraday’s rats and about the accident. M.D.C come up with a plan of pretending to be military. Apparently, the military has been doing bomb testing on the island, and attacked the native Others/hostiles. Daniel notices the radiation poisoning some of the Others are suffering from. He insists that he get a chance to fix the leak to a hydrogen bomb and that he can be trusted because he is in love with Charlotte. At this point, I’d like to point out that the time traveling Lefties are special in many ways, and if you buy into my looping theories, it gets even more interesting. Starting from the movie Groundhog Day, a wonderful film by the way and shame on you if you haven’t seen it before, I tried to piece together a theory on how people on the island were reliving a certain period of time, longer than just a single day, but still looping and repeating back around Season 3, and was talking about it freely throughout that season and finale. It was just that a handful of them were able to remember those past loops. Such as Desmond being able to remember the upcoming ways Charlie was to die, like Ben being a few steps ahead of everybody. But the reality is that instead of a Groundhog Day Loop, it turns out that time travel was the trigger. This is why Daniel is able to know so much about what is happening to them, like having to disarm a bomb on the island. This is why Locke seems to have so much good instinct in knowing the island. This is why Juliet, Sawyer, and anybody else that is time traveling is going to be able to remember past and possibly future events, as they lived through them before. This is a springboard to a devilish scenario where the Lefties will travel to a time where they can see themselves on the island, hopefully soon. I guarantee they will not be able to talk to themselves as this is a paradox, and the island won’t allow it, but how creepy would it be if this was the source of the whispers we hear in the woods, the Lefties can only try to whisper to themselves. Interesting, no? Remember, the first time we saw Daniel, he was watching news of the Oceanic 815 crash on TV, and weeping, but he didn’t really know why he was so distraught. But deeply ingrained in his mind, he must have time traveled to a point where Charlotte died, and it made him upset, although he couldn’t remember the event. Or was recalling subconsciously all the people that were going to die, in the future. Now that is a wild sentence: Remembering all the people that will die in the future. Locke knew, absolutely positively knew the freighter was bad news, and not just because of Taller Ghost Walt; he knew they needed to get inside the Swan hatch; he seemingly shows up in the nick of time to save somebody in trouble, over and over and over again. S.J.L. are told that the rest of their people are either captured or dead, since the Others knew exactly where they were heading. One of the others is convinced to take SJL to Richard, but Jones scurries over, breaks his neck, and runs away. Locke is unable to pull the trigger once he knew they were Others, as opposed to last episode when he shot one in the head, and threw a knife through another. He didn't know who they were. The man is loyal to people he won’t lead for another 50 years. I wonder what Locke would do if he had to choose between the Others and the Losties/Lefties at some point.
After his trip to Oxford, Desmond double checks a house address vs. something written on paper, no doubt from the “maintenance man”. He is to learn that the woman in the photo with Daniel that he found is Teresa Spencer (no Google info on this name), someone that has been having mind traveling effects for the last ten years, no doubt brought on by Daniel’s experiments. Surprisingly, Charles Widmore is Daniel’s benefactor and paying for Teresa’s care. Now, it’s not surprising that Widmore is involved with Faraday, since Daniel was on the freighter to begin with. But that he is paying for the medical condition of Teresa. Could it be that Widmore was sponsoring Daniel’s work and was demanding faster results, including human testing, which seems to be the beginning of every comic book story. Instead of gaining super powers, she fell into time traveling purgatory. Daniel is now feeling pressure to fix this woman, and the way to do it is through time travel, apparently. MCD are in the military tent. Charlotte tells Daniel that he didn’t have to lie to Richard. Daniel tells her he was being sincere. She has some reaction bordering on heartburn mixed with gas pains. Not even much of a smile as Daniel is led out of the test. Richard gives Daniel a run down, and gives up some pieces to the LOST jigsaw puzzle. The military arrived on the island, 18 men, and started the war. Richard explains that he follow a chain of command, whether he was talking about Jacob or not, I’m not sure. The escaped Other shows up, explains that they were outnumbered (bullsh!t) and calls the young woman with a shotgun “Elle”. Which to me means Elle is one of two people. It’s possible that this might be DaniELLE Rousseau. But I think Danielle 50 years from now probably would have looked a bit older than she did when we were seeing her the last few seasons, unless the time element of the island would keep her a bit younger than her age to some extent, maybe not like Richard, but a little help. The other possibility is Eloise Hawkings, where Elle would be a natural nickname. We learned that Eloise was Ms Hawking first name through an enhanced episode repeat. Then again, don’t forget that the first rat Daniel trained to run through the maze in his lab was named Eloise, obviously a name that meant a lot to him since he told Desmond to bring up that name when they met at Oxford in last year's Desmond time traveling episode. And how weird is it to think we have a bunch of time travelers in this episode, and Desmond is not one of them. Anyway, could this be the person that becomes Hawkings? Could she be Daniel’s mother? Then, who is the father? Is it crazy to think Charles Widmore is Daniel’s father? Charles and Eloise would be about the same age off the island, both were young 50 years in the past. Maybe they left the island because Charles got Elle pregnant, and mothers were dying on the island. Or
Widmore was forced off the island because he is an assh0le. Widmore is funding Daniel. Hawking and Widmore are both interested in the island, but seemingly not working together, if Ben is working for Hawkings. So Charles and Elle had a falling out. Let take it even further. Desmond is Scottish, and I believe Penny is too. We now that Penny is possibly Widmore’s kid. Daniel might be. But let’s remember, Charlotte is redheaded. Aren’t there a lot of people with red hair from the British Isles, moreso than any other ethnicity. Maybe Charlotte is a Widmore, Hawkings offspring, therefore making Daniel and Charlotte brother and sister. I’d say it’s a good thing they haven’t kissed yet. Did I make your brain melt yet? Back to young Widmore telling Richard that the leader of the militants is some old guy and there is no way that they could have tracked him back to camp. What, you think he knows the island better than me? Pan camera to Locke watching the camp. Arguably one of the funniest scenes in Lost history, maybe since the Ben and Hurley waiting outside Jacob’s cabin, sharing a chocolate bar, sitting on a log together. Locke is alarmed at how old Richard is. SJL split up, to save Faraday and stroll into the camp. As Daniel is walking along with Elle, he tells her that she seems so familiar. Well, for one thing, she looks a bit like the woman laying in a bed back in Great Britain. And if Elle is really Daniel’s mother, then Daniel would think she is familiar if he is looking at a younger version of her. Which brings us to the bomb.
Meet Jughead, the leaking, shaken bottle of coke that you are trying to open with just mild fizzing and not a full explosion bomb. Daniel is telling Elle very emphatically that the bomb needs to be treated with lead and then buried in concrete. If you bury it, it won’t go off, then spills the beans on time travel as Sawyer sneaks up and disarms her. Juliet stops by and Elle and Juliet give each other some type of peculiar look. I’m not imagining things. It looked like some kind of knowing glance. First of all, how many more episodes until Sawyer and Juliet start to have sex. The two that were rejected from Jack and Kate are destined to form their own relationship. A cool scenario if Jack and Kate return to the island. Four's company, five's a crowd. Next, where did the Others bury the bomb? At first thought, the Swan hatch was full of concrete and a button to save the world. I’m not buying that for a second. First of all Dharma who still hadn’t arrived on the island, built the hatches Next, the hatch blew up, and their was no bomb explosion. A fail safe key is not going to keep the island from becoming 100% shrapnel from a hydrogen bomb. A bomb isn't going to diffuse itself. That bomb is somewhere else, and might figure into the endgame of next season. Desmond barges into Widmore’s office. I’m not going to answer your questions. Well, that seems fair, Desmond. Why am I finding it so hard to like these characters anymore. I might have to start a list of characters I like, and see if it's more than 5. Anyway, he wants to find Faraday’s mother, which Widmore complied with. Really? What the fock? The only possible reason is that Widmore needs Desmond to find her, as a course correcting action. He must know that Ben is in LA and that Penny is with Desmond, so why would he put Penny in danger by sending Desmond to LA unless it was vitally important to do so. And then maybe follow Desmond to Ben. Widmore is a wily fellow. Remember when Naomi was putting together the invasion plan with the scientists to get to the island last season. Plan B was the Keamy team. Plan A was gathering a group of people that the island may draw in, a theory Jack tried out years later, flying over the Pacific over and over again. Frank, who was to be the original pilot. Charlotte, who claims was born on the island. Miles, who might be Dr Chang’s son. And Daniel, possibly the son of two others. Now, he is helping Desmond eventually get back to the island by meeting Daniel’s mother. His mother probably is Hawking, as Ben is in LA and visited her last week, probably in LA. It’s all falling into place. Widmore tells Desmond “…deliver your message…” Um, what? How does he know that Desmond has a message to deliver. Specifically, a message. Of all reasons to find someone, why theorize it’s a message. Desmond never told him that. Widmore knows some of the future events, and is course correcting. Stay in hiding, this fight goes back many years. Yeah, I guess so. It’s as if Widmore is seeking to extract revenge against someone or something. I’m starting to think it’s against Richard. Widmore and Richard had a falling out. Maybe over Locke, and his appearance in the past. Hell, maybe Widmore was to be the new leader, but Locke came strolling out of the jungle. Locke calls out Richard. Jacob sent me. While the name John Locke meant nothing to Richard, Jacob seemed to carry significance, and Richard told Widmore to lower his gun. Locke turned to the prissy Widmore and seemed amused to meet him. Of course, Widmore's uniform said "Jones".
Desmond is back on the boat, and tries to lie to Penny about his end result. She sees through the falsehood, and with a sigh, agrees to go to Los Angeles. Inevitable. She knows Desmond is going back to the island. She probably doesn’t know that she will probably die soon. I really do think it will happen. It seems like all the very recent off island people are slowly being nudged to leave the outside world and go back. We just don’t know about Walt and Frank at this point. But Desmond is a pawn, and I think he powerless to do anything about it. Remember, when the Swan hatch was first invaded by the Losties, Desmond took off into the jungle. He apparently try to use a sailboat to leave the island, but the island would not allow him to leave, as he kept sailing in circles. He first arrived on the island on a boat. Now, like a magnet, he is being called back. On a boat. Locke shows Richard the compass, which Richard doesn’t recognize. Now the presence of the compass in that point in time to a specific person was too confusing to work out on paper, so I gave up. Whether this is a plot hole or not, I’m just rolling with it. Locke tells Richard “it hasn’t happened yet.” Locke tells Richard the exact details of Locke’s birth, which absolutely explains why he watched the birth of Locke and tested him through the early years so to see when he was to become the person he was meant to be . Which is why we kept hearing things from Richard and the Others in Season 3 about waiting a long time for Locke; this conversation was going on behind Ben’s back, during the time when Locke’s father arrived and got killed by Sawyer. How do I get off the island? And, the camp disappears. Charlotte collapses with a massive nose bleed. You know Daniel, if you love this woman, why don’t you stop delaying and tell her what the fock is wrong with her. The viewers already know, and you are killing her. Daniel knows she needs a constant. So help her find one, for fock’s sake. I know you are carrying guilt over Teresa, and now Charlotte. But tell her. Constant. The super intelligent Daniel is a dummy. And where is the smoke monster? Come on, when are we going to see the younger Smokie, or does it not age, like Richard? The wine bottle only lasted until paragraph 3.
5.02 The Lie
I’m not going to spend much time dwelling on the first episode writeup. If I re-read it, I will finally be convinced that I am in desperate need of therapy. But I will point out a typo. It was Locke who Richard visited in the foster home during last season, not Ben. But I’m sure you know what I meant. Oddly enough, this episode was more of a narrative tale, with not a lot of room for speculation.
On Penny’s boat, the Oceanic 6 along with Frank and Penny are hatching the outline of the lie of their rescue. Hurley is reluctant to lie. Penny confirms that she can’t keep her father from stopping his plans. Hurley insists that if they all stick together, they can make the world believe that the island disappear. Hurley is outvoted. It must be nice to go through life stupid. Yeah, the island disappeared, and people will believe it. Are you out of your mind? Hurley is chaperoning a comatose Sayid through Los Angeles. His anxiety leads to bad driving and a cop car pulls him over. Hey, it’s the Tailies AnaLucia from Hurley‘s imagination, or maybe an manifestation by the island again. Here’s a thought. Maybe when the smoke monster scans your head, it implants different scenarios inside your head, to be triggered when necessary. So the monster could have implanted Libby into Michael’s head, Charlie and AnaLucia and Dave into Hurley’s head, Christian into Jack’s head, the black horse into Kate’s head, etc. Anyway, I was surprised to see her, after reading the stories of the drunk driving charges and being written out of the show. The key here is that Ana Lucia said “And don’t get arrested. Libby says Hi!!” Now, the Libby line was to distract the audience, but don’t forget the don’t get arrested part. It’s foreshadowing the future, but Hurley completely forgets this advice.
The Lefties are trying to make fire on the island. Sadly, none of them ever watched Survivorman or Man vs. Wild on Discovery. Neil “Frogurt“, a background character who is getting screen time and we find out his name, continues to annoy everybody around him. It that isn’t a recipe for a plot device of an impending death, you’ve forgotten all about Nikki and Paulo already. Juliet is getting some supplies ready, thinking that we can take supplies with us when we move again. Which begs the question, why exactly are Juliet, Sawyer, and Daniel, three people who arrived on the island at three different points in time, moving at the same time to the same time, but Richard isn’t. Is it proximity? Because Locke moved in time too, but we can’t be totally sure he moved to the same exact time as the Lefties, well until the jump at the end of the episode. Also, why isn’t Juliet not moving, along with Richard and apparently the Others. What are the rules for time traveling here exactly? I need answers, dammit. Daniel was gone 2 hours, visiting with Desmond. That is a hell of a long time, which nobody really vociferously questions other than a cursory question from Sawyer. Daniel explains that they can’t use the Zodiac raft to escape and that he has to recalculate a new island bearing in time? How can he? He figured out the bearings the first time, when the freighter arrived, but with the island lost in time, how can you figure out any of that stuff. OK, that one I don’t understand. The Lefties continue to rebuild the camp. Hurley walks into a convenience store, and seems to take a liking to Shih-Tzu pictures on a bright yellow shirt. No, not conspicuous at all. The cashier recognizes him from the lottery and Oceanic 6, but not from a triple homicide which is playing right behind her on the TV. Obviously one of our nation’s finest. Kate pulls into the same gas station as Hurley is leaving, which again reminds us how interconnected all these characters are. She is about to call Jack, but instead gets a call from a friend that is currently in Los Angeles. Yeah, we all know it’s Sun. Ben flushes Jack’s pills down the toilet. Jack needs to go home and pack as he is never coming back to this world. So now we know that the Oceanic 6 going back is forever. I wonder how this affects Sun and her child Ji Yeon. Would she be leaving behind her kid? The kid was conceived on the island, so maybe she needs to go back too. Hurley’s father makes himself a sammich and sits down to watch Nikki on her TV show Expose. Hurley and unconscious Sayid pay a visit. Here is a question. If Hurley supposedly killed 3 people, and the cops are looking for him, and his picture is all over the TV, how do you not have a stakeout at his house? The mind reels.
Hurley is trying to explain to his father he is in danger. Finally, the cops come by. One of those “cops” look a lot like Mr Abaddon from last season, who visited Hurley and Locke in hospitals, put together Naomi’s mission, and is currently on the show Fringe. It sure looked a lot like him, but I could be wrong. Hurley is unable to tell his father who is after him, because he doesn’t even know that. Kate visits Sun in a hotel. Ben arrives in a butcher shop, and takes ticket 342.Get it? 42. He has a conversation with the butcher Jillian. I have something in the van. Is it what I think it is? Ben inquires about Jeffrey and Gabriel checking in yet. Well, looks like Ben has a network of people working for him outside the island world, and why not, since we saw the video shot of Charles Widmore last season, as filmed by one of Ben’s operatives off the island. Everything is moving on schedule. Ben shows a bit of compassion over a joke made about Jack’s pill popping. So, Ben and his people continue to know a lot about the Losties, even off the island. Their researching abilities are quite impressive. However, since Ben is planning this whole elaborate scheme to get the Oceanic 6 back to the island, I suppose he views it as his only chance of going back too, as the island becomes grateful for his service and allows Ben safe passage. Maybe. However, you have to look at the big picture. You get a bunch of people who were supposedly stranded on a dangerous island for the rest of their lives, then a few miraculously escape and return to initially great lives. You are Ben, and now have to convince or manipulate these same people to go back to the island of the smoke monster and invading Widmore mercenaries with the fresh stentch of death permeating the air. Certainly, not an easy task. Things start to go south for the Oceanic 6, and you have to wonder if Ben is pushing these events along. Like the lawyers at Kate’s house. Vincent is still around, as we see him on the beach. That dog must have some stories to tell about the island; if only he could talk. Charlotte complains to Daniel about headaches and loss of memory. Yeah, she will die, and soon. Miles finds a recently deceased boar, showing a particular usefulness. I want to know what thoughts are bouncing around Miles’ head, as this island must be a hell of place to be when you can hear the dead. Neil Frogurt throws a monumental hissy fit “We can’t even start a fire” just as a flaming arrow pierces his chest. Good. Now, run.
The flaming arrow attack continues on the 300 Spartans. People are dying. Which begs the question. Since this seems to be the past, and Lefties are dying in the past, did they exist in the future. Well, whatever happened, happens. But this is certainly a paradox. And how many Lefties are there? There must be 35 to 40 people running, and a bunch of them have died, including at the Barracks, the freighter, regular characters over the last few season, been kidnapped by the Others, shot, drowned, subtract the Oceanic 6, etc. We started with 48, and it’s like all 48 are still there, if not more. This has to be a mistake by the producers. Sawyer is starting to take a liking to Juliet, as he drags her off into the jungle to keep her from being killed. I wonder how far in the past this is? Being that flaming arrows really aren't a modern day weapon. But it sure is effective against unarmed people. The attackers never gave them a chance to surrender. It was just kill, kill, kill. The cops finally show up at Hurley’s house. Hurley’s father is making it clear that he doesn’t trust his son. Kate is with Sun. Sun is showing off her baby pictures. Oddly, she is jet setting around the world, while her kid is at home. I wonder if her lust for revenge is overpowering her maternal instincts. A kind of madness. Lawyers came to see me, and Sun is curious about who they represent. Being that Sun only recently told Widmore about wanting Ben dead, and that the lawyers flushed out Kate before Sun ever called, I have to think at this point that Ben sent the lawyers. Sun and Kate remember back to the freighter, as Kate was going back for Jin, but Jack stopped her and they left Jin behind. “We all would have died instead of just Jin, my husband. I don’t blame you.” Bullsh!t. Sun blames all of them. And the way she said “just Jin”. Sun looked completely like a reptile, trying to hypnotize her prey with unblinking yet intense stare, as she uncoils her self, and ever so slowly wraps herself around her prey, until she gently squeezes the life out of it, a demented boa constrictor. Sun is a monster. I was onto it a while ago, and it is becoming obvious to everybody else now, I suppose. So, how’s Jack? Yeah, because you want to kill Kate and Jack at the same time. And Jin might not be dead after all. During the preview show, the two executive producers said that the freighter explosion caused the apparent death of Jin. Jin is not a confirmed death. Which I mentioned in preview #1. Jack takes Sayid off of Hurleys father’s hands. Stay away from Hurley. Jack calls Ben, and it’s off to the hospital.
Hurley is talking with his mother, and gives her a rundown of all the craziness that is the show LOST. Listening to the story, you realize that you have to be insane to buy into all of this. Yes, all of us viewers are foaming at the mouth. In a touching moment, Hurley’s mother tells him that she doesn’t understand it, but that she believes him. So between the Sayid help and the belief in his story, Hurley’s parents show great patience with their troubled son. And don’t have to. I mean what has Hurley ever done but be a lot of grief and aggravation. Other than the 150 million he gave his parents. But other than that, what else has he done? A lot of people died. Yeah, I get it. And stop your fake crying and get on with the next scene. I’m starting to get annoyed with Hurley. Sigh. Sawyer and Juliet are in the jungle, and see some strangers walk by, and then get captured a moment later. A guy with a name tag Jones yells at Juliet about what they are doing on their island. They seem like soldiers from the early 1900’s.
As Jack is trying to revive Sayid, he wakes up and starts to choke Jack. And I was rooting him on. Yeah, I guess I didn’t have a “Jack Sucks Moment OF The Week“, but he is just a background character with not much to do at this point, and the award has to be earned. Maybe we will start one for another character. I dumped on a bunch of other characters, so I’m running out of rage. Hurley cooks a hot pocket, turns around, and heaves it a spot on the wall a little to the right of Ben. While Hurley looks a bit like CC Sabathia or David Wells, his location is a bit off. No, you’re playing mind games. And ignoring AnaLucia’s words earlier in the episode, turns himself over to the cops. Ben is unhappy, as am I. This is our first Hurley Sucks Moment of the Week. Hurley is now a moron, trying to get our sympathy. You want to see a real mental patient? Watch Fringe and the character Walter. Hurley is a fake crazy guy, someone who doesn’t want to deal with real life, and tends to retreat into an easier solution than making hard decisions; just act crazy. Just like when the deck collapsed and he got all depressed. Instead of dealing with the situation, he ended up comatose and in the nut hut. You just want to grab him by the neck, um, shoulders and shake him like a baby that won’t stop crying on a nonstop 16 hour flight to Asia. Stop it. Just stop it. You faker looking for an easy way out. On the island, Juliet is about to lose an arm. Well, a second arm, because the first arm is non-negotiable since the soldiers mean business. Violence breaks out, and Locke strolls out of the jungle to collect his knife. Well, the Lefties are all together now. We see a hooded figure writing formulas on a chalk board, reminiscent of Daniel at Oxford from last season. She has all sorts of weird equipment and is working on crunching numbers like Matt Damon in Good Will Hunting, but better. Yes, this is Ms Hawkings from seasons past, the lady who told Desmond that he could not get married to Penny, tried to explain to him that he was special and needed to go to the island, and that the universe has a way of course correcting. Here is a thought. What if Desmond followed Daniel’s instruction, found his mother, assuming it’s Ms Hawkings, and Desmond told her that she needed to warn the past Desmond that he could not marry Penny because Desmond wanted Desmond to arrive at the island. The problem is that Desmond is now 3 years off the island, but I wonder is somehow Ms Hawkings can send Desmond to the past to warn the past Ms Hawkings to warn the future Desmond as per the future Desmond instructions. Got all that? Nope. That’s OK. That’s how this season will be.Ms Hawkings warns Ben he only has 70 hours to return everybody to the island. You know how you hear people that talk about a handful of people run the world. Well, if this isn't proof, I don't know what is. It's possible that Ms Hawkings knows about Desmond before Desmond was even born. The hooded robe she is wearing reminds me of the monk of the monestary that Desmond briefly joined, and if you recall, there was a picture on the desk of the head monk and Ms Hawkings together. For a while, I thought that when the Oceanic 6 would return, the island would re-boot, if you will, and go back to the first show of the series, Jack lying in the jungle, the plane on the beach, people running around. Groundhog Day, a time loop bookmark. But if they return by the end of this season, what happens Season 6? When are they in time? Do they relive their experiences on the island with knowledge of the future? Might be too early to speculate.
I’m tired of typing. That’s it.
On Penny’s boat, the Oceanic 6 along with Frank and Penny are hatching the outline of the lie of their rescue. Hurley is reluctant to lie. Penny confirms that she can’t keep her father from stopping his plans. Hurley insists that if they all stick together, they can make the world believe that the island disappear. Hurley is outvoted. It must be nice to go through life stupid. Yeah, the island disappeared, and people will believe it. Are you out of your mind? Hurley is chaperoning a comatose Sayid through Los Angeles. His anxiety leads to bad driving and a cop car pulls him over. Hey, it’s the Tailies AnaLucia from Hurley‘s imagination, or maybe an manifestation by the island again. Here’s a thought. Maybe when the smoke monster scans your head, it implants different scenarios inside your head, to be triggered when necessary. So the monster could have implanted Libby into Michael’s head, Charlie and AnaLucia and Dave into Hurley’s head, Christian into Jack’s head, the black horse into Kate’s head, etc. Anyway, I was surprised to see her, after reading the stories of the drunk driving charges and being written out of the show. The key here is that Ana Lucia said “And don’t get arrested. Libby says Hi!!” Now, the Libby line was to distract the audience, but don’t forget the don’t get arrested part. It’s foreshadowing the future, but Hurley completely forgets this advice.
The Lefties are trying to make fire on the island. Sadly, none of them ever watched Survivorman or Man vs. Wild on Discovery. Neil “Frogurt“, a background character who is getting screen time and we find out his name, continues to annoy everybody around him. It that isn’t a recipe for a plot device of an impending death, you’ve forgotten all about Nikki and Paulo already. Juliet is getting some supplies ready, thinking that we can take supplies with us when we move again. Which begs the question, why exactly are Juliet, Sawyer, and Daniel, three people who arrived on the island at three different points in time, moving at the same time to the same time, but Richard isn’t. Is it proximity? Because Locke moved in time too, but we can’t be totally sure he moved to the same exact time as the Lefties, well until the jump at the end of the episode. Also, why isn’t Juliet not moving, along with Richard and apparently the Others. What are the rules for time traveling here exactly? I need answers, dammit. Daniel was gone 2 hours, visiting with Desmond. That is a hell of a long time, which nobody really vociferously questions other than a cursory question from Sawyer. Daniel explains that they can’t use the Zodiac raft to escape and that he has to recalculate a new island bearing in time? How can he? He figured out the bearings the first time, when the freighter arrived, but with the island lost in time, how can you figure out any of that stuff. OK, that one I don’t understand. The Lefties continue to rebuild the camp. Hurley walks into a convenience store, and seems to take a liking to Shih-Tzu pictures on a bright yellow shirt. No, not conspicuous at all. The cashier recognizes him from the lottery and Oceanic 6, but not from a triple homicide which is playing right behind her on the TV. Obviously one of our nation’s finest. Kate pulls into the same gas station as Hurley is leaving, which again reminds us how interconnected all these characters are. She is about to call Jack, but instead gets a call from a friend that is currently in Los Angeles. Yeah, we all know it’s Sun. Ben flushes Jack’s pills down the toilet. Jack needs to go home and pack as he is never coming back to this world. So now we know that the Oceanic 6 going back is forever. I wonder how this affects Sun and her child Ji Yeon. Would she be leaving behind her kid? The kid was conceived on the island, so maybe she needs to go back too. Hurley’s father makes himself a sammich and sits down to watch Nikki on her TV show Expose. Hurley and unconscious Sayid pay a visit. Here is a question. If Hurley supposedly killed 3 people, and the cops are looking for him, and his picture is all over the TV, how do you not have a stakeout at his house? The mind reels.
Hurley is trying to explain to his father he is in danger. Finally, the cops come by. One of those “cops” look a lot like Mr Abaddon from last season, who visited Hurley and Locke in hospitals, put together Naomi’s mission, and is currently on the show Fringe. It sure looked a lot like him, but I could be wrong. Hurley is unable to tell his father who is after him, because he doesn’t even know that. Kate visits Sun in a hotel. Ben arrives in a butcher shop, and takes ticket 342.Get it? 42. He has a conversation with the butcher Jillian. I have something in the van. Is it what I think it is? Ben inquires about Jeffrey and Gabriel checking in yet. Well, looks like Ben has a network of people working for him outside the island world, and why not, since we saw the video shot of Charles Widmore last season, as filmed by one of Ben’s operatives off the island. Everything is moving on schedule. Ben shows a bit of compassion over a joke made about Jack’s pill popping. So, Ben and his people continue to know a lot about the Losties, even off the island. Their researching abilities are quite impressive. However, since Ben is planning this whole elaborate scheme to get the Oceanic 6 back to the island, I suppose he views it as his only chance of going back too, as the island becomes grateful for his service and allows Ben safe passage. Maybe. However, you have to look at the big picture. You get a bunch of people who were supposedly stranded on a dangerous island for the rest of their lives, then a few miraculously escape and return to initially great lives. You are Ben, and now have to convince or manipulate these same people to go back to the island of the smoke monster and invading Widmore mercenaries with the fresh stentch of death permeating the air. Certainly, not an easy task. Things start to go south for the Oceanic 6, and you have to wonder if Ben is pushing these events along. Like the lawyers at Kate’s house. Vincent is still around, as we see him on the beach. That dog must have some stories to tell about the island; if only he could talk. Charlotte complains to Daniel about headaches and loss of memory. Yeah, she will die, and soon. Miles finds a recently deceased boar, showing a particular usefulness. I want to know what thoughts are bouncing around Miles’ head, as this island must be a hell of place to be when you can hear the dead. Neil Frogurt throws a monumental hissy fit “We can’t even start a fire” just as a flaming arrow pierces his chest. Good. Now, run.
The flaming arrow attack continues on the 300 Spartans. People are dying. Which begs the question. Since this seems to be the past, and Lefties are dying in the past, did they exist in the future. Well, whatever happened, happens. But this is certainly a paradox. And how many Lefties are there? There must be 35 to 40 people running, and a bunch of them have died, including at the Barracks, the freighter, regular characters over the last few season, been kidnapped by the Others, shot, drowned, subtract the Oceanic 6, etc. We started with 48, and it’s like all 48 are still there, if not more. This has to be a mistake by the producers. Sawyer is starting to take a liking to Juliet, as he drags her off into the jungle to keep her from being killed. I wonder how far in the past this is? Being that flaming arrows really aren't a modern day weapon. But it sure is effective against unarmed people. The attackers never gave them a chance to surrender. It was just kill, kill, kill. The cops finally show up at Hurley’s house. Hurley’s father is making it clear that he doesn’t trust his son. Kate is with Sun. Sun is showing off her baby pictures. Oddly, she is jet setting around the world, while her kid is at home. I wonder if her lust for revenge is overpowering her maternal instincts. A kind of madness. Lawyers came to see me, and Sun is curious about who they represent. Being that Sun only recently told Widmore about wanting Ben dead, and that the lawyers flushed out Kate before Sun ever called, I have to think at this point that Ben sent the lawyers. Sun and Kate remember back to the freighter, as Kate was going back for Jin, but Jack stopped her and they left Jin behind. “We all would have died instead of just Jin, my husband. I don’t blame you.” Bullsh!t. Sun blames all of them. And the way she said “just Jin”. Sun looked completely like a reptile, trying to hypnotize her prey with unblinking yet intense stare, as she uncoils her self, and ever so slowly wraps herself around her prey, until she gently squeezes the life out of it, a demented boa constrictor. Sun is a monster. I was onto it a while ago, and it is becoming obvious to everybody else now, I suppose. So, how’s Jack? Yeah, because you want to kill Kate and Jack at the same time. And Jin might not be dead after all. During the preview show, the two executive producers said that the freighter explosion caused the apparent death of Jin. Jin is not a confirmed death. Which I mentioned in preview #1. Jack takes Sayid off of Hurleys father’s hands. Stay away from Hurley. Jack calls Ben, and it’s off to the hospital.
Hurley is talking with his mother, and gives her a rundown of all the craziness that is the show LOST. Listening to the story, you realize that you have to be insane to buy into all of this. Yes, all of us viewers are foaming at the mouth. In a touching moment, Hurley’s mother tells him that she doesn’t understand it, but that she believes him. So between the Sayid help and the belief in his story, Hurley’s parents show great patience with their troubled son. And don’t have to. I mean what has Hurley ever done but be a lot of grief and aggravation. Other than the 150 million he gave his parents. But other than that, what else has he done? A lot of people died. Yeah, I get it. And stop your fake crying and get on with the next scene. I’m starting to get annoyed with Hurley. Sigh. Sawyer and Juliet are in the jungle, and see some strangers walk by, and then get captured a moment later. A guy with a name tag Jones yells at Juliet about what they are doing on their island. They seem like soldiers from the early 1900’s.
As Jack is trying to revive Sayid, he wakes up and starts to choke Jack. And I was rooting him on. Yeah, I guess I didn’t have a “Jack Sucks Moment OF The Week“, but he is just a background character with not much to do at this point, and the award has to be earned. Maybe we will start one for another character. I dumped on a bunch of other characters, so I’m running out of rage. Hurley cooks a hot pocket, turns around, and heaves it a spot on the wall a little to the right of Ben. While Hurley looks a bit like CC Sabathia or David Wells, his location is a bit off. No, you’re playing mind games. And ignoring AnaLucia’s words earlier in the episode, turns himself over to the cops. Ben is unhappy, as am I. This is our first Hurley Sucks Moment of the Week. Hurley is now a moron, trying to get our sympathy. You want to see a real mental patient? Watch Fringe and the character Walter. Hurley is a fake crazy guy, someone who doesn’t want to deal with real life, and tends to retreat into an easier solution than making hard decisions; just act crazy. Just like when the deck collapsed and he got all depressed. Instead of dealing with the situation, he ended up comatose and in the nut hut. You just want to grab him by the neck, um, shoulders and shake him like a baby that won’t stop crying on a nonstop 16 hour flight to Asia. Stop it. Just stop it. You faker looking for an easy way out. On the island, Juliet is about to lose an arm. Well, a second arm, because the first arm is non-negotiable since the soldiers mean business. Violence breaks out, and Locke strolls out of the jungle to collect his knife. Well, the Lefties are all together now. We see a hooded figure writing formulas on a chalk board, reminiscent of Daniel at Oxford from last season. She has all sorts of weird equipment and is working on crunching numbers like Matt Damon in Good Will Hunting, but better. Yes, this is Ms Hawkings from seasons past, the lady who told Desmond that he could not get married to Penny, tried to explain to him that he was special and needed to go to the island, and that the universe has a way of course correcting. Here is a thought. What if Desmond followed Daniel’s instruction, found his mother, assuming it’s Ms Hawkings, and Desmond told her that she needed to warn the past Desmond that he could not marry Penny because Desmond wanted Desmond to arrive at the island. The problem is that Desmond is now 3 years off the island, but I wonder is somehow Ms Hawkings can send Desmond to the past to warn the past Ms Hawkings to warn the future Desmond as per the future Desmond instructions. Got all that? Nope. That’s OK. That’s how this season will be.Ms Hawkings warns Ben he only has 70 hours to return everybody to the island. You know how you hear people that talk about a handful of people run the world. Well, if this isn't proof, I don't know what is. It's possible that Ms Hawkings knows about Desmond before Desmond was even born. The hooded robe she is wearing reminds me of the monk of the monestary that Desmond briefly joined, and if you recall, there was a picture on the desk of the head monk and Ms Hawkings together. For a while, I thought that when the Oceanic 6 would return, the island would re-boot, if you will, and go back to the first show of the series, Jack lying in the jungle, the plane on the beach, people running around. Groundhog Day, a time loop bookmark. But if they return by the end of this season, what happens Season 6? When are they in time? Do they relive their experiences on the island with knowledge of the future? Might be too early to speculate.
I’m tired of typing. That’s it.
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