Season 6 Preview - A Look Back On Season Five; Part One

I think I might have gone and burned myself out on LOST. Well, probably not, but watching five seasons worth in a couple of months and then typing out summary/theory about what you just witnessed can be laborious. But, it is the last time, the final offseason until retirement, and we are going to have a definite conclusion. Your hear me, Brett Farve? Retirement. I’m not typically an angry man. I don’t advocate going out into the world with a hammer, running into a nursery, and beating babies to death. Of course it’s less expensive than therapy, but you need to have some limits. Sure, these completely unnecessary series of rants have taken countless hours and countless liquor bottles. Jack, Kate, and Sun suck. They suck. It is probably not a coincidence that they were part of the Oceanic 6. Look at these characters that Season 5 spent so much time concentrating on, and how little their personalities changed from the day the plane crashed to the day each person decided to return to the island. Kate was selfish and manipulative, on and off the island. I suspect she is the reason for John Edwards getting a divorce. Jack was a man of stubborn principle and lack of commons sense. Sayid, a mercenary soldier and mercenary Romeo. Hurley is the cheerful comic relief who thinks he is cursed. Aaron has a big head. None of these people changed because of their island experience, and some only after 3 years passed off island and they decided to return, willingly or not. Sun was the only one who changed, from meek, cheating, manipulative house wife to brash, cheating, manipulative corporate monster. Sun only half returned, but I was struck by Jin making Locke promise that he will not bring Sun back, and it looks like The Nemesis held to Locke’s promise. It’s remarkable to see transformation in other characters like Sawyer, Juliet, Miles, Locke, Michael, to name a few. Not always for the good. But the island seemed to inspire characters to dig deep down and really become someone more honorable, a chance at redemption. Some excelled. Some failed. These Losties and Tailies are a bunch of murderers, for the most part. Geez, you can count on one hand the flashbacks don’t involve someone dying. Many people changed fundamentally. Not the Oceanic Boring 6. Time travel is a hell of a thing to comprehend. You can effect minor changes here and there. But it takes a super effort to get a game changing effect, something that affects the future forever. At first, I bought into the Whatever Happened, Happened, which was beaten into our heads for most of Season 5. Which I am feeling foolish about. Desmond tells Charlie that he has to die for Claire to board a helicopter and leave the island. Isn’t it strange that this NEVER HAPPENED. Well, in this loop anyway. Enough evidence is piling up to show up that Whatever happened, Happened was wrong. I became a heretic, and pointed out enough key changes in the future that WHH just was not possible. Without rereading any of my past write-ups from Season 3 to 5, and in between, I’m trying to see the show arc from a fresh perspective, and I will again plow through a whole season in this write-up. I would like to point out, I was right about a number of things during this 5th season, so I’m going to pat myself on the back just this once and not mention it again. The Loop Theory is for all the marbles. Season 6 is just days away. I plan on dropping anchor and spending a bit of time explaining in full detail a few examples of different loops scenes that occur, and you will have evidence of such shenanigans by pure dialogue, with some physical examples tossed in too. It’s going to be exciting. A “bingo”, as Christophe Waltz might say. Another thing I’m looking forward to is the finality. Last season. Anything can happen. Anyone can die. At any time. The writers haven’t been shy in killing off what looked like main characters throughout the episodes, and they were particularly rude to the background Losties and Tailies, so I suspect they get really blood thirsty this year. After all, we’ve had Ben and Widmore mention a war is coming, and war has casualties. We’ve seen the dynamic of Jacob vs the Man In Black, we’ve had the philosophical differences between Jack and Locke. Everything, absolutely everything is leading down a path of death and destruction I my incredibly non humble opinion, which makes you wonder why we needed for Jacob to find the loophole, because it’s going to get ugly. Of course, I should point out, you cannot have a loophole without a LOOP. Got it? And I certainly want to see more of my favorite character on the show, the Smoke Monster. I’ve been disappointed that Smokie hasn’t been a one man gang of bent steel and sex appeal, you don’t have to like him, but you sure better learn to love him, all the women want to be with him and all the men want to be him, well, if it is male, and I don’t particularly want to check it’s junk, especially after watching it get mad squish Mr Eko, but since then, it has only slightly injured one of Keamy’s men and done little else. Sightings have been few and far in between. Need. More. Smoke. Sure, Smokie wiped out the French, but how hard is that? The cast of Glee could invade France and be in charge within 2 days. OK. I think I’m ready to start. I do recall that I really enjoyed the time travelling scenes, Dharma was OK in parts, and that the Oceanic 6 sucked. Oh, one more thought. I’m finally convinced that the bomb was essential for the re-set that we get, sure it was obvious, but I wanted to be sure and explore other possibilities. Ill fated and sympathetic, and I note you can’t spell sympathetic without “pathetic”, Locke was crucial for the Man in Black to possess, and Ben had to stab Jacob. But let’s also consider what if the reverse of everything is true. What if the loophole, the game changer, the deal breaker is still the bomb. However, what if Daniel and Jack were wrong, and the bomb ended the world, and instead we get a reset on the island, with all the characters remembering the previous loop, knowing they have to work together to stop the bomb from going off in 1977, but they are trapped in 2004 or 2007. Yeah, this Season 6 is a complete mystery to me, since I don’t read spoilers at all. But I do stand by Multiple Loop Theory, and Season 6 is a re-set of some sort, with a bloody war upcoming. Can I be any more nonspecific?

Dr Chang wakes up and feeds Miles. Everybody knew it was going to be Miles. A skipping record is a precursor of things to come this season. As Chang is filming the orientation film for the useless Arrow hatch, he is interrupted. Might be why the films started and stopped so often, and some splicing to put it all together. Chang is a bit of a diva. There are problems at the Orchid. The engineering X ray showed a clear picture of the frozen donkey wheel. Behind that wall is “limitless energy that we can harness to manipulate time”. But there are some kind of rules that cannot be broken. They stop drilling as the bodies are piling up. Daniel shows up in Dharma time. Time travel, how silly. At the funeral of Locke, Jack has hit rock bottom of self pity, pills, and personal grooming. Ben continues to lie to Jack, and Jack doesn’t seem to have any useful information to share about what happened on the island after they left, other than bad stuff, as explained by Jeremy Bentham during his visit to Jack. You get the feeling that Locke could have said more by way of explanation, but you have to consider the audience. I don’t believe Jack could have grasped the meaning of the donkey wheel, moving the island, time travel, and other high concepts. Jack, bad stuff happened. Oh, OK. Ben claims he isn’t really sure what happened on the island either. Back on the island, the sky turns whitish purple, and John is all alone, the Others have disappeared. Daniel proclaims that the zodiac boat was inside the perimeter, which is how they time jumped with the Islanders. Juliet and Sawyer don’t see the boat smoke anymore. Rose and Bernard can’t find the camp. Daniel explains that they need to find the Swan hatch; the camp isn’t gone, it just hasn’t been built yet. I found it a bit odd that Sawyer and Daniel hadn’t met until this moment, but I guess Locke hasn’t either. Kate calls Aaron “Goober”, a fitting title considering her boyfriend Dr “Gomer” Shepherd. Have I mentioned that Aaron pisses me off. That kid is so worthless. What, are you 3 years old? Do something with your life?. By the age of three, I already had an IRA and putting in 60 hours a day at the old plastics factory. A lawyer shows up at Kate’s house, and claims he has a court order to get a blood sample to disprove custody. At the time, we were all curious who was behind all this nonsense. I correctly pegged Ben, especially after Sun had no knowledge of this threat. Realistically, it has to be Sun, Widmore, or Ben. And Ben it was. Did I mention I wouldn’t be patting myself on the back? Bullocks. Kate does the only thing that her maternal instincts will allow her to do, pack up a suitcase for herself, grab cash, a gun, and her kid’s hand as they go on “vacation” That is nice and all that jazz. But our favorite ditzy dame didn’t pack a single thing for Aaron. No clothes, no toys, not anything. She packed for herself only. Can you blame her? She’s been selfish all her life. Other people just don’t exist when she gets panicky. Sawyer demands answers and gives Daniel a smack. Ben dislodged us in time and the record is skipping. Ah, time travel, what a glorious concept. Locke watches Yemi’s Nigerian drug plane fly onto the island and crash. Creepy and well shot scene. Locke hustles and starts to climb up, but not good enough as Ethan comes out of the jungle and puts a bullet into his leg. Ethan had zero recollection of Locke, odd since Locke visited the Others in the past and Ethan had zero knowledge of “John Locke”. Sun is detained at the airport, as Widmore is miffed that she pulled a power move in public and demands respect. But they reach an understanding as Sun wants to kill Ben because Jin died, instead of blaming Kate, Jack, Keamy, herself, the island, or Widmore. Ben just didn’t have a good day during that Wheel of Fortune spin. Now, why does Sun blame Ben? She never talked to Locke off island, as Locke kept his word to Jin. Ben first met Sun off island on the marina. How on earth does Sun possess knowledge that Ben stabbed Keamy and blew up the freighter? The answer is she cannot, without loop knowledge and had remembered from a previous loop. She bought out her father’s company and declared two people were responsible for Jin’s death. What helped shape her decision? Hurley is a murder suspect on the run with the real murderer Sayid, going back to Sayid’s hotel. Just do the opposite of what Ben tells you. Um, that is a bit too broad of a strategy there, buddy. A terrific fight breaks out, Sayid tosses some no name off a balcony, gets shot with needles, and is the first person in Hollywood history to kill someone with a dishwasher. Daniel insists that you cannot change anything, which is surely bad news for Jacob, as that is EXACTLY what he is trying to do. Daniel with more philosophy. Time is like a street; you can move forward, you can move back, but you cannot create a new street. Whatever happened, happened. I suppose that means you cannot create an alternate reality, but surely you can change things, as we will see as we progress. And, again, this is Jacob’s objective. Daniel has spent his entire adult life studying space-time, learning about Dharma, putting his findings in his journal. John is visited by Richard.
J: When am I? R: It’s all relative. Richard gives the compass to John. The compass is one of those unexplainable objects on this show. Different people have it at different times, yet you can’t connect the dots of when it transferred hands. It’s best to avoid the headache of the compass and just assume that it changes in loops. You need them to come back, You’re going to have to die John. Sawyer is trying to get inside the Swan hatch. Again, we are hit with “If it didn’t happen, it can’t happen.” Again, I protest. This philosophy was hammered at us early and often in this season, so that the time travel concept didn’t get too involved and convoluted for viewers. But mistakes in the concept keep popping up. Daniel himself quickly works against his own words by actually talking to Desmond, telling him that he is uniquely and miraculously special, the “rules” don’t apply to you. The rules? Time travel rules, or loop rules? Desmond wakes up years later on Penny’s boat with a brand new memory of Daniel. Both are interconnected, but are never able to remember meeting each other in the past.

The hatching of the lie of the Oceanic 6, and Hurley is very reluctant to go along with the plan. As Hurley is driving along with 3 sheets to the wind Sayid, he is pulled over by Ana Lucia who is kind enough to give Hugo some survival tips and a quick hello from Libby. Hurley buys horrible clothes, Kate talks to Sun, the Boring 6 are inevitably moving together, like water circling in a toilet, about to flush. Cheech is making a rather disgusting sandwich topped with caviar, ready to settle in and watch Nikki on Expose. Kate goes to see Sun in her hotel. Ben goes to the butcher shop. “Is it what I think it is?” The butcher Jill seems to know a lot, which if you are in the course correcting business, it probably helps. Loop knowledge? Ben: keep him (Locke) safe, or everything we are about to do won’t matter at all.” Fore knowledge. Loop? Charlotte is getting headaches, and Daniel thinks “Oh, that old gag.” Miles find a boar for the group, but probably led the Others to the beach at the same time, and a flaming arrow attack commences. Sun explains to Kate that someone is running a con on her, and “wouldn’t you do anything you could to keep Aaron? Kate responds with “what kind of person do you think I am?” Hahahahaha. Sun: You did what you had to do on the freighter. What? Kate promised to bring Jin to the chopper. Epic Fayle. Sun poo poos that. I don’t blame you; how’s Jack? Well, at least Sun was able to dig that knife into Kate’s back with the Jack comment. What we have here in Kate and Sun is a collision of volatile evil so enormous; Desmond would need to push a button every 3 minutes to save the world. Cheech hands Sayid off to Jack. Hurley, at the urging of his mother, decides to tell her of his adventures. Much like I suspected, it sounded like the rambling of a mental patient. Hurley’s mother actually says: I believe you. That’s crazy. Until you realize that we are all the same crazy, as we are watching this crap, with one more season left. Word of note: don’t ever let Hurley keep a secret. He can’t help himself from spilling every bean possible. For fock’s sake, Kate got the location of Miles from Hurley at Dharmaville with one single question. Sawyer and Juliet are captured by a ruthless young Widmore as the Losties were trying to reach the creek. Jack wakes Sayid up in hospital, a hospital where he is no longer welcome. Hurley gallantly spins to face Ben and throws a hot pocket in his somewhat general direction. See, Ben looked positively presidential here, as he was able to dodge a silly object being thrown at him much like the world’s best dodgeball players, Vince Vaughn, Ben Stiller, and George W Bush. For the record, Bush might have been a retard, but he was our retard, and only we can mess with our retards. I think that was from a Winston Churchill dissertation. Or maybe the movie Animal House. I don’t feel like making the effort to look it up. Hurley turns himself in to the police and confesses to 3 murders, because nothing could possibly go wrong with that strategy. As the Others try to cut off both of Juliet’s hands, which would have made bomb crushing much more difficult. Sadly, I could see Juliet trying to smash the bomb with a rock in her mouth or maybe even using her skull, as Kate would freak out over a chipped nail. Locke arrives to lend a helping….hand. Get it? Booooo! Eloise Hawking is in a church, she is working with Ben, to get the Losties to come back to the island.

Penny has a difficult childbirth. That’s enough of that. Why does every show on TV have to have a gratuitous child birth, mother in distress scene. Hell, we get to see it practically every season on this show. Back to Quantum Leap LOST. While Sawyer and Juliet fled from the arrows at night, were captured at night, escaped capture at night, Charlotte, Miles, and Daniel arrive at the creek in broad daylight. Do you really think the creek was so far away, that it took 12 hours to get there? And while some Others captured Sawyer and Juliet, the same grouping of Others capture the Chopperies 12 hours later? Bullsh!t. Two similar scenes from different loops, with a half day time difference. A trip wire takes care of some disposable Losties, and the Others are wearing their military gear. Penny is nagging Desmond on the boat, specifically asking why did Desmond not remember his conversation with Daniel until 2 days ago? Let’s look at this more closely. It’s a freshly created memory, supposedly. But, Desmond is off the island 3 years now. Daniel is currently in a timeline where Desmond is in the hatch, pushing the button by himself, anywhere from 3 to 6 years in the past from this very moment for Desmond. And, it’s been, what, a couple of days in real time for the time jumpers, which would still put them 3 years behind Desmond’s memory flash. So, why now? Why, right at this exact moment. Why not a few days after Desmond fled the island? Penny: Promise me you will never go back to that island. First of all, this is selfish. Desmond already said those people need his help. Secondly, Penny has been overly familiar with this island since the start of this show. It’s like she is as puppet for her father, who wants her and Desmond to stay hidden. Hell, Widmore tells Desmond later to disappear. Desmond is a game changer, that Widmore is not looking to use. Penny is Jim Carey’s wife from the Truman show, marrying him, having his child, all for an acting role; Widmore is Christophe, the architect of a great lie. Why not? Oh, that would mean the love story between Penny and Desmond is fake. Well…yeah. The prisoners of Juliet and Sawyer are speaking Latin, no surprise to Juliet. She convinces one of the prisoners to take them to Richard, but Widmore kills the fool and takes off. Locke can’t pull the trigger to shoot him, since he is apparently one of Locke’s people. Ugh. Douchie. Miles is able to detect fresh graves of soldiers killed, including one from radiation poisoning. Ageless Richard is still constantly a figurehead for the Others, and inquires if the Chopperies are back for their bomb. Daniel deduces that the bomb is leaking, and then spills his guts about wanting to stalk Charlotte more right now than any other person in his lifetime. And something about love. I wasn’t listening. Charlotte was, however. Because after Daniel tells her he meant it, he leaves, and Charlotte has a look on her face like someone had just fished a corpse out of a lake after a month of rotting. Or seen Nancy Pelosi naked. Utter disgust and revulsion. She eventually figures out that Daniel is the creepy guy at Dharma that warned her to get off the island and never come back. Daniel was looking at her back then like a pedo sitting down for some lemonade and cookies, about to be filmed for national TV. It’s just wrong, people. Unless you want to club young Charlotte with a hammer. Not that I approve of such activities. Desmond encounters the ticket taker of Oceanic 815 who is now a secretary at Oxford. Yeah, that’s a coincidence. But it is the same character, or they are recycling actors. Desmond breaks into Daniel’s old lab. A janitor gives him some info on the cover up of Daniels work at the university. Yeah, the janitor is another coincidence. Desmond visits Theresa Spencer, who is Daniel’s former assistant and is in a long term mental time travel loop, hopelessly stuck in time, but oddly this condition has been ongoing for years instead of days and a quick and painful death. Widmore has been funding Daniel’s research and paying for Theresa’s care. So Widmore is helping Eloise’ son, but Eloise is working with Ben. That makes no sense, but that is exactly what is happening. Desmond barges into Widmore’s office and demands the address of Faraday’s mother. Desmond returns to the boat, and doesn’t want to go any further. Penny sensed Desmond was lying about the dead end, or she just remembered it from another Loop. Desmond is being selfish now. After Widmore cockily says some sodding old man doesn’t know the jungle all that well, Locke is looking over the Other’s camp and wants to go talk to Richard. Daniel tells Elli that she looks very familiar, mostly because this is his mother. Daniel examines Jughead, sees the leak, and says that they have to make it inert by burying it. He says he is from the past, much to Sawyer’s chagrin when he shows up for the rescue. Locke strolls into camp and proclaims that “Jacob sent me”. Well, maybe, maybe not. You told her? Richard is not impressed. “We have a very specific process in selecting our leader, which starts at a very young age.” This refers to Ben in the upcoming episodes. It’s 1954, visit my birth in the hospital in two years. Charlotte collapses after another flash.

Charlotte is still passed out. I’m reading over my preliminary notes, and I’ve notice that I jotted down “I hate Aaron” about 6 times so far. Sure, we haven’t seen Claire all that much this season, and we won’t. But with so many seemingly religious themes in this show, and the kidnapping, and miracle birth on island, and how the island tells Kate not to bring him back, I wonder if this Aaron is some kind of a super baby, and Claire is going to take on some kind of Virgin Mary role. Don’t forget the imagery of the heroin statues, and how Charlie was the closest person on the island to Claire. Charlotte is still passed out. Jack and Kate are on Penny’s boat, looking to make some shady deals to skew the voting in their favor. I guess you could call it a Congressional health care debate. Jack wants Kate’s support, Kate wants to abduct a baby. Kate comes through with an out of place line of “Once, Aaron is asleep, he’s asleep”. Of course , Aaron is awake and squirming around in the very next camera shot. Different shots from different loops. Kate: Jack, I have always been with you. That would be 100% correct xcept for when you were having sex with Sawyer. Come to think of it, Kate never had sex with Jack on the island. And she said she loved Sawyer at the polar bear cages. And kissed Sawyer to get Shannon’s medicine. Other than that, she has always been with him. Morton Downey Jr coming out of a bathroom had more credibility. Charlotte is still passed out. Sun receives a package which includes surveillance on Ben and a gun. Kate whines to a lawyer, who is doing this to men?. The lawyer zings her with you did this to yourself. Charlotte is still passed out. Locke wants to go to the Orchid to try to fix the time jumps and make the escapees come back. Jack gets yelled at in hospital, Sayid is attacked, they find Kate’s address in the assassin’s pocket. Are the people attacking Sayid with Widmore, or with Ilana’s group? After all, Sayid killed just about all of Widmore’s men, so I’m not really sure of their motivation. Jack calls Kate. Here’s my address. Hi, Jack. Glad you came. But I don’t want you here. So you can leave. Jumping Jehosophat, I tend to see less drama in a College of Creative and Performing Arts. They follow the lawyer. In the jungle, the group walks past a bright light beam going into the sky. Locke recognizes it immediately, as the time he was banging on that hatch as Boone was dying back at the caves. He leads the group around that location. But Sawyer goes to investigate a noise up ahead. Let’s drop an anchor here for a bit. This is the scene where Claire gives birth from Season 1. The scene is different. As Sawyer approaches, his vantage point is similar to the camera angles we had in Season 1. So, I went back and re-watched the scene from Season 1. Focus on the torch. Jin should have been next to the torch, and Charlie should have been across to the right of him pacing. They should absolutely be visible to Sawyer peaking through the vegetation in Season 5, and are not. Kate’s close up shots in Season 1 show Jin & Charlie in the background. Season 5, you can’t find them anywhere. Please take note of the words that I capitalized then compare to the other version.
Season One: Kate is on her feet.
"Do you want this baby NOW"
"Do you want it to be HEALTHY AND SAFE"
"THE BABY KNOWS THAT TOO"
"You are not alone in all of this we are all here for you"
"This baby is all of us"
"But I need you to push, ok ok"
“OK ON THE COUNT OF 3, READY 123 Push, GOOD GOOD GOOD Push”
"THAT’S GOOD Push, Push"
“RELAX RELAX RELAX, BREATHE, COME ON BREATHE”
“BREATHE, OK OK READY, I CAN SEE IT, IT’S CLOSE GO GO PUSH”
(Camera shot of Charlie)
“THAT’S REALLY GOOD, IT’S CLOSE COME ON, YES THAT’S IT
“OK GOOD GOOD GOOD I CAN SEE IT"
PUSH PUSH PUSH…
*Out pops baby*.
Season Five: Kate adjusts from her knees to her feet
"Do you want this baby"
"Do you want it to be Safe and Healthy"
"LISTEN you’re not alone in this, we are all here for you"
"This baby is all of us"
"But I need you to push, ok ok"
"1 2 3 Push, Push, come on Claire Push"
"Push push push"
"Push push push"
*Out pops the baby*.
Do you see the source of my obsession with Loops? This is simply one of many examples I’ve run across. Even if you edited down the Season 5 birth scene, take a really close look at the dialogue. Words are in the wrong order, characters are missing, Kate’s whole dialogue is way off. Ladies and gentlemen, this particular scene has happened more than one time in the LOST universe, at least 2 times, and I simply cannot blame this on shoddy directing and writing. For as much detail these people put into their product, and knowing how much idiots like nit pick over all the details, this is no accident. These happen much more often than you think. LOOP. Now, let’s pick up the anchor, for the time being, and keep sailing. I will point out a few more samples soon enough. Sawyer asks John why he didn’t go talk to himself, to spare himself the pain that he has gone through on the island. Locke responds with I needed the pain. Indeed, the reason these folks are going through this Looping is that they can learn from their missteps and mistakes, so they can learn from them, and maybe not repeat them in their next opportunity. Jacob probably is too. The boats are found on the beach, and I’ll just call them canoes for simplicity sake. They have Ajira water bottles, so the Quantum Leapers are now in 2007, the time of the Ajira crash, as the Leftovers have crossed over from the Hydra island. During the paddling, a gun fight breaks out with another canoe that is chasing. You can assume it’s the Leftovers, but I’m sure we will find out at some point during Season 6. Flash. Sawyer discussed with Juliet that he saw Kate. This scene was symbolic of Sawyer finally putting to rest his infatuation with Kate, and that he was going to move on. What’s done is done. The Leapers find French ship wreckage, signifying the arrival of Danielle Rousseau and her ill fated crew onto the island. That crew fishes Jin out of the water. Jin has been floating for days, but is alive. Meh, I’m not going to challenge the believability factor of that one; after all, we are watching a show with a homicidal cloud of smoke. Jack and Kate follow the lawyer to the hotel, and discover that Claire’s mother is the host for the visit. They both spring into action and do what they do best. Kate wants to run away. Jack wants to fix it by going to Mrs. Littleton and blathering on incomprehensibly about Aaron with all the subtlety of Shaquille O’Neal competing in the Midget Olympics. Who’s Aaron? Ouch. The lawyer is revealed to be working for Ben, and he is going to set Hurley free. Dropping anchor, at the marina. How fitting. The dialogue in the marina scene changes several times as we see it several times from several different vantage points over the next couple of episodes. I copied some transcripts and pasted. Kate’s sentence goes from version 1 to version 2 and back to version 1. Sayid’s dialogue is simply different.
Version 1 (note Kate and Sayid’s lines):
KATE: [To Jack] Is that what this is about? You knew about this?
JACK: No, no, I was...
KATE: And that is why you're pretending to care about Aaron, to convince me to go back there?
JACK: I wasn't pretending anything...
KATE: This is insane, you guys are crazy.
JACK: Kate...
KATE: Jack, don't! [Kate leaves]
BEN: Sayid, where are you going?
SAYID: I don't want any part of this. And if I see you, or him again, it will be extremely unpleasant for all of us. [Sayid leaves]
BEN: 30 minutes, Sun. We can be there in 30 minutes. And you’ll have proof--proof that he's alive. Or you can shoot me and never know.
SUN: Let's go.”

Version 2 (again, take note of Kate and Sayid):
[A familiar scene at the Long Beach Marina. Sun is holding Ben at gun point.]
BEN: [To Sun] There's somebody--somebody here in Los Angeles. Let me take you to them.
SUN: Who?
BEN: The same person that's gonna show us how to get back to the island.
KATE: Is that what this is about? This is insane. You are all crazy.
BEN: Sayid, where are you going?
[Kate retreats to her car and drives away. Sayid turns away.]
(car door closes, engine starts)
SAYID: I don't want any part of this.
(tires sqealing)
SAYID: [Pointing at Ben] And if I see you again, it'll be extremely unpleasant for us both.
[Sayid walks away.]

Version 3 (This time, just take note of Kate):
[The marina. Kate is putting Aaron in her car. Sun has Ben at gunpoint. Sayid and Jack are standing nearby.]
BEN: There's someone...someone here in Los Angeles. Let me take you to them.
SUN: Who?
BEN: The same person that's gonna show us how to get back to the island.
KATE: [Walking back to the group] Is that what this is about? [Looks at Jack] You knew about this.
JACK: No. No, I was o--
KATE: And that is why you were pretending to care about Aaron, to convince me to go back there?!
JACK: I wasn't pretending anything.
KATE: This is insane. You guys are crazy.
JACK: Kate--
KATE: Jack, don't!
Believe it or not, and I highly recommend that you believe, the writers have actually acknowledged the changes in the script and called them intentional. What wonderful news. Get it? Loops. Different scenes from different loops. On to the next episode.

Sun talks to her child on the phone, then grabs her gun, ready for some senseless killing. And, we get Version 2 of the marina this episode. Ben can prove to Sun that Jin is still alive. How does Ben constantly get himself into these perilous predicaments, and continually gets himself out again? Prior knowledge? Course correction? Evil genius? Dumb opponents? Jin is leading the French to the radio tower, crossing the Dark Territory. A member of the group, Nadine, disappears for a brief while, until she drops from the sky and goes thud and splat. This is no food drop. Jin yells “monster” as if he suddenly sees Sun. “Run”. Smokie is a bad ass this time, as he must have scanned Nadine, didn’t like what he saw, and started to drag some French guy underground a Temple wall. A human chain is formed to prevent him from being pulled under. Smokie turns into some kind of serpent like vapor, wraps itself around the poor guy, and drags him down, sans arm. The French castaways come up with a brilliant plan. Let’s go after that terrifying monster that he have no idea how to fight and go into somewhere we have never gone because we don’t leave anybody behind. This is like the children in IT deciding to chase the clown into the sewer, but instead of a spider, they find an actual clown with lots of hammers and he knows how to use them. Bravo. Jin prevents Rousseau from joining the schmucks, as even Jin realizes on some level that Rousseau needs to survive. I might speculate about what might have happened if Rousseau did go, but she obviously didn’t in the past, and didn’t when Jin time jumped, so it never happened. Unless it happened in another unsuccessful time loop. Jin flashes, finds dead bodies on the beach, and Rousseau is having a standoff with Robert. D: The monster made you sick. R: It’s a security system guarding the Temple. Yes, that is what we heard in Season 1 from Rousseau, but it makes even less sense today after we have seen what we have seen. Rousseau kills Robert after his gun jams. The real question is why did he pull the trigger? The island kept Michael from killing himself, I’m forced to assume. So then the island must have been protecting Rousseau from death. But if that’s the case, why is either Smokie or brain washed Robert who is doing Smokie’s bidding trying to kill Rousseau when it doesn’t want her to die. She needs to live and serve a future purpose, like Michael did. Do you see the contradiction? Doesn’t mean that is wasn’t a cool scene. Jin flashes, and runs into Sawyer. Jin can’t quite grasp what the fock is going on with the time jumps. Sun is in the van with Jack and Ben. Jack and Sun have a conversation about blame for the freighter and that if Ben is lying about Jin being alive, they will kill him. Other than pissing off Ben, this conversation pissed me off too. Ben just cleaned up Jack, clean and sober, and is trying to get him back to the island as Jack is obsessed with doing. Ben just told Sun that her husband is alive. And you ungrateful bastages are talking about killing him? Ben was right. They should never stop thanking him for all that he has done. And they probably never have in any loop up to now either. So that’s ungrateful many times over. Charlotte is mostly passed out. Big surprise. I can’t remember all the ways I described her character over the years. Ice Princess, a lizard, the snake, the White Witch from The Chronicles of Narnia, a space alien, etc. She seems to be transmitting random stuff out of her mouth, including “Don’t let them bring her back, this place is death” and “look for the well”. Well, the Leapers find the well, but how did Charlotte know? A message from the island/ Jacob/ Christian/ Man In Black? Knowledge of past events in a loop? Because she was on island before, growing up as Dharma. A man on the island warned her not to return to island and that was Daniel, and even though it hasn’t happened yet, Charlotte remembers it right now. This makes no sense whatsoever. Why now? Just like Desmond’s random recollection. Locke promises Jin that he won’t bring Sun back, and takes his ring as proof of death. A ring, in itself is a loop. Just thought I’d mention it. Locke climbs down rope, flash, and Locke falls. Let’s take another time out and take in the reactions of the Leapers as Locke is gone, as is the well.
Version One
“SAWYER: No... no no, no no!
[He falls to his knees and claws at the ground with his hands.]
JULIET: [Gently] James, stop.
SAWYER: No, no!
JULIET: James, stop.
SAWYER: [Frantically] C'mon and help me!
JULIET: [Calmly] James--we can't help him.”

Version Two
“SAWYER: No. No! No!
[Sawyer pulls down the length of the rope.]
SAWYER: No! No! No!
JULIET: James, don't.
SAWYER: Come on! Help me! [Panting]
[Juliet kneels down beside Sawyer as he claws at the earth around the rope.]
JULIET: James... [Whispers] Stop.”

Charlotte dies, and I am as emotional about this as Jin catching and gutting a fish. Daniel cries. You loved her, and didn’t even kiss her. I’m not saying he should have touched her boobs while she was lying there mental time traveling, but come on. This was the worst romance in history, which includes Roman Polanski and a teenage girl, and a stripper in Tijuana with a donkey. Locke is lying at the bottom of a shaft, whining more than Juliet did later on. So you have a bone sticking out of your leg. Be a man. What’s the matter with you. Rub some dirt on it and walk it off. Christian shows up, outside of his cabin. C: What has listening to Ben ever gotten you? You can see an almost perceptible sneer on Christian’s face. Ben is not a favorite child of his, that’s for sure. Locke was supposed to move the island. Now, he needs to gather everybody, find Eloise Hawking. L: Richard said I was going to die. C: I guess that’s why they call it a sacrifice. So, Locke is the sacrifice the island demands, like Boone did at one time. So, dying for the island allows X to possess you? Probably not, as Christian didn’t sacrifice himself for the island. Oh, what a mess. C: Say hello to my son. Turns out this was an important tidbit, as it seems to be what finally pushed Jack into returning. Ben gives the ring to Sun, Desmond shows up. D: You’re looking for Faraday’s mother too? Ben did not see this coming. The end of this episode and close to the beginning of the next one feature this scene. Different dialogue, different inflection, different delivery, different body language.
Version 1:
BEN: This is all I could get on short notice.
ELOISE: Well, I suppose it will have to do for now. All right! Let's get started.”

Version 2:
BEN: This is all I could get on short notice.
ELOISE: Guess it'll have to do….. For Now. All right. Let's get started.

Jack wakes up in the jungle, a seeming loop to Season One’s opening scene. Hurley is yelling that he can’t swim. Wait, didn’t he do a cannonball early in Season 4 after they defeat the Others on the beach. He was in fairly deep water, over his head water. But now he can’t swim? Maybe he learned to swim in later loops. Speaking of cannonball, that scene bothered me forever, now I got it. When Hurley and Bernard are standing there, the horizon is empty. Then cannonball. Hurley comes up for air, and Desmond’s boat is less than 20 feet away. You’re telling me that Desmond managed to sneak up to the shore without Bernard and Hurley seeing him as they stared out at the water. Different scenes from different loops. Jack saves Hurley by telling him he was drowning in shallow water and to stand up, stupid. Kate is bashed on some rocks, but from the opening scene of this episode, to when they reshow the same scene at the end of this episode, Kate’s hair is different, two very large strands hang over her face vs no strands in the other version. Two versions. Are you seeing my point? Eloise Hawking is a school teacher and is lecturing her students about the Dhama station called the Lamppost, which I assume is an homage to the Lamppost in Narnia, signaling the entrance and exit of that magical land. Jack admires some military maps which probably helped Dharma’s search for the island, as the U.S. military got there before them, before getting whacked by the Others. This station allowed Dharma to find the island; it is built over a large pocket of energy (most likely the same exotic negative matter as on the island). This pocket connects with similar pockets all over the world (Tunisian desert, that psychic ranch in Australia, etc.) The island is always moving, so a brilliant man calculated where the island was going to be (most likely Daniel when he was with Dharma). There are windows to get to the island, to go back. Desmond freaks out about the going back part, blames Eloise for wasting many years of his life. But Desmond said something very profound. “These people are using us, they’re playing some kind of game, and we’re just the pieces.” Why Desmond, that’s absolutely correct. E: you need to recreate the circumstances that brought you here; “if not all, the result will be unpredictable”. Jack receives special instructions. John is to be the proxy for Christian, and needs some of his belongings. Loophole for X? Does this allow Locke to be possessed because has the belongings of Christian, who is also possessed? Jack takes a beating on his lack of faith by everybody in sight. Jack gets his father’s shoes from his grandfather. An intruder at Jack’s house turns out to be Kate, which after learning her identity, I would have shot Kate and then called the police about a break in. K: I’ll go with you, but don’t ever ask me about Aaron. Well, that’s certainly a healthy relationship built on honesty and trust. And since Kate is crying, it’s time for sex. Daddy issues. Sheesh. In the morning Kate talks about shoes and then. “Why hold onto something that makes you feel sad? Kate must die. Season 6, episode 1, 1 minute into the show. Kill her. Die. Die. Die. Redrum. Redrum. Redrum. Ben calls Jack from a pay phone after what looks like a 5 round competition with Brock Lesnar. Jack goes to pick up the Locke cold cuts, and the butcher knows exactly who Dr Shepherd is. Prior knowledge or current knowledge? Locke gets a new pair of shoes. At the airport terminal, we see the arrival of the Boring Six, Jack, Kate, Sun, Sayid in handcuffs, Hurley buying a bunch of tickets and a guitar, and Ben scrambles to make it at the last minute. Frank Lapidus is the pilot. Jack asks Ben a simple question? How can you read? Ben can’t help himself but lie: My mother taught me. (she died in childbirth) B: it wasn’t your fault Jack. No sh!t. Ben killed Locke. Jack reads the “suicide” note. I wish you had believed me, JL. Turbulance, flash, Jack wakes up in jungle, and version 2 where Kate’s hair is wrong as I previously mentioned.

Part Two will be distributed most likely Sunday, or at latest, Monday.