"Why am I getting the evening news from a 6 year old?"

Here we are one month into the long 8 or 9 month hiatus until we get more LOST. Until then I will be rehashing much of what has happened during the past four season. I will be throwing several theories and guesses in along with facts and observations. We start at the beginning with the pilot episode and we are going to go through each episode quickly. Nothing nearly as long as my usual episode recaps.

Just re watching the pilot episode I can see why this was the most expensive pilot ever made. It was amazing to re watch. It all begins with that first scene of Jack's eye opening on the island. We have seen that this is a trend on the show and usually points to who the centric character will be for the flash forwards or backs. The first theory I want to throw out there is that Jack and possibly some, if not all of the survivors, have done this before (that's the theory I'm going with for now and will stick with it until something refutes it or a better theory comes around). In The Shape of Thing to Come Ben jumps to the desert and he wakes up the same way Jack does. The producers or the powers that be (TPTB) have said there was a big clue to the entire show placed in the first episode that nobody has seemed to pick up on. Maybe we were not able to pick up on it at the time and can only now see it after the show continues to pull back the camera and show us more of the story. Some of the survivors, in my theory, recall bits and pieces throughout the show and some of them pick it up more quickly than others.

Theorists say that in the following picture (from the Pilot episode) we can see the baton that Ben uses in the finale episodes of the past season next to Jack's head and that it is more than just a weapon. See for yourself below.




Personally, I just think it's a piece of dark bamboo. It's a bit thicker than the baton that Ben has. Alright, let's move on. Jack is unconscious (you know how I feel about sleeping and unconscious people on the island so we won't go into that) and he wakes up. If you've seen the mobisode titled So It Begins you know that ghost Christian sends Vincent to "wake up my son, he's got work to do". Vincent by the way is played by a female, her name is Madison. There's no secret meaning there just kinda cool. In part of the script it is written that when Jack first stands up in the jungle he is to look at his wound and he is supposed to act disappointed. Why? Jack runs through the jungle, stumbles to the beach, turns right, and looks as if he expected to see something there (is that where the wreckage was the last time he crashed?). For all you people that say all I do is Jack bash, I can say this: Jack is awesome in the pilot episode, in fact he's fairly awesome most of the first season. He is "The Hero" of the show, at least in the beginning.

More questions can be asked, including; why was Jack so far away from the rest of the survivors? How long did he run through the jungle? A few hundred feet? A mile? Hard to tell but it didn't seem that close to where he woke up. In fact, were things strewn across the jungle in a trail of breadcrumbs sort of way for him? Rose, who was sitting right next to him on the plane, was in the middle of the wreckage on the beach. I guess anything is possible it was a plane crash after all. When Jack gets everything in hand, he takes a moment to separates himself from the beach and check on his own injury. Out of the jungle comes Kate. Where the hell was she? She is the first one I am sure has been through this before and remembers some of it. When Jack asks her to sew him up he hands her a small bottle of vodka. She gets defensive about it almost angry and asks him what the bottle is for. He says to sterilize her hands. That's fine, but she looks at him, at first, as if she is thinking "Oh, that's right you're an alcoholic." She also has a sort of melancholy look on her face when Jack says to her "I don't even know your name." She says "My name's Kate." Almost as if she is reminding him and certainly not telling him her name for the first time.




Jack, for the record has all of the tattoos we have seen on him in the show from the beginning. Even the plane tattoo he has on his back. That is the most interesting as it is a plane with the letter "K" on one side of the plane and the number "8" on the other. People have posted on other sites that he got this after they were rescued and it's hidden meaning is K-eight or Kate. If you watch the DVDs with the commentary on, J.J. Abrams says that Foxxy's Party of 5 tattoo will become an important part of his character before it is over. I don't think they mean the tattoo they show him getting later in Phucket. Maybe it will tie in with the Oceanic 6 in that five others survived with him previously. Or once before only five total survived, not 6. Or maybe that of the Oceanic 6 only 5 really has to go back to the island. Which could leave Aaron out or allow for one of the 6 to die before getting back. Which yeah, there is one O6-er that I don't expect to make it back to the island but will help the other 5 get back. That individual will probably die in the process. That theory, however, is best to be saved for a later date.

I forgot how big of a prick Jin was in the beginning of the show. I was surprised at how much of a 180 his character has done regarding my feelings toward him.

The flashback of Jack on the plane with the stewardess helps to support my claim that Jack was already on the way to being an alcoholic just like he is in the flashbacks at the end of seasons three and four. He even comments on how weak the drink she gave him was. A patented alcoholic statement if you ask me.

After the group hears the monster for the first time; someone, maybe Shannon, says she recognizes the sound the monster makes. She says something to the effect "I'm from Brooklyn and that sound seemed familiar.".

On the DVD commentary Abrams says that he wanted Locke to be creepy from the start. Mission accomplished but why?




Another hint that Kate remembers the previous trip to the island is when she says she recognizes Charlie from somewhere. When Charlie mentions he was in Drive Shaft she says that must be where she recognizes him from. I'm thinking not.

We see Locke's connection to the island in the pilot episode on the day after the crash. He looks up to the sky and suddenly it starts to rain. He has done this weather predicting several times. He was communing with the island very early. TPTB have said that Locke was always a very important part of the show and that he was the first person to "figure it all out" and "to get it". Now if they could only tell us what exactly it is.

In the original script Jack was supposed to die. This isn't a big secret anymore. As per a head of ABC, he was kept in after a lot of changes were made to the story. You can wonder all day about how the story would have been different if he had died like originally planned. They say that Kate would have adopted more of a leader role if they had stayed with the "Jack dies in the pilot" route.

It is also mentioned on the DVD commentary that Sawyer's letter originally was meant to be his suicide note. Glad they changed that. Or did they? Perhaps that was what it was in a previous trip to the island? Maybe is was and the island course corrected because it knew it needed Sawyer to live. He certainly had a suicidal state of mind but that has definitely changed.




Sigmund Freud & the Oceanic feeling - In Chapter I of his book, Civilization and Its Discontents, Sigmund Freud discusses a letter he received from his friend, the French novelist and mystic Romain Rolland. In this letter, Rolland describes what he calls the "Oceanic" feeling - that is, a feeling of eternity, a deep and innate connection with all things, a "oneness" with the world. Rolland, a "man of faith," sees this "Oceanic" feeling as being the primal source of all religion, but itself independent of any particular religion. Freud, an atheist and avowed "man of science" disagrees. While he admits that many people may experience this "Oceanic" feeling, he locates its source not in some mystical feeling of connection, but in an infantile helplessness experienced when confronted with a hostile world and the subsequent longing for the protection and guidance of the father. For Freud, this "Oceanic" feeling is "sustained by fear of the superior power of Fate." All part of the LOST mystique.

And so it is with this episode that our island story and all of it's mysteries began.