"Something tells me you're good .....for it."

THE MOTH

Locke tells Charlie that he will give him back his drugs after he has asked for them three times. Coincidentally, Jesus tells Peter that he will deny him three times.



The aggravation Charlie has for his brother and by extension Locke, is taken out on Jack. Did Charlie look like the ghost of Christmas future when he pointed to the caves with his hoodie on or what? TPTB say that the hoodie is Charlie’s version of a security blanket.



Sayid is starting to come around this episode. Why do I say that? He tells Kate that all of them surviving the plane crash with barely more than a few scratches was not luck. Is it possible that the O6, who I have said have gone through this before, will eventually or have already remembered some of the previous trips to the island. Perhaps there does not have to be a plane crash every time. Maybe that is how Ben gets them all back; by looping time and the side effect is them not remembering all of the previous trips. The whispers could then turn out to be the disembodied voices of them all watching a sort of video documentary of their previous trip (or trips) and they are making mental notes of what happened before and what not to do this try. In other words, what we are seeing as the events on the island have already happened before. What we are watching is the same thing the survivors are watching (even Boone would be there because we hear him say when Shannon gets shot later on in season 2 “Hi Sis!” and “Dying sucks.”), if this is true we eventually need to start hearing the whispers off island which hasn’t happened yet. Unless the events off island cannot be changed by time looping and there would be no reason to view the post rescue portions of the survivors past incarnations. If the time loop theory turns out to be true then the last scene we see of the entire series could be all of the O6 and some of the survivors still on the island going through the same actions they did in the pilot episode. Maybe the wound on Jack’s side will turn out to be a similar wound that Ben has on his arm before turning the frozen donkey wheel. One he actually had before crashing on the island and the disappointment he is supposed to look at it with in the pilot episode is because he is disappointed to still have it after the time loop.



I liked Locke’s old philosophers story about the moth. He sure does have copious amounts of useless information stored in that bald head of his! Useless that is unless you end up stranded on a mysterious island. Locke said that a moth is much stronger than a butterfly, even though a butterfly is more beautiful. By comparison, Charlie represents a moth and Liam represents a butterfly.



I didn’t notice it in previous episodes but it seems that Charlie’s eyes go from light blue to dark blue depending on if they are showing the “good” (light) side of Charlie or the "bad" (dark) side. Saving Jack is exactly what Charlie needed in order to kick his drug habit. He needed to feel wanted and useful. Kudos to Jack for stepping in when Hurley inquires about why Charlie looks like crap.



At the end of the episode we see Sayid get whacked in the back of the head giving us our first hint that not all of the people on the island have the same agenda. We later find out that that someone was Locke.



This episode was heavy on the foreshadowing. We see a Virgin Mary statue when Charlie exits the confessional. The statues would become an important part later when Locke and Boone discover the drug smugglers plane. The source of the distress signal (which only requires two locations to triangulate BTW, not three) is discovered but not found until much later in Through the Looking Glass. Redemption as well as fate versus free will continued to be seen in this episode.



CONFIDENCE MAN

What if the entire series really does turn out to be “all about bunnies” which Sawyer tells Kate Watership Down is all about?



When Kate first reads "the letter" it is supposed to make her, and us the viewers as well, think it was written to Sawyer. We later find out it was written by Sawyer when he was 8 years old. The flashbacks try to make us think that as well but they let us off the hook when Sawyer cannot go through with the con in the end.



Locke tries to convince Sayid that it was Sawyer that hit him at the end of The Moth. This leads to the first time we see Sawyer get his ass kicked. He takes it well and he wants it. Even though he doesn’t deserve the punishment for what they say he has done he thinks he deserves the punishment for other things he has done in the past. Kate even points out that he tries hard to make people hate him. It turns out that this is the inner child crying out for help. It is this fact that draws Kate to Sawyer. When she tells Jack that Sawyer thinks they have a bond Jack asks her, "Do you?". Truth is, they really do.



Hurley refers to Jack talking Shannon out of the asthma attack as a “Jedi moment” and is the first Star Wars reference we hear.



When Jack tells Sawyer right before Sayid begins to torture Sawyer that “it doesn’t have to be this way” Sawyer says back “Yes it does.”. Sawyer not only wants to be punished he has a death wish. The letter Sawyer has is originally supposed to be his suicide letter. The man at the bar in Sawyer’s flashback (maybe his boss) even asks him “Sawyer, do you want to die?”. We get our first Kate/Sawyer kiss. This episode also has my favorite Sawyer line of the season, if not the entire series: “Baby, I’m tied to a tree in the jungle of mystery. I just got tortured by a damn spinal surgeon and a genuine Iraqi. Of course I’m serious.” How do you top that one? There was once a time when Sawyer was conning people out of thousands of dollars. Now, on the island, he cons Kate out of a kiss. When Jack has his finger buried in Sawyer’s stab wound Sawyer tells him that if the tables were turned he would watch Jack die. I definitely don’t think he would now and I don’t think he would have then.



The eyes turning dark and light continue in this episode. I know some say it is just the lighting in the different scenes but I think it is filmed that way on purpose. Watch how they capture the contrasting color of Sawyer’s dark blue eyes and the little boys light blue eyes. The boy reminds Sawyer of himself when he was that age and it shows us Sawyer's humanity and sadness. At the end of the episode when he is telling Kate about the letter notice how dark his eyes are. The song at the end is I Shall Not Walk Alone by The Blind Boys of Alabama. This song marks a turning point for Sawyer in that he will decide to become more of a part of the group instead of continue with his self imposed isolation. It also marks the beginning of Sayid’s. In the song there is a lyric about Mother Mary. Much later in the episode The Brig it is revealed that Sawyer's mothers name is Mary.

"Don't give me the 'Aw Golly' eyes!"

WHITE RABBIT

Is it just me or does young Jack have much darker eyes than island Jack?

We have a discrepancy in this episode or a major screw up by TPTB; Charlie tells Jack when he hears the drowning woman yelling for help that he don't swim. In Greatest Hits we see that Charlie was a champion swimmer when he was a child. Did the island once again course correct? Did they just mess up? Or did Charlie lie because he was high on heroin?



Jack tells Kate he decided not to help the woman. I’m not sure when or how this happened. I know he saved Boone and when he started to swim in he learned of the woman that was still drowning further out. I did not see Jack decide anything because after he saved Boone (who certainly needed saving regardless of what he said) and then went out after her. This just seems to be something the writers put in to make the flashback of Christian telling Jack not to choose, which Jack is saying he did back on the island connect better. Along with telling Jack not to choose, the other sage advice from Daddy Christian is to not be a hero. Exactly what Jack has been so far. In actuality, the entire series has been Jack doing exactly what his father has told him in this flashback scene not to do. He tries to save everyone but that doesn’t happen. To be fair to Jack I don’t see how anyone could have saved everyone. It just wasn’t possible. Not everyone wanted saving if the truth be told.

Christian’s on island arrival coincides with Claire getting sick and passing out. Is there any connection there? That would be something they would have been able to do early on since we didn’t know at the time of Claire’s connection to Jack and Christian. Nor did we know about the islands ability to communicate with people in altered states of conciousnessessesesses.



More evidence points to Locke remembering a prior trip to the island when Locke goes for water he says; “I already know where to look.”. Or has the island told him? One way or the other one of these theories has got to be spot on.

Why does Christian make Jack follow him and make him plunge off the side of a cliff? Was it so Locke could save him and form a bond? Or was it just to eventually lead Jack to the caves? I find the caves explanation a little shaky since I’m not sure how Jack almost falling to his death had to be a part of finding the caves.

Claire wakes up and asks where Jack is. Was this some sort of communication with the island?



Note Charlie’s tattoo “Living is easy with eyes closed.” I believe this is a tattoo that Dominic has himself but it sends up a red flag when the camera almost seems to focus on it. It is a line from the Beatles’ song “Strawberry Fields Forever” BTW.

When Kate tackles Sawyer (she does that a lot and she often ends up on top) he says to her; “I made this birthday wish four years ago.”. Do some math and if the time loop theory I have is correct, four years ago is the last time they crashed on the island. Stop me at any time if it seems like I’m grasping at straws.

When Jack and Locke have their post “Jack almost falling off the side of a mountain” talk, Jack first mentions “the others” meaning the other survivors not The Others but it was still weird to hear the phrase used so early on in a different context. Locke tells Jack that “they are waiting for someone to tell them what to do”. Ben told Locke almost the exact same thing at the end of this past season. Locke gives Jack the push to be a leader. Jack, of course, says he will fail and he doesn’t have what it takes. This is Jack’s loss of faith moment and Locke helps him work through it. The very first man of science/man of faith discussion was as good as I remembered. Locke also tells Jack he doesn’t believe in magic. Does he believe in magic boxes then?



Christian tinkles the ice in his whiskey glass as he leads Jack this time to the caves and in the caves Jack finds Christian’s empty coffin. In the flashback at the airport Jack says “I need to bury my father and I need this to be over.”. Something we know he will never get the chance to do. Looks like it is Jacks’ lot in life to crash on this island time and time again with a different dead body in a coffin until he gets it right. Jack will have his daddy issues following him for quite some time. For a while Jack gets over his moment of weakness and comes back to the beach to deliver his “Live together - Die alone” speech. This fully puts him into the role of leader but at the same time his idea of taking them to the caves while some refuse to go allows Jack to cause a separation between the survivors. Leading to an even more difficult time in keeping everyone safe. Something every good leader strides to accomplish.

Some side notes to consider - Christian's name is an obvious reference to Jesus Christ, who is considered to be a “shepherd” by His followers, the Christians. Christian's death, mysteriously empty coffin, and "resurrection" are all clear references to Chapter 16 of the Book of Mark, specifically verse 8. Mark is the oldest of the 4 Gospels, and Chapter 16 is the final chapter. In it, Mary Magdalene & Mary, Jesus' mother, go to Jesus' tomb to anoint His body. When they arrive, they find that the large stone placed to block the tomb's entrance has been moved. They enter the tomb and find a man, assumed to be an angel, dressed in a white robe (a nod to this with the white tennis shoes Christian is seen wearing). The man in white tells them that Jesus' has been resurrected and that they should go and tell the disciples He has gone ahead of them and will meet them in Galilee, just as He had prophesied. However, the women are so frightened by what has happened, that they never tell anyone of what they saw. Jack's reaction to seeing his father is similar to that of Mary & Mary Magdalene. Lacking the faith to believe what he has seen, Jack never tells anyone of his visions, or even of the fact that his father's coffin was empty. It is important to note that the oldest known versions of the Book of Mark, and other ancient witness accounts of the Gospel, do not have verses 9-20, making verse 8 the Book of Mark's original ending.



Is that another Dharma symbol on the part of the plane in the caves?

We have our first literary reference in this episode not only by it’s title but also by what Locke tells Jack about the white rabbit in Alice in Wonderland. We also see Sawyer reading Watership Down.

Jack's visions of his father visually and thematically reflect Eko's later visions of Yemi on the Island. Notice the demeanor and body language of both visions; also, Jack and Eko both pursue them furiously, while repeating, "Who are you?" to themselves. Jack had been told all his life by his father that he didn't "have what it takes"; on the Island, Jack finds out that he, in fact, has it in him to lead the Losties. Jack went out to search for his father twice in this episode. In his flashbacks, he was instructed to head to Australia to locate his father, and found his corpse in the morgue. On the Island, Jack chases the hallucinations of his father, searching for the truth, and discovers his empty casket, devoid of his corpse.

To get an idea of the flashbacks timeline, later on in the season we see what happened to Christian and Jack’s relationship to cause the split between the two as well as putting pressure on Jack’s mother. She clearly blames Jack for what happened to Christian to make him go to Australia.

The questions this episode begins to lead us to ask are what happened to Christian’s body and what exactly are the hallucinations? What are they being used for? Are the visions being used against Jack and subsequently used against other survivors as well?





HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN

This is the first time Jack’s tattoos are brought to attention on the island.

We see that Jin wasn’t always as big of an ass as he is on the island. Jin tells Sun that working for her father will be temporary. The growth of the puppy shows us that it might not have been as temporary as Jin first thought.



After the bees give us a chance for Kate to strip down to her bra, she finds “Adam and Eve”, as well as the black and white stones. What about those black stones? The black and white stones could be a reference to yin and yang. This ties into the online theories of "twin ness" that Rousseau proposed. This also relates to Boone’s shirt (84), and the original status of Adam and Eve as created from a whole (if Eve was created from Adam's rib, then together they constitute a whole. Apart, like yin and yang, two complementary parts of one). The yin and yang symbol can also be seen in the Hanso Foundation logo. Locke introduces Backgammon as a game where "there are two players; one light, and one dark." One theory about Adam and Eve goes something along the lines of the two people died in a suicide pact, and used the stones to determine who would kill the other first, like drawing straws. They committed suicide to avoid some horrible fate (perhaps the Sickness). Jack recognized this and that's why he removed the stones - he didn't want the survivors speculating on what might be so horrible on this island that it would drive a couple to suicide. Other theories include:

The skeletons could be part of a native group that was on the Island before the DHARMA Initiative. They could have also built the Four-Toed statue.

Adam and Eve could be survivors from the Black Rock, and died later, or could possibly even be their descendants.

Adam and Eve could be the remains of previous inhabitants of the stations on the Island (specifically The Pearl, which we know had two occupants). They may have fled during an incident and died of the sickness. The bodies in the cave are the result of a failed DHARMA Initiative experiment to try to change one of the Numbers in the Valenzetti Equation. The DHARMA Initiative was trying to prove that Plato was wrong when he wrote Allegory of the Cave. "Adam and Eve" were kept in a controlled environment (such as Room 23) but when they were released they chose to die in the cave.




The writers may have put the skeletons in the plot line to emphasize that the survivors of Flight 815 are hardly the first (nor last) group of castaways to have ended up on the Island, or to hint that there is no escape from the Island and the rest of your life will be spent on it.


They could be Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan, who were lost while flying. Their bodies were never found, so it is plausible that they crashed on the Island. Two clues in the Find 815 online story parallel adventure may support this theory: a) a website on Sam Thomas's computer titled "Sunda Stories" lists multiple vessels lost in the Sunda Trench, including "1937 - Pilot involved in search for Amelia Earhart disappears off coast of Sumatra," and b) the video clip of Sam tuning the radio in his cabin on the Christiane I where he finds a radio news broadcast from 1937 reporting on Amelia Earhart's missing plane. There is now a website on Sam's computer titled "Amelia Earhart", which may indicated she is important and not just some background info.

Given the events of "Flashes Before Your Eyes", Penelope could have eventually made her way to the Island and the two could have died with each other, finally being together. As well, this may be another case for the possible "Lost Time" clue. What is also worth mentioning is the fact that in "Flashes Before Your Eyes", the black and white stones can be seen in Desmond's apartment. The fact Desmond keeps having flashes is a sign that he is reliving his life and trying to correct it without being fully aware of this. Why then are they lying head to toe and not side by side or arm in arm? Perhaps one died some time before the other, so when the other came to the point of death he or she lay down beside the corpse as it if were a crypt (in which case one would be unlikely to embrace a corpse).




Aaron and Ji-Yeon somehow travel in time and die on the island.

In "S.O.S.", Bernard tells Rose that they can never leave the Island. The white and black rocks could simply be clues to their ethnicity. They might have activated the fail-safe key like Desmond and traveled/affected their past (if the fail-safe key allows travel into the future, it is more likely they traveled into the future). In this experience, Desmond met them or subconsciously saw them, and painted the two on the mural inside The Swan. Or, because of Rose's special qualities and the fact that Bernard is her soul mate, they are able to remain alive on the island for an extremely long amount of time and they are still there when time loops back around and starts over.

Jack took the stones from the skeletons when they were first found by him and Kate. It is possible that he holds onto the stones until his and Juliet's death inside the caves together. If there is some sort of time loop on the Island that has happened before, this could be the case. The stones could be from Juliet's Zen garden, which shows two stones in the sand - one black, one white.

Jack convinces Kate to go back and find the Island with him. Foreshadowed by Hurley when he asks Jack, "So, what's up with you and Kate? You guys going to move into a cave together, or what?". Foreshadowed by Kate when she says to Jack "I don't want to be Eve.".

After the island was moved, Sawyer and Juliet are unable to leave and live there together until their death.

The De Groots being the founders of the Dharma Initiative. In respect of this they could be called the Adam and Eve of the Dharma Initiative. Their whereabouts are still unknown.




One last thing before I let Adam and Eve rest (and yes that pun was intended, ain‘t I something!); there is an apocryphal book of the New Testament, written in Syria in the 4Th century, called "The Cave of Treasures." The book chronicles the "first 5,500 years" of human history and describes how, upon banishment from Eden, Adam and Eve settled in a cave. It is in this cave that they begin to sire the "good people" that make up the human race. Meanwhile, the exiled Cain, is starting his own extended family in the valley below. These are the "bad people," who engage in all sorts of wickedness. The conflict between these two groups comprises most of the first "2,000" years.



Michael asks Walt what kind of man Walt thinks he is. Unfortunately for us as well as for Walt and even Michael, we actually get to see what kind of man he is.

Sun has been planning on leaving Jin for a while. Apparently she cannot live with the man that Jin has become. At the last minute she cannot go through with it. She knows Jin is not fully to blame for his changes. Sun’s father has molded Jin into something Sun does not like but feels somewhat to blame.





Locke continues to play the all knowing role with Charlie. Man, I didn’t realize how many hints we got to how important Locke was to the storys mythology early on. I missed a lot of that the first time through.

There are a couple “time” references made. Charlie mentions that they are made of time. Michael gives Jin the watch back and says time doesn’t matter on the island.



The songs they play (through Hurley’s CD player) are very poignant and always reflect the current island situations very nicely.

We see the continued themes of black and white, parental issues, fate versus free will, and deception in this episode.

"Stay out of this, Metro!"

TABULA RASA

This is the first time the show uses its conventional flashbacks; the pilot episodes had brief, multi-centric flashes. When the signal party is coming back from hearing the French woman's recorded message, Sawyer makes a decision to not stop and make camp with the rest of them. Kate tells him "If you keep walking you're not going to make it to the beach.". "Why's that?", Sawyer asks. Kate looks odd and then says; "Trust me.". I apologize early if it seems I am beating the proverbial dead horse but what did Kate know? What has happened to Sawyer in the past trips to the island? If my theory comes out to be right or partly right I wonder if we will later see a montage of different characters and how they died is past versions of their island journeys. That night at camp it is Kate who is the first survivor to begin the pattern of telling lies.

Kate tells the farmer, in her flashback, that her name is Annie. Coincidence? Nah, I'm not going there ... not yet at least, but Anne is her middle name so maybe not read too much into that.

Michael tells Walt he is going to go look for Vincent as soon as it stops raining. Then it stops raining. Did the island stop the rain? Did Walt? Check out Walt's face as it stops raining.

My favorite in-episode song Drift Away by Joe Purdy (which I still do not own!) plays as Michael brings Vincent back to Walt (with Locke's help, of course). Now, as Michale does this, look at Walt, now look behind him at the plane wreckage. Hell, you don't have to, here's a picture for you:




Do you see what I see? Is that a Dharma symbol on the plane? Looks like one to me.

In this episode we can start keeping track of several running themes in the show including; car accidents, deceptions and cons, secrets, lies, missing body parts, numbers, life and death, parental issues, irony, rain, and rebirth.

Tabula Rasa is a philosophical thesis developed by the 17Th century philosopher John Locke. Locke meant that the mind of the individual was born "blank" (a clean slate), and emphasized the individuals freedom to author his or her own soul. Philosopher David Hume also contemplated the topic in his works. In this episode Jack tells Kate that after the crash they all have a clean slate. With everything in her past; Ray Mullen ratting her out, and the Marshall hunting her, when she had the chance she could not kill either one. Instead she allowed Sawyer to give it a shot (sorry about the pun) who also fails (TPTB say Sawyer missed because of his hyperopic condition that we learned about later in the season) leading Jack to have to finish it.

As the episode ends we see a closeup of a very evil looking Locke. Add foreshadowing to the list of running themes the show uses.



WALKABOUT

During the first flashback scene we hear the noise that the monster makes when Locke uses the adding machine on his desk. Locke had told Walt that a miracle happened. In this episode we learn that, Locke has regained the use of his legs.

We see Jack's problem with coming to grips with death and the dead when Claire asks him to run the memorial service for the bodies in the fuselage. This points to two things; Jack's inability to deal with death as well as his more personal daddy issue that was foreshadowed for the next episode.

This is the first time we hear Locke say "Don't tell me what I can't do!".

We see Jack have another "Why me?" moment when Boone asks him about Rose. Rose is alive, an attribute that Jack approves of and she gets some of the good doctors attention. By the way, what a great job of both actors and directors in this scene, I could actually smell the rotting corpses in the fuselage as Jack and Boone talked and tried to ignore the smell.

Locke does a lot of destiny and being a leader talk in this episode. We also see that he has taken on the "hunter" role.

Two things I had forgotten about were just how funny Charlie and Hurley were together in the beginning and how pathetic Locke was in his flashbacks in the first season.

Jack sees Christian on the island for the first time underneath the banyan tree. That was a beautiful shot and unfortunately that tree no longer exists thanks to some vandals setting it on fire.



When Michael asks Locke about the monster, Locke lies and says he didn't see it. Did the monster actually kill the boar allowing Locke to fulfill his destiny?

In the flashbacks at the end of the episode we hear Locke say "I'm supposed to do this!" something he has said many times since. A lot of this stuff is vague at best and I know for a fact that I, myself, have said that I was supposed to do something even though I have no prior knowledge of it actually happening in a previous incarnation so all of this could be a swerve. Or it is another go round on the LOST merry go round, as my theory outlines.

When we get the wheelchair reveal we see the first signs of just what the island can do. On the DVD commentary the writers said they wanted Locke's flashbacks to be bleak and lifeless to show the contrast between Locke before coming to the island and after.

Also mentioned was that Terry O'Quinn was told that when he first sees the monster he is to look at it as if it is the most beautiful thing he has ever seen.



Some of the trends that run through the show continues and we also have a couple new ones added including; fate versus free will, healing properties, frequently repeated phrases, dreams and visions, juxtapositions, and other episode referencing. There is also a connection we can make to Locke going on the walkabout in that Locke was told to go on a walkabout by Abbadon. He explained to Locke that a walkabout was a journey of self-discovery into the Australian Outback with nothing more than a knife and his wits. Abaddon once went on a walkabout himself, convinced he was one thing but coming back another. He found out what he was made of, who he was. That is what happened to Locke only after the crash.

So we still have the long running question of exactly how and why the island gives Locke the use of his legs back? Some theorize that this "version" of Locke is actually a course corrected version that never was paralyzed but still has the memories of the incident that caused it.

The other question is what did Locke see when he saw the monster. And why didn't it kill him? I'm guessing it is different that what Eko saw and what we are used to seeing. He even described it to Eko as a beautiful white light. Eko tells Locke that that is not what he saw. Two versions of the monster? Two monsters? Cerberus vents as shown on the blast door map, which can lead one to think of the mythological creature Cerberus, a three headed monster dog supposedly set to guard the underworld. The monster is later described by Rousseau as a security system. One head could be black and one white? Which, by the way, is another running theme of the show. Judge. Jury. Executioner.

"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.

"Light comma sticks"

Here is the proof that there were three different endings filmed for this seasons finale on LOST -



Don't really see how "Sawyer is in the coffin" would have worked. Can't see how it could have answered any questions. It also would give Kate one less reason to go back.



Desmond in the coffin makes a little bit more sense than Sawyer but I still don't know how they would have sold it. Would have been a bit sad to have the reuniting scene between Desmond and Penny and then get to see Des in the coffin. I'm glad they went with Locke. I don't think their intentions were from a "we're not sure how we are progressing on this one" standpoint but rather a "let's see if they can spoil this one if we have three endings" train of thought.

As the summer vacations began to get into full swing, some have been able to catch up to Evvie Lilly and she had this message to give to all of her adoring fans:



Hmph, OK!

Well certainly the good doctor would have something to say before shipping back to big sky country and his ranch:




Guess not.

"Hell, no, best idea I've heard all day!"

As we end another season of LOST and dig in for a long nine month hiatus, possibly longer if there is an actors strike, there are a few things I have to take care of. First and foremost I want to thank the people who read the blog and contribute on a weekly basis. Yes, even if it is by email. Especially my two most faithful readers, Cerpts and Faere. It has been Faere's job of helping me edit the posts and allowing me to make more sense than I have a right to. I don't know how bad the posts would be without her assistance. I doubt they would be comprehensible. I also have to give several other shout outs to people that have contributed (if they knew it or not) to this blog: DarkUFO, Luhks, "e", Vozzek69, Doc Jensen, Fishbiscuit, and anyone else I might have forgotten. Thank you all. A lot of what has been included in these LOST recap posts have come from the minds of those mentioned. I just arranged them and put them all together and added my own thoughts and theories. This blog is the outcome of all that hard work.

Even though the season is over, I have a few things planned to help get through the 9 months ahead of us. Some theories, observations, what ifs, and some rehashing of things long forgotten. I've recently began watching season one all over again (fourth time thank you) and have a few things already in store. I have to get my shite together and then we can move forward. See ya in a few.

There's No Place Like Home recap part 2

After Sayid asked the man in the car if he had the time did you catch what his answer was going to be? That's right "8:15", was his answer. It would be cool if Sayid started using that as like a calling card. Killing the people out to get the
O6 at 8:15. He could be the 8:15 assassin. Inside the loony bin, Hurley is playing chess and doesn't seem all that happy to see Sayid. Sayid wants Hurley to come with him as he wants to take Hurley "someplace safe". Sounds a little cryptic to me, but anyone else think it involves Ben and the island? Sayid tells Hurley that Bentham is dead and that they are calling it a suicide inferring that it must not have been a suicide. Hurley almost says Bentham's real name but is quickly shushed up by Sayid. He tells Hurley that they are being watched. Hurley's line about paranoia was another classic Hurley line. The writers of the show are all a cut above but there's nothing like a script that team "Darlton" write. They must have already talked about "going back" because Hurley even asks Sayid as much; "We're not going back are we?". Sayid tells him "No, just someplace safe.", that's a lie but right now Sayid knows it's the only way to get Hurley to come along peaceful like. Especially since it's after visiting hours and we don't need Hurley making a scene, now do we? Hurley stops for a second and makes one more move on the chess board and then he says "Checkmate, Mr. Eko." Well my bladder let loose on that one, that's all I can say.

Lapidus still can't find the freighter as Jack tells Kate that they will refuel and go back for Sawyer. Yeah that's really gonna happen. About them not being able to find the island; we know that the island is moving at a different pace than the freighter. Daniel's experiments and the doctor's body washing up on shore before he was killed on the freighter is all the proof we need to understand this. I don't know exactly why yet, but we know it's a fact. We also saw Desmond and one of the freighter crew start moving the freighter in part one of the finale. Would it have moved that much though? Enough that Frank wouldn't be able to see it? Anyway, eventually Hurley spots the freighter, as luck would have it.



A blood-gargling Keamy tells Ben that Widmore will find him wherever he goes. As Keamy dies Ben tells him "Not if I find him first.". And we got a red light on the dead man's trigger and we got one on the freighter as well.



With five minutes left in the tank, Desmond goes to get a life vest and readies to abandon ship. "Bloody hell!", is his reaction when he sees the chopper coming back. Lapidus is the only one who keeps his cool as he knows bomb or no bomb he has to land. Frank gets out of the chopper and all of a sudden we have LOST's version of a NASCAR pit stop. Michael runs out of juice and he tells Jin to go. "You're a father now." is an ironic line for Michale to use since he was always the father that was separated from his son. Michale has given up, earlier in the season when he told Sayid he was there to die, he meant it. We see what Jack meant when he yelled to Kate "I saved you!" back in Something Nice Back Home. In "saving Kate" he seals Jin's fate. The chopper takes off as Jin runs out on deck. He should have just got a life vest and kept running. Sun is the first 06er to say the words "We have to go back!", maybe she didn't mean it the same way Jack says it to Kate in the flash forward but it looks kind of obvious that she won't be hard to convince to go back to the island. Once again we hear the whispers as Michael's freezie pop runs dry. Interesting that it was Christian that showed up and tells Michael he can go now. There were several choices that could have been made but there's a reason, I guess, that it was Christian that came to Michael. ...And "Boom" goes the dynamite! The CGI freighter sinking was a little cheesy but not that bad, and it sank fast. Devastated and desperate Jack tells Lapidus to fly them back to the island. Good idea, bet Frank wishes he thought of that himself.



Sun is in London and she wants to have a meeting with Widmore. Apparently Paik and Widmore do have something working together. Widmore tells Sun they like to golf. What a coincidence, so does Sayid. I like subtle little clues like that. Sun asks Widmore to stop with the bullshit; "Are you really going to pretend you don't know who I am?" she asks him. Widmore tries to keep up the facade but Sun won't allow that. She owes that to herself, Jin, and their baby. She continues to inform him that "You know we've been lying all this time about where we were and what happened to us there." She also tells him they have a common interest and then hands him her business card. She tells Widmore that when he is ready to discuss them, to give her a call. Then the best part of the conversation; "You know we're not the only ones who left the island.". Who does she mean? Desmond? Ben? Widmore himself? "Why would you want to help me?" Widmore asks her. Did she ever say she was trying to help him? I didn't hear her say that. I'm sticking with she is just using him to get back to the island. Ben has had plenty of time to have already been working on some of the 06. We know he has Sayid in his camp. Sayid goes and gets Hurley and I'm betting that Sun has already been approached by Sayid and/or Hurley. Maybe even Ben as well. We are being led to believe that she blames her father and Jack for the death of Jin. I'm not ready to believe that even though she no-shows Christian's funeral and Jack is nowhere to be found when Hurley visits her and goes to Jin's grave. Hurley even says "Good." when he arrives and discovers nobody else is coming to the grave. Is Sun pissed at Jack for the whole "we gotta lie to them" act. Yes. I think she has also had a visit from Jeremy Bentham and she now knows Jin isn't dead at all and is alive on the island. My money is on Widmore as the other person she blames even though she knows Jin isn't dead but she is doing a good job of keeping the lie going.

In the orchid, Locke asks Ben why he would kill Keamy when he knew it would blow up the freighter. Ben explains it as "good command decisions get compromised by bad emotional decisions.". He almost said that from memory like it was said to him once upon a time. I might have to give him a pass now for killing Keamy and blowing up the freighter. I mean look at it this way - I've never had a daughter get shot in the back of the head and die right in front of me. Like Rose told Miles I've got my eye on him now though. John Locke is repeating history as he once again finds himself underground in another Dharma Initiative station with the fate of the island in the balance. Whereas Desmond once turned the fail safe key inside the belly of the Swan, now Ben volunteers to turn a much larger device at the Orchid, a mystical wheel far deeper below the island.



Juliette is drinking Dharma rum (what didn't those people have?) as the "Sexy Sawyer Show" continues. In a scene that reminds us of a similar scene in Confidence Man "AquaSawer" comes out of the water with no shirt on. You mean those pants weren't getting in the way too? Jeez I feel so ripped off! Unlike Charlie, Sawyer made it back to the island and asks Juliette what she is celebrating. Why does Sawyer look so good after his heroic leap from the chopper? The island and the water around it sure can make a guy clean up both mind, body and spirit. Juliette tells him that she isn't celebrating and gestures out to sea. Guess she was honouring all her dead homeys with the bottle of rum. "That our boat?" Sawyer asks her. "It was." she tells him hinting at they now think Kate, Jack and everyone on the helicopter and freighter is dead. Guess there's nothing left for them to do next season but have some hot jungle sex.



Ben puts on the "Haliwax" parka and says he is going someplace cold. He tells Locke he isn't going with him because Jacob wants Ben to suffer the consequences of moving the island alone. What consequences? Whoever moves the island can never come back. Could Widmore have moved the island in the past? Maybe he did and didn't know the consequences. Maybe that wasn't the consequences then. Maybe that was used as a punishment. Maybe he was tricked into doing it by Ben. All good theories at this point. Ben gives Locke full command of the Others. They are ready, willing, and able to share what they know and then they will follow Locke's every word. Ben says this from experience. This is what happened to him at some point. Maybe not the moving the island part but they shared all the island secrets with him and they followed his every word. Ben tears up as he says goodbye to Locke. I'm not sure he was saying "I'm sorry I made your life so miserable" to Locke. Could Jacob have been standing there with them? If he was talking to Locke just how long has he been making Locke's life miserable? "What am I supposed to tell them?", Locke then asks Ben. Ben only gives this sage advice - "You'll find your way, you always do John.". Then Locke arrives at his peoples camp. Wow it looks kind of depressing now doesn't it? Locke has that "I just got the keys to the Titanic" look on his face. Two minutes after it hit the iceberg. Then Alpert says "Welcome Home" and Locke smiles and nods. It took Locke and the others a long time to get here.

"Hey hey Johnny, can't you come out to play in your empty garden?" Bernie Taupin/Elton John

"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world." - Archimedes



Ben goes through the vault/chamber thing and goes down further. We see what he meant by "going someplace cold" and we also see how he injured his arm. Now we know where he came from when he jumped into the desert. I first thought when he jumped to the desert that he thought he was jumping someplace cold but now we know he came from someplace cold. This can also put to rest that Ben jumped into the desert right before he called the smoke monster back in "The Shape of Things to Come". Down deep is the "frozen donkey wheel". We were kind of duped in that last years finally was called "the snake in the mailbox" and it didn't involve a snake nor a mailbox. I didn't realize they were being literal this time. Clever work, boys, hiding it in plain sight like that. The wheel that would be turned to move the island was located in a station known as the Orchid. One genus of orchid is the Donkey Orchid, named for its appearance reminiscent of a donkey's (or a bunny's) big ears. And buried deep beneath the orchid nursery, there was indeed a Wheel. A Frozen Wheel. To which Ben yoked himself much like a very determined Donkey. The Dharma Initiative had a lot of the same type lanterns. They were also heavy into hieroglyphics. Ben starts to free the wheel from the frozen embrace and says "I hope you're happy now Jacob.". I am beginning to wonder if Ben and Jacob have ever been on good terms. We hear the "sky is turning a different color" noise as Ben turns the wheel. Instead of purple this time the sky goes an eerie and bright white. The "purple-sky" event caused by the destruction of the Swan station helped make the island visible to the outside world, but this second flash of blinding light creates the opposite result. The white light begins at the wheel and the chamber Ben is in and soon engulfs the entire island. Ben begins to full on cry as the light surrounds him and we know where he goes. We see everyone bathed in the white light. Then the island "seems to disappear but in reality ...". We have to wait for next season until Haliwax or someone else tells us.

"Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice." - Robert Frost

"Where the hell's the island?" Lapidus asks. "It's gone!" Hurley does his best Mr. Obvious impression. Mark this moment on your LOST calendar as the moment when Jack started to believe some of the things Locke had been telling him all this time. Chopper number 842 (not 815 but close enough) takes a header into the ocean. Everyone is okay except for Desmond. They pull him into the life boat (heh it's called a life boat for a reason folks) and Jack gives him CPR. This is the second amazing kiss of the episode. The kiss of life. Desmond comes back and watch his face when he does, did he just do a patented Desmond time jump? Maybe he was unconscious for a reason. Wonder if he got another visit from the old lady in the antique store?




Kate gets a visitor and a weird backwards messaged phone call that when reversed tells her to go back to the island. Some have said that the voice sounds like either Sawyer of Locke or a combination of the two. She gets a gun (not feeling very safe Kate?) and bursts into Aaron's room. Notice the White Rabbit poster on the door. Claire is with Aaron, wait, who? Claire warns Kate - "Don't you dare bring him back!". With that scene I think we can agree Claire is dead. Then Kate wakes up and goes to check on Aaron who is sleeping soundly. Kate cries and apologizes to Aaron. What is she sorry for? Is she sorry for what she did in the past? Or what she didn't do? Or for what she is about to do? Like say take Arron back to the island?



On the lifeboat it's now night and Kate says "It's a miracle" that Aaron is okay. Jack still doesn't believe in miracles. Hurley then marvels at the fact that Locke actually did move the island. Jack disagrees and Hurley gives him the "Oh really?". He wants to know if Jack has a better explanation. Lapidus sees a boat and I guess I've been screwed over by this show too many times, but for a moment I expected to see Mr. Friendly show up and deliver his "We're gonna have to take the boy." line again. Jack then tells himself first and then everybody else that they are going to have to lie. Jack's making progress in the "I believe in Locke" field. On the Searcher we see one of the Portuguese guys from the arctic monitoring station from two season finales ago. I didn't understand a thing the guy said except for the Ms. Widmore part. Desmond did too. We get our Desmond and Penny reunion that we have been waiting almost three season for. The third kiss of the episode is the sweetest and most touching. This one is far different than the one between Sawyer and Kate. The kisses were spaced at even points in the episode, near the ends of each of the two hours. Just as one was the fulfillment of a promise made, the other was the humble request of a new promise. One was a kiss of reunion, of lovers reunited after eight long years of often bitter separation. The other was the kiss of lovers being parted, seemingly forever, by an insurmountable wall of time and space. We know the promise becomes sacred to Kate and that she keeps it secret even three years into the future. We also know that, just like Penelope, Kate will become briefly engaged to another man. And just like Desmond, we know that, when our story resumes Sawyer will have spent three years stranded on a magical island, lost in time and space. The parallel of the two couples was beautifully done. This was not an episode to fight about which kiss was more spectacular. This was an episode to celebrate romantic love at its most magical. Sawyer watched Kate disappear and Kate watched Sawyer disappear. Many wheels are going to have to turn, all in the right alignment, before time and space reunite them.

When Desmond promises Penny he will never leave her again this could turn out to be true. He means it but if the island will let him keep that promise or not still remains to be seen. Jack tells Penny "we have to talk". Hopefully Jack told her everything, and I mean everything. About the island, about her father, and hopefully Desmond can fill in the rest of the spaces. An interestng thought - can we now connect Libby to Widmore since she is the one who gave Desmond the boat that gets him to the island? Or does her connection go deeper to the island itself and the others or even Dharma? We were promised some more of her story this season, I guess the writer's strike cheated us out of that. Hopefully just for this season and we will get more on her next year. I hope in the week that went by Jack also got Frank in on some of the discussions. If so I think we can expect to see him back next season as well.



They leave and head to Mambata. Sayid is now down with the lie as he tells Hurley that it is the only way to keep the other survivors on the island safe. So even though they are on the boat for a week I know they couldn't clean up too much but did you notice they were sure to make us see that the injuries they had when they arrived at the boat they still had some remnants of them? The islands healing powers have worn off a little. So, yeah, Jack couldn't shave and neither could the rest of the O6 but Desmond could have and Frank could have cleaned up a bit. Maybe that is cleaned up for him. I told you before I apreciate irony and sometimes it's very subtle on this show. There was some when Jack says goodbye to Frank - "Hope I never see you again Frank." That almost gaurantees he will. This time Jack says "see you in another life Brutha" to Desmond and we already know the ironic twist that line has. There's just no way they can write off one of the more popular characters on the show and think about it, name one thing Desmond has done wrong since he appeared on the show? Go ahead, try. Desmond tells Jack that as long as he has Penny he will be fine. Hey, isn't Ben after Penny? Uh oh! Jack warns him - "Don't let them find you.". Don't let who find you? And what happens if they do? It will be interesting to see what role, if any, Desmond will play in the mythology of Lost, now that the sailor is home from the sea, and Ulysses is back in the arms of his Penelope.



The cinematographers must have seen Rocky Horror a few times because when the O6 wash up on Mambata it's "the same room different color" scene LOST style. No other beach area available for that scene? If you haven't seen Rocky Horror you didn't get that last joke. I'm sorry for your ignorance. The O6 get their picture taken by one of the natives of Mambata. Who the hell snapped that photo? Guess they had a digital in one of those grass huts we saw on the beach.



Jack goes back to Hoffs Drawler after Kate shoots him down. He then makes a nocturnal admission into the funeral parlor. Interesting that they did a close up on Jack breaking the lock(e) as he adds breaking and entering to his list of things he has done wrong since coming back from the island. Jack is wracked with grief (and guilt?) as he stands next to the coffin. Hey, who is that lying on a slab in a clear body bag in the back? Is that another Michale sighting? No, I'm not gong there. Just an observation and proof they really are running out of extras. Jack sees the release form with Jeremy Bentham's name on it. Now at first the letters B-E-N jumped out at me. Ben in the coffin? "Hello Jack." Ben is there! When Ben and Jack talk, Ben actually seems a little comforting to Jack. Or is he just being patronizing and Jack can't even tell at this point? I don't think I've ever described Ben as comforting before so mark that one in your journals. This is obviously their first meeting in three years. They have a lot to catch up on. "He" had told Jack that Ben was off the island. Wonder if he told Jack how and why? Jack also tells Ben that "he" went to see Kate as well. "He" told Jack that a lot of bad things happened after Jack left the island and that it was Jack's fault. "He" also told Jack that he had to go back to the island. Then Ben tells Jack he knows about Jack's recent plane trips hoping they will crash. "It's dark Jack, very dark." Who told Ben about the plane trips? I really have no guess on this one. Ben tells Jack the island won't let him come alone. All of them have to go back. Jack starts with the list of the who's and the why's the rest won't go back with him. Ben tells him he can help and that he has a few ideas. Ben has been thinking about this for a while apparently and has been preparing for this day. Jack officially gives up all control and finally falls into the "Man of Faith" roll as he now has to put his fate into the hands of Ben, solely on faith. "Jack, I said all of you. We're going to have to bring him too." And the camera pans to the open coffin and inside we see that Jeremy Bentham is John Locke. And crash to black!



Throughout literature, there are countless stories about characters returning home from adventures in mysterious faraway lands. Frank L. Baum’s famous story, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, which made famous this episode’s title phrase, offers one major example. LOST, however, by no means follows this typical story structure. Instead, the opening scene of the finale actually begins where most of these stories end: a group of characters safely returns home to their families after a harrowing journey abroad. From there, the series of flash-forwards reveals what happens next after that "happily ever after". The momentary happiness from their return steadily transforms into a more lasting state of despair, and our characters remain as lost as ever. By the end of the episode, the title phrase There’s No Place Like Home no longer refers to their return to the mainland. Instead, it becomes increasingly clear that the Island is the one true Home for all of these characters. Along the way, there are several other suggestions to this effect: Locke’s desperate plea to Jack, Miles’ decision to stay, the revelation about Charlotte’s birthplace. Even Charles Widmore himself seems to be yet another man obsessed with returning home to the island. Home meant one thing to these people before they came to the island, but it transformed into another. As expected, the climactic ‘movement’ of the island served as perhaps the most important event of the episode. Moving the entire island sounds like such a ridiculous scenario on many levels, and so the writing of the episode wisely decided to highlight its humor rather than avoid it. The interplay between Ben and Locke at the Orchid station ranks as perhaps the funniest sequence of the entire season. Afterwards, though, Jack’s reaction of intense denial of the event (“No, he didn’t.”) almost topped it for comedic effect. Hurley’s response to Jack comes across as an open challenge for all men and women of science out there to ponder for the rest of the year: “One minute it was there and the next it was gone, so, unless we … like … overlooked it, dude, that’s exactly what he did. But, if you’ve got another explanation, man, I’d love to hear it.” For the entire season, and indeed the entire series, Jack Shephard had been trying to lead his people as far away from the island as possible. In their final conversation on the island, Locke made one final plea to Jack to stay on the island before his descent underground to move the island. Thanks to the detonation of the bomb on the freighter, though, those plans to escape the island failed. In the last moments before the island disappears, the helicopter is not flying away to the mainland, but frantically trying to get back to the island safely. Jack did not lead the people away from the island as he wanted, but instead Locke actually moved the island away from the people.



Okay, here goes the Jeremy Bentham part of the post. Thanks to my dear friend Cerpts I was informed that Jeremy Bentham was also a philosopher like Locke, Hume, and Hobbs (Tom Friendly's real last name was Hobbs btw). He died a long time ago but he's not buried. They even roll him out for important meetings and voting on college things that need voting on. They usually mark him as present but not voting. If there is a tie he always votes in favor of the motion. Jeremy Bentham's body is preserved, known as the Auto Icon, in South Cloisters of University College London. Look the rest up on Wikipedia if you want to read more about it. So could this mean that that really isn't Locke in the coffin but a stuffed version of him? Cerpts was also the first to point this out. Guess Jack will need that body release form after all. Better hurry boys, that body ain't gonna keep.