We are lead to believe we glimpsed Jack and Kate’s future, however, we may have seen the past.
Jack’s dad appears to be alive ” I tell you what, go up to my father’s office, and if I’m drunker than him then fire me”
Jack is desperate to return to the island but Kate doesn’t want to return. Jack confides in Kate he keeps flying in the hope his plane will crash. When Kate is arrested and forced onto a plane we see Jack (bringing his fathers body home) desperate to get on that plane. he says ” you don’t understand I have to get on that plane!”
Kate robbed a bank in her past to get hold of a toy plane. Was her ex lover on the island in the past?
Did Kate learn her tracking skills from an earlier visit to the island? Did a previous visit give her the skills and courage to kill her step father?
Jack was angry with Kate when he found out she was a felon! If they had no history why was he concerned and angry?
Kate looked well groomed and happy when she met with Jack at the end of the episode. The last time we saw Kate like that was when she was married to the policeman before her arrest. Is her husband the ‘he’ she refers to?
All the losties have issues with their parent. Is this the link that brought them to the island?
I was looking over The Hanso Foundation website for clues and found a message hidden in the “Hit Area.” Everyone has found the hidden video and audio, but this is a little different.
The entire website is built in Flash, and there is a “hit area” in a circular pattern in the middle of the page. You can detect the “hit area” by listening for the alternate audio feedback you hear when mousing over the second humanity word. By tracing the “hit area” you can uncovered the following hidden message:
“Harsh light of inquiry in shadow. It is this shadow Dr. Thomas Werver Mittelwerk costs many their happiness. Some few have, I assure you now as I did then, that the work intended to bring birth to a dying land and this moment. The Hanso Foundation enters transparency and oversight will be our guiding principles. Response to feedback, our greatest strength, tap into just that – our humanity. Much thanks to the timeless efforts of my movement set against the dark entity and freed from Consortium. We at The, can support. ”
The “Hit Area” is not a perfect circle and is not something that would be put in at random. The Flash Developer must select the hit area very precisely. Could be something, Could be nothing.
It would not be surprising if the Lost series ended with the opening lines of TS Eliot’s Four Quartets:
 Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future
And time future contained in time past.
If all time is eternally present
All time is unredeemable.
What might have been is an abstraction
Remaining a perpetual possibility
Only in a world of speculation.
What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present.
Eliot’s theme of time in the Quartets has been variously studied. Moreover, his artistic sensitivity did not preclude plagarism from other artists.  A good study of the Quartets will reveal other themes present in Lost. Such as perspective that could give the idea of death in pregnancy:
 In my beginning is my end. …
In my end is my beginning.
What we call the beginning is often the end
And to make and end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from. …….Â
We die with the dying:
See, they depart, and we go with them.
We are born with the dead:
See, they return, and bring us with them……
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
The writers of Lost are sophisticated enough to know Eliot, and yet, they might not. Nevertheless, it is clear that the show does not portray time, as we experience time, consiously, and mostly linearly. Rather time on Lost is recursive, cyclical, and intertwined.
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Don
Here are my thoughts:
On the island, Kate chooses Jack. Kate becomes pregnant. Kate beats the odds, survives her pregnancy, and gives birth to a viable baby boy. The island rescue comes to fruition. Some people choose to stay while others choose to go home. Jack and Kate choose to take their baby home. Jack has a difficult time assimilating to society. Jack wishes they had stayed on the island. Jack and Kate’s relationship turns sour and they separate. Jack begins to turn to substance abuse to cope with his depression. Jack loses his job…loses his sanity…loses everything. Kate will not talk to him anymore. Jack hopes that of those who were rescued, some might go to whomever’s viewing- especially Kate. (Tangent thought: I think the “whomever” is Sawyer because he is not Jack’s family or friend + Jack makes a snide comment to Kate resentfully, and insecurely, hints that he expected her to be at the viewing + ). Jack calls Kate’s telephone again and again.  She finally answers and agrees to meet him near the airport.  Â
As Kate listens attentively, Jack recalls his recent flying experiences around the world, “I actually close my eyes and I pray that I can get back.â€Â Kate looks down as a tear descends down her cheek. She looks up at Jack with empathy and resistively says, “This is not going to change.â€Â Jack scornfully interrupts, “No, I am sick of lying.â€Â Kate becomes resistive and begins to create distance between them. In a serious tone, Jack states, “We made a mistake.â€Â Between them, a long silence with cold stares.  Kate becomes even more resistive and firmfully states, “I have to go.â€Â As Kate steps back from Jack, she says, “He is going to be wondering where I am.† Jack lunges towards Kate and grabs her. Kate turns her head and does not look at Jack. Jack says, “No, we were not supposed to leave.â€Â Kate looks up at Jack and opens her eyes and defiantly states, “Yes, we were.â€Â Kate steps back and turns away. “Goodbye, Jack.† As she walks towards her car and opens the door, Kate pauses as Jack states, “We have to go back, Kate.â€Â Kate pauses again and looks at Jack, then enters her and drives away. “We have to go back!â€
The “he” is their baby boy!
Ben mentions Jack’s decision costing the lives of 40 people, but I don’t think he’s talking about Jack’s group.
I believe he’s talking about the inhabitants of the island that have been there for a long time - the “others” like Richard, etc. Since I believe that the island’s healing factor is what keeps them from aging (because it’s constantly healing them as their bodies break down during the normal aging process), some of the “others” who have been there for a long time could easily be very, very old.
If they are forced to leave the island, they might die immediately once they get out of “range” of its ability to heal them. This could even apply to some of the Losties as well, especially ones like Rose who we know had a terminal disease before coming to the island.
In any event, I suspect that the boat people will coax some of the people willing to be “rescued” (Jack and his group) into leaving just by telling them that they’re rescuing them. They may possibly even manipulate them into helping them battle the “others” and subdue Locke, on the pretext that they need to do that in order to get free of the island.
My bet is that during this battle, Jack knocks Locke out and they eventually triumph over the “others”, and leave the island thinking that they were victorious. Then, once they are clear of the island and will not be able to find it again, it becomes clear to Jack that it was a mistake. Either people start dying outside of the island’s protection and/or Locke wakes up and clues Jack in to what’s happening, and/or he finds out how Whidmore is going to abuse the power of the island.
Some thoughts. Though nothing is obvious it does seem as if we will be juggling two distinct dramatic balls next season.
The events on the island form the moment we leave S3–The events in LA as Jack struggles with post-island depression.
We are likely to encounter other castaways at home stories I suppose, but I don’t think that is going to work, should it go that way.
In the case of LA v. the Island: LA mysteries should become clearer as we watch events unfold on (and getting off?)the island (who is in that damn coffin?!). They can add new mysteries as each is resolved.
Another thought: S4 is about converging the timelines so in S5 Jack gets back to the island for the final battle. There needs to be some consistent dramatic thrust throughout the story lines if is not to become a big mess. So these flashforwards can not perform the same role as the flashbacks have done. That can’t be all over the place and revealing character–they have the responsibility of moving the ball along too.
Conversely the island stuff can not function as merely a backstory for the present (how did we get here?). That is too big a shift. The audience is not yet ready to give up the island story for a man out of time scenario.
I guess we will see.
When Ben sees his mother in the forest as a boy, he goes in after her, that’s where he sees what’s his name, who hasn’t aged at all. He looks the same even though Ben is older. How does that work? And why is the Russian indestructible?
Ben was tied up before the rescue so it makes sense that he was taken off the island. As r.palmtree noted, he has died and Jack is upset because Ben was the last link to the island.
Ben knew that Naomi was lying because he remains in contact with the outside world and saw the coverup of the found wreckage; understanding that someone is now secretly searching for the island.
Fountain of Youth makes perfect sense. Y’know, Jacob’s Well. Locke will now take Bens place as leader of the others. Something Ben knew would happen but could not prevent.
I have some theories about the show that Jared has covered and some he hasn’t.
Jacob:
- Jacob is the island or the island is Jacob. I’m thinking the later since Ben does did say he’s doing things for the island and Jacob told him these things.
- Jacob told Locke to “help me” which I believe meant save me the island from the impeding ruin.
- Jacob is what he want’s you to see. He’s the horse, Jack’s Dad and now Walt. That is why Locke didn’t see Ben’s Jacob.
The island:
My overall theory of what the island holds a lot of special abilities but the main one includes a sud-o fountain of youth which is what Dharma was after and now Whidmore primarily wants (more later). There are a few things that help or go along with this theory about the fountain of youth.
- The story is old, so old that the some of the early founders could have built that statue to glorify it. That statue could be a statue of Jacob, of course not the jacob we see since he’d have 5 toes instead of 4.
- The children are taken to protect them, like Ben said. Protecting them from either another force on the island or the island’s population control…
Smoke Monster:
- I think the smoke monster is controlled by Jacob and is the grainy sand stuff outside the hut that Locke looked so closely at.
- I also think the smoke monster is part of the population control that goes with the premise of the fountain of youth. Since no one can die it deems if people are acceptable enough to live either for ever or an extended period and also reep in the rewards of the mythical island.
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