I’ll have to revise my theory expressed in this post from last week a bit in light of tonight’s events, but I still believe that Ben has been trying to prevent Locke from taking his place in terms of having the closest connection to the island, it’s just that now I’m tacking on another reason for it: Ben knew that Locke could not make the hard choices needed to protect the island, and he was proven right tonight by Locke not being able to kill Jack in order to do it.
Archive for May 23rd, 2007
In the future, that is…
My theory is that it’s Locke who was in the coffin. The way I see it going down is this:
Whidmore (or whoever is on the boat) fakes a rescue in an attempt to take control of the island in order to learn / exploit its secret properties. Jack and the others cooperate with them, even to the point of disabling Locke who will still be fighting to prevent it. Whidmore carts everyone (including an unconcious / incapacitated Locke) off the island, which they think they want at the time, until they get home and Locke wakes up and reveals to them that it was a mistake to let the island fall into the hands of Whidmore.
Perhaps he only tells Jack, or perhaps Jack is the only one who believes him, but either way, it’s fairly obvious that Jack knows now that his decision in tonights episode was wrong.
PS - I called the “flash forward” bit in the opening sequence, and believed it for the most part throughout the episode. My faith did waver a bit when Jack called for them to go get his dad upstairs, but I did quickly realize that he was just saying that because he wasn’t in his right mind at the time.
That was the best series finale I could have hoped for. It was just so smart. Ben was lying (again) and Locke was wasted in the end as the savior of…well I don’t know what, but he was wasted. Walt’s return was also unimpressive but at least curious. The series has met a sea change and we will have to wait for the next chapter to begin, but at least we still want to wait. It is certainly possible that they could rewind–”You weren’t supposed to do this…”.
Maybe Jack will have a chance to undo his fateful decision next season.
Why did Charlie lock himself in the hatch? He seemed to have enough time to get out and close the door. He must have wanted to die to fulfill the prophecy and save Claire.
Who was in the coffin? Who could the survivors hate so much? Locke? Ben? It was an inner city neighborhood in LA so who could it be? I’m flummoxed.
I loved the flash forward, I only caught on toward the end. I had placed it around Jack’s return from Thailand, initially, but it never made sense. Maybe I’m thick.
It really seemed to bother Jack when he read about the death but he was not a friend. Maybe it was his last chance to return to the island?
“We have to go back”
Indeed we do…
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