At least it’s better /more interesting than Locke the bumbling idiot.
This episode neither confirmed nor denied my Kate is a traitor theory, though.
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Since I never posted about the episode from last week, I thought I’d better cover it to get it off my chest.
There has been a lot of buzz about the disappointment around the preview’s claim of “three big secrets revealed”, and the producers (rightfully, to some degree) blaming the network for building up those expectations unrealistically. So, I’ll give them credit on that one; I know the scenes with Cindy and the kids would have been WAY, WAY better if we didn’t know they were coming.
HOWEVER, my main gripe is not related to that. Rather, it’s the fact that these people (especially Jack) absolutely refuse to ask the questions that any normal person would ask.
- Sawyer lets Carl run off without getting any useful info out of him : They might be able to redeem this one later by revealing that Sawyer actually did grill him for info off camera, and he’s just not sharing that info with anyone else, since that’s the kind of guy Sawyer is. Even if this isn’t the case, I could give him half credit for letting him go just to provide himself with an excuse for not being able to go back after Jack
- Jack’s conversations with people like Tom and Cindy : This is the part that really burns me. How the hell do you see Cindy walk up to your cage like that and not ask her to explain what the heck has been going on, since she obviously knows? Or when Jack has been standing around chatting with Tom and Juliet, he basically makes no attempt to get any significant info out of them.
I’d even be OK if the characters would ask the questions and they evaded actually answering them, because I understand that it’s a mystery and they can’t be revealing everything all at once, but to not even see the questions being asked is a bit hard to swallow.
In stark contrast, this week’s Heroes episode was amazing. There’s a show where you’ve got the mystery aspects, but the characters want answers and go after them until they find them.
- A substance added to a product (as to increase bulk, weight, viscosity, opacity, or strength)
- A piece used to cover or fill in a space between two parts of a structure
- Material used to fill extra space in a column or page of a newspaper or magazine or to increase the size of a work (as a book)
- Last night’s episode of Lost
Hurley’s a decent character, and even an interesting one, with the looming far out theories and possibilities that he plays some grander role in the mystery. BUT, this episode actually made me dislike him. We had to sit through that painful flashback (probably the worst in the show’s history) and learned nothing new from it.
I’ve always thought that the flashbacks we’ve seen throughout this show were not entirely accurate views of past events, and I think the recent Desmond episode backs that up.
My theory is that the flashbacks we see are the memories of the people involved, but only as they remember them now, which may or may not be completely “true”. In addition, I think the island (or something on it) influences these memories for some reason.
In addition, whatever process the island uses to do this is not strictly limited by time, so that it could perhaps influence the memories / thoughts that subjects had before they even got to the island, as long as they get there at some point (destiny, etc.)
Finally, Desmond was exposed to an extreme version of whatever force enables this distortion, which is why his recent “flashback” was so vivid, long and lucid (he was able to realize that he was experiencing a flashback but still participate in it, like a lucid dream).
One interesting question to ponder (whether this theory is accurate or not) is that the effect that Desmond experienced could not have been just seeing his future flash before his eyes, because that future has changed several times since. He said he saw Charlie die from the lightning, AND later die drowning trying to save Claire. So either Desmond saw multiple branches of the future timeline at the time he turned the key, OR he is continuing to see variations as things change.
If you don’t want to hear any spoilers, definitely stay away from the Michael Emmerson interview by the guys at Comic News Insider.
Jay and Jack played a short clip on their show at first (just the part where they asked their questions), but they recently added a show that contained the whole interview, and (in that full version) “Ben” spills the beans big time about a lot of stuff. So much so, that I can’t imagine he didn’t get chewed out afterwards.
I won’t mention details here, in case anyone is trying to avoid the spoilers.
I remarked to the guys while we were watching the show that if Jack agrees to go out of the room while Ben and Juliet talk that I would quit watching this show.
OK, so I was exaggerating, but seriously, what the heck is he thinking? Why would he agree to that?
Here’s a challenge: post your most far out theory that would be very unlikely to happen, but still within the realm of possibility of them actually doing on the show.
I’ll start by speculating that whichever of the three prisoners (Jack, Kate, & Sawyer) gets off the prison island, they do so by finding the boat that Michael and Walt took off in. Michael and Walt may or may not be there. If they are there, perhaps they will have aged out of sync with the “regular” time line, to explain Walt’s growth.
I’m really looking forward to this week, and beginning the long haul of hopefully good episodes. To prepare, I’m going to dump out a couple random theories or thoughts I’ve been considering about the show, and see which ones play out and are either proven or not.
- I think Kate is playing along with the others, and has been since the beginning of season 3, after her meal with Ben. This could be complicated by any number of twists, such as her just pretending to cooperate with them to then turn on them later, or them suspecting that and using her in spite of it, etc. etc. - double/triple twists, etc.
- Paulo (I think that’s his name) said something interesting in the bathroom in the Pearl; something to the effect of “the bathroom still works”, which was supposedly the exact same line that Charlie said when he was exploring the cockpit section with Jack and Kate. I speculate that this is a reference to Paulo having other reasons for going in there, just as Charlie did.
- I still think that the info the others get from the outside world is a one-way communication; they get whatever someone on the outside gives them, but they cannot make requests or have conversations, etc.
- The four toed statue is a red herring. I believe that its only purpose is to cause those who find their way onto the island (as well as us as viewers) ask some weird questions.
- The losties will (hopefully) follow that cable one way or the other (ocean or jungle) or both, and find something interesting. Of course, they could also find it tied to a big heavy rock or tree - another red herring, for those on the island as well as us as viewers.
- Ben used to monitor the Pearl; they show too many shots with him in that other monitor room that it seems obvious.
- How the heck did the others not know about Desmond’s boat? Ben seemed not to, until they said something about it and he said “I have to have that boat”, or something to that affect. This is especially interesting since the guy that was with Desmond definitely knew about it, and seemed to have hidden it in almost plain sight to anyone with unfettered access to all of the island, as we assume the others have. Something doesn’t line up.
- I still think Libby didn’t belong in that place where Hurley was. Whether she was there to spy on the numbers guy or she actually did have some sort of mental issues (hopefully somehow related to the projects/experiments), I hope we find out soon.
I’ve made it no secret that I think the whole 6/18 split season, no rerun thing sucks, and I just came across this post from Mike, who sums it up better than I could:
So…anyone else think that Lost, a show that’s slowly been declining in ratings and generally frustrating its fan base, taking a three-month break is probably not a very good idea?
This article seems to think so:
“‘Lost’ cause: ABC’s mistimed hiatus could doom faltering series”
…but I’d thought I’d throw the question out there anyway. I mean, I still like the show, but I can see that this is probably a bad idea.
Apparently the plan was to throw the fans a bone with some new episodes right out the gate, and then after the break give ‘em the rest in a no-rerun streak, since fans complained about the number of reruns last season.
So we have yet another example why you should never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever cave to fan demands, because it has ways of blowing up in your face.
Exactly. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again - people who complain about Lost reruns are just plain wrong. 
What Ben showed Sawyer could always have been an illusion, but assuming it’s real, I am now left with further questions regarding the underwater hatch.
When many of us first suspected that an underwater hatch existed, we did so on the basis of two clues: the marked shark and the cable going out into the water.
If the view that Ben showed Sawyer is our island, and IF Jack’s tank (potential “underwater hatch”) is on (or directly offshore of) the same island that Kate & Sawyer are on (which I’m still not convinced of), then there is a huge question remaining: where does that cable go?
It clearly can’t go to the island that Ben & Sawyer were standing on, because if that were the case then Sayid (and anyone else who stumbled onto the cable) would have been able to see the other island from that beach (unless it is somehow masked from view).
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