Since we just had a Juliet episode recently, I’m wondering when we’ll see the rest of her story.
Specifically, when does she turn from a whimpering sucker into the hardened, lying judo master we see today? It had to have happened sometime during that three years, but I’m wondering why.
My best guess is that (based on what we’ve seen now) is that she was telling the truth to Jack in season 3 - there actually was a subset within “the others” who were planning on overthrowing Ben. I believe that she was probably a member of that group, along with Goodwin and probably Ethan.
We’ll see how it plays out.
So I have a theory that at first glance, when I spit it out during the episode last week, sounded absurd. But the more I think about it the more it seems not only plausible but probable. And if it is I’ll be stoked to have made even one correct prediction, just like Jason and Dan with this sites name. But again be warned if you don’t wanna know about this weeks trailer like Dan or if you wanna be surprised next week, then you might wanna skip this, but I think you should read it. If you don’t, come back and read it after this weeks episode.
So to my theory, in the trailer at the end of last week they talk about this upcoming episode saying that there will be things such as betrayal deceit and “lies”. “Lies” being the only word I’m sure of, but right after the narrator says “lies” it changes shots to a piece of paper for 1/4 of a second that says “DONT TRUST THE CAPTAIN”. Leading me to think that they are telling us that the piece of paper is a lie. Also, in last weeks episode Locke says to Ben that he wants to know who his “guy” on the ship is. The fact that they have kept the Captain hidden for so long leads me to believe that Ben’s “guy” IS the Captain. Before I say who I think the Captain is, the reason I think who I think it is, is in the trailer for this week the narrator also says we’ll see someone we never thought we’d see again. Also last week Minkosky(?) said “looks like you guys have a friend on the ship” or something like that. So now to who I think it is… Michael!!! I think that Ben made a deal with/or manipulated Michael into working for him before he let him and Walt leave, the way that we have seen Sayid do for Ben in the flashforwards. I think Michael went and got the job as ships captain for Whitmore’s ship under the instruction of Ben. Also, Michael may or may not be one of the Oceanic Six. Which then gives new thought to the theory on who (Michael?) is in the casket and why no one showed up to the NON-viewing/memorial, other than Jack.
So what do you guys think?
We’ve all witnessed the prominence of books and other works of literature on Lost. Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland precursor Through the Looking Glass has been adopted as an episode title and name of an submerged radio station. Charley used to refer to Hurley as Captain Kurtz, a character from Joseph Conrad’s The Heart of Darkness, and more recently it has been used in reference to Locke. The crashed parachuter was carrying a copy of Joseph Heller’s Catch 22, and the list goes on. I’ve read on other Lost blogs recently that on episode 4 of this season, titled Eggtown, Adolfo Bioy Cesares’ ‘The Invention of Morel’ will be featured prominently, being read by either Locke or Sawyer (the island’s two most avid readers). The book, inspired by the author’s childhood fascination with the movie star Louise Brooks, is set on a mysterious island and tells the story of a bizarre romance filled with suspense and mystery. Many have compared it to the workds of Philip K. Dick, who is rumored to have a book featured in the same episode. Similarities have also been drawn between Morel and Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw, which is in front of the orientation tape in the episode ‘Orientation’. The book has been out of print since the 80s (at the latest) and has just recently been reissued by a small publishing house New York Review Books. I’m not sure if all these connections mean anything, but it is interesting to consider.
Wondering if anyone else has checked out the “Missing Pieces” web episodes? “Room 23″ is particularly interesting…
Responding to this recent theory reminded me of a question that always comes to my mind whenever I’m reminded of the fact that the producers had originally planned to have Jack die at the end of the very first episode.
Since they clearly had a series-spanning plot outline from the very beginning (not details, but major points), I wonder which character(s) they originally had planned to play some of the parts that Jack’s character now does.
Obviously they also evolve the show and the characters as it progresses, so much of the Jack stuff might not have been a part of the original concept at all, but he’s such a prominent figure that I can’t help but assume that some parts of his story must have been a part of that up front design, and they must (I’m assuming) have had an idea of which character(s) would fit those parts since Jack wasn’t originally supposed to be around.
I am re-watching the first season to search for clues. Noticed that Jack was not with the others on the beach when he awoke from the crash. He was not on the beach but somewhere in the forest. It’s almost as if he wasn’t with them and was somehow transported to that moment from another time and place. Also, Kate just kinda showed up, too, when Jack was trying to sew himself up from a wound in the first episode. I dunno what this means, but it has something to do with Jack saying that he needed to go back to the island in the season finale.
Also, in season one, we see a memory of Sayid’s in which there is a love interest– the girl who was in the Iraqi prison. She is the SAME GIRL in season three who called Charlie a hero when he helped her fend off a thief. I couldn’t believe it, but I’m almost positive it’s the same girl! I’m sure we’ll see more of her in season four.
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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