Looking Glass Station // Underwater Hatch

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. …

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. ……. 

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.

 

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.   

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.”  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.”  Jack scornfully interrupts, “No, I am sick of lying.”  Kate becomes resistive and begins to create distance between them.  In a serious tone, Jack states, “We made a mistake.”  Between them, a long silence with cold stares.  Kate becomes even more resistive and firmfully states, “I have to go.”  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.”  Kate looks up at Jack and opens her eyes and defiantly states, “Yes, we were.”  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.”  Kate pauses again and looks at Jack, then enters her and drives away.  “We have to go back!”

The “he” is their baby boy!