Their Leader Is A Sodding Old Man!

Big revelation this week! No coverage of the Oceanic 6 but my main man Desmond does some searching. Lets do this thing!

Off Island
- Desmond and Penny must have conceived their kid like on the boat the night she rescued him cause that kid looks older than 3 to me. And I totally knew he'd be named Charlie the second he was born. The duality of the name is clear - Charlie the rock god who drowned and Charles the cranky old man who wants the Island.
- So it looks like Daniel's experiments in sending people's brains through time sorta worked on the Theresa chick. She hasn't died like the Frighties that suffered the Time Sickness near the Island so there's some sort of difference between Daniel's manufactured Time Sickness and the Island Time Sickness. She just lives in a vegitative state occasionally snapping out of it to think she's 3. The real questions from this are: 1) what is her relation to Daniel that would make her willingly participate in this experiment 2) why Daniel bolted to America after it happened 3) why's Widmore keeping her alive. Is the sickness Teresa is suffering from the very sickness that Charlotte has? Is that why Daniel knows the symptoms?
- So Daniel's mother is totally the Mrs. Hawkins that Ben visited in the previous episode. Now that we know she's in Los Angeles it is confirmed.
- Does Widmore realize how important Desmond is to the Island? He seems to still look at him as the loser his daughter shacked up with.

On Island
- The big reveal this week was the Charles Widmore was at one time an Other. Totally explains his claim to the Island now. I wonder if he was an original Island inhabitant Other or if he was shipped in like Juliet. And I bet that he thought he was going to assume leadership of the Others until Ben dropped in on the scene and took it from him. My crazy theory - for some reason Widmore will have to visit the Frozen Donkey Wheel and move the Island, thus ejecting him from the Island which is why he is looking for it now and why he can't get back. Yeah, that's some quality theorizing there.
- Locke didn't shot Widmore while he was running away because "he's one of my people". Yeah that's a nice thing to say but that isn't why he couldn't shoot him. He couldn't shoot him because of the laws of time - if he killed Widmore in 1950 he wouldn't be around in 2008 to send the Frieghties to the Island. My knowledge of time travel is exceptional!
- "Their leader is a sodding old man!", ah Widmore if you only knew how awesome Locke is. Face!
- The Blonde Other chick, she said "you just couldn't stay away" to Daniel when she captured him. Does that mean she's seen him before or was she just saying it in a general sense as in "you US military guys just couldn't stay away"? And why does Daniel think she looks familiar? Could she be.....his mother?!?!?!? Crazy theory #2.
- So the Dharma Initiative evolves from the current US military presence on the Island.
- How old is Richard? Does he have 4 toes like the statue from season 2?
- Now we know why Richard has been tracking Locke since he was born, Locke told him to in 1950! Richard showed up at the hospital when Locke was a baby, then he showed up when he was a kid to test him and got all pissed off when he picked the knife over the compass, then he sent Abbadon to talk to him after his back got broken.
- Charlotte, while ending this episode on the ground bleeding out, was apparently ok in the trailer for next week's episode. Does Daniel know how to fix what's going on with her? Why didn't he do it for Theresa?
- The H Bomb - will it show up again in the present? Or was it involved in the mysterious Incident that Dr. Marvin Candle/Chang/Haliwax mentioned in the Swan Station video?

There's some starting points - now discuss!

Kimmel Looks For Answers

I Love My Shih Tzu

Ahhhh, Lost is back. Back with a furious vengeance! We've got crazy ass time travel and hot pockets sailing through the air willy nilly. My body was tense the entire 2 hour premier drinking up Lost's mysteries like sweet sweet booze. Only the mysteries didn't get me drunk nor did they leave me with a hangover the next day, only a feeling of wanting more. So maybe it was more like heroine. Anyways, lets get into the plot!

For simplicity's sake lets break this up between the Off Island and On Island Folks.

On Island
- Locke: why'd he get separated from the Others when the time jump occured? He gets to witness the crash of Yemi's plane, is this why he could later have a vision about it to find it originally (originally being a relative term since technically he already saw it when he found it...time travel is fun!). Also - Locke is back to being a bad ass with a knife saving Sawyer and Juliet from the mysterious Dharma troops?

- Richard: when he met up with Locke he had been sent there by another version of Locke. My guess is time travelin' John shows up in Richard's past to tell him about the gun shot he was going to get in the future so Richard would know where to find him to help him. Also, Richard said that while John moved the Others didn't go anywhere. Are the original inhabitants of the Island immune to the time skips? Note that Richard gave Locke a compass, one of the original items Richard showed young Locke last season when testing him for their "special school". If I recall correctly it was the item that Locke didn't pick, instead he picked the knife which then pissed off Richard. And he told Locke that he had to die to save the Island...is future Locke really dead or is he in a coma...similar to the deathlike coma everyone's favorite extra's Paulo and Nikki went into when bitten by a spider...

- Faraday: he's going to be very important this season I believe what with his knowledge of time travel and his Dharma journal. He knows Charlotte is starting to come down with the same disconnect time travel sickness that Desmond and Minkowski came down with, where is she going to find her constant? Perhaps on the Island as that, if we remember from last season, she is apparently from there. The whole interaction between him and Hatch Desmond is super time travel technical. Since Desmond met Daniel in the past, back when he was jumping around time and met Daniel in Oxford, he can now met Daniel again at the Hatch. And now just like in The Constant Daniel's conscious caught up with him after sending Desmond to meet him at Oxford (when he noticed that he had written "Desmond Hume is my constant") Desmond's conscious caught up with him off Island remembering that Daniel had told him to go find his mother. Who's Daniel's mother? Top candidate - old lady Hawkins. The chick Ben talks to at the end of the episode. Who you may also remember is the lady that told Desmond not to buy the ring for Penny and was in a picture with the monk who fired Desmond from being a monk. She certainly shares Daniel's passion for time, but she has an English accent whereas his is all nervous American. Also is this time traveling the reason that last season when we first met Daniel he was crying for a reason he couldn't understand when he saw the news coverage of 815 being found? AND! What was he doing in the past at the construction of the Orchid station? I think he's there to fix the time jumping problem and we'll find out in a later episode.

-Dr. Chang aka Dr. Robert Halowax ake Dr. Marvin Candle: What are the "rules" he talks about down in the Orchid? Are they the same rules Ben and Widmore have to follow or are those more of a gentleman's arrangement whereas Chang's are physical laws? And we still don't know how he loses his arm, I thought for sure he'd lose it in some accident down there. And the worker being taken out - exhibiting the same nose bleed symptoms of the time sickeness.

- Miles: he can talk to the dead. Did he use that to find the dead boar?

- Mysterious attackers: Are the the Others from the past who hated Dharma enough to kill them all? I think so, flaming arrows are totally their style. So the arrows lead them into the jungle where they get stopped by some Dharma guys. I think they're in the time of around when Ben initially got to the Island judging by the state of the Dharma/Others war.

- Frogurt: alas poor Frogurt, I mean Neal, we knew you...well, not so well.

Off Island
- Sayid: is he with Ben or against him now? Last time we saw him he was on Ben's side as a personal assassin and now he's telling Hurley to do the opposite of whatever Ben says? Plus once he finally wakes up from his drug coma he panics to find out that Ben knows where Hurley is. Had he gone rogue and picked up Hurley to keep him from Ben?

- Kate: who's behind the lawyers sent to Kate? Widmore or Ben? I think its a plot by Ben to draw her out, get her freaked out, and thus make her more open to returning to the Island. Or maybe it was Sun? She did seem to arrive in LA a little too conveniently.

- Sun: does she really want to kill Ben or is she playing Widmore to find the Island again? One thing is for sure I totally don't believe her when she said she didn't blame Kate for Jin's death.

- Ben: was the lady in the butcher shop an off Island Other or just one of his lackies with no Island background? And who were the people she mentioned having checked in? Where is he in regards to his mission to kill Penny? Is that why Sayid stopped working for him? Ben told him to kill Penny? Why does he only have 70 hours to get everyone back to the Island? And what is the horrible outcome if he doesn't? "God help us all" sounds pretty dire Mrs. Hawkins. What was in the mysterious box he pulled out of the air vent in the hotel?

- Frank: where is he now, why did he seem a bit "off" back on the boat, and what was that beer he was drinking because I want some!


Ok, there goes my first brain download. Discuss!