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!
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I thought the same thing about the chick (I think her name was Eloise) who took Faraday to the bomb as soon as he said she looked familiar. What if Widmore is his father too? I guess I was wrong about her being Charlotte's mother, but like you said how does she get saved if she looked fine in next weeks episode? Maybe they get a flash sending them back to before the island moved.
ReplyDeleteDesmond's storyline was pretty boring this week. He wasn't yelling and screaming and kicking ass enough.
ReplyDeleteThe chick who took Faraday is definitely Charlotte's mom. And failing that, It's faraday's mom as a young girl.
Locke's storyline is now really interesting. The other's have been aware of him since 45 years before he landed on the island. He's just jumping around in time and dropping wisdom onto people.
1 thought for you all to chew on...a large part of this season's storyline has to do with getting Locke's body back to the island. In S1E1, Jack is in the process of getting his father's body from Australia. Then we get to see Jack's father alive and hanging out on the island, getting into trouble.....I see a repeating pattern here.
Are you sayin Locke is going to get knocked up?
ReplyDeleteThat H Bomb, maybe it's in the swan station behind that wall and that's why they had to push the button every 108 minutes to keep the radiation from escaping. Miles did say that two (I think that was the #) of the soldiers died from radiation exposure, and Faraday told Eloise to bury the bomb. Just a thought.
ReplyDeleteBut where'd the bomb go when Desmond blew the Swan? (Blew the swan, sounds like something Bill would do...)
ReplyDeleteI'm guessing it blew up, which is why the "sky turned purple" and the hatch imploded. It could also explain why the hatch door said Quarantine and why they wore radiation suits.
ReplyDeleteIf a hydrogen bomb detonated when they blew the hatch it would have done a hell of a lot more than turn the sky purple.
ReplyDeleteWell, it was behind a wall that I think Sayid said was 10 feet thick (or more). When it detonated since the wall somewhat contained it, it then had nowhere else to go but down which is why it imploded. Who knows what else may have been done to contain it. Who knows what the fail safe did exactly. I mean in a show that has time travel, polar bears on a tropical island, etc. Is it really that hard to believe?
ReplyDeleteThe Swan was a Dharma instalation, and that bomb was a problem for the others...how would they get dharma to take care of an atomic bomb for them?
ReplyDeleteThat remains to be seen.
ReplyDeleteAh, lively discussion!
ReplyDeleteI think the bomb certainly wasn't detonated in the Swan when Desmond turned the key. Encased in concrete or not an H-bomb is going to destroy a lot, if not all, of the Island. But I do think it'll make a comeback in the future. Perhaps the series finale will be them blowing it and the Island up so that nobody can ever get to it again.