I Reiterate - My F**king Tibia!!!!!!!!

Lost is awesome - I know it, you know it, the whole damn world knows it. Onward to discussion!

- Casesar is certainly a Widmore plant. He took a bunch of maps of the Island plus a sawed off shotgun and then hid that fact (rather easily, he must be a professional) from Ilana. In the future I’m betting we’ll see him lobbying Locke to kill Ben. If he doesn’t try it himself.
- Since Widmore has a camera set up in the middle of Tunisia does that mean he really was spit out by the Island by turning the Wheel? On one hand I think no because there didn’t seem to be any camera there when Ben got spat out but on the other hand I think that Ben knowing that Widmore knew where he’d get spit out would explain why he went ballistic on those two dudes on horseback when he turned the Wheel.
- Even though Widmore claims he was the leader of the Others I’m still convinced he wasn’t. No doubt he thought he should be the leader of the Others but I don’t think Jacob or Richard were having any of that. And if he really was exiled from the Island forcibly then I’m guessing it was cause he tried a little Others coup.
- How did Widmore know that Ben had already tried to kill Locke once back in season 4 when he shot him in the back? He wasn’t on the Island when it happened. None of his Frieghter people saw it. Was he merely guessing or perhaps Sun leaked some information to him post getting off the Island.
- So Sayid’s falling out with Ben was because of the 2 years of working for Ben that he thought was protecting the people on the Island went afoul. Still not a concrete answer, but Lost never gives those does it?
- Abaddon knew that Walt was Michael’s son, showing more proof that Widmore knows more about the Losties than originally thought. He’s probably got big folders full of information just like Ben had on all the other Losties.
- I wonder if Helen’s death was just staged by Widmore to keep Locke on track. It wouldn’t be the first death staged by him, the fake Oceanic 815 at the bottom of the sea ring any bells? And the fact that Abaddon “gets people where they need to be” for Widmore. Widmore needed Locke to get back to the Island and he might be less inclined to do so if the love of his life was still alive.
- I like that Jack still was dismissing everything as coincidence when in the previous episode he finally acknowledges that perhaps fate is driving them. I wonder if the night that Locke visited him was the same night that he saw Christian in the hospital. I don’t remember if he had a beard or not at that point…
- So the big shocker of the night: Locke doesn’t commit suicide, Ben kills him! I think Ben originally came to Locke looking for information, not to kill him. But as soon as he heard about Eloise Hawking it was all over for Locke. Did Ben not know about her until that night? Did he figure he’d kill Locke off Island since apparently on Island Locke can’t be killed (see Exhibit A - Ben shooting Locke in back). He’s in for an interesting wakeup call when he finds out that yes he’s back on the Island but Locke is alive, and hopefully, finally, ready to put Ben in his place. Maybe it’s Lent getting to me but I also had this thought: given Ben’s speech about Thomas the Apostle last week could he have gone to kill Locke so that he could get to the Island with a “clean” soul? Catholics believe that suicide is a mortal sin….so if he killed himself he wouldn’t have been able to be resurrected on the Island! Locke is Jesus!
- Brief cameo appearance by Taller Walt. He’s still seeing the future! When will they bite the bullet and bring him back full time? I refuse to believe that we’re done with him, not by a long shot!
- For those not following: while Jack, Hurley, and Kate landed on the Island the rest of the plane (and apparently Sun, Ben, Locke, and Frank) landed on the Hydra Island off the coast of the Island. When Locke was told that “the pilot and some woman” left in an outrigger that was Frank and Sun. Duh! That conveniently gets an outrigger and at least one bottle of Air Ajirha water over to the Island for Sawyer and Company to find while they’re flashing back and forth through time. It doesn’t mean that Frank and Sun are the people in the outrigger who eventually follow Sawyer and Company and start shooting at them. I’m pretty sure once they get to the Island they go in search of Jin.
- Obvious question: how come Jack, Hurley, and Kate get the magic time teleport safely to the Island while Sun, Locke, Ben, and Frank have to do the hard landing? And are the two groups even in the same time as each other? I’m betting no. I think those on Hydra are in present time and those on Island are in the 70s. I have no basis for this other than gut feeling and that it’d be too easy of a reunion for Sun and Jin if they just walked into each other in the jungle.
- Where the hell is Sayid?! Island or Hydra!?

I Served No Purpose In This Episode

First of all, make sure you take a look at the picture in the post below this one. If you don’t smile upon seeing that then you are dead inside. Secondly – Lost continues to be the awesomest show on TV. Read on to find out why:

Pretty much everything took place off island this week (or above island towards the end) so no break down of On/Off Island.

The explanation of how they get back to the Island was sort of weak, but I really can’t think of a better method of getting to the Island so I guess I can’t complain. Basically the Lamp Post was created for the specific purpose of finding the Island and with it they can approximately determine the time and place of the Island. The trick is just getting to that point at the right time. Of course we have to ask who the hell was this guy that Mrs. Hawking said figured out all the math on finding the Island? Is it Velenzetti? He’s been referenced before. Also for our Oceanic 6 the more like their original trip to the Island the better. Thus we have:

o Hurley with a guitar that surely must have belonged to one Charlie Pace, but how’d he know to get to the plane? He was in jail when all the Lamp Post business went down. Was it Ben? No! I think it was the ghost of Charlie who told him he had to go.

o Jack outfitting Locke with some Christian Sheppard Chucks

o Sayid coming in handcuffs with a Federal Agent a’la Kate. The same Fed might I add that got to him way back in season 1 to infiltrate that terrorist circle with the promise that she’d tell him where Nadia was living. Sayid, same as Hurley, how’d he know to get on that plane?

o Here’s a stretch theory, Kate jumped Jack’s bones the night before because she wanted to get pregnant to fulfill the Claire role.

So before we jump to the airport lets cover Ben’s mysterious ass kicking. I think it’s pretty safe to assume his unfinished business was the whole “killing Penny” thing. Where does he make his bloody phone call to Jack from? A marina. Who just recently arrived in LA via a boat? Desmond and Penny. But did Ben succeed in killing Penny or did he get his ass handed to him by Desmond? I’m thinking that he did kill her which will give Desmond reason to go back to the Island.

Oh one more thing before the airport – what’d Kate do with Aaron? Did she smother him in his sleep? That’d certainly make Kate one cold ass bitch. But no, I think she left him in the hands of Sawyer’s ex-lover and mother of his daughter Clementine.

Now the airport. The gang’s all here. Plus we have mysterious guy who talks to Jack at the counter to offer him his condolences. This is Lost so he’s no random airline loving patron, he’s there for a reason. Most likely in the employ of one Charles Widmore and tasked with finding the Island. Once on the plane we get to see our good friend Frank Lepedus looking much more Lawnmower Man like without the beard. I wonder what he was thinking once he got back to the cockpit knowing that some sort of crazy shit was going to happen to his plane. I bet he started drinking those little airline bottles of booze like he had some weird disease that made his wang shrink and the booze was the only medicine that could stop it.

So the inevitable happens; shit goes down on the airplane, the time travely flash happens and our heroes are back on the Island. We know the whereabouts of Jack, Kate, and Hurley but Sayid, Sun, Ben, Lepedus, Federal Agent, and Widmore Plant Guy are MIA. Oh and John Locke’s body (which we know from next week’s previews comes back to life). What happened to the plane? Did it crash or did they get peacefully transported to the Island via the flash since they’ve been there before?

At the very end of the episode they get their bearings and start moving out only to run into Dharma Jin! We’re in the 70s baby! We know that Jin and Daniel have infiltrated Dharma by this time but no word about Sawyer, Juliet, and Miles. I’m thinking they split into 2 groups – one for Dharma and one for The Others. Does Locke come back to life because they’re now in a time before he died? Time travel is confusin’!

And what about the mysterious Air Ajirha water bottle in the outrigger of 2 episodes ago? Is that from as of not seen survivors of the crash? Is that from our heroes who for some reason in the future want to blast Sawyer and crew? Or maybe its Widmore Plant Guy and some more Widmore Cronies?
Discuss!

Intermission

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My F#%king Tibia!!!!

Ah Lost, you never disappoint. Another fantastic episode in an overall fantastic season. Why can't all TV be this awesome?

Off Island
- Not too much going on off island except Ben being his awesome self and the Oceanic 6 being whiny bitches. It was interesting to see the look on Ben's face when Desmond told him he was at the church to see Faraday's mother. It was the kind of look that said "oh snap, I didn't know she was Daniel's mother", which would be big for Ben because he prides himself on knowing everything.
- Locke did some nice work as well getting around his promise to Jin not to bring Sun back to the island. Instead he comes to Ben, gives him Jin's wedding ring, and lets Ben do what he does best - manipulate.
- For like the 5 week in a row we see that Sayid has some serious angst against Ben. What could it be?!
- Ben's been protecting the Oceanic 6 from the efforts of Widmore, how nice. Surely not because he cared about them, more because they're his ticket back to the Island. Plus he hates Widmore, bonus!
- Why was Mrs. Hawking seemingly cool with Ben when he showed up with just four people instead of all of them when a couple episodes ago she was all about all of them going back.
- Looks like Desmond could be stuck going back to the Island as well...

On Island
- So much good stuff going on here. First of all we get to see the black smoke again. And second of all it confirms all the stuff Danielle tells Sayid when he first meets her. "Nadine was first to die", check. "Montrau lost an arm", check. And we get to see the mysterious Temple for the first time. The Temple, which you might remember, Ben told Danielle to take Alex and where the Others were hiding out.
- After Jin's mini-flash we get to see Danielle kill Robert just like she told Sayid. The curious thing is that Robert seemed to know a whole lot about the black smoke by this point. Its a security system for the Temple he says. Is he really crazy with the sickness or was it Danielle who had gone insane? He did seem to pull his trigger pretty easily given that he was trying to shoot his lover and mother of his unborn child. Man I hope they revisit this.
- I used to think Christian was just a shape that Jacob was taking to communicate with people and the actual Christian was long dead but this week made me change my mind. When he tells Locke "say hi to my son" that's straight Christian Sheppard, not something Jacob would say.
- Did Ben move the Wheel knowing that John was supposed to do it? Was he doing it in an attempt to get back into Jacob's good graces or is he actually playing his own game. One outside of what destiny/Jacob has planned for the Island. I wouldn't put it past him. Ben isn't the kind of guy to serve anyone, even some weird Island ghost spirit.
- So now that Locke has righted the Wheel and, if his theory was correct, stopped the time flashes then the Losties are stuck in some past time not present. I wonder when the well Locke went down was originally dug since after the flash there was nothing but earth above him.
- Charlotte, as she got closer and closer to death, started to exhibit symptoms very similar to that Theresa girl that Faraday left in Oxford after an experiment gone bad.
- For those of you who can't follow time travel and are asking "why would Charlotte remember Daniel warning her not to come back to the Island if he doesn't remember it?". That is because Daniel hasn't travelled back into the past to warn her yet, thus he doesn't remember. But he will travel back because we saw him at the Orchid's original construction. His love for Charlotte will cause him to try and warn her to not come back but he should know the laws of time travel won't allow that. If he warns her and she doesn't come back than he won't have to warn her not to come back because she won't be dying on the Island. It'd be a paradox. Also, guess I was wrong about Daniel being Charlotte's father. Oh well. Win some, lose some.
- I'm guessing the Losties are now trapped in the 70s, back when Dharma was still in power and just before they started digging the Orchid station. Does that mean that the Oceanic 6, when they return to the Island, will come into the 70s as well?

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Several interesting turns of events this week but all around it was more of a set up episode. Next week should really blow our brain bananas!

Off Island
- Ben once again shows why he's the greatest manipulator in the history of manipulation. Not only does he hire a lawyer to draw out Kate but he gets a guy to attack Sayid in the hospital and plants Kate's address in his pocket to ensure that Jack will go get her. Ben is freaking awesome.
- Man I really want to know what the falling out is between Ben and Sayid! Sayid is totally against Ben getting to Hurley. Why!??!
- Everything is all set up for the Oceanic 6 to be together next week. Will Ben be able to convince Sun not to pop a cap in his ass? I'm guessing hell yes.

On Island
- Here's where the real crazy shit went down! The Losties time travel back to the first season. Locke sees the light from the Hatch that gave him hope and Sawyer gets to see his beloved Kate again.
- The big question, for me, from this episode is who the people on the outriggers are. Has a mysterious third faction come onto the scene? What's up with the Ajira Airways water bottle? Given the destroyed camp and missing Zodiac I propose that the Losties have now flashed forward in time past the initial Island move from season 4.
- And look who isn't dead, Jin! That gives Ben a huge playing card with his dealings with Sun. But how does Ben know that Jin is alive? A skillful bluff that just happens to be true or something more interesting? Another observation - Jin is jumping in time in different directions that the rest of the Losties. He went backwards to when Danielle crashed whereas the Losties jumped forward post-Island Move. That is assuming the scenes they showed were in order.
- And look who Jin is hanging out with - Danielle and her Frenchie crew. Now we know why they could so easily kill her off last season without telling us her whole story, we're going to get to see it go down from the beginning! How does the rest of her crew really die? What is the "sickness"? Although, I wonder why she didn't recognize Jin the in the present if she met him in the past...
- Time Travel Sickness starts to claim another two people: Juliet and Miles. Daniel hypothesizes that time on Island causes the Sickness. Juliet has been there for a while but what about Charlotte and Miles? Charlotte we learned last season is apparently from the island but Miles......could he be Dr. Chang's baby we saw in the season opener?!
- Speaking of parentage...could it be that the reason Daniel loves Charlotte is because....wait for it...he is her father?! We know he's jumped into the past from the opener flashback involving the construction of the Orchid and his doting seems more fatherly than I wanna bang ya.

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