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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you are incorrect- JIN is jumping in the same order.
ReplyDeleteRemember- they get on the boats, are getting shot at, time change, then are caught in a storm. The go to the shore, and find wreckage from a french something or other.
Then we are shown the french people on the raft, in the same storm, and they find Jin.
Jin is jumping with the rest of them, and only a matter of time before they are all together again
oh yeah... and JIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteAgree 100% about Miles being Dr. Chang/Candle/Haliwax's baby from the opener.
ReplyDeleteMy big question is this: does the jumping/direction moved through time correspond to proximity to some epicenter on the island? Did Jin move differently though time because he was further away out in the water?
ACK! I still think Jin is moving in the same order as the rest!
ReplyDeleteYeah, you're right. They did see the wreckage of Danielle's boat after they got to shore. They are on the same time. Man is Jin going to be confused as fuck. First he doesn't speak French, his English isn't that great, and he's like 30 years in the past and he doesn't know it.
ReplyDeleteWe did see Locke move differently than everyone else earlier in the season though, no?
ReplyDeleteJin is moving with the rest. and there is a simple explanation for how Ben knows about jin.
ReplyDeleteWe know that Ben meets the frenchies at some point when he takes Alex from Danielle, it stands to reason that Jin may have been there, or that Danielle talks about him....and Ben remembers that event from when he was much younger...thus...he knows Jin is alive.
But how can he prove it?
I'm with you on Ben having met/seen Jin in the past, seems like the most logical explanation.
ReplyDeleteAgree with the earlier assertion though, why would Ben remember Jin, but Danielle wouldn't. Would she have had any agenda to pretend she didn't recognize him. Was she so batshit at that point that it didn't register?
After 16 years she just thought that everyone was her enemy. Part I don't get is they crashed on the Black Rock right? Why were they in a air boat and where is that ship?
ReplyDeletemy mistake.... not the Black Rock....
ReplyDeleteHere's another:
ReplyDeleteIf Danielle shows up on the island already preggers, and we know that Ben is the father...
What if Jin is the conduit through which Ben gets Alex from Danielle. That'd be wild!
ReplyDeleteWe do know that in order to give birth on the island, you must have conceived off island. It wouldn't make sense that Ben is the father, because he would have been grade school young when they arrived.
ReplyDeleteMust have been one of the other Frenchies...
"Robert" apparently:
ReplyDeletehttp://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Robert