The Lighthouse

If I had to describe this episode in one word it would be…slow. The good thing is that in slow episodes they’re usually moving pieces into position to blow our minds the following week so prepare for a mind blowing of epic proportions in March!

Alternaverse – Pappa Jack
Given the revelation that Jack has a son in the flashside ways I’ve decided to stop calling it Non-Crash Time. The fact that they didn’t crash is almost insignificant in this alternaverse. This alternaverse is showing what would have happened if Jacob hadn’t drawn them to the Island. I think.

Anyways – so the two main points in this flashback:

1. Jack has a son and is divorced. Who’s the kid’s mother? If you try not to over think it the obvious choices is his ex-wife Sarah whose spine he fixed back in season 1 Maybe an Other? Perhaps Juliet? I just hope it isn’t somebody we haven’t met before.

2. Jack has an appendicitis scar and he can’t remember where he got it. His mom says it was from 7th grade but he doesn’t seem to recall that. Perhaps because the scar is from when Juliet took out his appendix on the Island? Jack, of all the people we’ve seen in the Alternaverse, is the only one who seems to be noticing that things “aren’t right”. First it was the scratch on his neck in the airplane and now it’s a scar he can’t remember getting. As we found out at the end of this episode Jack is important to Jacob’s plans. Perhaps that’s why he’s got this feeling that something isn’t right?

3. Bonus point – Dogen shows up at Daniel’s recital. Yet another Other who shows up in the Alternaverse playing a seemingly mundane role in the non-Island world.

One thing I’m noticing with the Alternaverse is that all our Losties seem to be acknowledging faults that they’ve fought against so much on the Island. Locke realizes his limitations as a paraplegic and gives up his “don’t tell me what I can do” attitude. Jack now no longer seeks the approval of his father and understands that you can’t make your kid afraid of failure. Kate…well she doesn’t seem to have learned anything yet. Maybe she’ll learn how to dance or play the accordion…

The Island – Claire is Tom Cruise Crazy
Claire certainly is channeling Danielle Rousseau’s crazy at full tilt. The similarities make me wonder if Danielle was infected/recruited by Black Shirt. Similar “Others have my baby” mentality too. Although we know the Others did in fact have Danielle’s baby… And the scar on her shoulder? Looks like she got tested for infection at the Temple just like Sayid.

Justin survives one more episode than Mac and then takes an axe to the chest. Jin, fearing batshit crazy Claire, says the Others do in fact have her baby and he can take her to them. Instead of asking about her baby Claire should have asked Jin how he learned English! Last time they saw each other he was only rocking the Korean. Oh yeah, she says she’d also kill Kate if she did in fact raise Aaron. Obviously she’s not remembering the whole leaving Aaron in a tree while she went off god knows where with Christian.

So what’s Claire been up to these last 3 years besides being crazy? Having Island Arts & Crafts Day ever Wednesday making crazy ass babies out of animal bones, hanging out with her dad, Christian Sheppard, and her BFF Evil Locke. Does the fact that she spent time with both of them give credence to my theory that Christian was in fact resurrected by Black Shirt like Sayid? Yes I say because I love being right! One thing about the arrival of Evil Locke at the end – wasn’t he with Sawyer in a cave last episode? Did he black smoke it over real fast or is Sawyer with him?

The Island – Jack Hates Mirrors
Oh poor Hurley. Always getting mixed up in things you don’t understand. Once again Jacob’s ghost shows up and gives him a task. This time it’s take Jack to the Lighthouse, set it to 108 degrees (sum of the numbers), and let it burn. Burn mother f#5ker, burn. Hurley, knowing how much Jack hates doing things he doesn’t understand, tries to go alone but Dogen stops him. Here Jacob tells Hurley to say he’s a Candidate and Dogen lets him go. If my Japanese is correct he says “You’re lucky I have to protect you otherwise I’d cut off your head”. And by Japanese I mean the internet. We knew Locke was special to the Others when he was alive but now it looks like anyone remaining on Jacob’s list of Candidates gets special privileges with the Others. Of course leaving the Temple sans Jack is a big Jacob no-no so Hurley has to lie and get him to come by evoking memories of his dead father and promising he’ll see Jacob.

Outside of the Temple they run into worthless Kate worthlessly filling up her worthless water bottle before she goes on a worthless hunt for Claire. After that they hit up the old Caves and reminisce about the good times back when they only had boar and fruit to eat and Shannon was always complaining about her asthma. They talk about the skeletons and Hurley postulates that maybe they could be one of them who got sent back to dinosaur times. Rose and Bernard maybe? We also find out that Jack came to the Island hoping to “be fixed”. He finally started believing John Locke’s faith in the Island only to go through all the time travel business and now he’s a pissed off man of science again. Finally they reach their destination: the Lighthouse! A structure whose very existence was covered up with a little dues ex machina from Hurley, “guess we never looked for it”.

In the Lighthouse things start to get interesting. We’ve got this big dial thing with 360 names on it, one for each degree. Hurley has to get it to 108 to bring whoever Jacob wants to come to the Island but every degree apparently lets Jacob view that person’s life. First we see the fancy Shinto temple where Jin and Sun got married, then we see the church where Sawyer’s parent’s funeral was held, and then Jack catches a glimpse of his old house. Moving the dial back to 23 gets the house clearly in view at which point Jack does the wise thing – he freaks the f#%k out, demands to see Jacob, and then beats the ever loving sh!t out of the mirrors. Oh Jack. Why couldn’t you have controlled your temper?

Much like the cave wall I had to go to the internet for some screen captures of the wheel and all the names on it. There was some duplication with the cave but there were others there too, including one Kate Austen at 51. Here are the notables:

Danielle Rousseau crossed out at number 20.
Kate Austen at number 51. Austen is not crossed out!
Juliet Burke crossed out at number 58.
Daniel Faraday crossed out at number 101.
Charlotte (? Or her mom?) Lewis crossed out at number 104, which is different from The Substitute where she has number 140.
Shannon Rutherford crossed out at number 32, which is different from The Substitute where she has number 31.
Wallace crossed out at number 108 – The person Jacob wanted Hurley to set the dial to.
Tom Friendly crossed out at number 109.
Ben Linus crossed out at number 117.
Michael Dawson crossed out at number 124.
Claire Littleton crossed out at number 313.
Stuart Radzinsky crossed out at 106.

So Kate is still considered for Candidacy? And an interesting find with Charlotte and Shannon being different numbers from the Cave. Production error or perhaps somebody was copying the numbers in the Cave from what they saw at the Lighthouse? As if Black Shirt was keeping track in the Cave of what Jacob was doing in the Lighthouse…

After Jack goes ballistic Jacob shows back up and reveals that it was all just a ploy to get Jack on the path he needs to go. Somehow by showing him that Jacob has been watching him for a long time he’ll eventually make the right decision (perhaps the decision that makes all this alternaverse stuff happen??). Also there is bad bad thing on the way to the Temple and he needed to get Jack and Hurley away from there. The bad thing would be Claire and Evil Locke I surmise.

Does Jacob intend to actually bring somebody to the Island to help or was it part of his plan to get Jack to freak out? 108’s name is Wallace. Think of the only famous Wallace you know. You were thinking of William Wallace weren’t you? Thanks Braveheart. Anyway you know what nationality William Wallace was? He was a Scot. You know who else is a Scot? Desmond. He’s coming back. In a big way. Brutha.

The Substitute

Has there ever been a Locke centric episode that disappointed? I think not! We got a lot deeper into the mythology of the Island in this one and we might just be getting a clearer picture of the whole Jacob/Black Shirt thing. Plus I had like a thousand screen captures of those cave walls to look through meticulously for familiar names. Some of which might surprise you!

Non Crash Time – Locke Is Still A Sad Sack But At Least His Has Peggy Bundy
Yup things are looking pretty sad for John Locke at this beginning of this one. His wheelchair lift is broken, he’s laying on his yard, and the sprinklers turn on. Poor poor John Locke. But what is this? Helen comes out of the house and helps him?! They’re back together? Did they ever separate? Why does she offer a shotgun wedding with her parents and his dad? I’m beginning to think things are not as they seem in this alternaverse.

I would seriously doubt Locke would want to invite his dad to his wedding. I doubt even more that Helen would want him to since he was the reason she dumped Locke in the first place. So I’m assuming the whole kidney stealing pushing his son out of a window breaking his spine and leaving him unable to walk thing didn’t happen in this timeline. If it did people in this timeline are ridiculously forgiving!

In addition to the “my life is slightly better” version of Locke we also get some heavy flight 815 cross over action going on. First he meets Hurley which leads to him meeting Rose and finally meeting Benjamin Linus. Another Other off Island (Ethan being the other, who will be next? I’m betting the big guy, Tom), teaching European history, and being anal about coffee. Those poor students. I’m not entirely sure I like this version of Locke though. Without his faith Locke is…not Locke. I’m still not giving up on the Locke to Jack leg connection for a TD. I think that’s what will restore Locke’s faith and make him the Locke we all know from the past 5 seasons. Anyone see the parallels between Jack fixing Sarah so she could dance on her wedding day and Jack possibly fixing Locke so he can walk down the aisle on his wedding day????

I’m beginning to think that the point of all these non-crash time shifts are to show us what life would have been like for everyone if Jacob hadn’t intervened and began drawing them to the Island. I wouldn’t be surprised if we find out in the finale that this time shifts are actually the post script to the show. Like Island Time will end such that everyone restarts without Jacob but instead of needing a credit sequence like the end of Animal House telling us what everyone did after their time on the Island we’ll already know because we’ll have had these time shifts that show us. One thing is for sure – the Non Crash Time is not occurring back in 2004 when the original crash happened. I’m thinking it is happening sometime after.

Island Time – Ben Is A Great Eulogizer
Ilyena, Ben, Frank, and Sun are headed to the Temple. The safest place on the Island according to Ilyena. First they have some unfinished business with Locke’s body. They bury it at the old beach graveyard which houses old favorites like Libby, Ecko, Anna Lucia, Boone, and Shanon. After a fantastic eulogy from Ben (“I am sorry I murdered him”, classic!) they head off for the Temple.

Not much happening with these guys excep Ilyena saying that Evil Locke is now recruiting and that his was stuck in the Locke body from now on. That is an interesting notion. Why is he stuck now and now all the other times he’s taken other forms? Does it have something to do with Locke’s body?

Island Time – Sawyer and the Cave of Mystery
Now that was kind of a cool intro thing where we saw through the eyes of Black Shirt as he black smoked around the Island. Then he came to rest where he had Richard tied up in a tree. They obviously have some history together and Black Shirt totally scares the piss out of Richard. It is unsettling to see the normal cool and calm Richard in such a freakout mode. Evil Locke offers Richard the chance to join him but Richard says heck no. No big deal to Evil Locke, he’s off to get Sawyer instead. Not before he, but not Richard, sees a creepy blonde kid in the jungle bleeding from his hands. WTF?

Sawyer, being in a delicate emotional state in addition to being shit canned, agrees to follow Evil Locke for the promise of the answer to the “why am I here” question. During their hike Evil Locke once again sees the creepy blonde kid. Unlike last time Sawyer sees the kid too. Double WTF. Locke bolts off chasing him. When he catches up to the kid the kid reminds him that he “can’t kill him”. At first I thought this kid was Jacob reborn. Then after that I thought it was some weird Island ref reminding Evil Locke that he can’t kill Jacob but some co-workers this morning mention that him could in fact be Sawyer not Jacob. As that I like that theory infinitely better than mine I shall take it as my own (credits to Allison and Matt). So the little kid is a Lil’ Jacob and Evil Locke is planning to kill Sawyer. Second hand somehow I’d imagine since there are rules that apply to him and killing people. Not that he can’t kill at all, he certainly has killed as black smoke (Mr. Eko, the pilot, countless mercenaries from the freighter, Brahm and his crew earlier this season).

While Evil Locke was playing hide and seek with Lil’ Jacob Richard took the time to hop out of the jungle and save Sawyer by taking him to the Temple. Only problem is Sawyer doesn’t want to go back. Richard senses Evil Locke coming back and bolts. Both Evil Locke and Sawyer lie to each other about talking to nobody and the journey continues. Sawyer quotes a little Of Mice and Men for a second but doesn’t pull the trigger on Evil Locke. Once again appeased with promises of answers. Sort of like all of us Lost viewers back during the first part of season 3. Evil Locke does mention that that book was well after his time meaning that he is very old indeed.
After a nice little climb down a rickety ladder on a sheer cliff Evil Locke and Sawyer reach the Secret Cave of Names. All of the names on the walls represent people Evil Locke says were candidates to replace Jacob as “protector of the island”. That could be the end game to all of this – getting replacements for Jacob and Black Shirt.

A lot of names were crossed off and if you check the screen captures you can see the following recognizable names: Littleton (Claire), Lewis (Charlotte), O’Toole and Lacombe (French scientists with Danielle), Jones, Mattingly, and Cunningham (all US military from the 50s), Goodspeed (Horace or Ethan?) Burke (Juliet), Pace (Charlie), Faraday (Daniel) and Straume (Miles, why is he crossed of it he’s not dead!?).

Those not crossed off have The Numbers (4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42) attached to them:
4 – Locke (who is then crossed off)
8 – Reyes (Hurley)
15 – Ford (Sawyer)
16 – Jarrah (Sayid)
23 – Sheppard (Jack)
42 – Kwon (Sun or Jin)

All of which Jacob interacted with in last year’s finale. Everyone’s there except Kate Austen and she isn’t even on the wall as crossed off. What does it mean for her? Given some of those names Jacob has been pulling people to the Island for some time now.

Evil Locke gives Sawyer 3 options: he can wait and see how it plays out, he can become Island Protector, or he can come with him and get the fudge out of dodge. The key point to note is that Evil Locke needs somebody to come with him to get off the Island. He can’t, unlike Jacob apparently given the interactions off Island he had last year, leave the Island on his own. Sawyer says he wants to get the hell off. This is what I think though - he’s workin’ a long con. Yes that’s right I’m throwing that out here right now: even though Sawyer is depressed, drunk, and an emotional wreck I still think he’s working on figuring out what Evil Locke’s deal is and how he can screw him over and save everyone. He’s looking for revenge for Juliet now and he’s not going to stop until the Island itself pays.

One final note regarding Black Shirt/Evil Locke. They certainly are trying to give his side of the story and make him seem like the good guy. By him making Jacob the enemy by implying that everyone is on the Island because of him he’s making him the bad guy. It sounds like just the sort of thing the devil would do which is why I’m not on the Jacob is Evil Boat.

One final final note that just popped in my head – those two skeletons they found in the cave way back in season 1 that had a white and black rock with them? Former Island Protectors!

Let that marinate inside your brain banana for a while.

What Kate Does

Is it just me or are Kate centric episodes almost always boring as hell? All she ever does is go after people who explicitly tell her not to go after them. At the close of this one I thought it was a rather dull episode but after I had some time to think about it I realized that there were some pretty serious implications from what we learned turning a relatively mundane episode to a fairly interesting one. Want to know more? Read on!


Non-Crash Time – Kate Does A Bunch of Boring Shit
When we last left Kate he was hijacking a cab with a pregnant Claire in it. For some reason she’s serious about keeping the preggo as a hostage but not so much for the fat cabbie. He doesn’t so much run away as he waddles hypnotically to freedom. That leaves us with Kate and Claire until Kate tosses Claire out and refuses to give her her luggage. What a bitch!

Jump to Kate pulling into a random auto shop where she meets a friendly mechanic who cuts off her handcuffs no questions asked. Now are all auto mechanics so anti-law that they’ll practically trip over their own feet to help a wanted fugitive or is Kate’s gun able to shoot magic friendliness bullets that rather than terribly wound her target instead convert them into Kate’s best buddy for life? Kate has a change of heart when she tries to get some new clothes from Claire’s bag - it’s full of baby stuff. Realizing she can’t fit into any of those maternity moo-moo’s Claire brought from the outback Kate decides to give the stuff back. Proving she can track people in a city just as well as she can in the jungle Kate finds Claire on the side of the road waiting for the bus. Showing that she’ll be like the best mother ever Claire willingly accepts a ride from a wanted fugitive who a little over an hour ago stole her luggage and left her in the middle of a LA ghetto.

So Kate takes Claire to the soon to be adoptive parents of her baby only to find that the woman’s husband has left her and she totally doesn’t want the kid anymore. Was she so devastated that she couldn’t even, you know, call the pregnant lady whose baby you were going to take BEFORE she boards a plane from Australia? All the crying ladies around makes Aaron want to bail on this pity party and he pulls the ejection seat cord and next think you know Claire is about have her baby with the help of her new best friend Kate. That magic gun sure works wonders Kate!

Back in a hospital you’d assume they’d run into Jack cause that’s just how LOST works but he’s a spinal surgeon not Cliff Huxtable so Claire’s doctor turns out to be none other than….Ethan Goodspeed. Yes Horace’s adopted son is off Island and working as an OBGYN; similar to what he was doing on Island. Is he still an Other? Do the Others even exist in this alternate timeline since their Island is underwater? One thing we do know is that baby Ethan survived whatever caused the Island to sink under the ocean. He sticks Claire with a couple needles and Aaron decides the womb isn’t that bad of a place after all. As Claire sits recovering from her near labor she covers for Kate with the cops and gives her her credit card. You’re going to be the best mother ever Claire!

Island Time – Kate Doesn’t Listen
So Sawyer bails on the whole Temple crew and tells Kate not to go after him. Immediately Kate goes after him with Jin, a new Other named Justin, and my favorite Other/Philadelphia bar owner Aldo. You may remember Aldo from season 3 when he fell for the old Wookie Prisoner Gag. You may also know Aldo from his off Island alter ego Mac, co-owner of Paddy’s Pub! Aldo immediately starts channeling his inner Mac and gets up in Kate’s face. Before he can bust out his sweet karate moves Kate has him unconscious and she’s off after Sawyer. Better luck next time Nightman.

Kate finds Sawyer weeping like a little girl in Otherville. We find out that Sawyer was going to propose to Juliet and then both him and Kate take turns apologizing for killing her. One limp wristed toss later Kate’s leaving Otherville, a lobster has a sweet engagement ring, and Sawyer’s holed up in a cabin eating Hagen Daz, watching Jennifer Aniston movies, and weeping quietly to himself.

Jin catches up with Kate in the jungle and so does Aldo and Justin. “What’s up bitches” Aldo implores just before taking two caps to the chest. Justin takes a hit too and we look up to find the shooter is none other than Claire back from her 5th season hiatus and looking very, very crazy. I’m talking Rousseau crazy and that aint the good kind of crazy.

Island Time – Indiana Jack and the Temple of Gettin’ His Ass Beat
Finally all that boring Kate business is past us and we can get to the meat of the episode! Sayid is alive and confused. His confusion grows even greater when Asianpants McGoo starts randomly torturing him. Turns out he’s testing him for infection. And Sayid’s got it bad. Aint no cow bell going to cure that fever.
Jack and Asianpants McGoo have a little pow wow and Jack finds out that Sayid is “infected”. Asiantpants tells Jack that, as Sayid’s physician, has to get him to take a mystery pill. Jack, remembering one of his med school classes mentioning something about not giving patients medicine when you have no clue as to what it actually does, decides not to give Sayid the pill. Instead he does the logical thing – he takes it himself. Hell, it worked for that guy who created LSD. This leads to Jack getting his ass beaten again by AsianPants McGoo using the same technique my mom used to use when I accidentally swallowed something bad. Guess what? The pill was poison and the only way to cure Sayid is to kill him. Again. Rough week for him.

In addition to Sayid we find out at least one other person is infected – Jack’s half sister Claire. Thus explaining the whole crazy thing she had going on with Jin and Kate. This is where the implications of the episode start to get interesting! Claire has been infected. By who? Well the last time we saw her she was being daddy’s little girl in Jacob’s former cabin so we can assume it was Christian Sheppard. Now I’ve always thought that the Christian on the Island was merely Black Smoke taking a human form but think on this: we have just seen somebody who was dead, Sayid, come back from the grave but infected by Black Shirt. Christian’s body has been missing since way back in the first season! What if Black Shirt found him and resurrected him with his taint (the infection, not the other thing, get your minds out of the gutter)? Thus Christian Sheppard isn’t just a Black Smoke figment he is as real and alive as Claire and Sayid are! So Black Shirt has at least 2 (soon to be 3 if Sayid continues to live) followers on the Island. Either one of them could have disturbed the circle of ash around Jacob’s cabin allowing Black Shirt entry.

The whole “infection” thing as been around longer than just this episode we’ve just forgotten about it because it hasn’t been mentioned in a while. Danielle was always talking about how her science team was infected. And where did all her science team go last season? Into the Temple! Dragged there by the Black Smoke. And remember Desmond stayed holed up in the hatch all that time cause he thought there was an infection running loose on the Island. It’s going to be interesting to see what happens to the infected and how it makes them loyal to Black Shirt.

The Science Behind LOST

Here's a link regarding the science of last night's episode. It's by Dr. Michio Kaku so you know it's right!

Rock Solid Science!

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Welcome back LOST aficionados! It’s been a long wait but finally, after months of waiting, we got our first new episode of Lost in what seemed like forever. Let’s not waste time on pleasantries there’s LOST to discuss!

The biggest revelation in this episode had to be that the bomb worked. Sort of. What it did was create a forking of the time line starting at the point of The Incident that yielded two distinct universes. Parallel timelines – one where all the previous events of LOST happened and everyone’s still stuck on the Island and another one where the Island was destroyed by the bomb and sank under the waves thus preventing Oceanic 815 from crashing allowing it to touch down safely at LAX. The implications and possibilities in the non-crash timeline are huge. Already we saw a couple: Charlie alive and well and Desmond enjoying a book next to Jack instead of being stuck in a hatch pushing a button every 108 minutes. Those are just little things imagine what else could have changed because the Island isn’t there: what is Ben doing in this timeline? Does he even exist? Is Charles Widmore still searching for the Island? Are Jacob and Black Shirt still alive and if so where are they? And how are the two timelines going to be joined together? I’ll get to that a little further down. For now let’s examine each timeline.

Island Time – Jack n’ Company
So the bomb didn’t work and they’re still stuck on the Island. But they aren’t stuck in 1977 anymore they’re back in the “present” Island time and synced up with everyone on the beach at the statue. Jack and crew wake up at the site of the imploded hatch but it seems a lot of steel debris from the ’77 construction project has followed them. That and the bitchin’ van. Sawyer’s pissed off at Jack, Kate’s in a tree, and Juliet is pinned under a metric f#%k ton of scrap metal. Everyone works to get her out yet she dies and her spirit passes forward into the body of a FBI agent on V. Before she leaves though she tells Miles via his spooktravision that the bomb worked. Contrary to what everything around them says. How’d she know it worked? Does death somehow get you in touch with your alternate dimension self?

While all that Juliet stuff is happening Sayid is dying and the ghost of Jacob is chatting with Hurley telling him that the only thing that will heal Sayid is to take him to the Temple. You may remember the Temple from such things as “the place where that French guy got dragged by the black smoke”, “where they took lil’ Ben to heal him from Sayid’s bullet wound”, or “the place all the Others are hiding out per Ben’s instructions prior to all the wheel turning business. They go to the Temple and meet Asianpants McGoo and his translator John Lennon. We also get to see Cindy the stewardess and the two kids from the tail section that were abducted by the Others way back in season 2. Asianpants breaks Hurley’s ankh and reads a list from Jacob. Man does that guy love lists! I’m betting it didn’t say “Sayid better live or everyone’s screwed” like John Lennon said.

They take Sayid to the spring and notice that the water has turned from clear to brownish. I’d assume that’s totally a bad sign but they drown Sayid in it anyways. Before drowning him John Lennon says there are risks. That’s the same thing Richard said back in ’77 when Kate took lil’ Ben to him for healing. With the brown water I’d imagine those risks are even greater. Low and behold the crap water doesn’t work and Sayid is brought out in a very Jesus Christ like fashion, with his arms spayed out as if on the cross. Hmmm…Jesus Christ…resurrection…who needs to be resurrected….Jacob! Did we just witness Jacob being reborn in Sayid’s body? I’m thinking we did thus the whole “we’re f#%ked if Sayid doesn’t live” cause if he didn’t then Jacob is really gone and they’re stuck with Black Shirt. The Others lose their sh!t when they hear Jacob’s dead and scramble to encircle the Temple in black ash, Black Shirt’s only weakness. Well that and the sonic barrier around Otherville and delicious apple pie.

Speaking of black ash you remember when we last saw it? Around Jacob’s cabin. But somebody had broken the circle thus allowing Black Shirt to get in. While one might ask “why’d he want to get in?” that person would be stupid. He wanted to get in so he could pose as Christian Sheppard and start telling folks to move the Island. The real question you need to ask is who was in cahoots with Black Shirt and broke the circle in the first place! Black Shirt is not without at least one follower on the Island I say!

At the very end Sayid comes alive again just before Jack gets the crap beaten out of him again for like the 5th time that week. Fade to black, LOST! . Damn you LOST those 2 hours went quick!

Island Time – Evil Locke
Hopefully by now it should be blatantly obvious that Evil Locke was the Black Smoke monster, the Black Smoke monster was responsible for almost all of “hallucinations” of people who couldn’t possibly be on the Island, and Black Smoke is in fact Black Shirt. And Black Shirt’s plan to kill Jacob worked now he wants to go “home”. Where is home? Why the Temple of course! That’s why the Others were totally freaking out cause daddy’s coming home and he’s been drinkin’. An interesting thought – Black Smoke dragged the frenchie scientists into the Temple back in the 60s so if I’m right and Black Shirt’s home is the Temple then at some point between the dragging/arm ripping off incident Black Shirt gets evicted cause present day Temple is Others territory.

Not much else happens on the beach. Lapedus and Sun just stand around with WTF looks on their faces and Richard yells at Ben and throws him into the sand at dead Locke’s feet. Evil Locke then tells Richard he looks good without the chains (PS - he was a slave on the Black Rock) and then beats the hell out of him. As he tosses him over his shoulder he reprimands everyone on the beach saying he’s very disappointed in them. Why!? Because they were following Jacob’s foolish ideals and disproving his believe that humans fight and destroy everything?

Non-Crash Time
It seems that even without the crash the Losties are being drawn together. Boone making small talk with Locke. Jack saving Charlie from choking to death. Sawyer helping Kate get away and then Kate hijacking the cab with Claire in it. Hell we even saw Arntz for a little bit talking to a now “most luckiest man in the world” Hurley. And in what I thought was the coolest interaction of the night – Jack talking to Locke and telling him nothing was irreparable. The past 5 seasons of LOST have been basically Jack versus Locke and now we have Jack offering Locke, a man he pretty much can’t stand on Island, a free surgery consult that could lead to him walking again! There’s also the subtle implication that “nothing was irreparable” meaning that perhaps this fractured parallel universe could be fixed. And who’s the man to fix it? Desmond!

Desmond has always been “uniquely different” due to him turning the implode key on the Swan. I think this is going to allow him to either travel between timelines or his Non-crash version of himself will have the knowledge his Crash self has. That’s the reason I think he was on the flight and then vanished so mysteriously. BTW the book he was reading on the plane? The internet tells me its Haroun and the Sea of Stories. Not entirely sure what to make of that yet but LOST writers to like to foreshadow with their book choices.

That’s about it for now. Why don’t we continue the discussion in the comments section?