Jack and Kate find themselves at odds over the direction to take to save their fellow island survivors, Locke further solidifies his stance as leader of "The Others", and Sawyer and Juliet come under scrutiny from the DHARMA Initiative.
That scene where Hurley tries to convince Dr. Chang that he's not from the future may be the funniest thing I've ever seen in this show. I've seen a lot of Sci-Fi, but I don't think I've ever seen anyone try to convince someone that they're NOT from the future. That wasa hysterical.
Not a filler episode, but a lot of set up for next week. Are they really going to blow up that bomb? Will THAT end up being "the incident"?
So it appears that Faraday's Mom initially sets out to change the future. I wonder what changes her mind and causes her to send Faraday on the same path.
I had this crazy theory that Richard was the Smoke Monster. But I also think Smokey is becoming others, like Dead Locke and Ben's Daughter. Since we saw Dead Locke and Richard together, I guess that can't be true. So Richard must be something else. I still think Locke is Smokey though. But he has to be much more than that. Didn't Ben's Daughter (who I think was Smokey) tell Ben not to kill John Locke? At this point, how can Locke die? I think my theory needs work.
So Locke wants to kill Jacob. I wonder if Jacob wants that too. Maybe the only way to save Jacob is to kill him. When Ben's daughter appears and tells Ben not to kill Locke, you figure that's probably Jacob talking. If so, Jacob doesn't want Locke stopped in any way from carrying out his task. Jacob wants to die. Unless Jacob doesn't know what Locke is going to do. Or maybe Ben's daughter isn't speaking for Jacob. I hope we find out in the finale. I feel as if we've gotten very few answers this season.
I was surprised that Sawyer and Juliet were going to sail away in the sub. From a storytelling point of view, can the writers really let them reach Ann Arbor? That could be very interesting. Especially since Kate is with them now. I guess something could happen to the sub, but Chang's wife is aboard, and we know she make it to shore safely. My guess is that the bomb will go off, or Jacob will intervene, and everyone will return to their proper time. Since Sawyer, Kate and Juliet are in a sub, I wonder if they'll end up underwater!
I thought this was one of the better episodes all season. They did a nice job of balancing time for every every character/plotline instead of just harping on a couple and ignoring the rest.
One of the things I found interesting was how Alpert appeared genuinely surprised multiple times throughout the episode. So he may be immortal, but he's still just as caught up in events as everyone around him. What do we make of Ben's comment to Locke that Alpert "has had that job for a looong time"? Does Alpert go back to the Black Rock, or further back to the hieroglyphs?
I liked seeing Ben at a loss early in the episode. He always seems to have an angle to work, or somebody to manipulate, so seeing him sitting around not knowing what to do next was great.
I agree with your "the bomb could end up being the incident" theory. I thought the same thing. Faraday assumed the drilling led to the incident, but we don't know for sure. Stupid Jack...
Have we seen Smokey in the 70's yet? I think the earliest we saw it was attacking Rousseau's people in what I guess is the 80's. I was thinking that either Jack does something, or the people who try to stop Jack do something, that unleashes Smokey.
As for Smokey, I always got the sense that it could take the form of beings from somebody's past. In an early episode with Mr. Echo, the face of his dead brother was seen swirling around in Smokey. So while I'm positive that it was Smokey who appeared to Ben as his daughter, I'm not sold that Locke is Smokey. I think Smokey creates the form of dead people by clumping itself together (nanotechnology). But Locke's body is on the island, so he's been reanimated. I'm drawing a distinction between "reanimation" and "formed out of thin air." If somebody find's Locke's body still in the hold of that plane, than the Locke we see walking around is Smokey. If not, Locke is just reanimated by the island (like Christian Shepherd).
If anyone is Smokey, I think it could be Claire. Maybe she was dragged off in the night and killed by Smokey last season. That's why, since then, she has only been seen skulking in the shadows near Christian. She's just Smokey manifesting to Christian. It would also explain why she seemingly lost interest in her own child. So I wonder if maybe somebody will find her corpse in the jungle.
I have this hope that the final season of Lost will take place WAY back in time...maybe in the time that the Black Rock crashed, maybe even in the time of whatever ancient culture made the glyphs and built the four-toed statue. That would set up Jacob as one of the original Losties...a being hundreds or thousands of years old.
I've had my "Jack is Jacob" theory for a while, so I'm sticking with that. Maybe Jack's "punishment" (of sorts) for trying to nuke the island is to go back and have to be this "Jacob" being for hundreds or thousands of years. So this whole time when the island has been speaking to Locke, and Jack told him he was crazy, it was actually Jack (as Jacob) communicating with Locke. And now the completion of the Jack/Locke story is that Jacob wants Locke to kill him, maybe even take his place. It would also explain why Christian (Jack's dad) and Claire (Jack's sister) were seen in Jacob's cabin a few seasons back.
What I'm not sure of is whether Alpert is bound to Jacob or has his own (though similar) agenda.
I, too, loved how in the dark both Richard and Ben were. This really is Locke's show now.
And how much do you hate Radzinski? That sonofabitch needs to die in a horrific manner. Unfortunately, if you remember, he eventually gets assigned to the Swan station with Inman, and is forced to push the button for a number of years until one day he can't take it anymore and commits suicide. Or does he? From what I remember, Inman tells Desmond that he found Radzinski dead after returning from outside the hatch. How cool would it be if Sawyer winds up in that time period, knocks on the hatch, Radzinski opens the door, and Sawyer blows his head off. I'm calling it now.
All season, I've been waiting for the arrival of young "Patchy" from season 3. Maybe we'd get to see how he lost his eye (Sayid no doubt gouges it out with a big toe leg-scissor maneuver)
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That scene where Hurley tries to convince Dr. Chang that he's not from the future may be the funniest thing I've ever seen in this show. I've seen a lot of Sci-Fi, but I don't think I've ever seen anyone try to convince someone that they're NOT from the future. That wasa hysterical.
Not a filler episode, but a lot of set up for next week. Are they really going to blow up that bomb? Will THAT end up being "the incident"?
So it appears that Faraday's Mom initially sets out to change the future. I wonder what changes her mind and causes her to send Faraday on the same path.
I had this crazy theory that Richard was the Smoke Monster. But I also think Smokey is becoming others, like Dead Locke and Ben's Daughter. Since we saw Dead Locke and Richard together, I guess that can't be true. So Richard must be something else. I still think Locke is Smokey though. But he has to be much more than that. Didn't Ben's Daughter (who I think was Smokey) tell Ben not to kill John Locke? At this point, how can Locke die? I think my theory needs work.
So Locke wants to kill Jacob. I wonder if Jacob wants that too. Maybe the only way to save Jacob is to kill him. When Ben's daughter appears and tells Ben not to kill Locke, you figure that's probably Jacob talking. If so, Jacob doesn't want Locke stopped in any way from carrying out his task. Jacob wants to die. Unless Jacob doesn't know what Locke is going to do. Or maybe Ben's daughter isn't speaking for Jacob. I hope we find out in the finale. I feel as if we've gotten very few answers this season.
I was surprised that Sawyer and Juliet were going to sail away in the sub. From a storytelling point of view, can the writers really let them reach Ann Arbor? That could be very interesting. Especially since Kate is with them now. I guess something could happen to the sub, but Chang's wife is aboard, and we know she make it to shore safely. My guess is that the bomb will go off, or Jacob will intervene, and everyone will return to their proper time. Since Sawyer, Kate and Juliet are in a sub, I wonder if they'll end up underwater!
I thought this was one of the better episodes all season. They did a nice job of balancing time for every every character/plotline instead of just harping on a couple and ignoring the rest.
One of the things I found interesting was how Alpert appeared genuinely surprised multiple times throughout the episode. So he may be immortal, but he's still just as caught up in events as everyone around him. What do we make of Ben's comment to Locke that Alpert "has had that job for a looong time"? Does Alpert go back to the Black Rock, or further back to the hieroglyphs?
I liked seeing Ben at a loss early in the episode. He always seems to have an angle to work, or somebody to manipulate, so seeing him sitting around not knowing what to do next was great.
I agree with your "the bomb could end up being the incident" theory. I thought the same thing. Faraday assumed the drilling led to the incident, but we don't know for sure. Stupid Jack...
Have we seen Smokey in the 70's yet? I think the earliest we saw it was attacking Rousseau's people in what I guess is the 80's. I was thinking that either Jack does something, or the people who try to stop Jack do something, that unleashes Smokey.
As for Smokey, I always got the sense that it could take the form of beings from somebody's past. In an early episode with Mr. Echo, the face of his dead brother was seen swirling around in Smokey. So while I'm positive that it was Smokey who appeared to Ben as his daughter, I'm not sold that Locke is Smokey. I think Smokey creates the form of dead people by clumping itself together (nanotechnology). But Locke's body is on the island, so he's been reanimated. I'm drawing a distinction between "reanimation" and "formed out of thin air." If somebody find's Locke's body still in the hold of that plane, than the Locke we see walking around is Smokey. If not, Locke is just reanimated by the island (like Christian Shepherd).
If anyone is Smokey, I think it could be Claire. Maybe she was dragged off in the night and killed by Smokey last season. That's why, since then, she has only been seen skulking in the shadows near Christian. She's just Smokey manifesting to Christian. It would also explain why she seemingly lost interest in her own child. So I wonder if maybe somebody will find her corpse in the jungle.
I have this hope that the final season of Lost will take place WAY back in time...maybe in the time that the Black Rock crashed, maybe even in the time of whatever ancient culture made the glyphs and built the four-toed statue. That would set up Jacob as one of the original Losties...a being hundreds or thousands of years old.
I've had my "Jack is Jacob" theory for a while, so I'm sticking with that. Maybe Jack's "punishment" (of sorts) for trying to nuke the island is to go back and have to be this "Jacob" being for hundreds or thousands of years. So this whole time when the island has been speaking to Locke, and Jack told him he was crazy, it was actually Jack (as Jacob) communicating with Locke. And now the completion of the Jack/Locke story is that Jacob wants Locke to kill him, maybe even take his place. It would also explain why Christian (Jack's dad) and Claire (Jack's sister) were seen in Jacob's cabin a few seasons back.
What I'm not sure of is whether Alpert is bound to Jacob or has his own (though similar) agenda.
I, too, loved how in the dark both Richard and Ben were. This really is Locke's show now.
And how much do you hate Radzinski? That sonofabitch needs to die in a horrific manner. Unfortunately, if you remember, he eventually gets assigned to the Swan station with Inman, and is forced to push the button for a number of years until one day he can't take it anymore and commits suicide. Or does he? From what I remember, Inman tells Desmond that he found Radzinski dead after returning from outside the hatch. How cool would it be if Sawyer winds up in that time period, knocks on the hatch, Radzinski opens the door, and Sawyer blows his head off. I'm calling it now.
Nice call.
All season, I've been waiting for the arrival of young "Patchy" from season 3. Maybe we'd get to see how he lost his eye (Sayid no doubt gouges it out with a big toe leg-scissor maneuver)
I'm just hoping that they don't change time... I would hate to throw out like 5 seasons of the show to see them reboot on the final season.
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