Month: January 2010

LOST Theories: Those Darn Numbers


4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42

Those darn numbers gave Hurley so much grief over the last five seasons. All that bad luck.

Which is kinda weird, considering using them made him a millionaire. What if he hadn’t stopped using them? Would he have continued to have good luck?

What if that’s the real curse of the numbers? Using them meant that you HAD to continue to use them, or bad things would happen.

Think about that for a minute. If they numbers were “charmed” in some way, that would explain why those numbers had to be typed in all the time. It also parallels what happened when they stopped using the numbers.

Just a thought.

LOST Theories: Christian’s Death and the Plane Flight

While I’m winging my way down the whole Jack’s going to time travel path, here are a couple more things that bothered me: The circumstances of Christian’s death and why all those people were on the plane in the first place. I think the two are related.

This is something Doc Jensen brought up on twitter, and I’d like to talk about it for a bit. Here’s what he said:

THEORY! More to Christian Shephard’s death than meets the eye. Booze? Okay. Or maybe Jacob, to manipulate Jack to The Island?

Or maybe… Ben? Remember Locke’s body had to play the role of Christian Shephard on Ajira 316. Maybe there are more similarties…

Locke was deemed a suicide. Funny: Technically, so was Christian’s. Locke’s death motivated Jack to The Island. Ditto Christian.

Maybe Ben HAD to murder Locke per the requirements of replicating the exact conditions of the Oceanic flight….

Locke had to be murdered not just to met the dead body requirement, but to meet the murder victim rquirement, too.

Jack later added his father’s shoes, and voila! Perfect Murdered Christian Shephard Doppleganger!

I’ll go even further with this idea: I think Christian was murdered in order to get Jack onto that plane. And it might even have been done by Ben, or possibly Jack himself, if you subscribe to the “I”m my own grandpa” theory. The crazy thing (to me at least) about Christian’s death is that he left that wallet behind in the hotel room. Guys don’t usually leave their wallets behind when going places. If Christian was confronted in his hotel room, and taken from it, he wouldn’t have had time to take it before he died. The death could have been staged to look like a suicide.

Now, the thrust of the last season may just be that in order to create the circumstances which brought them to the island in the first place, the 815ers have to create the circumstances to get themselves on that plane. I know it’s a bit of circular logic (hey, what time travel story isn’t?), but I’ve always had the feeling that someone made sure that everyone got onto that initial plane flight. In order for them to want to do this in the first place, they’re going to have to buy into the “save the island, save the world” idea. More on that later.

LOST: See The First Four Minutes Of Season 6!

Someone sent me this, and I’m posting it here for those of you that are interested. I’m not going to view this, because I want to see the whole thing at once.

Don’t view this if you don’t want the premiere spoiled!

See the First Four Minutes of Season 6 of LOST

Thanks to John

LOST Theories: I’m My Own Grandpa

One of the things that seemed pretty heavy handed in Season 5 was the visit Jack made to his grandfather.

Jack went there to visit his grandfather, Ray. The grandfather asked about Kate. Jack noticed his father’s shoes, asked for them, and left.

Didn’t that seem a little “Paolo and Nikki”? And, by that I mean, didn’t that character seem to come out of nowhere? Sure did to me.

I’ve speculated before that Jack’s grandfather might actually be Jack himself. I don’t think that’s entirely out of the question. We know that he’s been trying to escape the retirement home he’s in. He’s stated that he’d escape and claimed, “They won’t ever find me, either.” He had a pair of Christian’s shoes, which he’d need if he were trying to recreate a plane trip to the island.

Let’s say for a moment that it’s true. What would be the ramifications of this? Well, first, it means that Jack won’t be dead by the end of the show, at least not the younger Jack we’ve been watching all this time. Second, it could mean that Jack is actually Christian’s father. (How’s that for a mindbender?) Third, it means that somehow, likely to save people on the island, that Jack will travel back in time. My guess would be that he’ll end up pushing wheel sometime in the future, and get bounced to the past, before Christian was born.

Question is, what happens to “older” Jack in the end? Would he be content to hang around an old folks home? I suppose it’s possible he’d be content to do so, but if he left someone behind (say, Kate), I think he’d try to do what he could to get back to the island. That might mean he’d end up being one of the skeletons holding one of the black and white stones, in the end.

Plus, he sure as heck looks like he could be an older version of Jack.

What do you think?

24 – Season 8 – 8pm to 9 pm


LAST TIME ON “24”, we found out that: The Russian mafia requires tattoos; Russians turn radioactive when they die; Dana and Chloe have speedy PowerPoint skills; Jack is going to need to speak to someone about getting a refund on plane tickets to L.A.; Renee is on a one-woman mission to stop people from hitchhiking, one thumb at a time.

The following takes place between 8pm and 9 pm.

8:00 pm – In Fictional Middle Eastern Country, a man receives a phone call from Fahrad. The man tells Fahrad that lots of people suspected in the plot against Hassan have been getting free, all-expense-paid tickets to the local police headquarters. Fahrad says that once they have the uranium, everything will be fine. They’ll sneak into police headquarters and when everyone is distracted because their hair is falling out, they’ll get their supporters out.

8:02 pm – Bazhaev, the lead Russian bad guy, is with his son, who is still sick because he watched “Twilight” without protective goggles. Josef, his other son, tries convince his father he can take his brother to, “House”, since he’s just a few minutes before this show and he’s sure they’ll be right back. Bazhaev said that he’d rather his son be taken to the country house instead, so he can die in peace there.

8:03 pm – Fahrad tells Bazhaev that their money will be here within the next five episodes. While he’s waiting, Bazhaev offers him two women, and some coupons for penicillin, redeemable at the closest local hospital.

8:05 pm – Meanwhile, Renee realizes that her impromptu surgery skills, as well as her bedside manner, leave a lot to be desired. Jack’s making a phone call to headquarters, and telling Renee that she’s pretty unstable, even by Jack’s standards. Renee tells him that she’s the best chance they have to get to the Russians, and Jack finally agrees, just as long as she doesn’t start adding more thumbs to her collection.

8:06 pm – The guy wakes up screaming because he’s covered with Kool-Aid. Renee finally calms him down by telling him that she’ll cut him in on the deal for the money she’s going to make, making his cut (“ha ha”) worth quite a bit. She tells him that she’ll give him a hand getting up, which he doesn’t consider remotely funny.

Continue reading “24 – Season 8 – 8pm to 9 pm”

LOST Theories: That Plane…

Spoilers from Season 5 ahead… I warned you!

Something’s been bothering me, and I wonder if it has been bothering anyone else.

Say that the blast Juliet set off did reset everything, and flight 815 didn’t crash on the island. Kate, Jack, Hurley, Sawyer…. They all did whatever they were going to do if it hadn’t crashed.

What happened to all the other people? Not people like Rose and Bernard. I mean, all the dead people!

In thinking about this, I’m pretty sure that what will end up happening is that there WILL be a crash. Just not on the island. A lot of people will die, but the “815-ers” will survive and be rescued.

Any thoughts about this?