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Lost News: More hours and No Spinoff

Recent Lost News:

Lost adds hours to the final two seasons: Lost originally was going to run for 16 hours for each of the last two seasons, but since the writer’s strike happened, they’ve extended each season by one more hour. Read about it at the Hollywood Reporter. (Thanks to Kali.Amanda)

There won’t be a Lost spinoff: The showrunners for Lost have stated that they’re going to finish the Lost story, and that’ll be it. So don’t be looking for a Sawyer spinoff, or a wacky Hurley sitcom. Read about it at inthenews.co.uk.

Lost Theories: Did Jacob Really Give The Order?

My friend John and I were talking about last night’s episode (Cabin Fever), and he brought up a really good point: What if Christian ISN’T talking on Jacob’s behalf?

There were two things that really bothered me about that scene. The first was Claire’s sly smile while she was in the cabin with Christian and Locke. It seemed like the type of smile you’d see on someone that was happy they conned someone into something.

The other thing that bothered me was the Christian told Locke not to tell anyone about seeing Claire. Why not?

One of the things that John brought up was Locke didn’t tell Hurley and Ben that he didn’t speak directly with Jacob, but to Christian instead (and oh, by the way, Claire was there too).

What if there are forces on the island that both want John there (Alpert and Abbadon), but want him there for two different reasons? We’ve been operating under the assumption that The Others are just one big happy… well, ok, maybe not happy…

Anyway…

We’ve been operating under the assumption that The Others just have one faction. What if there are two different factions? One that wants to help the island, and another that wants to undermine it? One that does good, another that does evil? Could the evil side have set things into motion that will undermine the good side?

All of this is obviously big-time speculation, but we like that sort of thing around here.

What do you think?

LOST Theories – There Are Two Flight 815s


On page 4 of the “Lost Recap: Finding the cabin” article of EW.com, Jeff Jensen puts forth the following:

Regardless, here’s the twist — the twist that could turn Locke into a mass murderer of sorts. As we saw at the end of the episode, Locke’s plan for saving the Island is moving the Island. Now, I have no idea how he intends to do that. But if I’m tracking correctly the weird science Lost has been laying down this season, I wonder if where we’re headed is a catastrophic gambit in which Locke will move the Island not only in space but also in time, which I’m guessing will cause some kind of massive retroactive course correction — or, rather, already has enacted a course correction. In fact, I wonder if the secret to many of the metaphysical mysteries of Lost is that all of the show’s drama is playing out against the backdrop of a timeline that’s in flux — where old history is giving way to new history as the consequences of Locke’s future Island-saving actions trickle down through time. And so that wreckage of Oceanic 815 at the bottom of the ocean? That isn’t a hoax — at least, not in the new timeline taking hold. That’s real. And it will be John the Quantum Ripper’s fault

He doesn’t spell out what the implications of Ocean 815 exactly are, but I’ll extrapolate a bit.

Remember that theory that I had that Ben or Widmore might have placed a fake Flight 815 down at the bottom of the ocean? Well, I’m beginning to think that neither of them did it. It might be the result of what’s about to happen to the island.

Locke said that they needed to move the island. If the island gets moved, what happens? Things where the island gets moved to get displaced. The Black Rock, for example, could have been displaced and popped into the middle of the jungle.

If the island somehow moved in the past, it has some big ramifications too. What happens if the island wasn’t there when Flight 815 flew by? It would continue on course for a while, and probably crash for lack of fuel.

I think that’s exactly what’s going to happen.

This is going to be one major course correction.

More on this later.

EW.com Lost Recap comments


Jeff “Doc” Jensen gives a recap of Cabin Fever over at EW.com, and includes a couple of really great insights, my favorite of which is this:

Locke is born early. At age 5, he takes a test that most likely would have taken him to the Island if he had passed. He didn’t. That same year, Benjamin Linus is born. At age 16, Locke is invited to go to a science camp that again would have taken him to the Island. He refused. About that same time, Benjamin Linus and his father joined the Dharma Initiative. The implication, it seems, is that Ben has been walking the path that was originally meant for Locke. Ben was the contingency plan — the course correction — for Locke’s altered destiny. But Ben is his own person, of course, and he has done things differently from what Locke would have done, and this, in turn, has created further changes in the original order of things — changes that I think a certain ticked-off, Island-deprived billionaire named Charles Widmore is trying to reverse. The scene at the rehab center between paralyzed adult Locke and his wheelchair pusher, the creepy Matthew Abbaddon — who accepted the description of ”orderly” with knowing irony — was meant to suggest one way Widmore is scheming to restore the original order: by getting Locke on that Island and taking back the birthright that was supposed to be his.

I think this is a great theory. I’ll even go so far as to say that they already knew about Aaron and had a hand in getting HIM to the island too.

LOST Theories and Thoughts: Cabin Fever


Spoilers ahead:

A few random thoughts about last night’s LOST – Cabin Fever:

Again we saw no “previously on Lost” in the opener. They’re trying to get as much show in as they can.

Last week we saw the doctor wash up on shore, this week we saw him killed. The thing is, the doctor washed up on shore BEFORE Keamy and the gang got back to the boat. Probably because a floating body didn’t exactly decide to follow the bearing to get to the island.

Richard Alpert showed up again, and looked pretty upset when young Locke picked the knife off the table. Oh, and by the way, he looks exactly the same as he did when Ben saw him. They made a play for Locke twice, and the kicker was that Matthew Abaddon planted the seed that sent Locke on that Walkabout, and ultimately onto flight 815. Question is, were Alpert and Abaddon on the same side or not? Up until now it didn’t appear so. You have to ask, if Apert and Abaddon are working together, why was Abaddon manipulating Naomi? If they aren’t working together, why would Abaddon want Locke on the island? Is there a faction split, even in The Others camp?

I also think that was the first glimpse of evidence that the 815ers were manipulated to get them on that plane.

Claire appearing the cabin adds another to the ranks of The Others, and extra points to everyone who thought Claire really did die last week in the explosion. Miles was acting pretty strangely around Claire last week, and that was the tip-off.

Did you catch Keamy’s notebook? There was a Dharma logo in that book. That could mean that Widmore had someone on the island working for him, at least in the old days; why else would they be keeping track of where Ben would be heading in a crisis?

So, could it mean that Dharma, at least in some form, still exists? Probably not. But what about the food drops on the island, you might ask? I don’t think that’s evidence of anything. We know that the island timeline is really screwy (see above about the doctor), so it could be the food drop we witnessed way back when was out of the timeline. It was meant to be dropped back when the Dharma people were on the island, and it didn’t get there until much later.

The last line of the show “He wants us to move the island”… Certainly didn’t see that one coming. But, it does give a good explanation for the Black Rock, doesn’t it? If the island moved when the Black Rock was sailing, the sudden appearance of an island could have put the ship right in middle of the jungle.

Thing definitely took a turn for the weird in this show… Ok, weird even for LOST… so it’ll be interesting to see where this is headed. We have 4 3 more hours this season, one on May 15th (season finale part 1), one on May 22th (season finale part 1), and two on May 29th (season finale part 2). (update: Tvguide.com had it wrong earlier today…I’ve corrected it now…Thanks, Memphish!)

Can’t wait!

(PS. Thanks for homeybeef for pointing out we only have three hours left this season, not four, and to Memphish for correcting the times they’re airing).

LOST: Cabin Fever Live Blog

Last Update: I’ll do a write-up later.

Update: “He wants us to move the island”

Update: Ben and Hurley sharing an Apollo bar, while Locke finds out how to save the island.

Update: Oh wow… I guess those theories that Claire is dead are true.

Update: Christian Shepard speaking on behalf of Jacob.

Update: Ben’s handing over the reigns of the island. I think Ben’s more scared than we’ve ever seen him.

Update: I thought that beeping was a bomb.

Update: Desmond isn’t technically one of the 815ers, so he might have made it back to the mainland too.

Update: Commercials

Update: How many people left on that boat?

Update: Dead doc, dead captain. That must be a detonation device on his arm.

Update: Keamy is just not one nice guy.

Update: “When you and me run into each other again, you’ll owe me one?” Yikes!

Update: WALKABOUT! Wow! People manipulating The 815ers to get on the plane!

Update: CREEPY ALERT

Update: Guys? Cabin. (Gotta love Hurley).

Update: Consequences to being chosen.

Update: THG.com Guy, I think that safe spot must be “the temple” Ben told people to go to. How Widmore would know about that… unless people sent him reports before The Purge.

Update: Commercials

Update: Oh, Desmond… Don’t stay with the bad guys.

Update: What’s that on Keamy’s arm? A radio?

Update: Michael’s still fighting for his friends.

Update: Mittlelos anagram for Lost Time.

Update: I like “boxing”…. heh, he got that job.

Update: Geronimo Jones poster inside that locker.

Update: “I think I’ll stick with you guys”.

Update: I saw that Dharma logo too. Must have some of that organization still off island doing work. Kinda makes sense.

Update: Ha! They really are bringing back “The Mole”

Update: Commercials

Update: Notice that morse code? The timelines are screwier than we thought. So, the doc died before the message was sent on the boat. That island/boat timeline isn’t just 30-ish minutes off. It’s varying.

Update: Ok…Widmore knows enough to know where Ben would be heading??

Update: Two key protocol.

Update: Ben looked a bit surprised at who Locke singled out.

Update: Their “leaders”? Plural?

Update: Alpert looked a little disturbed by that knife pick.

Update: Which things belong to you already… sand from the island, compass, the knife

Update: Nice picture of Smokey.

Update: Either Alpert is dead, or he’s got this time travel thing down.

Update: Hasn’t Locke met Alpert before? Must not have.

Update: Commercials.

Update: That’s why I think he’s dead, like Horace. He just knows how to deal with it.

Update: Richard Alpert. Hasn’t aged a day.

Update: She can’t hold her own baby?

Update: And… it’s all a dream. Ben: “I used to have dreams”. Transfer of power.

Update: Interesting time loop.

Update: Now, if you were dead. Would YOU be chopping trees?

Update: Gotta love the eyeball shot.

Update: Yes, I’m kidding.

Update: Commercials. First big question, Who’s Locke’s Father?

Update: Gun Jam. Thank you island.

Update: The doctor is still alive… AFTER the Smoke Monster attack.

Update: Interesting. They don’t know where the cabin is. Looks like a Locke-centric episode.

Update: John? John Locke?

Update: Another quick open with no recap. Weird. It’s 1950-ish.

Update: These shows that go over by a minute or two are ticking me off.

I’ll be posting in this thread for the LOST episode “Cabin Fever”.

Discuss: EW’s “Jacob, reveal thyself”


This week’s Doc Jensen EW.com story about LOST, “Jacob, reveal thyself”, and as usual it’s great reading. A few points:

In the premiere, we had Hurley telling Jack, ”I should have gone with you” instead of Locke — not only begging the implicit question ”Why?” but also ”How would have things been different?”

I’d add: I think Hurley found out something that he’d be happier not knowing…

Perhaps Jacob will give us a few more hints tonight. I suspect he knows SOMETHING of altered realities. In this creepy entity, whose only line to date has been, ”Help me,” I sense a trapped soul who has had something stripped from him, and I don’t mean his body. I wonder if here, on an Island that seems to stand at the crossroads of All Possible Worlds, what/who we see trapped here inside this otherworldly outhouse is a man who never really was. In other words: Could Jacob be the version of Charles Widmore that somehow, some way got flushed out of existence? Maybe

I doubt that Charles is Jacob. I think the whole “The island is mine” rant that Widmore went on is that he considers it “his”, because he pumped money into it back in the Dharma days.

I’ve said “the cross roads between worlds” theory before. I think it’s more likely that Jacob is somehow stuck between worlds, not corporeal, but still able to communicate.

There is a prevalent fan theory that Alpert is an electromagnetically energized long-lived survivor of the Black Rock, the slave ship beached in the middle of the Island. I’m willing to accept that Alpert would be several centuries old — IF he was actually, technically alive. Yep: I think this Tricky Dick is dead — or at least as dead as, say, Christian Shepherd. Judging from the way we saw Grandpa McBoozy cradling Aaron last week, these Island ghosts are more materially substantial than the typical ethereal entity, although clearly Alpert is a higher caste of specter than Christian, at least for the (relative) moment.

Bingo. I said that Richard Alpert might be dead too earlier this week.

And this particular point:

Lost season 4’s most conspicuous literary reference, C.S. Lewis. In The Great Divorce, Lewis offers a parable for life on earth by presenting a vision of Heaven in which the newly departed MUST leave their earthly baggage behind if they wish to enter paradise — or, decoded, to grow spiritually. They are helped in this endeavor by ghosts who’ve preceded them in death, though initially, these ”shining beings” come off as tough-love antagonists. ”Others,” if you will.

That beats around the bush a bit. It could be that the island is not only a crossroads between worlds, but THE crossroad between the worlds, where judgements (by The Smoke Monster?) are made where people end up in the afterlife. Some of those people are held to correct things that are happening on the island (Yemi, Horace, etc), all part of the grand plan to correct things the way they “should” be and make those course corrections.

Read the article, and tell me what you think!

LOST: Jack’s Dad Is One Of The Others

I think we have some evidence that Jack’s Dad be one of The Others. Take a look at the picture in this post. Christian is dressed in the same clothes as The Others were dressed in, when they first appeared to Ben Linus.

Does that mean Christian was always one of The Others? Probably not. I do think that it helps explain why Richard Alpert didn’t seem to age at all between the time we saw him when Ben was young until now. He might very well be “dead” too. I use that term pretty loosely, because for a bunch of dead people Christian/Charlie/Yemi sure do get around.
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Lost: Jack’s “Illness” Is Not What It Seemed To Be – Part 2


Just to continue that last posting about Jack’s illness:

What if Juliet wasn’t taking something OUT of Jack, but was putting something IN to Jack? Drug Jack up, get him thinking he has appendicitis, and throw one of those Claire devices in there. I thought I’d just throw that out there as an additional possibility.

Oh, and that scar that isn’t there when Jack was in his towel? No scars when the island heals you.