Category: Television

Lost: Jack’s “Illness” Is Not What It Seemed To Be

Rose brought up a good point about Jack getting sick. WHY did he get sick, on that island, of all places?

There are a couple of theories that are floating around:

1) The island is punishing him for some reason. It wants to prevent him from leaving.

2) There’s a theory going around that it wasn’t appendicitis at all. Juliet did the operation to take out a device that Jack had implanted in him. A device similar to what made Claire ill. It does fit: Juliet was shaving him in an area where the appendix wasn’t, and Jack was suspicious. I expect her insistence on getting him knocked out was because of this.

I think theory #2 is right, and it brings up an even bigger questions: Is Juliet hiding this from Jack because she’s, even now, working for Ben? Was that done to try and insure that Jack would stay on the island?

LOST: Who’s In That Coffin?

Ben Linus
I’m just going to throw this out there. Since that coffin showed up at the end of Season 3, I’ve been going back and forth about who’s inside that thing. Everyone has a guess, saying “this is a real game changer” and “it’ll blow your mind”. I’m going to throw my guess out there.

I think it’s Ben.

Yeah, yeah… I hear you say, “But we saw him with Sayid! He’s not dead!” Well, not yet.

We’ve seen Ben and Sayid interacting in these flash-forwards… Some of those took place in 2005. That’s when Ben and Sayid’s first interaction took place.

If the season finale took place in 2007 (remember, the paper Jack read was from 2007), that’s when Jack attended the funeral. That points to the very real possibility that Ben might be the one in the coffin. I say that because the assumption that Ben is alive and kicking because he and Sayid are teamed up, and when Ben visited Widmore. But if those scenes happened in 2005, many things could have happened since then. Including Ben’s death.

If that really is who is in there, it would help explain why Jack wants to get back to the Island. With Ben gone, Locke would be in charge. In that two years, anything could have happened.

Would that be the last we saw of Ben? No, I think that would just be a transition point to where we’d start seeing Ben in the same state that Christian/Charlie have been.

We’ll see soon.

LOST: Feedback on EW’s Recap of Something Nice Back Home

Jeff Jensen at EW.com has an excellent synopsis and analysis of Something Nice Back home which you should read.

A few things I’d like to respond to in that article:

We learned that shortly after Kate’s trial, Jack got over his aversion to Aaron (though it wasn’t explained how or why he was so anti-Aaron to begin with) and shacked up with the former fugitive.

I’ve said this in other postings, but I think it’s because Jack feels somewhat responsible for Claire. I don’t have any evidence of this, other than his need to save people.

Sealing the deal was his mounting paranoia that Kate was pulling a Sarah and stepping out on him. And as it turned out, Kate did have another man on her mind: Apparently, she had been secretly fulfilling a promise she made to Sawyer before leaving the Island. (My guess: The shaggy con man asked her to look in on Clementine, the daughter he had with con gal Cassidy.)

I posted this earlier, and I can’t figure out who else he would want Kate to check on… I’m still not completely sold.

The headline of Jack’s newspaper read, ”Yankees bludgeon Red Sox in series sweep.” The Yankees swept a series with the Red Sox late in the 2006 season (a historic five-game wipeout) and the 2007 season (a traditional three-game set). If you pause the picture (on a high-def DVR), you can make out the score 5-0, which is how the 2007 series ended. So I’m going to call it: Jack’s flash-forward took place in late summer of 2007.

This is an excellent catch. It also puts to rest the “Aaron aged quickly” theories.

But this thought occurred to me last night as I tried to make sense of Miles’ fixation with Claire: What if she actually didn’t survive the obliteration of her home in last week’s episode? What if she died? What if the Claire we’ve seen since then is some kind of spectral but physically tangible manifestation of Claire generated by Island magic, just like Eko’s brother Yemi, Kate’s horse, and now, apparently, Christian? Could that be why Miles is so intrigued by her — because he can sense that she’s no longer human?

This could well be true, but wouldn’t Mile’s reaction to Christian and Claire been a lot different than what we saw? I mean, we saw how he reacted to finding Carle and Danielle. Wouldn’t he have had a similar reaction to Claire in the first place? Or at least be a little startled?

As for Charlotte’s Korean, the crazy thought occurred to me that perhaps this Dharma-hunting anthropologist uses it to converse with one of her secret masters, someone I suspect has more to do with the larger Lost mythology than we’ve been led to believe — Sun’s father, Mr. Paik.

This is a nice tie-in with the “sins of the fathers corrected by the children” theory. I bet this is right.

LOST: Who Did Kate Call?


I’ve been thinking who Kate might have called: Cassidy maybe? Maybe Clementine (his daughter)?

Kate does know Cassidy already. They met when Kate was on the run.

Still though… I’m not sold on that idea. But who else could Kate have called on Sawyer’s behalf?

Lost: Something Nice Back Home

I don’t think this episode was quite as high impact as the last one, but it did have it’s moments. In the “I didn’t see that coming” category we have: Rose questioning why Jack would be getting sick; Charlotte speaking Korean (good catch TropicHunt.com Guy!); Jack’s proposal to Kate.

How in the world could Kate doing something for Sawyer get Jack that upset? I think it deflects the real question though: Who was Kate talking to?

What happened to Claire that lead her to leave Aaron behind? Where did she go? Did Christian take her away to wherever he has been all this time?

I loved the fact that when Jack saw Christian, he was wearing those white tennis shoes. It didn’t appear to me that Christian was wearing a suit when he was holding Aaron though.
And did you catch the previews? Horace (from Dharma) saying that he’s been dead for 12 years?
How many dead people have we seen running around? Christian, Yemi, Horace (well next week), Charlie…

The strange thing is, Charlie seems to know he died, and from the previews it sounds like Horace does too.

Does this mean the island is some kind of way point between worlds? Some property of the island make it possible to not only communicate with the dead, but bring them back in some way?

That does explain why they wanted Miles on the island, at least to some extent.

As last week, a lot of things to digest.

One last thing…. Did Jack have a scar when he was in that towel or not?

What did you think of tonight’s show?

Live Blogging Something Nice Back Home

Update: I’ll write something up about tonight’s show in a bit.

Update: What could POSSIBLY cause Claire to leave Aarron behind?

Update: Aaron’s alone. Not a good sign for Claire.

Update: Claire just left??

Update: Don’t fight in front of the kids. This must be that fight that lead to the final scene.

Update: I was doing something for Sawyer? Sawyer must be alive still.

Update: “I’m going to ask you to trust me?” oh oh…

Update: If she’s going to see Jack’s dad, that would blow my mind.

Update: Who the heck is Kate going to see?

Update: Interesting way of telling Kate that Jack loves Kate.

Update: Kate’s thinking that “Hey! I’ve done that! With a regular needle too!”

Update: Commercials, again. I’m beginning to think that the island is a way station between our world, and the world beyond.

Update: SWEET! Claire/Jack’s dad holding Aaron!

Update: Alcohol with the drugs… Not a good idea.

Update: Was Kate really on the phone with “Noreen”? Doubt it. Use the caller id Jack, or the redial…

Update: Oh, and the island really could use a smoke detector. Probably a truckload.

Update: Not sleeping well at night? Like Widmore?

Update: Dang, I swear Jack was going to wake up on the floor under that smoke detector after talking to his dad.

Update: Dad with tennis shoes no less.

Update: Beep, beep. Bet that’s Dad.

Update: That was hard to watch. Yikes.

Update: Ok, I didn’t want to watch the surgery channel.

Update: Bernard is a dentist.

Update: Score one for THG!

Update: Hope Juliet doesn’t plan on using that fire to cauterize the scar.

Update: TropicHunt.com Guy (in the comments section) suggests that Charlotte understand Korean. I bet he’s right. (Nice catch, THG!)

Update: Commercials (again). Jack’s upcoming obsession with getting back to the island must drive a wedge between them. He and Kate didn’t look like they’d talked in a while in that finale.

Update: And she accepted!

Update: Proposal! Didn’t see that coming either.

Update: Jack sitting in from of the mental hospital? That seems uncharacteristic. Unless he’s already having doubts, and realized he did see his father.

Update: Kate still sluggish about wanting to help with during surgery on Jack. It’s like old times.

Update: What was a close call with Aaron.

Update: Frank bursting through the jungle. Keamy made it? So did some of the others….

Update: Jin’s promise… well, we know he didn’t make it back to the mainland.

Update: Dan with a crush on Charlotte? Didn’t see that coming.

Update: And they’re back.

Update: Wonder what his Dad is going to tell him? Anyway, seeing his father like that must have been what Jack was referring to when he told the doctor in the finale about his dad.

Update: Commercials. That message to Jack was the same thing the psychic told Claire. Jack’s desire to get back to the island must be driven by this message. I think that means it’s likely Claire is still on the island, and still alive.

Update: Hurley was crying… Nice “Someone’s going to be visiting you too… soon”. Must be Dad.

Update: Message from Charlie…. You’re not supposed to raise him, Jack…… Yikes.

Update: Ah, it’s after the trial.

Update: Hurley alert too.

Update: Dad alert!

Update: Interesting choice for Jack to want Kate for this.

Update: GOOD CATCH ROSE! I didn’t even think of that. The island must want Jack to stay.

Update: Sawyer handing out restraining order… LOL

Update: Good catch, TropicHunt.com Guy. I didn’t notice that.

Update: Commercials again. When the writer’s do something like Jack having appendicitis, I always wonder what purpose that has. To get Jack out of the way and vulnerable? To get him closer to Juliet?

Update: Diagnosis is: Appendix problems… Bingo.

Update: Guess Danielle isn’t coming back either.

Update: Whoa… Who buried them?

Update: Jack’s got appendicitis. Claire is saying things.

Update: Must be after the trial, but before the last episode of last season.

Update: Jack talking about his dad in the past tense.

Update: Reading to Aaron.

Update: By the way, if you’re following along, write stuff in the comments if you’d like.

Update: Commercials. About car foam. You’d think they would have figured that out by now.

Update: Ah…. with Kate. Was that a scar on Jack’s belly above the towel?

Update: Maybe we’ll find out why Jack starts downing those pills…. Whoa…Panties and toys? Is he staying with a relative?

Update: Passing out. Not a good sign.

Update: Turmoil at Jack Camp.

Update: Lost starts now…

Update: We’ll see how well this works…

Update: Twitter is really broken tonight. Live blogging here.

Follow along on Twitter!

Twitter is acting up tonight (I’m getting a lot of STATUS 500 pages), but I’m going to try to use it to night to Live Twitter LOST. If you’re a Twitter user, you can follow along at the MagicLampTV twitter link with friends. Sign up for twitter, follow MagicLampTV, and join in the fun!

Update I noticed that some other sites wanted to try the Twitter thing too, after seeing it here. (Would have been nice for at least a hat tip in Magic Lamp’s direction for grabbing the idea…) I think The Island decided to stomp all over that and Twitter acted up, so I live blogged here instead.

LOST: Ben Linus and Charles Widmore

There are two ways to take what Ben said to Charles Widmore in the last moments of last week’s episode when Charles asked if Ben was there to kill him.

“You know I can’t do that.”

What exactly did he mean by that? Did he mean he can’t do that because there’s something that needs to happen, and without Charles it couldn’t happen? I think that’s a little out there as a theory.

I took it to mean that Ben actually can’t hurt Widmore, and I think it’s for the same reason Michael couldn’t shoot himself. There’s something about the island that’s preventing that from happening.

The real question is, of course, why? Was Widmore previously on the island? Was there something he did there that made him invulnerable to Ben, and possibly to everyone else?

How could Widmore have found out about this? An attempted killing that failed? That would just be brushed off as a lucky circumstance that prevented his death. No, I think there’s more to it than that, but I haven’t quite put my finger on it yet.

LOST: He Changed The Rules

Spoilers ahead from last week’s episode

Something’s been bothering me since last week’s show. When Alex was killed, the first words out of Ben’s mouth were “He changed the rules”. Why those words? Why not “He changed the agreement?”

I might be reading too much into those words, but what “rules” is Ben talking about? The rules of engagement between the two groups? A rule of some sort that leaves all the family members out of the war Ben and Widmore are waging against each other?

I’m sure we’ll find out soon, but this still does bother me.