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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.

New LostScape item revealed

A new item has been revealed in the LostScape game that’s currently on ABC.com.

It’s a razor… play the game and click the razor to see a scene from tonight’s episode: Something Nice Back Home

Wall-E Robot Toy Coming from Disney

I’m a total Pixar junkie, and have been since the early days of the company. (Remember Luxo Jr?) I just ran across this: Gearlog is reporting Disney/Pixar and Wowwee are going to release a Wall-E robot this summer for about $190!

It’s going to have a remote control, be able avoid obstacles, touch detection, sound, 10 motors and will be programmable! Very cool! Can’t wait to see it!

LOST: Interview with Ben

Ben Linus
Ain’t It Cool News has an interview with Michael Emerson, who plays Ben on LOST, which has a few tantalizing hints on what’s coming up soon!

Emerson mentions that Ben might have had to give something up in order to get that smoke monster to appear. That got me wondering: What did he give up? Part of himself? Part of his soul? What did he give it up to? The island?

Consider this: If it is the island, then he is likely not the first person to do this. In fact, Jacob might have done this in the past. Jacob might have done this so much that he’s now part of the island itself.

That black soot all over Ben when he came back out of the secret room (a secret room inside a secret room…gotta love that), might be the same stuff that they found outside encircling the cabin.

Anyway, enough of that. Read the interview, and comment here if you’d like. Interesting tidbit: Michael is married to the woman who portrayed Ben Linus’ mother.

(Thanks to John!)

Lost: The Shape of Things To Come

There was so much happening in this episode, it’s crazy.

Let’s see.. the random weirdness for tonight’s episode was:

The ship’s doctor died, but the people on the ship say he’s OK.

Ben has the ability to travel off the island using the same, or similar, method that got the polar bears off the island.

Ben wanted Locke to survive that ambush so they could go to Jacob together.

Ben had to ask the year when he finally made it to civilization, so the travel method he uses isn’t completely accurate. The date was Oct. 24, 2005.

For some reason, Nadia died. I don’t think she was the intended target. I think the target was Sayid. If that’s true, then the rest of the Oceanic 6 could be in trouble. Is the reason they’re not talking that Widmore has threatened them?

I was surprised that Alex died. That appears to be one of the reasons that Ben is going after people.

Ben’s secret panel with a room behind it has ANOTHER secret panel in it, leading to … Well, at first I thought it was Jacob, but it wasn’t him. Wonder what he did?

Ben smiled after Sayid volunteered to go after people for Ben. I think a lot of people, myself included, thought Sayid was doing this to help people stuck on the island.

Ben’s reaction to Alex’s death, “He changed the rules”. We found out later he meant Widmore, not Jacob.

Bernard knows Morse code, and Faraday finally admitted that they had no intention of taking anyone off the island.

Ben can’t kill Widmore??

Penny’s in trouble. It’ll be interesting to see what happens when Ben tries to go after her, or if he tries to get Sayid to go after her.

That “He changed the rules” comment got me thinking. Did Widmore and Ben have some kind of uneasy truce? Widmore’s comments like “All you have you have from me”, MUST mean that he in some way financed either The Others or Dharma at some point. They must have had some kind of agreement that no one in either of their families would get hurt, in case it came to that.

All in all, a surprising episode in many ways.

What did you think of it?

Twittering LOST at MagicLampTV

If you want to join the live twitter of Lost tonight, follow along with MagicLampTV on Twitter, and you can join in too!

You can also follow along with the Twitter “tweets” in the new Twitter Flash plug-in on left side of the blog. I don’t think it updates, so you’ll need to follow along on Twitter if you want to watch live.

LOST Theory: Protecting the Island Through Time Travel

Lost logo
LOST starts again tonight! Can’t wait!

…But we do have to wait a bit, so here’s a short theory to think about before the show tonight.

We saw that the island has the ability to prevent things from happening. Michael’s gun jammed, and he couldn’t kill himself, just as Tom said. It stands to reason that’s not it’s only power. What if it set plans into motion so that Oceanic Air 815 fell out of the sky on purpose?

How would it, or anyone, do such a thing? We’ve seen that Desmond can travel back into his own body and change things in the past. We know that Ms. Hawking (the old woman who wouldn’t sell Desmond the ring) can do the same thing. It seems highly unlikely that they’re the only people that can do that.

Whether it’s the island’s properties that make this possible or it’s amplifying some people’s ability to control magnetism (which is what I believe Walt was doing) to do this, I’m not sure. I do think that Ben knows how this works, and that the Dharma Initiative was close to figuring this out (and might well have, setting Widmore on the path to find out more about the island).

I believe The Others have been doing this for a long time, trying to make things “right”. Just a nudge, here and there when possible.

If the people on the island had this ability, and they were under attack in the future, how could they set things into motion to get help? They’d use their abilities to travel back to their “earlier selves” to find the people they needed to help them. With the right guidance, they could engineer circumstances that caused those people to get on Oceanic 815, and get them onto the island so that when the time came, they could help defend against the attack.

The ability to travel back and influence events is the key for why Widmore (and possibly others) want Ben in the first place. Widmore thinks that control like that would let him rule the world… At least he thinks that. I think the Island has other ideas about that.

In fact, this has much bigger implications. Locke has been saying all along that the island wanted them there, and could have aligned everything so those people got on that plane.

What do you think?