Tag: Lost Theories

LOST – This Place Is Death


Spoilers ahead
Great episode! I liked everything about it… a few glimpses of things from the past, and some set-ups for the future.

We saw what was causing the island to hop around. Ben must be a lot stronger than he looks, because the “frozen donkey wheel” (as the producers called it) wasn’t set right. All that wobbling around causing the island to hop around, in time, and possibly otherwise. Now that Ben *and* Locke have touched that thing, I think First Rule Of Frozen Donkey Wheel is Don’t Touch Frozen Donkey Wheel! The big question is, where is Locke going to end up? How long will it take until he finds Ben?

I thought is was VERY interesting that Christian reminded Locke that HE was supposed to turn the wheel, not Ben. I wonder how that fits into the Grand Scheme? What difference would it make if Locke or Ben went? My question here isn’t so much “Why Locke?” as it is, “Why should Ben have stayed?”

And, as we suspected, Charlotte did spend some time on the island. (We also suspected Miles might have too…). She was able to leave the island with her mother, who denied that Charlotte was ever there… oh, and she probably met Dan when she was little too. When did that happen? Back when Dan in the tunnel just before they found the Wheel? Did Dan travel back again? Is he going to get stuck then, possibly even get caught up in The Purge of Dharma?

Did you notice how taken aback Ben was when Desmond said he was at the church to meet Faraday’s mother? Should be interesting to see how that plays out.

All in all, a great episode.

What did you think? Notice anything you’d like to add?

LOST Theories – Been On The Island Before?

Spoilers ahead
John over on the comments section of another post mentions a theory, that I thought I’d break out here, because it’s just too good not to:


Dan asked Miles if he was on the island before. Maybe he is Pierre Chang’s son, that we saw in the season opener. Also, Dan could be Charlottes father, since he was back in that same timeframe as well in the opener.

I think Miles being Chang’s son is very, very likely, and it certainly does mean he’s been on the island before.

Charlotte being Daniel’s daughter? Perhaps. In “Jughead” when Richard asks Daniel why he wouldn’t detonate the bomb, Daniel says “I’m in love with that woman sitting next to me, and I would never do anything to hurt her”. I’m not sure he’d say that if he were her father. I would expect something more like “I love that woman sitting next to me…” Same inference, but I think it would be more likely that he said it that way.

Now, maybe they’re not father and daughter… Maybe they’re really brother and sister! Neither of them would know that, it could explain their tie to the island, if Ms. Hawking is indeed Daniel’s mother, which has been speculated here before. I don’t think either of them knows this.

If Widmore picked these people to go to the island in the first place, wouldn’t he have picked those people because of their ties to the island, because they’d be the most likely to be able to deal with things? (Forget about the mercenaries… they’re just strong arms for Widmore, and a necessary evil to get Daniel, Charlotte and Miles there).

And while Ben probably knew who they all were because of Michael being on the boat, he might have already known all that before because of his ties to Dharma and Ms. Hawking.

So, what do you think about all this?

LOST – The Little Prince

Spoilers…. I warned you….

Not the best episode, but not the worst either. I have to say this really felt like a filler more than anything else. Maybe we could have called this one “The Nose Bleed Episode”.

Did you catch Daniel’s question to Miles when he found out about the nosebleed? Whether he’d been on the island before? Last season there was something that implied that Charlotte had been on the island before. Doesn’t explain why Juliette had a nosebleed though. Very weird sequence.

I was fooled by who the lawyer’s client was. I didn’t think it would end up being Ben. The biggest surprise was Jin was found…. He slept through all those flashes, so he has no idea what’s going on. He was pretty surprised to see Danielle, but I think everyone saw that coming as soon as those people on the boat spoke French.

I can’t recall what Danielle’s reaction was to meeting Jin for the first time…. Did she ever event meet Jin?

Wonder who was shooting at them when they were on the boat? Future versions of themselves, trying to keep them from heading where they were going?

Another question – Weren’t Sayid and Ben off to get Hurley? Well, where is he?

Lost tidbits:

Some of the numbers showed up again: 42 was the house number of Kate’s house; 23 was the number of the boat slip that Ben went to.

Oh, and “LOST: Untangled”? Maybe that spot during “Life of Mars” was supposed to be funny, but… yikes.

I’m glad Jin is back.

….a couple of questions answered…. so many new questions….

LOST Theories: Rules Don’t Apply To Desmond

Faraday told Desmond that “The Rules Don’t Apply To You”. In his write-up of Because You Left, Jeff Jensen says:

That Desmond had no previous recollection of this really, really weird encounter — and you would think he would — leads me to draw this conclusion: the past CAN be changed, but probably not in anyway that creates catastrophic paradox. Bookmark this debate: Methinks Season 5 is all about this fluidity of time and mutability of history stuff.

I agree with this, at least partially. It’s not so much that anyone can change the past – it’s that only certain people can change the past. That’s what makes them “special”. Up until Desmond’s accident at the hatch, these people were just born that way. I suspect this is the real reason The Others wanted Walt in the first place.

He goes on to say:

Oh, and how much do you wanna bet that Daniel Faraday’s Oxford-hanging mom is that lovely lady from Desmond’s previous time travel jaunt, the one and only Ms. Hawking?

I agree with this completely, and said that in last night’s posting.

LOST Theories: Sun’s Revenge

Spoilers ahead….
Sun has told two people (Widmore and Kate) that she wants to kill Ben.

On the one hand, Jeff Jensen at EW.com guesses that it might be a rouse of some sort. That she’s really working for Ben as a double agent, or possible that Sun is now involved with someone really powerful that wants to kill Ben – The Economist – and she’s protecting her new life?

I’m pretty sure that Jeff was joking about “The Economist”, but I think he’s on to something about protecting her “new life”. It’s not that she wants to protect some new man she’s with… It’s that she wants to protect the new girl she’s with – Her daughter!

After all, if Sun learned that Ben wanted to get them back on the island, that might mean that she would have to go without her daughter. Even with her daughter, I don’t think Sun would be to ready to go back. She’d do anything to protect her, and the best way she can think of is to kill Ben.

LOST – Because You Left – The Lie


Spoilers ahead

Love the “8:15” opening…

Great episodes! I’m glad the show is back.

Here are some thoughts:

First of all, how in the heck is a baby on the island in the first place? Dr. Chang’s baby, I mean. New arrival to the island? (You did catch that it’s Dr. Chang, not Dr. Candle, right? That name was also mentioned in the Comic-Con video).

Is Widmore after the “limitless” energy? Or the time travel? Or both? …Probably both.

“God help us all” – once from Candle, once from Mrs. Hawking.

When exactly did Daniel travel to that cave?

Does anyone believe that Kate wouldn’t be followed by those guys that came to check for Aaron?

Neil Forgurt has impeccable timing.

What makes Desmond “special”? Is it because he went through the massive power surge when the island exploded?

They really shoot that “special” word around a lot… Locke’s “special”. So was Walt. Are they all “special” in the same way? I think they must be. Are “The Others” immune this too? Is that why Alpert seems uneffected by the time shifts?

How does Sun know Ben is off the island, and why does she want to kill him? Does she blame him for Jin’s death?

Just have to love Hurley’s synopsis of the first four seasons too. I was expecting Hurley to knife Ben when they were in the kitchen together. Never expected him to run to the police.

So, Mrs. Hawking reappears! I kinda of expected that, but only because of Daniel saying that Desmond needs to find his mother at Oxford. Yep, it’s my guess that Mrs. Hawking is Desmond’s mother.

Is Locke really dead? Is the secret to get him back to the island, so he can travel back and forth through time?

With all this time shifting…. Is it Jack and Kate who were those skeletons found in the cave in season one? That theory became a lot more plausible with tonight’s episode.

When did Ben come to the realization that they all had to go back to the island? Was it something he always knew? Or did he find out something was going wrong, and consulted with Mrs. Hawking?

So… What did YOU think of the show?

LOST Theories – Why Daniel Can’t Remember Desmond

The ending of “The Constant” bothered me quite a bit. How in the heck could Daniel have not remembered Desmond? Desmond was the reason for his breakthru in discovering that minds can shift back and forth in time. Wouldn’t YOU remember something like that?

I thought about this off and on since the show ran, and even after watching that episode again, I was still stumped.

Until today.

It was sitting there as plain as day, and I didn’t see it.

Daniel couldn’t remember because he didn’t experience it yet. Remember that Desmond didn’t remember meeting Faraday before… he hadn’t experienced it yet. Now that Desmond’s mind shifted, he does remember meeting Faraday.

In an upcoming episode, Daniel’s consciousness is going to shift from the present into his body in the past day. Why? Maybe another high dose of magnetism hits him. It might even happen because he’s been exposed to the radiation for so long during the testing on his rat in the lab. Not sure how, but when it does happen, the only person that’s going to be able to snap him out of it is Desmond (just like the book said).

Could it be just the opposite?

We’ll have to see! Whatever it is, Daniel is going to be in for a wild ride.

LOST STARTS AGAIN JANUARY 21st, 2009! BE READY!

LOST: Daniel Filmed The Secret Dharma Video

The Dharma video that was shown at Comic Con 2008 was posted previously, but here it is again. Take a look. The man who finally reveals himself as “Pierre Chang” speaks to someone off camera. Listen to the guy who’s filming Pierre.

Maybe it’s just me, but this sounds a lot like Daniel Faraday.

What do you think?

LOST: Who will be in charge now?


Spoilers ahead! Don’t read this if you haven’t seen the Lost Season 4 finale!

Something’s been bothering me since the season ended.

The show has established that the island won’t let people die before it’s done with them. Michael couldn’t commit suicide when it tried because it had another job for him. At the very end of Michael’s life, the island sent a message, “You can go now, Michael”, and boom the boat exploded. I still have questions about whether Michael actually DID want to go right then and there, but that’s another topic.

Then we have Widmore and Ben, who appear not to be able to kill each other. I think we can agree it’s the island keeping each of them safe too, rather than some pact the two have. I think it’s interesting that Ben is very willing to personally put himself into harm’s way. He has the kind of confidence that tells me he knows he can’t be killed. Now, that’s not to say he won’t get hurt from time to time. Look at everything that’s happened to him: Beat up, shot with an arrow, beat up some more – you get the idea. It’s just that he has the island on his side.

Anyway, having the island on your side is a pretty good thing, at least while it likes you.

So, I have to ask, why didn’t think work for John Locke? He’s the new “chosen” leader of The Others, right? What in the heck happened? The island gets a leader and the leader dies? Wasn’t there a “You can’t die” part of John’s contract with the island too?

Perhaps there was, at the beginning. Falling out of favor with the island can lead to big problems. Just look at Ben and his tumor. Why did he end up getting that? Did he fall out of favor with the island? What could he have done to fall out of favor? Maybe it’s because of the way he’d been treating people. Or maybe the island decided that a new leader would better serve the “mission”: John Locke.

It’s not unlikely that John suffered the same fate as Ben. Everything was working just fine at first, but something happened (to be revealed in Season 5, most likely) that made John fall out of favor with the island; by the time we see Locke in the coffin, could the new leader have already been chosen? Let’s look at that in a minute…
Another possibility is that in order to allow John Locke to serve the island, he had to die. If he really were in tune with the island as it appeared, dying would just be a transition to a new (and perhaps more important) job for the island. The Others sure seem to be able to pop up in the strangest places at the right time. Maybe Locke will be able to do this as well, and this will be part of his new mission.

Combine these two ideas (a new leader has been chosen, and Locke had to die to serve the island), and we might be on to something. Who would be the best advocate for the island? Someone that came to the island and just blindly accepted everything that was happening, or someone that was skeptical at first, but then grew to realize how important the island was?

Someone that was blindly faithful to the island would be too vulnerable to outside influences which made it appear that the island wanted things a certain way.

I think you’d really need someone who didn’t believe what was happening at first, but finally came to believe in the island after the evidence was laid out. That leader would always keep a skeptical eye on things, and probably think more clearly in situations that required it.

I think it’s pretty clear that the island really wants Jack back there to run things. Locke was just too willing to accept what he thought the island was telling him, and I think that’ll end up being the reason he dies. Not because he didn’t listen, but because he did – just to the wrong people.