Tag: Lost Theories

LOST: Harold Perrineau Explains His Previous Interview


On LOST, even when your character dies, it doesn’t mean we won’t see him again. I got that feeling when reading this new interview with Harold Perrineau (Michael) on his departure from LOST. In his previous interview, he sounded pretty bitter. In a new Entertainment Weekly interview, he tries to set the record straight:

Do you regret going public with your feelings?
I should probably think more before I say things. I should especially think before I say anything racial, because I recognize that when you make a racial comment it polarizes people. That was never the intention. It’s like, “No, no, no, don’t choose sides. I’m just telling you this is what I think. Everybody stay on whatever side you’re on; this is my point-of-view.” I should think about those things, and then unfortunately what happens is I just start to talk — like I’m doing now, I should probably shut up. [laughs]

The article discusses other things, such as his favorite scenes from LOST, his least favorite moment, and what happens when you find out that your character won’t be around much longer.

Via EW.com

LOST: Jeremy Bentham

If there’s a sneaker way of getting people to read about philosophers, I’d like to see it. Last night when the name “Jeremy Bentham” came up, the Wikipedia entry for him must have peaked as the highest viewed page.

So, who is Jeremy Bentham? He proposed the idea of a Panopticon, a prison where prisoners could be observed without being able to tell if they’re being watched.

The creepiest part, and the part that’s most like what we saw last night on Lost? Bentham requested that when he died, his body be preserved and stored in a wooden cabinet called an Auto-icon. After this, his body was kept on public display. At the 100th and 150th anniversaries of the college, the Auto-icon was brought to the meeting of the College Council.

Pretty darn creepy. Interesting wooden box parallel, eh?

LOST: Season 4 Finale Live Blog

Update: I’ll do a write up later. Thanks for joining me!

Update: Wow. They have to bring Locke’s body back. That’s so he can do a “Christian Shepard” and come back, I’ll bet.

Update: “Some very bad things happened, and it was my fault for leaving. And he said I had to come back.” “The island won’t let you come alone, all of you have to go back.”

Update: Outside the funeral parlor. Hoffs/Drawlar.

Update: Probably not the last we’ve seen of Frank and Desmond.

Update: Commercials – You know something? Every single thing is pointing at Ben being in that coffin. I’ve said that for a while now, even before tonight.

The person we would least suspect in that coffin right now? Locke. If Ben’s in there, where’s the mystery for next season? But if it’s Locke… Oh, man.

Update: EXCELLENT! IT’S PENNY!!!! Didn’t see that one coming either.

Update: The big lie begins.

Update: Now, the last time someone had a boat, they took a kid. You’d think Sayid would remember that.

Update: What the heck did that person say? Gonna have to look at that again. It’s Claire! In a dream…geesh.

Update: Yeah! He’s alive! Now, just make it to the end of the season, dude.

Update: Come on Desmond! Be ok!

Update: Commercial – Ben looked really upset that he was leaving, which I think is understandable. Good to see he apologized to Locke.

Update: Wow..it’s amazing anyone survived that crash. Hope Lapidus makes it. I like that guy.

Update: Ha! And they acknowledged it too.

Update: Technically, they moved two islands.

Update: Excellent! Completely called the wheel and the cold room.

Update: Ben leaving with no instructions for Locke. ANd he can’t get back to the island after he moves it. Ah, not a gunshot in his arm. An injury.

Update: If it is Ben that’s died, I think the Oceanic 6 are going to try and take matters into their own hands.

Update: Commercials – Sun must want to try and use Widmore to get back to the island to get to the rest of the people there. When she said the other people got off the island, she probably means Ben. And I would be willing to bet when Ben said he was changing, he’s changing into a Parka and warm clothes. Question is, is Locke going to be the one that shoots him in the arm? Better not be Keamy. (har!)

Update: Why did Ben throw all that stuff in there are short it out?? Notice that Ben seems to realize he knows it’s Locke’s time now…

Update: Paik does know Widmore! Ha!

Update: Sun with Widmore?

Update: Alternate endings tomorrow on Good Morning America.

Update: Commercials – We didn’t see Jin blow up. Sure hope he grabbed a life vest. Could be that Christian telling Michael “You can go” means he could save himself, but I really don’t think so.

Update: Michael stays. Whispering. Christian let him go.

Update: Wherever you go, Widmore will find you. Not if I find him first.

Update: How did they miss that boat with the heading?

Update: “Why are you calling him Bentham….” Hmmm. Wonder what someplace safe is? Checkmate, Mr. Eko? Yow.

Update: Sayid kills again. Wonder who that guy was? A body guard?

Update: Commercials – At least the fall didn’t kill Sawyer. He’ll be on the island too. Sawyer must have told Kate to visit his daughter, or give her some money he has stashed away.

Update: Hurley’s thinking of going… Sawyer’s secret… He’s gonna jump.

Update: They can’t reach down and plug that hole?

Update: Fuel leak, great.

Update: I think Juliet realizes Daniel might not be back.

Update: Does that mean Charlotte was born on the island?

Update: Commercials – Didn’t expect to see Keamy again. I”ll also point out that radio signals don’t have the timeline effect (at least, the phone call to the boat didn’t). They could talk in real time.

Update: Ben wipes out Keamy, and a second later turns into a rat with one word. “So”.

Update: Bingo on that bomb and the dead man’s trigger.

Update: Keamy’s back? Dang!

Update: Helicopter ride… Hurley still concerned about Claire.

Update: (Kali.Amanda – I saw the same thing).

Update: Commercials – I love how Ben is putting all that metal in the chamber while the tape said not to. Wonder who’s headed down into the station? The only person I can think of is Alpert.

Update: “Time traveling bunnies” WBAGNFARB.

Update: The Orchid tape from last year’s Comic Con, at least the Comic Con tape was the blooper tape.

Update: Ha! Silly experiments, and a video tape.

Update: Charlotte’s been on the island before? What? She’s DEAD TOO? Or is she a Ben operative?

Update: Gotta love Rose.

Update: I think Michael’s going to end up sacrificing himself to keep that bomb cold.

Update: Ah! The timing of the island vs. the boat is off. Forgot. That’s why it didn’t blow up. Good solution for the bomb too.

Update: Commercials – Finally a decent explanation for why Walt is older now. If “Jeremy Bentham” ends up being someone we don’t know, that’ll be a surprise. Kate’s reaction, “him, of all people”, really points to Ben.

Update: Locke was the one that told Jack they had to lie? Wow. Didn’t see that coming.

Update: To protect everyone that didn’t come back! Hurley believes Michael is alive too. It’s beginning to sound like Ben (if he is Jeremy Bentham) can’t find the island either.

Update: WALT!

Update: Commercials – The question is, did they have the insight to get in that rubber raft when it came back and get OFF the boat? Or did they find a way to stop it? I’m guessing the later, if it didn’t explode already.

Update: Sayid to the rescue. And Alpert too. Bet that boat is gone.

Update: And the whispers…and …it is a trap!

Update: People running in the jungle need to look ahead when they run. …Of course, this is probably a trap.

Update: Commercials – I’m gonna have to re-watch that scene with Kate and Jack when she backs up. She said something to him I missed about being married. I still bet Ben is Jeremy Bentham. He does use aliases, so that’s not a surprise. Ben must visit Jack to tell him to get back to the island.

Update: How is disconnecting a power source going to blow something up?

Update: Jeremy Bentham must be Ben’s alias.

Update: Three years have passed…..

Update: Jeremy Bentham? Who the hell is that?

Update: EXCELLENT! She backs up!

Update: The Coffin.

Update: Bet Sawyer bails out of that helicopter we saw in the preview.

Update: Two Hour finale starts now! (Looks like a Kate Sawyer kiss!)

Update: And gets decked.

Update: And Ben walks in….

Update: I love Hurley’s reaction to the phrase “the actual Orchid station”. “Wait… What?”

Update: Yeah, not so good with the C4 explosives. …Wonder why they mentioned Kate’s father just now on the popups?

Update: I swear Ben’s bearing that he gave Michael wasn’t 305.

Update: Commercials (Four days until The Mole!)

Update: I wonder if Jack tells Kate about Claire, or if she overheard?

Update: The funeral, and Claire’s mom. First in a series of shockers for Jack.

Update: Gah! Network hiccup. Windows….grrrr..

Update: I’ll probably write more things during the commercials during the last two hours, since I’m not pausing the TV the way I do when I do the 24 writeups.

Update: (Andy, good catch on the keys). (Kali.Amanda… I’m trying! Updates probably won’t be as frequent during the last two hours).

Update: And we’re back to commercials. Again.

Update: Back at The Orchid, we have mercenaries!

Update: The numbers on the odometer. Wonder what convinced Hurley to take the car?

Update: Ha! Didn’t notice the numbers on the jerseys.

Update: The coconut and whispering would really freak me out if I were Hurley.

Update: Commercials. THis “Wipeout” show looks a lot like “Ninja Warrior”

Update: Sun likely got money from Hurley to do the takeover of the company. A settlement wouldn’t be enough to buy that much interest in the company.

Update: Stunt baby on the rubber raft with Sun and Jin.

Update: Man, if that boat blows up, there are going to be a lot of people that go with it.

Update: Wonder if we’ll finally see The Temple tonight?

Update: Dangerous and unpredictable to move the island. Love this cracker scene. Wonder how Ben knows those crackers are 15 years old (There’s that number again).

Update: Commercials

Update: Sayid on the boat, finds out that Jack and Kate ran off.

Update: Nadia. I’m sorry she’s gone.

Update: Aaron’s five week’s old.

Update: Question for Sayid and Jack. Those are new too. (I think).

Update: Boone mentioned. Libby didn’t make it through the first week. Charlie drowned a few weeks before we could leave.

Update: Expanded press conference.

Update: “You don’t get to die alone”. Reference to “Live together, die alone”.

Update: Genghis. Gotta love Sawyer’s nicknames.

Update: Jack’s great. “It’s only a flesh wound! I think I’ll go for a walk!”

Update: Commercials

Update: Charlotte’s out of the loop on the Secondary Protocol, and Faraday’s pretty freaked out about what he knows is going to happen.

Update: You know, with all these dead people showing up on the island, one has to wonder if Widmore wants to communicate with them. For what? Profit?

Update: I really like Hurley’s reaction to seeing his parents.

Update: There’s that shadowy figure in back of Karen Decker.

Update: It’s started! With captions too.

I’ll be live blogging the Lost Season 4 Finale here, all three hours. Remember that they’re repeating part 1, and adding footage of the press conference, so don’t miss it!

Feel free to post your own comments!

LOST: Was Sun’s Takeover Realistic?


Spoilers
If you watched the first hour of the finale a couple of weeks ago, you know that Sun has taken over her father’s company. A couple people pointed out that it must have been one heck of settlement to be able to do that, so it’s completely unrealistic that she’d be able to do that.

I agree that she couldn’t do that single handedly; but I don’t think she did. She went to someone who could easily help her do it: Hurley.

LOST: Predictions Before The Season 4 Finale!

Here’s an expanded list of predictions for what’s going to happen during the season finale:

The first two are expanded versions of what appeared at EW.com

The Coffin: Ben’s in there. All the signs point to it. Richard Alpert tried to get Locke to come with him at an early age. When he couldn’t get there, circumstance shifted and Ben was brought on the island as a replacement. Now that Locke is coming into his own on the island, the island will have no use for Ben, and he’ll end up getting killed by Widmore himself, or one of Widmore’s henchmen.

The Island Move: When that island moves, it’s going to move big time: Past and Present. The implications of that? If the island moves in the past, that means there’s no Desmond and button to fly over, and Flight 815 keeps flying until it crashes. That means there was no “staged” plane; it’s the same plane from a different timeline.

The Black Rock: When the island moved previously, it must have caused a huge disruption in the ocean. Fish must have been everywhere scattered across the island when it just popped in on it’s new location. (Man, I bet that smelled for weeks…) Anyway, I think that’s how the Black Rock ended up in the middle of the island; it was just in the middle of the ocean and when the island did a jump, it happened to be right where the island “landed”. One has to wonder what else the island is going to pick up when the island jumps this time.

Richard Alpert vs. Matthew Abaddon: I really think that there might be two opposing forces at work on the island that have been staring us right in the face: Richard Alpert and Matthew Abaddon.

We’ve seen Alpert at work already, even as far back as when Locke was a baby and young boy When Alpert went to visit Locke, he looked very upset that Locke took the knife during the test. This isn’t what Alpert had hoped for. Another attempt was made to get Locke onto the island when he was a teenager, but that was also rejected. It wasn’t until Matthew Abaddon planted the seed of that Outback trip that Locke “took the bait” (so to speak) and went on that trip, the trip that made him get on that island.

So think about that a minute: If Alpert rejected Locke early on, why did Abaddon want him on the island? Yes, they could both be working together, but remember that Abaddon was one of the people recruiting Naomi and her crew to get ON the island. Bringing hostiles to the island sounds to me like the last thing that Alpert would want.

I really think that Ben and Widmore might just be pawns in a bigger game that is just now going to be revealed.

The polar bear, the parka, and “Frozen Donkey Wheel”: It’s clear that Dharma thought that they were able to transport animals into the arctic in their experiments. If they were doing animal experiments, they wouldn’t be sending anything that wasn’t native to the arctic because it would kill the animal. The problem is, they really weren’t sending things off the the arctic – they were sending them to the desert. I think they had no idea this was happening. The fact that Ben showed up in a parka in the desert reinforces this idea even more. That could be a precaution (a well deserved one… if you got sent through a portal to transport you somewhere else, you wouldn’t want to be caught in the arctic without a coat). I think there’s something more to it as well.

What happens if the device the transports the island is very cold? So cold that have to get into heavy coats just to keep warm while operating the device? And what about that “Frozen Donkey Wheel” code word the writers have been using for this finale? If it’s a very old device, it could be in the shape of a big wheel, the kind of wheel you might see donkeys hooked up with in a mill. Turning that wheel might realign the island in order to facilitate the island’s move.

What goes wrong: I think that in the midst of getting the island shifted to a new place, Keamy’s going to break in and start shooting. Ben (in his Parka) is going to get shot in the arm, drop through the portal they’ve opened up and end up in the desert. Keamy’s going to end up dying which the device in his arm will pick up and trigger an explosion on the boat.

Locke will then make a choice of what to do, and it’ll end up moving the whole island not only in space, but in time as well (which is not something anyone expects).

Why The Ocean 6 Won’t Talk: Sometime shortly after they make it off the island,
Widmore will warn them that they shouldn’t tell anyone about about the island, because if they do, he’ll have them killed.

Just How Old IS Widmore?: How long has Widmore been around? If the island doesn’t allow people to die until it is done with them, could it keep them alive past the time when they should have died? Widmore could be much older than we expect.

If you have a prediction, please add it in the comments section!

Welcome to EW.com readers!


Welcome to EW.com readers!

Jeff “Doc” Jensen asked for predictions on the season finale, and this week he’s posted reader responses. My guess was one of them!

I prefer the time-travel zaniness of my friend Steve at MagicLamp.org, who writes:

”The Island will move in the present and past, causing 815 to crash into the ocean, since the magnetic pulse never happened. Those versions of the 815ers all die, leaving their counterparts alive on the Island. The Oceanic 6 are told their friends can’t return or the paradox will endanger the world. Locke replaces Ben, who ends up in the coffin, and Aaron will be foretold to be Locke’s replacement.”

I love the way you think, Steve, because (1) I’ve been predicting something close to this for most of the season; and (2) it makes no sense.

If you’re a regular reader of MagicLamp.org, be sure and read the EW.com article, “Lost: A night to ‘move’ on?”

LOST: What happens to Frank, Charlotte, Miles and Daniel?


We know who the Oceanic 6 are… What the heck is going to happen to Frank, Charlotte, Miles and Daniel?

First, let’s look at why they were recruited for the mission they’re on.

Frank was recruited just because he knew something weird was going on with Flight 815 when he saw the pilot, so it probably doesn’t matter to Widmore what happens to him.

Charlotte is an anthropologist, probably recruited because the culture on the island is quite old (remember that four-toed statue?). We’ve seen no evidence so far that they’ve found something she would be interested in, or can explain.

Miles can speak with the dead. If the theories about The Others are right, he’s going to have a LOT of people to talk to.

Daniel is a scientist who knows a lot more about what’s happening on the island than he’s told everyone. The only person that knows this for sure is Desmond.

What happens to them?

Frank’s the only one who seems to know how to fly a helicopter, so I think it’s likely he’s making it off the island.

I think the rest are going to get stuck on the island when it moves. The characters are too interesting to get rid of at this point, and I think they’ll be able to help explain what the heck is going on… probably not by tomorrow, but by next season.

LOST: That Device on Keamy’s Arm


Spoilers Ahead

This might be obvious to some folks, but I’m going to through this out there:

Remember that device we saw on Keamy’s arm that they were putting on right before the soldiers left the boat?

It’s likely that the radio interference that the boat was having was because of that device radioing back to the boat. What would it be transmitting? It’s not like Keamy has an EKG running back on the boat, right?

Well, not quite. What I think he does have is a heart monitor that’s been wired up so that if his heart stops, it’ll trigger the bomb they found on the boat, setting it off.

The real question is, if that’s going to happen, how do Sun and Aaron get away? The boat blows up, and since the island needs them both they survive, to be picked up in the water?

Any guesses?

Matthew Fox Knows How LOST Ends


The Daily Mirror is reporting in an interview that Matthew Fox, Jack from LOST, is one of the people that knows how LOST is going to end. (My guess, Jack and Kate’s remains are those skeletons they found in the cave back in Season 1).

He’s keeping quiet about it though, even though cast members ask about it:

“Yes, it’s true. They understand I can’t talk about it, but sometimes they’ll ask, just hoping I’ll blurt it out.”

TV Buddy brings up a good question about this. Why did Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof tell Matthew Fox the ending?