{"id":2016,"date":"2009-04-08T20:53:20","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T02:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magiclamp.org\/?p=2016"},"modified":"2009-04-08T20:53:20","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T02:53:20","slug":"lost-dead-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magiclamp.org\/index.php\/2009\/04\/08\/lost-dead-is-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"LOST &#8211; Dead is Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.magiclamp.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/benseason5.png\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>Spoilers ahead<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>First, looks like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.magiclamp.org\/index.php\/2009\/04\/08\/thoughts-about-ben-before-tonights-dead-is-dead\/\">I was wrong on both counts<\/a>.  Doh!   Ah, well&#8230;. such are theories.<\/p>\n<p>The show just ended, and here are some random thoughts:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; After all this time of living with it, The Others don&#8217;t have a name for that monster.  Even more interesting is where it seems to live &#8211; inside the basement of the temple.  Sure looks like no one has been down there in some time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; It was interesting to see Ben working Caesar to try and get Locke taken care of.    Caesar sure didn&#8217;t last long either.   That shotgun blast was quite a surprise.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; That warning that Ben gave Danielle &#8211; &#8220;If you want your child to live, every time you hear whispers, run the other way.&#8221;  That seems weird.   Why should she run, if The Others took Alex?  <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; I don&#8217;t believe for a second Ben&#8217;s &#8220;reason&#8221; for killing Locke &#8211; that Locke needed to die to get everyone back to the island.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; I think the name &#8220;Jacob&#8221; was invoked more times in this episode than in any other episode.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Did you see Ben&#8217;s reaction to Christian being on the island?   I think Ben knows Christian.   <a href=\"http:\/\/www.magiclamp.org\/index.php\/2006\/05\/24\/lost-season-finale-predictions\/\">Recall that we weren&#8217;t quite sure how Christian died<\/a>.    I think Ben might have killed him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The question &#8220;What lies in the shadow of the statue?&#8221; is going to be the question on everyone&#8217;s lips for the next&#8230; well, until we see what lies in the shadow of statue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Alex, or whatever looks like Alex, sure wanted to make sure that Ben followed Locke.   I think we might have just seen the threat of what ends up getting Ben killed at the end of the series.  And did you see the look on Ben&#8217;s face when she told him that he had to follow Locke?   He sure was surprised about that. <\/p>\n<p>I think there are four factions on the island in the present day:  1) The Others, 2) The crash survivors, 3) Locke, Sun and Ben, and 4) The spirits that keep coming around (like Alex).<\/p>\n<p>Remember what Ben said to Sun about Locke?  That he&#8217;d never seen anyone brought back from the dead by the island?   If that&#8217;s true, I believe Ben knows those other people really are spirits.<\/p>\n<p>Question is, what&#8217;s their agenda?   They&#8217;re not part of The Others.   Do they work for Jacob, as Christian suggested when he first met Locke?<\/p>\n<p>I have a feeling that whatever they&#8217;re up to, it&#8217;s not good.   As in, if they get their way, it&#8217;s going to be big trouble for the world.<\/p>\n<p>What did you think of the episode?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spoilers ahead First, looks like I was wrong on both counts. Doh! Ah, well&#8230;. such are theories. The show just ended, and here are some random thoughts: &#8211; After all this time of living with it, The Others don&#8217;t have a name for that monster. Even more interesting is where it seems to live &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.magiclamp.org\/index.php\/2009\/04\/08\/lost-dead-is-dead\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;LOST &#8211; Dead is Dead&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,13],"tags":[134,673,327,334,336],"class_list":["post-2016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lost","category-television","tag-dead-is-dead","tag-lost","tag-lost-recap","tag-lost-summary","tag-lost-theories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>LOST - Dead is Dead - Magic Lamp<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.magiclamp.org\/index.php\/2009\/04\/08\/lost-dead-is-dead\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"LOST - Dead is Dead - Magic Lamp\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Spoilers ahead First, looks like I was wrong on both counts. 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