{"id":2498,"date":"2010-03-23T22:57:21","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T03:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magiclamp.org\/?p=2498"},"modified":"2010-03-23T22:57:21","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T03:57:21","slug":"lost-ab-aeterno-theories-and-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magiclamp.org\/index.php\/2010\/03\/23\/lost-ab-aeterno-theories-and-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"LOST &#8211; Ab Aeterno &#8211; Theories and Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.magiclamp.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Richard.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.magiclamp.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Richard.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Richard\" width=\"300\" height=\"265\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>SPOILERS AHEAD<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>FINALLY we get to see Richard&#8217;s back story.   As a lot of people thought, he did come over on the Black Rock as a slave.   What I didn&#8217;t expect at all was that the Black Rock was what smashed the statue to pieces.    It sure didn&#8217;t take long for ol&#8217; Smokey to show up, but then I guess if you&#8217;re trapped on an island, you&#8217;ll look around for anything new and different.<br \/>\nUp until now I&#8217;d suspected that Jacob&#8217;s power was of life and death over people.  Life for Richard, since he never aged, and that was confirmed tonight.   Death, since a lot of dead people roam around on that island.  Although, I suppose that&#8217;s not strictly Jacob&#8217;s doing.   Anyway what we saw tonight showed that his powers extend further than I suspected.  <\/p>\n<p>Some random thoughts and observations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ab Aeterno \u2013 Since the beginning of time<\/li>\n<li>The Isabella we saw on the ship with Richard was not really Isabella; it was the Man in Black.   That might have been obvious to most of you, but I thought I&#8217;d point that out anyway.   But that was who Hurley was talking to when he was asked about it at the beach.<\/li>\n<li>Did Richard&#8217;s &#8220;I changed my mind&#8221; actually do anything?  In other words, by saying those words, did he jump sides, even though he&#8217;s going to help out Hurley and the gang?   I sure hope not.  I think Isabella&#8217;s words are the thing that are going to carry Richard through to the end.<\/li>\n<li>When the Man in Black was talking to Richard, he alluded to the fact that he&#8217;d been trapped on the island.   This is still in line with my theory that a normal human being was transformed (somehow) into the vessel that&#8217;s holding &#8220;evil&#8221;.    It&#8217;s likely that the Man in Black went looking for that power in the first place, not realizing that by accepting it, he would be trapped on the island.   I really think this is how Widmore is going to end up.<\/li>\n<li>Man, Jacob had quite a temper, eh?   He really beat the snot out of Richard on that beach.<\/li>\n<li>Did you notice that both times people who&#8217;ve been instructed to not let them speak before knifing them (&#8220;or it will be too late&#8221;), that both Sayid and Richard did exactly that?  Sayid let UnLocke speak, and Richard let Jacob speak.<\/li>\n<li>I liked Jacob&#8217;s explanation using that wine bottle.<\/li>\n<li>Something I&#8217;ve been wondering since the last episode:  Can The Man in Black go to Hydra island?  Can he even go in the water? <\/li>\n<li>All in all, a good episode.  I&#8217;m a little surprised it went on as long as it did, since there was a lot less action than I expected, but a nice long episode of LOST is just fine with me.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What did you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPOILERS AHEAD FINALLY we get to see Richard&#8217;s back story. As a lot of people thought, he did come over on the Black Rock as a slave. 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