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I really enjoyed tonight's episode.
A couple of random thoughts, more like ramblings..
1. Was Kate's name written on the wall? I didn't see it on there.
2. I was reading online that the numbers beside each name may represent the Losties' seat numbers on the plane.
3. Terry Quinn delivered a BRILLIANT performance tonight. John Locke has never been one of my favorite characters. I know I'm the oddball with that opinion, as most people like him. But I was really moved by real Locke in tonight's episode. But at the same time, I like Fake Locke than old Locke!
4. There's a really good theory getting alot of buzz on ABC.com's Lost discussion forum. It involves mirrors. Y'all may have seen this discussed already. If not, check it out. There is alot of symbolism tied to the mirrors that the Losties look at this season. But apparently, mirrors have always been used alot throughout the entire series. It's something I've never quite paid attention to.
Anyways, in tonight's preview of next week's episode, we saw Jack smashing a mirror. So something is up with mirrors.
Marissa, I also liked this episode a lot -- and way more than last week's.
I didn't notice Kate's name on the wall, and the LockeNess Monster didn't mention her, although he pointed out all the others Jacob had touched, and the show even flashed the scenes where they had made contact. But no Kate was mentioned, and her name was not shown that I recall.
Did you notice that MiB threw away the white rock? Which I assume represented Jacob.
So Sideways Locke, the real Locke, is getting ready to marry Helen. And did you notice when she suggested eloping, she mentioned they should just invite her parents and "your dad"? What's THAT all about?!
Cool that Locke-X met both Hugo and Rose. Poor Rose still has terminal cancer, but she's pretty tranquil. And Hugo, while still Hugo, seems to be less a slacker, more the confident businessman.
A grief-stricken James is being drawn to the Dark Side of the Force. This is not good news. MiB wants to go home, and "home" is off the Island, and he's recruiting James to go...where? Richard says MiB wants to kill all of them.
And then: The mysterious blond kid, whom James could see and Richard could not. The sight of this kid visibly disturbed MiB as nothing else we have seen. Who is he? Why is he dressed like an Other? Why did he tell MiB "You can't kill him. There are rules"?
Joyce, I thought the little boy was either part of The Others or perhaps he's little Jacob? He bore a resemblance to Jacob in a way.
Also, I hope this theory isn't true. But I just read about another theory that Lost is really - brace yourselves - a GAME! A video game, to be exact. Some avid fan of the show has had this website called Lostisagame.com since 2005. If you visit this guy's site, he makes a pretty good argument on how the show could be the basis for a game that would be marketed after the show is over. There's more to it than that. But interesting, nonetheless. I would not be happy if this turned out to be a giant board game or video game!! lol. If you all have already heard about this theory, please disregard my message.
OMG, and how could I forget? Ben Linus as a European History teacher! Does that mean that Roger Linus never went into the Dharma Initiative, and Ben grew up off-Island?
OK, I have more question than comments.
1. Didn't Locke make amends with his dad? I can't remember how that relationship ended.
2. Also, I don't understand how Ben could be living a normal life as a teacher because the Oceanic crash wouldn't have had any impact on whether or not he was on the island...?? Right?
3. And I'm going to be a bit disappointed if Dharma and Widmore are just ancillary stories to the overall island plot. (OK, that's a comment.)
4. Speaking of Widmore, where the heck are Penny and Desmond (aside from being on other ABC shows?)
5. Lastly, it did look like the kid was a little Jacob. Maybe Jacob and MIB have been on the island since birth and this is some sort of evolved childhood game between them?
Paula, Locke's dad (Anthony Cooper)pushed him out of an 8th-floor window, then disappeared. Locke didn't see him again until the Island episodes "The Man from Tallahassee" and "The Brig," in which Cooper found himself mysteriously transported to the Island as a prisoner. Locke was supposed to kill his father as a rite of passage into joining the Others. But he couldn't do it, and ended up getting Sawyer to kill Cooper, instead. Cooper was the con man who caused the deaths of little James Ford's parents, and Sawyer had wanted to kill him for decades.
So, I'm wondering how Locke's sideways world is different. He's obviously about to marry Helen. That's different. And he clearly has a relationship with his dad if he would invite him to the wedding. I wonder if we'll learn more about his sideways back story.
I didn't see Kate's name either. Very odd since Jacob did meet her when she was stealing from the store as a kid.
Marissa, send me the link to the mirrors thing. That's interesting. We saw Jack look in a mirror on the plane and then Locke in his bathroom tonight. Did Kate in the last episode? I can't remember.
Loved the Of Mice and Men reference by Sawyer as he tried to figure out what's going on. I loved even more that Sawyer knew right away that The Lockeness Monster was not Locke.
Paula, as for Ben being a teacher, I think the bomb going off changed a lot of things our Losties never dreamed off. I'm betting that Teacher Ben is a lot like Island Ben.
Speaking of Ben, I can't believe he admitting killing Locke. And, how great was Frank when he said that this was the weirdest funeral he'd ever been, too.
I think that Lockeness can only leave the island when Jacob or his stand in wants to leave the island. If one wants to stay, the other can't go. Very funny when Lockeness said it was an inside joke about why he threw the white rock. Did Lockeness upset the balance of power on the island or did he upset the balance of good and evil.
And could Sawyer see the boy because he is a candidate and Richard is not?
What are the rules and who made them?
Jen, Kate also looked in a mirror last week -- when she got the handcuffs removed and went to open Claire's bag. So yeah, there is definitely some kind of a mirror motif going on here!
I really wonder what the backstory is with alt-John Locke and his dad. Maybe in this world, Cooper didn't need John's kidney and they have stayed friends? That would explain why John and Helen's relationship has continued, too. But somehow, alt-John ended up in a wheelchair anyway. Maybe that's the universe course-correcting... some other accident befell him.
And although his life is better in a lot of ways than it was in his pre-Island world -- he has his dad, he has Helen, now he even has a job he enjoys -- he's still unable to accept the wheelchair. And still afraid to reach out to Jack and take a chance on the possibility of spinal surgery. It's as if he can't bear to be disappointed again.
In the middle-school teachers' lounge, we met Ben Linus, who teaches European History and grouses loudly about people who don't discard the used filters from the empty coffeemaker. The camera lingered on a woman who sure looked like Harper Stanhope, Juliet's therapist in New Otherton. And in the background, on the wall, was a banner that appeared to read: "Live in the present, plan for the future."
Here's the link to the online discussion about the mirrors theory, http://abc.go.com/shows/lost/discuss?cat=33026&tid=793847&tsn=1.
Page 3 of the thread offers some good explanations
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