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Comments on Lost episodes.
OK, just finished the double episode season 3 finale.
Couldn't look at it before because I was away for a couple of
days. I am still trying to get a grip on things here....
Absolutely brilliant, I must say. The Jack flashbacks, the
losties who failed over and over again, the others killing hostages
and John coming back after seeing Walt. And then it turns out
that it isn't a flash back at all. It is a flash forward (if
there is such a word) and I didn't see it coming, I even
wondered, for a couple of seconds, how Kate and Jack could know each other before the
plane crash. And after all, the losties didn't fail at all, they
succeeded with all their plans and they obviously got away from
the island. BUT there are still a lot of things that don't add
up here...
When Jack was at the hospital he asked Dr Hamill to call his
father to check who was the most drunk of them. But Jacks father
is dead. How can he be at the hospital? He also wrote out the
prescription for Jack's pills. Also, Jack's beard is black in
his flash forward but it is gray when he is on the island. How
is that possible? Has he gone back in time? Come to think of it,
Kate also did look a bit younger.
Who was it that just had died in Jack's flash forward? Was it
someone else from the island? The obituary said something about
a man found dead in a downtown loft. His name could possible be
John Lantham from New York and he has a teenaged son. But the
most obvious question is why it affects Jack so much since he is
neither family nor friend. Kate wouldn't even consider going to
his funeral.
Why has Ben been lying about the Looking Glass? What is it
that Ben knows and that nobody else knows and why it is
important to keep it a secret? And why is it still so important
now that a lot of people knows about it that Mikhail has to kill
Greta and Bonnie to continue to keep it a secret from the rest
of the others.
The others obviously have some military like ranking
organization where orders are given and taken, mostly without
questions. "The minute I start questioning orders this whole
thing, everything that we are doing here falls apart" as Bonnie
said. The island is obviously only one of the places this
organization operates by judging from Mikhail's comment - "I
thought you two were on assignment to Canada".
The others plan, before they got interrupted by the losties,
was to take all their people to the temple. What temple is that
and why haven't anybody found that before? Most likely it has
some significance to the island mysteries.
Mikhail is a tuff bastard. He has been killed 3 times now.
The last one was on him self with the help of a hand grenade
under water, and by the looks of it it will be
for good this time. But you never know. A spear through the
heart is kind of tough to survive, but he did it. And why didn't
Charlie get out of the small room with the radio equipment and
lock it from the outside? Even if the door couldn't be locked
from the outside, both Charlie and Des would have plenty of time
to get a pair of the scuba equipments and get to the surface
safe.
Penny is obviously not on the boat, a couple of miles outside
the island. And the boat is not a rescue boat. Where does that leave Nomi? Is she one of the bad
guys after all? And who are the bad guys? By the conversation between
Jack and the man at the other end of the satellite phone it
appears to be military. Or perhaps another organization, just
like the others, that wants to find the island because they know
what it can do or what it is. Could it be DHARMA or the Hanso
Foundation that wants it back? Would this make Ben and his gang,
the others, the good guys? It almost appears that way. I think
that Ben realized that the rest of the world could detect the
Swan hatch implosion by it's abnormal and big magnetic field and
ordered Greta and Bonnie to jam all incoming and outgoing radio
transmissions to make it harder to find the island. He obviously
knows something that the rest of the others don't know, which
makes it important to keep this a secret, perhaps a mole,
working for the bad guys. And apparently Penny and her people,
whoever they are, has detected the Swan implosion but haven't
been able to find the island because of the jamming from the
Looking glass. Why can't Ben just tell everybody what is so
important about the island and why it must remain hidden?
Lock is back. Just as I said - a bullet in the belly is
nothing for him. He has a quest that must be completed.
Apparently he couldn't do something about Jack but he had no
problem throwing a knife in Naomi's back. I don't think it was
Walt he saw but it was the island that manifested itself as
Walt. Just as it has done with Jack who saw his father, Hurly
who saw his friend and Eko who saw his brother. A lot of other
people has also been seeing the "monster", which I also think is
the island itself in some form. Jacob is probably also just
another figure representing the island. The island who needs
John's help which we saw in the last episode when Jacob asked
John to "Help me".
What has happened between the time the losties where rescued
and Jack's flash forward? It certainly seems to have gone
straight down for Jack, abusing alcohol and other drugs to get
through the days. But what about everybody else? Are they all
going to die, just as Ben said? Why?
 There
was a graffiti tag below the bridge Jack was about to jump from
just before the car accidents. It seems a bit mysterious and
could possibly be some sort of Easter egg or a clue to the Lost
secrets. I can't get something useful out of it, have to think
some more about it.
A lot of questions. Hopefully some will be answered in season
four. I guess season four will start by the rescue on the island
and not at Jack's flash forward. That will probably explain a
lot. I can hardly wait... Again I have to say that the ending
was brilliant. Absolutely unexpected and you just want more of
it, perfect as a season finale.
2007-05-17. Season 3, episode 21
- Greatest hits
It's time for a showdown between the losties and the others.
That's obviously what Jack has been planning since he came back
and he seems really pissed at the others so I guess he is still
a true lostie. But how did he convince Danielle to join them?
She has already said that she is alive because she avoided
confrontations with the others (Enter 77), what has changed her
mind? And what about Juliet? Is she trustworthy? She said that
the looking glass was inoperable after an accident and nobody
has been there since. Actually this was what Ben had told her.
She said...
About the looking glass. I couldn't see a Dharma symbol
anywhere, they usually are easily spotted. If I would have gone
to this station with the attempt to shut something down,
something electrical, I would first have cut the cable. The
cable could still have been used to find the station, which
probably would have been necessary anyway because it could run
on backup batteries for quite some time I guess. It also seems a
little odd that Juliet hasn't told anyone about the jamming
signals until now. That would have been the first that needs to
be addressed if you want to get rescued. Could it have been
signals from this station that made the Naomi's helicopter
crash? If this station is working with signal jamming, it seems
a bit odd to have it submerged under water. It needs antennas
over the water. Perhaps the signals are being relayed by the
cable but then it would have been enough to cut the cable in the
first place. Sayid, who seems to know something about radio
signals should know this. But then again, perhaps it isn't radio
signals? Could it be something else?
It was also the first time that Desmond had a flashback that
we didn't se. But that would have given things away in the plot
I guess. Still, it would make more sense if Desmond went to
flicker the switch instead of Charlie since he knows exactly
where it is. On the other hand, in the flashback Charlie also
knew. But things didn't work out the way Desmond said anyway so
either he is lying to Charlie who is supposed to do something
completely different or his flashback is wrong. That would be a
first. How come Charlie started to write his list, the greatest
hits, before he knew what Desmond had seen in his flashback?
There is something that isn't quite right with Charlie. He seems
to know things that he shouldn't. Like when they found Mikhail
in the jungle. We also know that Charlie doesn't have to die
because a flashback is going to become true. At least it was so
with Naomi. I think there is more to it than we know at this
moment. But it did sort of look like a farewell episode to
Charlie.
 Isn't
it also a bit strange to call the looking glass a hatch? I
always have thought that hatch meant door in this context. But
the word has a lot of meanings. It was also my impression that
it was Locke that named the swan station to "The hatch", just
because of the door he found. But now the name also appears on a
Dharma blueprint. Is it just me, or...? Another thing is the
blueprint or the drawing. It appears to have some sort of
document number and a nice printed title together with a Dharma
symbol. But the drawing itself is hand made with scribbles on
it. Not a professional way to do schematic documents.
Alexandra is skinning a white rabbit. They seems to have a
lot of white rabbits on the island. Ben also used a white rabbit
to test the sonar fence. Are the rabbits running around on the
island and the others are hunting them or are they taking the
rabbits with them as food?
Where was Desmond when Charlie played in London and it
started to rain? Maybe it wasn't the same time though. But it
looked like the same place. The woman that Charlie rescued in
the alley looked like it could be the same woman with the rifle
in the looking glass. There has to be something about here
otherwise why would they pick an actress who speaks with a
French accent (or whichever language it now is) in the middle of
London for just a flashback scene with not much importance
behind it? I guess we will find out next week.
We didn't see anything of Locke in this episode but Terry
O'Quinn's name was still there in this episode. I guess he will
be back next weeks season finale. An episode that promises a
lot. I Can't wait.
2007-05-03. Season 3, episode 20
- The man behind the curtain
ABC has announced the end of Lost. Three more seasons with 16
episodes each. The ending is apparently going to be a big
surprise. This probably means that we won't see very many
secrets revealed by the end of this season but it also means
that the authors now can uncover some more things in the next
season. I think this is a good thing. There are too many never
ending TV-series that just goes on and on until they die quietly
because of low viewer ratings but still end like there could be
a continuation at a later time.
A Ben flashback episode, how interesting. Now we know who
Roger Work Man was - Ben's father who took him to the island
when he was a young boy. Does beer really keep for that long, it
must have been about 20 years ago. Oh, of course, it is the
island...
Now we also know about the Dharma initiative and how they
disappeared in "the purge". Instead the hostiles took over. Or
should I say the natives, more known as the others now. Does
this make Ben and Mikhail the last surviving members of the
Dharma initiative? Is the Dharma initiative important at all or
where they just a bunch of hippies, trying to live their own
lifestyle on the island? Perhaps the hostiles also where part of
the Dharma initiative and also part of a gigantic experiment. I
don't think Dharma where just hippies since they obviously had
some very highly advanced equipment, like the sonar fence.
Especially considering that it must be 30-40 years old.
Who would bother to dig a deep grave and put a lot of bodies
in it without covering it up afterwards? Why not just leave them
in the jungle instead? And even if the bodies where lying in the
uncovered grave, wouldn't wild animals get to them anyway - it
seemed like the just rotten otherwise completely untouched.
Now we also know why Mikhail didn't die. The fence wasn't set
to lethal.
Was it really his dead mother Ben saw and spoke to as a young
boy? Apparently this vision meant something to Richard, who at
the time was one of the hostiles. By seeing her, Richard perhaps
knew that Ben also could se Jacob and it is because of this that
Ben now is the leader of the others. Is this also the reason why
the others think that John is special? Because they think that
he also can see Jacob. Who, or what, is Jacob really and why
couldn't Ben hear what he said to John? What was the ring of
sand that surrounded Jacob's house? Was it to keep Jacob in
there or to keep something else out of there?
What is it about Portland? How is it connected to the island?
Why didn't Richard seem any older? Does this go for all the
hostiles/natives? Who is a native and who is brought to the
island? We know that Juliet, Cindy, Ben and some of the kids
aren't natives. Any more? There is definitely something going on
here. When Ben asked Richard - "You do remember birthdays, don't
You, Richard?" he looked at him like there was something
implicit about it and Richard didn't answer, having an
expression on his face like it was a very stupid question.
Why didn't anybody at the others camp do something when John
beat up Mikhail? Even though Ben asked them to stop John. Is
John so powerful? And is that why Ben wants to see him dead,
that he is afraid that John is going to take over as a leader?
Have we seen the last of John now? I don't think so. I think he
is one of the key characters in this story and that he is going
to be around a lot longer. If he can heal a broken spine, a
bullet is nothing, right?
What about Jack and Juliet? What are they up to? It seems
that they are on the losties side after all, both of them. How
did Juliet know what was on the other side of the tape? And why
didn't Sawyer and Sayid listen to the other side of the tape, I
know I would have, probably anybody else also.
At first it felt like there where a lot of unanswered
questions revealed in this episode, and perhaps there were, but
thinking about it for a while, it seems like there where a whole
lot more new questions. Ah, well, it is just as usual, I guess.
2007-05-03. Season 3, episode 19
- The Brigg
So now we know what John has been up to and what happened to
his hand. But not really - still no explanation on how his
father got to the island. He himself thinks he is dead and ended
up in hell. What is it that makes John special and is it him the
others have been waiting for? To do what? And why did he have to
kill his father or get him killed?
If it is like John's father says, he did die back in
Tallahassee, in the car accident. After all went black he woke
up on the island. Is the island a place for people who have died
and not yet gone to the next place, whatever that is? A sort of
limbo, in-between worlds, which would make the losties dead too.
The finding of flight 815 with bodies in it, all accounted for,
sure points in that direction. It is also a reason for why no
woman can't give birth to a child that was conceived on the island.
Thinking about this some more, I think that Johns father was
deliberately hit in the car accident and that he was sedated and
kidnapped by the paramedics and everything else is just to
misslead the audience, us, into thinking that it is more to it
than that. Including the flight 815 plane wreck. This is
probably done by the same people that arranged the buss accident
with Juliet's ex husband, may it be the others, the Dharma
Initiative people (if they aren't the same) or whoever.
John's father apparently knew he was staying a week, at least
he said so. But was it John that brought him there, like Ben
said, and how did he know he was going to be there a week?
Is Naomi telling the truth? Is there really a search ship
close by where she came from with the helicopter? Will Sayid get
the radio to work, or rather, find a way to communicate through
the static. The static that presumably is there because of the
Swan incident, whatever that was. This could confirm that there
is a link between Naomi and the Brazilian or Portuguese men in
the listening station from "Live together - die alone", which
also means that Penny is close to find Desmond. And why would
the listening ship use sensors for magnetism in order to find
Desmond? What is it that Penny knows? Has it got something to do
with her father? Probably.
What is it that Jack and Juliet don't want to tell Kate? Not
yet? That radios don't work anymore, that she is pregnant, that
Naomi is an other, that.....
Will Sawyer get back to the beach in time to warn the losties
about Juliet and does Jack already know about this?
This was the best episode for some time now, hope the rest of
the season will be in the same class.
2007-04-26. Season 3, episode 18
- D.O.C
Sun got pregnant on the island, after all, so Jin, sterile as
he might be, is the father anyway. Will she die as Juliet said?
Is Juliet telling the truth? Was Juliet's purpose amongst the
others to check up on Sun in particular and the other women in
general? Is Jack helping Juliet and the others? Perhaps all that
has happened with Jack, Ben and the others was all a big setup
to get Juliet in with the survivors. It was obviously meant for
Juliet to get to the "fertility station", or is it the staff,
since the tape recorder was there. Doesn't the others have
surveillance of this station or some other sort of
communication? They seem to be good at that. Can still not make
up my mind about Juliet. Is she good or bad? She obviously hates
Ben.
Mikhail is alive. Where has he been since he "died". And why
is he so dirty, couldn't he take a bath, or something? And while
he is at it, he could brush his teeth as well. I mean, even the
blood around his ears was still there. How did Charlie know that
it was Mikhail? He has never seen him. The eye patch gives him
away though but he is supposed to be dead and Charlie knows
this. Still he is certain that it is Mikhail. His only purpose
there seems to have been to save Naomi. Just as he knew she was
there and that she was hurt
Not much new about Naomi in this episode. We still don't know
where she came from and what she is doing there and what her
connection to Desmond is. She knows a lot of languages though -
Portuguese, Italian, Chinese and perfect American English. She
also knows that flight 815 has been found and there where no
survivors. Is she telling the truth and if she is, could this be
another setup by the others (or Dharma) just to call of the
search for it? And when she says "no survivors" does she mean
that no one was found alive or that all has been found dead?
Can't wait to see what Locke has to say in next episode.
2007-04-21. Season 3, episode 17
- Catch-22
Catch 22 - Either Charlie dies or Penny does? Or does it
refer to Desmond seeing himself in a vision and only because of
that, he does what he sees? If there had not been any vision, he
wouldn't have done it.
So, Desmond sees Penny in a flash vision, only for a split
second though, but she was there. And then not. Was it because
Charlie didn't die? (But in the first vision Charlie was helping
getting the pilot down from the tree) Or was it because if Penny wouldn't have
been in the vision he wouldn't have gone out to save the pilot?
Now Desmond sees himself in one of his visions. But the
vision is only one possible version of the future that he is
able to change by doing something in contradiction to the
vision. Does he see these visions because someone, or something,
wants him to do something special?
Apparently the mysterious person that came to the island is a
woman by the name of Naomi and she obviously has some sort of
connection to Desmond. But how? She may be Portuguese or
Brazilian by judging from the book she brought with her. The men
from the listening station in "Live together - die alone" also
talked Portuguese and they had a direct connection to Penny. Is
this the connection to Desmond? And how did she get
there in a helicopter, and was she alone when it went down? Was
it a food drop? She had a satellite phone with her that can be
handy later though. She must have talked in it a lot since it
was dead when they found it.
 I
also noted that on the monks desk in the monastery, there was a
picture of the woman Desmond saw when he went back in time after
the hatch implosion. Has this some significance or is it just
that Desmond saw her on the picture and then picked her up from
his subconsciousness in a dream, years later?
2007-04-12. Season 3, episode 16
- One of us
It appears that Juliet is not 'One of us' after all. But
perhaps that is what we are supposed to think. Perhaps she has
her own scheme of things, against Ben. Well, that's what I like
to think, but I am probably wrong because she didn't tell the
survivors anything of significance (not yet anyway).
No sign of Jacob yet, but he was mentioned as the one who
would take care of Juliet's sister and her cancer. About cancer
- no one on the island could ever get cancer, according to Ben,
still he himself develops a tumor on his spine. Juliet says that
it isn't cancer, it is a tumor. Is there any difference?
The kidnapping of Clair was explained and also the shots
Ethan gave her when she was pregnant. However, this was how
Juliet explained it and that doesn't explain the activated
implant Ben was talking about. Which makes sense, of course, but
the implant must have been inserted when Claire was
kidnapped, but that was never supposed to happen, according to
Juliet.
It also appears that no woman can conceive and carry a baby
to full term and survive, on the island. Why is that? Still, Ben
said he had been on the island his whole life. Okay, he didn't
say he was born there but he didn't say that he wasn't either.
And where does this leave Sun? Is she going to die?
Then there was the tree that has the same mark that Juliet
was branded with. It was used as Ethan's old drop point.
Dropping what?
I also noted that the submarine was marked with one of the
eight three line stripe symbols that is also part of the Dharma
symbol. It is the one at the bottom but it wasn't actually
marked with the complete Dharma symbol. 
Another thing which striked me in this episode was that
Juliet was shown a newspaper with today's date on it to prove
that the images in the Flame where live. That doesn't make sense
at all since Juliet doesn't actually know what should be in
today's paper and it could just as easily be a fake.
2007-04-08. Season 3, episode 15
- Left behind
The Others are suddenly all packing up and leaving, just like
that. Everybody except from Juliet, who is left behind together
with Kate, Jack and Sayid.
The direct question that strikes me is why Juliet and Kate is
left out in the jungle while Jack and Sayid is still in the
barracks. Also, both Jack and Sayid seems to be unconscious much
longer than Kate and Juliet, although they where gassed at the
same time. It seems that it was Juliet that dragged Kate out
into the jungle and cuffed her to herself, which indicates that
Juliet wasn't gassed at all. It also must have been Juliet that
has closed down the sonic fence from the inside.
My guess is that this is another "mind game" from Ben. It
seems like Jack has gotten "emotionally invested" in Juliet,
which is perhaps exploited by Ben. Is this another attempt to
get close to the survivors on the beach camp? Question is if
Juliet is in on it or not?
The question is also - Where has the Others left to? And why
is John with them? Perhaps the barracks isn't the main place for
the Others, just like the camp wasn't where they held Walt
prisoner.
About John - The past few episodes he has acted kind of
strange and mysterious. There are certainly things that he knows
but doesn't reveal to the other survivors. Why wouldn't he do
that? It seems like he very much wants to stay on the island,
but at what cost? We still haven't seen anything more of his
father. Has he something to do with this?
The role of the others is also getting more complicated. Are
they Dharma people? There seems to be things about the island
that they don't know about. Take the monster for instance.
Juliet told Kate that they (the Others) have seen it but don't
know what it is. And it didn't like the sonar wall. But why
couldn't it just go over it? The Others could possibly
themselves be an experiment by the Dharma Initiative. Wasn't
there a number in the equation that was connected to human
social behavior?
On the subject of the monster - We saw a new thing here, the
flashes. Was it to identify Juliet? Or perhaps to collect images
from its prey that can be used at a later time.
One more thing - The switch box for the sonar wall that
Juliet opened. Was the code 1 6 2 3 as we saw it? Perhaps she
also punched in 4 8 1 5 before?
This was a pretty good episode but it had a lot more new
questions than answers.
2007-03-29. Season 3, episode 14
- Exposé.
This episode centered around two of the survivors that have
been in the background until now, Nikki and Paulo. This episode
summed up their stay on the island, from the crash until current
time in the show.
In a way it was a bit interesting since we got to see some
events from another view. The most interesting scene, however,
was when Benjamin and Juliet talked in the Pearl station:
J - That him? Shephard?
B - Yes.
J - He's cute.
J - Why are we doing this? Shephard will never agree to do the
surgery.
B - No, I can convince him to do it.
J - How?
B - Same way I get anybody to do anything. I find out what he is
emotionally invested in. And I exploit it.
J - So, what? We just grab all three of them, Ford, and Austen
too?
B - No, they need to come to us.
J - And how do we make that happen?
B - Michael, of course.
Why would they take Sawyer and Kate together with Jack? Was
it because Jack was emotionally invested in Kate, and by putting
Sawyer and Kate together and letting Jack see the result that he
would agree to do the surgery? Most likely. This also shows that
Juliet was in on it from the beginning and probably all the way,
even when she told Jack to kill Ben.
Other than that it was an entertaining episode, but not quite
"Lost". Looking forward to the next episode where we hopefully
will se more of Jack, Kate, Sayid and the Others.
Another interesting idea is the spiders. This could be used
as an effective weapon against the others.
2007-03-23. Season 3, episode 13 - The man from Tallahassee
What's John up to and what does he know about the island that nobody
else knows? At least now we know that blowing up the Flame wasn't an
accident. For some reason John wants to cut off all communication
between the island and the rest of the world. Not that it would matter,
it seems. According to Ben, nobody can leave and come back after the
incident (implosion of the hatch). Even communication doesn't work
anymore.
Is it more to it than the fact that the island gave him back his legs,
and he is afraid of loosing them again if he leaves? I don't think John
would do that to all other people on the island, though. Maybe something
happened to John when the hatch imploded, just like with Desmond.
Something that we don't know about yet. Come to think about it, John has
been acting a little strange ever since the hatch implosion.
In the end it seems like Ben had his way with John. John did exactly as
Ben wanted but couldn't do himself, because he then would loose trust
from his people on the island.
We also got a glimpse of a bottle of the MacCutcheon 60 year old whiskey
again. This has clearly some important significance to the show. It was
showed just a little bit too long, but not long enough to make you
notice if you didn't think about it, just like the map Sawyer found in
the VW bus with Hurley, Charlie and Jin. So what does this mean? Is the
"60 year old" another time reference?
Alex found out her mother was alive. Rousseau even saw Alex but for some
reason she didn't approach her, even though it was a perfect time for
it.
And then there is "the Box". How does this work? And was it really how
John's dad got to the island? Ben seems to know a lot about John so he
could very well have kidnapped Johns dad beforehand. Johns dad looked a
bit beat up and like he had been there for some time. Also, Ben said to
his men that they should go and get the man from Tallahassee. That
wouldn't be something to say if you just can think him up in a
box, would it?. And Ben didn't have any answer when John said that Ben
just could think himself up a new sub again. No - I think Ben somehow
knew that John was coming and knowing what he knows about the
relationship between John and his dad, he either kidnapped Johns dad
before or perhaps John's dad is in on this from the beginning. Maybe
that is why he had that bottle of whiskey.
According to some spoiler sites, next episode should be something
special - The huge Game-changer episode which is supposed to blow
everyone's mind. I can't wait...
2007-03-17. Season 3, episode 12 - Par Avion
Why did they just capture one bird? If they tagged more birds with
messages, the better their chances are that someone finds one.
A piece of paper curled up with a steel wire???? What do they think
will happen to that paper when the bird lands in the water?
And the message - Obviously nobody knows where Oceanic Airlines
flight 815 went down, but Desmond was sailing in the area and he should
have a rough figure of their location. There are also enough smart
people on the island to either give a description that could lead to the
location (star constellations at a certain time, exact time of sunset
and sunrise) or could figure it out themselves. The radio beacon would
also be a good thing to keep a lookout for, for a rescueparty.
What is it with Jacks father? He seems to be involved with the lives
of many of the survivors. And apparently they don't know of each other.
Jack and Claire don't know that they are half siblings. Jack doesn't
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