Click.
Can't get out of it that easy, Michael. As a matter of fact, you can't get out of it at
all, because the island isn't done with you yet.
Wowzers! Looks like the Losties are in it 'til they win it.
Huge info dump. Michael and Walt show back up in Manhattan two months after the
crash, which would make it right about the time they left the island. I'm liking my theory that if they went back in time
when they left the island, they only went back about a month. That would get them back home at about the right time. How
they got back to New York is still a mystery though. Maybe Ben left them some walking around money on the boat, or maybe,
after following Ben's bearing of 325, they found themselves in New York Harbor...
Michael is obviousley wracked with guilt, but each time he tries to kill himself he fails.
The first time, when he wakes up in the hospital he sees Libby. Was she just a product of shock, concussion, pain meds and
guilt, or was she (or her ghost) really there?
Next time he tries, he's interupted by none other than Mr. Friendly himself, Tom. Tom
tells him he can't kill himself because the island won't let him, and sure enough, the gun dry fires even though it's fully
loaded.
He goes to see Tom, who's living the high life in a penthouse suite with his partner Arturo.
Remember his "You're not my type." comment to Kate? Well, I guess that was an understatement.
Tom talks him into "redeeming" himself and saving his friends by blowing up the freighter,
and he's off to Fiji. That's where he tries one more time to take himself and the freighter out and guess what? Click. He
also has another visit from Libby just before he detonates the bomb, and she tells him not to do it.
Ben calls him shortly after the abortive attempt and tells him that the bomb was a fake,
designed to show Michael that Ben is one of the good guys, and would never blow up innocent people. Bull puckey. Ben
registered just a hint of surprise when Michael told him he had already tried the bomb. Something's not right.
So much stuff to go over. Let me throw a couple of things out there for you to chew on before
I call it a night.
We know about two warring factions so far. Ben and The Others versus Widmore and company.
Tonight I think we were shown that there is at least one other faction, and possibly two.
First, there's the island itself. It imposses it's will and can control events over great
distances, as evidenced by both Michael's and Jack's failed suicide attempts.
Second are the manifestations. Charlie, Libby, Ben's mother, Ecko's brother. Are they one
in the same with the island, or are they messengers from someone else? They seem to be trying to steer the characters in the
right direction. Maybe they're "course correctors" sent by the Order of Ourboros, or some higher power...
Whichever it is, redemption by doing the right thing is the only way our heroes will
ever find peace.
Ok. Last thing for now. The preview for the next episode (Oh man, it's not 'til April 24th!) clearly
shows Aarron as one of the Oceanic 6.
Meet Kevin Johnson - A big, fat, Michael sandwich
That's what this episode was. Very unusual for Lost to focus on a single story line for
so long. I was amazed when they came back from commercial and picked right up where they had left off with Michael and
Tom in the alley. I was thinking it would be a while before we saw the conclusion of their meeting and was pleasantly surprised
by the continuity.
Of course, if Michael was the meat, Ben and the Locke Bunch were definitley
the bread. It would appear that Ben is getting just what he wants in return for the meager information he's providing., as
Miles so nicely points out. Seems like Locke is the only one who doesn't realize that
Ben is back in control.
That was just too coincidental that the two people on the island he despises the most end
up dead, and his pseudo-daughter ends up alone and vulnerable far from help.And oh yeah, they were following Ben's advice
and a map he gave them. My money is on him and his people, not the freightees, as the perps.
No offense to any Danielle or Kurt fans, but I'm kind of relieved that they were the ones
that got voted off the island, and not one of the regulars. I'm still pulling for a future where all that were left behind
are alive and well back on the island, awaithing the return of the Magnificent 6. That would be cool.
So anyway, the only thing this sandwich was missing was the condiments. I would have loved
a big thick schmear of "How they got from the island to Manhattan" spread. My thought on why we didn't get any is that it
would give away to much. There's a couple of puzzle pieces still to be revealed that will bring this whole story
into focus for us, and I think this is one of them.
Meet Kevin Johnson - How'd they do that?
Never mind how Michael and Walt got to Manhattan, how the heck did Tom get there, and
back again, in such a small window of time?
Perhaps the Others can teleport. That would explain Tom and the polar bear, but not Michael
and Walt.
It's also possible that the island is some kind of gateway or wormhole that allows
people to enter and exit from and to other points on the globe, given the right conditions. As I said earlier, Michael and
Walt could have found themselves in New York Harbor when they emerged from the islands strange electromagnetic field.
I do remember some Easter egg drawings from the Oceanic website, supposedly post cards and drawings from Michael to Walt, of a boat and the Statue of Liberty.
I had forgotten all about them but I saw a post on the Lost message boards that reminded me. Interesting food for thought...
Of course, there's always the more mundane possibility that the island is closer to civilization
then we thought, and Ben and the Others have access to a decent sized airstrip. The island's anomalies could be hiding it
even though it's in close proximity to a decent sized land mass.
Not as exciting as time travel or wormholes, but a real possibility none the less.
