"He wants us to move the island."
Whoa! Very cool episode. Check out the screen caps.
All kinds of stuff. Richard, Little John, Abaddon, Claire, a Mittelos Labs summer camp brochure, even a Jeronimo
Jackson poster.
So, we got another massive information dump. More pieces to the puzzle, but still none of
those important corner pieces that you can really build on. These were middle pieces.
Important, but floating untethered in the middle of the picture. Here's what I came away with:
Richard is ageless, or a time traveler.
Locke was predestined to play a large part in the island's saga.
The island, or Jacob, ultimately calls the shots.
Abaddon has been associated with the island for quite a while.
Ben, while still steering the course, is abdicating communication with Jacob to Locke.
The island, or Jacob, uses the dead to communicate with the living.
Claire is either dead or in some kind of trance. She had the look of someone who
is seriously stoned when we saw her in the cabin.
Keamy had more information than the Captain and a different agenda.
Widmore has an intimate knowledge of both Dharma and the island, as evidenced by the
"Secondary Protocol" folder.
There is a time difference between the freighter and the island as the doctor's body washed
up on the beach before he was killed and dumped overboard.
The island is not done with Michael yet. click.
The island can "relocate".
For me, the biggest reveal of the episode was Ben's admission that the island was done with
him. His comment that the island, or Jacob, had allowed him to become sick fits with Rose's theory that the island calls the
shots, and had possibly made Jack sick to keep him from leaving.
The island has an agenda, and shapes people's futures for it's own reasons. It would
appear that it needs to use people (both the living and the dead) to insure it continues on its path, whatever that may be,
and periodically changes its human ruler when it feels they've strayed from the path.
Richard's test of young Locke would indicate that the island is looking for someone, a savior
if you will, and is very picky about finding the right person.
It chose Ben, but perhaps has decided that Ben has become corrupt with power and is more
interested in his own personal agenda, so the island is looking to Locke to right the ship. And it
may not just be Locke that the island is interested in. It may need all of the Losties to fulfill its destiny. It sure seems
that it wants Jack to stay, and Michael to finish his role.
This is definately a battle between good and evil. It would seem that the island wants the
Losties to protect it, or free it, from people with bad intent.
Both Ben and Widmore fit the role of the villan to a T. Widmore wants to control the island
and appears to be ready to incinerate it, and everyone on it, to gain control. And
even though I'm convinced that the island now favors Locke over Ben, I think that Ben will still be pulling the strings
in the background. He knows the island's secrets, and as we see in the flash forwards, uses them to continue to advance
his own game plan.
On the other side are the Losties. They fit the profile of biblical or mythical heroes
that overcome their checkered pasts by doing great and unselfish things, but first they need to learn what's
really important in the grand scheme of things, and I think the island is their teacher.
OK, enough for now. We'll pick this up again this weekend.
Cabin Fever - What is dead?
The second big mystery for me was: Why is Claire in the cabin with Christian? Is she really
dead?
This is an excerpt from an interview with the producers. The whole interview can be found
here on E online:
CC: I think that we want the fans to ask, "What's happened to
Claire?" I don't think it's "Is she dead?" I think it's like "Where is she?" and "What's going on with her?"
DL: What's
fascinating with Lost is there's a scene where Claire is in the cabin, and she is sitting next to a guy who is dead, and nobody
is saying "What's up with that?" They're all saying "Is she dead?" I think the more operative question is, "What is dead?"
That's a good question to ask, and one you will certainly be asking over the long hiatus.
OK, so what is dead? I couldn't help thinking about a friend of mine after I read this interview.
He's come up with a ranking system for the different levels of apathy he encounters on a day to day basis in the corporate
world.
First there's "Almost Dead". These are the people who are just beginning the slide
into apathy. They have moments of animation and lucidity, but on the whole, they're almost dead.
Next catagory is "Mostly Dead". This one is reserved for people who are dead but don't know
it yet. They're apathetic, but in denial. They say things like "Sure I'll help you with that project", and then avoid
your calls.
Then there's "Dead Dead". These people are dead, and they know it, and they embrace
it. A Dead Dead coworker is the worst to work with cause they just don't care about anything, and invariably try to get
you to see things their way.
I think Claire may fit into either the "Almost Dead" or "Mostly Dead" categories.
She may have suffered a concussion or other injuries in the blast and is Almost Dead.
She certainly looks a little off. Perhaps Christian has brought her to the cabin to have Jacob heal her, maybe give her a
tall glass of Jacob's "sun tea" we saw in the jars on the window sill the first time we got a peek inside the cabin.
Blech!
She could also be Mostly Dead. Perhaps she died in the blast and either isn't ready
to accept her fate, or still has things she needs to accomplish, so she hasn't given up the ghost, so to speak.
Of course, she could also be Dead Dead. Maybe the cabin, or the island itself, is
a portal to the hereafter...
Wow. Way too much to ponder.
Cabin Fever - You gotta move, you gotta move...
You gotta move, child
You gotta move
Oh, when the Lord gets ready
You
gotta move.
So sayeth Mississippi Fred McDowell, and Jacob. But how do you move an island,
and where would you move it too?
Well, maybe you start the engine, pull up the anchor, and sail away, so to speak. It appears
that Ben, and most likely Dharma before him, have found a way to teleport through time and space. It's entirely possible
that they merely harnessed the power of the island to do so. Perhaps the Swan station and the button pushing exercise
were not only to shield the island from being seen, but also to prevent it from shifting too much in the time space continuum.
You'd need to be able to lock the island down if you wanted to come and go at will.
We saw proof that island time is a little bit ahead of freighter time last week
with the whole Doc and Keamy thing, so maybe it's already started to shift. A little tweaking at the Orchid station may
be all they need to flip the island into another when and where.
Well, we'll find out soon enough, and from the trailers and tomorrow nights episode title
"There's No Place Like Home", it looks like we'll see the Oceanic Six make their triumphant (?) return home also. Good stuff.
But once again, I'm torn.
Anxious for more, but quietly dreading the fact that we have just two more episodes, 3 hours
total, and then we'll be on hiatus again.
Hiatuses suck.
