Yes, I’m aware that “post mortem” is meaningless on the island. Nevertheless, sometimes during last night’s show I was wishing I could pause and rewind to appreciate the details. Like the name of the book in the cave, for example — you just know it’s gotta be significant. Also, my friend Sarah says they spotted a Dharma logo on one of the sharks swimming among the ruins of the sunken island. Why would those people spend their time and resources branding sharks?
Karyn got all excited when the titles were rolling because she knew she was going to see so-and-so again. Like Boone, or the annoying science teacher who blew himself up (Daniel Roebuck from “River’s Edge”). I joke with her about how she lives in a parallel universe where time is barely in front of us, and that’s how she knows what’s going to happen three seconds before it happens. Now I think I know her secret: she pays attention.
My question: what’s this loophole that Jacob’s talking about? Is it that the guardian spirits need a human to do their killing? All those humans on the island, and Ben is the first who’s down for the task? As Ben himself noted, there has to be more to the story than that. Or maybe the loophole has something to do with the existence of the anti-spirit dust that the temple people spread around frantically after hearing that Jacob was dead.
Another theory: when Juliet hits the bomb with a rock, maybe it shatters time into many disparate paths. That’s how they can still be on the island and the plane also lands safely in LA. It might also explain why the temple people were living in some kind of cheesy Indiana Jones stone age. (K. was excited to see Hiroyuki Sanada in the titles, too).
Last season helped me get used to the idea of dimensional and temporal shifts; maybe now I have to get used to seeing parallel historical developments all happen at once, on the same island. Whoa. But it doesn’t explain why Jack seemed to know who everybody was, but none of them seemed to recognize him.
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I enjoy reading stuff about Lost, specifically because I don’t watch it, and I reallly don’t know what the hell you’re talking about. It’s fun.
Once it’s ALL over, I may start getting it from Netflix, like I did with Battlestar Galactica. I know I’ll be missing the social experience that all of you seem to be having. Maybe THAT’S the secret of the island.
Oooh, oooh. The Captcha that I have to type now is:
“were divulged”
does that mean something?
And why is Wil/Mel using a different name, and what/where does that name mean?
And I’ve been told by an inside inside source, one word: Taweret.
This is pretty much just a brain dump from the day after. I would revise some of it based on what I know now, but honestly, I enjoy missing key plot elements and not figuring out the painfully obvious. Ben, for example, is not just any old human, sent to do Smokey’s bidding. It makes sense that they’ve made some kind of deal way back when, maybe when he was taken into the temple as a small child, after Sayid went back in time and shot him.
Also my hunch is that Wil/Mel is using some kind of acronym here.