Uncharted Island

Booyah, time travel people. The footage of the crash on the news is the first news of the wreckage since it happened. Dan was watching it before he ever went to the island. It was not some bizarre flash forward where he was freaking out because he’d already been there and met the crash survivors. And the woman was not his wife but his caretaker. Naomi was right, although not very polite when calling him a headcase. He can’t take care of himself, so he has a caretaker. Tortured genius, or did something bad happen to him that messed with his head?

Oh yeah, and the helictoper was not upside down before Dan parachuted out. Not that many people ever thought it was, but there was at least one vocal fan on the forums who insisted that the screencaps proved it was upside down, instead of a matter of perspective from a guy who got pushed out of a helicopter in the middle of an electrical storm.

“New Otherton.” LOL. That’s a great name for the barracks.

Straume. Maelstorm. Confirmed. I don’t think he’s ripping off the old woman, per se. But I think the machine is a bit of a con, something that looks impressive, but he doesn’t need. He can obviously talk to spirits. He’s more of a graverobber, though. Or maybe he sees it more like the bounty hunting done by the pie maker and the detecive on Pushing Daisies when undeadifying people to determine their killers.

Were the photos on the wall in the grandmother’s house the same as the first time they aired? There was a question about it, and whether or not something changed when he went up in the room, perhaps coinciding with Desmond turning the failsafe key and changing reality, like how a deja vu signifies when the machines change something in the Matrix.

And the light scattering remark is important to understanding the island’s mysteries. Theorists, go crazy!

Jack winks as awkwardly as I do.

It just occured to me that Jack saying, “Locke’s got her,” actually means something to Miles and Dan. Kate told them that John Locke shot Naomi. They know it can’t be good if Locke now has Charlotte.

And for those of you who were chattering about the photo of Seth Norris not looking like the man we saw as the pilot of Flight 815, it was him. Same actor, with a mustache drawn on.

The cow “might” be a survivor from the Flame station? Are they suggestiong that it’s not? And by saying it’s a cow, are they trying to claim it’s not a bull… even though it has its boy parts dangling for the world to see? Or is “cow” an acceptable term for both genders of bovines?

Matthew Abaddon, “guardian of the abyss,” tells Naomi not to question orders. He’s a lot like Ben. Mikhail, Greta, Bonnie, Ethan, Goodwin… none of them questioned orders, either. And most of them (if not all - the jury’s still out on Mikhail) are dead.

I’d missed the computer monitor in the background of the snapshot of Ben, which “may indicate” that Ben has lied about never leaving the island. He has a history of some big lies. Maybe he’s been on some recruiting missions with Richard.

And now, it’s time for the main event… It’s BWWL time, folks.