Uncharted Island

16-year-old Emily, dancing to Buddy Holly’s “Everyday” in the 1950s. Look at that belt… she really didn’t look like she could be six months pregnant.

I like Horace’s tie-dye t-shirt underneath his DHARMA jumpsuit.

Emily did run straight past Richard Alpert when she ran out of the room crying, I think. She didn’t notice him. But Emily’s mother certainly seemed to recognize him.

Locke’s foster home doesn’t seem all that pleasant.

As LOST forum posters have pointed out, the test that Richard Alpert is gives to young Locke is similar to a test used in Buddhism to identify the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama.

I like how the objects are laid out so that it looks like the man on the cover of the comic book is reaching for the knife.

Question: Why does Jacob inhabit a cabin that Horace was building at the time of the Purge? And why does it move?

The DHARMA logo for the Orchid was on the cover of Keamy’s secondary protocol. Apparently, it was also the logo on Ben’s parka when he seemed to drop out of the sky in Tunisia.

Morse code on the radio… that Daniel sent two days ago. Huh. Weird. I didn’t notice that the first time around.

Geronimo Jackson poster in teen Locke’s locker. Wahoo!

Hurley, Ben, and Locke all have very different, very character-appropriate stares when they find the cabin. I love it.

Why does Abaddon talk Locke into going on that walkabout? Was it all part of the setup, to get him in Australia, to get him on Flight 815, to get him onto the island where he’d be able to walk again?

Okay, so confirmation that the doctor’s body did not float to the island at the correct bearing in a little popup. The consequences of this… the guy on the Kahana had already received the Morse code message that the doctor’s body washed up on the shore. A message from two days earlier. The message was received before the doctor was killed. The body went… back in time two days?

Implications abound. There is time travel involved. Crossing the boundaries of the Island at the wrong bearing cause you to travel through time. Forward or back, and by how much time, probably depends on exactly what heading you travel.

And here comes the helicopter.

Ominous cabin of doom music.

Christian sure gets around in the afterlife. I think that not everyone can opt into the Afterlife Messenger Service when they die. Oh sure, spirits can hang around, like the ghost of that woman’s murdered grandson that Mile stole the money from… Maybe this needs to be a separate theory post. I’ll get back to you.