Uncharted Island

My husband and I were watching The Bourne Identity last night. (He’d never seen it!) We got the The Jason Bourne Collection (The Bourne Identity / The Bourne Supremacy / The Bourne Ultimatum) for Christmas, and last night was as good a time as any to get into it.

I first saw the movie before LOST ever aired, so I did a double take when he said, “Hey, isn’t that Mr. Eko?” Sure enough, it was Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Nykwana Wombosi. (Say THAT five times fast.)

You know you’re in a LOST drought when you get excited about one of the actors shows up for 15 minutes in a movie you’re watching.

(As a side note, I apologize for the technical problems last week. My Wordpress upgrade did not go smoothly.)

My husband IMed me from work to show me a link to a t-shirt he wants.

It’s a Drive Shaft T-Shirt from Busted Tees. The product description cracked me up. All it says is, “You all everybody.” No mention of LOST or anything. I think that’s awesome.

If you’re looking for some heavy reading during this seemingly endless hiatus, take a look at the theory Jacob’s Kin, written by Garden Mom at MyMedia.

It’s a very long theory, but well thought out and researched. It’s heavy on the Biblical history of Jacob. (It’s easier reading if you’re familiar with the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, because you’ll at least be familiar with the story when it comes around to Jacob’s son Joseph. But I digress.) The parallels she draws between Biblical Jacob and Island Jacob are great, especially when she compares Biblical Joseph with Island John Locke.

It’s not all about the Biblical story. It talks a lot about Locke’s visions, as well, and what makes him “special.” Want a sneak peek?

I’d like to explore the possible “family” more thoroughly in this theory. I have posted in other threads that I think many of the people we are seeing on the island are products of early genetic research experiments. I think it is possible that a native island inhabitant, perhaps Jacob, is the original donor of genetic material that has gone into these children. How the genetic material was transferred to the children is debatable; possibly through injections administered to pregnant women, or perhaps by altering the sperm of the men on the island. Perhaps they are all the progeny of just one man. What have the genetic alterations accomplished? I would speculate that each child has been blessed with a talent or ability that they would not have had otherwise. A few possibilities could be longevity of life, high intelligence, artistic abilities, or psychic abilities.

Even if you end up not agreeing with her theory, it’s a fascinating read. And how many months do we have left until Season 5? Yeah, you’ve got time to read it. Go and read it now: Jacob’s Kin.

Try to read through the comments, as well, as there is a very rich discussion. Garden Mom makes an extra summary in Post 35 of the thread, which I highly recommend.

Okay, so we know that, when Ben turned the frozen donkey wheel that moved the island, he was thrown about 10 months into the future, and he landed in Tunisia.

Did the island move forward into the future, too?

If it did, that would help answer a few questions, even if the science of time travel is hard for people to understand. If the island moved forward into the future, that could help to explain how the Purge happened 12 years ago (island time) but Danielle’s crew got shipwrecked 16 years ago.

Then again, now that I’m trying to write it all out, I don’t think the details would work. But I’ll see what you think, anyways.

This semi-theory requires someone to have moved the island shortly after Danielle got shipwrecked there. Who? I don’t know. Why? I also don’t know. But it could help explain how Danielle and her crew could’ve been left alone in the jungle with DHARMA trekking all over the island in their little DHARMA vans.

Here’s the shaky part. They were left alone because, perhaps, they got shipwrecked just as the island was about to move. Then the island moved, and BAM, it’s four years later… to the rest of the world. Danielle’s crewmates get sick and she shoots them. (Or rather, Danielle goes crazy and thinks they’re sick, then shoots them.) At the same time, the Purge wipes out DHARMA. Ben assumes leadership of the Others. When they find newborn baby Alex, they take her and Ben raises her as his own daughter. They leave Danielle alone in the jungle to fend for herself, the way they mostly left Flight 815’s castaways alone so long as they didn’t cross Tom’s “line in the sand” in the middle of the jungle.

And that explains four years of confusion.

It doesn’t explain why the iterations of Danielle’s distress call would’ve been playing for 16 years, though, if the radio tower had traveled the same four years into the future. And I guess it makes it a bit tricky to explain why Alex appears to be a well-developed 16 year-old girl instead of a girl of 12. Never mind. That doesn’t work.

Unless moving the island pushed the island back in time instead of forward.

This is something that just occured to me. I’m unsure how this would work. In order for the timeline to make sense, I can’t sort out the order in which the events must have occured. (The events being the Purge, Danielle giving birth to Alex, and the island moving.)

“16 years? Has it really been that long?”

Hmm. This is something I need to think more about. If you have any thoughts, please leave me a comment!

We went to see The Dark Knight this afternoon, apparently along with half the population. I was a bit surprised to see that Richard Alpert was the Mayor of Gotham City. Not only was he wearing his trademark eyeliner, but he also survived an assassination attempt. Surely this proves that Richard Alpert, under his assumed name as mayor, is immortal and able to travel through time, space, and alternate realities. Does this mean that the rest of the Other inhabitants of the LOST island are going to show up, possibly as Batman villains?

*snicker*

I’d forgotten about it, but flugelbinder on MyMedia didn’t. In one of his flashes, Desmond told Charlie that he saw Claire getting onto a helicopter. That was the whole reason Charlie signed on for the whole suicide mission where he swam down to the Looking Glass station. He was willing to die if it meant Claire got off the island.

What happened?

1. The writers forgot about that when they decided that Claire would walk off with Christian, and they hoped that we would forget about it, too.

2. Desmond lied.
3. Something didn’t happen exactly the way Desmond saw it, so the outcome changed.
4. Claire will get onto a helicopter at some point in the future.

I would like to throw away the first option right off. They have fact checkers for this sort of thing.

As for the last, that would be pretty tricky. Desmond’s vision was of Claire and Aaron getting onto a helicopter. Aaron’s already off the island, and I think that Desmond would’ve mention if Aaron was a five-year-old if it were to happen at some later point when Kate brings Aaron back to the island.

I waver between the middle options, leaning more toward something being different. It is possible for him to have lied about it; he very nearly let Charlie take one of Danielle’s traps to the throat because he thought he’d get to see Penny. But I don’t think he could do it twice.

I think that Desmond changed the outcome when he dove in after Charlie. I don’t think he saw that part. And that’s why Claire didn’t get on the helicopter.

Okay, so according to our resident ghostbuster Miles, Charlotte came “back” to the island. That means that she’d been there before.

How?

My guess is that she was born to one of the members of the DHARMA Initiative. I don’t think that women started dying during pregnancy until after the Purge, when Ben took control of the Others. Some have suggested that she could be Annie’s daughter, maybe Ben’s too.

Other fans have suggested that she could be one of the island natives, like Richard Alpert, who doesn’t appear to age. I think that might be a bit of a stretch.

But it definitely makes sense that she’d been there before. She knew she’d find the DHARMA collar when she was at the excavation site in Tunisia with the polar bear skeleton. And the look on her face right before she cut herself loose when she first parachuted onto the island was breathless excitement. It was either “it does exist” or “it’s good to be home.”

Why did she react the way she did when Miles brought it up? A few people seem to think that she doesn’t remember being on the island before. I think this is silly. She has always been quite secretive. She denied knowing Korean until Jin told her what he would do to Daniel. It makes plenty of sense that she would deny something big like having been on the island before… until she got caught out in the lie.

Before that very sexy kiss, what do you think Sawyer whispered to Kate?

Because of Kate’s errand in the flash forward where she won’t tell Jack where she was, I believe he told her about his daughter Clementine. I wonder if he slipped in the name of Clementine’s mother, Cassidy, and if Kate had a small start at that when she realized it was the same woman she palled around with for a while?

Did he tell her anything else? There wasn’t much time, but was there anything else other than his daughter that he wanted her to see to for him?