Uncharted Island

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?

Poor Juliet. She thought she was going to leave on the submarine, and Locke blew it up. Now she thought that she was going to be leaving by raft then by freighter… and that blew up, too.

Poor thing has been stuck on the island longer than any of our castaways, though admittedly, she was living quite well in New Otherton for most of that time.

Now, she’s free of Ben, though she doesn’t know it yet… but Jack’s gone, too. (I don’t think she knows that yet, either.)

It really sucks to be Juliet right now.

After Kate has the dream where Claire tells her not to bring Aaron back to the island, she runs in to see Aaron and apologizes to him. Why?

Is she sorry because she understood the backward message telling her to go back to the island, and she’s sorry because she’s going to ignore Claire’s warning and take him back? Or go herself and leave him?

Is she sorry because seeing Claire reminded her that she’s not his real mother, and she’s sorry that he couldn’t have Claire there for him?

Is she sorry because Jack is no longer in his life?

Is she sorry because she’s lying about being his mother?

It had to mean something, the way the scene was done.

The previously unseen footage from There’s No Place Like Home (Part 2) told us who the mysterious “other survivors” of the plane crash were. Boone supposedly died of massive internal injuries soon after the crash. Libby supposedly also died in the first week, also suffering from head trauma and memory loss. Charlie was said to have made it until a few weeks before they left on the raft. At least they stuck with the part where he drowned.

I guess it makes sense that not everyone who survived the initial crash would also survive being stranded on a deserted island. (As the castaways well know.) But why did Jack choose Boone, Libby, and Charlie?

The easy, most obvious answer is that they are actually dead. Confirmed dead. They won’t be popping up in the future to cause trouble for the Oceanic 6, because the members of the Oceanic 6 know for sure that they are dead. They couldn’t say that, for instance, Sawyer initially lived, but then died before they were rescued. If Sawyer suddenly waltzed back onto the mainland in a few years, there would be pointed questions about the Oceanic 6 story.

Sure, Sayid told everyone at the press conference that there was no chance that any other survivors of Flight 815 would be found. But that was speculation on his part, and it would be considered another miraculous marvel if another crash survivor popped up. No one would wonder why Sayid lied, because he wouldn’t have necessarily known.

But why these three specifically? There are plenty of other “survivors” that are known to them to be dead: Shannon, Ana-Lucia, Mr. Eko, Nikki, Paulo, Arzt…

If anyone has any theories, I’d love to hear them.

The Oceanic 6 are returning to the base in a U.S Coast Guard C-130 plane. Karen Decker is the name of the Oceanic representative who talks to the them.

Crap. I forgot how emotional I got when I watched this the first time around. I’m all teary-eyed already. Then again, I was tearing up when we watched the beginning of Finding Nemo while waiting to get my son’s hair cut earlier today.

Who’s there to meet them? Hurley’s mom and dad, Sun’s mom and dad, Jack’s mom… and a bunch of other random people we don’t care about.

The satellite phones are only programmed to call each other, not an outside line. Did we know that before?

“Don’t bleed to death, Jack.” That’s a great line for stomping off, Juliet!

Sawyer looks so incredibly lost when he sees Jack and Kate there, with Aaron in his arms. “We lost her,” in reference to Claire, seems like it was written to intentionally mislead people during the promos, making us think that we’d get a straight answer as to whether or not Claire is alive.

Jack is so arrogant about his “responsibility.”

“Take care of the baby.” I guess that becomes a bit less temporary…

I wonder how many Google searches have been done on Membata.

Day 108 is when the Oceanic 6 supposedly left the island of Membata, not when they arrived on the other island where they were discovered by Indonesian fishermen.

Boone, Libby, and Charlie were supposedly the other three people who survived the crash and make it to Membata, but died before they could make it off. Why did they choose those three? Will we get to the answer to that later tonight?

I didn’t realize before that Kate and Aaron’s clothes matched at the initial press conference.

I love Nadia’s blue polka-dotted dress in this scene where she is reunited with Sayid. I want one! Are there any fashionable folks around who can find out who makes it or who sells it? Long shot, I know.

The popup just said that Locke got his instructions to move the island from Jacob. Er… is that implied because Christian said he could speak for Jacob? Or did we just learn that Christian is Jacob? That seems too big a reveal for a silly little popup.

I love the disdain in Ben’s voice when he tells Hurley that the crackers are 15 years old.

We were just reminded that Ben had told Alex that the Temple was the last safe place on the island. Where is the Temple? Could people survive the island being “torched” if they were there?

Charlotte doesn’t know quite what to do with Daniel taking the raft and leaving her on the island. She didn’t know about the secondary protocol until he told her. I’d be pretty scared, too.

Sun is so very pregnant, and she shose those heels to climb all of those stairs at Paik Industries? I thought she had more sense than that. Her back must be killing her!

“Two men are responsible for his death. You are one of them.” Sun is awesomely strong in that scene.

I love the bag of Mr. Cluck’s chicken in Hurley’s hand.

“Jesus Christ is not a weapon.”

Oh wow, I did not catch how they just explained how they snuck the numbers into the scene. I caught 4 fake palm trees and 8 helium balloons, but not the rest. I’ll check it out later on. Someone will get it with TiVo!

Interference is blocking the fathometer. The radio room is down, but something on the ship is broadcasting. I think I missed the technical bits the first time around.

Jack didn’t shave for his father’s wake, when he was giving the eulogy? He’s scruffy.

Claire’s mother’s name is Carole Littleton. Jack had to know by the middle of the conversation that Claire was her daughter. A pretty blonde Aussie girl would have a mom that age. Did Kate hear? The look in her eyes suggests she did.

Less than 5 minutes until the season finale… I’m getting excited…

“I do not work. for Ben.” Nince enunciation there, Michael.

Kate’s stepfather is the one who taught her how to track. It’s handy to have a military father figure when you get stuck on a mysterious island.

That’s a whole lot of Others with guns pointed at Kate and Sayid. I love how they repeatedly point out that Richard “seemingly does not age” in these popup episodes.

I hope Locke can remember all of that. Well, it can’t be the worst, because we know that Jack, Hurley, Kate, and Sayid all make it off the island, evne though we’ve got quite a tenuous captive situation going on here.

I like how Keamy doesn’t seem to think that he needs camoflauge face paint, but his team does.

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.

I wasn’t expecting to be able to watch LOST tonight. What a pleasant surprise!

LOL. Further confirmation, for those who still didn’t believe who the Oceanic 6 were. Yes, Aaron is one of them. It’s obvious now that we’ve seen “There’s No Place Like Home,” but there was still debate when this episode first aired.

Hehe. Millennium Falcon. Because the LOST writers are huge Star Wars fans.

And another look at the the newspaper with the results of the Yankees/Red Sox game. But no confirmation of the timeline it established, August 2007.

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. I guess it’s only fair that Aaron is going to grow up liking Lewis Carroll stories.

“They’re not my buddies, man. I didn’t sign up for this.” Yeah, I can’t imagine that someone who can communicate with ghosts would really like to have any blood on his hands, knowingly.

Ooh, mini medical lesson about appendicitis!

Random thought… how many Redshirts are left now? I need to check a body count somewhere.

Another spin on Sawyer warning Miles off looking at Claire. Why was he looking at her? Because he knew she was dying?

Jorge Garcia plays a really great crazy Hurley.

“You’re not supposed to raise him, Jack.”

“Want a hand with the baby?”
“I’m fine.”
“You sure?”
“What part of ‘restraining order’ don’t you understand?”

LOL.

They’ve been making Kate look… more tired or something. No eye makeup, lately.

Jack drives an awfully ugly vehicle.

I guess it’s worth being awakened in the middle of the night for a wedding proposal.

Noreen, not Maureen as I’d heard the first time around.

And Ghost Christian is holding an Aaron doll! I don’t think I’ve ever noticed the obvious use of a doll for the baby before right this moment. Ha!

Bernard must’ve spent time in the armed forces before settling down to become a dentist. Experience with dental surgery just isn’t the same.

Suspicion doesn’t look good on you, Jack.

“Your son? You’re not even related to him!”
(Enter the cute kid, hugging Shamu.)
When Kate comforted Aaron, she proved herself to be mother to him, regardless of blood relation.

New Claire death theory. Claire was still alive when she followed Christian into the jungle. She died when she left Aaron there before Sawyer found him.

I’m just sitting here watching All My Children - yeah, it’s cheesy, I know - and they’ve had two promos already for tonight’s episode of LOST. It’s got me all choked up and on the brink of tears.

Just thinking about the Oceanic 6, what they must be thinking and feeling as they’re about to return to the “real world,” it’s a bit overwhelming. I mean, they’ve been on the island for months now. And look at everything they’ve survived to get here.

And we don’t know the circumstances surrounding their island escape yet, either. Sayid comes back for them in the boat… but then what? Sure, they want to get off the island, but they’ve also formed relationships with people they have to leave behind. Kate and Sawyer. Jack and Juliet. Hurley and Sayid have to leave the bodies of Libby and Shannon behind. And let’s not forget Sun having to leave Jin!

I’ve already got a cold that has me going through Kleenex almost as quickly as I’m going through beverages. I’m going to need another box to watch tonight’s episode.

Okay, I don’t think time travel is as much fun as my own pet time theory, but I now have to seriously consider it.

When we saw Ben land on his back in the middle of the Sahara Desert in Tunisia, was it a flash forward? Or is that where he went when he ran back into his little panic room tunnel while his house was under siege from Captain Keamy and the Kahana crew?

If I recall correctly, there was no whoosh sound when Ben first appeared in the desert.

This would be very interesting for many reasons.

Ben asks the Tunisian hotel clerk for the date, including the year. It would seem that he’s used to showing up in unexpected places in the time/space continuum.

If Ben’s trip is in “real time” with the episode - at least partially, because I think we did get a whooshing sound later on, perhaps after he reappeared in the house? - this is very telling. Then he would know that Sayid lives and makes it off the island before October 24, 2005.

I made a flip remark about The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe while I was watching the episode, but the time compression seen in the Narnia trips could hold true for Ben’s little jaunts… If he stayed in Tunisia long enough to hear about (or orchestrate) Nadia’s murder, he could make a little stop in Tikrit to gain Sayid’s loyalty… and still be back in time for his little showdown with Captain Keamy, resulting in the preventable death of his pseudo-daughter Alex.

The only issue with this line of thought is his midnight visit to Charles Widmore at the end. Perhaps that was a separate trip and truly a flash forward?

Okay, I don’t get it. Ben has set himself up as the king of the island. Charles Widmore claims that it belongs to him. How can that be? How can the man own an island he can’t even find?

We got into a discussion on one of the fan forums last night, and it was suggested that this fight for the island goes back quite some time, even before the Black Rock landed there. The four-toed statue was mentioned, and I said something ridiculous:

CHARLES WIDMORE HAS FOUR TOES!!! GET THOSE SOCKS OFF, CHARLES!

The comment hit its mark. Truffula thought it was so funny, he spit out his beer. Hehe.