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Announcements

Hello all! I just wanted to give a personal shout-out to WMC. I know they won’t be reading this for awhile, but my thoughts are with you making this very difficult for me to shift gears and focus on the lighter things in life. But that’s I guess how we eventually make it through…by looking for the silver lining in otherwise dark days. Much Love!

Summary

Onto the show…I think this episode was great if we had 3 or 4 or 5 more years of Lost. But knowing this is part 1 of the final season, we really did get a lot of answers. Or maybe “answers” is the wrong word. They took some theories and tied a nice little knot with a bright bow. They clarified that the island is moving. That there were different pockets around the world, as the doctor said to Rose and Bernard. Obviously that was what Penny’s men were tracking. It something you can find if you know what to look for. Of course with answers, there are more questions (see below). I was antsy the whole episode. From screaming at the tv for Jack to open the damn letter to thinking that Locke would re-animate as soon as Jack slipped on the shoes. Lost has a way of taking the impossible and making it seem normal. We had to take several leaps of faith as viewers this episode. Best Line: Jack to Eloise about Ben, “Is he telling the truth?” Eloise, “Probably not.”

Connections

So many connections this episode. The eye opening at the start of the episode was the same eye opening at the beginning of the series. Jack was even in similar clothes as the first time. The US army date on the Top Secret mission picture in the hatch was 9/23/54 – 1 day and 50 years from the Oceanic crash. If you think about flying to Guam (which I have done – it’s West of the international date line and is 1 day ahead of the US…making it the same day in effect). The woman sitting at the bar next to Jack was also a nurse in Shannon’s flashback when her father died. The comic book was the Y: The Last Man and written by one of the writers and producers of Lost. I loved that the hatch in the church was called the Lamp Post. It reminded me of the beginning of the Twilight Zone, you know, “That's the signpost up ahead - your next stop, the Twilight Zone!" They flew over an ocean and magically were flashed off the plane and onto an island. Major Twilight Zone! In this case, the naming of the station as the lamp post in relation to the Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. A lamp post marks the entrance from Narnia into the real world. The Anjira Flight is #316. That can be related to John 3:16 in the Bible (For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life). It’s about belief. John leaves a note wishing Jack had believed him. Ben tells Jack that everyone believes sooner or later. Eloise tells Jack to start believing and take a leap of faith.

The coolest connection was the Oceanic 6 took on the roles of others of the people from the original flight. Locke is Christian in the cargo hold. Hurley was a cross between Charley (guitar) and Walt (comic book). Sayid being Kate (the fugitive). Kate being Sawyer (guilty and alone). Middle Eastern dude being Sayid (I thought he was from the past but his credits are only this 1 episode of the show). Sun being Rose (looking at her wedding ring as Rose did). Ben makes the flight last minute (Hurley almost missed the flight and him getting up like Charlie did). Frank Lupidus was supposed to be flying the Oceanic Flight 815.

Questions

What?!? – I know we don’t get answers on the show. But why not ask the obvious questions directly to Ms. Hawkings. Who are you and what the hell is going on? Why us? Were we ever meant to leave the island? If I can get meaningful answers to those 4 things by the end of this show, I will be satisfied. Also Desmond leaving after actually not accomplishing anything tangible was dumb. He gets it that it’s the same woman from the past but leaves without any answers!

Stragglers – How and why did the stragglers decide to go back to the island? What convinced Kate and who did she give Aaron to? Why was Sayid arrested and supposedly being taken to Guam? Why did Hurley come and bring a guitar? Hurley could have been visited by Charlie and decided to go. But Kate and Sayid? I will be interested in that flashback.

Revenge – Of course, why was Ben all bloody when he called Jack? I assumed that he went after Penny as his promise was to Widmore to kill his daughter. This could be why Desmond returns to the island – for Ben and revenge. I saw a post mention that Ben called from a pay phone at the Marina. Desmond may have sailed to L.A. by boat and Penny was waiting for Desmond on the boat when Ben came for her.

What happens when Ben gets back to the island since he wasn’t supposed to leave in the first place? Did the plane eventually crash when they flashed? Was it the pieces found on the beach? My guess is yes. The Oceanic 6 flashed back to the island as they flashed off of it in the first place. But everyone else crashed, perhaps in a different time.

Sayid, Sun and Ben – Are they in the same time as Jack, Kate and Hurley? My guess they are. If they are recreating the original crash – you have the 3 groups. Jake, kate, Hurley are the Losties. Sayid, Sun and Ben are the Tailies (Ana Lucia’s group). Locke is Christian in the jungle. Now that Locke has Christian’s shoes on, he can act as Christian’s proxy in this new time zone as Christian tried to guide Jack and Locke in the future.

Jin – So the Losties 6 flashed back to the past and are pretending to be Dharma. This is probably when Daniel sees Charlotte as a child. I am very excited to see what happens next!

Conclusion

So next week is a flashback in a sense to find out what happened to Locke when he arrived 3 years ago back in the real world as Jeremy Bentham. Next week’s episode was switched and was really supposed to air first. Not sure why it was important to change the order. My guess is that it was too linear for Lost and would have made too much sense! :) Okay…sour grapes. The episode is going to run 6 minutes past 10pm so make sure to dvr the next show in case you don’t watch it live. That’s it for this week. Feel free to comment on the message board below this post. I would love to hear your thoughts. Until next week, c-ya!