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I tried this new quiz, its all about Jin. I started out pretty good and then tanked. Beat my score, 6 out of 11. A very poor showing. http://lost-trivia-challenge.ugo.com/

Summary

I am open to critiques about the blog. I was told that my last one was sloppy. That I didn’t give enough history of the characters to better illustrate the connections. Mean, huh? But after watching this week’s episode, that critique was painfully correct. So allow me to travel back in time and include the thoughts from last week and roll them up into a nice bow for tonight’s episode.

Connections

We knew that Faraday saw a small little girl and thought it was Charlotte. When certain things are obvious, it’s more likely true. So let’s say it was Charlotte and Faraday was fulfilling his destiny of warning her not to come back to the island – even though he now says he wont do it. I am curious to learn where he is and where has he gone and for what purpose.

Amy‘s baby was guessed last week by many to be Ethan. That would mean is that some survived the purge. But in the future, they are viewed as Others like the…Others. So those who survived and where chosen became the Others led by Ben. This makes sense since Ben had such a strong connection to Horace Godspeed. Horace was the one who found Ben’s mom and dad on the side of the road. That is where Ben was born and his mom died in childbirth. 10 years later, Horace offers Ben’s dad a job in the Dharma Initiative. And Ben arrives in 1977 on the sub. When Ben assists with the Purge of the island, and returns after killing his father, he returns to the barracks. He walks up to a now dead Horace and affectionately closes his eyes. Ben takes responsibility for Ethan because of Horace and Ethan, along with a small group of others, go with Ben. I like the way Juliet realizes she is holding her future love as a baby. Cool as cucumber. (Ethan was a surgeon, dated Juliet, kidnapped Claire and was eventually killed by Charlie).

Now Razinsky is building the Swan station better known as the Hatch. I guess this is where him and Kelvin survive the purge since the station is a secret station. Kelvin dupes Desmond into thinking that he thinks he is Razinsky’s replacement. Razinsky kills himself before Desmond arrives to the island by boat. Razinsky desgined and built the Swan station as well as the blast door map.

Pierre Chang takes on the island of Marvin Candle after the purge. I am assuming that something happens that results in the loss of use of his arm. At this point, the Purge isn’t until 1992 so some 15 years away. We see Ben as a young boy offering Sayid some food.

Back in 2007, Sun, Frank, Ben and Locke are back on the island, ravaged by the attacked by Keamy and his men. (I am going to assume for now that Rose & Bernard are in this time period as well but have lived for 3 years now since the rescue separated from the rest of the group). People have told be that they thought LOST was scary, and I never really agreed. Until tonight. Watching it all alone in a semi-dark house. When creaking started like at Jacob’s cabin, lights turning on and doors creaking open, OMG! Loved it! I liked how Sun disregarded the smoke monster waiting for them on the dock as an animal. LOL. That whole scene had The Shining feel to it, right? But of course in that book, he just went cabin fever mad. In the movie, it seemed as though he were more possessed by the ghost of a previous version of himself. Great homage. Some noticed (my non-HD t.v. didn’t catch it, but there was a girl behind Sun when Christian showed her the picture. No verification yet if it was a blooper, a stage hand at the wrong place at the wrong time or another manifestation, like perhaps Claire. I am leaning towards Claire because the door blew open. Just as Christian didn’t open the door, this thing didn’t either. Perhaps someone behind the whispers that wanted a closer look? But notice Christian scanned the wall for the correct year that Jin was in. How many times has the travel happened and different people have taken that place. I think a couple of years ago we feared that the Losties were going to become the Others and then another group would crash on the island. Seems in many ways that thought is coming to fruition. Primarily in the lies. We often wished just for someone to tell the truth. Stop being so cryptic and just answer the question. And here Sawyer, Juliet, Miles, and Jin are now doing the same thing. But instead of in the future…the past. Genious!

Questions

- Why are they in 1977? Why those particular people? What are they meant to accomplish or is there something they need to stop? How will their decisions affect the future, if at all? This is the bigger question.
- Why bring Sun back just to be separated from Jin who is 30 years in the past?
- Ben’s arm healed once back on the island. Why does the island cure some things and not others?
- Who is in charge of Dharma? They seem no to have a strong leader right now, Ben ruled with an iron hand.
- What happened to Rose and Bernard? The barracks were pretty much trashed in the 3 years since the Oceanic 6 were rescued. I assume Sun and Frank will run into them. I still haven’t forgotten the 2 skeletons that were found in the cave.

Conclusion

I thought it was a good episode. I feel that LOST is however losing fans because you have to open your mind and the pace seems to be going even slower. But I am still loving it. I hope next week we hear more about Locke and where Faraday is. Everything else can wait. 7 more episodes of the season…it doesn’t seem like enough time. As always, I’m enjoying the ride. Until next week…c-ya!