LOST gossip

Did you know that Dominic Monaghan and Evangeline Lilly have been dating since 2004? Now I think that the producers SHOULD bring Charlie back into the show - he's probably hanging around the set anyways, watching his girlfriend work.

claire's back

It looks like Claire will be coming back as next season as a regular. Yay! I figured that she'd be coming back for more than one or two episodes. Thanks to my friend e (not the one that posts on here, but the other one) for sending me this LOST scoop.

Is there anyone else that you hope comes back next season? Is there anyone that you hope DOESN'T come back?

who is your favorite character?

Raise your hand if you're excited for LOST to start up again! We just have to wait, um, a couple more months!

J and I recently talked about our favorite characters from LOST. There are a lot of characters that I like. I reeeeally like Mr. Eko, Charlie, and Hurley, but I think that I might like Desmond the best. He's just so great. I like his relationship with Penny, I like that he calls everyone "Brutha," and I really like that he used to be a monk (really, how cool is that?!?). Plus, Desmond is especially interesting because of his time travel/vision/"constant" capabilities. In that sense, I think he might be the most unique character in the show.

If you had to pick ONE favorite LOST character, who would it be?

Ace of Cakes

I don't know how many of you watch Ace of Cakes but they did a cake for the 100th episode of Lost. It is very funny. Watch it here.

I just noticed that we haven't posted on our Lost blog in ages...obviously because the season is over and it's too far away to start thinking about the next season. But I just wanted to say hello. And I miss our blog. Any theories brewing with anyone?

Oh! And as I was standing in line at the store yesterday I saw in the tabloids that the actor who plays Claire is possibly dating Cedric Diggory from Harry Potter...also known as Edward from Twilight. Just a random bit of quasi-Lost-related gossip.

thoughts on LOST finale

SO. Now we know. Jacob is a real person. Even though the opening scene is set in the past (it must be set in the 19th century, since it looks like the Black Rock is approaching), I think Jacob has to be from the future. He talks too much like any cubicle-working, Starbucks-going dude from the 21st century. And, as someone on my LOST e-mail chain pointed out, he is obviously using hair product while in the 19th century (see photo)! Ha!

There are so many things to think about for the next eight months. I'm curious to know who is this bad-guy-cum-Locke. Why couldn't he kill Jacob himself? It seemed like he couldn't kill him in the 19th century - does he physically need another person (i.e. Ben) to kill Jacob for him? And what was the "loophole" Jacob mentioned - was the loophole a way for the guy to come back to the island (as Locke), or is the loophole a way for Jacob to get killed?

ALSO, I wonder how this bad guy is connected with the island. If smoke-monster-cum-Alex (or maybe it really was just dead-Alex) appeared to Ben and told Ben to follow everything that "Locke" told him to do, does that mean that the island and/or smoke monster support this "Locke" dude? Could this bad guy somehow be connected to the Smoke Monster (or perhaps even BE the smoke monster, with the "loophole" connected to his ability to embody Locke?)

My sister-in-law and I are convinced that Richard was a sailor on the Black Rock. He mentioned that Jacob made it so that he could never age, and we know that he has been on the island a long time. Even though this was an English trading ship, I wonder if he was a Spaniard on the crew (since Ilana called him "Ricardo.") And mems how Richard was building a boat in a bottle that was similar to the Black Rock?

So, I'm starting to think that the Whidmore/Ben battle might be a Jacob/Whidmore battle (and Ben has been caught in the middle, even though Whidmore might also hate Ben for kicking him off the island (per Jacob's instruction?)). During the finale I remembered that Bram (one of the guys in Ilana's group that overturned the crate with Locke's body) was the same guy who abducted Miles in a van, right before Miles joined Whidmore's crew. That makes me think that this is really a Whidmore/Jacob conflict.

But my theory has also made me wonder about Whidmore's motives to kill Ben - could it be that Whidmore wants to kill Ben so that Ben won't be able to kill Jacob? If so, that might further complicate things if this is a Whidmore/Jacob conflict. Maybe this is a Whidmore/Jacob/Ben conflict (and Ben only knows half of the issues?).

And, speaking of Whidmore, I want to know why he was so interested in purchasing that shipmate's journal from the Black Rock (it was sold at auction during the penultimate season - click on Black Rock link above to read more information). Was Whidmore solely interested in this journal for nostalgic reasons, to remember the good times he had on the island? I think not...

AND the big question: did Juliette change the future? I think she did. I'm curious to see what happens. (And how 'bout that totally awesome ending, where the screen went completely white (instead of black, like the usual opening credits?). So awesome. What a great finale.

two questions

So, this past week's episode about Daniel Faraday was really great. I only have two questions raised by this episode:

- Did Daniel try and change the past by telling Charlotte (as a young girl) something different than what Charlotte revealed before she died?

- In an earlier episode with Mrs. Hawking (with the church and pendulum), she said to Desmond, "The island isn't done with you yet!" So, was she referring to Desmond getting shot by Ben? Does that count as a loose connection to the island? In this past episode while in the hospital, Penny asked Mrs. Hawking if Desmond was going to be alright. Mrs. Hawking replied something like, "For the first time in a long time, I don't know." If she didn't know if Desmond was going to die, that makes me think that whatever incident between Desmond and the island had already happened...

What think ye?