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?

is penny still alive?

So, apparently, tonight's episode is about Penny and Desmond. If I remember right, when bloodied Ben called Jack and told him to pick up Locke's body because he was "delayed," Ben was calling from a pay phone on a pier. Could he have been visiting Penny and Desmond's boat?

Perhaps Ben was trying to kill Penny Whidmore! Yikes! I suppose this is inevitable, however, since Ben did vow to kill Whidmore's daughter in revenge for the death of Alex.

I really hope Penny, Desmond, and little Charlie don't get hurt. Of all the people in this show, I think that Desmond and Penny are two of the most likeable. I mean, c'mon, do you know anyone who doesn't like Penny or Desmond?

Uncle Rico = Ben's Dad = Awesome.

Now we know for sure that the temple has strange properties which, according to Richard, take away one’s innocence. I’m not sure what that entails, since our previous experience is that people went crazy and then tried to kill Rousseau. And apparently it makes one forget things, so Ben won’t know it was Sayid who shot him? Interesting that Widmore and Eloise are the Hostile leaders right now.

Does anyone else think that Jack has become super lame—as in, he’s turning into an annoying Locke-esque character? Speaking of Locke, “Welcome to the land of the living” is quite possibly the stupidest line he has ever uttered on the show and a disappointing way to end an episode. My disappointment was assuaged only after the preview for next week's episode showed Ben ranting and raving about a final judgment while the camera dramatically circled above him.

Why does Kate think Clare is still alive? I thought the consensus was that she walked off into the jungle, left Aaron, died, and now hangs out with Christian and/or Jacob. Thoughts? And was Ben’s dad really flirting Kate? Eeeek.

I love that Jack, Kate, and Hurley come back to the island expecting to be welcomed as saviours (Kate also seems to think she and Sawyer will still be lovers) only to find that they are seen as homewreckers by those who stayed. They seemed to think that they would be granting Sawyer, Juliet, Jin, etc a chance at getting off the island and back to “real life”, only to see that for the last 3 years it is they themselves who have been living but a shadow of a life.

Dead or Alive?

Who thinks little Ben is really dead? And if he is really dead, what happens to old Ben? And if he's not really dead, does that explain why Ben is always so convinced that Sayid is a killer?

If Ben IS dead, I think it will not affect old Ben's past interactions with the islanders, but that he'll die or disappear or something. But I don't think he's really dead. He's too much of a villain to be off the show that easily.

What think ye?

sun's separation from everyone else

Wasn't this week's episode really great? There were so many questions that were answered. And e, you were TOTALLY right about Sun being separated from the rest of the group! You're amazing.

My biggest question is why Sun was separated from the rest of the Oceanic 6 members. I wonder if she got separated because she has motives that are contrary to the will of the island. Throughout the show, the island seems to determine what people are "good" enough to stay/survive. Perhaps Sun was separated from people because she is in cahoots with Whidmore? Or perhaps she was separated because all of the survivors were supposed to return to the island, and that didn't happen if Sun's baby and/or Aaron might be considered as part of the group.

I think Sun is an inherently good person, but maybe she is starting to turn "bad." What do people think?

frank lapidus

What kind of role do you think that the pilot, Frank Lapidus, is going to play this season? It seems a little too coincidental for Frank to be flying the aircraft back over the island. Part of me wonders if Ben arranged it so that Lapidus would be flying Flight 316. Another part of me thinks that Whidmore may be involved, since Frank worked (or still works?) for Whidmore.

And who was the woman (Rousseau?) that ran off with Frank when they crashed on the island?

I like Frank. I think that he is a sincere guy who wants to help people out. I'm just trying to figure out how he is going to play into all of this.

Why I hate John Locke

Last night as Locke was going through his almost suicide and then murder, I was having a really hard time feeling bad for him. I'm sure I was supposed to. His situation was, after all, rather piteous; no friends, no family, no ability to complete his task, the only woman he loved was "dead." Basically, he had no reason to live. But something about Locke just drives me crazy. Maybe it's because he's a know-it-all, and those types of peeps drive me crazy. Or maybe it's because Locke just really isn't a very likable character. Even though I knew Locke would emerge from the plane in tact, I found myself quite disappointed to see him alive and kicking. Do you think we're supposed to dislike Locke? Am I in the minority here? If you do like him, why?

On another note: What's with Ceasar? Do you think he knows something about the island already, or is he just a naturally suspicious kind of person?

ben-the-murderer and helen

Mems how Ben killed Locke in last night's episode? WOW. That was totally unexpected. J and I are wondering if Ben believed that Locke would come back to life on the island. When he shut the door to John's hotel room, he said, "Goodbye, John. I'm going to miss you." Hmm.

I also don't think that Helen is dead. I think that Whidmore planted that tombstone so that Locke would believe that she died. That way, Whidmore could make sure that Locke was focusing on gathering the Oceanic 6 together. Plus, Whidmore is all about staging the deaths of individuals - remember when he did it with a whole airplane at the bottom of the ocean?

What do people think? Any other reactions from last night?

Kat pregnant?

I have decided that Kat is pregnant, the whore... I bet she slept with Jack the night before they got on the plane, "knowing" that it was a sacrifice that she needed to make. Weird... and what happened to Ben's face? And how come no one even bothered to say something about it?

Benjamin Linus

Ben is an enigma. He can trick all the other characters and the viewers into thinking he's helping someone out but in the end, it's all about self-interest. He will use people as long as they are useful and then kill them or whatever, without having any visible remorse. And maybe that's just what is so compelling about him: he is cold, emotionless, and quite machiavellian in his approach to just about everything and everyone.

However, on rare occasions it would seem a glimmer of humanity does indeed exist in those steely, dead eyes of his.

In previous seasons I have really disliked Ben but in this season I find him to be a little endearing, in an odd sort of way. The best moment of the last episode was the exchange between Ben and Jack on the plane:

Jack (exasperatingly): How can you read?!
Ben (calmly, in monotone): My mother taught me.

I still chuckle at it.

LOST and Caravaggio

Hooray for a Caravaggio painting on this week's LOST episode! That was definitely my favorite part of the show.

For a while, J and I were thinking that perhaps the medusa spider (mems how it bit Paolo and Nikki?) might be associated with Locke's "death." However, they mentioned this week that Locke hung himself, so I guess that isn't the case.

I don't like Locke all that much, and all of the hinted comparisons between him and Christ (through themes like sacrifice and resurrection) bother me. I'd rather have someone else be the savior of the island - like Hurley!

A Few Questions.

Wow, that whole scene with Rousseau's peeps getting eaten/taken by the smoke monster (typing "smoke monster" makes me feel a little silly) was nuts! I wonder what the explanation is for the effects the monster has on people: the guy with the arm ripped off calling out "innocently" for help to lure the other men down the hole and then Alex's father claiming his innocence to Rousseau when he really has malevolent intentions. Are there any other examples of the smoke monster using people like this instead of just killing them outright?

I do think it's interesting to learn how Rousseau became alone on the island and why she tends to be suspicious of most everyone.

Also, anyone have guesses as to why Enlightenment philosopher names are used in this show?*
-Desmond David Hume
-John Locke
-Danielle Rousseau-- could just be a coincidence, if it's a really common French last name?
Juliet Burke-- maybe also just a coincidence?

Other names of interest:
-Charlotte Staples Lewis-- same middle name, last name, and initials as C.S. Lewis
-Faraday was a 19th century physicist and chemist who worked with electromagnetic fields and radiation

*I see I should probably check out lostipedia more often:
http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Philosophy

"You just disappeared!"

That's what Danielle said to Jin when she saw him again. I guess that means they really do just disappear when the island skips. I know there's no real way to get around that, but it seems kinda lame. They really just POOF - disappear? Also lame that, if that's the case, no one - not even crazy Russo - mentioned people disappearing on the island before. 

I wrote a while back about the whole "the past hasn't changed yet" idea (which would explain why Russo wouldn't recognize Jin when she met him again when 815 crashed, because he hadn't been in her past yet...), the fact that Charlotte remembers Farraday means that even though he hasn't travelled to her past yet, she already remembers him. Unless her Desmond-like-'consciousness'-time-traveling (assuming that was what was happening to her) has something to do with that.

Along those lines, since M is out of town, I thought I'd mention her theory that I think is really great. Some people are speculating that Daniel is going to become some kind of a villain soon, and the fact that Charlotte says she was scared of him when she was a girl would tend to feed that idea. However, M wondered if Daniel is going to go to her past, and because he loves her (unconvincing confessions/poor acting aside), he's going to do all he can to convince her not to come back because she'll die if she does. He'll no doubt be desperate to change the future, even though he is pretty sure that can't happen. His efforts would, no doubt, be pretty scary to a young girl.

Am I right to say that we have no reason to believe anyone has ever time-travelled to the future (besides going forward from the past to the time they initially left)?

LOCKE

So, this isn't really my theory. My in-laws' friend Holly presented this in an email chain today, but I think it's a pretty good idea.

Remember last season when crazy Hurley told Jack that Charlie had a message for him? Charlie's message was, "You're not supposed to raise him, Jack." At the time, I think most people assumed that this meant Jack was not supposed to raise Aaron. Similarly, when Claire visited Kate's house and told Kate not to bring "him" back to the island, it was assumed that Claire meant Aaron.

But I think that both Charlie and Claire were referring to Locke.

With all of the ambiguity surrounding Locke's death and Ben's insistence on preserving Locke's body, I think there is a good chance that Locke could come back from the dead upon return to the island. I think Claire warned Kate about bringing Locke back to the island, and Charlie was really saying, "You're not supposed to raise him from the dead."

sawyer

I'm disappointed with Sawyer's character right now. Instead of being funny and witty this season, he has only been brooding and angry. I know that this is for good reason, but I miss the old Sawyer. It's just not as fun. Boo.

Yeah, Ixoj, I wish that Sawyer and Juliet would hook up. Something needs to happen to break up the love triangle with Sawyer, Kate, and Jack. Can't Juliet be the answer?

Some random thoughts

• I think Miles is the baby from the very beginning of the first episode of the season...the one that belongs to the dude who does the Dharma Initiative videos
• I'm very glad Jin is alive.
• Does anyone else think Sun is freaking awesome?
• Has Charlotte been on the island longest and that's why she started nose-bleeding first? If so, why was she there so long?
• I wish Juliette and Sawyer would hook up
• Is Daniel the son of Widmore and Elle? (the fiesty other from last episode who marched Daniel off into the woods to take care of the bomb) Cherrie actually suggested this one...and she may have read it on Lostpedia...

Farraday.

Did anyone else think that Farraday's declaration of love to Charlotte via Richard re: deactivating the bomb, was the most tepid, uninspiring, unconvincing love declaration of all time?

Just wondering.

WIDMORE

Ugh. His name fills me with shudders of loathing. But at the same time, I really actually kind of like Widmore. He's the type of charater you love to hate. Not to mention being cloaked in mystery...

So why do you think he has this driving need to find the island? Does he want to expose it? Use it for his own pleasure? Move to the island and never age, just like Richard? (maybe the island is a real-life fountain of youth...) Or does the island have some weird hold on him just like it does for Jack, Hurley, and the rest of them? Why was he living on the island in the first place? And why did he need an alias? Do you think Richard knows who he really is? My guess is yes because Richard always seems to know everything.

And why can't Ben kill Widmore? Does living on the island = common brotherhood? Does Sun want his help taking her revenge on Ben, whom she views as being the cause of Jin's death (oh, and do you think Jin is really dead?) Do you think Widmore paid for Daniel's research because he remembered meeting him on the island in 1954? I think so.

I personally think that Widmore probably wants the island for his own purposes, that he hates Ben because Ben knows more about the island than he does, and that for some reason he was banished from the island, maybe by Richard or Jacob. I think Sun wants his help killing or eliminating Ben, and he's kind of interested becaues that means he has a better change of getting back on the island.

Any ideas?

last episode

I can't believe that Whidmore was an Other! Didn't his name say "Jones" on his fatigue uniform? Finding out a little more about Whidmore's past was one of my favorite things about the last episode.

AND I really liked the scene where Locke asks Richard to come and visit him when he's born. Now it makes sense that John was supposed to recognize the compass when Richard visited him as a boy. And mems how Richard was at the hospital when Locke was born? That makes sense too.

Isn't it great that Penny and Desmond named their little boy Charlie? What a nice tribute. Now they just need to teach their son the song, "YOU ALL EVERYBODY!"

In an email chain with my in-laws and some of their friends, someone mentioned that they think Faraday is going to become one of the villains this season. I wonder how dedicated he is to Whidmore, especially now that we know Whidmore funded his research (for ten years, right?). I think Daniel seems like too sincere of a person to become a "bad guy," but I guess this show is all about the fluxuating boundaries between good and evil.

J speculated the other night that the Jughead bomb got buried and is tied into the hatch and the failsafe key that Desmond had to turn last season. Makes sense to me...

Remember this scene?

DESMOND: (Sighs) Look, honey, all I have to do is find his mother, tell her he's still on the island, and then I'm done with this for good.

PENNY: Why now? If he told you all this on the island, why didn't you remember this until two days ago?

DESMOND: (Sighs) Because, Penn, it worked so well for the writers to have Daniel start jumping around in time to kick off the season, and I'm his constant, and they needed a way to figure out how to get me involved with the island again. So, having not thought things through enough to include this incident in earlier episodes when it would have been more appropriate, they just had me randomly "remember" it, since it worked so well with all the other plot lines.

PENNY: But darling, wouldn't that mean that you would have recognized Daniel when you met him again?

DESMOND: (Sighs) I guess it doesn't work that way. I don't know. Past-me doesn't necessarily remember anything "new" that happens to me while future-me is in my past—or while anyone else visits my past, like Daniel, for example.

PENNY: So you're saying that maybe you didn't remember Daniel when you met him, and you didn't remember this event until now because Daniel hadn't gone back in time until now?

DESMOND: Yeah, I don't know. I guess.

PENNY: But that would require two timelines running at the same time—the only-moves-forward-and-never-backward time that we're all used to, and the going-back-in-time-and-changing-things time. To say "the past hasn't changed yet" is a bit of a paradox, don't you think?

DESMOND: Now I'm all confused.

PENNY: One more thing, Des. The people on the island that are doing all their flash-of-light time-hopping—from the perspective of the Others, such as Richard, do they just disappear all of a sudden? Did you disappear when you did your time-traveling?

DESMOND: No, I didn't. I just would pass out for a while. But I didn't disappear. It was just my "consciousness" that would travel, or something like that.

PENNY: I guess we'll just have to ask Daniel when we see him next.

DESMOND: Or maybe sometime in the future we will remember that we have already asked him.

PENNY: Right. Or maybe the writers were just lazy.

DESMOND: Most likely. 

Adam and Eve

So, I had a crazy thought. The writers have claimed, in the face of all kinds of complaints that they are flying by the seat of their pants, that the "Adam and Eve" characters—the two corpses found in the caves in the first season—will eventually confirm that they did have a master plan to it all. So, get this: 

What if Adam is Locke, and Eve is Helen, the woman he proposed to?

Here's what I'm thinking: Locke is dead, but it seems to me that he's obviously intended to come back to life. Meanwhile, Locke is jumping around in time, throwing knives at people. I think that the idea that "you can't change the past" has been cemented enough to make a fine candidate for the writers to reverse—especially with don't-tell-me-what-I-can't-do Locke doing the reversing. Locke certainly has a past that he would love to change (come to think of it, all the Oceanic peeps have pasts they would love to change... ). So what if he's able to change his past, marry Helen, and join the Dharma Initiative (after going back in time with Helen, or something)???

Also, when Jack stumbled across Adam and Eve in the caves, he found a little pouch with one white and one black stone in it. Remember Locke playing backgammon with Walt, when he tells him, holding up the game pieces, "Two players. Two sides. One side is light, one is dark"?

Anyway, it's becoming apparent to me that I think about these things way too much. Back to work...

my favorite things

My favorite things about the premiere:

Sayid's awesome fighting skills. The whole dishwasher rack thing was clever and gross at the same time.

I really liked seeing Ana Lucia again. That was nice.


I agree with GermyB about feeling distant from the characters last night. I guess there was too much plot to cover, and therefore the character development was ignored. Sawyer didn't even give many endearing nicknames to other survivors! Hmm. It'll be interesting to see how I feel about the characters as the season progresses.

One more question: The beginning of the premiere showed Dr. Chang giving a baby a bottle before going off to record The Arrow training film. Who is this baby? Does this mean during the Dharma Initiative there were no problems with mothers giving birth to babies on the island?

A new round of "what the...?"

Well, after the premiere, we thought we'd raise the obvious questions, along with (maybe) some less-obvious thoughts:

• Did Ben hire the lawyers to approach Kate in order to scare her out of her comfortable life?
• Also, is Ben behind the guys in the "safe-house" that attacked Sayid?
• Is Sun aligned with Whidmore (whatever that guy's about...)?
• Does Sun blame Jack for Jin's death, maybe because he prevented Kate from getting him, or something?
• Is the white-haired lady Daniel's mom?
• Who's this Jill lady at the butcher shop? Seriously...
• Daniel at the Dharma Initiative: before or after his research at Oxford?
• Is Hurley's mom in danger now that she knows (or does she really believe) that they lied?
• Richard and the Others: we knew they don't age, but what's their relationship with the time-traveliness of the island?
• Why isn't Daniel helping Charlotte? Is it because he can't do anything to help her? Can't they all be each other's constants? What gives?
• Keeping Locke safe: I guess he'll be coming back to life then...that is, if everything goes according to plan.
• Miles: we knew he talked to dead people, but dead boars? Whatever.

All in all, I'm excited for a new season. I have to say, I'm not as attached to all the characters as I was by the end of last season. Maybe that's just because it's been a while, but I found myself caring less about the individual characters while I watched the premiere. Probably just because they had to pack a bunch of plot into it.

Lastly, that conversation between Hurley and his mom was just a dumb scene. That's all I have to say about that.

I'm bracing myself for an almost-more-than-I-can-handle dosage of time-travel confusion this season...

very excited

So, I'm really excited for the LOST premiere tomorrow night (I mean, tonight!). Last Sunday, J pointed out that the guy sitting behind us in church looks exactly like Sun's father. It's almost freaky. To make it more awesome, this doppelganger was asleep and SNORING very loudly while the sacrament was being distributed. It was hard to not think about LOST during church, with Sun's father snoring into my ear.

Mems how Sun is totally awesome and pretty much bought-out her father's business? I wonder what's going to happen with her (and her dad!) this season.