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Helloooo LOSTIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well tonight's episode: Confirmed Dead was very, very interesting. Let's bisect this sucker like it's been sitting in formaldehyde, with a cute pair of frog's legs, shall we??

First, the discovery of Oceanic flight 815. There's a couple of points of note, in regards to the crash:
1. The plane was in sections, not unlike how it actually crashed. There were 3 distinct breaks, just like it broke apart on the island. Now I'll have to watch again to see at what depth the wreckage was found but someone is going to have their hands full explaining how 6 people survived. I look forward to that discussion.
2. The pilot was not the pilot. During Frank's flashback, they showed the pilot who really did crash land on the island, Mr Seth Norris, aka Greg Grungberg(now on Heroes and JJ Abrams childhood friend, has appeared in all of Abrams projects, most notably Alias.) Frank WAS supposed to be the pilot of that flight, but I'll get to that in a second.....actually let's get to it now....
THEORY of the night: Ben's inside "man" on the boat is Frank Lapidus. This is strictly conjecture but follow me, if you dare. Frank was supposed to be the pilot of THAT flight...now why he wasn't is still to be discovered but EVERYONE else got on that flight, not neccesarily of their own means. Jack, Jin, Sun,Charlie, Michael, Walt and Hurley were ACTUALLY flying from Australia to LA. Sayid, Kate, Sawyer, Locke and Claire were all ARRANGED to board that flight. In essence all of them were pulled toAustralia for various reasons, so arranged or not, fate was involved. Or was it planned?
Was Frank supposed to fly Oceanic 815 because "he can land anything", like he did the helicopter? Would he have flown them all home, bypassing the island completely? Or would he have landed the plane on the Island? Was he in fact in cahoots with Ben to bring Oceanic 815 there?
Add the fact that the smoke monster also destroyed Mr Seth Norris, probably because he was not a good person...NOW if it had been Chuck Norris, this show would have been over after the first episode by way of a roundhouse kick....I digress...
Plus Frank studied the manifest. He studied the manifest of a plane where all the passengers were confirmed dead....why bother? Because he's just like Ben, gathering information. Something doesn't sit right with old Frank. Why jettison all of your passengers so that you could land, which was a guarenteed landing in his mind? So he could connect with the Others....That's my theory....He's in Ben's circle.
Plus there's his name. When I wrote it down in my notes, I spelled it "Lepidus". On the IMDB website, they list the character as Frank Lapidus. But Lepidus is better.... Lepidus was one of Julius Caeser's greatest supporters. Does Ben equal Caeser? Not quite. I think Jacob is Caeser and Jacob has been "assassinated", much like Caeser, except Jacob "lives", in Island terms. Lepidus(Frank) joined forces with Marc Antony(Richard, the guy who never aged) and Caeser Octavian, Juluis' adopted son(Ben).( parenthesis mean Island terms.).
These 3 comprised the Second Triumverate:the Second Triumvirate was an official (if extraconstitutional) organization, whose overwhelming power in the Roman state was given full legal sanction and whose imperium maius outranked that of all other magistrates, including the consuls.(Wikipedia)
Now this might be a stretch on my part but as I sit here and re-read it, I have to say, it's pretty dang good...ahhahaha...sometimes I write my own LOST mythology....oh well, no harm, right? Thats why it's called a theory! :)
Now let's give a quick, but brief but short synopsis on the other "rescuers".
1. Daniel Faraday: The physicist.....I'm going to let my Google search do all the work here. Check out this site to read some very interesting things about Michael Faraday...
http://www.spaceandmotion.com/Physics-Michael-Faraday.htm
...for those who want the down and dirty: This dude lived a long time ago, discovered electromagnetic force fields and was generally known as a pretty dang good physicist. I thought the most telling line of the night was when Daniel Faraday said that the "light doesn't scatter quite right here".......methinks this fellow might be handy when it comes to the Black Smoke monster......WHICH...
..leads me to my next quick point: Locke wanted to know what it was. He asked a question that all of us have been asking since we saw that smokey little weirdo....But true to LOST fashion, Ben didn't know.....Sometimes I would like to beat the writers like Sawyer beat Ben...twice...And how disturbing was it that Sawyer asked Locke if he(Locke) wanted him(Sawyer) to kill Ben(Ben)....Locke was going to do it himself when Ben started spilling the beans on our next rescuer:
2. Charlotte Staples Lewis..the anthropolgist....who discovered the DHARMA Hydra Station collar on a polar bear in Tunisia......who.....discovered....the......DHARMA........Hydra..... Station....collar....... on....... a....... polar...... bear..... in...... Tunisia......what...the.....??!?!?!? And she was pleased as punch! I mean it's a big discovery but she acted like it was supposed to be there!! And when she landed on the island she was beside herself...at first I thought it was because she knew she was alive but then it was apparent that she knows more about the island than maybe we know..She was amazed that Claire had her baby on the island, which means she must know how that whole thing has been working.....more to come, no doubt from that chippie...who by the way has her own literary reference: C.S. Lewis, author of The Chronicles of Narnia....You know? That parallel world that you get through from the wardrobe? Of course CS Lewis was Irish and really didn't like the English, so it's a bit odd that this CS Lewis was born in Essex England, as Ben explained....no real point, just a random thought....moving on....
3. Miles No Name....This dude can see dead people. And talk to them. He's a bit jumpy and he dropped the bomb that they were there for Benjamin Linus. Why he even had a picture of Ben in a dapper white vest, going through some security checkpoint.....But the dead people connection is going to prove useful when he hears the whispers in the jungle or talks to Jacob....This is bound to happen..I mean, it would have to right??...maybe Naomi told him about Jacob when she was laying there dead.....speaking of...
4. Naomi....Hired special ops bad ass, who fell out of helicopter, landed spleen first into a tree and caught a knife in the back from Locke, only to die hours later after falling out of another tree and onto Kate. I'll give her props..she was way cooler in those 5 minutes that Paulo and Nikki combined....but back to the being "hired" part....who hired her but none other than Creeping Death himself, Michael Abaddon...let's take him to number 5..
5. Michael Abaddon, the gentleman who told Hurley he was a lawyer for Oceanic Airlines...but yet he had no cards saying so but he did manage to ask Hurley if "they were still alive".....In this episode Mr Abaddon told Naomi there were no survivors of Oceanic 815....Now, he knew he was sending Naomi on a search and retract mission to the Island. She wanted to know what to do if she ran into Oceanic survivors.....Now she's seen the footage of the wreckage in the ocean, yet she asks what to do if she runs into survivors.....ODD....Now maybe Mr Abaddon figured that the Others on the Island would kill the Oceanic passengers, or convert them to Others as well...Either way, something smells fishy here and it ain't the cat's breath....One last little piece about Mr Abaddon: Once again I go to the all knowing Wikipedia: In Biblical terms Abaddon means "Angel of the Abyss", or "the realm of the dead"..so now you know why I call this dude Creeping Death....
I'll leave you all with some last thoughts...something to ponder over the weekend and some beers with your respective clans:
1. Einstein's theory of relativity as it pertains to Gravitational Time Dilation.
2. Occam's Razor: All things being equal, the simplest solution is the best.
3. Buddsim: In the Pali Canon and numerous Mahayana sutras and Tantras, the Buddha stresses that Dharma (Truth) cannot truly be understood with the ordinary rational mind or logic
Now that's some deep doo doo.....call it whatever you want but CSI ain't got this kind of mind bending craziness, no matter how long Grissam's beard gets.....
I'm out LOSTIES...
Namaste,
EPdeLFC
JB