Some Like It Hoth

This post is going to be down and dirty....It's all Quick Snippets....if you don't know what the concept of Quick Snippets is, it's very simple: I pulled pictures from the show and I've added my quick snippet. Mostly it provides me the chance to say snippet a lot. I am already sick of that word, so I can only imagine how you, the faithful, must feel...on to the QS!!

This is Miles, age 17? When I saw this on the show I IMMEDIATELY drew the following comparison:

This is Rufio, from the motion picture HOOK, starring Robin Williams as Peter Pan, all grown up. What do these 2 have in common?
Just one crazy arse theory, provided by yours truly....
Let me set it up by reminding everyone about the Flashes of Light. When the light flashed, Sawyer and crew shifted time dimensions. Sometimes it was 1988, 1977, 1950, sometime when the Statue was still in tact.... well if Sawyer and crew were doing this, so were Bernard and Rose, right? Even though we haven't seen them... based on how they arrived on the island and the fact that they were not indigenous, they would be flashing thru time as well....
Ok, so with that being said, there were children on Oceanic flight 815, right? We haven't seen them at all. We believe that they are with the Others and Richard. Well Richard knew about the time travelling.. WHAT IF: after settling in 1977, Richard worked out a deal to send the children BACK to the real world, finding them homes or giving them a place to stay(possibly that gifted camp where he was trying to recruit Locke as teenager)? Now these kids grow up and start a new faction, led by this guy:

What lies in the shadow of the Statue? The frozen wheel does... and these kids have grown up, along with Charlotte and Miles and any other kid who was born on the island and then taken off to live back in the real world, and have every intention of reclaiming the place that made them "special"... WHAT IF: Jack and Kate and Sawyer and Hurley were all also born on the Island, or to people who had been exposed to the Island? Whatever flows through the Island, flows through them....It's in their blood.... think about it....
The Rufio picture inspired me to think of the Lost Boys, Peter Pan's group of boys, lost by their nannies and therefore "adopted" into Neverland..

So perhaps Miles is a Lost boy.... just a theory... and really the crux of this post... I like it so much I don't want to expand on it further, in the event that is true,thereby becoming a spoiler for some....

Faraday sure seemed to be well rested..Ann Arbor in the late 70's must have been trippy... I can only imagine... The place was probably wild considering this interesting piece of VIDEO
....enjoy it, you dirty Wolverines!!!

Ahh.. the birth of the Swan station. Technically it should have been called the Ugly Duckling station at this point... zapping dudes fillings out of their teeth and whipping it through their brains... Death Magnetic, indeed....

Look closely at what Jack is about to erase from the board: Egyptian History 101! Maybe Ben could bring his new friend Richard Alpert(the Sun God RA) to class for a little show and tell....

And now we see why Miles wanted 3.2 million dollars..It was twice the amount Widmore was going to pay him... I love the fact that Widmore knew there were dead souls on the island that would surely give up Ben's location... I feel slighted by the writer's strike because I feel like there was more to this story that we don't get to see because they had to cut last season short... They introduced these guys but it never felt complete... Which is why not a lot of people shed any tears when Charlotte died... oh well..

Please forgive me for what I'm about to write:

"That douche is my dad"

I'm not sure if there has been a funnier line on this show than that right there. As Larry the CableGuy would say: I don't care who you are, that's funny. He would aslo then make a fart joke, followed by some inaudible Southern slang..which is odd because he's from Nebraska... go figure..

Uncle Rico drinking a beer? I wish he had said "See those mountains? I could throw a football over those mountains"... have I used that joke before? maybe... maybe I should just refer to him as Lazlo Hollyfeld.... I'll let you guys figure that one out...

Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure has nothing on these 2... it's nice to see Hurley get a buddy, even though it's an unwilling, sort of a jerk of a buddy.... And I applaud Hurley's decision to re-write Empire Strikes Back but seriously, that was the best one.... Maybe he was going to have Luke accept the fact that Vader was his father and let that be the end of the series.... Who knows? Maybe we would have been spared Jar Jar Binks... sorry...I'm letting the geek flag fly right now...

That's it for this recap! Back to the real thing for the next episode, number 100!!!!

The Variable is a Faraday tale, with some big explosions... get out the popcorn and put the kids to bed, it's gonna be a barn burner!!

Later!

L Prez OUT

Dead is Dead

Post Note: I'm a little out of practice...It's been too long between posts and I think I may have lost my writing rhythm... I apologize ahead of time for the garbled mess that this post may be...

John Locke, New CEO of the Island....

The Island chooses who the Island chooses.... so says Richard Alpert... while he was telling the truth about that, he wasn't really saying that Ben was the Chosen One.. I think Ben was a holder leader..someone the Island needed until Locke came to power.... But Ben killed Locke..possibly in the hopes that he could return to power... But the Island had different plans and brought Locke back to life...Now we have what some have called Locke, version 2.0.... a new and improved John Locke...who may not be all that he seems...more on that in a second...

Cesar learned Island lesson #109... Don't trust Benjamin Linus. It also happens to be lesson #1. It's just repeated 108 times over... I'm not sure why this guy even signed on to do the show... You want to be on LOST? SURE! Ok, here's the deal: We fly you to Hawaii. You get to have 4 lines of dialogue and then we shoot you in the chest. Cool? Deal!
This was Ben's judgement episode... He told Locke he came to the Island to be judged... Judged for what?
Well crafty ol Ben would have you believe it was for Alex's death.... and the crafty ol writers of LOST would have you believe that as well...but think about it for a second: Of ALL the things that Ben has done, the one thing the Island wants to judge him on is Alex's untimely death? He KILLED his father... He WIPED out the DHARMA initiative... surely he's guilty of other crimes....
Now let's review what we know about the Smoke Monster. Let's go ahead and make the assumption that it is in fact a judge. We saw it judge Mr Eko and when he revealed himself as unrepentant, well that ol judge became the jury and sentenced him to death... then it became the executioner and beat him about the head and shoulder area. Repeatedly. I believe a tree was involved.
Well Ben has been on the Island long enough to know what the "monster" is. And he would know that based on what Richard has most likely shared with him. So imagine that the Smoke Monster only works on guilty feelings. It senses what you are feeling guilty about and if it doesn't see any remorse, it kills you.
We also know that the Smoke Monster can reappear in a human form, as it did with Eko's brother. As it may be doing with Christian Shepard. It may also be doing it with Locke.

As Ben said, Dead is Dead... but there Locke is..my theory is that he is being propped up by the Island... When Ben says what's about to come out of that jungle, I have no control of and Locke pops out, well...I don't need to spell it out anymore... Locke is leading Ben up to his trial, all the while judging him along the way as Smoky... Ben knows this so he remembers all the circumstances that lead up to his acquiring Alex and raising her, saving her from Charles Widmores orders of death... Ben is thinking about this because Smoky is about to read his thoughts and see if he's remorseful, which is a joke because Ben is actually remorseful for this act...
But in the end, Smoky is on to Ben...Smoky appears as Alex and tells Ben under no uncertain terms is he to continue his quest to kill Locke... it KNOWS he wants to, but instead Smoky demands that Ben serve Locke and help however he can..
So is Locke the leader that he's supposed to have been all along? I don't think so...I think Ben has been given about 8 of his 9 lives and he's being tested.. I think the Island is rebooting Ben, making him reconsider the leader he has been.. The Island giveth and the Island taketh away...

Here he is, Benjamin Linus..a new man? Time will tell....

And now on to a new feature I like to call "Quick snippets":

Look! It's Ethan! Little bloodthirsty, evil Ethan!... This kid was born with issues...I'm still not entirely convinced that Ethan is Horace's son... or maybe I'm not convinced that Horace isn't an Other... There's a lot I'm not convinced of.... this show is confusing...

Widmore was exiled from the Island, via the sub.. he was coming and going as he pleased, having relations with outsiders, siring a child... or 2? ooohhh..L Prez is getting cryptic.. :)

The coolest shot of the season so far.. stellar special effects and great acting...

More Egyptian subtext..Here we see the Egyptian god Anubis in a submissive pose, yielding to what appears to be the Smoke Monster... what? Yep, that Smoky has been on the Island for a LONG time....

Do you know what lies in the shadow of the Statue? Frank didn't and you know what happened? These 2 yahoos asked him another question: what did the gun butt say to the face? SMACK!

More on these 2 folks in the next blog...

Until then!

L Prez out!!

Whatever Happened, Happened

I read a great post the other day on another LOST blog that said: Isn't it cool that Uncle Rico can be involved with time travel, without having to use an ice pack?
Which, if you've seen Napoleon Dynamite, you know that's a pretty funny line.
If you haven't seen Napoleon Dynamite, then you don't know that the man pictured above can throw a steak like a football and knock a kid off a bicycle. And he's a helluva Tupperware salesman.
But here, he's just a conflicted dude, who was just trying to do the right thing...something his wife would've done, had she been alive...
Tonight's theme was Who are YOU doing this for and it goes like this:
Kate doing for Sawyer- She met up with Cassidy to tell her that Sawyer wanted his daughter to know he cared about her.

Friday Night Lights(which was renewed for 2 more seasons!Yay!) and Deadwood Alum Kim Dickens... maybe LOST is really about how many good actors can you link to other great shows?
Kate doing for Aaron-Taking care of him and ultimately making the right decision to give him over to his grandmother

this is Clear's mom.... not Claire, CLEAR... watch this scene and all the other ones this actress is in... It's a wonder we ever derived Claire from the Australian way of saying it... if there are any Aussie's out there, correct me if I'm wrong but I could swear that if they were to try to say "Clear the table", it would come out "Claire the table"... so maybe they're just interchangeable...

Speaking of Claire...who thought this chick was going to turn around and actually BE Claire?!?
I did... and honestly, I would have been so cool with that.... but alas, it was just a potential kidnapper... I hope my mom never loses me in a supermarket.. I better ask for one of those leash backpacks or something...
Kate doing for Claire- We finally know Kate's motivations for going back to the Island.. She's on the hunt for Claire! Not to get Sawyer back...or Jack... it is ,in fact, a Rambo mission...
as a matter of fact, we saw a great interchange with the whole Kate/Jack/Sawyer/Juliet love quadrangle square thingy... and I feel like tonight's episode finally put it all to rest...

And it was pretty much summed up between a couple of scenes. The first was when Kate said she didn't like the new Jack. Jack countered with: You didn't like the old Jack either.
Now, I know I'm just a baby and love is a complicated thing but DANG! If that's not a nail in that coffin, I don't know what is! Kate didn't really dispute it and the fact that Jack is coming to grips with his new reality/destiny, this is going to be a true revolution for our man of science.
He sounded an awful lot like Locke last night, talking about doing what the Island wanted... Kate hasn't bought into that mumbo jumbo just yet...heck, maybe not a lot of you have either... but don't worry about Jack turning all new age on us...we'll be seeing Action Jackson soon...as soon as he finds out what he's supposed to do...
The next scene that put more nails in the coffin was between Jack and Juliet...Juliet needs to learn how to knock!

And we also learned Jack is like a Rod Tidwell kind of showerer.. he prefers the drip dry method... the picture above is for all the Jack fans who had been complaining about only seeing a shirtless Sawyer this season... but I digress... Juliet told Jack that they were fine, without his interference... he shows up and all heck breaks lose, disrupting the nirvana that she and Sawyer have been enjoying the last 3 years.. which is proof that the 70's were much cooler times to live in because honestly, how could you be happy in a place that you know is about to be purged of it's entire neighborhood in 15 or so years?
And finally we see the last nail in the coffin between Sawyer and Kate....

"I'm doing it for her"... Sawyer has indeed grown up and become a man.. no wonder he likes the DI.. he gets to be someone important, love someone important.. he gets to live a life free of seeking revenge.. he gets to fix things... he's Jack, without the God complex... It makes you wonder that if Jack had never left the Island, would he have come to this type of life, like Sawyer did? Sometimes life teaches you to go with the flow... you can't fight the man...

Speaking of the man, we finally get some answers to the paradox of time travel!!!
And boy, was it just as confusing as I've tried to make it.. Miles was doing great, getting Hurley to follow along and then Hurley stumped him with a question that we've all been asking: If Ben knew that Sayid shot him as a kid, then why wouldn't he say that when he meets Sayid in 2004?
And then we got our answer..sort of..

"He will forget that all of this happened and he will lose his innocence"
But I don't think Ben forgot... if he did, then he was certainly "guided" by someone, or some thing into remembering the specifics of the 815ers when he grows up... but we'll see more of that next week... I want to get to the bones of the episode tonight, the last 10 minutes...
They were PHENOMENAL!!
So much explained in so little time that I had to watch it 3 times... not because it was convoluted...but because it contained SO MUCH...
First I noticed something completely out there and it could just be me.. But the scene where Kate was looking at Richard and he held her gaze and she was holding his and then finally she looked away..like she had been staring at the sun too long... the pictures below are in exact order of how they occurred..





Like it became too much...maybe it's Nestor Carbonell's dreamy eyes and smoldering good looks... or maybe it's the fact that he is a god... bear with me for a moment... let's go back to the Egyptian mythology associated with the show.. We KNOW that there is a statue and hieroglyphics.. we KNOW Richard doesn't age... is it possible that he is a god, trapped, or exiled to the Island? Or is he a willing servant to the Island?
We heard one of the Others tell Richard that he should check with "Elly or Charles" before healing Ben.. presumably, this is Eloise Hawking and Charles Widmore..brother and sister? Husband and wife? Or did they crash on the Island via the Black Rock and subsequently are the island's first version of Jack and Kate?
Regardless, Richard says he doesn't answer to either one of them. Which we kind of knew already... I am looking forward to seeing how Richard plays into the bigger part of this... He doesn't answer to Ben either but he does listen to him and follow his directions... it's very interesting...
And we now know how Ben came to be who he is... Kate ultimately makes the decision to give up Ben's innocence to save his life... She knows who he will grow up to become, the things that he will be responsible for but Kate can only see him as he is: a kid.
Perhaps she is showing him the kindness he sort of showed her when he took her captive back in Season 3. He let her shower, gave her a dress, fed her a good breakfast. Then of course he used her to manipulate Jack and Sawyer and pick up some rocks on a makeshift runway... it's very circular because perhaps he remembers that she helped save his young life and that's why he was nice to her in 2004.....
But the part about Ben's innocence was the real thing of interest...

Richard takes Ben to the Temple, where Ben will become "one of us forever".. does the Smoke Monster "infect" him like it did Danielle's crew? Does that mean Ben is more than human? Does the Smoke Monster "infect" all of the Others?... weird questions...maybe it enlightens them to a greater purpose?
All I know is that next week, the episode description is : Ben must summon the Smoke Monster to be judged for his actions.
The title of the episode: Dead is Dead.

The smile says it all!
That's my time, folks!!
L Prez out!

He's our you

Chicken killer, Qu'est-ce que c'est...
I love Sayid episodes... Naveen Andrews really shines when he gets his time.. probably one of the most underrated actors on the show... he really brings the substance to the material... so let's get started...
It turns out Sayid is a natural born killer... he lured that chicken to it's doom, instead of watching his brother unwillingly do it...Much like Eko, when he was a boy.... We saw Eko's fate play out...Old Smokey gave him the business... I think that had more to do with the actor no longer wanting to be on the show...if you'll recall Eko's story, he sought redemption once his brother was killed... then later he rescinded and basically spat in the Smoke monsters face, saying he did nothing wrong..wrong answer.. I don't think Sayid wants to be a killer but there he is.... but it's definitely more of a burden he's regretful of, than a desire to be evil...some people are just good at what they do, you know?
Speaking of people good at their jobs, you have to hand it to the casting directors on this show...

could this little kid be creepier??? I'm not even joking when I say that this young actor will probably grow up and look like THIS exactly...

I re-watched the episode from last year, where Ben goes to see Widmore. The best line of dialogue was Widmore saying: Don't you look at me with those eyes, boy!
Which is just further proof that Ben has creepy eyes..
Moving on....
Ooohhh wiitccheeeyy woman...see how high she flies.....

Now we know Ilana's back story: She's full blast, Dog the Bounty Hunter style!!... although I can't really endorse her methods...think about how many skeevy dudes she's had to kiss to get her way... yuck... anyhoo, she's working for the family of the man Sayid killed on the golf course last year, while he was under the employment of Ben... She was going to take him back to Guam, which explains how they came to be on the Ajira 316 flight... coincidence, plain and simple... at least I'm going to leave it at that for now... why look for trouble where there isn't any?
Bottom line, she said she didn't know Ben Linus but Sayid gave her a pretty good synopsis... that's the kind of information she'll be holding on to when she comes across Ben on the Island.... remember that last we saw Ben, Locke was standing over him at the infirmary...we'll assume that Ben is there recovering from the concussion that Sun gave him with that boat oar...
Let's get some of the remnants of last week out of the way...

Hurley lets the cat out of the bag in regards to Juliet and Sawyer cohabiting to Kate...Jack sits in on it and just takes it all in... Hurley has a way of putting things that keep him as the voice of the audience... He tells Kate that Sawyer and Juliet are together, "you know, like you and Jack were"... wow... so just in case you start feeling sorry that Kate is missing the Sawyer boat, you are brought back to the realization that Jack and Kate were in fact happily together for a while...

The further continuation of last week was Jack's new found greater purpose and allowing things that are not in his control to come to pass as they should... when Hurley asked Jack what he was going to do about Sayid, Jack said he was going to let Sawyer handle it and Hurley was like, really? As in, that's not the old Jack I know!.... something tells me that Jack is a little too "Serenity now" and the lid is going to blow off the pot soon... we'll have to wait and see on that one...
Getting back to business.. The title of tonight's episode was "He's Our You", which was a veiled reference to the torturer Oldham, played by Larry, of the "my name is Larry, this is my brother Darryl and this is my other brother Darryl" fame... HBO subscribers will recognize him as Farnum from Deadwood... you may not have recognized him because he wasn't letting the 4 letter words fly last night... a much more subdued Hippie style truth getter...


Sayid sang like a canary, which while it was all truth, HAD to be really freaky for Horace and the gang... "You are all going to die" is not the message you are looking for from your hostage...couple that with some maniacal laughter and you got yourself a new Joker, Batman...
It was a good thing Sawyer changed his name to LaFluer, right?? And personally, after getting to know the character these past 2 weeks, I'm kind of looking forward to Radzinsky offing himself in the Swan station in a couple of years...that dude is off the chain....
So Ben decides that it's time to run away and he's going to use Sayid to get him there.. and once again we are introduced to potential evil and it comes in the form of a hoodie...

You may recall that when Charlie was feeling particularly evil, he would throw the hood up on his sweatshirt... then a couple of weeks ago, Locke had a hood on when he revealed himself to the Ajira 316ers... then he promptly took it off... just like Luke Skywalker in Return of the Jedi... This is just the writers way of paying tribute to their own geeky history...
But it does lead me into the book that Ben gave Sayid to read:
A Separate Reality: by Carlos Castaneda.
In the book Castaneda continues his description of his apprenticeship under the tutelage of Don Juan. The main focus of the book centered around Don Juan's attempts at getting Carlos to See, a practice best described as, in Castaneda's own words, "perceiving energy directly as it flows through the universe".
Whoa... so think about it this way, Star Wars fans...suppose Jacob is the Emperor and Ben is Anakin Skywalker...eventually he will become Darth Vader... If this book isn't a direct corollary to this theory then it certainly should be...
So the question becomes, if you could go back in time, would you kill Hitler? Or Darth Vader? Well Sayid would...or he would at least try..

But remember: Darth Vader ended up returning to the right side of the Force and destroying the Emperor. Had he been killed by Obi Wan, the Emperor would have just found someone else to run the show with him...
So did Sayid kill Ben? I'm going with no, but that's because I have a theory on the "whatever happened, happened" reasoning Faraday gave about the past.
Don't think about the 815ers going back in time...put that aside for a second and look at this show and all that we've seen through the eyes of Benjamin Linus:
He came to the Island as a boy. Within a year, he had had enough of his drunk dad and he ran away. He met Richard and Richard said be patient. So Ben was patient. During that time, Jim LaFluer became the head of security and one day brought a perceived "hostile" into Dharmaville. This hostile is Sayid Jarrah. Sayid shoots young Ben in the chest at point blank range.
Now here's the leap of faith you need to take with me: Ben lives.
It's really not a leap... I suppose you could argue that if Ben dies, another "Ben" could take his place... But he doesn't... we see Ben as an older man, who killed the DI and assumed leadership of the Others. The same Ben who meets Sayid in the holding cell at the Swan station, when Sayid comes to torture him and get the truth. Make sense?
It's quite a story telling device and it shows that the writers have really thought this out...let's explain it this way:
Ben meets Sayid in 1977 for the first time. Sayid has a "history" with Ben based on his interaction with him from 2004-2008.
Sayid meets Ben for the first time in 2004. Ben has a "history" with Sayid based on his interaction with him in 1977.
Brilliant!!
And it explains why Ben never really feared for his life when he was beaten down so many times.. He knew that he would be alive in 2008... imagine if a person came up to you and said "In 2012, you smack me in the face and call me a liar", you could look at that 2 different ways: you could be like "why did I smack that guy?" OR you could be like "holy moly! I'm still going to be alive in 2012, so I'm going to go skydiving and not worry about plummeting to my death!"
Right???
Because if you subscribe to the "whatever happened, HAPPENED" then it wouldn't matter that the guy came from the future and told you what you were going to do. If it happened, it happened.
So this explains how Ben came to know so much about the 815ers. He grew up with them in essence. Once he puts it all together, he'll be able to use that knowledge to his advantage and become the leader of the Others.
Now what I like to think about in the pack and play while I'm pretending to nap is this: Ben once told Juliet, she belonged to him. We've seen him go to great lengths to get her to love him. Previously we thought these were really weird, mommy issues. But what if Ben and Juliet somehow end up together after Ben gets a little older? It's really not a stretch...perhaps Kate and Sawyer skip out on Juliet. Ben sees this, stores that info away for the future in which he puts Kate and Sawyer into a bear cage together. It certainly would explain the painting that hangs in 2004 Ben's house, of what appears to be Juliet holding a gerbil...
OK.. that's enough from me... this is slightly mind blowing but it opens up so many more mysteries... the easiest way to start looking at this show is to think about how we, the audience, were inserted into this story right in the middle of it, with the 815 crash. While it may seem logical to start the story there, we are seeing that it's really just the middle...
Sorry if I blew any minds..
L Prez OUT

Namaste

Best. Opening. Sequence. In. A. Long. Time.
How cool was that when that plane landed on the runway?!? Great CGI..... And then the jerk boyfriend from Son In Law, with Pauly Shore, got a tree branch thru the chest... glad to see he's still getting work..

Well the first most interesting thing about this was the runway... this is the same runway that Sawyer and Kate were working on, waaaay back in Season 3, while they were captives of the Others.... now it's finally put to use.. so someone had to know that a plane would be landing here at some point, right?? Right?? Right! And that someone was.... well it had to be someone on the plane that actually landed there.... and that someone would have to have a way of communicating that info back thru time and space, right?... I'm just going to guess that Ben is pretty powerful and is on top of this one...
Anyway, the second most interesting thing about the flight crashing was that, when they radioed mayday, you could hear the numbers repeating again... remember Danielle added her distress signal to them but the numbers were repeating over and over again... you could just make them out as the plane was going down... don't know what it means yet... when the 815ers got to the radio tower they turned it off.... something happened to restore it...it may not mean anything but when does that mean anything?.. :) more on this theory below....

Sawyer is running the show as a thinking man's Jack Shepard... back in business as the best con man this side of Dharmaville...

but not only does he have to figure out how to keep everyone's stories straight, he's also got to keep his love life in tact... Juliet is obviously aware of this same fact but she helps out by supporting her man....once again proving that she's awesome... I mean, if you were into that type of thing... I'm a baby...what do I know?
Tonight we were introduced to another character from the LOST mythology: Radzinsky.

This is the cat who was in the Hatch prior to Desmond...turns out he's responsible for building the thing.. besides being a total pain in the arse, he seems to be a pretty big deal, running the Flame station that connects the island to the main land. I'm sure we'll see more in the weeks to come... as we know, he blows his brains all over the inside of the Swan stations ceiling so, hopefully, they'll just allude to that... we really don't need the visual..
Hurley brought up a good point to Sawyer about how the DHARMA Initiative was wiped out...Sawyer then dropped a little nugget about Faraday and his whatever happened, happened speech... now here's something we all need to consider: if the past can't be changed, then why are Jack and co. back in 1977? To see why the DI failed? To see the "incident" first hand? It doesn't really add up to...something has caused them to go back to this point...do they manage to alter the future??
Amy named her baby...the first Other we ever met: Ethan....

As far as a fellow baby goes, this fella is kinda cute...too bad he grows up into one of the creepiest villains on TV....so where does that leave us? Think about this: Ethan was responsibile for recruiting Juliet to the Island. The reason behind that was so Juliet could figure out a way to help the women give birth. But what if that was always going to be a losing battle? We already know that the DI ships their pregnant ladies back to the mainland to have their babies.... so perhaps Juliet was recruited to the Island because they(Ben, Richard) knew she had to be on the Island, in order to time travel back to Ethan's birth, in order to deliver him.... which, yes, I realize opens a whole can of time travel worms... but it's starting to make sense.... the real question is what makes Ethan and his birth so special? Methinks Horace isn't Ethan's real dad at all...perhaps, Richard is?... You have to go waaayy back into the old man's archives to read about his theory on native Islanders communing with earthly women... I can't get into here for 2 reasons...a) it's pretty convoluted and 2) I'm a baby and it's pretty adult material...moving on...

Sayid is a Hostile...yeah, that about sums it up.... moving on.... what? you want more? How about the fact that Sayid is brought a sandwich by the one and only Benjamin Linus?!?!

That was certainly circuitious...it wasn't that long ago that Sayid was visiting Ben in a DHARMA cell... this show is so damn cool and this is why: My theory is that Jack et al make it back to the future before the Purge. Somehow their memory of ever being there is wiped out. But not Ben. He remembers ALL of it. SO go way back to season 2 and remember Ben in the cell, where he's being held prisoner and Sayid comes to "visit" him... That's how Ben was so calm..he knew that this guy couldn't kill him because Sayid still has to travel back in time... weird huh?
Speaking of Ben, he's hell bent on getting back to the main island... but thanks to the swing of the oar, Sun puts a stop to that and she and Frank hit the high seas in the outrigger boat....
They show up at the DI welcome station and are greated by none other than Smokey... well not exactly, but you hear it...and then interestingly enough who shows up? Christian Shepard..

... and he shows the crew of 2 the picture of the DI class of 1977 and then drops this bomb: You have a long journey ahead of you..... gee...thanks..could you be a little more vague, you walking dead jackass???
Sorry... I digressed... the real question is what has happened between the times 2004-2007? From the O6 leaving to the Ajira 316 showing up... the barracks have been abandoned and look to have been trashed... did Smokey go off his leash and start tearing things up? Or did something change in the past that's affected the future?? As I mentioned above, the numbers were repeating again on the radio tower's distress signal... that means something happened to switch them back on... as Sawyer once said, it's all in the details....
Now to the best emotional scene of the night:

Jack coming to the SLOW realization that Juliet is shacking up with Sawyer...and then being put into his place by Sawyer..Sawyer hit Jack below the belt with his leadership style of reacting and getting people killed.... Sawyer then hit Jack again with "there's a whole new sheriff in town" smack that let Jack know that Saywer is now THE MAN...and Jack can just sit back and relax and let Sawyer do the heavy lifting.... and the best part is Jack is going to let him...and that threw Sawyer for a loop..The last time he saw Jack, Jack was hell bent and sideways about getting off the island...now Jack seems to be reconciled to the fact that he's not calling the shots anymore.... and he appears to be at peace with that... Jack is starting a new lease on life and maybe he's beginning to embrace his greater purpose instead of his giant god complex ego...
Right before this scene though, Phil, the security lackey gave Jack a prolonged look of disgust... methinks there is something brewing there..Phil may be an Other convert... up to no good....

So who was this dashing fellow we got a prolonged look at?

This is where my vast DNA infused pop culture brain kicks in... whenever you watch this show or CSI or NCIS or some other acronymed show dealing with a mystery, generally the person you recognize but can't quite place is usually the culprit... and this guy is the next in line for being outed as a minor major player in the future of LOST...

The actor is Brad William Henke and he's been in numerous shows, most recently October Road, a JJ Abrams produced project.... he was also on Nash Bridges, for a couple of eps, which were produced by Carlton Cuse(exec prod. of LOST)..and he's in the new Star Trek, directed by JJ Abrams... see? Even life is as connected as the show....maybe that's the whole point of LOST...

Anyway, on LOST, Mr Henke plays Bram, and he ties to the other new character on the Ajira flight, Ilana... so stay tuned for more action from this cat...

That's my time today folks...sorry about the delay on the posting...the old man was sick and he's got the keys to the distro list... Take care!!

They call me LeFluer

It's creole, I believe....
I love this show..always have..I mean, I know this is my first real season of watching it visually but believe me when I say I have LOST running through my DNA... so trust me when I say that this was a filler episode...That's not to say it wasn't solid..It was very much so... it's long been theorized that the Island is a place for redemption and tonight we saw the redemption of James Ford...
First things first: did you see the rest of the 3 toed statue??? Holy smokes that thing was tall....and Egyptian..... if you look closely it definitely resembles a statue of pharaoh...kind of goes with all the hieroglyphics we've seen so far....as a matter of fact there was another Egyptian symbol shown several times tonight: the ankh, which is a hieroglyphic symbol that means eternal life.... how about that?....and you know what else? Once Sawyer called him "Eyeliner", I'm beginning to think that Richard Alpert may in fact be of Egyptian descent... he kind of looks like Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra.. :)
Here's something fun: The ankh necklace was worn by Paul, Amy's husband...
Paul+"ankh"= Paul Anka, singer/songwriter of such hits as "You are my destiny", "One Man Woman/One Woman Man", and "You're having my baby"...take that Jeff Jensen!!!
Anyway, the show opened with the another wheelchair bound in the real world guy dancing on the Island...what's that? who? Locke?
Nope...this guy:

He apparently jumped back in time as well, from Friday Night Lights, where he was paralyzed and living with Jason Street...

it's all connected... watch..Sawyer will turn out to be Riggins dad...oh wait, that was Goodwin...

So Sawyer has conned his way into being the Head of Security on DHARMA Island, as Jim LaFluer.... He also happens to be IN LOVE!! with Juliet, the new head of mechanics down at the bus depot...

Funniest line of the night:
"Good evening Enos".. Sawyer to Miles, as they are about to go collect Horace Goodspeed..you have to love a good Dukes of Hazard reference...

now if my LOST history serves me correctly, Horace was married to another woman by the time Ben gets to the Island..so what happens to Amy? And her baby boy? I think we'll get that answer soon enough...but the interesting point here is that DHARMA was coming and going as they pleased, every 2 weeks, via the submarine...something happened after Ben gets to the Island as a young boy but even before that, DHARMA was still sending it's people back to the mainland to have their children... and then bringing them back I guess....
It's pure speculation on my part that once Ben became the leader of the Others, his makeup became the islands makeup, meaning that his mother died at childbirth and the island sensed this and thus, no mothers lived during child birth during Ben's regime... except Aaron, which makes him all the more special, so don't think you've seen the last of him...

An interesting thing about Daniel Faraday tonight: first, he's devastated enough about Charlotte's death that he mumbles that he won't tell her to never come back... but then minutes later he issues this nugget: Whatever happened, happened. But methinks we're about to see the dark side of Faraday, as foreshadowed in the shot above...Whatever happened, happened.
Now, he said that before to Sawyer but now I've had a couple of weeks to think about it...what we've seen since the beginning of this show has happened. Meaning, we saw Ben kill the DHARMA Initiative...but Sawyer and gang are part of the DI in 1974... so let's do some math, shall we?
According to Lostpedia Ben was born in the early 60's, let's say 1964...he looked to be about 12 or so when he came to the Island, which would be 1976, which would be right smack in the middle of when Sawyer and gang are there...it should be 1977 when Jack and crew shows up... so does Ben KNOW Jack and Sawyer before they show up on Oceanic Flight 815 in 2004?
It would certainly explain all the lists, wouldn't it? hmmmm....
So who were Sawyer and perfectly English speaking Jin searching for on grids 1-3? I think this might be DHARMA people who were abducted by the Hostiles... it was kind of a throwaway scene but it shows that Sawyer has turned a new leaf over back in the 70's.... he actually cares about people...
Isn't it funny to see Sawyer happy? His 3 years have been spent pretty damn happily, versus Jacks... further proof that Jack should have never left? Only misery has met the ones who left...
I have to admit though, seeing Sawyer smile is like watching Clint Eastwood in The Bridges of Madison County... I watched that movie and the whole time I had this weird feeling that I couldn't shake....then it hit me..I'd never seen Clint Eastwood smile.. it was off putting..much like seeing Sawyer being anything other than his normal, pessimistic self....

Now if that showdown between Richard and Sawyer did not remind you of Han Solo going to talk to Darth Vader himself, then you clearly don't get my old man's parallels of Star Wars to LOST... do some research... it's spot on... Richard is awesome and brings such a cool element to the show..the fact that they are allowing the DI to live there under a "truce" says a lot about how tough the Others are...

But let's get back to Sawyer and Juliet... Mr LeFluer brings a fluer to Miss Juliet and they proclaim their love for each other... well now this is certainly going to turn the love triangle of Jack/Kate/Sawyer into a square now that Juliet is involved... but hey, it's the 70's, man!! Free love and all that....
So what did I mean by filler, when all this good stuff was in the episode? Well it didn't really advance the story as much as it filled in some pieces.. and after last week's episode of Locke's journey, we could use a little supposition..some peace... some Namaste, DHARMA love, you know?
I will now leave you with this to ponder: Is Horace Goodspeed really the Smoke Monster? They both blow up trees... that's too much of a coincidence, if you ask me.... which you may not have...but here you are...
Next week is a re-run of this episode.. if you are in the Columbus area, you are invited to attend the Taste of LOST wine tasting event.(click on the highlighted area for details).. it's not often a baby invites you to drink wine and talk about LOST, so make the most of it.. odds are, you'll have fun! Oh wait, that's if you play the Ohio lottery....
I'm out!
L Prez