Back again for the first time

Hello. My name is Juliet. And I am a bad a$$....

GOOD FRIDAY, LOSTIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and I actually mean that...

Let's talk about "Left Behind", episode 15 for season 3....We have 8 more episodes left for this year and they are rounding the bend and as I like to say: Business is about to pick up!

Let's start with the obvious. As I made mention earlier in the week, there was a major "crossing". Kate and Cassidy.

Like a modern day Thelma and Louise, except without Brad Pitt and they didn't blow anything up..But they did however, unwittingly, sleep with the same man....Sawyer gets around. I'll be the first to say it. The guy has seriously been with 5 women since the show came on...The writers are certainly playing him up as a rabble rouser, which is different than razzle dazzle but I digress...

Cassidy helps Kate ask her mom why she turned her in. Turns out it was love. I think we are finally getting the answer to what Kate really did. Yes, she blew up her father and yes, she robbed a bank to get a toy plane that belonged to her childhood sweetheart, who was killed trying to help her escape. Yes..my baby's done a bad, bad thing.

The point is that her actions have caused serious harm to those involved. And her actions, which she thought were altruistic, were actually selfish and beneficial only to her own motives. She didn't like her stepdad because he beat her mother. Who would?? But she took justice into her own hands and commited a sin. MURDER.

She tried to see her mom again in the hospital, to appeal to her mom that she killed Hank for her mother's well being and in the end, caused another person to die. I'll attribute that to GREED.

I'm mixing my sins with my 10 commandments but Locke had it right.

the short of it, is that Kate isn't a good person. She has done some pretty awful stuff. Locke's admission that the Others weren't very forgiving was interesting. I guess they are forgiving of someone who caused two of their people to die(pushing one through a sonic fence)...I think we may actually see that Patchy ain't dead...It would absolve Locke from murder, or maybe Ben gave him immunity for an island information exchange. Whatever it was it brought up two things to note:

Locke's hand was bandaged. So we may see some back story as to what happened right after he saw his dad tied up in the room to when he talks to Kate.

The other thing was Locke saying "I don't want to go home". Locke has become an Other. Whether he'll be as evil as they seem to be or if he's using them to gain some more insight into the island remains to be seen.

It is my opinion that Left Behind has a bunch of different meanings. One is that there was a trade on the show: Juliet for Locke. An other for the others, if you will. Both could be seen as pulling some "long cons". The fact that the episode actually referred to a person that was involved in a long con(Cassidy) sets the idea in motion. Locke is using the Others to find out more about the Island and Ben is using Juliet to find out more about the survivors of 815.

It's all about the mind games.

Juliet is wicked tough

So let's talk about good old Juliet. She was left behind. Don't feel sorry for her. She's not to be trusted and as far as I can tell, she may be the second in command after Ben. She seems to be at his side for the most part. I think she may have made a deal with the devil and now it's all coming down to her doing her part. We'll find out next week.

Wouldn't t be interesting if the Others didn't view death as a bad thing? Especially killing someone in the interest of promoting their cause? Think about this: Suppose the Others are working towards something that we'll call "The Greater Good". Basically saving the world. To die for that cause would be totally acceptable because of the BELIEF. So Juliet shoots Danny with what we consider zero remorse. She doesn't feel bad about it. It's part of the PROCESS. The belief that when he's killed, he's been killed for the greater good. He may have actually been happy to die. Perhaps they believe that when they die, they are actually able to leave the island and return to the REAL WORLD.

I'm not saying this is purgatory and redemption gets you out of it. I'm swinging more towards reincarnation. Or being thrown back to the beginning of your life. Like Desmond. He should have died when he turned that key. Instead it looks like he was given another chance.

So imagine that when Patchy shot Mrs. klugh and then Locke pushed Patchy into the fence, they were all acting for the greater good. Locke was a little less informed but his intention was the same: Preserve the greater good.

The island. All of this is to protect whatever the island represents. Whether it is an actual "magic box" is to be determined. But suppose it's the kind of place where you can be anything you want. Take Juliet as a case in point. A meek, walked all over lady transformed to kick butt, tough as nails, steely reserve woman. The island made her that way. She's had her shoulder dislocated 4 times??? Doing what?

I'm getting way off track...Let's circle back to the show and Mr Smokey....was he taking pictures of Juliet and Kate as they were hiding in the tree? remember Eko's first encounter with Smokey? The flashes were his memories. I would like to beleive that's what we saw this past week as well. Smokey was taking some mental notes on one of those 2 and my money is on Juliet.

Let's not forget Smokey doesn't seem to like PRIDE. And Juliet looked mighty defiant on the other side of that fence..I think that's the tell to this episode. We're made to believe that Kate is the bad one that Smokey is after but it could be Juliet. You think she hasn't stood on the other side of that fence before and looked at that thing?? And if it can rip trees out of the ground and hover and fly around, why couldn't it go OVER the fence like Kate and the gang did 2 episodes ago? Very odd.....

So next week it's back to the beach, with Juliet in tow....

We'll see how she got there and I'm interested in the line:

Juliet:If I told you everything, you'd kill me.

Sayid: What do you think I'll do if you don't?

I personally don't think Sayid will do anything but who knows? maybe he's had enough of this bs..:)

That's all for me...I'm out of the country on some diplomatic affairs all of next week and then I'll be back. Rest assured that when I come back, there will be a full on assault on next week's episode: One of Us

Later

EPdeLFC, JB

GOOD THURSDAY, LOSTIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry but I just couldn't resist putting this first!! Not a pleasant way to go but I nearly messed myself when Locke just looks at the rest of them and says "Sorry"....
So let's jump right into it..Why did Patchy say Thank you?..because after he shot Mrs. Klugh last week, he was about to shoot himself and Locke stopped him. when Sayid had the gun on him, he told Sayid to Finish it!..But Sayid did not....
So why would you so willingly want to kill yourself? Why put your own life behind a cause? and what would that cause be??
It must be something special to be so willing to lay your life down for it.....perhaps there's something waiting for these "others" in the next life...I dunno...we'll wait and see, I suppose...

Isn't it funny that Claire worked in a tattoo parlor and Jack just had an episode that talked about his tattoo??? NO??? is it just me?..:)
So Jack and Claire are half siblings...not a big shock..more coincidence, if you ask me...until I started thinking about it....There's a couple of things: Jack is Claire's baby uncle(not to be confused with baby daddy)...I don't know the significance of this, other than he's been treating his nephew for rashes and the such...The bigger thing is the man responsible for both Jack and Claire's existence: Christian Shepard. I feel like we've seen more of him than some of the living people on the island. There has to be a reason behind that. I feel very strongly that Papa Shepard is linked to DHARMA and maybe even the others in some capacity. I don't have an answer but I do have suspicion..and I will wield that like a sword until proven otherwise...

Leap froggin'

An intense game of leap frog is about to begin..

GREAT WEDNESDAY. LOSTIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TONIGHT!!!
Par AvionWednesday, March 14 at 10/9c
Claire becomes suspicious of Charlie's peculiar behavior, while tensions mount between Sayid and Locke.

I really don't need to say more....As each week progresses we will be learning more and more about what this island is all about, what the Others are really up to and what happened to Jack...ABC is showing a promo commercial(it aired this morning on Good Morning America) that shows Jack at a piano of all things...I don't want to tell you guys what I've read but suffice it to say that some stuff is really going to start happening very fast. I can only promise to do my best and deliver all the information and hidden clues in a timely manner..Listen closely tonight to all the conversations between Patchy and his captors, some of the stuff I've seen in enlightening....
Later folks!!!
EPdeLFC, JB

The Ramblings of a mad man

The following post is an example of how I spend my free time...These are two theories I had posited online at a LOST fan website....People seemed to like the theories and I wanted to share them with all of you...Mostly because I like them and mostly because you all know how crazy obsessed I am...:)
ENJOY!!!!!!!!!




THEORY 1:

Think of the success of the DaVinci Code(the book, not the movie). They were applying actual events to the story of Christ' time on Earth. Suppose our LOST creators have stumbled upon a story telling device that would let them explain the creation of man, but in a scientific way.
In the real world,as much as they're finding Christ's bones in a tomb to finding Noah's Ark in the Himalayas, who's to say that the Garden of Eden couldn't be discovered? And using that train of thought, what if our LOST creators found a way to intertwine Bible stories with today's events?
When Adam and Eve ate the fruit of "the tree of the knowledge of good and evil", they became aware. God was worried that they would continue to partake of the tree and feared they would become immortal. So he booted their asses and set up a cherubim to guard the Garden. This information was gathered from the all knowing wikipedia.
What if the island is the Garden of Eden? what if Ben is a descendant of Adam and Eve? Mix him in with the Dharma Initiative folks and after the purge, you're left with a group who's mission it is to protect the island. What if the Dharma Initiative found a way to circumvent the cherubim(Smokey) and figured out a way to gain immortality from the island's powers? Ben and his people lay the smackdown on them and it's their sole mission to protect the island.
Another fun fact(thanks to wikipedia) is the name Samael. It is believed that this Angel of Death was the one who tempted Eve in the Garden of Eden. He is also associated as the angel who wrestled Jacob, back in the day(a Wednesday) as he was returning to Canaan to submit his loyalty to his twin brother Esau. It was said that the angel was either God himself or an angel(Samael) and that he was Esau's guardian angel. Bad Twin, anyone?



THEORY 1A:
I've been remembering all of my Sunday school teaching and I think the writers of this show have some serious credit to give when this thing is all said and done....Check out this theory:In my latest musings, I have compared the Island to the Garden of Eden..Actually Eden was the place and the tree that Adam and Eve ate from was in the garden...So the island is Eden...If that's the case, Adam and Eve had children(Cain and Abel are the most popular) but they had to have female offspring as well...Which means that after Cain killed Able, he ran off with his sister and they sired some children. Those kids had to marry each other and have kids..Incestuous and inbred? You got it!! But theoligists claim that this wasn't as inbred as it seems. Adam and Eve were creations of God, perfect in every way, pure bloods. The further the lineage splits from the core, the less perfect the offspring become, which leads to babies with birth defects or anyone from West Virginia....I KID! I KID! I swear....anyhoo, that all sets up my theory that the Others can't concieve their own children..Technically they are all related. The lineage is moving further from the purity...This is when the Dharma folks showed up..All that hippie love caused some real problems, as I believe the Dharma folks were comingling with the Island folks and having some messed up kids. You need look no further than the Nephilim. These were angels cast out of heaven who saw the daughters of man from heaven and wanted to get busy with them. This led to giants and other weird stuff, so God decided to squash the whole thing and came up with the flood. He left Noah and his family and all the animals in 2's to rebuild the world.So my point is, what if the same thing "happened" on the island? The Dharma folk(The Nephilim) came, screwed up the lineage, Jacob(God on the island) led a group of others on a flood like mission(the purge) and now all that's left are the pure bloods....

North by Northwest

My name is Claire...Goth Claire

GOOD MONDAY, LOSTIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have to apologize to the LFC....I have been getting into massive theory debates with other LOST enthusiasts on the web during the time I generally set aside to write the updates....I promise to get back on the scene with some good updates, starting with today...
I don't want to spoil Wednesday's episode but ABC is hyping a connection between two of the Losties on the island...Suffice it to say, I published the aforementioned connection in a LOST update, a long time ago...Think of when Christian Shepard, Jack's pop went to Australia with Ana Lucia....He went to a place in the middle of the night, demanding to see his daughter....I'll leave it at that....Draw your own conclusions but like I said before, this was previously discussed last season...For the new people in the LFC, I'll let you use your powers of deduction to finish the spoiler..All the information you need is in this update....Connect the dots...
This week's episode is "Par Avion" a Claire flashback....It's back to the beach as Claire discovers a possible way off the island....Look for Sayid and company to still be traveling North by Northwest with Patchy and Danielle....Some illuminating conversation between Patchy and Kate that I found fantastic!!!
Speaking of Patchy, aka Mikhail Bakunin....On his desk at the Flame station, there was a typewriter set up...There were some documents written in Russian that Locke picked up. A screen capture is below. This document details someone named Andre and his time in Afghanistan...In the red, it says "My name is also Andre"...Remember Patchy told a story of being in Afghanistan...is it likely that perhaps he is trying to pass off someone else's story as his own? Perhaps, he and Mrs. Klugh, aka Bea were at the Flame to try to get the satellite up and running. They concocted a story in the event that they were discovered? Possibly..look for more to come to light in this week's episode...

Special thanks to LFC member Dan Miller and his daughter Alina for the translation help!!! It's nice to have such great resources!!


That's it for today! Check back tomorrow and as always, this update will be archived on the WWW.....
Later,
EPdeLFC, JB

We need more cowbell

Writing updates is a challenge I greatly accept but I have to be honest..with a show like LOST I never know what kind of format to put it...I wish I could find one and stick with it...Is it chronological, using the commercials as a break in chapters? or is it flashbacks first? Or is it geographical, with beach stuff, The Flame Station stuff or other stuff? It can be quite daunting and confusing to you, the readers....
I guess I'll just go with my gut...which is a sizeable task, if you knew what my gut looked like..:)

The following is part Episode detail, part Theory and all Crazy...Based on what we saw last night I have new theories about Dharma, the Others and the Hostiles..Let's dive right in...
We need more cowbell....

Now we know where Jack's hamburger came from...Bessie was out grazing at the same time as Sayid, leading him to The Flame station and the mysterious "Patchy"...

If he is to be believed, his real name is Mikhail Bakunin(this was not pulled from my extensive understanding of Russian, but from the ABC website that lists special guest stars)..The highlight about his name is that it's much like other names on LOST and it has a reference to the past. The REAL Mikhail Bakunin(according to my favorite site of all time,Wikipedia):(May 18 (30 N.S.), 1814–June 19 (July 1 N.S.), 1876) was a well-known Russian revolutionary, and often considered one of the “fathers of modern anarchism".
Anarchy...fitting, considering the turmoil he caused in this episode alone....Patchy had a Russian accent and told a great story about being the last surviving member of the Dharma Initiative. After he was released from the Russian army, he saw an ad in the newspaper about 'saving the world". That was 11 years ago. He spoke of the war or "purge" that occurred between the "Hostiles" and The Dharma group. He was allowed to live as long as he didn't cross the line. The hostiles took 2 cows and he never saw them again.

The Flame Station had a satellite dish on the roof. Patchy described the station as the "hub". All of the communications come through the hub and circuit back out to the other stations. Here's instant internet access!! And possibly cable TV!! However, since 'the sky turned purple', communication with the mainland has been down. It hasn't cut the power though because Patchy had a lamp on and ice in the fridge. My Al Gore like hope is that the island is "green" and is self sustained on solar energy, with the exception of power needed to make the communications devices work.

Theory: the Swan station was the power plant. The electromagnetic anomaly that needed to be discharged every 108 minutes was also the source of power for all the Dharma Initiative projects and hatches. It also powered the equipment that enabled the island to communicate with the outside world. Think of it as an amplifier or booster. But it wasn't the only source of power. It would make sense from a hippie, Mother Earth News sort of way for the Dharma Initiative to have solar or wind energy as an alternative power supply. That would sustain all the power the stations or barracks need. Once Desmond turned the fail safe key and blew the power station up, the booster was underpowered and ceased to work.

The booster not working is confirmed by Locke's playing of the chess game. Once the chess game is beaten, Dr. Marvin Candle comes on the screen with a series of protocol situations and numbers. For a food drop, press whatever. For mainland communication press 38. When Locke presses 38, he's informed that it failed due to the system being down. For sonar something or the other, press whatever. When Locke tries this, he's informed that it failed as well and if there has been an incursion by the hostiles, enter 77. Before he can do that, he's stopped but I'm getting ahead of myself...

Theory: Patchy has been playing chess and giving the outside world the impression that the Dharma Initiative is still up and running. This can be confirmed by the food drop that happened last season, which by the way, won't be happening anytime soon due to the booster being dead. Slow down on consuming all the Dharma Oat bars, Paulo!!! Now that the communication is dead, it's just a matter of time before someone on the mainland recognizes that something's amiss and sends a search party, right? Except here's the next problem with the Swan station being killed: The sonar ping is gone. The submarines that have been traveling to and fro won't have a point of registry. Which could cause some serious problems....


Now you've got Locke carrying out the mission of destroying the Flame station because the computer told him to...How cool was it seeing Locke smile after he beat the chess game? I think Locke has been playing Dungeons and Dragons or other role playing games for quite some time(think back to his box company days) and now he's living one out....He's approaching the island as one giant game with each task getting him to the next level....

And next week we see another daunting task. The security fence. Is this to keep people out or something else out? Something "smokey" perhaps???? We'll have to wait and see....

This last episode was chocked full of cool things and I'll need to watch again to really dive into it...I have a major theory that's shared with a few other theorists across the net that I'll be publishing soon.....Stay tuned for that...

It was good to see the folks at the beach having some fun...It's an interesting dichotomy that they can be playing ping pong and Sayid and crew are getting shot and in fist fights...that's what I love about this show..you get all kinds of different action!
That's all for now...check the website over the weekend for some other ramblings and musing.....
Later
EPdeLFC, JB

on the 8 track

Sayid and Kate raid the file cabinets at Dunder Mifflin....

GREAT WEDNESDAY, LOSTIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
El Prez is back in the building!!!! I had to take some time off, do some traveling and see the folks...All is good in my hood, how about you!?!?!
TONIGHT:
Enter 77Wednesday, March 7 at 10/9c
Locke, Sayid and Kate investigate a strange structure and its mysterious inhabitant

Well, that sounds promising!! Don't expect the feel good story of last week...Tonight is all about intrigue and island lore. We may find out more than we expect about the Dharma Initiative and the Others....one and the same??? Tune in and you may find out.....

As for last week's episode, one little tidbit I didn't really touch on: The Song
It was playing at the beginning of the episode on the boom box and then it was also the same song on the 8 track in the van.
The Road to Shambala by 3 Dog Night.

Check out what Wikipedia had to say about this...Very Interesting, with a capital I...
The song is about the mythical kingdom of Shambala, said to be hidden somewhere within or beyond the peaks of the Himalayas and mentioned in various ancient texts including the Kalachakra Tantra and ancient texts of Tibetan Buddhism.[6]
Shambala is also a theme in Sufism and it is through this tradition that the notion of Shambala became the song discussed. Songwriter Daniel Moore became a Sufi in 1970.[1]
The lyrics refer to a situation where kindness and cooperation are universal, joy and good fortune abound, and psychological burdens are lifted:
Wash away my troubles,

wash away my pain

With the rain in Shambala

Wash away my sorrow,

wash away my shame

With the rain in Shambala

[...]Everyone is helpful,

everyone is kind

On the road to Shambala

Everyone is lucky,

everyone is so kind

On the road to Shambala

[...]How does your light shine,

in the halls of Shambala?

While the lyrics include the refrain "in the halls of Shambala", much of the song actually refers to "the road to Shambala", perhaps alluding to the idea of Shambala not as a physical place but as a metaphor for the spiritual path one might follow.[6]

Now, say what you will about last week's episode being more about Hurley's faith but this song is pretty damn leading when it comes to the world of LOST.....Read into it what you will..It could be an answer to certain mysteries or it could just be a feel good Hippie song that sums up the Dharma Initiative folks....That's what I love about this show...You never know what to expect...
Enjoy the show tonight folks!!! See you tomorrow!!
EPdeLFC, JB