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Last week’s episode of Lost may have been one of the best episodes of Lost to this point, in my opinion. In fact, it was so good that I totally counted it as one of my birthday presents, thankyouverymuch.

Oh, and Therese at Tubular has a re-cap of the episode posted!  Click here to check it out!

Okay, okay. In the interests of full disclosure, I must admit, I’m a Sawyer fan. I am. I always have been. I always will be. I’ve never really cared about the love connections between Sawyer and Kate or Jack and Kate or how Juliet plays into the whole thing, because in the end, he’ll always be with me.

Ha!
Just kidding!
Kinda.

Sawyer is a conman. He takes what’s given to him and uses it to his advantage. He’s great at hiding his true emotions, but he does have them. Just because he’s a conman doesn’t mean that everything he does is a con. But, it might be. That’s the beauty of it all.

I loved this episode because it really showed us who Sawyer is, but left us wondering about who he really is at the same time.

I *knew* LaFleur was going to be Sawyer. As soon as they went to knock on the Head of Security’s door, I shouted, “Ohmygosh, I bet it’s Sawyer!” Everyone thought I was nuts. No, I hadn’t seen any spoilers. I just *knew*. I can’t wait to see more of the story that led up to that point!

Now that we have my bias out of the way, let’s get to some of the nitty-gritty discussion. Personally, I think my Lost Time-Travel Theory is still standing! Yay! Specifically, the “you can only have one body on the island” part of it.

It is my opinion that Charlotte’s body “disappeared” when Daniel flashed into the 70s, because her body already existed on the island in the 70s, as the little girl Charlotte. Her body would have flashed with him from the ancient time and then been transformed to Charlotte…because she was already on the island.

Daniel has said that “what happened, happened…the past is a street, etc.” but does that account for the little loops they’re creating? Desmond is different and can change things? What else can be changed? Did Sawyer and Juliet “change” something by rescuing Amy? I think so. I think Daniel was talking about “streets” that had been paved before the frozen donkey wheel started jumping around making everything wonky.

Where I have a problem with a 100% “what happened, happened” theory is dealing with the loops and the “special” people. Daniel didn’t always talk to Desmond…he could because he was special. Some loops are opened, and will eventually be closed, little tributaries off the original stream.

We don’t know all the rules, and we’re trying to figure it all out anyway.

Where the 316ers are in relation to Sawyer’s group and the Oceanic 5 is still a mystery to me (and has nothing to do with my Lost Time-Travel theory…by the way.). I’m still not convinced that the 316ers are in the “present” time and not in the 70s with the O5, Sawyer, et al. (I think Daniel being in the Dharma time could be a reason as to why his papers were at the Hydra office.) I could be wrong, and I’m totally okay with that. Lots of people think they flashed into a different time. I just don’t think so. Hopefully we learn more about that soon!

Also, going back to the “you can only have one body” thing. Juliet and Sawyer et al can’t really go back to the mainland (in the 70s) without something weird happening with their nosebleedy brains…I really think you can only have one body. Again, that’s why Charlotte “disappeared.” If your “other self” in the past time-line wasn’t on the island, it’s not an issue. The island makes an exception.

In other words, the island is kinda like Vegas. What happened on the island, happened on the island. For example, the first time Sawyer experienced 1977, he was but a wee lad living in Tallahassee (or wherever). That happened. The second time Sawyer experienced 1977, he was in the Dharma Initiative on a crazy island. That happened.

Just how many happenings can happen? All of them. (The island is the key. It does something to time that hasn’t been explained yet.) It’s when the happening in Island 1977 collides with the happening in Real World 1977 that things get wonky. That’s why Charlotte had a meltdown. Her Real World 1977 jumped back and conflicted with her Island 1977.

These are just my theories…and time will tell, obviously (how punny!), but that’s my feeling.

Tonight, there will be no new episode of Lost, but rather than be lost without Lost, I just may watch my boyfriend LaFleur again.

And, if the truth be told, I’m just glad we know who’s in the coffin!

Well, it’s that time again!  We’re just zipping through this season so quickly, and Lost is on again tonight!  I did hear rumblings of there being no new episode for March 4th, and just WHAT KIND of birthday present would that be!?  No one consulted me when they put the schedule together!! 

Oh well, this way, I can party it up next week without having to worry about missing out on a new episode of Lost! 

Edited to add:  Maybe it is on next week?  I’d heard they were taking a break, but it looks like it’s on the schedule…hmmm…

My hubby had to work late last Wednesday, so I got to watch the episode in peace so I re-watched it with him last night.  The first thing he said was, “Does someone get smacked by the pendulum?”  And, I laughed out loud.  I’d thought the same thing!  I almost couldn’t focus on what Ms. Hawking was saying because I was so nervous about that swinging pendulum.  I thought Desmond was going to get whacked by that thing for sure!

No need for any spoilery warning, so let’s have at it!
So, what did we learn in this episode?  What questions do we have?

• We know that Jack, Hurley and Kate make it back to the island.  Jack’s eye-opening scene is reminiscent of the way the show started and also the Missing Pieces episode.  Only, this time, he appears to be happy that whatever they’d done worked, and he’s back.

• Hurley has a guitar case, and I can’t help but think of Charlie.

• How Kate, Hurley, and Sayid (as we see later) are finally convinced to make the trip is still a mystery, and I wonder if we’ll find out the details surrounding that soon?

• And, speaking of Kate’s reason for going back to the island, where is Aaron?  Why does she not want Jack to mention it again?  Is it just me, or was she acting uber-creepy about it?  If I were Jack, I would have been a little bit more demanding about the details, but that’s just me.

• We discover that there is a Dharma station in Los Angeles, called the Lamppost.  (or is it Lamp Post?  Details, details.)  This is where I was just sure someone was going to have an altercation with the pendulum.  How long has it been there?  Who was “the man” who figured out the equations?  Widmore?  Daniel Faraday?  Someone else?

• When Ms. Hawking was talking about the coordinates of Ajira Flight 316 and how they would coincide with where the island was, something popped into my head:  If they’ve done it once, they could do it again.  Who’s to say the original Losties weren’t purposely led toward Oceanic Flight 815, which would cross certain coordinates on September 22, 2004?  And, by whom?  And, for what purpose?

• AND, speaking of Ajira Flight 316, the only other time we’d ever heard of Ajira was when we saw the water-bottles in the outriggers in a previous episode (when the Left Behinders stumbled upon their camp in ruins and then used the boat to try to paddle around the island to get to the Orchid.)

• Those bottles would lead you to believe that the O6 (well, O5 technically) crashed onto the island sometime in the future.  (i.e. the camp was there, so it couldn’t have been Pre-Oceanic-Flight-815-Crash.)  But, from what we see at the end of the episode, I’m thinking they “crashed” onto the island at a time earlier than that (1970s/80s).  More on that later…

• Ms. Hawking sure is full of all kinds of information, yet not very many answers.  And, she didn’t seem surprised (or all warm and fuzzy) about Desmond mentioning Daniel Faraday (as her son).  Why not?

• What importance will Ray, Jack’s grandfather, play?  Was his only purpose to give Jack his father’s shoes?  Speaking of which, I’m so glad we finally figured out the mystery behind the white shoes!!

• I certainly hope Ben’s “loose end to tie up” isn’t Penny Widmore!!  Charles Widmore is “an old friend” and Ben certainly made a promise to him last season.  *gulp!!*

• Speaking of that loose end…Ben certainly looks like he’s seen better days, and I’m wondering what the other guy looks like.  And, just who is the other guy?!

• As soon as I saw them on the plane, I thought Frank Lapidus would be the pilot.  Sure enough, he was!

• So, Jack finally reads the suicide note.  I would have ripped that note open the minute Ms. Hawking handed to me.  And, my husband kept asking me through the entire show what it said?  And, why isn’t Jack opening it?  Does he open it soon?  Ha!  Personally, I have another question: Was it really a suicide?  Does that matter in the grand scheme of things?

• There is lots of turbulence, a flash of light and then they wake up on the island.  Did the actual plane crash this time?  Where are Locke, Sun, and Sayid?  What happened to the other people on the plane?  I have a feeling we’ll get more answers soon.

• And, who should roll up in a Dharma van?  Jin!  In a Dharma suit!  The spiffy-lookin’ van and the crisp Dharma suit leads me to believe that they’ve “crashed” into a different time than originally thought.

I can’t wait to see what happens next! 

So, tonight is the big night!  More of Lost will grace our presence, boggle our minds and maybe make our noses bleed.  I’m anticipating more answers!  And more questions!  And I can’t wait to try out my time-travel theory for one more episode.  It’s held up so far!  I’m pretty happy about that.

If you’re not into Lost, I got nuthin’ for ya.  Grab your torches and head back to camp.

Wait.
Wrong show.

If you are into Lost, I decided to wait to post my observations of The Little Prince, because I didn’t want anyone to be spoiled.

Well, you’ve had a week…I’m off the hook!

So, let me start out with the biggest reveal in the episode:  Jin is alive!  And he is rescued by a younger and pregnant version of Danielle Rousseau!

Wait…What?!

As soon as I saw the French-labeled items on the beach, I knew we were going to see Danielle and her team.  And, as soon as I saw a body floating in the water, I thought it might be Jin.  But, I’m not sure that I’m happy he’s alive.  That sounds more gruesome than it is…I mean, part of me thinks that surviving an explosion of that magnitude and then being somehow within the parameter is a bit far-fetched…but then so is time-traveling and all the other stuff that’s been happening on this wonky island.

So, for now, I’ll be happy that Jin is alive and just go with the flow (no pun intended).  And, from what I’ve gathered so far, I am assuming that Jin has been flashing through time, this whole time as well, right along with the other Unstuck People.  That’s the only explanation that makes sense…well, as much sense as surviving when the freighter blew up, being lost at sea and then being rescued by a French research team in 1988 makes. 

Another thing I thought was interesting with this episode is we get to see that it was Kate’s idea to pretend to be Aaron’s mother.  I’d always wondered about that.  And, I still stand by my original thoughts that pulling off something like that is also far-fetched…but again, we’ve all become experts at suspending our disbelief.

I think it’s great how manipulative Ben is/was in getting Kate to think that someone was out for Aaron.  Personally, I think Kate knows that Jack is Aaron’s uncle, and that’s why she looked at him the way she did in the car outside of Claire’s mom’s hotel room, but it will be interesting to see more details on that.

I think it’s interesting that Daniel says the nosebleeds are directly related to how long one has been exposed to the island.  So, by using those calculations, Charlotte has had the most exposure, followed by Miles, and then Juliet.  (We know that Juliet has been on the island, what, 3-years?  So, the other two have had more exposure, and since we know they just arrived, that exposure has to be from the past.)  Charlotte doesn’t appear to be getting any worse (since collapsing and regaining consciousness), does she?  Or is her life in grave danger?  Who knows what happens with more exposure?  And, it will be interesting to see the circumstances that led to Charlotte and Miles being on the island in the past.

I thought it was neat that Sawyer saw Kate and Claire in the jungle.  And, I know that the light they saw was the light Desmond turned on in the hatch when John was pounding on it (originally)…but what was it really?

I thought John’s comment to Sawyer about needing that pain to get where he is today was interesting, too.

I don’t understand why Sun is mad at Ben for Jin’s “death.”  I’m not sure why she doesn’t place more blame on Widmore.  And, can we assume that Locke (as J. Bentham) visited Sun like he did the rest of the O6?  And, if Jin eventually catches up to the rest of the group, wouldn’t John know that?  And, why wouldn’t he tell Sun?

I just thought of something!  What if that is why Sun is mad at Ben?  What if John told her that Ben is the one who turned the Frozen Donkey Wheel, thus trapping Jin and the others on the island?  Hmmm…interesting!  And, if that isn’t the reason, I’m excited to see what is…

Needless to say, I can’t wait to see what happens tonight!

Spoiler alert.  If you haven’t watched the latest Lost episode (Jughead), you may want to check back here after you do!

I loved Wednesday’s episode, Jughead.  There are so many things revealed in this episode:  Desmond and Penny have a baby boy and they named him Charlie!  (Awwwww!) Charles Widmore was on the island with Richard!  Back in the 50s!  (*gasp*!!) Is “Ellie” (the woman I totally thought was a young Danielle Rousseau at first.  Oops!) really Ms. Eloise Hawking?  Widmore is Daniel Faraday’s benefactor!  “Richard has always been here.”  Indeed.  And, time keeps jumpin’ all over the place.

All good stuff.

So, after the episode, my mind was racing…and then something clicked.  I totally caught a hold of a time-travel theory and it made sense.  I was hoping I wasn’t dreaming it, and sure enough, I woke up yesterday with a clear picture still in my head.

I’ve got a theory to the time-travel, and I’m so excited to feel this calm feeling of understanding.  How long will it last?  Only until the next flash? 

I’m going to try to share it with you, but without the help of a 3-D whiteboard, your eyes may glaze over and your nose may start to bleed.  Bear with me!

The Case of the Flaming Frogurt

How can Frogurt be shot and killed by a flaming arrow in 1954 and still get on the Oceanic 815 flight in 2004?  Doesn’t that create a paradox?

No, because he doesn’t get killed until after the plane crashes, and it just happens to be 1954 on the island when he gets shot by a flaming arrow.

Let’s say Frogurt was even unluckier than we thought and it was his 29th birthday on the day he was shot and killed by a flaming arrow.  The first time 1954 happened, Neil wasn’t on the island.  He wasn’t even born yet, and if he would have been, it would have probably been somewhere in the United States and not on some mystical island with magical properties.  The second time 1954 happened for Neil, he was on a wacky island; he’d already crashed in a plane.  The fact that he gets shot and killed by a flaming arrow in that version of 1954 doesn’t have any effect on the Frogurt who booked the flight on Flight 815, because it hadn’t happened yet.

He dies on his 29th birthday, regardless of when in time that is.

Confused yet?

Rules are rules.  Lost Rules are even more confusing.

Keep in mind we are playing by Lost Rules, which have been known to change slightly given their interpretation or knowledge-base of the viewer at the time.  Remember way back when we didn’t know flash-backs were possible?  Then, remember when we finally got a grasp of that and the writers threw flash-forwards at us?

Then Desmond’s consciousness got unstuck in time, and his brain nearly melted until he found his constant.

Your time-line marches forward, regardless of what the calendar says.

Well, here we are: another little piece to the puzzle.  On the island, people can get “un-stuck” in time.  Daniel reminds us that we can’t change the past, because it’s already happened.  It’s like our little ticker-tapes keep running, regardless of what the calendar says.  Luckily for us, the date on the calendar matches the time-stamp on our little ticker-tapes.  But, when you’re un-stuck in time, your ticker-tape keeps on a-tickin’, the roll of paper tumbling out of the machine into a nice little coil onto the floor, regardless of what the date is on the island.

For example…  And, for the record, I totally have this diagrammed on my desk, but showing you a photo of it would prove how crazy I’ve become.

On September 22, 2004, Oceanic Flight 815 crashes onto an island.  Lots of confusing stuff happens.

On Day 108 (or thereabouts, right?), some people leave, and some people stay.  For this example, I’m going to talk about four people:  Sawyer and Locke stay on the island and become un-stuck in time, and Jack and Kate escape and become part of the Oceanic Six, but they remain stuck in time.

On Day 109, Jack and Kate are continuing on the calendar that you and I know, the one that is the same as the ticker-tape.

On Day 109 for Sawyer and Locke, however, their ticker-tape clicks forward, but the calendar turns to the date that the Beechcraft crashed onto the island.  (Let’s just say it’s 2000, but I haven’t checked out any sources…I’m sure they have the exact date mapped out somewhere.)  Locke sees the plane crash and gets shot by Ethan.  He almost gets killed by Ethan, but time jumps just in time (ha! punny!).

Here’s where I hazard a guess…I totally think Ethan could have killed Locke and the only thing that would have been disrupted was The Grand Scheme Jacob and/or The Island has in place for John Locke.  Like Frogurt, Locke could have died in this version of 2000 and still gotten on the plane in 2004, because his death really hadn’t happened yet.

I don’t know what’s up with The Island or Jacob, I just claim to have a handle on the time-travel stuff.

You only have one body, and being on the island is the key. [Edited to add:  Okay, this one has been disproved with Some Like it Hoth.  Check out the update here!]

Also, it doesn’t matter where Sawyer and Locke were in the original version of 2000, because they weren’t on the island in 2000.  There aren’t two Sawyers or two Lockes running around.  There was one Sawyer in 2000, back when 2000 happened for him the first time, and one Sawyer in 2000 on Day 109.  (And the same goes for Locke.)  It’s only the island’s time-line that is being tapped into.

Anyway, without recapping the whole past episode, the island eventually flips to 1954.  Locke meets Richard Alpert and tells him to go visit him on the day of his birth, which won’t be for another 2 years in Real Island Time.  John’s ticker-tape is still ticking forward, even though the island is in 1954.

How Richard fits into all of this is still a mystery.  At first, in previous seasons, I thought he was traveling through time, but I am not so sure anymore.  This latest episode “Jughead” leads me to believe that Richard is tied to the island and tied to its time-line.  It was as though he looked up and the Island Calendar read 1956, so he traveled to the outside world and saw that John Locke was indeed born on that day in that hospital.  (This was before Desmond turned the fail-safe switch and before Ben turned the frozen donkey wheel and everything got all wonky, so I’m assuming that Island Time and Real World Time were the same back in 1956.  And, we know that Richard can travel to and from the island, as we’ve seen him do that before.)

Also, is Richard different from Ethan?  My guess is, yes.  I don’t know if Ethan “remembers” shooting John Locke in 2000, but Richard remembers talking to John Locke in 1954.  I have a feeling Richard is tied to the island in ways that will shock and amaze us.

So, back to my theory that you only have one body…(Who knew you’d need a theory like that!?  It just sounds so funny!)  I think the people unstuck in time (for example, Sawyer & Locke) cannot run into themselves on the island.  Personally, I think there is only one physical Sawyer & Locke, and they just happen to be in another version of the present.  [Edited to add:  Again, you win some; ya lose some.  Oh well!]

Those pesky writers.
But, I do think Sawyer & Locke can run into people who happen to be in that same time-frame but aren’t unstuck at the time.  (i.e. Kate & Jack respectively)  That’s why, in past episodes, Sawyer says funny things to Kate about waiting so long to see her, and why John tells Jack he’s “not supposed to do this.”  (Just because they can’t change what happens at that point in “time” doesn’t mean they wouldn’t try, or slip-up.  Sawyer would be relieved to see Kate, and Locke would try to warn Jack…)  All along, the writers could have been throwing in bits and pieces of the Unstuck-Sawyer and Unstuck-Locke!  And, we would have never guessed!

Those pesky writers!  I really wouldn’t put it past them!

But, keep in mind, we haven’t seen any of this really happen yet.  It’s just a theory of mine.  I just have always been bothered by that exchange by Kate and Sawyer, and what Locke says to Jack, and to me, this theory makes sense.

So, what happens now?

So, what happens when those who are un-stuck actually flip into a time when they were already on the island?  I’m assuming they flip into where their physical bodies were at the time.  Maybe?  And, if their subconsciousnesses (is that even a word?) are being addled like this, will it cause nosebleeds?  Do they need a constant like Desmond and Daniel Faraday?  Speaking of nosebleeds, Charlotte is in bad shape, and I think she’s either been to the island before, or someone directly related to her is there.

Time will tell, I guess.  (In more ways than one, eh?)

I’ve said it once, and I’ll say it again…I’m just glad to know who is in the coffin. 

So, what do you think?  Do you have any theories?  How does this one sound?  I can’t wait until next week for more pieces of the puzzle!

What’s that sound you hear?  Is it the smoke monster?  Is it the sound of an island disappearing from space and time?

No!  It’s the sound of Lost fans rejoicing!  Today is the big day!  Finally, Lost will return!

I’ve successfully avoided scheduling anything for tonight, because I already have a date!  With Sawyer!  Well, and the rest of the cast, too.

Yes, I’m recording the premier and I may or may not watch it again, more than once.  (You do the math on that…I’m not telling how many times I watch each episode.)

It’s embarrassing.
Don’t judge me.

I’ve written about Lost before.  I can’t help myself.  Without Six Feet Under or The X-Files, what’s a girl to do?  (And, yet, this show is nothing like either one of those two examples.)

It’s fun to be excited about a TV show again.  I love that feeling.

Needless to say, I can’t wait!  In the meantime, you can check out the other things I’ve babbled on and on about regarding this show:

You can click here to check out the Lost: The Show Category.

If you haven’t seen all The Missing Pieces, episodes, you should click here.

Or, you could also check out this nice re-cap of the seasons so far:

Therese at Tubular does a great job of re-capping!  Click here to refresh your memory.

So, tonight, we’ll get some answers and many more questions.  I’m expecting to be thoroughly entertained and utterly confused.

And, I’m okay with that.  I’m just so glad it’s back.