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Blogging While Watching LOST: This Place Is Death

by Christina Gleason on February 11, 2009

How could Ben possibly know that Jin isn’t dead?

Jin on the beach. We hear the numbers on the French team’s radio. It’s 1988.  And that sounds like Smokey. Is Nadine already toast?

So Nadine got the pilot/Mr. Eko treatment, but the blond guy got dragged through the jungle like Locke did. Only he lost an arm in the ordeal.

Bye, Jin. Er… Bye, Danielle. Jin hasn’t been conscious for all of this time traveling, so he’s got to be awfully confused right now.

The black smoke. Danielle said she saw the black smoke before the Others took Alex, right? Oh wait. Apparently Alex hasn’t been born yet, but Danielle’s gone a bit crazy and killed the men on her team. Eww, flies.

Dude, maybe she wasn’t crazy back then. Robert tried to kill her!  What’s up with that? Okay, so he went underground after the guy with no arm, he came back knowing that Smokey was a security system guarding the Temple, and then tried to shoot the mother of his child? The island didn’t want her to die, though. The gun didn’t go off. But it let her kill the rest of them. Why did it let her live? To have Alex? So that Ben could take her? Hrm.

Five of the Oceanic 6 in one place, and Ben loses all but two of them. And one of those two is holding him at gunpoint. I really hope that, when they go back to the island – because it’s inevitable – Sun gets Ji Yeon first.

Charlotte just told Danielle she speaks Klingon. That’s hilarious!

I missed typing about a few scenes, but Charlotte is quite delirious. And she’s a Geronimo Jackson fan.

“Look for it at the well. You’ll find it at the well.” The Orchid. She never seemed to remember being on the island before, but this whole brain thing seems to have knocked some memories loose.

“You just had to say something.” LOL.

And there’s the well.

Charlotte grew up on the island, with DHARMA, then moved away from the island with her mom, who told her she made it up and it didn’t exist. She became an anthropologist to find it again… And she now remembers a crazy man who scared her when she was a little girl, a man who told her that she had to leave the island and never come back. And if she did come back, she would die. And that man was… Daniel?

Well, we know that he does end up traveling back to DHARMA days. We saw him underground with Dr. Chang. So Mr. Physics who knows that time travel won’t let you change the past still tries to warn little Charlotte not to come back when she grows up. Most likely after Charlotte has died in his own flashing timeline.

It would really suck if the light flashed and time shifted while John was in the well and it suddenly became an elevator.

Oh crap, like that! But it’s not an elevator. It’s just… solid ground.

“I’m not allowed to have chocolate before dinner.” Aww. Charlotte’s last words weren’t even lucid. :-(

Ouch! Is that Locke’s bone peeking out of his leg? Didn’t need to see that. Who’s there? Jacob? Christian Shephard! So yeah, Jacob.

He told Locke he was supposed to move the island.  He has to find everyone who left, get them together, and find Eloise Hawking in Los Angeles. She’ll tell them all how to get back to the island.

And poor John has to stand on a quite broken leg to move the frozen donkey wheel.  Which is glowing green and rocking back and forth in a disturbing manner. Okay, so frozen donkey wheel makes time do funny things… How will getting everyone back to the island stop that?

Whoa, too much happened to type in real time. Ben parked the Reincarnation van outside the church where Mrs. Hawking is hiding out with her fancy equipment and calculations. Sun’s on board with any plan that will get her back with Jin.  Desmond is there. He tells Ben he’s looking for Faraday’s mother. Ben’s reaction was odd; did he know that Eloise was Faraday’s mother? That gives her a connection with Widmore, his arch-nemesis.

It’s not everyone, but “it will have to do.” “Let’s get started.” Get what started? I get the creepy feeling she’s going to start doing some incantations to bring Locke back to life or something.

Freaky stuff.

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Frozen Donkey Wheel, Time Travel, and Time Discrepancies

by Christina Gleason on July 28, 2008

Okay, so we know that, when Ben turned the frozen donkey wheel that moved the island, he was thrown about 10 months into the future, and he landed in Tunisia.

Did the island move forward into the future, too?

If it did, that would help answer a few questions, even if the science of time travel is hard for people to understand. If the island moved forward into the future, that could help to explain how the Purge happened 12 years ago (island time) but Danielle’s crew got shipwrecked 16 years ago.

Then again, now that I’m trying to write it all out, I don’t think the details would work. But I’ll see what you think, anyways.

This semi-theory requires someone to have moved the island shortly after Danielle got shipwrecked there. Who? I don’t know. Why? I also don’t know. But it could help explain how Danielle and her crew could’ve been left alone in the jungle with DHARMA trekking all over the island in their little DHARMA vans.

Here’s the shaky part. They were left alone because, perhaps, they got shipwrecked just as the island was about to move. Then the island moved, and BAM, it’s four years later… to the rest of the world. Danielle’s crewmates get sick and she shoots them. (Or rather, Danielle goes crazy and thinks they’re sick, then shoots them.) At the same time, the Purge wipes out DHARMA. Ben assumes leadership of the Others. When they find newborn baby Alex, they take her and Ben raises her as his own daughter. They leave Danielle alone in the jungle to fend for herself, the way they mostly left Flight 815′s castaways alone so long as they didn’t cross Tom’s “line in the sand” in the middle of the jungle.

And that explains four years of confusion.

It doesn’t explain why the iterations of Danielle’s distress call would’ve been playing for 16 years, though, if the radio tower had traveled the same four years into the future. And I guess it makes it a bit tricky to explain why Alex appears to be a well-developed 16 year-old girl instead of a girl of 12. Never mind. That doesn’t work.

Unless moving the island pushed the island back in time instead of forward.

This is something that just occured to me. I’m unsure how this would work. In order for the timeline to make sense, I can’t sort out the order in which the events must have occured. (The events being the Purge, Danielle giving birth to Alex, and the island moving.)

“16 years? Has it really been that long?”

Hmm. This is something I need to think more about. If you have any thoughts, please leave me a comment!

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Poll: Do you think Rousseau is dead?

April 16, 2008

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Karl to Alex: I’ve got a bad feeling about this

March 21, 2008

It’s not just a Star Wars quote any more. Not that Karl has ever seen Star Wars before. Karl was right. Ben was playing them. He sent Alex off to the Temple with the two people who are the biggest thread to his relationship with her – her mother and her boyfriend. He arranged for [...]

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