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Blogging While Watching LOST: The Story of the Oceanic 6

by Christina Gleason on April 22, 2009

Confirmation that Charles Widmore staged the wreckage of Oceanic Flight 815. No more debate as to whether it was Ben or Widmore. It was Widmore.

Now here’s my question. Jin jumped off the freighter into the water right as it exploded. Frank turned the helicopter back toward the island because they were running out of fuel. The helicopter was closer to the island than Jin was, but Jin flashed with the folks on the island, and the helicopter did not. I can’t see a good explanation for this unless it’s the simple fact that Jin was touching the water… Still doesn’t make complete sense to me, though, because the water didn’t disappear. Just the island. (If someone on the beach had jumped up when Ben moved the island, would they have landed in the water when the island disappeared?)

I will never understand how Sun could leave her daughter to go back and find Jin. I can understand wanting to see her husband again, but I don’t think I could ever leave TJ to find Tom.

I hate how Ben played Sayid. I’m sure that, if Widmore really was responsible for murdering Nadia – and I’m not convinced that it was him and not Ben, wasn’t confirmed in the narration - Sayid’s “work” wouldn’t have been done until Charles Widmore was dead.

“I’m the one who saved you.” Really, Jack? You’re the one who saved Kate? None of you would have gotten off that island if Sawyer hadn’t jumped off the helicopter! Sawyer saved her, you self-righteous prig. He saved you, too. If you really think that leaving the island saved you. Oh wait, you changed your mind about that, too.

It is horrifying having to watch Charlotte die slowly before our eyes again.

Timeline

Locke visited Jack. That same night, he tried to kill himself. Ben finished the job for him. Jack bought a ticket to fly to Sydney and back again, leaving that same night. For argument’s sake, let’s say it was Friday

He returned on Sunday, when Locke had been dead for two days, and Jack was going to jump off the bridge. That night, he told Kate they have to go back. The next day, Jack helped Ben try to convince everyone else to go back. Hurley spent Sunday night in jail. Kate dreamed about Claire.  On Monday, the lawyer’s came to test blood from Aaron.

Monday night, everyone had a confrontation with Ben. Sun was going to shoot him. They went to meet Eloise Hawking. Sayid met the bounty hunter. Desmond delivered his message.

Tuesday, Kate consulted with Cassidy before leaving Aaron with Mrs. Littleton. Then she slept with Jack.

Wednesday morning, Ben tried to kill Penny. Jack swapped out Locke’s shoes with his dad’s shoes. Everyone boarded Ajira flight 316.

Conclusion: The Christ parallel isn’t perfect. It was more than three days before Locke was resurrected.

Lingering Questions

Why didn’t Sun flash with the others?

2007? I thought they were more in real time with us by the time they got on that plane. I guess not.

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Blogging While Watching LOST: 316

by Christina Gleason on February 18, 2009

Jack wakes up in the jungle, like in “Pilot,” with a torn piece of paper that says, “I wish” in his hand.  Hurley is yelling for help. Jack does perhaps the worst dive in the world down the waterfall.   Kate is face down on some rocks.  Not dead. 

“We’re back.”
“What happened?”

46 hours earlier…

Eloise Hawking is leading Sun, Jack, Ben, and Desmond down a spiral straicase in into a secret chamber. Not the same people we just saw wake up in the jungle.

“What is this place?”
“The DHARMA Initiative called it the Lamp Post.  This is how they found the island.”

I’m sure a lot of people are freaking out right now.  I’m just impatient.  Where’s Aaron if Kate is there?

Energy pockets.  A “very clever fellow” created the pendulum.  Is Widmore the clever fellow?  The island is always moving. That’s why they were never rescued.  There are “windows.” 

Desmond has a crazy look in his eyes when talking about how Mrs. Hawking stole four years of his life.  Those flashes he had.  The island’s not done with him, but he says he’s done with the island.  I can’t say I blame him.  He has a wife and a kid now.  And I don’t think he’s going to convince Penny to bring little Charlie to the island.

Agira Airways, Flight 316. They have to get on that flight, from Los Angeles to Guam, and hope that it works. Except Jack has to do something.  Maybe we’ll find out what after the commercial break. Maybe it has something to do with his “I wish” list. Hmm.

A letter to Jack. Locke’s suicide note? John Locke is going to be a proxy?  For his dead father!  He has to give something of Christian’s to John.  Jack has to take a “leap of faith.”  Does this mean that we’ll see dead Locke walking around the island the way Christian did?

“We’re all convinced sooner or later, Jack.”

I want to know what Ben’s loose end is that he’s tying up for an old friend. 

Who is Ray, and why did they call Jack when he tried to run away  from the nursing home?  Oh, it’s his grandpa.  And let me guess, something in his suitcase belonged to Christian.  Oh look, shoes.

Jack’s out of booze in almost all of his hiding places.  Who’s in his house?  His dad?  Claire?  Whoa, Kate looks terrible. 

“If you want me to go with you, you have to never ask me that question again.  Never ask me about Aaron.”

Okay, I never made the promise.  Where’s Aaron?  She obviously left him with someone so she could honor Claire’s wishes and not bring him back to the island.  Cassidy?  So that Aaron can grow up with Clementine?

And as long as we’re recreating the original plane crash as much as possible, is Kate going to get pregnant by sleeping with Jack now?  I mean, if they need to have a dead guy, they should have a pregnant woman, right?

Coffee and orange juice. Sweet morning after offering, Jack.  Oh… an explanation of the white tennis shoes!  Huh.  Who’s on the phone?  Ben sounds a little hysterical.  His face is all bloody. His blood or something else’s?

It’s a little creepy in the meat locker with a coffin in there.  Leg of Locke, anyone?  And Jack’s not going to actually leave that suicide note unread in the coffin.  I bet that’s the scrap of paper he had in the jungle.  Locke’s suicide note started off “I wish…”

And just like the first time around, Jack has issues with transporting a body on the plane, although it’s not nearly as much of a hassle.

Sun is there.  If there’s any chance that Jin is still alive, she has to go.  But what about Ji Yeon?  Sayid is in handcuffs, playing the role of Kate on this flight.  Hurley managed to get there, playing the role of Charlie with a guitar case in hand. (Does he have the heroin, too?)

Good for Hurley buying out the rest of the seats in the flight to minimize the number of… casualties. Except there are other people on the plane.  Ben doesn’t care about them. (What happened to him anyways?) My husband has just referred to them as the Tailies. 

Frank J. Lapidus is the pilot!

Why is Jack confused about why everyone else is there?  Didn’t he get the memo that everyone needed to be there?

“We aren’t going to Guam, are we?” LOL, Frank!

“How can you read?”
“My mother taught me.”
Aside from being a jerk, he even lies when he’s being snarky.  His mom died giving birth to him.  Unless her jungle apparition taught him to read.  Ben’s reading Ulysses.  A man coming home after so many years away.

Just read the letter, Jack.

“Jack, I wish you had believed me. JL.”

And there’s a flash!

We’ve seen all this. Except the DHARMA van cruising through the jungle.  And… Jin?  Awesome!

Question.  If they’re back in the past now, what are the implications of that?  Is Ben going to run into his younger self?

This was a science heavy episode with loads of exposition for the geeks among us.  Is anyone going to look at the screenshots of all of Eloise’s calculations? 

I’m just trying to process everything we learned tonight.

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Blogging While Watching LOST: The Lie

January 21, 2009

So we’re back on Penny’s boat, before they became the Oceanic 6. Hurley was the only one wanted to tell the truth instead of lying about what happened after the plane crash. Ana-Lucia was the cop who pulled Hurley over? Oh dear. At least she’s giving him good advice about laying low. “Do not get [...]

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Blogging While Watching LOST: Because You Left

January 21, 2009

Dr. Marvin Candle has a baby! Dr. Chang? He’s got a stage name! Daniel Faraday is back with DHARMA in the Orchid Station back in the 1970s? When the worker made the flip remark about time travel… Faraday obviously has time traveled. Back. Definitely back, since he was still doing experiments with his rats in [...]

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Poll: Will They Go Back?

July 3, 2008

Will They Go Back? ( polls)

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The Lie: Why Did Jack Choose Boone, Libby, and Charlie?

June 9, 2008

The previously unseen footage from There’s No Place Like Home (Part 2) told us who the mysterious “other survivors” of the plane crash were. Boone supposedly died of massive internal injuries soon after the crash. Libby supposedly also died in the first week, also suffering from head trauma and memory loss. Charlie was said to [...]

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Blogging While Watching LOST: There’s No Place Like Home (Part 2) [Part 2]

May 29, 2008

Okay, I needed more space! It’s the commercial break immediately following Sawyer’s plunge into the ocean. Another Sayid hit. Long hair is quite becoming on him, even though he is a hitman. “I think visiting hours are over, dude.” What circumstances have changed? Bentham’s dead, two days ago. Sayid stopped Hurley from saying who Bentham [...]

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Blogging While Watching LOST: There’s No Place Like Home (Part 2)

May 29, 2008

Here it is! I’ve got butterflies in my stomach! Tiny coffin in the previous scenes… do we learn who was in it? Kate’s backing up… from the end of last season’s finale! Jeremy Bentham? “You believed him? Him, of all people?” To keep Kate and Aaron safe. Kate’s reaming Jack out pretty good… I’m not [...]

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Blogging While Watching LOST: There’s No Place Like Home

May 15, 2008

So now is as good a time as any to apologize for using “Keamy” and “the captain” interchangeably. I didn’t realize that the guy Keamy shot was the captain. Oh, and the internet ate my first draft of this post up to the first commercial break, so I may have left some things out that [...]

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Already All Choked Up

May 15, 2008

I’m just sitting here watching All My Children – yeah, it’s cheesy, I know – and they’ve had two promos already for tonight’s episode of LOST. It’s got me all choked up and on the brink of tears. Just thinking about the Oceanic 6, what they must be thinking and feeling as they’re about to [...]

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