Lost Review for February 14, 2008
Well - another good episode. So far this season has been strong and stayed strong. The focus was on Sayed, who apparently has turned into an assassin for Ben after leaving the island.
We finally begin to see Locke start to lose it a bit. Notice though that he found the line of... sand maybe? I remember that had been around the cabin before. So does the cabin move? Also - doesn't the line of sand remind you of what wizards use to keep devils/demons in line? That's probably a bit of a stretch, but I couldn't think of any other reason for the sand.
The other huge revelation was the scientific experiment. We got a major clue as to one of the mysteries of the island. Apparently it lies in the future. Kinda. I mean - the scientist dude was talking to the girl on the boat in real time. So the sound waves had no problem traveling, but the rocket was affected. It's also interesting to note that the time difference is minor - I think I heard 31 minutes. So it's not like they are traveling in time - but just that the island is... 'broke' from reality.
Did you notice how the man on the golf course reacted to Sayed? Almost as if he was terrible luck (which he was, of course).
As for Sayed working for Ben... I'm not sure what to think. I still think the bad guys are Dharma, and we know that the Island doesn't like Dharma (it ordered Ben to wipe them out), but I wonder why?
Oh - and Sawyer had a little screen time today - but it was very well done. Unlike Locke, Sawyer made a real case for why they could stay on the island. I was pretty darn impressed by it.
Any other thoughts?
The golf course was in a different place than when we later saw Sayid, remember the snow he picks up after he meets the girl? So was he there specifically to kill that guy at the course? Maybe the guy figured that out after he heard who he was.
On the clocks, I thought he was holding the clock from the rocket in his right hand which would mean the island is 31 minutes behind time.
What about the secret closet with multiple passports and money? Sayid is heading to the boat so if he meets up with Ben's man, maybe that is how he gets started working for him. He sees/learns who they are and they are bad then agrees to help Ben track and kill them.
We know about these folks getting off the island - ben would make 7 unless they said he was on the flight. It would also seem to exclude Juliet and Desmond.
Jack
Kate
Sayid
Hurley
Who do you think the other two are going to be?
You may be right about the island being in the past, but again, with it being so short, it seems more like a break than a time travel thing.
As for the secret closet - i just assumed that as Ben was leading the others, he would have stuff they didn't need. But... he wasn't the leader of the original crew, he was just a janitor. So why would he have those supplies now.
Shoot. How did they get the doctor chick on the Island. I mean - one of my main theories is that the bad guys are Dharma, trying to get back on after the purge. But Juliet came after the purge. She was recruited and brought it. So _someone_ is working for Ben on the outside.
1. How did Myles get a picture of Ben? I think, given the passports and what appeared to be currency from different countries, Ben travels from the island.
2.I believe the guy who recruited Julliet is the guy who was the leader of 'Others' who Ben encounters on the island as a child.
3. The physicist tells the helicopter pilot to make sure he uses the same bearing when leaving the island. Didn't they tell Michael and Walt the same thing when they left in the boat?
4. What has happened to Michael and Walt?
2) You are right. This other group - who are not Dharma - are something else. All except Juliet. Or if not all (we can maybe assume other folks came in later as well) at least most.
3) Yes they did.
4) Personally I think they are fine.
1. The guy got scared when Sayed told him who he was. How is it that the guy knew of Sayed enough to know to be afraid of him, but not so much to know what he looked like? They made it seem like the Oceanic 6 were kind of worldwide celebrities. Doesn't add up.
2. Here is a thought on Michael and Walt. When they escaped the island, they stayed low key, maybe not even going back to the US. But when the others appeared, they came out of hiding, maybe even being shunned a bit for not coming forward sooner. So Michael and Walt are the other 3 from Oceanic 6...long shot, I agree, but plausible.
3. Here is another long shot. Ben's 'guy' on the boat is Michael (or Walt).
2) I definitely think M/W stayed low key. I don't think they ever came out though.
What really piques my interest is how Ben, after having been raised on the Island, has all of the resources he does. If he exterminated all of the "old" Dharma crew, then where does he get money, passports, clothes, a sub, etc? It's certainly NOT Dharma! I can't help but think that Ben is working for a US gov't agency of some kind, or some entity OTHER than Dharma. Perhaps Penny Widmore's dad? Didn't they find a dead guy in a hot air balloon the island, where the basket was made by Widmore Industries?
I would guess that Ben 'freed' Jacob at some point.before getting caught as part of his "battle" with Locke.
I would assume this means that the same people who are running the show on the freighter were to same ones who wanted to kill him in the flash forward.
Also, why was the pilot insistent on the physicist hang up if Minkowski got on the phone?
I get the feel that he was with Elsa for at least a month or two...surely he would have noticed the bracelet before the day he killed her. He was looking at it in sort of remembrance.
Maybe Sayid already had a bracelet like Naomi's? That's why he looked at Naomi's so oddly.
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