I realize I've posted about Lost quite a bit lately. Pair that with my posts on Cloverfield and you'd think that I was in Abrams pocket.
I assure you I am not. If so, I would have at least come out of it with a couple of Benjamins. Hai!
But seriously, I was recently talking to a friend about Lost and was quite shocked at how much I had to say about the series. Last Thursday's episode, "The Constant," was, in my opinion, one of the best of the series. It was tight. It was dramatic. It was emotional. It was worthy of being included with some of Season 1's episodes. Perhaps not as emotional as "Walkabout", but close.
This season has brought some stellar episodes and has answered a number of questions while raising more. Infuriating? Yes. But would you want a series that doesn't keep you guessing?
Lost fans who have stuck with the show these four years love theories. And last night's episode gave us plenty to theorize about. So here it is. My Lost brain dump:
Knowing that Widmore (Penny's father) is now the owner of the journal from 
The Black Rock - that had previously belonged to the Hanso family - adds more fuel to the theory that Penny's father is somehow involved with the goings on that surround the island. The fact that his company, which manufacturers pregnancy tests, sponsored Desmond's sailing expedition only makes him more suspect.
It's very obvious - given the last three or four episodes - that the island exists in a different time or state of reality than that of the rest of the world. That much was explained by Daniel last night. And it was eluded to, of course, with that missile bit during the Sayid flash forward episode, "The Economist".
What's interesting are the effects it has on those that "come back" from the island. And why doesn't it affect all of them? It's killed two people due to what seems to be aneurysms (I was fucking surprised that Fisher Stevens only lasted one episode) and has had huge side effects for Daniel and Desmond involving their memories. Daniel's "card game" with Charlotte showed that he has been hugely affected by the jaunt and Desmond doesn't even remember his time on the island at this point.
So - what we know so far:
- The island is in some sort of wormhole or alternate reality.
- Travel to and from the island can only be achieved by staying on a very strict path. Veer from that path and you can be seriously fucked (seems reminiscent of the Langoliers in a way - and that makes sense because the writers have said that they were hugely influenced by King).
- The people on the ship are there, not to save the tailies, but to find Ben and bring him to "someone." A very powerful someone. Hanso? Hanso's second in command? Someone else that we're not even aware of? Maybe even Widmore? Widmore is a very powerful man with lots of money, after all.
- Babies can't be born on the island unless they were conceived elsewhere. IMO, this further supports the wormhole bit (which really doesn't need support at this point as it's pretty much been nailed down by the series) because - if you think about it - if you're conceived in anti-reality, you're not really conceived. You don't really exist. It seems that pregnancy achieved on the island has the same effect on the women that veering off the wormhole path does - just a different method of execution both literally and figuratively. Question is: if Sun is one of the Oceanic Six, how will it affect her once she leaves the island?
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The only reason I believe that the tailies survived and that they wound up on the island was because the electromagnetism released by Desmond when he nearly blew up the friggin' world provided 815 a direct path/channel for them to land without any sort of mistakes in the "landing". If you take a magnet and put it on a table - then you put a metal object in front of it - it goes directly to the magnet. I think the same happened with the plane and it's that reason that they are there without any of the side effects experienced by Desmond and company.
Now what I find really interesting is the plane that's under the water. The one that convinced the world that the passengers of 815 were all dead. Is that merely a decoy? Perhaps planted by the people who sent Nadia & gang to the island? That's an awfully big and expensive decoy, but I think Frank's phone conversation with Oceanic Airlines was the series way of telling us that those under the water were piss-poor representations of those on 815. I mean, obviously they aren't the Tailies we have come to know because they are now on the island, but if you've ever read any wacky time travel novels - there's always that chance of someone or something being duplicated by a rip in the "space-time continuum" (thank you, Doc Brown).
The bottom line: I'm once again in bed with this series. Fuck buddies with potential, we are.
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Screencaps from lostpedia.com
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