I normally try to forget my birthday...I like to forget that I'm over 30!

But I am just so happy that this January 21st I get to watch the Season Premiere of Lost Season 5 on my birthday.  It's practically an all night event, so I can forget about how old I am and concentrate on more important things.

Things such as Sawyer.  Oh, yeah...Doc Jensen says there will be a lot of Sawyer in the first two episodes.  That's good enough for me.

Doc said there will be other familiar faces, too.  And there will be humor.  Oh, why should I waste my time telling you about it.  You can read it for yourself on EW.com

HERE

Namaste.

Sawyer & Juliet ~ Will there be romance in Season 5?
Photo from Lostpedia




Last Time we talked about Lost I brought you the name of the season 5 opener…”Because You Left.”

The 20^th will be Inauguration Day and after that we’ll need another break from politics. 

Season 5 begins Wednesday, January 21^stwith a two hour premiere.  But in Lost fashion, watch for a one hour recap to air prior to the premiere. So we get 3 hours of Lost in one night!

Word has it that the second episode of the season will also be two hours.

I'll leave you with a quiz until my next Lost post...and I'm sure there will be some news before January....

Did you ever wonder which Lost character you were most like?

Well, now you can find out. 

Just click on the banner and take the quiz.







You can click on the "Lost" tag on the side bar for posts from past Lost seasons.

Hello, Lost fans…
It’s been awhile.
But there is some news.

First, the title of the season premiere of Season  5 of Lost.

 ''BECAUSE YOU LEFT''

Jeff (Doc) Jensen of EW.com says :

"Reminds me of what Jack told Ben that Locke-as-Bentham told him before kicking the bucket."

You can read about his LOST Season 5 Premiere Scoop HERE  although the title is basically all you need to know from that.  O.K., I ruined his article for you by telling you the title...Sorry.  I don't usually do that...I just thought it was a rambling article and it's old news.

But other news came out today.

Ana Lucia (Michelle Rodriguez) who was shot dead by Michael, is rumored to be returning for one episode this season; possibly in episode two.  The question is why?  Something to do with Jack's dad?




 Ana Lucia Cortez                      Lostpedia



It’s a long time until the show starts but once in a while I’ll throw something I find up here - just so we don't forget. 

Until then, think about your theories for the title of the first show and....

 

Read the article from EW.com:   

Exclusive: 'Lost' Resurrects Michelle Rodriguez!

 

 

 

For those of you wondering if Michael blew up when the ship did, or whether he somehow “left” when Christian Shepard told him, “You can go now, Michael,” the answer is ….

Christian telling him he could go now was the Island telling him he could die, and that’s just what happened. 

But, even though he’s dead, we know there are ghosts on the Island...

Of course we will have to find out where the Island is.

In the meantime, Michael (Harold Perrineau) did an interview wit EW.com regarding his departure.


'Lost': 'I was disappointed...I wouldn't say I'm bitter'    ç here


Now...two interesting screencaps....

And lastly...or lostly....

Here is a short clip of the two alternate casket views for the finale....

I thought the finale was better than I expected, but I still wanted more from Richard Alpert and his group of rebels.  I think they, and their new leader, John Locke, will be the major players in next season, along with the struggle of Jack trying to get his friends to go back to the Island. Maybe the producers of the show should spend the summer going through the first four seasons writing down every loose end they have left untied so far…because there are too many to count.  It seems like very few questions are ever answered.  We are always left with something like, “Oh, he’s dead…but is he really dead?”




Ben with the frozen donkey wheel.  Before he moved the Island he said,
"I hope you're happy now, Jacob." And just when you think Ben might finally have
lost control in the show, he pops up at the end, manipulating Jack.





Slurp!  The island is gone.  Or is it just invisible?





Sawyer returns to the Island after whispering a request to Kate and jumping
from the helicopter.  Will he form a relationship with Juliet next season?  I do.





John Locke/Jeremy Bentham:


"Shortly before leaving the island, Locke warns Jack that his knowledge of the island and the truth behind his lies will haunt him, and eventually drive him to return to the island. Jack disagrees and leaves the island. However, three years after rescue, Jack meets with Ben at a funeral parlor. Jack tells him that Locke had come to him under the alias Jeremy Bentham and told him that terrible things had happened on the island since his leaving. All of which were Jack's fault for leaving. Some time after giving Jack this information, Locke passes away under his pseudonym and is the man Jack has come to mourn. Feeling this immense guilt for the information Locke has given him, and perhaps for Locke's death directly, Jack tells Kate and later Ben that he has to go back to the island. "

"However, according to Ben, the island will not permit just one of the Oceanic Six to return, all of them must return together, along with Locke's body (and possibly Frank and Desmond). This provides complications as Jack claims that Kate no longer wants to talk to him, Sun blames him for Jin's death, Hurley is "crazy", Sayid is unreachable, and Desmond vowed never to set foot on the island again. "  *







The other three

"The Six's description of both Boone and Charlie's deaths are only partly lies. The order in which the three died in reality matches the story. Also, they say Boone died of internal injuries in the first week due to the plane crash. Boone was crushed by a plane, not in the first week, but pretty early on. Also, they said Charlie drowned right before they were rescued, which is a nod to Charlie's drowning in the looking glass as the others found out about the kahana. Libby's story was left mostly untold, likely due to the fact that they couldn't tell the public about her being shot. Why the Six chose to keep these three alive past the crash in their fabricated story remains unknown. " *



   Why did they tell the public that Boone, Libby, and Charlie lived past the crash?

   Why do several characters feel it is imperative that they return to the Island?

   Why will the Island only let them return if they come together?

 

Jeff “Doc” Jensen from EW.com has his take on some of the characters:

Sawyer sacrificed his spot on Lapidus' chopper to make it lighter to save fuel. But before he jumped into the drink, he tasked Kate to execute an errand for him in the real world — presumably, I think, checking on his daughter, Clementine — and then planted a big kiss on her. And now we know why the ladies love Sawyer. As an added bonus, when he returned to the Island, he emerged from the surf sans shirt. (The yin to this yang: plenty of Kate cleavage shots for the guys.)

Juliet stayed behind to help everyone get to the freighter — then had a front-row seat on the beach to watch it blow up. Last seen chugging rum with shirtless Sawyer. You sense a setup for romance next season?


Faraday was last seen taking a raft of castaways to the freighter when the Island disappeared. Since the smaller Hydra Station island also disappeared, I have to assume that the move extended beyond the Island into the ocean. So I'm betting Faraday got caught up in that.

Jin was last seen on the freighter when it exploded. But if he survived and swam into the circumference of the move, he too could be wherever — or whenever — the Island is now.

Michael the castaway traitor earned his redemption by staying with the bomb. Moments before the blast, however, he heard the Whispers. Looking around, he noticed what appeared to be a videocamera in one corner (was it on?) and the ghost of Christian Shephard in the other. ''You can go now, Michael.'' Then: Boom!

As for Ben, we now know how he wound up in his Dharma parka in the Tunisian desert at the start of ''The Shape of Things to Come'': Apparently, that's where he landed after he moved the Island. The date: October 24, 2005, or about 10 months from when Ben moved the Island. So...where did the Island go? Nowhere. My guess is that it's in the same spot where it's always been — it just rematerialized in reality 10 months in the future, just like Ben.

Read Doc's full article  "Lost" A Moving Ending    í  here

Are they really going to go 8 months until the next season?  I thought 6 months was bad.  Maybe they didn’t move the Island…they moved the show to another network…could that be it?

Namaste.... 

* Lostpedia



 

It has been promised that during tonight's season finale of Lost, the person in the coffin from last season will be revealed.  But who can it be?

It’s someone who appears to have been very alone in the world at the time of their death.  No one showed up to the funeral except for Jack, and he stated he was neither friend or family of the deceased.    But Jack appeared very upset when he first read of the death of this individual. 

During that episode, Jack had maps all over his apartment and he had told Kate that they had to get back to the Island.  Was he upset because he thought this person could have helped them find the Island (which may have been moved by Locke)?

We know Michael has tried to kill himself, and the Island won’t let him.  If the Island decides it wants you to die, will it let you?  Who knows.  I’ve said in the past that I think Michael is in the coffin….just because of the newspaper article regarding the death. 

We know that Ben wasn’t one of the Oceanic Six, but he is able to time travel.  We saw Tom was also able to travel back and forth, too (until Sawyer killed him, of course).

Who do you think is in the casket?


                   Claire                                                               Locke



                     Michael                                                             Sayid


                           Ben                                                    Richard


See how Jeff  "Doc" Jensen rates his personal choices on EW.com with

''Lost's mysterious cadaver -- Whose odds are the best for being the deceased In last season's finale, a distraught Jack was the only attendee at a mystery funeral in L.A. Who will be revealed as the secret cadaver on this year's finale (May 29, 9 p.m., (EST) on ABC)? We offer our tomb ratings (out of four coffins).



"Lost" Gets Cryptic      í here

and

15 best moments of Season 4  í  here



 Photos from Lostpedia

From Jeff Jensen at EW.com:

''NO PLACE LIKE HOME'': THE LINK BETWEEN LOST AND THE WIZARD OF OZ

The Land of Oz is a magical place. It is a land of witches with wands and charmed slippers, of walking, talking tin men, scarecrows, and lions. But it is also a place where not everything is as enchanted as it seems. Indeed, it is a land where its all-powerful namesake deity is an illusion — mere smoke and mirrors, invented by a clever little man hiding behind a curtain, fooling a lot of people into believing a very big lie that distorts a proper understanding of their world.

The Island on Lost appears to be a lot like Oz — but how far does the comparison go? Supernatural phenomenon abounds: ghosts, time travel, miraculous healing, Smokey. Nonetheless, an ill wind of hucksterism blows through the jungle. See: the self-serving manipulations of Benjamin Linus and mind-game madness of the Dharma Initiative. The show's storytelling reflects the ambiguity of the Island, where meaningful allusions and coy red herrings combine to create a tricky text that's challenging (and great fun) to interpret. Lost loves to wink at its audience — and curiously, in L. Frank Baum's book, there's a section of Oz called ''Winkie Country.'' More curiously — or ominously — it's the part of Oz ruled by the Wicked Witch of the West.

The role of Dorothy has been split between Locke and Jack. Locke yearns for adventure somewhere over the rainbow; Jack is the one that gets to pine, ''There's no place like home.'' Locke, the walkabout explorer, gets the magic slippers — that is to say, his new legs. Jack, the hyper-responsible doctor, gets Dorothy's basket, which held apples, the Tin Man's oil can, and a blankie for Toto — a proverbial physician's bag of ointments and comfort.

But in the past two weeks, Locke has carried most of the Dorothy load. He's gone to Jacob's cabin, received a mission to move the Island, and traveled to the Orchid to complete the task — though first he'll have to get past Keamy and his goon squad. Translated into The Wizard of Oz, we've just seen Dorothy go to the Emerald City, leave with a mission to swipe the witch's broomstick (that's the movie version; in Baum's much darker book, she was ordered to slay the wicked witch); and arrive with her friends at the witch's castle, teeming with soldiers and flying monkeys.

What will happen next? Well, let's look at Oz. Dorothy got the broomstick (and killed the witch); went back to see the wizard only to discover (and expose) the fact that he was just a big hoax; and after a failed attempt to return home by conventional means (a hot air balloon), uses magic that was always at her disposal. How might this apply to Lost, if at all?

We'll find out next week, won't we?

Read Doc Jensen's entire article 

'Lost': Deja Vu All Over Again        ç  here


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

UNANSWERED QUESTIONS



On the Island

                   What is Ben's plan?

                   With whom was Ben communicating using the mirror, and what did he say?








                   Why were the Others wearing their "disguises"?

                   How did Daniel know the details of the secondary protocol?

                   What is the Orchid's function?

                   How do Jack, Kate, Hurley, Sun, Aaron and Sayid, currently separated,reunite as the Oceanic Six?

                   Why are the Oceanic Six lying about their ordeal?

                   Who are the additional 2 who "survived" the crash but died on the island?

                   Why is Kate lying about Aaron's real mother?

On the freighter

          Who planted the explosives and why?

       What is the trigger for their detonation?

   What is causing the interference on the freighter's fathometer?

After the rescue

   What plans, if any, does Sun have for her father's company?

   Who was the second of the two people Sun claims is responsible for Jin's death?

   Why does Oceanic claim that the crash happened in the Indian Ocean, when at Kate's trial, Jack says that    the plane crashed in the South Pacific?  

 

Lost "There's No Place Like Home, Part 1"


I want the old Lost back....

No more flash forwards.

No more flashbacks.

I just want the Island with the Losties and the Others.

Where ARE those kids that the Others took anyway????

It just seems to me that since the producers now know the end date of the series, it's a jumbled rush to the finish line.

Don't misunderstand me, I still like Lost and I will miss it when it's gone....but all I can say about it right now is that it's WRONG.

And last season, when the finale was over, I couldn't wait for the next season to start...six months was a long time to wait.

In two weeks, I know the two hour finale will be something special, but maybe during the hiatus, I won't be "So Lost" this time.

I may be able to hold on....

That said, last night was a mess as far as I'm concerned - just a typical lead-in to the final episode.

But what I found, is that the music, and the momentum of the show just kept increasing...it was as if everyone was marching into a war...and I believe that's what is going to happen. 

Some type is warlike disaster.  Something horrific. 



Jeff Jensen from EW.com has some bizarre views on it all....but I see he agrees with me regarding something wicked on the horizon:

Ominous signs of impending doom abounded in last night's Lost. There was Flash-Forward Hurley's T-shirt, the one that said ''Ace of Spades'' — the death card, the card of war. There were also his accursed Lotto numbers (4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42), taunting him from the speedometer of his symbolically loaded Camaro, causing the soon-to-be loony-bin returnee to run like a proverbial madman. And there was the Orchid, our newest Dharma station, also known as ''the greenhouse,'' perhaps the most foreboding omen of all.

Operation Greenhouse was the code name for America's A-bomb testing program in the South Pacific during the 1950s — a terrifying allusion in an episode where we learned that the freighter is a ticking bomb and that ''moving the Island'' could be a perilous, possibly catastrophic endeavor. ''Doing it is both dangerous and unpredictable,'' said a glibly cryptic Ben. ''It's a measure of last resort.'' Whatever it is that the Orchid can do, it was enough to cause Faraday to make an I-think-I-just-peed-myself face: ''We have to get off this island,'' he told Charlotte. ''Right now.''


Read his article

'Lost': Not Adding Up   í  here



And EW.com gives you a bonus tonight … a slideshow

The 17 Most Enduring Lost Mysteries  í  here Will we get some answers to these unsolved questions in the season finale? (Don't hold your breath.) In the eventual series finale? We'd better... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

On the Island

   What is the nature of the Orchid station?

   What is Ben's plan?

   Who left the lock box that contains the crackers and the mirror?

   Who was Ben communicating to with the mirror and what did he say?

   How does Daniel know about the Orchid station?

   What is Richard's purpose for taking Kate and Sayid prisoner?

   Why were the Others wearing their "disguises"?

   How did Daniel know about the "Secondary Protocol"?

   How did Daniel already have the Orchid symbol in his notebook?

   How did Ben get his baton back from Locke?

   When Jack and Sawyer leave the helicopter, is Frank still handcuffed to it?

   Was Ben in on Sayid and Kate's capture?



Daniel’s notebook with drawing of the Orchid Station



Entrance to the Orchid Station


 On the freighter

   What happens to the survivors that we don't know that ended up on the freighter?

   Why is there a room filled with armed explosives?

    Who put it there?

     What is the trigger for their detonation?

   What is causing the interference on the freighter's fathometer?

   Why are Sayid and Daniel able to travel between the freighter and the beach camp in the Zodiac apparently without experiencing the lengthy transit time that has happened during other trips between the two locations (ie. the missile test, and the helicopter trips)?


After the rescue

   How much money did the Oceanic Six receive in their settlement?

   What plans, if any, does Sun have for her father's company?

   Who was the second of the two people Sun claims is responsible for Jin's death?

   It is mentioned that 8 initially survived the crash, who are the 2 (or 3 depending on how you count Aaron as a "crash survivor") that didn't make it?




Oceanic’s press conference map 


 
Dashboard in Hurley’s car with the numbers

 

 

Will we see Claire again?  Is she dead?




Tonight’s episode is titled “No Place Like Home” and is the first of a two-part season finale.

That’s right! 

That’s all folks. 

Thanks to the writer’s strike we’ve already gone through the freakingly short Lost season.

But, at least the final show, in two weeks, on May 29^th, will be a two-hour show.

Tonight the Oceanic Six return home via Hawaii and The face-off between the survivors and the freighter people begins.

But, in doing so, they leave behind Sawyer, Locke, and other castaways….

What becomes of them? Jeff Jensen has a “tease” for us tonight:

''No Place Like Home'' — which promises to elaborate upon John Locke's stated ambition to ''move the Island'' — is not the first time Lost has referenced The Wizard of Oz. Ben's origin story episode last year was dubbed ''The Man Behind the Curtain.'' And in season 2, there was ''Henry Gale,'' Dorothy's poor, catastrophe-rocked uncle and the alias Ben used during his Hatch captivity. Given the strong Ben/Oz link, we can presume the former uber-Other will figure prominently in the season finale.

[...]


 "In light of last week's cryptic business in which Richard Alpert tried to awaken young John Locke to his true self, it makes more sense that John Locke is our resident Graham. What has emerged over the course of the past 13 episodes is the story of two rich and powerful candidates, Ben and Charles Widmore, battling for control over the Island, and perhaps the course of history itself. Their fates rest on the shoulders of a single super-delegate, John Locke. Judging from ''Cabin Fever,'' they have clearly spent considerable resources over the span of his troubled life to influence the kind of man that will one day make the defining choice of their lives. And it appears that day has arrived. Step into the box and pull a lever; it's time to move the Island.

In light of this political subtext, the old speculation that Lost's four toed statue = The Statue of Liberty now seems relevant to me. Inside Lady Liberty you will find a poem written by a woman with a great Lost name: Emma Lazarus. ''Emma'' is close to Emily, a name shared by Ben and Locke's respective mothers; the name means ''universal.'' ''Lazarus'' evokes the dead man raised to life by Jesus in the New Testament. The famous poem linked to the monument is called ''The New Colossus,'' a swipe at another Four Toe possibility, the Colossus of Rhodes. Her poem reminds us that America is a lot like the Island: a home to ''the homeless,'' to ''exiles,'' to ''the tempest-[tossed],'' and to ''huddled masses'' yearning to ''breathe free'' from old, oppressive circumstances. But specifically, the poem speaks of paradigm shift; this statue, this symbol, this country, Lazarus says, signals a change in what has come before. The poem:

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
''Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!'' cries she
With silent lips. ''Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!''

Will Locke lead his fellow exiles in a revolution that will save the Island and renew its magical promise? Or will Keamy follow through on his threat to ''torch the Island'' and bring it to ruin?

Hmmm....

''Torch the Island.'' You know, the Statue of Liberty has a torch. And as it happens, ''Emma'' is also the name of the Buddhist god of death. And did you know that ''Keamy'' sounds like the Mayan word ''Kimi,'' which means...death? If the Island = America, then is Lost trying to suggest that, like Lazarus, it's time for our country to be born again? "



Read the complete article from “Doc” Jensen at EW.com

“Lost”:  Not In Kansas Anymore  í here




***Spoiler****

One of the following is revealed to be in the coffin of the final episode of the season:


Ben
Sayid
Desmond
Jacob
Sawyer
Locke
Alpert

Hmmm....I've always believed Michael is in the coffin.  Whoever it is, according to the article Jack had in his hand, died in a loft in New York and had a teenage son.  Hmmm....



"The body of John Lantham of New York was found shortly after 4 a.m. in the 4300 block of Grand Avenue.
Ted Worden, a doorman at the Tower Lofts complex, heard loud noises coming from the victims loft.
Concerned for tenant's safety, he entered the loft and found the victim hanging from a beam in the living room.
According to Jaime Ortiz, a police spokesman, the incident was deemed a suicide after medical tests. 
Latham (sic) is survived by one teenaged son.

Memorial services will be held at the Hoffs-Drawlar Funeral home tomorrow evening?



See you tomorrow night for a recap of tonight's episode.

Are you still Lost?

Have you found some answers?

Maybe for the first time?

Maybe not?

I think we at least found some links.

And I think, from those rocking chair pictures of Jacob, what I always thought....

That Jacob is Locke...

And funny, after my "eye theme" presentation yesterday, how Locke's eye appeared twice in this episode.

But the main thing I observed was the shift in power ...the total transformation between John Locke and Benjamin Linus.

And, as usual, Jeff Jensen, from EW.com has his version:

''Cabin Fever'' began by showing us the foundation for such a life: Locke's birth. We've previously been given reason to believe Locke was born in May of 1956. But in the opening scene, we saw his mother, a rebellious 16-year-old Emily, secretly six months pregnant with John, dancing to that Buddy Holly song and primping for a date with an older man — presumably, John's con-man biological pop, Anthony Cooper. ''Everyday'' was released on vinyl in July 1957. This sounds picky, but timing is crucial in light of future events. I got that whiff of Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men when Emily ran out in the rain and got hit by a car. No Country also featured an out-of-the-blue automobile accident, one that involved Anton Chigurh, one of three debatably unhinged dudes who drive McCarthy's plot and the one who serves as the author's embodiment of terrifying inevitability, a mass-murdering monster formed in the William Gull-From Hell mold.

Struck down by...well, we never saw who was behind the wheel, did we? Maybe that's important, maybe not, or maybe not yet, but anyway, Emily was rushed to the hospital, and with that, John Locke entered the world three months ahead of time. ''He's okay,'' said the nurse. ''He's just a little early.'' As Preemie John was wheeled away in a toasty incubator that looked like a microwave oven (talk about cabin fever!), Emily cried out her wish that the boy be named John. Now, all of that should have sounded familiar to you. Flashback one year ago this week, in which Lost gave us another cheery Mother's Day edition, ''The Man Behind the Curtain.'' That episode told the origin story of Benjamin Linus, who, if you recall, was also born prematurely, and also born to a woman named Emily who cried out his name, although she did so as she died. Some points of difference: Ben was raised by his biological father (oops), while Locke was given up for adoption and raised in foster care. Also, Ben was born about five years after Locke; call it 1963. But as it so happens, Locke's fifth year was a key marker in his fate-whipped trajectory, for it brought Richard Alpert into his life. "

[...]


"There was a moment last night when Ben accused Locke of manipulating Hurley into going with them to Jacob's cabin by using Ben-patented reverse psychology. Locke denied doing so, saying, ''I'm not you.'' Ben jumped on this, saying, ''You're certainly not.''

Now, do the timeline math.

Locke is born early. At age 5, he takes a test that most likely would have taken him to the Island if he had passed. He didn't. That same year, Benjamin Linus is born. At age 16, Locke is invited to go to a science camp that again would have taken him to the Island. He refused. About that same time, Benjamin Linus and his father joined the Dharma Initiative. The implication, it seems, is that Ben has been walking the path that was originally meant for Locke. Ben was the contingency plan — the course correction — for Locke's altered destiny. But Ben is his own person, of course, and he has done things differently from what Locke would have done, and this, in turn, has created further changes in the original order of things — changes that I think a certain ticked-off, Island-deprived billionaire named Charles Widmore is trying to reverse. The scene at the rehab center between paralyzed adult Locke and his wheelchair pusher, the creepy Matthew Abbaddon — who accepted the description of ''orderly'' with knowing irony — was meant to suggest one way Widmore is scheming to restore the original order: by getting Locke on that Island and taking back the birthright that was supposed to be his.

(Unless I’m getting this reversed: What if Ben was the man of destiny, but for decades, various forces — including Alpert and Widmore-Abbaddon — have been vainly trying to change destiny by getting Locke to the Island to supplant the über-Other?)

Regardless, here's the twist — the twist that could turn Locke into a mass murderer of sorts. As we saw at the end of the episode, Locke's plan for saving the Island is moving the Island. Now, I have no idea how he intends to do that. But if I'm tracking correctly the weird science Lost has been laying down this season, I wonder if where we're headed is a catastrophic gambit in which Locke will move the Island not only in space but also in time, which I'm guessing will cause some kind of massive retroactive course correction — or, rather, already has enacted a course correction. In fact, I wonder if the secret to many of the metaphysical mysteries of Lost is that all of the show's drama is playing out against the backdrop of a timeline that's in flux — where old history is giving way to new history as the consequences of Locke's future Island-saving actions trickle down through time. And so that wreckage of Oceanic 815 at the bottom of the ocean? That isn't a hoax — at least, not in the new timeline taking hold. That's real. And it will be John the Quantum Ripper's fault. "

Now, Doc Jensen does some far out analyzing of the show...and you have to wonder how he comes up with what he does...but so much of it makes sense (from a "Lost" perspective anyway).

Read his thoughts and theories, including a Buddy Holly connection in

"Lost":  Cabin Boy ç here


And now some screen caps:

 

A young John is playing backgammon in a living room when his foster sister Melissa knocks the pieces off the board. His foster mother scolds her before telling John that there is a man there to see him and that he should be on his best behavior. Richard Alpert walks in the house and sits down at the table across from him. He introduces himself as Richard and tells John that he runs a school for special children and has reason to believe that he is one of them. Richard asks John if he minds if he shows him a couple of neat things and John shakes his head. Richard sees a drawing on the wall of the room of a man lying on the ground while a mass of black springs from the ground and hangs over him, resembling an attack by the smoke monster.








When asked if he drew the picture, John nods his head. The two walk to another table and sit down. Richard tells John that he wants him to look at a few objects, think about them, and tell him which of them are his. The boy thinks Richard means "to keep" but Alpert clarifies: "Which of these things belong to you already?" He lays out on the table a baseball mitt, a book entitled "Book of Laws" (the holy book of the Bahá'í Faith), a small container of granules, a compass, a comic book entitled "Mystery Tales", and a knife.







John inspects the container of the granules and the compass. John starts towards the "Book of Laws", at which point Richard looks hopeful, but finally he picks up the knife, instead. Richard seems disappointed and angry. He asks John if he is sure, and after he nods, Richard snatches the knife, and the other items on the table, away. He puts these back into his bag and stands up quickly. The foster mothers enters the room and asks how John did. Richard responds that John is not quite ready for his school and walks out of the house. The woman scolds John asking what he did and he looks down dejectedly.  

Trivia

• Not including "Ji Yeon" (in which the flashback runs alongside the flashforward), this is the first episode since "D.O.C." (16 episodes earlier) to feature conventional pre-crash flashbacks of an Oceanic 815 survivor. 
• Horace Goodspeed, in Locke's dream, mentions that he has been dead for 12 years. This places the date of the Purge on December 19, 1992 (December 19 being Ben's birthday).
• Ben and Hurley share what appears to be an Apollo Bar while they wait for Locke to come out of the cabin.
• Christian, who usually appears in a suit, wears clothes that look more like what The Others and Jacob might wear, as he wore when he first appeared to Claire in "Something Nice Back Home".
• The second protocol Keamy grabs from the safe has the same Dharma symbol that Ben's parka had in "The Shape of Things to Come".
• A solid black centered logo appears in this episode on a corpse in the pit.
• The closed captioning incorrectly stated the song playing at the beginning was "Everyday" by Don McLean, instead of Buddy Holly, which would have put the time frame circa 1974.

Teenage Locke, now a high school student, bangs on the door from the inside of a locker calling to be let out. A teacher opens the door and John finds everyone laughing when he exits. A photo of explorer Sir Richard Burton and a Geronimo Jackson poster are on the locker door.

Cultural references

• The test given to young Locke by Richard Alpert strongly resembles the Tibetan Buddhist ritual used to confirm a reincarnated tulku (the Dalai Lama being the most widely known). (Religion and ideologies)
• Young Locke is playing backgammon. (Games)
• The Bible: As the nurses wheel out Emily's premature baby, she yells out, "His name is John!", a direct quote from Luke 1:63, when Zechariah and Elizabeth gave birth to John the Baptist. (Religion and ideologies)
• The comic book Richard Alpert shows young Locke is "Mystery Tales" issue #40, which was published in April of 1956 by Atlas Comics. The cover contains the text "What was the Secret of the Mysterious Hidden Land?" and "Does it Pay to Ignore the Voice of Warning?"
• Buddy Holly's song "Everyday" is heard in the first flashback.  Buddy Holly was a famous victim of a plane crash.
• The Myth Of Sisyphus - Horace Goodspeed is seen cutting down a tree, only to have that tree reappear uncut, which he then cuts down again in a seemingly repetitive loop. This is an apparent reference to the myth of Sisyphus, whom the gods punish by forcing him to push a boulder up a hill, only to have the boulder roll back down for him to push again in a eternally repeating loop. (Philosophy)
• The X-Men: Richard Alpert's line "I'm Richard, John. I run a school for kids who are... extremely special, and I have reason to believe that you might be one them." is almost word for word a very common line spoken by Charles Xavier (Professor X) in the various incarnations of "X-Men" when recruiting young mutants. (Movies and TV) (Books)
• Half-Life: Richar Alpert is first shown in a suit through a window, much like the G-Man from the Half-Life video game series.
  
  

from Lostpedia

 

 

Tonight’s episode of Lost is titled “Cabin Fever.”

Before I go there though, I want to bring you one screen shot from last week's episode.

I dont know if any of you noticed the peculiar picture hanging in Kate's home when she and Jack were together there.  But it was of a man in the ocean. 

Could this be a painting of Christian Shepard?  And, if so, why? 

Just another mystery...









Now on to tonight...

Locke finds out where Jacob’s cabin is; life on the freighter becomes dangerous.

"In a flashback scene that perhaps represents the narrative device's greatest leap in time so far on the series — we'll bear witness to a historic event that has significant repercussions on "present-day" events on the island. "   TVGuide.com

"Locke is on a journey, and like all journeys it has periods of doubting, uncertainty and frustration. There is a lot more to come about what his purpose is, and we will see an energized and activated Locke even in this season. A Man of faith might doubt and have struggles, but will emerge as even a bigger believer in faith. "

“Lost” exec. producers Pocasts 

From places I visited on the web, it appears that we will return to Locke’s childhood, perhaps from birth (there will be some scenes in a maternity ward of a hospital ), but definitely to school-age.  He had once mentioned he had a hard time in his childhood, and here will be a scene of a boy being bullied at school.




From Jeff Jensen at EW.com:

The Tease:

''Nothing like a good jungle trek to give Locke and Ben a chance to discuss the notion of fate — and even Jacob weighs in on the topic.''

So it looks like Ben, Locke, and the cowardly lion — er, I mean Hurley — will finally get that Whaddawedonow? meeting with Jacob, the great and terrible Oz of the Island. Maybe the temporally challenged hillbilly will explain why his haunted shack keeps wandering away like a lollipop-dazzled child at a theme park. Maybe the petulant poltergeist will explain why the ghost of Christian Shephard was rocking in his chair in the season premiere. Hell, maybe Jacob will explain just who the Boone Hill he is — or THINKS he is. While we wonder and wait, here's some helpful info and useful context for tonight's episode — plus some to iron-clad, gotta-be-right theories!*

*Expiration date on my conviction: exactly 10:01:01 p.m. tonight.


Read Doc Jensen's article

'Lost': Jacob, Reveal Thyself!   í