(If you don’t watch LOST, these posts will be torturous to you. I apologize in advance. Just skip them and come back on Wednesdays, where I will try to make it up to you.)

10 quick things I thought of while watching episode 7 of LOST’s final season, “Dr. Linus”.

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Season 6, Episode 7, “Dr. Linus”

10 Observations/Questions/Thoughts

1. Live by the gas, die by the gas. Love how in the sideflash Ben used gas to help his dad (his oxygen tank), instead of kill him like he did in the original timeline when he gassed him in the van. Roger Linus talks about wishing he could have stayed on the island with DHARMA, wondering if Ben would have become more than just an under appreciated history teacher. Lucky for us, we know what Ben would become….a manipulative, power-hungry man.

But perhaps there is hope for Ben yet? Something begins to click in him when Miles tells him that Jacob did believe in him right up until Ben chose to kill him. And later when Ilana forgives him, he finally puts his gun down. Those were some great scenes.

2. Another episode, another character sees their reflection in a mirror. This time it was Ben in the microwave door making a meal for his dad.

And for those who need a timeline refresher on Ben and “the incident”, I believe this is what happened…

+ young Ben was shot by Sayid (the day before they started evacuating people off the island because of the pocket of energy they were about to drill into)

+ Richard took him into the temple to save him

+ Young Ben is saved and then Widmore tells him he will have to go back and live with his father.

+ The next day Widmore takes him back to Dharmaville (I’m supposing)

+ Later that day Roger Linus shoots Sayid, screaming “You’re the son of a…who shot my kid”.

+ We have our incident and diverting timelines, one in which Ben and dad stay on the island (Timeline A)…one in which they leave the island before it sinks (Timeline B).

3. Still no Desmond? Arggg. Probably the most frustrating thing about the season for me.

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(If you don’t watch LOST, these posts will be torturous to you. I apologize in advance. Just skip them and come back on Wednesdays, where I will try to make it up to you.)

My brother Jordan and I are back to discuss a few things related to episode 6 of LOST’s final season, “Sundown”.

(Jordan’s thoughts will be the ones in blue)

one note before we start. Jordan mentions this down below, but the writers have confirmed that Kate’s last name was written on the cave wall and was crossed out. (the clip was mistakenly left on the editing room floor) So “51 – Austen” was on the lighthouse wheel, not crossed out and it was on the cave wall, but it was crossed out.

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Season 6, Episode 6, “Sundown”

My 10 biggest Observations/Questions/Thoughts

1. Why didn’t Dogen kill Sayid? With a scalpel to his neck he sees the baseball hit the ground and he stops as he thinks of his boy. But was that a reminder of a deal he had made not to kill anyone (explaining why he didn’t kill Sayid with the pill either) or was it just a reminder of the fragility of life?

I am clueless about this one. I hope we are going to get a little more backstory on Dogen but they are running out of time. I actually just read an article where Carlton and Damon mention that there are things they won’t be able to answer that they wanted to answer because they have barely any time left in the series.

2. One other thing about Dogen. Lennon made it seem like it was more than just the ash that was keeping Smokey out of the temple. Lennon said it was Dogen himself, and once Sayid killed Dogen it was a free for all. Makes you wonder how much power the ash had to keep smokey out in the first place. Not really sure what was so special about Dogen that his mere presence kept Smokey out.

Yeah hard to tell if Lennon is just misguided or if he knows something that we don’t know.

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I was away on vacation this past weekend, so here’s a quick look at the things that stuck out to me from last week’s episode…

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Season 6, Episode 5, “Lighthouse”

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The 10 Biggest Questions/Answers/Thoughts of the week:

1. The Appendix scar – Jack doesn’t remember it? He got it when he was “7 or 8″ according to his mother. That wouldn’t happen to be around 1977 would it?

None of us understand why he doesn’t remember the scar because none of us understand the relationship between the two time lines yet. I heard a fascinating theory on it last week that probably isn’t right, but makes you think…I’ll share it at the end of the post.

2. The mirrors – The writers continue to bash us over the head with mirrors in Season 6. In every episode so far we’ve had characters looking into mirrors and seeing something. Jack – neck cut, Kate – that she needs to go back and help Clair, and Locke – that he should call Shepard the spinal surgeon. This time it’s Jack noticing his scar in the mirror.

And if that’s not enough mirrors, later on we realize it’s through mirrors in the lighthouse that Jacob is able to watch (and maybe even visit) the potential candidates on his list. Couple that with all the Alice in Wonderland/ Lewis Carroll references (Jack literally breaks the mirrors with a looking glass), and clearly the writers are hammering home something. Just don’t know what

3. The Lighthouse – Speaking of the mirrors in the lighthouse, we saw the Pagoda where Jin/Sun were married and where Jacob touched them. We saw the church where Sawyer’s parents’ funeral was and where Jacob touched him. Then we saw the house Jack grew up in where Jacob touched…oh wait…Jacob touched Jack in a hospital.

Does that mean that the “23″ on the wheel is Christian Shephard? I still tend to think it’s Jack and that he is the candidate that will come through. But clearly there’s more to find out about Christian.

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My brother Jordan and I are back to discuss a few things related to episode 4 of LOST’s final season, “The Substitute”. And I apologize if this doesn’t make any sense because I wasn’t feeling well at all when I put this together.

(Jordan’s thoughts will be the ones in blue)

And before we get into it, one clarification from last week: the 10-22-04 date on the ultrasound printout in last week’s episode has been identified by the writers as a prop error.  Flight 815 still came over on 9-22-04, which kind of makes more sense.

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Season 6, Episode 4, “The Substitute”

“The Substitute” was a fantastic episode in my book for two reasons: tons of Locke and some answers.

Let’s start with the end. The cave wall is Jacob’s whiteboard where he’s been keeping track of who might be a candidate to replace him on the Island.  It seems only 6 names remain, and they are the 6 infamous numbers.

4 – Locke
8 – Reyes
15 – Ford
16 – Jarrah
23 – Shephard
42 – Kwon

As you could see, there were a lot of names and numbers on the wall. Some were former folks we’ve seen as a part of the Others. Some were other passengers on the plane. Some we don’t know about. And yeah, we never saw Kate’s name…but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t there.

Remember last week when Aldo said about Jin, “He MAY be one of them”. Maybe he was referring to the fact that Jin MAY be a candidate. We don’t know if Kwon means Jin or Sun. Seems like everyone knows about this search for a candidate. I suspect the list in hurley’s guitar case was a list of the possible candidates, so the temple folk knew who was important and who weren’t. You can even go back to the Season 5 Finale when Ilana said to Bram about Pilot Frank “he may be a candidate”.

So is the cave wall where the “specialness” of the numbers originated from? I have no idea. But remember how these numbers were the key to the Valenzetti equation that predicted the end of the world? The DHARMA initiative (or was it the Hanso Foundation) was trying to change one of the numbers to save the world. What if it wasn’t really a number they were trying to change…what if it was a person (represented by a number?). What if it was a matter of changing one of the candidates into the new protector of the island?

Another thought I had regarding Jacob’s replacement…I wonder if Jacob knew who it was. Ben couldn’t believe that Jacob didn’t fight back when he stabbed him. Was it because Jacob knew that his replacement was on the island and ready to step up? To get biblical for a second,  Jesus gave up his life on the cross when he knew he had accomplished all that he was there to do. Yes, Satan manipulated Judas into turning Jesus in, but Jesus didn’t die until all was finished. Perhaps Jacob felt he had done that as well. Smokey manipulated Ben into killing Jacob, but he died only because his job was finished?

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