Lost Blog

Wow. Just Wow. Lost never ceases to amaze me and that quote right there was probably one of the most chilling and eye-opening scenes of the show so far. We knew that Daniel has communicated with Desmond and so knew it was a possibility he could interact with other people in the past, but to what extreme he would take that to we didn’t know - so when this scene played out queue draw-dropping mouths everywhere. :O

This is where it gets interesting though. Charlotte has just died, and Daniel is devastated. In one of the future time-jumps he happens upon a little Charlotte Lewis who he knows will die on the island when she comes back. He also knows that he tries to warn little Charlotte from coming back, and it fails. So with this knowledge, will Daniel try a different tactic? Or will he still warn Charlotte not to come back because you can’t change what happened? And if he does try a different tactic, will it change the future? Will Charlotte have a different destiny?

Also in this scene, Charlotte says that she moved away from the island with her mother, while her father stayed behind and she never saw him again. So, who are Charlottes parents? Is it possible that Charles Widmore is her father? Alot of people have theorized that Ms. Hawking is Charlottes mother as well as Daniels, but it’s unlikely as if they were, wouldn’t Charlotte and Daniel know about each other?

The Temple and The Sickness?

Back in 1988, Rousseau and her team were attacked by the Smoke Monster, and Montard was pulled into a Temple by the mysterious “security system”. The rest of Roussaeu’s team went into the temple to save Montard, except Rousseau herself who was pursuaded not to by our Lostie Jin.

Is this Temple the same Temple that Ben referred to as the only safe place on the island? Does the Smoke Monster protect everything that’s inside of it so is considered safe? If not, why would Ben send Alex there? If it is the same temple, when Ben tells Alex to go there, why does Rousseau not mention the fact that Montard lost his arm there? Why would she consider going to that place that made her lover and the rest of her science team “sick”? This leads me to believe that this Temple and the Temple that Ben referenced are two separate Temples.

And speaking of the sickness… did Rousseau’s team become “sick” because they entered the Temple? Did Jin infact save her life by not allowing her to go in it herself? I am inclined to believe so. If Jin hadn’t gone back in time, Rousseau would have followed her team into the Temple, become sick, possibly die, and there would never have been a little baby girl for the Others to kidnap.

I’m thinking our Losties have a lot more to do with the strange things we’ve seen so far, and I’m looking forward to seeing more events like this. Events that make us go “Ohhhhh…!”.

The Numbers

Montard was still playing the message that was repeating the numbers over and over again, and the recording does sound alot like our beloved Hurley!

This goes along with the idea of our Losties having a lot more to do with the events we’ve seen so far. Think about it, the O6 will return to the island and perhaps they’ll end up at a time before 1988. For some reason, Hurley finds himself in a situation where he has to record himself repeating the numbers. Why? Well that one is a tough one to work out. But, if it is the case, he’ll be indirectly responsible for his future “curse”.

Perhaps it’s another “compass mystery”. Hurley played the numbers on the lottery because he’d heard Sam Toomey repeating them over and over again in the Mental Institute, but Sam Toomey only heard them because Hurley had recorded a message that repeated those very numbers. Which came first, the chicken or the egg?

Locke and Moving the Island

So, was Locke was supposed to turn the wheel afterall? If he was, unfortunately, Ben had other plans. I think Ben did this for the simple reason of: it was supposed to happen.

Think of Ben in his Dharma days. One day a group of strangers happen upon him. To us, they’re Sawyer, Juliet and co. but to him they are complete strangers. One of our time travellers tells past Ben about their time-jump adventures and everything that has happened to them in the last few months. Ben is sceptical but when he sees these events take place in real-time in 2004 he has to believe what he’d been told. He was also told that he will move the island, and so when Locke told Ben that he had to move the island Ben took it upon himself to do so because he believed that that was supposed to happen. He knew Locke was to stay on the island and that he’d move it himself shortly afterwards in an attempt to bring back the O6.

So, no matter what Christian told Locke, Ben was supposed to move the island. If he didn’t, the events of the future would change and they’d be dire consequences (although this is total speculation on my part). Christian is simply trying to change something from happening, something out of his control.

As for Christian being Jacob - until it’s proven to me otherwise, I believe that he is not Jacob.

Desmond

Desmond finally made it to L.A. and has found Faraday’s mother, who is, surprise surprise… Ms. Hawking! And who should be outside of the vicinity she resides in…? To Desmonds surprise, none other than Ben, Jack, and Sun. Is it coincidence that Desmond should meet with his fellow islanders as they’re trying to get back to the island? Or does Desmond need to go back with the O6 to save the rest of the people left behind? If this is the case, is this a result of some sort of manipulation? Sure, we saw Daniel telling Desmond to find his mother, but what if there’s some bigger manipulation going on here? Could Daniel be part of it?

And the big question is… will Ben get his revenge on Widmore and kill Penny now that he knows she’s in L.A.?