In this episode we see an off-Island post-Crash FB of
Michael in New York trying again and again to kill himself. Probably because he is paying well over $2000 for that shithole he lives in. No matter what he tries, he can’t die. He tries to smash himself up in a car wreck, tries to shoot himself three separate times and blow himself up on the freighter.
But he can’t kill himself. In yesterday’s EW pre-hash, Doc Jensen had a tease from Damon Lindelof said we would find out why Beardy Jack couldn’t jump off the bridge. So now we know –
the Island won’t let you die on or off the
Island if you still have work to do.
Mr. Paik’s watch makes another appearance – remember that Jin was supposed to deliver this Rolex to someone in LA? And he was going to bail with Sun, but then a guy in a Hawaiin shirt comes up to him right before he boards the flight and threatens him? Then on the Island he and Michael have a big fight about the watch In the end after everyone is friends again, Jin give the watch to Michael. I always thought there was a beacon in the watch and Mr. Paik was trying to get it onto the Island. But maybe that is just crazy. Sometimes a watch is just a watch. And that would mean that Mr. Paik knew the plane was going to crash, and would he really do that to his only daughter? She is a cheating whore who married beneath her, but she’s still his daughter.
I am not really sure what to call these apparitions, so let’s go with ghosts. Hurley is haunted by Charlie, Michael is haunted by Libby. We have seen them off-Island and on-Island. I think they are somehow connected to the Island. They seem a lot like the apparitions that appear on the Island. Jack sees his father, Locke see Taller Ghost Walt, Eko saw Yemi, Kate and Sawyer both saw the horse, Hurley saw Dave, Ben saw his mother. Plus we have Miles on the Island who can see dead people, so I am going with ghosts.
Michael really is a terrible father. I mean, he has done a few things right – rescue his son, come to get him from his stepfather, he was a good dad to baby-Walt. But overall he is a huge fuck up of a father. He shouldn’t have allowed Walt’s mom to move, he should never have given up parental rights, he alternates between clingy and cold, and he should never have unburdened himself to Walt about killing AL and Libby. The kid is 10. That is messed up. So Walt is staying with Michael’s mother and won’t talk to him, and isn’t unnaturally tall either.
When Tom appears things start to get really weird. Michael and Walt left the Island on Day 67 after the Crash - Saturday, November 27, 2004 according to the Lostpedia timeline. This is the same day that the sky turns purple. We also saw Tom standing on the Pala Ferry Dock on Day 67. The next day, Day 68 - Sunday, November 28, 2004 – Tom gives Kate the pretty dress and tell her she is not his type. As in, you don’t have a penis, Kate, so you are not my type. Tom is around, front and center, dealing with Kate and Sawyer through Ben’s surgery and Kate and Sawyer’s escape on Day 73 - Friday, December 3, 2004. Then we don’t see him again for 7 days until we see him playing football with Jack on Day 80 - Friday, December 10, 2004. He then takes Locke to see Cooper on, leaves with the Others when they go to the Temple, and then gets killed by Sawyer on Day 93 - Thursday, December 23, 2004, which is also BTW Ben’s birthday. This is all to say that the window of time when Tom was in NY recruiting Michael is very short. Only 7 days between Ben’s surgery and football with Jack. And that means that however the Others get on and off the Island, it’s not on a boat or a submarine. It’s either on an airplane or some other way. You know I favor the network of wormholes theory, but I was thinking that the wormholes were big like you would go through on a boat or a plane. But maybe it is more like a doorway that just dumps you out in NY. Oh, and I also think that Tom brought back Cooper on this trip.
So since Tom dumps a lot of information on us, we need to evaluate whether or not we believe him. There are always 3 options when someone gives out information on Lost – they are lying, they are misinformed, or they are telling the truth. Tom tells Michael that some of the Others can come and go from the Island. This is true. Our list of Others who can come and go are Richard, Ethan, Tom, the two underwater lady-Others from the Looking Glass, and Ben. But it isn’t common knowledge how one comes and goes or Juliet would know, and she doesn’t. Tom also gives us a different explanation for how the fake flight 815 got into the Sunda Trench, complete with a dossier of documents. The Others are all about dossiers. They do their homework, those Others. The 324 dead bodies came from a graveyard in Thailand. The airplane was a decommissioned 777 purchased by the Widmore Corporation. I’m not sure who to believe. If Tom’s version is true, then Widmore planted the wreckage so that no one would come looking for flight 815. Which means that he knew where the real 815 went, and that he was somehow involved in putting the flight there in the first place. Which is plausible. If Captain Gault’s version is true, then Ben planted the wreckage to make sure no one came looking for flight 815. Which means that he was trying to fool someone very smart and powerful who knew what he was looking for – Widmore. Either way, I don’t think that the crash of 815 was an accident, and I think that Ben was kind of expecting it.
Speaking of Captain Gault, after Sayid hears Michael’s whole story, he turns him in to the Captain. I understand why Sayid did this, but even though Ben is an evil villain, I still think that he might be less villainous than Widmore. I don’t know why I think that. Maybe I am still just vainly searching for a dichotomous good/evil story 4 years later. Widmore’s freighter people seemed pretty scary anyway, and it did seem like they had an awful lot of guns.
Ben is the master of manipulation. Only Sawyer seems to really understand how dangerous he is. Miles confirms that the Freighties are there to kill everyone on the Island after they extract Ben. And then he points out that Ben gets what he wants. I don’t understand exactly how the Island works, but I am pretty sure that if you are Special and you want something in the right way the Island delivers it. It just isn’t a problem for Ben to get the things he wants, but the Island can’t make them love him back.
I was very surprised to see that the Temple is a Dharma Station. I wonder where all of these maps came from since they are all hand-drawn and by the same hand. The one the Charlotte and Daniel had looks just like the one that Ben had. Also the Temple is not for everybody, just for the Others. Don’t you guys think that Alex is probably pregnant? I think Karl is really dead, but I do not think that Danielle is dead. I would guess that Ben sent Karl to his death on purpose like he sent Goodwin, but it puts Alex in too much danger. So he must not have known that the Freighties were already on the Island. And I do think it’s the Freighties who shot Karl. The helicopter is gone from the boat and if it were the Others shooting at them, I don’t think they would actually kill Karl. Plus then Danielle gets to rescue Alex from them which wouldn’t be necessary if she was being held by the Others.
SPOILERS – Preview and Official Podcast:
The preview for Episode 9 also told us who the O6 are: Jack, Hurley, Kate, Aaron, Sayid and Sun. I’m a bit bummed, and I think it’s because I don’t really care that much what happens to Aaron. And I still really hope that Jin isn’t dead. Even though their story bores me senseless, he is extremely hot.
There was also an Official Lost Podcast released which is a ½ hour segment from Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse where they talk about the show and answer questions. They answered a question about how the Illness/Side Effects work and why Des didn’t have side effects when he left in the boat. They said that there is a difference between inside the realm of the Island and outside the realm of the Island. The Freighter is outside and Des never sailed outside of the Island realm on the Elizabeth. He just went in circles. Also Desmond didn’t have a bearing. Ben makes it very specific that Michael has to stay on the bearing. It is like a spaceship entering the atmosphere. If it enters at too steep an angle it will burn up, too shallow and it will bounce off. Desmond has also experienced intense electromagnetism that might make his susceptible to things others are not susceptible to. They also hinted very strongly at a connection between the side effects and the Island Sickness.
They said that we aren’t going to see more details of the Swan implosion, but what happened is that Locke, Eko, and Des were somehow cast out from the Swan. But we haven’t seen the last purple sky. Other electromagnetic events happen periodically on the Island and in fact one is coming up this year.
They commenting on significance of certain appearances: Emily = Apparition, Sawyer’s Boar = Animal, Medusa Spider = Monster, Bird of Hurley = No Comment. Dave = Figment of Imagination/Apparition, Yemi = Monster, Sayid/Mikhail’s Cat Nadia = Animal/Coincidence, Taller Ghost Walt = Monster, Dream Boone = Dream, Kate’s Horse = Undead. Obviously they were kidding about some of these. Since I started listening to their podcasts I understand why people say that they lie. They don’t lie, but sometimes they are joking or being sarcastic.
They were asked whether Aaron is danger if he is not being raised by Claire. Richard Malkin did say that, but he also told Eko that he was a con man who got Claire on that plane for $10,000. So it depends on whether or not you believe Malkin is a psychic.
They also say that we would learn more about both the Black Rock and the 4-toed statue, but not necessarily in a flashback, and that Charlotte is a cultural anthropologist who studies civilizations and ancient cultures.
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