Lost

I went back and watched the scene again. Classic Lost subterfuge. The girl looks a little like Juliet, but never with a clear enough shot, so you can't really tell. Same color shirt even, but a little bit different when she's out in the jungle. So I don't think she was out there, but it was interesting that she knew that the fence was turned off.
In the teaser, it also showed the sub. Flashback or did Locke really not blow it up? And why was he soaking wet again?

 

There was a time when I suspected that they would win the battle with the others and then take over as the new others for the next group, which might arrive at the end of the final season to give us that twist of seeing things through both sides of the ordeal.

But, the fact that the others didn't come to the island by chance seems to eliminate that avenue. They could become the next others, but not in the same manner. And that's really too bad, because after all of the sci-fi hoopla is cast aside, I can't imagine a better ending.

As for the smoke, I think it's an electrical impulse fence, so perhaps it attracts the smoke. I don't know. These sorts of things come up constantly. I just keep telling myself that there's so much shit going on that the directors could never eliminate the illogical parts.

 

All the inter-connectedness of the castaways means they weren't just random passengers on that plane. They were chosen to be brought to the island for some reason.

 

I htink we'll find out that the connection is something unexpected and that will be the big reveal. The twist that gets it going into Season 4.
I think it will all tie back to the writer, who was supposedly on the plane, the one who did the equation book

 

well there has to be another sub, otherwise where would the others have gone to?

btw am i wrong or have they been making several references to michael over the past couple of episodes (although not last night's)? it sounds like he's coming back.

 

It's possible they just used some boats and went to that other island, where they were originally holding Jack, Sawyer and Kate. Or they could have gone underground into another hatch we've not yet seen.

Has Locke turned into an Other now? And what was up with his black eye and bandaged hand?

 

Isn't it possible that they all just went into Ben's magic box, sprinkled some fairy dust, and willed themselves to be some place else (and took Locke and his father with them)?

 

hello everyone--hope everybody is doing well (it's been a while since i've posted)...

Thoughts about last night:

Kate's been reluctant to fall in love with sawyer because she's worried he's just like her step dad. However, she (and the rest of us) are slowly seeing that this isn't true. Kate's mom told her that you can't help who you fall in love with...if they both live, they will end up together.

Juliet coming back to the camp is insane. In island time, it's only been about 3 weeks since libby and anna-lucia were killed. most people have no idea that michael did it, but regardless, two of their own are dead and in their minds, it's because one of the others (ben) did it. I can't believe Sayid didn't put up more of a fight about this but i imagine she's going to come clean to him one way or another (judging by previews).

Walt: in real life, the kid must be hitting puberty. He has to look different than he did last time he was on the show. He and his abilities will be back big time before it's all said and done. My theory is that while it's 2004 for them, it's 2007 everywhere else and When Walt comes back on the show (which there is no way he isnt), he'll be older because he's been back int he real world. His powers will be fully developed by then and i'm sure he plays into their rescue somehow. i'm not smart enough to figure out how or why they live in some sort of alternate reality but the fact that stephen hawkins book has been seen 2x on that show can't be a coincidence. I don't know if time travel is part of the deal, but i think the others certainly visited the other reality at one point to do their research on them. The one eye'd russian from a few weeks ago told John that he was but a distant memory but that the last time he saw him he was (cut off before he could say paralysed).

i'm a nerd and i watch too much tv, especially now that i'm back living in the states (NYC)

 

The time travel theory has been shot down by some of the producers on the podcasts, I think.

 

i think it's more of an alternate reality theory that has some scientific merit (Hawking, etc), rather than time travel...

 

Good episode. I, too, thought that was Juliet putting on the gas mask at the beginning, especially since she's basically the only female Other we've met and she was the only woman in that scene. And the fact that she had the key the whole time seemed a little sketchy. That all seems like a mighty elaborate, and transparent, plot to get her into the camp, if that's all it was. Of course, it worked.
I was a little unclear on the black smoke of death scene. Did Juliet turn the fence back on? Or was she just staring it down, Eko-style?
As for the time-moving-differently-on-the-island-argument, I can't really buy it. I see no reason for that to be the case, except as a convenient way to bring back a post-pubescent Walt, and, really, it seems like the show will go on just fine without him.
And speaking of rescue, what ever happened to Penelope and her friends with the radar?

 

Damn good question. It was their huge cliffhanger to end last season, yet months into this season they haven't even referenced it?

And indeed, why wouldn't the 815ers move to the abandoned Others compound? Maybe they will. It has swingsets. Swingsets!