Speaking of LOST, I didn't get to go through my annual ritual of re-watching the entire series leading up to last week's season premiere. I did, however, get to re-watch Season 4 this week. I have a few thoughts, picking up where I last left off, on what's going on.
First of all, I think I deserve a few pats on the back. I correctly surmised that Sun and Widmore's "common interest" was Ben (and, more specifically, killing him). It seems pretty clear that the two people Sun blames are Ben and her father. I'm still not clear on how she found out that it was Ben who started the chain reaction that led to the freighter exploding, though it seems likely that Locke/Bentham told her. On the question of Jin's death, the jury's still out. He's a regular this season, but the producer's have been pretty cryptic/coy in their responses about his status. I also correctly noted (though it wasn't difficult to do) that the island was moving in time. Apparently, however, it's also moving in space, as the screenshot above would seem to indicate. It looks like each flash is associated with a new move in space, and somehow Ms. Hawking and Ben have been able to locate the island for the next 70 hours.
I still don't know Ben's angle, but it'll be interesting to see how he re-unites the O6 in the next 70 hours. I am finally rooting for him at this point, but only because I want to see everyone back on the island. In terms of the very bad things that happened, clearly they have something to do with the flashes through time.
Other thoughts from re-watching Season 4: Claire is definitely dead. I don't think she died when the mortar hit her cabin, but I think she had some sort of internal injury that eventually killed her. I think this is what Miles sensed when he kept staring at her. She dies and leaves Aaron behind, going to join her father in Jacob's cabin. The fact that they're both their, and that at least Christian "speaks for [Jacob]" makes me think that Jacob might indeed be Jack in the future. I'm also open to the possibility that Jacob is actually Widmore, which is why Ben knows that he can't kill Widmore. I don't think that Jacob is going to be someone we've never seen before, though.
Thoughts for Season 5: I can't imagine that the people who got left behind on the island are really going to be stuck for three years while the O6 traipse around the world off-island. I think it's more likely that they flash to some point in the future, meeting up with the current O6 timeline, and that's when Jack et al return. But maybe not. Either way, they'll be reunited sometime within the first half of the season. This season is supposed to be about the island, so the flashes should give lots of opportunities to learn about the island's history. I couldn't help but notice that both Chang and Hawking retorted "then God help us all" when questioned on what would happen if the energy source were released/the O6 can't be returned to the island in the next 70 hours. Seems like there's some relationship there. I'm loving the time travel stuff. My only reservation is what's happening with Desmond. I LOVE that the producer's have been very careful with time travel and "the rules," i.e., you can't change time because whatever's happened has already happened. Which is why I'm so worried that, apparently, "the rules" don't apply to Desmond. What does that mean? Why does he suddenly have the memory three years later? Why not at the same approximate time as Faraday's speaking to him (which would have been a few hours after the island flashed)? I hope they have a good answer for all that. Until next week!
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