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Hearing I Wonder -- Brenda Lee
'Lost': Don't Mistake Coincidence for Fate
'Lost' is loved by millions for delivering three things: bottomless mysteries, high scary weirdness, and powerful yanks on the heartstrings.
Last night's episode delivered heaping double buckets full of all three. The smoke monster is back in fine form, scary as hell, and seems to be an actual character. That guy with the eyepatch and Juliet's video-assisted doubletalk dance with Jack's mind delivered the suspicious mystery groceries for me in spades, and man, I FELT it when Eko teared up over the photo of he and Yemi as little boys.
Don't know what I'm talking about? Not a problem: you can
read EW's solid recap of last night's
events here, or, if you've
got the bandwidth, just go and watch the first twenty minutes of
the show itself. There's no
telling how long that's going to be up, though.
But enough
about that -- on to the theories, Easter eggs, and total crap:
Theories
Here's a
'Lost' random theory
generator. Careful -- you
may stumble across some spoilers.
There's a number of
theories surrounding Eko's death:
1) Eko
was the last Tail Section survivor. Bernard doesn't
count, because he only happened to be in the tail using the bathroom when the
plane seperated.
2) The island
itself is weeding out those it deems spritually worthy of survival. It tried to
elicit a confession from Eko, and when he refused, killed him.
3) From a story perspective, Eko and Locke are essentially
the same character: both are on a spiritual quest, both have abandonment/family
issues, and both are tougher than the callous on Ted Nugent's trigger finger. If
you look at it more, both Eko and Charlie are troubled men of God who have
serious issues with their brothers. Story-wise, that's getting pretty crowded.
Rather than chase three overlapping characters around the Island, the writers
had the smoke monster bash them a little breathing room.
4)
According to Shawn Schrager of
SBL, every
'Lost'
actor with a
traffic
violation must die on the
island.
5) Perhaps the actor playing Eko wasn't super-easy to work
with.
The Smoke Monster is spawning
its own theories, too:
1) When Eko sees dismembered people
from the past around him on his sojourn through the jungle, is he hallucinating?
I think the Smoke Monster is actually presenting his memories in a physical
form. Think about it -- the Smoke Monster could have taken the form of Jack's
dad, Kate's horse, Hurley's buddy from the mental institution -- any number of
trippy hallucinations our heroes have seen alone in the jungle could well be the
Smoke Monster running psyops missions instead of full-on
attacks.
2) The Smoke Monster is the collective embodiment of
the island's dead
souls.
3) Maybe it's some sort of genie or
djinn.
Ben, Jack, and Juliet's interactions spawn more speculation, too:
1) The more I think about it, the more I think that Ben and
Juliet are siblings. Sure, they fight like jealous exes, but who hasn't had a
sibling hate their significant other? Mysister dislikes my girlfriends on a
matter of priniple, then warms to them -- or doesn't, usually. Whenever Ben
walks in on Juliet flirting with Jack, he gets pretty
cranky.
2) Neither Juliet or Ben can
be trusted. I think they're in cahoots. Think about it: the island has healed
Locke's legs and Rose's cancer. Chances are the Others know about this -- so why
would Ben still have a tumor at all? Ben's played the pathetic kitten before,
and he only does it as long as he has to to get what he wants. Juliet, man ...
you just can't trust anyone who's devious enough to pull something off like that
cue-card move. I'm starting to think that she may be the one who's really
calling the shots on the island.
The man with the eyepatch
is WAY too exciting to neglect, but right now he's a long list of endless
possibilities. We can safely assume that the glass eye found in a hatch during
Season 2 belonged to him, though.
Easter
Eggs
This episode was pretty low on actual Easter
eggs. However, the folks at Lost Easter Eggs
have put together a couple good posts showing Eko's
death, the
Patch
Man, and all of Juliet's
cue cards from her videotaped
mindbender.
Desmond may be clairvoyant on the island, but in a previous
engagement, he was actually
Jesus.
Man, Juliet and Heather Mills McCartney look a LOT
alike, don't
they?
Total Crap
When
Locke and friends emerge from the hatch to find a dead Mister Eko, they sure
don't seem too concerned about what might have actually killed him. They just
kinda sit there looking at him while Locke shuts his eyes. Don't you think at
least one of them should have charged blindly into the jungle, shouting?
That's all I've got this week, folks. As always, if you've
got more theories, eggs, or crap, leave it in the comments.
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I'm going to stretch out a bit here: Yeah, when Juliet did the video/cue cards thing, I suddenly became very suspicious of her, simply because I had been thinking that she was the one who would break from the Other mold and try to help Jack and friends. And now that she is apparently reaching out to him for help, and in such a sneaky manner, and a total betrayal of Ben, I'm beginning to think that being Miss Nice to Jack was just part of the ploy to win Jack to her side, which I think is also Ben's side. Ben and Juliet seem to be playing "Good Cop, Bad Cop" around Jack. I think Ben does not have a tumor, or maybe he did when he came to the island, and now it's gone due to healing powers on the island that we have already witnessed, and those are just old exrays they put up with the intention of Jack catching a glimpse of them. The coincidence is not that Jack is a spinal surgeon who "fell from the sky" just a couple of days after Ben discovers he has a spinal tumor, but that they actually had the spinal Xrays to use as props for their little ruse. Ben must have been thinking, "Man, I'm glad we didn't throw those things out!" I think Juliet's little scene with the video is a test: she and Ben are testing Jack's loyalty to Juliet, or perhaps his disloyalty to Ben (not that he should have any loyalty to either of them) ... A doctor is under oath not to kill anyone intentionally, so Jack would be breaking that oath if he does follow Juliet's plan. Ben needs to know that Jack will be faithful to that oath... but beyond that thought, I don't have an idea about why Ben needs to know this. Because this would mean that Ben totally trusts Juliet. Like I said, I was going to stretch out a bit here. Bea
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I actually think the Lost is kinda on a biblical note this season..talking of free will etc...I say the female dr is kinda represented as kinda satan or something of the sort speaking of free will...the guy they think is the bad guy portraying kinda a God like figure..as in he want him to want to....Like they all are there for some thing...I might be wrong...but that is the sense I got from it last night! By the way...I love Brenda Lee! take care, TerryAnn
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Personally, I'm just glad the smoke monster is back as I thought they had abandoned that whole idea for a while.
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Here's my take on the episode.
http://journals.aol.com/slapinions/Slap-Inionscom/entries/2 006/11/02/lost-season-3-episod e-5-the-cost-of-living/1975
11/3/06 9:15 AM
Help! My journal is all messed up. When I bring it up, it has parts of a post I did a couple weeks. The only way I can go into my recent or last post (10/31) is thru archives. I'd appreciate any help you can give me.
Dana
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