Lost Season 6, "The Substitute"

Looks like I wasn't alone in hating last week's episode. Seems everyone is just as frustrated as I am! But this week was SO MUCH better.. and the words "Previously On Lost" just make me so happy!

- Locke fell out of his chair. That's happened before and he's got so frustrated. At first I wondered why wouldn't the driver help him? But I guess he drives that van. Also, the red switch is also known as a dead man's switch. (red for dead, green for alive). Also Locke flicks a switch on & off in another episode.

- Peggy Bundy aka Helen & Locke broke up before he lost his ability to walk because of his obsession with his father (who eventually pushed him out the window). And she mentioned having his dad at their wedding which is in October. Flight 815 took place in September. This supports my theory that the LA X flight is not Oceanic Flight 815 but another flight as Helen and Locke are still together. But does he remember being on the island because he didn't want to talk about it with his boss. And he looked upset he was still in the wheelchair. They all seem to have some memory of each other and are intertwined in each other's lives.

- Peggy/Helen mentions fate/destiny about running into a Spinal Surgeon. She also sports a nice Peace & Karma shirt and talks about miracles, and Locke was always someone of faith. She also had black fingernails.

- Nice Iggy Pop usage! Search & Destroy playing as Locke goes to get Sawyer. Sample lyrics- I'm a street walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm. I'm a runaway son of a nuclear a-bomb. I am a world's forgotten boy, the one who searches & destroys. Honey gotta help me please, somebody gotta save my soul. Baby detonate for me.

- Locke is now wearing darker clothes, including a black backpack.

- John's a candidate, or at least he was. Now he's after Sawyer. Richard tried to get Locke to be a candidate when he was young and Locke picked the knives and Richard said bad choice. Richard worked through Jacob. Richard is also acting like Ben by telling Sawyer he will kill everyone he cares about. Richard's eyes were light and not their usual black.

- I think the little boy is Aaron (older, so what time are we in?) or there are some other theories it's Charles Whidmore as a boy. Not feeling him as Jacob though. Ben told Whidmore he broke the rules when he killed Alex. The boy said we cannot break the rules.

- Sawyer says he doesn't care if Locke is the ghost of Christmas past. In the Season 5 premiere, "Because You Left" Sawyer calls himself "the Ghost of Christmas Future.

- Locke is tricking Sawyer to leave, it's almost as if he cannot- because his plane crashed, his raft blew up, his helicopter couldn't carry him. Sawyer isn't supposed to leave the island- what does he have at home?

- Lapidus said Locke is getting pretty ripe. If he was in a funeral home in a coffin, in a suit wouldn't they have embalmed him? I also almost thought the spider (from the dreadful Nikki/Paulo days) was on Locke but I re-watched and it looked like a crab.

- Locke always screamed don't tell me what I can't do (for the walkabout and on the island).

- When Locke was in the recruiting place the posters behind him were all about dreams- Chasing The Dream. There was also a poster that looked like the DeGroots were in it. Both Rose & the other recruiter had on purple. Sawyer's shirt was also purple-ish. It's also interesting Locke was at a recruiting place, given MIB told Sawyer of Jacob's recruiting.

- Locke said "Of Mice & Men" was after his time. It was written in 1937. So this makes evil Locke very very old. He also tells Sawyer he's been trapped and not sure what it feels like to be free. So he's been held back while Jacob/Good has taken over.
The book is about 2 men trying to start their own ranch so they don't have to be under the thumb of their employees. Sawyer read the book in prison. "A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. It don't make any difference who the guy is, so long as he's with you. I tell ya...I tell ya, a guy gets too lonely, and he gets sick."

- When they carry Locke Ilana said the people need to see what they are up against. I think she needs to convince them that Locke is now the Man in Black and that he's taking control of the Island, not Jacob.

- Even tho Ben murdered Locke, he admitted Locke was a believer, a man of faith and a much better man than he will ever be. Ben was always threatened by Locke and maybe knew how powerful he could become- good or bad.

- Man in Black throws a white rock into the ocean and leaves the black one, saying it's an inside joke. Man in Black is now in Charge- good/white is out. The black rock is birthplace of Charles Dickens. Burning Man takes place in Black Rock, NV. In Native American mythology, in the legend of the "Green Man", the "Black Rock" is alluded to as a spirit the Green Man killed, an evil spirit who was the son of a woman whose soul was contained in a black stone. A Black Rock Spirit figures among the superhuman guards that defended an island of bad spirits located in the middle of the ocean. In Hawaiian mythology, the "Black Rock" is a promontory designated as one of three great 'Uhane Lele, a sacred point where souls of the dead leaped into their ancestral spirit land.

- The kid in the hallway that Locke stopped looked like the guy who delivered Locke's lost luggage who looked like Walt. Speaking of which- where is Walt? And Walt aged on the Island (granted he went through puberty in real life) so it's possible Aaron is that boy.

- Jacob touched all those that were written on the wall and came to the island. They are all associated with the numbers (but not necessarily with their plane seats with the exception of Jack OR on the list the Others wanted). I do think that Kate was touched by Jacob but her name was NOT on the wall. In fact, there are no women listed (assuming the Kwon is actually Jin & not Sun). Could it be because of fertility? Locke in his flash sideways IS teaching Human Reproduction. Jacob may have touched you to come to the island but that doesn't mean that you had to be a candidate.

4 8 15 16 23 42 = Valenzetti Equation

4-Locke, 8-Reyes, 15-Ford, 16-Jarrah, 23-Shephard, 42-Kwon

OK, if the Valenzetti equation "predicts the exact number of years and months until humanity extinguishes itself", is being on Jacob's ceiling and walls necessarily a good thing? I want to know why each of the numbers is next to a certain name. Locke is 4 which according to Chinese, Japanese & Korean culture is bad luck and associated with death. Wondering the meaning of the others.

The numbers are supposed to reflect the numerical values to the core environmental and human factors of the equation. Do each of the men have the attributes to bring about the end of humanity?

There were some other names I noticed- 291 Don 40 Mattingly (I kid you not). Mattingly is actually a character on Lost. http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Mattingly. I also noticed some that were crossed off- 119 Almeda 175 Costa 2o Roup (which I was thinking maybe Rousseau but it's definitely just Roup). Can't seem to find any info on them. Maybe they were part of the Black Rock crew?

There's a theory that if these candidates were touched by Jacob, they cannot be attacked by the smoke monster. Smokey cannot destroy them, they have to destroy each other and maybe that's the way for Man in Black to become free Maybe MIB infected Sayid & Claire so they can help kill off everyone.

Until next week..
xoxo
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Lost Season 6, What Kate Does

Man, Lost is frustrating me. They are supposed to wrap it up & answer questions.. and it's only more confusing especially by adding the Other Others. Who are these people.. why add new characters? It's just getting to be too much nd my head is spinning! So this may not be the best recap and observations, but here it goes.

- I think Dogen resembles Miles. I think the guy fixing the cars looked like Lapidus. Lennon looks like Horace Goodspeed. The Other Other (don't know his name) resembled Eko.

- Kate recognizes Jack as she's pulling off. I still think this isn't the plane and they went back to course correct but their memories wiped out, yet they still know each other somehow.

- Sayid's wounds were healed. Jesus healed wounds.

- Lots of black eyes- Kate's went black when looking at the picture of Claire, Jack's eyes went black when looking at Kate, Claire's eyes were black when talking about Aaron in the hospital to Kate. Maybe the black eyes has something to do with the potential memory loss?

- Kate looks at the whale doll for a while.. didn't Aaron have a whale doll in his room when she had him? Didn't catch a dharma symbol on it.

- The couple that was to meet Claire at the airport had their days wrong. Think this is part of my theory that this isn't Flight 815, but another flight. Plus, Jin is asking about the other plane that landed and is told to be quiet.. I think the other others including Cindy aren't talking about Ajira flight but the other Oceanic flight.

- Rousseau brought up for a reason. I think Sayid has the infection, which Rousseau's crew had. Then Dogen said that Sayid will go to the dark side, like Jack's sister. and then Claire appears looking like Rousseau out of the blue with a gun. Perhaps there are varying stages of the infection and Claire is in the middle stages? Sayid is just starting.. might not make you sick but makes you nutty! Also, Claire, Rousseau and Sayid all gave birth on the island (Sayid to himself- reborn) and they are all "claimed".

- The others hurt or died helping Jack.. Jack is always trying to save everyone but it doesn't always work. He made Juliette hit the bomb, he couldn't save Kate's officer, Ana Lucia, Libby, Boone, Shannon. Jack is there to redeem himself along with Kate, Jin, Sayid, etc.. people were brought to this island for redemption.

- The torturer was tortured.

- Miles said there was no white light, angels singing or dead relatives around Sayid. He can usually sense that stuff around the dead people. It's indicative that Sayid didn't die.. and he's not Jacob.

- There was a very long shot of the house- Claire looked at it for a while. What house is this? Does it resemble her house from Australia when Christian Sheppard looked at her house for a while?

- Claire's potential Australian adoptive parents were named Arlene & Joseph Stewart, whom she turned down to adopt the baby. This LA woman's name was Mrs. Baskin. http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Arlene_and_Joseph_Stewart The psychic told Claire she needed to raise the baby herself and pushed her to a good couple in LA.. 815 crashed to prevent Claire from giving up Aaron for adoption. But this other Oceanic flight she encounters Mrs Baskin (who resembled her mom all disheveled when Kate rings her bell). Also, Mrs. Baskin, is close to the word basket- which Moses was put in a basket as a baby and given away. This woman denied Claire which then makes the psychic's warning that Claire needs to raise her baby as her own true for now.. however, Kate is present at the birth. But Kate goes back to the island to reunite Claire with her baby. Claire said you don't have to do what you did either. Is this a reference to Kate coming back to the island to find Claire for Aaron?

- Claire went into labor right after she landed but she was pregnant for a while on the island. She also took forever to name Aaron yet even though she was willing to give the baby up in LA she had a name for him and didn't know why (it had just come to her). It's that whole deja vu- we feel like we've lived it before but don't remember.

- The sonogram said "Mercy Hospital" and the date was 10/22/04. 815 crashed 9/22 so this proves my other Oceanic flight theory, once again!

- As we all know, Dr. Goodspeed (aka Ethan Rom "Other Man"- Ethan's father was Horace) stole Claire's baby. Was Ethan meant to steal Aaron? Karen has a theory about the iChing that the Chinese believe from the time you are born, that is your path- no matter what path you chose and that there are people that come across your life for a reason. We all know Fate is involved on Lost so Ethan is present for Aaron's birth whether they were on the island or not. He needs Aaron.

- Detective Rasmussen looking for Joan Hart (Joan of Arc?) Trying to see if there is one particular Rasmussen the name may refer to and there are too many. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasmussen I like that it's a suburb of Queensland, Australia. (and some dudes that created Google Maps & Google Wave!)

- Sawyer threw his ring in the water. Desmond threw his ring in the water. He also said he didn't want to be alone.. live together, die alone

I also can't take credit for this, but someone posted "One thing I noticed when Kate & Sawyer were talking on the pier in the distance in the water was Fonzie in a leather vest jumping over a shark on water skis".

Couldn't have said it better myself... come on Lost- Stop confusing us & start answering questions! Thank god they killed off those other two dudes! And bring back Eko!

Lost, Season 6, LA X

Damn how I've missed this show. what am I gonna do when it all ends?

Well, I think I'm honestly going to shout out to my mom's theory because I think she's onto something. My mom rocks!

The original plane that flew back was an Ajira airlines. Some folks wound up on half the island, some folks on the other and in a past time. And all throughout this episode- we had a the losties on the island and on another Oceanic flight. They originally all met to get back on the plane (ajira) to change what happened- and would appear that it changed because a- Juliette's message (it worked) and b- it looks like they are back on the same Oceanic flight, which lands safely at LAX. The episode is also called LA X (space btwn LA & X). X marks the spot!

However, as my mom points out- when Jack Sheppard is called by Oceanic to say they lost his father's body- they DO NOT say Oceanic Flight 815. So maybe they are on another flight and will still have to do some course-correcting to make sure they wind up back on the correct flight.

It's also interesting to know who was on this flight in this episode and who wasn't. And it's a mixture of dead & alive people.

Dead - Boone, Chaly, Locke, Ardnst, Frogurt, Kate's officer, Jin (presumed dead but alive now)
Alive- Kate, Jack, Sawyer, Sayid, Hurley, Rose & her husband, Sun, attendant Cindy
Not Seen- Claire, Shannon, Ana Lucia,
On the plane but disappeared- Desmond, who wasn't on 815.
Check out the "not meant to be section http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Oceanic_flight_815

I also think that they know they were once back on the island.. because Rose's words to Jack "You Can Let Go Now", and Jack to her- "We Made It". Jack and Locke are also the last ones to get off the plane, almost as if they don't want to get off and go back to normal life but stay on the island.

Also the convo btwn Locke & Boone. Locke tells him his hunting expeditions. Boone says he'll stick with him if they crash (which they did) but there's no use in reading the manual. And Boone says, you're pulling my leg- which they were going to amputate Boone's leg before he died (and how many leg wounds has Locke gotten..)

And Chaly, who asked if he was alive.. but who kept saying he was supposed to die. I also found his short hair was not a discrepancy but almost a sign that this is not the original 815 flight. (it's also not noted as a blooper/discrepancy on lostpedia)

I think when this plane hit turbulence was when the incident happened.. NOT desmond hitting the buttons, because that happens on Flight 815.

And flight attendant Cindy who is with Sho 'nuff''s (sorry that's what I'm calling him cause he looks like him - I think his name may be Dugan) crew said - not this plane the first plane.. EXACTLY. First plane is 815.. she was on BOTH flights.

and the island was underwater. this wasn't 815 bc that plane crashed on this island.. this was underground. perhaps this plane flies when the island shifts from the donkey wheel during that time frame.


other observations:

- Does Sayid resurrect as Jacob? Are the new Mayan temple people (including Sho 'nuff!) the new protectors of Sayid/Jacob? They do say if your friend dies we are all in a lot of trouble. Also when they pull Sayid out of the water, he looks like Jesus when John the Baptist baptised him.

- Is Locke now Christian? Christian was alive on the island- his body was not on the plane. Locke & Jack have a conversation about them losing his body, not his father.

- I'm nervous that Hurley has on a red shirt. Red Shirt people usually die. Maybe Hurley is dead already- that's why he can communicate with Chaly, Eko, Jacob and says to a would-be dead Sayid that he he's there if he wants to talk.

- Kate opens her eyes, which was an early indicator of a flashback.

-Juliette saying to Sawyer, we'll have coffee, we'll go dutch. maybe they see each other at the end of the season/in another life? Like Desmond always says to Jack.

- Jack tries to save Chaly with a pen. I remember he saved someone else with a pen- I think it was during the plane rescue. Jacob gave Sawyer a pen at his father's funeral.

- I freeze framed the smoke monster. at one point it's shaped like a polar bear. it also looks like there's a crouching locke in there. And elvis too. just kidding! there's a weird antidote that you can sprinkle around yourself as not to get attacked by the smoke monster. the one guy did it and a beam of light shined above him. Sho 'nuff and his crew also used this dust.

- Police Code 341 (I looked it up and it directed me to cha cha- HA!) means discharging firearm.

- Kate hears whispers before getting taken by Sho 'nuff''s crew.. must mean some time travelers!

- Why does Kate NOT cut off Frogurt and take the cab.. She would have done that. She was meant to get in with Claire.

And BY THE WAY- interesting Flash Forward promo- Chaly narrating the promo AND a guy yelling this is our destiny. And people scoff at my ff/lost connections!

OK I'm sorry I'm so beat. I know a lot of this seems a lil crazy and I need to hone in on it but sleep is calling me. going to re-watch it this weekend & add more!