Mystik Spiral

The easy answer is he is on the side of the island. My question is...is he really the servant or is he a master?

The more I think the more I agree. Richard is the only one truly serving the island. Ben & Widmore have ulterior motives. But for whatever reason Richard cannot be in charge? If he's the one truly on the side of the island, why the transfer of power from Widmore to Ben to Locke? Or is Richard completely in control of everything happening on and off the island?

Richard is a total mystery to me.

Agh!

I don't think there's any doubt here. Sun and Lapidus stole the boat.

 

My question is...where is Sayeed?

There should be some doubt... the "new" people (& Locke) are on the adjacent island where the Hydra station is, but Jack, Kate & Hurley seemed to have landed on the main island. If the Oceanic 6 disappeared during the turbulence, shouldn't Sun & Sayid be on the main island too? Not saying it wasn't Sun who went with Lapidus, but I don't think it's a sure thing.

I wanna know where Sayid is too. And I'm wondering about what's going through Locke's head opening up to Caesar and that woman... doesn't he remember that Walt had been having those dreams about Locke being on the island with people who wanted to hurt him?

^^I'm loving it! Not quite up to par with the debut, but it grows on me with every listen. Plus, the debut was a-maz-ing.

Any guess who the woman was who look off in the boat with Lapidus?

 

My guess is Sun.

She's the only woman we know on the flight who's unaccounted for, so I was thinking the same. But then I wondered why she would have landed on the neighboring island with the non-O6. You would think she and Sayid wouldn't have ended up too far from Jack, Kate & Hurley.

In order for John to die...he had to be killed.

That's what I keep thinking. I'm still on the fence about the whole Ben/Charles thing... assuming that they ARE the ones who are leading the opposing sides of the upcoming war. Ben seemed so cold when he was killing Locke, but so sincere when he was leaving the motel telling Locke he would miss him. Widmore seemed to want Locke alive; after all, he had plenty of opportunity to kill him between Locke's landing in Tunisia and having Abbadon drive him all over the world. Ben twice made the attempt to take Locke's life and ultimately succeeded. So I guess the real question is whether or not John did indeed have to die.

I'm also very eager to learn more about how Ben "tricked" Widmore into leaving the island. And about how Widmore came to be leading the Others in the first place. And about how the hell Richard fits into all of this. Richard has obviously been on the "side" of both Widmore and Ben at one time or another, who is he really aligned with?

Mindfuck.

Got em! The last one took me about a minute and a half

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But, the O6 all met on the docks to begin with, when Sun threatened to shoot Ben, when Sayid and Kate begged off from going back to the island. They were on a dock. I think it's meant to be misleading. I'm still kind of holding on to the thought that Penny and baby Charlie aren't anywhere near LA. I mean, when Desmond got Ms. Hawking's address from Widmore they were in England. How long would it take to sail from England to LA? A while. The main reason Des & Penny were laying low was to be safe from Widmore, but that became moot when Des went to Widmore for the address in the first place. Maybe Des left Penny & Charlie and just flew to LA to give his message to Ms. Hawking?

Also, Widmore's non-reluctance to give Des Ms. Hawking's LA address AND Penny's address (in The Constant) is part of what leads me to believe he may be the good guy here. Perhaps the whole reason he was ever cold to Desmond was to assure he went to the island in the first place? The reason Des participated in the sailing race around the world was to prove himself to Widmore.

I want to believe Ben is OK, but more and more I distrust him.

^^Thinking through this whole episode that I now have no idea where to fall on the whole Charles/Ben thing anymore...

And just when I thought that all those lame theories about hiding a damn medusa spider in Locke's coffin were going to come true - Ben kills Locke?!? I literally went from the verge of losing all respect for this show to gaining a whole new respect. Good stuff.

I was also completely shocked when Abbadon was shot. Completely.

The "enhanced" episode from last week, where they specifically mentioned Ben's promise to kill Penny leads me to believe (and hope!) that it's not the reason Ben's face was all f***ed up when he boarded 316.

That was a pretty cool video. I am anticipating a great episode tonight.

Have a little faith... After all, faith is a fact.

Capital A Awesome. Damn I miss that show...

i don't know, sayid didnt look super phased by the whole ordeal. neither did the cop. felt staged to me (meaning sayid was in on it for whatever reason). i mean, if sayid really just happened to be arrested at the same time and put on the same plane, wouldnt you expect a major freak out when he sees the rest of the losties on his plane, when he was so adamant about not going back just hours earlier? i feel like he would have struggled a bit...

I don't know about the woman "escorting" Sayid, but to me, Sayid just doesn't seem like the type of guy to be "freaking out" about anything. If he's truly under arrest, what good would it do to start shouting about the other passengers? I still think Ben had something to do with getting Sayid on that plane, maybe Sayid just accepted his fate.

And as for the whole recreating of 815, notice that Ben barely made the plane, just like Hurley on the original flight... Do you guys think Ben did make it back to the island? Seems it's unclear whether flight 316 actually crashed or if the O6-1 just managed to drop off when the plane passed through the window.

Oh I can't wait for Wednesday.

I loved them live, so much fun!! There's just something about their kinda deep subject matter set to lighthearted tunes. Great band. I still listen to their debut on a pretty regular basis.

EDIT: I know kung fu, and I'm not afraid of you...

OK, we had it 2006, that makes me feel a little better. It just really didn't feel like 4ish years since we had their debut. I saw them in Boulder late 2006 with a veritable handful of other people. Hope they come back over here someday!

Just grabbed the YYYs tonight, haven't listened yet. I love the PR on the new TBLLT:

"Everyone's favorite 'nursery school on crack' (a musical genre with admittedly few members) outfit, The Boy Least Likely To, are ready to release their follow-up album to the hit 2005 debut, The Best Party Ever. That album's track "Apple Wagon" was one of the catchiest songs of 2005, and in our scary times we could probably use some more sweet vocals matched with happy little melodies tinged with the sound of xylophones and kazoos."

Really liking it.

EDIT: damn, that was 2005?!?

^^me too, again. I love them so much.

Oh?

Leaked.

Thank you, this appeases me to some extent. There was a hit in Guam? That would make sense. Again, I don't have a problem with Hurley being on the plane (great lawyer and millions of dollars and powerful people wanting him there) but logic tells me that though he didn't commit the murders, yelling "I killed them all" would send him back to the loony bin, which he was already fugitive from.

Also, I don't believe he'd been mirandized when he yelled that he killed them all, making that confession worthless in court. Thank you Law & Order.

Well, he did buy 78 seats. I think he could have placed it somewhere.

Haha, good point.

I just re-watched the episode from the other night. I love how they all were in first class to Guam. So much for "recreating the scenario"...

And just me nitpicking - how did Hurley carry on that guitar? It never would have fit into the box.

so am i correct in noticing that this last episode started in the same way the series started, with jack's eye opening and him lying in the woods in a suit? i'm not saying there's any real coincidence there, as they were trying to recreate the situation as best they could, but just wondering if i was right. my lady friend couldn't remember.

Yeah, that had me wigging out for a minute. I thought ABC had made a mistake and started up the wrong episode...

I think Ben's lawyer got Hurley out of jail last episode! If my memory serves me well....

Oh, I think you may be right. Forgot about that!