Kate's Hotline

Looks like I have my chance to get in touch with Kate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ6hIEqKR7A

50 Questions that are unanswered

We're getting close to the end and Lost is finally starting to pay off. Here's a great list of questions that are still (and my never be) answered. Click Here.

The Well and the Lighthouse

I'm sure this is just coincidence, but the song "The Well and the Lighthouse" by Arcade Fire could have been written specifically for LOST... Here are the lyrics:

I am serving time

All for a crime I did commit

You want the truth?

You know I'd do it all again

Left for dead, heaven is only in my head

In my head, in my head

In my head, in my head

I heard a voice

Calling from down inside the well

"See that silver shine?"

She said to come claim what was mine

So down I fell, down into the water black

My prison cell, only the moon was shining back

Shining back, shining back

Shining back, shining back

If I seem lost

Well, I weighed the cost

And chose my crime

Now it's mine, all mine!

I heard the voice

Calling from just outside the well

She said

"You fool, now that you know your end is near

You always fall for what you desire or what you fear"

What you fear, what you fear

What you fear, what you fear

Resurrected, living in a lighthouse

If you leave them ships are going wreck

Resurrected, living in a lighthouse

The lions and the lambs ain't sleeping yet

Resurrected, living in a lighthouse

Can you see the funny side?

The ships are going wreck

Resurrected, living in a lighthouse

The lions and the lambs ain't sleeping yet

The lions and the lambs ain't sleeping yet

The lions and the lambs ain't sleeping yet

Episode Recap – "Across the Sea"

After talking with some of my coworkers this morning, it seems this episode has people divided. Some loved it.. some thought it was a distraction from the real story. I thought it was one of the most important episodes yet because it went a long way in explaining the "mythology" behind the series. It helped us get closer to answering the question, "What IS the island?" We know the origin of the wheel. And of course, we now know the identities of the skeletons dubbed Adam and Eve.

Here's probably the most important scene from the episode:

Mother explains she is taking them to someplace that only she can show them. The Boy in Black asks if she knew about the men, and Mother says yes. She didn't tell the boys because the men are dangerous and she didn't want to frighten them. Jacob asks what makes the men dangerous, and Mother says the same thing that makes all men dangerous. They come, they fight, they destroy, they corrupt. And it always ends the same. The Boy in Black picks up on something and asks where they "come" from. Mother quickly says another part of the island. And she warns the boys to never go looking for them because the men will hurt them. Jacob asks why, and Mother says because they're people and that's what people do. The Boy in Black says they're people, so does that mean they can hurt each other? Mother stops, and we can see the pain in her face. She gently pulls their blindfolds off and says no, she's made it so they can never hurt each other.

The boys look past her and see something amazing. They ask what this place is, and Mother says it's the reason they're here. They are standing at a pristine part of the island, a stream shrouded in darkness from the trees surrounding it. The stream flows into a small opening underground and cascades over a waterfall into a crevice. And from inside the crevice rises a pure white light. The light creates a sense that something exceptional and special lies beneath the waterfall deep in the earth.

Mother holds the boys back from stepping into the water. Jacob seems a little confused, maybe even scared, but his brother is fascinated. Almost hypnotized. He asks what's down there, and Mother tells him, with quiet reverence, light. The warmest, brightest light they have ever seen or felt. And they must make sure no one ever finds it. The Boy in Black says it's beautiful, and Mother says yes, it is. That's why they want it. A little bit of the light is in every man, and they always want more. Jacob is afraid and asks if the men can take it. Mother says no, but they will try. And if they try, they could put it out. If the light goes out here, it goes out everywhere. So Mother has protected this place but she can't protect it forever. The Boy in Black asks then who will, and Mother says it will have to be one of them.

Do we all agree that the light represents life, or the source of life? If so, why did MIB turn into the black smoke when he went into the light?

Here's the official recap from ABC:

• Claudia washes up on the island, shipwrecked and very pregnant
• Mother helps her give birth to twin boys
• Mother kills Claudia and raises the boys as her own
• Mother tells Jacob and the Boy in Black the island is the only place in the world
• A 13-year-old Boy in Black finds a senet game and teaches a 13-year-old Jacob how to play it
• Hunting boar, Jacob and his brother discover other people living on the island
• Claudia appears to the Boy in Black and tells him she is his mother and the other people on the island are his people who shipwrecked there
• The Boy in Black leaves to go live with his people and find a way off the island
• 30 years later, Jacob discovers the Man in Black and his people are digging wells trying to find a way to leave
• Mother knocks the Man in Black unconscious and kills all the people in his village
• Mother performs a ceremony and Jacob becomes the protector of the island
• The Man in Black regains consciousness, sees what Mother did, and kills her
• Jacob throws the Man in Black into the heart of the island and creates the smoke monster
• Jacob leaves the bodies of his mother and his brother in the caves

Negative Capability

Damon Lindelof just posted a link to a wikipedia article about the concept of "Negative Capability." The article is here.

Here it is in a nutshell:

"Negative capability is a theory of the poet John Keats describing the capacity for accepting uncertainty and the unresolved."

BOOOO!!

A very special Mother's Day edition.

I called my mother today to wish her a happy Mother's Day and inevitably, the conversation steered toward the last episode of Lost. We came to the conclusion that Sayid did indeed die at the beginning of the season. Ever since he was "resurrected" hes been Jacob. This theory has been in the back of both of our heads for awhile, but this episode helped to confirm it.

Let me explain.. Dead jacob told Hurley to bring dying Sayid to the temple where they can help him. When Sayid was put in the water, the water was "dirty" we're thinking that the "dirt" was Jacob.. in the same way that Locke can become smoke. We know that Locke doesn't get along with water from this latest episode.. maybe Jacob "rules" the water.. which is why an island is the perfect place to contain him.

I believe that when Dogen tested Sayid by shocking him, he knew that Jacob was in Sayid's body.. but found that Sayid was not a suitable candidate (because of his sins). Which is why he asked Jack to kill him.

Now, Sayid has blown himself up.. and "Jacob" is again in the water. So someone is going to drown again and Jacob will take his or her body.. or maybe he'll take Sun's or Jin's?

Episode Recap - "The Candidate"

What a great episode! Though, I did think some of the scenes were more '24' than LOST (Jack's line, "There is no Sayid" for instance). Do you really think this is the end of Sayid? They never explained what really happened to him in the temple. Maybe him picking up the bomb and blowing himself up qualifies for the "candidates can't kill themselves" rule?

It's so interesting how the Losties are all gradually finding each other in the Flash Sideways. I'm curious to see how that story line will end.

I'd be remiss if I didn't mention Sun and Jin, but man... What can I say? Jin, giving up his life for just a few more moments with his true love. One of the most tragic scenes of the series.. any series for that matter.

Here's the recap from ABC's website.

On Hydra island: Locke's group

• 
Locke takes Jack to Hydra island to rescue his friends, who have been captured by Widmore and locked in the polar bear cages
• 
Jack doesn't trust Locke, but Locke says he could've killed Jack and his friends at any time and hasn't; in fact, Locke saved Jack's life
• 
Jack agrees to help
• 
The smoke monster attacks Widmore's team and kills most of them
• 
Jack unlocks the cages and lets out Sawyer, Kate, Hurley, Sun, Jin, Claire and Lapidus
• 
Sayid tells them Locke is waiting for them at the plane
• 
Locke tells them the plane has been rigged with explosives and shows them a brick of C-4 he found inside; they decide to take Widmore's sub
• 
Sawyer tells Jack to make sure Locke doesn't get on the sub with them
• 
Sawyer, Jin, Hurley and Lapidus take over the sub
• 
Jack punches Locke and pushes him into the water
• 
Kate and Claire are getting in when Widmore's men try to stop them
• 
Kate is shot in the shoulder
• 
Jack and Sayid get Kate inside while Claire provides cover fire
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Sawyer closes the hatch and orders them to leave
• 
Claire is upset that they're leaving without her, but Locke tells her she doesn't want to be on that sub
• 
Jack can't find a first aid kit for Kate, and in his pack finds the C-4 inside rigged to a timer and ready to blow
• 
Jack tells them nothing will happen
• 
Sawyer doesn't trust Jack and pulls out two wires to stop it
• 
The timer speeds up; Sawyer realizes he armed it to explode
• 
Sayid tells them about Desmond in the well and then runs away as the C-4 detonates
• 
Jack finds two small oxygen tanks; Hurley takes Kate out with one and Jack takes Sawyer out with the other
• 
Sun is trapped underneath a cabinet and Jin stays with her; they die together holding each other's hands
• 
Kate and Hurley, Jack and Sawyer make it back to the main island

Flash sideways:

• 
Locke wakes up from surgery, and Jack tells him everything went well
• 
Jack saw Locke's original spinal injury and says Locke is a candidate for a new procedure that could allow him to walk again
• 
Locke doesn't want the surgery; Jack asks why, but Locke won't tell him
• 
Jack discovers that Anthony Cooper was in the original accident with Locke
• 
Jack tracks down Anthony Cooper at a nursing home and discovers he's paralyzed from the neck down
• 
Claire visits Jack at the hospital and asks about a music box their father left her; Jack doesn't know what it means
• 
Jack invites Claire to stay at his place because she's family
• 
Locke tells Jack about the accident: he was in a plane crash
• 
Locke had his pilot's license a week and begged his father to be his first passenger; the plane crashed and it was Locke's fault; and a man he loves more than anything will never walk or talk again
• 
Jack tells Locke he can punish himself all he wants but what happened, happened; Locke needs to let it go