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I know this is a day late, but I figured without a new episode this week, the rush and urgency wasn't there. Before I get to the reader comments, I am a bit ashamed that I completely forgot to mention the hilarious scene between Miles, Hurley, and Chang last week. The absolute highlight of the episode was Hurley's not-so-subtle observation that Chang's son shares the same name with Miles. Anyway, let's jump in, shall we? Frequent contributor Creed provides this quick thought:
Here's a quick thought..
See, told you.
what if The Incident is something planned, something that causes those of our Losties in the 70's to time-travel to present day?
This is an interesting thought. Nothing spoilerific here, but it appears that the season finale focuses on The Incident (the first hint? That's the episode's title). It seems perfectly reasonable to assume that the series isn't going to conclude in the past, and if that's true, the finale is the perfect time to have the characters return to the present day.
But before I conclusively state that, yes, I do believe the Incident leads to the characters jumping forward in time, I'm racking my brain trying to remember what exactly we've learned about the Incident thus far. Here is what Wikipedia offered:
On the station's orientation film, Doctor Marvin Candle explains that an "incident" occurred early in the station's experiments. An edit to the film, which according to Inman was made by Radzinski, removed specific details of this incident. The full film implies that unauthorized usage of the station's computer terminal had something to do with the incident. This event caused a consistent build-up of electromagnetic energy, which resulted in a change of the station's focus: a two-member crew, replaced every 540 days, were instructed to enter a numeric code into a microcomputer terminal every 108 minutes.
"Unauthroized usage"? To me, that could easily mean that one of the Oceanic survivors-turned Dharma members meddles, perhaps in a failed attempt to prevent something catastrophic. Here's an idea: As Hurley noted last week, the Swan is responsible for their plane crashing. What if he uses the computer with the intention of destroying the hatch, but inadvertently causes the Incident instead? That seems perfectly plausible. But I guess that also means it isn't planned, per se.
Staying on the subject of Dr. Chang, let's take a look at some of the comments from the review over at the EW website:
My guess is that Dr. Chang booted his wife and kid off the Island because he's going to learn about future events like the Purge. The trippy prospect to consider, courtesy of time travel dramatics, is if Adult Miles is the one who spills the beans to his father, making him complicit in causing his own crap life.
I see this as a distinct possibility. Perhaps Chang and Miles develop a close relationship, now that the latter is in the circle of trust. Realizing that his father is not that bad a guy and not wanting him to perish, Miles divulges what he knows about the Purge. Chang accepts his fate, but is unable to knowingly allow anything to happen to his wife and son. And the rest, as they say, is history.
Shifting gears a bit, here's something related to the dead body Miles met, courtesy of his future freighter pal Naomi:
Now, if you recall, last season we had that business about an Oceanic 815 cover-up, with a plane loaded with corpses found at the bottom of the ocean. In ''Meet Kevin Johnson,'' Mr. Friendly showed Michael all sorts of stuff — including photos of an exhumed cemetery — that he claimed was proof that Charles Widmore was behind the hoax wreckage. So: Did Big Tom kill Felix and swipe his stuff? Or is it possible that Charles Widmore wasn't behind Oceanic 815 cover-up at all, that it was actually Ben who was behind it, and that Felix was killed to prevent him from reporting the scheme to Widmore?
Personally, I don't really buy the theory that Ben was actually the one responsible for the cover up. Quite simply, it just needlessly complicates things. If Widmore is responsible, there's a clear motive for why, and with his abundant resources, we understand how. But if Ben actually did it, there are too many logical gaps. And for what? A neat little twist that people didn't see coming? Is M. Night Shamalackaey writing for the show now?
The reason I included this comment, however, is because I liked the explanation that Tom (miss you!) had killed Felix. Nice little connection there. Fun!
Moving on, I have a few observations following the Oceanic Six Special:
First, how did Richard know that Locke had to die in order to get everybody back to the island? Christian seemed legitimately surprised by this information, although he trusted Richard's advice. And both Widmore and (arguably) Ben attempted to prevent him from dying. There doesn't seem to be an indication that Richard deals directly with Jacob, so how did he get this information? Could he still be in contact with Eloise Hawking? If so, why wouldn't he just tell Locke right off the bat that he needs to see her? Besides which, I seem to recall that the island had lost its capabilities to communicate with the main land.
Nonetheless, I'm beginning to think that Jacob practices the KFC Secret Recipe method: He gives select bits of information to a variety of people. No one person seems to know everything: Richard knew that Locke had to die, and Christian knew that he needed to see Eloise, but neither seemed aware of the other's Intel.
Second, how much does Widmore know about time travel? I think it's fairly safe to assume that the Others' knowledge of time travel was none-to-limited before the Purge, and we don't quite know enough about the time line to determine how much time has passed between the Purge and Widmore's eviction. However, he had the wherewithal to ask Locke how much time had passed for him between their meeting in the 1950's and in 2007. One might argue that he noticed that Locke hadn't aged a day, however he also spent years with Mr. Eternal Youth himself, Richard Alpert.
Besides which, Widmore's mind went immediately to time travel, which I find interesting. If I remember correctly, Juliet seemed somewhat unsettled about the fact that they were jumping through time, despite being an Other. Color me curious.
Any thoughts or theories? Send them my way! Otherwise, I'll see you guys next week.
Oh, and of course, here's Lost! Untangled:
Here's a quick thought..
See, told you.
what if The Incident is something planned, something that causes those of our Losties in the 70's to time-travel to present day?
This is an interesting thought. Nothing spoilerific here, but it appears that the season finale focuses on The Incident (the first hint? That's the episode's title). It seems perfectly reasonable to assume that the series isn't going to conclude in the past, and if that's true, the finale is the perfect time to have the characters return to the present day.
But before I conclusively state that, yes, I do believe the Incident leads to the characters jumping forward in time, I'm racking my brain trying to remember what exactly we've learned about the Incident thus far. Here is what Wikipedia offered:
On the station's orientation film, Doctor Marvin Candle explains that an "incident" occurred early in the station's experiments. An edit to the film, which according to Inman was made by Radzinski, removed specific details of this incident. The full film implies that unauthorized usage of the station's computer terminal had something to do with the incident. This event caused a consistent build-up of electromagnetic energy, which resulted in a change of the station's focus: a two-member crew, replaced every 540 days, were instructed to enter a numeric code into a microcomputer terminal every 108 minutes.
"Unauthroized usage"? To me, that could easily mean that one of the Oceanic survivors-turned Dharma members meddles, perhaps in a failed attempt to prevent something catastrophic. Here's an idea: As Hurley noted last week, the Swan is responsible for their plane crashing. What if he uses the computer with the intention of destroying the hatch, but inadvertently causes the Incident instead? That seems perfectly plausible. But I guess that also means it isn't planned, per se.
Staying on the subject of Dr. Chang, let's take a look at some of the comments from the review over at the EW website:
My guess is that Dr. Chang booted his wife and kid off the Island because he's going to learn about future events like the Purge. The trippy prospect to consider, courtesy of time travel dramatics, is if Adult Miles is the one who spills the beans to his father, making him complicit in causing his own crap life.
I see this as a distinct possibility. Perhaps Chang and Miles develop a close relationship, now that the latter is in the circle of trust. Realizing that his father is not that bad a guy and not wanting him to perish, Miles divulges what he knows about the Purge. Chang accepts his fate, but is unable to knowingly allow anything to happen to his wife and son. And the rest, as they say, is history.
Shifting gears a bit, here's something related to the dead body Miles met, courtesy of his future freighter pal Naomi:
Now, if you recall, last season we had that business about an Oceanic 815 cover-up, with a plane loaded with corpses found at the bottom of the ocean. In ''Meet Kevin Johnson,'' Mr. Friendly showed Michael all sorts of stuff — including photos of an exhumed cemetery — that he claimed was proof that Charles Widmore was behind the hoax wreckage. So: Did Big Tom kill Felix and swipe his stuff? Or is it possible that Charles Widmore wasn't behind Oceanic 815 cover-up at all, that it was actually Ben who was behind it, and that Felix was killed to prevent him from reporting the scheme to Widmore?
Personally, I don't really buy the theory that Ben was actually the one responsible for the cover up. Quite simply, it just needlessly complicates things. If Widmore is responsible, there's a clear motive for why, and with his abundant resources, we understand how. But if Ben actually did it, there are too many logical gaps. And for what? A neat little twist that people didn't see coming? Is M. Night Shamalackaey writing for the show now?
The reason I included this comment, however, is because I liked the explanation that Tom (miss you!) had killed Felix. Nice little connection there. Fun!
Moving on, I have a few observations following the Oceanic Six Special:
First, how did Richard know that Locke had to die in order to get everybody back to the island? Christian seemed legitimately surprised by this information, although he trusted Richard's advice. And both Widmore and (arguably) Ben attempted to prevent him from dying. There doesn't seem to be an indication that Richard deals directly with Jacob, so how did he get this information? Could he still be in contact with Eloise Hawking? If so, why wouldn't he just tell Locke right off the bat that he needs to see her? Besides which, I seem to recall that the island had lost its capabilities to communicate with the main land.
Nonetheless, I'm beginning to think that Jacob practices the KFC Secret Recipe method: He gives select bits of information to a variety of people. No one person seems to know everything: Richard knew that Locke had to die, and Christian knew that he needed to see Eloise, but neither seemed aware of the other's Intel.
Second, how much does Widmore know about time travel? I think it's fairly safe to assume that the Others' knowledge of time travel was none-to-limited before the Purge, and we don't quite know enough about the time line to determine how much time has passed between the Purge and Widmore's eviction. However, he had the wherewithal to ask Locke how much time had passed for him between their meeting in the 1950's and in 2007. One might argue that he noticed that Locke hadn't aged a day, however he also spent years with Mr. Eternal Youth himself, Richard Alpert.
Besides which, Widmore's mind went immediately to time travel, which I find interesting. If I remember correctly, Juliet seemed somewhat unsettled about the fact that they were jumping through time, despite being an Other. Color me curious.
Any thoughts or theories? Send them my way! Otherwise, I'll see you guys next week.
Oh, and of course, here's Lost! Untangled:
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