Rescue The Losties

Insane Lost Theory #1 - The Third Entity

2009-09-21T10:24:00.001+01:00

The whispers have long been of intrigue to me, and I love reading the transcripts and trying to deduce theories from them. Now I think I have a half-decent one.

There's a third entity akin to Jacob and the Man in Black on The Island.

I do think this for a number of reasons, the first being the whispers wherein two male voices and a female voice have been heard by the Losties. Yet the female voice seems to be all for revealing herself or feels sad for our survivors, but is cautioned against it by the two males (Jacob & Man in Black) who seem to be more for manipulating things. I think she may be an underling, not as powerful as the men but still has a few tricks up her sleeve.

Secondly, I'd like to bring up Smokey. In the episode where Kate & Juliet are handcuffed to each other, they run off and get behind the security fence when The Monster approaches. Then as it does, it comes together from three separate whisps of smoke, similar to the small ones we saw when Locke was saved with dynamite in season one and before Eko was killed by it. The Monster also operates in three parts, being Jacob/Man in Black/Woman and they battle for control of it, hence it's differing actions (Woman in control when they meet Eko so she doesn't kill him, MIB in control later, sees no need for him, so kills him). The three can act independently as smoke trails but do not have enough power to do much when so. If you thought that bit was crazy wait for the next bit.

Thirdly, the female entity is...Christian. She was quick to take physical form of someone that Jacob/Man in Black might have used against her or one another, but doesn't seem powerful enough to keep it at all times. If she makes up part of The Monster, it would explain why such sounds are heard when Jack sees Christian on Island initially. When she can't keep a hold of the form, the Man in Black utilises him instead as distinguished by the black shoes worn when it's MIB and the white tennis ones worn when it's the woman. She's trying to influence the survivors without appearing herself and upsetting Jacob/MIB so this is the way she thinks it would work. What her goal would be with this, I have no idea, she's simply a theoretical character at this point, an idea.

Finally, I feel having a female lead to bring a rift between MIB & Jacob, or to oppose MIB with a loophole of her own would be fitting for the final season.

-- Posted from my iPhone

Staying spoiler free ain't easy

2009-09-18T20:48:00.001+01:00

I fondly recall season three of Lost when some good things such as Juliet came around to the show and as a big Lost fanatic I was hyped to see the finale of the show, so went the usual route of staying up late for when the American airing was finished and awaiting it to come online so me and my friend could watch.

However this seemed to be taking longer than usual so we scoured Lostpedia (thinking that if we couldn't see the episode that day we could at least read how it finished) and had the flashforward reveal ruined early for myself which really took away from the episode.

Alas I am a spoiler junkie, so went on being manic with seasons four and five (with finale exceptions) and enjoyed it more. Now that we're getting to the final throws of the show I've decided to go spoiler free.

I've seen set reports and rumours crop up and have managed to resist the old temptation to read them, and I'm quite proud of myself for doing so. Hopefully some of you are going spoiler free too, just for these last few bits of Lost. It's going to be great.

-- Posted from my iPhone

LA X?

2009-08-13T08:33:00.001+01:00

So, it seems that the first episode of Lost season will be called “LA X”. I thought I’d blog my quick thoughts on the title.

This will make some people think that the reset worked, for better or worse as they would land in Los Angeles otherwise known as LAX.

However, that single space there makes me think otherwise, as if marked on a sheet of paper, to say that “LA” as an answer is incorrect and it did not work.

So, what do you think, did Jack’s plan work or not?

Lost Hiatus Cures - #1

2009-06-21T23:24:00.000+01:00

So, Lost is off the air, and you’ve done a rewatch, or you’ve started and need something else to cure the pain of missing Lost. I’m going to suggest a few things, feel free to comment on any more.

Lost Fan Club
If you’re not a member of Fanpop by now, why not? The Lost Fan Club has a nice quiz section, a section where you can put up Picks, which are opinion-based questions, or even Answers, which is where you can ask anything that has confused you about Lost. This is handy if you can’t remember a reference, or missed out what Jacob was or something similar.

I’ll do a few more of these during the hiatus, and hopefully you can use some of them.

It only ends once

2009-06-04T04:35:00.000+01:00

Season Six Teaser

That’s the entirety of the next season of Lost we’ve seen, which is just actually footage from “Pilot, Part 1”, but what do we actually know?

There will be 17 episodes
It will start in February 2010
It is the final season
Elizabeth Mitchell (Juliet) will appear in only two episodes according to Ausiello
There was mention of Dominic Monaghan (Charlie) & Darlton Lindelof having a quick “five minute chat” about Charlie coming back, so we might see him guest spotting later.
Cynthia Watros will not feature, as she’s being stubborn, leading to not being able to bridge the gap in Libby’s story.

Yeah, not a whole lot. Hopefully we get a few more details in the coming months to help us cope.

Do you have any idea how badly I want to kill you?

2009-05-16T13:27:00.001+01:00

Well…no-one could have ever predicted that season five would start to end this way. We saw Jacob in the flesh, brandishing a red herring and a white shirt, living a simple life. Another man comes and sits besides him, wearing his black shirt proudly staring out at what is likely The Black Rock, and it’s captain Ricardos coming to The Island and promising he’ll find a loophole to kill Jacob. The two men act like it’s a game between them, and the ship full of people coming to The Island are mere chess pieces to prove one another wrong.

Within the flashbacks we see Jacob visiting, and perhaps more importantly physically touching each of them, even if only for an instant. Seeing an Apollo candy bar for the first time in three seasons was nice call back for Lost Experience players. We found out the origin of Hurley’s guitar case, and how he knew about Ajira Flight 316.

Jacob calmly waited for Locke to fall from a height which should have killed him according to the orderlies and doctors, but a small pat on the shoulder from Jacob, and he gasps and is conscious again. If Jacob was able to bring Locke back from the brink of death, why not remove his paralysis? Jacob does need to test a future leader of The Island I think.

“The Fork In The Outlet” was very shocking indeed. The Locke that we’ve seen on Island, since The Life & Death Of Jeremy Bentham, has in fact been Jacob’s Enemy (apparently nicknamed Esau by fans due to the bible story) trying to find a loophole. That being, that he could not directly kill Ben, nor direct someone to kill him in his own form. So, the best person to convince is Ben, and the best person to do that as, would be John Locke.

Thinking back, the shirted Christian who appears to Locke, pushes him to die, and Jacob’s Enemy tells Richard to tell Locke that he has to die in order to save The Island, and also tells him to move The Island, in another attempt to rid Locke off The Island so that he can maraud around as him instead. Does this mean every apparition we’ve seen on The Island is actually Jacob’s Enemy? From the “Jacob” we saw in the cabin, the Alex who convinced Ben to follow “Locke’s” every word, to Eko’s brother Yemi? I don’t think they all are, but if Esau can appear as certain forms, I think Jacob can too. Anybody remember the explicitly stated white tennis shoe, that we see off Island Christian wearing?

I think that white-shoed Christian is actually Jacob, who has only so far appeared to Jack, whom he mentioned “needed a little push”.

In 2007, Jacob’s Enemy had a job to do, and eventually reached the statue where Jacob really lives, instead of the cabin, which I assume Jacob’s Enemy had been presiding in. He led Ben in and spoke with Jacob about finding the loophole. Michael Emerson is a great actor and I loved his speech to Jacob about him being ignored. When Jacob replied “What about you?” you knew his time was up. But this leaves the question, who are “they”? And why are they coming? The Others and Sun now know that the Locke inside the statue. I wonder what their reaction will be come season six, or did it even actually happen because of the bomb? Jacob might not even be dead, nor Locke.

Back over at The Swan site in 1977, we knew certain things had to happen. Chang had to have an accident with his hand to get the prosthetic arm with saw him with in the future…or past…one of those.

Phil had to die, after it was built up that we hate him, especially for hitting Juliet in the previous episode. Jack and co. came with the bomb to erase the last three years so that The Swan is never built, Kelvin can never be there to get Desmond, Desmond can never not push the button, and thus Oceanic Flight 815 will never crash. We saw a scene similar to season 2’s finale, where all things metal were dragged away by an electromagnetic force, including some large metal chains which ensnared Juliet. Poor Juliet. I wish I wasn’t right all the time. Oh yeah, I guess Sayid died off screen too. I don’t care.

Juliet did manage to survive the fall down the massive shaft, and realised that the bomb had not yet gone off, so she struggled in some great acting by Elizabeth Mitchell, smacked the bomb until we came across the “son of a bitch” line so frequently used this episode and then…

Gragh. 2010 can not come quick enough for this story to carry on. Did Jack’s plan work? What happens if it did? What happens if it didn’t? Have we seen the last of Jacob? Is Juliet still alive? I have no idea, so I leave you with this, from the web comic After Lost.

There was…an incident

2009-05-14T11:43:00.001+01:00

I’ll be watching the Lost finale pretty soon, so I’m going to make some predictions, if you’re going to make any comments, please leave ‘em spoiler free for a few hours.

Either Jin or Sayid will die in the finale. Sayid’s story is easily over by now, and after Sun & Jin reunite there’s a possibility that he could die. Darlton have said that the death in the finale, will be “reminiscent of Charlie’s death”, and I know people that are still torn up by that, so I’m not sure that they can top the emotion that some people felt to his death with those two characters, but I think they will be able to top it with:

Juliet has become a good character over the past two seasons. Silently snuck in during season three, she wasn’t liked initially, but avoided a Nikki/Paulo situation by allying herself with Jack, and now she’s allied with Sawyer. Suliet (the Sawyer & Juliet relationship) has been fitting during the season, and I was glad that she has come in to her own as a character. Unfortunately it does remind me of Charlie, wherein I disliked his character starting around season three and then Desmond said he’d die, and I was intrigued and then saddened when he did drown. Don’t let Juliet die.

Onwards to people’s plans – Jack’s plan first:

Jack plans to detonate Jughead, but as we’ve seen in the trailers, he only needs a small part of it in order to get the job done. He plans to follow Faraday’s instructions from his journal and stop Oceanic Flight 815 from crashing. Would this erase all the stuff they’ve been through on The Island? I don’t think so. No matter what happens, it’s your present. Even if they end back up on the plane and don’t crash, he’ll still remember everything that happened there. Jack’s plan will not work.

I’m disappointed that the reason he came back to The Island seems to be for Kate. I’m not a big shipping fan, maybe some people still appreciate Jate & Skate, but I’m not one of them. I was fed up of it around the middle of season three. Though I think Jack’s plan won’t work, something will happen with Jack and co. to cause The Incident. I’m just not sure what.

Now, on to Locke’s plan:

To kill Jacob. WHAT?! Can you even kill Jacob? As we saw, Locke seems to be the only person who has ever truly seen Jacob, yet he is assigning Ben the task of killing him. My friend @benjirino thinks that by “killing” Jacob, it may instead free him from where he is trapped, as he asked Locke to “help me”.

However, Richard seems to be reacting a little strange in a trailer for the episode, claiming that there can only be “one leader of The Island” so whether it allows whoever kills Jacob to become the new leader of The Island or if it allows them to take Richard’s position of “advisor” which he’s held for a very, very long time. Locke’s plan will succeed.

I know the episode is going to be amazing, and I only have a few more hours to wait and see it.

Official Lost audio Podcast for season five

2009-05-09T11:16:00.001+01:00

It’s been leaked early, and you can grab it from DocArzt's site and give it a listen if you like.

They state that the above video is now non-canon and was a story line that didn’t quite work out. The cameraman was intended to be Daniel Faraday, which most fans had guessed. A few other tidbits from it, most of which are obviously jokes.

Jacob is really a 60 foot tall fire giant whom lives at the top of the Beechcraft cliff.
The season finale was originally going to be called “The Bucket Brigade”
The compass may exist as a paradox, and not be in any actual timeline.
“The Incident” will be similar to season one’s finale, where we will be left hanging.
This is the last audio podcast, but we’ll see a video podcast with Michael Emerson before the podcasts finish until next season.

I’m looking forward to the finale. I’m sure it will be explosive, despite ABC’s odd marketing for a Lost finale.

Follow the leader, leader, leader

2009-05-07T21:40:00.000+01:00

Etcetera. We’re edging our way in to finale times. Jack is tromping through the jungle to save people, Kate is changing her man and Hurley has joined two other people in another location. I guess we now know who the cameraman for Pierre Chang is: Miles.

I initially thought it would be Daniel Faraday given how much it sounded like him. Imagine a good segue way here. I think Chang and Horace make good leaders of the DHARMA Initiative.

Then, we have Richard, Ben & Locke, all with some authority over The Others, but obviously Jacob presides over all of them, and now Locke wants to kill him. What?! Does Locke intend to take his place, or is Richard actually Jacob as many fans think?

Our original de facto leader is confronted with the Thunderbird 2 like hydrogen bomb, which has something to do with The Incident. Strange that we have a large amount of concrete in The Swan. I never expected that it would be buried underneath The Barracks though.

I guess that Sayid is the major death for this season, which makes sense as his story is pretty much wrapped up.

Sorry this is only a short recap, but I’m still getting back in to it. The finale recap will be better and more awesome.

Lost on Twitter

2009-03-05T22:05:00.000Z

As some of you are well aware I'm a big fan of the show Lost, and a prominent user of Twitter. The two seem to have intermingled a lot lately though, with people posting as characters or organisations from the show. In following them, you can enter an alternate reality, which some users play very well. You might be interested in following some of them, so I'm going to 'showcase' the best ones.

Let's begin with various versions of The Island's leading surgeon: Jack Shephard

- Jack Shephard
This is an "Oceanic Six" account from the folks over at SpoilerTV forums. Not sure who runs it, but have a check around and you can find out. Keeps updated too.

- Jack Shepard
A fairly recent account, but the use of hashtags puts me off. Seems to be run by the same bunch of people who run an account called @The_Island.

There's two more but I wouldn't bother with either one of those. One has only two updates, and the other one may be a real person called Jack Shephard.

Now on to another main character, another of the infamous love triangle on the show: Kate Austen
- Kate Austen
Suprisingly there is only one Kate on Twitter, this is another one from the people at The_Island. This account seems to post some strange stuff about selling Aaron on eBay and other odd bits, but as she's the only Kate (for the time being), you're kind of stuck with her.

Now, the last one in the triangle to get it out of the way (oh how I despise it), James Ford, also known as Sawyer.

- James "Sawyer" Ford
Errr...this account has no updates. Fair few followers though.
- James "Sawyer" Ford
This user has protected their updates, so I can't really see what's going on there.
- James "Sawyer" Ford
So, you're left with this account, with the use of hashtags again. Not the best choice again.

Now, on to the resident Iraqi of The Island, who will break your neck with his legs, Sayid Jarrah.

- Sayid Jarrah Only one Sayid Jarrah that I can see, and it's another Island hashtagger. I don't know, I feel like the hashtags take away from the alternate reality feel that fictional character accounts should try and put across.

Now, as Sawyer calls him, the "rotund" Hugo Reyes.

- Hugo "Hurley" Reyes This account is another SpoilerTV one and another well run one, though a bit slow in updates. - Hugo "Hurley" Reyes
This is another Island one, which apart from the strange background doesn't seem chuckle worthy.

One half of our Korean couple, and the guy who survives any kind of explosion, Jin-Soo Kwon.
- Jin-Soo Kwon
Whoever runs this obviously reads spoilers as there's a few name drops around of unseen characters, some Korean wouldn't go a miss, but otherwise it's okay.

Now, for his wife, Sun-Hwa Kwon.
- Sun-Hwa Kwon
Another Island account, and again the hashtags put me off, but that's just personal preference. - Sun-Hwa Kwon Another account from SpoilerTV, and in character too, but a bit sparse with updates.

Recently deceased, then alive again John Locke also has an account.
- John Locke Again, a very out of character Island account. Not hating on whoever runs The Island, just irks me that they're out of character, when they're accounts for fictional characters in the first place.

Now, there's also one of my favourite characters, Desmond Hume there.

- Desmond Hume
Though not updated for about a month, and having the big promotional picture as the background, this account is not too bad.

Miscellanious
- The Others
The bad, I mean good guys on the show. Some sillyness mixed in with all of this account. A very fun one to follow.

- DHARMA Initiative
The people who built all the stations on The Island. Another fun account, may be the same person/group of people who runs The Others account.

Have I missed anyone off? Have you started a new account you'd like me to add? Comment and let me know.

Please note: Names in bold were used as search terms on Twitter to find the accounts.

Character Look-Backs #2

2008-09-30T20:42:00.006+01:00

Jack: "He told me that it was my fault for leaving..."

Welcome to the second part of the character look backs, which take a travel back in time and try to glimpse in to the future for the character in question. For this segment, we look at our resident Iraqi and our loveable redneck.

James "Sawyer" Ford started off as a conman off the Island, and wound up in love twice. Once with Cassidy Phillips and now with Katherine Austen. A man on a mssion to get revenge on the man who conned his parents, who was known by another name, and was connected to a fellow Lostie. In season three, he finally managed to get back at Antony Cooper whom he strangled with some chain from The Black Rock. He had a strange journey in season four, odd times with Kate, and then protecting Claire and almost becoming an Oceanic Seventh. I think that season five will see him take on a semi-leader role as Hurley appointed him to the post briefly when Jack was away. As for the whole Jate/Skate/Jacket arguments, I could not care either way who ends up with who in that warped triangle with extra twizzles on the end. I'm unsure as to what loose ends we really have left to wrap up in his story besides his daughter. I'm also unsure as to what the reaction would have been were he Jeremy Bentham, the man in the coffin.

Now on to Sayid, who went from the "terrorist" everyone assumed had something to do with the crash, to the guy that every Lost fan would want on their side in a fight. Smart, cunning and in Shannon's eyes, sexy, Sayid took a supposed dark turn after leaving The Island and ended up working for Benjamin Linus. The true nature of why he keeps working for him is not yet unveiled to us. In season five, I think he will help everyone else in their return to The Island, as he already recruited Hurley to join him. Though as he and Locke never saw eye to eye I am confused as to why he is returning. Nevertheless, I am sure I will enjoy the journey.

That being said, come back again when I shall chat about two more characters, though am currently unsure which two.

Character look-backs #1

2008-09-27T20:38:00.011+01:00

Jack: "He told me that it was my fault for leaving..."

As I am sure you all know by now, the first episode of season five is named "Because You Left" and I thought I would share my thoughts about what might have happened to the Losties and the other people on and off The Island.

Let's take the de facto leader of our Losties. Recently escaping The Island in the present time-line, we have already seen Jack's wrecked and ruined path that he shall soon follow. Parts of it are still missing, such as his meeting with John Locke off Island. I think we will see this in "Because You Left" as you may have guessed from the quote at the start of the article. Jack's flashback's started to become very boring (Stranger In A Strange Land anyone?) so I am glad that we have stopped those and concentrated a lot more on his flashforwards, which have become very intriguing. He'll continue collecting people for their epic return to The Island, though I am unsure as to whether they will need Desmond or Frank. I am looking forward to seeing how those still on The Island cope without the man who has lead them for more than one hundred days now. Who will step up to the plate and what reaction certain characters who are close to him like Juliet will have.

Now on to Ms. Katherine Austen. Her story was also starting to bore me as well. Mainly because it had nowhere else to go, but now that they have blended Kate's storyline with Claire's by giving her Aaron, and trying to form a family unit with Jack, it has made a nice change. Kate seems very unwilling to return to The Island, so I am unsure how Jack will convince her. I am however, always happy for some more Evangine Lily screen-time. In regards to what may happen to her in "Because You Left", I think she will confront Jack and inform him of her strange dream and phone call from Claire, thus needing no convincing from Jack. Jack shares crazy visions of his father who died before they boarded the plane and they both carry along their paranoid little journey with baby Aaron in toe.

Please join me again during the week when we shall look at the next two characters, Sawyer & Sayid in preparation for Lost's new season starting in February 2009.

Kristin interviews Michael Emerson

2008-04-27T01:55:00.002+01:00

Quick post before I'm done for the day.

In case you weren't paying attention last night, Michael Emerson, our beloved Benry, turned in an astonishing performance that was earning Emmy buzz before it even aired, and as far as I'm concerned, no one has ever done better work humanizing a supervillain.
I just rang up Michael to get his take on Lost's big game, Ben's current state of mind after the brutal death of [sobbing drowns out spoiler], and, oh yeah, his brilliant explanation of the monster's mechanics.

FAMILY AND UPPING THE ANTE
What's going on internally for Ben in that minute after Alex has been shot dead?
Well, Ben is in a state of shock. Ben doesn't usually...Ben plays a game where a variety of outcomes are to be expected, but nothing outside the table of contents. In this case, something happened. Ben took what he thought was a safe risk, and it turned out to be a terrible risk. Someone else didn't play fair, so it's about as big a shock as Ben as ever had in his life.

Jumping to the end of episode then, Charles Widmore says, I didn't kill your daughter, you did. How much does Ben feel culpable in her death?
Ben is a guy who doesn't take things lightly, and I think he has a long memory. When Charles Widmore says that it's Ben's fault—that's a kind of sophistry on his part. He's suggesting that everything Ben has ever done has led up to this moment, the idea that who we are makes us guilty across the board. But Ben's not having that explanation.

I think Ben knows that his daughter died for a very particular reason, and that Charles Widmore is the guilty one. Whatever is going on between Ben and Charles Widmore, the ante just got raised about tenfold.
In the next episode there's a scene where it looks like Sawyer might get the chance to kill Keamy, who killed Alex. Is that the kind of thing that Ben would want to do personally, or is Ben more of a big-picture thinker, just gunning for Charles?
I think Ben is in a state of bloody-mindedness right now. I think he would like to personally pull the trigger on everyone connected. And we'll see whether he has that opportunity.

Interesting. Do you expect to see Danielle and Alex again, hopefully, in one capacity or another? And what has it been like working with Tania Raymonde and Mira Furlan?
I love both these actresses, and it feels like when a dear coworker moves on to somewhere, you feel sad and lonesome...and you realize how much you've personally got invested in these fictional relationships. You know how nobody is ever fully dead on Lost, so...I don't expect that we've seen the last of them. But maybe we've seen the last of them in their fleshly state.

So Danielle doesn't pop up in the next episode with just a minor flesh wound and come after Ben or anything?
I don't—I don't think that's gonna happen...

Speaking of Danielle, I was hoping she would eventually get to kill Ben.
[Laughs.] What a strange wish on your part.

THE LADY JULIET
Well, I say this with the utmost respect and love for the character, but Ben's an unkillable cockroach, and yet you would have to imagine someone eventually gets him. Juliet, perhaps?
Well, Juliet is certainly a dangerous character. I think more dangerous than we know at this point, and certainly there are issues between Juliet and Ben that have yet to be resolved. But you know, Ben's...his whole existence may end up being redeemed by the gravity and necessity of his mission.

Speaking of Juliet, that whole "You're mine!" opened so many more questions of what does he want from her. And then...I'm pretty sure Elizabeth Mitchell is like a foot taller than you, does that ever come into play when you guys are shooting scenes together?
[Laughs.] Yes, I have to say, that was not one of Ben's prettier moments, there at the place where Goodwin met his demise.

You know, when Ben gets outside his comfort zone, like many men who are geniuses or men of sophistication, there is some part of him, to compensate, that has been undeveloped. I think Ben is maybe socially or emotionally somewhat underdeveloped.

So sometimes, when he's stressed, he behaves like a teenager. Sort of. To me. So he says things bitterly...I think he possibly regrets them later, but he does behave impulsively sometimes. For this character who is supposed to be so calculated and such a chess player, he really does behave impulsively upon occasion.

Does he want to marry Juliet so she can have a million of his babies?
I don't think he even has a clear picture what he wants. That he wants is all he knows. She is a prize in his mind. Who knows what his sex life is, or ever would be? But somehow he's decided that she is to be his.
MYTHS AND MONSTERS

Do you almost feel like after that conversation with Charles we suddenly learned that Ben is the hero of the show, even though we didn't know he existed for the first season or two?
It feels like some kind of shift along those lines is happening, doesn't it? Because each season, it's like the lens of the show steps back a notch and shows the playing field of the show to be a larger one that we had thought at first.

I think this battle between Charles Widmore and Benjamin Linus, whatever it is, whatever the stakes are, whatever the game is, I think that's now big. That's a big, important thing.
And I think, I don't know if it's just from familiarity or instinct, but I think we like Ben Linus better than we like Charles Widmore. I think Charles Widmore is a more wicked man.

Partly just because Charles is really mean to Desmond, whereas Ben has always been very courtly and gentlemanly. He'll beat you to death, but he'll say thank you when he's done or something.
Yes. [Laughs.] That's right. Manners count, don't they? Come on!

OK I have some fan questions, if you don't mind. Harry asks: "Is Ben the monster's boss? Is Ben able to just take the monster out of his cage?" What's your sense of that whole thing?
Ben is privy to the secret mechanics of everything on the Island, so yes, he can sic the smoke monster—smoke's not the right word, but he can sic that thing on someone. But we don't yet know the recipe or the formula for how that's done, and we don't know what it costs. There seem to be a lot of forces on the Island, but nothing is for free. A toll is paid every time the machinery works. Everything is bargained.

Tom asks, "Did you have any sense that between the time Ben disappeared into the tunnel, and came back sooty later, that he was essentially in a time bubble where he worked out that Sayid would help him take down Charles Widmore, or do you think that was genuinely in the future?"
I had it in my head that those things were genuinely in the future. But the passage of time is being perceived differently by different people. I thought that period of time when he went down the tunnel to enable the smoke monster and emerged sooty, I thought that was just enough time for him to take care of that, physically, by himself.

I think it all has something to do with metallic dust. I think the smoke monster is connected to that ring of powder that surrounds Jacob's cabin. They've established that there are supermagnetic forces are at work on the Island, so what better medium for those forces to work through than through fine filings of metal?

Would you like join the Lost fandom? Because you would be really good at it.
We who work on the show—we're all Losties, too! We're all theorizing and trying to put the pieces together. It must tickle the writers to see us trying to work these things out!

OK, last question. Mark from Dundee, Scotland: "Where do you think Ben stands on a scale of one to 10 where one is Hurley, totally good; five is Locke, good but willing to do bad things to achieve his ends; and 10 is Charles Widmore, evil?"
I think Ben is not bound by your scale...

Good stuff from Kristin as usual. Any comments below please.

Source: E Online

SPOILER: Six spoilers from TV Guide

2008-04-21T11:38:00.002+01:00

TV Guide have revealed some spoilers for the second half of season four.

It doesn't take a flash-forward to uncover Lost's secrets. Just a trip to Hawaii and a few prying interviews. Here, a sextet (in honor of the Oceanic Six) of spoilery insights. — Shawna Malcom

1) Others leader Ben (Michael Emerson) has been called many things — Master Manipulator, Bug-Eyed Bastard, Captain Bunny Killer — but an action hero? In the April 24 episode, Ben leads the resistance against the freighter fiends working for cranky billionaire Charles Widmore, while in his flashforward adventure, he does battle in the Tunisian desert and spies on a funeral in Iraq. Emerson was as surprised as anyone by this unexpected turn of events, not to mention a little anxious. "Stunts, languages — all sorts of special skills were asked of me," he says. "feel like I've done everything but the kitchen sink in this episode. God only knows what's next."

2) In one scene witnessed by TV Guide, Sawyer, Miles (Ken Leung) and a banged-up Claire, holding baby Aaron, make a ghastly discovery in the jungle: one dead body and an extra dismembered arm. Surprisingly, the con man turns all Big Brother on the single mum. "Since Charlie's died, feel like no one's protecting Claire," Holloway explains. But can anyone really keep Claire from joining the island's body count? After all, Aaron's calling Kate "Mommy" in the future. De Ravin claims she hasn't received the dreaded phone call from producers. "Maybe just let the baby go first," she says. "Or maybe fall off the helicopter. But if that's the case, I'm not shooting that scene. Stunt double, please!"

3) Remember that watercolor painting an institutionalized Hurley was working on when Charlie appeared in the season premiere? Jorge Garcia painted it himself. He also decided what to paint — an Eskimo fishing outside an igloo. "I was like, 'hope people think this means something,'" says the prankster. Mission accomplished: After the episode, fan sites buzzed with theories, including one he expected: "I hoped people might think it had something to do with the guys [in the Season 2 finale] speaking Portuguese in the snow."

4) TV Guide caught a scene shot for the May 1 episode in which Jack collapses, unconscious, on the beach. Expect Juliet to take charge and perform emergency surgery. "get to go into Jack's guts!" says a gleeful Mitchell, who adds, "After reading this episode, realized that Juliet really does truly love him." Even so, Jack's flash-forward revolves around Kate. We're sworn to secrecy but will let slip that fans of "Jate" are in for a long-awaited happy twist of events.

5) Coming attractions: The return of ageless Other Richard Alpert (Nestor Carbonell). A trek to Jacob's cabin. In the future, Hurley imparting a chilling message from Charlie to Jack. Christian Shephard reaching out to both (!) of his children.

6) The producers' ambitions for the season finale were so epic, they had to ask ABC for an additional hour (Part 1 airs May 15; the second and third hours will air May 29). "All we can say is, at the end of May 15, viewers will be left wondering how the hell in two hours are the Oceanic 6 all going to be together and off the island?" executive producer Damon Lindelof says. But get off they will. And as a result, expect Lost to be a whole new ball game — again — when it returns for Season 5.

What do you think to them?

What I expect to happen in The Shape Of Things To Come

2008-04-20T21:23:00.003+01:00

Real time

- Ben will try and influence the Smoke Monster in to saving Alex and killing off a lot of Freighters
- Richard is the one on the phone being safely off Island calling Ben to tell him "CODE 14-J"
- We will see Others moving around in the jungle
- Juliet will try and detach herself from Jack
- Jack will then fall ill after being poisoned by one of the Freighters (Poisoned his bottle of water or something)

Flashforward

- Ben will recruit Sayid at Nadia's funeral to come and work for him to pay back for what he's done (On and off Island)
- We'll be unsure as to whether it's a Ben or Sayid episode at first
- We'll have a "...What?" moment at the end of the flash

Two good friends

2008-04-20T20:01:00.002+01:00

Two friends of mine have recently been inspired to create Lost blogs of their own. Whether I played a part in their decisions or not, I don't know, but please do pay them a visit if you have the time.

Finding Desmond Hume

Finding Lost

The Shape Of Things To Come Sneak Peek

2008-04-20T19:59:00.001+01:00

You might have already seen it, but just in case it's here on my blog too. Expect episode discussion from me on Friday afternoon when I get round to seeing it.

THEORY: Daniel Faraday has Savant Syndrome

2008-04-09T21:12:00.004+01:00

I have a new theory about Daniel Faraday. Initially, I thought that Dan was simply suffering from memory loss, and severe emotional/mental problems.

However, after discussing the autistic spectrum and certain degrees of autism/savants I fully believe that Daniel Faraday has Savant Syndrome. For those who would like a more detailed explanation, please visit Wikipedia. For those that are happy to listen to me ramble on about what it is, please proceed. Having a savant skill does not necessarily make you autistic. Some cases of being savant are on the autistic spectrum but not all. If you have a savant skill you excel in one area expidentially, but you struggle with everything else. Savants are in no means geniuses, though there have been savants who are. Savants may be able to, for example, work out how to send a mouse's conciousness backwards or forwards in time using mathematical equations, but would find it hard to hold a conversation, or to get themselves dressed in the morning.

Savants, similarly to autistic people, need care. As Confirmed Dead's enhanced episode revealed to us, Daniel's caretaker was the woman standing behind him. I believe this woman to be Charlotte Lewis. Charlotte & Daniel have hardly been apart since meeting after the initial travel to The Island. Below are a few more instances that help to back up my theory.

- Daniel & Charlotte play a card memory game in an episode, and Charlotte encourages him afterwards as a person looking after a savant/autistic person would.
- Daniel states that he is not in charge of the packing. He would not be able to pack the items correctly, because he would not have very good spatial dexterity
- Charlotte tells Dan 'You can do this' when in The Tempest and shows encouragment once again
- When Daniel is in The Tempest, he is struggling to enter the correct sequence because he needed Charlotte's help to do it

Daniel excels at mathematical and scientific equations, though he is still astounded by other scientific things outside his area of understanding, such as the scattering of the light on The Island.

So what do you think? Obviously this is just a brief overall view of the theory, but please do comment.

This theory is also now posted at DarkUFO's site.

ABC Teleconference

2008-04-06T22:25:00.006+01:00

Discuss Lost with Damon & Carlton.

PLEASE JOIN US FOR A TELECONFERENCE WITH DAMON LINDELOF AND CARLTON CUSE, EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS OF ABC'S "LOST"

WHAT: Teleconference call to discuss the April 24th return of "Lost," airing on the ABC Television Network WHEN: Thursday, April 17 at 10:30 a.m., PT/1:30 p.m., ET WHO: Damon Lindelof, co-creator/executive producer; Carlton Cuse, executive producer, "Lost" CALL INFO: Conference Telephone Number: (719) 325-4817 Confirmation Code: 4002580 Title: Damon Lindelof/Carlton Cuse - "Lost" Please plan to dial in 5-10 minutes prior to the scheduled start time. Replay Number: (719) 457-0820 Replay Passcode: 4002580 PLEASE R.S.V.P. TO ABC Media Relations: Jeff Fordis (818) 460-6676, jeffrey.a.fordis@abc.com
ABC Media Relations Contact:
Jeff Fordis (818) 460-6676, jeffrey.a.fordis@abc.com

PLEASE JOIN US FOR A TELECONFERENCE WITH DAMON LINDELOF AND CARLTON CUSE, EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS OF ABC'S "LOST"

WHAT: Teleconference call to discuss the April 24th return of "Lost," airing on the ABC Television Network

WHEN: Thursday, April 17 at 10:30 a.m., PT/1:30 p.m., ET

WHO: Damon Lindelof, co-creator/executive producer; Carlton Cuse, executive producer, "Lost"

CALL INFO: Conference Telephone Number: (719) 325-4817
Confirmation Code: 4002580
Title: Damon Lindelof/Carlton Cuse - "Lost"
Please plan to dial in 5-10 minutes prior to the scheduled start time.

Replay Number: (719) 457-0820
Replay Passcode: 4002580

PLEASE R.S.V.P. TO
ABC Media Relations: Jeff Fordis (818) 460-6676, jeffrey.a.fordis@abc.com

ABC Media Relations Contact:

Jeff Fordis (818) 460-6676, jeffrey.a.fordis@abc.com

I tried to send off an e-mail a few days back and here's the reply.

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"Fordis, Jeffrey A"

2 Apr (4 days ago)

MyName:

This conference is for US domestic press. I'm sure Disney-ABC International will be doing something on their own with Damon and Carlton in the near future.

Jeff

If anyone else wants to try and listen in for us fellow Losties, then please do.

HOAX: Lost script leaked?

2008-04-02T13:19:00.005+01:00

A page from the apparent final episode of season four has been leaked, and here it is below:

This was an early April Fool's apparently. Oh well.

Source: PickUpFlix

SPOILER: Claire is in danger/The Kiss

2008-04-02T12:30:00.004+01:00

Some news comes to us from Ausiello this afternoon. I know he isn't always the most reliable source, but at the moment, I'll take any Lost tidbits.

Question: What's this I'm hearing about a major kiss in Lost's season finale? — David

Ausiello: More like a "spectacular kiss" — Damon Lindelof's words, not mine. In the new issue of Lost magazine, DL teased, "Romance is always blooming on and off the island. And I hereby promise you one of the most spectacular kisses you've ever seen on the show in this year's finale." Naturally, I pressed DL's partner in crime, Carlton Cuse, for further details on the earth-shattering smooch, to which he replied, "I can disclose no more details other than to say it's one of my favorite moments of the whole series so far. And contrary to some speculation, it is a male/female kiss." OK, so it's not Mr. Friendly and his little Rent Boy. Who does that leave? Oh, right: Pretty much every other couple on the frakkin' show! Damn you, Team Darlton!

Question: I love Lost, but is Claire ever going to get Charlie's letter and ring? — Rhiannon

Ausiello: The only thing I know for sure is that Claire is in significant danger in this season's Episode 9.

Fanpop

2008-04-01T23:24:00.002+01:00

Not that I want to encourage you to visit other Lost websites, but of course we all do. I visit a site named Fanpop, where I regularly create polls, and here are two of favourites. Please do answer if you join Fanpop, or answer in the comments here.

23 Days to go

2008-04-01T23:17:00.002+01:00

So, fellow Losties, what are you up to whilst you await Lost's return?

Myself, I'm kicking back and watching My Name Is Earl and having a few drinks. Happy days. :-)

Theory: The Monster is the Dahaka

2008-04-01T22:53:00.005+01:00

DISCLAIMER: This post and the one below it are not April Fool's. Bad timing I guess.

It may sound crazy, but this is a theory that me and my Lost friends discuss regularly and could see happening. Don't worry, it's only brief, but please feel free to discuss it.

If you've ever played Prince Of Persia: Warrior Within, you will know what the Dahaka is. If not, hopefully I can explain it well. The Dahaka acts as a guardian of the timeline, and only appears if something has gone wrong with it and then tries to correct it. During the time of the first new Prince Of Persia game, The Prince messes up the timeline by making himself have the Dagger Of Time before he actually has it on the real timeline in order to undo the mess he caused, but there are still strands of fate and time that are left and the Dahaka then manifests and tries to destroy The Prince to rectify it.

The Monster also operates on a similar system. The Monster is an embodiment of fate much like the Dahaka ensuring that the universe course corrects and that the timeline flows as it should. Some examples can be seen, such as where The Monster does not initially kill Eko for he still has a purpose to serve for The Monster but after Eko tells Yemi (who has been confirmed as The Monster) that he is not sorry for the things he has done this causes the timeline to be interrupted, and the way to correct it is by taking Eko out of the equation.

There are a lot more parts to this theory, but see what you think so far. There are some holes I know, but it's better than a lot of the theories I hear.

The Beggining Of The End Sneak Peeks

2008-01-26T10:50:00.000Z

Thanks to DarkUFO for these sneak peeks. No spoilers in comments please.

Season Four Clue

2008-01-03T02:45:00.000Z

That's the clue from the Find 815 clue hunt. Any Americans want to call it?

Chapter One Clue Hunt

2008-01-03T02:33:00.001Z

There's a new part of Find 815 up. Can you find all the clues?

Sam Thomas has some interesting friends

2008-01-03T01:03:00.000Z

Sam appears to have some very interesting friends on Facebook. This would seem to confirm that the Tracey R we have learned of via e-mail is Tracey Rob. But why is Sam friends with Paul Artisan, the detective from Bad Twin, who had brushes with the Widmore Corporation? Theories below if you want.

Fly Oceanic Air Secrets

2008-01-02T23:41:00.001Z

Fly Oceanic Air

Fly Oceanic Air's source code has some secrets hidden in the comments. Above is a capture highlighting the words and possible anagrams for them.

Mobisode 8 - Buried Secrets

2008-01-02T23:05:00.000Z

Thanks to my fellow Lost blogger, DarkUFO, for these mobisodes, and transcript Susan and also video Susan.

Mobisode 7 - Artz and Crafts

2008-01-02T23:02:00.000Z

Thanks to my fellow Lost blogger, DarkUFO, for these mobisodes, and transcript Susan and also video Susan.

Mobisode 6 - Room 23

2008-01-02T22:51:00.000Z