LOST thoughts, Allie-style
Jan. 26th, 2009 12:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alliecat8Y'all know me, right? I can't ever talk about something coherently -- whether it's a vacation or a tv show -- right after it happens. I have to mull it over first, and then what comes out are a bunch of impressions and theories and wtf's. I think I've finally sorta mostly gotten my head around the Lost season premiere and I'm ready to talk about it...hopefully somebody will wanna talk about it with me. So here goes.
Here be theories, questions, and thoughts of much randomness, but no spoilers beyond the premiere.
Why haven't I heard this mentioned anywhere? Granted, I haven't been to the message boards, but if anybody on LJ noticed this, I didn't hear about it. LOOK at this guy!
Look familiar? Is this Sawyer's body double? Are they gonna go there, with everybody having a "twin" back in the past, maybe with the Dharma group? Or did they just throw this guy in there to mess with our minds, just in case some weirdo like me noticed? I also noticed that he's wearing a wedding ring. Hmmmm. Just what has past-life Sawyer been up to?
Speaking of Sawyer (and when am I *not* speaking of Sawyer???), when Jack told Ben why he needed to go back so bad, the first thing he thought of was Sawyer. If he doesn't go back, Sawyer will die. Oh, and Juliet and the others, too, but I LOVE it that the first name on his lips was Sawyer's. Maybe Jack has finally learned to appreciate his friend. Absence makes the heart grow fonder, right?
Now about Kate and that blood test. I've heard lots of wild theories about how it's the Dharma people, or Widmore's people, or Ben's people (whoever they are), but maybe there's a simpler answer. When Claire's mother introduced herself to Jack, Kate was standing there holding baby Aaron. What if Claire's mother -- who was in Australia, remember -- heard (from Mullen, maybe?) that Kate wasn't six months pregnant when the plane went down. Or what if she had sense enough to notice that "Kate's" baby was WAY older than the 5-week-old Kate said he was. What if she got suspicious that "Kate's" baby might in fact be Claire's? It'd make sense, then, that she'd want a blood test. As for why it took her 3 years, well, this is Lost. Who knows? But if she loved Christian, maybe she wants to know and/or raise his grandchild; her dead daughter's son. It could be nothing more sinister than that...although this is Lost, so I'm probably nuts for trying to simplify anything.
I'm afraid that Desmond is going to be their loose cannon. Apparently Daniel's "street" analogy doesn't apply to Desmond. Daniel says that they can go forward and backward on the street, but it's impossible for them to make a new street -- meaning that although they can visit other times, they can't re-write either the past or the future. With Desmond, however, it seems to be possible to re-write time. Island!Desmond had never met Daniel before, but then Daniel DID meet him in the past, and suddenly Desmond remembers it. By Daniel's analogy, they made a new street. So Desmond is "special." Now, what if something happens in his life that he can't bear? What if Penny dies (perhaps in childbirth; haven't we seen her giving birth in the previews?) and Desmond can't stand it. Can he create a new "street" -- a new timeline in which Penny *doesn't* die?
What effect would that have? Well, if everything that happens influences everything else, it would create a "butterfly effect" -- if a butterfly flaps its wings in China, it might set off a chain reaction that causes a tsunami in the Pacific. Like dominos falling, the lives of everyone we know on Lost could change. Maybe Sawyer's father didn't kill his mother and himself. Maybe Kate didn't kill her father. Maybe Jack didn't take up for Marc on the playground. What if Locke didn't give Cooper his kidney? And so on and so on. Suddenly the people we "know" could become people we don't know at all. The ramifications blow my mind.
And then there's Locke. Remember when Locke said that Boone was a "sacrifice" the island demanded? Now Richard is telling him that he, Locke, will have to die. Now Locke is a sacrifice the island demands. I keep hearing what Duckett whispered to Sawyer, "It'll come back around."
Oh, my brain hurts but I'm a glutton for punishment; I've missed my hurty brain so bad! I LOVE MY SHOW!!!!! Is it Wednesday yet????????????????
Here be theories, questions, and thoughts of much randomness, but no spoilers beyond the premiere.
Why haven't I heard this mentioned anywhere? Granted, I haven't been to the message boards, but if anybody on LJ noticed this, I didn't hear about it. LOOK at this guy!
Look familiar? Is this Sawyer's body double? Are they gonna go there, with everybody having a "twin" back in the past, maybe with the Dharma group? Or did they just throw this guy in there to mess with our minds, just in case some weirdo like me noticed? I also noticed that he's wearing a wedding ring. Hmmmm. Just what has past-life Sawyer been up to?
Speaking of Sawyer (and when am I *not* speaking of Sawyer???), when Jack told Ben why he needed to go back so bad, the first thing he thought of was Sawyer. If he doesn't go back, Sawyer will die. Oh, and Juliet and the others, too, but I LOVE it that the first name on his lips was Sawyer's. Maybe Jack has finally learned to appreciate his friend. Absence makes the heart grow fonder, right?
Now about Kate and that blood test. I've heard lots of wild theories about how it's the Dharma people, or Widmore's people, or Ben's people (whoever they are), but maybe there's a simpler answer. When Claire's mother introduced herself to Jack, Kate was standing there holding baby Aaron. What if Claire's mother -- who was in Australia, remember -- heard (from Mullen, maybe?) that Kate wasn't six months pregnant when the plane went down. Or what if she had sense enough to notice that "Kate's" baby was WAY older than the 5-week-old Kate said he was. What if she got suspicious that "Kate's" baby might in fact be Claire's? It'd make sense, then, that she'd want a blood test. As for why it took her 3 years, well, this is Lost. Who knows? But if she loved Christian, maybe she wants to know and/or raise his grandchild; her dead daughter's son. It could be nothing more sinister than that...although this is Lost, so I'm probably nuts for trying to simplify anything.
I'm afraid that Desmond is going to be their loose cannon. Apparently Daniel's "street" analogy doesn't apply to Desmond. Daniel says that they can go forward and backward on the street, but it's impossible for them to make a new street -- meaning that although they can visit other times, they can't re-write either the past or the future. With Desmond, however, it seems to be possible to re-write time. Island!Desmond had never met Daniel before, but then Daniel DID meet him in the past, and suddenly Desmond remembers it. By Daniel's analogy, they made a new street. So Desmond is "special." Now, what if something happens in his life that he can't bear? What if Penny dies (perhaps in childbirth; haven't we seen her giving birth in the previews?) and Desmond can't stand it. Can he create a new "street" -- a new timeline in which Penny *doesn't* die?
What effect would that have? Well, if everything that happens influences everything else, it would create a "butterfly effect" -- if a butterfly flaps its wings in China, it might set off a chain reaction that causes a tsunami in the Pacific. Like dominos falling, the lives of everyone we know on Lost could change. Maybe Sawyer's father didn't kill his mother and himself. Maybe Kate didn't kill her father. Maybe Jack didn't take up for Marc on the playground. What if Locke didn't give Cooper his kidney? And so on and so on. Suddenly the people we "know" could become people we don't know at all. The ramifications blow my mind.
And then there's Locke. Remember when Locke said that Boone was a "sacrifice" the island demanded? Now Richard is telling him that he, Locke, will have to die. Now Locke is a sacrifice the island demands. I keep hearing what Duckett whispered to Sawyer, "It'll come back around."
Oh, my brain hurts but I'm a glutton for punishment; I've missed my hurty brain so bad! I LOVE MY SHOW!!!!! Is it Wednesday yet????????????????
