SEASON 6 Recaps

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Previously on LOST:   [6.06 - "Sundown" Recap Here] Oh my — things were not so good when we last left our losties.  LA_X:  Sayid visited Nadia.  Turns out she’s his sister-in-law (whoops!).  He flip-flopped around before finally crossing over to the dark side and killing Martin Keamy (for extorting/beating up his brother, Omar). He finds/rescues “No English” Jin.  TEMPLE:  Sayid flip-flopped around before finally crossing over to the dark side killing Dogen and Uber-Hippie (dumping them in the spring).  Clairuso crossed the line with Mock Locke’s message: “Join me or die.”  Kate returned to the temple and confessed to Clairuso.  Smokey attacked at sundown. Illana and Co. appeared outta nowhere, retrieved Miles and escaped just in the nick of time.  When the dust settled, Sayid, Clairuso and Kate stepped over the dead (who chose not to “join”) and followed Mock Locke away from the temple.

EXTREME WEIRDNESS TO WATCH FOR:  Okay, remember those patterns of white lights I’ve mentioned before?  I said they almost look like constellations? I didn’t mention that? Well, there have been instances of unusual and repeating patterns of STATIC dots or white, star-like dots, or whatever’s handy: manhole covers at an LA intersection, Ana Lucia’s shooting practice pattern – stuff like that.  So far in Season 6, these patterns are 1) becoming more and more frequent and obvious and 2) clearly mean something important.  Why? BECAUSE, with VERY few exceptions, THEY ARE ALL CREATED DIGITALLY and INSERTED POST-PRODUCTION.

I’m mentioning this now because these patterns/”constellations” occur a LOT during this episode (LA_X and On-Island), and I’ll be noting when and where I see them.  Sometimes they are hidden (like at night in the jungle) and sometimes they are NOT hidden.  And NO. I do not think these patterns actually represent constellations – that’s just what they LOOK like.  My best guess is that they are some kind of code because, although I’ve seen more than one pattern, the same pattern seems to repeat around certain characters.  The best name I could come up with them was Dot Code (because I KNOW if I stay “constellation,” everyone will start freaking out.  FYI:  The ONLY stars we EVER see on the island are in the sky at the Oceanic 815 CRASH SITE—and guess what? Even those stars are oddly and carefully manipulated).

New term to remember:  DOT CODE

Okay. Let’s go.

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Begin Episode 6.07

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JUNGLE

[NOTE: The last time we saw Ben he was fleeing the pool room.]

A terrified Ben barrels through the dark.  He looks back and runs faster. He trips and lands spread-eagle. He raises up and gasps, looking even MORE terrified for a moment.

Weirdness alert: camera movement here could be interpreted as something unseen, low to the ground closing in on him OR as if HE is moving closer to where the POV of the camera (“us”) originates.  What I think has happened here is that Ben has hit a “barrier,” and, after falling down, crosses through it, like moving from one bubble to another.  It works like this: one moment he’s on THAT side of the barrier – whoosh move by camera (with appropriate gasp and terrified expression on Ben’s face during the transition)  — then he’s on THIS side of the barrier – where Illana and co. are.  Ask yourself: Illana and co. are walking PARALLEL to Ben with LOTS of firelight.  Why couldn’t he see them until after this moment? Why couldn’t they hear him before this moment?

If you put THIS 10 sec sequence together with other pieces of the puzzle, like:

• “Smokey’s POV island tour” sequence in “The Substitute” (right before Mock Locke cuts Richard down from the tree),
• How Jack and Hurley end up at the caves and find the lighthouse in “the Lighthouse”

with

• Jin’s fainting spell,
• The “red shirts,”
• The “constants” (like Shannon’s inhaler),
• The underground temple wall weirdness (when they carry Sayid in on a stretcher),
• The temple’s layout weirdness and
• Clairuso’s crossing the line of ash action for Mock Locke –

Put all of those things together and maybe toss in, say, the island weirdness we’ve seen since Jacob died, and the more extensive island weirdness now that Dogen is dead, you’ll soon see that Season 6 has already spelled out EXACTLY:

• What the island is,
• How it works “geographically,”
• Jacob’s and Dogen’s JOBS on the island,
• What Mock Locke is up to,
• What Jacob and Dogen are up to,
• Why NO ONE’S gonna end up replacing Jacob, and
• Why Mock Locke’s plan won’t work in the end.

[Cool, right?]

This would be why I’m so irked when fans bitch and moan about Season 6.  Team LOST just told us what the ISLAND IS!  Why are they complaining about it?!! ACK!

WHOA!  We got way off track there!  Let’s try that again.  [RESET!  HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!]

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