Had a great call after the We ReWatch Wednesday with Erin, Chad, Niel, Kecia, Stefani, Jess and Jessa. Give it a listen and leave us a comment on what you liked, disliked, agreed disagreed, what we can do to make it different and better.

Directlink: [We Talk About LOST - Dr. Linus]

So many great arcs last night, that I don’t quite know where to start.  Just a very well done episode.  I hope you had a chance to read my loooong prehash on Dr. Linus, because there were so many parallels alluded to in Dr. Linus that just made the whole thing amazing to watch the both times I watched it last night.  It’s also good too be back with the majority on initial reactions, after being in bizzaro land the last couple of episodes, everyone seems to be cheery on the first episode of the second act.  Okay, lets get on with some illuminating thoughts.

justice is truth in action

Seeing Ben flee terrorized in the jungle was fitting, Sayid’s darkness was in part because of Ben’s manipulations, and seeing the monster in his eyes completed Ben’s descent to his lowest point.  Ben happening upon Team Illana in the jungle was a happy coincidence, and joining in and recommending the beach as a sanctuary was just where we wanted them to go.  Ben’s old habits rear up when Illana, knowing that the monster couldn’t kill Jacob, immediately caught Ben in his lie.  Truth cut to the bone when Illana gave Miles Jacob’s ashes and Miles exposed that Ben not only killed Locke (as he admitted when they buried him) but also Jacob himself.

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This post is brought to you by the letter P and the number 15. Since my LOST attention deficit disorder is kicking into high on LOST day, I thought I’d share some possibilities and pointers.  These aren’t theories, per se, because when I theorize I wax entirely too long and snorey, so these will be precise and to the point. Possibly.

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Well, here we are starting the second trimester of the birth of the final episode of LOST. What does that have to do with anything? To be determined. (Just keeping my options open)  I appreciate the feedback I’ve gotten on my pre-hashes on twitter, and dashed off some homework for people wanting to rewatch some episodes prior to episode 7 of season 6, titled according to my Verizon TV guide, Dr. Linus.  Again this post is spoiler free, I haven’t seen or read any, I just caught a glimpse of the sneak peak that ABC posted on their site, and I’ll claim the @DonaldJr exemption that the show isn’t a spoiler.  I won’t dish on what the sneak peek shows here, I’ll leave it to each or your tolerance for what’s to come.

So here’s my list of episodes that were worth reviewing for what appears to be a Benjamin Linus episode:

• Man Behind the Curtain 3-20
• Shape of Things to Come 4-9
• Dead is Dead 5-12

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first a word from the great awakening

The devil stands ready to fall upon them, and seize them as his own, at what moment God shall permit him. They belong to him; he has their souls in his possession, and under his dominion. The Scripture represents them as his goods (Luke 11:21). The devils watch them; they are ever by them at their right hand; they stand waiting for them, like greedy hungry lions that see their prey, and expect to have it, but are for the present kept back. If God should withdraw his hand, by which they are restrained, they would in one moment fly upon their poor souls. The old serpent is gaping for them; hell opens its mouth wide to receive them; and if God should permit it, they would be hastily swallowed up and lost. – Jonanthan Edwards – Sinners in the hands of an Angry God

This also harkens back to my LOSTalypse a couple weeks back when we first saw the ‘smokie-cam’ and we got a look at Smokie trying to recruit Sawyer.  While with Sawyer, I got more of a Johnny playing fiddle vibe.  I mean sure, Smokie is a good con man, but Sawyer is like Johnny on the fiddle when it comes to playing the game.

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Back in the pilot, John Locke explained the game of backgammon to the shorter boy Walt (as opposed to the taller ghost Walt) as a game with two players, one light and one dark. While Backgammon as a metaphor of a game between two sides is appropriate, I’m going to attempt to demonstrate that the sport of curing relates to LOST much more than the the casual observer may expect. Before going deep, you’ll need a bit of history of my Curling fetish/obsession.  I first watched curling in the 2002 Winter Olympics, this was a couple of years before LOST started, and I was fascinated by the game, it made completely no sense at first, but I got the idea that the simple rules of the game were consistent allowing for varied game play.  I’ve learned more about the game every four years thanks to late night curling events that are televised.  It’s often described as a game of chess on ice, and bears resemblance to several other games like shuffle board or darts, billiards, but is nothing like them.

So to sum up so far: Curling – fascinating to watch, really difficult to understand. You can forget the rest of this series if you can’t see any resemblance to LOST.  If you sniff a hint of smoke in that first clue, I ask kindly that you continue this quest with me in future posts.

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When your navigating a boat celestially, using the stars, there are a few observations of the sun that are helpful in finding your position on earth.  Finding local apparent noon (the point where the sun in the highest in the sky) can easily give you a line of latitude.  The times of sunrise and sunset can help you with orientation and checking your timepiece.  Looking for the green flash at sunset was one of the neat things to do while observing sunset.  That is unless your vision is obscured by a big black cloud.  So, let’s talk about LOST Sundown.

This was Sayid centric, and we have some clues and answers we want about this claiming, and infection that’s been plaguing Sayid.  You know what they say, be careful what you wish for.  I think the entire episode, perhaps even series can be summed up with one line:

We had an unfortunate incident involving a boomerang

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Okay, I put out some homework tweets yesterday, because Doc Jensen is apparently changing his policy, stand by to read his column later today to find out his new diabolical scheme.  Speaking of Doc he and Dan Snierson teamed up for a fantabulous Lighthouse Commentary on ABC.com (which seemed might familiar to WFTB tweetup, so should I take credit for the idea? Yell at me in the comments.)

So last week, I theorized that the next few episodes would follow along the path laid down from Season 1 with a Jin/Sun centric episode, followed by Charlie, then Sayid, then Sawyer.  Well you can tell Raj Koothrappali to hit the buzzer button on his wonderful shirt, because it appears I’m dead wrong.  I don’t watch or listen to spoilers, but from the synopsis posted for the episode we’re going to bunny hop over our favorite Korean couple and the hobbit rock god, and go right for the republican guard torture person, who is seemingly infected.

But before we get to homework and my speculations from past episodes, let’s do a little recap of who’s where on the island

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More “veil lifting” or rabbit chasing thoughts from the much maligned Lighthouse, which brought on near toddler tantrum in some critics, while other are being more patient still waiting for answers.  Leaves me wondering, what show have they been watching?

the best answer to an either or question is neither, or both

LOST is best when it’s answering questions with more questions, so I’m not surprised that the revelations they’ve been feeding us have been with another dose of mystery and intrigue.  If you’re watching LOST to get the answer of Fate v. Free Will or Science v. Faith, I’m gonna tell you know, any answers you get to these questions are going to come from your own mind, while you stare out at the ocean for a while. 

Same, in my opinion, with questions like what do the numbers mean.  They’ll love to toss us around in the internets chasing rabbits of whimsy.  We’re never gonna get any clearer an answer than the numbers are an association between a name and a bearing on the lighthouse Mirror of Erised. They’ll not continue down the path of why those numbers were imprinted on the hatch map, spoken in the transmission heard by Lenny, picked up my Hurley, played to win the Lottery, entered into the computer, etc.  They are at best a wonderful misdirection focusing our attention on something that Must. Mean. Something.

Don’t we all do that, cling to something that we think is very important, and only to find that it’s the height of trivia, and self-indulgence.  Like, for instance, some people get totally immersed in a silly television show, tracking the romantic connections, and the behind the scenes shenanigans and plots of subterfuge. I’m talking about Dallas, of course, LOST is completely different!

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Here is the shoe… Thanks to Erin (@Loster21) and Liz (@LizUrso) for joining and answering my question and putting up with my blabbering.  Next time I’m taking @nelly061’s advice and letting them talk more and me less.

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We’d love more callers, and more feedback. We all LOVED (like ugly gushing of hearty hearts) Lighthouse, and totally don’t get the rest of the internets hating on Jackers. So we’re challenging you haters to come on and tell us we’re wrong. If no one shows, we’re claiming victory.

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An off the cuff review/analysis of last night’s episode Lighthouse in the tradition of Subtitutionary thoughts.  Illumination, because it goes with a lighthouse, and I don’t know how long this will last as it depends on episode titles and it appears that we’re not gonna get teased with more for a little while. 

I quite enjoyed last night’s episode, watching once by myself and my sons, then later with my wife and my younger daughter (who was up because she was sick).  The feedback I got from chat room and twitter was generally positive, but not quite the satisfaction of The Substitute.  It’s odd, as I wasn’t blown away from last week’s, but LOVED this week’s.  Such is the fan-verse.

The rest of this post contains spoilers if you haven’t watched the episode.  These are my thoughts and observations, more will be added in later posts as I consume podcasts and recaps and reviews later when I write my LOSTalypse post.

Some of my observations:

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Did you do your homework?  What you didn’t know that Professor Jensen assigns homework, pft, and you call yourself a LOSTie?  Well, here at LOSTblog we do the homework and then draft out a little crib sheet to help you study up for the next episode.  (ed – this is the first prehash post. nevermind, just read ok?)  So here are some observations I’ve made about White Rabbit and All The Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues.

Wait! before we deep dive, we need to review.  The track so far in Season 6 has been trekking along with Season 1, What Kate Does fits along Kate’s arc started in Tabula Rasa.  The Substitute is along the same path of Walkabout.  We’re expecting that the X-time story will pick up threads left along the trail of White Rabbit and giving us a Jack sidestory.   We’ll see how long this trend continues, but I think along with my theory of the first 6-7 episodes being a combining of the threads left over from the last season, we should have Sun/Jin next, followed by Charlie, Sayid and then Sawyer, then release the hounds as far as X-time stories go, which will probably be an arc towards convergence, at least if my post LA_X thoughts hold up.

Okay, now in review, X-time we’re ready to pick up Jack’s story and the missing casket in LA, while the story on island will be tracking with the Templars, and probably take up the thread of Clairesseau after she captures Jin.  I’d be surprised if we saw Smokey and Sawyer this time, I’d expect more temple preparations for the war, and following Jack on a trek somewhere.  Note: I wrote that before reading the plot summary online.  I won’t leak it here for those squeamish with the slightest of spoilers.

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I say pshaw! to Jeff “Doc” Jensen and his awesome, yet flawed, allusion to Huey Lewis and the News as a soundtrack to LOST.  While I agree with Dan Snierson that ‘Fore’ isn’t even spelled right, and I love Rush, he’s also sadly mistaken.  I’ve said it before, and I’ll restate it here, The Spine (released in 2004) has my vote for the Unofficial Soundtrack of LOST.

While the unofficial tome of LOST greatness is indubitably LOSTpedia, I will be quoting seriously from the unofficial tome of TMBG (four letters compared to 19 letters) greatness, This Might Be a Wiki.

Before diving into the deep unsettling greatness of The Spine, I’m gonna settle in with TMBG’s 2008 release of Here Come the 123’s.  It’s masked as an album for kids, helping with numbers and math, very Schoolhouse Rock-esque with a punk back beat.  Two tracks come to mind, Apartment Four and  Figure Eight. The lyric “Just follow the sound, That’s where the four is found” reminds me of the smoke monster sound, and who is the smoke monster? Locke.  What’s his number? 4. I could close the case right here, n’est pas?  Continuing the theme, Figure Eight is a homage to the number eight, that when tilted to the side, or skated on the ice is the figure of infinity, repeating forever, loopy.  Remind you of a little game between say, number four (Locke, Smoke Monster, MiB) and his nemesis Jacob, the guy that sends his calling card (the Ankh, symbol of eternal life) in a guitar case with Hugo Hurley Reyes, who’s number is… 8.

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I missed making this post last week, and the week before, but to refresh yourself on my plans read my first post here. The point of the LOSTalypse series is to “lift the veil” and some call outs to what I’m seeing as a general peering of truth through my own lens. This post and all posts of the series assume you’re up to date with your LOST watching.  So if you haven’t watched The Substitute, then go do that, now.

what Kate does is care for Claire and Aaron

Before diving deep into the Locke centric episode, I want to quickly rehash the Kate episode.  The X-time shifted events touch on something that Kate has done since the beginning of the show.  She’s always been a helper to Claire, and then even more specifically to Aaron.  She took care of Claire when she passed out from dehydration in White Rabbit, she helped Claire through her nightmares, she tracked Claire when she was kidnapped by Ethan, and she was there at Claire’s side when she gave birth to Aaron.  When Claire went MIA in Season 4, Kate stepped up to become Aaron’s primary care giver.  Her whole character arc is twisted around Jack’s half-sister and her progeny.  So while we skipped past any mention of Claire or Kate last episode, I’m preparing myself for a Claire/Kate confrontation this next episode.

smokie prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour

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