Cuddly Pet...or Ravenous Beast?

Character Predictions: Smokie

We’ve seen the Smoke Monster chase and scan the living, kill, and take the form of the dead, but we’ve yet to discern a motive for the being’s behavior. We’ve been told by Rousseau and Ben that the Smoke Monster is a “security system,” though we’ve also seen the monster unable to pass the electromagnetic barrier surrounding the Dharma Initiative housing. It seems logical to conclude that the Dharma Initiative built the barrier as security against the security system, which would point to the Smoke Monster’s purpose being to protect the island from those who do not belong there, or do not respect it. However, if its purpose is to protect the island from outsiders, why does it continue to go after the people Jacob brought to the island? Perhaps the Smoke Monster is acting on the side of Jacob’s nemesis? Or perhaps the Smoke Monster is Jacob’s nemesis himself?

The coming war for the island will send multiple groups up in arms, but it is still unknown where the Smoke Monster’s loyalties lie. The fact that Ben has some control over it — that he can summon it at will — coupled with the fact that Jacob has paid no mind to Ben could be proof that the monster is working against Jacob. If this is the case, however, why does the monster never attack the Others, a group who has pledged loyalty to Jacob?

The monster’s secondary purpose seems to be judgment. It judged Eko, scanning his thoughts and memories, later to appear to him as his dead brother in an attempt to make Eko admit his sins and repent. When Eko would not concede the monster thrashed at him until he too was dead. It also took Rousseau’s crew, though it left them alive and changed, and almost caught Locke, Kate, Juliet, Jack, Sawyer and others throughout the course of the series. The monster most recently judged Ben in much the same way it judged Eko, but coming to a more favorable outcome. Ben gave in to the monster out of fear when it appeared as his daughter, Alex, and agreed to its demands: to do exactly what Locke tells him. This is more evidence that the Smoke Monster is on the side of Jacob’s nemesis. It could be possible the Others are not harmed by the monster the way the Losties and the Freighter people were because they had tamed the Smoke Monster. Maybe it was Jacob who helped them tame it, which is why he commands so much respect and fear.

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Is Claire Dead?

Claire’s Story

Over the course of seasons one through five of LOST we’ve watched the characters follow paths to enlightenment, revelation, depression, or their fatal end, though we do not yet know where each character’s development will take them.

We’ve most recently followed the Oceanic Six through their adventures with the Dharma Losties, but several other characters were not featured in season five of LOST, leaving Claire as the main cast member currently shrouded in the most mystery.

Claire began her journey by attempting to do what she felt was best for everyone. She planned to give up her fatherless baby for adoption, even at the warning of a fake psychic who warned Claire not to let her baby be “raised by another” (or “an Other,” as some theorized early in the series). She got on Oceanic flight 815 anyway, L.A.-bound in order to meet the family that was supposed to adopt her baby. Unfortunately, when the plane crashed on the Island, she was forced to have her baby there. But through the help of Charlie and other Losties she seemed to take a liking to being a mother. The downside was constantly having to protect her son from kidnappers, though she herself was eventually taken and left with no memory of the ordeal.

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Hello Lost Blog readers! We wanted to give all our faithful readers a heads up on a new weekly column that will start tomorrow. Each week, LostBlog.com writer QuothTheRavings will break down a character’s backstory and project how that charcter’s role will play out in Season 6. What happened to Claire? Was Ben really just a pawn? Will Jack come to grips with his daddy issues? Is Evil-Locke really evil? Stay tuned each week for Lost Blog’s character projections. Remember, you heard it here first!