Lost 6.01/6.02: LA X, Part 5

Good lord, tomorrow is Lost already and I barely had time to say anything about it! The surface of the looking glass has barely been scratched! The main problem I know I’m having is this compulsion to spend this season differently than the previous ones: just sit back and watch with unabashed awe rather than try to pick apart every scene and figure out where they are going with things. At this point, there’s almost no point in theorizing too much; the answers will be given within a couple of episodes. I’m so trained to see things from that long view, that what is said on the show is mysterious and may mean several things that will be revealed over the next few seasons. But that’s not where we are anymore. Now they are saying Yes and No to everything and it’s difficult to get my head out of that old way of thinking. I still think a Yes could mean many things when it no longer has time to mean anything except Yes! (Flocke is the Smoke Monster. That is a Yes.) In addition, I’d super super hate to analyze enough to actually GUESS what’s going to happen. Seriously, I don’t want to know. I, like many many other dedicated Lost followers, am trying to avoid any significant spoilers this season. I want to be surprised.

Ok, enough talking about my headspace. Since I’m not actually going to learn anything from all that rambling and am, instead, going to continue doing what I’m already doing, here are a few more things…

When I say “Flocke = Moses” I only mean they stole this part of the story from this old story, and maybe within that story are more clues. Jacob’s name has always sprouted theories for what direction that character might go, especially him deceiving Isaac to win the birthright, wrestling with the angel, being named Israel (Moses connection to leading the Israelites out of Egypt), the Jacob/Rachel story, his final son being named Benjamin (Rachel dying while giving birth), favorite son Joseph, blahblahblah…

What is Ben up to? Why did he lie to Richard, saying Jacob was fine, everything was fine, Locke wants to talk to you? I guess he could still be in “Alex told me to” mode, but he has to have the impression at this point that likely Flocke was actually Alex, right? So he would know Flocke told him to do everything Locke says. So he should be thinking Richard’s a good guy to have on your side under this circumstance, so why lie and possibly send him to his death (unless you believe that will score you points)? So at this point, as still in shock as he is, is he just not thinking clearly or has he started forming a plan? I haven’t thought about this much, but I do still think he’s floored by the process. I think we are seeing a Ben without a plan. My reasoning is this: His expression after he strung up Locke was one of sincerity. And He never thought Locke would resurrect, as he admitted to Sun. He gained nothing from telling her that. But I do think Ben is a habitual weasel. He’ll be back in the game real quick. I can see that one might interpret Ben/Jacob as maybe having this plan together, and what a twist it would be, because they would have definitely pulled the handmade tapestry over MIB’s eyes, but Jacob’s sadness seemed real (although his acceptance of stabbage, not so much) and his discussion with Hurley seemed like he was worried. And again, making things too convoluted might not be the way to go in a final season of a show already this complicated. Not that I think that would be all that complicated to do…so hm…maybe. Argh, getting too tired to keep arguing with myself. Finish it yourself!

I saw somewhere someone pointed out Desmond was wearing a wedding ring on the plane. Well, that means very little. Ages are all confusing on this show, since most of the actors are like 10 years older than the characters they’re playing, but my point is that it would be hard to know when Penny was supposed to have been born. If Dan is a 1977er, which is what they are getting at, and if Penny is supposed to be older than that, then Widmore got some off-Island chick pregnant before he got Ellie pregnant, which could be one of the reasons for their falling out. Speaking of which, I had this whole thing about how their falling out occurred, how she is the leader and Widmore is just with her because he believes the Island should be his, he really is a bad guy, etc. But who knows if they’ll even be able to get into much of that with so few hours left. Ug. I hope so! Anyway, Penny could be alive if he already had her or if the Island sinks much later. But even so, would Penny and Desmond be drawn together if her father isn’t some rich industrialist? I think we are seeing evidence on this plane ride that Yes, the same people are drawn to the same people anyway. I think yes, the Universe would bring them together somehow.

The water isn’t clear = the murkiness of Ellie’s Ajira plan; no one knows what’s going to happen.

Trust in the absurd, Dark Tower hub/beams/realities, “anthropomorphic shadow”/”diminished man,” the elements: water, air, fire, earth…

Keep going over the ripple effect idea, that things you do in your future can have echoes even to your past, hence our people can remember or act on things that haven’t happened yet (Locke may ‘know’ as a child about Smokey or which item is “his,” Charlie is aware of his necessary death because in some future it is written, Jack is cooler now because he learns to be cooler through this process). Oh, and I never mentioned the whole Spock-McCoy/Horcrux idea mom and I discussed about Jacob saving himself by putting a part of himself in each of the people he touched.

And lastly for now, Darlton have said that MIB wants OFF THE ISLAND. And a Smoke Monster loose in the real world…well, think about that for a bit. I’m frakkin’ sleepy.