Lost 6.05: Lighthouse: First Thoughts

I am completely giddy over this explanation of the numbers. Giddy. That was the coolest. Now, why was the mirror on Jack’s childhood house? Surely we are to assume it literally was showing the house back in the 70s/80s rather than showing the house as it currently sits. I assume Jacob would want to illustrate to Jack that Jack’s been watched since childhood to “understand how important he is.” But surely it doesn’t always show the same time periods, and instead the time the mirror shows can also be changed. Does Jacob have control over any of that (when/where it shows)? In addition, was it showing Timeline 1 or Timeline 2? Could it show either, or any number of options?

Speaking of numbers again, who is 108? It probably doesn’t matter. Jacob would certainly know that Jack would insist on checking out his own name and 108 would never get looked at. A quick search shows that “Wallace” was crossed out on the 108 slot. (This name was probably actually here more for fans to look up than for Jack to.) Would be interesting to see what is shown in the mirror if a crossed-out slot is chosen. Will have to check out the remaining names later. Jack’s, in both the cave and on the wheel, looks new, which could just be prop issues. But it does make me wonder if there are only 360 names in all of history or if names get replaced, meaning Jack is 23 because previous 23s have already failed or become Jacob (if that’s really what candidacy means).

Jack’s son. Another fantastic sideways story. Though, sure, it’s pretty typical dad/son stuff, I loved seeing Jack as a father, getting to heal the wounds his father gave him, trying to correct those mistakes but really just do the best he can. Of course, one wonders if Sarah was the mother and if Jack still is divorced. He is still so much more mellow, so what changed in his life to make him this way? Not a lot, but just enough, it looks like. I like that he’s still a bit of a wired freak about things, I mean, he did bust an ancient mirror that reflects the past or something. They are playing the personality differences with subtlety in most cases and it feels smooth and accurate. You might never be a completely different person if certain things changed, but maybe you’d be a little better version of yourself. Which is clearly what Jack has managed in his life “after” the Island.

Alice in Wonderland again! Of course, we are to get lots of things from this. White Rabbit was the season 1 episode that mirrored this one most, and it was referenced several times (he followed his father’s ghost to the caves and water to discover the coffin was empty), but also Jack read Alice to Aaron in Timeline 1. And of course, Jack has always been referenced as the Alice character in this show, combined with the Looking Glass hatch and white rabbits and time issues and big ol’ holes to fall down…well, now we have the metaphorical Looking Glass world in Timeline 2, and a literal Looking Glass world through the mirror. I will have to do even more reading of Alice just for the hell of it.

Claire. Both Christian and Locke have lied to her about Aaron. Wait! She said “that’s my friend,” referring to Flocke walking in. But Smokey only recently took Locke’s form, not long enough ago to have even seen her. So she recognizes that he’s actually Smokey in whatever form he is? Earlier she said “my father and my friend,” which implies she does not think her father is Smokey. Which implies that her father is NOT Smokey. Which supports the Legion of Entities theory. Interesting.

She totally brutally axes a dude in the chest! That was awesome!

OK, she’s clearly Claire, at least as much as Sayid is Sayid and a little more than Smokey is Locke, and her story is that they really did take her to the Temple for a little dip (curious about how that came about) and poke test, which she also failed. How did she get away? Does that mean Danielle was ever taken there for the same thing? And was the same entity in Danielle now with Claire? The parallels with their stories are of course purposely similar. If the same being claims her that claimed Danielle…interesting. Have always had the theory that the Island can only hold a certain number of souls, and once we learned about the rivalry, wondered if Smokey must eliminate new ones and Jacob replace as old ones die, etc.

Speaking of Smokey eliminating… well, grr….. I have to go!

Added: I kept trying to think of what the tic-tac-toe game was getting at, and I’m so stupid! Today someone was talking and said “stalemate” and my brain clicked! LOL god, the eternal stalemate that is tic-tac-toe with two halfway intelligent people…

More to say later, hopefully, thinking about Jacob still, his “white”ness is doubtful to me…