So, back to the genie theory, right? Maybe MIB feels Jacob tricked him into taking the place of the previous djinn, who MIB freed to get his mother or wife or someone back, or for much more selfish reasons… Other things: Jacob says everyone else who came there is dead. Who are the Others? Did [...]

As prompted by Matt doing an impression of Jeannie… Is it equally as legitimate to ascribe magic to ancients as to god as to gods as to witches as to genies and so on? The smoke monster sure is looking like he wants to escape his bottle. He sure makes a lot of implied promises. [...]

“I am the smoke thing.” RAWR! I’m going to be honest. What the hell was going on last night? Trying to sort out the true intentions of each character is rough. Everyone’s the smoke monster, morphing into whatever is needed to get to the next level. We may not know until the deeds are done, [...]

OK, here are some not-so-short thoughts on tonight’s viewings. First, more thoughts about Jacob/MIB and what their purposes are. As this latest round of popups reminded us, Widmore wanted Locke back on the Island to make sure the right side won. In that same conversation, he named Locke “Jeremy Bentham.” When we found out his [...]

OK, ug. This is an embarrassingly short gathering of quick questions and thoughts about last week’s episode, just so I can say I wrote something at all. No theories really, just chunder. I will totally do better this episode! Can MIB take over bodies, before Locke’s, that were candidates? He could have gotten off Island [...]

I feel I must give further explanation. There’s just too much stuff. It’s become so overwhelming to even know where to begin sticking in pins. Do I bother lining out some parallels from previous episodes (Sayid kills Dogen and Lennon, similar to Michael killing Ana Lucia and Libby)? Or do I focus on things I [...]

Yes, I know I’ve not posted. My thoughts were aaaalllll over the place and I never could find a moment to make them coherent enough to actually write anything. I don’t see any problem with just not posting for an episode. This is my blog and I’ll do what I want! Shut up!

OK, I lied. A bit more random thoughts… The MIB/Christian thing has been bothering me. When Claire first explains to Jin that her father and her friend told her so, I heard it as “my father AND my friend.” That led to me thinking that this was the indicator that the two existed simultaneously and [...]

Timelines. Clearly the two timelines are having some influence over each other. I don’t know how that can be explained, especially since they are 3 years apart (I know, *that’s* the problem with the idea of parallel universes or split timelines). If they were both in 2004 and happening at the same “time” where they [...]

A few more things thinking about today: Why did Jacob have Hurley write everything down? I need to see a transcript of his arm. Didn’t seem like that difficult to do what he had to. Was it just one of those fun comments from the writers about how Lost fanatics are? Curious about Jacob’s knowledge [...]