Lost 4.1 – The weekly round up

(spoilers below)

I’m going to go out on a limb and say that if you don’t like Lost you don’t really like TV. Or good storytelling. And probably not comics either. And if that’s the case…well why are you here?

Lost 4.1 had pretty much everything a show should have – great acting, plot developments, good character moments for most of the cast (not a lot for Jin or Juliet) and a lot of good stuff in Hurley’s flash forward which, for those keeping track revealed a couple of things…

1. Six people – the ‘Oceanic Six’ got off the island. We know Jack, Kate and Hurley…and Sun would appear a likely choice, so who else made it? Jin? Sayid?
2. The rest of the world seem to think only six people survived the crash. And that secret would appear to have torn the Oceanic Six apart.
3. Jack’s drinking – and appearance and insistence that they’re never going back to the island pretty much confirm that this is before last season’s finale’s flash forward.
4. When Charlie comes back from the dead, he comes back as a rock star. Awesome. Charlie knows that Hurley needs to go back- because ‘They need you’.
5. Someone wants to know if ‘they’re still alive’ – could it be the remnants of Dharma? More likely that he’s a remnant of the Others as this alleged lawyer’s name is Matthew Abaddon…which is an anagram for ‘What Bad Boatman’, not to mention that Abaddon is Hebrew for destruction.
6. Hurley shouldn’t have chosen Locke over Jack.

There’s something else – notice that John Terry was on the credits, and yet Christian Shepherd didn’t appear? Jacob, however, who Hurley glimpsed briefly through a window, did and he certainly looks familiar. As for the eye of the other person in the cabin, well that looks awfuLockey familiar too.

But wait, if Christian Shepherd is Jacob (and suddenly some of those names are making sense) then how has he been on the island for that long? After all, it was apparently Christian that sent Vincent to wake Jack back in Episode 1.1 - despite being dead at the time – meaning that the Christian that Jack saw on the island may not have been a hallucination.

Of course, lots of things have seen people on the island – Christian, Kate’s horse, Eko’s brother, Hurley’s imaginary friend and Locke’s Walt to name a few – and I thought these were the smoke monster. Does this mean that Jacob is the smoke monster, and he simply appears in forms people will know? If so, why was he appearing as Christian when talking to Locke?

There is a simpler solution, of course. The biblical Jacob had a twin, Esau – so could Jacob be Christian’s twin? There was after all that Lost novel a few years ago that was meant to be thematically linked to the show…

See, this is why I love Lost – no other show makes you theorize, google and think as much as it does.

One episode down, seven to go this season, forty-seven in total.

Scans from Lost Cubit and DVD Talk.

Tags: Lost, TV-Archived

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