My goodness! How old is Richard Alpert, anyway? So he has been watching Locke all his life. One thing that this tells me is that whoever has been manipulating everyone to be on flight 815 knew that it would crash on the island, and that these people would survive.
Matthew Abaddon, the orderly, was also interested in Locke (he advised Locke to go on a 'Walkabout'). Abaddon appears to work for Widmore, so Alpert and Abaddon are not working together (unless Abaddon is a spy, working for the others). With these guys pestering Locke all his life, it's no wonder he thinks he has some destiny.
We also saw that Locke has had a fascination with knifes since he was a child. I wonder which object he was supposed to recognize as belonging to him.
In the cabin, Christian looked pretty darn real to me. I still wonder whether he is really dead. Of course, if he was alive, how could he convince Claire to leave Aaron in the woods like that? As a ghost, perhaps he is manipulating her supernaturally or something...
Am I going to have to go back and figure out whose side each minor character is on now? Alpert is with Jacob, Abaddon is with Widmore(?), Christian Shephard is with Jacob, Libby is with Widmore, Kelvin Inman is with Widmore (Kelvin is the one who taught Sayid to torture, and Desmond to push the button). This is one big chess game between Jacob and Widmore, and I don't know who to root for.
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- Locke - Both Alpert and Abaddonhave been watching Locke for a long time, presumably because of the time traveling he was doing. Abaddon seems to be working for Widmore, as he is the one who hired Naomi, Faraday, Lapidus, Miles, and Charlotte. Abaddon convinced Locke to go to Australia on a walk-about, which ultimately got him on flight 815.
- Jack Sheppard - I have to wonder if Christian, Jacks father, already had some affiliation to the Island, seeing as he is standing in as proxy for Jacob lately. Part of Dharma involved medical advancements, and we have seen that some people on the Island seem to heal extremely fast. When the Sarah, woman who would become Jacks wife, was in an accident, Jack was able to miraculously heal her. I wonder if Christian, with the help of Island resources, played a hand in that.
- Claire Littleton - Claire is Christian Sheppard's daughter. Again, Christian seems to be important to the Island somehow. Her son, Aaron, may be important too, if the psychic is to be believed. One thought, though: Did the psychic get Claire on flight 815 so she would have to be the one to raise Aaron, or did he use the pregnance as an excuse to get Claire to the Island? In sort, who needed to be on the Island, Aaron or Claire?
- Hurley - When Hurley was in the hospital, there was another patient, Lenny, who kept repeating the numbers. Hurley picked up on those number, and won the lottery with them. That put him on someones radar. My theory is that when Lenny's obsession with the numbers is discovered, Libby is hired by Widmore to go undercover as a patient in the hospital (Widmore is desparetly trying to find the Island, and the numbers are his only lead). Then, perhaps as a separate initiative, Widmore somehow rigs the lottery to come up with the Islands number, to flush out some other lead. When Hurley wins with those numbers, Libby is then tasked with trailing Hurley....
- Kate - Kate's step-father is in the military. He served in Iraq with Inman (the man who taught Sayid to torture, and Desmond to push the button). Does this make her important, too, somehow?
- Jin and Sun - Jin was sent by his father-in-law on a mission to deliver a watch. Is Sun's father working with someone involved in the Island? Who was the watch to be delivered to? Widmore? Was the watch even significant, or was it just a ruse to get Jin and Sun on the flight?
- Sawyer - I'm grasping at straws here. Locke is important to the Island. Locke's father was a con man, and he destroyed Sawyers family. Sawyer eventually grows to emulate him. One of his marks, the one who has his baby, bumped into Kate once. Somehow this all puts him o the radar. They are not sure if he is important, but better safe than sorry, so they get him on Oceanic 815.
- Michael and Walt - Did someone from the Island cause Walt's mother to die, so that Michael would go to Australia to get Walt? And was Walt really more than the Others expected, or did they have other plans for him? Plans that he has yet to fulfill?
- Charley - Charley is an innocent bystander. He did meet Desmond in England, when Desmond first started time traveling. As a musician, he was able to figure out how to turn off the radio jammer, but he was supposed to be dead by then, so the Oceanic Six were not supposed to get off the Island. My guess is that the Island didn't want him there, but he worked in Widmores favor.
- Boone and Shannon - Shannon's father was killed in the same crash that injured Sarah, Jacks' future wife. Might Jack have been able to save him if he didn't concentrate on treating Sarah?
- Anna Lucia - Innocent bystander. She was with Christian in Australia.
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Sorry for not participating lately. If more than a couple days go by, I forget all the details! But I sure appreciate reading yours and Andy's comments, Roy. I don't know everyone's name (as I just don't catch them and/or retain them), so I appreciate you clarifying who you're referring to. thanks.
I really enjoyed this episode. As usual, I mostly have questions, but given the episode was a whole week ago, no one will probably (bother to) have answers.
We had seen Alpert at the same age in an earlier episode when Ben was a boy. John isn't much older than Ben, is he? Richard never changes. It'll be interesting to find out what he is. We haven't seen him in the present for quite a while, have we?
How did John know that Ben was the person who put all the dead bodies in the ditch?
Was the mother of the family that John was with at age five the same unwed mother who gave birth to him? I don't remember if he was raised in a foster family or not.
Did you catch the picture of the smoke monster that John drew as a small boy? I, too, wonder what object he was supposed to pick. He chose a jar (of what?), the compass and the knife. I don't remember what the other articles were. One was a book, but I couldn't catch the title.
Here we/I thought most/all of John's problems stemmed from his unresolved issue with his biological father. Who knew all kinds of people have been --cking with him all his life?!
Ben looked very concerned when John found the map in the pocket of Horace's corpse. Any significance to that? He seems to be quite resigned to handing over the leadership of the island to John ("my time is over"). No more dreams. It explains why Ben's off the island in the future. What is he agitating for once he's off the island, I wonder?
I can't stand that a--hole on the boat who's the leader of the bad guys. Everything about him is yukky.
Yeah, the whole deal with Christian is weird. I can't figure it out. Maybe more clues tonight. Although I'm out all evening so won't be able to watch it, probably until Sunday. I look forward to your comments, Roy and Andy.
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