LaFleur

I guess I missed the mark. My assumption that Locke jumped forward in time along with the other islanders was based on the assumption that all the islanders would jump pretty much together, and that Ben was singled out not to join them because the Island rejected him. Also, that Locke did not wake up in a smashed coffin, but standing in the water. However, that does not appear to be the case. It looks like Ben, Locke, and the pilot, Frank, at least, did not jump. As for Sun and Sayid, we still don’t know. Did they jump, and land somewhere separated from Jack, Kate, and Hurley? Or did they crash with the plane. Ben was warned by Mrs. Hawking that if everyone did not return together, the results would be unpredictable. Perhaps Locke will need to leave again, to come back with the rest.

Whatever it was that was killing pregnant women when Juliet was brought to the Island, apparently hasn’t started happening yet. It must have something to do with “the event” that was mentioned in the training film in season 2.

So now Alpert has met with Locke and Sawyer in the past. He sure does keep his secrets, doesn’t he? It appears that he was the others leader in the ‘50’s, and is still their leader in ’74. And yet Widmore claims to have been their leader once, and Ben eventually becomes their leader. And yet Alpert is still around in 2003. I wonder why he is so cool about it. His will be an interesting story, I think…

An observation about timing. When Locke turned the wheel, it sent the rest of his gang back to 1974 (I believe that’s what I heard someone say), and it sent Lock off the Island, and 3 years into his future (although, at the point that he turned the wheel, it was probably thousands of years in to the future, because his friends were looking at the four toed statue). This conveniently catches everyone up, because the Oceanic Six have been off the Island for 3 years, so now everyone with the correct age, relationally.

I usually don’t rewatch the previous weeks episode, but this time I did. And I caught something that I missed last week. When Locke met with Walt, Walt told him of a dream he was having. That Locke was on the Island, in a suit, surrounded by people who wanted to hurt him. At the beginning of the show (after the crash), someone reports to Ceasar that they found a man who no one remembered seeing on the plane, standing in the water, wearing a suit. Sounds ominous.