Way back at Comic-Con the Season 6 poster was blurrily revealed. It’s a picture of all the main characters of Lost standing in a row with Locke in the center. There was a some confusion and debate about who exactly was in the poster. Well we now have a better quality version of that same poster. It’s still not good quality, but we can see who all the characters are.
So here it is:
From DarkUFO.
First of all I should say SPOILER ALERT. I personally don’t think that anything that happens at Comic-Con is a spoiler but some people do. So you’ve been warned.
Secondly, you should probably check out these videos from Comic-Con:
Now on to the analysis:
If one wants to remain completely untainted by spoilers of Season 6, official or otherwise, then don’t read ahead.
The Comic-Con 09 panel was posted on Saturday. Here are the other official videos that were shown at Comic-Con.
Exactly six months ago Anon, a frequent commenter, posted a large-ish Annie theory on my blog. In the last six months many things have changed, so she revised here theory and sent it to me again.
Hold on to your hats everyone, this theory is a doozy (it’s actually more like a screenplay):
After Daniel’s death I got the inkling of a theory: The Island appears to be killing the people who were born on it. We know that the Island stops letting women give birth on the Island after a certain point, but it now seems as though it’s doing some retroactive killing.
Think about it, we know of six people born on the Island; Ethan, Daniel, Charlotte, Miles, Alex, and Aaron. Out of those 6 only 2 are alive right now. And if you recall Claire made sure that Aaron wasn’t brought back to the Island. That leaves only Miles. So the big question is, when will Miles die? When I was writing my revlysis for The Variable I came to that same conclusion, that Miles was going to die, for different reasons.
This also calls into question what will happen to the Third Party if this theory is true, and the members of that group were born on the Island. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if Bram and Ilana knew that they had signed up for a suicide mission, they’re the type of people who would happily die as martyrs. That kinda leads me to my another theory, I think that Ilana and Bram are trying to find Jughead to do what Daniel couldn’t, blow up the Island.
- izi
Mwahahahaha (evil laugh). This is episode was very good for me. I want many things in the show to happen but I rarely get to see them. This episode had a plethora of good stuff for me.
Ben didn’t kill Penny! This was one of my greatest fears. Since Ben promised to kill Penny at the end of the last season I’ve been severely conflicted about him as a character. I didn’t know if I could go on rooting for Ben if he was going to kill another one of my favorites. But he didn’t succeed! Huzzah.
Also, we saw how Ben took Alex. This was very unexpected, I wanted to see this scene, but it didn’t seem likely after Danielle’s episode came and went. I hope everyone feels a lot of sympathy towards that woman and her tragic life.
We saw Widmore leave the island. Again I didn’t expect to see this scene, ever.
Alex came back. This one was truly from left field, she came back and with a vengeance. I can’t even describe how happy I was to see her.
Ilana went nuts. I have a slight obsession with this new character, so seeing her go all Screw-Eyes crazy made her all the more intriguing. (Remember “We’re Back” anyone? No? Too bad.)
Ben finally heard about Christian, this was a little anti-climactic, but I’m still waiting for his reaction on this one.
We saw under the Temple! Uh… we saw the Smoke Pit, that was awesome. (Spread that around everyone. Smokey’s house is called the Smoke Pit©.)
Locke confronted Ben. Again, slightly anti-climactic, but at least he’s in control now.
Guess what I’m going to rate an episode about Ben including Smokey, Richard, Widmore, Alex, Rousseau, Penny living and Locke. Go ahead just guess, you’ll probably be right.
Hey, you were right! 10.0/10.0
Last week I wrote about Charles Widmore, discussing wheat we know about him so far and whether he’s good or evil. This week I want to talk about his nemesis, Benjamin Linus. I really suggest you check out Widmore’s page, it’s quite relevant to what I’m talking about today.
I’m going to go through Ben’s actions, as we’ve seen them, and judge him based on what we know. There’s still a lot that we don’t know about the character but I think we have enough to make an informed decision.
I wanted to collect some of the info and suspicions I have regard Rousseau before we find out everything in the next episode. I have always found Rousseau to be terribly interesting, and tomorrow’s episode is a dream come true for me (hopefully).
So here’s where I got all my info, I looked at all the posts I have about Rousseau, and then I went to Lostpedia.
Rousseau’s back story is one of the most enduring mysteries of Lost. It was introduced in the pilot episode and we still only have tiny hints as to what happened.
Montand
The Crew
We know that they followed a transmission from the radio tower in. The transmission was nothing more that The Numbers being repeated over and over. This was hinted at before and confirmed in 504 – The Little Prince. While we’re talking about that, here’s the full translation of what Rousseau and her crew were saying in that episode:
Storm scene
Robert: I told you! We should have never followed those damn numbers.
Montand: It’s not my fault, Robert. Brennan was the one in charge of the sonar.
Brennan: I was watching, Montand! I told you already, the instruments malfunctioned.
Rousseau: There’s a man in the water!
?: What?
?: I thought we were all here!
?: We are all here. He’s not one of us. So, who is he?
Robert: Paddle!
Montand: Paddle! Go!
?: Point the flashlight on him!
?: We must hold the light! Brennan, help us paddling!
?: Come on, hurry up! The stream is moving us!
?: No! It’s just him! There’s no boat, nothing!
?: Leave him! The waves will bring us to the coast.
Brennan: The wind will pass through here!
Female voice: For God’s sake, Brennan, shut up!
?: Come on, take him into the raft.
?: Help me!
?: He’s still breathing!
Robert
Beach scene
Montand: Robert, look. The signal comes from the island!
Robert: Can you find the source?
Montand: Of course I can. Look.
Robert: Do you think the island is inhabited?
Rousseau: Are you OK? How are you feeling?
…
Robert: Who is he?
Montand: Who cares. What is he doing here?
Rousseau: He said he came by boat.
…
Rousseau: Montand, leave him alone! He’s in shock. Do we have water for him?
Robert: Yeah. Here.
Rousseau: Thanks, Robert.
From sl-lost.com
We now have faces for all those names that Rousseau talked about.
After landing on the beach the crew went exploring. At some point they stumbled in the the Dark Territory and the Black Rock. In the Dark Territory Montand loses his arm. Soon after this the rest of the crew starts getting sick. In the end she has to shoot her husband/boyfriend Robert.
At some point she started hearing The Whispers on the island. If my new Whispers theory is true then that could mean that she gets near the other survivors. According to that theory, if she was near them she wouldn’t see them she’d only hear the Whispers.
Brennan
After hearing the Whispers, watching her crew die and killing Robert Rousseau goes to the transmission tower to record her own message. While trying to find exactly what she was saying I stumbled onto this page on Lostpedia. Apparently Rousseau recorded multiple messages. I don’t know if this is all canon, but it’s very interesting either way:
Iteration 17294530 : “If anybody can hear this, they are dead. Please help us. I’ll try to make it to the Black Rock. It [or he] killed them. It [or he] killed them all.”
Iteration 17294531 : “It [or he] is outside. It [or he] is outside and Brennan took the keys. Please help us. They are dead. They are all dead. Help us. They are dead.”
Iteration 17294532 : “It [or he] is outside. It [or he] is outside and Brennan took the keys. Please help us. They are dead. They are all dead. Help us. They are dead.”
Iteration 17294533 : “They are all dead. Help us. They are dead. If anybody can hear this-”
Iteration 17294534 : “It [or he] is outside. Please help us. Please help us !”
Iteration 17294535 : “If anybody can hear this, I’ll try to make it to the Black Rock. Please help us ! They are all dead. They are dead. It [or he] killed them. It [or he] killed them all. I’ll try to make it to the Black Rock.”
This was on the season 1 DVDs, and since there is a Brennan with the crew in season 5 I tend to believe that it’s real.
The OthersSo that’s about it for her crew. I wouldn’t be surprised if that was all we saw in this next episode. That is a lot of stuff to happen. But it isn’t the end of Rousseau’s story. If we are lucky we’ll get to see what happens when The Others, Ben in particular, kidnap Alex.
Also it would be nice to see how Rousseau survives The Purge. She lands on the island in 1988, and The Purge happens in 1992. Kinda strange.
JinOne of the biggest questions from that last episode was, how could Rousseau meet Jin way back in the day and not recognize him later. I think the answer is quite simple, she went crazy. After watching all the episodes again I really noticed how insane she really was, I used to hope that it was just the trauma getting to her, but that can’t explain all of her crazy actions.
-Montand losing his arm
-Whispers (or our survivors)
-Danielle removing the firing pin from Robert’s gun
-Brennan getting some keys
-The Black Rock
-Others (I still find it hard to believe that she didn’t see them)
-Mikhail (Rousseau insisted that she hadn’t met him, but I don’t believe her)
-Smokey (Rousseau said she doesn’t believe in monsters)
- izi
Review:This episode is insano. This only the second Ben episode and already his episodes are the best. No one else has such informative flashbacks/forwards, and no one is in the middle of things like Ben. It’s hard to believe that he is just a supporting character.
On to the episode. This episode has completely different interpretations now that season 4 is done. Ben’s flashback is suddenly logical and understandable. Now that we know exactly what preceded this flashforward we can understand his actions.
As for the actions on the island…well there is too much to say. Ben controlling Smokey, Alex dying, Claire “dying”, Sayid coming under Ben’s control, Daniel lying, Jack nearly “dying”, Ben conversing with Mr. Whidmore; it was so much insanity that it’s hard to keep track of it all. I don’t want to go too deeply into it here (keep reading if you want to see me go too deeply into it) but I just want to say that this episode will likely be the basis for many more storylines in the future.
10.0/10.0
Review:I like the format of this episode, very little B-story, all Michael. They did add a beginning and an end, but I believe that they were afterthoughts following the writers strike.
This episode was primarily about Michael and what happened to him after he left the island. Surprisingly it wasn’t all rainbows and happiness. He suffered just as much off the island as he did on it. And for the second time he submitted to Ben. All in all it was a good flashback. It really reminded me of Three Minutes, the season 2 episode. It seems like the writers like to tell Michael stories all at once rather than slowly revealing them.
But that wasn’t really what I cared about in this episode. The craziest thing to happen in this episode had nothing to do with Michael, it was Rousseau and Karl getting shot. That shocked me to my core. I really didn’t see it coming and I am still surprised that it actually happened. These deaths along with Alex’s death are what made season 3 shocking.
8.5/10.0
Not Confused Just Lost
