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):
If you’ve been reading my blog then you probably already know what I’m going to say. But let’s get on with it.
Over the last few months I’ve wrote a few Good vs. Evil posts on some the more mysterious characters. I’ve analyzed Christian Shepard, Ben Linus and Charles Widmore. In the future I’m going to write one about Jacob, but I’m delaying that one until we know more about him.
On to Ellie. We hardly knew her before this season. But this season has been all about Eloise Hawking, so let’s start overanalyzing.
Lost is making me feel uncomfortable. That’s not normal, mostly I just get a thrill out of the twists, now it’s just hurting me.
Here’s the thing, I’ve had strong, permanent views about many characters in this show:
This episode made me rethink all of those things, and it wasn’t fun. I get that the shows winding down, but shouldn’t that mean that our group should be regrouping, banding together. Suddenly I have to choose a side, Jack or Kate, Locke or Jacob, Sawyer or The Island. These conflicts are hurting me.
And Daniel is still dead.
The conclusion I’ve reached is this, I didn’t like this episode, but this was a setup episode for the finale. I usually dislike these episodes until after I see the finale, at which point the setup seemed genius. But right now I’m left thinking back on an episode that had Sayid return, Daniel dead and Richard acting confused. These aren’t good things.
6.0/10.0 (It’s only above five in anticipation of the next episode.
By the way: If that was a Richard-centric episode then I am left wanting more.
I started getting very worried at about the halfway mark of this episode. By that point it was clear that the flashbacks were going to cover Daniel’s whole life and solve every mystery about him. The writers only do that when they are about to kill the character, examples: Shannon, Charlie, and Locke.
The writers had a rough time with this one. They knew that we liked the character, and they knew that it would look like they were going to kill him. First they gave him that superficial neck wound. That lulled us into a false sense of security, we though ‘hey, Daniel’s OK, he’s not going to get killed in an ironic and tragic way!’ Unfortunately we were wrong.
The writers also attempted to offset the death by pretending that Desmond was going to die. That was just a cheap shot. Desmond was my first favorite character on the show. After season 4 I downgraded him since he got his happy ending. Daniel became my favorite. In this episode they made us think that Desmond was going to die. They tried to balance our grief over Daniel’s death by giving us relief because of Desmond’s recovery. It wasn’t enough.
I don’t usually complain about Lost, it’s a great show, the best show on the air, but I’m going to do it tonight. Don’t take it too seriously. I’ll get over Daniel’s death, but at the moment I’m pissed. If there’s one thing we learned from Heroes it’s that the original stars aren’t necessarily the best characters. The Lost writers keep on killing the new characters they introduce. First Libby and Ana Lucia, that was uncalled for and still angrifying. Then Eko, I didn’t really care about this one, but it still serves to illustrate my point. And then Nikki and Paulo, I’ll give them that one, they were badly introduced and generally hated. Then Alex and Karl, these ones were at least guest stars, they were in a dangerous position. Then Charlotte, then Caesar, then Abbadon (again a guest-star), and now Daniel. If they have no intention of fully using these character then don’t introduce them, don’t write good characters. Or… better yet, don’t kill them. The only safe addition to the cast is Ben. Juliet and Miles beware. The original stars aren’t that good, I’d take Daniel, Charlotte, Miles, Libby, Ana Lucia even Nikki and Paulo over any of the original stars, especially ones like Jin, Sun, Sayid, Claire, Kate and Jack.
Despite all my bitterness I still have to admit that this episode was very well written and amazingly answer-filled. 9.5/10.0
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
It’s the Morpheus episode! Remember in The Matrix Reloaded, when they were leaving the Merovingian’s house Morpheus says, “Whatever happened, happened, and couldn’t have happened any other way”. It’s true. This episode hopefully cleared up all that talk about separate timelines and paradoxes that came up after Sayid shot Ben. (This was also almost an episode of ER, final episode on tonight. A tear.)
This episode also answered more burning questions about Kate. This is one of the first times I’ve been so eager to have a Kate episode since we saw “What Kate Did”. There was a lot of misdirection in this episode, but we finally got to see what Kate did with Aaron, and we got to see Kate’s reunion with Cassidy. As you may or may not know, I was hoping (futilely) that Kate would leave Aaron with Cassidy. I was wrong (how unusual).
This episode also proved a few other very useful things in regards to the love square. Juliet and Jack will never have a future, Sawyer doesn’t think that he will have a future with Kate, Kate doesn’t think she came back to the island for Sawyer, and Kate and Juliet are now very similar and can work well together. We also learned that the new and improved Jack still has the ability to be a douche.
But back to the time travel business. I really hope that this episode cleared everything up for you skeptics.
As for Ben’s storyline, It was glorious to have him go to The Hostiles. There’s still a huge blank in his life that we haven’t learned about, but it’s cool to see more of his origins. And we got a slight glimpse into The Hostiles. Richard is almost in charge but apparently he has Ms. Hawking and Mr. Widmore watching over his shoulder.
I really enjoyed this episode, it didn’t have much mythology and it centered on Kate, but it really delivered. 8.5/10.0
We’re back, with a bang. The episode started off from Frank’s perspective, we got to see the plane crash land on The Others’ handy little landing strip. It wasn’t nearly as catastrophic as the 815 crash, fortunately. That “modern” storyline focused on Sun. She conned Ben (for no reason) and made it to NewOtherton with Frank. She met Christian there and he told her that Jin was stuck in 1977 with Jack, Hurley and Kate. This explains what happened to Frank after the plane crashed but it raises a huge question: Why didn’t Sun get flashed into the 70s?
Meanwhile in 1977 Sawyer scrambles and saves the day. He successfully sneaks Kate, Jack and Hurley into “Dharmaville” with the new recruits. Unfortunately Sayid acts too much like a Hostile and is now a prisoner. Sawyer establishes himself as a very good leader and does a great job at showing Jack that. There’s also a slight focus on Jin searching the island for the plane hoping to find Sun.
Some of the more interesting tidbits in this episode:
That’s a mighty good list of interesting things. This episode mostly focused on the reunion of the two groups. It had a little bit of Christian and a few teases for some other episodes, Daniel, Ethan, Ben; all in all it was satisfying. I prefer episodes with more mythological development (as if you don’t know that) but I can’t discount the episode completely. 7.5/10.0
Anybody surprised by Sawliet? It’s not the couple that shocks me, it was the whole “I love you” thing. I didn’t expect them to be so serious. And it’s nice that Sawyer swore off Kate, but I think that might have just been a setup for some internal struggle. [sigh..]
So they’re stuck in Dharma times. 1974-1977, I hope we get flashbacks during that large gap. What we got tonight was a great setup for a fun little era. The Dharma era on the island isn’t the most unknown of the islands mysteries, but it’s a large span and we can be sure that a lot will happen. A lot already did happen, we got to see the dynamic between Dharma and the Hostiles, we saw a few of the Dharma crew at work, and any parts with Horace are fun. I can’t say that I like the new girl, Amy, but maybe when she stops crying I’ll like her more (it’s very unusual that I’m not liking a new character).
But who really cares about Dharma when we got to see the four toed statue in all it’s glory. I don’t want to go too deeply into my theories about it here, skip to the end if that’s all you care about.
This episode was a great example of a setup episode. There have been a lot of setup episodes over the course of the show, and not all of them are good. They seem to postpone the action and excitement until the next episode. This episode has a balanced amount of both setup and story development. 7.5/10.0
I intended to talk about both Ben and Widmore but I had a surprising amount to say about Widmore so we’ll leave it at that.
I enjoy arguing for the “other side”. When I see people assuming one thing I like to argue the other side, not because I believe it, just to add to the discussion. I tend to think that most people believe that Widmore is evil. We’re obviously meant to question that assumption all the time. But in general we see these him do more “evil” acts rather than “good” acts. Let’s try to look at the big picture though.
It might be a stretch to call this a theory. Doc Arzt has created a little list of some of the fun historical moments of the islan that he looks forward to seeing this season. It’s something that I was thinking about recently but I didn’t want to blog about. He gets all the important points and I encourage you to check it out here. Although if it was my list I’d put Rousseau first, and I wouldn’t list the Real Henry Gale, I couldn’t care less about him.
– izi
Not Confused Just Lost 