Better late than never – here are some thoughts about last week’s Lost.

 

* Was Libby stalking Hurley after they both left the institution? Is that why she was on his flight? Did he really step on her foot on the airplane like she said when he told her he looked familiar? 

 

* Libby also heard Leonard mumbling the numbers in the institution…did that result in bad luck for her too?  

 

* Was Libby really sick and/or crazy? Was she employed by Dharma as a clinical psychologist? That may explain her ability to know how to act exactly like a mental patient. Also, she must have noticed the numbers on and in the hatch by now – and note that she hasn’t mentioned them or reacted to them…

 

* Libby was institutionalized for what seemed like a mental illness requiring meds, whereas Hurley seemed to be in a temporary, curable fog. Clearly she doesn’t have her meds on the island, so either she is acting or faking.

 

* If Libby wasn’t a clinical psychologist, then how was she able to hypnotize Claire to help her remember her kidnapping ordeal? Could the treatment Libby received as a patient really have resulted in her ability to do a spot-on impersonation of a psychologist?

 

* Libby told Hurley she’d buried a man with a broken leg. Was it broken before the crash? Were those his crutches that Kate found and gave to Locke?

 

* My only real clue that Libby is indeed still ill/crazy? When she led Hurley off of the cliff at the end of the episode, and he asked her if she thought it was possible to change, she said yes to his face, but her smile quickly dissolved into misery as soon as he looked away.

 

* Hurley has been eating the Dharma packaged food consistently, more so than any of the other survivors. Is the food drugged? Could it be contributing to his delusion?

 

* Dave said the same thing to Hurley that Desmond said to Jack in the stadium after he hurt his ankle running: “See you in another life.” And Nadia’s note on the back of her photo to Sayid also said something similar. What is the connection between these three?

 

* Hurley is yet another survivor who had contributed to someone’s death (the deck collapse) before the crash. He joins Locke, Kate, Jack, Sayid, Ana Lucia, and Sawyer on the list so far.  

 

* Was Henry Gale telling the truth about not entering the numbers? Something tells me he used the computer to contact Walt or the Others instead. Did he tell Locke he didn’t enter them because he wants the survivors to stop entering the numbers for some reason?

 

* Is the magnetic field beneath the hatch directly related to the numbers, blast doors or food drop? Did it contribute to the ‘incident’ that is referred to both in the Orientation film and on the hatch blast door map?

 

* If bearded ‘Other’ Zeke isn’t the HIM that Gale was referring to, then who is?

 

* Is Gale really HIM?

 

* Did Gale orchestrate this entire series of events, from capture to trade? Was he selected to learn more about the survivors? If he is indeed traded for Walt in this week’s episode, then he will return to the Others with key information to expose the weaknesses of the survivors: who’s in charge, power struggles, specific names, etc.

 

* Why didn’t Gale leave when he had the chance? Was he hoping to gather more information and then wait to be traded? 
 
* Right before Sayid was about to shoot him, Gale shouted that he wasn’t a ‘bad person.’ Was he referring to the Others, who only take good people?

* Were Sayid and Ana Lucia playing good cop/bad cop with Gale, or was their interaction real?

* Could the real, deceased Henry Gale have been Desmond’s traveling partner on their race around the world?

 

* This theory is way out there…Henry Gale was the name of Dorothy’s uncle in The Wizard of Oz.  Could the deceased Henry Gale be the uncle of a survivor? Walt, perhaps? 

 

* Looking back at who visited Gale when he was locked down in the hatch…it seems that Sayid, Ana Lucia and Eko all made confessions of sorts, like the makeshift jail cell was a church confessional. 

 

* By the way, if you take the words Henry Gale and Minnesota, you get an anagram for SEE AN OTHER LYING MAN. Remember that Ethan Rom is an anagram for OTHER MAN. Too coincidental…

* When Rosseau originally captured Gale in the net, why didn’t she torture him herself, to find out about her daughter Alex’s whereabouts?

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My theories & questions about last night’s episode:

• Were the supplies dropped via parachute intended for the survivors of flight 815? If so, that means that Dharma (or someone else) knows about their crash and location. Are they being fed to remain alive on the island while unwittingly taking part in an experiment, or being drugged via the food?

• Was the distorted sound coming from the speakers in the hatch a warning system of incoming supplies? Did the hatch doors shut because an alarm was triggered by impending the arrival of the supplies?

• The warning speaker in the hatch is like something you see at a subway station. I believe there is system of underground tunnels somehow connecting all hatches. Remember that in the Pilot episode, Rose mentioned that the monster sounded familiar; that she was from NYC…

• Did all of the other hatches also lock down and receive the same warning?

• If the supplies were indeed dropped…from what? No one heard a plane or helicopter. Was it a stealth military-type plane? Of course, hot air balloons are pretty quiet…

• In Locke’s flashback, as he was standing in the parking lot of the motel, an Oceanic airplane flew by overhead at a very low altitude, but it was almost silent..

• We are assuming that the supplies were dropped. They could have been planted there by the Others.

• Are Dharma supplies dropped from Oceanic planes? Did flight 815 malfunction during a drop, causing it to crash?

• Did the hatch shut down to turn off the electromagnetic fields so it wouldn’t bring the supply plane down? A hot air balloon would not be affected by an electromagnetic field…

• I doubt that entering the numbers is related to the hatch locking down. Why would Dharma design it so that a blast door prevents access to the computer when the hatch locks down?

• In Hurley’s flashback last season, we learn that he first got the infamous numbers from a crazy man. Is it possible that this guy used to deliver supplies to the island, and that the numbers are a request for supplies?  Or did he overhear/intercept a message containing the numbers at some point in his life or career?

• Was the mural on the hatch wall (outside of the blast doors) created by someone who was in the hatch, saw the map when the doors closed, and then tried to recreate it from memory? Or did this person leave the hatch to go explore the island, and update the map upon his return?

• Whoever drew that map was in lockdown for an extended period of time. Did this person know how to make it lockdown on purpose?

• Locke has serious trust issues; he really wanted to trust his dad, and couldn’t. Turned out to be the same way with Henry Gale.

• Is the fake Henry Gale really Kelvin, Desmond’s hatch partner?

• Is the fake Henry Gale related to Bernard? They have similar features.

• Did fake Henry Gale recognize the numbers when Locke repeated them to him? He sure recited them back fast.

• Was fake Henry really knocked out after falling off the shelves trying to get to the vent in the ceiling, or was he faking it to stall? Perhaps he knew exactly what would happen with the computer numbers and/or the lockdown.

• It took Henry some time to return to Locke once the hatch doors reopened. Was he on the computer, in contact with the Others, telling them his location? Or were the Others trying to contact Henry?

• When Helen follows Locke to the motel and confronts his father, she asks “are you him?” That is what Desmond asked Locke the first time they met too.

• Was Helen in on the con with Locke’s dad? It seems too convenient that she was reading the obits and found his father’s name, and that she always shows up to catch Locke in a lie about his dad…

• Locke inspected Nadia’s house. She was Sayid’s girl.

• Is Locke’s dad the real Sawyer, the con man that Island Sawyer was seeking to kill to avenge the death of his parents?

• We haven’t found out how Locke became paralyzed, but I’m sure it had something to do with the two thugs who were after his father. And did Locke ever go back up to the motel room to grab the $200k?

• There must be some significance to Jack being in Thailand…

• Sawyer mentioned being in Tallahassee. That is where Kate was buying a ticket to escape to in one of her flashbacks.

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Here are some thoughts & theories about this week’s epsiode of Lost.

• Sawyer had a pregnancy test among his hoarded supplies, which means that someone else on that flight thought they might be pregnant. The question is this – is it someone who survived the crash? Did Sun have one in her suitcase and was hoping that Sawyer found it? If so, that means she did sleep with her language tutor.

• Was Jin’s procreation power magically restored, like Locke’s legs? Did the crash or the island or the hatch or Dharma have anything to do with it?

• It can’t be coincidence that Sun started to feel the signs of pregnancy right after babysitting Aaron. And I’m not convinced she’s actually pregnant by normal means. Was she injected with something? Those Other scientists certainly have the meds and are seeking children. I also seem to recall that Locke’s mom told him he had no father, that he was an immaculate conception…

• Henry Gale is an Other. Someone did crash a balloon on the island, but not him. He and the Others saw the accident and killed or kidnapped the balloon passengers, and now Gale is using their story. That would explain how he knows the location of the balloon.

• Jack said he couldn’t hear Ana Lucia talking to Gale inside the holding cell  even when he was standing right next to the door, and yet Gale was able to hear Jack and Locke talk quietly further outside that same door? This reinforces my theory that Gale has super hearing powers, which is probably one of the characteristics of the Others.

• How could Gale have known that more than just Ana Lucia went looking for his balloon? He told Jack and Locke that the map he drew could lead to a set up, and then the Others would “trade them for me.”

Random Thought (not related to the latest episode):

• Did Locke know what was going to happen on the island before he boarded the plane? Was he told that the island would somehow cure him if he agreed to oversee a hatch? Was Locke the replacement sent for Desmond? When he first found the hatch in the jungle and couldn’t get it open, he yelled that “It wasn’t supposed to be like this,” like he knew he had to get in there…

 

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I am bummed that Darren Aronofsky isn’t going to be directing an episode of Lost after all (he and fiancé/Oscar winner Rachel Weisz are having a baby any moment now).

 

Because Lost has been a repeat for two weeks in a row, I’ve had plenty of time to ponder the lingering questions that go unanswered from episode to episode, as well as speculate about possible plot points. Here are the first of many, in no particular order:

• Why don’t the castaways ever seem to tell one another about what they discover in the jungle, in the hatches, etc.? There doesn’t seem to be much information sharing going on out there on the island, which seems odd, given that there isn’t much else to do when stranded.

• In the beginning of the first season, Hurley checked the survivors names against the flight manifest to account for all passengers. Why is it that he didn’t do so when they discovered the tail-end survivors weeks later?

• Why did flight attendant Cindy disappear and where did she go? She doesn’t seem like someone the ‘Others’ would be interested in.

• When Sayid first went exploring by himself in season one, he came across a thick black cord running buried in the sand. He tracked it into the jungle, where he first met Rousseau, but never questioned where the other end led. My theory is that there is an underwater hatch, and that cord is somehow providing electricity or power to it.

• Isn’t it a tad coincidental that Hurley would be attracted to a clinical psychologist when he used to be institutionalized? He even comments to Libby that she seems familiar. I’m sure we’ll find out that she worked where he was a patient. Libby is a mystery; perhaps an ‘Other,’ or perhaps just an odd bird.

• When Jack came across his father’s coffin, it was broken but empty. Is his dad still alive and on the island? Is he an ‘Other’ or somehow involved with the Dharma Initiative? Or did the airline send the coffin without the body, because Jack was told at the ticket counter that they couldn’t transport it?

• Clearly Jack’s wife was cheating on him with someone we know. Could it have been Desmond? She used to go running in the morning, just as Jack was returning from working all night at the hospital. And we know how Desmond liked to run…

• Is Claire’s dad involved with Dharma? This is convoluted but try to follow my logic…her dad used to sing “Catch a Falling Star” to her as a child, and she asked the potential adoptive parents to sing it to her baby after they adopt him. That very song played on the airplane mobile above the crib in the medical hatch during the last episode.

• Are Claire’s psychic and the adoptive parents in LA also involved with Dharma?

• Did you notice that the airplanes on the mobile above the crib had Oceanic Air logos on them? Dharma is obviously involved with Oceanic – do they own Oceanic Airlines?

• The guy talking to Ethan outside the baby’s room in the hatch was indeed the supposed leader of the ‘Others,’ Zeke… without the fake beard. But now we know that there is another “Him” in charge, thanks to what Zeke said to Ethan: ‘You were supposed to make the list and then bring her in… Well, what I am I supposed to tell HIM? Do you know what HE’s gonna do when HE finds out?’ Could the HIM they’re referring to be the stranger held captive in the survivor’s hatch, Henry Gale?  

• Was the medical hatch cleared out and abandoned as a result of Claire’s escape, Ethan’s failure to kidnap the right people from the ‘list,’ or an overall fear of ‘HIM?’

• While under Ethan’s care (and drugged at the time), Claire told him she was on her way to LA, as if the plane crash never happened. Perhaps it didn’t, and the whole thing is some kind of Dharma-controlled experiment. Did what occur in Claire’s memory actually happen on the island? Did it happen before she got on the plane? We never actually see how she escapes; we only see her lying in the jungle before the French woman discovers here there.

• Claire took a drink from Ethan’s canteen, much like Jack did from Desmond’s canteen in his flashback. She mentioned that it tasted sour. Is water one of the methods the Dharma folks use to poison and/or drug folks?

• Isn’t it strange that Desmond was injecting himself with the same looking stuff that Ethan was drugging Claire with? Is it medicine to ward off the infection everyone keeps talking about? And if so, why didn’t he seem hazy and discombobulated like her?

• Henry Gale, the captive in the survivors hatch, seems to have super hearing powers, able to overhear Jack and Locke talking through that door (which he said was thin but must be thick enough to keep a man from breaking it down and also support a deadbolt lock). Remember that Ethan also exhibited superhuman qualities when he lifted Charlie with one arm and held him in mid air…

• Henry Gale was the name of Dorothy’s uncle in The Wizard of Oz. And the Wizard himself arrived in Oz via hot air balloon, the very method of transport that this Gale is claiming to have crashed on the island.  Keep in mind that the Wizard also departed Oz in a hot air balloon, so we’ll see what happens with Lost’s Gale.

• Another Wizard of Oz detail relating to Lost…Zeke was the real name of the Cowardly Lion.   

• Is Sun really pregnant, or is she feeling the effects of the “sickness” or “infection?” She was holding the baby while Claire led Kate and Danielle into the jungle. Was Sun was exposed to the sickness/infection by babysitting Aaron? I doubt the producers would add another baby to the mix, although if they stick to their timeline, the baby wouldn’t be due for another few seasons. And why on earth would Sawyer have a pregnancy test among his hoarded supplies? And if a female passenger had packed one…does that mean that one of the other survivors thought they were pregnant or may be pregnant right now?

• Is Mr. Eko building a church? He borrowed a saw and is chopping down trees.

• Wasn’t that the same room where Claire met with her attorney to sign the adoption papers before leaving Australia and Michael met with his attorney to sign over Walt to his ex? That can’t be a coincidence – the same place where 2 survivors essentially gave up their children. And we do know that Dharma collects children…

• The survivors hatch has a magnetic field below – did it have something to do with bringing the plane down? Or why the Black Rock ship is in the middle of the jungle? Does it have something to do with Locke’s ability to walk?

• Locke’s biological father talked about how everyone gets conned. And who is our favorite con man? Sawyer. I hear that there is indeed connection between those two, but I have no idea what it is.

• When Jack confronted Zeke and the ‘Others’ in the torch circle in the jungle, Zeke quoted a line from the Dharma video: “Since the dawn of our species, man’s been blessed with curiosity.”

• Why have only Kate’s parents appeared in other survivors’ flashbacks? Her mom was the waitress at the diner who served Sawyer and his fellow con man, and her dad was an officer on the military truck transporting Sayid after he tortured his former friend to help the U.S.

• And what is it with Kate and car crashes? She caused the farmer’s truck to swerve off the road and saved him, even though he turned her in. She was in the car when her doctor ex boyfriend was killed trying to help her escape. And she was also in the car with the Marshall when he crashed into the tree. 

SPOILER ALERT

Here are some rumors I’ve read online about upcoming episodes.

 

The March 22^nd episode is about Jin and Sun. 

 

The March 29^th episode is about Locke.

 

The April 5^th episode is about Hurley. Evan Handler (Charlotte’s second husband on Sex & the City) guest stars.

 

There is a rumor that Locke will be on crutches for the rest of this season.

 

And Michael will be reappearing soon.

All of this information is exhausting just to ponder. I will continue to post random Lost theories from time to time.

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