LOST Season 5 ReWatch Episodes (14-16)

5.14 The Variable (Faraday)

Eloise was wrong in telling Jack to come back? I believe she did it to protect Daniel. I wonder if knowing the Eliose has killed her son, if this has made her view her son and life differently. The guy who drilled into the rock had a nose bled, I wonder if it’s related to the consciousness skipping.

I know Widmore admits to planting the plane there, but what if he said that to Daniel just to offer him solace. So Daniel could concentrate on what Widmore offer, at the time it didn’t look like Daniel could concentrate. Now how would Charles know that Oceanic landed on the island? Does he have an informant to tell him these things? I don’t think Ben has been back to tell Widmore that. Or does he only assume? If Charles wants to get back to the island why didn’t he get on the freighter himself or even Ajira 316? Is he waiting for his time to come? Or is it true he won’t be allowed back?

Why is it they can’t drive the cars any further than the sonic fences? Just like in the episode with Kate and Sawyer taking Ben to see Richard, they left the vans at the fences. I would have thought they could drive on a bit further. I know Kate says they have to walk from here, but that’s not a good enough reason not to try.

Why has Daniel developed an American accent when he’s been living in the UK. He goes to Oxford University, so I assume he’s lived there ever since Hawking left the island.

When Eloise explains ‘a bigger conflict bigger than anything’, it sounds like god’s at play.

It is so weird watching the hospital scene with Penny as a bystander, as I’ve been watching Flashforward and now know she’s a doctor.

I’m still irrate why they can shoot a kid (Ben) and the next episode move the bullet wound away from the heart. And this time with Dan they can’t do it.

5.15 Follow the Leader (Richard)

I find it hard to believe that an airplane landing on the Hydra would not get detected by the others and Richards people.

By the way Locke was speaking to Sun, it’s either he’s lying, or he’s really the good guy at heart.

Here again we have the chicken and the egg scenario. Did Eloise call her son Daniel because she had killed a person who claimed to be her son? Or is it coincidence that he was called Daniel.

When Sawyer drew a map for Radzinsky to find the Hostiles, I wonder if it had anything to do with the blast door map. He sure has an obsession with maps.

Here we have Jack trying to educate Eloise on how to fix things, and in 30 years time we see the tables turned. Where Ms Hawking will educate Jack on the leap of faith. In 1977 Ellie meets faithful Jack back in 2007 Eloise meets unfaithful Jack.

How convenient it was to reunite with Sayid, as it is he who knows how to rig an atomic bomb.

I guess the reason why Ben wasn’t taken off the island when Chang advised all unnecessary personnel to leave is because he’s still with the hostiles. I wonder why Roger wasn’t invited off the island, they did say all unnecessary personnel.

5.16 The Incident (Jacob)

Part 1

To me Jacob seems more like the evil one of the two. He has more of the cunning look while the nemesis is more innocent and naive. The nemesis says, “it’s nice talking to you Jacob”, Jacob responds with “it’s nice talking to YOU too” I’m going to call the nemesis YOU.

Radzinsky said he came here to change the world. If Jack’s plans goes to plan, then it will be Jack that changes the world.

By Juliet, Sawyer & Kate returning to the island, all it did was delay the inevitable and add more drama, in the end they were still with Jack, had they stayed on the sub, it would have been the same result. Although Juliet wouldn’t have been there to detonate the unexploded war head. Juliet says, we can’t let all those people die. There’s not many people left, so who is she concerned about?

I wonder if the exposure that Eliose had in the tunnels to the radiation had anything to do with Faraday’s slow speech or gift of mathematics.

I find a few disturbing about Nadia’s death. Not only did the culprite run a red light, Jacob was involved, I don’t know if he knew, but how does Widmore’s hitman have anything to do with this. As Ben used Nadia’s death as a tool to find possibly a fake killer. Is Widmore working for Jacob, or is Ben. Even though Jacob was involved in how Nadia’s death unfolded.

I think Juliet has conceded that she will never leave the island, this possibly could have happened when she was scanned by Smokey in season 3 with Kate, and she saw visions of this moment when the bomb exploded, after all we did see flashes during the judgment.

In the first few episodes when they were flashing around in time, it’s possible it was Rose & Bernard who ransacked the old camp for food and took it with them to built there hide-away cabin. It would be amazing if we find it was Rose & Bernard shooting at them in the canoes.

When Ilana explains someone else has been using it, does she mean, the Nemesis or Christian & Claire, or was this where Rose & Bernard stayed? I would guess that Ilana’s been on the island before, but I wonder if Bram has been also.

If Nemesis has all the memories of Locke, I wonder why he hasn’t recalled the moment Jacob assisted him, when he fell eight storeys.

Why wouldn’t Ben want to kill Jacob? I guess Ben isn’t sure he can. Especially if he’s a god of some sort or is the magnificent man he knew him to be.

People say that the scene we watch of Jin & Sun is after the island and they are renewing their vows, since there was so much conjecture about the dress that Sun was wearing wasn’t the one she was wearing in previous seasons. But it’s clear it is their original wedding day when the lady asks if they are going to start a family, and Sun responds by saying maybe on the honeymoon. People don’t take honeymoons after renewal of vows do they? This could be an alternate time line.

Part 2

Lapidus a candidate? I think Ilana wants to give Jacob Lapidus’ body the same way nemesis took Locke’s.

I don’t know how Hurley couldn’t drive around Sawyer, Juliet & Kate. Or even if they drove over them, if Jack does what he’s doing, then Sawyer will be saved sooner or later.

What happened to the other foot of the statue. It doesn’t appear to be room for another one, where Jacob lives.

There is some mythology about the counting to 5 bit? It’s possible that Jacob meets Christian in the hospital when he sees Jack.

Juliet changes her mind in the whiplash story, maybe this is like what the writers do.

Kate says it was 30 years from now that she stitched him up. It’s actually 27 years.

We’ve seen all the main characters flashbacks as a child except Jin’s.

Why is it that Jacob requests an audience, an audience is more than one person. The door to Jacob is not meant for closing from the outside.

Chang’s hand/arm isn’t as bad as we’ve been lead to believe. The fact that Jack’s plan is going to work, doesn’t make a difference any way.

The magnetism contributed to the fact that the nuclear weapon did not impact, so the island pulls Juliet down to finish off what Jack set out to do. It’s meant to be! She’s a necessary sacrifice.

With all the time Jacob’s been off the island, it reminds me of Widmore taking trips off the island. Does this mean he’s suppose to be banished as well. I wouldn’t surprise me if Jacob has a child off island either. Maybe it’s Locke. To me Widmore mirrors Jacob. That means Ben mirrors nemesis.

I still think that Jacob being pushed into the fire will bring about a white smoke monster. Jacob submits to the knifing, not defending himself. Jacob’s response deserves it. Ben was a puppet from nemesis. When Jacob said they’re coming, it seemed Un-Locke knew full well what he was talking about.

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LOST Season 5 ReWatch Episodes (11-13)

5.11 Whatever Happened Happened (Kate)

That’s a blatant continuity error to move Ben’s gun shot from one side to the other. I don’t think it was done by accident. The moments Jin was unconscious, we don’t know if Jacob came to change things. I just hope it gets answered before the show finishes.

I don’t know why Sayid would try to change outcome of Ben by shooting him (i guess it was part of Sayid’s personality as we saw in a previous episode) had he not been that way it’s possible they could have nurtured him into a better person, since he was still young he would have been meek enough and might have change the way he could have turned out to be.

It’s possible that Roger changed the way he treated Ben after he had been shot, we don’t really see him acting like the S.O.B we knew him to be previous to this. So had Ben been fixed by Jack, Ben would have been a better person from the experience. Jack didn’t realize it was the islands doing, to send him back to fix this.

The time Sawyer whispered in Kate’s ear had to be longer than what we saw. I fail to realise how Sawyer could have given her that much detail about his daughter than he had time to. And when did Kate realise that Cassidy was the same Cassidy she knew back in a flashback.

I think Clementine is sitting on a whole heap of cash she doesn’t even know. Not only did Sawyer give her reward money from ratting in a guy at the prison, but the settlement money from Kate also added to that.

I don’t know if anyone else felt it, but I really wanted to see what would happen if Ben did die. Then the future would be changed. It just illustrates the role that the island plays in keeping him alive. Had it not been for Richard Alpert and the hostiles, Juliet, Sawyer, Kate & the Temple then there would be no way Ben would still be alive. Why is Ben so important? or is it the underlying theme, that whatever happened, happened, and that’s what’s keeping Ben alive. Had Jack fixed Ben, how would be he the killer and manipulator that he is. I thought the reason Kate feels for boy Ben is that she knows what it feels like to lose a son. It’s also ironic that Jack said he will let the island do everything, if it was up to the island Jack would be dead due to his appendicitis. Then he wouldn’t be back in the past with Dharma. So there’s an inconsistency in the story somewhere, or Jack just doesn’t get it.

Aaron is such a brave boy to be persuaded to stay with a person he’s never met before, in his grandmother.

I listened to the Transmissions Master Class 3 podcast and it was interesting to hear one of the costume designers to mention that the Others/Hostiles are actually a sophisticated bunch, and the ragged clothes is only an outfit. It was hard to look at Richard in a different light after those comments.

When Richard takes Ben to the temple to be healed. I don’t think he takes him there to see Jacob to heal him, rather he uses the Temple in either a ritual or a device that is in there to assist Ben. Richard walks into the Temple wall but it’s not actually the temple, is it?

5.12 Dead is Dead (Ben)

If Locke is smokey, then how did smokey get over to the Hydra Island. That’s why I think he’s the nemesis, and the same question begs, how did nemesis get to the other island.

They way Ben woke up in the infirmary with Locke starting down at him was definitely different between previous episodes.

I thought Ben lost his innocence, it doesn’t explain why Ben still is so soft on mothers and children, when he didn’t want to shoot Danielle.

It’s funny seeing Ben & Locke trying to take dominance over each other. And it’s the same thing Ben & Charles are demonstrating to Richard in the flashback.

When Widmore get’s banished and it was revealed that he was seeing a woman off island. Why is this not Eloise? I guess she left not much later after she shot her son, and then probably continued seeing Widmore.

It’s weird we keep seeing the same corner of the temple wall as we have seen in previous episodes. I didn’t think they were that cheap with the budget.

I wonder who would be in charge of the world? is it the island, or the two Jacob and Nemesis? or even someone above them? It seems the island hasn’t a need for Ben anymore, but the island still won’t let Ben die. Which leads me to believe Nemesis needs Ben to kill Jacob still, so he’s the one keeping Ben alive, even though he’d been banished.

I have a feeling Ilana knows that Jacob is going to be killed and therefore going to take the form that his Nemesis takes. Which is the reason they need Lapidus, so that Jacob can use his body. The same way Locke’s is being used.

Another reason why the smoke monster seems to appear when John isn’t there is because maybe the smoke monster can’t be where Nemesis or Jacob is.

Think the real judgement came when Alex pulled Ben aside and asked him to follow John’s every word. If he had denied this, then he would have died. The same thing happened to Eko, he didn’t show remorse over his killings, so Yemi (Smokey) killed him.

If Smokey was the servant of whoever John is now, then I wonder why John didn’t show any emotion to the monster letting Ben live. I would have expected John to smirk, as if he knew ‘of course it let you live’, ‘it’s all part of my plan’.

5.13  Some Like it Hoth (Miles)

I’m sure it’s the radiation leak from Jughead that lead to Mile’s mom being sick in the future, and possibly giving Mile’s the ability to interrogate the dead.

How is it that they are able to build all these stations and not be detected by the hostiles. That fence around the swan wasn’t going to insulate sound or anything.

I’m not sure how Miles was able to talk to the dead grandson in season 4, when he requires the body of the dead present. I don’t think Hurley’s powers are better, Hurley can only talk to the dead that he knows, where Miles can talk to just about any dead people.

Mile’s got the hard end the bargain, he won’t ever get his $1.6Million.

This guy Alverez ends up in the Dharma ditch where Locke tried to kill himself didn’t he? There was a skeleton with a hole in its head, then what is it doing in the Orchid?

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LOST Season 5 ReWatch Episodes 8-10

5.08 La Fleur

If Charlotte’s body got dropped off in the time period they just visited (around the statue time) then her decomposed body and skeleton should be still there in front of Daniel in 1977. This is providing the hostiles didn’t find it already and disposed of it properly.

Still nothing has been said about the truce between the Dharma Initiative and the Hostile. I’m not sure why burying was so significant, but it appeared that Amy just didn’t want the bodies found. If it has something to do with the island resurrecting the bodies, then how would she have knowledge of this.

5.09 Namaste

When the reunited losties asked Sawyer how long it’s been since they’ve seen each other they both experienced 3 years apart. Which is interesting, had it been 6 years, would the other party experienced 6 years. If you analyse the people from the Oceanic 815 flight, just about everyone has experienced 3 years apart, or they have died since the crash which would make their duration void. Had Locke still been alive to be reunited, he would be the odd one out, since he left the island, he jumped 2-3 years into the future, which would mean had he travelled back to 1977 he would have lost those 3 years and only experienced weeks. Is this the reason he is dead? or is he resting so he can catch the 3 years he lost? Has Sun lost or gained anytime? I think their story is that they continued from where they left off in 2007.

When Jin finds Sayid and got him to drop to his knees, he could have given him a wink or something. Instead he thinks Jin has a split personality.

I couldn’t see why the losties in 1977 couldn’t have said they knew each other off the island, and that’s why they were so close.

5.10 He’s Our You

We don’t know if any of these people who Sayid has been hunting have actually been affiliated with Widmore or not. They could just be random people who Ben has tracked and ask him to kill. Even when Ben said that’s all the people, there’s still Widmore alive, why wouldn’t Ben want Widmore hunted. Then there is also that guy parked in front of Hurley’s hospital.

I’m surprised Sayid didn’t say he was having a disagreement with the hostiles, which would make Horace want to help him. But he just stayed quiet and encouraged more suspicion about him, possibly being a spy.

I wonder what makes the Dharma Initiative despise the Hostiles? It doesn’t look like they are on the best terms, yet when Richard strolls into the village, he is able to peacefully negotiate.

The only reason Sawyer came with Sayid to see Oldham was to see how much information Sayid would compromise, and it turns out Sayid didn’t reveal much to threaten Sawyer.

It’s interesting what Radzinki said about Sayid being in their compound. He said “the longer he stays here, they longer they are in danger”, surprisingly that’s the same about Ben being in the midst of the Losties. He manipulated, conned and lied to them, and it was to their detriment.

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LOST Season 5 ReWatch (Episodes 4-7)

5.04 The Little Prince (Kate/Aaron)

It’s strange how Locke says it’s all happening because they left, but in fact it’s all happening because Ben dislodged the wheel. They would have been OK had Ben not done this. If the island is in fact in control and there is a purpose for them skipping to whatever time period it is, I’m sure there’s a higher power in charge.

When Charlotte woke up and asked Daniel who he was, its was as if Charlotte recognized him as the crazy man from the past, and when he said Daniel. It’s as if she found her constant and started to remember things

It’s ironic that Kate was the one to deliver Aaron, and happens to be the one taking care of Aaron in the future.

Sawyer seems like a different man since the vision of Kate.

When I first discovered the lawyer was visiting Claire’s mom, I though she was suspicious of Kate & Aaron. But then it turned out she didn’t know anything about the boy, which was a real shock.

5.05 This Place is Death (Jin/Sun)

When Ben was driving Sun & Jack to wherever he was going, he sounded like a parent with two quarreling kids in the back seat. Ironically it’s the same thing parents go through when raising kids. If the child had known how much sacrifice the mom or dad has to make to make their lives a good one, they would be thanking them every second they had.

Locke, Daniel & Jin’s noses are the only ones that don’t bleed.

When Charlotte dies, it makes me think if this the very reason Daniel cries when he hears about the missing oceanic plane.

If Christian is a spirit, how can he handle the lamp. If Christian was right about John moving the island not Ben, then Ben would have still remained the leader of the others.

Ben would have known that Eliose was an ex-leader of the others. So why is she helping him, even though she knows he’s up to no good.

Ben looked confused when Desmond uttered the words “Are you looking Faraday’s mother too?” Being an other, it’s quite possible he knew that Ellie had killed a man with the same name in the past.

Just another comment about this episode that’s racking my brain:

How is it that Christian Shepherd has moved back to the past to talk to Locke? We know it is way back as Mile’s will exclaim in the episode “La Fleur”, so how is it that Christian was able to time travel with the losties? Is he real? If he’s a spirit, then maybe spirits are able to travel throughout all time periods.

5.07 The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham (Locke/Un-Locke)

I’m watching the rewatch in the order they originally planned with “Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham” before “316”. I can now see why they switched the two episodes, as the Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham was too spoilerish with the plan crashed landing.

I’m totally convince that this is the moment John becomes Un-Locke. I don’t think he ever became him before the Ajira arrival. How else is he able to dress up in a suit? What makes it different to Christian Shepherd is that Christian’s body was never found. Is it still lost, or did whoever possessed it actually took his body, and why is Locke’s body still in the box? Now that Nemesis has Locke’s body, does Christian still exist as a walking dead? But this doesn’t dispel the theory that Un-Locke is time travelling, which could still be possible.

It’s interesting both Ben & John sustained injuries before turning the wheel and when being transported after the donkey wheel. Is it a prerequisite for travelling in time? I’m not sure if this is the exact location Ben came to when he left. But why does it take longer for them to discover Locke then Ben?

Locke chose to leave because Nemesis manipulated him into going, as if he didn’t want Locke there, or he knew that when Locke returned he would be dead and he would be able to take his shape. What a great plan.

If Widmore is saying the island needs Locke, then he must have been influenced by Nemesis. Maybe Richard’s know the real where about of Jacob, but Widmore directed Ben to the Cabin, as to where Nemesis was, as he though he couldn’t help him. I don’t think John is special, the only thing that makes him special because he is the loop hole. Looks like the one manipulating John is the nemesis.

How was the photo of Sayid taken if he happens to be building the house in the Dominican Republic now?

Abaddon moves as if he has a stiff neck, almost robotic, even the way he died. I wonder if he’s been injured before and has been healed (hence the walk-about he mentioned going on.

Helen dies of a brain aneurysm, similar to Charlotte, was she time-jumping? I wondered why Ben choose to shot Abaddon now. He’s been following him for sometime now. I don’t think Ben was trying to kill John. When John woke from the accident, it was similar to his revival when Jacob touched him, with the gasp of air.

No one called John by his alias during this episode. When in season four they made it a big deal of not revealing his real identity

We can see why Ben is so good at manipulating Locke, it was even said in a previous episode that he was amenable for coercion.

I wonder if Eloise Hawking told Ben he needed Locke dead. Or maybe she said she needed Ben dead. But Ben was able to kill Locke to take his place. Maybe Eloise was going to tell Locke to kill Ben, and that’s the way it was supposed to happen, so Ben had to prevent it someway.

5.06 “316” (Jack)

The lamp post had photographed images of the island that seemed to be miliary reconnaissance missions. I think the military people in 1954 were fore-runners for the Dharma Initiative, they were to scout the island for possible threats.

Think of this as a theory. Charles Widmore is actually Charlie Hume from the future who came back to the island in similar circumstances to the Ajira 316 flight and got zapped back in the past, and has been living with the hostiles all this time.

Daniel Faraday might have built the lamp-post station. Maybe that’s what Daniel was doing in Ann Arbour.

If the island seemed to summon all the passengers it needed onto the plane, why wasn’t it successful at bringing Desmond back? Free Will? Then what happens to what happened, happened? Huge debate or free will vs fate

I wonder if Eloise Hawking working in this church links her to the Monk Brother Campbell that Desmond was in the monastery with. I wonder how she was able to obtain the suicide letter from John Locke? Was she connected to the funeral parlour guy, or the police? I wonder if Eloise choose to not come back to the island after giving birth to Daniel because she was so distraught about killing her own son. It’s her lifetime wish to fix what had happened, and needs to get Jack back to fix it. How was Locke able to be dressed in the suit? I wonder how it was purchased for him, with what money?

That was an interesting introduction to the Ajira flight, they didn’t even go through the safety instructions that are common in each flight.

When Jack, Kate and Hurley arrive on the island, it’s as if they were place there (by the hand of God?), because they definitely didn’t drop or fall, because Kate would be dead on the rocks, and Jack would be pierced by bamboo.

Some people say that the island can be found with the coordinates 4.815deg 162.342deg. But I’m sure the location can be found in 4 possible places. Because of its close proximity to the equator and International Date Line, it could +/-4.815deg (North or South), then +/-162.342 (East or West).

When Des says to Ms Hawkings, “Daniel sent him to deliver a message, to help those they left behind”, it would appear he was too late in relaying the message, as we’ve seen Frogurt and the rest of the red shirts die. I wonder if it’s because the island will bring Jack, Kate, Sayid & Hurley back to the past to fix everything up. So if Jack’s plan is successful everyone would not have to experience the crash and everything after that. Everyone would still be alive.

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LOST ReWatch Season 5 (Episodes 1-3)

Took apart the PS3.  Cleaned it, rebuilt, still not working.  But somehow I will find a way to press on with Season 5.  Here are JayJay’s comments.  Please drop your own comments below in the comments section.  I plan to podcast these eps right around the DVD release date of 8 December.  TLE

5.01 Because You Left  (Jack/Ben)

It seemed Ben deliberately dislodged the wheel off its axis so that the island could keep moving in time. This seems like his great plan all along so that he could get back. Daniel says, “whatever Ben Linus did in the orchid, maybe has just dislodged us”. And ironically, that’s what he did, by dislodging the donkey wheel.

I thought the Other’s went to the Temple. But they were with Locke in the Jungle.

I wonder what makes the difference whether you’re capable of jumping through time or not. I wonder if it’s the connection they have with each other. Season two seemed to be hinting at the degrees of separation between everyone. Maybe because it was the island’s plan to get the Oceanic 6 back, that it also made the remainder of the Losties jump in time. If that makes sense.

What are the rules of what time travels or not?

Even when Daniel is explaining the abnormal events, he says to Juliet your people and us are moving in time, is talking about the Losties and the Freighter folk? Or the Losties and the others?

Widmore might have just found his loophole in Sun, since he can’t kill him directly, maybe this is another means.

Why does Ben send such a critical people to investigate plane crashes. He sends Ethan, wouldn’t he know that if anything were to happen to their own doctor, then his people would be in big trouble?

It’s funny when they do scenes and then leave us hanging for the answer, the answer is pretty much given in the next scene. When Daniel talks to Sawyer about the rules, he asks how can we stop it, he says we can’t stop it and Sawyer says, “then who can?” then it goes straight to Locke.

We know the first time jump went into the past a few years before the crash about the time Eko helped his brother load heroin, the second into the future about 2007, a few days after Ajira 316 crashed. the third time is in the past, but how long we don’t know. It must be within the 3 years Desmond has been in the hatch, but before Kelvin Inman died, or else he wouldn’t have worn the hazmat suit, he saw Kelvin take it off and knew that it wasn’t important. Now that I think ot it, it’s must be after Kelvin died, as he asked if he was his replacement. But then why would he be wearing the protection since he knows it’s useless.

How has John figured out they are time travelling, I guess he saw Ethan and that’s what tipped him off.

It’s obvious Locke does meet Richard in the past, but the first time it happens it’s quite possible there is no compass, but this time Richard gives him a compass to give back to him in the past, which will make the alternate timeline different by just a compass.

I’m sure Miles could tell if Juliet likes him since he can read minds. As he makes the comment, “the chick digs me”.

Desmond could have received his memory from any point he met Daniel to the so-called present, so why is the memory gained now and not at the point he got rescued by Penny?

5.02 The Lie (Hurley)

I want to know if the dead are trying to help Hurley or not. Ana Lucia even says the words “if I were real”, but Charlie said “I am dead, but I’m here”. Are there dead people who are working for opposite sides. Maybe Ben can summon the dead.

Jill the butcher, seems like an Other that has been allowed to get off the island.

Season 5 seems to be the season of “time-outs”. Sawyer mentions a time-out when talking to Faraday in the previous episode, and Rose asks Neil to take a time-out. We see several time-outs during the finale.

I don’t know how Frogurt got hit by the flame in his direction, as he was facing the beach, the arrows would have been coming from the jungle behind him. Even when they are running towards the jungle, the arrows are heading in the direction they are running.

If Locke wasn’t a killer before, he certainly is one now. He even kills a few of his own people, but without knowing it of course.

Why is Eloise an ex-member of the hostiles, who is so anti-dharma, working in a run-down Dharma facility?  My thought is she must have worked for Dharma before.

5.03 Jughead (Desmond)

When I first discovered the title of this episode. I thought Jughead was referring to Desmond.

As Desmond walked passed the arches on the university it was the same place he first met Faraday.

I wonder who is their leader at this time, it seems like Richard is leading them. I wouldn’t think someone as young as Widmore or Eloise would be a leader now. Both seem to be from England, do the hostiles selectively pick recruits from certain countries?

Miles walks over another grave.

Why can John throw a knife, but not shoot a gun. He killed some of his people in the previous episode.

Desmond first met Daniel in 1996. I believe Widmore funded Daniel’s project so that we could determine what the future held. I don’t think he is as evil as he’s been portrayed. I think he knows full well that Desmond and Penny don’t want to be found, as he knows Ben is after them, and he wants to keep it that way. I believe Widmore is only making things happen for the safety of his family.

The military folk must have come for a search and discovery mission for the Dharma Initiative. As they were performing odd experiments also.

Is it possible that Widmore was once a part of the military group that came? Then soon after he defected to the hostiles? Charles Widmore talks to Desmond about, having any military experience, maybe he has a passion for it. Why are all the others wearing military clothing?

Daniel plants the first seeds of time-travel to Ellie. So the next time she meets him, she shoots him, but she also believes in the journal.

It seems like each time the island jumps is when a time paradox is about to happen. Like it’s preventing a big change in events.

Desmond say he knows Charles has questions for him, but he won’t answer any of them. Very similar to how the show works.

I don’t know what the significance of Desmond’s story in the whole plot. He goes to see Faraday’s mom, she tells him he’s got more work to do. He doesn’t listen, he get’s shot. Now what? How has telling her that what Daniel told him to tell his mom, done anything? Her plans were to get Jack and the group back to the island, and that happened. Was Desmond supposed to be on the plane too. Is this why it caused a bit of a side-effect. I’m not sure how this ties into anything in the story.

Richard knows how to get off the island. This has still yet to be answered. I think it’s has to do something with the temple.

Jones known as Widmore had met Charlotte, Miles and Daniel in 1954, is this the reason he specifically choose them to board his freighter in 2004?

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