* SPOILERS * This is some b-boppin on LOST after watching "Question Mark" which aired this week (5/10), and includes references to episodes up to this week. Not all fully-formed thoughts... (how many of those do I really have anyway?)
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Disappointing that Michael's gone bad this way, presumably as part of a deal to get his son back. Perhaps brainscrubbed.
Harsh choices in deadly gunfire. Poor Ana Lucia. And Hurley's Libby.
I thought I saw a Look from Kate to Jack when Michael described the Others as all savages. Kate knows better, and told Jack about it in an earlier episode. I wonder if the Others don't know that the girls found the medical bunker and their abandoned costumes and props. Or perhaps they just don't care now, for whatever reason, whatever phase they're in.
Jack's dad is everywhere, eh? So far I think he's got the most crossovers of any recurring figure on the show. I wonder how he's owned by or participating in the island/Dharma. Maybe he's part of a Skulls type society side of Dharma? Would we fiend a signet ring or pin w the logo on his body, in the coffin? I was hoping to see him in the background of the orientation video at the question mark station. That would be too easy tho, wouldn't it?
I think that Hurley and Libby's asylum is under the Dharma umbrella. I don't have anything solid to go on, but there was something, I can't pick out what, about the manner, or perhaps the timing, of the doctor who welcomes Hurley back when he goes to see the crazy numbers mumbler...
Was Libby worried or concerned about Hurley remembering where he knows her from? Or was she totally out of it when she was in the asylum and it's chance/Dharma that they're on the island together as survivors. Is she a stalker who's followed Hurley since the asylum? Is she a Dharma agent, molded from crazy Libby in the asylum?
Crossover craziness... The fortune teller and his daughter crossing over w Ecko. Ecko is sent to assess a so-called miracle and meets Claire's fortune teller. However, the teller confesses to being a charlatan. If THAT's true, that he's a fake, then his apparently spontaneous shock at Claire's reading was scripted. And all of his follow-up harassment as well. Arranged. Perhaps Jack's dad orchestrated it.
Do we know that Jack's dad regularly disappeared for his benders? Would he have been visiting Australia regularly to maintain an affair, and then to contact or help or keep tabs on a daughter? Jack hits his pop with some sharp remarks along the lines of "YOU would know about infidelity..."
Remember the Aussie girl that Jack's dad, as "Tom," goes to visit in the rain? Indistinct in voice and appearance in that episode, I couldn't be sure even of her age. His ex-mistress? Or the daughter of? An illegitimate daughter and half-sister to Jack? I first thought that it might have been Claire but that didn't seem to fit. The woman in the rain seems older, and the tone of her exchanges with "Tom" point to an older woman and paramour... When I was watching this week, I had a fleeting thought that it could have been the fortune teller's daughter. But again w the age and attitude.
Jackie suggests that the woman in the rain is Claire's mother, which would make Aaron Jack's nephew! I like this theory. Now I want to see that "Tom" and "Sara" episode again for that scene in the rain...
A rule for island apparitions... Ecko's brother and Jack's dad... Their bodies are actually on the island. Anna Lucia's too, now. Hugo's Dave was always in Hugo's head. Kate's horse? Well, probably came from the same Dharma ranch as Sawyer's polar bear. Which other dead folks will we see again?
Maybe a little FANTASY ISLAND but mostly FORBIDDEN PLANET. Wishes and dreams. Dreams. Would you want to keep someone from making it to R.E.M. state by shocking him every 108 minutes? Healing factors. And also that F'd up black cloud that tears flesh and explodes stuff at will. How can anyone do anything on that island but think about that?
Keep on keepin on~
