After a few days of deliberation, I’ve decided that I cannot hide my geeky LOST fan persona any longer. I’ve got to air some ideas about season four, and you’re going to have to listen (sorry!). I know how embarrassing this should be for me. Devoting a blog entry to a television show…is a sentence rife with material that any one of you could use to mercilessly taunt me. Whatever, so I like the prime-time, epic docudrama. I’m sure all your closets have skeletons in them too.
Here’s where I point and laugh to myself and nod my head, as if I’ve caught you in an expertly-set trap.
By the way, if you don’t watch LOST, you can stop reading now. Check back tomorrow for something about pussy or drugs.
Season Four is half-over now, and after last Thursday’s episode, our little viewing party spent a considerable amount of time debating how we thought the remaining four episodes would play out. We began with the obvious assessment that any events in the narrative supposedly taking place in the future had to still occur before the final “flash forward” that concluded Season Three. From that moment on, we sat here tossing ideas back and forth until it was time to laud ourselves for figuring all the plot holes out perfectly. Here’s a short list:
01) Claire is dead. The psychic told her it was imperative that she raise her child herself. We’ve seen a change in Claire’s demeanor over the course of the show, and she appears quite motherly now. I don’t think she’s at a point where she would willingly give up her son. That said, I think the reason Jack will not visit Aaron is because he knows that the child is indeed his nephew. Although, this line of theorizing also raised questions about Aaron appearing to be much older in the flash forward. Do all these future narratives take place several years later? Or is it related to the weird space/time problems noticed by physicist/weirdo Michael Farraday in Episode 3?
02) Speaking of Farraday, we’re all pretty certain he has time traveling capabilities, and he’s been to the island before. If that’s not true, he’s definitely been visited by Desmond in the past. I’m sure this one will be cleared up during Episode 5, since it is going to focus on Desmond and the plight of the helicopter. Of course, nothing bad can happen to the helicopter, because Sayid is on it and he clearly makes it off the island. Desmond, of course, did not arrive at the island on the plane, so he cannot be one of the six who leave. He will, however, travel through time a lot this week, and somehow interact with Farraday.
03) Charlotte Lewis is Annie. Remember the little girl that Ben had a crush on as a child, who remembered his birthday when his drunken father didn’t? That’s her, we think. It is unclear as to what happened to her during the uprising that claimed the lives of pretty much all the original DHARMA folks. The little girl was blonde, and Charlotte appears to be a redhead, but that doesn’t matter. Her flashbacks show she was in Tunisia bribing a man to allow her into a dig-site that exposed the skeleton of a polar bear and a DHARMA collar. Our guess is, she’s spent her entire adult life trying to find her way back to the island. This, of course, doesn’t explain why Ben tried to shoot her twice in the chest. Whatever. The theory has some holes. But two of the executive producers stated on a DVD episode commentary that Annie is of “seismic” importance to LOST.
04) Jin and Sun round out the Oceanic 6. If Sun stays on the island to have her baby, she dies. Counting Jack, Kate, Sayid and Hurley, there are two spots left. I don’t think Aaron counts as a member of the 6 because he’s a worthless little baby. It also doesn’t make sense that anybody else would take up those spots other than Jin and Sun.
05) Michael is Ben’s inside-man on the freighter. This one seems pretty obvious, but I guess it could always be wrong. There have been guarantees that Michael returns this season. IGN ran an article back in July about the LOST panel at Comic-Con, which states that Michael, Libby and Rousseau are among the characters with more story left to reveal. They talk about the actor who plays Michael showing up at Comic-Con and saying he will be back “in the early part of Season four.” I haven’t checked the opening credits so far to see if he is still listed as a regular cast member, but he definitely is not listed as a guest star in episodes five-to-seven. It would make sense — considering he killed a bunch of people to set Ben free — that Michael is still operating under Ben’s control in some capacity. Also, Walt is probably the owner of the eye that Hurley sees in Jacob’s cabin along with Jack’s father. Our little group offered theories about Michael being one of the Oceanic 6, and turning out to be the body in the coffin that Jack visits in the finale of Season 3, but these theories were dismissed as improbable. Although, if it turns out to be true, I’ll take full credit for having predicted it. That goes for any of these theories, as well as all those I have not listed. The point is, Michael has already screwed up enough shit during his time on the island, wouldn’t it be fitting if he once again bungled his role as an “inside man” and lead to a fight with the freighter crew — perhaps leading to the deaths of one or several characters…like Claire?
I’m getting tired so I’m going to bed. You can write all your insults about me being a huge nerd in the comment field starting…NOW.
