"Confirmed Dead"

When Miles is doing his Ghostbuster thing at the old woman's house,A poster in the dead teen drug mule's room had the number 15 on it.

The chopper's registration number is N842M. 8 and 42 being LOST numbers.

There is a phone number for the Oceanic Airlines Flight 815 investigation on the TV when the pilot is watching: 888-548-0034. When you call, they tell you that there will be updates as soon as they have more information. And, to call back later.

That's all I have for now.

Oh! That pilot guy? He's the Lawnmower Man from the movie "Lawnmower Man".

"The Beginning of the End"

So, Hurly finds Jacob's shack. He peeks in the window and sees Christian Shepard in the rocking chair. Then someone's eye looks back at him, really close up. Is it Jacob? Who is it?

When the ghost of Charlie visits Hurley in the institution, he's painting an eskimo with a spear and two dead rabbits. Again with the rabbits. Are there rabbits in the cold, cold north?

Charlie said, "Now you have to do something. But, you're hiding from him." Who is Hurley hiding from?

Jack wants to know if Hurley is "going to tell". Going to tell what?

-LostAholic

Daniel's Experiment

The clock in the rocket is 31 minutes AHEAD of Daniel's clock (one is rectangular the other is not).

We know that there is a wormhole in play here. This has been suggested by the appearance of Steven Hocking's "A Brief History of Time" opened to the specific pages about wormholes. Then, ABC.com released the short of Dr. Edgar Hallowax (or whatever he's calling himself these days) with the two bunnies with the same number on them. He specifically mentions the "Casimir Effect". Without going into a whole Physics lecture, Casimir Effect + wormhole = faster-than-light-travel and/or time travel.

The Cliff Notes on wormhole-time-travel is this: There are two ends to a wormhole time machine. One moves really fast, the other stays still. Time passes faster on the end that stays still than it does on the end that moves. So, one end can be at 2004 and the other at 2007. If you travel inside the wormhole, you come out in that time. If you travel outside of the worm hole, you stay in your own time. The reason Dan thinks this is bad, and tells Frank to follow the same heading that they came in on (although he means the exact 180' opposite heading), because they need travel inside the wormhole to make it back to their own spacetime. If they deviate, and travel outside of the wormhole, they might end up someplace and sometime random. It would be bad.

Minkowski space:
German mathematician Hermann Minkowski came up with the idea of spacetime.
The guy on the phone the newcomers are talking to is named Minkowski.

Time travel could explain the people who seem to keep coming back from the dead on the island. If someone, like Ben, for example, wanted to exploit the time travel effect of the wormhole to bring someone back from the dead, all they would need to do is go back to a time before the person was killed and take them through the wormhole. They would essentially travel to their future and still be alive. Or, be alive again.

Next: I will post my notes from the first three episodes of season 4.

Here We Go! 4th Season

Random (as usual) stuff.

http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/missingpieces/index

1. Check out the "mobisodes" on abc.com. There is one "missing piece" from just before Jack wakes up in the 1st season pilot. We see the jungle from Vincent's POV. Vincent runs past an open suitcase that someone has been going through in search of something. Then we see a man in a dark suit with incongruous white tennis shoes. Turns out it's Christian Shepard! He's alive and kickin' (or at least animated and talking). He tells Vincent to go wake Jack up because "He has work to do".

Wow!

I will cover the first few episodes of the new season soon.

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New Theory About the Black Smoke Monster

Like many of you, I have been spending the prolonged off-season reviewing past episodes of LOST. I just watched the 23rd Psalm. You know, Eko's flashback episode. The one where he and Charlie go hiking thorough the jungle to find the plane full of heroin.
There's that great scene where Charlie is up in the tree and the monster comes right up to Eko's face. We get that 180 degree dolly shot of Eko's face through the black smoke, and we see images of people and things from his past in Africa.
It seems to be scanning him, in way similar to when it scans Kate and Juliet in season 3.
OK, so, here's the theory: What if the black smoke monster scans people physically and also scans their thoughts and memories? Then, it can take the form of that person, or someone from their memories.
That would explain the appearances of Jack's father, Dave and Yemi on the island. You remember, when Eko encounters Yemi. And, Yemi tells him to confess. Eko says, "I only did what I had to do to survive." An angry-looking Yemi replies, "You speak to me as if I were your brother!" Inferring that this apparition of Yemi isn't actually his brother, Eko asks, "Who are you?" But 'Yemi' turns away and vanishes into the jungle. Eko follows, repeating, "Who are you?"
Next thing we know, the smoke monster appears, picks Eko up, slams him around for a while and splits. So, I'm thinking the Yemi-image was the monster. It learned how to imitate Yemi from when it scanned Eko's thoughts in 23rd Psalm.
Let's take it a step further. The monster has had lots of contact with Locke. Ever notice how Locke seems to have two personalities? One is docile, helpless, ambiguous and confused. The other is heroic, strong, fearless and decisive. We go through phases where we think Locke is evil and others where we think he's a good guy. More than once, he is associated with black and white. What if one of the "Lockes" is the real John Locke who crashed on the island, and the other is the smoke-monster-imitation?
Think about it.

February 2008...

...seems like a long way away. Guess I'll review past episodes, and read some of the LOST-featured literature, like Watership Down, The Brothers Karamazov, A Wrinkle in Time, Our Mutual Friend...

Locke Dead??? No way!

I'm not buyin' for a second that Locke is dead. We're talking about a guy who fell eight stories, and lived - recovered from a broken back, and kicked that one-eyed Ruskie's ass twice. It'll take more than one to the gut to kill John.
Here's a link with processed images and a slow-mo of the frames where we can see Jacob:

http://losteastereggs.blogspot.com/2007/05/11-frames-of-jacob.html

One comment on there suggests that it's Locke with a beard and hair. Could be.
Did anyone else think it was lame that, when confronted about Juliet's tape, and, after revealing that he knew the Others were about to attack, Jack just says, "Well, I didn't know what I wanted to do about it." Is everyone just supposed to accept that? I would have Jack and Juliet chained to a tree and gagged by now.
I was amused to see Ben's Dad (Roger Workman) played by Jon Gries, who played Lazlo, the weird guy who lived in the dorm room closet in "Real Genius", the 1985 comedy with Val Kilmer. I admit it. I love that movie.
So, do you think killing your father is recurring theme in this show yet?

So... Who's Not Really Dead????

Now that we know The Others & Dharma & Hanso & Mittelos & Widmore & all can fake death (with the venom of the Medusa spider) who is not really dead?

I'm thinking Jack's Dad (who will undoubtedly turn out to be a major figure in this conspiracy) Ethan, Libby (who could have been shot with a blank, or holding a bullet-proof pillow).

Remember, we have seen signs of an almost omnipotent ability to manipulate people's lives, even before they were on the island. I submit that everyone on Flight 815 was manipulated into getting on that plane (or however they got there, i.e. Desmond).

We know that some people were coerced into playing their part (like the psychic doing the about-face on Claire). Some people have been intimidated (Juliet). Some more subtly manipulated (perhaps Jack, if his father's death was staged with Medusa venom).

Also, we suspect these forces have some ability to control people's thoughts (like giving Locke, who is easily influenced, "visions"). They also may have the ability to travel in time, as well as rapidly travel in space (Desmond's return to "pre-island" London).

Now, on top of all that, we know they can make someone seem to be dead when they are not. Pretty powerful tools if you want to control other people.