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.

Woah!

Holy crap! Lando Calrissian had a cameo on LOST.

Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof on NPR Today

http://www.onpointradio.org/shows/2007/03/20070328_b_main.asp

Tom Ashbrook had the LOST producers on.

It seemed to me that they must have filtered out any callers with plot-specific questions.

It was pretty much just a marketing event designed to reassure the viewers that there will, in fact, be an ending to the series. The ending has already been written. It is just a matter of when.

There was a caller who asked if there was any truth to the rumor that the ending would be in the form of a feature film. He was told that there has not been any discussion of that. Nice goin', caller. Now that you gave them the idea, we're gonna have to shell out ten bucks to see how it ends.

LOL!

The Man From Tallahassee

Easter Egg: Did anyone else notice that, when Locke's Dad pours them both a drink (you know, in his luxury apartment, just before he...) the liquor is a 60-year-old MacCutcheon?

Enter 77

DANGER! Spoilers. If you haven't seen this episode, you might want to move on.



So, is Locke a moron, or what? SHEEESH!

The story line about Sayid in Paris, and the woman he tortured just seemed redundant. The only purpose it may have served, was to make us say, "Hey! That's the same cat that the woman in Paris had!" Seemed pretty lame.

Where Are Michael & Walt?

If you pay close attention during the surgery scenes in "Not in Portland", just before Jack accidentally nicks an artery in Ben's back, Jack asks Tom why, if The Others could leave the island, didn't they take Ben back to the mainland for medical attention. Tom starts to tell Jack that ever since the sky turned purple...
Clearly, the timing of the nicked artery crisis is a red herring to distract us from that revelation. Obviously, Tom was going to say that, ever since the sky turned purple, The Others can't leave the island. This must be because the machine controlled by the button in the Swan hatch made the wormhole work.
Children often being more observant than adults, my son looks at me and says, "I bet Micheal and Walt couldn't go through the wormhole." He's right, of course.
In Live Toghether, Die Alone we see The Others holding Jack, Sawyer, Kate and Hurley on the pier. They let Michael and Walt cast off only a moment before the sky turns purple. They wouldn't have had enough time to escape. My guess is, much like Desmond, Michael will travel along the heading Ben gave him (325 degrees, or slightly North of NW) for about 2.5 weeks, only to return to The Island.

Wait and see...

Backwards Brainwashing

Many LOST fans have discovered that if you play the brainwashing scene from "Not in Portland" backward, you can hear a voice saying, "Only fools are enslaved by time and space". Here is a link to one youtube example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVuX35tU0no&mode=related&search=

Based on my wormhole theory, and the fact that wormholes can be used for time travel, as well as space travel, I am, of course, seeing validation in this clue.

I think that wierd dude from Mittelos (an anagram for "Lost Time") Bioscience, Richard Alpert is from the future (which would mean that Ethan, and most of The Others are too).

Did anyone else notice that Alpert wears heavy eyeliner? I don't think this is significant, just a little creepy.

Anyway, I also stepped through the brainwashing sequence frame-by-frame. It is full of symbols of fertility, birth, etc. (flowers blooming, fruit, sayings about planting seeds...). Then there is the stuff about Sun's surprise pregnancy, and the conversation Alpert and Juliet have about the sonogram of a woman's womb. The womb appears to Juliet to be from a woman in her seventies. Alpert says she's 26. Juliet asks what happened to her.

So, here's my thinking: In the future, people become infertile. Alpert and others need to find a solution to save humanity. They travel to our present, and abduct Juliet to help them. They take her to The Island, where they have Ben, and other people from a more fertile time, to be used for research and breeding. Their particular interest in children comes from the fact that children are a prescious resource in short supply in their space-time.

I'll keep working on it.