HARD FACTS
The events in this week’s episode can be broken down in broad strokes into two general categories: (a) event’s post-rescue; and (b) events happening on the Island in the present (at least in the present from the show’s perspective). Therefore, I am dividing the description of the episode’s hard facts into those two categories.
A. The Oceanic Six Post-Rescue
1. A U.S. coast guard transport plane returns the survivors to civilization.
2. An Oceanic Airline representative provides the Oceanic Six with orientation prior to their disembarking.
3. No one greets Kate upon the transport’s landing.
4. The Oceanic Six participate in a press conference at which an elaborate tale of survival is told including drifting at sea for a day until they reached an uninhabited island, Kate giving birth to Aaron on the Island, a fishing boat from a typhoon washing up on the island on day 103, and its use as a means for returning to civilization which occurs on day 108.
5. The Oceanic Six story is met with some skepticism.
6. There is a funeral for Christian Shepard albeit without a body
7. At Christian Shepard’s funeral, Jack learns from Claire’s mother, who attended the funeral, that Claire is his sister and, ergo, that Aaron is his nephew.
8. Hurley’s parents throw him a surprise party attended by many other survivors.
9. Hurley’s father has restored Hurley’s car, the settings of which are 4815162342.
10. Sun confronts her father for hating Jin and informs dad that she has purchased a controlling interest in his company with her own money from the Oceanic settlement.
B. The Here and Now on the Island
1. Keamy & Co. are at the Orchid Station and have arrived before Ben.
2. Faraday knows of the Orchid Station’s role in the secondary protocol and its implications for the Island.
3. Above ground the Orchid is a greenhouse with its innards hidden kind of like the Bat Cave.
4. Ben communicates with someone at the Orchid Station way of reflecting the sun off of a mirror
5. Ben instructs Locke how to enter the Orchid and accomplish the moving of the Island.
6. Moving the Island is said to be dangerous and unpredictable (duh!); it’s a last resort.
7. Ben feigns surrender to Keamy in order to enable Locke an opportunity to make use of the Orchid station to move the Island.
8. Keamy pistol whips Ben after Ben’s surrender.
9. Kate and Sayyid are captured by a fairly large-sized and well-armed group led by Richard.
10. Sun, Aaron, Jin, Faraday and two (or three) other survivors (or extras we’ve never seen before) take the Zodiac back to the Barge.
11. There are a substantial amount of explosives on the Barge.
ANALYSIS
1. Reaching the Barge is not the end of the journey to safety for the survivors. This is almost too obvious since Jin has reached the Barge but we know that he will not make it back alive to civilization. The Barge is a dangerous place: it’s Keamy’s home away from home and, to boot, its loaded up with explosives.
2. The explosives on the Barge are part of a pre-arranged booby trap by Keamy. Keamy intends to blow up the Barge and the device worn on his shoulder is likely a remote control device of some sort. Keamy, however, is not on a suicide mission. The secondary protocol likely provides instructions to Keamy as to how he can make use of the Island’s facilities to transport himself off the Island.
3. Locke will actually physically move the Island. This will not be a time a space/time travel (at least not primaily so) but an actual physical moving of the Island. The future Widmore taunted by Ben in an earlier flash forward doesn’t know where the Island is anymore because its been moved.
4. Moving the Island causes a typhoon (or something even worse). The story line from the Oceanic representative at the press conference mentions that a typhoon caused a fishing boat to wash up on the island in day 103. I believe that the typhoon was caused by the moving of the Island. Coincidentally, on December 26, 2004, there was a massive earthquake off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia which caused a tsunami resulting in deaths estimated at more than 225,000 people. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake. This tsunami is a sufficiently epic event that it would make sense to incorporate it into the LOST story. The only thing that has become unclear now is precisely what day it is on the Island. Desmond made his phone call to Pennie Widmore on December 24, 2004, which was 93 days from September 22, 2004. It is unclear, however, how many days have elapsed since the time of that phone call on the Island. If, in fact, the moving of the Island coincides with December 26th (i.e., Day 95) then it will still be another 8 days until the survivors purportedly obtained a fishing boat on day 103.
5. It is not yet clear that the survivors will return to civilization on the Barge. The Oceanic Airlines representative at the press conference said that the survivors washed up on a fishing boat. I guess the Barge could be that fishing trawler or it could be an entirely different boat. The story presented also made it sound as though the survivors were the only ones on the fishing boat. Yet, the Barge has a crew of its own.
6. Moving the Island removes the protections previously bestowed on off-Island LOSTies. Sun will die. He is not still alive on the Isalnd after the rescue as evidenced by Jin's angry outburst at her father. However, the past pattern has been that people who have been to the Island while off the Island can not die. Somehow moving the Island upsets this pattern. Either that or Jin goes back to the Island or its vicinity and is killed there. Also, hopefully, this will finally lead to the death of Michael which is a far better fate for everybody else than having to hear him whine and yell WALT!!!!! again.
7. Moving the Island was pre-destined. It is a pre-requisite to Aaron leaving the Island which is a necessary step in his fulfilling his destiny whatever that may be.
8. Kate was captured by the Others to insure that she will act as Aaron’s mother. Richard’s capture of Kate is a form of protective custody. Romping around the jungle on your spare time can be dangerous. Kate’s raising Aaron is important to his perceived destiny. Therefore, the Others can not afford to let her recklessly risk her life on some mission inspired by the moron Jack. Perhaps Sayyid’s destiny also involves having a hand in the raising of Aaron.
9. The Numbers continue as a persistent theme. The survivors are rescued on day 108 and the Numbers re-appear in Hurley’s car. In other words, even though the survivors have left the Island, the Island, in turn, has not left them.
NEW OPEN QUESTIONS WHICH I DO NOT YET HAVE ANY IDEA HOW TO ANSWER
1. Why have the Others stood aside while Keamy & Co. invaded the Island? They are obviously still sufficiently numerous and well armed to launch a serious defense and counter-attack.
2. How will the Oceanic Six gather in one place given that they are now scattered around the Island: Sun and Aaron are on the Barge; Hurley is at Orchid; Kate and Sayyid have been captured by Richard and the Others; and Jack is with Sawyer and Shaggy Frank.
3. Who is the other person responsible for Jin’s death?
4. Who are the two survivors reported to have made it off Flight 815 but not back to final rescue?
OTHER OBSERVATIONS
1. Nice racial stereotyping by the LOST writers. First, Michael gets hired as a janitor. Now, Hurley’s dad, a Mexican, fixes up a car as a form of relaxation. Sun’s father demands respect. What’s next? A Jewish moneylender?
2. I have no idea why any cash settlement from Oceanic Airways for the Oceanic Six would be so large. They really don’t look any worse for the wear. Certainly any settlement wouldn’t be enough to buy control of Paik Industries unless Paik was near bankruptcy . Also, the entire concept that Sun could somehow sneak in and buy a controlling interest especially given the traditional nature of South Korean corporate governance is inane.
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Monday, May 12, 2008
ADDENDUM
1. The preview for next week's episode shows Sayyid reaching the Island in his motorized raft. That he would reach the Island after the Barge doctor's body did by simply being carried by the currents poses a problem and potentially represents an oversight or inconsistency in LOST's science fiction.
2. On reflection, the Others/Hostiles wanted Locke to come there when he was a man of science as reflected in his having won a science fair. The Others did not want him when he was a younger child and chose the knife reflecting that he was somesort of man of war that was incompatible with their goals or desires for Locke's destiny. Abaddon (and by extension Widmore) does not seem to be similarly burdened by Locke as a man of war.
3. Locke/Ben will succeed in moving the Island. That is the source of Ben's future taunting Widmore that he (Widmore) does not know the location of the Island.
2. On reflection, the Others/Hostiles wanted Locke to come there when he was a man of science as reflected in his having won a science fair. The Others did not want him when he was a younger child and chose the knife reflecting that he was somesort of man of war that was incompatible with their goals or desires for Locke's destiny. Abaddon (and by extension Widmore) does not seem to be similarly burdened by Locke as a man of war.
3. Locke/Ben will succeed in moving the Island. That is the source of Ben's future taunting Widmore that he (Widmore) does not know the location of the Island.
Friday, May 9, 2008
Season 4: Episode 11
This was pretty much a Locke-centric episode.
FACTS
1. The doctor is still alive on the Barge at the beginning of the episode.
2. Keemy’s gun jams when he tries to shoot Michael.
3. Locke was a premature baby born six months into his pregnancy.
4. Horace was one of the murdered members of the Dharma Initiative, has been dead for 12 years, and appears to Locke in a dream instructing (or at least providing him with clues) as to how he can reach Jacob’s cabin.
5. Richard Alpert is present shortly after the birth of Locke.
6. Richard Aleprt visits Locke when he is a young child who is playing backgammon. On the wall there is a drawing by young Locke appearing to resemble someone being attacked by the black smoke monster.
7. Richard administers a test to young Locke asking him to select which item belongs to him with the choices being a baseball glove, a well-worn book of laws, a vial of sand, a compass, comic book concerning a mystery, and a knife. Young Locke selects the knife, after fiddling around with the sand and the compass, a result Richard finds disappointing.
8. The leaders of the Dharma Initiative decided to wipe them out, according to Ben.
9. Keemy consults the backup plan from the safe which has a Dharma cover and then states that he plans on torching the Island.
10. Keemy has a bomb or some type of explosive device strapped to his arm by his assistant.
11. Abaddon wheels Locke through he hospital and tells Locke to go on a walkabout on Australia
12. Keemy slits the doctor’s throat and his assistant shoots the Barge’s captain.
13. Sayyid takes a motorboat to go back to the Island in an effort to help save the remaining survivors.
14. A package from the helicopter drops on the survivor’s camp containing a telephone tracking device.
15. Christian Shepard claims to speak on behalf of Jacob.
16. Claire is in the cabin with Christian Shepard.
17. Locke reports to Ben that while in the cabin he was told to move the Island.
ANALYSIS
A. Locke
Since this episode is largely about Locke, it seems to make sense to separately analyze the issues relating to Locke. He is obviously one of the key characters in LOST even though he is not one of the Oceanic Six.
1. Locke shares many similarities with Ben. His premature birth parallels that of Ben. Their mothers have the same name: Emily. Both grew up without their mother present (Locke’s grandmother appears to be raising him.) A figure from the Island (Horace) is present at Ben’s birth just as another figure from the Island (Richard) is present at the time of Locke’s birth. Locke, like Ben, is recruited to the Island based upon promises of educational opportunities with the offer accepted in the case of Ben and rejected in the case of Locke (summer chemistry camp).
2. Locke is a reincarnation of some figure important to the Island. At the time Richard visits the young Locke there is a drawing on the wall made by Locke basically of the smoke monster. The test Richard administers to young Locke is similar to the type of test one hears in certain cultures are used to determine whether a child is a reincarnation of some important figure.
3. The Others and Widmore have been searching for an opportune time to bring Locke to the Island for many years. Richard’s test when Locke was six for a special “school” was aimed at determining whether the time was ripe. Milos Laboratories, which offers Locke a place in its summer camp while Locke is in high school, is another obvious front for the Others/Richard. Abaddon suggests the Australian outback trip in an obvious attempt to cause Locke to wind up on the Island.
4. Locke's destiny is to assume an important role and position of control with respect to the Island. Richard has stalked Locke from the very time of his birth. Abaddon (who works for Widmore) also stalks Locke and urges to go on the trip to the Australian Outback that eventually causes him to wind up on the Island. Each side is trying to curry favor with Locke. This seems to be a recognition of the fact that his destiny is to exercise some meaningful control the Island.
5. The Island has been protecting Locke from death. He was pushed out an eighth floor window and he really ought to be dead. He was shot by Ben and he is still walking around as healthy as he can be. In all other cases, the Island has acted as a shield from death only for those who are away from the Island after having spent considerable time on the Island.
6. Locke in many ways is supplanting Ben. Ben was an intermediate figure awaiting Locke’s arrival. Ben’s power to have visions through dreams vanished when Locke arrived on the Island as did his ability to communicate directly with Jacob. It is possible, therefore, that Ben was just a bridge figure awaiting Locke’s arrival. It is also possible that the two are meant to compliment each other. Locke is more of the straight shooter and Ben more conniving.
B. Other Analysis
1. There is a disparity in the time line on the Island. Keemy slits the doctor’s throat on the boat at least a day after he washed up dead on the beach.
2. Claire is dead according to the conventional definition of life and death. She was dead last week too. That’s why she is in the cabin with Christian Shepard who, so far as we know, is also dead. She is one of the people, who by virtue of some as yet unknown characteristic, lives on despite being dead. Her death is also likely the reason why Miles was so fascinated with Claire last episode because Miles as a medium was able to recognize that she was, in fact, dead.
3. The package was dropped on the survivor camp so that Keemy could return and select people to be killed. That is why there is a telephone tracking device in the package. Jack, who has about the world’s worst judgement (see Season 4: Episode 1, Thesis __) incorrectly concludes that they want the survivors to follow them into the jungle. Alternatively, it was dropped by Lapidus to aid the survivors. However, dropping a package unnoticed while flying seems somewhat impractical.
4. The rescue and removal of Aaron and Kate from the Island is pre-destined and desired by Jacob. Christian Shepard makes that clear with respect to Aaron and we have already seen that Kate is one of the people who is supposed to raise Aaron.
5. After spending a period of time on the Island, one acquires an immunity from death off the Island. Once again Michael can not be shot dead, this time by crazy Keemy. See also, Season 4: Episode 9; Analysis 7.
6. Keemy is one bad ass. No analysis necessary.
7. Sayyid may not reach the Island in the Zodiac motorboat. The doctor’s body has already washed up on shore. One would expect that traveling by motorboat would allow Sayyid to reach the Island before the effects of the current which washed the doctor onshore. Therefore, Sayyid should already have been on the Island. That he did not arrive before the doc evidences that he may not have made it by boat. Either that or the time travel thing really does not make any sense at all.
FACTS
1. The doctor is still alive on the Barge at the beginning of the episode.
2. Keemy’s gun jams when he tries to shoot Michael.
3. Locke was a premature baby born six months into his pregnancy.
4. Horace was one of the murdered members of the Dharma Initiative, has been dead for 12 years, and appears to Locke in a dream instructing (or at least providing him with clues) as to how he can reach Jacob’s cabin.
5. Richard Alpert is present shortly after the birth of Locke.
6. Richard Aleprt visits Locke when he is a young child who is playing backgammon. On the wall there is a drawing by young Locke appearing to resemble someone being attacked by the black smoke monster.
7. Richard administers a test to young Locke asking him to select which item belongs to him with the choices being a baseball glove, a well-worn book of laws, a vial of sand, a compass, comic book concerning a mystery, and a knife. Young Locke selects the knife, after fiddling around with the sand and the compass, a result Richard finds disappointing.
8. The leaders of the Dharma Initiative decided to wipe them out, according to Ben.
9. Keemy consults the backup plan from the safe which has a Dharma cover and then states that he plans on torching the Island.
10. Keemy has a bomb or some type of explosive device strapped to his arm by his assistant.
11. Abaddon wheels Locke through he hospital and tells Locke to go on a walkabout on Australia
12. Keemy slits the doctor’s throat and his assistant shoots the Barge’s captain.
13. Sayyid takes a motorboat to go back to the Island in an effort to help save the remaining survivors.
14. A package from the helicopter drops on the survivor’s camp containing a telephone tracking device.
15. Christian Shepard claims to speak on behalf of Jacob.
16. Claire is in the cabin with Christian Shepard.
17. Locke reports to Ben that while in the cabin he was told to move the Island.
ANALYSIS
A. Locke
Since this episode is largely about Locke, it seems to make sense to separately analyze the issues relating to Locke. He is obviously one of the key characters in LOST even though he is not one of the Oceanic Six.
1. Locke shares many similarities with Ben. His premature birth parallels that of Ben. Their mothers have the same name: Emily. Both grew up without their mother present (Locke’s grandmother appears to be raising him.) A figure from the Island (Horace) is present at Ben’s birth just as another figure from the Island (Richard) is present at the time of Locke’s birth. Locke, like Ben, is recruited to the Island based upon promises of educational opportunities with the offer accepted in the case of Ben and rejected in the case of Locke (summer chemistry camp).
2. Locke is a reincarnation of some figure important to the Island. At the time Richard visits the young Locke there is a drawing on the wall made by Locke basically of the smoke monster. The test Richard administers to young Locke is similar to the type of test one hears in certain cultures are used to determine whether a child is a reincarnation of some important figure.
3. The Others and Widmore have been searching for an opportune time to bring Locke to the Island for many years. Richard’s test when Locke was six for a special “school” was aimed at determining whether the time was ripe. Milos Laboratories, which offers Locke a place in its summer camp while Locke is in high school, is another obvious front for the Others/Richard. Abaddon suggests the Australian outback trip in an obvious attempt to cause Locke to wind up on the Island.
4. Locke's destiny is to assume an important role and position of control with respect to the Island. Richard has stalked Locke from the very time of his birth. Abaddon (who works for Widmore) also stalks Locke and urges to go on the trip to the Australian Outback that eventually causes him to wind up on the Island. Each side is trying to curry favor with Locke. This seems to be a recognition of the fact that his destiny is to exercise some meaningful control the Island.
5. The Island has been protecting Locke from death. He was pushed out an eighth floor window and he really ought to be dead. He was shot by Ben and he is still walking around as healthy as he can be. In all other cases, the Island has acted as a shield from death only for those who are away from the Island after having spent considerable time on the Island.
6. Locke in many ways is supplanting Ben. Ben was an intermediate figure awaiting Locke’s arrival. Ben’s power to have visions through dreams vanished when Locke arrived on the Island as did his ability to communicate directly with Jacob. It is possible, therefore, that Ben was just a bridge figure awaiting Locke’s arrival. It is also possible that the two are meant to compliment each other. Locke is more of the straight shooter and Ben more conniving.
B. Other Analysis
1. There is a disparity in the time line on the Island. Keemy slits the doctor’s throat on the boat at least a day after he washed up dead on the beach.
2. Claire is dead according to the conventional definition of life and death. She was dead last week too. That’s why she is in the cabin with Christian Shepard who, so far as we know, is also dead. She is one of the people, who by virtue of some as yet unknown characteristic, lives on despite being dead. Her death is also likely the reason why Miles was so fascinated with Claire last episode because Miles as a medium was able to recognize that she was, in fact, dead.
3. The package was dropped on the survivor camp so that Keemy could return and select people to be killed. That is why there is a telephone tracking device in the package. Jack, who has about the world’s worst judgement (see Season 4: Episode 1, Thesis __) incorrectly concludes that they want the survivors to follow them into the jungle. Alternatively, it was dropped by Lapidus to aid the survivors. However, dropping a package unnoticed while flying seems somewhat impractical.
4. The rescue and removal of Aaron and Kate from the Island is pre-destined and desired by Jacob. Christian Shepard makes that clear with respect to Aaron and we have already seen that Kate is one of the people who is supposed to raise Aaron.
5. After spending a period of time on the Island, one acquires an immunity from death off the Island. Once again Michael can not be shot dead, this time by crazy Keemy. See also, Season 4: Episode 9; Analysis 7.
6. Keemy is one bad ass. No analysis necessary.
7. Sayyid may not reach the Island in the Zodiac motorboat. The doctor’s body has already washed up on shore. One would expect that traveling by motorboat would allow Sayyid to reach the Island before the effects of the current which washed the doctor onshore. Therefore, Sayyid should already have been on the Island. That he did not arrive before the doc evidences that he may not have made it by boat. Either that or the time travel thing really does not make any sense at all.
Saturday, May 3, 2008
Season 4: Episode 10
Season 4: Episode 10
I was bored to tears by this episode.
Hard Facts
1. Juliet performs an emergency appendectomy on Jack. [NOTE: Yes, of course, every fertility doctor can do an emergency appendectomy in a pinch.]
2. In the future, Jack moves in with Kate, proposes marriage but then their relationship collapses.
3. Miles can sense the burial place of Carl and Rosseau which is accompanied by whispering sounds.
4. Claire goes off into the jungle in the middle of the night with someone she refers to as “dad” leaving Aaron behind.
5. Charlotte is fluent in Korean.
6. Christian Shepard appears to Jack in the hospital after the smoke alarm starts beeping.
7. Hurley delivers a message to Jack from Charlie that he (Jack)is not supposed to be involved in raising Aaron.
Analysis
1. The flash forward with Jack and Kate is set in 2006 at the earliest. Jack sees a newspaper story that the Yankees have creamed the Red Sox. However, in 2005, the Red Sox beat the Yanks in post-season play. This means that Jack has over a year of relatively normal living upon returning from the Island.
2. Jack will learn that Claire is his half-sister. He comments in anger to Kate that “you’re not even related to him.” This suggests, though not conclusively, that Jack is aware that he is, in fact, related to Aaron because Claire is his half sister.
3. Either Desmond’s visions were inaccurate or the future can be changed. Desmond’s original vision was that Claire would climb to safety on the helicopter with Aaron. However, it now appears that will not happen.
4. Claire likely works for Sun’s father. Knowing Korean is not like speaking French or even Chinese. It is simply too much of a coincidence for Charlotte to speak fluent Korean. This may mean that Widmore is allied with Paik.
5. Kate's destiny is to be one of the people who raises Aaron. The message that Hurley is directed at Jack and not Kate. Therefore, in addition to it being inappropriate for Jack to raise Aaron, Jack is also not pre-destined for marital bliss with Kate.
6. The use of the Island’s powers creates or involves smoke. That’s why Christian Shepard sets off the smoke detector.
7. Whispers evidence the presence of people who are dead according to our conventional definition of life and death. This is confirmed by Miles encounter with the bodies of Rosseau and Carl and is consistent with the previously stated analysis on this blog. See Episode 4:1, Thesis 2.
8. The rescue and removal of Aaron from the Island is pre-destined. Claire was told by the Australian psychic to get on Flight 815 so that another loving couple could raise Aaron. Claire is led off to the jungle but Aaron is left behind safely which is odd given that the Others have always been interested in young children and in the earlier seasons Ethan Rom had sought to convince Claire to give up her soon to be born baby.
9. Jack’s destiny is connected to the Island. Christian Shepard is not just coming to say hello. There have also been allusions to this earlier on including in the episode when Locke kills Naomi, when Hurley tells Jack that they belong on the Island and in the initial flash forward at the end of season 3 when Jack tells Kate he needs to return to the Island. Also, Jack's life in civilization is ultimately not a happy one with failed personal relationships and a deep abiding sense of paranoia.
I was bored to tears by this episode.
Hard Facts
1. Juliet performs an emergency appendectomy on Jack. [NOTE: Yes, of course, every fertility doctor can do an emergency appendectomy in a pinch.]
2. In the future, Jack moves in with Kate, proposes marriage but then their relationship collapses.
3. Miles can sense the burial place of Carl and Rosseau which is accompanied by whispering sounds.
4. Claire goes off into the jungle in the middle of the night with someone she refers to as “dad” leaving Aaron behind.
5. Charlotte is fluent in Korean.
6. Christian Shepard appears to Jack in the hospital after the smoke alarm starts beeping.
7. Hurley delivers a message to Jack from Charlie that he (Jack)is not supposed to be involved in raising Aaron.
Analysis
1. The flash forward with Jack and Kate is set in 2006 at the earliest. Jack sees a newspaper story that the Yankees have creamed the Red Sox. However, in 2005, the Red Sox beat the Yanks in post-season play. This means that Jack has over a year of relatively normal living upon returning from the Island.
2. Jack will learn that Claire is his half-sister. He comments in anger to Kate that “you’re not even related to him.” This suggests, though not conclusively, that Jack is aware that he is, in fact, related to Aaron because Claire is his half sister.
3. Either Desmond’s visions were inaccurate or the future can be changed. Desmond’s original vision was that Claire would climb to safety on the helicopter with Aaron. However, it now appears that will not happen.
4. Claire likely works for Sun’s father. Knowing Korean is not like speaking French or even Chinese. It is simply too much of a coincidence for Charlotte to speak fluent Korean. This may mean that Widmore is allied with Paik.
5. Kate's destiny is to be one of the people who raises Aaron. The message that Hurley is directed at Jack and not Kate. Therefore, in addition to it being inappropriate for Jack to raise Aaron, Jack is also not pre-destined for marital bliss with Kate.
6. The use of the Island’s powers creates or involves smoke. That’s why Christian Shepard sets off the smoke detector.
7. Whispers evidence the presence of people who are dead according to our conventional definition of life and death. This is confirmed by Miles encounter with the bodies of Rosseau and Carl and is consistent with the previously stated analysis on this blog. See Episode 4:1, Thesis 2.
8. The rescue and removal of Aaron from the Island is pre-destined. Claire was told by the Australian psychic to get on Flight 815 so that another loving couple could raise Aaron. Claire is led off to the jungle but Aaron is left behind safely which is odd given that the Others have always been interested in young children and in the earlier seasons Ethan Rom had sought to convince Claire to give up her soon to be born baby.
9. Jack’s destiny is connected to the Island. Christian Shepard is not just coming to say hello. There have also been allusions to this earlier on including in the episode when Locke kills Naomi, when Hurley tells Jack that they belong on the Island and in the initial flash forward at the end of season 3 when Jack tells Kate he needs to return to the Island. Also, Jack's life in civilization is ultimately not a happy one with failed personal relationships and a deep abiding sense of paranoia.
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