To get ready for Wednesday’s Lost episode here are recaps of last week’s episode, “316″:
And some things I’m wondering about.
Ben’s injuries
When everyone is leaving the church to get their affairs in order to return to the island, Ben says he has to keep a promise to an old friend. The next time we see him he’s covered in blood making a call from a marina payphone.
The prevailing theory is that the old friend was a sardonic reference to his enemy Charles Widmore. The promise was to kill Widmore’s daughter Penny in retaliation for his killing of Ben’s daughter Alex. The theory figures that the most likely character to be at a marina is Penny, who has lived on a boat with Desmond for the past three years. Ben in that case was presumably beaten up by Widmore’s goons or Desmond.
I noticed something when I re-watched the episode. Ben’s face is bloody and his hair is wet, but his clothes are dry and blood-free. Also, his face is bloody except for the area around his eyes and the top of his nose, almost as if he was wearing a mask, possibly a scuba mask, when whatever happened happened.
Locke’s death
I have a hard time believing Locke killed himself out of simple hopelessness. Heck, I have a hard time believing he killed himself, period. When Michael left the island he fell into despair and tried to commit suicide many times, but the island wouldn’t allow him to die. The previews for this week seemed to suggest the same thing for Locke, with car crashes and such, just like Michael. We’ve also been led to believe that Ben couldn’t simply shoot and kill Widmore when he confronted him in Widmore’s penthouse.
One possibility that’s going around is that Locke was bitten/chose to be bitten by a medusa spider and is in hibernation that looks like death, a la Nikki and Paolo. Maybe, but it seems like a longshot.
Or if you take the Jesus/Thomas/resurrection imagery they used a step further we might see Locke reborn through some mysterious property of the island. Possibly as Jacob? Locke was told he was their leader and Jacob was their leader.
As I recall the previews showed Locke and Widmore meeting each other in the present, some 50 years after their first meeting. That’s a rematch that should be interesting. I’ll take all the Widmore, Hanso, and Dharma Initiative backstory I can get to unravel the mystery of the island.
Miscellaneous
- I can’t believe there was an off-island Dharma Initiative station. These people were branding their product before branding was cool.
- Who’s the “clever fellow” who created the Lamp Post to find the island? And did Ben really not know about it?
- Speaking of which, is Ben telling the truth lately, as some people are theorizing? We’ve certainly seen him gloss over the truth, but I’m trying to remember the last time we’ve seen him tell what we knew was a lie. In general he seems more contrite than before.
- Last season Ben told Locke that whoever turns the wheel can never return to the island. If that’s true (a big if when Ben’s involved) why was he on Ajira Flight 316 trying to return to the island, and will he return successfully with most of the Oceanic 6?
- If they’re now trying to recreate the conditions of Oceanic Flight 815, then does that mean that there was someone on 815 like Ben who had been on the island before? There could be lots of people like that, some of whom – much like Charlotte or Miles – might not be fully or at all aware they had previously been on the island.
- That’s the spookiest idea I’ve had about the whole episode – who of the Flight 815 passengers might have been on the island before? Zoinks, Scooby.
- I was not expecting to see Jin hop out of that microbus. Dang. When in time are they?
- It looks like our time in LA is coming to a close and we’ll spend more time on the island. Hallelujah. The off-island parts were usually too slow and had too much Jack and Kate.
Bonus! The Lost Tour of Oahu
JOpinionated flew to Hawaii and took the tour of the Lost set and related places. Sounds like fun. Pics and report here and here.
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