The Game

This was sent to me by a coworker who copied it from a message board. We've been going over its merits and shortcomings all morning. Let me know your thoughts. (Spelling errors and run on sentences, etc. not my own. OBVI.)

Not sure if this has been mentioned already but in my opinion MIB can only leave the Island when there are no further candidates remaining on the Island. As per the names written in the cave, there were six active candidates(Lotto numbers), however some like Locke and perhaps Claire are already dead. Once all the candidates die, there are no more chess pieces left, meaning no more pieces for the white team Jacob.

So long as Jacob was alive, he could continue to recruit new candidates, meaning the chess game would continue over and over again with a new game for each batch of candidates who arrived on the island. That is perhaps why MIB was so unhappy about seeing the new recruits come to the island via the black rock. By killing Jacob, MIB could insure that once and for all, there would not be any more candidates coming to the island, being recruited by Jacob. Now, all MIB has to do is eliminate the remaining pieces.

The rules says that MIB cannot kill any candidates directly. You are a candidate if Jacob at some point in your life physically made contact with you. That is why, when Locke came face to face with the Smokey early on in the show, he was not and could not be killed by it. What MIB has to do is find a way of having the candidates eliminate each other. By having candidates such as Sayed or Claire die due to the act of other mortals, the MIB could infect them and have them kill the other candidates/pieces. That is why Jacob told Hurley to rush back to the temple so Sayed could be healed and not be infected by MIB. Also that is why the temple people wanted Jack to kill Sayed before he could kill the rest of the candidates.

Of course, Flocke may attempt to convince Sawyer who has not died or infected to simply try to kill the rest of the candidates.

I will let Danielle extrapolate upon her theory of why there are only men on the current candidate list and the significance of Bloody Boy in the Woods, and pose these questions: what if Locke has been "infected" (or at least "influenced") by Smokey since the beginning of the show? Perhaps MIB fixed Locke's legs to try to get him on his team from the start? How does Locke's backgammon explanation to Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaalt about the "one light side, one dark side" play into everything?

There are only 12 episodes left?!!!!!!!!!?!

I lied

OK, I lied.

Here's the thing: I have no idea what's going on on this show. As I've been playing with my writing blocks, building epic castles out of them, I realized that all I could really offer would be a glorified recap. And, truthfully, Doc Jensen and Kristin do that so much better than I.

And, truthfully, the pressure to just bust out an analysis is a little overwhelming. As is the rest of my life.

I debated just closing the doors and closing down the blog, but that wouldn't be fair to you, my faithful followers. And since I'm still supremely invested in the show and how it will all come to an end, I'd love to hear from you. So instead of just turning out the lights on breegetslost, I've decided to keep it open as a forum for all of us to discuss our theories, opinions, etc.

I know, it's a cop-out. I'm so busy, I don't have time, I'm tired: boo hoo. I get it, I'm lame. But I feel like this is a happy medium. And once life slows down, and when all is said and done, my plan to go back to the beginning and start all over. So someday, there WILL be a recap of ALL of the shows.

Until then, my friends, namaste.

I Promise

I promise it's coming. Please be patient. It will be rewarded. I've only just recently cleaned my brains off the wall behind my couch after Tuesday's premiere.

He's Our You/What Happened, Happened

At this point, I'm sure my apologies are falling on deaf ears. But if you ONLY KNEW the week I had, I'm sure you could find it in your cold, blackened hearts to forgive me.

So, since I'm waaay behind on the one true love in my life, (sorry, Ian, but I've accepted that I'll always be #2 to BSG, so you'll have to accept that LOST comes first), I'll apologize in advance for my condensed recaps of the Sayid-centric "He's Our You," and last week's magnificent, Kate-centric "What Happened, Happened."

OK. Dive in.

After busting a cap in some Unknown's a**, Sayid meets Ben in the alley somewhere in uh...Russia? (It's been two weeks, give me a break), where Ben tells him, "That's all, folks!" Killing in the name of protecting the Left-Behinders has come to a close. Move on with your life, Sayid. But, see, that's the thing: all his life, Sayid has only ever been a killer. Enter self-realization guilt. Whilst Sayid drinks away said guilt, he gets chatted up by some hottie all up in his bidness, then they go get it on, and she BEATS THE CRAP OUT OF HIM and we realize (and by "we" I mean "Sayid" since we all recognized Ilana from Ajira flight 316) that this chick is a bounty hunter who has tracked Sayid down for the murder of That Guy on the Golf Course, and is delivering him to said Guy's family to answer for said cold-blooded murder.

Irony/coincidence/luck has never bothered our favorite Iraqi before, but as he boards the plane with Crazy Ass Bounty Hunter, he notices his fellow O6ers, and begs to take the next plane. No such luck, Sayid, no such luck.

OK, let's fast-forward a bit. Sayid gets to Island, circa 1977. Runs into Jin and Dharma peeps. Is mistaken for a hostile. Thrown in jail cell. Is given a tuna sandwich by 12-year old Ben. Argues with Sawyer, king of Dharmaville over whether or not to run away, leave, and never return. Doesn't. Gets tortured by Hippie Guy With Drugs Who Lives In a Tent. Says he's from the future, and pisses off the Dharma peeps. Gets all "gonna-bust-you,-Ben's-dad-you-best-watch-yo'self." Gets broken out of jail by Ben in return for his promise to deliver him to the Others. Ben and Sayid flee into Jungle. Get stopped by Jin. Puts ninja moves on Jin, rendering him unconscious. Shoots Ben, runs into jungle.

OMG, HE KILLED BEN! (That bastard! Ha. Sorry. Wrong show.)

So much for that stipulation by Faraday not to eff with events that already occured.

After "He's Our You" aired, I was fully onboard with Doc Jensen's theory, recapped (sans crazy ramblings, as he is wont to do)

What if Young Ben neither lives nor dies in this episode but instead...falls into a coma? What if the rest of season 5 proceeds with the tension of knowing (and worrying) that should Ben die, history-negating paradox may occur? [...] What if the final season of Lost will tell the story of the all-new, all-different, Ben-free history of the castaways, which will include a moment where Jack and Sayid find ''one of them'' in Rousseau's nets, and when they go and investigate, they will find a guy that they don't recognize, a guy who will call himself ''Henry Gale,'' a guy who was always meant to be on the Island and rule the Others instead of Ben, a guy we know as...John Locke?

Creepy, huh? Don't you love it?!

So this past week's Kate-centric "What Happened, Happend" showed us, exactly, what happened to the-child-after-whom-I-did-NOT-name-my-own-child. It seems the long-speculated-upon helicopter whisper from Sawyer to Kate was, as most predicted, a plea to check in on his daughter, Clementine. And surprise! You know Clem's mom! And surprise again! You'll end up being BFF.

In her blunt manner, Dimples (Cassidy) tells Freckles (Kate) that Aaron is currently filling the void Sawyer left when he leapt from the "airpane." (Ian, to his chagrin, has yet to teach our son the difference between fixed-wing and rotor aircraft.) Um, ok, but the fierceness with which Kate loves that kid is almost tangible. I buy into Cassidy's theory just slightly.

Why, you ask? Here's why: When Kate was saying goodbye to sleeping Aaron--she MEANT it. Her "bye-bye, Baby" almost sent me into convulsions. And it definitely made up for the feeling of wanting to smack the I-can't-decide-juice-or-milk kid. (Juice, kid. Juice.)

So while Sawyer later claims that he's grown up a lot in the three years since Kate and Co. left the building, I'll also wager that Kate's done a bit of maturing, as well. Her maternal instinct, (so we'll call it, since I know, Aaron's not her kid) has kicked in, in full. And although she knows who Ben will grow up to be, she, like Juliet (to whom I'm starting to feel more and more attached--I'll be pissed if, according to rumor, they kill her off at the end of the season), can't stand by and watch an innocent child suffer.

My only remaining question is this: Was Sayid having an off-night? He's had no problem with his aim heretofore. Or would The Island not let Ben die? Hmm...

P.S. I vote for a Hurley-Miles spin off!! Loved it!

Namaste

Quick hits, because I barely have time to BREATHE:

• I must be getting on in my old age, because I just realized that Sun and Co. didn't land in 1977 like the others. Well, not THE Others, but you know, those other people. Good lord, this could get confusing quickly. Why didn't Sun and Ben (and Locke, too, I suppose) disappear off of Ajira 316 and land in 1977? Um...I don't know. 
• Creepy Christian Shepherd is hangin' in 2007, site of the recently blown-up-by-freighter-mercenaries Dharma neighborhood. WHY IS THIS GUY EVERYWHERE?
• Before abandoning us to go have a baby (lame excuse), Kristin let it slip that LOST will be featuring a WEDDING close to or during the season finale this year. Place your bets: I'm going with Jim and Juliet. Suck it, Kate.
• Amy named her baby Ethan. I'm assuming this ends up being the same Ethan that later kidnaps pregnant Claire, leaves Charlie hanging from a tree, recruits Juliet to the Island, and eventually gets shot by Charlie (not in tree). And Juliet helped bring that little bundle 'o joy into the world!
• Maybe it's me, but I'm getting a little frustrated with the characters on this show who get the most basic answers to HUGE questions, and don't seem all too interested in ASKING FOLLOW UP QUESTIONS!! Example: When Sawyer mentions Faraday's Rules for Living in the Past, Jack asks, "Faraday? He's still here?" Sawyer replies, "Not anymore." And the convo is finished! Infuriating.
• When the plane was crashing, did anyone else notice that the automated voice was spouting off the numbers?!
• Ha. "Based on your aptitude tests, you'll be doing janitorial work." Good to know that medical school can get you far in life, Jack. 
• Sawyer/James/Jim (I'm not a fan of these characters having multiple names...like this show isn't confusing enough!) called Kate...well, Kate. He's only ever called her by her real name when things aren't going well. Where's the love, Sawyer?
  

Next week's "He's Our You" is Sayid-centric. Hopefully, life will slow down a bit before then!

LaFleur

Yeah, yeah, I suck. Get over it.

OK, so anyway, last Thursday's Sawyer-centric "LaFleur" was LEAPS and BOUNDS ahead of its weekly predecessor, "316." There was romance, action, suspense, humor, intrigue (obvi), and, holy crap, AN ANSWER OR TWO!

Thanks to Locke locking (haha, me funny) the wheel in place, the Left-Behind-ers are no longer skipping through time like a stone across the placid lake surface (heeee-ey, girlfriend's gettin' all poetic!). They have finally come to a rest--and as Daniel (still mourning the loss of Red) says, "the record is no longer skipping. We're just on the wrong song." So instead of Maroon 5, we're kickin' it to Geronimo Jackson. On their way back to the beach, (quote of the night goes to Miles for his stunning insight: "...[and] when you get [to the beach], you'll want to go back to the Orchid again, and when that gets boring, we can head back to the beach. It's the only 2 plans you people have.") they run across a damsel in distress. The Hostiles have already managed to kill Paul, and are on their way to doing the same to Amy when Sawyer steps in with his trusty rifle to lend a hand. After he and Juliet take them out, a fearful Amy blathers on about burying the bodies to uphold the pact, blah, blah, blah, then gives the old fake-out at the sonic fence. When the crowd comes to, Sawyer has adopted the story that the group is shipwrecked, and his name is LaFluer. Jim LaFluer. 

Sawyer's epic narrative is basically based on the fact that now that the whole time travelling thing has run its' course, they'll just wait the 30 years it will take for the rest of the crew to get back.

What kind of crazy leadership is that?! Jack would NEVER do something like that! Pshaw. 30 years, my foot. I'd leave your ass, and make my way back to the beach. (Which, as Miles noted is always Plan B.)

Juliet's feeling the same way too, ready to take the next sub outta CrazyTown, but Sawyer looks at her all nice-like and she decides to stay for two weeks. Meanwhile, 3 years later...

...Sawyer, ahem, excuse me, Jim LaFleur, is now head of security for the Dharma Initiative, and Juliet's a mechanic. (Which was, obviously, her second choice after becoming a baby scientist doctor gal.) Oh, and they love each other. Suliet (followers of this blog have learned not to dub these two "Jawyer," for they run the risk of having their sexuality questioned...), in the past three years, have fallen in love, shacked up, and Sawyer has forgotten what old whatsherface even looks like. 

Except, oh yeah, she's back, and that's right, THAT'S what she looks like!

And, she looks so good that Sawyer has to take his glasses off to make sure. 

Barf. OK, Damon. Kate loves Jack, and Sawyer loves Juliet. Let's just leave well enough alone, and NOT MESS WITH THIS, mmkay?!

Ahhh... what else? Oh, lots of Egyptian symbology showing up. We got a glimpse of the 4-toed statue (at least, we're assuming so) from behind, and multiple sources are placing it in Egyptian mythology and drawing parallels between that and the hieroglyphics in the hatch, and on the timer, and on that map drawn on the door, and making all these connections that go way over my head. Please enlighten me if you have a theory on this.

Next week is a repeat, s hopefully, y'all won't string me up when I don't post anything for a week or so. BUT, when LOST comes back in two weeks, we'll get some more Reiko, and some Young Ben! Namaste! (Which, by the by, is the name of the episode.) Until next time...

The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham...

...was completely boring.

Apologies for the tardiness of this recap. Things have been a bit crazy this week.

So anyway, it seems that I am in the minority on this one. I thought "The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham" pretty much gave us nothing that we didn't already know (or assume). Surprised when Locke showed up alive on the island after the Ajira Airways crash? Nope. And really, there wasn't all that much going on anyway. Locke goes to visit Sayid. Asks him to come back to the island. Sayid says no. Goes to visit Kate. Asks her to come back to the island. She says no. Wash, rinse, repeat.

Furthermore, I'm not even sure Locke dropped his pseudonym when he visited any of those people. So why the secrecy with his name? Why, when Walt visited Hurley in the institution last year, did he say "Why aren't we calling him by his real name" or something to that effect? Makes me think the producers didn't include ALL of Locke's journey.

But the stuff they did include was rather boring, truth be told. Raise your hand if you really cared about what happened to Helen? Bueller..... Bueller.....? (Raise your hand if you even REMEMBER what she looked like!)

What did we get? Uh...Abaddon is the devil. Like, for real. Some sort of mythological character, ushering people to their deaths or something. Charles Widmore is a good guy, Ben is the bad guy? Or Ben is the good guy, and the Chuckster is evil? I don't know. Lapidus took off in an outrigger after Ajira crashed. Wanna bet Sun is with him? (There goes my theory that Cesar and Ilana, or so they're named, were the ones pursuing Sawyer and Co.!)

So, after nothing happens, Locke tries to hang himself. Ben shows up just in time to talk him off the ledge, then kills him himself. Seemingly, as soon as Locke name dropped Eloise Hawking, Ben felt it necessary to strangle him. But other sources are going with the notion, that similar to Michael, the island won't let John commit suicide. 

Whatever. Boring!

Here's hoping that next week's "LaFleur" is a little bit more blog-worthy. I hope so! Reiko Aylesworth (a.k.a. Michelle Dressler from 24) starts her recurring character arc. Weeeee!