LOST S06E04 E-mail Chain: Back To The Land Of The Locke

Season 6: Episode 4

Peter “I may or may not have had a few drinks before LOST” Ha: What exactly was Locke a candidate for? What are “the rules” and who was that kid? Undead Locke admits to be trapped? On the island? As the black mist? Does undead Locke need the survivors to get “home”? He’s using Ford aka Sawyer to go somewhere.

This show is all about Locke. Locke. Locke. Locke. Locke. Locke. Just die, Locke. Oh wait, you did. Nevermind.

Allie “I don’t watch LOST” Townsend: Locke (and the rest on the cave wall) are candidates for the next keeper of the island, which I’m assuming, protects the rest of the world of some sort of great source of evil. He handpicked the group who could contain it there on the island. That source of evil is now inside John Locke. I think the evil is trapped on the island until someone helps it off. Or at least that’s my theory.

But why the hell weren’t there any women on that list? No Kate? No Claire? No Rose? Come on LOST, show some lady love.

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PH: I totally thought you wrote “lady lumps” for a second.

I get that the guy from the beach that was talking to Jacob in the season finale is the spirit or whatever possessing Locke’s body, but how is he doing that? Who else is dead and walking around? What if Hugo was right (last episode) about everyone being zombies?

Thanks for bringing Claire back for two seconds in the last episode and not even mentioning her in the following episode, LOST.

I have nothing further to say on the matter.

AT: Oh they just want to ensure that everyone will watch the next two episodes by never resolving ANYTHING. Also, I really don’t think that chalk could have stayed on the walls of that cave for so long. I smell a fake out… Ooo, what if the LOST creators pull a Buffy and have Jack wake up in a mental institution babbling about some island he made up. That’d be cute.

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Anywho, Rose has cancer? That’s so sad. And Locke’s fiancee is still around? AND she mentioned his father, like oh, I don’t know, they don’t hate each other??? What’s going on alternate universe. Something else happened when they reset things. I think the past was effected further back than they realized. Creepy.

PH: YOU DO NOT WATCH LOST! Rose had cancer before she even got to the island.

AT: I totally didn’t know that. And shut your face. You can do this email chain to yourself next week…

So what’s your prediction for next week?

I’m betting that Jack goes crazy and then something happens that none of us understand that’s probably looped into some small back story I didn’t watch…

PH: “then something happens that none of us understand”

We could copy and paste that line every week and be done with it until the very last episode. See you in the morning!

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Y’all are too funny, so please keep doing the email chain.

LOST is definitely turning in to a huge game of some sort. I don’t understand why Sawyer and “Dark Dude” are so eager to get off the island. How is that going to work when Sawyer is technically already off the island? We need more back story quickly – I have to know why Richard is so scared of the “Dark Dude”. I’m still confused, that’s all I’ve got today.
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I’m so glad I don’t watch TV. But this is funny. THEY SHOULD MAKE A SHOW ABOUT YOU GUYS.
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“So what’s your prediction for next week?”

Now that LOST has explained The Numbers to my satisfaction, all I need in life is a Richard Alpert episode. WHY DOES THE MAN WEAR EYELINER????

(I know, I know, I’ve seen “Dark Knight,” I know they’re always like that. I still don’t buy it.)
crispy

FYI: There were women’s names on the cave wall including Rousseau and Charlotte Lewis.

We didn’t see Kate’s name… so it either wasn’t shown to us, or she’s not a candidate.
jeia56

I don’t know what it was, but I wasn’t as stoked as I usually am going into an episode of Lost. Probably because I live in Canada and I’ve been super stoked for the Olympics lately that an episode of Lost just doesn’t seem a exciting in comparison. Not to mention the fact that Canada kicked the crap out of Norway in mens hockey about 2 hours before Lost started so I was still celebrating that.

Anyways, my thoughts: Pretty good episode. Holloway and O’Quinn are phenomenal actors.

I’m almost 100% certain that Sawyer is pulling a long-con on the Lockeness monster. As heartbroken and angry as he is, I just can’t see him selling out everyone on the island to the smoke monster.

Little ghost boy=Aaron? Jacob? Some sort of “referee” in their conflict?

More bible references! Yay! The ladder down to Jacobs cave (if it is, in fact, his cave) could possibly be an allusion to Jacob’s Ladder of the old testament.

They’re really pushing the idea that the MIB could actually be the good guy in the conflict. His exchange with Richard in the jungle, telling Sawyer that he’s trapped, claiming that Jacob brought them to the island against their will. Although Richard seemed pretty darned convinced that he’s a force evil, so who knows. I’ll expand upon this in another post later.

We really need a Richard-centric episode sometime in the near future.
jeia56

More about my idea of the MIB/smokey/fake-locke actually being good:

Smokey really seems adamant about the idea that Jacob has lied (or at least not told the whole truth) to those who follow him. He seems to imply that Jacob had no right to interfere in our losties lives and send them on a collision course with the island. He tells Richard that he would’ve told him the truth and treated him with respect, telling Sawyer that the island isn’t special..etc, etc.

This got me thinking about the Greek god Prometheus. In Greek mythology, Prometheus is the God who stole fire from Zeus and gave it to mankind. Zeus then punished him for this by chaining him to a rock while an eagle ate his liver, only to have it grow back and be eaten again the next day.

Prometheus can be viewed as both a hero and a villian. On the one hand, he gave mankind fire (I think fire could be an allegory for free will in this case). On the other hand, he did steal the fire from the king of the gods, Zeus. One could argue that Prometheus had no right to steal the fire from Zeus because Zeus is, after all, his king, but you could also argue that Zeus had no right to withhold the fire from man. Prometheus is both a hero and a villian.

Zeus is generally viewed as a just and right god, but the argument could be made that he violated mankinds sovereignty by constantly interfering in our affairs, i.e. punishing man if man did not do what he wanted.

In Lost’s case the MIB could equal Prometheus and Jacob could equal Zeus.