LOST: 5x07 "The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham"

Initial Reaction & Comments

Overall
I realy enjoyed this Episode. We FINALLY get to see a Locke Centric episode (gee I haven't said that for a long time)! This episode beautifully mimics John Lockes Life in a nutshell. Locke seems to fail at every thing : he fails at Love with Helen, fails at his hippie pot growing commune, and fails at getting the losties to come back. He is desparate and still does not know what to do. His is unsure and constantly looking for direction from himself and other people.

NEW and IMPROVED Locke...
I like how the episode is titled as "The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham" and not "The Life and Death of John Locke", for Locke is 'reborn' into a NEW and IMPROVED Locke, ready to 'take command as a Leader. Only... he still seems to be a bit bumbling in trying to make sense of everything - like Columbo (Character an old TV series). Never the less John Locke is COMING OF AGE and ready to take control, and hopefully make smart(er) decisions. He must learn to NOT be so trusting and needy.

Who's the Hero NOW? -Ben or Charles
Theory: I believe that Ben is the protagonist in the story. The reasons for Ben's actions (ie: the apparent brutal murder of John Locke) were, once again, cloudy as Ben says " I'll miss you John... I really will", after leaving the room . All of Ben's lies are sprinkled with a bit of truth to continue to drag us along his manipulation game. I really want to believe Ben when he says "We're the GOOD guys Micheal"!

Ineresting Points
1) I REALLY was anticipating JACOB to be the one on the beach with Ceasar not Locke (can't explain that one -- just a feeling)

2) Kates reation to John appears 'tongue-in-cheeek' after Locke explains loosing Helen due to his "bsession" Kate says " look how far youve com [John]". as Kate believes he is obsessed with the island and himself.

3) Did Ben bring the BLUE RUBBER Glove with him to see John Locke with full intent to kill him or did he v]hasve the gloves 'jut in case. The War I hope the mention of the impending WAR (by Charles Widmore) is a reference both an Island war and a real-world happening. (the cover of the LIFE Magazine was a direct reference to "Jughead") it would be an interesting direction for the show to take in explaining the humanity, time, death, continuity, hate, violence, human weakness and motivations etc., in the world.

Top 5 Fav scenes/lines in the show:
1- Widmore to John Locke "there's a war coming and if you're not on the island the wrong side is going to win" .
2- Walt says to Locke dreams of " you're on the island [John] in a suit and people are tryng to hurt you"
3- Jack says to Locke " fate?!... its probability!... [John] you're just a Lonley old man"
4- Locke lets his heart get in the way of recruiting Walt and Sayid. After his weak efforts John says to Sayid " well.. if you change your mid call me [at the hotel]"
5- When looking at the 'people who got hurt' Ceasar said to Locke "Do you know him?". Locke answers: "Ya...he's the one who killed me"

Meaning of the Show
If the island is like the paradise symbol, eden if you will, the magical place that can heal all and exist free of time itself, it mimics the VALUE of the REAL WORLD. I like how the LOST story is told in such a way that its viewers draw the similarities of the show to the real world and make a connection with values to tim, life and death.

Unanswered Questions:
1) what are Ben's real motivations regarding the island

2) what are Widmore's real motivations regarding the island

3) How does Walt tie in? -- (and Desmond & Aaron & Christian and Jacob and on and on)

4) will we get to read the 1st mate's Blackrock journal?

LOST 5x06: pendulum Window locations

Above: Screen cap LOST 5x06.

LOST: Season 5 Episode 05

Source: Image is from Dark UFO's Website: http://losteastereggs.blogspot.com

"This place is death"


Themes:
It seems that the show has lost its theme based orientation or flashback centric storytelling. In so doing, LOST has not really been concentrating on themes as a narrative device but rather dealing with only the story. THIS may be intentional by the writers as it may be too confusing in dealing with all the time shifting. I do however look forward to the island finally being 'grounded' so we can stop the dizzying time shifting for a while.

If I had to select a theme for this episode it would be that of "Struggle".
Sun - struggling with the death of her husband Jin and her avenging his death.
Ben - His struggle with being now trusted, which represents a classic 'boy who cried wolf' syndrome.
Charlotte - Her struggle with her past and pending death.
Kate - Her struggle with keepink 'her son' Aaron.


ON second thought:
A few things that I'd like to bring attention to:
1.) Although Daniel Faraday says that "You cannot change the past no matter how hard you try you will fail every time..." I believe he knows this to be untrue as he is able to 'plant' a memory into Desmond's head that appears as a NEW memory fore Desmond in the future.

2.) Time travel problems:
I am having a big problem with time travel and objects that travel through time. Whenever the losties are holding , touching, or sitting in an object it too travels through time. Sawyer for instace holds on to the rope at the well and after a timeshift back in time to before the well was constructed, the rope is still in his hands. This was a great scene where the rope may have been used for dramatic effect but it does not make sense. If the losties happen to be huging a person belonging to a different time, do they travel through time as well. This begs the question, will we see this happen.

3.) It is till unclear as to who is supposed to come back to the island. Christian said to John Locke that "EVERYONE who left " has to come back. Does this include Desmond, (and Ben and Jeon for that matter)?


Theory:
The Smoke monster is THE ENERGY/SPIRITS OF ALL THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE EVER DIED ON THE ISLAND

LOST season 5 Episode 4 - The Little Prince

Comments:
Lost has begun to tie up some loose ends and seem to present some answers directly tied to time travel.
I feel that this episode focussed on a theme of Choice:
-kates choice between Sawyer and Jack.
-Suns choice to go after Ben ( unknowingly put a wrench in the Ben's plat to get the losties back to the island. )

Off to the orchid...
I suppose we will find out what happens at the orhid next episode presumably Locke turns the Donky Wheel beneath the ground and moves the Island back to where it is supposted to be.
My guess is that Lock does turn the wheel at an earlier Island time and this will be the time that "the Island was moved once before". The only new puzzling question is what will happen to Jin?


"Only fools are enslaved by space and time."

LOST Season 5 Episode: "Jughead"

The Episode overall... provided a couple of WOWs and a confirmation while opening up a whole bunch 'o' cans of worms. At some point there are going to have to be no more new mysteries presented -- or at least ones that cannot be solved by a end-of-series LOST jigsaw puzzle!

Baby Charlie:
Penny's baby boy Charlie (WOW#1) is introduced and I'm guessing the the producers are going to lead us down the path of making him 'SPECIAL" just like his dad. After all he's got Desmond's DNA running through his blood. By focussing on Penny and Desmond's relationship threatens the viewer that it might be on the decline by lieing and mistrusting each other. I'm getting a little tired of how many times is Desmond going to promise Penny that ''this will be the last time ....then after that [he'll] never leave her''. He's lucky that Penny is such an understanding person and in mad love with him. I'm an old romantic and would like to their relationship stand the 'test of time' (pun intended)

WHAT'S UP WITH: Dan.
It was nice to see Charlotte and Dans relationship start to grow after he admits his undying love (sorry - couldn't resist) for her. Although I can't quite see why he doesn't explain her condition to her especially if she were going to possibly face death. I mean it would only be respectful to tell the person if they are going to die. Another point is that Dan took an additional 30 minute to get back to the beach. Sawyer had asked him why it took him so log and the audience is left with another curios un-explanation from Dan's flimsy reply. Could it have been a time shift? Did Dan have some other agenda?Or was Dan was constipated and looking for a roll of Dharma toilet paper.

Ellie the gun toting tough chick...
is barely is able to carry the rifle, let alone carry off her tough character even with her teeth-clenching, I;m still not convinced. SO the big questions raised here is: Is Ellie Mrs Widmore, Penny mom? was penny born on the island? is Penny special or just rich?

Charles Widmore is evil now and was evil then.
It was nice to see the introduction of Charles Widmore character as a young man (WOW#2). I think his character was set bang on! The fact that he was holding a gun to John Locke's head seems to beg for a reversal of this situation later on. How OLD is old?! The audience wants answers! While the LOST writers are still holdinh on thi this way of story telling whereby noy providing a full answer is becomeing more that just a little tiresome.

Locke said to Juliet: How did you know Richard would be here?
Juliet: Richard's always been here.
Locke: How old is he?
Juliet: Old. Why are you so interested in Richard, John?
Locke: I'm interested in him because he was about to tell me how I could save us.
Juliet: "Save us"?
Locke: Yeah. .....But before he could finish, we were interrupted by that flash of light.

Just answer the question Juliet -- with a number please! We discover it was Locke that sent Richard to visit him in the hospital. It was a nice reference and tie-in in the show. Now this also explains the visit by Richard to 'test' Locke as a boy. Jacob may be involved in wanting to test John Locke as a boy.

Where does time start?
And now all of this with respect too time and fate. Which event or fatal moment happened and in which order to make all this happen? Well we are still lead back to the 815 crash as the starting point for all this. Some sort of time loop is suggested here as LOST shows how time is connected. By Messages can be sent through time as Locke's message to Richard and Richard traveling to the hospital to see John. These action imply changing the events in the past and future. Well where does course correction come into play here. I believe that time travel on the island REMAINS on the island. If the island moves in time to let's say 1955 and one was to leave it, would the real world time be 1955 as well?

Second Look -- Second Thoughts

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THEORY>> I believe we STILL have yet to meet Faraday's Mother. Please tell me it just can't be that easy... I think Darlton is going to surprise us with introducing another character as Daniel's real mother.

THEORY>> I still think LOCKE IS NOT DEAD! He has simply been drugged with Artz's spider venom. The same venom poison that got Nikki and Paulo mistaken and left(or shall we say buried) for dead.

THEORY>> I guessing that Sun in being deceptive by LYING about having common interest with Widmore in order to join forces WITH widmore to discover how to locate the island, in hopes of time traveling, to see Jin once more. Sun's said there were 2 people reponsible for her husbands death: Mr Paik is one of them and the other is Widmore (and his boat with the bomb on it that killed Jin) not Benjamin Linus.


Vintage LOST: Remember this...>> "My naaame is HENRY GALE, and I'M from Minnesota"
- Benjamin Linus 2006?

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REVIEW: Ep.5-01 & Ep.5-02:
THEME>> I believe the theme was about TRUTH vs LIE.
ie Jack and Hurley struggling with the whole Oceanic 6 lie
ie: Jack lying to Ben about flushing his pills himself
ie: Ben becoming more likable and seemingly being TRUHTFUL or at least sincere as he is desperate to get all the 0ceanic 6 back to the island
ie: Hurley saying its all happening because they lied

COMMENT>> the reintroduction of old characters ANA LUCIA, Dr Marvin Candle (Dr Chang), Frogurt, and Ethan was nice to see, While the mood and character of the losties seems to be shifting as they get more desperate and confused.

COMMENT>> the mystery cinematic device of hiding the characters faces was a little overdone. Showing their faces would be no less interesting also.
ie: hiding Dr. Changs face, Daniels Face, Ms Hawking's face

NOTE>> Dr. Chang notes that the energy behind the wall can be harnessed to manipulate time as we know its already been harnessed via the original installation of the donkey wheel.

THEORY>> the ancient island inhabitants installed the wheel and there is a 'back door' to the chamber or they covered it up knowing safe to use as a last resort if necessary.

THEORY>> the island is floating like a magnetic iceberg ( with the magnetic energy in the island) over another magnet (the earth's core). The islands 'radius' as Daniel Faraday mentions must extend outward from the shore of the island to the edge/width of the 'iceberg' if you will. The ripples the island made the first time we saw it move ALSO suggests it floating -- like plucking an ice cube out of a bowl. If the island went down to the earth's

COMMENT>> Sun to Ben -- "[our common interest] to KILL benjamin Linus"
It seems a little unrealistic that Sun is so keen on KILLING BEN, other than maybe a cultural thing of avenging loved one's 'murder', it doesn't seem like Sun.

COMMENT>> IT KIILS ME THAT the sound production people can't resist inserting a ''shoosh-metal-on-metal' knife sound when Locke quietly removes his knife from its leather holster while hiding behind the plane before he's discovered by Richard.

COMMENT>> I still believe that the compass Richards Alpert gives to John Locke is his 'constant' in order to remember and trust John Locke in his own past. It seems he's always had some sort of compass - at least since when John Locke was a boy

KUDOS>> Josh Holloway 's performance especially when he showed his desparation by the back door of the hatch -and- when asked by Juliet why he jumped from the helicopter.

COMMENT>> Its funny how Charlotte and the other nose-bleeders never feel their own blood on their upper lip themselves.

JOKE>>FLAMING ARROWs seem unrealistic as they burn too bright and ling after they hit the ground. There must be some heavy duty chemicals on those suckers!

BAD JOKE>> SAWYERS toe with the piece of wood lodged in it looks worse than John Locke's bullet wound! I hope Richard Alpert puts some disinfectant on it too before his pedicure!

THEORY>> The army was there to protect dharma from the current island 'natives/inhabitants' while dharma built the stations, the compound and until the security wall was up and running.

THEORY>> I think we are being tricked into believing Ms Hawking to be Daniel Faraday's mother. The Ms instead of Mrs in front of her name is indication.

THEORY>> LOCKE IS NOT DEAD! He has simply been drugged with Artz's spider venom. The same venom poison that got Nikki and Paulo mistaken and left(or shall we say buried) for dead. This would relieve Darlton from having to explain Locke's death as permanent or the island miraculously 'reviving' him upon his return.

COMMENT>> Ben's Group of others in the real world-- seems to have an elaborate hierarchy for the others in their travel back and forth. There is an apparent chain of command where Jacob does not appear to be on the top. I'd like to have this further explained



IDEAS
COMMENT>>> Talk shoe needs to provide a way to capture text in the chat room as you see in in Talk Shoe Pro and be able to save it to a file -- lots a great stuff is missed in the chat room
COMMENT>> Talk shoe Pro client should include a spell checker.


FAVORITE LINES
Rose to Frogurt -- "HELP or BE QUIET" and ['you need a timeout']
Hurley to Sayid -- "It you ate more comfort food , maybe you wouldn't go around killing people"


TOP 10 LOST THINGS I WANT
in the season:
1-Walt
2-Black Rock Mythology
3-4 toed native islander Mythology: basically the Donkey wheel explained
4-Smoke Monster
5-see what Claire is doing

in the next episode:
6-find out how they bust Hurley out of police custody
THEORY>> although there could be a plot twit like something tells me the reall cops ther hit on the heads dragged into the bushes and those are actually Widmore's men
7-find out what happens to the whispers when the island kept shifting in time
8-see Jacob shifting in island time
9-see the damn temple
10-not to stay up too late after the show


EASY READING BEFORE BED
NOTE>> The show EPISODE TRANSCRIPTS are downloadable from LOST PEDIA and make for some good reading before bedtime. The actor direction in the transcript notes sometmes offer hints to the scene / plot / or character development. The transcripts are usually available 24 hrs after the last airing.
To down load transcript files follow this url: http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Season_5

LINKS -find out more about LOST:
KUDOS>> to all the LOST podcasters in covering this long awaited event -- more coverage than the presidential inauguration.

GENERAL info about lost>> http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
LINK>> For all the LOST PODCASTS and show info to LPN (Lost Podcasting Network) http://lostcasts.blogspot.com/

SPECIAL THANKS
Thank to my wife who let me stay up in the chat rooms till 430 am then sleep in while she took our little one to school in the morning.
--love ya