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Sunday, February 15, 2009

This Place is Death

First off, this was a great episode. So much happened it’s hard to know where to begin.

I am trying to figure out if the skipping the island is doing is random or purposed by some force aka The Island.

If it is the island it seems to be working in very inconsistent ways that would lead me to believe there is more than one force at work.

For instance, when Jin stopped Rousseau from going into the hole by the temple it really got me thinking. What would have happened if Jin had not been at that place and time? Rousseau would have most likely gone the way of her party members that got “sick” and had to be killed. It is apparent that Robert (Rousseau’s boyfriend) knew much more than he should have and was being highly influenced by some force (the island?). He wanted Rousseau dead. So did the island want her dead? If it was by island’s fate that Jin was placed where he was then there seems to be some conflicting forces trying to keep her alive for some future purpose.

How about Charlotte, Dharma and Daniel? Very intriguing.

I have a few questions to throw out there for additional thoughts:

Will the island skip through time anymore now that the wheel is not dislodged anymore?
Who or what is Christian Shepherd? (that guy freaks me out)

2 comments:

Pat K said...

Good questions Joel! And guess what - NO ANSWERS! Not from me anyways. I made a few observations of my own. First off - the place where Montague lost his arm. If I had to give it a name, I would say that place is The Temple! Should that be so, then we know yet another thing about Smokey - that it protects (or at least makes home) at the temple.

As far as the time-travel goes. I would like to think there is some limitation to how much it skips. To our knowledge, it would seem like we've only moved in time probably no more than 100 years (my guess would be closer to 60 though). The earliest time I think we've seen is the Well area before it was ever constructed. That being said, I'm still wondering who's boats Locke, Sawyer, and Juliet took from the beach? And furthermore, who was shooting at them??

Joel said...

Oh the questions!