Sunnies Got A Gun

My money is on Sun planning to kill Jack as one of the two people who killed Jin (even though he is alive). When they showed the flashback of the freighter, they showed Kate telling Sun to get on board the helicopter, and then Jack pushing Kate towards the helicopter. There was too much focus on that, Kate was genuinely sorry, Sun said she didn’t blame her after which she immediately breaks the moment and asks about Jack. She said to Widmore she is after Ben, but I think this is for the purposes of aligning with Widmore who is the second of the two men responsible for Jin’s death. While the surveillance we saw Sun receive shows logs and photos of Ben, they are really photo’s and logs of Jack’s movements, or at least, a record of Ben’s movements in the knowledge that Jack is hanging around Ben. We just assume it’s for Ben because Sun told us she was after Ben. It’s rather like the twist in X-Men where we think Magneto is really after Wolverine when instead it turns out he was after Rogue all along, Wolverine just happened to be with her everytime they made a grab for her.

No Babies For You

I’m hanging my hat on the theory that babies cannot be born on the island because the island seems to be bobbing backwards and forwards in time around the current present like an anchored ship that bobs up and down in the water, but doesn’t actually move from it’s place. I think the island has gone further back in the past, which has led to the problem of changing the past if any babies were born in that period. Therefore, the universe course corrects itself by not allowing babies born on the island.

Heading for a headache

I think the reason for a specific heading when entering or leaving the time bubble is quite like a rocket re-entering the earths atmosphere. If you are going from one time period to another as you would when you enter or leave the island, it’s like travelling through a barrier of a certain size. If you pass through the barrier directly, you pass through it head on and you experience a bigger shock as you pass from one side to another. If you pass through it at an angle, the rate of change in time as you pass through is slower. It’s like deep sea diving. Come straight up and your body is shocked and you get the bends. However, swim forwards and upwards and you come up at a slower rate and your body adapts slowly to the change and you don’t get the bends. In otherwords, slam through the time barrier and you get a mental version of the bends (mind bending?) which is why you need to pass through at an angle. The angle is determined by the bearing used to pass through the barrier. The time jumping going on right now is like instantaneously jumping from one underwater depth to another and giving our losties a right old jolt.

Jack’s Beard on demand.

I have to credit Mrs. Gibson for this one as she spotted it, and after re-watching it several times, I think she is right, and I haven’t seen it mentioned elsewhere. When Jack visits Hurley in the Hospital and they play basketball, he arrives fresh and clean shaven. Halfway through the game, he says ‘I’m thinking of growing a beard’, from then on, in each shot of Jack playing basketball, his facial hair is getting darker and darker until he has a serious five-o’clock shadow when he leaves.

The Lost Logo

One thing I’ve always thought for the last few seasons is how the Lost logo at the start kind of starts out of focus, passes through our point of focus and as it comes closer, moves out of our point of focus. I’ve always thought this kind of represented time as we watch the show, looking into the past. Yes, I know episode one was supposed to take place around the day it was shown in 2004, but after that initial episode, we have always been in the future looking back to 2004. Now we are suddenly transported to 3 years later where we almost caught up with current day losties. Through the last two seasons, I think we will see some or all of the characters in current day and even future events.

Rousseau’s Background

It was a disappointment to see Rousseau killed off last season before we had the chance for a Rousseau flashback and seeing what happened to her and her crew. Unfortunately, I think our visit with Rousseau and her crew will be short lived which is a shame because it took weeks before everything started going awry for them.

Smokey – Time Police Monster

I tend to think that Smokey is a kind of like the time police. It can be used to correct events that might have changed. Note how Ben summoned smokey when Keamy changed the rules, or how the pilot was killed by the monster perhaps because he wasn’t supposed to be the pilot of flight 815. I’m sure he has other purposes, why else would he be giving Eko the whomping willow treatment, and just generally start scanning our survivors for unknown purposes.

I remember you

There’s a lot of debate on the question of why people that have met in the past didn’t remember the meeting when they ‘first met’ originally. I think part of this is down to the fact that the initial meet is in the past and cannot be changed. If in 2001 I meet Pete and in 2004, I travel back in time to 1995 and meet Pete for the first time, and then come back to 2004, what’s to say that our initial meeting 2001 didn’t go along the lines of ‘hey, I remember you!’. The initial meeting was in the past and hadn’t been changed at that point. This lines up with the notion of a single timeline. Perhaps if I time traveled back and spied on the 2001 meet, I would see the changed past where we both talked about meeting in 1995, and our post 2001 selves would continue with the knowledge that we meet in 1995 and 2001. This happened with Desmond remembering meeting Daniel at the hatch, his present day self remembers this meeting.