Long Lost
I just watched the fascinating two-hour premiere of Lost.
Last season I posted extremely long recaps of most episodes. I don't know if I have the time and energy to do it this season.
I do know I don't have enough time to go over what I just saw, so I'll be putting up something tomorrow. See you then.
posted by LAGuy @ 12:12 AM
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You know, it seems to me that Jacob's role on the island is actually that of prison-warden: the Island is an elaborate prison housing Blackie (whether he is a malevolent entity or an extraterrestrial). Blackie can't leave the island -- Jacob can -- and, as prisoner, can't directly hurt Jacob: the prison itself prevents that, since he's in the equivalent of deep lockdown. Blackie can, however, obviously influence his other inmates, who aren't bound by the same rules, into killing Jacob and opening up the prison.
I think this is important: the Island is Blackie's prison, and Jacob is his warden. Blackie can only escape the island if he destroys the prison or if he kills the warden. Either condition will do it.
Here's where it gets interesting: both things have now happened, but in different timelines. Blackie appeared as Locke and manipulated Ben into killing Jacob for him in the "real" timeline. The prison warden is dead, and now Blackie is going about affecting his escape. But in the new, alternate timeline stemming from the explosion of an atomic bomb at the Swan Station back in 1977, the island is destroyed. That's his prison. Blackie is completely free in that timeline.
So let's ask ourselves a question: did Blackie manipulate the destruction of the island back in 1977 just like he manipulated Ben into killing Jacob back in 2007?
I think he did: I think, just like Blackie posed as Locke in 2007, he posed as Daniel in 1977. Think about it: Lost has reiterated over and over and over again that you can't change the past. Whatever happened happened. All of a sudden, though, Daniel reappears after a mysterious three year absence to tell everyone that's not true, and hey, blow up an atomic bomb at the focal point of the island's energy and everyone will live happily ever after. That's not the message Daniel or the show has ever espoused... and clearly it didn't really work.
But it doesn't actually matter if Blackie was Daniel. All that matters is that in the alternate 2004, Blackie has escaped. So why is that important? Well, right now, the audience doesn't really have any reason to care either way if the current-day Blackie escapes the island now that Jacob has been killed. Sure, he's a bit of a dick, but why is it important for him to stay on the island? Lost needs to show why Blackie's containment important... and they've just opened up an alternate 2004 timeline in which Blackie has been free for twenty seven years. They can use this timeline to show exactly why it's important for Blackie to remain imprisoned in the "real timeline." My guess? We're going to see the alternate 2004 timeline become an apocalypse really quickly.
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I don't know how it's going to resolve: clearly, the main characters and their alternate timeline counterparts are going to have to come together to figure out how to keep Blackie on the island. But I think there's a couple of clues.
First of all, Desmond is going to be key. Lost has made it a point to let viewers know that Desmond is special, in that he's the only character for which Lost's established time travel rules of "whatever happened, happened" does not apply. Both of his different timeline "selves" are going to be integral in bringing things together, I think.My guess is Desmond is going to be the only character who is truly in contact with his other self.
Second, Hugo sees dead people. Cool, but kind of redundant now that Miles is around, right? But a popular theory is that Hugo doesn't see dead people at all: he actually is able to contact the counterparts of dead people who are still alive in another dimension. The Jacob who appeared to Hurley in 2007 may, then, be the other Jacob from 2004, looking for a way to merge the two timelines and re-imprison Blackie in both.
Third, remember when at the end of last season, Jacob made a personal appearance to all of the integral characters of the show. He touched all of them. It was sort of a joke -- Jacob shows up to hand Jack a candy bar, for god's sakes? -- but what if the point of that visitation was to make these characters aware of the fact that there are now two different timelines that need to be merged to contain Blackie? Juliet might hint at just that: her dying words were to tell Sawyer that the time reset plan had worked... even though she had no way of knowing that it had worked.
These are just my working theories, but I really feel like the show is coming together. I can't wait to see how the season progresses.
Interesting. I don't have an alternate theory (my clever predictions, made here a few days ago, have turned out to be utterly wrong). But a couple points in your theory seem questionable:
* I am not sure that Jacob and Blackie can time-travel. If they could, there are useful things they could have done with that power and didn't, and the earlier living Jacob could travel into the future instead of having his ghost talk to Hugo.
* Daniel went to Ann Arbor in 1974 and then returned to the island in 1977. So I don't see how Blackie could have impersonated him; Blackie (by your rules) can't travel to Ann Arbor. And I don't think he could enter a submarine underwater, even in his smoke form, and if he could, the skipper would wonder why Daniel suddenly appeared onboard.
* Daniel was shot and killed. That seems odd if he's Blackie. I think if you shot EvilLocke, he would turn into smoke or something... but you wouldn't just get a (second) dead Locke body.
* When the dying Jacob says "They're coming,", EvilLocke actually looks scared for a second. The only time he ever looked scared. This must be really important, but I have no idea what.
Anyway, I think you must be on to something. At the end of S5, there were two huge capers going on: (1) the Faraday/Shepherd bomb reset plan; (2) the Blackie/Locke/Ben assassination plan. Could the first of these really have been totally unforeseen by Blackie and Jacob? In the new timeline, the island is totally sunk, including the statue; can we really believe that Daniel and Jack completely conquered the ancient forces of the island without them ever expecting it? So far in S6, the consequences of #1 have been huge (split timelines, and a timeflash bringing the 1977 folks to 2008), and the consequences of #2 have been pretty meager (the Temple folks have to pour some powder on the ground). If the bomb plot really has had such a cosmic effect, it would seem odd if it was not related to either Jacob's or Blackie's master plan!
Some very interesting ideas here, but instead of commenting, I will save my own ideas for tomorrow's post (which I will write later today). You can comment on my take then.
Hey, Lawrence! Great points!
1) My theory doesn't require Jacob or Blackey to be able to time travel... but it does seem to require Jacob to be at least clairvoyant across two timelines (Blackie could just be opportunistic in a single timeline, with no other special powers). Jacob seems to place GREAT importance on free will and choice, which actually supports this theory, if the writers want to write it that way: he thinks choice is important because he is intuitively aware and present in multiple realities. For a being like that, situations become less important than the choice that spurs another branch.
Interesting point about 2004 alt-Jacob talking to 2007 Hugo, though... but if my theory is right at all, it means that the "ghosts" Hugo sees aren't chronologically symmetrical across timelines with Hugo. In other words, when Hugo saw Charlie at the mental hospital, he was seeing an alt 2004 Charlie in 2006 or 2007. In other words, Hugo's visions of alternate reality characters are unfixed in time.
2) Regarding Daniel, I don't think it's necessarily important that he is Blackey... he could just be a love-sick idiot trying to prevent the death of the hideous, cold, pinch-faced ginger who died under his watch, and his "new understandings" of time travel could be wishful thinking. All I'm saying is we never saw him leave the Island, or his time off the Island; all we saw was him step up onto a dock. He didn't even need to be on the sub.
3) If it suited his plan, surely Blackey would just "stay dead" when shot. He had nothing to lose.
Your point about "the bomb plot requiring knowledge of cosmic effect" is well put, but let's posit something. Blackey has been working up to some exact situation allowing him to kill Jacob since season one, which is why so many characters found themselves confronted by the dead -- like Jack meeting his father on the beach -- or else untouched by the smoke monster, which we now know is Blackey himself. Obviously, manipulating someone to kill Jacob wasn't enough: he needed to arrange events for some prerequisite, hard-to-trigger event happened first. My guess is he couldn't kill Jacob when he was outside of his cabin and in corporeal form, and that couldn't happen -- for some reason -- until the wheel was turned at the end of season four (the purpose of this wheel has yet to be explained).
Hell, I don't know. The more I write, the more I have theories... and, like your theories proved to be wrong yesterday, I'm sure mine will prove to be wrong in a week. All I'm going to say is I think this ultimately all comes down to Jacob being the prison warden of Blackie, and that I think it's a safe bet that the alternate reality is going to be used by the producers to show the audience and the main characters of the show exactly who their Big Bad is, and why it's important that they sacrifice everything to contain him.
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