Going To The Hatch Once Too Often

Due to circumstances beyond my control, my weekly Lost recap/analysis will be delayed. Until I can put it up, please enjoy this video.



PS I thought you might like some Lost speculation I blogged a year ago:

The latest Lost, "Dead Is Dead," was all about Ben. But the issue referred to in the title intrigues me. Ben says it to Sun--the one thing that even the island can't do is bring Locke back to life.

It reminded me of how you figure out magic tricks. First you figure out what they could show if there really was magic. And since there's no magic, what is it they're covering up--that's where the trick is. If Locke couldn't be brought back to life, but seems to be, that's where the trick is. (Unless Ben is wrong--he certainly has been, just as he certainly lies. He even lied to Locke this episode when he said he expected him to come back to life after he murdered him.)

So maybe the Locke we're seeing isn't Locke. But I don't buy that. We've seen Christian, and now Alex, and others (perhaps Claire) come back from the dead in ghost form, but they seem to act differently from Locke. Locke seems to mostly be the same old Locke. (Though he was acting a bit arrogantly--in fact, I thought he was gonna get his comeuppance. Instead, at least for now, it looks like the island wants to protect him. Ghost Alex was pretty insistent that Ben not do the hat trick and kill him a third time. Clearly he's got work to do, and it's time for Ben to help, not to take over.)

So if Locke isn't a ghost, and couldn't come back to life, then here's the trick--he never left the Island. At least not some corporeal Locke. Perhaps he split in two (an old Star Trek trick) or perhaps when he moved the donkey wheel, the real Locke stayed on the island while some doppelganger went back.