LOST -Cabin Fever. Episode Breakdown and Theories.
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Here are this weeks LOST episode breakdowns, theories and thoughts and links to last nights episode of LOST-Cabin Fever. Only a few episodes remain and man this show is so good and so confusing.
From "MSNBC.com"
LOST: The Latest happenings on Mystery Island
Out of time: Flashbacks throughout Locke’s life proved the island wanted him long before flight 815 crashed. Richard Alpert, the Other who was last seen leading the other Others to the temple, visited Locke several times throughout the years. Once he even sent an invitation to teenaged Locke to join Mittelos Science Camp (reminder: Mittelos is an anagram for “lost time”). Locke refused. Years later, while Locke was in the hospital recuperating from his Cooper-push, an orderly encouraged him to take his fateful walkabout. It wasn’t Richard that time — it was the creepy man who hired Naomi for the freighter gig, and offered to send Hurley to a different mental institution in the future.
Familiar face: Ben and the gang continued their search for Jacob’s cabin, but without much luck; they decided to camp for the night. Locke woke up and wandered into a clearing where he met Horace Goodspeed. Remember Horace? He’s the Dharma dude who convinced Ben’s father to join up after Ben’s mother died. Horace also died 12 years ago when Ben gassed the Dharma gang. He told Locke that he needed to find him (Horace), if Locke wants to find him (Jacob). Locke woke up again to find out it was all one of those meaningful island dreams.
He keeps going and going: Back on the ship, Keamy and his fellow freighter foes arrived after the smoke monster attack. The doctor — still kicking at this point — tended to them. Keamy was still smarting about his encounter with Ben, and pulled his gun on Captain Gault. After Gault convinced Keamy that Michael was the one who leaked the intel to Ben, the mercenary tried to empty his rounds into Michael’s body. Evidently Michael is still under the island's enchantment, as the gun failed to fire.
Staying behind: Meanwhile, the good cap’n attempted to persuade Sayid and Desmond to hide out, lest creepy Keamy get the better of them. Sayid insisted they had to get back to the people back on the island or none of them would survive. Sympathetic to their plight, and certain that Keamy was ready kill, Gault agreed to arrange for a boat. Sayid took the ride, but Desmond didn’t go along. He wouldn’t risk returning to the island as long as Penny was searching for him.
Man on a mission: Ready to go back to the beach on a “torch the island” quest, Keamy ordered Frank to fly him out. The chopper pilot refused, and reminded Keamy that no one else could fly the helicopter, so he better not kill him. Not one to give up, Keamy killed the doctor (slit his throat, as previously seen in his earlier island post-mortem). An armed Gault tried to stop Keamy, too, but he fell to the crazed killer. Frank agreed to fly the freighter foes back, but he set his sat-phone to track them, and dropped it out of the helicopter for the Oceanic survivors to find.
Relocation: After Locke found Horace’s remains from the Dharma dump, he removed a blueprint for the cabin from Horace’s jumper. That led them to the cabin, but both Ben and Hurley refused to follow Locke. Once inside, Locke met Jack’s dearly departed dad, Christian, who said that he could speak for Jacob. Seated nearby, and looking odder than ever, was Claire. “Don’t worry,” she said to Locke. “I’m fine. I’m with him.” When he left the cabin, Locke told Ben and Hurley what they had to do. “He wants us to move the island.” CONTINUED
From E! Online...Watch with Kristen
Lost Redux: Destiny is a Fickle Bitch!
If you haven’t seen "Cabin Fever," tonight’s episode of Lost, then please wait here outside, cop a squat on a rock and spend what seems like an eternity unwrapping a candy bar and sharing it with the dude next to you. But if did watch, then congratulations—you are a chosen one! Get on in here...
What We Learned
Claire Is Dead...?! How else would you explain her chillin' like a calm and cool villain alongside Daddy Dearest Christian in Uncle Jacob's cabin? That, my dear friends, was the craziest reveal of the night! And since Claire-Bot seemed totally unfazed by the fact that her reason for living, her darling baby son Aaron, was on another part of the Island while intruders were on their way to kill everyone on it, we can only assume that either Christian is that convincing, Claire is that dead, and/or...Wait a minute...Maybe that's not even Claire? Crazy theory: What if Jacob and his posse of Island souls are just renting out the bodies of the recently deceased as if they were New Releases from Blockbuster?
One thing is certain: The producers have totally intentionally made Claire's dead-or-alive status open for raucous debate among us fans. (Feel free to do so in the Comments below.) Here's hoping we don't have to wait until the O6ers return in season six to get a definitive answer!
More Fuel to the Fire:
Claire: "I'm a bit wobbly, but, uh, I'll live."
Miles: "Well, I wouldn't be too sure about that." (!!!)
—Excerpt from "The Shape of Things to Come" that makes me think Miles is wicked smart and wicked creepy
That Candy Bar Scene Was the Longest 45 Seconds in Television History! OK, let me get this straight, Darlton: You needed an extra hour for the season finale, but you managed to spend half of the final 90 seconds of tonight's episode on Hurley's hankering for chewy-gooey goodness and willingness to share it with his buddy Ben!? That's just cruel and unusual punishment, especially after a huge reveal like possibly dead Claire! Hurley, sweetie, next time, pop a freaking breath mint in four seconds and let us get back to what's happening inside Cabin Crazytown!
Dear Old Bio-Dad: We learned from the opening scene that Miss Emily was six months pregnant by a guy twice her age when a car wreck brought on early labor. On the night of Locke's birth, she told her mom she was in love with the baby-daddy. Forty-odd years later, in a previous Locke-back, she told John he was a virgin birth. A few years after that, John learned his bio-dad was a kidney-stealing con man named Anthony Cooper. Kevin Tighe and Swoosie Kurtz, who play Locke's bio-parents, were both born in 1944. (Terry O'Quinn was born in 1952.) Was does all this add up to? Not sure, other than there's something we're supposed to glean from that first scene, but I'm not altogether sure that the numbers are the key. (For once!)
Dept. of Pointless Questions: Did Keamy really think Sayid was going to tell him the identity and location of everyone on the Island just so he could kill them all? Is there any chance he's got a good ulterior motive? Naaah...
Speaking of Keamy: Our guy Damon Lindelof said at Comic-Con last summer, "If the violence stays intense, it will at least be perpetrated by catastrophically good-looking people." I think he was predicting the arrival of Keamy! That guy is deep-fried evil, and he must die horribly for what he did to Alex, but in the meantime, well, he's certainly a well-muscled young man, isn't he? If you're wondering about that thing strapped to his arm, clearly, it's a device that will do no good (detonator?), but my musically inclined friends tell me it also looks like a guitar tuner. Maybe he just wants to get back to Lost Island to sing the Losties a little ditty! (Yeah, probably not.)
Desmond's Destiny: I truly hope Desmond never does have to go back to that Island, especially since his Penny is coming for him, but I suspect his sojourn as a prisoner of the South Pacific is not yet over. Poor Des. Poor Penny. Too many Christmases apart for those two. So sad!
Locke's High School: Locke's high-school sports teams were the Knights. I think that our boys and girls are definitely acting as knights of the Island, but I have to wonder: Who is the king they serve? Because Locke acts like he might be the one, but I'm not convinced he asked Christian the right question ("How do we save the Island?"), just as he did not pick the right objects when he was six. I think the ever-seeking Island has not yet necessarily found its once and future king...
The "Special" Kids: Didn't that scene with Richard Alpert and six-year-old Locke remind you of the SD-6 recruitment tactics back on dear old Alias? What are the chances that Sydney Bristow is the chosen one who will come and save the island? JJ, make it happen!
Also Freaktastic: Locke drew the smoke monster when he was six, and was a fan of Geronimo Jackson (Hurley's favorite Hatch band) as a teen (which we know from the poster in his locker). Damn, I love this show!
What Lies Ahead
I'm Talking to Darlton in the Morning! So please send me any questions you have for them to tvdiva@eonline.com. I've promised not to badger them about spoilery type matters. (Who, moi? Never!) But clearly, there is much, much to discuss about what's going on with this crazy show, so sit tight. The interview will be posting soon. In the meantime, because I'm talking to them, I'm going to be on my best behavior in this section (sorry)...Post your theories and musings below!
Read "Watch with Kristin" Daily at E! Online.com
From "SEAT 42F"
The Seat 42f Theory
Doc Is Still Alive On The Freighter: We know on island time the Doc is dead because we saw him wash up on shore. However after Keamy and his crew return to the freighter in the helicopter the Doc is the first to greet the wounded. So is the island time ahead of the freighter? Or did the Helicopter return to the freighter at a different time? Either way the real word and island world are not in the same “time”. We eventually do see how the Doc is killed as Keamy slits his throat and dumps him overboard. This leads me to believe that the Doc washed up on shore via a different route then the helicopter. The helicopter leaves a second time off island and the Doc has just been killed. Yet on island the Doc has already washed up a day earlier. Can you say time travel? hmmmmmmmm.
Michael And The Gun: Keamy wanted to shoot Michael for feeding Ben info, but once again a gun failed to go off allowing Michael to live. Two things with Michael seem obvious to me. Michael is going to start to feel immune to being killed and especially killed by a gun and in a just wait for it moment my bet is Michael will in fact one day be killed with a gun. Probably once he pays his island debt in full and probably thinking he is safe from death.
Miracle Baby: He’s a fighter. Baby Locke had pneumonia and infections, but fought them off. So Locke was a fighter at birth and has been a fighter on the island? But somewhere in the middle he “lost” his way. See the Alpert test below for my theory on how he lost his way.
Locke Fails The Alpert Test: Richard Alpert laid out several items in front of a young John Locke and asked Locke to tell him which items belonged to Locke. After his initial not understanding of the question John began to grab the items ( I believe some of these items actually belong to future John Locke). A comic book, some sand, a knife, a book, baseball mitt and a compass were set on the table. Everything seemed to be fine until young John grabbed the knife at which point Richard got up and left telling John he wasn't ready. I had two reactions. Either John purposely picked the wrong item so as to not be chosen by Alpert for his "special" school or John didn't believe in himself to make the right choice. The result was still the same. He didn’t pass the test because of a lack of faith in himself. And I wonder if his "special" school is the island? hmmmm and how much do you love the comic cover? Hidden land!!! Great stuff.
PS Did it remind anyone else of the movie Willow? When Willow is supposed to pick the right finger to control the universe?
Richard Alpert The Ageless Wonder: I’m sure I am going to catch flack from the Lost community, but I still don’t think Alpert is ageless or undead. Just about every theory out there has Alpert as some sort of ageless human or even a ghost and for now I completely disagree with those ideas. I think he’s flesh and bone and here’s my thinking on Mr. Richard Alpert and his ageless appearance. He is in fact the same age every time we see him, but only because we see him in different periods in time. Geeez, that was even confusing to type. Let me explain it another way. Let’s say there’s an office building with an elevator and on the 4th floor you have Richard Alpert in his “real” life and in his real time. When Richard goes to the 8th floor he opens the door to see John Locke being born. When he goes to the 15th floor he visits young John Locke at his home. When he goes to the 16th floor he checks in on John in High School. Open the door on the 23rd floor and he meets Ben on the island. Step out onto the 42nd floor and he meets Juliet and brings her orange juice. My guess is Alpert is traveling through time to specific dates for specific reasons. From what time and from where he is traveling I don’t know, but let’s assume for now he's coming from the future. My thinking is he is some sort of ultimate protector for the island and he does this by selecting, finding and training the chosen ones. My belief is he is a lot more important to the mythology of Lost then we have been led to believe. A LOT more.
Check in at SEAT 42F for more to come daily
From "EW.com"
By Jeff Jensen
LOST: 'Cabin Boy'
As Locke leads Ben and Hurley on a quest to find Jacob, we learn that since his childhood, people have been trying to draw him to the Island
Last night was for us. The cultists. The obsessives. The crazies who have committed to this long, strange trip and gotten lost in it. Like the candy bar Hurley generously shared with Ben while Locke was chatting with the spectral squatters inside Jacob's shack (a nod to the Neo-Oracle-cookie scene in The Matrix?), ''Cabin Fever'' was an episode packed with a chunky abundance of brain-fattening cryptonuggets to nourish our fevered theory making and message-board blustering. Comic-book references. Biblical allusions. Mythological connections. Double meanings to scores of lines. I loved Hurley's ''theory'' that he, Ben, and Locke were chosen for this vision quest because they were the craziest ones on the Island. This in an episode whose '50s-set flashbacks evoked, fittingly, AMC's Mad Men and whose thematic concern with fate mirrors that of No Country for Old Men, a narrative about three men dangling on sanity's thread, though at different points. Amid the clues, red herrings, and tomfoolery, I saw in the episode a fiendishly clever love letter to those of us who've become so locked up inside Lost that they've been somewhat deliriously messed up by it. That's really why they called it ''Cabin Fever.'' Just my theory, but who knows? Maybe I'm just seeing things again.
'Can history then be said to have an architecture? The notion is most glorious and most horrible.' — From Hell
Should John Locke be lucky enough to see the year 2008, he would be 50. That would make him as old as the central figure in the aforementioned text, one Sir William Gull, a 19th-century English physician. Some interesting overlaps between these characters. In From Hell, Gull is a middle-aged man uncertain of his purpose, but he is convinced he is special and senses that the architecture of his life is building to a point. Or, in the sweet, hiccupy phrasing of Buddy Holly that was quoted by Lost last night, ''Every day it gets a little closer/Rolling faster than a roller coaster/A love like yours will surely come my way.'' At 50, though, Gull suddenly finds his calling in the form of a mystical mission to defend his country — an island, don't you know — from an insidious conspiracy. You know, just like Locke. Gull is also, probably, totally crackers; he's Alan Moore's speculative pick for being Jack the Ripper. And while Locke is not yet a mass-murdering maniac, I have the strangest feeling, based on what we saw last night, that the architecture of his life is building exactly to that horrifying point.
NEXT: The Buddy Holly connection
Read many more pages from this awesome Jeff Jensen breakdown at EW.com then come on back here for more.
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Here are this weeks LOST episode breakdowns, theories and thoughts and links to last nights episode of LOST-Cabin Fever. Only a few episodes remain and man this show is so good and so confusing.
From "MSNBC.com"
LOST: The Latest happenings on Mystery Island
Out of time: Flashbacks throughout Locke’s life proved the island wanted him long before flight 815 crashed. Richard Alpert, the Other who was last seen leading the other Others to the temple, visited Locke several times throughout the years. Once he even sent an invitation to teenaged Locke to join Mittelos Science Camp (reminder: Mittelos is an anagram for “lost time”). Locke refused. Years later, while Locke was in the hospital recuperating from his Cooper-push, an orderly encouraged him to take his fateful walkabout. It wasn’t Richard that time — it was the creepy man who hired Naomi for the freighter gig, and offered to send Hurley to a different mental institution in the future.
Familiar face: Ben and the gang continued their search for Jacob’s cabin, but without much luck; they decided to camp for the night. Locke woke up and wandered into a clearing where he met Horace Goodspeed. Remember Horace? He’s the Dharma dude who convinced Ben’s father to join up after Ben’s mother died. Horace also died 12 years ago when Ben gassed the Dharma gang. He told Locke that he needed to find him (Horace), if Locke wants to find him (Jacob). Locke woke up again to find out it was all one of those meaningful island dreams.
He keeps going and going: Back on the ship, Keamy and his fellow freighter foes arrived after the smoke monster attack. The doctor — still kicking at this point — tended to them. Keamy was still smarting about his encounter with Ben, and pulled his gun on Captain Gault. After Gault convinced Keamy that Michael was the one who leaked the intel to Ben, the mercenary tried to empty his rounds into Michael’s body. Evidently Michael is still under the island's enchantment, as the gun failed to fire.
Staying behind: Meanwhile, the good cap’n attempted to persuade Sayid and Desmond to hide out, lest creepy Keamy get the better of them. Sayid insisted they had to get back to the people back on the island or none of them would survive. Sympathetic to their plight, and certain that Keamy was ready kill, Gault agreed to arrange for a boat. Sayid took the ride, but Desmond didn’t go along. He wouldn’t risk returning to the island as long as Penny was searching for him.
Man on a mission: Ready to go back to the beach on a “torch the island” quest, Keamy ordered Frank to fly him out. The chopper pilot refused, and reminded Keamy that no one else could fly the helicopter, so he better not kill him. Not one to give up, Keamy killed the doctor (slit his throat, as previously seen in his earlier island post-mortem). An armed Gault tried to stop Keamy, too, but he fell to the crazed killer. Frank agreed to fly the freighter foes back, but he set his sat-phone to track them, and dropped it out of the helicopter for the Oceanic survivors to find.
Relocation: After Locke found Horace’s remains from the Dharma dump, he removed a blueprint for the cabin from Horace’s jumper. That led them to the cabin, but both Ben and Hurley refused to follow Locke. Once inside, Locke met Jack’s dearly departed dad, Christian, who said that he could speak for Jacob. Seated nearby, and looking odder than ever, was Claire. “Don’t worry,” she said to Locke. “I’m fine. I’m with him.” When he left the cabin, Locke told Ben and Hurley what they had to do. “He wants us to move the island.” CONTINUED
From E! Online...Watch with Kristen
Lost Redux: Destiny is a Fickle Bitch!
If you haven’t seen "Cabin Fever," tonight’s episode of Lost, then please wait here outside, cop a squat on a rock and spend what seems like an eternity unwrapping a candy bar and sharing it with the dude next to you. But if did watch, then congratulations—you are a chosen one! Get on in here...
What We Learned
Claire Is Dead...?! How else would you explain her chillin' like a calm and cool villain alongside Daddy Dearest Christian in Uncle Jacob's cabin? That, my dear friends, was the craziest reveal of the night! And since Claire-Bot seemed totally unfazed by the fact that her reason for living, her darling baby son Aaron, was on another part of the Island while intruders were on their way to kill everyone on it, we can only assume that either Christian is that convincing, Claire is that dead, and/or...Wait a minute...Maybe that's not even Claire? Crazy theory: What if Jacob and his posse of Island souls are just renting out the bodies of the recently deceased as if they were New Releases from Blockbuster?
One thing is certain: The producers have totally intentionally made Claire's dead-or-alive status open for raucous debate among us fans. (Feel free to do so in the Comments below.) Here's hoping we don't have to wait until the O6ers return in season six to get a definitive answer!
More Fuel to the Fire:
Claire: "I'm a bit wobbly, but, uh, I'll live."
Miles: "Well, I wouldn't be too sure about that." (!!!)
—Excerpt from "The Shape of Things to Come" that makes me think Miles is wicked smart and wicked creepy
That Candy Bar Scene Was the Longest 45 Seconds in Television History! OK, let me get this straight, Darlton: You needed an extra hour for the season finale, but you managed to spend half of the final 90 seconds of tonight's episode on Hurley's hankering for chewy-gooey goodness and willingness to share it with his buddy Ben!? That's just cruel and unusual punishment, especially after a huge reveal like possibly dead Claire! Hurley, sweetie, next time, pop a freaking breath mint in four seconds and let us get back to what's happening inside Cabin Crazytown!
Dear Old Bio-Dad: We learned from the opening scene that Miss Emily was six months pregnant by a guy twice her age when a car wreck brought on early labor. On the night of Locke's birth, she told her mom she was in love with the baby-daddy. Forty-odd years later, in a previous Locke-back, she told John he was a virgin birth. A few years after that, John learned his bio-dad was a kidney-stealing con man named Anthony Cooper. Kevin Tighe and Swoosie Kurtz, who play Locke's bio-parents, were both born in 1944. (Terry O'Quinn was born in 1952.) Was does all this add up to? Not sure, other than there's something we're supposed to glean from that first scene, but I'm not altogether sure that the numbers are the key. (For once!)
Dept. of Pointless Questions: Did Keamy really think Sayid was going to tell him the identity and location of everyone on the Island just so he could kill them all? Is there any chance he's got a good ulterior motive? Naaah...
Speaking of Keamy: Our guy Damon Lindelof said at Comic-Con last summer, "If the violence stays intense, it will at least be perpetrated by catastrophically good-looking people." I think he was predicting the arrival of Keamy! That guy is deep-fried evil, and he must die horribly for what he did to Alex, but in the meantime, well, he's certainly a well-muscled young man, isn't he? If you're wondering about that thing strapped to his arm, clearly, it's a device that will do no good (detonator?), but my musically inclined friends tell me it also looks like a guitar tuner. Maybe he just wants to get back to Lost Island to sing the Losties a little ditty! (Yeah, probably not.)
Desmond's Destiny: I truly hope Desmond never does have to go back to that Island, especially since his Penny is coming for him, but I suspect his sojourn as a prisoner of the South Pacific is not yet over. Poor Des. Poor Penny. Too many Christmases apart for those two. So sad!
Locke's High School: Locke's high-school sports teams were the Knights. I think that our boys and girls are definitely acting as knights of the Island, but I have to wonder: Who is the king they serve? Because Locke acts like he might be the one, but I'm not convinced he asked Christian the right question ("How do we save the Island?"), just as he did not pick the right objects when he was six. I think the ever-seeking Island has not yet necessarily found its once and future king...
The "Special" Kids: Didn't that scene with Richard Alpert and six-year-old Locke remind you of the SD-6 recruitment tactics back on dear old Alias? What are the chances that Sydney Bristow is the chosen one who will come and save the island? JJ, make it happen!
Also Freaktastic: Locke drew the smoke monster when he was six, and was a fan of Geronimo Jackson (Hurley's favorite Hatch band) as a teen (which we know from the poster in his locker). Damn, I love this show!
What Lies Ahead
I'm Talking to Darlton in the Morning! So please send me any questions you have for them to tvdiva@eonline.com. I've promised not to badger them about spoilery type matters. (Who, moi? Never!) But clearly, there is much, much to discuss about what's going on with this crazy show, so sit tight. The interview will be posting soon. In the meantime, because I'm talking to them, I'm going to be on my best behavior in this section (sorry)...Post your theories and musings below!
Read "Watch with Kristin" Daily at E! Online.com
From "SEAT 42F"
The Seat 42f Theory
Doc Is Still Alive On The Freighter: We know on island time the Doc is dead because we saw him wash up on shore. However after Keamy and his crew return to the freighter in the helicopter the Doc is the first to greet the wounded. So is the island time ahead of the freighter? Or did the Helicopter return to the freighter at a different time? Either way the real word and island world are not in the same “time”. We eventually do see how the Doc is killed as Keamy slits his throat and dumps him overboard. This leads me to believe that the Doc washed up on shore via a different route then the helicopter. The helicopter leaves a second time off island and the Doc has just been killed. Yet on island the Doc has already washed up a day earlier. Can you say time travel? hmmmmmmmm.
Michael And The Gun: Keamy wanted to shoot Michael for feeding Ben info, but once again a gun failed to go off allowing Michael to live. Two things with Michael seem obvious to me. Michael is going to start to feel immune to being killed and especially killed by a gun and in a just wait for it moment my bet is Michael will in fact one day be killed with a gun. Probably once he pays his island debt in full and probably thinking he is safe from death.
Miracle Baby: He’s a fighter. Baby Locke had pneumonia and infections, but fought them off. So Locke was a fighter at birth and has been a fighter on the island? But somewhere in the middle he “lost” his way. See the Alpert test below for my theory on how he lost his way.
Locke Fails The Alpert Test: Richard Alpert laid out several items in front of a young John Locke and asked Locke to tell him which items belonged to Locke. After his initial not understanding of the question John began to grab the items ( I believe some of these items actually belong to future John Locke). A comic book, some sand, a knife, a book, baseball mitt and a compass were set on the table. Everything seemed to be fine until young John grabbed the knife at which point Richard got up and left telling John he wasn't ready. I had two reactions. Either John purposely picked the wrong item so as to not be chosen by Alpert for his "special" school or John didn't believe in himself to make the right choice. The result was still the same. He didn’t pass the test because of a lack of faith in himself. And I wonder if his "special" school is the island? hmmmm and how much do you love the comic cover? Hidden land!!! Great stuff.
PS Did it remind anyone else of the movie Willow? When Willow is supposed to pick the right finger to control the universe?
Richard Alpert The Ageless Wonder: I’m sure I am going to catch flack from the Lost community, but I still don’t think Alpert is ageless or undead. Just about every theory out there has Alpert as some sort of ageless human or even a ghost and for now I completely disagree with those ideas. I think he’s flesh and bone and here’s my thinking on Mr. Richard Alpert and his ageless appearance. He is in fact the same age every time we see him, but only because we see him in different periods in time. Geeez, that was even confusing to type. Let me explain it another way. Let’s say there’s an office building with an elevator and on the 4th floor you have Richard Alpert in his “real” life and in his real time. When Richard goes to the 8th floor he opens the door to see John Locke being born. When he goes to the 15th floor he visits young John Locke at his home. When he goes to the 16th floor he checks in on John in High School. Open the door on the 23rd floor and he meets Ben on the island. Step out onto the 42nd floor and he meets Juliet and brings her orange juice. My guess is Alpert is traveling through time to specific dates for specific reasons. From what time and from where he is traveling I don’t know, but let’s assume for now he's coming from the future. My thinking is he is some sort of ultimate protector for the island and he does this by selecting, finding and training the chosen ones. My belief is he is a lot more important to the mythology of Lost then we have been led to believe. A LOT more.
Check in at SEAT 42F for more to come daily
From "EW.com"
By Jeff Jensen
LOST: 'Cabin Boy'
As Locke leads Ben and Hurley on a quest to find Jacob, we learn that since his childhood, people have been trying to draw him to the Island
Last night was for us. The cultists. The obsessives. The crazies who have committed to this long, strange trip and gotten lost in it. Like the candy bar Hurley generously shared with Ben while Locke was chatting with the spectral squatters inside Jacob's shack (a nod to the Neo-Oracle-cookie scene in The Matrix?), ''Cabin Fever'' was an episode packed with a chunky abundance of brain-fattening cryptonuggets to nourish our fevered theory making and message-board blustering. Comic-book references. Biblical allusions. Mythological connections. Double meanings to scores of lines. I loved Hurley's ''theory'' that he, Ben, and Locke were chosen for this vision quest because they were the craziest ones on the Island. This in an episode whose '50s-set flashbacks evoked, fittingly, AMC's Mad Men and whose thematic concern with fate mirrors that of No Country for Old Men, a narrative about three men dangling on sanity's thread, though at different points. Amid the clues, red herrings, and tomfoolery, I saw in the episode a fiendishly clever love letter to those of us who've become so locked up inside Lost that they've been somewhat deliriously messed up by it. That's really why they called it ''Cabin Fever.'' Just my theory, but who knows? Maybe I'm just seeing things again.
'Can history then be said to have an architecture? The notion is most glorious and most horrible.' — From Hell
Should John Locke be lucky enough to see the year 2008, he would be 50. That would make him as old as the central figure in the aforementioned text, one Sir William Gull, a 19th-century English physician. Some interesting overlaps between these characters. In From Hell, Gull is a middle-aged man uncertain of his purpose, but he is convinced he is special and senses that the architecture of his life is building to a point. Or, in the sweet, hiccupy phrasing of Buddy Holly that was quoted by Lost last night, ''Every day it gets a little closer/Rolling faster than a roller coaster/A love like yours will surely come my way.'' At 50, though, Gull suddenly finds his calling in the form of a mystical mission to defend his country — an island, don't you know — from an insidious conspiracy. You know, just like Locke. Gull is also, probably, totally crackers; he's Alan Moore's speculative pick for being Jack the Ripper. And while Locke is not yet a mass-murdering maniac, I have the strangest feeling, based on what we saw last night, that the architecture of his life is building exactly to that horrifying point.
NEXT: The Buddy Holly connection
Read many more pages from this awesome Jeff Jensen breakdown at EW.com then come on back here for more.
SHARE YOUR THEORIES AT
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