Luckily, both spunkysister Jane (who is my actual sister, so I can verify her level of spunkiness) and spunkybuddy Julie caught it, and so they’re getting the Bonus Points.
LOST Revisited: Pre-Game for “Ab Aeterno”
Look-a-Locke told Kate about how his mother was crazy, and he still has issues to this day. I really just thought that was him telling Kate what she needed to here, but if the guy really does have issues with his Mother, that’s kind of a huge deal. That could be why women on the Island can’t survive childbirth. Smokey even admits that he’s still dealing with the fallout from being raised by a crazy woman. Considering that his main method for dealing with anything is to throw people into walls until their spines snap, killing people because he has Mommy issues is pretty well within his wheelhouse.
For the most part, Smokey couldn’t get into New Otherton – the sonic fence kept him out. But we’ve seen indications that he can appear places where he may not physically be – he appeared to Benry in “Dr. Linus”, though nobody else seemed to see him. And more importantly, him popping off for a visit doesn’t fit the timeline of “Recon”, where Look-a-Locke is with at least one other person at all times.
So even if he couldn’t get his smoke form past the Death Fence, he might have been able to make his presence known by attacking people at their most vulnerable. I have to say, I’m really liking this idea. And if it means that Smokey was telling the truth, then we have to wonder about those “growing pains” he referred to. What exactly would that be? I mean, the fact that he’s a murderous pillar of smoke trapped on an Island would indicate that maybe something went wrong in his upbringing, but I expect that’s going to be more significant in the weeks to come.
And hey, who is Look-a-Locke’s mother? Do he and Jacob have the same mother? I tend to think of them as brothers, only because there are so many references to the biblical Jacob. That always leaves me thinking of Smokey as Esau, even though that isn’t one of the four or five nicknames that I’ve given him. Regardless, sooner or later they’re going to have to reveal some of that history.
Hey, since I don’t feel right if I don’t drop at least one insane theory in the pre-game, so let me just try this one on. Lost is a stable time loop, and Smokey is actually the Aaron from our timeline, raised by a crazy mother, and Jacob is Aaron X. I don’t even believe that one, but this kind of stuff is rattling around in my head, and now you’re stuck with it. You read it, you can’t unread it!
Your Ideas Intrigue Me, And I Wish to Subscribe to Your Newsletter: The Lockelganger has amassed quite a group of followers, some more willing than others. So what’s his plan for them? Other than (apparently) finding a successor and making sure that nobody takes over for Jacob, he’s always been kind of anti-social. Not so long ago, he really just killed anybody who wasn’t immediately useful to him. (RIP, Mr. Eko)
So I don’t believe for one second that he’s looking to get everybody off the Island, especially on Ajira 316. Sure, Frank brought that plane in all Sullenberger-style, but I still doubt that Look-a-Locke is going to somehow get that thing to take off. Even putting aside any internal damage suffered by, you know, falling out of the sky, 316 is laying on its belly in sand. I’m pretty certain that you need your wheels down and a hard surface on which to build up speed if you’re going to take off. He doesn’t intend for the rest of those people to go anywhere. Besides, if he could leave the Island by conventional means, why hasn’t he? There’s something he has to do, and I think all of those Temple Dwellers are just going to be cannon fodder.
And it seems to me that Smokey wasn’t expecting Widmore to show up on the Island – there’s already a hitch in his plan. I’ve also been thinking about Widmore. Sawyer assumes that Widmore is there to kill Look-a-Locke, but Widmore doesn’t necessarily confirm that. What if he brought the pylons to trap Smokey on the Hydra Island, so Widmore can have the rest for himself? Or maybe he wants to trap him so he can control the Monster. He strikes me as a guy who’d have a lot of use for a murderous monster. Maybe all his talk of the war between dark and light is just a load of hooey – he might just be a power-hungry thug. Basically, I am never going to trust Widmore.
And what’s behind the locked door in the sub? Well, spunkybuddy Larry Young believes it’s Desmond, and I can’t do any better than that. Search your heart… you know it to be true.
Kids Incorporated: If you’re like me, you’ve spent most of your time for the last several weeks thinking about the names on the wall and the wheel. And if you’re like the aforementioned Larry Young, you came up with a whole new take on those names.
A couple weeks back, spunkybuddy Jennifer suggested that “42 – Kwan” coud refer to Ji Yeon, rather than Sun or Jin. Larry took it further and reasoned that there could be more of the younger generation on the list. Aaron, for example, is being raised as Kate’s son. That means he could be “51 – Austen”. We’ve heard a lot about how important Aaron is, after all. “Littleton” is crossed off on the cave wall, but Aaron’s legal last name is Austen. And remember, “Austen” did not appear on the cave wall (or at least, Look-a-Locke didn’t point it out), but does appear, not crossed out, on the Lighthouse wheel. Like Kate, he’s a stealth candidate.
And then there’s David Shephard. Granted, he’s in a different Timeline, but that certainly wouldn’t be the strangest thing that’s ever happened on this show. Sawyer’s daughter, Clementine, doesn’t seem to have taken her father’s last name, but she’s a possible “Ford”. Frankly, there’s a lot ambiguity in how you could list people’s last names. Married names? Birth names? Aliases?
Larry even suggests that Zach and Emma, whose last names are unknown so far, could be on the list. There are a few more uncrossed names on the wheel. Both Walt and Aaron have been flagged as “Special”, and Zach and Emma were both on one of the many lists the Others used. There’s serious Kid Power on the Island. Weird how we haven’t seen Walt’s last name on either of the lists, though. His last name is “Lloyd”, and I don’t think we’ve seen it, though I could be wrong. In the Lighthouse, 108 is “Wallace”, and it seems like that should be significant. I’m pretty sure Walt’s name is “Walter”, though.
Still, we do have the possibility that Walt is being raised under a different name. Lloyd was his mother’s name, but now that Michael’s mother is raising him, he might have taken her last name. And since she had no first or last name given when she appeared, Walt’s last name could be anything. And if they’re trying to hide the fact that he was on Flight 815, they’d almost definitely have changed his name. You know, Jacob’s record-keeping was a little sloppy. He is certainly not making it easy for his replacement.
Before I wrap it up for tonight, here’s something to think about. Last season, Richard told Sun that he watched her friends die in 1977. What exactly happened? How did the people in 1977 perceive the immediate aftermath of the Incident? Has Richard seen other realities? Oh, and get this – if we believe him when he says that a Candidate can’t kill themselves, that’s why Jughead didn’t go off. Jack couldn’t trigger it by dropping it down the pit, because that would equate to suicide. Of course, not it’s up in the air as to whether there is any reality at all where the bomb went off, but it’s still worth noting.
As always, you’ll want to head on over to our good friend Spectacularry for his analysis. I know I referenced him pretty heavily this week, but he’s got even more brewing, including the idea that the Dharma Stations correspond to constellations. He explains it better than I can, so check it out.
And we’ll see you back here tomorrow for “Ab Aeterno”. Richard “Batmanuel” Alpert takes center stage, and I predict this is going to be a mind-blower.
