Who is confirmed dead you ask? Why Naomi of course. How was she confirmed dead? By a person who can communicate with the dead who used to work officially as a ‘Ghost Buster’. LOST gets weirder and weirder and I’m loving it! This was a much better episode than the first episode. It’s not because the first episode was a bad episode in any instance. It’s because LOST is outdoing itself in each episode. Maybe that’s the advantage of having a sixteen episode season. No more filler; non-stop questions asked with most of it getting answered.
This week we got introduced to the people from the Freight who parachuted to the island with each one having an important flash back so we knew more about them. Each of them is like a surprise package and I already like two of the characters.
We were first introduced to Daniel Faraday; descendent of Michael Faraday, the famous physicist? Incidentally Dan is a physicist as well. Coincidence? Me thinks not. LOST has a thing for naming their characters after famous people in history such as John Locke and biblical characters such as Benjamin and Jacob. Dan is first seen in a flashback which shows an alternate crash site of Oceanic Flight 815. It’s discovered somewhere near Indonesia under the sea. I’ve got a theory about this alternate crash which I’ll talk about later. For some reason that Dan doesn’t know he can’t help crying after seeing the news. Then we cut to the LOST black screen and letters, which were about three seconds late than usual I might add. You never know with LOST, even that could be a clue and I did find that somewhat odd. Dan is somewhat of klutz and most of the time pushed around by the other characters. He’s mostly fascinated by the island and seems to be observing everything with pure fascination. Now we finally have a scientist that can figure out what the hell is so special about that island. He says something pretty interesting while he was observing how the sunlight is streaming throughout the dense foliage of the jungle. He says the light doesn’t “scatter” quite right whatever the hell it means.
Dan, Jack and Kate start looking for the other people who jumped off when they finally meet Miles Straume. He’s the resident psychic that can communicate with the dead and a bit of a hot head. Wonder what would happen when Sawyer and him meets. They both have a thing for calling people names and with Miles he has already called Dan – Genius and Jack – Handsome.
Locke and his group meet up with Charlotte Staples Lews (as in C.S Lewis who wrote Chronicles of Narnia); a mysterious English woman who seems to know a lot more about Dharma then she lets on. In her flash back she is seen in Tunisia going through fossils of a polar bear in the desert and finds a dharma tag which makes give a cryptic smile. There’s something definitely suspicious about her and I don’t trust her one bit.
Now to the most interesting of all the helicopter ‘drop-outs’; Frank Lapidus. Get this! He was supposed to be the Captain of the Oceanic Flight 815 and for some reason he was replaced with another. Now this means there might be an ulterior motive for that. My theory is the replaced pilot was blackmailed/bribed into taking the plane to that location so that it might crash. Anyways Lapidus seems really down about the whole crash and he has even by hearted the passenger list before coming to the island. Lapidus seems to be a character like Locke; a man of faith, unlike Jack and Dan; men of science. This is getting really interesting.
Dan mentions that saving the 815er’s is not their first priority. We later learn that they are there to get Benjamin Linus. No wonder Ben didn’t want them coming to the island. Question is why do they want him? Why is he so important? I think that question will probably be answered next episode. But Ben has one over the Frieghties; he has an informant on the boat. So he knows all about the people that came to get him down to their parent’s names. Even though he is still tied up he is ruthless as ever with his tongue and I can’t help loving Ben. Who knows..he might even turn out to be one of the ‘good guys’ 😉
A lot else happened in the episode, we even got a flash back of Naomi with the guy who visited Hurley in his Flash Forward. Naomi was the person who was to get the people in and off the island or as she named them; the head case- Dan, ghost buster- Miles, anthropologist- Charlotte, drunk- Lapidus. And we also learned that Naomi doesn’t have a sister and that was a code to let them know she was in trouble. Long story short Miles somehow communicates with Naomi’s ghost and everything turns out fine, well until he meets Locke, which doesn’t happen in this episode.
So many things happened in this episode and I’m sure I’m going to miss a lot. Here’s a few interesting tid bit’s. Sawyer learns of “Tall Ghost Walt” as he calls him. Locke’s missing kidney actually saved his life. Ben tried to wind up Sawyer talking about Jack and Kate. Jack, Kate and Juliet shared a subtle love triangle moment. Ben and Locke were surprised that Hurley knew about Jacob’s cabin. And many more…
Now to the theory. Here’s the deal. Dharma was creating out some experiments with cloning rabbits in one of their orientation videos which I saw online. It’s something to do with time paradox or other dimensions, something like that. So when the plane crashed over the island due to the electromagnetic shock, somehow two planes were created down to the people. So the original people died. And the other people on the island are clones. That explains the wreakage footage shown in the first few minutes of the episode. It’s pretty farfetched but that’s what I’m going with at the moment.
Anyways great episode of LOST and next week we learn about another of the Oceanic Six with a flash forward. Can’t wait!
Oh and yes I think Ben’s informant on the Boat is none other than Michael. He is supposed to appear this season so what better way to get started.
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