“Are the whispers the dead souls on the island, and the reason bodies had to be buried was because the souls would possess them?”

Huuuuuuh???? That makes no sense at all… Bodies are buried out of respect, among other reasons. Also Season 1′s “Adam and Eve” were not buried, but left in the cave. No one’s been possessed before, and I am not sure that Sayid is. If he is possessed,he would be the first that we know of. Not sure where this idea came from.

“If so, has the ghost of Rousseau possessed Claire?”

Claire isn’t dead.

“Is the reason why Claire seemed to recognize Jin because she is actually Rousseau?”

Why wouldn’t Claire know Jin? They were on the plane together, on the beach together, etc. Don’t know why claire wouldn’t know him. Rousseau had very little contact with Jin anyway. So this is also a very strange and unnecessary question.

I am confused why you would pad an otherwise decent blog with irrelevant questions. LOST has so many better questions to draw from, there is no reason to make up such silliness.

2.) ETHAN’s timeline. They reveal in season 5 Ethan was born in 1977. Flight 815 crashes in 2004. You mean to tell me that when he infiltrates the camp, that Ethan is only 27??? Really? C’mon man! And where did he get all of this medical experience if no one is allowed to leave the island? In a deleted scene, Ethan even tells Jack that he had a wife who died during childbirth; while this could’ve been a lie, I don’t think that was the intent, what with him working to cure the fertility problem and all. The only reasonable explanation for this would be some kind of off island accidental time travel and he aged when returned sorta thing, but that’s a huge stretch.

3.) Michael & Walt’s off island adventures: The timeline between when they leave and when Michael returns is absolutely absurd, not to mention all the stuff that happens in between. So if you do the math, only 2 weeks, maybe 3, pass between when Michael & Walt leave and when Naomi parachutes onto the island from the freighter, which Michael is on. Now keep in mind that it probably would have taken a week for the freighter to even get to the vicinity of the island from California, where I am guessing they must have left from; not to mention the day of flying Michael would’ve had to do to get there, because I believe he lived in New York. Anyways… In that time frame, Michael & Walt steer their crappy little boat to rescue(which they never explain), or if you find it more plausible, let’s say in a day’s time they manage to hit another island. Okay, then how with no money or passports do they get home? They couldn’t have taken a flight or any legitimate means of travel without the red flag of flight 815 survivors going up. So you would assume that unless there was some help from the Others(which would be totally contrary to the story), then they would have probably had to have stowed away on a freighter or something just to get back to the states undetected. Which in itself is ironic, because the best way to have explained the whole thing would have been for them to have been picked up by Widmore’s freighter, Michael just simply tells them he’s a flight 815 survivor and about the island, they hold him against his will onboard to help them find the island and take Walt (via helicopter) off the freighter and to the nearest island (since the actor was now a teenager and couldn’t be on camera). Maybe even the boat Michael had taken off the island had instructions from Ben about the freighter and what he would have to do and say when they picked him up, and I’m sure the writers could have found some way Ben could’ve connived him into doing it. I am an amateur writer, and that is a way better explanation and would have also been easier and cheaper to film, but this is what we got; In 3 weeks Michael & Walt manage their implausible journey back to the states undetected. Michael drops Walt off with his mom, and manages to get a job, an apartment, and car, without accessing his own bank account(once again, red flag) and tries to kill himself a few times, and is visited by Mr. Friendly, who also if you do the math out, should have been killed at this point by Sawyer. There is no way, Mr. Friendly could have left the island, met up w/ Michael, and gotten back in time to be killed by Sawyer. Ugh… Man I’m getting exhausted just thinking of every angle in which this plotline was god awful. Once again if you wanted to see what I’m talking about watch seasons 3 & 4, do out the math of the days, and everything that happens and you’ll see what I mean.

There are many other huge plotholes and problems with the continuity; some which are the faults of the writers (like the setup of Pierre Chang to be the Montand who is missing an arm Rousseau talks about in season 1, and he shows up w/ a prostetic arm in season 2, but never actually loses an arm and the 2 are never connected?!?!); and some which weren’t the fault of the writers, sorta(like most of the religious overtones and the church that never gets built, because at the height of his fame the actor who plays Eko, decides to leave the show to make and star in an autobiographical movie about his own life which then becomes a straight to dvd movie released only in select countries, mostly 3rd world. Way to go with the career choice there buddy).
Now I know it sounds like I’m bashing the show and the writers, and maybe I’m bashing the writers a bit, but for a show that relies so heavy on continuity and purposely has the audience looking for little things that tie the story together, these things that I’ve mentioned are just major plotholes that could’ve been easily avoided if more care was taken. Having said that, I still love the show, and I will even go as far as saying I think it is the best sci-fi show and primetime drama of all time, with an amazing cast; but you take the good w/ the bad, and this is just me pointing out the bad.

I told the idea to my brother, who thought I was crazy.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who noticed.

However, I don’t think MIB is slugworth. Slugworth got along with Wonka in the movie. However, in the book, Slugworth really was evil… I think.

Now, if I could only convince others Ben Bad Bad Ben!!!!

Amen, brother.

From the perspective of the Losties, and from those of us who live in real life, its actually fairly reasonable to question the mysticism of the island. I mean honestly, if we are in that situation if any of us starts being mystically in tune with the island we crashed on, and talks about island sacrifices… well that man is crazy in my books. Whether or not he ends up being right is irrelevant. In that case its an outlier. And even if Locke is right about the island, as it appears to be, his leadership and his method of handling those issues was nothing short of a catastrophic failure.

I’d like to chime in on the Locke debate here in the comments section. While I think with our outside perspective it’s easy to see Locke as a selfish character, it’s important to understand that he doesn’t see himself the same way. In his own mind, he’s doing the will of the Island. At this time, then, it’s easy to see him as a terrorist (which was brought up earlier). Certainly his behavior leads us to this conclusion. At the same time, as the nature of the Island is slowly revealed, we will develop a different perspective on the matter. Locke may still be a savior; maybe he was legitimately doing the Island’s will, whatever that may be. In a sense, he was protecting it already by destroying every last form of communication with the outside world.

I’m not going to say that Locke is the savior, though. I’m still banking on Jack as our ultimate hero, especially as he’s beginning to embrace being a man of faith in the Temple. After all, Jack was the character we were first introduced to, which in most heroic tales indicates who our hero is. Perhaps “LOST’s” biggest red herring was giving us enough characters that we lose sight of Jack’s role as savior. He definitely fits the bill: accepts the call, faces the trials, and most recently has entered the innermost cave. He has come out of the trials with renewed perspective and vigor. He’s confused, yes, but stronger.

Once again, great article. Only the good ones spark this much debate.

Also I don’t buy this stuff about having the best interests of everyone in mind. Sayid seemed happy enough to me, volunteering and doing his part. Locke had no reason to think Kate wasn’t happy, and while Hurley was in a mental hospital he seemed to be doing okay. Locke selfishly wanted to bring them back because he felt that without them he could not complete his destiny. And do you want to know why no one went with him? Because he’s a poor leader and a poor friend. Never has he put the best interests of another in front of his own. Losing Helen was his fault, as he couldn’t “let go” even when he finally had someone who loved him.

You know maybe Locke himself put it best. Let’s remember a conversation between Boone and Locke all the way back from Season 1

BOONE: Red shirt.
LOCKE: Huh?
BOONE: Ever watch Star Trek?
LOCKE: Nah, not really.
BOONE: The crew guys that would go down to the planet with the main guys, the captain and the guy with the pointy ears, they always wore red shirts. And they always got killed.
LOCKE: Yeah?
BOONE: Yeah.
LOCKE: Sounds like a piss-poor captain.*

*courtesy Lostpedia

I think that’s the actual reason people didn’t care about Naomi’s death. Because she didn’t care about their death or really about the other freightees who also met unfortunate ends after she recruited them.

On the topic of Boone, Boone chose to go up into that plane. And when the plane started to shift Locke was crying out for Boone to get out but Boone ignored him. Boone’s death was NOT Locke’s fault.

Also, in Season 5, it seemed to me that Locke was trying to act in the interests of others. He checked on Walt and said, “the boy’s been through enough.” He wasn’t going to visit Sun because he had promised Jin he wouldn’t, even though he would be violating what he was told to do. And finally he was prepared to die because he thought that might convince everyone to go back.

So in conclusion, I don’t think Locke is a great, heroic guy. But I think he’s been dealt a very raw deal, I think he’s tried to do the best he can given this, and I pity him and want to see him redeemed.

What about the submarine, for instance? Jack could have well left the island hadn’t Locke blown it up.

Locke? Well as Rose so nicely put it, (roughly), “I’m not going anywhere with that madman.”