Comments on: Lost Rewatch Week 1- S1- Episodes 1 – 4

By: Bonita

Bonita — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:26:21 +0000

Jack meant that the boars would dig up the bodies even if they buried them, I think.

By: Bonita

Bonita — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:20:54 +0000

Sawyer joined them, because he had the gun, maybe thinking at least he can do something, if there’s danger ahead.

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:44:16 +0000

That’s a thought I’ve had since the end of S4: that the suited, white-shoed Christian and the casually-dressed Christian were two different entities.

By: arcticstorm

arcticstorm — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:39:44 +0000

Here is the only problem with Vincent being Smokey. In Exodus, at the exact same time Smokey was chasing the Black Rock Crew through the jungle, Vincent was swimming after the raft.

By: Cutter XXIII

Cutter XXIII — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:28:34 +0000

This is going to be really important goign forward with the rewatch.

Does anyone know if Christian ever appears on the Island in black shoes? Maybe that’s how we can tell whether it’s Jacob or the Locke-alike. Or maybe it’s Jacob in the white shoes and suit, and the Locke-alike when Christian ends up in casual dress later on.

So complex…

By: Cutter XXIII

Cutter XXIII — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:25:04 +0000

Yeah…but that look on his face at the end of Tabula Rasa is pure malice.

Rewatching, I thought it was clear Locke was looking at a father and son happily together (Michael & Walt with Vincent) and feeling bummed out. But it’s also possible, given what we know, that Locke already had some inkling of what he was in for…

By: Cutter XXIII

Cutter XXIII — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:22:15 +0000

Locke’s secret was that he was in a wheelchair before the crash.

By: Ness800

Ness800 — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 03:37:25 +0000

Rose said smokey sounded familiar because she lives in New York City and it’s the sound of a taxi cab printing out a receipt. Not all cabs have this type of printer anymore so it’s a bit more rare to hear it. I still get freaked out when I walk down the street and hear it and immediately think of smokey!

By: ament

ament — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 03:36:48 +0000

We do know that John met something when he seperated from Sayid and Kate, but we never seen what he seen, but he did mention to Jack what he saw was the eye of the island and that it was beautiful…I think this was “white rabbit” episode. We’ve seen John capture boars (using charlie as bait) and slit the throats so suggesting this one in “walkabout” was given to him by smokie isn’t working for me. I think his meeting with the entity just confirms his own belief in the power of the island.

Is it just me that notices how well-intentioned Locke is early on and passionate about the island…as the show went on it got darker and more obsessive for answers. When he opened his eye in this episode it felt to me like he was reborn more so then just healed.

By: madge

madge — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:30:05 +0000

I noticed when Jack was talking about burning the bodies in the fuselage, he commented that they wouldn’t stay buried. That’s been mentioned a lot.
What I never noticed the first time around was in Walkabout, they did close-ups on Locke’s shoes and the soles we not worn out at all. Brilliant! (Yes, this is my first time rewatching too)
I remember the backgammon scene but did we ever find out exactly what secret Locke told Walt?

By: bps

bps — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:16:39 +0000

Nobody has mentioned anything about Ep. 4 Walkabout. Found it interesting that Kate may be foreshadowing a little bit when she tells Jack that “Locke is gone”. She was assuming that the Smoke Monster killed him. We see that the Smoke Monster and Locke have “some kind of interaction”, but we don’t really see that exchange. Later Jack and Kate stumble upon Locke dragging a bore back to camp eerily similar to Locke bringing the bore back to Richard’s camp in Season 5.
Just throwing this out there….what if we find out next season that “Locke really was gone”, and that there was some sort of “inhabitation” of Locke by the Smoke Monster all the way back in season 1. I bet we will see some sort of flashback to that first exchange between Locke and the Smoke Monster. After all we at least know that it gave him the bore.
“A Walkabout is a journey of spiritual renewal, where one derives strength from the earth and becomes inseparable from it”

By: neoloki

neoloki — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 06:16:59 +0000

Smokey and Man#2 are not the same entity.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:58:19 +0000

At the end of Tabula Rasa (I believe), Christian Shepherd appears at the edge of the grass to Jack. He’s dressed in his suit and white shoes, just as in the coffin. That got me to thinking about how Christian’s dead body came to the island in the first place? Has he been there before? We know that MiB interacted with Locke via Richard, telling Locke to kill himself and thus providing the vessel to kill Jacob. From the first few episodes of Lost, we see Christian Shepherd (in white shoes) appearing to Jack on the beach, just at the edge of the brush. Any thoughts on who might have inhabited Christian’s body at that point? If the light/dark shoes theories apply, was that Jacob? And, if so, does that then mean that Jacob somehow intervened in Christian’s life at some point, bringing his dead body to this island as a vessel to interact with Jack??

By: Cutter XXIII

Cutter XXIII — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:35:05 +0000

Speaking of “bringing them”…

We’re all agreed, I think, that Desmond causing the system failure at The Swan was what pulled the plane down onto the Island.

But it never would have been anywhere near the Island if it hadn’t gone off-course. “PILOT: Six hours in, our radio went out. No-one could see us. We turned back to land in Fiji. By the time we hit turbulence, we … we were a thousand miles off course. They’re looking for us in the wrong place.”

I’m guessing Jacob did that.

By: Cutter XXIII

Cutter XXIII — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:29:14 +0000

We haven’t actually seen any real evidence of the smoke monster having “free will.”

It seems to have purpose(s), it can complete tasks, it attacks from time to time, but it has not shown any ability to speak, any desire to communicate, not even a shred of sentience. It does things, but we have no idea why.

More and more, Cerberus really just sounds like a watchdog to me. Intelligent, but not necessarily sentient.

By: Cutter XXIII

Cutter XXIII — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:25:31 +0000

That would be an interesting development.

I also noted that Locke carves a dog whistle, and uses it to call Vincent….but then he keeps it. He doesn;t give it to Michael or Walt.

Which made me wonder whether it would even work for them at all. Seems like the whole first phase of the Long Con of Locke is to make Locke believe that he’s special, and has some sort of connection with the Island. If the Locke-alike wanted him to believe that, between his maneuvering of the Others (via “Jacob” in the cabin) and interfering via Smokey, it’d be colossally easy to do so.

By: neoloki

neoloki — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:23:32 +0000

That is never talked about or suggested in the show.

By: Cutter XXIII

Cutter XXIII — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:22:06 +0000

“That is strange….Vincent is with Rose and Bernard and he seems to be guarding these two well. That would mean he’s a good dog, which means he’s with Jacob.”

Not necessarily. All the people with guns, still up to all their craziness, finding new ways to kill each other…those were “Jacob’s people.” They come, they fight, they corrupt, they destroy.

Given that Rose and Bernard are just hanging out, not messing with anything, seems to me the Locke-alike and Smokey would like them better.

By: sarmie

sarmie — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:31:52 +0000

I can’t remember where I read this but it was thought that Smokey killed the boar and gave it to Locke during their face to smoke encounter, which explains the blood stains on his upper body only.

By: sarmie

sarmie — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:26:01 +0000

Or.. Smokey the Bad Nemesis thought that Lapidus was flying the plane so he kills him.. Remember, Liana thinks that Lapidus could be a candidate and we don’t know yet what that meant but it sounds like a good thing for Lapidus. That would mean Nemesis has been trying to kill him twice already, with Oceanic and Aljira and Lapidus escaped twice. I wonder if Jacob has something to do with this?

By: sarmie

sarmie — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:20:27 +0000

That is strange….Vincent is with Rose and Bernard and he seems to be guarding these two well. That would mean he’s a good dog, which means he’s with Jacob.

Anyway, remember the scene where Locke enters the cabin and he finds Christian sitting there instead of Jacob. Locke asked him where Jacob was and Christian said he’s kinda like a messenger for Jacob….And out in the corner of the room is….Claire..

I have a hunch that Jacob took over the identity of Christian and Nemesis took over Claire’s identity and they are playing a game of.. what? with Locke’s mind to see if he can be manipulated into doing what they tell him to do.

By: sarmie

sarmie — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:13:37 +0000

And the fact that their characters are not as meaningful as the others. They were like fillings only. I felt so sorry for Boone though. I thought he was really a nice guy who happened to fall in love with his stepsister (kinda creepy) and tried all he could to protect her. With Sharon, I hated her at first because she was really a brat. Just before she died and while still mourning for Boone, her character started to mellow out and became someone who wanted to change and be a better person.

By: sarmie

sarmie — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:09:05 +0000

Because she cannot be trusted. She has always been dishonest all her life.
Her character is someone who was bad as a child and a crook as an adult and she was brought to the island to redeem herself.

By: Gusteaux

Gusteaux — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:08:24 +0000

Eko was attacked, and actually kidnapped, by a polar bear in S3. Locke rescued him from the Polar Bear’s cave with a makeshift blow torch.

By: JB

JB — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 07:53:10 +0000

Any thoughts about the scene with Sawyer when he decides to join Kate, Sayid & co on their excursion into the monster infested jungle to try to get the transceiver to pick up signal…he is reading his letter, looking pretty intense & morose, and then he intently looks at the crew walking away, and joins them, stating “I’m unpredictable sweetheart…” (or something like that)…he walks accompanies them (actually leading the charge up the side of a big hill) and remains quite calm when they are suddenly attacked by the polar bear (which until it falls dead at his feet, no one knew what was charging at them)…after hearing that horrifying sound the night before that no one could identify, it always struck me as strange that Sawyer kept his cool and casually fires multiple shots straight on without blinking an eye.

Also, how did a polar bear get to the main island if they kept them at the Hydra (on Hydra island)? Sure polar bears can swim, but 2 polar bear attacks of the survivors within days of crashing and then not another appearance since? It seems like walt has a knack for looking at a picture of an animal and suddenly it appears (i.e., the 2nd bear that attacks him after he reads the comic book with the polar bear, and the bird that flies into the window when he is doing homework learning about that exact bird that died on his porch)…maybe the polar bears are not actually dharma polar bears but walt’s astral projection abilities (parapsychology)?