Watching Lost

All these switching back and forth in time has probably confused you as to where each and every character are in the continuum. USA Today has therefore provided us a cheat sheet, so that we don’t forget where they are stuck, when Lost returns for its sixth season in nine months…

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Surely, one of the things viewers can’t let go from last night’s episode was what ever happened to Ben’s face? What’s with all the cuts and bruises? Who gave it to him and how did he manage to walk out of it afterwards? What happened here?

Considering that when this happened, when his face was shown to us, he called Jack from the docks to tell him he was going to be delayed. Who was in the docks? Penny and Desmond? They live in their boat with their new baby, right?

So are the bruisings related to this? Has he gone after Penny, making good his threat to Widmore that he was going to go after his daughter the same way Widmore caused the death of Alex (Ben’s daughter)?

Or on a totally different path….is there some kind of connection between Kate, Sayid’s arrest and Ben’s bruised face?

What do you think happened to Ben?

This has been making the internet rounds already — the latest poster from Lost.

Fans have putting their thinking caps on, analyzing the hidden messages on this graphic art. Are you doing the same? Are you checking out the tiniest details, like the number 6 on Hurley’s angle of the building? Or the lighting between the two groups? Or that if you fold this poster like you do those Mad Magazines, you would find that Kate and Sawyer are actually looking at each other? Behind Jack’s back? And what is the significance of Miles being in the poster too?

I’m done guessing too much though. It spoils a lot of the show for me and I think I have been doing well avoiding a lot of the major spoilers thus far.

Christian Shepard tells John Locke that in order to save the island, they would have to move the island. The physical move would have to be slightly impossible…so maybe moving meant a move in a different time, not in a different place?

Here’s what I’ve gathered while going over sites and their theories:

• The shift in time has occurred on the island before.
• The shift in time involves some seismic activity and as Darlton has mentioned in past interviews, it will happen again.
• We shall see the purple sky signifying that the island is once again moving with the help of a magnetic force.
• The move will, of course, make it difficult for anyone to find the island. Which is what future Jack will encounter.

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So we see Claire chilling out inside Jacob’s cabin, looking very much contented where she is. Is she high on something? Or like Christian, is she a walking undead? If Claire is dead, when did she die?

Did the blast actually get her (The Shape of Things To Come)? After the blast, Claire has been experiencing headaches, which could mean her body isn’t the same anymore. Or was she dead long before that? Is that why Miles was looking at her funny? And is that the reason why Miles let her be with her dad? Because he can listen to what the dead is saying and knows what is happening between Claire and her dad?

If Claire is dead — how come Sawyer was still able to communicate with her?

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Hurley said this on last night’s episode while Locke, Sawyer and him were playing Risk — “Australia is the key to winning the game”? It struck me as odd that he would said that so clearly, it stood out. It was like a hint the writers were dropping on to viewers. Or it could be just something to throw us off (like we’re not so confused by all these questions and theories already!)

And what’s the game? Is it the game that is intensifying between Ben and Widmore? One is trying to find Penny, the other is trying to find the island….who will get there first?

Do you think Widmore is Ben’s constant?

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Lost theorists looking for a confirmation or validation of what they think is happening on the series may get this from producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse.

USA Today is accepting Lost Theory contributions and will be running this in the magazine (both print and online), while giving the same contributions to Lost producers who will “evaluate them for originality, completeness, logic, etc., without spoiling future episodes by indicating if your theory is right, wrong or really wrong.”

If you have a Lost theory brewing in your head, submit this to jdeerwes@usatoday.com with your full name, city and contact number.

The deadline for submission is Wednesday, April 16 at 5 p.m. ET

Theories should not be more than 200 words.

Remember this scene from the episode, Eggtown? Where Miles talks to Ben for the first time and negotiates a deal with him?

MILES: Do you know who I am?
BEN: Yes.
MILES: Do you know who I work for?
BEN: Yes.
MILES: Then you know he’s put a lot of time and energy into finding you. So now I’ve found you. And I can tell him exactly where you are. Or I can lie, and tell him you were already dead. I’d be willing to do that, for 3.2 million dollars.
BEN: You’ve arranged this meeting so you could blackmail me?
MILES: It’s extortion if you want to get technical.
BEN: 3.2? But why not 3.3 or 3.4?
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BEN: What makes you think I have access to that kind of money?
MILES: Do not treat me like I’m one of them! Like I don’t know who you are, or what you can do!
BEN: Your friend Charlotte has seen me, she knows I’m alive.
MILES: I’ll take care of Charlotte. You just worry about getting me the money. You have two days.
BEN: My present situation is a little bit restricted. Can that be amended?
MILES: Okay. One week, in cash.

Is Miles actually talking to Ben about money or is this a code?

Some are theorizing it’s a code for the bearing the freighter people or “rescuers” already know. And Miles is passing that information to Ben. Miles may actually be one of Ben’s men.

Remember what Ben told Michael at the end of Season 2, in the episode Live Together, Die Alone?

BEN: I’m not happy about the arrangement that was made with you Michael, but we got more than we bargained for when Walt joined us, so I suppose this is what’s best. And you let me go, set me free—you lived up to your word. We live up to our word, too. Do you know how to drive a boat?
MICHAEL: Yeah, I can drive a boat.
BEN: Good, then you’re going to take this boat and follow a compass bearing of 325, and if you do that exactly, you and your son will find rescue.
MICHAEL: That’s it? I follow the bearing and me and my son get rescued?
BEN: Yes.

Hmmmm…have they figured something out here? Is the theory spot on?

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From the pages of Lost Magazine comes this reference from Damon Lindelof saying that two characters will be sharing one spectacular kiss at the end of Season 4.

“Romance is always blooming on and off the island. And just for you, I hereby promise you one of the most spectacular kisses you’ve ever seen on the show in this year’s finale.�

Naturally, everyone’s right there with their guesses.

Is it between Jack and Juliet?
Is it between Kate and Sawyer?
Is it between Jack and Kate?
Is it between Jin and Sun?
Is it between Rose and Bernard?
Is it between Mr. Friendly and his Boytoy?
What about Michael and Sun? Hey, I’m just throwing it out there. I came across a theory about Sun’s baby being Michael’s and while that’s so far out there, I realize that anything can happen in Lost, right?

But who do I really want to share a spectacular kiss? The choice would have to be very obvious — Desmond and Penny! If spectacular was the word they chose to describe the kiss, their scenes in The Constant were exactly that. I can’t think of any other couple coming close to delivering the same impact.I really am expecting Desmond and Penny would finally cross paths and be with each other at the end of Season 4. I would hate to think their meeting would have to drag on till the end of the series in the year 2010.

One thing about the kiss is that it’s supposed to change the course of the remainder of the show, forever. Did I not read somewhere Desmond and Penny would have to play a really significant part in the story of Lost?

What about you, who do you think is the kissing couple?

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The inevitable death will happen sometime before Episode 8 or 9. According to spoilers, the death would involve one of the original passenger of flight 815 who is also one of the Oceanic 6. He or she will make it off the island but his or her death is going to be a significant one. And yet, like Charlie, this person will still be seen in the future episodes.

Like many others, I initially thought this character would be Jin but something tells me that it could also be Sun. For one thing, their flash forward episode is coming up next week, the exact time this “death” is going to occur (before episode 8 or 9). And we’ve seen snippets of the couple in that Kate-centric episode the other week. Something about their conversation laid out what’s to happen next. They were making plans as to where they were going to raise the baby, so that speaks about hope. And I just feel that the writers won’t bring a happy ending to this and will kill that hope.

I also buy into this theory that states — and I’ll try to keep it brief — all of those on the plane are actually dead in the future, but are presently trapped in a time warp. If and when their present self comes to the future, they will eventually have to meet their fate: death. No passenger on Flight 815 will live past 2004 if they do get off the island. The Q & A section of that site touched on Sun’s pregnancy, stating that she conceived her baby off the island (as opposed to what Juliet told Ben) and will be able to keep her baby and herself alive if she remains there.

For more drama, I’ll bravely guess Sun will die giving birth off the island.

What are your thoughts?

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This is rather a belated report but I’m putting it up anyway, in case you haven’t been able to keep tabs of this last week. It’s an interview EW’s Doc Jensen conducted with Lost Producers, Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof. I have to say, I didn’t read all the way through because I would like my Lost experience the least bit spoiler free (which is sometimes hard to do, since I’m blogging about it!).Anyway, here are some excerpts from that interview:

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Mother of all theories, my head hurts from reading this one from the Time Loop Theory website! Whew! The stipulations they have explained are very easy to follow, but difficult to digest…in the brain.

Some of the theories they’ve come up with are these —

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During the testing of the time machine, DHARMA and the others make the following discoveries about time travel:

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Okay, I’m not saying Jin is going to die, I don’t have correct information on that. But all that talk about major characters dying in the fourth season has led others to theorize Daniel Dae Kim’s character on Lost is going to get the boot soon, simply because he got caught by the police and is slapped with a DUI charge in Honolulu. If we’re to base the show’s history, three other characters have been removed from the show (i.e. killed off) and they all had something in common — a DUI charge.

When I read that news about Kim, I thought the same, like most people. But no one has actually come forward with a definite account. Information about who dies is, of course, a well-guarded secret. What spoilers sites do have are the following information.

• TV Guide: 01/30 - I’m hearing that a significant death occurs sometime after Episode 4, but before Episode 8. Kate and Sawyer will have one innocent night of canoodling.
• TV Guide: 12/26 - There will be at least two deaths in the first eight episodes.
• GDA interview of Elizabeth Mitchell - “There are still lots of people left to die. There are many deaths… people exploding and things like that.”
• TV Guide: 10/24 - Rumors about a death occurring during the first half of the season are unequivocally, 100 percent true.
• The Fuselage: 10/14 - Jorge Garcia confirmed that there would be another death this season.

So, Lost fans — who do you think it is going to die? And if it were actually Jin, would you have liked that idea?

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Thought you might wanna check it out:

New York Times: Tropical Teaser: ‘Lost’ Clues Decoded
Pop Candy: Brian K. Vaughan talks ‘Lost’
NY Mag: ‘Lost’ and ‘Y: The Last Man’ Writer Brian K. Vaughan on Comics, Time Travel, and the Dharma Shark
The Watcher: ‘Lost’s’ fab start to Season 4, and a chat with co-creator Damon Lindelof
EW: ”Lost”: Your Preseason Cheat Sheet
Watch with Kristin: Lost Week: Go Back in Time with the Losties!
Watch with Kristin: Lost Spoilers
Watch with Kristin: Go Back in Time with Losties 2
NY Mag: Let the Internet Spoil ‘Lost’ for You
Televisionary: The Sun Also Rises: Getting “Lost” With Yunjin Kim
BuzzSugar: How Well Do You Remember Lost Season 3? (I got 7 out of 10, phew!)
Buddy TV: Exclusive Interview: Josh Halloway
Yahoo: New Season of Lost is Found (minor spoilers)
LA Times: Lost: 48 Pending Questions
SFGate: Want to Get Lost? There’s still time as the season starts (Minor spoilers for episode 1 and 2 Season 4)

Lost Seasons 1-3 as told by way of 24, in about 8 minutes: