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For a long recap and a list of Burning Questions surrounding last night's Lost S4 premiere, check out Doc Jensen's column on Entertainment Weekly's website. Do you agree with the Doc that the mysterious Jacob -- glimpsed in his rocking chair when Hugo peeked into the cabin -- seems to be a spectral Dr. Christian Shephard, the allegedly dead dad of Jack (and Claire)? Maybe so. The most recent of the Missing Pieces mobisodes from ABC.com is a scene that refers to the very beginning of our Island saga. [Episode 13, "So It Begins," has already been released to Verizon mobile subscribers and will soon be posted on ABC.com.] In it, we see Vincent, the Dog of Doom, running through the jungle just after the crash of Oceanic 815. Someone whistles and calls him over. It's Christian! He sends Vincent on a mission to find his son, who's still lying in the bamboo forest, and he tells Vincent to wake Jack up: "He's got work to do." This strangely echoes what Walt told John Locke in last season's finale, when Locke was lying in the Dharma death pit, seemingly paralyzed from Ben's gunshot. |
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Posted by Darla Atlas @ 1:50 PM Fri, Feb 01, 2008
The following questions comes courtesy of my husband, who has more common sense than me and would therefore think of these things:
When Charlie is in The Looking Glass and sees One-Eye about to set off the grenade, he quickly shuts the door so that Desmond won't drown. Very noble. But my hubby's question is this: Why couldn't Charlie have ALSO gotten on the other side of the door and shut it from the outside? This way, nobody dies! Yay!
He also wonders why, in the castaways' desperate attempt to turn off the jamming signal, they didn't just cut that power cord running from the sand into the water. But I don't know if that was specifically a power cord.
Thoughts?
Posted by Joyce Saenz Harris @ 2:07 PM Fri, Feb 01, 2008
Darla, I've also wondered why Charlie didn't dash out and shut the door behind him -- it seems he had time to, at least if he had reacted quickly enough for pure self-preservation.
But maybe he felt he had to die to fulfill his destiny (as foreseen by Desmond), and more importantly, to ensure that, as in Desmond's vision, Claire and Aaron would then be rescued.
As for the cable, someone on The Fuselage blog (www.the-fuselage.com) has written:
"check a screencap of the map of the looking glass station and u will see that the title given to the cable is an anchor to hold the looking glass station in place. so cutting the cable might have made the station less stable but not might of neccessarily cut all power."
I'll take their word for it!
Posted by Stella @ 2:45 PM Fri, Feb 01, 2008
Joyce, great job with all of your analysis of the show. Darla, I agree with Joyce in that I think Charlie felt he had to die to fufill Desmond's prophecy. If he didn't do exactly what he was supposed to do and die the way he died, then the others would not be rescued. Then again, they really aren't going to be rescued the way they want to be. Does that make sense?