Season Six, Episode 4

First, let me thank for DVR for crapping out 37 minutes into the episode so I had to move to the bedroom to watch on the less-than-big-enough TV. And this, Comcast, is why we record LOST on two different DVRs. Now that we have that out of the way, let me just say, welcome back, LOST. Welcome back.

We kicked things off tonight with Jack's scar, the one he doesn't seem to remember getting. Well, we know Jack version 1.0 had that removed on the island, but since Jack 2.0 was never on the island, then he has no recollection of it. Interesting. So what else are we going to stumble across that happened but never really happened? In other Jack news, not only does he turn down drinks, he also has a kid. And old kid. And his wife is no longer in the picture, so that divorce thing still happened. Island or not, there was nothing he could do to fix that. Is that because he is destined to be with Kate? What prompted the show to give Jack a kid is beyond me, other than to show that he can break the chain of bad-father-son-relations that plague his family. Maybe that's why Asian pirate guy and his kid are there, to push Jack to do the right thing. with not just his son, but whatever it is he is meant to do in life. That's appears to be what Asian pirate guy is doing in Lost-land, anyway. While I ponder that, I'll tell you this: The Alice in Wonderland reference was about her Kittens: Kitty and Snowdrop, who were BLACK AND WHITE. Another good vs. evil reference.


So, Claire is alone in the jungle and has no concept of time, because she's clearly lost her marbles. She has fake baby. She's been branded, just like Sayid. And she's partnered up with Un-Locke. She's also has visits with her dad, Christian. But the thing that most stands out to me is she is so much like Rousseau. She's even starting to look like her. She sets traps, she lives alone, she lost her baby. And she is hell-bent on killing The Others. It's like when someone on the island who has a role dies, they have to be replaced. Someone else has to fill that roll asap. LOST island must contain at least one crazy baby-less lady. But does it go further than that? Now that Jacob is dead (and apparently not living in Sayid's body, as I earlier thought), he needs to be replaced. That's what it appears Easu and Jacob are both up to, finding replacements. The other thing about Claire, in life version 2.0 she is still around. She is still Jack's sister and still in his dad's will. Those paths will still cross. Aaron will still be born. But where, oh, where will that path lead?

If Claire has partnered up with Easu and she has a heart of darkness and we are assuming he is the "black" in all of our black and white scenarios, then are we to assume he is assembling an army? Jacob tells Hurley that it's too late to go back and save anyone at the temple because someone bad is coming. I'm assuming that someone bad is Easu in smoke monster form. And I'm assuming he is heading back to get Sayid. That means Team Black has: Easu, Claire, Sayid and now possibly Sawyer. Now we have to figure out what he is going to do with this team.

Moving on to Hurley. He seems to really be our guide. I said that the first episode and it's becoming more and more true. It's because of him that we are finally getting some answers. What perplexes me most about Hurley in this episode is when he says: "If we timed traveled to dinosaur times and we died and then we got buried here and what if these skeletons are us?" Um, what? Is this an attempt by the producers to give us an overview of how things are going to end up? Or is it some lame question thrown in to make us think this is how it's going to end? Does it even make sense? Are the Lostees so far back in the past that the decisions they make will effect all of mankind's future? Is this the progress we've been hearing about? Time travel, we know is an element. But to what degree? Is the whole show taking place in the days of Adam and Eve, each set of people given a test, like Eve, to see if they will prevail above evil?

While we don't know where in time we are for sure, we do know that Jack came back to this place "bc I was broken and I was stupid enough to think this place can fix me." And that is what the island does. It's fixed so many: Locke, Rose, Ben, dead Sayid. And while those were just physical fixes, it, too, can have emotional healing powers. Sayid learned to love Shannon. Shannon learned to trust Sayid. Sawyer dropped his guard and became an entirely different human being. The island will heal Jack, in due time.

Now on to the dessert, what this show is all about: Mind-blowing crap you can't figure out. Where in God's name did this lighthouse come from? Another wheel? We have another wheel? Our last wheel was below ground in The Orchid. It made the island disappear. This one is above ground and it makes the island appear. And while Hurley has been sent to make the island appear to someone looking for it, I think that it was all metaphorical for making it appear to Jack in his mind, heart. Jack has been looking for the island, per sey. But what he is looking for has always been in front of him. Jacob has been watching him all his life through the looking glass (another Alice reference). The person Jacob needs to find the island is Jack and the place he needs to find it is within. He does, after all, "have what it takes." And I'm starting to think it's really Jack who is the candidate, perhaps the next Jacob. With Easu trying to recruit Sawyer as his candidate, we will have yet another showdown between these two. And I have a feeling, kids, that's the direction we're headed in. It's a showdown of foils: Kate vs. Claire (it's coming), Jack vs. Sawyer.

Now back to this whole mirror. Did you see all those names and numbers? How long has this been going on? Since the beginning of time? How many scenarios have they been through? And when does it end? For us, in 12 more episodes.