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or my other title was to be "Dharma Karma". I loved them both, and lifted them from other fabulous professional bloggers.

Sorry that I've been so delayed in posting- busy, busy.

Let's recap quickly- In this past week's "He's Our You", Sayid is in trouble. Little more Sayid back story, apparently a born killer (and a nod to Mr. Ekho's back story when he killed so his brother didn't have to) I thought Sayid would get pummeled, but he just got some acid slipped to him. Can't believe got seduced again, and this time didn't get away! How great was Sayid's reaction to who else would be on his flight to Guam- "Can we please take the next flight?" Could this really be a coincidence?

Did you almost want to cry when Juliet said to Sawyer, "so this is over now". Ugh! I can't believe that I've become a fan of their pairing.

This week sure ended with a bang- literally. In my opinion, Ben can't be dead. Cause if he's dead, what happens to future Ben and everything (mostly bad) that he's done. Did little Ben recognize Sayid? or not at all like Rousseau and Jin's interaction. (Also, when Ben's good for nothing dad, "Roger Workman" says to Ben, "you've never brought me a sandwhich", that's the same thing that Ben said in turn to Juliet when she was trying to be Jack a sandwhich.

Speaking of Jack, will he have to save the life of little Ben with perhaps some more surgery?

What is the deal with dead people on this island? Lisa T at the Killam school believes the Ajira people are all dead- and that is why Sun and Frank could see Christian. I would like to know how Sun decked Ben if they are both dead? I'm also wondering about the Others/Hostiles and their ability to travel around the island, through the sonic fence, and off the island. Is Richard dead, is this why he doesn't age? Was Christian brought back to life when the coffin landed on the island- because that coffin was empty when Jack found it? And we've seen Locke walking around seemingly fit again, out of his coffin.

My other big question for all you- can the space time continuum be changed- is this like other time travel storylines that we know so well, like Star Trek: The Next Generation or Back to the Future, or is some kind of new fangled time travel?

Where the heck is Daniel Farraday, and Desmond? Remember brother, Farraday's mother, Eloise Hawking, said that the island wasn't done with Des? (keep praying for Penny)

Namaste

So, what did you all think? We've really been spoiled- an amazing episode week after, week. They make us wait two weeks, and give us, "Namasate". I thought it was okay, and we learned a few things, but I wasn't terribly shocked and didn't stare in awe.

What we know- Jack, Kate, Hurley, and Sayid made the transition to 1977. Thanks to James LaFleur, the first three have made the transition to being part of the Dharma Initiative. (How much did you love Hurley, "Dude, you know they die? I saw them in that pit." Those three all landed together in the lagoon, but Sayid appeared somewhere else. As a result, they couldn't get him on the manifest, and he must now be classified as a "hostile".

Jack was ready to talk strategy with Sawyer, but Sawyer wasn't playing. (Sawyer likes to read a book everynight, like Winston Chruchill did.) He's the sheriff now-literally because he's the head of security. Jack has been relegated to janitorial services- that's all he scored on the aptitude test- ha! I guess he'll be meeting up with Ben's boozebad dad, whom we know as Roger "Workman".

Why didn't Sun or Ben transtion back in time with the rest of the Scooby gang? I find this concerning. Did you love Sun decking Ben? When she and Frank make it back to the other island, it is clearly not 1977 and New Otherton is in shambles. They are greeted by no other than, Christian Shephard. This had me concerned. If they can see Christian, they must be dead, right? But Locke saw him back in the day before he died (but he was uber special) and Sun couldn't have decked Ben if she was a ghost, right?

Should Juliet be worried? Things between the quadrangle are certainly going to be heating up, but can Sawyer and Juliet resist the return of Jack and Kate? Sawyer definitely referred to her as "Kate", not Freckles, so who knows.

How perfectly cast was "Little Ben"? Down to the lips, a deadringer!

We know Miles is still kicking around (still remains to be seen whether he will turn out to be the baby we saw in the seaon premiere- the son of Pierre Chang/Marvin Candle etc., the guy from all the videos) Where is Daniel Farraday? I fear it is not looking good. Sawyer seemed to imply he was no longer around....doesn't mean we are doomed to never see him again. We could certainly get some addtional info about him....and they are predicting a MAJOR death. Could it be good old time travelling Daniel?

"Other" thoughts:
1. We now know that Amy and Horace are the parents of none other than , Ethan Rom. (The creepy William Mapother, and cousin of Tom Cruise, who kidnapped Claire and strung up Charlie in season 1.) So, if Ethan was originally part of the DI, did he make the transition with Ben to the Others when Ben gassed them all?

2. Will Sayid resist doing away with Little Ben? Don't forget the torture that Sayid set upon "Henry Gale" back in the day?

3. Kazinsky- He seems like a paranoid fellow. You will recall that Kazinsky was the original partner of Kelvin Inman at the lovely "Swan" station. Kazinsky was the one who designed that blacklight map on the blast door, and then killed himself. Kelvin then replaced him with Desmond after he found him washed up on the beach. Now, I'm curious to see that he appeared to be designing the Swan station. He was very concerned that Sayid may have seen his little toothpick model. I assume then that Kazinsky knew the false nature of the Swan. I think in the past we were lead to believe that the people in the Swan didn't know that they were kind of being watched by the people from the Pearl.

4. What happened to Aaron?

5. Where are Bernard and Rose? 2004, 1977, another time?

Your thoughts, predictions, comments.....

Death becomes Lost

Lot of speculation brewing in the world of tv discussion/spoilers that a major character will die before the end of the season.

Oh no! I don't know if there's anyone I can part with!

I have some spoilers, hints at who it might be, and not be. If you want to know....highlight to reveal below:

1. A current series regular is getting killed before the end of season five.
2. The character who will die is someone who is much-loved by many of you fans.
3. This is a real leaving-the-show death, à la Shannon or Charlie, not a quick-fix time-travel death like Jeremy Bentham/John Locke.
4. There was some speculation that it was Kate, but it is apparently not.

Thoughts?

I'm going to wash that girl right out of my hair...

The Left Behinders have landed- in 1974.
Sawyer was looking awfully perky and clean, eh. JoEllen described him to be "the Breck girl".
Was he too shiny for most of you? I will admit, I like him better scruffier.
But it seems that James LaFleur has found his nitch with the old D.I. (Dharma Initiative), being the head of security and all. And he seems quite at home with Juliet....I thought there chemistry was pretty good. We see them there until 1977- (did we see Daniel in 1977?)

Horace Goodspeed- we have seen Horace before, twice I believe. We met Horace and his wife Olivia (where did she go) when we saw the birth of Benjamin Linus in Portland. Horace and Olivia happened upon Roger "Workman" Linus and his wife. They orchestrated the Linuses coming to the island. We also saw Horace as a ghost building "the shack" in the jungle when Ben was looking for Jacob. Horace was supposedly building the shack for his sweetheart- Olivia? Amy? I'm wondering if it's such a good idea to build vacation cottages on the island outside of the Dharma compound- with the hostiles and all?

Who is the baby? Must be signifcant, right? Can't be Ben. There was some banter about him being Carl, Alex's dead, tortured boyfriend who had been mentioned to be an orphan. It was a boy, so it wasn't Charlotte. ( I would also like to be the first to possibly say that the little redheaded girl that Daniel saw, was not Charlotte. Ben rattled off her name, age, and she's too young to be that girl- if they stick with conistency. My prediction- the redheaded girl could be Annie, the girl that Ben loved.) Could the baby be one of the newbies from the plane? Perhaps Caesar who was poking around the Dharma hatches after the plan crashed?

Significance of the ankh-Amy needed to take the ankh, Egyptian symbol of life, from her dead husband Paul before he was turned over to Richard Alpert and the hostiles. When we saw the end of the hatch, after the numbers ran down, Egyptian hieroglyphics appeared. Don't forget that the when you "leave" the island via the donkey wheel, the other opening is in Tunisia, a couple countries away from Egypt, along the Mediterranean. Lest we forget the four toed statue- that we got a brief glimpse of in between the last two flashes. He appeared to be Egyptian-ish, or Greek to my art historian eyes.

Jim LaFleur tried to quell the fears of booze drinking, dynamite throwing Horace- Amy is over Paul. Infact, Jim himself can't even remember the face of the girl he loved three years ago...enter Kate.

What will happen now? Two weeks, ugh? Sayid looks like he's in trouble....

Guys, When are we?

Now, I ripped that off of Eonline, but I loved it! This week we see what will become of our Losties, since they are now stuck in the 70s. Bring on the Geronimo Jackson!

We know that Jack, Kate, and Hurley are in the lagoon- and Jin in the jumpsuit just pulled up. Where are Sayid and Sun? Are they all in the same time, or not?

How's Kate going to feel when she sees Sawyer? And how will she feel when she sees how buddy, buddy he is with Juliet?

I have (what I think) is a good prediction- and it is totally mine, not stolen from anywhere else on the web.

It is in regards to Charlotte- I think Charlotte's nosebleeds were in regards to travelling through time towards the time when she existed on the island. So, Charlotte had to die before she was able to encounter her younger "self" on the island. People who have been to the island or lived on the island in another time are in danger- so Juliet, Ben, and possibly others (well, not necessarily other Others)
As my friend JoEllen says, "This isn't your mother's time travel".

Thoughts- you can always post anonymously, and then identify yourself if you don't have a login name:)

The Life and (Shocking) Death of Jeremy Bentham

Mea Culpa, LOST friends. I wrote a whole lot about last week's AMAZING episode, and then blogger went and ate it. I don't know why these things happen- I know that Mommy, Esq. is having her own blogger woes....I've reconstructed what I could for your reading enjoyment.

Wow! I mean this show just keeps getting better, and better! This episode finally gave us the story of how Locke ended up dead, and boy was it a shocker. We begin with Locke appearing, injured of course, in Tunisia (where we also saw Ben appear and the skeleton of that polar bear that Charlotte was digging for). He is swooped up to (where I read somewhere else) a Bedouin Urgent Care center, funded of course by Charles Widmore.

Now, Charles Widmore tells John they have met before, fifty years earlier. (I find this interesting because this seems against what we've seen earlier, like with Rousseau. Widmore remembers meeting Locke) Widmore says the island is important to him, blah, blah, and that he used to be the island leader till Ben tricked him to leave. My question: where does this leave Penny? Like Mon mentioned, could she have been born on the island? If Des brings her and mini-Charlie there, will she get nosebleeds and die?

Widmore sends Locke off with all that he needs to find the Oceanic 6 and bring them back. This includes a new identity. Apparently Jeremy Bentham was a British Philosopher who was diametrically apposed to all the thoughts of his fellow philosopher, John Locke. Helping Locke will be Matthew Abbadon- someone who gets people where they need to go. According to Wikipedia, Abbadon is sometimes a reference to the angel of death. (I found him quite scary last season, not as much in this episode and his death scene was pretty gruesome. I also like him on "Fringe", so maybe that has something to do with it.)

None of the Oceanic Six is thrilled to see Locke, and are definitely not interested in going back.

Sayid would like him to hangout and build houses for Habitat for Humanity.I was happy to see his stopover with Walt- I was quite confused as to why he didn't have to go back too? I like that Locke chose to let him be. And that Abbadon said, " the boy got big".
The person most unhappy to see Locke- Kate. She was not too nice to him, making a point to say to him, "that he wants to go back because he has nothing else and noone else to keep him here." Ouch. So that brings me to the cemetery...
Is Helen really dead? Was that a setup from Widmore? or Ben? or someone else

I'm sure that you were all thinking the same thing; who's the bad guy here? The lines are so blurred...is it Ben as Widmore insists, or is it Widmore as Ben insists?

And then we saw the ending. So.....what is Ben's m.o. He killed him once Locke gave over the info about Mrs. Hawking, or he was helping Locke because the island wouldn't take him back if he had committed suicide?

More to come in a separate post about tonight..
PS- If you are not watching "Lost Untangled" on abc.go.com or youtube, YOU MUST! They are friggin' hysterical!