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So much for my theory about the coffin. The theory still holds, the relativity to episode 8 obviously wasn’t accurate. Seeing as most of you have already either watched the episode or read thousands of other recaps, I’m not even going to bother recapping the episode. I’ll just pose some of the glaring questions and observations I made in watching “Meet Kevin Johnson.”

The Power of the Island
The Island has the power to alter the fate of people in the real world. That’s some crazy stuff. The Island wouldn’t let Michael kill himself. Now he’s hellbent on trying, or trying to redeem himself for having killed Ana Lucia and Libby. Does this answer the question of why future-bearded-drunken-Jack didn’t jump off the bridge? And what does it mean? When will you be allowed to die? When the Island concedes that you’ve fulfilled your duty? Dare I blaspheme that the Island has supernatural powers of the almighty? I won’t, but you can.

Also, if the Island won’t let Michael die, then is he really in that casket?

The Benipulator
There he goes again. Finding ways to manipulate people into doing what he wants them to do. Benjamin Linus. The conpirator of all things good and all things evil. I don’t undestand how he made those calls to Michale when he was being held captive? The call we say may have been before Jack beat him to a pulp in last season’s finale. Nonetheless, it’s a fine line of time. My favorite Ben twist in this episode: Having Danielle and Kyle killed after telling Michael that he would never kill innocent people. That is, if you believe Ben is behind those murders. Brilliant!

By now, I’m also convinced that Ben controls the visions that people see, the sounds that they hear and even the weather on the Island. That’s why Michael kept seeing Libby last night. Or maybe that’s the Island. Or maybe Ben’s controlling the Island as well. Could that be the secret that he’s protecting? What he doesn’t want Charles Widmore to get a hold of?

Tom is Gay
That’s all.

Frequent Flyer Miles?
How the heck do people get on and off the Island so freely? I still believe that the submarine is in tact (or that they had more than one). I’m not convinced that it’s some sort of time travel machine, though. On the other hand, I do believe that certain coordinates, when followed, do get you off of the Island at varying speeds. That said, maybe it is possible that following a particular set of coordinates will take you to a place like New York in a shorter amount of time? Maybe it’s the coordinates that Ben gave to Michael and Walt?

Ben’s Weakness
Isn’t it time that someone figured out what Ben’s weakness is and exploit it? Women. He’s very protective of the women that he thinks he loves. Namely Juliette and Alex. To date, he’s been responsible for at least three deaths in direct correlation to those two. Someone needs to hold a gun to Alex’s head and get Ben to talk. Or better yet, act. Alex. she looked very good in last night’s episode. Very good.

That’s all folks. Yet another countdown to more episodes of Lost begins now. We can make it if we try.

Unfortunately, I won’t be able to watch tonight’s episode of Lost until the wee hours of the morning. There is good reason for this. A British rock band named The Cribs. I’ve quoted their songs in my recaps and I’m headed to hipster-nation to check them out. Whilst you await my sure to be hazy recap of what is sure to be a fantastic episode, here are some thoughts on “the big buzz” for tonight:

Someone Is Going to Die
The teasers have been telling us that someone is going to die in tonight’s episode. Even though that may be true, I think we’re going to find out something more profound than just the identity of the death. We’re going to find out that the person who is dead is actually the same person who was in the flash-forward coffin from “Through the Looking Glass!” We’ve all been speculating as to who that person might be, and I feel that I must give in to the theory that it is Michael (or Kevin Johnson). My gut had told me that it was Juliette, but I now believe that my gut was wrong. How all of this will tie together with Jack? We’ll find out tonight.

The writers knew that this episode might have to act like a season finale, so there should be a fantastic cliffhanger (as there always is). I hope ya’ll enjoy it as much as I’ll be missing it. We’ll chat tomorrow. If I can get a recap up

My apologies in advance, this will be a half-assed recap. I am on vacation, but I had to take an hour to check out Lost. Yeah, I know, my devotion to the show is sad, but so goes the life of a blogger.

Yes, we all knew that Michael was the spy on the boat working for Ben. We were hoping aginst hope that there would be a twist. That it wouldn’t be him, but we were right. Or the credits were right. Thanks a lot IMDB! We were also wondering who the captain of the boat was. And we learned that it’s some guy named Captain Gunn? Or did he say Rudd? I need to watch this show with the subtitles on. He tells Sayid and Desmond that it’s Mr. Whitmore’s boat and he tells them about the Oceanic 815 conspiracy. He shows them the “black box” from the flight and alleges that Ben is the orchestrator of the cover-up. Can we believe him? “Someone” dropped a note for Sayid and Des telling them not to trust the captain. Sounds like we’ve got another Ben on our hands.

Back on the Island, Juliette totally blows up Sun’s spot (get it? Sun Spot – yeah, I’m a dork). In her effort to prevent Sun and Jin from going to Locke’s camp, Juliette tells Jin about the affair. Yes, the affair that Sun had with the bald Korean guy before they found themselves on the Island. BTW, Jin’s been picking up english quite fast. Enough so that he and Bernard (yes, Bernard’s back) have a heart to heart on a fishing boat (where did they get that boat?!). Jin comes to the realization that it’s ok that his wife cheated on him. Because he was a jerk before they got onto the Island and since then, things have changed. So her forgives her. This all seemed a bit rushed, but hey, when you’ve got so many storylines in one episode, there’s only so much development you can do.

And now the other storyline. The last of the Oceanic 6: Sun. Or was she the last? Because we’re led to believe that Jin was also rescued. Now here’s the part that pisses me off a bit. The only reason that the Jin flashback (yes, it was a flashback, he wasn’t rescued, or was he?) was put into the episode was to eff with us. It served no other purpose. To me, that’s a waste of time. A waste of storytelling time and a waste of my time (even though I am on vacation wasting time). I didn’t see the falshback/flashforward twist coming, but my buddy did, and so it wasn’t all that much of a surprise. Nice try, though.

So what’s Ji Yeon? That’s the name of their baby. Sun, being one of the Oceanic 6, is back in Korea and she gives birth to their child; a girl named Ji Yeon. Future Hurley comes to visit her and they both go to Jin’s grave to pay their respects. That means Jin dies. He must have died in the process of being rescued. That leaves the question of who else died in that process? And how did Hurley know about the birth? And still the question of what is the glue that holds the Oceanic 6 together?

Kevin Johnson. He’s the janitor on the boat that has been messing up the systems. He’s Ben’s spy. Michael. That just opens the door to all sorts of questions. Primarily, how does Michael communicate with Ben? Is he even Ben’s spy? What’s at stake here? Walt’s livelyhood? Is that how Ben is manipulating Michael? And finally, how many more times will we have to hear “I just want my son back.”?

Two and Two Together

If Ben orchestrated the conspiracy like the captain says he did, then how did he get the 300+ bodies? Was it the purge? Or is Ben collecting bodies in general? Does it have anything to do with him collecting children? Also, are the people that Sayid is killing for Ben in the future also bodies that are being collected? Here’s what I have to ask as a final thought: If Jacob = Christian Shephard = Ben’s boss, is he behind the conspiracy? Is it battle of the oldies? Whitmore vs. Shephard? There’s a lot of money there.

Happy chatting.

You’re going to need to sit down for this. John Locke knows who Ben’s spy on the boat is, but we don’t. Booo on Lost for leaving us hanging in an episode that may have been the weakest of the season. OK, so we found out that the freighter belongs to Mr. Whitmore (Penny’s father). We learned about a new station (how many frickin stations are there?), The Tempest. We are even further confused as to who is on what side, but we’ll try and sort some of that out here. And a “love polygon.” Yeah, that. Ugh. So let’s begin, shall we?

Un-Locked
Poor John Locke. He has no idea what he’s up against. Ben, locked up in a basement, was able to manipulate his way into freedom. I think there is a part of all of us that wants to have that faith in Ben, we want to believe that he is a good guy, that he’s telling the truth, but we just can’t get ourselves to trust him. There’s just something about people who lie to manipulate others. Or liars in general.

What we do see from Ben is proof, supposedly. He shows Locke a video (VHS labeled Red Sox, ha) of Mr. Whitmore getting out of a limo and beating some guy up. Somehow, that proves to Locke and to us that Whitmore owns the boat. Considering what we saw last week about the Black Rock and the auction, it makes sense that Whitmore is looking for the Island. But maybe that’s just that part of me that wants to believe Ben.

The Love Chart
OK, so let me see if I can get this straight (and this is going to sound elementary school-ish, be warned): Jack likes Juliette and sometimes Kate. Juliette liked Goodwin (who was married, but killed by the tail section castaways), who was married to the therapist (AKA Ben’s ghost). Ben likes Juliette, in fact he thinks he owns her (because she looks like “her.” Annie?). Kate likes Jack sometimes, and Sawyer other times. Charlotte seems to like Faraday. And no one likes Miles. I think I need MS Visio to draw a flowchart here and see if there’s a pattern. Any volunteers?

The Tempest
Faraday and Lewis are on a mission to find their way to the Tempest (yeah, another Dharma station), and disable the toxic gas machine. They are in some cool jumpsuits and Daniel is trying his best to go from Physicist to computer hacker. What I thought was noteworthy was that they had a map of sorts. He knew almost exactly where to go. It seems as if he’s definitely been on the before. Maybe he was one of the original inhabitants of the Island? I’ll save the theorizing for another time, though.

They make it to the hatch, but Juliette had been told by Ben through Harper Stanhope (her ex-therapist and also her ex-lover, Goodwin’s, wife) that she must kill them before they kill the hatch. She makes it there, has the gun pointed at Charlottes head, but is talked out of it by C.S. lewis. Faraday figures out how to hack the computer and they are all saved. Kinda boring.

Playing Sides
Freighter Folk. Now I’m leaning towards Charlotte and Faraday being ok. They are on a mission to find out something about the Island – scientific research, if you may. Maybe they are the children of Dharma. Miles is just a hired gun. The owner of the freighter has hired him to kill Ben, period.

Ben. Oh Ben. Is he really trying to protect the Island? Yes. What he says makes sense. The Island has lost of potential and a businessman is trying to exploit it. But, like I said, I really want to believe that Ben is ultimately going to be a good guy, but I just can’t trust a liar.

Juliette. I’m not sure I completely trust her yet either. It seems as if she’s truly afraid of Ben and through this fear, he can manipulate her. Why hasn’t she killed him yet, I don’t understand. In fact, after she found out about Goodwin’s death, she helped Ben get Jack into the operating room. Supposedly to be taken off this Island, but we all know what happened there. Note the play on words in the episode title. Is Juliette an Other at heart?

Other than the obvious “who’s the spy on the boat?” question, I have another important one: Who is Ben? And how is he able to get Harper to show up in the middle of the forest, find Juliette, and tell her to kill the freighter folk? Is it Ben that’s even the one doing this? Or is it another force/power? Jacob again?

Claire wants to see if she can get some more info out of Miles by being nice to him. I wonder how that all works out?

So was I the only one that felt blah about this episode? I know the bar is set high, so all things considered, it was good – I just hope next week isn’t as disappointing.

Who’s it going to be on the boat? Michael? I almost hope it’s not – just because that’s who I expect it to be and I’ll be disappointed if I’m right (see the whole thing about the bar being set high). Thoughts?

Here’s a very interesting article from Popular mechanics talking about how it isn’t physically impossible for a “wormhole” to form and thus result in a bending of time. None of us will live to see this, though.