What do you guys think about the theory that whenever the Losties do whatever it is they're supposed to do, they're all just sent back to their plane in 2004, and where the "flash sideways" start is where they return to? In other words, they're on the island to do something (which apparently results in the island sinking), and that causes them to go back to 2004, like the last three years or whatever never happened (in "real time" anyway). Jacob brought them there to do what he needed them to do, and when they've done it, he just thanks them and puts them back?
Overall, I didn't love the second episode. The flash-sideways are consistently weak, I think, because we don't really understand their relevance or importance, and we feel like they may not be important at all.
As far "claiming" Sayid, it looks like Jacob and the Man in Black are claiming people for their sides in this epic war between them? Jacob seeks "good" people (i.e., the Others and the people he touches) and the MIB seeks not good people (i.e., as the smoke monster, he scans people to find out if they're good or bad, and if he thinks he can infect them, then he does, like Rousseau's "sick" people). This means, though, that ironically, Jack (the scientist) is good and Locke (the faithful) is bad. Jacob touched Jack, and the smoke monster tried to infect Locke way back when (when he tried to drag him into a hole). Locke, ultimately -- and sadly -- may just be a tool for evil, whether he knows it or not. He wanted so badly to be accepted and to be important, and it looks like he may only be important as a mechanism for the MIB.
Thoughts?
2.10.2010
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First, let me say sorry on behalf of the rest of the PearlFlameSwanHydraStaffArrow team, for our delinquency in participation. Walead, you are a shining star and inspiration to all of us.
Second, here are my belated comments from last week's episode:
http://samjmiller.com/2010/02/10/la-x-25-word-lost-episode-review/
Third - Walead, i dig what you're saying here. I don't see the point of the flash-sideways, so they don't have a ton of weight to me. But then again, the weight of the main/uninterrupted timeline is also diminished because i don't get any kind of hint or sense about the relationship between the two of them.
Am I alone in not really caring so much about Sayid and his "infection"/"claim"? But i am extremely excited about Claire, and am curious to see what this "darkness" is that's supposedly taken her over. Why do i think it's not really a darkness at all? (and by "darkness," i mean "bad thing," because apparently "dark" means "evil." I don't make the rules, folks).
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