..Also, I found it odd that Hurley put baby Aaron in a laundry basket, but nothing clicked until I read this: [INDENT]Exodus 2:3: "But when she could hide him no longer, she got him a wicker basket and covered it over with tar and pitch. Then she put the child into it and set it among the reeds by the bank of the Nile." In the biblical text, Jochebed, mother of Moses (Aaron's brother), hid Moses in a basket to protect her son from the Pharoah's order to drown all of the Hebrew children. In "The Shape of Things To Come", Aaron is placed in a basket to be shielded from what we have been told is Widmore's order to kill everyone on the Island. Moses and Aaron follow Jacob in the Judeo-Christian prophetic line.[/INDENT]
Will Aaron play a part in the eventual "exodus" (possibly in the final season) of the survivors from the island? Moses fled Egypt (Aaron escapes the island as one of the O-6), and later returns to lead his people away. I realize Aaron is just a baby and probably won't lead anybody, but ... it begs the comparison.

I think you're on to something. It makes lots of LOST sense. I'd have never looked in the bible for answers to LOST, but they are there, apparently.

I think you're on to something. It makes lots of LOST sense. I'd have never looked in the bible for answers to LOST, but they are there, apparently.

Oh, by the way, in the 4/25/08 podcast (have you listened to that yet?), DL makes mention of the carrier pigeon released by Claire in a question asking whether birds would be affected by the "time disparity."


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Will Aaron play a part in the eventual "exodus" (possibly in the final season) of the survivors from the island? Moses fled Egypt (Aaron escapes the island as one of the O-6), and later returns to lead his people away. I realize Aaron is just a baby and probably won't lead anybody, but ... it begs the comparison.

I didn't even think of that but on other sites it has been talked about how many things the show does coincide with the bible and other things it is also believed that maybe aaron is the grandson of ben. Only because aarons father from the first season looks a lot like ben and this thaught surficed again when a couple episodes back in the video ben shows locke of the guy widmore captures and punches looks like it could be aarons father.

Oh, by the way, in the 4/25/08 podcast (have you listened to that yet?), DL makes mention of the carrier pigeon released by Claire in a question asking whether birds would be affected by the "time disparity."

Thanks for the head's up. I just listened. I'm pleased to know that the writers haven't forgotten Claire's birds. I am thrilled that they hinted, vaguely, that the bird's message may show up but we don't know when, or the when will have been affected by the time "warp" of the Island. Woo hoo! I love it when I'm at least a little right, or when I may be a little right.

Well, uh, yeah, Marc, that's why I wrote "if he were in the real world."

Three hours of sleep prevented me from picking up on the little details of your post. My apologies.

Three hours of sleep prevented me from picking up on the little details of your post. My apologies.

No apologies necessary, my friend. Are you OK or just having lots of fun or lots of work?

No apologies necessary, my friend. Are you OK or just having lots of fun or lots of work?

All's good here. Just a rough night of sleep is all.

A few thoughts.

• What if Ben really DOESN'T know WHAT the "smoke monster" is? If Whitmore really did once "own" the Island (and that would mean he had some kind of involvement with the DHARMA Initiative), when Ben and the Hostiles/Others took over, what if for instance Ben knows now how to CONTROL the "smoke monster," but he still doesn't really know what it IS?
  
• When I saw Ben laying on the desert, all I thought of was when we first see Charlotte's backstory: being in Tunisia, discovering the fossilized bones of a POLAR BEAR (Ben's jacket what?) and the DHARMA Initiative tag on it.
  
• I seriously can't believe that Danielle, Karl, and now Alex are all dead. That sucks. I liked them all to varying degrees, and it was really cold how they were all killed off like that before we got to learn anything about them.
  
• I have had EXACTLY one moment where I sympathized (empathized) with Ben now, and that was him mourning over Alex. When he said "I'm going to say goodbye to my daughter," my heart just broke. Granted, right after that we see the flashback of him with Sayid where he grins like the cat who ate the canary, but it was one hell of a moment in the show.
  
• God damn, I love Hurley! When Locke told him to keep away from the door when Sawyer and Claire were outside, and he just silently grabs a chair and throws it out the window to help them in...I practically screamed and jumped for joy. He's so cool!
  
• Holy f*ck...that "smoke monster" is scary. I mean it - I really get this deep, primal fear every time it comes on, in a way that's very unusual to me when I'm watching TV shows or movies. Good special effects, I might add.

Is anyone else praying to the gods that they make a LOST movie???

What if Ben really DOESN'T know WHAT the "smoke monster" is? If Whitmore really did once "own" the Island (and that would mean he had some kind of involvement with the DHARMA Initiative), when Ben and the Hostiles/Others took over, what if for instance Ben knows now how to CONTROL the "smoke monster," but he still doesn't really know what it IS?

Possibly, but then why didn't Whitmore give his men a heads-up on the thing?

I seriously can't believe that Danielle, Karl, and now Alex are all dead. That sucks. I liked them all to varying degrees, and it was really cold how they were all killed off like that before we got to learn anything about them.

While it's hard to believe there gone I loved how quickly all three were taken down. No flashbacks, no nothing. Just BAM! Done. Much more shocking than the slow episode buildup to the character death they usually do... one that isn't all that surprising because of the character centered flashbacks in those episodes.

Possibly, but then why didn't Whitmore give his men a heads-up on the thing?

Excellent point! I didn't think of that.