Claire has become the Island's new Rousseau. Woot! Missing baby and all. Think back over the years and you'll remember that Claire and Rousseau always had a bond and had several key scenes together.
I have been consistently confused about what power was occupying The Cabin. Was it a power for good or a power for evil? According to the enhanced version of last week's episode, LAX Part 2, the ash was around the cabin to protect the occupant but Illana and her crew found the circle of ash had been broken so that the smoke monster was able to gain access to the cabin. Well, Locke had discovered the ash circle had been broken when he went to the cabin and spoke to Christian (and which power has "claimed" Christian?) who was in the cabin with Claire. Christian told Locke he had to move the Island and not to tell anyone else about Claire.
OK, here are questions and thoughts about the reanimated beings:
1. Christian - Jack's dad as Jack knew him is dead. He died in Sydney, but since hitting the Island his body has been used by another entity. Which one? And for what purpose, good or evil? In the interest of the Island or the interest of the Man in Black?
2. Sayid - The new Sayid doesn't even sound like himself. His Arabic accent is nowhere near as pronounced as it had been. I wonder just what Dugong or whatever his name is, did to Sayid. Was there really power flowing through those wires? Did he really jab Sayid with the red hot poker? In watching the scene again, you can see smoke arising from what looks like the contact of hot poker with Sayid's skin, but you never actually see the contact. Sayid does not show the scar, and Jack, in a very un-Dr. Jack move, does not lift Sayid's shirt to examine the wound that would have been created by the red hot poker. So we see no scars. Did the painful torture actually happen? Or did "Sayid" just react to what he/it expected would happen, and so failed the test.
3. Locke - I've been straining my brain to remember who was the first to tell Locke that he had to die in order to save the Island. I think it was Un-Locke, which means the Man in Black manipulated Locke to come back to the Island as a corpse. I think (not 100% sure but am pretty sure) that the first mention of Locke needing to die was given by what we now know is Un-Locke when he told Richard Alpert to tell the real Locke that the only way to stop the time skipping was for Locke to get everyone back to the Island and that Locke was going to die in doing so. That was the scene when the real Locke was wounded, shot in the thigh by Ethan when Locke was trying to climb up to the newly crashed African drug plane. Locke missed being killed by Ethan by skipping to another time, and suddenly Richard Alpert comes out of the jungle and helps Locke with his wound and quickly tells Locke that he has to die. Then Locke skips off to another time and has the idea in his head that he must die to save the Island.
OK, that last paragraph has given me a headache. I need a cup of coffee.
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A Maggers Haiku, 2005
Years ago my mother used to say to me... "In this world, Elwood, you can be oh so smart or oh so pleasant."
Well, for years I was smart.
I recommend pleasant.
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Elwood P. Dowd