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Our Adventures: Lost – “Lighthouse”

Well, yet another week of Lost, and still more questions. I really feel like the season’s getting to a point where at least one major question needs to be satisfied to keep up with all the new ones that are coming at us every week. If the promo for next week’s episode is to be believed, then maybe we’ll finally get an answer or two then. But as for this episode, not a whole lot really happened.

The meat of it centered around Jack and his multi-dimensional adventures. In the tangent universe (is this show going to go all Donnie Darko on us?) he’s still divorced from his wife(did not catch the picture of her, though, is it still the same woman?), but apparently has a teenage son named David (Biblical significance?) who can play a mean Chopin. His son seems to hate him just as much as he hated his father, but at the end they reconcile because Jack doesn’t put the pressure on his boy that his father put on him. And as tangent-universe Dogen says, these kids are really too young to have so much pressure on them.

The only other information of significance that I can gather from this sub-plot is the scene where Jack sees the scar from when he had his appendix removed and when he asks his mother when that happened, she says that he was a little boy. As we all know, Jack had his appendix removed on the Island by Juliet. So this just seems to solidify that the tangent-universe is a very different place where our losties’ lives have played out differently. Perhaps Jacob’s lack of influence is the reason behind this.

This brings me to my next point. The whole “lighthouse that we never saw” deal certainly implies that Jacob has influenced or guided the losties’ lives for a very long time. This interference is quite central to the show’s theme of free will vs. destiny. So far, destiny seems to be winning out.

But anyways, the lighthouse. First of all, I’m really interested to see what would have shown up in the mirror at 108 degrees. I can hardly believe that number is coincidentally related to Desmond’s button-pushing schedule. But since Jack freaked out when he saw his name at 23 degrees (was his the only name marked down, or were his fellow candidates matched with their corresponding numbers?), the mirror is now all smashed up. Sorry, Widmore (just a hunch), but it looks like you’ll have to find another way back. And before we leave the topic of the mirror, I’d just like to note that I saw Sawyer’s church and what I assume to be Dogen’s childhood home (because of the traditional Japanese architecture), but perhaps it was the fishing hut of Jin’s youth.

I’d also like to note that Jacob kind of dissed Hurley when he said something along the lines of, “You can’t just get in the back of everybody’s cab and tell them what to do.” Mr. Reyes is certainly important, but seems to be no more than a messenger for Jacob at this point. The true leader, the guy who “has what it takes,” has to come to his own conclusions on what to do (ha, Jacob supporting free will!) by staring at the ocean for a while.

As for the other half of the episode, Claire’s infected and thinks the dingo Others took her baby. She makes dolls out of animal skulls and hides and rocks them to sleep in a crib. She kills dudes with axes. And she’s friends with Focke, who I’m assuming she doesn’t perceive in the same way that we do. If she’s been friends with him for more than a week (that was the approximate time-line of Season 5) then Locke’s body has to be new to her. She didn’t seem alarmed by it, so I’m going to go out on a limb and say that her infect makes her see him differently. One thing I am interested in is whether she knows that Christian and Focke are the same entity (at least that’s what I think…maybe they’re not?). She distinctly referred to them as two different people. So that’s something to follow.

And this is where things get interesting (this being next week, lol). Focke, Claire, and lying Jin are on their way to the Temple that Jacob left for dead. Hopefully they’ll see Kate on the way and we’ll get a sweet cat-fight when she stupidly admits everything that Jin covered for. Whether she’s recruited or not remains to be seen. Someone that I’m guessing will be recruited is Sayid. Everybody join the infected club! Then again, when everybody on Rousseau’s team was infected they all killed each other…Anyways! I do not envy the folks chilling at the Temple right now. And seeing as how I’ve come to greatly enjoy Dogen’s company in his short time on the show, I hope everything works out for him. I think it will.

So this is where we stand a quarter of the way through the season. Focke, Claire, and Sawyer appear to be the definite enemies of Jacob, Hugo, and Jack at this point. Widmore has yet to find the Island and Ben (along with Illana, Lepidus, and Sun) hasn’t gotten off the beach and into the action yet. Kate’s wondering in the jungle looking for Claire. Miles is doing his thing in the Temple (oh, no!). Desmond, Penny, Eloise, and all the kids are still largely unaccounted for. In the coming war that’s been mentioned throughout the past couple seasons, I get the feeling every major character’s going to be matched up with a nemesis, and if I were a betting man, I’d go back to Season 1 to find that nemesis.

Jack and Sawyer was the original source of confrontation for the series, something that all the Locke business of the middle seasons could make one forget. That pairing’s pretty clear to me. Kate and Claire have also been intertwined since the beginning, although in less confrontational and more “help me give birth” ways. Jin hated on Michael a bit back in the day, but that was just because of his possessive feelings towards Sun. Their relationship was a source of great conflict early on. Could destiny be lining them up against each other? Everybody else, their pairings are a little more unclear. But I do believe sides will have to be taken in the coming war.

As for my going theories, they were pretty absent from this week’s episode, or at least they were hidden. Maybe bleeding universe and redemption theory will show up next week. Until next time…

Author: Cody

Tags: lighthouse, lost, lost season 6, lost theories, Our Adventures