If you don’t know what those numbers mean, then you probably haven’t been paying attention to the ABC Drama, LOST.
As if you haven’t already noticed, I’m a huge fan of this show now.
Last night was the season premiere of Season 2: Destination LOST. I was speaking to my brother online and asked if he was watching the show. He wasn’t familiar with it and asked if he should start watching it. I strongly advised him to not start with this show, but that he should get a copy of the Season 1 on DVD and get caught up. The first hour last night was devoted to a recap of what happened in Season 1, but I can’t imagine not knowing all the details from Season 1 before starting this season. If I were ABC, I would have highly been advertising the Season 1 DVD available and directing people to their website to purchase it. They should have had a special promo code available and/or overnight shipping.
Now to get to the thoughts on last night’s episode: Man of Science, Man of Faith
We find out the history of how Jack met is fiance, which also gives more depth to his character of wanting to save the world, but not having the emotions to connect with people as he’s saving them.
Locke and Kate want to go down in the shaft, but Jack wants everyone to go back to the group. Of course he’s trying to protect them as normal. Again, no emotion over the unknown of going down the shaft. Deal with what’s known and take care of everyone.
Shannon loses Walt’s dog, Vincent that night and her and Sayid go into the jungle looking for it. They get separated and she ends up seeing Walt talking to her in the dark and telling her to be quiet.
Locke and Kate end up coming back later and Locke lowers Kate into the shaft, where we have seen there is someone down there living in this sort of time capsule. Locke loses Kate down the shaft and goes down after her. Jack ends up coming back to the shaft that night as well and following Locke down too. So, Jack, Locke, and Kate are all down in the shaft with a gentleman named Desmond.
In the previous flashback of Jack’s fiance story, Jack meets this Desmond character as they’re both running in the stadium. So, in standard Lost fashion, they deliver a resounding gasp and “What?” from the viewers.
So, here are my thoughts and the thoughts of overs so far:
- Everyone is actually dead and the island is their purgatory. They all talk about the wrongs in their life and trying to make them right. Boone dies because he finally comes to grip with his past. The hatch we’re left with the end of last season, looking down the shaft, is the portal to Hell.
- If you devide the numbers, their coordinates for a location in Nigeria, where the original drug smuggling priests were from.
- Walt’s (the little boy is dead). The only people that appear and disappear on the island have been dead.
- The pirates that stole Walt are from the island or tied to it. The french woman was wanting kids and so are they. They stole her kid, Alex. Alex was the blonde woman on the boat that stole Walt. [but I don't think it was a woman so I'm disagreeing with that part]
- Desmond is the guy in the bunker, using an old Apple IIe computer, but the blender, washer & dryer and guns he used are much more modern. I can’t imagine this being due to a continuity error
- The prescription numbers on the vials and medicine Desmond injected were the same numbers: 4-8-15-16-23-42
- The combination to the gun cabinet was the numbers
- Too many coincidences for me, they could back off a little bit. I mean how in the world is the guy in the stadium, the guy in the bunker?
- I can’t stand having to wait 7 days for the next episode and it’s only been 12 hours so far. It was a luxury, that I miss, getting to watch all the episodes back to back if I wanted, although it made for really late nights.
- The whispers people hear in the forests are the voices of the children that have been taken
- UPDATE: Just got word that a friend of ours thinks all the survivors have met Desmond in their lives. He had left Jack with the statement “See you in the next life”. Alluding back to the purgatory idea as well.
It doesn’t matter what we think, J.J. Abrams is going to continually throw us for loops. I guess I’m getting people hooked I now have to share out my copy of Season 1 with two other friends.
