LOST - Season 5

[Thetagirl218]

Originally Posted by SydneyK

You're right. I think I was interpreting "whatever happened, happened" as "whatever was supposed to happen, happened."

So, after last night's episode, I'm wondering whether all these (so-called) dead people (Christian, Alex, Locke) are just manifestations of smokey. I do find it interesting that last night's epi was titled "Dead is Dead", but that doesn't appear to be the case. Makes me wonder if "Whatever Happened Happened" is equally misleading.

I'm loving this show!!

Oh, and I totally agree with SWTXBelle and twinkle555 - Des kicks ass, and the marina scene made my tummy hurt!

I disagree about the manifestations to a degree....sure some are projected by the island...I think Christian is a project for Jacob...or maybe he really is Jacob.....

I don't think Locke is a manifestation, I think he is really alive, because the look in Ben's eyes was amazement...

I actually think that now that the island has brought Locke back that he won't age....I think that is what happened to Richard...

I have some thoughts about the smoke monster.....Last night's verified my theory about an Egyptian presence (I thought this when we saw the back of the statue)...Which means the island is thousands of years old....

/Start of History Teacher Rant/

The picture on the wall that Ben looked at before the smoke monster came out of the holes was one of the Egyptian god Anubis. Anubis was one of the guardians of the underworld. It was Anubis that holds the scale that weighs a man's heart after death, thus judging him. While the Book of Death (The main Primary Source we have of Ancient Egyptian burial practices), makes no reference of a "smoke monster", I thought it was an interesting mix of ancient belief with Ben's need for a judgment.

/End of History Teacher Rant/

I was very intrigued by the new Hispanic girl (I don't remember her name)'s question to the pilot regarding the statue....It made me think that we have a new group of Others....

[SydneyK]

Originally Posted by Thetagirl218

I was very intrigued by the new Hispanic girl (I don't remember her name)'s question to the pilot regarding the statue....It made me think that we have a new group of Others....

I hadn't thought about a new group of Others. When Ilana asked, "What lies in the shadow of the statue?", I thought she might be part of a new Widmore team.

Regarding the Egyptian theme, they've been giving us Egyptian hints all along (the first one I remember was when the clock in the hatch reached zero, and the numbers were then replaced with hieroglyphs). One of the most recent Egyptian references was the ankh necklace Amy kept from her first husband, Paul. The statue appears to be holding an ankh in each hand. This post from the fuselage is really interesting: http://forum.thefuselage.com/showpos...&postcount=117

It's a great theory of what the statue might be (complete with screencaps!).

[LucyKKG]

Originally Posted by SydneyK

I hadn't thought about a new group of Others. When Ilana asked, "What lies in the shadow of the statue?", I thought she might be part of a new Widmore team.

My friends and I thought that was some sort of challenge question to see if he was part of the group.

[twinkle555]

"What lies in the shadow of the statue?" sounds like a riddle to me. I really dont like Ilana, maybe because she played a really slutty slave who killed a pregnant girl on the HBO show 'Rome'.

[LucyKKG]

Originally Posted by twinkle555

I really dont like Ilana, maybe because she played a really slutty slave who killed a pregnant girl on the HBO show 'Rome'.

That's what she's from!!!

[Thetagirl218]

So the "What lies in the shadow of the Statue" people have nothing to do with Whitmore.....Something is telling me they are different than Ben though...

I felt like they gave a few too many things away tonight....most were things we had already figured out...Miles being the baby we saw at the start of the season, and the fact that the hatch was the secret thing being built...

I still think the hatch is harnessing the energy of the bomb they had the 50s.

I am so confused by Farday.....at the start of the season, we say a flash forward with him being a worker he was looking over people's shoulders while building the orchid. He looked like he was doing the hard labor in that scene, but that doesn't make sense since he is some referred scientist.

Oh and yet another week of Egyptian symbolism... there was a lesson on Egyptian history on the board that Jack was cleaning and the title of the episode was "Some like it Hoth". Of course they had us think it had to do with Star Wars, but Hoth is also the Egyptian god of scribes....