LOST SEASON 5, EPISODE 4 SPOILERS

I wasn’t planning on writing a Lost post next. Partly because I don’t want this blog to get too Lost-heavy. If I piss off any of the writers with my theories, that could seriously hurt my chances of being cast Season 6 as Chad, the head Atlantean engineer. But alas @mattmansfield, your evil peer pressure did me in.

To be honest, I don’t have much new to talk about. I didn’t really notice any clues pertaining to my previous theories. Did I miss something?

The stuff with Rousseau is the closest thing. I guess it does qualify as old. But not real… friggin… old. And it came so late in the episode. I think most of the clues in that one are yet to be dropped.

I am curious to find out what “sickness” ends up killing her people. They’ll be heading to The Black Rock eventually. After that it should start taking them one by one. I suspect it’s a mental illness caused in some way by all this time distortion. Maybe something like the Charlotte seizure. Hopefully without that bulky FX device they shoved under her lip.

Also, I have a feeling the canoe chasing Locke and crew is just a future time loop of themselves. The way they were obscured, it just seemed like that was setup for another episode. It was the same boat as theirs… also had one gun. I suppose it could also be Bernard and crew. He’s decent with a gun, right? Or maybe it’s some of the Oceanic 6? Clearly that was supposed to be the future, so my hunch is they arrived back to the island in those canoes. Either way, I think it’s safe to assume the person Juliet shot is someone we care about.

But mostly this episode felt like a much needed return to character. I know a lot of fans were disappointed by the lack of emotional depth in the last few episodes. Fair enough.

In this one, the time traveling was mostly a series of short flashes… not enough to be too confusing… but also not a lot for the puzzlers to work with. Even that initially cryptic shaft of light was demystified by Locke moments later in a VERY clear explanation for Sawyer and the audience.

Basically, the episode got us a little closer to finding out who Kate is gonna choose. Which I think is cool. It doesn’t drive my interest in the show, but I was genuinely moved by most of it.

Particularly when Sawyer saw Kate delivering Aaron. That was some serious Doctor Zhivago shit. I’m not embarrassed to admit, I got a little teary.

Okay, you know what?… I’m gonna say it… I hope she chooses Sawyer!… Ah, that felt good.