I know it’s a cliché title. I’m sure hundreds of Lost recappers have used it… but honestly… I have nothing to say about this episode of Lost. Interpret that however you’d like.

Instead I’m gonna take this opportunity to share a few more observations; wrap them up in a pretty little package and place it under your tree. I like this way of rolling with my theories. Prevents me from writing myself into a corner.

WARNING: MUCH OF THIS AWESOME THEORY HAS AWESOMELY IMPLODED.

Okay, so this one starts with Claire’s baby Aaron (who wasn’t in this episode, but who was a mysterious part of the plot none the less.)

Aaron is 3 years old in present day Los Angeles, right?
And we can presume that Desmond and Penny’s son Charlie is a few years younger than that, since he was born off of the island.

The other Charlie we knew on the Island (Dominic Monaghan) had a brother Aaron a few years older than him (Claire later named her baby after that Aaron).

We don’t know much about [the] brother[']s Charlie’s and Aaron’s early years; their upbringing. But we do know that Charlie has a certain relationship to Catholicism. It would be fair to assume they were both raised Catholic.

But there seems to be something else. I don’t know about you, but to me Charlie’s return to the church in one of his Season 1 flashback, feels almost like a return to his home than to his faith. It doesn’t feel like the church is something he was simply raised to respect… so much as a place he was actually raised IN.

An orphanage?

And here’s an interesting thing about adult Aaron that didn’t seem to make much sense at the time… remember when Charlie traveled to meet Aaron; begged him to start up the band back up? Charlie was a drugged out mess, while Aaron was all cleaned up, living in… Australia? I’m guessing not far from where Claire was living; not far from where another Aaron had already been conceived.

So what compelled adult Aaron to start a family in Australia? Another return to “home”, perhaps?

Is it possible with all of this time looping happening now, Claire’s little Aaron and Desmond’s baby Charlie… are actually the same “brothers”, Charlie and Aaron, we’ve already met.

Is it possible the two children will eventually be zapped back to the 70s where they[he]‘ll be raised as biological brothers; either with a foster parent… or in a Catholic orphanage. UPDATE-02-22-09: @james_gunn and @terranaomi just reminded me of some of the early childhood scenes with Charlie (including the swimming scene and the Christmas scene.) So this has become less likely.

Is that why the fortune teller told Claire “You are not supposed to raise this child!”… or something like that.

So there’s my weekly Lost bit. This one may be a little out there… well… it’s Lost. Anything else to add to this specific set of observations? Anything I’m forgetting that you think topples this house of cards?

NOTE: The house of cards fell less than 1 minute after this sucker was posted. Charlie’s brother’s name was Liam… not Aaron. LOL. Thanks @baneen.

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