So lets get on with this weeks episode:

• Ben is a Dr. of Modern European History at the same school that John Locke is a substitute teacher. Been says now he could do a better job that the current principle. Locke tells Ben that “Maybe you should be the principle”. Locke says “That it sounds like he cares about this place and that maybe he should be in charge”. Which kind of sounds like Locke could be taking about the island just as he is talking about the school. Ben then says “Who is gonna listen to me”. Locke raises his hand just like he did on the island following Ben and Jacob blindly.

• Ben then has to lie about killing Jacob. Because Miles ratted out Ben when Ilana gave him Jacobs ashes to “read”. Ben knows he’s SOL and still tries to get out of it. Which pisses Ilana off because according to her Jacob is ” the closest thing she ever had to a father.

• So has Ilana been to the island before? What kind of relationship did Jacob and she have, and when? We know the Jacob came to her when she was in the hospital all bandaged up last season. What happened to her? Is it really that important any way?

• Ben and his dad we on the island before, when did they leave the island? How young was Ben? We know the the Losties destroyed the island in 1977 so it must have been before then.

• Alex comes to the door of Ben’s house, its obvious that she is not Ben’s daughter, she calls him Dr. Linus, and we all knew that she wasn’t his. Alex was born on the island to Rousseau, the crazy french lady. Where is Rousseau now? Is Rousseau raising her? Is Alex being raised by her or someone else. Alex also has a totally opposite relationship with Ben off the island. On the island she hated him off the island she says the he is “the best”.

• Ilana says that she is supposed to protect Sun or Jin because the only name on the list was Kwon. She tells Sun that either her or Jin are candidates to replace Jacob on the island. I think in this case it has to be Jin because the rest of the names on the list were male, and Kate Austin was not even on the list. Also about the list, all of the names were last names. So to be technical about it we don’t even know if its any of the current Oceanic 6 or if it could be their kids. Ilana say there are ONLY six names on the list. The list has numbers associated with each names, as we saw in The Lighthouse.  How many were on the list to begin with?

• We find out that Lepedis over slept and didn’t make the original flight. But Ben says that the island still got him. So does the island have a plan for Lepedis too?

• Ilana shackles Ben to a tree and tells him to dig his own grave because he murdered Jacob. She cant just shoot him and leave him there because Ol’ Smokey, a.k.a MIB, Locke, would be able to take over his body just like he did with Locke and as I think Christian Shepard.

• In the library Ben is tutoring Alex says the her mother works 2 jobs so she can afford to send Alex to a good college, she says Yale specifically. Is Rousseau raising her or some one lese some other dark haired woman that could pass as her mother say Ana Lucia? DA DA DUMMMM!!

• So the principle is banging the school nurse, Kim Condrack. Could this Kim Condrack be Kim Dickens the former girlfriend of Sawyer? At first said, big deal, but now it leads to a means of blackmail for Ben to take over the school just like he did on the island. But I cant remember why Ben had Widmore kicked off the island. Was it some sort of blackmail? What did Widmore do to be exiled from the island?

• Richard meets up with Jack and Hurley and drags them off to the Black Rock. We now know that Richard is neither a Terminator, Cyborg, or a vampire. per Hurleys questions to Richard. Which are all valid questions in my book. Richard says the Jacob gave him a gift. Was the gift a life of never dieing? Or a life if never growing old?

• Richard becomes pissed off when Hurley tell him that he talked to Jacob. He tells Hurley not to believe any thing Jacob says, then storms off in the the Black Rock. While inside the ship Jack asks Richard if he had been here before, he says “Yes, in all the time that I’ve spent on the island its the first time I’ve come back”. Which tells me that he came to the island on the ship in 1845.

• Richard wants to kill himself. But he cant because Jacob touch him and when Jacob touches you its a gift. But he cant kill himself. Richard thinks that its not a gift, he thinks its a curse. Richard devoted his life to Jacob. Jacob told him that his life had a plan, and that when the time was right he would tell Richard what that plan was, But now Jacob is dead so Richard now thinks that Jacob lied to him that he was just a pawn is some game. That his life had no purpose.

• So Jack lights the fuse to a stick of dynamite and just hangs around and raps with Richard. Jacks whats some answers as to why his name  was on a dial connected to the mirror in the Lighthouse. The mirror when turned to Shepard reflected the house he grew up in. Jack says the Jacob wanted him to know that he had been watching him since he was a kid. But Richard doesn’t know why Jacob would be doing all of that. The fuse burns out just millimeters from the dynamite. That’s good television right there!

• Ben is still digging his own grave when Locke shows up. Ben says the Ilana is Jacobs bodyguard and that she is going to kill him. Locke wants Ben to join his team to leave the island. Once Locke leaves he wants Ben to stay back and be in-charge of the island.

• Ben confronts the principle about banging the nurse. Proposes his blackmail plan to him. The principle counter offers with Alex’s email about a letter of recommendation to Yale for her. He says that he will torch Alex and her recommendation to Yale if he continues with his “Machiavellian maneuvers”. This is important because last season Ben had a similar chance to save Alex when the commandos from the ship had a gun to her throat. He held his ground and they shot her right in front of him. This time Ben withdraws his plan and helps out Alex. She ends up getting a excelt recommendation from the principle.

• Ben escapes into the forest. He tells Ilana he watched Alex die in front of him all in the name of Jacob and the island. That he had a chance to save Alex but he chose the island. Just the opposite of what he just did in the principles office, he chose to save Alex and not his power that he had over the principle. Ben wants to leave, to go to Locke because he is the only one that will have him. Ilana will have him, awww so sweet of her.

• The principle name is Donald Lawrence Reynolds, maybe that’s important maybe not.

• There is a reunion back on the beach with Ben, Ilana, Sun, Lepidis, Hurley, Jack, Miles, and Richard. When the second plan crashed, Jack, Hurley, and Kate, jumped back to 1977. Sun and Lepedis  stayed in present day. Never have found out why some of the people jumped back in time and others didn’t. But Sun hasn’t seen Hurley, Jack or Kate since the second plane crashed.

• We then have a shot of the ocean. My Lost watching pal shouts, TSUNAMI! I shout Darma Shark! Were both wrong! It s a periscope from a submarine! Who can it be! It WIDMORE!! DA DA DUMMM!!! A sailor asks is they should stop? Widmore says “NO proceed as planed.”

• Is Charles Widmore the person that Jacob was taking about when he said that someone was coming to the island? Probably. Widmore has been trying to get back to the island for 17 years. What changed so that he can com back now?

What do you think?

If you think this is long try reading Doc Jensen recaps his are some thing like 5 kabilion words who has time to read that much?

                          

Last week I was banished to the age of pre-internet. I don’t know why or how it happen but my Digital Subscriber Line (that’s what DSL means to you lay people) to my house went out last Wednesday sometime during the hours of 12:38 pm. and 8:17 pm. I know it went out sometime between those times because I went back to work at 12:38 pm from having lunch at home, and 8:17 was the time I was sitting down to write my review to Tuesdays LOST from my laptop.

This has happen before so I just thought a reboot of the router, the wireless router, and the computers would fix it.

No dice, Chico!

So then I picked up the cordless phone to call AT&T support. “DANG DIGGITY DOO!!” I thought, no dial-tone. Then I thought that the bushes had grown around the box that is attached to the side of the house. It was already dark so I left it alone until the next night. Went out the next night and checked the box. It was perfectly fine.

On Friday I called AT&T from my cell to set up a service call. They wouldn’t send out a repair tech until Monday.

GOSH DANG DIGGITY DOO FOO!!

So the guy gets out here today and checks the box on the side of the house. He tells me that the problem is up in the box that is attached to the pole in the back yard. So he goes and gets his ladder off his truck and spends about 20–30 min messing around with the circuits, or whatever is in that box. Comes back to the front door and has me check the phone and internet.

HAZZAH!!! Fixed. So I’m now reconnected back to the world! Lucky you.

Even though I do have an iphone and can do just about everything on it that I can do on this laptop it’s still a pain to type on the cell phone. Unless you’re typing short drunken text messages. (Lets face it, the only good text message are the drunk text messages, am I riiiiight!?)

So that is why you didn’t get any Lost recap to last week’s episode. But it’s not like you don’t read 18 other recaps, anyway.

                          

So don’t read if you haven seen it yet.

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That. Was. AWESOME!

Lets get right too it Shall we?

We shall!

1. Jack is now divorced. I had forgotten that he was married to the blonde girl before the plan crashed. Jack had his appendix taken out by Juliet on the island, not when he was 7 years old. Who is Davids mother? Could it be Juliet? I hope its some one we don’t know yet.
2. This just goes to show you that the storyline isn’t just an alternate universe it’s just a divergent time line from when Oceanic 815 didn’t crash.
3. It also proves that Juliet was right when she told Sawyer with her last dieing breath that it worked. Everyone’s life is different because they blowed up the island in 1977. (That just blew your mind, didn’t it.)
4. We know know that the number correspond to degrees on a compass in light house. But why 108°? 4+8+15+16+23+42 = 108 which we all already knew. The name at 108° was Wallace, I don’t remember a Wallace. Was 108° the heading that Micheal and Walt has to stay on to fet off the island in season two?
5. Clarie, I don’t even know where to begin with the crazy bitch. She thinks that the Others took Arron but we know that MIB took her, and must have convinced her that they did. I am going to assume that when Claire was “found” in the cabin with Christian, that it was actually her friend Smokey in Christian’s body. She is also infected just like Doogan said, but was Roussaeu also infected? Roussaeu seamed pretty scared of the smoke monster. Claire calls the MIB her friend. When Claire looks at Locke she calls him her friend. Everyone else sees Locke so who does Claire see? The dude from the beach when we first meat Jacob?
6. MIB can only take possession of a body if that body is dead. Christan Shepard was never buried. Locke was buried. This is why Illian said that MIB was trapped in Lockes body when they were walking to Boone Hill to bury Locke’s body with the rest of the people that had died on the island.
7. Some names that were on the lighthouse wheel: 20: Rousseau (crossed out),  108: Wallace (crossed out) 109: Friendly (crossed out) 51: Austin (NOT crossed out). Didn’t see much more. I don’t remember a Wallace could it be Walt?
8. Jacob said that Someone was coming to the island? Who? Lots of people think it might be Desmond but I don’t think so, I think it’s someone totally new. Don’t really have any reasoning for thinking this.
9. Doogan showing up at Davids audition was pretty cool. Things like that are going to happen all season in the flash sideways.
10. Really wish Jack wouldn’t have busted up the mirror in the Lighthouse. I wanted to know what would have shown up on everyone else’s numbers.

What are your thoughts? Any major theories out there? What are some major questions you want answered? Not all questions are going to get answered. Like the story line pertaining to The DeGroots, Darma, and Mr.Widmore.

I hope they get to tell the story of the Black Rock. I’m betting it will be in the Richard Alpert episode.