Fancast: Inside TV

Keamy asks Ben what makes him so important. This is actually a good question, and I have an answer. We know that in the future Widmore is looking for the island. Well, if he wants it so bad, why doesn’t he just go there in the first place? Why send a team to extract Ben and bring him back alive? Well, later in the episode, Ben explains that once you move the island, you can never return. But, once you leave, you have an intense desire to return. I think that Widmore doesn’t just want to go to the island… he wants to return to the island. Remember a few episodes back when he tells Ben that everything Ben had he took from him? I think that Widmore is the previous Ben of the island.

After Kate and Sayid rescue Ben, Ben asks Richard what the deal was. Richard says the two can leave the island. Ben allows this. He doesn’t even seem to care. It’s very strange that this can mean so little to him. What exactly has his motivation been towards the survivors? Oh, and by the way, wasn’t that a great fight scene between Sayid and Keamy. I just have to say, based on that scene alone Naveen Andrews has a real future as an action star.
When Walt comes to visit Hurley in the hospital, he says that Benthem, Locke, came to visit him. Hurley tells Walt that they have to lie in order to protect those still on the island. Hurley kind of hints to Walt that his father is still alive, but we see that Hurley doesn’t believe it. Well, is Michael alive? Of course, he was right near that C4 when it blew up, but, right before then Christian appears to him and says, “You can go now.” Since Michael had been trying to commit suicide, this could just be the island telling him that he no longer has to suffer living; that his use to the island is up. Or, it could be the island snatching him away for further use. And hey… what is Christian exactly? Is he the island, or some kind of archangel to Jacob?

There is a very touching moment in here between Hurley and Sawyer, where Hurley thanks Sawyer for coming back for him, and Sawyer shrugs it off. I know that this wasn’t some big plot moment, but is some ways it was my favorite scene in the episode. Sawyer is just becoming such a nice guy, that we are really starting to root for him. Later on, when they all return to the helicopter and Kate runs right to Jack, we really feel his pain. And then later, when he whispers instructions to Kate before jumping into the ocean to save them all he was downright heroic. And when he sees the smoke from the freighter there is so much pathos there. By the way, now that we know all this, Jack was such a jerk a few episodes back when he gets all paranoid about Kate following Sawyer’s request. Sawyer didn’t choose not to come. He sacrificed his escape so the rest could escape. Later on in the helicopter ride, when Frank suggests someone else should jump, Jack looks right at Hurley. Kate has a way of picking the wrong man every time.

On the island, when Locke is trying to talk Jack into staying, he says that Jack is here for a reason, and if he leaves it will eat him inside until he decides to return. Then, he gets all specific, and tells how Jack is going to have to lie. How does Locke know this? Is it intuition, or something more? Jack actually looks kind of freaked. But, he pulls himself together and reacts the way he always does, with sarcasm.

A few weeks ago when Daniel first started ferrying survivors to the freighter, I thought he seemed like Charon a bit, who ferried the dead to the underworld. I didn’t say something because I wasn’t sure, but now that the boat has blown up, yeah, he’s Charon. And when Locke and Ben descend into the Orchid station, I am pretty sure Locke is Dante, Ben is Virgil, and the Orchid is Hell. And later on, when Ben is in the frozen cave turning the wheel… well, when you’re not solving the Lost internet puzzle this summer, read the inferno of Dante. Oh, and while we’re in the ice cave, did anybody else notice the weird hieroglyphics on the wall beneath the oil lamp?

Daniel knows somehow that this will be his last trip to the freighter. He tries to talk Miles, Charlotte, and Juliet to come with him. They all have their various reasons for staying. Miles calls Charlotte out, and says that she has been to the island before. She denies it. If Miles is always sarcastic, Charlotte always lies, but nobody ever believes her. Later, she indirectly tells the truth to Daniel, and says she is looking for the place where she was born. I have a theory about this. She looks awfully like the red haired girl young Ben was in love with in the Dharma camp. I have a feeling we are going to discover that Charlotte is Ben’s long lost love.
Did anybody notice that Sayid killed the guy outside Hurley’s hospital at exactly 8:15? When Sayid visits Hurley he says that Locke died three days ago, and that Hurley has to come with him to hide now. Why does the death of Locke change the game plan so much? Anyway, perhaps this has been going on longer than that. Sayid also tells Hurley that the guy he just killed had been watching the hospital all week. Since Sayid knows this, he must have been interested in Hurley before Locke died. Of course, he could be retrieving Hurley for Ben... and speaking of Ben, is he really only interested in bringing the survivors back to the island? I doubt it. He never does anything unless he can get something out of it. Earlier he blows up the entire freighter with all those people on it just so he can get revenge on Keamy. It never mattered to him whether these people lived or died, stayed on the island or escaped. He has himself to think about. Ben is helping Jack get everybody back to the island, because he hopes to return with them.