They wonderfully point out the cool things in episode 4.5 such as the references to "Slaughterhouse Five," the importance of The Black Rock, the new Hanso family member (from the auction scene), mentions of Charles Dickens, the overuse of "the numbers" and a theory of who might have opened the door on the ship. Was it THAT guy over there ---->?
Read the Lost Easter Eggs here
I'm a bit late on my blog entry for episode 4.4 "Eggtown", I've already forgotten some of the items I wanted to talk about.
In this episode, we find out that Kate is probably not pregnant with Sawyer's baby...instead she ends up adopting Aaron (the magical island-born baby) somehow. The immediate thought after the final scene is, "What happens to Claire?". The writers might want us to think that Claire is dead, but I have a feeling that she doesn't die. In the flash forward scenes, I'm guessing she is one of the survivors that are still on the island (I know, it's a stretch).
After seeing Episode 4.3 we know that Sayid is the Oceanic 6's 4th member. We also know that Ben, the mastermind that he is, probably gets off the island more than we've known. Can we also assume that the people on the ship fail at their mission? I think that was a detail that a lot of viewers might have missed...
Is this the book that a mentioned a few weeks ago (READ HERE)???
Are those the eggs the episode is named for?
OK, with just a couple of weeks to go, let's get all caught up with the show.
Last thing we saw was Charlie's death, the weird funeral and the revelation of the shocking flash-forward with Jack and Kate.
Where will season #4 start? In the flash-forward moment or back on the island.
My feeling is that we won't see the flash-forward for a while; but I think it be cool for the show to cut between dual story-lines occurring with the same characters... one in the future and one on the island.
And what's with the weird city reflection below the LOST logo in the teaser spots?
Is anyone watching the mobisodes?
UPDATE:
• Juliette in the coffin??
END UPDATE
• A message on the official boards says that Season 4 will take place in 2006 and encompass one month.
• Was Penny wearing the same thing she wore in last year's season finale when she got the phone call from the arctic stations? Could last year's finale been a FLASH-FORWARD too?
• What was "the temple" that Ben mentioned?
• Could the person in the coffin be a new character?
• Screen-caps seem to point that the person in the coffin's name starts with a "J" and ends with a "ntham". Could it be Jeremy Bentham, named after the father of utilitarianism? The same way John Locke is named after a philosopher?
• Or is Jacob in the coffin?
• Where's that FOUR-TOED FOOT STATUE!?!
I'm thinking the funeral was Locke (see evidence in comments from David) and Kate ends up with Sawyer.
What are your theories?
Wow, what an intense and involving episode. This has been a really great season, dating from the big episode break. On to the specific points to praise and ponder:
The Others get creepy again: After so much faux-suburbia doings, it was cool to see the Others regain a bit of their strange, inhuman spookiness. I found the scene where they gathered around to watch the execution of EvilLockeDaddy -- ultimately turning away in disappointment -- to be quite chilling, especially given the children from the plane crash taking it all in. It was just very cult-like and strange. These folks obviously think whatever grand mission they are on justifies all sorts of behavior, including the willy-nilly killing of anyone doesn't get their "good person" seal of approval.
Along those lines, Ben's matter-of-fact description to Locke of the raid-to-come on the beach was both scary and funny. The tone struck me as something like: "Oh Locke, don't make that face, we abduct pregnant women all the time and it's fine. You 815 people make such a fuss about every little experiment we do, honestly."
I absolutely loved this show! I think it gave us more context of how some of these people ended up on the island and also indicates that there are definitely a lot of wacky experiments going on to alter people and make them conform to the Jacobian society!
Here are some of my observations:
Juliet
So, we found out that little miss Juliet had been stealing drugs for fertility for her sister even in her previous life. So, she had proven that her ethics weren't on the straight and narrow - a perfect recruit for this rogue group of scientists or whatever they are!
The fact that Ethan passed her in the hallway to her sister's flat also was suspicious - either they had been stalking Juliet to recruit her or Ethan was drugging Rachel to get her pregnant...she didn't realize she had fallen asleep when Juliet arrived to shoot her up with a baby. Hmmmm. Remember the whole Rachel bible connection I mentioned last season - maybe not a plot point, but definitely part of the writer mythology.