Lost - Cabin Fever

Um, wow. How fitting that tonight's episode of LOST was playing out against end-of-the-world storm warnings and big cracks of thunder and flashes of lightning here in DC. Yowza.

***Spoilers***

I'd forgotten how much the John Locke episodes really blow my mind... this one was no exception. Mysterious, spooky, spiritual... it was all there in the mix. Since I'm racing to beat the severe storms that are just intensifying outside, here are some quickies... what I took from tonight's episode:

- John Locke returns to his somewhat messianic character status. Complete with an unexpected and unwanted birth, he's lived a whole life of being both an outsider and a survivor. And even though he failed Alpert's (or should I say the Panchen Lama's?) reincarnation test, it appears that the Island chose him from the very beginning, which brings us to...-

- The return of Richard Alpert! But not on the Island, oh no, the eyelashed one actually made appearances all throughout Locke's life, constantly checking in to see if the boy really would grow to fulfill his destiny. I loved the "is John Locke the Dalai Lama??" reincarnation test, and I loved it all the more for the fact that Locke failed. But Alpert wasn't the only Linus vs. Widmore warrior keeping tabs on Locke, oh no...

- Super-creepy Matthew Abbadon was an orderly taking care of John, and significantly was the one who told John he should go to Australia in the first place. So Abbadon's the one that really put Locke on Flight 815.

- Ben seems resigned to passing on the torch, recognizing that somehow he's lost the Island's favor and John's he new kid in town. But he's still pretty damn awesome.

- All that great speculation about Horace Goodspeed (seen in the trailer) being the walking dead and thus proving that there could be lots of ghosts among them? Alas, Horace appeared in a dream, so that scene didn't necessarily prove anything, except that Horace built the cabin.

- BUT - the current occupants of the cabin - Christian Shepherd and his lovely daughter - do seem to prove that there are, indeed, ghosts among us. And I'm more and more inclined to believe Claire is one of them.

- On the freighter.... Keamy is about as scary and ruthless as they come. Honestly, I'd rather face the smoke monster. RIP, Captain and Doctor. I wonder when we'll see the explanation of how the Doctor's body blipped back in time... I guess the corpse didn't float on the right bearing.

- Finally.... that great last line. What did Christian say that John needs to do in order to save the Island? MOVE IT.

Hamminwha? I can't wait to see a further explanation on that little point! How are they supposed to move the Island? Only fools are enslaved by time and space, but that's a big chunk of rock to have to relocate!

The storm's getting a lot rougher outside, so this is a pretty good time for me to sign off. Until next week, my LOSTies!

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Update: Here's my middle of the night, kept awake by storms revelation:

Okay, based pretty much solely on Alpert's reincarnation test of young Locke... I'm gonna theorize that Jacob is, indeed, dead. Alpert - as his 2nd in command - is on a search for Jacob's latest incarnation, but we saw that Locke isn't it. (He failed the test and chose the knife, an object that had not belonged to Jacob.) So... remember how Damon & Carlton have been assuring us all along that Aaron is going to be very, very important to the story?My guess is that Aaron is the new incarnation of Jacob. And so it will be central that Aaron returns back to the Island.