Comments on: Thursday LOST Blogging: The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham

By: Kim

Kim — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:30:53 +0000

@Spicy_Carrot… My assumption is that those people who were supposed to be back on the island got flashed, and those who weren’t didn’t. I’m not convinced that it was Sun who took off w/ Lapidus (though that does seem the most obvious choice. I think she probably did get flashed and simply hadn’t yet been found by Jack, Kate and Hurley when last we saw them) Ben didn’t get flashed because he was trying to piggy-back his way back there having already been banished (whoever moves the island can’t go back…same thing as Widmore.) My theory as to why Locke didn’t get flashed is two fold 1. He did get flashed, but he was dead, you have to be alive to get flashed back, I think the flashing is what brought him back to life though. 2. He “moved” the island (when he put the wheel back on its access) so he’s not “supposed to” go back either.

I’m sticking with the theory (I think it was discussed here last week) that Locke isn’t actually the leader…that he is only thought to be the supposed leader because he told Alpert to go meet him as a kid thus setting that as his own destiny.

By: a. brown

a. brown — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:43:27 +0000

@Rachel S – When I saw him write the suicide note then take out a paper bag, I expected some rope, but then I thought, how suspicious is it to go to a hardware store and just buy a small length of rope? He probably thought the same thing, so to normalize what he was doing (in an effort to keep it together and do what he was destined to do) he bought an extension cord.

By: Pat Schramek

Pat Schramek — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:45:52 +0000

Why was Desmond in handcuffs on the airplane?
What was Ben’s mission before boarding the airplane and why was he all beat up and bloodied?
Did Kate give Aaron to his grandmother?

By: Spicy_Carrot

Spicy_Carrot — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:32:15 +0000

I was thinking that maybe to “recreate” the circumstances of Oceanic flight 815, Locke would have to die in the same kind of manner of Christian? Christian supposedly died of a heart attack outside a bar in Sydney but his death was never seen onscreen. Maybe Christian was killed by someone but it was covered up, just like Ben killed Locke but covered it up. Although I really do like the theory that Ben is doing what Locke is supposed to do out of a mad power grab…

I’m confused on why some of the people who had been on the island before (e.g., Hurley, Jack) got “flashed” off the plane but others apparently did not (e.g., Ben, Lapidus, presumably Sun). Maybe Lapidus really did run off with some other woman and all of the Oceanic 6 (well, 5) did flash off the plane. No clue who the other woman would be, though, or if Frank went willingly.

By: earlgreyrooibos

earlgreyrooibos — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:15:10 +0000

I’m now going to write a LOST/BSG crossover just for the hell of it.

By: Hot Tramp

Hot Tramp — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:05:17 +0000

I’m trying to work out the science of resurrection.

Simple explanation: They’re all cylons.

By: Heather

Heather — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:06:22 +0000

Spider poison! Nicki and Paolo.

By: earlgreyrooibos

earlgreyrooibos — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:03:43 +0000

Maybe it was like the sleeping potion that Juliet took in Romeo and – (yeah, not that Juliet), and it just made Locke appear dead? No. He would have been hanging from that rafter for at least 12 hours (longer depending on whether the hotel he was staying at had maid service of any type — I’m guessing no), so he was definitely dead.

Well, it IS medically possible to induce a coma and then (at least theoretically) bring someone out of it. It’s sometimes used to treat aneurysms, strokes, etc. And it’s very risky and not guaranteed to work. But I don’t think it’s completely impossible that Ben just choked Locke long enough to knock him unconscious, then induce a coma and bring him out of it.

Not that I’m saying I actually think that’s true. I personally believe Locke was genuinely dead. I’m just saying that there is a possibility (weak though it may be) that Locke was never really dead.

By: frau sally benz

frau sally benz — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:58:57 +0000

Maybe it was like the sleeping potion that Juliet took in Romeo and – (yeah, not that Juliet), and it just made Locke appear dead?

That’s what I originally thought was going on, but last night did throw me for a loop a bit. Perhaps somebody (Eloise?? Widmore?) found Locke shortly after Ben hung him. This is just coming to me now but maybe this is what happened — somebody gave Locke a sleeping potion without him knowing and maybe convinced him that he should end his life? Or just assumed he would try. Then tipped Ben off that Locke was probably going to try to kill himself (or Ben just knew? I thought it was a bit weird that Ben walked in at the exact moment he did…). So Ben thinks he kills Locke but it’s really just the potion and then this mystery person shows up and un-hangs Locke?

I realize this is completely far-fetched but stranger things have happened on this show and I really want to hold on to my theory that Locke was never actually dead.

By: Rachel S.

Rachel S. — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:52:19 +0000

Maybe it was like the sleeping potion that Juliet took in Romeo and - (yeah, not that Juliet), and it just made Locke appear dead? No. He would have been hanging from that rafter for at least 12 hours (longer depending on whether the hotel he was staying at had maid service of any type — I’m guessing no), so he was definitely dead.

But hey, so was Christian.