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I'm intrigued by the idea that Miles is the person in the casket. It makes sense, since it's unlikely anyone would show up for him, and because the area of LA that the funeral appeared to be in fits with Miles' flashback in Inglewood. I hadn't considered Miles at all.
I definitely don't think that Kate kidnapped Aaron. I think that there are three possibilities. (1) Something happened to Claire, and Kate took Aaron (likely at Claire's request); or (2) Claire asked Kate to take Aaron and stayed on the island; or (3) Claire didn't give Aaron up willingly, but Kate wasn't the cause. I'm not sure if we'll see Claire die, but it's possible. The fact that we still need Jack and Claire to discover their relationship makes me think she won't, but the fact that her backstory seems to have been pretty completely explored makes me more skeptical.I definitely disagree that Kate is self-serving, at least in the way suggested in the comments. I think her reasons for not wanting her mother to see Aaron have nothing to do with the idea that her mother would recognize the baby isn't Kate's. How would her mother know, considering she hadn't met the father? There are plenty of other reasons not to let her mother see the child (like that Kate was still furious with her).
As I posted in the comments, I definitely agree that Jack has a serious amount of guilt. I feel like the "Oceanic 6" leaving the island was the result of some kind of Faustian bargain, whether or not they realized that was the case when they made it. I am very certain that we will see some very dark things very soon.
Regarding the time loop, Daniel had figured out the right variables sometime between when we saw him at Oxford and his time on the island. When Desmond went back on his loop, he gave Daniel information that he would have had eventually - information that just allowed Daniel to get there earlier. And also find Desmond to be his constant.
Latest Episode
So, there were a lot of things going on in the last episode, "The Constant." Primarily, there's the time travel. Or time shifting.
Unfortunately, I haven't read Slaughterhouse-Five since early in high school. I'll have to go through it again if I want to understand a little more about being "unstuck in time." LOST seems to have borrowed heavily from Vonnegut here.
It seems to me that the "time shift" may allow a person to travel along their own timeline, in a way "jumping into themselves" at another moment. We've seen Desmond travel to two different parts of his life.
- Can you jump forward, or just backward?
- Can you only go back to a certain time that relates to the time you leave from? For example, Desmond has gone back twice. The first time, he went back to a time "before" where he went the second time. If he goes back a third time, will that be "after" the other two?
- Is there a way to control these jumps? Is that how, say, Ben can appear on the island and off the island?
- Is it possible to split your consciousness and be in multiple times at once?
- What would happen if you jumped into a one-minute prior version of yourself? Would that essentially trap you in a never-ending loop? Or create a second version of you in the same place? The instructional film for "The Orchid" may have something to say about that.
Next Episode
Next episode appears to be Juliet-focused. I feel like we're about to get some answers. And, from the preview, some of them may come from Juliet, who most definitely knows more than she has let on. I don't really have any specific predictions for the next episode because the last one left us in such a peculiar place.
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it's quite obvious that there are only two ways to travel back in time- 1) fly your spaceship around the sun or 2) be able to reverse the rotation of the earth. jeez, it's like you've never watched star trek or superman movies. and yes, i find "the big bang theory" a little too true for my liking.
thank goodness baseball season is starting, can't wait to get into vorp and era+.
First of all, Widmore. Your face? In it.
Second, great call on Michael - it really looks like he's the guy.
Third, I can't believe you still think that any of these episodes are going to give you answers. This is going to be like a Harry Potter book where we get all the answers mushed together during a drawn out monologue in the second to last chapter.
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