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I always undercommunicate: the packages seem the same size and the noodles seem the same. The only difference is less water.

Lost:

Charlotte may be Ben's actual daughter, or at least the daughter of that woman he loved--which might explain why he raised Rousseau's daughter as his own, to replace the one he lost, just as Juliet was replacing the lost woman--Anna, wasn't it? Farraday will run into Charlotte's little girl self around the time he inspects the newly excavated initial hatch area, as shown in the first scene of the season. That's when her mother will be identified--and we may see whether she was fleeing Ben's massacre or if Ben went bad because she left. The window to Carthage (to c. 23N?) explains the style of the 4-toed statue foot, which was wearing a sandal if I'm not mistaken--a colossus was being constructed by early Jacob-worshippers. Or the island could have actually been part of the mainland, in which case the interruption may be related to the moving of the island into the Pacific. Her 'the island is death' comment feeds the Jacob = evil from the future theory. Why couldn't he help John up? Wasn't there some kind of phrase about who Jacob helps back when we glimpsed the brainwashing room on the smaller island? "God loves you like he loved Jacob" was one phrase, but there was at least one more.

Is that temple the one referred to by Ben as the place the Others should go and wait, last season? The francophone man dragged underneath it was either abandoned by the monster or had become one of Jacob's corpse-mouthpieces, a plausible interpretation given that all the bodies of people Jacob speaks through seem to have disappeared from elsewhere on the island. The monster drags them through those tunnels and into the temple. It's not guarding the temple so much as feeding it.

If Ben usurped John's position, why didn't he die? Because he wasn't the right person? And does this mean he does not in fact work for Jacob anymore, and is only pretending to as a means to get at Penelope? If so, he'll presumably make a move on Desmond soon.

Why does John have to die, again? So that he can't wreck things, like Desmond and apparently Ben now can? But what will kill him? And why was the wheel knocked loose? It was super-tight when Ben moved it. And frozen--I don't remember, was there no ice around at all tonight?

New questions: who is Farraday's father, if he doesn't get his last name from his British mother?

Miles must have been on the island for more than a few months but less than a few years, given the order in which the characters started to bleed.

They're going to have to work very hard to explain why Rousseau never remembered Jin.

Update: Ah, he dies so that Jacob can speak through him.

Update to update: But then why would he respect Jin's wishes re. Sun. Are Jacob's body-people averages of him and the persons they were when living?

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That brainwashing scene was one of my favorites, actually. As was the appearance of the map when the lights went out in the hatch in season 2. Sudden treasure troves of information that can't be assimilated in time--absolutely wonderful effect. Analogous to the finding of that other hatch in The Road. All audience needs met at once, except not and we knew it. But in both cases, not a tease--not coming across as a tease--but a taste of the withheld and so needed reality, just a taste then gone. Not a tease because we had it: a fulfillment, a bit of life that died. Much to be learned from this, storytellers among us.

I've thought for a while that Lost is dirty, muttering, meandering John the Baptist to something greater to come. It's opened up wonderful new ground, ground it often seems astonished at, pokes with a stick, makes a pretty woman and big man quarrel and make love on, and then maybe there's a bomb that's going to go off and then a mood montage set to music and also Jack is there.