'Lost': Don't Mistake Coincidence for Fate

'Lost' is loved by millions for
delivering three things: bottomless mysteries, high scary weirdness, and
powerful yanks on the heartstrings.

Last night's episode delivered heaping double buckets full
of all three. The smoke monster is back in fine
form, scary as hell, and seems to be an actual character. That guy with the
eyepatch and Juliet's video-assisted doubletalk dance with Jack's mind delivered
the suspicious mystery groceries for me in spades, and man, I FELT it when Eko
teared up over the photo of he and Yemi as little boys.

Don't know what I'm talking about? Not a problem: you can
read EW's solid recap of last night's
events here, or, if you've
got the bandwidth, just go and watch the first twenty minutes of
the show itself. There's no
telling how long that's going to be up, though.

But enough
about that -- on to the theories, Easter eggs, and total crap:

Theories

Here's a
'Lost' random theory
generator. Careful -- you
may stumble across some spoilers.

There's a number of
theories surrounding Eko's death:

1) Eko
was the last Tail Section survivor. Bernard doesn't
count, because he only happened to be in the tail using the bathroom when the
plane seperated.

2) The island
itself is weeding out those it deems spritually worthy of survival. It tried to
elicit a confession from Eko, and when he refused, killed him.


3) From a story perspective, Eko and Locke are essentially
the same character: both are on a spiritual quest, both have abandonment/family
issues, and both are tougher than the callous on Ted Nugent's trigger finger. If
you look at it more, both Eko and Charlie are troubled men of God who have
serious issues with their brothers. Story-wise, that's getting pretty crowded.
Rather than chase three overlapping characters around the Island, the writers
had the smoke monster bash them a little breathing room.

4)
According to Shawn Schrager of
SBL, every
'Lost'
actor with a
traffic
violation must die on the
island.

5) Perhaps the actor playing Eko wasn't super-easy to work
with.


The Smoke Monster is spawning
its own theories, too:

1) When Eko sees dismembered people
from the past around him on his sojourn through the jungle, is he hallucinating?
I think the Smoke Monster is actually presenting his memories in a physical
form. Think about it -- the Smoke Monster could have taken the form of Jack's
dad, Kate's horse, Hurley's buddy from the mental institution -- any number of
trippy hallucinations our heroes have seen alone in the jungle could well be the
Smoke Monster running psyops missions instead of full-on
attacks.

2) The Smoke Monster is the collective embodiment of
the island's dead
souls.

3) Maybe it's some sort of genie or
djinn.

Ben, Jack, and Juliet's interactions spawn more speculation, too:


1) The more I think about it, the more I think that Ben and
Juliet are siblings. Sure, they fight like jealous exes, but who hasn't had a
sibling hate their significant other? Mysister dislikes my girlfriends on a
matter of priniple, then warms to them -- or doesn't, usually. Whenever Ben
walks in on Juliet flirting with Jack, he gets pretty
cranky.

2) Neither Juliet or Ben can
be trusted. I think they're in cahoots. Think about it: the island has healed
Locke's legs and Rose's cancer. Chances are the Others know about this -- so why
would Ben still have a tumor at all? Ben's played the pathetic kitten before,
and he only does it as long as he has to to get what he wants. Juliet, man ...
you just can't trust anyone who's devious enough to pull something off like that
cue-card move. I'm starting to think that she may be the one who's really
calling the shots on the island.

The man with the eyepatch
is WAY too exciting to neglect, but right now he's a long list of endless
possibilities. We can safely assume that the glass eye found in a hatch during
Season 2 belonged to him, though.

Easter
Eggs

This episode was pretty low on actual Easter
eggs. However, the folks at Lost Easter Eggs
have put together a couple good posts showing Eko's
death, the
Patch
Man, and all of Juliet's
cue cards from her videotaped
mindbender.


Desmond may be clairvoyant on the island, but in a previous
engagement, he was actually
Jesus.

Man, Juliet and Heather Mills McCartney look a LOT
alike, don't
they?

Total Crap

When
Locke and friends emerge from the hatch to find a dead Mister Eko, they sure
don't seem too concerned about what might have actually killed him. They just
kinda sit there looking at him while Locke shuts his eyes. Don't you think at
least one of them should have charged blindly into the jungle, shouting?


That's all I've got this week, folks. As always, if you've
got more theories, eggs, or crap, leave it in the comments.