This Place is Death & 316

First I owe you a huge apology! SORRY! Sorry sorry sorry. I m so sorry That I totally skipped out on This Place is Death and am coming up late on 316. I can blame it on a million things, but let's just say I got LOST. Anyway, now you get a double dose.

THIS PLACE IS DEATH/316



1. OK so check this out (esp since we're doing a double header) Check out Christian Shephard's shoes when Locke is in the cave with him. They are NOT white anymore! This is pretty interesting, especially since we find out the reason for the white shoes in 316. Does this mean Locke is taking Christian's place on the island? Will he be the new ghost on the island since we know he ends up in a casket being kept chilled in a butcher freezer of sorts. Were the dark shoes he was wearing his own that Jack eventually gets in 316? If they were the dark shoes that Jack puts on Lock's feet in 316, what are they doing on Christian's feet in This Place is Death???

2. How long has Faraday actually been on the island? Is he just like Alpert? Does Faraday age? Apparently, Charlotte saw him when she was a kid and he was a man. OR, did he simply just go back to tell her to never come back because she will die (since he now knows her fate)?

3. (really try hard to wrap your mind around this one) - Locke goes down the well which is already built to where the wheel is, then time flashes backward, the well is gone, but Sawyer is still holding the rope which is stuck deep in the ground because whatever you hold stays with you. NOW there is a location to dig a future well because Sawyer has marked it! Without Sawyer's rope, there is no well! (aka chicken and egg)

4. Why didn't Rousseau ever remember Jin from the past? He was there to save her and Alex from our lovable smoke monster. I'm not about to check now, but I'd love to know how many interactions Jin and Rousseau actually had in the last 4 seasons. Did they really ever interact after Oceanic's crash? I mean there was a 16 year time gap, so maybe she wouldn't have actually recognized him??? Actually here's the lowdown from Thefuselage:

In season 1, Danielle has contact with Sayid in "Solitary", with Hurley in" Numbers", and then she comes to the ebach camp in "Exodus, Part 1". Danielle and Jin have no interaction in that episode, and by the end of the episode, Jin sails off on the raft.

In "One of Them", Danielle only has intereaction with Sayid.

In "Maternity Leave", Jin doesn't appear.

Throughout most of season 3, Danielle is trekking to Otherville with Kate, Locke and Sayid.

They have no interaction in "Greatest Hits" or "Through the Looking Glass".

Danielle and Jin never meet each other face to face before season 5

5. Caravaggio's famous painting named "The Incredulity of Saint Thomas" pointed out by Ellie Hawking: I believe this painting is directly pointing to a Jack metaphor. Thomas was the apostle who would not believe the resurrection of Jesus until he saw Jesus with his own eyes. jack needs to be convinced with his own eyes. The painting also is about resurrection - which we see a lot of on the island - people assumed to be dead are always coming back.

6. Is Miles really Dr Chang's son? He says he's from Encino! (shout out to san fernando valley -woot woot) My favorite line of the night by the way.

7. Christian Shephard was holding a lantern - so ghosts can hold things on the island or is he really a ghost?

8. Geronimo Jackson strikes again on LOST! Charlotte refers to Geronimo Jackson! What is that, like the 5th time or something?

9. Locke knows about Miles gift of talking to the dead. As Locke travels down the well, he says goodbye to Sawyer and Julietm but directly to Miles he says, "See you when I get back."

10. The message from the radio tower which replaced the numbers- Jin's fault. He was the one that told the French people about the radio tower.

11. Ben uses Jin's wedding ring to get Sun back to the island even though Jin told Locke to use it for the exact opposite. How did Ben get it? What did Locke tell ben about the ring? Locke made a promise to Jin that he wouldn't take Sun back. Is he keeping his promise now, since Ben is the one luring her back?

12. Why did Ben originally turn the wheel, when Christian told Locke that Locke had to be the one to turn it? Locke never told Ben who he actually spoke to Jacob or Christian. And when Ben asked what they were supposed to do, Locke said, "We have to move the island." Not I have to move the island.

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13. white shoes on Christian - they were the only one's Jack had. Now he gets his dad's black ones, puts them on Locke's feet and if you look back to episode This Place is Death - I believe Christian is wearing them??? hmmmm

14. Narnia. I know what a weird correlation, but the writers and producers love the book references. First, let me start with Charlotte Staples Lewes - RIP from This Place is Death. However, her initials are CS Lewis just like the author of Narnia. NOW, the fun begins.

15. The off island hatch is called the Lamp Post!!! The lamp post is a HUGE symbol in the Narnia book, The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe. Remember when Lucy goes through the wardrobe and enters Narnia, she comes upon a lamp post which lights the way. Much like our off island hathc which lights the way back to the island. There was also a lamp lighter in the book The Little Prince.

16. Ben lied about his mother teaching him to read. His mother died when Ben was born. (great line though).

17. Locke's suicide note read, "I wish you had believed me." Which in my interpretation means, you should have never left, which means that Sun would have died and Ji Yeon wouldn't have been born, which means that Charlotte is right in that Jin should not let Locke bring her back there because the island will course correct itself, which means...
PLUS - From the Bible - John 3.16 "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life"
John Locke needed jack to believe.

18. Why weren't they dressed to survive on an island? Did they pack suitcases, knives, matches?

19. kinda funny - LOST has featured the Wilhelm scream! For anyone who doesn't know what the Wilhelm scream is, this youtube video will help http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdbYsoEasio
You can hear it in 316 at about 39:20 (time without commercials... 2 or 3 minutes to the end) as the flight is going down.

20. How did Hurley know about the flight and why does he have a guitar? How did he get out of jail? Did the Charlie ghost tell him?

21. Lapidus as the pilot was CLASSIC!

22. Similarities of Ajira and Oceanic passengers:
Sun has Jin's ring, like Rose had Bernard's
Jack has Locke's letter, like Sawyer did had a letter to Locke's father -the original con man?
Hurley has an instrument case...like Charlie Pace
Sayid boarded in handcuffs...like Kate on 815.
What about Kate? maybe she's pregnant like Claire? or bitchy like Shannon?

23. Similarities to pre-boarding:
Hurley has a disagreement and trouble getting on the flight
Jack having an issue about bringing a dead body on the plane
Hurley was also reading a comic book
jack was in a bar (like when he met Ana Lucia)
The officer escorting Sayid kinda resemples Ana Lucia (who was an officer)

24. Similarities to crashing:
Jack wakes up in the jungle
Someone is drowning
Someone is screaming
Separation between other passengers

25. Where did Ben go and how kicked his butt? Let's hope he didn't try to kill Penny. Ben was reading Ulysses in the plane, which contains a chapter entitled "Penelope" which is Penny's real name.

26. What did Kate do with Aaron? My guess is she dropped him off with Claire's mom.

27. From the Bible - John 3.16 "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life"
John Locke needed jack to believe.

28. And a biggie for the last one - Charlie's dad's name was Simon who was a butcher. The name of the place keeping Locke's body cold - "Simon's Butcher Shop"