Wednesday’s Word

Word: Take a fit (V. phrase)

Definition: to yield to impulse.

Usages:

“I took a fit to buy me a beagle pup. They’re supposed to be good with kids.”

“Is he?”

“Oh yes, wouldn’t bit a biscuit.”

(Definition from: “How To Talk Yankee”, by Gerald Lewis & Tim Sample, copyright 1979, 1986 by The Thorndike Press; copyright 1989 by the First North Country Press)

Did You Know Tuesday

Something a little different this week. A video "Did You Know..."!

LOST Season 6 Episode 13 The Last Recruit

Hurley: His decision to merge his group with FLocke’s led to some interesting situations for our Losties.

Jack: Jack gets to address FLocke for the first time and finds out that it was the SMonster himself that posed as Jack’s dead father, Christian. As he continues his turn from a Man of Science to a Man of Faith, Jack takes it upon himself to abandon the boat from the Island when he says that leaving doesn’t feel right and Sawyer says “see yah later”. Before jumping off, he tells Sawyer that he’s sorry he got Juliet killed. Jack swims back to the Island, where FLocke is waiting. Knocked nearly unconscious by a bomb launched by Team Widmore, he is carried away by FLocke who tells him not to worry, “you’re with me now.” OH NO! Could Jack be overtaken by the same darkness that has taken over Claire and Sayid? In the Flash-Sideways, Jack also meets up with Locke, this time as the surgeon brought in to work on the battered and bleeding John Locke, put into this condition by Desmond’s intentional hit-and-run.

FLocke: Attempts to convince Jack that he has been helping him all along. Posing as his dead father Christian, he lead Jack to the drinking water, or so he says. Also says he’s been trying to help Jack leave the Island and wants him to accompany everybody to the plane to leave the Island. FLocke tells Jack that Locke was a sucker, a sucker who believed that he was brought to the Island for a reason. After Zoe enters the camp demanding the return of Desmond (though she doesn’t say his name) and a display of the firepower from Team Widmore, he destroys the walkie-talkine she had given him to contact them. Saying “Well, here we go”, FLocke has just fired the starting gun, I believe, for the chaos to come. Expect the body count to begin rising.

Locke: In the Flash-Sideways, Locke is being brought to the hospital in an ambulance, accompanied by Ben Linus. Locke gives the name of Helen as his contact, telling Ben that he is going to marry her. Entering the hospital on his gurney, he is brought into the ER the same time that Sun, injured by the gunshot of Keamey, is being brought into the ER. He does not recognize her, but Sun, who has never met John Locke in the this timeline, recognizes him.

Sawyer/James Ford: On the Island, he turns on FLocke and takes Desmond’s sailboat, Elizabeth, and some of the people from the FLocke tribe, with him. In the Flash Sideways, as the cop, he talks to Kate about fate bringing them together, and later arrests Sayid.

Sayid: FLocke sends Sayid to kill Desmond, saying he will have to do this in order to get what was promised to him. At the well, Desmond asks Sayid what he’s getting, and when he tells him he’s getting Nadia back, Desmond asks Sayid what he will tell Nadia when she’s back from the dead. How will he tell her that it cost another life to bring her back? Later, Sayid tells FLocke that he killed Desmond, but we never see this, and it doesn’t appear that he did. In the Flash Sideways, Sayid is on the run from the cops (turns out it’s James Ford and Miles Straume) for the killing of Keamey and his men, who were of course shaking down Sayid’s brother, who married Nadia in that timeline.

Claire: Finally able to talk to Claire with both of them aware that they are brother and sister. It’s not a very comfortable conversation, but Claire hugs Jack and tells him that she thinks it’s good he’s going to be going with FLocke. When Jack tells her he hasn’t decided, she says “you decided the moment you let him talk to you, just like the rest of us. Like it or not, you’re with him now.” Claire does have a moment of...wait for it---wait for it....CLAIRE-ity when she joins Sawyer, Jack, Kate, Sun, Hurley and Frank Lapidus on the sailboat heading to Hydra Island, noting, however, that FLocke will be mad when he finds them gone. Flash Sideways Claire is at an appointment to meet with an adoption agency when Desmond shows up and brings her instead to another office in the building. The office being a law firm that Ilana is part of. Ilana?? Yes, THAT Ilana.

Ilana: In the Flash Sideways, it turns out that Ilana is a lawyer who represents Jack’s dead father, Christian. For the reading of the will, Desmond brings Claire to see her while Jack is there, and it’s here that she informs Jack that she is Christian’s daughter and that she and Jack are brother and sister.

Kate: Her impassioned speech to calm Claire to get her on the sailboat was nice. Admitting that she never should have raised Aaron, that it should’ve been Claire and that the only reason she came back to the Island was to get Claire back to be with Aaron melts Claire a little and she agrees to go with them.

Sun: Okay look, her reunion with Jin was awesome. But to all of the sudden be able to talk again...that was a stretch. And to have Lapidus say “Looks like someone got their voice back” was corny. Sun spoke, we heard her, we don’t need it pointed out that she just spoke. In the Flash Sideways, the good news about her is that she recovers from the surgery for the gunshot wound, the pregnancy was not compromised, and in a possible prediction, Jin says “It’s over and we’re all going to be okay.”

Funny

--Ford/Sawyer referring to Frank Lapidus as “that pilot who looks like just stepped off of the set of a Burt Reynolds movie”

Interesting

--Ummm...did the well that Desmond is in suddenly become shorter than it looked last week when he was pushed into it? What’s up with that?

--There’s been an increase in the appearance of the numbers, but this time in the Flash Sideways. It seemed that the numbers were resolved with the numbers corresponding to the list of Jacob’s Candidates. Maybe there’s another correlation for the numbers regarding the Flash Sideways incidents.

--There was another longgg stare into a mirror, this time from Jack in the operating room.

--I guess Charles Widmore had no intention of keeping his word with Sawyer. What a shocker. Not.

Question

--Jack (whose name is kind of similar to Jacob) and FLocke on the beach together the same way as Jacob and Man in Black to end the series? Any takers?

--I really don't have any more questions. I'm just going to let the series unfold.

Some unfortunate news....the episode on Tuesday, April 27, is a repeat of the Ab Aeterno episode that focused on the back-story of Richard. The next new episode of this final season of Lost will be Episode 14, The Candidate, and airs Tuesday, May 4.

Here’s how the episodes stack up for the rest of the season:

Ep 15 Across The Sea (Tuesday, May 11)

Ep 16 What They Died For (Tuesday, May 18)

Ep 17 The End (pt 1) will be shown as part of two-hour series finale (Sunday, May 23)

Ep 18 The End (pt 2) will be shown as part of two-hour series finale

Until next week, I have to go, my sailboat's leaving.

Monday Morning Chuckle

Cheers bloopers!

Wednesday’s Word

Word: Supper (N.)

Definition: End of the day meal.

Usages:

Get this straight. You eat breakfast in the morning, dinner at noon, and supper in the evening. Lunch is something you carry along with you in your dinner bucket.

(Definition from: “How To Talk Yankee”, by Gerald Lewis & Tim Sample, copyright 1979, 1986 by The Thorndike Press; copyright 1989 by the First North Country Press)

Did You Know Tuesday

Did you know...that today is my birthday? So, some birthday themed videos.

LOST Season 6 Episode 12 Everybody Loves Hugo

Hugo: On the Island, Hurley continues to evolve into the leader of this group. But he’s thrown into a bit of a loop with the appearance of Michael. Hugo blows up the Black Rock to prevent the dynamite from it’s cargo hold from being used to destroy the plane. Later he makes a decision (and says he’s being told by Jacob, but not really) to lead Jack, Sun and Frank Lapidus through the jungle to FLocke’s camp. Flash-Sideways Hurley is a successful business owner (Mr Cluck’s Fried Chicken), but still has his overbearing mother. A chance meeting with Libby, whom he’s never met before in this timeline, leads Hurley and Libby to experience feelings of familiarity, those feelings from the original timeline, of course. It was a little too much to have them go on the date and smooch, but it’s understandable why this was written into the script. (I too was pissed when Michael shot Libby, ending the dream-date that Hurley was sooo looking forward to.) Hurley continues to overcome his insecurities on the Island and keeps showing leadership. One thing to remember is that Hurley is one character who's not carrying around some sort of guilt, or feeling a need to redeem himself for something. His biggest sin is lacking self-confidence, so there really won't be a redemption arc in Hurley's story, I don't think. Besides, he pretty much let everything out when he repaired the VW Dharma Bus and rolled it down the hill, very nearly crashing it with Charlie inside before getting it jump-started to the music of Three Dog Night's Shambala.

Libby: In the Flash-Sideways, Libby is still patient at the sanitarium where she and Hurley were in the original timeline. But her memories of the original timeline and her relationship with Hurley drive her to share them with Hurley. These memories begin to push Hurley towards the realization that the other timeline may exist, but he has a way to go.

Michael: Appearing to Hugo on the Island, he pushes Hurley to lead everybody to the plane to destroy it. He explains to Hugo that the voices and whispering heard on the Island are the voices of people who’ve died there. They’re trapped on the Island and the whispers are their voices. He apologizes to Hurley for killing Libby and asks Hurley to tell her he’s sorry if he ever sees her again (I guess meaning if he sees her image trapped on the Island, too.)

Desmond: On the Island, it seems apparent that Desmond knows what FLocke is up to, or is akin to the idea that FLocke is bad. Very bad. But he tells FLocke that he knows he’s “John Locke”, and FLocke uses this deception to lead Des to the well, into which he pushes him. Des falls out of sight, presumably to the bottom. In the Flash-Sideways, he spends this episode pushing each character towards remembering the other timeline. He does it in some strange ways. With Hurley, he runs into him at the Mr Cluck’s, telling Hurley he should go back to see Libby. With Locke, he runs into him....literally. Waiting for Mr Locke, the substitute teacher, to exit the school at the end of the day, Desmond guns the car and rams right into Locke, knocking him over the car and sending the wheelchair on its own. It should be noted that Desmond also persuaded Hugo to meet up with Libby. So, it would appear that when Desmond requested the flight manifest in the previous episode, it was to get the list of the people on that flight that were part of the other timeline. I’d surmise that it’s possible that the EM exposure on the Island from last episode and the MRI EM exposure in the Flash-Sideways caused Des’ consciousness to switch (like the rat experiment he did a couple of seasons ago). If it’s happened that his Island-timeline consciousness is in his Flash-Sideways body, and vice versa, then we have a Desmond in each timeline that knows what has to be done in that timeline to bring things to whatever end we’re going to see in a few weeks. This would also explain why he was so calm on the Island with FLocke.

FLocke: Tells Desmond that the well is so old that the people who dug it did it by hand. Explains that they were digging not for water, but to get to the source of the electromagnetic source. Trying to convince Desmond that Widmore only wants to use the Island for bad, but this is another FLocke lie. The big deal in the conversation with Desmond comes when FLocke realizes the Desmond is not afraid of him. Unable to figure out why, he pushes Des down the well.

Ilana: Ummm....okay, Ilana go boom. I liked Ilana and wanted to know more about her, but about all I knew watching this was that the was she was slinging the TNT sticks and water around in her knapsack, I knew it was going to be an Artz type ending. Bummer. I guess we should change her name to Ilanartz.

Richard: Splits from the team after Ilana’s death. Leads Miles and Ben toward the plane with the intent of destroying it to prevent FLocke from escaping the Island. With the destruction of the Black Rock, they have no dynamite to destroy the plane.

Jack: On the Island, Jack admits that it’s hard for him to have other people tell him what to do. He tells Hurley that ever since Juliet was killed, he’s had to step back. He tells Hurley that he trusts him to do the right thing.

Funny

--After blowing up the Black Rock, Miles says “A little warning would’ve been nice, Hurley.” Hurley: “I did say to run”.

--Hurley to Jack: “How do you break the ice with the Smoke-Monster?”

Interesting

--The Hugo Reyes Paleontology Wing at the Golden State Natural History Museum in the Flash Sideways. Pierre Chang is the emcee of the event. And it’s interesting to note also that Charlotte was a paleontologist (who works at the museum...we think).

--In the nuthouse in the Flash-Sideways, the doctor (the same one Hurley had when he was there) also has the island picture hanging on his wall. And in the rec room, there was Leonard, but he was not chanting the numbers over and over and over. Connect Four was still Leonard’s game of choice, though.

--Per the Michael-image Hurley talked to, the voices on the Island are those who are died there and ‘can’t move on’. Why are they trapped there? This does point to the whole “the Island is purgatory” idea that a lot of people have been throwing around since season 1. But the producers had pish-poshed that idea. Pretty cool nonetheless, but it has a couple of oversights, I think: Why did Kate see the black horse on the Island if it didn’t die there? Why did Hurley see his psych-ward buddy Dave on the Island if Dave didn’t die there (of course, Dave may just be Hurley’s own made-up buddy, so that would explain it)? Why did the man that Sawyer killed in Australia (Charles Duckett), mistaking him for “The Sawyer” who scammed his parents leading to their deaths, have his voice heard during one of the whisper-segments last season if he didn’t die on the Island either? And how would Richard’s wife have appeared to Hurley if she also didn’t die on the Island? I also remember that the whispers often times precipitate a visit from ole SMonster himself.

--Hurley really seems like the one, main character on this show who isn’t suffering from some kind of guilt, or seeking redemption for anything. We know he suffered from guilt associated with the collapse of the outside deck that killed some party-goers (he blamed his weight for collapsing the deck, though that was not the cause) and sent him to the mental hospital originally.

--In the Flash-Sideways, Mr Locke lay battered on the ground after being hit intentionally by Desmond, joining a long list of Lost characters, including himself, who’ve been mowed over by a car.

--Jack’s reaction to seeing FLocke...Locke. Remember, the last time Jack saw him he was in the casket before the return flight to the Island, and he had just put his father’s shoes on Locke’s feet.

Questions

--What was in the bag that Hurley found in the beach shelter? Black and white stones, perhpas?

--FLocke must know about Desmond’s interaction with the electromagnetic anomaly, right? So why would he have pushed him down the well, assuming the well leads to one of these anomalies? It seems that he would be putting him closer to causing a...reaction.

--Again with the kid in the woods...who is he and why does FLocke not want to acknowledge him?

--Was Hurley’s idea to talk to FLocke really a good one?

--What is the Island? Richard wanted Hurley to ask Jacob what the Island is, claiming that Jacob once told him.

--Any chance that Hurley will use the knife that FLocke gave to him to kill FLocke?

We continue to see the wall that is separating the two timelines breaking down as more and more memories continue to cross-over from one side to the other via the different main characters.

What a crazy preview for the next episode, eh? The Gene Wilder Willy Wonka dialogue was a bit creepy. I can’t wait!

Tune in next Tuesday night for that episode, which is the 13th one of the season and is titled The Last Recruit.

Here’s how the episodes stack up for the rest of the season:

Ep 14 The Candidate

Ep 15 Across The Sea

Ep 16 What They Died For

Ep 17 The End (pt 1) will be shown as part of two-hour series finale

Ep 18 The End (pt 2) will be shown as part of two-hour series finale

Jorge Garcia plays the part of Hugo 'Hurley' Reyes. He keeps a blog called Dispatches from the Island. Check it out by clicking here for Dispatches from the Island.

Until next week, I have to go because my Family Size bucket of Mr Cluck’s Chicken has finally arrived.

Monday Morning Chuckle

Wednesday’s Word

Word: Were (V.)

Definition: To talk like a native, you may use this as a singular verb.

Usages:

“I weren’t going to the Harmony Fair this year, but the old man drove me.” (forced me)

(Definition from: “How To Talk Yankee”, by Gerald Lewis & Tim Sample, copyright 1979, 1986 by The Thorndike Press; copyright 1989 by the First North Country Press)

Did You Know Tuesday

Did you know that it was forty years ago today (April 13, 1970) that NASA’s Apollo 13 almost met its fate when an oxygen tank ruptured, the craft lost power and the three astronauts on-board had to make it back to Earth using a gravitational-slingshot maneuver around the Moon? Commander Jack Lovell, Jack Swiger and Fred Haise were able to move to the command module and make this amazing trajectory happen and were able to return to Earth four days later. The problem was later determined to have been caused by an electrical system problem that caused the pressure in the ship’s oxygen tanks to increase and rupture the tanks. Losing oxygen, the men had little time and their survival appeared doubtful.

l to r: Jim Lovell, Jack Swiger, Fred Haise (photo from www.space.com)

Cancer would take Swiger in 1982, but both Lovell and Haise are still living, as are many of the people who were working on the ground at NASA helping in the process to get these astronauts back to Earth.

This incident was rendered to film by Ron Howard in 1995, Apollo 13. This movie was based on Lovell’s book Lost Moon.

And the actual quote should be: “Houston, we’ve had a problem”

Monday Morning Chuckle

LOST Season 6 Episode 11 Happily Ever After

Charles Widmore: Charles Widmore is, in my opinion, one of Jacob’s wild-cards. (Kate being the other...more on that below). Okay, follow along here: Charles Widmore was on the Island, but booted off by Ben in a power struggle. Back in real-life, Widmore is a successful businessman with lots o’ money. The relationship he had with Ben on the Island appeared to put them on opposite sides. So, the Man In Black (now FLocke) would have known them as enemies, so there’s no need to think about Charles Widmore, right? Wrong! Widmore has been able to keep tabs on the Island through many ways, most notably through Eloise Hawking (with whom he has a son, Daniel, who knows how to manipulate the Island properties and wrote his experiments down in a notebook) and through Penny. Penny? How does he extend his reach to the Island via Penny? Easy. Through Desmond. Read more on that below. Back to Widmore - he is likely going to use Desmond to merge (?) or collapse the Flash Sideways timeline using the electromagnetic characteristics of the Island. He tells Desmond that if Des doesn’t help him, he will lose not only Penny, but everybody on the planet will die.

Desmond: Desmond, as pointed out by Charles on the Island, is the only person he knows who has lived through an electromagnetic experience (when he turned the fail-safe key in the Swan Hatch). Desmond is now back on the Island and Widmore is likely going to use him to bring the two timelines back together, or something along those lines. But let’s remember something: It was was Widmore who put Desmond on the Island in the first place. Remember? Desmond liked Penny, Widmore’s daughter. But Widmore used his dislike of Desmond to convince him that he needed to go on this around-the-world sailing adventure knowing full well that he would land on the Island. Also, it would be Libby’s role in this to give Desmond the boat he would use for this journey. In this episode, the Flash Sideways Desmond does not know who Penny is, until Charlie Pace provides him with the near-death experience that caused Desmond to essentially flash back to the real, Island timeline in which he and Penny are together and have a son. With no Penny in the Flash Sideways life, it seems that Des will sacrifice himself to make things right. Whether or not this will result in his death is unknown at this time. What is known is this - Desmond is definitely aware of both timelines. Wonder if his consciousness from the Flash Sideways switched to the Island Desmond, and vice versa? This would give each of them the full vision of that timeline they are in.

Simmons: Probably wishes he hadn’t gone down to the check the circuits on the solonoids. **zzzztttttttt** But at least we know what happens to someone not named Desmond when exposed to a strong EM field.

Charlie Pace: Drive Shaft and Daniel were going to get together to do a “classical mixed with rock” concert for Widmore’s family. But poor Charlie was arrested on the Oceanic 815 flight when it landed in LA, and Widmore hired Desmond to babysit Charlie for the show. See, when Charlie nearly died on the plane after swallowing his stash, he saw Claire. Not the Claire on the plane Claire, but the Claire he knew from the Island, in the other timeline. The Claire he loved. Once he had those memories, he knew to force Desmond into a similar experience so he too would see that timeline’s history. He does this by forcing the car he and Desmond are in to go into the water and sink. When Des tries to rescue Charlie, Charlie puts his hand on the car window in the exact way he did in the Hydra Station before being killed when Mikhail blew up the room Charlie was in, causing him to drown. This is the moment where Desmond flashed to the Island timeline and he remembers Charlie putting his hand on the window with the message “not Penny’s boat”. Charlie’s flash on the airplane in the Flash Sideways did give him strength through the power of love, as corny as that sounds. Life and death are two things that cause one to reflect deeply. They have all had to deal with that.

Eloise Hawking/Widmore: In the Flash Sideways, she tries to convince Desmond to stop trying to find Penny. It’s as though she is trying to steer Desmond away from figuring out how he can fix things. As though she’s been planted in the Flash Sideways to try to talk Des out of figuring out what it will take to put things back in order (in Jacob’s favor). This sort of implies that the Flash Sideways is under the direction of the Man In Black. But even in the Flash Sideways, there are people trying to steer Desmond to do the right thing (Charlie Pace being the most obvious one working against the Flash Sidways’ Eloise, and possibley even Widmore since he’s the one who put Des in charge of watching over Charlie.)

Daniel Farraday/Widmore: In the Flash Sideways, Daniel is not the scientist we know him as in the other timeline, but an accomplished classical pianist. But he has an experience that involves him seeing Charlotte in a museum (I wonder if it’s the same museum that Miles’ father works in?). In the Flash Sideways, he’s never met Charlotte, but he knows he loves her. After seeing her, he wrote down in a notebook (yes, THAT notebook) a quantum-mechanics formula, but he’s not a physicist in this timeline. Taking the formula to a friend at Cal Tech who is a physicist, he’s told that the equation is for setting off a nuclear bomb. Daniel thinks he may have already set one off (thinking of the Island timeline), so both timelines are crossing over for Daniel, too. Daniel tells Desmond that Penny does indeed exist, and that he is her half-brother. Don’t forget: in Daniel’s notebook on the Island, he had written “Desmond Hume is my constant”, and in the Flash Sideways...voila!....Daniel meets with Desmond.

George Minkowski: Hey George! In the Flash Sideways, he’s the limo driver for Charles Widmore who picks Desmond up at the airport when his Oceanic Flight 815 lands in LA from Sydney.

Zoe: I believe she’ll be called in to create another “incident” that will merge the timelines and lead to the beat-down of FLocke/Man In Black.

Sayid: “Desmond, these people (the Widmore team) are extremely dangerous, we have to go” is all he says. And Desmond leaves with him. That’s weird. But Des has something up his sleeve, don’t’cha think?

Interesting

--Widmore telling Desmond that “the Island isn’t done with you yet”, which is similar to what Eloise told him previously.

--Desmond telling the still-pregnant Claire (in the Flash Sideways) that her baby would be a boy.

--Flash Sideways Desmond and Widmore are buddies, even sharing a shot of McCutcheon Whiskey.

--In Widmore’s Flash Sideways office, he has a model of the Black Rock on the wall, in addition to a painting of a scale with a black rock on the left side and a white rock on the right.

--Though not a mirror, Desmond stares at his reflection for a few seconds in the glass door to the courtroom when he picked up Charlie. More mirror, or more literally ‘reflection’, scenes.

--Man In Black needs the plane (or sub?) to get off the Island, but it would seem that Team Jacob also need the plane. I still don’t see how that plane will get off the Island with no runway and (presumably) being low on fuel.

--Desmond’s flashes were both triggered by the EM blasts...one flash from the solonoids on the Island, and the other from the MRI machine in the Flash Sideways.

--Desmond meeting Penny while she’s running steps in the same stadium that he met Jack in.

Questions

--Is the Flash Sideways timeline a vision of what the Man In Black has promised those who will serve him/help him, and without it the Man In Black would have no power over those he’s trying to use to get off the Island? If so, destroying the Flash Sideways timeline would appear to be the motive of Widmore. By using Desmond to somehow destroy that timeline would take away the ‘perfect world’ promises being made by the Man In Black. Without that offer, there’s no reason for anybody to follow Man In Black and this would severely diminish his ability to recruit anybody for his army.

--Why does Desmond need the manifest for Flight 815? And who does he have to show it to?

In Jacob’s Cave where all of the names are etched into the wall and most are crossed out, six remained that weren’t: Locke, Reyes (Hugo), Ford (Sawyer), Jarrah, Shephard and Kwon (either Sun or Jin...we don’t know). Kate’s last name, Austen, was one of the ones crossed off. However, in Jacob’s Lighthouse, Kate’s name is NOT crossed off. If FLocke hasn’t been to the Lighthouse, then he wouldn’t know that Austen is still a Candidate. He’s only keeping her around to bat her va-va-voom eyelashes at Sawyer because he needs Sawyer as part of his army. Did Jacob use slight of hand to keep Kate off of Man In Black’s radar? If Man In Black thinks she’s not a candidate, he could be surprised later by this.

My thoughs are that Kate will be the final Candidate to take Jacob’s spot. That’s my prediction. Although I’ve never really been into her character arcs and back-story, it seems the perfect distraction to reveal that she’s the one to take his place. Plus, the fact that she gave up her life to return to the Island to re-unite a son with his mother, shows that she has the ability to give up the ultimate sacrifice of one’s life for another. She made this sacrifice on her own, without guidance.

I have to believe some of the characters are going to die: Sayid, Richard and Claire all seem obvious. But I think Jack will remain and be a leader, sort of the Dogen replacement. And I think Hurley will be the Richard replacement. They’ll opt to stay on the Island. Any who remain after the war (Jin & Sun perhaps?) will have an option to leave on the sub (plane?) but the rest who remain (Rose? Bernard? Ilana?) would likely go to the Temple.

This is assuming the “good guys” win. And in terms that might be accociated with a game of backgammon, it would seem that Kate and Widmore were both pieces that got bumped to the center holding area, and are just now being rolled back in.

Of course, every time I make a prediction, I’m wrong. So there you go.

That was a lot of reading. Thanks for sticking with it.

Tune in next Tuesday night for episode 12 Everybody Loves Hugo.

Here’s how the episodes stack up for the rest of the season:

Ep 13 The Last Recruit

Ep 14 The Candidate

Ep 15 Across The Sea

Ep 16 What They Died For

Ep 17 The End (pt 1) will be shown as part of two-hour series finale

Ep 18 The End (pt 2) will be shown as part of two-hour series finale

Until next week, remember that I’m happy to be your constant.

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Wednesday’s Word

Word: Sport (N.)

Definition: hunting or fishing client.

Usages:

“You know, a guide’s got to have a lot of patience. I had a sport last week who was so numb he was trying to throw out flies with a bait casting rod.”

“That ain’t nawthin’. I had one trolling with a surf casting outfit that would land a whale.”

“We’re lucky they’re not all that bad”

(Definition from: “How To Talk Yankee”, by Gerald Lewis & Tim Sample, copyright 1979, 1986 by The Thorndike Press; copyright 1989 by the First North Country Press)