Lost - “Confirmed Dead” Pre-Game Show

All right, so, jumping to wild conclusions probably isn’t the way to go ’round these parts. Therefore, I retract my previous statement that “Jack’s father is Jacob!” What I meant by that is: Jack’s father obviously has something to do with Jacob. I’ll try to be more clear in the future. Say what I mean and mean what I say and all that.

So, exactly what is the connection between Jacob and Christian Shepherd? Besides the initials being all symbolic of Jesus Christ and the resurrection theme and what not, I think a commenter over at A Mike’s Life by the name of Frank C might be on to something: maybe Jacob’s spirit — energy force, whatever — inhabits people’s physical shells and saw Jack’s dead father lying there on the island after the crash, his casket all split open with the body still in relatively good shape.

Currently, that makes the most sense to me, so props to Frank.

I would like an explanation, though, that ties together Jacob, the smoke monster, and all the visions the other characters have seen. Kate’s horse, Hurley’s Dave, and Eko’s brother Yemi, maybe even off-island Charlie from last week, for example. But, the Others’ sonic fence seems to repel the smoke monster and if we believe Juliet about not knowing what exactly it is, maybe it and Jacob aren’t connected after all, because Ben seems pretty loyal to Jacob.

Speaking of the sonic fence, I hope we see it again in tomorrow’s episode. Last week, Locke rounded up a faction of survivors and headed to abandoned Othersville, hoping to keep away from the freighter people by means of the fence. I ripped this little snippet to remind you what it does, in case you forgot.

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What I love about this clip is that you aren’t really sure if the electrical surging noises are sounds generated by the fence or if it’s part of the show’s musical score. Probably both, in which case, that’s friggin ACE.

Anyway, the more I think about what happened last week and what’s supposed to happen in tomorrow’s episode, I think the answer to “what are the Ocean Six lying about?” is pretty clear.

I’m thinking back to one of the first things Naomi said after she parachuted onto the island: “you can’t be the survivors of Flight 815, they found the wreckage… and all the bodies.”

When I first heard that, I started thinking that the survivors were all clones or the plane somehow duplicated itself or some other sci-fi explanation, but, if there is one thing to keep in mind when thinking about Lost it’s this: keep it simple. Things hide in plain sight (plane sight?!!? eh?!?) The simplest explanation is that it’s a cover up.

We know the Widmores, Mittelos Bioscience, and the Hanso Foundation have a lot to do with what’s happened on the island in the past, in one way or another. If Oceanic Airlines agreed to go along with some kind of cover up in order to call off the search in order to keep the island hidden, maybe Jack, Kate, Hurley, and the rest of the Oceanic Six screwed things up by going and getting themselves rescued. Now, all of the companies that paid off Oceanic Airlines are trying to keep the Six quiet, and that’s when all the lying starts. They need cover stories, etc.

The celebrity/Jack signing autograph’s thing might explain the cover story… maybe Oceanic just said something like “Oops, we didn’t find all of the bodies after all…” and then claimed that there were six “heroes” who washed ashore on an island (not our island) and survived long enough for rescue. The other castaways that we all know and love might have just been left behind because they couldn’t explain all of them “coming back to life.”

I really wonder what Michael’s story was if/when he was found. Do you think it’s true that he wouldn’t tell people what happened on the island because of what he did to get off? Or do you think he’d admit to everything in hopes that extenuating circumstances were enough to keep him out of trouble?

Maybe the freighter found them because Michael told them where to go? Either way, if tonight’s episode is about the people on that freighter, I suspect we’ll get that answer.

Let’s play a game. Winner gets to donate to my wedding fund. Complete this sentence from this week’s preview: “You want to know why we’re here? I’ll tell you why we’re here…”

My guess: “…we’re here to pay back what they did to the rest of the Dharma Initiative!” They can finally see the island, and will hold Ben responsible for his little purge.

Then again, if that’s the case… who is making the food drops?

::headache::

More tomorrow!