Thursday, April 30, 2009

The Variable

The 100th episode did not disappoint! Though it made my brain hurt and kept me thinking into the wee hours of the night . . .

I’m going to try not to recap but rather stick to a few key items:

1. The first thing that came into my mind this morning when I woke up was “WHERE THE HELL ARE ROSE AND BERNARD?” I do not think it is just the producers being lazy; I think there is a very significant reason that we have not seen these two since the first episode. Are they in a different time period? I’ve seen some theories out there on the web that they are the Adam and Eve skeletons found in the cave . . . but I think this is definitely something we need to keep asking as the season creeps closer to the end.

2. Most F*ed Up Moment: Daniel is killed by his mother – twice, basically. She kills him and then she sends him back to the island to be killed again. You have to be one dedicated B to do that!

3. Sawyer and Juliet or Des and Penny? Which is the best couple ever?

4. We now know why Daniel was crying in last season’s premiere (although he doesn’t) and we also know what he was doing in this season’s premiere.

5. The Constant Theory –
a. building the Swan unleashes electromagnetic energy
b. button pushed for years to keep the energy at bay
c. Des fails to push the button
d. O 815 crashes
d. Freighter arrives w/ D, M, and C
e. C dies, leaving D heartbroken
f. D goes to Ann Arbor
g. D returns to be killed (of course, this is not why he thinks he has returned)

6. The Variable Theory –
a. Stop the Swan from being built
b. Energy never released
c. O 815 never crashes
d. Charlotte never dies . . .

7. HOLY CRAP MOMENT #1: Daniel tells Chang the truth . . . do you think Chang secretly believes him?

8. HOLY CRAP MOMENT #2: Charles reveals that he is Daniel’s father!

9. Best Sawyer Nicknames of the Night: “Twitchy,” “HG Wells,” and “The Iagos”

10. No, I do not think Sawyer still has a thing for Kate even though he called her “Freckles” and peeved Juliet.

11. Speaking of Kate (vomit in mouth), it kind of seems that she and Jack are through.

12. When I saw Desmond, all I could think was “Groper!”

13. HOLY CRAPPIEST MOMENT: Ellie shoots Daniel . . . GD!

14. Didn’t Daniel realize that he was a constant when he spoke to Charlotte and made her cry? She told him he did that!!!!!!

So it all seems to come down to Fate versus Free Will . . . once again. Do you think they can change the course of the events? Do you think they should? Do you think Sawyer, Juliet, and Miles will try to stop them?

WHERE ARE YOU, ROSE AND BERNARD? WHAT ABOUT YOU, CLAIRE?

3 comments:

SinD said...

Maybe Jack is a variable and he can save Daniel.
I don't think that they will change things so that the whole experience never happens. I definitely think that if Locke finds out what they're trying to do, he'll do anything he can to stop them.

EW said...

The more interesting questions revolve around the shades of gray of so many characters. How will the web unweave and whose "side" is everyone on, from the puppeteers (widmore, dan's mom), to the folks on the island who are going to create a third entity (the hostiles, dharma and now the beachies again).

Lohrmanns said...

I am so confused again-I still don't get why Daniel was crying; does he know he is going to die or that he has something to do with the plane crashing? Does he really die? (Looked pretty "fixed and dilated" to me).

I had a feeling Widmore was Daniel's father. Miles lives, so maybe his father did take people off of the island?

There has to be something more with the island then an electomagnetic force - what about how it cures people (Rose, Locke), dead people walking around (Claire, Christian, Horace). "the smoke monster," the never-aging Richard? Widmore and Ellie may have been after the power source, but I think Ben and Locke are after the "supernatural force."