This is a short scene from the next episode, featuring Sideways Locke. It shows the Sideways version of something that happened in one of the most memorable LOST episodes ever. Very exciting!
It’s somewhat spoiler-ish, so don’t watch if you want to stay completely unspoiled. Otherwise, enjoy!
Dogen: We believe he has been (says something in Japanese).
Lennon: Closest translation is “claimed.”
Jack: Claimed. By what?
Dogen: There’s a darkness growing in him. And once it reaches his heart, everything your friend once was will be gone.
Jack: How can you be sure?
Dogen: Because it happened to your sister
If Claire was claimed, and Sayid is in the process of being claimed, then how do we explain Locke and notLocke? Claire and Sayid appear to have one body each, but Locke/notLocke have two.
If, say, notLocke is the claimed version of Locke, then who or what was the body in the box in the Season 5 finale? Why does Locke get an extra body, when no one else does? Is it because Locke really is, as he had long hoped, special? Or is it that the transformation/doubling of Locke was something different from the transformation of Claire and (potentially) Sayid?
My favorite scene in “What Kate Does” was when Sawyer said it was his fault that Juliet died — “I made her stay on this Island because I didn’t want to be alone.”
Josh Holloway was completely convincing and very moving in this scene. It reminded me that it was his acting skill, in large part, that had made the Sawyer-Juliet love story the best love story of the show.
I’m back on the West Coast this week, so I will be watching it late.
Meanwhile, I leave you with a poll. As I remain unspoiled (except for the brief sneak peeks), I tried to pick general questions that will apply no matter what might happen in the episode — but if they show us that Sayid is really Frogurt, all bets are off.
In this video podcast, Damon, Carlton, Matthew Fox (Jack), Terry O’Quinn (Locke and notLocke), Jorge Garcia (Hurley), and Josh Holloway (Sawyer) talk about the sideways flashes and about some of the large questions of the season.
The most interesting things said on the video:
On the timelines
Carlton said the two timelines are related, and the way in which they are related is one of the big mysteries of this season.
On good versus evil
Damon said that it’s all about good versus evil, and we will have to decide if Jacob is the good guy and the Man in Black the bad guy, or if they have done a “switcheroo.” Both Jacob and the MiB are going to get a chance to make their case.
Carlton echoed that it comes down to good versus evil.
My theory had been that the show wasn’t going to draw clear lines between good characters and evil characters, but instead show something more ambiguous, with characters who were neither totally good nor totally bad, but instead a mixture of both. Going from what Darlton said here, it appears that may not be the case.