Moving Cabin

Hello Lost viewers,

After a dizzying, troubling week, I am relieved to be able to sit down and share a few Lost thoughts with all of you. So, I present to you my thoughts on the Cabin Fever episode of Lost.

Spoilers ahead.

As usual, I prefer to start with the Widmore-Ben war and how the mythology plays out over the course of years. It seems, Dharma and the Hostiles were at odds when Ben first arrived on the island. On one side, there was Horace Goodspeed, who worked for Dharma, and apparently built a cabin in the woods. He was a mathematician or something and he recruited Roger Linus to the island with no clear sinister (or hidden) objective. Ben was a tag along. At the same time, Richard Alpert, an ageless wonder, was a doctor/scientist/school teacher, who was trying to acquire gifted youth, John Locke for many years to his "Portland" based science camp called Mittelos, an anagram for time lost, for those of you new the show.

So, Alpert, who was apparently in the group that opposes Goodspeed tried to recruit Locke in the 50's and early 70's. Then, around 2000, when Locke began to despair, he was visited by Abaddon, who currently works for Widmore (not the hostiles or Alpert presumably, and possibly even works for the remnants of the Dharma Initiative) and was told to go on the walkabout, that leads John to the island (oh and John owes Abaddon a favor). Abaddon is much more than an orderly, he's also an Oceanic lawyer and a military strategist of sorts. Okay, so Alpert, who was one of the hostiles, possibly even their leader, wants John on the island (and later helped John kill his father to take command of the island folk). Alpert, in the current time, works for/reports to Ben. Then, Abaddon wants John on the island, and he may be working for Widmore. Then, to make matters more confusing, Goodspeed's ghost, who used to work for Dharma, now wants John to find Jacob.

So, all three groups at some point are pointing John to the same point, to finding Jacob (and possibly becoming Jacob?). The only thing that helps all of this make sense is Ben. Ben is consistently for keeping power for himself, which means hindering John from taking power. He's tried mental approaches, trying to make John kill his estranged passed, trying mental approaches, trying to deter John's self-confidence, and he's tried physical approaches, shooting John in the kidney-hole.

But, John was not ready for his ascendancy until the crash. Ben has in the meanwhile rose to power with his own specialness, and strives to keep that power. In his revelation that it was not his decision to purge Dharma, he revealed that he was no always in charge. In fact, since he's been in charge, it seems that the hostiles have made efforts to keep John away from the cabin (save for the sneaky sneaky efforts of Alpert) and now, it seems Dharma people and Widmore people are trying to get John to the island.

More and more, it seems Widmore is ahead of the game now, knowing where Ben is going to be after Keamy fails to extract him at the barracks. Widmore is apparently a very smart man, and likely has some of the island future telling magic that Ben seems to have lost.

John, the star of this week's episode, now seems back to accepting his role as superhero. It turns out he's special because he was born around the 6 month mark like Ben was (someone check Walt's medical history) and of course, that is the death knell for island pregnancies. But, John is special and because he's special, he gets to go see Christian Shepard and his daughter Claire in Jacob or Horace's cabin. John can find the cabin, he can go into the cabin, and he can move the island. Wait... what? Yep, that's absurd, or is it? Yes, it's absurd. Can he move the island spacially to connect with the other island that Ben imprisoned Ben on? What good would that do? Could it mean move the island on the time line, so that the island loses a day or something? It's very possible in this Lost world that centers around some sort of rift in the space-time continuum that some people like Ben and Widmore (and Jacob?) are able to exploit to know things about the future.

For example, Richard Alpert has some sort of eternal youth (or he's a ghost like everyone else seems to be, e.g.s Christian, Claire, Horace, Charlie, Echo's brother). Also, Alpert showed up and asked little John (the show called him that, not me, after the Robin Hood character of huge stature) to tell him what already belonged to him. Unfortunately for John and Alpert, John wasn't ready, either psychicly (meaning he couldn't read the future yet because he didn't understand his purpose, didn't have flashbacks, conscience time travel, or whatever yet) or because he wasn't psychologically ready for being special. Ben was refused his first time too.

Also, the Island is already moving in time. I'm not sure what I mean, but that's what the show does to me. I never exactly know what I mean. But, a good example of this is that the Islanders see a dead body and contact the ship, who correctly answer them, that the dead body of the doctor is alive and well. Hours later, after Sayid went to rescue the others following the proper bearings, and when he arrives, the body has already been there for quite some time. Entry to the island seems to be a space time rift, and changing the bearings, will likely move the island sufficiently to mess with the coordinates and with my head.

I want to note that they show various things that "belong to" Locke when he's a kid, as he's growing up and then actually owns them.

Doc Jensen proposed the idea of Ben as the island's back-up plan, which warrants further consideration, but not enough for me to delve into the theory.

My buddy from www.melanism.com suggested that Locke is going to switch the bearings after the Oceanic 6 get off the island, so they can't go back and find the island. That sounds about right to me, but I don't want to get too deep into that idea because it's not my idea and he should get credit for it, should the idea land him some sort of prize money. That is unless, the prize is something related to Lost, then, it was actually my idea. Nah, I can't even fake having an idea that is close to accurate. I saw this website where Lindeloff and Cuse (the 2 main writers) respond and grade various theories posited by write in emails. I tried to grade them too, and each theory that they thought was excellent, well-crafted and close to the truth- I guessed was ridiculous. And vice versa. So, I am not on the same page as these writers, so I trust other people's opinions more than my own.

Also, how's that for some lazy blogging, just using other people's ideas. I like it. Are there rules, saying I can't do that?

No one tells me what I can't do,
ME PB