We welcome to our nutty little public access show Lost executive producer Carlton Cuse. Fresh off his big-time appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live this past week, he graciously stopped by our cardboard-and-milk crates set to drop off this quick-and-coy preview of tonight's spooky-looking Locke-focused outing, titled ''Cabin Fever'':
''Nothing like a good jungle trek to give Locke and Ben a chance to discuss the notion of fate — and even Jacob weighs in on the topic.''
So it looks like Ben, Locke, and the cowardly lion — er, I mean Hurley — will finally get that Whaddawedonow? meeting with Jacob, the great and terrible Oz of the Island. Maybe the temporally challenged hillbilly will explain why his haunted shack keeps wandering away like a lollipop-dazzled child at a theme park. Maybe the petulant poltergeist will explain why the ghost of Christian Shephard was rocking in his chair in the season premiere. Hell, maybe Jacob will explain just who the Boone Hill he is — or THINKS he is. While we wonder and wait, here's some helpful info and useful context for tonight's episode — plus some to iron-clad, gotta-be-right theories!*
*Expiration date on my conviction: exactly 10:01:01 p.m. tonight.
DOC JENSEN'S GUIDELINES FOR GHOSTLINESS
Claire is dead? Charlie hangs with Hurley? Christian can cradle Aaron? WTH?! A metaphysical manifesto for defining — and debunking — undeadness on an Island lousy with apparent apparitions:
1. The Island is a place where mind can manipulate matter.
2. It is possible for a disembodied mind with a strong will to live to create a body for itself.
3. More often, however, Island ''ghosts'' are merely external byproducts of acute castaway/survivor psychology.
4. Regardless, these constructs are fundamentally incomplete because they lack souls.
EXAMPLES:
1. Pseudo Christian exists because Jack's survival demands it; his sense of self as savior/fixer/hero is shaped by his relationship to his father, and more to the point, it is continuously reinforced by his ongoing internal struggle with his daddy issues.
2. Claire died in the attack on her cabin, but Pseudo Claire exists either because her disembodied mind had a strong will to live — or because Baby Aaron needs her for his own survival. Nursing, you know.
3. Locke died in the plane crash, but his mind created a new body, though his soul is trapped in Jacob's cabin, because LOCKE IS JACOB. Maybe.
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35 Comments:
According to this, if i've understood right, Rose and Jin are dead too. since Rose's cancer and Jin's sperm count got cured???
Wait, wait. I think I missed something. Is this his theory or is it really true and Claire AND Locke are dead?
I think it's just his theory, but one thing that doesnt make sense is... so just because lock can walk again, it means he's dead?? what about the rest who got cured?
WOW... just WOW!
Now I can't wait for tonight's episode!!!!!!!!
this epi gotta be good!!!
I don't like his theories!
Im not quite sure I get this......I hope its wrong though, I dont want Locke to be dead. :(
Kind of interesting take on everything. The powers that be have come straight out and said that Lost is not "aliens and spaceships." I think I remember a podcast from last year where they said that ABC forbade them from going too far into sci-fi... No need for another X-Files!
However, if Lost is a big shaggy dog of a GHOST story... that would be something new!
Basically, this is the classic ghost story already. Someone meets a ghost in a remote, desolate place. They think the ghost is a real person until... something extraordinary happens!
We're beginning to "reach" out pretty far in Lost land. If Clair is NOT dead, the "island" protected her. There's no way she could have survived that explosion, and come out of it like she was "communing" with Charlie?
And the way Ghostbusting Miles kept looking at her? And he also saw Christian?
Also a bit far reaching was in Juliet's expsode when Harper just appeared out of no where in a "vision set-up moment" complete with rain and whispers in the middle of the jungle in the dark.
Does Juliet have a GPS implanted in her? Sorry, but unless that is explained further in some way, I can't believe Darlton said she was really there. We need more answers.
However, a ghost is never the less a manifestation or a vision to me. Seems we need more answers and soon!
I think Doc Jensen needs to get back on his meds. These theories make no sense and could never be communicated to the general audience. JMO, of course.
Not only does he change his theories every week, but he still can't spell Shephard.
Basically, this is just a variation on the purgatory theory that's been around since the beginning of the show. As Christian keeps telling Jack, you have to "let it go." The Underworld/Afterlife clues have been all over this show from the pilot episode.
I just had a thought. What if the Oceanic 6 are the only ones to leave because they physically are the only ones that CAN leave. If Doc's theory is right, then these island constructs can't leave the island, they only exist there. I'm right! Mark the time...boo yah!
Along this same line, you guys should check out my "eternal" theory on my brand new Lost blog. Let me know what you think, I think my first crack at a theory holds some weight. Thanks.
http://my-lost-theories.blogspot.com/
ok i dont buy it (claire and locke being dead) i do however as i said many, many post ago think that locke is john jacob locke or jacob john locke (whatever u prefer) when ben told locke in TSTC he needed him to survive this attack it fueled that therory even more so for me. if he is jacob we shouldnt be able to see him or he shouldnt come in contact with locke (think orchid video and the two rabbits) but he did "HELP ME" . as for claire, i dont think shes dead i think she has sum ghost (charlie, christian)watching over her thats why miles is so interested in her. hell he minght even be hearing these ghost or the island telling him how imporant aaron is. thats y he so interested in them both. miles abilities were choosen for a reason and that works for me. and im still saying jack is in the coffin!!!
jackseye- I agree with you 100%. especially since the profile of jacob we saw last season looked like Terry O'Quinn...
What if the Oceanic 6 are the only ones to leave because they physically are the only ones that CAN leave.
Then the reason they have to go back is because they're supposed to die.
I'm not sure where this would leave Ji Yeon, who never should've existed in the first place.
thanks n/a!!!
also on side note i think christian is appering to claire now because jack has lost his way . ghost dad has given up on him so now he other alternative is claire therfore guiding he to the cabin, i would not be surprised if the cabin is in close proxcimity to the caves. and another thought is what if dear old dad was leading jack to adam and eve in white rabbit and it just so happend to be where his coffin was and a source of water.
whoa, whoa, whoa! hold the freaking phone. this is dumb. and a distraction.
claire not dying in the cabin explosion makes as much sense as michael surviving that car. or not being able to die at all, for that matter. sawyer recovered from his little gun wound quite nicely. so the whole thing about surviving something that one shouldn't is null.
about the plane wreckage: two people have said it's been staged, and thus isn't the actual plane that went down. no alternate reality there.
zombie season at last? magic? dumb, de dumb dumb!
but i'm guessing that's the point, and the real clues are hidden within, right?
I think many more if not most of the people on that plane died and were animated and healed by the island for various reasons. that's why only six can leave.
This is the first time I just had to stop reading Jensen after the first page. His theories are getting so totally out there, so much more complicated than anything the Lost writers are likely to come up with. Locke is not dead. Locke is not Jacob. I am pretty open-minded about the "Claire is a ghost" thing because Miles has been acting so strangely around her and because there have been some other slightly creepy clues, but there has never been any evidence that Locke is really dead, until perhaps the sneak peeks for this episode. Basing such an all-reaching theory on that (and on some literary references that I'm sure no one on the production team is aware of) may be a blast for Jensen, but to me it feels more and more like a waste of a good brain.
Richard Alpert and Tim Leary, indeed. Jeff: PUT DOWN THE BONG!
I think he moved on from the bong a long time ago Surly, it just wasn't doing it for him anymore ;)
Doc Jensen is an idiot and completely out of it. The idea of practically half the main cast being ghosts is so ridiculus that it's laugable.
besides, haven't all these theories bene debunked by D&C?
no one's talking about real ghosts...simply that the island is creating, healing, animating, whatever...the dead. albeit without souls...
best theory I've heard in a long time.
...it explains why so many survived the crash. they're only alive because the island healed them.
"What if the Oceanic 6 are the only ones to leave because they physically are the only ones that CAN leave."
I have thought this too because think about it...who leaves? Jack, Kate, Hurley, Sayid, Sun, Aaron. I can't explain Aaron, but the others were AWAY from the big purple sky desmond explosion.
Jack, Kate, Hurley (and Sawyer) were all on the Others' dock...and Sun and Sayid (and Jin) were all out to sea on the sailboat.
What if it has something to do with your proximity to that explosion as to whether or not you can leave?
ok i'm not buying these theories from doc jensen, but still it led me to think of this :
a few days ago, a poll was asking "who has changed the most?" and the results were sawyer, locke and jin. what a coincidence, they also are the ones staying on the island (not the only ones, but still).
when you think about it, jack hasn't really changed, he's got the same issues (as shown in SNBH), the same for kate, she hasn't really amended herself and pleaded not guilty at her trial, sayid... well, sayid's the same old torturer, killer (and it's not a critic, everyone like him this way), hurley has evolved but looking at the flashforwards he's back in the same state he used to be...
again... what a coincidence, the ones leaving are the ones who haven't really "let it go"!!
i don't know about sun and aaron. i'm guessing sun only left because of the baby and to avoid... well, dying!! and aaron might be the key for everything and the reason jack calls kate to tell her "they have to go back", because there's a link between the little turnip head and the island.
bottom line is, maybe the O6 are the ones who haven't communed with the island yet, the ones who haven't let it go.
this is not a theory of mine, it's just something i thought of reading doc jensen's painful tease.
what do you all think ?
mandy - true, that is also a possibility
has anbody solved doc artz puzzel?can we a post over here dark?
If Locke doesn't have a soul, I'm a monkey's uncle. He may be confused, but he's not THAT confused!
being confused and having no soul have nothing to do with each other.
n/a: Jensen is talking about real ghosts. Of people who really died. And I would imagine people without souls can be a little indecisive.
I'm not buying into this schlock, but the producers are always joking about a "Zombie Season". What if there is more to their joke than meets the eye?
Too much woo.