Bernard

Tonight’s LOST episode is called “S.O.S” and this is the official description:

Spoiler

Rose is surprisingly and vehemently opposed to Bernard’s plan to create an S.O.S. signal; romantic sparks are rekindled between Jack and Kate when they trek into the jungle to propose a “trade” with “The Others”; and Locke begins to question his faith in the island.

Thoughts and Ideas

First of all, sorry for the delay and sorry for not posting much lately. Another project has kept me very busy during the last few weeks, but things are calming down so I should be able to write posts on a regular basis again now.

Contrary to most of you, I didn’t find the LOST episode “S.O.S” to be that exciting. I really enjoyed last weeks’s episode “Dave” but this one just felt a bit empty. Nevertheless, we finally got a Rose and Bernard flashback, Jack and Kate started to get close again and Michael came back!

The most interesting part of the Rose/Bernard story in my opinion was that we learned that Rose has (or had) a terminal illness which seems to have been cured by the island. Isaac, the healer also told Rose that he healed people through energy. Energy which “perhaps is geological, magnetic.. or perhaps it’s something else”.

This immediately got me thinking of hatch (possibly containing a large electro-magnet) and the island’s electromagnetism. As you may remember, Dr.Marvin Candle said the following about The Swan station in the orientation film:

“…a laboratory where Dharma researchers could work to understand the unique electromagnetic fluctuations emanating from that sector of the island.”

My guess is that it is this “unique electromagnetism” that is responsible for curing both Rose’s illness and healing Locke’s legs.

Besides from that, we also found out that Rose and Bernard decided to never leave the island. They are however not the only characters who have such thoughts, as both Locke and Walt have previously said that they like it on the island.

Speaking of Walt. “Fake Henry”, or Michael Emerson as the actor’s real name is gave a wonderful performance by hardly saying a word in this LOST episode. When he did open his mouth, he confirmed one of my central theories about LOST by telling Jack that “He (the leader of the Others?) will never give you Walt”.

As I interpret this, Henry knows that Walt is of great importance. Probably because of the psychokinetic powers he appears to have. Could it be that Walt is the single most important character on Lost? We will just have to wait and see, but now that Michael is back, everything is set for a row of very exciting episodes to finish the second season of LOST.

I am almost willing to bet that we will see Walt before the end of this season.

- Andreas

One of the many questions that have circulated on the net after last night’s LOST episode “The Whole Truth” is, did Sawyer and Bernard speak Korean when telling Jin about Sun’s pregnancy?

The answer to that question is, no. They where speaking backwards.
This is what they really said:

Sawyer: Keep it down there Susie, I don’t think Jin Senior here knows yet.
Bernard: Well, how do you know?
Sawyer: I got my sources.
Bernard: Aren’t you gonna tell him?
Sawyer: Not my place.
Bernard: Well.. you should tell him.
Sawyer: Hell no! Let Sunshine tell him.

You can listen to my reversed and re-ordered version of the conversation
here. Feel free to share it with others, but in that case please save it to your own server or link to this post and not directly to the file.

I believe their voices where played backwards simply to show us how Jin feels, not understanding what the others say. Nevertheless, in a show as mysterious as LOST, it’s nice to have as much solid facts as possible.

I just updated the “The Whole Truth” post with my thoughts and ideas, check it out.