The Sci Fi Guy

[Warning: Spoiler-ridden... If you want to watch the episode online visit ABC.com and click "Watch Episodes"] So episode 9 of our 16-episode broken-in-half Lost Season 4 is titled, “The Shape of Things to Come”, and I gotta say there’s plenty to chew on for this one. The flash-forward this time around features Ben himself – lost in the African desert. He lands there with a parka on, and appears to be a little confused as to where he is. I’ll be honest, this is starting to make the “Dark World” theory more and more plausable. Let’s not forget that when we were introduced to the characters that made the landing on the island (from the ship), the woman was digging up Dharma-tagged polar bear skeletons in the middle of the desert as well.

Wha the episode provides is a good look at not only the future that JJ Abrams and company are creating (after all, they’re booked for the rest of this season as well as 2 more on top of that) – a war between Benjamin and Charles Whidmore. For some reason they cannot kill each other (or won’t for some strange reason), but towards the end of the episode Ben makes a chilling statement to Charles that Penny, Desmond’s love and Charles’ child, will be the target of Ben’s revenge for the death of his own (not-entirely his) daughter.

Now that we’re starting to integrate the flash-forwards a little better – I’m starting to get that classic “answers-are-giving-me-questions” thing that Lost is so good at creating. First and foremost (and perhaps the key to this entire thing) is who does Jack visit in the funeral home at the end of Season 3? I was swearing up and down that it’s Benjamin, but now that’s not so clear. It can’t be his father ’cause dad’s already dead. It must be someone that has some sort of knowledge of where the island is, and pissed Kate off (pretty sure that still leaves Sawyer out of the picture). I’ve got friends that are saying it’s John Locke… Could be? He’s got no family, really no attatchments, but his death as an Oceanic survivor would be important enough for at least someone to show up. So… Who’s death makes enough news to get in to the LA Times, but is so unpopular that nobody attends the funeral?

As always, more questions, even with the answers. I hate to say it, but that outrageous “Dark-World” theory is starting to honestly sound more and more believable. Stay tuned.

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