Lost Update - I Am A Believer

Lost Update - Season V - 01/22/2009

I'm A Believer
Then I saw her face,
Now I'm a believer,
Not a trace of doubt in my mind.
I'm in love, I'm a believer!
I couldn't leave her if I tried.

Season five of LOST opened with a close up of an alarm clock showing the time at 8:14, which of course is two of the famous and mysterious LOST numbers. The next instant, it flipped to 8:15 and season five was in full stride. No close up eyeball this time.

The sky flashed, a bright white light, disorientation, and Oceanic's crashed plane is no longer on the beach. The entire camp is gone. Daniel Faraday, resident egghead, states that the island is dislodged in time. Does this sound familiar? Of course it does. It smacks right into my theory.

Just what is my theory….. I told you in the past, and also the future. Now it's time for the present.

Although it appears the survivors of Oceanic flight 815 are on a tropical island, they are being deceived. There is no island. The survivors are in a virtual reality laboratory. All the castaways are interconnected to one another sharing each others thoughts, memories, and feelings. While in this virtual reality laboratory, a battery of physical and mental experiments are performed on them. And who is running these experiments? As Juliet stated, the Aliens of course.

In the Lost pilot, Jack muttered, "How did we get here." He also said it last night when talking to Ben as they were taking Locke out of the funeral home. What is the significance of this. Plenty Lost fans. Plenty.

I was watching my son play Xbox 360 the other night. The game he was playing was Left 4 Dead. After he played for awhile, going from level to level, his power energy went low and he lost the game. I then noticed he simply reset the game, changed the parameters of the game, from easy to medium to hard and also changed the characters in the game. Patrick (My son) had to start from scratch. He had to retrieve new guns, new medicines, and supplies and start from the beginning.

That is exactly what happened on Lost last night. The virtual reality experiment was reset. The parameters of the experiment were reset. The characters were reset. Ready to begin anew. The camp and all the possessions were gone. The supplies were gone. The guns were gone. Even new characters were introduced. Now, everyone gets another chance to play the game. To get it right this time.

I noticed last night that the parameters of the show have changed. Personalities have changed. Wouldn't it be a kick if when they all reunited on the island that each persons role changed.

As in Jack, instead of the doctor and a take charge hero in season one, is now Charlie, the drug addict. Remember what Ben told Jack when he left the hotel room. He told Jack to pack a suitcase and fill it with everything he needs and can't live without because he will not be coming back. What do you want to bet he packs a suitcase full of his pills. Just like Charlie.

Or Sawyer, the grifter and con man now turns into the hero and leader. At the beginning, Sawyer was out for himself. He horded the guns, food, medicine. In season five, he takes charge of the castaways after the flash of light, (Reset) and has become the new leader. And tell me if I'm wrong here, but Sawyer and Juliet have a heavy vibe going on.

Or, Sun the battered wife fleeing her husband to start a new life will become the strong independent on the island, possibly even a murderer, taking the role played by Kate.

Speaking of Kate. She becomes the docile type. Protector of her child.

And the kicker. Ben Linus, the feared (Other) the mean bastard out to kill all the castaways before, now turns into the good guy.

What about Locke? John Locke has two paths. A wild card for sure. He either stays constant, much like Richard Alpert, or he assumes the role of Ben and slowly turns into a monster.

Continuing with the virtual reality reset theory. Perhaps all the virtual reality scenario's (Experiments) are running simultaneously and are intersecting with one another. Files corrupted, wires crossed. Hence, Richard coming to Locke in the past after he was shot and giving him what he needs. Or Ethan finding Locke. Or Desmond still in the hatch. Or the castaways seeing the hatch blown to smithereens and the next moment the hatch is still intact. Or the time flashing from daytime to nighttime and back again. When that happens, what do you do? That's right! Reset the game.

Season five has reset the game for the Lost survivors. In this new virtual reality experiment, (Game) lets see who becomes the alpha, the good, the evil, the love interests, and the challenges.

Tidbits to watch unfold in season five.

We learn a little about the old fashioned movies found in the Dharma stations. Dr. Marvin Kandell (Candle) lives on the island. The reason he is there. To harness an unlimited energy source that can manipulate time.

Sayid warns Hurley, "Whatever Ben says for you to do, do the opposite. Ben always lies. Now thats a constant.

Ana Lucia, kicked off the show a season ago for being arrested for DUI, interacts with Hurley. She is dressed as a cop and gives Hurley some good advice. "Stay away from the police and don't get arrested." That was a great pun.

Daniel Faraday tells Sawyer that no matter how hard they try, they cannot change the events of the past or future. And then what does he do, he changes events by contacting Desmond.

Soldiers capture sawyer and Juliet. His name tag says Jones. He asks Sawyer and Kate, "What are you doing on our island."

I must say whoever believes that my theory is far fetched, replay what Hurley told his mother last night. (The plane crashed, we survived. Then a smoke monster attacked us. And a polar bear. And dead people walking around. And then the others tried to kill us. But we killed them, and then joined up with them to fight some others. And then the chopper landed and tried to fly us to the freighter that found us, but the freighter blew up and we returned to the island, but the island disappeared and Sayid killed a lot of people for Ben, and now we have to go back.) Virtual reality doesn't sound to far fetched now does it?

BTW, Libby Says hello.

Until next week, Get Lost!

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