LOST Episode 5×06 “316″ - Easter Eggs, Screencaps, Audio, and Analysis

Another great episode this week. For me, it wasn’t quite as spectacular as last week, but great it it’s own right. Highlights:

• They’re baaaaccccckkkkk!  Thankfully Darlton didn’t make it a season long trek back to the island. I like the way this storyline was handled, with the exception of finding out right away at the beginning of the episode that they had made it back. It took a bit of suspense out of the rest of the episode for me. Despite that minor grievance, the story arc back to the island was fairly quick and didn’t drag on. Yet, we were left with enough unanswered questions surrounding some of the O6’s motivation that we’ll still be looking forward to these details being filled in. For instance, who tipped off Hurley?  What’s the deal with Sayid?  What did Kate do with Aaron?
• I liked the parallels between the first trip to the island and this redux.  Hawking encouraged this, as the results become “unpredictable” the less familiar the return trip conditions are.  What was interesting was that it appeared some of the roles changed this time around.  Ben played the role of Hurley feverishly trying to make the flight.  Hurley toted the guitar a la Charlie.  Sayid filled the convict role as he appeared to have an escort with him.  Then once Jack was back on the island, the similarities to the pilot episode were blatant.  See our comparison screen shots below.
• I loved the mythology piece with Hawking. We finally got some answers surrounding why the island can’t be found easily. We got our first off-island DHARMA station, the Lamp Post, which uses electromagnetic energy to predict the comings and goings of the island.  It will be cool to see some of the other locations around the world that are connected via similar electromagnetic energy.  It would seem Tunisia is one while Uluru may be another.  And by the way, who’s the “fellow” that concocted this station in the first place?  A guess…Faraday.  Not sure the logistics make sense for that, but that’s who popped into my mind right away.
• Seeing Linus showered in blood on the pay phone at the marina brought on a sense of dread.  The groundwork is laid for a confrontation between Des / Penny and Ben.  If you recall, Ben told Jack that he made a promise to an old friend and that he had a loose end to tie up.  That old friend just may be Charles Widmore and that promise just may be to kill Penny after Widmore changed the rules and allowed Alex to be executed.  You could argue that the marina would be a likely spot to find Des and Penny, seeing how they live on a boat, but logistically,the path from England doesn’t conveniently end in California.  I’m very worried for Penny right now.
• I loved the “leap of faith” comment from Hawking to Jack as Locke had uttered those same word’s in Season 2’s Man of Science, Man of Faith.
• It seems like we need to be focused on the concepts of Resurrection and Reincarnation.  Ben elaborated on Jesus’ resurrection to Jack and how everyone is convinced eventually.  These concepts are in play as we find out what happens to Locke as his body returns to the island.
• Oh, so that’s why Christian had white shoes…
• Was Locke basically blaming Jack for him having to die?  It sure seemed like it.  Essentially he was saying that he wouldn’t have needed to die if Jack and others had never left the island, which Locke had told them that they weren’t supposed to.
• Jin appears to be entrenched into the Dharma Intiative as was Faraday as we saw earlier this season.  My hunch is that everyone is going to be stuck in that time frame right now and will have to work to be able to get…back to the future.

Here’s a comparison of Jack at beginning of the pilot episode and upon his return to the island in this episode…

Pilot:

 

This episode:

 

Check out our favorite easter eggs from the episode:              (thanks to Lostpedia.com for the Dharma logos)

 

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