!WTF?

noreply@blogger.com ([)etermined (-)bserver) — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 17:54:00 +0000

Time to take it to the next level!

WTF?! Why Did the Island Let Jacob Die?

noreply@blogger.com ([)etermined (-)bserver) — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:01:00 +0000

So, why Did the Island Let Jacob Die?!

Every Lost fan shoulda wondered this!
So did the bullet bounce off your head...The Island isn't through with you
yet, Michael... you still have work to do ~Mr. Friendly [Meet Kevin
Johnson]

Why did the island let Jacob die?
Who is 'Coming' then, since all of Jacob's "work" is done?
Ominous isnt' it. It is a known Lost fact that the island doesn't let you die; in any place in the world, in any time period if it is Not done With You. But, this is complicated by the preponderance of who was Christian working for because he's the one who told Michael that it was now time for him to go. But, it was Mr. Friendly an Other and part of Jacob's team that told him he wouldn't be um, 'released' until the island was done.
Are there really any sides. Only an island that plays both sides.

Trying web upload for Level 26

noreply@blogger.com ([)etermined (-)bserver) — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:02:00 +0000

WTF?! RSS Feed Display -- idk Xmas n July

noreply@blogger.com ([)etermined (-)bserver) — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:24:00 +0000

Naw, really. I've been fighting with this blasted rss feed for 2 long. It's seasonal, it's the end of July. Can some1 change to a Birthday Cake for my Sis? :~)

Hey at least it isn't a snowy christmas scene!

Grown and Going Digital

noreply@blogger.com ([)etermined (-)bserver) — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 18:58:00 +0000

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LOST - WTF- WHEN THEORY FITS

noreply@blogger.com ([)etermined (-)bserver) — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:42:00 +0000

LOST: WHEN THEORY FITS

Why Desmond has a Constant but is really the Variable
Why Daniel acted as the Constant in the episode The Variable?
Why MIB-uBerLocke is Not Esau?
(Because that would make Jacob, 'Jacob') what is the Symbolic meaning of his name?
Why, because he 'Touched' people, what's up with that?!

eCigs: Getting Started with eCigarettes

noreply@blogger.com ([)etermined (-)bserver) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:37:00 +0000

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There are also 'pen-style' eCigs and eCigars: Stay Posted for recommendations on those, eCigarette cases and eCig 'Packs' that charge your eCig while your on the go...

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Grown and Going Digital

noreply@blogger.com ([)etermined (-)bserver) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:13:00 +0000

In a former rant on one of these blogs, I talked about how simple it would be to have a Grown Folk Start Up Guide for some of these electronics we grown folk are or were starting to try out...

They are fun,
once you get to know them - which takes Forever.

Please understand that as we progress through life's phases things change. When I was my son's age, there were NO microwaves, cellular phones, VCRs, digital cameras, and computers were so cryptic that it was a feat that I could make almost anyone say 'Hello World'. But, when I was born, PCs did not exist...

New Show: NOVA scienceNow

noreply@blogger.com ([)etermined (-)bserver) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:57:00 +0000

Yes, just checked out NOVA scienceNow and it was the bomb...

I Love It! All those years of science in grade school; and the most exciting thing was that what Sally thought was H2O was H2SO4 or something and now she is 'no more'.

no what I just saw was SCIENCE;

Luis von Ahn was the bomb, too! I am truly impressed by a mind 'at work' and he is working it out.

More later; just wanted to capture the moment because I will definitely be checking this one out some more...

Oh, u didn't know I was so geeky? Yes, and also an amateur philosopher, tried graduate psychology for a minute, and am an endless list of confusing paradoxes.

I'm also a mom, single and pushing very close to 40. I'm shy and confident; or is that just brash and impulsive. Either way, I'm pretty popular to be so socially awkward.

Anyway, just the intro that should have come off-the-rip. Was just too shy to really come out and say it.

But, as 40 pushes in...
things just keep coming out of my mouth amongst other transitional changes starting

The bad part, my son is 11 and is having a similar phase as he is starting puberty. The things and choices that can come out of this otherwise wise and mature kid?!

Anyway, I chose to finally set up a blog for solo parents. Maybe there are others out there like me trying to feel their way through.

Maybe others who find that they are the counselor and can't find someone to try to figure their 'stuff' out with. So, be sure to check out me out in the soloparent hood over at SoloparentHood.blogspot.com
that's probably more appropriate for these thoughts

Coming Soon: Harpers Island and Harpers Globe Updates

noreply@blogger.com ([)etermined (-)bserver) — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:16:00 +0000

Harpers Island Updates Will Be Coming Soon

After tonight's eastern time episode that promises googobs of death;

be sure to pop on over to Harpers Globe...

And Check Back Here for Updates to this Post

Just Getting SoloParenthood.blogspot.com Started

noreply@blogger.com ([)etermined (-)bserver) — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:23:00 +0000

The Latest With Me:

Getting started with...

my new iPhone

so far, I just really want to apply the software feature updates that came out for the new 3G-S phones onto my 8GB 3G. Also fighting with iTunes to get my music and video files converted so I am not shackled to i-anything. Need to play music that I bought on an mp3 playing cell phone arghh!

Tweeting

Trying Tweetboard Alpha's testing. Here goes...

eCigarettes

Yep, even going digital with my vices. Electronic cigarettes or smokeless cigs. It's my first week. Stop by my new blog -- see link below for the Solo Parent Hood...

New Blog

http://SoloParentHood.blogspot.com

waiting on the newest episode of Harpers Island and Harpers Globe and, fooling with a new ARG!

Hello World

noreply@blogger.com ([)etermined (-)bserver) — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:47:00 +0000

This week I am getting to know polls while I get my pages and sites organized.

Try this one for me:

Survey/Poll

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noreply@blogger.com ([)etermined (-)bserver) — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:45:00 +0000

Maternity Leave

noreply@blogger.com ([)etermined (-)bserver) — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:01:00 +0000

A Lot of People Have Been Participating in Summer Rewatches of LOST

I'm just watching my local channel 20 on Sundays

While rewatching Maternity Leave, a few things stuck out that didn't get my attention before...

Sun, "...a mother shouldn't leave her child"
Claire, "...Ethan?!...I want them to take him", and later in this same episode, "...we're supposed to be together, take care of one another"

Mr. Eko, "...I am once again a righteous man...I regret killing them"

Ben, "...I am being held prisoner, and I don't know why"

Each of these moments brings me to another place in the LOST story, as it unfolded for us.

Sun will leave her child to find Jin.

Claire will once again send Aaron away.

Mr. Eko may believe in confessing to God, but will not believe in confessing to deadly, judgmental manifestations of smoke and Yemi.

And, Ben will tell many, many more lies.

Each of these begs the questions:

Will Sun find Jin?

Is Claire an undead manifestation?

Why doesn't Ben realize/know that creepy Alex wasn't Alex? And, why does he get to live after causing her death? Twisted, aye?

And better yet, is all of the lying and denial of choices to folks, the reason why Jacob never wanted to meet him?

Just some food for thought:
Poll: Your Thoughts?

LOST in Color

noreply@blogger.com ([)etermined (-)bserver) — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 23:04:00 +0000

Who's Wearing RED?!
Juliet (was)
Hurley
Richard in the flashback
Ellie also wears a grey scarf (to retrieve Jughead)

Who's wearing Black?
The Black Swans are
Jack
Sun
Miles saves grey shirted Chang
Chang when Dan talks/warns him about Orchid-Swan reaction (Incident)
Radzinski's jumpsuit sounds like he survives but eventually is driven to a gory suicide at a later date; effects?
Sun in 2007

at incident Kate's jumpsuit looks blu and shirt is white
Jack's shirt is black
Chang's shirt is now grey

Grey?
James
uber-Locke, well greyish-green
Chang
Ben is grey and white

white
Dan

My Actual Favorite Episodes -- Who I really Think Should Win The Cup

noreply@blogger.com ([)etermined (-)bserver) — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 22:33:00 +0000

My final thoughts:
TLG Pt 1 and 2
Cabin Fever

what boils down to a Locke vs Ben battle of the 'tale of the origins'

and although another good view of smokey at work in Dead is Dead could not hold up with Flashes Before Your Eyes; which leaves it the hope of Desmond's potential vs. Nemesis discovery of sneaky loopholes and ...smokey's loyalties drawn into question

And again, Desmond's transformation in The Constant to TLDJB's betrayal of in what precedes our knowledge of a very personal feeling loss.

Juliet Will Be Missed

noreply@blogger.com ([)etermined (-)bserver) — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 01:35:00 +0000

Now, that was a woman. Strong inside and out. My Hero.

Things bugging me in addition to Jules' wearing red:

Why didn't uber-Bentham know where Jacob was. If he was being slick then what will he do when he emerges from the shadow of the statue and realizes that everyone knows what's up? Was Jacob the only one protected by the 'rule'? Will he kill Ben too?
Smokey was not seen before 1977?
Team Bram can not be Jacob's only counter-move
The 'incident' will still bring the Oceanic flight to the island...
Why Hurley and Sayid were not supposed to be on that Oceanic flight?
Who is Christian working for?
The War seems like it has already begun. How will the out of place Losties return to their own time?
Will Richard now start to age?
Who or what is/was really behind the Dharma Initiave?
And most importantly, what will I do to entertain myself when LOST ends?

TheDO Predicts LOST

noreply@blogger.com ([)etermined (-)bserver) — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 01:26:00 +0000

The Island spins at variable speeds along the vile vortice network
Jacob vs Nemesis = Alexander the Great and Ptolemy
The dimensional varying environment will be key in our characters success
Once Tarawet falls to pieces, so to do on-isle births
There will not be an actual 'looping'; the multiple dimensions or multiple points in time Always exist just like the Island is Always moving. However it is Not Linear
Kate will finally grow up and she is meant to be with Sawyer
Rose and Bernard may be the latter day adam and eve
Jacob has touched more people than we have seen
I have NO IDEA Who is Coming
Nemesis' plan will backfire
Ben doesn't win in the end; he'll still feel rejected and jealous of uber-Bentham
Walt is really the next leader of the Others
The remaining Oceanic survivors, will return in time to save Sun from uber Bentham
Unfortunately, Ricardo is still wearing a red shirt...

Wouldn't it be funny

to see the look on uber Bentham's face when he realizes that while he was creaming over his 'check mate' move; Jacob was 'outing' him to Ricardo and the Others at that very moment. Meaning Jacob knew nemesis' endgame move all along

If Jacob reincarnated and nemesis still had to deal with him

If they don't get back to 2007 and that's why Sun wasn't supposed to go back

Ben was not supposed to go back because he would kill Jacob

My LOST Jacob-Nemesis Theory

noreply@blogger.com ([)etermined (-)bserver) — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:51:00 +0000

BEST GUESS:

Jacob is the Macedonian Conqueror of the ancient world and founder of Alexandria, Alexander The Great. Perhaps, renamed Jacob.
If not, they have a lot in common. Is this why Alexander's body can not be found?

Nemesis is Ptolemy, original stealer of the body and usurper of the throne of Egypt, builder of the coastal Alexandria. While it may be suspected that Ptolemy's son moved Alexander's remains to Alexandria, perhaps everyone should be looking in the Pacific.

At most their story may parallel since the cult of Alexander was driven underground by the arrival of Christianity. And perhaps their beliefs resulted in his trip through our underworld.

Actually, they just resemble the actors from the NatGeo special but I do suspect Jacob to be from a Egyptian-Grecian era. And nemesis to be of an Egyptian-Mediterranean if not Roman era.

Any temple associated wiht him would have been ammun/ammun re; nemesis seems to resent him.
-Jacob's home decor definitely represents the cultural era of the close marriage between Egypt and Greece
-Jacob has blond hair and speaks as though he learned to write hieroglyphics
-Jacob weaves a tapestry of both Egyptian and Greek
-Jacob has or knows a secret regarding agelessness
-Jacob is protected by law; for only laws or rules have loopholes
xJacob claims that he is very much alive
xJacob has a biblical name

Observing Harper's Island Ep 7

noreply@blogger.com ([)etermined (-)bserver) — Sun, 31 May 2009 04:41:00 +0000

this ep is the next morning; boat leaving that afternoon at 4
Just Observing
Danny Screaming 'oh no' in 'previously'
dana, darcy, Dan Jones in the phone that JD had, also had 'Henry Dunn' first and lname?
if its booths then he supposedly shot himself, firecrackers we knew about and haven't' we seen JD taking his medication some? but is scar significant?

oh, it's uncle Marty's phone; did he pick it up when they found him or have it all along sending the cover up txt?

UNKNOWN MOTIVES
JD

didn't feel like being ribbed and bullied by Ben
last to see Kelly; her giddiness angering him
'hated' Uncle Marty
Thomas Wellington stops the wedding
Booth was one of Henry's friends

Theory-killers; these are the things that kill your theory ever time...

Booth's death looks like accident since the 'flash' of gun powder was by him. But, the gun could have been rigged.
Hunter does not look like a specifically targeted victim since, he was a guest of the Pines Motel and the Chadwick Inn boat was rigged. I'm sure the killer lost no sleep over it, though.
the 25 suspects do not all have to be a part of the wedding party, the sheriff nor wedding planner...no one specified that it was limited to them.
every one's initial list of 25 aren't even the complete victim pool: Ben, Reverand Fain, Booth apparently
access to Inn; removed Fain for access to church; luring Madison, assumedly Shea or Katherine to room; ending up with Madison. who's room was she in, fake note slid under door
Inn connections: Lucy/matches, Madison/note on stationary, cc, Hunter's last boat ride, articles left in Abby's room,
significance of red ink?
Jimmy should be a target, he saw him unless guy is wearing mask? Most logically, Wakefield ended up 'whereabouts unknown' similarly to his status. That's why sheriff has been monitoring similar cases, because the guy was assumed dead?

FAR OUT Theories

is Abby's the sheriff's daughter? She was very young, when was Abby born? Before I go there though, how 'twisted' is this show supposed to get? Are they bold enough for Madison's fate to be over the top? Likely not.
Nope, looked through window first, she was deliberately 'lured', she is likely just bait to keep the remaining Wellington's on the island.
The money only symbolized that the same person who killed Marty was capable of rigging the boat and used it to lure the next victims into place. ie, combination of rigged gun and the perfect temptation into carelessness.
even with the 'have seen'/'will see' rule, we have seen flashbacks, the killer's hand, Inn employees, island residents, pictures, and many background characters
the plot thickens; with the conclusion of the Richard-Katherine affair, wedding event theme, my soon to be stepfather detests me, and found money story arcs wrapped up; most monetary based motives have been debunked.
So what lies ahead: a new kidnapping story arc and the pressure is on. The Diversion.
The real move is coming. With the peripheral characters out of the way, I suspect that an afternoon of terror is enough to make everyone miss that chartered ferry. Besides, Seattle isn't safe either...
By nightfall, I'm sure we'll be wow-ed again.

Signing Off,

TheDO

P.S. There were some other thngs I noticed but I need to review a couple of things before I go there.

Until Next Time...

Just an Update

noreply@blogger.com ([)etermined (-)bserver) — Sun, 31 May 2009 03:25:00 +0000

JUST AN UPDATE
wtf?!-So far, the Lost Statue has been confirmed to be Tarawet, Jacob's fate is as yet unknown and his nemesis remains unnamed, Juliet is my hero - that's one strong woman, and I long for another TLE...

wtf-with Fringe, there is more and I am still waiting for another glyph to update in its little ARG

wtf-nowadays I am losing sleep with Harpers Globe ARG stay posted and I'll hook you up on how to get started and catch up. We're only about halfway through the Harpers Island Mystery Event and guessing this one is HARD. Yeas, almost as hard as LOSTs theorizing.

Just in case there are some people who do stop through and return every once in a while, here are some of the things bugging me...

Careful, guessing is cool but when you turn out to be right... well it feels 'spoilery'.

Anyway my wtf list:

Jacob vs Nemesis

So, this guy can find a loophole but had to ask Richard where Jacob is? (The same place)
Jacob seems more worried about who's 'coming' rather than his own state of being
Jacob is rather blond and seems to have 'learned' Egyptian glyphing and seems to be on a more christian side of things
Nemesis seems to be a bit more Bentham like in his philosophies and is likely the re-animator in the midst
in this context, smokey is bound by who summons but seems extremely anti-Jacob at the moment; our third party has chosen sides. P.S. has anyone seen smokey prior to '77?
Jacob is why our Losties are here and he didn't need no stinking Lamp Post to illuminate the Ajira flight. Kate, Sawyer were selected suspiciously young. Hurley, Sayid Jack, and Locke even more pointedly at a later time...
As a kid, Ben was taken to the Temple/smokey/nemesis triumvirate because if Jacob had touched him then, he wouldn't have to touch him now.
The 'Touch' phenom points more association toward heavenly hosts than underworld monsters and kill-everything-that-moves-one-track-minders. Only a loose association, not a declaration of angels and demons. More like powerful agents in a pre-existing hierarchy.
Underworlds, choices and weigh-scales; blessings and curses...here there is a third party judge, jury and executioner. The monster's trifold function is judgment (of non-Others, those outside of Jacob's protection), enforcement of law and execution of interlopers. Nemesis is the role of annub in the pic with smokey as cohort or slim possibility they are one in the same? Did Ben have to be judged by smokey because he was essentially 'banished' by the Others? Did Uber-Locke/Bentham route him there because Ben was actually clueless?
Jacob is synonymous with the island. Above ground, ahem, while smoke lives below, um under ground and nemesis is either manifestation or anubis role as 'in between' middle man. Is Jacob so detached from Ben's lying and manipulativeness because he believes in people making their own choices like Locke? uber-Bentham may indeed represent nemesis' ideas on the subject.

Misc. Observations

The spin speed of the island + vile vortices + electromagnetic/radiactive energy DO account for time anomalies.
Team Bram represent a pre-emptive play by Jacob. Is this who is coming, 'to let Ricardo know who the enemy is'? It only matters if Richard TAKES OFF that RED shirt, ya digg?
I could kick Ben's -zz
My guess is we'll see some fb on HOW Juliet became an Other...since, her exile may be why she's dead and I suspect that becoming an Other provides some protection. How else could they be 'safe' at the Temple with Smokey?
Ben only knows what Richard has told him and the dreams nemesis sent him; Jacob never talked to him. Oh yeah, nemesis sent Locke's dreams.
The manifestations: there are 3 types

Died on isle: Yemi, Alex same branding they did not even 'act' like the people they were
Ben's mom, Dan, The Black Horse-Sawyer turning into Kate's stepdad because their bodies were never physically on the isle, dead or otherwise
Body at disposal: Christian and Locke were dead long before manifesting on the isle. While we don't have enough clues here, Christian is a wild card but is living in the cabin, sent Locke back and did he mention 'dying' on his own. Reordered, he is the first mentioning it because it was '07 Uber Locke that told '07 Richard to tell '04 Locke so he would tell '54 Richard that Locke was sent by Jacob; when he wasn't. Christian told this to '04 Lock after all of that happened/how being he was outside of that loop.

Counter: Christian told '04 Locke to turn the DW before '07 uberLocke would have had a chance to trick him and '04/'54 Richard. I.e., tried to circumvent...

O6 left
Locke hides the island before leaving and he may not have turned it so far that it ended up wobbly (Christian phrased it as give it a 'little' push the second time around. Counter: Ben was too weak to give it a full turn and turned it incompletely vs overturned it). Mind you, steadying the wheel or completing the turn, stopped the time jumping.
All of them may have been sent back still; because of Jacob

Point: what happened is that this faux pas enabled uberBentham-Locke to trick everyone, take Locke's body, find a loophole and 'kill-?' Jacob

Fringe

There is more, alright the Fringe Comics will end soon and I am thinking about getting them with my gift card. Young Belly and Bishop look very interesting based on the previews of the issues.
I think that our Peter IS 'Peter' just another version. Ah, enough said there. I like that the Observer likes Walter so much that he breaks the rules and interferes. I think Olive just met someone else's young observer this season. Are you the same age at the same time in every dimension/version?

Harpers Island/Harpers Globe

the show and the arg take place during the same time period and overlap with regard to a few events like mass killings on a place called Harpers Island
There are many parallels; but if the killing was witnessed by young Abby and Jimmy; how did they know what the guy looked like before that. Essentially, they were told that his name was Wakefield. Did he come himself that day. I think so. Did he have an accomplice, don't know.
Did the sheriff really kill him; heckie no. He said that and probably brought a body in or the coroner helped him select one. After all, what is the number one horror rule of small towns: cover it up and keep it secret, duh.
Those things we don't talk about; figured Wakefield was a flash from Abby's mom's past, figured the killer was a 'stalker' type from the HG style.
I also believe the show was written in an 'open' format, like the original Clue there are many possibilities. The solution shapes up based on the combination of clues/answers for the rounds of each game.
There is overlap but serial killers recruit accomplices all the time. Albeit, the sheriff's archives, reads 'am coming for you' all over it. How did young HG's Robin catch his attention, hmm?
JD is too obvious a choice, all of the incidents could be attributed to more than one source.
Who said that the 'wedding' party and sheriff were the ONLY candidates for the suspect list: we assumed that.
Anyone not autopsied or verified are potentially suspect
"We're Leaving", oh no you're not: The guys and Henry are tethered by Malcolm and the sisters Wellington by Madison's disappearance. Abby is probably tired of running and missing her dad. Robing will be looking for Brent.
Grab hold of your hats, we're about to take off now... and, where's Cal and Chloe

LOST CLUES: What's in a Name

noreply@blogger.com ([)etermined (-)bserver) — Sat, 09 May 2009 04:13:00 +0000

Maybe it's time to take another look at some of the subtleties behind some of our characters names

Philisophically speaking:
Rousseau
Hume and Desmond's role (Why Hawking thought; Hume-on the button-no 815 crash)
Locke vs Bentham and Widmore's take on it (what irony does he see from his perspective?)

Self fulfilling Prophecy is Destiny?
Hawking determined Dan's destiny because he showed up physicist-with journal-future knowledge. She sent him back because at some point she 'believed' she had no choice.

Richard attempts to recruit Locke as the next leader because Uber Locke-with the compass-made him start looking in fifty-six. Oddly enough, there was some semblance of recall in little Locke's monster image and selection of items.

Ben and Widmore are not on the same side; Bram and silver box crew are obviously Ben's men. Caveat, Widmore could have simply taken credit for the fake crash to convince Daniel. But likely, the final word was spoken and that it is what it is, Widmore-with the graves-and a little fun with findeightonefivedotcom

So Locke left and Bentham returned?

What Happened Happened vs. The Variability of Black Swan Theory

noreply@blogger.com ([)etermined (-)bserver) — Sat, 09 May 2009 03:41:00 +0000

Who said that the two are mutually exclusive
Lost presents us with 'real' characters struggling in 'real world' circumstances. The magical isle is not hidden, it is the things that it exposes you to that are. Facing it is the wonderment of our character arcs.
The characters grow and with that their choices are affected. Certainly, the major events happened. It has been proven to us that characters were born at a point, or intersection of times and were children and grew, experienced life up to the age they are in 2007/2008. That doesn't tell us much though?

Lost Clues
The biggest clue lies as much in the similarity as it does the differences:
'07-Uber Locke has flipped the script and no one knows it? If Richard tries to 'seal' him because they can't kill him then the circle of angry folk trying to hurt him will be the Others incited by Richard/Ben protect the Jacob myth.

Assuming Locke's interpretation of what the 'island told him to do' is correct,
Locke and Ben are not on the same side; the island never talked to Ben
Locke and Richard may not be on the same side; why are they not in agreement
Richard's use of the island and Jacob was not synonymous; Jacob may work for the island. The Fact that there is an ashen seal around Jacob may mean that he is involuntarily sealed.
Summoning of smokey; smokey judged Ben based on the rules and if it wanted to save her it would have. And smokey's judging seems based on rules moreso than reality, but I could be wrong. As judge, protector and executioner; the smokey triumverate reports to someone or somebeing, and so does Jacob. Richard is the most likely suspect.

The ash ring could have summoned Jacob. Were there any smokey sightings before 1977? I suspected that an incident brought smokey through a portal from ancient time; however it got sucked there in the first place and is 'bound' as opposed to sealed in the subterranean temple basement and the additon of hydrogen to muted wild isle emag energy brings some more unpredictable results, too.

Anyway, Locke is dead and different. He is a black swan. Is the same but now 'ready' and Richard never bargained for this? Is Ben bound by smokeyAlex's orders which addressed not 'trying' to kill Locke which covers getting other people to do it. Either way, Locke was guided to things the same as before his untimely demise.

Is locke richard's replacement, uh oh?

We may have been shown that the order for Alex's death is somehting that Widmore was led to believe came from the all allusive 'Jacob'. Reminds me of a rigged seance session?

Is Richard a bad guy or is he stumbling because he can only read clues? Our defector survivor of a statue/temple/glyph heavy civilization and agelessness indicate that holds many keys to the direction of things here.

Desmond is right they are all being used like pawns but, the island does seem to have some really peculiar powers. The powers are real but there are many flawed, human manipulations through myth and spin, both innocent and deliberate. But many are just working off of clues as signs and personal experience. And, their judgments are a flawed as their characters

Harpers Island Clues - wtf?-No One's Blogging About the Clues?

noreply@blogger.com ([)etermined (-)bserver) — Sat, 09 May 2009 03:11:00 +0000

Dag! Just like with Lost and Fringe, I get caught up in the characters' story arcs and overwhelming story twists and turns that I forget to focus on The CLUES.

Harpers Island Clues
Like many, I have to agree that I don't expect the starring characters to expire too quickly. Not that many, anyway. Sacrificing more than one or two for shock effect would exhaust those quickly. Also, they correspond to the main characters of the story; the bride and groom, Abby who is one of a few links between the 'Wakefield murders' and the Chadwyck Inn/island as the wedding setting.
A store had been broken into and a 'head?' spade taken,
Marty's murder was covered up via text and his gun returned to the money bag (if Marty hid it on the boat, then how did the killer know about the money and that it was hidden on the boat -- well, from when placing the booby trap on that little Candlewick Inn boat? Won't the Coast Guard be looking for that missing craft?)

The killer 'rigs' deadly booby traps, too. Note fully, killer would need not be present to win.

Motive, What Motive
What motives lie in the hearts of men:
The brother in law is dark, sneaky, and pervy. Pretty sure, he pulled the pool canvas move. He and the Mrs-not his, may be in cahoots over the usual suspect; greed?

Greed is the largest motivator unless these events are 'serial'. In which case the most likely are the more 'unstable' characters.

Same killer as seven years ago; a 'real' link, or one or two people with incentive to benefit from it in some way?

'25 suspects' ? Who all makes 25 -- does that include additional choices as in Wakefield, he didn't die
Mr. Wellington just hates Henry (and Ben) that much? Think about it family biz; Richard and his conniving wife can spare he and his eldest any more pain. And Ben, he was an a-hole it seems from the Harpers Globe vid.
Did Marty rob Wellington's bank? lol
Some other people slid one or two in, during that same time period? You know with all of the blackmail, cheating, beating, girl stealing, hard feelings, medication, anger issues, and creepy spirit messages floating around?
Maybe, someone has snapped and we just don't know it? The 'least obvious' award goes to... Henry and Abby.

Are you up on...

Harpers Globe Clues
Ben ran into Brent and Harpers Globe star Robin late the night before. Cousin Ben Wellington, under the boat, with the propeller found himself in quite the predicament as the wedding party departed dock from Seattle.
At least Robin, the newspaper 'clerk' who explained to Harpers Island patron Abby that she had no idea who had ordered all of the Wakefield articles and never picked them up?

Right, who had motive to order them and what prevented them from picking them up? There sure have been plenty at Abby's hotel room, and addressed to the Sheriff at Kelly Seavers' crime scene.

And, what about 'red' ink?