Lost - Before "The End"

So this is really my last chance to make any real guesses at the end of Lost. That being said and the amount of stuff that I've gotten wrong, why not just one last hurrah for old times sake, before I toss my TV out the window forever. Which would be an accomplishment, for anyone that has seen it, I really did get that TV just to watch Lost.

Ben is and has always been a bad guy working for Smokey - After this past week it really seemed to me that Ben was all more than willing to hook up again with his Sith Lord. The line that really cemented it was that he was the one being summoned, not him summoning the monster. Now this doesn't seem to fit in with the narrative too well considering that Ben was taking notes from Richard and had killed off a good portion of people. But after seeing Jacob's regret at killing his own brother I can't imagine that Jacob would want to see anyone else die by his hand. To me no matter how bad they became, he would think that they could still be redeemed given the right chance. It's an innocent and naive view of humanity, but at the same time he hasn't ordered anyone to kill anyone that I remember. So let's say he brings Dharma to the island, it's a group of people that are looking to build a Utopian society on the island, but over time it falls apart as members of the group start to want to tap into the power of the island. In the end they are all killed by Ben...

Ben while a weird kid before getting shot by Sayid gets even further out there after his dip in the temple waters. After his resurrection is when he starts seeing ghosts and when he finds Richard in the jungle and tells him that he wants to join the others. Eventually he does and proceeds to gas the Dharma folks, killing everyone on the island. Did those orders come from Jacob? They may have as Dharma was getting closer to messing with the island, or it could have been Smokey giving Ben the order. Smokey couldn't get past the fences, but with Ben on the inside he could have him kill them all, thereby finishing off all of the candidates for that round. This one could go either way, but it seems like a heavy burden on Jacob to have killed them all...

When we saw Widmore he says that he was told how to get to the island by Jacob, we have to assume that is true because Jacob said that he was bringing someone to the island and with only one episode left that pretty much locks it up that it was Widmore. If that is the case then I'm going to assume that Widmore has had the interest of the island in mind since the beginning but was prevented on getting back because Jacob thought that Ben was his guy. In the end Widmore is the good guy (well sort of). So what about all of the people that Ben had Sayid kill off the island? I'm going to assume that it ties in, anything from the second half of season 3 on is pretty much game considering that was when they negotiated the end date for the show. So why kill off all of Widmore's people? My guess is that those were the remaining candidates that Jacob had and Ben was doing the work for Smokey, killing people off before they could even get to the island...

How did Ben have this type of knowledge, from the cabin of course. The cabin hasn't been fully explained, but it was burned to the ground so hopefully that isn't the end of that. Anyway, Ben took Locke there in season 3 or 4 to fool him into thinking that Ben still had some power over the island. Ben said that he put on a show for Locke, my guess is that Smokey was there all along and was giving Ben orders on what to do. One of those is inflating Locke's ego and position that he is the protector of the island under the guise of Jacob. In the end this is the great move that Smokey plays on Locke, getting him to think that he has to die to protect the island, but really so that he can take over Locke's body. In the end, Ben moves the island first so that he can be in the present world waiting for Locke to come along and put the island in it's place. Ben gets to the real world first so that he is there to kill Locke, and bring him back to the island for Smokey. My guess is that Ben doesn't really know that he's working for Locke, or what the full plan is, but with his thirst for power and his ability to lie, you'd have to think that Smokey has had an eye on him for quite a while. I guess we'll see on Sunday, but it wouldn't surprise me if we find out just how evil Ben really is. On the flip side, the way that he is showing such sadness in the sideways world being around Alex, we might see that soul redeem itself. Ben could be the one that kills Smokey.


The Dharma food drop - Knowing that that Swan was real it makes sense that they would need to keep that button a pushing even after the death of everyone during the purge. Kelvin was recruited into Dharma long after the purge, by my guesses he had to have been brought in around 99 or 00. Desmond said that he had been there for 3 years, which means that he crashed in 2001. Regardless Dharma was wiped out no later than 80 if my numbers are correct. That is an extra 20 years of button pushing that needs to be accounted for. Dharma gets wiped out but the button will need to be pushed into eternity, thus they set up a food drop to resupply that hatch over and over again. In an earlier episode the others make comment that the castaways weren't supposed to interfere with that. My guess is that the others knew exactly what was going on down there, as evidenced by the Pearl station and just allowed Desmond to sit there and push the button. Whoever was trapped in there would get the food from time to time, being alerted as the blast doors when down and with the quarantine on the doors and a fear of sickness on the outside (ie, Smokey) you had a supplied crew forever.


No babies - Ben said that Jacob wanted a baby to be born on the island, yet Richard didn't really understand the extra amount of resources that were put into this activity. Odd, Richard was the one getting the past notes, yet he didn't understand the baby making process??? My thought again is that it was Smokey trying to find himself a body to take hold of so that he could become human again, and leave the island. They never covered this in full and left it wide open, which is really sad because it's a pretty big mystery, hell the statue was an Egyptian fertility god. This of course all works into Ben being a bad guy once again.


And now for the hardest guess of them all, what is the deal with the sideways world? - This is really a shot in the dark because we really haven't been given very much of anything as to what this world is supposed to be. I've guessed that it's a wish fulfillment land, or even it's hell, but the way that the last episode ended with Hurley in a really good mood in sideways world and his new love of Libby discovered, I have a new one. So far we've only seen the memories from the island world translate over to the sideways world, is it possible that the memories can work the other way around? Now why the hell would anyone want to see their wonderful life in the sideways world (ok it's not wonderful, but in many cases better) answer is, they wouldn't. But what if they have to? Dieing in one world doesn't seem to be having much of an effect on the people living in the sideways world, or else I think we'd have seen Libby a little more bonkers, even Sun, Jin, or Sayid (not sure who all woke up, not Sayid I guess). So let's concentrate on Libby, she put herself in a mental hospital because she thought that she was crazy, turns out that she wasn't, but I'm also guessing that she knew that she died in the other timeline, that wouldn't be a thing I'd want to remember, so I'll guess that she doesn't know. Stay with me here....

Now we'll never get the full story on Libby so I won't go there, but what I was getting at was that even people that died on the island have a full download of island life in their sideways world. I have to guess that things work both ways, if so then the key might be someone that died on the island, but is still there, Locke. Earlier this season he uttered the famous line, "Don't tell me what I can't do." That itself suggested that maybe somewhere in there was the old Locke. Is it possible that the body of Locke got a quick jolt of sideways world memories, but buried underneath Smokey. Was island Locke's soul still there hearing the echo from the sideways? My guess is yes....

Killing Smokey is going to come down to a couple different options; the knife (don't let them talk to you) fyi mommy didn't say anything before she was stabbed in the back. Tossing Smokey back down into the light, going to go with no there because Jacob said that's where he has been trying to get back to. Someone else jumping in the light, again don't think so because they would most likely become a Smoke monster. Little tangent on the Smoke monster... The crazy mom lady was a Smoke monster and the protector of the island. At some point in the past she took a look down there and found out what happens to you. As she told the boys, it's a fate worse than death. Also how was that village destroyed by one women??? My guess she was a Smokey too.

But getting to my final and what I think is going to be it answer to how they kill Smokey. It will be when Locke is able to walk again, part of him is going to download back to the island and at that point know what happen to his body and how he was manipulated and used by the Smoke monster. At that point he'll do something that will destroy the Smoke monster from within, Locke will take control over his own body on the island and force the monster to commit suicide.


To everyone that has played along with me over the years, it's sad to see all of our fun coming to an end so soon. If anyone has any final guesses that you'd like to throw out there, add them as comments at the bottom and we'll see how we all did in "The End"