Right, but the theory is that the alternate reality is in the characters’ future. That is, something happens on the island in 2007 to send all the characters from there into the alternate timeline in 2004 (or some other time).
Just finished watching it on Hulu. Damn, I just love Ben. Not in a pervy way, but in the just love to watch him way.
I love watching Richard, too, but I would totally do pervy things with him.
Ah, got it.
Maybe the whole “raised by another” thing meant that Claire needed to be with Aaron and not the other way around or bad things would happen for Claire.
Agreed, I think Ben’s backing down was more of a realization that he really didn’t have it in him to be that ruthless. He could have demanded a recommendation for Alex but what would really stop the Principal from torching her later on his own? He chose not to risk Alex.
I thought so too until someone pointed out that it might just as easily, and more directly, be taken as a metaphor for Ben himself. After all, he was once the leader, and then lost all his power. Calling the island a prison certainly seems more like Smokie’s story, but in some ways, it might do dual duty, as so many of the themes on lost do.
Yes, please explain! Y’all had me slightly swayed at first but then I watched the episode again and realized you were watching some other show.
It was never said that they do. What was said was that that particular principal was held in such high esteem that his recommendation would hold a lot of sway with those that do the choosing.
Because only the principal was able to write the recommendation (and was willing to write a bad recommendation), because he was an alumni, and Ben was not. That was his ace up his sleeve. Basically, “if you take me down, I’m going to take Alex down with me”. If he didn’t have Alex, then he’d have no leverage with with to bargain with Ben.
I’m not sure what problem people had with the AP class. They are hard classes, so it’s understandable that Alex was worried about getting good grades on the tests so as to not hurt her GPA. Were people confused by her saying “AP test”? I thought it was pretty clear she was referring to a regular test in her AP class, and not the actual end of year AP organization test.
The only two question I have are:
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Does Yale really require a recommendation from an alumni?
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Alex would be 16 at this point. Is she graduating a year or two early?
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Depending upon on the public school cutoff age in California, it’s very likely she’s 16 and a junior. Perfect college application time.
No–not even from an alumus or an alumna. Also I’m pretty sure it’s unusual for students to see the recommendation letter written for them (Alex comments on the contents of hers at the end of the episode).
[About Sayid killing Dogen and Lennon]
ILANA: Are you sure?
BEN: He was standing over their dead bodies holding a bloody dagger, so yeah, I’m pretty sure.
[About Ben killing Jacob]
ILANA: Are you sure?
MILES: Well he was standing over Jacob’s body with a bloody dagger, so yeah, I’m pretty sure.
Miles is awesome.
Damn, I didn’t even catch that parallel in lines when watching the episode. That rocks.
Do principals or teachers actually write letters of non-recommendation anyway? I would think any instructor who was asked to write a letter of rec for someone and proceeded to basically sabotage their future would have a lawyer on their ass lickety split. In normal cases of course the instructor could simply decline the request to write the letter for the student but if Alex is as good a student as she’s depicted the other teachers plus a lawsuit would easily show that the letter was invalid.
In other news, the actress who plays Alex is beautiful. I know that Linus and Alex were depicted as father/daughter previously but they didn’t seem to be in the ATL and I was fully expecting it to be really awkward from a sexual tension standpoint during the tutelage session.
I believe all of LOST’s filming occurs in Hawai’i.
From the prior episode, and you may have covered it, but…
What do you make of the significance that Dogan and Translator Dude were killed in the pool that did the Pet Semetery thing to Sayid?
So the question is, why could Ben kill Jacob but Sayid couldn’t kill Flocke?
Sayid was told that he had to stab Flocke before he said anything at all. But he didn’t do that. Flocke said something (I think “Hello Sayid”).
I think you guys are reading too much into it. Flocke, being made of smoky particles, is not killable by stabbing, and Dogen knew this. Dogen was just hoping Flocke would lash out in anger and kill Sayid.
That was fairly typical “California” looking school, but I imagine as stated above, is probably a school in Hawaii. If the climate is mild, why enclose what you don’t need to enclose? 
My high school in Wisconsin had two campus buildings and we had to walk across the parking lot to cross between them. Uphill, both ways!
That scene sort of irritated me. Sayid (and by proxy, the viewers) were told that it was of paramount importance to stab Smokey before he said anything. If he said anything at all, it would be too late. Well, he did say something, but then Sayid stabbed him anyway, so the viewers are left to wonder: Was it significant that Smokey said a couple of words prior to being stabbed, or did the writers just forget that he was supposed to be stabbed before saying anything at all, or was it done intentionally to try to confuse the viewer?
Again, didn’t ruin the episode for me, but was mildly annoying.
I think Dogen just told him that because he wanted to make sure Sayid would stab Flocke and bring his wrath down upon him immediately, instead of giving him a chance to talk which might allow him to turn Sayid to the Dark Side (which, of course, happened anyway.) Plus, it was done to confuse the viewer, like everything on Lost. 