Lost: A Smoked Son Theory

Usually my LOST rants are just that, rants. Today I'm shaking it up! Instead of a list of questions and curse words I'm gonna actually piece those questions and curse words together into a theory! FUN!

Let's start with the two main characters from last night's episode: Jack and Claire. Jack and Claire share the same father which makes Aaron, Claire's son, Jack's nephew. Claire didn't want her baby but had no choice to keep him when their plane crashed. While Jack was off the island, after being rescued, he helped Kate raise Aaron...his nephew. We found out early in last night's episode that Jack has a son from a previous relationship, his name is David. And surprise, surprise...Jack isn't a great father. He has an awkward relationship with his son, in fact it appears that Jack didn't want David in his life at one point.

Let's recap before we move on: Jack and Claire are half siblings and both parents...Claire didn't want her baby and Jack didn't have a big part in his son's life. Oh and their father wasn't a peach either (Aaron and David's grandfather).

Ok, let's get back into this...

Claire has her baby and becomes a good mother, very nurturing, caring and protective. But then one night Claire "vanishes" into the Jungle and leaves Aaron behind. After listening to a conversation between Jack and David, Jack used to be a big part in his son's life and then there must have been some falling out at some point. In the alt world Jack thinks he lost David and realizes how much he wants to be in David's life. And Aaron will probably never know who his father is because Aaron's father wasn't going to be part of his life (unless they tell him his father was Charlie).

So...Claire and Jack both lost their children and both kids have daddy issues. It's safe to say that Claire and Jack have daddy issues themselves too.

Are you following this so far?

In the bizarro world Jack fixes his relationship with his son, they go off into the night talking about eating pizza...(snore!) But in the "real" world Jack is on the island and he's there to fix himself, which I assume he's talking about his relationship with David (or any of his other SEVERAL failed relationships with his father, ex wife, Juliet, Kate...) Is he on the island to find his son? Claire has been on a mother fucking killing rampage trying to find her son on the island. She thinks the Others took her son but he's with Claire's mother.

Don't know where I'm going with this? Maybe it would make more sense if I described David. David has black hair, blue eyes and about thirteen-years-old (WHO IS HIS MOTHER?!). He was described in last night's episode as "gifted" and communication not being his strong suite. He's also sneaky and afraid of Jack. Does that sound like anybody on the island? Dark hair, blue eyes, special or gifted, poor communication skills, and sneaky. That's right, man who killed Jacob, the smoke monster using Locke's body.......or......Smocke! We've seen him before on the beach with Jacob, he had black hair and blue eyes. He's obviously gifted if he can turn into the smoke version of The Incredible Hulk and live in dead bodies. He's sneaky as hell too! Has Smocke ever interacted with Jack? I can't remember off hand, but I can't recall a time when the two met or had a conversation. So maybe Smocke is afriad of Jack?

Confused? Here's where my theory comes!

David is Smocke. Jack is looking for answers and to get fixed, Smocke has all the answers and Jack's son is what will fix him. And of course Smocke wants to be fixed too, if David is Smocke then when the two meet they can be fixed together! I know it seems far fetched and confusing, but we embraced a man being capable of turning into a smoke monster and inhabiting corpses pretty quickly. Him being Jack's son shouldn't be too hard to grasp. Anything is possible on the island.

Now if that's true then Claire's "friend" is really her long, lost nephew. So we now have four characters that are related in some fashion that are all fucked up because of one person: Christian Shepard (Jack and Claire's father). What do we know about Christian? Well, he's an asshole, an alcoholic, a bad father and may or may not be dead. He's also had connections with other people from the plane before the crash. So what is his deal? What's the story behind Jack and Claire's father? Could Christian be the reason why everyone is on the island? Like some sort of fucked up cowardly way of telling the truth, apologizing and teaching lessons? I hope not, but I guess it's possible. Or has it been Jacob all along?

So there it is, my theory on what happened last night. Take it or leave it, but I really think that David is Smocke and that Christian is a big part of the full story.

Other things from last night (quickly, I promise!):

-Jack is so stupid. Why would he shatter that mirror?! He threw a temper tantrum because he couldn't see Jacob? What a fucking cry baby. Get over all your shit, Jack!

-Claire is crazy. A baby made out of animal bones and fur?! Killing sprees to find your missing baby? Sounds a little too like Russo to me! Claire is dead, right? And what exactly happened to Claire? She said she escaped from the Temple...wtf? If Claire was infected that means she's dead, but how did Russo get in her body?

-Claire and Smocke...are they good of bad?

-Jacob is a manipulating ass.

-Who is David's mother? He looks to be a teenager which means it can't be Kate or Juliet. Jack never had a baby with his ex wife (that we know of) but even if they did David would be much younger. So it would appear Jack (once again) fucked up another relationship! Who is this mystery woman? Could she have a connection with the island? The plot thickens!

Oh and I'm loving all the Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass references during the entire series! I'll have to dedicate a blog to that in the future. ;)

I wrote this from my phone so I'm sure it's full of errors! Sorry! :)

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Lost Season 6: Fuck Balance

I really hope next weeks episode of Lost will lay off the destiny theme and move on, we get it. I'm just going to get right into it and throw my questions and comments out there...

First of all, when is it? What year are we in? I've been trying to figure it and I'm just confused.

Richard was kept in a Russo-like trap. I was waiting for Claire to come out! So again, WHERE THE FUCK IS CLAIRE?

Um...the creepy kid. Has to be Jacob, but why is he a kid? Is that a clue for what year we are in? Or can Sawyer just see him because he is a candidate? (It reminds me of what Shannon was seeing Walt, is there any connection?)

Who is this Ilana chick? I want more from her background. How does she know so much about the island and those on it? She said that "Locke" was "recruiting", what exactly is he recruiting for? There are two stories going on here. Richard tells Sawyer that the man inside Locke's body wants to kill everyone on the island and the man inside Locke tells Sawyer a sob story about being stuck in Locke's body and wants to go home...and bring Sawyer home too. He also tells him that Sawyer's "so close"...close to what? Ilana also says that he is stuck in Locke's body, so I guess that part is true. Is the only way for him to go home is to kill people? Like a sacrifice? By the end of the episode we find out more meaning to the word "candidate", there are obviously a few candidates, so do they all get to survive? Or does only one candidate get to live, something like he needs one person to stay on the island? There has been no doubt some talk about balance on the island. But then he told Sawyer that the island didn't need protecting and that they should both go home. And he did take one of the stones of the scale and throw it into the ocean...

Locke has bad luck in the alt world at home. His lift on his van broke, he fell out of his chair, the sprinkler system went off when he fell and he got fired. Of course when we think of bad luck Hurley pops in the mind and then there he was, Hugo Reyes, to save John Locke. Quite the role reversal, but I guess that only makes sense in a bizarro world. So Hurley tells Locke that he will get him a new job and that everything will work out...BORING! I waited to see who was going to be working at the temp agency that Hugo sent Locke to and sure enough Rose entered...still with cancer. I found that interesting and somewhat mean and comforting all at once. Rose is the same on or off the island. Could it be wisdom? She found life's meaning early on? Is the cancer her constant?

More on Locke...
There was a quick mention of his father. In this alternative world he has a good relationship with his father. I'm confused. How much of the past is different for these doppelgangers?

I kept waiting for Walt to appear since the episode was so Locke heavy. At first I thought he was the delivery guy at the door returning Locke's lost luggage and then I thought he was the kid Locke grabbed at the school. Where are you Walt? Tell us what you know!!!

Speaking of school, I found it funny that Ben teaches history at the school and that Locke was a substitute. How appropriate! I didn't know that the episode was titled "Substitute" until after, so I got excited when I made the connection between Locke being nothing but a substitute (or "candidate")...and then I saw the episode title and my spirits were broken.

But now onto the most important story of last night's episode! The names! Oh, the names! And the numbers! THE MOTHER FUCKING NUMBERS! Ok, so we have 23-Shepard, 8-Reyes, 16-Jarrah, 42-Kwan (Kim or Jin? I'm thinking Jin because she was on the flight back to the island), 4-Locke, 15-Ford. Are the numbers Jacobs preference for the candidate position? They can't be the order in which he met them because he met Sawyer as a child. So what do the numbers fucking mean??? TEASE!!! Oh I can't wait to find out more about these candidates etched into the walls! There were so many names! How creepy!

And finally, who is inside Locke? I mean, seriously. Who is that man? Where did he come from? When did he come from? How did he get stuck? Can he be trusted?

I want, nay, NEED answers.