Time to play, “What’s in the box?”

Could it be:

• An super intelligent monkey.
• Smoke detectors.
• The statue’s missing toe.
• Charles Widmore (who has been surviving on beer and pretzels this whole time).
• Locke’s body. The Locke that is up and around is really a “ghost” of the island.

I’ll wait here until you finished. Good? Here is my theory, Ben goes to call the smoke monster (by flushing a muddy toilet??). Instead of the smoke monster coming out of the woods, Locke appears - clue #1. Locke goes to the temple wall, somewhere he has never been, but knows that this is the place the smoke monster lives - clue #2. Ben is in the smoke monster’s lair while Locke goes to “find a rope or something”. All this magical stuff happens kinda like “This is your bastard life” between Ben and the smoke monster, and then dead Alex, only does Locke show up afterwards - clue #3. If you were easily confused when Clark Kent went away, then Superman shows up - much like Lois Lane, who was an investigative friggin reporter, then I’ll make it simple for you. Locke has become one with the island. The only thing he’s missing is sun god-like robes. Ben was telling the truth. Dead is dead. Nobody comes back from the dead - only their “ghost” do. Check out my Season 4 predictions about Locke (and my Season 3 predictions). I’ve been mostly right in my theories (I totally called Michael getting blown up back at the start of Season 3).

Anyway, back to Ben’s moment of judgement. We see this wonderful piece of art:

Besides the smoke monster having a face like Jimmy Durante, it confirms a few things. One, the four-toed statue is Anubis, Egyptian God of the underworld and tampons (okay, I made the last one up). Two, it shows an interesting relationship between the two beings. It almost appears as if the smoke monster is Anubis’ pet. Which is interesting because the Greeks god of the underworld, Hades, had a similar pet, Cerebus - the giant three-headed pooch of death. So what does this tell me? The “ghosts” that appear are really the guise of Anubis. The smoke monster comes in and takes the thoughts and memories from people that have lost someone, and then Anubis comes around and uses that information to appear to that person and tell them how *not* to screw with the island. Is Locke really Anubis? Well, I kinda get that - if it wasn’t for that pesky Christian Shepard question. Obviously, Locke didn’t know that Christian appeared to Sun and Frank. So does that make Christian the one who is Anubis and Locke something else? And who is this Jacob guy and why hasn’t he lifted a finger to make his presence known?

It kinda goes back to the first season. It’s quite possible that there are two forces on the island - one good, and one evil. I had questions back in season 2 and 3 that the island seemed to do contrasting things, notably towards Locke and Eko and their contradictory dreams/visions about the pearl station. Locke even holds up two Go game pieces (black and white) to Walt in Season 1 and talks about Good and Evil (also in Claire’s dream, Locke has one black eyeball and one white eyeball). Also, Locke sees the “heart” of the island and later reveals that it was a “white” light and not the black smoke of death.

Who knows.

And let me briefly gloat about the prediction that the survivors of Ajira 316 are Others. I was partially right. Illana is one. And there are at least three others in her group. I was surprised it was her. I thought it was going to be Caesar, but that ended quickly with a shotgun blast to his chest. Her question to Frank, “What lies in the shadow of the statue?” is obviously a way of identifying the Others that were planted on the flight. Of course, I don’t think these are Ben’s Others - I think these guys are Others loyal to Widmore. Poor Frank. And it looks like they’re going to carry that box to the other main island. On second thought, maybe the box doesn’t contain Locke’s casket - but maybe drilling tools. Why drilling tools? To get at what lies in the shadow of the statue… Jughead, of course, the hydrogen bomb.

One last thing. Last week I downloaded the free Geronimo Jackson song, “Dharma Lady” from iTunes. It’s a weird song. I think they were trying too hard to make it sound 70’s-ish. The lyrics don’t really have any hidden meaning (that we know of) but what I found intriguing is the cover art:

Paging Donnie Darko… White rabbit (skull). Top hat (magic act). Lotus flowers. Hole in wood that leads to space. Any thoughts?

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