Of Cabins and Coffins

I was pondering Lost this morning and started wondering about the Cabin. Something was definitely fishy with the way Locke found the Cabin at the end of Season 4 and I just put my finger on it.

It was the wrong cabin!

Horace gave Locke a way to find the real physical cabin, but is that really where Jacob is or has Locke been mislead? The clue to this is where the plans for the cabin are found - on Horace's physical body. Let's think about this:

- On the Island there are often distinctions made between physical and spiritual/ non-corporeal/ mystical.

- There is a distinction between the visage of Horace and the physical skeleton in the pit.

- There is a distinction between the Cabin that Horace built and the mystical moving cabin that Jacob resides in.

So, this all started when I asked myself where Jacob was and why he didn't speak to Locke himself. Then it hit me, Locke wasn't at Jacob's cabin (you know the one that moves all over the place and seemed desperate to get Hurley to enter a short time earlier). My conclusion is that the order to move the island may not have come from Jacob at all, but from Christian (?), Horace (Dharma) and possibly Widmore.

Now, if you haven't read my faction theory, please find it a few posts down or the rest of this won't make as much sense:

What I'm trying to get at is that Locke may have been manipulated by the Dharma faction to move the island and possibly upset Jacob's plans. I am now thinking that Christian isn't in league with Jacob at all (just because they're both ghosties doesn't mean they have to like each other), but is the spiritual (i.e. Jacob-like) leader of another faction not yet in control of the island. Heck, Widmore may have ordered the freighter to the island (and given the other protocals to set things up for Christian to convince Locke to move the island.

Note that Locke never tells Ben that the orders didn't come straight from Jacob.

On another note, I saw a post that got me thinking about the coffins. Is it me or does Christian's Season 1 coffin look a lot like Locke's coffin in Season 4? I need pictures of the two to compare, but I am wondering if there is something to this. I have often speculated that the show will again find itself where it began - Jack's eyes opening in the field.

Summer Sucks for Lost Geeks!

Summer sucks because there is hardly any Lost news. I loved the Comic Con footage, but other than the possible time travel of Dr. Marvin Candle (and all his aliases), there wasn't much new to chew on. Unfortunately, as a complete Lost geek, I have nothing better to do that chew on my past pet theories:

I'm still holding firm to my belief that last year's video footage gave us an answer about the "drops." I believe this year's video holds more clues that the drops are in "perpetuity" because they, like the number bunnies, fall from the sky at intervals. I refuse to believe that there is a real Dharma plane reaching the island just to drop wine boxes when the freighter had such a hard time of it. To say nothing of... what factory exists simply to plop white labels on cheap chardonay?

Let's wait and if there is another drop in the next season, then there is more going on than a simple air drop. After all, the island has moved; I'm sure it would be impossible to find simply to make a scheduled supply drop. The only caveat is that I'm not sure if there was a tie between the drops and the continued operation of the hatch. There certainly seemed to be a correlation between the blast doors and the drop. Time will tell.