Namaste: Subtle Clues to Ponder

Well, at first glance this episode seems fairly standard and character driven. But is it?

1. The numbers were playing on the plane. In the 2007 that we knew, that wouldn't be happening.

2. How did Ben and the Others know to build a runway in that location without knowing future events. On a side note, I'm glad that I finally understand why they had Sawyer and Kate building a runway.

3. Why haven't we seen the buildings surrounding the dock before? Were they even still there in our first time-line?

4. Does Sawyer's remark about Faraday mean that he's dead, lost in time, or just crazy? Since Pierre Chang is still around in 1977, I suspect that Faraday is also. After all, Chang still needs to lose his arm and I believe the two men still have to make the video from Comic-Con.

5. The island may not hate Ben anymore since it seems that his arm was healed after the plane landed. Maybe the island doesn't hate him in this version of time. Could this future be what he was trying to produce the whole time?

6. If 5 is true, is Sun correct in her assessment that she can't trust Ben? She may be the only hope to put things back to the way they were before.

7. Since Christian is helping Sun is he working with or against Jacob? By the way, what or who do you think the heavy breeze was that blew the door open when they were talking? Ask yourself this, if Christian is linked with technology hating Jacob then why turn on the lights in the bungalow and not have a Jacob-approved lantern instead?

8. The tree being moved ('probably just an animal,' my arse!) could give creedence to the theory that Christian is Smokey.

It's starting to look like our time-line has been seriously changed. But, we have yet to see what happens with Sun (and possibly Lapidus) that could have the effect of making everything go back to the way it was. I am thinking that this episode, which admittedly seems ordinary at first watch, is showing us something huge; could the future, in fact, be altered through time-travel?

We've had it drilled into our heads while watching Lost that the Universe course corrects. However, maybe this is just propaganda spread by one of the sides in the war to come.