I rewatched it last night looking for this woman in the background and saw what you are talking about. Unfortunately, I think in this case it's a production mistake. It looks like a cameraman (or camerawoman) to me.

I have Lost saved to my computer. Unfortunately I can't get a screenshot since it plays back in a video overlay. But I did blow out the brightness to try to get a better look and it definitely looks like someone leaning over a camera with the camera resting on their right forearm, in a handheld shot sort of way. Looks like he (or she) is getting the reverse shot of Christian from behind Sun but wasn't hidden well enough.

If you can find a screenshot then crank up the brightness and you'll see what I'm talking about.

As for the afterlife theory, this came up in season 1 and the writers said that it isn't. Doesn't mean that dead people aren't walking around. It just means that the island is not where the dead go.

Didn't the producers say early on that this is not "purgatory" nor are they all dead?

Ya.

They also said it's not a dream and won't end with it being in a snow globe.

Sure...crush my dreams of having figured it out. Thanks. A lot. ;)




(Thanks for the info on the woman. I wonder if they will just dismiss it as the production error it appears to be even after so many people seem to have seen it; or if they will build it into the story.)

My theory being right or wrong notwithstanding...

Aaru is not a sort of purgatory in the general sense that we think of the word. It is more of a parallel world where dead souls go to have eternal life.

Also, clearly at least some number of the people roaming the island are dead, which makes me really hope that the guitar Hurley was carrying means we get to see Charlie again.

I wonder if the people assumedly stuck in 2007, who logically should have ended up in 1977, were "dead". Maybe Frank and Sun "died" in the plane crash but were alive on the island. I get the feeling to come back to life, so to speak, you have to have been to the island before. I know this doesn't explain Ben but I think he might, for some reason, be an exception to the rule.

And yes, I think about Lost way too much.

I have a very old cassette tape I made back in college. I used it to tape lectures and when done with a class I would tape another lecture over the top....finally, I taped some music on it(Shonna Laing).

As you can imagine, after all of these years the sound on this tape is awful....you can hear whispers in the background almost all of the time and once in a while one of the whispers will come in loud and clear as if it were part of the song.

Perhaps the Island is nothing more than that piece of Scotch tape one puts on the bottom of a cassette so one can record again;)

Fvck! :eek:

I saw them shooting some scenes for Lost at one of the scenic lookout points here on O'ahu. Lots of honey wagons, so I get a lot of the cast was out and about.

Well, that explains why Ben's so sure Sayid's a killer.

Who the fvck, in that position, doesn't unload the clip into his head?

And I don't think I noticed before that Ben's dad is Laszlo.

And was that Sebastian?