Lost Mysteries

However we learn that on pushing the button the hatch releases a small bit of electromagnetic energy. Thus that is the possible source of the energy like what the healer talked about, of what healed Locke and Rose. But Locke went into remission before, briefly – suggesting the healing is not constant or permanent.

So…my question is…

Is anyone concerned that, now that the hatch is blown…and the energy is released and gone, Locke and Rose will go back into remission?

“In Our Mutual Friend one of the characters is thought to be dead, but really isn’t. In The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Dickens’s last novel, Edwin Drood disappears. Was Drood murdered? People believe so but no body is ever found.

Was Dickens planning to use the same plot twist that he’d used in Our Mutual Friend? Perhaps, just like the character in Our Mutual Friend, Edwin Drood wasn’t really dead. We’ll never know. Dickens died before The Mystery of Edwin Drood was completed.

There is a lot of speculation about how The Mystery of Edwin Drood was to have ended. Dickens didn’t leave any notes outlining the plot so no one will ever really know what he intended.
One of the most popular beliefs is that John Jasper, Edwin’s uncle, is the murderer. Jasper lead the double life of a choirmaster and opium addict. He was also in love with Rosa Bud, the woman his nephew was to marry. Conversations Dickens had before he died seem to support this theory. John Forester, his good friend, said Dickens told him that Jasper had indeed murdered Drood. Dickens’ son, Charley, also stated that his father told him Drood really was dead.

Some people speculate that Edwin Drood, like John Harmon in Our Mutual Friend, wasn’t really dead. The fact that Edwin’s body was never found adds weight to this theory.

Themes
As mentioned earlier, John Jasper lead a double life. “You are always training yourself to be, mind and body, as clear as crystal, and you always are, and never change; whereas I am a muddy, solitary, moping weed,” he says to Mr. Crisparkle. Little did Mr. Crisparkle know the truth of that statement.

Dickens used this theme in Our Mutual Friend as well. In that novel the respectable Mr. Bradley Headstone is not all that he appears. To some extent the same could be said for Dickens himself. He was always careful to keep his relationship with Ellen Ternan a secret from the public.

Themes
One of the themes of the novel is the corruption that wealth can bring. Bella Wilfer undergoes great changes during the novel as she deals with this issue. Toward the beginning of the novel she declares, “I have made up my mind that I must have money, Pa. I feel that I can’t beg it, borrow it, or steal it; and so I have resolved that I must marry it.”

Later in the book her feelings change. “O Mr. Rokesmith, before you go, if you could but make me poor again! O! Make me poor again, Somebody, I beg and pray, or my heart will break if this goes on! Pa, dear, make me poor again and take me home! I was bad enough there, but I have been so much worse here. Don’t give me money, Mr. Boffin, I won’t have money. Keep it away from me, and only let me speak to good little Pa, and lay my head upon his shoulder, and tell him all my griefs. Nobody else can understand me, nobody else can comfort me, nobody else knows how unworthy I am, and yet can love me like a little child. I am better with Pa than any one–more innocent, more sorry, more glad!”

The Staplehurst Railway Accident

When help finally arrived and the accident scene was being evacuated Dickens remembered something. There was still something in his train compartment that he needed. He made his way back into the wrecked train one last time to retrieve the latest installment of Our Mutual Friend, the novel he was writing at the time.”

And Locke is one of my favorite characters too, Joe. Locke rocks!

The LOST finale established a bunch of major plot points. (Spoilers after the Macho Trio.) Tres Amigos y sus armas, muy macho. They’re not in purgatory. They’re not in a post-apocalyptic future. The Swan Station Hatch, computer, and electromagnet wer…

Kate slowly “blinked” so she was acknowledging something. Hurley looked at Jack and Jack nodded at him to do what the “others” told him to do.

Walt is often where he is not supposed to be. Seems like Michael actually saw Walt in New York (prior to the car accident?). Walt does make things happen…polar bear, bird, and then there is Henry’s comment that “we got more than we bargined for when we got Walt.”

Not sure about the “ruins” yet. Have to think on those.

Pretty sure that Charlie is solid. I think that he is having just suffering from the concussion of the blast. I think he just thought Eko and John being such good trackers would have been back at the beach before him.

Lots to digest. Thanks for all the Hanso/Widmore information. I think that Pen being a stockholder (chairwoman if daddy is out?) would know about the inative. The caller just said that they located the source….like they were just sitting there expecting it. Not something more like “we found him….we might have found him” nothing implacating Des at all.

Matt Fox has said nobody is really safe…..also the actors get their scripts much like soap operas do,….not long in advance. Pleanty of time to change. 2 seasons in…watch the news see who is doing contract negotiations….that will give us some clues.