Our favorite Lost characters tonight showed, once again, that you can’t change the past, no matter how hard you try.
Miles caused his father to kick his mother off the island.
Jack is going to cause the incident.
Locke kept the circle of the compass being passed around for all eternity going by having Richard Alpert give it to his pre-death self as he dug a bullet out of his leg.
I had kind of psyched myself up for a very Richard-centric episode; maybe finding out more about who and what Richard actually was. Initially, I thought we hadn’t learned very much. But in retrospect (an hour’s worth), I realize we learned something very important:
Richard is eternal.
We sort of knew it, of course. He has looked exactly the same every single time we’ve seen him. But we never really knew why and theorized about it left and right and thought time travel had something to do with it. Some have suggested that Richard is smokey, and after tonight I am beginning to think that’s the answer.
Richard’s always been around and it seems he’ll always be around. He knows more about the island than anyone; he’s the only one who knows how to find Jacob. But he’s never been in charge, even though he’s seemed to be in charge more than once.
He’s the consigliere, the “advisor,” as Ben put it. Does Ben know what Richard’s true nature is?
OK, look, even if he’s not actually Smokey, he’s something akin to or related to the smoke monster.
He’s not human in the same sense we are, that’s for sure.
So, what else did tonight make me think about?
