{"id":3556,"date":"2008-08-06T00:40:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T00:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/08\/lost-mothers-of-the-chosen\/"},"modified":"2008-08-06T00:40:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T00:40:00","slug":"lost-mothers-of-the-chosen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/08\/lost-mothers-of-the-chosen.html","title":{"rendered":"LOST Mothers of the Chosen"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>My viewing of season 1 of LOST continues. The episode \u201cNot Raised By Another\u201d shows again just how much of later developments were indeed in mind early on. We\u2019ve already been told that the finding of \u201cAdam and Eve\u201d in the caves was an important clue intended to ensure that, whatever twists and turns might follow, some element of the originally-intended plot line could be shown to have been intended from the outset. In this episode, Claire has a dream in which Locke is playing cards at a table, and instead of eyes has one black stone and one white stone, like those found in the little sack that was on one of the corpses in the cave.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sfstory.free.fr\/images\/StarWarsWallpapers\/starwars1_09_800x600.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/sfstory.free.fr\/images\/StarWarsWallpapers\/starwars1_09_800x600.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a>We know that the makers of LOST are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lostpedia.com\/wiki\/Star_Wars\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Star Wars<\/a> fans. I cannot imagine that, when they have the psychic warn that he senses grave danger surrounding the child (<a href=\"http:\/\/lost.about.com\/od\/secondarycharacters\/p\/AaronLittleton.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Aaron<\/a>) and his upbringing, they were not thinking of the words Yoda says about young Anakin skywalker. And in both Star Wars and LOST, we see at least one figure who has lost his mother turn to the dark side, spurred on by that loss.<\/p>\n<p>When Claire\u2019s pen and the lawyer\u2019s fail to work, it is just like what happens to Michael when he tries to kill himself in season 4. Already they had in mind the notion that the island could reach out and influence events.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lostpedia.com\/images\/2\/2e\/Baby.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lostpedia.com\/images\/2\/2e\/Baby.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a>The psychic got her on the plane, so she could get to the island. But what was supposed to happen there? If it is so crucial that Claire raise the baby, why in season 4 does she leave him and allow him to be taken off the island, even going so far as to warn Kate in a vision that she mustn\u2019t bring him back? It seems that since Christian is \u201cspeaking for\u201d Jacob, perhaps the island is \u201cunder new management\u201d and there is another side trying to influence things. We know that two sides are fighting for the island. What is the relationship between John Locke, another miracle child and \u201cchosen one\u201d, and <a href=\"http:\/\/lostpedia.com\/wiki\/Aaron_Littleton\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Aaron<\/a>? If Ben\u2019s mantle has been passed to Locke, is it Christian\u2019s that has been passed to Aaron? How does Widmore relate to the latter? Is Walt another \u201cmiracle child\u201d? If they keep adding to that list, this will turn into a prequel for Heroes!<\/p>\n<p>So many questions still unanswered \u2013 but that\u2019s what makes this show so great! And it is great watching these early episodes I missed, and thinking what it must have been like to watch it while the <em>menace<\/em> was still a <em>phantom<\/em>\u2026<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-5422181302036880821?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My viewing of season 1 of LOST continues. The episode \u201cNot Raised By Another\u201d shows again just how much of later developments were indeed in mind early on. 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