Friday Morning Extras

Flight 316
SUSAN: My mom had an amazing idea about Lost that I have to share. Remember how everyone took different roles on the plane? Jack was Jack. Ben was Hurley. Hurley was Charlie. Sayid was Kate. And who was Kate?
RACHEL: I’ve read possibly Claire.
SUSAN: Yes! That’s what she was saying! She suggested that’s why she slept with Jack.
RACHEL: ohHhhh! To get pregnant?
SUSAN: Yes!
RACHEL: That is a great idea! I didn’t think of it like that.
SUSAN: Me neither, but it makes a lot of sense.

Two new characters
SUSAN: I also had another thought - Cesar and Ilana are obviously special. What if the reason we’ve been introduced to a man and a woman and only that is because they are Adam and Eve.
RACHEL: Hmm interesting. That implies that they would have to eventually time jump too right? Because when the original Losties found them, their bodies had already deteriorated. Unless they’re already in the past.

New Castaways, Oceanic 6 and Time Jumping
SUSAN: I’m of the idea that they’re all in the 70s right now and they’re all going to jump together.
RACHEL: I think they’re all in the 70s too. But I did notice something. Remember when Caesar described to Locke how Hurley disappeared during the flash on the plane? Which is supposed to happen since we’ve been seeing the ones left behind on the island. So did the Oceanic 6 disappear with the flash because they’re “special”? But not Lapidus, Ben or Locke? It seems like they crashed with the plane.
SUSAN: Well, Locke appeared in the water. I think that was supposed to be a reference to baptism. Ilana said there was a man in a suit standing in the water and no one knew how he got there.
RACHEL: Oh that’s right. I guess what I’m saying is .. do only “special” people time jump with the flash? Or do you need to be on the island for a certain amount of time for that to take effect.
SUSAN: I want to say they all do because I’m still convinced Lapidus took the boat with Sun. And if that’s the case, Sun is in the same time period as the other crashers. And so they’re all jumping together, or she isn’t special,
RACHEL: I think Sun is the woman with him also. I do think they’re all in the same time right now and all jumping together too. But only the Oceanic 6 did (or do) the disappearing thing.

Rose and Bernard
RACHEL: You know what else I want to know - where are Rose and Bernard?
SUSAN: Yes, good question. Are we to assume they’re following Sawyer and them around? Or they died at the flaming arrows?
RACHEL: I don’t think they died at the flaming arrows.. but I don’t think they’re following Sawyer and them around either. Not all the red shirts died right? Maybe they’ve set up camp somewhere or something. It’s just weird. Because no one seems to be wondering about them and they should be getting bloody noses too by now.
SUSAN: It’s very strange how they let that drop. Let’s write JJ Abrams an email. “Dear JJ, Can we call you JJ? We’re just wondering why you assume we’re stupid, and would easily forget about main characters who suddenly stopped appearing in episodes. Thanks.”
RACHEL: I think that’s an email worthy of an answer from JJ Abrams.
SUSAN: Definitely. I wonder what sort of reply we’d get…
RACHEL: I’m not sure - but I’d be willing to forgive and forget if he gave us more shirtless Sawyer.
SUSAN: Point well made.

The name Simon

• Simon is a common Hebrew name that means “God has heard”
• Simon the Tanner is a coptic orthodox saint believed to have been bald (with hair only on the back of his head). He is credited with moving the Mokattam Mountain in Cairo, through his strong faith in God.
• Simeon was the second son of Jacob and Leah, according to the Bible. Benjamin was his half-brother, the second son of Jacob and Rachel. According to the story of Joseph, Simeon was jealous of his brother and wished to have him murdered, only to find out he had been sold into slavery. (As a side note, Rachel died right after giving birth to Benjamin, whose name means “son of my pain”)
• Simon is a common name in the Bible, being a leper, an apostle (Simon Peter). Simon helps Jesus carry the cross in every gospel except for John.
• Saint Peter (Simon Peter) is often depicted in art as holding the keys to heaven. He is known for denying Jesus three times. He is strongly involved in the story of the resurrection of Jesus, being the first to enter the empty tomb, and was the first to see the risen Jesus.
• Simon is a main character in Lord of the Flies. When the group that is stranded on the island divides into two tribes, Simon joins Ralph’s (rather than Jack’s) tribe. He has a conversation with the head of a dead pig on a stick covered in flies, which tells him the “beast” the children had feared on the island was inside them, and created by them. Shortly thereafter Simon is killed by Jack’s tribe.