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Weird and amazing… this is a Korean kid who’s about 4 years old and can sing 40 Beatles song pretty much word for word without even knowing any English. In case you’re wondering, Korean is just about the furthest thing from English. Singing one song from memory, let alone 40, is pretty astonishing.

Warning: there is copious amounts of naked baby legs in this clip. If that makes you uncomfortable please do not watch it.

Ok, I know I’m a few days late but considering we’re heading into a month-long dead time until Lost resumes I figure there’s ample time to analyze and discuss episode 8.

First off, good use of flashbacks to bring us up to speed on what’s been happening in Michael’s life since we saw him leave the island and now re-appear on the freighter as a janitor. I totally forgot how much of an ass-clown he was so I appreciated how they replayed the events leading up to his departure with Walt. My feelings last week of “Oh, it’s Michael!” quickly turned to “Oh, that stupid jackass…”.

While catching up with Michael we see that he’s completely alienated himself from Walt, slipping into a deep depression to the point where he tries to kill himself more than once but is mysteriously unable to. Tom appears and tells him that the island won’t let him. Ok… so the island has powers that extend around the globe? I think that’s the first time we’ve seen the island “do” something that wasn’t on the island, right? This is an interesting new twist.

So perhaps we’ve confirmed now that Michael is the final Oceanic 6 member? It’s definitely looking like if he died nobody would show up to pay their respects. However, the funeral was in LA and Michael was living in NYC… doesn’t mean it couldn’t have been him, but it would make more sense for the funeral to be in NYC I think.

And the cliffhanger moment… which I’m sincerely hoping they’ll pick right up in the next episode… who the hell sniped Karl and Rousseau? Are they actually dead? Those looked like kill shots to me. Was this all a plot of Ben’s to eliminate those who were more important to Alex than him? If there’s one thing we can say with certainty about Ben (and I think there is only one thing) it’s that he loves Alex and wants to protect her. Pretty doubtful that he’d send her off to some make-believe unknown Dharma station to get shot at. But now what? Is she blackmail bait to be used against Ben?

Maybe that means it was some of the other dudes from the freighter who we saw shooting clay discs off the side of the boat in Michael’s flashback? We know they want Ben, so they’d be really interested in getting their hands on Alex.  On the other hand, those shots in the forest didn’t sound like machine guns so I’m not sure it could have been them after all… but I’m running out of possible suspects here.  Unless it was a fleet of polar bears or clouds of black smoke.

And we learned that Tom, who is now dead, was gay. Not sure how that fits into the story.

We’ve got 4 weeks to analyze. All random crackpot theories are welcome.

Ok, last week we found out that Sun is the 5th Oceanic 6 member (along with Jack, Kate, Sayid and Hurley). According to producers, Claire’s son Aaron (in Kate’s care) is NOT one of the Oceanic 6 so that leaves one spot open. We know that in April 2007 Jack starts to go all “we gotta get back” crazy and attends the funeral for this last O6 member and nobody’s there. Based on that, I’m guessing it’s either Michael or Locke. Any other theories?

Also… did anybody else catch the date of Jin’s death on his grave? September 22, 2004 – the date of the apparent crash of Oceanic 815. How the hell did that date end up on his tombstone and who’s body is in that grave? My suspicions tell me that Jin is back on the island and still alive. Sun made no comments which would indicate that he is actually dead – just that he wasn’t there with them.

And wasn’t the mix of flash forwards and flash backs with Jin and Sun at the hospital totally freaky?