Raised By Another...

Well I’ve been busy over the past couple of weeks. You may have noticed by big spurt of Lost Cult posts followed by a lull. I’ve begun rewatching the episodes from the start, with my oldest son, Elijah. We are up to episode 11 I think. I’ve been wrapping up papers for my degree (one the “God Fearers” as instrumental in the success of Paulean Christianity, and the other on the Judeo-Sufism of Bahya ibn Paquda and the legacy thereof).

Anyway, in the episode (10 I think), “Raised by Another,” there was a lot of interesting stuff…

Remember the psychic talking to Claire about how she and only she must raise Aaron? The bulk of the episode was devoted to this. Just so we do not imagine that we might have previously read too much into things (like imagining there was some sort of virus on the island, when dude had hives coupled with Danielle giving Sayyid that injection), the psychic specifically mentioned that only Claire’s love and positivity could serve as a good influence for Aaron, and alter destiny (again, here we have the notion that seemingly proscribed destiny can be altered within certain unalterable parameters… Stephen Hawkings anyone?)

In any event, Claire has her dream and who does she run into in the woods? Evil Locke, complete with creepy ghost dude black clouded eyes. He’s sitting at some sort of desk with a lamp on it in the middle of the woods. Why? In any event, it seems to be “evil dude” but a vision of him. He says things that Locke wouldn’t say but that the evil dude would seemingly. Might this have been a premonition about “the bad twin” of Locke?

If so, and I think so, then what does this say about the connection with Aaron? Why was Aaron so important? Remember what a big deal they made about him and continued to make off the island? Who is Aaron in relation to the island? I doubt this is the case, but what if he was somehow the Evil Dude? Obviously he would somehow have to go back in time and that seems a little played out for them to do this with another character. But it would make sense why he (in the form of Christian), was so interested in Claire even sans baby Aaron (i.e. in the cabin of Evil Dude… remember?) He was just hanging out there with here and a lot of folks imagined this was Christian hanging out with his daughter; yet it has since been established that Christian’s form was not Christian but the Evil Dude. Again, if you didn’t get the memo on this then ask yourself how “Christian” could have gotten down in the sealed up well with Locke back in time?

Okay more later. Discuss.