OK, I promised you an explanation of who I think is in the coffin and why, so here it is.
First off, let me say that there is a hole. Is it a Mack truck style hole? I don't think so. Let me just say I'm leaving room for said hole to be explained by information we've yet to receive. Cop out? Once again, I say, this is LOST we're talking about, people! Anyway, let's get on with it!
My guess (offer subject to change without notice) is Ben.
I know what you're sayin', you're sayin', "Aaron, where do you find time to juggle?" No wait, that's something else. Oh yeah! You're sayin', "Aaron, tell me more about this theory!"
Well, first, the hole. According to the obit Jack was reading in Through the Looking Glass (henceforth referred to as "TTLG"), the dead person had a teenage son. Ben has no such son.
Michael does, assuming time is funny and Walt's older than he should be (which, of course...). This has led many people to speculate that it's Michael in the coffin. I'm not prepared to say that it's not, but here's why I think it's Ben.
First off, I do not believe it is one of the "Oceanic 6". It's clear that there is some celebrity involved with being a member of this group, and as such, the obit should have mentioned at least something. Furthermore, one would expect some other mourners at the funeral besides Jack. At least a paparazzo or something. And if it's not one of the O6, it seems likely that it may not be one of the 815ers at all.
Then there's the partial name in the obit: "Jo...antham", popularly interpreted as John Lantham, but who knows. The point is, it's not the name of anyone we know, and Carlton Cuse himself said the coffin occupant is someone we've seen. Unless he's being cryptic, I think we can assume "Jo...antham" is an alias.
Who would possibly need an alias? Well, it turns out, a lot of people (Kate, Sawyer, Michael). But that includes Ben, who would need to explain who he was (there's obviously some kind of cover up going on, and it might be more convenient for whoever's behind it if all known survivors were 815 passengers). Plus, Ben might be on some sort of Hanso list or something somewhere, because, after all, he was an official resident of Dharmaville, no? Might he not be in danger from the Hanso/Paik/Widmore cabal if his identity were known?
Then we have the fact that Jack is distraught over this person's death, but no one comes to the funeral. In addition, we have Kate saying, "Why would I go to the funeral? [TTLG]" Why is Jack so upset over someone nobody else cares about?
I say, it's a given that TTLG Jack wants to get back to the island, and Ben (assuming he is on the mainland), would be his best hope for achieving that goal. But Ben would still be hated by any Losties that hadn't come around to Jack's way of thinking, and he (Ben) wouldn't know anyone, so no one but Jack would be at his funeral.
I'll admit, every argument I made could be made about Michael. He might also seem to Jack like a good way to find the island again, he would also be hated by other Losties, and to his advantage, he has a son. So why am I going with Ben? I don't know. It's just a feeling and I wouldn't lay money on it and it's subject to change and this is LOST we're talking about, people!
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Ben is a decent theory. The biggest problem with it is that he has no son that we know of. (Could he have fathered a son with Annie, and we don't know of it? Perhaps Ben didn't know until recently?) But why would Ben kill himself?
Michael shouldn't need an alias. No one in the real world would know he had committed murder unless the Losties revealed that information. And if they did, what good would an alias do? He would be too high profile, and likely he would be ratted out before he ever got to the mainland. Personally, I don't think Michael will ever make it back to society. I have a feeling he will get his due on the island. But if he does make it back, and that is him in the coffin, there are a couple of reasons why it would make sense: first, he might kill himself because he is guilty over the murders, and two, Walt could be the teenage son, because TTLG is likely to be 3 years after the rescue, and that would place the timeline at late 2007-early 2008. So Walt would be a teen by then.
Jo...antham could be an alias, sure. But Carlton could also be being cryptic, and doesn't that seem more likely? He says it's someone we've SEEN, that's all. Doesn't mean it has to be a character we are familiar with. Still could be Jacob. We know nothing of him. BUT, Jacob might be dead already. So who knows? All I know is, we aren't going to find out anytime soon. At least, not in these first 8 episodes.
Sawyer really wouldn't need an alias either, unless something new happens we are not yet privy to. He wasn't on his way to jail, or on the run at all. Unless someone was to find out who he killed in Australia, but I don't think that likely. What I would love to know is, how does Ben et al know about it? It was deserted, only two people around were JAMES and the guy. My answer? Hobbs. He is the only one who knows why James went to Australia, and he would know when the job was done. That puts him in league with other shadow people or at least somehow connects him to them. man, I have been getting a lot of good new ideas as I respond to your other comments! Good times.
If it is Ben, maybe he didn't kill himself, maybe Widmore or whoever set it up to look like suicide.
It is true that taking Cuselof at face value is dangerous. Like "when you're dead, you're dead". I think they even hinted that they were using the term "dead" loosely.
Maybe Hobbs orchestrated Sawyer's trip to the island the way the psychic orchestrated Claire's
Yeah, whoever it is, it could still be a setup. But damn, Jack was ready to kill HIMself over whoever it was.
Well, yeah, because, they ARE dead. Technically, they are no longer in their bodies. Like Miles said, they're meat. They're not coming back to life. But that doesn't mean we won't see their ghosts, or whatever those things are.
Hobbs definitely got James to go to Australia, but I doubt he had much more to do with it than that. He doesn't seem like a higher-up. He seems like someone who was told what to do by someone else.
Except that Christian clearly has physical contact with Vincent. How did he do that if he's a disembodied ghost like (apparently) Naomi is?
Charlie had physical contact with Hurley too, but he's still dead. You saw Poltergeist, right?
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