If I was Elizabeth Mitchell, I would have been bummed that my episode had to follow last week's stellar installment. Thankfully, because of the shorter seasons, even the slowest of episodes are enthralling. I'm glad you played through Via Domus because I was wondering the same thing about the Sarin gas being related to the gas used by the Tempest. The thing that bugged me most about the game was how the character you play as is a complete jerk and coward.

With Lost, a lot of the characters are unsavory (Sawyer) yet we know enough about them from the masterful writing and acting that we see they are good people at heart. Sawyer is known to be a murderer and a con man but he still felt that it was important to tell Jack about meeting his dad before going off on the raft. Him and Jack were enemies (to an extent) but he still managed to show he was a good person at heart. Elliot Maslow wasn't portrayed to have any redeeming qualities until the very end. It took me forever to figure out the correct way to blow up that dynamite by the way.

Thank you for providing the best explanation of the ending to the game that I've seen. I've read a few crazy ideas by forum posters and none of them convinced me what the hell was going on. I thought maybe it was an error in the editing room that 305 and 325 were given as coordinates to leave.

How the hell could I think that about a show with such attention to detail?!?! I've learned my lesson. One thing though, Juliet couldn't have heard Ben give Michael those directions because according to the timeline of the game, the whole Pala Ferry tradeoff scene should be taking place at roughly the same time as we see the "sky turn purple" right as Elliot is leaving the island. Maybe Juliet wanted to give this redeemed Elliot the chance of a new life. I don't know.

One thing that has been bugging me though is that Dan and Charlotte had a friggin map of the island. How was this obtained? The Black Rock journal? I doubt the Dharma stations would have been mapped in the 1800s! So Widmore has a map of the island and knows about Ben purging Dharma and how he did it. Who could have provided him with this information? I'm eager to find out. I'm almost as eager to find out how Ben was able to get the message out to Harper.

What the hell was the deal with Harper and the whispers? I really can't wait to see things like the whispers and smokey explained.

Oh, I almost forgot. Peter, I read that next week's episode is Sun and Jin centric with the following episode being Michael's. I might be wrong but I could have sworn that is what I saw on Lostpedia.

I'm with you there, Manzy704. I kept waiting for the game to reveal some big secret - like maybe he gave all his earning to orphans or something - but it never came. He just seems like a total self-serving dillweed that only regrets his actions AFTER arriving on the island.

I had a few other qualms with the game as well (like the cave and photo sections) but the worst part of the game has to be the dialog, like how you find out your name. That's something that I expected to draw out over the course of the level, or to take a while. Instead, Lisa just blurts out his full name (first AND last) in a single flashback. When's the last time someone you knew spelled out your full name in a sentence?

And then there's the scene in the lobby, which made my inner writer cringe. Elliot, in a mere few seconds of dialog, manages to spit out 5 different cliche's in a single sitting.
And I quote:

"(1)Since when did you become Mother Theresa? (2)Get off your high horse. (3)It's the name of the game. (4)You know it and I know it. (5)Besides, all's fair in love and journalism, right?"

Ugh.

And looking at the hand-drawn map that Daniel had, it's most likely from a combination of the journal information and whatever intel that Widmore has cobbled together from associates or enemies of Ben (like the kid he was beating on in the video).

The other thing I've been wondering about is the ESP subplot in Via Domus. Perhaps it's possible that Ben (or maybe Jacob) is the result of one of those experiments. Juliet didn't see Harper, she saw a telepathic projection of Harper sent there by Ben from his cell in Locke's house. Maybe the whispers are an audio clue that someone is trying to contact her subconsciously?

Another fantastic theory with the ESP! That would make sense. I was half expecting Harper to die in Juliet's flashback to perhaps make her appearance even more of a mystery but I was wrong.

Something from a few episodes ago just came to my mind though. Remember when Ben reveals that he has a man on their boat? Charlotte was right there when he said that (just after he shot her) and she was fully aware of what he was saying because he had just blurted out that he knew her life history. Why wouldn't Charlotte and Daniel be radioing their boat to inform them that they had a traitor? I can't believe I overlooked this.

3 possibilities: The writers overlooked this (I often find myself thinking the writers don't pay as much attention to this stuff as we do) and it will remain unanswered. Perhaps they radioed their boat off camera as another possibility. Finally, Charlotte might already know he has a spy, in fact that spy might be a double agent.

I really enjoyed reading your thoughts on the Lost Via Domus game and how it ties in with the show. It does make a lot of sense.

I did hear though that the events in Lost Via Domus don't have anything to do with the plotline of the TV Show. I hope this is wrong though because to have an ending like it did on the game would've been a waste... and I'm not buying that he just had a Dallas-JR moment and it was all a dream that the game seems to interpret.

I hope you're right! :)

Thanks for the comment emzi, and welcome to the site!

For as short a game as Via Domus was, that ending alone was worth picking it up. I just sat there at my computer screen for a good ten minutes trying to figure out what I had missed. And as far as Via Domus being non-canon, I had heard that too... but then again, Damon and Carlton once said that the show had nothing to do with time-travel, which I think we've clearly seen the opposite. You never know with those writers....