Welcome to the new "season" of LOSTChatter! This week on the show, we take a look at the cabin.

Who does the cabin really belong to? What's up with the ash? Who really asked for Locke's help in season three? We discuss all this and much more in the first of a series of episodes looking at questions presented in the finale.

LC #27: Whose Cabin Is It?

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Show Notes (contains spoilers through season five!):

Intro/Announcements:

• Thanks for the donations!
• Problems with last week's episode (oops!).
• Nathan's Flickchart.com featured on Lifehacker.com
• Being fair and also plugging Joe's Trailer Trash Talk podcast

News:

• Confirmed by J.J. Abrams: Statue is Tawaret (read more here. Also, more on Abrams' appearance in Wired magazine.
  • [TANGENT] Surprised that they went with a specific, existing god/goddess?
  • [TANGENT] People being scared of spoilers by the mere mention of another show (such as BSG). Don't worry! We'd give warnings first!
• "Doomsday Terminal" iPhone app lets you "hit the button" every 108 minutes. Current record: 1 week, 8 hours, 42 minutes.
  • [TANGENT] Again, why did Ben and the Others let some presumably psycho, completely sleep-deprived stranger hit the button for three years when, if he misses it once, everyone on the island could die?
  • [TANGENT] Will there be more time travel?
• Confirmed by ABC Media Relations: The new ARG is fake.
• Smoke Monster gets his own spin-off series (from The Onion).

Feature: The Cabin

• The implication is that Jacob has always been at the statue. So is the cabin merely a red herring? Or is it perhaps the key to a larger mystery?
• Who really asked Locke for help in season three?
• First cabin appearance: The Man Behind the Curtain (season three)
  • Ben says he'll take Locke to Jacob, and all the while, Richard's just sitting there.
  • Did Ben believe that Jacob was in the cabin (though he couldn't talk to him), or did he know Jacob was somewhere else?
  • Did Ben believe that the person who spoke to Locke was Jacob?
• Ilana refers to "someone else" having been using the cabin. Who was the someone else?
• Who broke the circle of ash?
• Trapped spirits, apparitions, and possession
• Ilana's favor for Jacob
• Listening to Ben
• Second cabin appearance: Cabin Fever
  • Building the cabin
  • Containing the spirit connected to the peace treaty with Dharma?
• Does the cabin move? There's support for either answer.
• Back to the ash
• Where does Christian Shepard fit in?
• ...and Locke?
• Remember that producers' list of "undead vs. apparition vs. Monster"? (read it here)
• A Walt tangent
• A tangent about the series finale: plot vs. characters

Closing:

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• Next Up: listener suggestions + more finale questions