Lost: Jeremy Bentham

Posted by Twist Published in TV

Who is Jeremy Bentham besides the new name for John Locke? Wikipedia has some thoughts. Though I am curious why they never refer to him as Locke in the flash forward.

The Panopticon is a type of prison building designed by English philosopher Jeremy Bentham in 1785. The concept of the design is to allow an observer to observe (-opticon) all (pan-) prisoners without the prisoners being able to tell whether they are being watched, thereby conveying what one architect has called the “sentiment of an invisible omniscience.”

Bentham himself described the Panopticon as “a new mode of obtaining power of mind over mind, in a quantity hitherto without example.”

Now I have always said that the coffin looked small to be a man. We are about as tall as our arm span. When Jack puts his hands down on the coffin it seems that his arms would spread longer than the distance of the coffin which has to be bigger than the size of the person. Did Locke have his legs amputated? Would his healing have stopped or reversed when he came back?

Also-

What did Sawyer whisper to Kate on the helicopter?
Did anyone catch the runes in the cold room? Atlantis anyone?
Damn I wanted Ben to have an Evil/Good Twin
If Jack brings Locke back in the coffin, does that make Locke the new Jacob? Maybe he did commit suicide
Why did Miles want to stay on the island?
Have you signed up at for Octagon Global Recruiting yet?

The finale alternate endings.