Lost Bulletin: Libby Lives!

And the cavalcade of great actors coming (or returning) to Lost for its three, 16-episode season endgame continues.

I'm personally interested to see what was true and what was false in regards to Libby - was she loony? A psychologist? Both? And how did she so coincidentally come along to offer Desmond a boat, RIGHT when he needed one?

Something is rotten in the state of Libby's backstory, and it's not her dead and buried (on the island) corpse. (Of course, she COULD be alive in the REAL, non-island world...ooooooh, spooky.)

P.S. Thanks for putting up a Lost related post, just to tide me over until new episodes in February, or the Season 3 DVD release in December.

P.P.S. Maybe Libby's "ghost" turns up on the island to haunt Michael? Or Hurley? Or both? People don't tend to stay dead on Lost, as we've all seen.

Now to get Cane cancelled so Richard can return to the island.

Seriously, though, that's good; it'll be nice to see her story finished.

Woo! This makes me excited. Aside from dear departed Eko, she was the tailsection member that I was most curious about. Whose backstory is she going to pop up in next?

I have to say James, I did a cartoon style double take and then dramatically rubbed my eyes when I saw this in my RSS feed. A Lost post? Hot damn!

I too am very curious to find out more about Libby. I'd like to believe that she really was starting to love Hurley but, more likely considering that not much good happens on the island, she might have been trying to recruit him (and his money.)

I almost don't want to watch Cane just to keep the ratings low. Selfish yes, but who cares about Rum? Drinking it, sure, but watching Jimmy Smitts make it? Nah, I'll take Richard the Unaging.

@William

Well, I think that question answers the rest. Just who's backstory would she show up in? The options are limtied:
A) Some psychologist has to be introduced that immediately violates every confidentiality code in the book by detailing exactly what happened in her past (and, again, just what would that be that's worth mentioning?).
B) Some new character is introduced that used to be friends with Libby, before she went crazy. But unless there is more to Libby, those flashbacks would show, what, them going out shopping? Maybe she had an affair that caused her husband to commit suicide, and the other man/woman shows up as a new character, but how is that worth multiple visits by Watros?
or C) Libby was indeed Dharma/Hanso, and we've seen her at only a few of her jobs: namely, containing any Numbers leakage at the psych hospital and giving Desmond the boat to serve as Widdmore's hand picked patsy in my (admittedly not well liked around here) intentionally crashed 815 plot. Libby could show up in all sorts of spots under this scenario, as newly introduced Dharma staff detail their history with her engaged in various 815-related backstory shenanigans (She was the one who set Hurley's house on fire!, It was actually her in the horse in Kate's flashback!, etc.)

Honestly, C is the most probable outcome, which kind of gives away why they are bringing Libby back. So why would they go out of their way to announce that yes, its all Dharma, and you are finding that out this season? I don't get it.

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Ooh exciting. She's going to come back to the island with Michael.

@TomShaw - I'm not so sure that C is the most probable outcome. We still don't know who is the "man behind the curtain," so to speak - is it Dharma/Hanso? Widmore? Sun's father? Who exactly is it that Ben and the Others are so afraid of coming to the island?

If we can't answer that question with any degree of certainty, we certainly can't be certain of what role Libby will play in the backstory of other characters or if, instead, she might actually appear in flash FORWARDS or the present...remember, dead people have a strange way of "reappearing" on this show. I mean, we're not even sure if Jack's father is dead in the "future", based on the finale (admittedly, it could just be strung out Jack rantings, but there is still a possibility that Jack's father in the "future" is not dead, and the time on the island somehow changed the progression of time/events in the real world.)

And there's always the (admittedly somewhat lame) possibility that Libby has a twin. I mean, for all we know, the "Libby" we saw in the loony bin wasn't Libby at all - maybe she was Libby's crazy twin, and thus the motivation for Libby to become a psychologist....far-fetched? Yes.

While I agree that Libby will probably fit in with the "Naomi's boat-people's" backstory, I'm just not so certain, particularly after the way Cuse and Lindelhof have toyed with dramatic conventions with this show (i.e. killing off main characters mercilessly; setting up Charlie to die one episode and then sparing him, only to kill him the next; alternating between flash backs and flash forwards, etc.)

So what am I saying? Let's trust the writers. Postulate all the theories in the world, but let's trust that what ends up happening is well thought out.