Fifth Season of LOST premieres tonight

Tonight is the Fifth Season premiere of Lost.  My name is Barry, aka "Lost Boy" and I'll be guiding you through this season with speculations, puzzlements, rumors, links and other bloggy goodness related to our favorite band of castaways.

I'll throw out one speculation that I've held for a long time, and that is I think we will find out that some of the major players on the show (adversaries, mainly) were crew of the ill-fated Black Rock slave ship that somehow ended up beached in the middle of the island.  I think it's obvious that somewhere in the past, the island "moved" (via Frozen Donkey Wheel) and appeared right underneath the Black Rock.  Members of the crew and possibly cargo/passengers were either rejuvenated or ressurected by the island's healing properties and live on to this day.

It's also possible the island itself didn't move, but that the Black Rock traveled through some kind of vortex and reappeared in the middle of the island.  Regardless, the ship didn't ride a giant wave from Madagascar to the South Pacific.

Possible candidates for crew/passengers/cargo (I use cargo because, unfortunately, slaves were cargo): Charles Whitmore, Mr. Paik, Christian Shepherd, Abbadon, Richard Alpert, "Jacob", and Chang from the Dharma Station movies.  At one point I may have added Anthony Cooper (Locke's father) to the list, but his death puts him at less important a role than I had thought, but that may change.  Another character is the mysterious Mrs. Hawking from Desmond's flashbacks.  I think most of the other characters have fairly well-established backgrounds and know who they are. 

It is possible some may have chosen to forget, or caused to forget, who they were.  Desmond?  Danielle? Ethan?  Their pasts are mysterious enough to have been murked with at some point.

Anyway, it's known that Charles Widmore sought out the diary of the Black Rock's first officer at auction.  Could it have been his to start with?  Or a shipmate's?  It was in the possession of Tovard Hanso, who was identified as a relative of the captain of the vessel, Magnus Hanso.  Although it's seen in a number of places on the show that Magnus died as a result of the crash (and was possibly buried on the island) it's possible this Tovard Hanso could actually be Magnus, surviving to this day, or was himself on the ship as well and escaped the island.

There's also another Hanso - Alvard Hanso, owner and originator of the Hanso Foundation that sponsored the Dharma Initiative.  Finding the relationship between these three identities and how they relate to the Black Rock - and Charles Widmore's interest in them - is key to unlocking the entire mystery of the island.