Okay, fine! I have a BA degree in Psychology but it took RL, the math master, to bring it to my attention that I haven’t done the blog of the season finale as my subconscious way of avoiding the season ending. I just kept making excuse after excuse. But once this is written (and read) it is over until 2008. I went through mini withdrawals last year, but nothing this year. Thanks a lot RL! I was happy in my little denial bubble! But alas all good things must come to and end. And since its 10:00 p.m. Wednesday night, only fitting to get this done now.
I just wanted to give a quick shout-out to everyone who came to the party. It was fun, although extremely quick! We got to the first question of the first game and the show started! But I thank you and it would not have been as much fun if I didn’t get to view it with all of you. Looking for more bodies in ‘08 though! We won’t bite.
Although I did go through some sort of denial thing, I needed a moment to process and to think things through. I don’t know how I felt about being semi-right. I don’t know how I feel about being semi-wrong. But boy was it a stunning season finale. Not since Melrose Place when the camera pans wide showing Sidney and Michael kissing and the reflection in the window is Kimberly watching from the beach, who was presumed dead. For those of you who didn’t watch or remember, it was pretty shocking. But Wednesday we had so many shocks and great moments, it almost too much to comprehend! So let’s get to it!
Recap
Charlie is off to the Looking Glass station to save the day. Does and dies. Penny is seen again as she was in Season 2 season finale. Sayid, Jin and Bernard kill more Others and survive with the help of Hurley the hero. Ben tries to intercept Jack and crew but gets captured and beat down. Rousseau and Alex finally meet. Walt helps Locke regain faith in the island and he ends up killing Naomi and letting Jack live. Jack calls for help and someone answers but it may not be a good thing. Flash forward and we see Jack a hot mess in the future. He attends someone’s funeral and is trying like hell to get back to the island. Kate is there too but living a good life and doesn’t want to go back or talk to Jack. Episode ends and we are left staring at the screen in awesome wonder.
Summary
''I am a dentist; I am not Rambo.'' – I liked how they allowed the characters to be who they are. I would have loved it if Bernard had some backbone and didn’t crack when Jin was threatened. But that is who he is. I like Rose and Bernard’s balance on the show. Their relationship is really grounding.
''What did you do before you became Moses?” – Yet another biblical reference. I knew something was up with Naomi. The story she gave didn’t ring true for me. I believe it was just her attempt to encourage the Losties to leave the island and re-join their old lives. She made them sound like heroes. Another point, the guy on the boat didn’t seem shocked when Jack said he was a survivor of Oceanic 815. Kind of like how Tom was so cool when he encountered the raft and took Walt. I think another indication that Naomi was lying about them being presumed dead. I found it interesting how Locke was able to kill Naomi in cold blood but not Jack or his father. He wanted Jack to make the correct decision as opposed to forcing him too.
“That's for taking the kid off the raft.” – I was so glad Sawyer did it, but it was also cold blooded. I am hoping he is not the next to die as he moves away from redemption like Ecko. I just don’t get how Kate can continue to be so clueless about how Sawyer feels about her. I also like the subtle way he wants to protect her because she might be caring his baby. I thought it was sweet when Jack said he loved her knowing he can never be with her.
“Would you like to help me tie him up?” – Odd reunion. So Ben always knew about Rousseau. He just allowed her to live in the jungle unharmed. I find that strange? She didn’t know who Ben was but he definitely knew who she was when she captured him. The lovesick look in her eyes was so sad. It will be interesting to see how Alex evolves. She hates Ben but still loves him.
Connections
The numbers were all over the episode. The numbers were in the code that Charlie had to push in to un-jam the blocking system as well as license plates. The son of the woman who Jack saved is 8 years old and the woman is 42. Action 8 news reported the accident, same news crew that Tricia Tanaka worked for. Jack had 8 stitches in his forehead. The numbers were in Kate’s phone number. The person in casket died at 4 a.m. There is also a theory that the woman in the accident is Juliette’s sister Rachel.
Some other connections, the woman behind Jack in the airplane was the same woman behind him on Oceanic Flight 815. Not sure what this means but a connection to keep in mind later. I think it was just to mess with us. They have used the same background actors before and it meant nothing. The funeral parlor was called Hoffs/Drawlar which is an anagram for "flash forward". The surgeon who operated on the woman Jack saved has the same last name as Bernard. As we all noticed, Jack’s phone is a Motorola KRAZR. An indication of the present time. The newspaper Jack is reading is actually real and from the LA Times April 5, 2007. The phony story was the obituary; there was actually a story about a drug bust in its place. The text is as follows:
Los Angeles
Man found dead in downtown loft
The body of John Lantham of New York was discovered shortly after 4 a.m. in the 4200 block of Grand Avenue.
Ted Worden, a doorman at the Tower Lofts complex, heard loud noises coming from the Lantham's loft. Concerned for the tenants' safety, he entered the loft and discovered the body hanging from a beam in the living room.
According to Jaime Ortiz, a police spokesman, the incident was deemed a suicide. Lantham is survived by one teenaged son.
Memorial services will be held at the Hoffs-Drawlar Funeral Home tomorrow afternoon."
I believe most of it is accurate EXCEPT the teenage son. This is the most quoted transcription of the article, but I think someone threw that part in to convince everyone it was Michael. I believe it just may be because he supposedly got off the island. He is the Lostie with no real ties to the community and the funeral home was in a more urban part of town. Since Jack told Kate he hated lying, I wonder if some assumed a new identity when they got back. I would assume, like Jack, Michael came home with a lot of regrets. All spoilers said that Walt and Michael would be back for the season finale. We saw Walt, maybe Michael was in the casket?
Questions
I am going to break this down into 2 parts: My theory and everyone elses’. Let’s start with the opposition.
Jack’s flash forward is not set and the future can be changed. Christian may be alive since Jack may be living an alternate reality. Charlie can come back. Walt was future Walt. The moon is made of cheese. WRONG! Now I may be proven wrong, again, but I am going with my horse.
My theory. Christian is dead. TPTB (the powers that be) have said that he is dead. I think Jack is so despondent that he is referring to his dead father in the present tense. He says it kind of mockingly in way and as if he knows an inside joke. Charlie is dead. I read the actor’s interviews and his character is dead. If he comes back, it will be in a flashback or like Boone. Maybe he can become a guide for Claire if she gets in trouble in the future, kind of like how Walt was with Shannon. Speaking of Walt, Walt was not Walt from the future. Since Lost is just a TV show they can not prevent someone from aging. The camera angle was shot so that his height would appear shorter. He was wearing the same shirt he was wearing on the island. I haven’t figured out what he is leading Locke to or why? Or maybe it was just Smokey coming in the image that would most motivate Locke to renew his faith in the island. Finally, the moon is not made of cheese.
Penny was sending a transmission TO the island. She was probably in her father’s office. There was a picture with the word Namaste on it in Widemor’s office and that was the official greeting of the island when Workman and Ben arrived. Charlie had unblocked the symbol probably at the same time Jack got to the station and tried again. So the channel was finally opened out, maybe also in. Why that moment was she there and how did she know to call in?
And now to the biggest question regarding Jack’s flash forward. I believe everything that is happening on the island is a flashback. Every time a character spaces out, they are having a flashback. I believe Jack was spacing during his meltdown and was flashing back to when he made the wrong choice that led him off the island. So now what happened in the 4 years since the satellite phone transmission to the boat needs to be revealed. I believe that’s season 4. Season 5 may be the present (future). Season 6, back on the island. We may not see present Jack again until the end of the season 4, much like how we saw current time with Penny only during the season finales.
Let me explain a little more. I was so mad to see the present day and know that some made it off the island. I was like, How could they show us the end?!? Now all the mystery is gone. I think that is why some are saying it’s not true and it can be changed. But then I realized. Lost has done the impossible! My biggest concern about watching this show was once they were rescued, show over. How long could they really drag out rescue (3 seasons so far!). But they did the unthinkable. They showed us the end but in such a way that it creates more questions then answers. It’s not the point that some are rescued, but how?..what happened?…who else?….why do they want to go back? Genius!!!!
And on the other hand, they showed us the end and people are screaming, Nope! That’s not the end! It’s not true! We are so familiar with questioning everything; they have to convince us even when they give us answers. Genius!!!!
Some say they would never do Jack that way. Of course they would! WE need the happy ending. WE need them to have found find peace and redemption and closure. But life isn’t that way. They’ve killed some of our favorites, why not make Jack a mess. I am eager to know what happens on the island, how and who gets off, and what happens to them all in the end. I didn’t think they would EVER show us the future. Our Seattle members called it, good work J.Y. And I was bummed! But then, after some time, and instead of just saying that’s one option the future will change, I looked at it at face value. And it made me even more excited. Who made it out? The airlines gave them Golden Passes, so there was a crash, so what of the other Losties? Or was that covered up and they were given the Golden Passes as part of a settlement? What is the lie? And the question could now change from will they get rescued, to now who and how they got rescued, to what happens in real time-does Jack get back to the island and what is waiting for him there.
One thing that sticks in my mind was that the code in the Looking Glass was programmed by a musician. I thought maybe Charlie had programmed it in another reality. Kind of like an episode of Star Trek Generation when a life form wanted to remain unknown so Picard convinced them to erase their memories instead of killing them. But some trace memories were left so they kept re-constructing what happened. Or even more current, Matrix 2. Neo is reliving his discover and struggle with the matrix over and over, attempting to change the future by making different choices. Of course it could have just been programmed by a musician, end of story. But with Desmond supposedly time shifting, I still see that being a factor in the show…just not clear how.
Conclusion
Once again more questions than answers. But a great season overall. I may re-watch the entire 3 seasons during the hiatus just to see if there are any clues to the bigger picture now that we see more. I say we break open the shrink wrap on the Lost board game and play that sometime. Of course we can come up with an email option for those who are distance-challenged. I will keep you up-to-date on different things that come up throughout the summer. Thank you all for you great conversations and for your love of the show. I can’t wait for next year! And with that I will take my leave…hat tip, bow, curtsy, princess wave, kiss blow…C-ya!
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Thursday, May 31, 2007
Thursday, May 17, 2007
Greatest Hits
Hey all. I have long since stopped getting this to you on time so I will save the apologies and lame excuses. It’s all ABC’s fault for putting it on so late. Next year they are moving it back to 9pm so that is totally workable. This is going to be a quick one since it was just a build up episode. Don’t forget, Lost Season Finale party is this Wednesday the 23rd at 7:30. Look for another email alerting you when the website is up with directions etc. It’s going to be sooo fun! All are welcome! On to the show….
Summary
I thought it was a really touching episode. I thought they did an excellent job with Charlie and allowing him to make some really touching goodbyes to Claire, Aaron and Hurley. I am really not sure if he is going to make it to the end of this series. There have to be some really big losses and he’s death would make sense. I hope they don’t pull a Michael and Walt and just make him disappear for a really long time. That, I won’t stand for. You can’t even say that he is a major character so they CAN’T kill him because on Lost island, everyone is vulnerable. But it was good to see that interchange and see Jack act normal again. I still hate it that they are trusting Juliet because I still think she is up to something. I think Rose brings stability and wisdom to the episode. I think it’s too easy to kill off one of them but someone has gotta go next week and it is definitely not Locke. If he had a flashback or goodbye scenes like Charlie, then maybe. But no way he would just be dead in an open grave.
Connections
There were some pretty good ones this time around. The license plate on the car was YRE2OL. When I first saw it an was working it out during the commercial break I realized it was “You’re Too Old” which makes sense since it was a young rock band’s van. But I also saw, “You’re a Tool”. But that is way too mean and believe that Lost would not go there, not to mention a stretch! It was symbolic to see Alex cutting up the white rabbit in front of Ben. It was a pointed passive aggressive move against her father. Not too many white rabbits hopping around the island for food. The Looking Glass Station was another reference to Alice in Wonderland. Also on the map there was a dharma logo of a rabbit which also support the connection. The Looking Glass station is the portal to the outside world. I think teleportation or time travel is still a stretch but this is the dock for the submarine, so where does it go from there? The numbers were all over the place, Charlie was 8 years old when he learned to swim, he could hold his breath for 4 minutes, he was the fourth person to walk by and actually helped the mugging victim, the volume indicator on the van was at level 23. The mugging victim was Nadia, Sayid’s girl. The song Charlie was singing was Wonderwall and the same song he was singing when Desmond was there. The bumper sticker on his guitar case said, :I was here moments ago.” Naomi was in the crowd of people as well. Which is incredible suspicious to me.
Ben showed again he uses Jacob to justify his own wishes. And not sure if Alex was asking or confirming if Ben was her father. I believe she was asking since Sayid put the thought in her head and obviously everyone knew but was not telling her. Karl obviously did. I further believe that Ben is trying to keep her away from Karl due to her possible dying in childbirth. I looked to see if the woman on the Looking Glass Station, Greta and Bonnie, were around before and I didn’t see any proof of that. They look familiar because they have been in a lot of other things, but not Lost.
Questions
Charlie
Desmond’s premonitions are not always accurate. So does a helicopter mean that Claire/Aaron were rescued or that they are taken by the Others. No one else is there? And what if they choose not to leave? What if they commit to one another and live on the island as people did before the incursion? I do believe that Desmond can’t keep stopping the future from happening, but I am not convinced that Charlie actually needs to die.
Naomi
So, if she is in the crowd when Charlie was singing, could she also, like Desmond, be connected to the time travel thing? No one has focused on time. They have only been lost 90 days. A greatest hits album? I thought they were a one hit wonder. I wonder if more time has passed back home then on the island. And her being in the same place as another “time traveler” is suspicious. Could be a ying/yang thing. That was the symbolism of the shirt Charlie was wearing. Like the old Quantum Leap, could Desmond be a good “jumper” and Naomi a bad one? Just watch her is all I’m saying. When Charlie was singing and it started to rain, Desmond appeared. So this ending was different this time. Was this a result of something he did? Could it be the Naomi factor? Or could it be what would have happened if Desmond hadn’t interrupted? No answers but just things to think about.
Conclusion
Overall a great build up to the season finale. I will be watching the connection/recap show that is on tonight just because the last one had some really neat connections that I missed the first viewing. I am really going to miss this show after next week. But we can always play the board game in my office during prep periods. Just to keep the fires burning until Jan 08. I hope to see you all at the party. Until next week, c-ya!
Summary
I thought it was a really touching episode. I thought they did an excellent job with Charlie and allowing him to make some really touching goodbyes to Claire, Aaron and Hurley. I am really not sure if he is going to make it to the end of this series. There have to be some really big losses and he’s death would make sense. I hope they don’t pull a Michael and Walt and just make him disappear for a really long time. That, I won’t stand for. You can’t even say that he is a major character so they CAN’T kill him because on Lost island, everyone is vulnerable. But it was good to see that interchange and see Jack act normal again. I still hate it that they are trusting Juliet because I still think she is up to something. I think Rose brings stability and wisdom to the episode. I think it’s too easy to kill off one of them but someone has gotta go next week and it is definitely not Locke. If he had a flashback or goodbye scenes like Charlie, then maybe. But no way he would just be dead in an open grave.
Connections
There were some pretty good ones this time around. The license plate on the car was YRE2OL. When I first saw it an was working it out during the commercial break I realized it was “You’re Too Old” which makes sense since it was a young rock band’s van. But I also saw, “You’re a Tool”. But that is way too mean and believe that Lost would not go there, not to mention a stretch! It was symbolic to see Alex cutting up the white rabbit in front of Ben. It was a pointed passive aggressive move against her father. Not too many white rabbits hopping around the island for food. The Looking Glass Station was another reference to Alice in Wonderland. Also on the map there was a dharma logo of a rabbit which also support the connection. The Looking Glass station is the portal to the outside world. I think teleportation or time travel is still a stretch but this is the dock for the submarine, so where does it go from there? The numbers were all over the place, Charlie was 8 years old when he learned to swim, he could hold his breath for 4 minutes, he was the fourth person to walk by and actually helped the mugging victim, the volume indicator on the van was at level 23. The mugging victim was Nadia, Sayid’s girl. The song Charlie was singing was Wonderwall and the same song he was singing when Desmond was there. The bumper sticker on his guitar case said, :I was here moments ago.” Naomi was in the crowd of people as well. Which is incredible suspicious to me.
Ben showed again he uses Jacob to justify his own wishes. And not sure if Alex was asking or confirming if Ben was her father. I believe she was asking since Sayid put the thought in her head and obviously everyone knew but was not telling her. Karl obviously did. I further believe that Ben is trying to keep her away from Karl due to her possible dying in childbirth. I looked to see if the woman on the Looking Glass Station, Greta and Bonnie, were around before and I didn’t see any proof of that. They look familiar because they have been in a lot of other things, but not Lost.
Questions
Charlie
Desmond’s premonitions are not always accurate. So does a helicopter mean that Claire/Aaron were rescued or that they are taken by the Others. No one else is there? And what if they choose not to leave? What if they commit to one another and live on the island as people did before the incursion? I do believe that Desmond can’t keep stopping the future from happening, but I am not convinced that Charlie actually needs to die.
Naomi
So, if she is in the crowd when Charlie was singing, could she also, like Desmond, be connected to the time travel thing? No one has focused on time. They have only been lost 90 days. A greatest hits album? I thought they were a one hit wonder. I wonder if more time has passed back home then on the island. And her being in the same place as another “time traveler” is suspicious. Could be a ying/yang thing. That was the symbolism of the shirt Charlie was wearing. Like the old Quantum Leap, could Desmond be a good “jumper” and Naomi a bad one? Just watch her is all I’m saying. When Charlie was singing and it started to rain, Desmond appeared. So this ending was different this time. Was this a result of something he did? Could it be the Naomi factor? Or could it be what would have happened if Desmond hadn’t interrupted? No answers but just things to think about.
Conclusion
Overall a great build up to the season finale. I will be watching the connection/recap show that is on tonight just because the last one had some really neat connections that I missed the first viewing. I am really going to miss this show after next week. But we can always play the board game in my office during prep periods. Just to keep the fires burning until Jan 08. I hope to see you all at the party. Until next week, c-ya!
Friday, May 11, 2007
The Man Behind the Curtain
Okay, I am still shaking. WOW! Let me just say this now and then follow up later, LOCKE IS NOT DEAD! No spoiler, but I am one with this show and I KNOW he is not gone. By a LONG SHOT. Oh yeah…by the way….LOCKE IS JACOB! I don’t need to watch the show anymore! I got it. Wow!
Okay…I am going to gather my thoughts and then we will tackle this completely long blog. There is a nice trend that they are sharing information with each other. That was really starting to get annoying.
Summary
For starters, I forgot to blog last week. Blame it on my coworkers as we discuss LOST at work on Thursday and I forgot to write it up. I will touch on last week’s episode as it relates to this week. I want credit for the Wizard of Oz connection. I pointed it out to R.L. earlier today so I get credit. What I was saying is that Ben, formerly known as Henry Gale, got that name from the Wizard of Oz, I believe Dorothy’s uncle. The whole episode when he was caught was similar to Oz as he landed in a strange place in a hot air balloon, supposedly. I made the connection that like the Wizard of Oz, Dorothy was asked to kill the Wicked Witch of the West so that she could go home which is similar to Locke having to bring his dead father to learn the secrets of the island. Now I have never seen the Wizard of Oz, only The Wiz. Chalk it up to cultural differences. This episode, The Man Behind the Curtain, again references more that movie as Richard Pryor as the Wiz was a fake. The answer to going home was that they had the power all along. I will take it a step further and say that you are the master of your own fate. And that is why I believe that Locke is Jacob. Now it may be that Jacob changes depending on who sees him, I’m not sure. But that was Locke in that chair. He’s appearance was older and a little altered, but the bump in the nose, balding hair underneath an old wig, that was Locke. He also used smoke and a booming voice to square the gang from getting closer and seeing behind the curtain. I believe what Jacob did in the cabin was meant to have the same effect.
I am going to be jumping all over the place so forgive me in advance. I believe Alex gave Locke the gun to protect him from Ben not Jacob. She knew that if he really was to be the new leader, he would need to protect himself from Ben. For a minute I thought it was going to be Walt. The painting of a golden retriever, then him speaking to him like he was a child, “Stop it, you’ve had your fun”. An interesting tone to take with an omnipotent being. There are also reasons to support that it was Locke. He told Locke that like him, Jacob doesn’t like technology such as batteries or electricity. It looked similar to Locke. My theory is of time shift so that it could be him from a different dimension. Richard Alpert isn’t aging so there is something definitely going on about that. Remember Echo telling Locke “Your Next”. Perhaps the next to be the new leader, not the next to die. Of course him lying in the pit definitely points to the latter. But Paolo and Nikkie were there too and they were next to die. The biggest thing that proves it wasn’t is a close up of Jacob’s eye. It had brown eyes and Locke’s are blue.
Some have theorized that it was the captain from the original Black Rock ship. Richard Alpert being an ageless pirate. They landed on the island and have adjusted to living forever. They don’t believe they are hostiles since they were on the island first. Perhaps that is why Ben is their leader. He has helped them evolve throughout the years, similar to Interview with the Vampire. Or perhaps because they were worshipping this entity that only Ben can see and communicate with.
Locke couldn’t see Jacob because he didn’t actually kill his father. He wasn’t ready to learn the truth. Ben didn’t expect for Locke to be able to hear him. I believe it was Locke, yet again, and the “help me” was not for Jacob, but what Locke would utter in the future after being shot. It did seem like Jacob was contained, but by what and why? What is the connection between Jacob and the smoke monster?
I do believe that Ben is lying. I think he tells the people what he wants them to hear, not what Jacob really wants. Jacob’s list is a lie and I believe who Ben wanted. In that sense, Ben is controlling things. Ben protects children since he had such a jerk for a father (daddy issues). And maybe his obsession with the mothers is so that no other child needs to go through what he went through, being led to believe they killed their mother by being born.
Let’s back up. They gave us so much this week. Let’s talk about all the connections. Just outside of Portland is where the recruiting takes place. This is where Ben’s father was recruited and where Juliet was as well. The mile sign added together equals the numbers. We see that Roger Workman is Ben’s dad. Three Dog Night's song "Shambala" was playing in the van when Ben and his dad went for a beer and when Hurley made it run again. Both of Ben’s parents died on his birthday. We see Ben’s fascination with the bunny. Also following the white rabbit is a reference to Alice in Wonderland. Noticeably not shown was the DeGroots or Mr. Wickman/Marvin Candle. They did explain Mikhail being alive. I loved the whole Planet of the Apes thing between Locke and him. Locke was right. He did have to beat up Mikhail to prove his was ready to take over. Naomi doesn’t seem like a plant and there has to be some sore sort of set-up going on. Either that or perhaps a parallel universe in which the plane did crash into the ocean. I wonder how the message birds will figure into all of this. The coordinates from last week that Naomi was following was, "Latitude 4.815, Longitude 162.342” the numbers. We know that the numbers also led Rousseau’s ship there. Ben and Locke have mothers named Emily. Emily=Em, Aunt Em and the wizard of Oz. Jin didn’t know he was sterile that is why he was shocked. I believe in Korean what he said was, “who’s else would it be?” After Juliet said she conceived it with her husband Jin. Remember the Sun said she had Endometriosis but it was Jin that was sterile.
Questions
Are you kidding?!? How is Richard Alpert the same age as he was when he first met Ben? The uterus x-ray that was brought to Juliet was presumed to be an old woman but in fact was very young. How can Richard Alpert move back and forth off of the island? .
The whispers were back. Is it just the Others or really a parallel universe? I read some transcripts of the whispers and it sounds like people watching and commenting on what they see. They may be of the dead.
Richard helps Locke because he feels the mission of the Others has been misdirected by Ben and fertility issues. Sawyer dealt with his dad issues by killing him. That was a pretty emotional moment. Watch out for Sawyer dealing with his issue and now possibly ready to die. I still am suspicious of Jack. This alliance with Juliet has hurt his credibility too much. Juliet wants to help herself, so she should still not be trusted. She KNOWS Jack and Claire are brother and sister. If she tells him, I may trust her more. But the more she keeps that quiet, the more I still think she is up to no good. She always knows what to say or do to create the illusion of trust.
Conclusion
I don’t know who or what Jacob is. He may or may not be Locke. But I do not Locke is not dead. And even though we got a huge piece of the puzzle, there is still a lot more to learn. I am having a LOST season finale party at my new digs. Food, drink, prizes and fun! Also no fast forwarding this time so that we don’t have another “incident”! And I don’t want to hear about how late it is….LOST will be gone until January!!! You will have plenty of time to catch up on your rest. I didn’t watch the preview because they are so misleading. But I still can’t wait to see what happens next. So until next week, c-ya!
Okay…I am going to gather my thoughts and then we will tackle this completely long blog. There is a nice trend that they are sharing information with each other. That was really starting to get annoying.
Summary
For starters, I forgot to blog last week. Blame it on my coworkers as we discuss LOST at work on Thursday and I forgot to write it up. I will touch on last week’s episode as it relates to this week. I want credit for the Wizard of Oz connection. I pointed it out to R.L. earlier today so I get credit. What I was saying is that Ben, formerly known as Henry Gale, got that name from the Wizard of Oz, I believe Dorothy’s uncle. The whole episode when he was caught was similar to Oz as he landed in a strange place in a hot air balloon, supposedly. I made the connection that like the Wizard of Oz, Dorothy was asked to kill the Wicked Witch of the West so that she could go home which is similar to Locke having to bring his dead father to learn the secrets of the island. Now I have never seen the Wizard of Oz, only The Wiz. Chalk it up to cultural differences. This episode, The Man Behind the Curtain, again references more that movie as Richard Pryor as the Wiz was a fake. The answer to going home was that they had the power all along. I will take it a step further and say that you are the master of your own fate. And that is why I believe that Locke is Jacob. Now it may be that Jacob changes depending on who sees him, I’m not sure. But that was Locke in that chair. He’s appearance was older and a little altered, but the bump in the nose, balding hair underneath an old wig, that was Locke. He also used smoke and a booming voice to square the gang from getting closer and seeing behind the curtain. I believe what Jacob did in the cabin was meant to have the same effect.
I am going to be jumping all over the place so forgive me in advance. I believe Alex gave Locke the gun to protect him from Ben not Jacob. She knew that if he really was to be the new leader, he would need to protect himself from Ben. For a minute I thought it was going to be Walt. The painting of a golden retriever, then him speaking to him like he was a child, “Stop it, you’ve had your fun”. An interesting tone to take with an omnipotent being. There are also reasons to support that it was Locke. He told Locke that like him, Jacob doesn’t like technology such as batteries or electricity. It looked similar to Locke. My theory is of time shift so that it could be him from a different dimension. Richard Alpert isn’t aging so there is something definitely going on about that. Remember Echo telling Locke “Your Next”. Perhaps the next to be the new leader, not the next to die. Of course him lying in the pit definitely points to the latter. But Paolo and Nikkie were there too and they were next to die. The biggest thing that proves it wasn’t is a close up of Jacob’s eye. It had brown eyes and Locke’s are blue.
Some have theorized that it was the captain from the original Black Rock ship. Richard Alpert being an ageless pirate. They landed on the island and have adjusted to living forever. They don’t believe they are hostiles since they were on the island first. Perhaps that is why Ben is their leader. He has helped them evolve throughout the years, similar to Interview with the Vampire. Or perhaps because they were worshipping this entity that only Ben can see and communicate with.
Locke couldn’t see Jacob because he didn’t actually kill his father. He wasn’t ready to learn the truth. Ben didn’t expect for Locke to be able to hear him. I believe it was Locke, yet again, and the “help me” was not for Jacob, but what Locke would utter in the future after being shot. It did seem like Jacob was contained, but by what and why? What is the connection between Jacob and the smoke monster?
I do believe that Ben is lying. I think he tells the people what he wants them to hear, not what Jacob really wants. Jacob’s list is a lie and I believe who Ben wanted. In that sense, Ben is controlling things. Ben protects children since he had such a jerk for a father (daddy issues). And maybe his obsession with the mothers is so that no other child needs to go through what he went through, being led to believe they killed their mother by being born.
Let’s back up. They gave us so much this week. Let’s talk about all the connections. Just outside of Portland is where the recruiting takes place. This is where Ben’s father was recruited and where Juliet was as well. The mile sign added together equals the numbers. We see that Roger Workman is Ben’s dad. Three Dog Night's song "Shambala" was playing in the van when Ben and his dad went for a beer and when Hurley made it run again. Both of Ben’s parents died on his birthday. We see Ben’s fascination with the bunny. Also following the white rabbit is a reference to Alice in Wonderland. Noticeably not shown was the DeGroots or Mr. Wickman/Marvin Candle. They did explain Mikhail being alive. I loved the whole Planet of the Apes thing between Locke and him. Locke was right. He did have to beat up Mikhail to prove his was ready to take over. Naomi doesn’t seem like a plant and there has to be some sore sort of set-up going on. Either that or perhaps a parallel universe in which the plane did crash into the ocean. I wonder how the message birds will figure into all of this. The coordinates from last week that Naomi was following was, "Latitude 4.815, Longitude 162.342” the numbers. We know that the numbers also led Rousseau’s ship there. Ben and Locke have mothers named Emily. Emily=Em, Aunt Em and the wizard of Oz. Jin didn’t know he was sterile that is why he was shocked. I believe in Korean what he said was, “who’s else would it be?” After Juliet said she conceived it with her husband Jin. Remember the Sun said she had Endometriosis but it was Jin that was sterile.
Questions
Are you kidding?!? How is Richard Alpert the same age as he was when he first met Ben? The uterus x-ray that was brought to Juliet was presumed to be an old woman but in fact was very young. How can Richard Alpert move back and forth off of the island? .
The whispers were back. Is it just the Others or really a parallel universe? I read some transcripts of the whispers and it sounds like people watching and commenting on what they see. They may be of the dead.
Richard helps Locke because he feels the mission of the Others has been misdirected by Ben and fertility issues. Sawyer dealt with his dad issues by killing him. That was a pretty emotional moment. Watch out for Sawyer dealing with his issue and now possibly ready to die. I still am suspicious of Jack. This alliance with Juliet has hurt his credibility too much. Juliet wants to help herself, so she should still not be trusted. She KNOWS Jack and Claire are brother and sister. If she tells him, I may trust her more. But the more she keeps that quiet, the more I still think she is up to no good. She always knows what to say or do to create the illusion of trust.
Conclusion
I don’t know who or what Jacob is. He may or may not be Locke. But I do not Locke is not dead. And even though we got a huge piece of the puzzle, there is still a lot more to learn. I am having a LOST season finale party at my new digs. Food, drink, prizes and fun! Also no fast forwarding this time so that we don’t have another “incident”! And I don’t want to hear about how late it is….LOST will be gone until January!!! You will have plenty of time to catch up on your rest. I didn’t watch the preview because they are so misleading. But I still can’t wait to see what happens next. So until next week, c-ya!
Wednesday, May 02, 2007
D.O.C. (From Last Week)
Hey everybody! For those of you who don’t know, I went to the Bahamas last week for my dad’s wedding. Had a great time, but now I am back! So back to work. No, not the one I get paid for, the Lost Blog. So below is the blog from last week. I was going to just throw something up but it was SUCH a great episode I really needed to focus and really absorb it. And I can’t combine it with this week because whatever I thought was going on last week, could be not true this week!
Summary
To refresh your memory, it was called D.O.C. (Date of Conception) and it featured a flashback of Sun and Jin, interaction between Sun and Juliette, Naomi and the guys in the jungle. I thought it was excellent. Some funny lines, Hurley testing the satellite phone by saying, “Mom?” and Mikhail commenting on Naomi healing fast, “yeah, you’re right…it might take a day and a half”. I loved Jin kicking his butt. It’s about time the Losties were on the winning end of a fight.
Connections
This is the first time a father-son issue is positive. The baby is Jin’s and his father seemed to love him. This is a direct contradiction to everyone else who has had daddy issues. In fact, Jin seems to be doing pretty good on the island. Everyone comes to him for help, he is learning English, can kick an Others ass, his wife loves him again and is carrying his baby. Not sure what it means, but it may be important in the future. The parallel in the story is that HIS father doesn’t know if he is his true father and Sun didn’t know if he was the true father of her baby. Every time Sun is in the garden something bad happens. She was attacked by Charlie, Jin destroyed it once during a fight, always something significant.
Naomi saying that the plane was found and everyone is dead was eerie. It was similar to the walkie talkie scene when they said we are the survivors of 815 and the response was no, we are the survivors of 815, which turned out to be the Tailies. Could some of the survivors been found and lead everyone to believe that everyone else was dead? How do Cindy and the kids figure into this? Remember they seemed not to be affected by the fact that they were still stranded. It really got me thinking about time travel. Maybe they will be found in the future and those that want to stay will stay and the ones that leave swear to never reveal the island and that everyone else is dead. It’s a stretch…but anything is possible on Lost island.
Sun was trying to protect Jin by paying the blackmailer (Jin’s mom). But by doing so, sold out Jin, which lead him to work for her father, which ended in the destruction of their marriage. Not a true Catch-22 but similar to other Losties trying to do something to avoid something else and then something worse happening.
Naomi was speaking 5 languages (English is 1):
“I am dying” in Spanish, “Help me, I’m dying” in Italian, “What happened” in Chinese, “I am not alone” in Portuguese.
Questions
Pregnancy
Now, we know Juliette hates Ben. She is doing whatever she can to stay alive and to get off the island. I believe everything she said the Sun was accurate and correct. If the room was where women came to die, could that be why quarantine is written on the inside of the hatches leading out? Perhaps they at one time thought that something outside was killing the unborn children.
I don’t believe they knew Sun was pregnant and it will be an added surprise for Ben. He said he would get Juliette more women to study. I think we know what Ben meant when he told Kate on the beach that it was going to be a rough 2 weeks. I think they were playing with her emotions and waiting for her to ovulate. Then they encouraged a situation in which she would have sex. She was in a cage and if you have been watching how they try to make panda bears mate, it makes sense. Every action movie the male & female characters fall into each others arms at some point, same thing here. Additionally, Danny wanted to kill Sawyer since they no longer needed him. If men have 3x the sperm count, they only needed him to have sex with Kate once. I am curious to know what other samples Juliette was taking from the women. It obviously is not to help them.
Mikhail
Remember when Ms. Klugh asked Michael if he had ever seen Walt in a place he wasn’t suppose to be? Well, I thought she was referring to Desmond. But it is shaping up to be more like Mikhail. Which makes more sense since Mikhail and Ms. Klugh were later together. If Locke can go from total paralysis to walking, maybe Mikhail’s gift is the ability to regenerate himself. I don’t think he is a clone because as my coworker RG said, why create a clone with an eye patch? I don’t think they all can come back to life because why burn Colleen at sea? Not to mention, Danny was willing to kill Sawyer. Why kill him if he can just come back to life? And I still believe it's not purgatory. So I am going with either he was not dead to begin with OR he has the ability to heal. Perhaps, like Naomi, it was an injury that could have killed him but he was able to lie there long enough for them to leave and for him to get back up. He smiled and seemed happy to walk into the fence. Juliette did look a little funny when she looked off to where Ethan was buried…but I not convinced what that was about. Maybe he thought if they believed they would be killed too if they crossed the fence, it was a way for him to get away and maybe stop them from discovering the village.
Naomi
“I am not alone”. Who was she with? I believe that Mikhail was expecting her and that is why he was running towards the flare. He is in charge of communicating with the outside world so it makes sense he was the one to come looking for her. I think the Others lost contact with the outside world and knew that after a certain amount of time or perhaps called for help and someone came. Mikhail was after the satellite phone. I am more convinced that she is an Other.
Again, her saying that the wreckage was found and everyone is dead, either a set-up now that she is coherent OR a set-up by the Others. I personally like the time explanation I stated above, but these other 2 explanations are more likely.
Conclusion
Of course, you have probably already seen Wednesday’s episode which probably made everything I am guessing completely wrong. I will send this week's blog in the morning. The end of the season is near. I’m not ready!!! It has been a great season, sans the tattoo and Paulo/Nikkie debacle. I still hate to see it end. Anyway, until next week…er...tomorrow…c-ya!
Summary
To refresh your memory, it was called D.O.C. (Date of Conception) and it featured a flashback of Sun and Jin, interaction between Sun and Juliette, Naomi and the guys in the jungle. I thought it was excellent. Some funny lines, Hurley testing the satellite phone by saying, “Mom?” and Mikhail commenting on Naomi healing fast, “yeah, you’re right…it might take a day and a half”. I loved Jin kicking his butt. It’s about time the Losties were on the winning end of a fight.
Connections
This is the first time a father-son issue is positive. The baby is Jin’s and his father seemed to love him. This is a direct contradiction to everyone else who has had daddy issues. In fact, Jin seems to be doing pretty good on the island. Everyone comes to him for help, he is learning English, can kick an Others ass, his wife loves him again and is carrying his baby. Not sure what it means, but it may be important in the future. The parallel in the story is that HIS father doesn’t know if he is his true father and Sun didn’t know if he was the true father of her baby. Every time Sun is in the garden something bad happens. She was attacked by Charlie, Jin destroyed it once during a fight, always something significant.
Naomi saying that the plane was found and everyone is dead was eerie. It was similar to the walkie talkie scene when they said we are the survivors of 815 and the response was no, we are the survivors of 815, which turned out to be the Tailies. Could some of the survivors been found and lead everyone to believe that everyone else was dead? How do Cindy and the kids figure into this? Remember they seemed not to be affected by the fact that they were still stranded. It really got me thinking about time travel. Maybe they will be found in the future and those that want to stay will stay and the ones that leave swear to never reveal the island and that everyone else is dead. It’s a stretch…but anything is possible on Lost island.
Sun was trying to protect Jin by paying the blackmailer (Jin’s mom). But by doing so, sold out Jin, which lead him to work for her father, which ended in the destruction of their marriage. Not a true Catch-22 but similar to other Losties trying to do something to avoid something else and then something worse happening.
Naomi was speaking 5 languages (English is 1):
“I am dying” in Spanish, “Help me, I’m dying” in Italian, “What happened” in Chinese, “I am not alone” in Portuguese.
Questions
Pregnancy
Now, we know Juliette hates Ben. She is doing whatever she can to stay alive and to get off the island. I believe everything she said the Sun was accurate and correct. If the room was where women came to die, could that be why quarantine is written on the inside of the hatches leading out? Perhaps they at one time thought that something outside was killing the unborn children.
I don’t believe they knew Sun was pregnant and it will be an added surprise for Ben. He said he would get Juliette more women to study. I think we know what Ben meant when he told Kate on the beach that it was going to be a rough 2 weeks. I think they were playing with her emotions and waiting for her to ovulate. Then they encouraged a situation in which she would have sex. She was in a cage and if you have been watching how they try to make panda bears mate, it makes sense. Every action movie the male & female characters fall into each others arms at some point, same thing here. Additionally, Danny wanted to kill Sawyer since they no longer needed him. If men have 3x the sperm count, they only needed him to have sex with Kate once. I am curious to know what other samples Juliette was taking from the women. It obviously is not to help them.
Mikhail
Remember when Ms. Klugh asked Michael if he had ever seen Walt in a place he wasn’t suppose to be? Well, I thought she was referring to Desmond. But it is shaping up to be more like Mikhail. Which makes more sense since Mikhail and Ms. Klugh were later together. If Locke can go from total paralysis to walking, maybe Mikhail’s gift is the ability to regenerate himself. I don’t think he is a clone because as my coworker RG said, why create a clone with an eye patch? I don’t think they all can come back to life because why burn Colleen at sea? Not to mention, Danny was willing to kill Sawyer. Why kill him if he can just come back to life? And I still believe it's not purgatory. So I am going with either he was not dead to begin with OR he has the ability to heal. Perhaps, like Naomi, it was an injury that could have killed him but he was able to lie there long enough for them to leave and for him to get back up. He smiled and seemed happy to walk into the fence. Juliette did look a little funny when she looked off to where Ethan was buried…but I not convinced what that was about. Maybe he thought if they believed they would be killed too if they crossed the fence, it was a way for him to get away and maybe stop them from discovering the village.
Naomi
“I am not alone”. Who was she with? I believe that Mikhail was expecting her and that is why he was running towards the flare. He is in charge of communicating with the outside world so it makes sense he was the one to come looking for her. I think the Others lost contact with the outside world and knew that after a certain amount of time or perhaps called for help and someone came. Mikhail was after the satellite phone. I am more convinced that she is an Other.
Again, her saying that the wreckage was found and everyone is dead, either a set-up now that she is coherent OR a set-up by the Others. I personally like the time explanation I stated above, but these other 2 explanations are more likely.
Conclusion
Of course, you have probably already seen Wednesday’s episode which probably made everything I am guessing completely wrong. I will send this week's blog in the morning. The end of the season is near. I’m not ready!!! It has been a great season, sans the tattoo and Paulo/Nikkie debacle. I still hate to see it end. Anyway, until next week…er...tomorrow…c-ya!
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Catch-22
Summary
I thought it was a good episode. It seemed to still go sideways instead of forward. Nothing can be as bad as the Paolo/Nikkie or Jack tattoo episode…in comparison….this was a masterpiece! It did reveal a little more into Desmond (which we will get into later) and why he is so special to the group. I love it when Lost injects humor. Sawyer’s lines, “Do you need me to make you a mix tape?” “My doorbell busted again?” “Are you two arguing over whose your favorite Other?” Love it! Hurley was also funny with his “Everybody loves marshmallows.” And after the ghost story in Korean, “I loved the part about the bird…there was a bird, wasn’t there?” Great! Even Jin was funny when he was speaking in a high pitched voice telling the ghost story. I had to rewind that. I did like this episode, but I am back to analyzing it instead of just watching it. I will try to do better next week!
Connections
Small to large: The numbers were on the crates of wine at the monastery. Brother Campbell said they only made 108 bottles. Hurley brought a comic book about the Flash to the island. Every time Hurley said the word Flash there was a flash of lightening or flash from the sun. It annoyed me at first but then I caught on. It rained signifying something was going to happen. Kind of funny how Hurley told Desmond he should have warned them to bring an umbrella since he knew it was going to rain. Of course the bigger warning being that Charlie was in danger. Brother Campbell told Desmond he was “one of us.” That same phrase used about Juliet. Desmond uses the phrase, “Welcome, brother.” He got that from the monastery. Ecko and Desmond both spent time in the church. The cross in Ecko’s church and in the monastery was the same. Desmond asked Jack for the first aid kit to fix his ankle which is similar to their first encounter at the stadium. Ms. Hawkings picture was on Brother Campbell’s desk implying that they are both working together to lead Desmond on his path to eventually go to the island. The book, Catch-22, was with Naomi when she landed in the trees. It was in Portuguese. Portuguese was the language the 2 men were speaking at the end of Season 2 in the station looking for the anomaly and ultimately Desmond. The book Catch-22 is also non linear just like Desmond’s visions. The whistling, Colonel Bogey March, was in the movie The Bridge on the River Kwai. Also Breakfast Club, which is where I remember if from. Coworker, RG, made the connection between their journey and the book Stand By Me by Stephen King. Four boys (men) going to see a body (Penelope). Other similarities were the scary ghost stories by the campfire and discussing comic books during the walk.
Questions
“You’re always running from everything that you never consider what you are running too.” That is what Brother Campbell said to Desmond. I kind of feel that is the real Catch-22 and message of this episode. He is always trying to prove he is not a coward by acting cowardly. He left Ruth because he had a calling. He left Penelope to prove he was worthy and to save the world. He is never there to be with the people he is actually trying to be with. Like a doctor always working so he can be with his family isn’t able to be with his family because he is always working. The viscous cycle. Again this was reinforced by Mrs. Hawkings picture with Brother Campbell.
I thought the point was to save Charlie, but I don’t think Charlie is in any danger that Desmond could stop. Charlie was almost killed by the plane crash, then plane parts exploding, then Ethan, then the hatch blowing up. He already had near death experiences before Desmond ever arrived. So I don’t believe its Desmond’s mission to protect Charlie. And by doing that, he is missing his real mission.
Desmond’s vision showed the possibility of Charlie dying. But it also showed Charlie holding the parachute. So he wasn’t supposed to die. The question wasn’t if he let Charlie die, he gets Penelope as Desmond thought. But really if you choose this path, Charlie will be killed unless you stop it. Charlie would have never been in that position had Desmond not set them all up.
So who is Naomi? A helicopter had to have taken off nearby. So does that mean they are 3-4 hours away from land or a large carrier? If they are that close, will they be rescued? Was she sent by Penelope? If so, why alone? Based on her flight suit she was flying at a high altitude. So does the island have a cloak? Perhaps as the helicopter came down for a closer look, it hit the barrier, lost power and crashed into the ocean, Naomi ejecting onto land. Of course my theory is much more suspicious as Ben saying, “See you in a week.” Is she really an Other? Desmond was in the hatch for 3 years so they do know all about him. They could have a helicopter that doesn’t go very far so it can’t be used to actually leave the island. It did act very familiar with the red light beacons as the food drop plane. Richard Alpert could have gotten a copy of Desmond and Penelope from Penelope’s room and it’s all a set-up. For what ultimate goal, I’m not sure. If they thought Walt was special, wouldn’t they know about Desmond too? Remember the whole questioning of, “Has Walt ever been some where he wasn’t supposed to be?” Desmond was home and based on the timeline he wasn’t supposed to be.
It is possible, since the Others didn’t know of the boat, that someone could reach the island, especially now that the Flame hatch has been destroyed. So it would be nice to think that Penelope sent Naomi and they will all be rescued. Yeah! Lost over! We all know that straight line isn’t plausible on Lost island. Way too easy!
Conclusion
Well….just 4 more episodes left. I am sick and tired to the previews because they can be very misleading. Next week will be about Sun and her pregnancy. I think the key will be to find our if Juliet knew and that was why she is infiltrating the group. If you have not already heard….after these episodes…no more lost until January. This MAY change but for now instead of the long break, they are delaying the start. I hope that they rethink it, I will keep you posted. Until next week, c-ya!
I thought it was a good episode. It seemed to still go sideways instead of forward. Nothing can be as bad as the Paolo/Nikkie or Jack tattoo episode…in comparison….this was a masterpiece! It did reveal a little more into Desmond (which we will get into later) and why he is so special to the group. I love it when Lost injects humor. Sawyer’s lines, “Do you need me to make you a mix tape?” “My doorbell busted again?” “Are you two arguing over whose your favorite Other?” Love it! Hurley was also funny with his “Everybody loves marshmallows.” And after the ghost story in Korean, “I loved the part about the bird…there was a bird, wasn’t there?” Great! Even Jin was funny when he was speaking in a high pitched voice telling the ghost story. I had to rewind that. I did like this episode, but I am back to analyzing it instead of just watching it. I will try to do better next week!
Connections
Small to large: The numbers were on the crates of wine at the monastery. Brother Campbell said they only made 108 bottles. Hurley brought a comic book about the Flash to the island. Every time Hurley said the word Flash there was a flash of lightening or flash from the sun. It annoyed me at first but then I caught on. It rained signifying something was going to happen. Kind of funny how Hurley told Desmond he should have warned them to bring an umbrella since he knew it was going to rain. Of course the bigger warning being that Charlie was in danger. Brother Campbell told Desmond he was “one of us.” That same phrase used about Juliet. Desmond uses the phrase, “Welcome, brother.” He got that from the monastery. Ecko and Desmond both spent time in the church. The cross in Ecko’s church and in the monastery was the same. Desmond asked Jack for the first aid kit to fix his ankle which is similar to their first encounter at the stadium. Ms. Hawkings picture was on Brother Campbell’s desk implying that they are both working together to lead Desmond on his path to eventually go to the island. The book, Catch-22, was with Naomi when she landed in the trees. It was in Portuguese. Portuguese was the language the 2 men were speaking at the end of Season 2 in the station looking for the anomaly and ultimately Desmond. The book Catch-22 is also non linear just like Desmond’s visions. The whistling, Colonel Bogey March, was in the movie The Bridge on the River Kwai. Also Breakfast Club, which is where I remember if from. Coworker, RG, made the connection between their journey and the book Stand By Me by Stephen King. Four boys (men) going to see a body (Penelope). Other similarities were the scary ghost stories by the campfire and discussing comic books during the walk.
Questions
“You’re always running from everything that you never consider what you are running too.” That is what Brother Campbell said to Desmond. I kind of feel that is the real Catch-22 and message of this episode. He is always trying to prove he is not a coward by acting cowardly. He left Ruth because he had a calling. He left Penelope to prove he was worthy and to save the world. He is never there to be with the people he is actually trying to be with. Like a doctor always working so he can be with his family isn’t able to be with his family because he is always working. The viscous cycle. Again this was reinforced by Mrs. Hawkings picture with Brother Campbell.
I thought the point was to save Charlie, but I don’t think Charlie is in any danger that Desmond could stop. Charlie was almost killed by the plane crash, then plane parts exploding, then Ethan, then the hatch blowing up. He already had near death experiences before Desmond ever arrived. So I don’t believe its Desmond’s mission to protect Charlie. And by doing that, he is missing his real mission.
Desmond’s vision showed the possibility of Charlie dying. But it also showed Charlie holding the parachute. So he wasn’t supposed to die. The question wasn’t if he let Charlie die, he gets Penelope as Desmond thought. But really if you choose this path, Charlie will be killed unless you stop it. Charlie would have never been in that position had Desmond not set them all up.
So who is Naomi? A helicopter had to have taken off nearby. So does that mean they are 3-4 hours away from land or a large carrier? If they are that close, will they be rescued? Was she sent by Penelope? If so, why alone? Based on her flight suit she was flying at a high altitude. So does the island have a cloak? Perhaps as the helicopter came down for a closer look, it hit the barrier, lost power and crashed into the ocean, Naomi ejecting onto land. Of course my theory is much more suspicious as Ben saying, “See you in a week.” Is she really an Other? Desmond was in the hatch for 3 years so they do know all about him. They could have a helicopter that doesn’t go very far so it can’t be used to actually leave the island. It did act very familiar with the red light beacons as the food drop plane. Richard Alpert could have gotten a copy of Desmond and Penelope from Penelope’s room and it’s all a set-up. For what ultimate goal, I’m not sure. If they thought Walt was special, wouldn’t they know about Desmond too? Remember the whole questioning of, “Has Walt ever been some where he wasn’t supposed to be?” Desmond was home and based on the timeline he wasn’t supposed to be.
It is possible, since the Others didn’t know of the boat, that someone could reach the island, especially now that the Flame hatch has been destroyed. So it would be nice to think that Penelope sent Naomi and they will all be rescued. Yeah! Lost over! We all know that straight line isn’t plausible on Lost island. Way too easy!
Conclusion
Well….just 4 more episodes left. I am sick and tired to the previews because they can be very misleading. Next week will be about Sun and her pregnancy. I think the key will be to find our if Juliet knew and that was why she is infiltrating the group. If you have not already heard….after these episodes…no more lost until January. This MAY change but for now instead of the long break, they are delaying the start. I hope that they rethink it, I will keep you posted. Until next week, c-ya!
Thursday, April 12, 2007
One of Us
Hello all! Still having problems with my “E” key but I will muster through. Yes, a blog before noon (Oops…okay I got side tracked! A blog before 1pm). I am getting use to the whole 10 p.m. start time. But there is so much to research! Anyway, on with the show.
Summary
I thought it was a GREAT episode last night. However, in some ways it’s like they are revealing too much! TPTB (inside lingo: The Powers That Be) have always maintained that most of the things happening on the island are rooted in reality. It really is starting to look like it. I love the way they are developing Sawyer. Still a smart aleck but his softer side is starting to emerge. He gave Jack a nod, handshake and a man hug. Offered Claire some aspirin without any compensation. The embrace with Kate brought many women to grab their dvr remote controls and rewind over and over. Okay…maybe it was just me.
Connections
The numbers were everywhere as usual. On the license plate, injection bottle, the sub and the medical chart. Downtown, we now know, is Juliette’s song and often played to make her feel comforted and remind her of home. Song played again last night. Herarat Aviation is an anagram for Amelia “Earhart”. She mysteriously disappeared over the Pacific Ocean. Reference again to the book Carrie. I read about this one, there were 324 passengers on the plane, 3 sections (Losties, Tailies, the Dead), 3 divided by 324 is 108. The tree had the same mark as Juliette on her back. I have no clue what that could mean. Perhaps making her part of a specific tribe? But why would it be on the tree in which Ethan used as his old medical drop off point? Some type of marker. I would be interested to see who else has this mark.
Questions
Let me start by dispelling some of the things that we thought. Richard Alpert can go back and forth off the island, at least up until the purple flash. The Losties crashing on the island was random. The Others learned about them after the crash, thanks to Mikhail. They must have covered up the screens because they were not on when Locke, Sayid and Kate were there. I think the illusion of the Others was in full force once the Losties started to cross the line that Tom drew. So things were hidden. Ben and Juliette were not lovers, it was her and Goodwin. And finally that Juliette was not left behind but a plant (which I thought last week, thank you very much).
Was the whole kill Ben thing a hoax? As evidenced by Claire, they don’t mind the long con. Or did Ben just turn around the opportunity of the Juliette double cross to his advantage. I think the latter and he is now using her since she was going to get off the island.
I believe Juliette is working everyone. She was the last Other brought to the island. She has only been there 80 days technically after learning her sister was okay and that she can’t leave. So she wants to go and does not share their love for the island or desire to cure the birth issues. So I believe she will do whatever she can to get off the island. Right now, that means spying on the Losties. But spying on who? Claire and Aaron? Soon to be Sun once they learn she is pregnant, if they already don’t know. I wonder what they think they need to learn since they seem to know everything. All they want to do is leave. And now that they have Jack, they have no real reason to go after them. The surgery is over. So what new threat are the Losties?
Juliette’s flashback was true but her explanation of Ethan was a lie. They were not helping Claire since Alex was the one to release her from Ethan and Alex has always worked to protect the Losties. So what where they doing to her besides giving her an implant? We know that a woman can give birth on the island since Rousseau was 7 months pregnant with Alex. Ben said he had been on the island all his life, not exactly the same as being born there. But perhaps his mother arrived already pregnant like Claire, Rousseau and Sun. So we thought they were using the Losties in the experiment and they are. Evidenced by Ben, “We’ll find more mothers.” I think Jack was a lucky addition since he was a surgeon. Does Sawyer now have an implant too which they will use against them at a later time? !
As far as what Juliette knew about Sayid and Sawyer, by then, that information was given to her by Mikhail. The police would have known about Sawyer by then and Basura is the 2nd largest city in Iraq. Only logical that Sayid probably tortured someone there. Also, it could have been his last stop and the one that caused him to want to run away from his past. Juliette, like a psychic, take pieces and allowed their guilt to fill in the rest.
The biggest A-HA for me was the mention of Jacob. The island cures cancer. Ben said, “Have you seen even a trace of cancer?” specifically. Why not some other disease? It makes sense since Juliette’s research is based on working with a cancer patient. When Ben said that he will cure her sister’s cancer, Juliette insinuates that it can only be done on the island. So there are properties on the island that cure cancer. Hence her being angry with Ben after discovering the tumor. But then Jacob’s name is brought up and he will take care of it. So who or what is he?!? Is he a person or an entity? Can he get off and on the island? I think Ben lied. A liar, as I said before, tells 90% truth and 10% lie. So I believe the sister was okay and the video was of her and her son. But she did not have a relapse. Screenshots of the chart show that it was of an adult male. So he manipulated her to stay on the island. He eventually just told her no at the end. But the main point is that Juliette thought he or Jacob could do it. So that hints about how powerful he/it is. But why couldn’t Jacob cure Ben? So many questions!!!
Summary
5 more episodes?!? Say it isn’t so! I am already starting to feel the loss. I definitely want to have a season finale gathering in my new digs. So put it on your calendars now!!! The interesting questions are what is up with Locke, where the heck is Rousseau, and will Sayid come through and catch Juliette. It would be a huge disappointment if he doesn’t. They all have roles to play and him being as dimwitted as Jack shouldn’t be one of them. Jack may have some tricks up his sleeve. We shall see. Until next week, c-ya!
Summary
I thought it was a GREAT episode last night. However, in some ways it’s like they are revealing too much! TPTB (inside lingo: The Powers That Be) have always maintained that most of the things happening on the island are rooted in reality. It really is starting to look like it. I love the way they are developing Sawyer. Still a smart aleck but his softer side is starting to emerge. He gave Jack a nod, handshake and a man hug. Offered Claire some aspirin without any compensation. The embrace with Kate brought many women to grab their dvr remote controls and rewind over and over. Okay…maybe it was just me.
Connections
The numbers were everywhere as usual. On the license plate, injection bottle, the sub and the medical chart. Downtown, we now know, is Juliette’s song and often played to make her feel comforted and remind her of home. Song played again last night. Herarat Aviation is an anagram for Amelia “Earhart”. She mysteriously disappeared over the Pacific Ocean. Reference again to the book Carrie. I read about this one, there were 324 passengers on the plane, 3 sections (Losties, Tailies, the Dead), 3 divided by 324 is 108. The tree had the same mark as Juliette on her back. I have no clue what that could mean. Perhaps making her part of a specific tribe? But why would it be on the tree in which Ethan used as his old medical drop off point? Some type of marker. I would be interested to see who else has this mark.
Questions
Let me start by dispelling some of the things that we thought. Richard Alpert can go back and forth off the island, at least up until the purple flash. The Losties crashing on the island was random. The Others learned about them after the crash, thanks to Mikhail. They must have covered up the screens because they were not on when Locke, Sayid and Kate were there. I think the illusion of the Others was in full force once the Losties started to cross the line that Tom drew. So things were hidden. Ben and Juliette were not lovers, it was her and Goodwin. And finally that Juliette was not left behind but a plant (which I thought last week, thank you very much).
Was the whole kill Ben thing a hoax? As evidenced by Claire, they don’t mind the long con. Or did Ben just turn around the opportunity of the Juliette double cross to his advantage. I think the latter and he is now using her since she was going to get off the island.
I believe Juliette is working everyone. She was the last Other brought to the island. She has only been there 80 days technically after learning her sister was okay and that she can’t leave. So she wants to go and does not share their love for the island or desire to cure the birth issues. So I believe she will do whatever she can to get off the island. Right now, that means spying on the Losties. But spying on who? Claire and Aaron? Soon to be Sun once they learn she is pregnant, if they already don’t know. I wonder what they think they need to learn since they seem to know everything. All they want to do is leave. And now that they have Jack, they have no real reason to go after them. The surgery is over. So what new threat are the Losties?
Juliette’s flashback was true but her explanation of Ethan was a lie. They were not helping Claire since Alex was the one to release her from Ethan and Alex has always worked to protect the Losties. So what where they doing to her besides giving her an implant? We know that a woman can give birth on the island since Rousseau was 7 months pregnant with Alex. Ben said he had been on the island all his life, not exactly the same as being born there. But perhaps his mother arrived already pregnant like Claire, Rousseau and Sun. So we thought they were using the Losties in the experiment and they are. Evidenced by Ben, “We’ll find more mothers.” I think Jack was a lucky addition since he was a surgeon. Does Sawyer now have an implant too which they will use against them at a later time? !
As far as what Juliette knew about Sayid and Sawyer, by then, that information was given to her by Mikhail. The police would have known about Sawyer by then and Basura is the 2nd largest city in Iraq. Only logical that Sayid probably tortured someone there. Also, it could have been his last stop and the one that caused him to want to run away from his past. Juliette, like a psychic, take pieces and allowed their guilt to fill in the rest.
The biggest A-HA for me was the mention of Jacob. The island cures cancer. Ben said, “Have you seen even a trace of cancer?” specifically. Why not some other disease? It makes sense since Juliette’s research is based on working with a cancer patient. When Ben said that he will cure her sister’s cancer, Juliette insinuates that it can only be done on the island. So there are properties on the island that cure cancer. Hence her being angry with Ben after discovering the tumor. But then Jacob’s name is brought up and he will take care of it. So who or what is he?!? Is he a person or an entity? Can he get off and on the island? I think Ben lied. A liar, as I said before, tells 90% truth and 10% lie. So I believe the sister was okay and the video was of her and her son. But she did not have a relapse. Screenshots of the chart show that it was of an adult male. So he manipulated her to stay on the island. He eventually just told her no at the end. But the main point is that Juliette thought he or Jacob could do it. So that hints about how powerful he/it is. But why couldn’t Jacob cure Ben? So many questions!!!
Summary
5 more episodes?!? Say it isn’t so! I am already starting to feel the loss. I definitely want to have a season finale gathering in my new digs. So put it on your calendars now!!! The interesting questions are what is up with Locke, where the heck is Rousseau, and will Sayid come through and catch Juliette. It would be a huge disappointment if he doesn’t. They all have roles to play and him being as dimwitted as Jack shouldn’t be one of them. Jack may have some tricks up his sleeve. We shall see. Until next week, c-ya!
Friday, April 06, 2007
Left Behind
Wednesday seems like forever ago!!!! I moved to my new home Thursday so that is my reason for the delay. My fingers barely work but I know that if you woke Friday morning and still no blog, you would learn my new address and hunt me down. Also I am using a new laptop and the “E” key doesn’t work well. Thank goodness you don’t need that one! So my 60+ words a minute is more like 10.
Enough with my bellyaching….on to the show. Before I start I did attend the Lost Weekend in Hollywood last weekend. It was ok. I am a party planner at heart so I thought there should have been more opportunities to buy things and constant activities. So it turned out to be a little vacation….which I hate. But I did meet some people who now speak to me on the boards which is cool. The dinner and auction were great and I got some neat little things to add to my office collection. I also met some of the “B level” cast members. There is a link on the right to my online photo album so you can seem them as well.
Summary
Great episode. I had to hit the boards this morning to refresh my memory about some things. The main story was again a rewind in the sense that we know Kate’s mother is now dead from cancer and we now know why she was screaming when Kate came to see her in the hospital (which lead to the Agent getting her plane, putting it in the bank, her robbing the bank, best friend killed, getting captured, black horse distracting them, her getting away, farm guy selling her out, eventually recaptured, plane, island). Her mom had warned her. Sawyer must have left recently since he was served at the diner by Kate’s mom. I also liked the Hurley subplot. I don’t think Sawyer was truly conned, but really wanted to go along with it because he does want to be liked. I think Sawyer as temp leader is great, with of course his loyal right hand Hurley, the voice of reason. Best line, “Call her Claire.” So simple yet so funny. I respect the fact that Sun is still ticked. Makes it more real.
Connections
The Patsy Cline song “After Midnight” played again. The numbers were in the license plate of Kate’s car and the tow company. Juliette enters a four digit code to turn on the security fence, 1623. She dislocated her shoulder 4 times. I immediately thought of the Christian book series, Left Behind, when I heard the title of the episode. The “chosen” ones are taken from their everyday lives. Another religious undertone, Kate calling herself Lucy and Cassidy stating that Lucy was a saint. The Feast of Saint Lucy is on December 13, same day as it is on the island and there was a feast on the beach. Sawyer is reading Watership Down again and Claire is reading Rick Romer’s Vision of Astrology (fun trivia, Rick Romer is really the set director for Lost). I kept reading about Kate’s cap saying “Cowboy Up”. I thought it just meant man up. I read further and it is a catch phrase which was used towards the 2003 Boston Red Sox. So connection to Jack.
I thought it was interesting how Kate is working with Sawyer’s girl in the flashback and Jack’s girl in the present. I also thought a lot about Echo and how he thought he killed a man and was justified, just like Kate did. Neither realized that that was not their only option and should be sorry they did. I
Questions
Big reveal about the smoke monster. Wow! So it is something the Others don’t control. Some theories were that it was their scanning system and someone was controlling it. Someone still might but it’s not them. I believe it does scan people or snaps pictures of who they are. Noone could miss that shutter and flash sound the monster was making. So “we don’t know what it is but we know it doesn’t like our fences”. The smoke monster could have got them in the tree if it wanted to. The fence is there to protect the Others from Hostiles but it has a secondary purpose and can keep out the smoke monster. Juliette did not seem afraid of it, more cautious. I think it scanned Juliette, discovered she is good and left. I think it was coming for Kate. Juliette was a scared woman in her flashback and now she can do hand to hand combat, I look forward to seeing how that all came about. I don’t trust her, but I don’t think she is bad. The whole “I’ll get Sayid and you get Jack” was another set-up. Why would she get Sayid? I believe she went to a monitoring station and watched Kate and Jack. Possibly radioed the Others and let them know her status. She knows too much to just let her go. Sawyer wasn’t really going to be banished from the beach and I don’t believe Juliette was either. Juliette set-up the whole handcuff thing because she needed another ally and is using Kate’s guilt. Kate messed up Jack’s plan to get off the island by brining Locke to save him. She also, as her mother said, can’t help who she loves, and I think she feels guilty for wanting Sawyer.
Locke going with them, possibly underground, is interesting. That whole thing with his dad is going to be great to learn more about. So they gain one (Locke) and lose one (Juliette). The other big question is what happened to Rousseau. I think she will follow the Others now that she has seen Alex.
Summary
Another great week. Lost folks keep it coming. I am looking forward to the interrogation by Sayid. Thought he wasn’t going to do that anymore?!? I stayed away from anything that resembled a spoiler at the weekend. They all know A LOT. But thanks to the direction of this season, don’t need them. I’m just enjoying the ride! Until next week, C-ya!
Enough with my bellyaching….on to the show. Before I start I did attend the Lost Weekend in Hollywood last weekend. It was ok. I am a party planner at heart so I thought there should have been more opportunities to buy things and constant activities. So it turned out to be a little vacation….which I hate. But I did meet some people who now speak to me on the boards which is cool. The dinner and auction were great and I got some neat little things to add to my office collection. I also met some of the “B level” cast members. There is a link on the right to my online photo album so you can seem them as well.
Summary
Great episode. I had to hit the boards this morning to refresh my memory about some things. The main story was again a rewind in the sense that we know Kate’s mother is now dead from cancer and we now know why she was screaming when Kate came to see her in the hospital (which lead to the Agent getting her plane, putting it in the bank, her robbing the bank, best friend killed, getting captured, black horse distracting them, her getting away, farm guy selling her out, eventually recaptured, plane, island). Her mom had warned her. Sawyer must have left recently since he was served at the diner by Kate’s mom. I also liked the Hurley subplot. I don’t think Sawyer was truly conned, but really wanted to go along with it because he does want to be liked. I think Sawyer as temp leader is great, with of course his loyal right hand Hurley, the voice of reason. Best line, “Call her Claire.” So simple yet so funny. I respect the fact that Sun is still ticked. Makes it more real.
Connections
The Patsy Cline song “After Midnight” played again. The numbers were in the license plate of Kate’s car and the tow company. Juliette enters a four digit code to turn on the security fence, 1623. She dislocated her shoulder 4 times. I immediately thought of the Christian book series, Left Behind, when I heard the title of the episode. The “chosen” ones are taken from their everyday lives. Another religious undertone, Kate calling herself Lucy and Cassidy stating that Lucy was a saint. The Feast of Saint Lucy is on December 13, same day as it is on the island and there was a feast on the beach. Sawyer is reading Watership Down again and Claire is reading Rick Romer’s Vision of Astrology (fun trivia, Rick Romer is really the set director for Lost). I kept reading about Kate’s cap saying “Cowboy Up”. I thought it just meant man up. I read further and it is a catch phrase which was used towards the 2003 Boston Red Sox. So connection to Jack.
I thought it was interesting how Kate is working with Sawyer’s girl in the flashback and Jack’s girl in the present. I also thought a lot about Echo and how he thought he killed a man and was justified, just like Kate did. Neither realized that that was not their only option and should be sorry they did. I
Questions
Big reveal about the smoke monster. Wow! So it is something the Others don’t control. Some theories were that it was their scanning system and someone was controlling it. Someone still might but it’s not them. I believe it does scan people or snaps pictures of who they are. Noone could miss that shutter and flash sound the monster was making. So “we don’t know what it is but we know it doesn’t like our fences”. The smoke monster could have got them in the tree if it wanted to. The fence is there to protect the Others from Hostiles but it has a secondary purpose and can keep out the smoke monster. Juliette did not seem afraid of it, more cautious. I think it scanned Juliette, discovered she is good and left. I think it was coming for Kate. Juliette was a scared woman in her flashback and now she can do hand to hand combat, I look forward to seeing how that all came about. I don’t trust her, but I don’t think she is bad. The whole “I’ll get Sayid and you get Jack” was another set-up. Why would she get Sayid? I believe she went to a monitoring station and watched Kate and Jack. Possibly radioed the Others and let them know her status. She knows too much to just let her go. Sawyer wasn’t really going to be banished from the beach and I don’t believe Juliette was either. Juliette set-up the whole handcuff thing because she needed another ally and is using Kate’s guilt. Kate messed up Jack’s plan to get off the island by brining Locke to save him. She also, as her mother said, can’t help who she loves, and I think she feels guilty for wanting Sawyer.
Locke going with them, possibly underground, is interesting. That whole thing with his dad is going to be great to learn more about. So they gain one (Locke) and lose one (Juliette). The other big question is what happened to Rousseau. I think she will follow the Others now that she has seen Alex.
Summary
Another great week. Lost folks keep it coming. I am looking forward to the interrogation by Sayid. Thought he wasn’t going to do that anymore?!? I stayed away from anything that resembled a spoiler at the weekend. They all know A LOT. But thanks to the direction of this season, don’t need them. I’m just enjoying the ride! Until next week, C-ya!
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Expose
Don’t faint. Yes, it’s an early blog. I didn’t like this episode for completely personal reasons. I HATE BUGS!!! So it was difficult to watch. Sorry I just can’t be impartial. But I will try my best to provide you with the same level of professional blogging you have been receiving…despite the fact that even sitting here now and remembering it, I am twitching and brushing invisible bugs off of me.
Summary
I thought that Nikkie was faking her death since she was just in a scene in which she died. There of course is still a possibility since Locke had said that “Nothing ever stays buried.” It was cool to see Vincent try his best to show them that Nikkie and Paulo weren’t dead. Vincent truly has a connection to the island. I think that before I thought he was the cause of things bad. But now I think he is warning them and they misinterpret his signals.
I loved Sawyer. He was funny without even trying to be. His “Who the hell is Nikki?!?” Was too funny! He slipped in “Nina and Pablo”, again being funny by accident. Hurley was funny as well when Jin was speaking Chinese and he responds, “I know.” The humor in the show is what gets keeps me.
Connections
This week there are some connections but a lot of parallels. Let’s start with the connections. The red flowers were in the kitchen when Paolo was preparing the meal are the same as the ones on the island. The number 4 and 8 were everywhere! The show was in its 4th season. The tv slate had the numbers on it. The time stamp told everything in 84, 80 4, 8 increments. Razzle Dazzle is the name of a song in the musical Chicago where the jury is being distracted by the theatrics of the defendant and away from the real crime. Sawyer was reading Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie, which was basically about love and betrayal.
The parallels are that Nikkie and Paolo poisoned someone in their previous life and were poisoned on the island. Nikkie says, “We all know what happens to guest stars.” And her character later dies. Even though she was supposed to be a character, she seemed more like a guest star. Nikkie asks Paolo to promise that that they will never end up like Shannon and Boone. Of course they do. Paolo refuses to get in the plane while Boone does and dies. I am glad the writers didn’t truly mess with history when recreating the scenes with Nikkie and Paolo in them. They did seem to die for nothing? If we would have had their flashback sooner and then used them, they might have been more liked. I definitely liked Paolo more after this and now he is dead. I’m okay with it, it just seemed a little weird for me. If they wanted filler, they could have focused on Rose and Bernard. We know that Locke was healed by the island, maybe some more support for that fact that she was too.
Questions
So was it Smokey that killed them as a manifestation of bugs? We heard the familiar sound and bending of trees. Although Paolo really loved Nikkie, he was still a murderer. Yet another person on the island to have killed before. Sawyer seemed to have learned a lesson that she didn’t. Their existence on the island was more important than money. It was worth nothing there. She died for something that was useless due to her nature.
It was funny to see the characters try to figure out the whole “You’re next” line from Ecko. I am definitely leaning more towards the 2 of them being next. Hurley already proved that deathbed words can be misunderstood.
So to touch on the timeline: Paolo and Nikkie find the hatch. Later Ben and Juliette come, thinking that Tom left it exposed. Ben instructs them to move the plane over it. We thought this was a mystical sign at first when they discovered it. But now we know it was a coincidence. Ben brings Juliette to see inside the other hatch. After, Ben will send messages to Michael pretending to be Walt to coax him out of the hatch. There main goal was to have him get Jack. Nikkie referred to Jack and Sawyer as Kate’s 2 boyfriends, so it would have been clear to Ben as well the emotional attachment. So they were brought, just to manipulate Jack. Hurley was brought because he wouldn’t fight back and they could send him with a message. So this debunks some of the “lists”. Ethan’s list was just to find out who was on the plane so they could run background checks. He never made the list because he went after Claire against his orders. This is kind of connected since he did have an earlier fascination or connection with Juliette’s sister. So instead of making the list, he tells Tom they have a flight manifest. So they get that and find out about the remaining folks on the plane. Michael’s list is just the names of folks that will help them with their ultimate goal of getting Jack to do the surgery. But it contradicts the timeline because at that point the sky hadn’t turned purple. They could still communicate with the outside world. So why use Jack? The only remaining list is Jacob’s list. That one I am still trying to figure it. I think I mentioned it before as the list of people who may eventually become Others.
Conclusion
As many of you know, I will be attending the LOST Weekend in Hollywood this weekend. I was nervous at first but now that I have been on the boards and talking to other nuts, I feel right at home. I will tell you all about it whether you want to know or not. Next week looks like good one. So until then…c-ya!
Summary
I thought that Nikkie was faking her death since she was just in a scene in which she died. There of course is still a possibility since Locke had said that “Nothing ever stays buried.” It was cool to see Vincent try his best to show them that Nikkie and Paulo weren’t dead. Vincent truly has a connection to the island. I think that before I thought he was the cause of things bad. But now I think he is warning them and they misinterpret his signals.
I loved Sawyer. He was funny without even trying to be. His “Who the hell is Nikki?!?” Was too funny! He slipped in “Nina and Pablo”, again being funny by accident. Hurley was funny as well when Jin was speaking Chinese and he responds, “I know.” The humor in the show is what gets keeps me.
Connections
This week there are some connections but a lot of parallels. Let’s start with the connections. The red flowers were in the kitchen when Paolo was preparing the meal are the same as the ones on the island. The number 4 and 8 were everywhere! The show was in its 4th season. The tv slate had the numbers on it. The time stamp told everything in 84, 80 4, 8 increments. Razzle Dazzle is the name of a song in the musical Chicago where the jury is being distracted by the theatrics of the defendant and away from the real crime. Sawyer was reading Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie, which was basically about love and betrayal.
The parallels are that Nikkie and Paolo poisoned someone in their previous life and were poisoned on the island. Nikkie says, “We all know what happens to guest stars.” And her character later dies. Even though she was supposed to be a character, she seemed more like a guest star. Nikkie asks Paolo to promise that that they will never end up like Shannon and Boone. Of course they do. Paolo refuses to get in the plane while Boone does and dies. I am glad the writers didn’t truly mess with history when recreating the scenes with Nikkie and Paolo in them. They did seem to die for nothing? If we would have had their flashback sooner and then used them, they might have been more liked. I definitely liked Paolo more after this and now he is dead. I’m okay with it, it just seemed a little weird for me. If they wanted filler, they could have focused on Rose and Bernard. We know that Locke was healed by the island, maybe some more support for that fact that she was too.
Questions
So was it Smokey that killed them as a manifestation of bugs? We heard the familiar sound and bending of trees. Although Paolo really loved Nikkie, he was still a murderer. Yet another person on the island to have killed before. Sawyer seemed to have learned a lesson that she didn’t. Their existence on the island was more important than money. It was worth nothing there. She died for something that was useless due to her nature.
It was funny to see the characters try to figure out the whole “You’re next” line from Ecko. I am definitely leaning more towards the 2 of them being next. Hurley already proved that deathbed words can be misunderstood.
So to touch on the timeline: Paolo and Nikkie find the hatch. Later Ben and Juliette come, thinking that Tom left it exposed. Ben instructs them to move the plane over it. We thought this was a mystical sign at first when they discovered it. But now we know it was a coincidence. Ben brings Juliette to see inside the other hatch. After, Ben will send messages to Michael pretending to be Walt to coax him out of the hatch. There main goal was to have him get Jack. Nikkie referred to Jack and Sawyer as Kate’s 2 boyfriends, so it would have been clear to Ben as well the emotional attachment. So they were brought, just to manipulate Jack. Hurley was brought because he wouldn’t fight back and they could send him with a message. So this debunks some of the “lists”. Ethan’s list was just to find out who was on the plane so they could run background checks. He never made the list because he went after Claire against his orders. This is kind of connected since he did have an earlier fascination or connection with Juliette’s sister. So instead of making the list, he tells Tom they have a flight manifest. So they get that and find out about the remaining folks on the plane. Michael’s list is just the names of folks that will help them with their ultimate goal of getting Jack to do the surgery. But it contradicts the timeline because at that point the sky hadn’t turned purple. They could still communicate with the outside world. So why use Jack? The only remaining list is Jacob’s list. That one I am still trying to figure it. I think I mentioned it before as the list of people who may eventually become Others.
Conclusion
As many of you know, I will be attending the LOST Weekend in Hollywood this weekend. I was nervous at first but now that I have been on the boards and talking to other nuts, I feel right at home. I will tell you all about it whether you want to know or not. Next week looks like good one. So until then…c-ya!
Friday, March 16, 2007
Par Avion
Par Avion
I would apologize for getting this to you on a Friday. But MOST of you didn’t even watch it Wednesday. And by MOST I mean one person. But it stings. If you, and you know who you are, are not going to make the commitment to stay up to 11:00-12:00 to watch LOST and be ready for discussion the next day, everyone suffers. And by everyone, I still mean just you.
I think we (the fans) have done a good job voicing that 10pm is just WAY too late. They won’t do this again to us Season 4. It’s a 9:00 show for sure. Oh well, on with the show. This will be short and sweet this week.
Summary
Great episode! LOST is definitely back. Of course I mentioned the major connection between Claire and Jack last season. So it was anti-climatic. But the whole Locke thing gave me chills. We will discuss that later. I thought they did a good job wrapping up stray storylines and I also liked how Desmond just told Claire what was up. No stringing her along, withholding, lying…he just told her. It was a nice contrast from the whole We-Are-The-Others-And-We-Never-Reveal-Anything thing that always happens. Sawyer almost got off his Barbie comment, can’t wait for his week to be up!
Connections
The biggest one of course is that Claire is Jack’s half sister. It makes it seem less than a coincidence that not only Claire and Jack are on the same plane, but that Christian was there too. This revelation is clue that everyone has daddy issues. The beginning of the episode when it opened showing her eye was similar to Jack’s when he woke up on the beach. The numbers were on the odometer on the car and were said over the intercom in the hospital. The tv program in Claire’s mom’s hospital room was the documentary about migratory birds that she would later refer to on the island. The book that Sawyer was reading was The Fountainhead. In a nutshell, about a man trying no to conform, preferring to struggle in obscurity rather than compromise.
Questions
Charlie – It seems to me that being around Claire is dangerous. All the near deaths are when he was with her. I think it’s a leap to think that it has anything to do with baby Aaron. Remember the Others wanted Aaron, why? Is he trying to off poor Charlie? For now, Claire doesn’t care and is standing by her man.
Claire – So she never knew Christian’s name. Will she connect the dots with Jack before they leave the island? Did she kill her mom? Wasn’t it just like when Juliette wished her ex-husband was hit by a bus and then he was? Now Claire, arguing in the car with her mom and wishing her dead, and then being hit by a car. Car crashes are extremely prevalent in the show. Another thing…didn’t Claire’s note seem really cryptic!
To whom it may concern, we are the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815. We have survived on this island for 80 days. We were six hours into the flight when the pilot said we were off course and we turned back towards Fiji. We hit turbulence and crashed. We've been
waiting here all this time. Waiting for rescue that has not come. We do not know where
we are. We only know you have not found us. We've done our best to live on this
island. Some of us have come to accept we may never leave it. Not all of us have
survived since the crash, but there is new life too, and with it, there is hope.
We are alive. Please don't give up on us.
On one hand it was very poetic. But then again, it was like the other messages, no dates some information, I think we will definitely see that bird or at least, that message again.
Mikhail – He clearly would have rather died than taken back to the camp. I think an important thing he said was that since the sonar was down, if they leave, they couldn’t come back. That to me is important because of the reason they would want to…which they of course won’t reveal. We also get confirmation that Ben is not HIM. He seemed a little surprised that they didn’t know. Some people think that Jack will be their new leader. I don’t. I do think there is someone pulling the strings. The security fence didn’t have any dead animals, polar bears, boars – so I don’t think the Losties would have been hurt going through it. Someone (the above mentioned person who is responsible for the late blog) suggested that it might be a chip in the Others and the fence keeps them in. This is supported by the fact that it didn’t kill him until he was facing outward as if he was leaving. He fell, got up and faced them. Could just be dramatics…who knows!
One thing about the flashbacks, they can go pretty far into the past or just recently. That is something to always keep in mind. I have felt that the Losties existence is a flashback as well. Perhaps the Red Sox game is history because they are in a different plane of time. The Losties think its current but they are in the future and it is their past. Would kind of explain Mikhail saying “you won’t be able to come back” and “you are not capable of understanding.”
Locke - The biggest thing was Locke. I am going with the fact that, yes he is a sad sack, but he is doing all this for a reason. I think its still to easy to just say he doesn’t want to leave the island. If they leave and can’t come back, he can just stay. He’s blowing up hatches and now he has the C4. To blow up the submarine perhaps? Mikhail was about to reveal that Locke was paralyzed. Which leads me to believe the intel they have was all before the left the island because they didn’t try to steal Sun who is now pregnant. No one seems surprised that he is now walking around. Perhaps because they know the healing properties of the island? But then again, why would Ben need surgery. Everytime you seem to get one piece of the puzzle, there’s some crazy edge that just doesn’t fit. But Locke knew he didn’t win the chess game last week since he is an avid player. So he was searching for something. He was pushing that stupid code into the computer in the hatch, this is the first time a computer interacted with him. Not to mention the shout out to WarGames with the secure menus to the computer hidden by a game. So he was smart to sit at the computer in my opinion. He knew there might be an explosion because he would have already found and taken the C4. Locke is now the guy to watch.
Conclusion
Next week looks even better. They really did mean it when they said the rest of the episodes they will start showing us more. I am curious to see the Rousseau thing unfold, of course what is Locke’s connection to them. Not sure they will give up THAT much next week. But one can hope. Until next week, c-ya!
I would apologize for getting this to you on a Friday. But MOST of you didn’t even watch it Wednesday. And by MOST I mean one person. But it stings. If you, and you know who you are, are not going to make the commitment to stay up to 11:00-12:00 to watch LOST and be ready for discussion the next day, everyone suffers. And by everyone, I still mean just you.
I think we (the fans) have done a good job voicing that 10pm is just WAY too late. They won’t do this again to us Season 4. It’s a 9:00 show for sure. Oh well, on with the show. This will be short and sweet this week.
Summary
Great episode! LOST is definitely back. Of course I mentioned the major connection between Claire and Jack last season. So it was anti-climatic. But the whole Locke thing gave me chills. We will discuss that later. I thought they did a good job wrapping up stray storylines and I also liked how Desmond just told Claire what was up. No stringing her along, withholding, lying…he just told her. It was a nice contrast from the whole We-Are-The-Others-And-We-Never-Reveal-Anything thing that always happens. Sawyer almost got off his Barbie comment, can’t wait for his week to be up!
Connections
The biggest one of course is that Claire is Jack’s half sister. It makes it seem less than a coincidence that not only Claire and Jack are on the same plane, but that Christian was there too. This revelation is clue that everyone has daddy issues. The beginning of the episode when it opened showing her eye was similar to Jack’s when he woke up on the beach. The numbers were on the odometer on the car and were said over the intercom in the hospital. The tv program in Claire’s mom’s hospital room was the documentary about migratory birds that she would later refer to on the island. The book that Sawyer was reading was The Fountainhead. In a nutshell, about a man trying no to conform, preferring to struggle in obscurity rather than compromise.
Questions
Charlie – It seems to me that being around Claire is dangerous. All the near deaths are when he was with her. I think it’s a leap to think that it has anything to do with baby Aaron. Remember the Others wanted Aaron, why? Is he trying to off poor Charlie? For now, Claire doesn’t care and is standing by her man.
Claire – So she never knew Christian’s name. Will she connect the dots with Jack before they leave the island? Did she kill her mom? Wasn’t it just like when Juliette wished her ex-husband was hit by a bus and then he was? Now Claire, arguing in the car with her mom and wishing her dead, and then being hit by a car. Car crashes are extremely prevalent in the show. Another thing…didn’t Claire’s note seem really cryptic!
To whom it may concern, we are the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815. We have survived on this island for 80 days. We were six hours into the flight when the pilot said we were off course and we turned back towards Fiji. We hit turbulence and crashed. We've been
waiting here all this time. Waiting for rescue that has not come. We do not know where
we are. We only know you have not found us. We've done our best to live on this
island. Some of us have come to accept we may never leave it. Not all of us have
survived since the crash, but there is new life too, and with it, there is hope.
We are alive. Please don't give up on us.
On one hand it was very poetic. But then again, it was like the other messages, no dates some information, I think we will definitely see that bird or at least, that message again.
Mikhail – He clearly would have rather died than taken back to the camp. I think an important thing he said was that since the sonar was down, if they leave, they couldn’t come back. That to me is important because of the reason they would want to…which they of course won’t reveal. We also get confirmation that Ben is not HIM. He seemed a little surprised that they didn’t know. Some people think that Jack will be their new leader. I don’t. I do think there is someone pulling the strings. The security fence didn’t have any dead animals, polar bears, boars – so I don’t think the Losties would have been hurt going through it. Someone (the above mentioned person who is responsible for the late blog) suggested that it might be a chip in the Others and the fence keeps them in. This is supported by the fact that it didn’t kill him until he was facing outward as if he was leaving. He fell, got up and faced them. Could just be dramatics…who knows!
One thing about the flashbacks, they can go pretty far into the past or just recently. That is something to always keep in mind. I have felt that the Losties existence is a flashback as well. Perhaps the Red Sox game is history because they are in a different plane of time. The Losties think its current but they are in the future and it is their past. Would kind of explain Mikhail saying “you won’t be able to come back” and “you are not capable of understanding.”
Locke - The biggest thing was Locke. I am going with the fact that, yes he is a sad sack, but he is doing all this for a reason. I think its still to easy to just say he doesn’t want to leave the island. If they leave and can’t come back, he can just stay. He’s blowing up hatches and now he has the C4. To blow up the submarine perhaps? Mikhail was about to reveal that Locke was paralyzed. Which leads me to believe the intel they have was all before the left the island because they didn’t try to steal Sun who is now pregnant. No one seems surprised that he is now walking around. Perhaps because they know the healing properties of the island? But then again, why would Ben need surgery. Everytime you seem to get one piece of the puzzle, there’s some crazy edge that just doesn’t fit. But Locke knew he didn’t win the chess game last week since he is an avid player. So he was searching for something. He was pushing that stupid code into the computer in the hatch, this is the first time a computer interacted with him. Not to mention the shout out to WarGames with the secure menus to the computer hidden by a game. So he was smart to sit at the computer in my opinion. He knew there might be an explosion because he would have already found and taken the C4. Locke is now the guy to watch.
Conclusion
Next week looks even better. They really did mean it when they said the rest of the episodes they will start showing us more. I am curious to see the Rousseau thing unfold, of course what is Locke’s connection to them. Not sure they will give up THAT much next week. But one can hope. Until next week, c-ya!
Thursday, March 08, 2007
Enter 77
I can’t stand the 10pm start time!!!! I am so tired by the time it comes on I can’t string together a coherent thought by then. And they are actually making me work at work. Boooo! I tried to get Lost Blog as one of my duties for work, but they aren’t buying it. But enough of my excuses, on with the show.
Summary
I thought it was a good episode. But I don’t feel like I was able to comprehend all of it the way I think I should. I think I am sliding backwards and over analyzing again. I will just tell you what I got from of it and you can all yell at me about how wrong I am. I am also pleased to see some anonymous comments on the board. Yeah! Comments are always welcome.
I liked the sub story with Hurley and Sawyer. Hurley really understanding Sawyer and that his frustration was not really about loosing his stuff but loosing his girl. I also loved how Sun could have asked to keep the stuff for the group if they won but preferred to have his respect and try and bring him closer to the group. Sawyer had some good lines: Grimace, Zoro, Avalanche, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (which on a side note I bought under the old Blockbuster video policy since I kept it 4 months and to this day, still have not seen). I think all of us did a collective-oh yeah when Sawyer said: “B) Who the hell are you?!?” We are all wondering that dear Sawyer.
Below is the Russian translation of the conversation between Mikhail and Ms. Klugh:
Klugh: Mikhail. Mikhail! You know what to do.
Mikhail: We still have another way [out].
Klugh: We cannot risk it. You know the conditions.
Mikhail: There is another way.
Klugh: They captured us. We will not let them to get into the territory.
Klugh: You know what to do. That's an order.
Mikhail: We still have another way!
Klugh (in English): Just do it, Mikhail.
Mikhail: Forgive me. (shoots)
Miss Klugh obviously a higher authority to him.
Connections
There were a lot of little connections this week. The cat was not the same but a symbol for the cat Sayid had seen when he was being tortured. The scene also mirrored what he did to Ben when he was in the hatch (torturing him while all the while Ben denied the truth). The cat was named Nadia after the love of his life, which he was incidentally on the way to see when the plane crashed. He was in Australia in the first place looking for large amounts of C4. Mikhail and Nadia’s b-day is on the same day. The overall parallel between 2 men, Mikhail and Sawyer, who both want isolation. Locke finding Ecko’s message "Life up your eyes and look north. John 3:05", led them right to the Flame. The heading 305, 3+0+5=8. The title of the episode Enter 77, it’s the 77 day on the island for the Losties. 7700 is the international aviation emergency code. The numbers added together on the manuals Sayid was holding equal 108. The number 4 was throughout. The numbers were also on the chess game.
Questions
This is what we were told, The Others (Hostiles) and the Dharma folks. Dharma came to the island and the Others were already there. They eventually took over the Dharma folks who are now missing and presumed dead. I saw somewhere that in some episode that the food drop was “automated and sent in perpetuity”, so no one is interacting with the outside world to receive it. Every hatch has a fail safe that blows up if there is a breach. The hydro filled with water, and Locke has blown up 2 others now.
Now who really is who? Mikhail was an Other. Kelvin was Dharma. But he was there after Dharma was supposedly over? This also makes me wonder about Juliette. She was Dharma but changed to an Other? Is that why she wants off of the island? But then, what about Ethan? He was off of the island and was recruiting…was he recruiting for Dharma or the Others? If Dharma, when did he become an Others? OR could the Others REALLY be Dharma and the ultimate switch-a-roo! That’s what I meant by saying earlier that I think I am missing the bigger picture in this episode. It’s hard for me to step back and see all the pieces and where they fit. Rememebr, Ben said he has been there all his life. But if he’s 45 that means he was born in the 60’s. So perhaps his mom was Dharma scientist? MAYBE the Losties ARE the hostiles!!!! There is no Others. Just Dharma (Others) and Hostiles (Losties and/or any survivor throughout the years). The Losties are killing, crossing lines and blowing up things. And remember from the Russian translation of Miss Klugh, “They captured us. We will not let them to get into the territory.” The Losties sure sound like the Hostiles. I got a chew on this a minute so don’t jump all over me just yet. But could the Others be Dharma and they make survivors to the island like Desmond believe they are part of Dharma, this long extinct experiment. This keeps them there with a purpose and keeps the island a secret. Maybe some of Dharma broke off and created another group as opposed to just native people of the island. Who knows!!!
When Mikhail said the computer cheats, made me think that it was a live feed and not a video screen that would be the same no matter who was typing. Just like the computer talking to Michael and he thought it was Locke. A little too fortuitous. But it does make sense that he would basically dare Locke to play, knowing that all communication functions were down and that he would wind up blowing up the station. My head hurts. It was too much for me this week because nothing is ever as it seems.
Conclusion
I thought it was a good episode. I think it is slowly building momentum for the end of the season. I think Rousseau may be a key to a lot of things in the end. I don’t want to speculate a lot about the previews, they are often misleading. But I found it interesting that there may be an invisible wall around the Others. Is it to keep them in or something else out? What was Miss Klugh so willing to die for? And how does my old tried and true theory of time shift fit in?!? I can’t wait to find out. Until next week….c-ya!
Summary
I thought it was a good episode. But I don’t feel like I was able to comprehend all of it the way I think I should. I think I am sliding backwards and over analyzing again. I will just tell you what I got from of it and you can all yell at me about how wrong I am. I am also pleased to see some anonymous comments on the board. Yeah! Comments are always welcome.
I liked the sub story with Hurley and Sawyer. Hurley really understanding Sawyer and that his frustration was not really about loosing his stuff but loosing his girl. I also loved how Sun could have asked to keep the stuff for the group if they won but preferred to have his respect and try and bring him closer to the group. Sawyer had some good lines: Grimace, Zoro, Avalanche, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (which on a side note I bought under the old Blockbuster video policy since I kept it 4 months and to this day, still have not seen). I think all of us did a collective-oh yeah when Sawyer said: “B) Who the hell are you?!?” We are all wondering that dear Sawyer.
Below is the Russian translation of the conversation between Mikhail and Ms. Klugh:
Klugh: Mikhail. Mikhail! You know what to do.
Mikhail: We still have another way [out].
Klugh: We cannot risk it. You know the conditions.
Mikhail: There is another way.
Klugh: They captured us. We will not let them to get into the territory.
Klugh: You know what to do. That's an order.
Mikhail: We still have another way!
Klugh (in English): Just do it, Mikhail.
Mikhail: Forgive me. (shoots)
Miss Klugh obviously a higher authority to him.
Connections
There were a lot of little connections this week. The cat was not the same but a symbol for the cat Sayid had seen when he was being tortured. The scene also mirrored what he did to Ben when he was in the hatch (torturing him while all the while Ben denied the truth). The cat was named Nadia after the love of his life, which he was incidentally on the way to see when the plane crashed. He was in Australia in the first place looking for large amounts of C4. Mikhail and Nadia’s b-day is on the same day. The overall parallel between 2 men, Mikhail and Sawyer, who both want isolation. Locke finding Ecko’s message "Life up your eyes and look north. John 3:05", led them right to the Flame. The heading 305, 3+0+5=8. The title of the episode Enter 77, it’s the 77 day on the island for the Losties. 7700 is the international aviation emergency code. The numbers added together on the manuals Sayid was holding equal 108. The number 4 was throughout. The numbers were also on the chess game.
Questions
This is what we were told, The Others (Hostiles) and the Dharma folks. Dharma came to the island and the Others were already there. They eventually took over the Dharma folks who are now missing and presumed dead. I saw somewhere that in some episode that the food drop was “automated and sent in perpetuity”, so no one is interacting with the outside world to receive it. Every hatch has a fail safe that blows up if there is a breach. The hydro filled with water, and Locke has blown up 2 others now.
Now who really is who? Mikhail was an Other. Kelvin was Dharma. But he was there after Dharma was supposedly over? This also makes me wonder about Juliette. She was Dharma but changed to an Other? Is that why she wants off of the island? But then, what about Ethan? He was off of the island and was recruiting…was he recruiting for Dharma or the Others? If Dharma, when did he become an Others? OR could the Others REALLY be Dharma and the ultimate switch-a-roo! That’s what I meant by saying earlier that I think I am missing the bigger picture in this episode. It’s hard for me to step back and see all the pieces and where they fit. Rememebr, Ben said he has been there all his life. But if he’s 45 that means he was born in the 60’s. So perhaps his mom was Dharma scientist? MAYBE the Losties ARE the hostiles!!!! There is no Others. Just Dharma (Others) and Hostiles (Losties and/or any survivor throughout the years). The Losties are killing, crossing lines and blowing up things. And remember from the Russian translation of Miss Klugh, “They captured us. We will not let them to get into the territory.” The Losties sure sound like the Hostiles. I got a chew on this a minute so don’t jump all over me just yet. But could the Others be Dharma and they make survivors to the island like Desmond believe they are part of Dharma, this long extinct experiment. This keeps them there with a purpose and keeps the island a secret. Maybe some of Dharma broke off and created another group as opposed to just native people of the island. Who knows!!!
When Mikhail said the computer cheats, made me think that it was a live feed and not a video screen that would be the same no matter who was typing. Just like the computer talking to Michael and he thought it was Locke. A little too fortuitous. But it does make sense that he would basically dare Locke to play, knowing that all communication functions were down and that he would wind up blowing up the station. My head hurts. It was too much for me this week because nothing is ever as it seems.
Conclusion
I thought it was a good episode. I think it is slowly building momentum for the end of the season. I think Rousseau may be a key to a lot of things in the end. I don’t want to speculate a lot about the previews, they are often misleading. But I found it interesting that there may be an invisible wall around the Others. Is it to keep them in or something else out? What was Miss Klugh so willing to die for? And how does my old tried and true theory of time shift fit in?!? I can’t wait to find out. Until next week….c-ya!
Friday, March 02, 2007
Tricia Tanaka is Dead
Okay, I do have a good excuse this week for being so EXTREMELY late with the blog. My daughter is having difficulty in school. Now that is completely surprising to me since I am either listening to Howard Stern on headphones, talking online to people about LOST and now American Idol or working until midnight because during the day I am gossiping about who was doing what at work. No home support?!? Are they crazy! You ask her anything about season 1 or 2, she’s golden. Wonder if that can that be a question on the standardized test? Anyway I was rocked by a pretty bad teacher conference and now my sweet child will have to get by on her looks. Luckily for me she’s cute. So I apologize profusely and will make a weak promise to never do it again. On with the show…
Summary
I thought it was a good episode. I am now going to stop waiting/looking for the show to give answers and try just enjoying it. I think it was one of the funniest ones they have had and a good transition to the rest of the season. Sawyer had some absolutely hilarious lines, “Jiminey Cricket, Snuffy (as in Snuffleupagus), Jimbo, Oliver twist, Skeletor, International House of Pancakes.” Best lines, “Let’s look death in the face and say, whatever man.” “Well somebody’s hooked on phonics.” And of course, S: What’s going on Jumbo Tron? H: Shut up. Red- -Neck- -Man. S: (pause) Touchè. Loving it. I liked how everyone was happy to see Kate and Sawyer back. They all seemed like family.
Connections
The father/son connection was made, now with Hurley. Yet another person with daddy issues. Hurley was not able to fix the Camaro with his dad, but he was able to fix the VW bus. The rabbit foot keychain was a connection to the, “You gotta make your own luck, Hurley.” The number 4 was in the license plate to the Camaro and Tricia Tanaka worked for Action 8 news. One of the documents in the van had the heading “Ho’oulu Lahui” which means to grow/propagate/inspire a species/tribe. The song that was playing when Hurley’s dad left was playing when the van started, Shambala by Three Dog Night. There is a picture of a tropical beach on the wall in Hurley's dining room.
Hurley told his father "I'm not going anywhere with you." Walt said those exact words to Michael when Michael came back into his life. The label on the beer shows The Swan logo as opposed to the normal Dharma logo that was on the food at the beginning. We now know how Randy becomes the boss of Locke at the box company, because we see the meteorite hit Mr. Cluck’s thus ending his tenure as manager there. I found it interesting the name, Roger Workman. Similar to the man on the orientation, Mr. Wick Man. Could it be their jobs on the island and not their real last names?
Questions
Not too many new questions. I am curious to find out what killed the people on the island. From Mr. Work Man and the bodies in the cave. Was there a road that the truck was on and it is now covered by the jungle? Where does the road lead? If Ben has been on the island all his life he would have been a kid when the island was filled with people. He knows what happened to them. Hurley’s line about the beer being as old as Rocky III, maybe II, puts the age at 1979. That would match the later age of the orientation video. Again, no new questions, no new answers.
Conclusion
Glad to see Rousseau back and perhaps now in a prominent role. Wonder what will happen when she comes face to face with Alex. Obviously a season finale moment. I don’t look at spoilers so I will have to be patient and wait. I look forward to more action next week. The tv show Heroes this week showed that a show that has to go slow lest it spoil all its surprises, can give answers and still continue strong. Take a lesson, Lost, however you’re still my number one! C-ya next week.
Summary
I thought it was a good episode. I am now going to stop waiting/looking for the show to give answers and try just enjoying it. I think it was one of the funniest ones they have had and a good transition to the rest of the season. Sawyer had some absolutely hilarious lines, “Jiminey Cricket, Snuffy (as in Snuffleupagus), Jimbo, Oliver twist, Skeletor, International House of Pancakes.” Best lines, “Let’s look death in the face and say, whatever man.” “Well somebody’s hooked on phonics.” And of course, S: What’s going on Jumbo Tron? H: Shut up. Red- -Neck- -Man. S: (pause) Touchè. Loving it. I liked how everyone was happy to see Kate and Sawyer back. They all seemed like family.
Connections
The father/son connection was made, now with Hurley. Yet another person with daddy issues. Hurley was not able to fix the Camaro with his dad, but he was able to fix the VW bus. The rabbit foot keychain was a connection to the, “You gotta make your own luck, Hurley.” The number 4 was in the license plate to the Camaro and Tricia Tanaka worked for Action 8 news. One of the documents in the van had the heading “Ho’oulu Lahui” which means to grow/propagate/inspire a species/tribe. The song that was playing when Hurley’s dad left was playing when the van started, Shambala by Three Dog Night. There is a picture of a tropical beach on the wall in Hurley's dining room.
Hurley told his father "I'm not going anywhere with you." Walt said those exact words to Michael when Michael came back into his life. The label on the beer shows The Swan logo as opposed to the normal Dharma logo that was on the food at the beginning. We now know how Randy becomes the boss of Locke at the box company, because we see the meteorite hit Mr. Cluck’s thus ending his tenure as manager there. I found it interesting the name, Roger Workman. Similar to the man on the orientation, Mr. Wick Man. Could it be their jobs on the island and not their real last names?
Questions
Not too many new questions. I am curious to find out what killed the people on the island. From Mr. Work Man and the bodies in the cave. Was there a road that the truck was on and it is now covered by the jungle? Where does the road lead? If Ben has been on the island all his life he would have been a kid when the island was filled with people. He knows what happened to them. Hurley’s line about the beer being as old as Rocky III, maybe II, puts the age at 1979. That would match the later age of the orientation video. Again, no new questions, no new answers.
Conclusion
Glad to see Rousseau back and perhaps now in a prominent role. Wonder what will happen when she comes face to face with Alex. Obviously a season finale moment. I don’t look at spoilers so I will have to be patient and wait. I look forward to more action next week. The tv show Heroes this week showed that a show that has to go slow lest it spoil all its surprises, can give answers and still continue strong. Take a lesson, Lost, however you’re still my number one! C-ya next week.
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Stranger in a Strange Land
Okay, I am going to say it…WTF?!? I LOVE this show. With that said, tonight’s episode was a tremendous let down. I know they cannot tell us everything. But tell us something. Jack screaming at Cindy?!? No questions? I will try my best to figure out what I thought the episode meant and future implications.
Summary
See above. Not enough info? Ok. The episode was minor character development, answering questions we already knew the answers to from previous shows and the ABC promo, and basic filler. Can you feel my frustration? Sawyer had his typical lines: “Bobby”. “Captain Bunny Killer”. “Crying in the jungle!” “Sally Slingshot” “You got a map, Magellan.” Offered some much needed levity to this installment.
Connections
The song Sawyer was singing on the boat "Show Me The Way To Go Home" was the same song the men were singing on the boat in the movie Jaws right before they were attacked.
The Thai hello was similar to the Namaste greeting that Dr. Candle did on the orientation video.
Achara has a “gift” and so did Claire’s psychic.
Jack’s tattoo really means, “"Eagles high, cleaving sky." I think the show just took license with the tattoos. But a connection could be made about the real translation and him flying a kite that was in the shape of a bird.
The dharma logo of the hydra hatch was in the meeting room. I really didn’t see anymore connections. There were a lot of inferences and similarities, but no numbers or other clues.
Questions
Are you kidding? There were tons!
I think that Cindy and the kids were taken because they were easy to manipulate and convert to their way of thinking. If you believe that they were taken because they were special, were the other Tailies just left there to die or to be rescued? What happens to people who come to the island uninvited? Was this the first time? The bigger conspiracy is that Cindy is a true Other. She could have had access to the cockpit and that plane was brought to that area on purpose. Why were they so off-course? She could have been an Other like Etham.
I am sticking with brainwashed because the kids were ok with being there as well. They had memories (she asked about Ana Lucia) so why are they not missing their parents? The boy seemed not so brainwashed maybe because of his age. They were taking the kids to an execution. Reminded me of the book The Lottery, where the entire village, kids included, took part in a stoning.
Another quick point about time shift. Cindy was going to explain her association to the Others, but stopped short. I always thought the whispers were people talking on a different plane of time. Maybe they are “the Watchers”. It could all be a part of the bigger experiment.
Another note, Alex never answered Jack’s question when he asked if Ben was still in charge. She said, “what?” He repeated it and then added if the sheriff would still follow Ben’s orders. Alex answered yes to that, but not if he was still in charge. I believe because he ultimately is not.
Jack wasn’t allowed in the meeting room, much like he was not suppose to get the tattoo. He stepped over the line in Phuket but not on the island. Perhaps things to come. But the kids and Cindy were there which emphasizes her status with the Others. She is clearly not a higher up because she didn’t know about Ana Lucia. Also notice how Juliet’s hair was straight while she was in charge. But when she was in trouble it started to poof back up again and look ratty like when she was home. Another small indication that she is less like one of them, although I still don’t trust her.
The tattoo was significant in as much as it indicated Jack is a leader. Most of the time that is a positive trait but Achara reacted like it was bad. Was it because she felt that he would go through the struggle on the island to ultimately be a leader after a disaster? Possibly. “He walks among us, but is not one of us.” Describing his current status with the Others? Maybe also his status with the Losties, since they were “bad” and he is good? Or perhaps an indication of his future status as the leader of the island? More of a foreshadowing.
As far as Kate/Sawyer/Karl, why let Karl go? Learn as much as you can from him and then let him go. If he has been on the island all his life, then wouldn’t he just automatically go back? Is he supposed to wander in the jungle forever? I hope he runs into Rousseau! He believes in the island and their purpose, he just wants to be with Alex as well. There is definitely more than meets the eye about them leaving him. What if they sailed the boat around, would they have hit the Others home instead. Michael & Walt are supposed to be going home. Could it be “home”? Walt seemed off the last time we saw him, unaffected that the Losties were bound and gagged on the dock, much like the way the girl reacted to Jack being in a cage. Why is that? Simple brainwashing or do they know the bigger picture? More I think about it….they are in the Others home.
Why send your only doctor to investigate the Losties?!? Etham was obviously high up, so why expose him to not only the danger of being pretending to be a “survivor”, but of also stealing Claire? As always, no answers, more questions.
Conclusion
It was hard to read everyone slamming LOST last week, especially since I thought last week’s episode was great. And then they had to go and air this one! The ABC promo people need to stay out of it and are in many ways frustrating fans. I think they came up with something to grab viewers but if the episode doesn’t hold up, it causes more damage. But it’s still my show and I love it enough to allow it one ok week. I really like Alex and Karl and look forward to seeing how that all pans out. So until next week…
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Flashes Before Your Eyes
Yes! Yes! Yes! How can someone NOT like this show?!? They just don’t get it. Each spine tingling episode…I love it more and more. Time travel!!! But not really. Love how it is but not that at all! Does your brain hurt? Let’s begin our journey…
Oh one point from last week that I missed. Mittlelos Lab could be a subsidiary of Hanso Foundation since Dr. Thomas Mittelwerk took over for Alvar Hanso. Not sure if that is fan fiction or actually part of the story. But it is easier for me to connect the dots if it is true.
Summary
So you can’t believe the previews at all. No Sawyer or Kate this episode. An excellent episode nonetheless. I like Desmond and anything with him is welcome. I hope they don’t get rid of Charlie any time soon…but you know Lost. Anything can happen. And he is dating Kate in real life. Not good. Once the relationship is over, one of them is dead. Charlie had a cute line, “That is why we don’t do drugs”. Definitely before Drive Shaft.
Connections
Lots of easy ones so that we see clearly the connections Desmond is suppose to make. 1:08 on the alarm clock, beeping on the microwave matched that in the hatch. Delivery guy had delivery at 8:15. MacCutcheon whisky was the same on the island as in Widmore’s office. Make your own kind of music on jukebox is the same song playing in the hatch when Desmond was exercising. We see the origins of the photo Desmond carries around. The picture on the wall of Widmore’s office had a polar bear on it and “Namaste” written backwards from the orientation video. Also the Greek words and symbols from the hatch were on a painting in Desmond and Penny’s apartment. Hieronymus is Charlie’s middle name. Painter known for his works depicting sin and human moral failings. The jeweler’s name is Ms. Hawkings like Steven Hawkings from the book that the guard was reading last week. She is also wearing an Ouroboros broach which is a dragon in a circle eating its tail. A metaphor for a vicious cycle. Receptionist at Widmore office was also an EMT during Jack’s wife’s car accident. In the background of the soccer match on TV, you can see ads for Oceanic, Mr. Clucks Chicken Shack, Apollo Candy Bars and Hanso Foundation. Charlie singing that song to Desmond on the street with the lyrics, "Maybe.....You're gonna be the one that saves me", I searched and I think the song is called Wonderwall. Okay…maybe y’all already knew that since it was Oasis. I never liked the feuding brothers! The book, Laughter in the Dark, that they found in Sawyer’s stash, was a Lolita-type book, so not sure how that ties in at all. Lots of repeating lines: You’re a good man, its’ not the end of the world etc.
Questions
4 theories (All in his head, all in his head AND premonition, the island-smoke monster, time travel-reliving his past,)
The logical explanation is that he bumped his head and dreamed about the past. He then incorporated themes from the present, as dreams often do. The jeweler was his subconscious re-affirming that he was doing the right thing. The blast gave him a heightened sense of awareness instead of the ability to preconceive things. If things are suppose to happen, they will whether or not he intervenes, in the end. This ability is his way to make up for his past wrongs of the past, which they all try and fail to do, and he will too also fail. Boring!
The other take is the above, but add that he has the ability to see the future after the blast.
If we say it’s the island trying to keep him on path and that the dream was really his manifestation of the smoke monster. The people on the island see their manifestation on the island, perhaps for Desmond it had to not only be routed in the past but reinforce his premonitions. The jeweler was another manifestation of the smoke monster, much like Ecko’s brother was.
I like Time Travel, Time Shift, and Parallel Universe. To me it explains it all! From Walt (Have you ever seen Walt in places he was not suppose to be), to the whispers and backward talking (perhaps speaking on another plane of time). Remember Penny at the end of Season 2? I think Desmond traveled back and told his friend, who told Penny, who hired a team to look for the EMP anomaly and there she would find Desmond. Why an EMP, why not a sailboat? I think its logical that Desmond’s friend, after realizing that Desmond was right about the soccer match, tells the story to Penny once Desmond is missing for some time. Add that and with the fact that we’ve all seen Terminator. He had to be naked to travel through time.
Another take is that Desmond has lived through this and it is not a premonition but he is seeing his past. The jeweler was like the oracle in the Matrix (side note: could they make any more movie references, Final Destination, Terminator, The Others, Slaughterhouse Five, and Matrix-Damn! What if they were suppose to die in the plane crash, a la Final Destination, and now they are being killed one by one based on where their name was on the manifest? Nope, then where did the Others come from and why do they still exist? Oh well). She tries to tell him that he cannot change the past, which his really his present. He keeps trying to by saving Charlie. But its not the future but really the past.
It’s a lot to chew on. NO ONE knows what is the correct one, so it is fun to hypothesize about it! I’m sticking with time shift/parallel universe. Time travel seems too extreme, but in the world of LOST, so would a smoke monster killing a grown man!
Conclusion
So next week, we finally learn about the children. Now I said last week that if the children were all grown up, definitely time shift. But I think they haven’t aged because Cindy looks the same. Same clothes even if I’m not mistaken. Whatever is going on….I can’t wait to watch it unfold. Good night! (now morning..)
Oh one point from last week that I missed. Mittlelos Lab could be a subsidiary of Hanso Foundation since Dr. Thomas Mittelwerk took over for Alvar Hanso. Not sure if that is fan fiction or actually part of the story. But it is easier for me to connect the dots if it is true.
Summary
So you can’t believe the previews at all. No Sawyer or Kate this episode. An excellent episode nonetheless. I like Desmond and anything with him is welcome. I hope they don’t get rid of Charlie any time soon…but you know Lost. Anything can happen. And he is dating Kate in real life. Not good. Once the relationship is over, one of them is dead. Charlie had a cute line, “That is why we don’t do drugs”. Definitely before Drive Shaft.
Connections
Lots of easy ones so that we see clearly the connections Desmond is suppose to make. 1:08 on the alarm clock, beeping on the microwave matched that in the hatch. Delivery guy had delivery at 8:15. MacCutcheon whisky was the same on the island as in Widmore’s office. Make your own kind of music on jukebox is the same song playing in the hatch when Desmond was exercising. We see the origins of the photo Desmond carries around. The picture on the wall of Widmore’s office had a polar bear on it and “Namaste” written backwards from the orientation video. Also the Greek words and symbols from the hatch were on a painting in Desmond and Penny’s apartment. Hieronymus is Charlie’s middle name. Painter known for his works depicting sin and human moral failings. The jeweler’s name is Ms. Hawkings like Steven Hawkings from the book that the guard was reading last week. She is also wearing an Ouroboros broach which is a dragon in a circle eating its tail. A metaphor for a vicious cycle. Receptionist at Widmore office was also an EMT during Jack’s wife’s car accident. In the background of the soccer match on TV, you can see ads for Oceanic, Mr. Clucks Chicken Shack, Apollo Candy Bars and Hanso Foundation. Charlie singing that song to Desmond on the street with the lyrics, "Maybe.....You're gonna be the one that saves me", I searched and I think the song is called Wonderwall. Okay…maybe y’all already knew that since it was Oasis. I never liked the feuding brothers! The book, Laughter in the Dark, that they found in Sawyer’s stash, was a Lolita-type book, so not sure how that ties in at all. Lots of repeating lines: You’re a good man, its’ not the end of the world etc.
Questions
4 theories (All in his head, all in his head AND premonition, the island-smoke monster, time travel-reliving his past,)
The logical explanation is that he bumped his head and dreamed about the past. He then incorporated themes from the present, as dreams often do. The jeweler was his subconscious re-affirming that he was doing the right thing. The blast gave him a heightened sense of awareness instead of the ability to preconceive things. If things are suppose to happen, they will whether or not he intervenes, in the end. This ability is his way to make up for his past wrongs of the past, which they all try and fail to do, and he will too also fail. Boring!
The other take is the above, but add that he has the ability to see the future after the blast.
If we say it’s the island trying to keep him on path and that the dream was really his manifestation of the smoke monster. The people on the island see their manifestation on the island, perhaps for Desmond it had to not only be routed in the past but reinforce his premonitions. The jeweler was another manifestation of the smoke monster, much like Ecko’s brother was.
I like Time Travel, Time Shift, and Parallel Universe. To me it explains it all! From Walt (Have you ever seen Walt in places he was not suppose to be), to the whispers and backward talking (perhaps speaking on another plane of time). Remember Penny at the end of Season 2? I think Desmond traveled back and told his friend, who told Penny, who hired a team to look for the EMP anomaly and there she would find Desmond. Why an EMP, why not a sailboat? I think its logical that Desmond’s friend, after realizing that Desmond was right about the soccer match, tells the story to Penny once Desmond is missing for some time. Add that and with the fact that we’ve all seen Terminator. He had to be naked to travel through time.
Another take is that Desmond has lived through this and it is not a premonition but he is seeing his past. The jeweler was like the oracle in the Matrix (side note: could they make any more movie references, Final Destination, Terminator, The Others, Slaughterhouse Five, and Matrix-Damn! What if they were suppose to die in the plane crash, a la Final Destination, and now they are being killed one by one based on where their name was on the manifest? Nope, then where did the Others come from and why do they still exist? Oh well). She tries to tell him that he cannot change the past, which his really his present. He keeps trying to by saving Charlie. But its not the future but really the past.
It’s a lot to chew on. NO ONE knows what is the correct one, so it is fun to hypothesize about it! I’m sticking with time shift/parallel universe. Time travel seems too extreme, but in the world of LOST, so would a smoke monster killing a grown man!
Conclusion
So next week, we finally learn about the children. Now I said last week that if the children were all grown up, definitely time shift. But I think they haven’t aged because Cindy looks the same. Same clothes even if I’m not mistaken. Whatever is going on….I can’t wait to watch it unfold. Good night! (now morning..)
Thursday, February 08, 2007
Not in Portland
Summary
I thought it was a good show last night. It was a pretty typical character development episode. We learned about Juliet (Julie, Jules etc) and her history. She is a brilliant fertility scientist, but scared, timid and controlled by the man in her life. Explains why now she is a forceful, killer. Even her hair looks stronger. Very interesting to know that she is stuck on the island as well, if we believe her. It does make sense that she would want to leave the island and be back with her sister. We will probably learn more in future flashbacks. Sawyer had the best lines, glad we didn’t loose that over the hiatus. “Glad to meet you, Sheena.” “Don't get mad at me, just 'cause you were dumb enough to fall for the old Wookiee prisoner gag.” My favorite was when Kate was on the walkie talkie with Jack and he said, “Yeah tell him I said hello…will you come on!!!” Loved it.
Connections
Numbers – the monitor showed 108 on the screen, the medical lab was in lab 5. The number 4 was on her security card. Karl was being held in room 23.
-Kate was in
-The plane when Juliet opened the blinds was an oceanic flight.
-We all saw Ethan when Juliet walked down the hallway to her sister’s apartment. Much like the walk down the hallway when he was keeping Claire.
-The anagram for “Mittlelos” lab as is Time Lost or Lost Time.
-Rachel’s pregnancy test was a Windmore, just like the other ones.
-When Juliet said, “Whatever you think I am, I’m not.” Ben said the same thing while in the hatch.
-The whole brainwash room was like Clockwork Orange. Pretty straight forward crazy Others stuff. The only thing that stuck in my mind was the “God loves you as he did Jacob” sign. Only because of the whole “Shepard wasn’t even on Jacob’s list”. In my mind, the slide was trying to reinforce the superiority and maybe divinity of Jacob. Also noticed the last scene of the slide show was of a scientist, probably a De Groot.
-Aldo the guard was reading A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking. It’s a book about cosmology, black holes etc.
Questions
I think Juliet’s sister Rachel perhaps had ovarian cancer and could no longer conceive due to organs being removed. Juliet’s experience with impregnating a male mouse would fit that. The aging womb to me reinforces my time shift theory that perhaps people are aging at different rates on the island. If we see a couple of teenagers, those are the children from the plane! That is too wild for me. I am not sure how far and deep the time shift is but it is prevalent.
I liked how the company was stalking her to get her on the island. Maybe some are chosen and others get there by chance. I don’t think they killed her husband, although pretty cool nonetheless. It reminded me of the movie Final Destination. BUT it was similar to how Michael was hit by a car when he was crossing the street after threatening to take Walt.
Ben is Alex’s father. I believe he took her from Rousseau, like they wanted to do with Aaron, and he raised her as his child. She is obviously a higher up since everyone let’s her go. She is a lot like Rousseau as she knows the jungle, tricks and traps. I would be curious to know why they don’t want her and Karl together. Why did they feel the need to re-program him? I don’t think Rousseau knows that Alex is her daughter. I think she is so crazy that she is still probably looking for a baby instead of a full grown girl.
Do we believe what Danny said that Ben would never want them to leave? Did Juliet kill him on purpose? I think some of what she told Jack is true…not all of it. She wants to leave. She is being kept there. But still, something else is missing.
Purple sky comment. Jack asks why they didn’t take him off the island? Tom starts to explain, “Every since the sky turned purple….”, what does that mean?!? If that means they couldn’t get him off the island, then Michael and Walt haven’t really left. And why would they need Jack, Sawyer and Kate if they were going to take him off the island? (Purple sky was after they were taken). Ben has never been off the island. Would he really leave for a surgery?
I am glad to see in next week’s episode that they are going back for Jack. Live together or die alone. Even though the hiatus was rough at first, it is going to be nice to have week after week of LOST. I think that the show will continue to build momentum. So until next week….c-ya!
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
I Do
Hey All!
I love this show! How could you not?!? It had
everything. We needed to be together, you guys.
This was definitely a moment to share with others.I am
going to try my best and get everything out in
an organized fashion. I have already broken my rule
and spoken about it with several people, but it was
just too good to keep in.
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Summary
How dare they give us clues to next “season” during
commercials for Daybreak?!? So we already know
several things, especially if you re-watched the clip
in slow motion 9 or 10 times. Sawyer lived, Kate and
Sawyer escape, they meet up with Desmond
somehow, more lightening with Claire and Aaron,
Charlie and Desmond get into it. Some stuff we
knew really. I think this whole thing with lightening
or electricity playing a bigger role with Aaron is
interesting. Also spoilers say the black smoke will
continue to be prominent this season. We shall see.
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Connections & Questions I
I am going to break from our format because there
does not seem to be flow when I just shout things
out.
Lost is one big stereoscopic image. If you look at it
long enough, you start to see the inner picture. I
typically look for characters that could have been
people in previous episodes. Kevin looked a lot like
Ethan. I am convinced they are doing on purpose. I
am still haunted by Benry’s words, “It’s no accident
she looks like your wife.” There was a definite
character connection this episode, the minister at
Kate’s wedding. He was the head doctor in the
hearing for Jack’s dad in the episode, “All Good
Cowboys have Daddy Issues,” from season 1. I re-
watched the episode this morning and bam! The
connections were incredible. In that episode, Jack is
doing a spinal surgery (hmm) and he kills the patient
by ripping a sac (hmm). But it really was his dad’s
fault because he was covering for him because he
was drunk, and actually killed the woman in ER. The
woman was pregnant (hmmm). It’s a subtle
connection but the similarities are there.It was the
first time they think that they are not
there alone – Ethan was not on the manifest and
then disappears with Claire and Charlie. Sayid was
just released from Rousseau where she told them
about the Others being on the island before them,
the sickness and her daughter. Alex was prominent
in this episode.
What is Alex’s relationship with Benry? Definite
father undertones. He sounded as if she should have
been concerned about his surgery. Typically
father/daughter fight over a boy. She was taken
when she was a baby, she probably raised by him.
Another major point is Claire is kidnapped in that
episode. I believe she was on the original list,
(Jacob’s list) not Jack. Jack was taken instead
because Benry was selfish and wanted the surgery.
It makes more sense to me know if the
Michael’s “get-list” was suppose to be Sawyer, Hugo,
Kate, Claire. Good/Male (Hugo, Claire) and
Evil/Female (Sawyer, Kate). Danny’s
comment, “Shepard wasn’t even on Jacob’s list.”
This is also a shout out to the fact that Jack was
not supposed to be a main character on this show.
Makes a lot of sense. Still not sure where Danny’s
hate for Sawyer is coming from. I plan to go back
and watch the seasons, I think they will make a lot
more sense now, not only because now we know
what is going to happen, but now we see clues we
missed the first time or because we didn’t see how
they would fit. I didn’t become a lunatic until about
the 3rd episode of season 2. I gotta lot of ground to
make up for!
I think Kate is pregnant. I think the first test was a
false negative and that is why she is the owner of
the pregnancy test found on the plane. Sun was not
suppose to be pregnant and is. Why not Kate? Not
to mention the whole clothes thing I mentioned last
week (Mr. Friendly, “if it doesn’t fit, let me know”).
What is going to happen in 2 weeks?!? Spoilers say
that there is a big event week 9. We are at week
6. So that could be in their world 2 weeks time. 2
week clues: Benry was not suppose to live past 2
weeks. Danny was arguing with Juliette about why
they were moving “it” up. The surgery or the coup?
Benry also referenced time by the whole breakfast
with Kate and how she would go through a lot in 2
weeks. Coworker speculated that they impregnated
her. She could have been crying because of that
when Jack asked her if she was hurt. Perhaps?
Benry did seem to take a liking to Kate. He is dying,
perhaps someone to carry his seed? She would know
in 2 weeks time if she were pregnant. I think she
was crying more because she had to beg Jack to
save Sawyer’s life, thus making her choice. (Side
note: I don’t think that whole triangle is over either.
She is just more suited to Sawyer but drawn to Jack).
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Connections & Questions II
Here is what Jack said to Kate on the beach: Well,
fear's sort of an odd thing. When I was in residency
my first solo procedure was a spinal surgery on a 16
year old kid, a girl. And at the end, after 13 hours, I
was closing her up and I, I accidentally ripped her
dural sac, shredded the base of the spine where all
the nerves come together, membrane as thin as
tissue. And so it ripped open and the nerves just
spilled out of her like angel hair pasta, spinal fluid
flowing out of her, the terror was just so crazy. So
real. And I knew I had to deal with it. (He's crying).
So I just made a choice. I'd let the fear in, let it take
over, let it do its thing, but only for 5 seconds, that's
all I was going to give it. So I started to count, 1, 2,
3, 4, 5. Then it was gone. I went back to work,
sewed her up and she was fine. Kind of a long code
word? But it probably means just be brave and run.
Good choice of story though. There is a way off the
island or at least back to their camp. I believe Jack
saw it on the tv screens. He was staring at one in
particular before he noticed the Kate and Sawyer
one. And from the previews we see Kate and Sawyer
with Desmond. So they will interact somehow.
“Lift your head, look North”, John 3:5. I loved that.
Perhaps he will see Sawyer and Kate? Or maybe
their way off the island? The bible verse "I tell you
the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God
unless he is born of water and the Spirit.” I believe
where Echo didn’t repent, Locke will. Perhaps Benry
was not coming to get Locke because he was on a
list but because he needed a replacement. Locke is
the only one who closely shares Benry’s vision.
Benry can’t trust those around him. I am interested
to see when they meet again.
Finally who the heck is Jacob? Can’t be Ethan Rohm,
and Goodwin never met the Losties to know whether
or not they should be on the list. Some have
speculated eye patch guy or perhaps the “Him” Benry
referred to in the hatch. They will mention him
again, I am sure. While they are at it, please explain
the statue!
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Conclusion
I am still on a high from last night and I know with all
the holidays coming, it’s good that I can focus on
stuff like, friends and family. I support ABC’s decision
to do this to us, better this than endless re-runs.
But we gotta flex those Lost mental muscles, so we
are all agreed! We will re-watch season 1 and
season 2 and have discussions during the hiatus.
Yea! No? Okay, I will re-watch season 1 and season
2 and email you periodically things I notice. I am
also working on a revised website, as I mentioned
before, and just for fun, perhaps send you an online
quiz or 2. They are fun, I swear. Well, that’s it for
now. I look forward to talking to you all again.
Until then, c-ya!
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