Obviously a little late due to extenuating circumstances...blog for The Constant will be up shortly I'm sure...but here are a few thoughts (mostly questions) from Eggtown...don't get too excited...a lot happened between last week and this week so my memory is a little fuzzy...
Locke - If those were the last two eggs, why kill the chicken? Are there more chickens? If so, then won't there be more eggs? Are we to assume there will be no more food drops? That'll suck. I liked the crappy prop wall that the eggs got thrown up against...that was classic.
Kate - How'd she get Aaron? Is that really Aaron? Is she really "not" pregnant? Does Aaron "count" as one of the Oceanic Six? Who were the two other survivors of the crash that didn't make it back to the real world?
Kate/Jack - What happens in between this trial and the Season 3 finale when Jack has to meet Kate in secret? Was there a fight? Are they being watched? Is future-Ben still manipulated their lives belong just the cover-up story? Did Ben contrive the cover-up story?
Ben - Was $3.2 million a code to Miles if Miles was Ben's "man on the boat"? Does Dharma think the Island is still functioning properly and therefore they keep sending food? Is Ben dooping all of the true Others and conducting Dharma experiments right before their eyes with out them knowing what's going on? How is Ben so freaking cool?
Jack - Why does his hair get progressively more grey, yet in the Season 3 finale we see him with that awful BLACK beard? That still bothers me...to no end. Obviously they are showing this inconsistency for a purpose (*cough* wormhole *cough*)
Faraday - Memory loss my friend? I believe Faraday has some memory loss issues...a conclusion based also on the crying episode from when we first met Daniel. I believe he cries for a purpose, yet cannot remember why it "should" matter. BUT with his mad brain for science, he obviously can remember some things...is it only "personal" events he has trouble memorizing? Are these Memory games with Charlotte supposed to help? Really? Come on now...
Claire - Is not going to make it to the mainland. I'm pretty sure she'll get off the Island, but not so sure that she'll make it the whole way.
Favorite Blogs of the Week
LongLiveLocke
Vozzek69
Fishbiscuit
Favorite Quote of the Week
Hurley: "You just totally Scooby-Dooed me, didn't you?"
Friday, February 29, 2008
Monday, February 18, 2008
The Economist
I love Sayid-centric episodes. He's by far the most complex character (in my opinion) mostly because he's probably the least self-absorbed of the characters (Ben's a wacko and very complex, but so egotistical, it de-complexes him in my opinion). I kinda like that the flash forwards do not necessarily tell us when they are occurring. We do not know when Sayid and Ben become cohorts, but we know that "someone" still needs protecting, and oddly as it is, protection is one of Sayid's greatest character flaws. His desire to protect those around him always seem to backfire...kinda sucky...and obviously he's destined to be alone, and we see that he is NOT with Nadia in his flash forward, which we can only assume is his motivation for getting off the Island at all right now. Something huge must have happened, and probably, again to protect her, or because he found out she has been killed by Dharma/Hanso/Oceanic/Others he has chosen to side with Ben in a life bent on destruction. One question remains (in my head at least) which is did the golf-course killing occur before or after Sayid's European adventure? Okay, I lied, maybe two...is Ben really a vet, or is that just where Sayid met up with him? Do you really think Ben lives off-Island permanently in the future? And what's up with all the dogs in this show? Perhaps that's going to be big later...I know nothing about dogs...other than ones that lick my face are the only ones that seem to enjoy my company...awesome.
Kate/Sawyer
Thank you Sawyer for finally saying what the rest of us were thinking. Why teh crap does Kate want off the Island where she is considered a vital member of the community, a leader...only to return home where she is a fugitive? Or does Kate have outside insight into the future...perhaps because, like the Barenaked Ladies song, "It's all be done before..."
Charlotte/Miles
Why were the Fantastic Four guys so interested in getting Charlotte back when they should have known that she would want to stay on the Island? Do you think anyone will go after Miles? Obviously the pilot won't (even if he didn't leave on the helicopter with Desmond, Sayid, and Naomi). My favorite theory behind this goes to the multiple "missions" of the F4. Miles obviously has a different mission that Daniel and/or Charlotte.
Daniel
I loved when he totally geeked out. He makes me giggle. Which bring me to my next topic...
Relativity
One thing was pretty much shot down by theorist this week, and that's the time difference from World to Island. Twice references to time and the difference between "Island" and actual time showed that no huge difference exists. Which still means multiple timeline theory is on, but the Island-time moving at a significantly slower pace than everyone else is now muddled. Then again...we have no idea where the freighter is and whether or not it is in Island water/territory...are those 31 minutes cumulative? Did the time differential begin the moment of the crash? The moment the hatch blew up and made the sky turn purple? Has the Island been "catching up" with real time ever since that event? Okay, so maybe not too much can be taken away from this 31 minute time difference...at least not yet.
Science vs. Faith
One thing about Sayid, he definitely is a Science and Faith kind of guy...perhaps much like the Others and Ben? We are constantly reminded of his technical expertise, but Sayid is also one of two openly "religious" characters on the Island (the other being Rose...if you take "religious" to mean "recognized world religion" vs. the post-modern "spiritual, but not religious" mentality a la Mr. Locke.) What's interesting is that Sayid's faith and his scientific background seem unrelated. It's not like his Faith is in Science, but rather he is one character which embodies both. Is this cause for the trials Sayid is out through? Can the two coexist without causing some sort of destruction? On LOST we have not yet seen anyone who embodies the ideals of both Science and Faith succeed... Intriguing. Are the two really so incompatible?
Favorite Blogs of the Week
LongLiveLocke
J Wood
Koobie
Luhks
Favorite Quote of the Week
Miles: "Where the hell did they go Tubby?"
Hurley: "Oh awesome.. the ship sent us another Sawyer"
Kate/Sawyer
Thank you Sawyer for finally saying what the rest of us were thinking. Why teh crap does Kate want off the Island where she is considered a vital member of the community, a leader...only to return home where she is a fugitive? Or does Kate have outside insight into the future...perhaps because, like the Barenaked Ladies song, "It's all be done before..."
Charlotte/Miles
Why were the Fantastic Four guys so interested in getting Charlotte back when they should have known that she would want to stay on the Island? Do you think anyone will go after Miles? Obviously the pilot won't (even if he didn't leave on the helicopter with Desmond, Sayid, and Naomi). My favorite theory behind this goes to the multiple "missions" of the F4. Miles obviously has a different mission that Daniel and/or Charlotte.
Daniel
I loved when he totally geeked out. He makes me giggle. Which bring me to my next topic...
Relativity
One thing was pretty much shot down by theorist this week, and that's the time difference from World to Island. Twice references to time and the difference between "Island" and actual time showed that no huge difference exists. Which still means multiple timeline theory is on, but the Island-time moving at a significantly slower pace than everyone else is now muddled. Then again...we have no idea where the freighter is and whether or not it is in Island water/territory...are those 31 minutes cumulative? Did the time differential begin the moment of the crash? The moment the hatch blew up and made the sky turn purple? Has the Island been "catching up" with real time ever since that event? Okay, so maybe not too much can be taken away from this 31 minute time difference...at least not yet.
Science vs. Faith
One thing about Sayid, he definitely is a Science and Faith kind of guy...perhaps much like the Others and Ben? We are constantly reminded of his technical expertise, but Sayid is also one of two openly "religious" characters on the Island (the other being Rose...if you take "religious" to mean "recognized world religion" vs. the post-modern "spiritual, but not religious" mentality a la Mr. Locke.) What's interesting is that Sayid's faith and his scientific background seem unrelated. It's not like his Faith is in Science, but rather he is one character which embodies both. Is this cause for the trials Sayid is out through? Can the two coexist without causing some sort of destruction? On LOST we have not yet seen anyone who embodies the ideals of both Science and Faith succeed... Intriguing. Are the two really so incompatible?
Favorite Blogs of the Week
LongLiveLocke
J Wood
Koobie
Luhks
Favorite Quote of the Week
Miles: "Where the hell did they go Tubby?"
Hurley: "Oh awesome.. the ship sent us another Sawyer"
Monday, February 11, 2008
Confirmed Dead
The Fantastic, I mean, Freighter Four were the featured "character" of the week. I absolutely LOVED the way we were introduced to each of them individually, and then Naomi and Michael Abaddon pulled things together in the end. Awesome.
Daniel
All it really took was the physicist actually admitting he was a physicist to realize the freighter was not looking for survivors of Oceanic 815. This becomes more and more evident throughout the episode. What were they looking for? The Christiane 1 was a ship that discovered the wreckage of Oceanic 815 at the bottom of the Indian Ocean (while looking for the Black Rock). Greg Gumberg got a shout out with one freaky looking mug shot...and rediscovering Jeremy Davies gave me another reason for wanting to rent Rescue Dawn (Reason #1 - Christian Bale of course!)
Miles
What was up with the photo in the old grandma's house where the ghostbuster came to do his business? Obviously that photo was important...even a casual LOST viewer would have caught that...who is it? Any relation to the Losties we already know? Eko perhaps? Michael/Walt? How old was the picture, when did this particular ghostbusting scam happen? I'm not a fan of this Miles character, even if he did give Charlotte the bullet-proof vest that "saved her life" later in the episode, but more on that later.
Charlotte
What about the polar bear remains dug up by the anthropologist chick? Complete with Dharma Hydro Tags? Come on people...time travel and multiple universe theories are starting to look pretty good right about now. Is this related to the "Magic Box" that Ben referred to when Locke's father appeared on the Island? Quite possible!
CS Lewis...Charlotte...The Great Divorce...people are talking...and Ben's "man on their boat" yeah, my personal favorite theory on that...Charlotte = "man" on the boat.
Obvious Narnia reference (for those preferring a different real world vs. Island timeline) with the inclusion of our own C.S. Lewis. (Narnia, land where time functions differently, outsiders only can enter when "Narnia" allows them to enter...)
Frank
Hairy pilot...previously people had speculated that he could possibly be Jacob...fitting the bill of scraggly older guy with wild hair...what do you think? I'm not yet convinced...although, if he was "supposed to pilot that flight" perhaps he does have a connection to the Island, other than the obvious guilt that would have come upon him after seeing that his replacement crashed the plane and there were "no survivors". Or do you think his frantic phone call to the Occeanic hotline got him into this whole mess of having to take more outsiders to the Island?
Is anyone else convinced that Oceanic and Dharma are in cohoots? Perhaps they are just shells of a larger entity that we know nothing about yet...
Pictures
What about the pictures? When we first saw Naomi, she was carrying around a picture of Desmond, the other guy on the freighter, Miles, he was carrying around a picture of Ben. What's the deal? Is Desmond more of a Dharma player than we ever could have conceived? When did Ben leave the Island? Did Ben (and possibly) Desmond use the Orchid Dharma station for time travel back to the "real world"? Why was the computer not plugged in when Ben was walking through what looked like airport security wearing a awful vest? Could this have been taken at the same airport that Juliet was taken to when she took her voyage to the Island? I mean really, why would they need to check luggage? The computer would be for show anyway...no need to waste the power...
Cow
Where exactly did Frank land the helicopter? Apparently in or near cow pasture. Was this a hyllucentation a la Kate's horse, or was this a real cow? I am leaning towards "real cow" and quite possibly a Dharma sustainance cow, vs a Dharma experiemental cow. Could Frank have landed near the barracks? Is this how the two bands of Losties will meet up again only to re-pick teams? Perhaps.
Episode Title
"Confirmed Dead"...we know these titles have meaning. Is this to show that the outside world thinks Oceanic 815 is dead? Obviously there will be a HUGE rescue story when Jack & Co. make it back to the real world...no wonder they have "star/hero status"...wonder what the amazing rescue story will be...
Best Blogs of the Week:
1. LongLiveLocke (a little long, but worth it!)
2. J. Wood
3. FishBiscuit
Favorite Quote of the Week:
Sawyer: "Who are we to argue with Taller Ghost Walt?"
And with that, I'm out...and much more pleased with Blog 2 of Season 4, if I may say so myself.
Daniel
All it really took was the physicist actually admitting he was a physicist to realize the freighter was not looking for survivors of Oceanic 815. This becomes more and more evident throughout the episode. What were they looking for? The Christiane 1 was a ship that discovered the wreckage of Oceanic 815 at the bottom of the Indian Ocean (while looking for the Black Rock). Greg Gumberg got a shout out with one freaky looking mug shot...and rediscovering Jeremy Davies gave me another reason for wanting to rent Rescue Dawn (Reason #1 - Christian Bale of course!)
Miles
What was up with the photo in the old grandma's house where the ghostbuster came to do his business? Obviously that photo was important...even a casual LOST viewer would have caught that...who is it? Any relation to the Losties we already know? Eko perhaps? Michael/Walt? How old was the picture, when did this particular ghostbusting scam happen? I'm not a fan of this Miles character, even if he did give Charlotte the bullet-proof vest that "saved her life" later in the episode, but more on that later.
Charlotte
What about the polar bear remains dug up by the anthropologist chick? Complete with Dharma Hydro Tags? Come on people...time travel and multiple universe theories are starting to look pretty good right about now. Is this related to the "Magic Box" that Ben referred to when Locke's father appeared on the Island? Quite possible!
CS Lewis...Charlotte...The Great Divorce...people are talking...and Ben's "man on their boat" yeah, my personal favorite theory on that...Charlotte = "man" on the boat.
Obvious Narnia reference (for those preferring a different real world vs. Island timeline) with the inclusion of our own C.S. Lewis. (Narnia, land where time functions differently, outsiders only can enter when "Narnia" allows them to enter...)
Frank
Hairy pilot...previously people had speculated that he could possibly be Jacob...fitting the bill of scraggly older guy with wild hair...what do you think? I'm not yet convinced...although, if he was "supposed to pilot that flight" perhaps he does have a connection to the Island, other than the obvious guilt that would have come upon him after seeing that his replacement crashed the plane and there were "no survivors". Or do you think his frantic phone call to the Occeanic hotline got him into this whole mess of having to take more outsiders to the Island?
Is anyone else convinced that Oceanic and Dharma are in cohoots? Perhaps they are just shells of a larger entity that we know nothing about yet...
Pictures
What about the pictures? When we first saw Naomi, she was carrying around a picture of Desmond, the other guy on the freighter, Miles, he was carrying around a picture of Ben. What's the deal? Is Desmond more of a Dharma player than we ever could have conceived? When did Ben leave the Island? Did Ben (and possibly) Desmond use the Orchid Dharma station for time travel back to the "real world"? Why was the computer not plugged in when Ben was walking through what looked like airport security wearing a awful vest? Could this have been taken at the same airport that Juliet was taken to when she took her voyage to the Island? I mean really, why would they need to check luggage? The computer would be for show anyway...no need to waste the power...
Cow
Where exactly did Frank land the helicopter? Apparently in or near cow pasture. Was this a hyllucentation a la Kate's horse, or was this a real cow? I am leaning towards "real cow" and quite possibly a Dharma sustainance cow, vs a Dharma experiemental cow. Could Frank have landed near the barracks? Is this how the two bands of Losties will meet up again only to re-pick teams? Perhaps.
Episode Title
"Confirmed Dead"...we know these titles have meaning. Is this to show that the outside world thinks Oceanic 815 is dead? Obviously there will be a HUGE rescue story when Jack & Co. make it back to the real world...no wonder they have "star/hero status"...wonder what the amazing rescue story will be...
Best Blogs of the Week:
1. LongLiveLocke (a little long, but worth it!)
2. J. Wood
3. FishBiscuit
Favorite Quote of the Week:
Sawyer: "Who are we to argue with Taller Ghost Walt?"
And with that, I'm out...and much more pleased with Blog 2 of Season 4, if I may say so myself.
The Beginning of the End
The Season 4 premire rocked. After months of waiting, mindlessly tuning into mediocre TV programming, the writers strike debacle, even more ridiculous TV programming there was a light...a bright light at the end of the tunnel that was our DVR programing schedule. LOST has returned. This season's premire didn't start off quite like the previous three, but rightly so in my opinion. We have come to a new "level" of LOST. As someone else has put it, this seaons seems to be the season of the Island.
A Hurley centric opener definitely caught me by surprise. I'm not ususally into spoilers, so this was new to me! I have to say, it was nice to take the focus off of Jack for awhile, granted he was a prominant part of Hurley's flashforward, but still...when we were watching the opening scene and I saw Jack making himself his morning screwdriver (pre-beard!) I was still pretty stoked. Then when I figured out by that chubby little hand sticking out of the car that Hurley would be the center of attention, honestly, I was a little confused. Usually Hurley's back-stories are comedic filler...we were promised no filler going forward after the producers/writers reached the "end date" agreement with ABC, so I was giving them the benefit of the doubt. They did not fail to deliver.
Things I noticed:
- Sawyer's accent got weird. "...survivin'."
- Ben's healing rather rapidly, as is Locke, thank you Island magic healing properties.
- There were tons of HO references (after reading a few postings on darkufo.blogspot.com I tend to think it was just a "yeah we know you're watching" from the producers; HO is an element with some crazy magnetic properties, a la the Island.)
- Apparently Hurley doesn't care if people think he's crazy anymore...
- Scary vistor man, I definitely don't think we've seen the last of him (Matthew Abbadon => "the destroyer") and I wouldn't bet the farm that he's an Oceanic attorney.
- Hurley saw Christian Shephard in Jacob's chair! And a mysterious eye (thank you for the iconic LOST eye =) ) And no, I don't think Christian is Jacob...
Running List of "Who's Eye Was It?"
- Locke (veto)
- Mikail, aka "Patchy" (I mean, the guy just won't die!)
- Michael/Walt (eh?)
- Jacob (personal choice)
- Jack (makes my brain hurt...multiple universe theory fans love this one though!)
Check out The Whisper's page on DarkUFO's site for continuous coverage of all things Whisper-related. (Welcome back creepy Whisper people!)
This blog is scattered and horribly late...perhaps I'll get back in the swing of things next week...I know I missed at least two dozen things this week...
A Hurley centric opener definitely caught me by surprise. I'm not ususally into spoilers, so this was new to me! I have to say, it was nice to take the focus off of Jack for awhile, granted he was a prominant part of Hurley's flashforward, but still...when we were watching the opening scene and I saw Jack making himself his morning screwdriver (pre-beard!) I was still pretty stoked. Then when I figured out by that chubby little hand sticking out of the car that Hurley would be the center of attention, honestly, I was a little confused. Usually Hurley's back-stories are comedic filler...we were promised no filler going forward after the producers/writers reached the "end date" agreement with ABC, so I was giving them the benefit of the doubt. They did not fail to deliver.
Things I noticed:
- Sawyer's accent got weird. "...survivin'."
- Ben's healing rather rapidly, as is Locke, thank you Island magic healing properties.
- There were tons of HO references (after reading a few postings on darkufo.blogspot.com I tend to think it was just a "yeah we know you're watching" from the producers; HO is an element with some crazy magnetic properties, a la the Island.)
- Apparently Hurley doesn't care if people think he's crazy anymore...
- Scary vistor man, I definitely don't think we've seen the last of him (Matthew Abbadon => "the destroyer") and I wouldn't bet the farm that he's an Oceanic attorney.
- Hurley saw Christian Shephard in Jacob's chair! And a mysterious eye (thank you for the iconic LOST eye =) ) And no, I don't think Christian is Jacob...
Running List of "Who's Eye Was It?"
- Locke (veto)
- Mikail, aka "Patchy" (I mean, the guy just won't die!)
- Michael/Walt (eh?)
- Jacob (personal choice)
- Jack (makes my brain hurt...multiple universe theory fans love this one though!)
Check out The Whisper's page on DarkUFO's site for continuous coverage of all things Whisper-related. (Welcome back creepy Whisper people!)
This blog is scattered and horribly late...perhaps I'll get back in the swing of things next week...I know I missed at least two dozen things this week...
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