tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-355761502024-03-07T20:52:31.805-06:00Memphish is LOSTKeeping the obsession going despite the ridiculously long hiatus.memphishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11135806668363907263noreply@blogger.comBlogger259125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35576150.post-8654830801725483842009-05-30T09:30:00.018-05:002009-12-18T08:44:55.300-06:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">Questioning LOST</span><br /><br />So here's the things I'd like to know. Some of these will likely be answered in Season 6 but most probably won't unless Damon and Carlton publish some compendium of LOST trivia after the show ends. Nevertheless, as I rewatch the entire series to date over this hiatus, I'm going to collect these questions. After the series ends, we'll see where we stand. <div><br /></div>I've decided to color code my questions. Red is for really, really important. Orange is less important, but I'd really like to know. The rest I'll settle for no answer, but still inquiring minds want to know.<br /><br />1. Are Amelia and Amy the same person?<br />2. How did Ethan become an Other?<br />3. Where did Karl come from?<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">4. Why couldn't Desmond sail out of the influence of the Island?</span><br />5. What happened to the Elizabeth?<br />6. Why the Viking funeral for Colleen?<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">7. What force (good/bad/Jacob/Smokey/etc) was manipulating Locke's dreams and Smoke Lodge visions and also keeping him from walking and talking?</span><br />8. What was the Pearl's original purpose since it seems to predate the Swan and the Incident at the Swan?<br />9. Was Jacob communicating with Ben as Leader of the Others and if so, how?<br />10. How many polar bears were there?<br />11. Was Tom part of the original DI? Of Widmore's Others?<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">12. What is the deal with the Island pregnancy problem?</span> When did it start?<br />13. Why did Mittelos go after Juliet? What is Ben's obsession with her including an explanation of the painting?<br />14. Who created the Room 23 video and to what end exactly? Who has undergone it's application?<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">15. Flashes Before Your Eyes established the existence of a time loop. When does it start and end and who is aware of reliving it? Does Ellie's statement to Penny at the hospital establish that the loop has ended once 316 returns to the Island?</span><br />16. Why mark Juliet in a place no one can see?<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">17. Cindy and the kids and the other Tailies taken -- what's the deal?</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">18. When did the Purge occur?</span><br />19. Why exactly do the Others have such a superiority complex like Mikhail when talking to Kate and Pickett's attitude to Sawyer?<br />20. Are things like Kate's horse and the cat named Nadia on the Island because of Jacob? The Man in Black? Are these coincidental occurrences how Jacob and MIB interact with the "players" on the Island?<br />21. When and how did Carol Littleton's coma end? (I hope it was Jacob.)<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CC0000;">2</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CC0000;">2. What the heck makes the Others (like Mikhail) have such faith in their magnificent leader (presumably Jacob) despite never having seen him?</span><br />23. How did Tom get off and back on Island post-purpling? And was he the one who brought Cooper to the Island? If not, who did and when?<br />24. What's the story behind the blond woman with the guinea pig painting in Ben's house.<br />25. Were Desmond's visions during his flashing period true or lies, especially the flashes when Naomi lied given that he saw both Charlie die and Charlie holding the parachute?<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFF00;">26. Why do Locke's legs stop working at times on the Island?</span><br />27. Who told Ben to have the Others build a runway?<br />28. Who/what was Taller Ghost Walt?<br />29. Who besides Christian Shephard was in the cabin when Hurley saw it in episode 4.1, and why did the cabin move?<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF6600;">30. What is the deal with the changing photo frames in the house Miles first ghostbusts?</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CC0000;">31. What is the deal with The Whispers?</span><br />32. What caused the horse to intervene in Kate's escape and why is the same horse on the Island?<br />33. Was Kate hallucinating or did something inhabit Sawyer to make him seem like Wayne?<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CC0000;">34. Did Ben get caught in Rousseau's trap on purpose? If not, where was he going?</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF6600;">35. What is the deal with the injections -- those given to Claire; those in the Swan?</span><br />36. Why did the Others want Aaron, but not Claire?<br />37. How do the food drops at the Swan work?<br />38. How do the people that Ben had Sayid execute, like Peter Avellino fit into the story? Same with Abaddon. How did he come to work for Widmore?<br />39. Why did Kelvin and possibly Radzinsky pull the whole quarantine charade in the Hatch?<br />40. How does Penny's encounter with Desmond at the LA track jive with their encounter in The Constant?memphishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11135806668363907263noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35576150.post-47206967317346683962009-05-17T13:04:00.004-05:002009-05-17T13:24:28.195-05:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">Why The Bomb Going Off Does Not Negate Five Years Of My Viewing Pleasure<br /></span><br /><i>Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, <br />And sorry I could not travel both <br />And be one traveler, long I stood <br />And looked down one as far as I could <br />To where it bent in the undergrowth;<br /><br />Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken</i><br /><br />This is the normal story. At every point in our lives we make choices and based on those choices we end up with one continuous timeline. We're born, to these parents, with these siblings, we go to this school, then this college, then marry this person, and have these children. We live here and then here and eventually we die.<br /><br />But most of us have wondered what if? What if I'd gone to a different college? Chosen a different major? Gotten that other job? And those are the choices we control. What about the ones we don't like what if I'd been born on a different continent? Had different parents?<br /><br />But what's the point in playing the what it game? We don't get do-overs. We make the best of what we have and press onward, perhaps with regrets and the capacity to make up for them or move past them, but not the ability to undo time.<br /><br />But that's the beauty of fiction. I think we're going to get to see what happened had we chosen the road not taken. Well, not us, but Jack, Kate, Sawyer, Hurley, etc. But it's not going to take 5 years to tell that story because most of the choices they've made, and we've watched, aren't the ones they want to do over. Most of the choices will be the same. <div><br /></div><div>But there's one thing or a few things that might make all the difference in the world and I think those are the things we'll get to see a second time in Season 6. We may even get to see them the exact same way we did in Season 1 with a crash on the Island and flashbacks to show us who these people are. I don't think it'll go quite that way. I think the more likely way is to show us the new choices and then crash to end it all. But either way, it won't result in unrecognizable versions of Jack and the rest of the 815ers, but they will be altered or at least have the opportunity to be altered. The question will be do they always do the same thing or will they take the road less traveled and chose as Jacob encouraged them.<br /></div>memphishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11135806668363907263noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35576150.post-62728509144186067912009-05-17T07:49:00.003-05:002009-05-17T07:59:59.273-05:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Kate's Timeline Changed Too?</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4M4IiBQhcvHEcKHRbZcmioQQkByzrkDRnG_2eyXJSf8APdxs9KCctHcBE26EvsuGavqUXS9_rkKi0uMB1AEvQ8dinc9es0L-ZnMFSWpmlyRCGSV6Bk13JBTAncDnabnCYiY8Rqw/s400/44.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 223px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4M4IiBQhcvHEcKHRbZcmioQQkByzrkDRnG_2eyXJSf8APdxs9KCctHcBE26EvsuGavqUXS9_rkKi0uMB1AEvQ8dinc9es0L-ZnMFSWpmlyRCGSV6Bk13JBTAncDnabnCYiY8Rqw/s400/44.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />In "The Incident" when Kate is caught by the shopkeeper for shoplifting she is approximately 12. According to Lostpedia Kate was born in 1977, and according to Tom and Kate's recording in their time capsule it was then 1989. In "What Kate Did" we learn that Kate's parents divorced when she was 5. And at some point after that Diane marries Wayne Janssen becoming Diane Janssen.<br /><br />But in "The Incident" the shopkeeper refers to Kate as Diane Austen's kid. Not Diane Janssen's. Now, I know this doesn't prove that things have changed for Kate because maybe it took old Wayne a while to pop the question. Nevertheless maybe it has changed. Maybe Wayne doesn't marry Diane leading to his death and Kate's perpetual fugitive status. Maybe Kate is able to do what Jacob told her to, that is "to be good."memphishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11135806668363907263noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35576150.post-34064558716468428372009-05-16T10:57:00.007-05:002009-05-29T08:03:44.602-05:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">So What Happened In "The Incident?"</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.gitsiegirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/ending.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 221px;" src="http://www.gitsiegirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/ending.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />Update: Thanks to Gitsie Girl for this screencap! Boy what a great finale. I really enjoyed watching it. I really enjoyed re-watching it. And I even like the idea that I have no idea what could possibly happen next.<br /><br />One thing though seemed to be clear. Jack failed to prevent "the Incident." Before the bomb could go off the Incident occurred. The pocket of magnetism was breached and was uncontrollable resulting in a catastrophic injury to Chang's arm and the need to create the button pushing protocol. Fitting that Radzinsky, the one that created the Incident was subjected to years of button pushing monotony to the point of insanity and ultimately suicide. Well, that's how it would have worked if the fall had killed Juliet.<br /><br />Because the second thing that seems clear is that Juliet blew the dike. I think what Juliet did was the equivalent of what Desmond did at the end of Season 2 when he turned the failsafe key. But I don't think the result will be the same. I don't think we'll see a naked Juliet running around the jungle. Sorry guys, but you can rent Gia if you feel the need to see that.<br /><br />Instead I think what will happen is what did happen in part in Flashes Before Your Eyes in that those close enough to the dike being blown will have memories of their futures as they live their lives from some point in the past. In Desmond's case his 1995/6 body post fall off a ladder contained memories of the Island. While it's not clear if the cricket bat to the head stopped that for Desmond, I'm not convinced that it did. I think the reason Desmond training for the Race Around the World knew that Jack fixed Sarah because he remembered that on Island Jack told him he'd fixed Sarah. This deja vu is imperfect, but I think it is nevertheless present as this scene demonstrates.<br /><br />So what does this mean going forward into 2010 and Season 6 where Destiny will be Found? I think Flight 815 will crash on the Island. It won't be because of the Swan, it will be for some other reason, but the universe will course correct and bring 815 down on the Island. I also think that the people we find on the plane will not be the same sad lot we first found on September 22, 2004. I think at least part of the flashbacks we saw in The Incident demonstrate that the 815ers have made different choices. The most obvious is Jin and Sun.<br /><br />In Season 1, Episode 17 <i>In Translation</i> we saw Sun and Jin on their wedding day.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://gallery.lost-media.com/albums/ep-caps/season1/1x17-intranslation/in-translation093.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 221px;" src="http://gallery.lost-media.com/albums/ep-caps/season1/1x17-intranslation/in-translation093.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />Sun was changing out of her wedding dress into her reception dress. You'll notice both of these are dresses with straps. You can also see that Jin was in morning dress.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://gallery.lost-media.com/albums/ep-caps/season1/1x17-intranslation/in-translation092.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 221px;" src="http://gallery.lost-media.com/albums/ep-caps/season1/1x17-intranslation/in-translation092.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />Now here's what we see in "The Incident."<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://gallery.lost-media.com/albums/ep-caps/season5/5x16/theincident530.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 221px;" src="http://gallery.lost-media.com/albums/ep-caps/season5/5x16/theincident530.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />Strapless wedding dress and different suit. And different reception dress.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://gallery.lost-media.com/albums/ep-caps/season5/5x16/theincident559.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 221px;" src="http://gallery.lost-media.com/albums/ep-caps/season5/5x16/theincident559.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />It also looked like during the ceremony that Jin had relatives there. Is this Mr. Kwon?<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://gallery.lost-media.com/albums/ep-caps/season5/5x16/theincident528.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 221px;" src="http://gallery.lost-media.com/albums/ep-caps/season5/5x16/theincident528.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/lostpedia/images/thumb/c/cd/Mr.Kwon.jpg/800px-Mr.Kwon.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 221px;" src="http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/lostpedia/images/thumb/c/cd/Mr.Kwon.jpg/800px-Mr.Kwon.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />Finally all I want to know is if it's 2010 yet? While I have lots of fun things to do between now and then, I can't wait for it to get here. Until then, I'll get out my Flannery O'Conner and try to stay lost.memphishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11135806668363907263noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35576150.post-34423815446569467662009-04-30T14:47:00.006-05:002009-04-30T14:53:59.075-05:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">Season 6 Prediction</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii152/jhewelshpat/LostLogo_.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 450px; height: 250px;" src="http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii152/jhewelshpat/LostLogo_.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />So following <i>The Variable</i> and the preview after it I have come up with this idea for how Season 5 ends and what happens in Season 6. I think Season 5 ends with the Losties managing to blow up the Swan in time. The Island is destroyed and they all die in 1977.<br /><br />Then Season 6 is 17 episodes consisting of character episodes where we see what happened to each original Lostie on Flight 815 plus Desmond plus Ben and possibly Juliet from the time Flight 815 lands on time in Los Angeles until they each die sometime before 2008 because by 2008 they will all be dead due to the explosion in 1977.<br /><br />Given that most of predictions never ever happen, this probably won't either, but I want to be on record just in case.memphishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11135806668363907263noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35576150.post-2583895130135447782009-02-04T22:01:00.007-06:002009-03-26T06:40:04.500-05:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">Island Timeline</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnEEwKU2IH1eDrSJHfQahkADLKW_hJA5BXQq2_yTXiLloMLB7hpLPRmrCjKaOzErAsx5PyHKQCFOYciSY-Grpom3dHdpdkh4sEZiY643xgutawLxMgH00cRN0TepmJTkabJeCu/s1600-h/bus.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnEEwKU2IH1eDrSJHfQahkADLKW_hJA5BXQq2_yTXiLloMLB7hpLPRmrCjKaOzErAsx5PyHKQCFOYciSY-Grpom3dHdpdkh4sEZiY643xgutawLxMgH00cRN0TepmJTkabJeCu/s400/bus.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297830828756480066" /></a><br /><br />I hope this will help me figure out what's going on when and what side people are on. Please contribute and make corrections. The dates come from Lostpedia which is not canon, but is pretty close.<br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">100 BC? - Days of the 4-Toed statue; Locke puts the Donkey Wheel back on its axis and turns it</span><br /><br />1845 - Black Rock disappears. Magnus Hanso was captain of the Black Rock.<br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);">1954 - Richard Alpert and a band of Latin speaking Others including young Charles Widmore and Ellie are on Island and view it as THEIR Island<br />- US Army arrives on Island with 18 men and Jughead. 18 Army people die on orders from Alpert's superior.<br />- The Left Behinders (LBs) jump to 1954 and Locke, Sawyer, Juliet, Miles, Daniel and Charlotte plus 2 redshirts interact with Alpert's Others. Both Alpert and Ellie are told about the time skipping.</span><br /><br />1970s - The Dharma Initiative (DI) funded by Alvar Hanso begins building stations on the Island. They create a station, The Arrow to deal with the hostile indigenous population presumably Alpert's Others.<br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 204, 255);">1970 - Charlotte Staples Lewis born<br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 255, 255);">1973 - Young Ben Linus joins the DI and arrives on Island with his dad.<br />- The Hostiles, presumably led by Alpert, attack DI facilities<br />- Young Ben sees his mom and in an effort to find her encounters Richard Alpert</span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">1974 - Sawyer, Juliet, Jin, Miles, Daniel and presumably Rose, Bernard, Vincent and any other remaining 815ers end up here after Locke turns the wheel<br />Hostiles kill DI member Paul<br />Sawyer and Juliet kill 2 Hostiles and rescue DI Amy<br />Sawyer tells DI his name is LaFleur and he and his crew integrate into the Dharma Initiative after also informing Alpert what, that is who, they're waiting for<br />The Dharma submarine travels approximately every 2 weeks to and from the Island</span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">- Daniel (not sure if it's 2005 or other aged Daniel) travels to the time they are building the Orchid.</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">I'm thinking now this is definitely 2005 Daniel, but the exact date of this scene is unknown.</span><br /><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">Somewhere in the 1970s, probably between '74 and '77 - a young Charlotte Lewis lives on Island; a crazy Daniel visits her and tells her to leave and never come back; Charlotte leaves with her mother, her father stays behind</span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">1977 - Sawyer, Miles and Jin work for Dharma security<br />Juliet works as a Dharma mechanic and only reveals herself to be a doctor in order to deliver Amy's baby<br />A baby is born to Amy and Horace; no word on where it was conceived.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);">Kate, Hurley and Jack are flashed into this time from Flight 316 and are found by Jin</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 204, 255);">Motor Pool Kate, Chef Hurley and Workman Jack are part of the DI<br />Sayid in DI custody as a presumed Hostile; visited by young Ben</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 255, 255);">Young Ben springs Sayid; Sayid shoots him in the jungle and flees</span><br /><br />1980s - Alpert's Hostiles and Ben purge the DI with poison gas. Possibly 1984/5 if you take Miles statement that Widmore has been looking for the Island for 20 years as accurate. This date does not agree with Horace's dream statement to Locke though. At this point Island is left with just Alpert's Others plus Ben plus possibly other DI that become Others or are left to die at the hands of polar bears. We do not know of any DI escaping the Island post-purge, but somehow Daniel knew about the purge as evidenced by Daniel and Charlotte's trip to the Tempest. I suspect Widmore knew about it too, but I don't know chicken and egg style if he told Daniel or Daniel told him.<br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">November 18, 1988 - Rousseau's team crashes on Island</span> <div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">- Locke, Sawyer, Juliet, Miles, Charlotte and Daniel find wreckage of French ship</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">- Rousseau's team finds Jin</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">- Smokey kills Nadine and rips off Montand's arm; Frenchies minus Danielle go after Montand and Smokey</span></div><div><br /></div><div>Between Nov. 18 and Alex's birth</div><div>-French team discovers Black Rock on Island</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">Late 1988/Early 1989 - Rousseau shoots LaCombe, Brennan and Robert</span><br />- Rousseau goes to radio tower and changes message</div><div>- Rousseau gives birth to Alex<br />- Ben takes Alex. Alex becomes an Other.<br /><br />Post-Gulf War maybe 1991/2 - Kelvin Inman arrives at the Swan<br />- Mikhail arrives on Island about then too.<br /><br />1995 - Desmond meets Penny<br /><br />1995/6 - Desmond meets with Charles Widmore to ask about marrying Penny<br />Desmond sees Charlie Pace performing on a street in London<br /><br />1996 - Desmond meets Daniel in Oxford<br />Charles Widmore buys Black Rock ledger from the Hanso family<br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">1997/8 - Daniel sends Teresa time-tripping, leaves for America, Widmore pays for Teresa's care</span><div><br />Late 1990s? - Nigerian drug plane crashes on the Island<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">- Ethan checks out plane crash and shoots a 2005 Locke<br />- 2005 Locke sees crash and is shot by Ethan<br /></span><br />2001 - Desmond meets Jack at stadium in LA<br /><br />2001-2004 - Desmond lives in Swan Hatch</div><div>- Juliet becomes an Other <br /><br />Sept. 22, 2004 - 815 crashes and Kelvin dies</div><div><br /></div><div>Sept/Oct 2004 - The Others take members of the Tail Section to become Others including Cindy, Zack and Emma<br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Nov. 1, 2004 - Aaron born, delivered by Kate<br />- Time skipping LBs jump here from 1954 and see Swan lit up as Locke pounds on it and Aaron's birth</span><br /><br />Nov. 2004 - Desmond meets Locke, Jack and Kate<br /><br />Mid-Nov. 2004 - Desmond meets other 815ers<br /><br />Dec. 31, 2004 - O6, Ben, Desmond and Frank leave the Island<br />LBs start skipping through time</div><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 204, 255);">2007 - Ajira 316 crashes on Hydra Island<br />Sun and Lapidus take outrigger to abandoned Dharmaville and meet Christian Shephard<br /></span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">2007 Crash date + 2/3 days - resurrected Locke found on Hydra Island; Ben in Ajira infirmary<br /></span><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 204, 255);">2007 Crash date + at least 3 days</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"> - 2 Outriggers appear on beach; beach camp emptied; Zodiac gone</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">- People in Outrigger chase and shoot at LBs</span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">And now for the Time Skips</span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Episodes 1 and 2<br />2005 LBers go to date of Nigerian plane crash <br />Then to post-Swan implosion time<br />Then to somewhere between 2001-2004 when Desmond is in Swan Hatch</span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);">Episode 3<br />Then to 1954</span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Episode 4<br />Then to Nov. 1, 2004 where they come across a lit up Swan Hatch and Aaron's birth<br />Then to some future date where the beach camp exists, but has been raided by people in two outrigger canoes and the Zodiac is missing<br />Then to the day Rousseau's people crash on the Island</span></div><div><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">Episode 5</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">Opens on November 18, 1988</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">Jumps ahead about 2 months</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">Multiple unknown jumps</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">Locke puts Donkey Wheel back on its axis and turns it again</span></div></div></div></div><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">Episodes 5, 7, 8<br /><br />The flash when Locke falls down the well takes them to 4-toed statue days<br />Locke turning the wheel takes the remaining LBs to 1974</span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 204, 255);">Episode 9</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 204, 255);"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 204, 255);">Sayid is in 1977; </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 204, 255);">Sun, Ben, Locke, Lapidus in 2007</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 204, 255);"><br /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 204, 255);"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 255, 255);">Episode 10 - 1977</span></div>memphishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11135806668363907263noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35576150.post-29636514253736073642009-02-02T08:13:00.004-06:002009-02-02T08:33:42.379-06:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Circular Locke</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://gallery.lost-media.com/albums/ep-caps/season4/finale/normal_4finale-0679.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 398px; height: 221px;" src="http://gallery.lost-media.com/albums/ep-caps/season4/finale/normal_4finale-0679.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />I have to credit You All Everybody from The Transmission episode about <i>Jughead</i> for starting me off down this path. Here goes.<br /><br />In 1954 Widmore meets John Locke and witnesses him having a big tete-a-tete with Alpert, consigliere of the Others. Clearly this level of access makes Locke important. In fact young Widmore may have discussed the meeting with Alpert and learned exactly what John claimed namely that he is the leader of the Others in 2005. <br /><br />In 2003/4 Abaddon intercepts wheelchair-bound Locke in rehab and encourages him to go on a walkabout, said walkabout that will result in John being on Flight 815 on September 22, 2004.<br /><br />The encounter between Locke and Abaddon and Abaddon's relationship to Widmore has always puzzled me. But now that I know Widmore has known about time traveling Locke since the 50s, it's starting to make a bit more sense. Widmore sends Abaddon to Locke to make sure he's in place for that plane trip because Locke must crash on the Island. What's more, he must crash on the Island in order to replace Widmore's nemesis, Benjamin Linus.<br /><br />It makes me wonder, will we see some time cop, an Other, Mrs. Hawking, Abaddon, etc. making sure that Kate's Australian farmer knows about her fugitive status and the much-needed reward about a week or so before 9/22/04? I've always suspected that someone got to Claire's psychic after all he gives her the ticket for Flight 815. Does that mean someone killed Christian Shephard? Did Paik set the timing for the watch delivery trip at Widmore's behest?<br /><br />And were there wildcards? We've seen almost step by step how Hurley went to Australia after his father tried the fake psychic bit and how he almost missed the plane. And what about Sayid? Same sort of thing. But for Islamic burial traditions he would have left a day earlier. And what about Michael and Walt? Did someone send Walt's stepfather at just the right time? In fact did someone insure Walt's mom's death at just the right time?<br /><br />But back to Locke. We've already seen him send Richard to his birth? Does he also have Widmore send Abaddon? And is Locke in fact Jacob? And old theory, but a goodie, sending not only others to help him along the way, but telling Locke himself to "Help Me." I can certainly picture Locke screwing things up in such a way that would allow Ben to manipulate him for those years he ruled the Island, getting trapped by an ash ring or what have you. Still doesn't explain the Others reverence for Jacob as we saw in various Juliet flashbacks or the Room 23 film. But hey, we've got most of two seasons left after all.<br /><br />Anyways (ding) I just wanted to get this down early in case it pans out.memphishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11135806668363907263noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35576150.post-30432124756454532912009-01-29T07:28:00.003-06:002009-01-29T07:33:07.931-06:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Widmore Knows Where Faraday's Mom Is?</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://gallery.lost-media.com/albums/ep-caps/season5/jughead/normal_jughead-390.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 221px;" src="http://gallery.lost-media.com/albums/ep-caps/season5/jughead/normal_jughead-390.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />Unlike many Jughead was not favorite episode. It was because so many people had speculated correctly about the identity of Jones and the preview pictures of Penny giving birth.<br /><br />But here's the big thing I want to know. How does Widmore know where in LA Faraday's mom is? Does he know Ben's there? Is Mrs. Hawking on Ben's side? Widmore's? Are they actually on the same side?memphishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11135806668363907263noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35576150.post-11756487895233111182009-01-28T11:11:00.003-06:002009-01-28T11:22:46.021-06:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">What I Want To Know NOW</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">!</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://gallery.lost-media.com/albums/ep-caps/season5/5x01a/normal_5x03-because-096.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 398px; height: 221px;" src="http://gallery.lost-media.com/albums/ep-caps/season5/5x01a/normal_5x03-because-096.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />LOST is back and Season 5 is causing brain bleed in more than just Charlotte and random drilling DI guy. But I'm tired of trying to understand the time rules. Instead I have so more basic questions.<br /><br />1. Why is Juilet jumping but none of Alpert's Others are? And I especially want to know about the 815ers taken by the Others, Cindy, Zack, Emma the other 8 or so tailies. What is preventing them from jumping through time with Locke? And why doesn't it apply to Juliet? My pet theory is that Juliet's marking is allowing her to jump undoing whatever Other Kool-aid the rest have been taking. Yep, I'm still looking for something redeeming from Strangers in a Strange Land.<br /><br />2. What about the O6 returning to the Island will undo or fix the effects of Ben turning the Donkey Wheel? This one really has me stumped. In fact the only way the O6's return makes sense to me is if they return to the Island at a time before the wheel was turned. But that would undo Carlton Cuse's repeated statements that the Beardy Jack future really exists. I also really don't get why the O6 have to return after 3 years. I don't see how the on-Island 815ers can survive 3 years of what we saw last week. They lost at least 3 of their number in that escapade. <br /><br />3. Why is Daniel focused on Desmond, but Ben is focused on the O6? This could also be entitled who has to go back. As of now Ben is focused on the O6 plus Locke. Alpert also focused on that group of people. But time expert Daniel is focusing his efforts on Desmond though he hasn't said, yet, that Desmond needs to come back. Can Desmond do something off Island? Do the O6 need to be on Island before he does it?<br /><br />4. What about Waaaalllllttttt? And Ji Yeon? And Frank? And do other people like Charlotte, Miles and Daniel actually need to be off the Island?<br /><br />Well that's enough for now. I hope Episode 5.3 answers at least one of these. Otherwise I better make sure my Constant is on hand.memphishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11135806668363907263noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35576150.post-74424285312781692392008-12-19T09:23:00.004-06:002008-12-19T09:28:18.483-06:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Did Christian Tell Locke To Keep Jack On The Island?</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://gallery.lost-media.com/albums/ep-caps/season4/cabinfever2/normal_cabinfever-cap394.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 398px; height: 221px;" src="http://gallery.lost-media.com/albums/ep-caps/season4/cabinfever2/normal_cabinfever-cap394.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />In There's No Place Like Home (pt. 2) Locke and Jack talk leader stuff at the Orchid. Locke tries to talk Jack out of leaving giving him the whole destiny spiel once again. But he fails to mention that a guy named Christian has told him to move the Island. Which makes me wonder, did Christian instruct Locke to keep Jack on the Island or is Locke freelancing? I still can't decide if Christian wants Jack and Aaron on or off the Island.memphishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11135806668363907263noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35576150.post-47546198369026235032008-12-12T21:10:00.004-06:002008-12-12T21:14:40.728-06:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Who Ordered This?</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://gallery.lost-media.com/albums/ep-caps/season3/3x20-curtain/2/normal_curtain-cap622.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 221px;" src="http://gallery.lost-media.com/albums/ep-caps/season3/3x20-curtain/2/normal_curtain-cap622.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />I'm up to Cabin Fever in my re-watch and this exchange occurs at the Dharma open grave.<br /><br /><i>HURLEY: What's he doing down there?<br />(Ben shrugs)<br />HURLEY: So... This is where you shot Locke and left him for dead, huh?<br />BEN: Yes, Hugo, I was standing right where you are now when I pulled the trigger. Should have realized at the time that it was pointless, but... I really wasn't thinking clearly.<br />(Hurley steps back a little)<br />HURLEY: Is that why you killed all these people, too?<br />BEN: I didn't kill them.<br />HURLEY: Well, if the Others didn't wipe out the DHARMA Initiative--<br />BEN: They did wipe them out, Hugo, but it wasn't my decision.<br />HURLEY: Then whose was it?<br />BEN: Their leader's.<br />HURLEY:But I thought you were their leader.<br />BEN: Not always.</i><br /><br />So who was the leader when the Purge was ordered? Was it Widmore? Was it not the case that Ben stole from Widmore when the DI was purged, but rather that Widmore purged the DI and Ben took over later? Oooh. Interesting.memphishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11135806668363907263noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35576150.post-3475879541941563362008-12-09T07:17:00.004-06:002008-12-09T07:24:22.365-06:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Now The Countdown Really Begins!</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r178/Mimms515/season4.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 262px; height: 325px;" src="http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r178/Mimms515/season4.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />I'm heading off this morning, after carpool, to get my Season 4 DVDs and intend to spend the next week, the week before school gets out for Christmas, to devour them in peace and quiet.<br /><br />I have not re-watched any of Season 4 since it finished airing. I started to re-watch 4.1 a few weeks ago, but it was depressing. Half the people in the episode are now dead. I also fear the re-watch may fall a little flat because S4's big question was "they're off the Island?" and S4 answered that question. Moreover Locke being in the coffin has not been the "What's in the hatch?" "What do the Others want?" "WTF?" finale moment that's kept me speculating all off season.<br /><br />But now it's only 42 days, 8 hours until Season 5, so my Season 4 re-watch must begin. Hopefully it will in fact raise questions that I can post here on my mostly dormant blog. But even if it doesn't, it should get the juices flowing for that January 21st kickoff date that's got me more excited than Florida/Oklahoma.memphishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11135806668363907263noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35576150.post-36459077891100351752008-10-30T16:33:00.001-05:002008-10-30T16:33:14.059-05:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Song of Claire?</span><br /><br />I finished Book 6 of the Dark Tower series, <i>Song of Susannah</i> and I can't even answer my own question given the cliffhanger ending of the book. <i>Song of Susannah</i> was that episode before the season finale. You know <i>Born to Run,</i> <i>Three Minutes,</i> <i>Greatest Hits,</i> and <i>There's No Place Like Home, Pt. 1</i>; that episode which is good, but in all honesty just resembles the five moves on the chessboard that precede the final three checkmate death blows. People who eventually have to end up together are scattered and you don't know how they'll get back together. And then with three minutes left, something starts to happen and then you have to wait to find out what. I'm somewhat fearful all of Season 5 may resemble that episode.<br /><br />But there were a couple of ideas in <i>Song of Susannah</i> that I'm interested to see if they play out on LOST. The most interesting has to do with do-overs. Time travel has been very present in The Dark Tower series. From the very beginning we've known that there are other worlds than these. But here we are introduced to the idea of the true world, the "only one where, when things were finished, they stayed finished.” p. 176 What's more in this world you can never come back to an earlier time and get a do over. You have to get it right the first time. pp. 217-18<br /><br />The new Season 5 promo and it's use of props that we've seen in the past have many speculating that some form of do-over may be where we're heading. Heck, that's been an idea ever since beardy Jack first started raving about going back. How could going back undo or make up for the bad things that happened after the O6 left, unless the O6 get some sort of do-over? I'm not a huge fan of alternate universes, but I'm willing to give TPTB one go at it. Just one though. We'll see. Will Jack and crew get on last chance to get everything right?<br /><br />Another very LOST-ian idea is the role of magic/faith vs. science/rationality. Mia explains to Susannah that the world was formed by magic but then the magic receded and was replaced with machines. Now the machines are failing. Mia claims the same is true for Susannah herself. "You doom yourselves, Susannah. You seem positively bent on it, and the root is always the same: your faith fails you, and you replace it with rational thought. But there is no love in thought, nothing that lasts in deduction, only death in rationalism." p. 147 And to top it off Mia claims the only thing that can save the world is the return of magic.<br /><br />Now this is the kind of explanation I'd like to see for the Island and what's going on with it. The Island is a magic place, then Dharma arrives and tries to harness that magic mechanically. As a result the magic departs. Then those maintaining the machines are purged, and now the machines are failing to control the Island resulting in rogue Smokey, moving Jacob and the inability of women to carry a pregnancy to term. And the only thing that will save it is the return of the magic. Well, a girl can hope at least. Or it could be an attempt to merge the science and the magic. That was something that happened in the Dark Tower world as well, but it failed in all but one remaining place, and the health of that place is pretty questionable too.<br /><br />Finally, there's the repeated notion of twins. It arises in two key places in <i>Song of Susannah</i>. The first is in this duality of science and magic. Susannah calls them Tweedledee and Tweedledum in addition to rational and irrational, sane and insane. In the second instance Eddie is called the twin of Roland's childhood friend Cuthbert. But the idea isn't really so much that they are twins, but in fact the same reincarnated soul turning on the wheel of Ka. I'm still looking for that bad twin.<br /><br />I've only got one book to go in MY quest for the Dark Tower. I'm not sure when I'll get there, but I'm certain ka willing that it will be before the start of Season 6, my goal. memphishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11135806668363907263noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35576150.post-71881907348181005202008-10-20T09:12:00.002-05:002008-10-20T09:12:01.403-05:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Is John Locke As Naive As John Locke?</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://gallery.lost-media.com/albums/userpics/10425/normal_LOST_Y4_GAL_010.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 265px;" src="http://gallery.lost-media.com/albums/userpics/10425/normal_LOST_Y4_GAL_010.JPG" border="0" alt="" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/JohnLocke.png/200px-JohnLocke.png"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 265px;" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/JohnLocke.png/200px-JohnLocke.png" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />In reading Madeline L'engle's <i>An Acceptable Tiime</i> I came across this description of philosopher John Locke and his view of Native Americans. <br /><br />"Locke's impressions [were] idyllic and . . . a little naive. . . . The [natives] seemed to Locke to live a life as innocent as Adam and Eve in the Garden. They lived without external laws, did not buy or sell or pile up wealth. They were, Locke implied, without shame, not burdened by the guilts of the past." p. 76<br /><br />This view seems to me to mirror our John Locke's view of the Island and Alpert's crew of true believers. Of course, we've seen more of the Others than Locke has, so I wonder if part of the "bad things" will merely be Locke's eyes opening to the reality of human nature and its depravity even on the Island. Maybe the real reason Locke leaves the Island is that his idyllic picture of the Island is shattered by reality. How Jack returning could help that I could not say, but Locke often looks for the easy, buck-passing solution (Sawyer and the real Sawyer), so perhaps Locke's plan to return the O6 is more mere naivete on Locke's part.<br /><br />And while we're on Locke, I can't remember asking this before -- do you think off Island Bentham/Locke can walk or does he have to return to a wheelchair?memphishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11135806668363907263noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35576150.post-45793138562302693162008-10-18T08:26:00.003-05:002008-10-18T08:47:27.796-05:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">So What Did Dharma Want?</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmtHiFcFRgBogwOaXYoX0a_qv8KUY53TRVZQAKTi3vMJNZ_zCC0-f3e6e8zPO9D0NSdbgUzHWMo6zmLQtk1scWNnpPzjTozm2Ka86ZIeN_ycdjTVp6q1aPxV8820lzZrsA1aBq/s576/dwy01.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmtHiFcFRgBogwOaXYoX0a_qv8KUY53TRVZQAKTi3vMJNZ_zCC0-f3e6e8zPO9D0NSdbgUzHWMo6zmLQtk1scWNnpPzjTozm2Ka86ZIeN_ycdjTVp6q1aPxV8820lzZrsA1aBq/s576/dwy01.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />Now that the ARG seems to be on hold for over 2 months! I've got some questions.<br /><br />I'd guess given the Comic Con imprimatur that the new Dharma Initiative's formation is official LOST canon. If you show up on a stage with Damon and Carlton that makes you canon to me. What's more the cause that has led to the effect of the re-formation of DI seems to be the receipt of the Chang video. So here's what I want to know:<br /><br /><iframe src="http://polls.blogflux.com/poll.php?poll=30595&width=200&height=285&fontface=Verdana&padding=10&textcolor=%23000&bgcolor=%23fff&doublespace=0&borderwidth=1&linkmap=1&bordercolor=%23ccc&x=160&y=107" width="222" height="307" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0"><a href="http://polls.blogflux.com/poll-30595.html">Take the poll</a><br /><br /><a href="http://polls.blogflux.com/">Free Poll by Blog Flux</a></iframe><br /><br /><iframe src="http://polls.blogflux.com/poll.php?poll=30596&width=200&height=285&fontface=Verdana&padding=10&textcolor=%23000&bgcolor=%23fff&doublespace=0&borderwidth=1&linkmap=1&bordercolor=%23ccc&x=122&y=107" width="222" height="307" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0"><a href="http://polls.blogflux.com/poll-30596.html">Take the poll</a><br /><br /><a href="http://polls.blogflux.com/">Free Poll by Blog Flux</a></iframe><br /><br />Feel free to discuss any other aspect of the ARG in the comments as well. I personally do not regret dropping out early on, but I'm interested to see what those of you who persevered think about how the ARG will affect the LOST-iverse.memphishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11135806668363907263noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35576150.post-38298008325753625702008-09-30T06:08:00.001-05:002008-09-30T06:08:00.332-05:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Did The Others Use Time Travel To Compile Their Dossiers?</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://gallery.lost-media.com/albums/ep-caps/season3/3x01-cities/4/normal_twocitiescap-0915.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://gallery.lost-media.com/albums/ep-caps/season3/3x01-cities/4/normal_twocitiescap-0915.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />From another listener on Lost Unlocked: The listener theorizes that the Others use time travel to travel to the time and places of the LOSTies pre-flight 815 in order to compile their files on them. This explains how they know that Sawyer killed a man before leaving Australia, something the Australian authorities did not know at the time of the flight. It also explains how they know that Sawyer's "Sawyer" is actually Anthony Cooper. The theory also led to a real chicken and egg conundrum as they further theorized that the Others or perhaps someone else like Widmore manipulated the 815ers onto that plane on that date, an interesting variation on a theory that's been out there from the beginning.<br /><br />I kind of like the idea of time travel being used to determine who the 815ers really are. There are certainly those who believe that explains Richard Alpert's appearance in young Locke's life. It could also explain the speed with which they compiled the information if you can leave time x on the Island and return to it with no time passing. I like that it restores some of the mystical and mysterious nature of the Others. But I suppose it could equally be a network of PIs Off Island.memphishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11135806668363907263noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35576150.post-42878652713514808872008-09-29T05:59:00.002-05:002008-09-29T05:59:00.508-05:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Does Life On Island Keep You Alive Off?</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://gallery.lost-media.com/albums/ep-caps/season4/4x08/normal_meetkevin256.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://gallery.lost-media.com/albums/ep-caps/season4/4x08/normal_meetkevin256.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />I heard this theory from a listener on Lost Unlocked. He theorized that the Island exists in the future and for that reason you can't die in the past off Island. And this explains why Michael, Jack and possibly Widmore can't die off Island because of the paradox it would create given that they were already alive in the future on Island. <br /><br />I would guess at some point your timelines would cross and you could die off Island which makes Widmore's case particularly interesting. And it also raises the question about the Freighter's timeline with Michael on it. Is it now back on Island time thus he can die? It's an interesting theory, but I think all in all, it's not so much an avoidance of paradox but the Island's need of you that protects you.memphishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11135806668363907263noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35576150.post-9715733654306613842008-09-19T04:51:00.001-05:002008-09-19T04:51:00.697-05:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Do You Have To Create A Tornado In A Bottle To Get To The Island?</span><br /><br />I know this is grasping at straws, but it still really bugs me how Desmond couldn't leave the Island on The Elizabeth and Juliet said that others on The Elizabeth couldn't either, but all of a sudden in Season 4 (well from Naomi's arrival in Season 3) the Island is reachable. The idea of Daniel going blithely back and forth in the Zodiac just about sends me over the edge.<br /><br />So how's this for an explanation. My son created a tornado in a bottle.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.spiralwishingwells.com/guide/images/whirlpool-in-a-bottle-whirlpool.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://www.spiralwishingwells.com/guide/images/whirlpool-in-a-bottle-whirlpool.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />With all the water in one bottle if you merely turn the bottles over very little water escapes from the top bottle to the bottom one. But if you swirl the bottle you create a vortex pushing the water to the sides of the bottle leaving an air pocket in the middle for the water to escape through into the bottom bottle. It also produces a visible tornado in the bottle.<br /><br />As you recall at least when Frank's helicopter comes and goes from the Island in the first instance and taking Sayid and Desmond to the freighter, they passed through a storm. Now no cows or witches on broomsticks flew by, but it was stormy. So my theory is roughly that there needs to be a storm to create a vortex to pass from the bottle of the Island to the bottle of the rest of the world. Furthermore the discreet headings, 325 and 305 either a) take you through what is creating that vortex or b) is that place where just the little bit of water passes through.<br /><br />This is probably bunk and I'm not sure we'll ever get an explanation for this question, but playing with my son's tornado in a bottle at least made me think of LOST -- surprise, surprise.memphishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11135806668363907263noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35576150.post-26647867155324365582008-09-18T05:50:00.001-05:002008-09-18T05:50:01.574-05:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">What Kind of "Timers" Inhabit The Island?</span><br /><br />More from <i>Insomnia</i>. Normal living human beings are known as Short-Timers. They (we) can only perceive our world with our five senses. There are 3 Long-Timers in the book who can perceive much more in the same physical space for example our auras which give a sense of our health and emotions and also when our end is near. Long-Timers experience time differently than we do. They live much, much longer and age differently. Then there are All-Timers who are immortal.<br /><br />Additionally those who live longer have the ability to manipulate those who live shorter. The three main Long-Timers end the lives of Short-Timers and are also said to manipulate 3 Short-Timers in particular as if they were chess pieces on a board. Sound familiar? Additionally these Long-Timers are sent to perform these manipulations by others more higher ranking than they.<br /><br />So I wonder -- Is Richard a Long-Timer? Ben? Widmore? In <i>Insomnia</i> these Long-Timers can't lie though they don't always answer questions and try to answer only what and to the extent that they desire. They also have to keep promises. This sounds a bit like Ben's ethos. They also can't interfere with each other directly, but need to use Short-Timer agents. Again this sounds like Richard, Ben and Widmore who seem to keep their hands technically clean. (Okay, not so much Ben, but the other 2.)<br /><br />It also makes me wonder about Christian and Jacob and their manipulations of Short-Timers on the Island. Are they trying to get in on the chess game as well?memphishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11135806668363907263noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35576150.post-66201149694584513312008-09-17T06:27:00.000-05:002008-09-17T06:27:00.989-05:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Does Time Move Faster On the Island</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">When Its Inhabitants Go Up?</span><br /><br />On my road to the Dark Tower I've detoured once again to Derry, Maine where Stephen King's novels <i>It</i> and now <i>Insomnia</i> take place. Characters in <i>Insomnia</i> are moving between levels of the Dark Tower, a building that somehow controls time and worlds and how time moves in worlds. When these humans move up the levels of the Tower allowing them to perceive more than is normally available to our five senses time begins to move at a significantly faster rate.<br /><br />So I wonder if what's going on in terms of Island time and its failure to quite add up is movement by the Island or those on it through levels of time resulting in the rate at which time passes failing to be constant. I especially wonder this with Daniel's experiment. The rocket literally went up (and so do characters in <i>Insomnia</i> at least once) and then had a different time from Daniel's watch. Ben went somewhere when he turned the wheel and 10 months passed. Did he go up?memphishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11135806668363907263noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35576150.post-41503878561817643222008-09-16T05:36:00.001-05:002008-09-16T05:36:00.361-05:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Can Alpert Time Travel?</span><br /><br />There are theories out there that Alpert and his appearances in Locke's young life are attributable to time travel. His lack of aging plays into that theory. But here's what I can't understand. How does Alpert control his time travel? The only physical time travel that we know we've seen so far is Ben post-donkey wheel turning. And I think it was pretty clear that Ben didn't know where or when he was going when that happened.<br /><br />Has Alpert perfected the pinhole opening we see in the latest Marvin Candle video? And if so, why aren't others (like Ben) using it on Island as well? Or are they?<br /><br />So what do you think?<br /><br /><iframe src="http://polls.blogflux.com/poll.php?poll=30021&width=200&height=285&fontface=Verdana&padding=10&textcolor=%23000&bgcolor=%23fff&doublespace=0&borderwidth=1&linkmap=1&bordercolor=%23ccc&x=123&y=103" width="222" height="307" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0"></iframe>memphishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11135806668363907263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35576150.post-6352432839682355302008-09-15T05:45:00.002-05:002008-09-15T07:01:09.525-05:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">Can Richard Alpert Talk to Jacob?</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.lostpedia.com/images/thumb/7/76/AlpertRich.jpg/250px-AlpertRich.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://www.lostpedia.com/images/thumb/7/76/AlpertRich.jpg/250px-AlpertRich.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />We've been told that Richard is not the Island leader, he's the Island's No. 2<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTQwODkxODcxMF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwNjYzMDc3._V1._SX267_SY400_.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTQwODkxODcxMF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwNjYzMDc3._V1._SX267_SY400_.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />but how does he know that he's supposed to be looking for a new Number 1? Who sends Alpert after the baby Locke and the young Locke? Who tells him to co-opt Ben? And to get rid of Ben?<br /><br /><iframe src="http://polls.blogflux.com/poll.php?poll=29949&width=200&height=285&fontface=Verdana&padding=10&textcolor=%23000&bgcolor=%23fff&doublespace=0&borderwidth=1&linkmap=1&bordercolor=%23ccc&x=201&y=118" width="222" height="307" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0"></iframe>memphishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11135806668363907263noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35576150.post-17754093067944698852008-09-12T10:39:00.001-05:002008-09-12T10:39:48.121-05:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Love Lives of The Others</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://gallery.lost-media.com/albums/ep-caps/season3/3x04-himself/2/normal_3x05-man-cap498.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://gallery.lost-media.com/albums/ep-caps/season3/3x04-himself/2/normal_3x05-man-cap498.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />I was thinking about how Juliet was recruited to the Island by Richard and Ethan and I wonder do The Others recruit only single people or do they recruit married couples? In other words<br /><br /><iframe src="http://polls.blogflux.com/poll.php?poll=29948&width=200&height=285&fontface=Verdana&padding=10&textcolor=%23000&bgcolor=%23fff&doublespace=0&borderwidth=1&linkmap=1&bordercolor=%23ccc&x=183&y=84" width="222" height="307" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0"></iframe>memphishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11135806668363907263noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35576150.post-26736271883068800622008-09-02T06:02:00.002-05:002008-09-02T06:02:00.216-05:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">How Was Alex's Death Ben's Fault?</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://gallery.lost-media.com/albums/ep-caps/season4/4x09/normal_4x09-cap556.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://gallery.lost-media.com/albums/ep-caps/season4/4x09/normal_4x09-cap556.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />I was listening to the showdown between Ben and Widmore in Widmore's bedroom and Widmore claimed Alex's death was Ben's fault.<br /><br /><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">WIDMORE: Don't stand there, looking at me with those horrible eyes of yours and lay the blame for the death of that poor girl on me, when we both know very well I didn't murder her at all, Benjamin. You did.</span></i><br /><br />How's that? One argument is Ben's disavowal of Alex led to Keamy killing her, but how would Widmore know about that given the death of everyone who witnessed that?<br /><br />Here's my new argument. I think Ben taking Alex from Rousseau was his attempt to course correct. Ben had been pulling a Desmond thwarting Alex's death right and left for 16 years. And the universe finally caught up with him. Alex's death at age 16 is Ben's fault because she was supposed to die as an infant when Rousseau went nuts again. I further predict we'll see this during Rousseau's story in Season 5.memphishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11135806668363907263noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35576150.post-12840809598290956542008-08-28T11:31:00.001-05:002008-08-28T11:31:38.644-05:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Will The Shoeless Others and 815ers Merge?</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.superchefblog.com/images/survivor_logo.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://www.superchefblog.com/images/survivor_logo.png" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />Boy it really is starting to feel like Survivor isn't it. At this point lots of people have been voted off via death and now a new set of people, the O6 + Ben and Desmond and Lapidus have been voted off as well. So is it time for the tribes to merge? <br /><br />On the one hand we have the Locke "led" Richard Others which should also include Cindy, Zach, Emma and a handful of other Tailies plus some of those who purged Dharma and any newer recruits to the cause that weren't taken out since 815 arrived. And then we've got I'd guess roughly 20 815ers most notably Sawyer, Rose, Bernard and Frogurt plus Juliet and Miles and Charlotte and possibly Faraday and 3 or 4 others. And we've got the ultimate Island wildcard in Claire.<br /><br />So what sort of interaction do you predict we'll see in Season 5. Presumably those left in the 815 camp are not list-worthy, but is there even anyone at Richard's camp (I refuse to put Locke as the leader of that group) who can even communicated with Jacob? Is the really bad thing that happens that Richard or Jacob tells Locke that they have to purge those not on the list? But then where will Sawyer and Vincent hide? Those are really the only 2 I care deeply about, especially Vincent. I'm a big yellow lab fan.<br /><br />Any ideas?memphishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11135806668363907263noreply@blogger.com3