Archive for March, 2007

Called It!

Published by
jared
1 year, 3 months ago in asides. 2 Comments

I’m not normally one to gloat, but this one was too big to pass up…

In light of tonight’s episode, I refer back to a post I made way back before the second part of this season started, in which I stated:

Paulo (I think that’s his name) said something interesting in the bathroom in the Pearl; something to the effect of “the bathroom still works”, which was supposedly the exact same line that Charlie said when he was exploring the cockpit section with Jack and Kate. I speculate that this is a reference to Paulo having other reasons for going in there, just as Charlie did.

Time Travel

Published by
jared
1 year, 3 months ago in Theory. 1 Comment

To follow up on Dan’s comment here and clarify my current stance on time travel in Lost, I thought I’d post my thoughts on it (in the context of this show).

There’s probably no one who’s a bigger fan of time travel stories than I am, but even so, I really was hoping (even after watching the Desmond episode) that there wasn’t actually any “real” time travel going on in Lost.

After watching Desmond’s episode this season (and to some degree, before that) my theory on the flashbacks was that they were more a part of the story than it seemed. I believed (and still suspect, albeit to a lesser extent) that the flashbacks we are watching are the survivors’ memories, but that the specifics of the scenes they are remembering are somehow being influenced (and sometimes slightly tweaked) by something on the island. This would be the explanation for the common characters as well as some other almost easter-eggish stuff that we’ve seen.

After watching Desmond’s episode, I initially thought it supported my theory, and that Desmond just got a super extra dose of whatever the island is giving everyone else to induce their flashbacks, only because of the extra boost / overload some things were different. One was that he was aware that he was experiencing the flashback (as in a lucid dream, when you realize that you’re dreaming but you’re still interacting with the “dream world”). The other was that the island influence was also on overdrive and he was given multiple possible projections about potential future events, which he now keeps experiencing as further “flashbacks”.

However, this hope / theory was apparently debunked by the producers (although I haven’t heard it myself) who apparently confirmed that Desmond did indeed travel back in time. I’m not sure why I was hoping that the whole time travel thing isn’t true for this show, other than maybe it’s too easy.

Well, that and then you have people who start making really crazy theories (as if they hadn’t before), like mine from this week where I suggested that Ben is Juliet’s sister’s baby, who had been pushed back in time (after she and Juliet came to the island and either before or after he was born), and that’s why he’s been there his whole life and is in such control - he had knowledge of future events the whole time he was growing up.

Now if that theory doesn’t convince you that time travel is a bad idea for this show, I don’t know what will. =)

Spoiler free

Published by
jared
1 year, 3 months ago in General. 0 Comments

At the end of this week’s episode, Dan suggested that we not watch even the previews for next week, and I thought it was a great idea.

Since I also don’t ever look on any forums, etc., I have absolutely no idea what next week’s episode will be like, and I have to say it’s great.

I so wish that I had done this earlier on, since so many shows would be so much better without knowing what’s going to happen. Pretty much every episode so far this season I think would have been better if we hadn’t known that certain things were going to happen before seeing them.

Now that I think about it, this may have been part of the reason I liked season 1 so much; I didn’t start watching Lost until after season 2 was underway, sometime around episode 9 or 10 of the second season. I watched the whole first season within a couple days, obviously without any preview material.

Kate is hiding something

Published by
jared
1 year, 3 months ago in Questions. 2 Comments

The last episode where Sayid tells Alex about her mom raised an interesting question for me: why didn’t Kate mention it to Alex when she was with her?

We know that Kate knew about the connection, since Kate talked with Danielle about it last week, and now we apparently know (from Alex’s surprise at Sayid’s comment) that Kate did not say anything to Alex about it even though she spent all that time with her.

Why?

Answers

Published by
dancameron
1 year, 3 months ago in General and Theory. 4 Comments

Watching last nights episode again I’ve got a lot of theories answers to post. I was going to get really detailed but I’m just going to outline them now.

  • I’m with Jared in thinking there is time travel involved here, he hasn’t posted about it but it makes sense with the smoke monster seeing the past and Desmond’s journey that was not a flashback.
  • I called that Locke was doing all those stupid things because he didn’t want to get off the island but he doesn’t know everything about the island, like Ben states.
  • Locke’s “dad” is Sawyer.
  • I’m thinking Ben says a lot of truth but you need to extrapolate the manipulations.
  • He really did want Locke to blow-up the submarine and he really has lived on the island his whole life.
  • He’s lying about the “box” and is only manipulating Locke into believe there is a mystical aspect of the island. The basis, when Locke was in the closet Ben said, “Get me the man from Tallahassee” meaning in my mind Locke’s dad. So imagining him isn’t the case.

The “box” does make sense though. With the polar bear appearing in season one could have been a manifestation from Walt reading the comic. And Walt was “special” maybe Locke is too.

My guess about the smoke monsters: they are controlled by the others and used as time travel machines or maybe just security devices for outside the bericks. I argued with Jared about multiple smoke monsters but there are clearly two in the first episode of the series (they blow up the plane) however those two could be a fraction of one.

How did Locke’s dad get there? Well he clearly was beaten up a little so him just manifesting by someone other then Locke doesn’t make sense. I think he was either captured by the recruiter through traveling or controlling the smoke monster but my guess would have to be they either went back in time or traveled into the near future to get him. I really don’t see any other answer for Locke’s dad to be there so quickly assuming he wasn’t already on the island.

If he was already on the island then he has to be an other beat up to make it look like he isn’t.

Locke the traitor

Published by
jared
1 year, 3 months ago in General. 0 Comments

At least it’s better /more interesting than Locke the bumbling idiot.

This episode neither confirmed nor denied my Kate is a traitor theory, though.

Questions

Published by
jared
1 year, 4 months ago in Questions. 1 Comment

Since I never posted about the episode from last week, I thought I’d better cover it to get it off my chest.

There has been a lot of buzz about the disappointment around the preview’s claim of “three big secrets revealed”, and the producers (rightfully, to some degree) blaming the network for building up those expectations unrealistically. So, I’ll give them credit on that one; I know the scenes with Cindy and the kids would have been WAY, WAY better if we didn’t know they were coming.

HOWEVER, my main gripe is not related to that. Rather, it’s the fact that these people (especially Jack) absolutely refuse to ask the questions that any normal person would ask.

  1. Sawyer lets Carl run off without getting any useful info out of him : They might be able to redeem this one later by revealing that Sawyer actually did grill him for info off camera, and he’s just not sharing that info with anyone else, since that’s the kind of guy Sawyer is. Even if this isn’t the case, I could give him half credit for letting him go just to provide himself with an excuse for not being able to go back after Jack
  2. Jack’s conversations with people like Tom and Cindy : This is the part that really burns me. How the hell do you see Cindy walk up to your cage like that and not ask her to explain what the heck has been going on, since she obviously knows? Or when Jack has been standing around chatting with Tom and Juliet, he basically makes no attempt to get any significant info out of them.

I’d even be OK if the characters would ask the questions and they evaded actually answering them, because I understand that it’s a mystery and they can’t be revealing everything all at once, but to not even see the questions being asked is a bit hard to swallow.

In stark contrast, this week’s Heroes episode was amazing. There’s a show where you’ve got the mystery aspects, but the characters want answers and go after them until they find them.

Filler (noun)

Published by
jared
1 year, 4 months ago in General. 2 Comments
  1. A substance added to a product (as to increase bulk, weight, viscosity, opacity, or strength)
  2. A piece used to cover or fill in a space between two parts of a structure
  3. Material used to fill extra space in a column or page of a newspaper or magazine or to increase the size of a work (as a book)
  4. Last night’s episode of Lost

Hurley’s a decent character, and even an interesting one, with the looming far out theories and possibilities that he plays some grander role in the mystery. BUT, this episode actually made me dislike him. We had to sit through that painful flashback (probably the worst in the show’s history) and learned nothing new from it.