The LA Times is reporting that the studios and WGA have reached a tentative contract, and are even considering lifting the strike by Monday, even before the contract is voted on.
Month: February 2008
Lost: Hidden References in the New Character Names
I’ll write more about what I thought of tonight’s show, “Confirmed Dead”, later, but for now here are the four new characters’ names:
- Daniel Faraday – a reference to Michael Faraday, established the basis of the magnetic field concept in physics.
- Miles Straume – “Straum” is Norse for “current”; It could also be a play on “Maelstrom”, which is a powerful whirlpool.
- Frank Lapidus – The only thing that seems interesting about this (and it’s a stretch, I’ll grant you that), is that letters from each of his first and last name spell “Farad’, a unit of capacitance named after Michael Faraday.
- Charlotte Staples Lewis – Is a reference to the author CS Lewis.
My Favorite Super Bowl Ad
I know this is a few days late, but I loved this Super Bowl Ad:
If every commercial were like the ones they do during the Super Bowl, people would watch a lot more ads.
Time Traveling Charlie… And Locke?
Ha! That figures. I completely forgot something until I saw it tonight.
Last week I wrote about how Charlie was probably time traveling the way Desmond has been doing, but wondered what happened that allowed him to do it.
Turns out, Charlie probably experienced EXACTLY what Desmond did. I’d forgotten that the people near the hatch when it exploded were Desmond, Mr. Eko, John Locke, and ….Charlie! Charlie was downstairs in the hatch with Eko when everything started flying through the air.
It’s not much of a leap to think that if the explosion effected Desmond that way, the same ability was transferred to Charlie.
And probably Locke too. We haven’t see this aspect of Locke, but we’ve seen him healed several times.
We might not be sure about Eko, but if he shows up “where he’s not supposed to be” (as Ms. Klugh would put it), then I think it pretty much confirms the theory that they all gained this ability.
LA Times: Contract outlined in Writer’s Strike
Hollywood’s striking writers and major studios have reached the outlines of a new employment contract, resolving key sticking points over how much writers should be paid for work that is distributed over the Internet, people familiar with the negotiations said Saturday.
Hope they get the contract signed. After it does, then the hard decisions will come. Do they finish seasons? Do they just wait until the Fall? LOST has eight episodes already completed, and another eight that were supposed to air – but they’re not completed. What will they do?
There’s a similar situation for “24”. Are they going to delay the season and air it, or cancel it completely?
Writer’s Strike Might Be Ending Soon
The NY Times is reporting that the writer’s strike might be ending soon.
Walt and Those Dead Birds
This is probably an old theory, but I haven’t seen it anywhere, so I thought I’d throw this out there:
Magnetism plays a big part in the story of the island. People say Walt is “special” right? What if what makes him special is that something about him makes him able to affect magnetic fields?
Check this out:
http://jeb.biologists.org/cgi/reprint/199/1/29.pdf
It’s a page that talks about how birds use magnetic orientation to navigate.
It Walt can affect magnetic fields, wouldn’t it throw off nearby birds? He’s probably doing it by accident, which would explain the dead birds we’ve seen on the show and the webisodes.
LOST: An Overall Theory About The Fight For The Island.
I was thinking about this a bit more and realized that all this time bopping around might have bigger significance:
Here we have an island that’s been around a long, long time. People find the island ever so often. The people that already live there either stay hidden, or grab people to be part of the bigger group because they’re good candidates. (But candidates for what? More on that later.)
In more modern times, the island is discovered, but this time by someone that thinks they can exploit whatever power the island has to their own benefit. They set up shop. They start experiments in magnetism, screw around with time to see if they can control it.
Meanwhile, the original inhabitants stay hidden. They stay hidden until they find a kid (Ben) on the island that’s receptive to what the island is really all about, and one of them (Richard) goes to talk to him. They bide their time until Ben gets older.
They hatch (ha…excuse the pun) a plan: They want to make sure that no one ever accidently runs across the island again. The problem? They women there can’t have children, and they need to figure out why this is happening. If they figure that out, they’re good to go. The island can stay hidden.
So what are they hiding? The very thing the researchers (and really, their backers) are trying to exploit: time travel.
In The Original Others hands, everything is fine. They can help steer the time line the way they always have. The were able to bring in “good candidates” to help them. People with abilities like Walt’s are “special”, because they’re already to the point where they can be trained to control what The Original Others already know how to do.
In the hands of the researchers and industrialists, time travel technology wouldn’t just be bad, it would be disastrous.
And that’s why Ben is fighting tooth and nail to keep those newcomers off the island. They’re the paramiltary group that the industrials have sent in, because they’re not going down without a fight?
Who are those guys? Widmore probably… Mr. Paik maybe.
What do you think? Does this sound right?
Charlie Travels Through Time Just Like Desmond
I posted this on The Fuselage board in response to someone not realizing what I meant about Charlie and Hugo, so I thought I’d post it here too.
Charlie’s dead. He even said so.
We already know that time travel is involved in the story line, and we know that people that are experiencing this can interact with people in the time line they’re visiting. We’ve seen it. Desmond did it, and talked to Ms. Hawking in the antique shop. Desmond even interacted with Charlie in the past (on the street while he was playing his guitar, before the plane crash).
If Desmond can travel back in time, why couldn’t Charlie travel forward in time… a time in which he was dead?
Say that Desmond realized that everything that was happening right now (the show we just saw, and those to shortly follow) was going completely wrong, and things “aren’t supposed to happen this way” as Locke would say. People got off the island that weren’t “supposed” to. What would Desmond do?
If Desmond was able to travel back again, this time to the island after the crash, and talk to Charlie, don’t you think that Charlie would be willing to talk to Hugo to give him that message?
Since Hugo saw people that didn’t exist before, his natural reaction to seeing Charlie would be to completely freak out. I think that’s exactly what the writer’s would want us to believe.
The thing that stands out to me is that the other patient at the hospital saw Charlie, and told Hugo about it.
I don’t know how Charlie did it. Maybe Desmond went back dragged him into the hatch, or there’s some other way to do it. But if a rabbit could do it to Dr. Candle (or whatever name he was using in that video we saw over the long break), I think Charlie could too.