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According to Sthnbelle in our comments section, Sledgeweb says that the pilot said “I am not alone”. There’s a similar thread over at The Fuselage.
Tag: Lost Spoilers
LOST: D.O.C. theories
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Another good episode! It was quite a surprise to see Mikhail show up, especially since we thought he was dead. He was probably on the verge of death after Locke threw him into the sonic fence, because people tend to heal quickly on the island. This could also mean that Ms. Klu is alive as well, and would certainly explain why she didn’t seem very worried when she asked Mikhail to shoot her.
I’ll try and dig up what the helicopter pilot really said when she saw Michael, because I don’t think it was what Mikhail said it was.
Once it was obvious that Mr. Kwon was alive, it didn’t take that much of a leap to realize that Mrs. Kwon was the one that was blackmailing Sun.
Jin and Mr. Kwon falls right in line with the “Father Issues” that everyone else on the island seem to have.
Sun’s in huge trouble right now. The question is, are the other women in trouble too? Why is Ben having Juliette get “samples” from the other women? Forced pregnancies?
The final big “shocker” of the episode, when the helicopter pilot said that Oceanic 815 was found and there were no survivors…. Well, I think that was a big red herring. The people who built all the facilities on the island seem to have a LOT of resources. I think the most likely explanation is that the plane crash site that the “world” found was staged. Now, WHY was it staged… that’s the bigger question. They either did it to prevent people searching near the island, or make people stop searching because they need the Losties (or at least some of them) on the island.
update: Changed “Michael” to “Mikhail”. (Thanks THG) That’s what I get for writing when I’m tired…
LOST commentary: Catch-22
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That show started off with a real bang, er… maybe “twang” is a better word, and ended a bit predictably. There wasn’t much of a story advancement, but we did find out some interesting things:
1) It’s been at least one day of the “week” Juliette is spending on the beach. If you recall from last week’s episode, Ben told Juliette he’d see her in a week.
2) Penelope sent that woman out to search for Desmond. Now, how the heck the woman got out of a helicopter (if that’s what it was) without being ripped to pieces, I have no idea. I will say that the scene where it aircraft went down and the parachute opened was REALLY hard to see, even with a picture from a satellite dish. Maybe I need to get HDTV soon.
Anyway, we know that it was Penelope that sent her because she was carrying a copy of the picture that only Desmond and Penelope have. She should have some information about how she found the island. She’s probably Brazilian too, judging by the copy of the book she was carrying.
3) Desmond was engaged before he met Penelope, and he’s been casting around trying to figure out what to do with his life even before meeting her.
4) Charlie is still in deep trouble. I doubt he’ll make it until the end of the season.
5) In that picture on the monk’s desk: I’ve already said that’s the same lady that tried to sell Desmond the ring, only to turn around and refuse, and then told Desmond all about what his fate was going to be on the island.
The monk is in that picture next to her. Is that the monk’s mother? Sister?
6) Helicopters don’t have that great of a range. Where did it come from? A ship waiting out in the water somewhere?
Lost Theories: Sun’s pregnancy
SPOILERS: Don’t read further if you haven’t seen the Lost episode: “One of Us”.
This is a quick one:
I think a lot of people up to this point have assumed that Sun’s pregnancy was due to mysterious island powers that somehow “fixed” Sun and Jin so they could have a baby.
After tonight’s episode, I think it’s entirely possible that whatever experiment Juliette has been doing on other women on the island has been done to Sun.
Lost Theories: Creating Files on Passengers of Flight 815
SPOILERS AHEAD: Don’t read further unless you’ve seen the Lost episode “One of Us”.
Still there? OK. A couple of questions: How did Juliette know about the man Sawyer killed in Australia? How would Mikhail be able to get files on all passengers on flight 815, as Ben requested?
Well, the easy answer to this is that whatever large network The Others have on the mainland was utilized to get the information. That might work for the passengers on the plane, but how in the heck did they get that information about Sawyer?
There are two ways. First, it might be this mysterious “Jacob” they keep referring to. I don’t think that’s it. That’s putting way too much into someone (or something) we haven’t even seen yet.
The second, and much more plausible answer, is The Smoke Monster. It’s already scanned the minds of various people on the island. It might have even scanned most of the people on the island. If The Others are in able to communicate with The Smoke Monster that might just be how they got all the information so fast. Now, I’m using the term “communicate” very loosely here. They might just be able to eavesdrop on it’s abilities, or maybe read it’s “mind”. Mikhail had a lot of equipment in that complex of his. There may be a frequency he could tap into and “see” what The Smoke Monster sees.
Lost – “Expose”
Spoilers ahead!
Some random thoughts about tonight’s episode, “Expose”:
That was quite an ending. Especially when Nikki opened her eyes while Sawyer and Hurley were filling the grave. What a gruesome way to die. Somehow I don’t think Locke’s advice to Paolo about “things don’t stay buried on this island”, will come true in this case, since they were buried in the graveyard above the high tide line. Sure was a quick way of getting characters nobody seemed to like.
Long time Lost Podcast fans: That’s probably as close to a zombie episode as we’ll ever see on the show.
I thought they did a pretty good job at stitching together footage from some of the earlier shows to show Nikki and Paolo interacting with everyone.
It was good seeing Boone and Shannon, but Nikki’s line of “I hope we don’t end up like them” was kind of like being hit over the head with a sledgehammer, and not your typical subtle foreshadowing.
The actor who plays Paolo (whose name escapes me at the moment) is referred to as “Tom Cruise of Brazil” by the writers, and in the show he was referred as the “Wolfgang Puck of Brazil”.
“The pigs are walking”, which Artz quotes, is a line from Animal Farm.
When Paolo is in the observation station, the conversation you can barely hear between Ben and Juliet while the enter the room is:
Ben: Who left this open?
Juliet: Tom was down here a couple of days ago.
Ben: Well, have him cover it up with the plane.
Question: After Paolo found that walkie-talkie…. Do you think he used it?
The Man From Tallahasee
SPOILERS AHEAD – Don’t read this if you haven’t see this episode of LOST yet!
All in all, a great episode. Way back in October, in a posting called Is This Why Locke Ended Up in a Wheelchair?, I wrote about my theory that it was Locke’s father that had John beaten so badly that he ended up in a wheelchair. That was pretty darn close but, as we found out tonight, Locke’s father didn’t have it done…. He did it himself! Pretty brutally too, and not the way I expected. I always imagined it was a bus for some reason, but since they already did that this season to a much different conclusion, I suppose I shouldn’t have kept thinking that. What ended up happening was more shocking, that’s for sure.
Now the second part of the theory is that it was Locke’s father that was the same con-man that Sawyer is looking for. We’ll see if that comes to pass.
They also addressed (but didn’t answer….of course….) the question of why Ben got sick in the first place, when the island has some healing properties, which I know is a question on a lot of people’s minds. It was good to see that the show acknowledged this.
Ben is obviously REALLY interested in John, I think more for finding out why Locke was cured than because of his father. Knowing the twists and turns this show takes, it’s entirely possible that The Others brought Locke’s father to the island only to manipulate Locke, and the whole “box” story is just a story.
Let’s say for a minute that there really is something that can grab things out of no where and bring them to the island. It’s almost certainly not a box, because … well, that would just be weird. What would it be? If that statue with the four toes is real, then maybe what they found is some sort of ancient temple, stadium, or something that focuses the island’s energy and makes things happen.
Or maybe it really is a box. It’d be a darned big box though.
LOST: Par Avion
We found out a few things in this episode, and there was a spoiler in the preview for next week (more on that later).
“Par Avion” means “By Plane” in French.
We found out that Claire is indeed Jack’s half-sister, as I previously predicted here (and as many others have also suggested. We can add Claire to the list of survivors that have issues with their fathers. The question now is, why was Christian in Australia trying to see Claire just before his death? What did he want to tell her? Why did he travel all that way? Was she in danger?
The people working with The Others have a submarine they used to get to the island. The conversation that Kate and Mikhail had was pretty interesting. Mikhail said, “Two week ago, our underwater beacon stopped emitting it’s locater signal. There was an event. An electromagnetic pulse. It would be impossible to come back.” That means that there probably won’t be any help coming from the outside any time soon.
Mikhail knew the first and last name of Sayid, Kate and John. He was even able to spill the beans about John being paralyzed.
That fence that killed Mikhail wasn’t just built in time to keep the Flight 815 survivors out. It was probably needed to keep the animals out, and quite possibly to keep the people that were “recruited” (like Juliette) inside the fenced area.
John Locke’s purpose for coming along is more than just getting Jack back. He wants to confront Ben. (That was in the preview). Why he’s carrying C-4 in this backpack, I’m not as sure, but it’s not something that’s a good thing to just be carrying around like that.
Sawyer was reading The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Mikhail was wearing the same sort of jumpsuit that “Roger the work man” (the skeleton Hurley found) was wearing.
Claire finally found out about Desmond’s ability to see the future, and that Desmond has again saved Charlie from dying.
Jack seems content, just throwing the football around with Tom, which really shocked Kate. Has he gone over to “The Others”? Or is he just waiting for the opportunity to get out of there? Is Jack, “On The List”?
I think Jack is going to discover why The Others are there, and will start to try and help them do whatever they’re doing.
LOST: Enter 77
Spoilers ahead… Don’t read this if you haven’t seen “Enter 77”
Very good episode. A few predictable things (notably the ending, after John entered 77), but overall, a good episode.
A few thoughts, based on what we saw tonight:
The One-Eyed Man, (I think his name was Mikael) was probably doing what he could to fix communications between the island and the outside world. The station was important enough that Ms. Klugh told The One-Eyed Man to shoot her so that Sayid, Kate and Locke wouldn’t have any leverage over them. Why would that be?
With no leverage over The One-Eyed Man, Kate, Sayid and Locke should have been in a weaker position. I think that’s what Ms. Klugh was counting on. I think she was trying to keep them from figuring out how to communicate with the outside world.
Sure, the communication links were broken, but sooner or later someone on the outside was going to figure that out and probably fix it. As far as the people who are in communication with The Others know, everything is status quo.
Are The Others keeping up a ruse? Trying to keep up appearances that whatever they’re working on is proceeding as planned?
I think that’s a reasonable explanation. Had Locke actually been able to communicate with the outside world, the people The Others had been communicating with would probably do something, and come to investigate. I think its entirely possible The Others haven’t told the outside world about the plane crash in the hopes that whatever they’re doing can proceed as planned.
Any other thoughts about why Ms. Klugh wanted The One-Eyed Man to shoot her? I don’t think she would have said a single thing about who she was, or why she was there, so I’m not sure what other explanation (than the one above) makes any sense.
Things you missed in “Flashes Before Your Eyes”
Things you missed in “Flashes Before Your Eyes”:
The quick flash of scenes that happened after the key was turned were of some of Desmond’s experiences on the island.
The clock next to Desmond’s bed read 1:08. (The hatch button had to be pressed every 108 minutes).
The microwave beeping noise is the same noise as the warning noise for entering the numbers.
The delivery person at the reception desk brings the package “for 815”. ( 4 8 15 ….hatch button numbers).
There’s a polar bear next to the upside-down Buddha in the artwork on Widmore’s wall, with the word “NAMASTE” written backwards at the top.
Charlie’s full name is “Charlie Hieronymus Page”. Hieronymus Bosch was a painter that lived between 1450-1516. (Remember the Hatch numbers? 15 16 were part of those).
The song playing on the jukebox in the bar is the same song Desmond played the first time we saw him in the hatch.
Desmond and Penny only get one picture from the photographer; Desmond and Penny both have a copy of that picture. Desmond has one of his own with him on the island, and Penny had on by her nightstand at the end of last season.