Ramblings about entertainment and other things
If you listen to the Lost podcasts (and you should), you might have heard that the final scene of this season’s LOST is referred to as “Frozen Donkey Wheel”.
The producers always come up with some code word that nobody can make sense of for those final scenes. In previous years, they’ve used “The Bagel”, “The Challah”, and “The Snake in the Mailbox” (because it would be “the last thing you would expect”).
Read more about what the producers have to say about this at CTV.ca.
There have been a number of deaths in Lost over the last few episodes: the boat’s doctor, the boat’s captain, Alex, Karl, Danielle. One of the things that bothered me right away was: Who buried Danielle and Karl?
Think about that a minute. There are people invading the island, the two camps are split, and Ben sends Alex and Karl with Danielle away from camp to keep them safe. We see Danielle and Karl murdered right before Alex is carted away. Would the soldiers on the boat take the time to dig a grave for Danielle and Karl?
I don’t think they would have. They were in the middle of the jungle and out to get Ben. They had a hostage (Alex), and they needed to try and use her as leverage as soon as possible.
So, there are several distinct possibilities. The first: The Others buried them both. I think that’s the most likely possibility.
The second possibility: That wasn’t really Danielle in the grave, and Danielle herself buried Karl. This theory is the same, in reverse, of course – Karl could have buried Danielle). The face did look very much like Karl’s, but Danielle’s face didn’t look very much like her (see the picture).
The problem with this theory is, If it’s NOT her, who the heck is it? And, if you’re thinking that Miles knew about the graves – Well, he did, but that could have been Karl or Danielle (not both) saying something that lead him to dig them up.
The third possibility: Danielle and Karl really did die, and those are their bodies, but Danielle came back (like Yemi, Christian, etc) and buried the bodies herself. Now, THAT would be a weird thing to have to do for yourself…. But the most likely possibility, I think.
What do you think?
Here’s something to mull over the holiday weekend. Take a look at this picture from part 1 of the season 4 finale of LOST:
It looks pretty much how you remember it, right? But… What about that shadowy figure behind Karen Decker (she’s the Oceanic representative). What shadowy figure? Well, look at this:
It could just be a flight officer, but I consider that pretty unlikely, given that Jack and the rest were talking pretty openly about keeping quiet about what happened.
Who is that shadowy figure?
Popular Mechanics has an article that says it just might be possible to move the island using the electromagnetic fields of the island:
So just how can Locke move the island–-and where will he move it, for that matter? Michio Kaku, author of “Physics of the Impossible,” told us he thinks that Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse are using the island’s unique properties —namely its electromagnet and the Casimir Effect hinted at in the Orchid Station orientation video—to open a transversible wormhole to different points in time and space. (Über-baddie Keamy seemed to verify that when he pulled the Orchid-Station-emblazed “secondary protocol” from the ship’s safe. He said the document would tell him “where Linus is going. If Linus knows we’re going to torch the island, there’s only one place he could go.”)
Read the rest at Popular Mechanics.
(Via TVSquad)
Recent Lost News:
Lost adds hours to the final two seasons: Lost originally was going to run for 16 hours for each of the last two seasons, but since the writer’s strike happened, they’ve extended each season by one more hour. Read about it at the Hollywood Reporter. (Thanks to Kali.Amanda)
There won’t be a Lost spinoff: The showrunners for Lost have stated that they’re going to finish the Lost story, and that’ll be it. So don’t be looking for a Sawyer spinoff, or a wacky Hurley sitcom. Read about it at inthenews.co.uk.
My friend John and I were talking about last night’s episode (Cabin Fever), and he brought up a really good point: What if Christian ISN’T talking on Jacob’s behalf?
There were two things that really bothered me about that scene. The first was Claire’s sly smile while she was in the cabin with Christian and Locke. It seemed like the type of smile you’d see on someone that was happy they conned someone into something.
The other thing that bothered me was the Christian told Locke not to tell anyone about seeing Claire. Why not?
One of the things that John brought up was Locke didn’t tell Hurley and Ben that he didn’t speak directly with Jacob, but to Christian instead (and oh, by the way, Claire was there too).
What if there are forces on the island that both want John there (Alpert and Abbadon), but want him there for two different reasons? We’ve been operating under the assumption that The Others are just one big happy… well, ok, maybe not happy…
Anyway…
We’ve been operating under the assumption that The Others just have one faction. What if there are two different factions? One that wants to help the island, and another that wants to undermine it? One that does good, another that does evil? Could the evil side have set things into motion that will undermine the good side?
All of this is obviously big-time speculation, but we like that sort of thing around here.
What do you think?
On page 4 of the “Lost Recap: Finding the cabin” article of EW.com, Jeff Jensen puts forth the following:
Regardless, here’s the twist — the twist that could turn Locke into a mass murderer of sorts. As we saw at the end of the episode, Locke’s plan for saving the Island is moving the Island. Now, I have no idea how he intends to do that. But if I’m tracking correctly the weird science Lost has been laying down this season, I wonder if where we’re headed is a catastrophic gambit in which Locke will move the Island not only in space but also in time, which I’m guessing will cause some kind of massive retroactive course correction — or, rather, already has enacted a course correction. In fact, I wonder if the secret to many of the metaphysical mysteries of Lost is that all of the show’s drama is playing out against the backdrop of a timeline that’s in flux — where old history is giving way to new history as the consequences of Locke’s future Island-saving actions trickle down through time. And so that wreckage of Oceanic 815 at the bottom of the ocean? That isn’t a hoax — at least, not in the new timeline taking hold. That’s real. And it will be John the Quantum Ripper’s fault
He doesn’t spell out what the implications of Ocean 815 exactly are, but I’ll extrapolate a bit.
Remember that theory that I had that Ben or Widmore might have placed a fake Flight 815 down at the bottom of the ocean? Well, I’m beginning to think that neither of them did it. It might be the result of what’s about to happen to the island.
Locke said that they needed to move the island. If the island gets moved, what happens? Things where the island gets moved to get displaced. The Black Rock, for example, could have been displaced and popped into the middle of the jungle.
If the island somehow moved in the past, it has some big ramifications too. What happens if the island wasn’t there when Flight 815 flew by? It would continue on course for a while, and probably crash for lack of fuel.
I think that’s exactly what’s going to happen.
This is going to be one major course correction.
This week’s Doc Jensen EW.com story about LOST, “Jacob, reveal thyself”, and as usual it’s great reading. A few points:
In the premiere, we had Hurley telling Jack, ”I should have gone with you” instead of Locke — not only begging the implicit question ”Why?” but also ”How would have things been different?”
I’d add: I think Hurley found out something that he’d be happier not knowing…
Perhaps Jacob will give us a few more hints tonight. I suspect he knows SOMETHING of altered realities. In this creepy entity, whose only line to date has been, ”Help me,” I sense a trapped soul who has had something stripped from him, and I don’t mean his body. I wonder if here, on an Island that seems to stand at the crossroads of All Possible Worlds, what/who we see trapped here inside this otherworldly outhouse is a man who never really was. In other words: Could Jacob be the version of Charles Widmore that somehow, some way got flushed out of existence? Maybe
I doubt that Charles is Jacob. I think the whole “The island is mine” rant that Widmore went on is that he considers it “his”, because he pumped money into it back in the Dharma days.
I’ve said “the cross roads between worlds” theory before. I think it’s more likely that Jacob is somehow stuck between worlds, not corporeal, but still able to communicate.
There is a prevalent fan theory that Alpert is an electromagnetically energized long-lived survivor of the Black Rock, the slave ship beached in the middle of the Island. I’m willing to accept that Alpert would be several centuries old — IF he was actually, technically alive. Yep: I think this Tricky Dick is dead — or at least as dead as, say, Christian Shepherd. Judging from the way we saw Grandpa McBoozy cradling Aaron last week, these Island ghosts are more materially substantial than the typical ethereal entity, although clearly Alpert is a higher caste of specter than Christian, at least for the (relative) moment.
Bingo. I said that Richard Alpert might be dead too earlier this week.
And this particular point:
Lost season 4’s most conspicuous literary reference, C.S. Lewis. In The Great Divorce, Lewis offers a parable for life on earth by presenting a vision of Heaven in which the newly departed MUST leave their earthly baggage behind if they wish to enter paradise — or, decoded, to grow spiritually. They are helped in this endeavor by ghosts who’ve preceded them in death, though initially, these ”shining beings” come off as tough-love antagonists. ”Others,” if you will.
That beats around the bush a bit. It could be that the island is not only a crossroads between worlds, but THE crossroad between the worlds, where judgements (by The Smoke Monster?) are made where people end up in the afterlife. Some of those people are held to correct things that are happening on the island (Yemi, Horace, etc), all part of the grand plan to correct things the way they “should” be and make those course corrections.
Read the article, and tell me what you think!
I think we have some evidence that Jack’s Dad be one of The Others. Take a look at the picture in this post. Christian is dressed in the same clothes as The Others were dressed in, when they first appeared to Ben Linus.
Does that mean Christian was always one of The Others? Probably not. I do think that it helps explain why Richard Alpert didn’t seem to age at all between the time we saw him when Ben was young until now. He might very well be “dead” too. I use that term pretty loosely, because for a bunch of dead people Christian/Charlie/Yemi sure do get around.
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Just to continue that last posting about Jack’s illness:
What if Juliet wasn’t taking something OUT of Jack, but was putting something IN to Jack? Drug Jack up, get him thinking he has appendicitis, and throw one of those Claire devices in there. I thought I’d just throw that out there as an additional possibility.
Oh, and that scar that isn’t there when Jack was in his towel? No scars when the island heals you.