Thursday, January 15, 2009

We Have to Go Back!. . .to LOSTCampia

So I thought I'd kick off the new version, LOSTCampia 2.0, with just a few of the many, many questions that exist heading into the Season 5 premiere. Last night, ABC played the whole three-hour Season 4 Finale "There's No Place Like Home."

1. Ok, I'm not psyched about the whole 'moving the island' thing. But, I do want to know what the heck happened to it and how they plan on explaining it.

2. I'm very intrigued by Sun approaching Charles Widmore because they have common interests. Sun certainly wasn't happy that Jack et al wouldn't allow the helicopter to go back for Jin, and Jack pretty harshly told her "He's gone" as the helicopter was pulling away from the burning wreckage of the ship. Remember that only Hurley showed up to visit Jin's grave with Sun...nobody else. And, in the Season 4 finale in the continuation of the "We have to go back" flash forward from the Season 3 finale, Jack says to Kate, "Sun blames me for Jin's death." So, what really is going on with Sun and Widmore?

3. Is Kate still an ridiculously amazing tracker back in civilized life?!? That's a joke. But, I did learn in the little notes at the bottom of the screen in last night's re-broadcast of the season finale that Kate learned tracking from her father as revealed back in Season 2. Did not know that. Still ridiculous.

28 comments:

  1. haven't read the post but---

    "If anything goes wrong, desmond hume will be my constant"

    adam & eve will die this season

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  2. or richard will be the island's constant

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  3. OK, there was too much there for me to disect now, and that was a fantastic episode. FANTASTIC.

    My early Desmond prediction is looking a heck of a lot better than my Richard one at this point.

    How awesome is it to see Ben's... con-conspirators? And MS. HAWKING!!! Totally Daniel's mama. Her workshop is insane.

    I missed the first couple minutes--trust me, I was running back from a meeting--but that stuff was awesome. Broken record and all. Daniel.

    Is the island jumping around in space AND time? Must be.

    This season is going to be The Constant on a massive scale.

    Why's Desmond so important?

    Cool to see the Dharma Initiative. That flaming arrow scene was crazy.

    Does Ji Yeon need to go back to the island? Aaron? Claire said Aaron can't go back, right? And we know there are bad signs about Kate taking care of Aaron, but Sun was encouraging it. Is that... sabotage???

    And does she really not blame Kate? She still seemed a little ticked off. She said (last season) that two people were to blame, right? Ben, and--who? Kate? Jack?

    OK I really have to go. Tons of work. Bye all. :)

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  4. AND how could I forget Hurley's FANTASTIC 60-second summary of Seasons 1-4. :D

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  5. Agreed Toph! That was a fantastic episode. I really like how the show isn't restricted by just either flash back/flash forward anymore... its just total time chaos!

    It certainly seems like Daniel is going to play a large role this season, yay! They were kind of flaunting his journal which "holds everything he needs to know but can't remember..", he kind of just tells everyone his weakness. Prediction.. It will get stolen.
    So the fact that Daniel appears as a dharma initiative worker is proof that he can travel through time/space. But is this part of the fact that they are currently un-stuck in time on the island OR is it part of his own experiments before this whole debacle where he uses Desmond as his constant?

    Sayid is a forced to be reckoned with, as always, but who were he and Hurley fighting at the safe house?

    Losing Jin definitely hardened Sun. She will now do anything to protect her daughter and Jin's honor and memory, which I'm sure is going to cause her to act rashly in the future, especially if threatened back on the island.

    So Charlotte is experiencing the time/space travel side effects? Shes having nosebleeds and memory loss. Will she need a constant?

    Hurley is still suffering from chronic bad decision making disorder and delusions, he sees Ana-Lucia (who creepily brings up Libby!). At the end though, Hurley choses to listen to Sayid who told him "do the opposite of whatever Ben says" over Ana-Lucia who told him "don't get caught by the cops". It was great to see Ben so angry! Though he can obviously bust him out of the big house or something.

    What is going on with Ms. Hawking?? The computer from her office looks like one from the hatch on the island. weird!

    Who found out Aaron was not Kate's? Who hired these lawyers?? Is it a scare tactic of Ben's?

    Were the flame shooters Dharma Initiative?? They seemed more like soldiers and they had british accents... strange.

    When Richard gives Locke the compass it reminded me of the episode where he visits Locke as a young kid. Richard tells Locke that he's special then asks him to chose the object out of a few that he already owned... was the compass one of the options?

    So Desmond is "special" does this mean he is naturally unstuck in time? That before he even came to the island he had a special property that allowed him to travel through space and time? or does the extreme exposure of electromagnetism when the hatch explodes allow him to unglue himself from the present?

    And last question... is changing the past really impossible?

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  6. My mind hurts. Yeah, I do think this season is going to be a large scale version of "The Constant," which will be cool, though there were times last night when if felt like it could all be wrapped up in last night's episode.

    I'm confused about the changing the past part. If the fire shooters were actually killing people...I don't get it--in the past did the fire shooting happen and now our characters are just running through it?

    Desmond is special, Daniel is special, Locke is special--how does Jack fit in? Ben? Also, Hurley has a very interesting and important role: he was the moral compass on the boat ("we should tell the truth") and then he refused to go with Ben, which was cool, except when you consider that his hallucination of Ana Lucia (which I called, by the way, when the cop car was behind him!) told him NOT to ever go to the police.

    Hurley's awesome 60-second recap just earned a spot as the opening sequence in my Islands class next fall!

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  7. Oh yeah, one other point I had: the show really isn't about our characters anymore. I guess that's ok, but it definitely has taken an arc that is beyond characters now and more about happenings.

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  8. I need more time to process before trying to post anything substantive, but for now I'll mention that Locke and Alpert's compass exchange was amazing. Made me wonder how many centuries Alpert had been waiting to break out that line.

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  9. OH WOW. Definately one of my favorite episodes ever. Even watching it on my computer this morning (in HD, and it won't happen again). OK a lot of things to mention, i tried to write them down during the commercials because i'm a dork and this episode was crazy. majorly fantastic though.

    first things first:
    FROGURT! he made a glorious return to the show only to be burned to death. still hilarious.

    so weird that daniel was on the island before!!! here it seems like charlotte was the only one on the island before. also, it says that when he jumps around in time that he like doesn't change.. this explains richards nonaging.....and apparently dans too because he was there with hallowax.

    toph is completely right about adam & eve....weird!

    Toph, i watched the episode with richard coming to Locke like 2 days ago, it's the same compass. Was he trying to see if Locke could like remember the future or something and know what will be his later. hmmm and i love your idea that mrs. hawking is daniels mother, it woul explain a lot, and desmond will fid her and it'll be crazy....also it would make sense because he can meet her in the past because he meets her in the future....and she knows him already. I think Desmond might be so important because he found the island on his own. It seems practically impossible to just stumble upon, so him getting there may be part of it. And he's The Constant.

    The time stuff is getting really crazy. Its awesome though. There were literally like 50 groups all fighting each other on the island it was kinda crazy. hard to keep up with all of them. Whoever that group was near the end, one of the guys was names Jones, seemed like they had the same accent as Charlotte, at least to me. Could those be her people?

    Sun seems really vengeful. The whole thing with her and Whidmore makes me nervous. It's going to be hard to get her back on the island. Especially because they only have 70 hours. 70 hours which really wouldn't mean anything except that they are in the US where it makes sense. Also, it was weird how Daniel kept saying they didn't "have time" for anything.

    a few last things:
    Kate kind of sucks as a mom. Every time Aaron says something she just tells him to go back to whatever he's doing.

    Anna-Lucia coming back was weird. You'd think Hurley would have listened to her though. This was a major throwback episode. AND ETHAN. i don't know how I didn't start with him. He is so scary, I hate him. Plus the virgin Marys with drugs and everything. It's pulling everything back. Poor misguided people who think they can start watching this season.

    ....and finally
    JULIET STILL SUCKS. Did anyone else notice her literally using someone to sheild herself form the fire arrows. I did. She's awful and should stay away from Sawyer.

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  10. Toph-- Aaron DOES need to go back cause he is one of the 6, but Kate will be hesitant cause of that dream she had.

    We still need to figure out who the other 3 people were that "survived" the crashd. 5 people survived the crash, and after "Kate" had Aaron, so there were 6 rescued, so there were 3 other people that supposedly survived but then later on died. Ideas?

    Anyone else notice that WHENEVER they bring on new losties they always end up dying? (frogurt, nikki and paolo, and you could even argue libby, eko, and ana lucia). Poor frogurt.

    OK, so Dan's whole time travel thing. We saw him with the dharma, but that must have been at least 5-10 years ago, right? judging by when the dharma started their whole thing and the age of the van, etc. But how did he come to work for the dharma? I am super confused about that whole bit,.

    Taylor, I was thinking the same thing- now Charlotte needs a constant or something, right? Hmmm, how much do you wanna bet it will be someone we already know?

    About the whole Jin thing... I was watching the end of the recap before the episode aired, and the producers said something like "when Sun believed that Jin died..." which shows that he MIGHT not be dead! We can only hope.

    Camp, I've noticed the same things about the characters. I liked the episode a lot, but I still miss having every episode focus specifically on one certain character. Oh well.

    wait... what about Adam and Eve Liz/Toph?

    Yeah, when I first saw Ana-Lucia, the first thing I thought of was, "oh, she must've gotten out of jail..." Her appearance was pretty cool, though.

    ummm yes Juliet does suck AND her and Sawyer are totallyyyyy getting together, its ridiculously obvious. When they were captured he was like "don't hurt her, let her go!" and he went back to grab her earlier when the fire-arrows were flying. We totally called that last season.



    OK, most important stuff here: TIME TRAVEL/DESMOND.
    I had many of the same questions as Taylor. Daniel told Des that he was special-- isn't this because when he travels through time, he CAN change things? Like, he went back to get that number from Penny- when he originally went through life, through 1996 and until 2004, he didn't have her number, but on xmas eve in 2004 he went BACK to 96 and got her number, therefore changing things, so he could contact her... isn't that right?

    But what I don't get is that in 1996, Des found Dan in Oxford (when DES time travelled) and in 200_, Dan found Des in the hatch (when DAN travelled), but neither of them recognized each other when they met in 2004, after the helicopter came to the island? I don't understand that. It makes my brain hurt.

    Alright, just thought I would post my thoughts, and I must say it is extremely sad to have to watch these episodes 3 hours later than everyone else (except Ms Perrine...) and not be able to call people in the commercials.... luckily this site lets us all discuss.

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  11. ok I dont have time to post now, and I need to think more/ watch it again becuase apparently everyone at Wheaton College talks during LOST, despite my shushing them for the entire two hours.

    but what I am really concerned about, is that I dont want Charlotte to get lost in time. She needs a constant, and she and Daniel are quickly becoming my favorite couple ever.

    ok I will write more soon, but I loved the episode overall and I am thrilled that we have revamped this site.

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  12. I don't have time to post because I have to... READ LOCKE AND ROUSSEAU!!!

    No joke, the professor of my Emergency Powers class assigned them on the day of the premiere, so of course I had to tell him about Lost... which he didn't seem sufficiently thrilled about.

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  13. Another thing I forgot to mention: Frogurt!!!!!! Loved seeing him again, if only briefly. (Oh wait, Liz beat me to it. :))

    Re: journal--I was thinking the same thing about it getting stolen. Except I was scared that Sawyer was going to snatch it away right then and there.

    I'm inclined to blame Widmore for both Kate's legal troubles and Sayid's tranquilization.

    "And last question... is changing the past really impossible?"

    That's huge. Hugely huge. Except I would add "[past] or future." The idea of fate--that these people cannot escape their destiny, cannot branch off from their time-string. What's the morale of the show going to be? If it's that we are, in fact, just pawns of the universe--well, that's a little depressing. But if it turns out there IS such a thing as free will--well, that would be just dandy. :)

    "I don't get it--in the past did the fire shooting happen and now our characters are just running through it?"

    I'm inclined to say that "in the past," the Losties have always visited from the future. If the Dharma Initiative hadn't been wiped out, they might've recognized them. MAYBE. But, in fact, I think we *do* have an artifact from the future showing up in Season 1: Adam and Eve. Desmond and Penny.

    Note that there's consciousness time travel (which I henceforth dub CTT -- e.g., Desmond's "flashes") and real time travel (RTT -- e.g., time travelling bunnies.) Real time travel may be associated with teleportation, e.g. the island moving. I guess you can become unstuck in space AND time. Unless the island ONLY moved in time and there's some weird explanation for why it, you know, disappeared. Maybe it was a localized collapse into a singularity, and now they're time travelling all over the place, but if they land on the other side of that singularity, they're toast. ;)

    Mr. MacDonald, agreed re: compass line. :D And Liz, it was Taylor who brought up that item selection thing, but I love the idea of remembering the future. (Why CAN'T we?)

    "70 hours which really wouldn't mean anything except that they are in the US where it makes sense."

    Hehehe. :D Or DOES it? What if the island unhinged the rest of the world from time (and space?)? Maybe that would be the catastrope that awaits if you don't push the button. Electromagnetic exposure unhinges folks--we know that (a) because it's how Daniel explained unhinging the rat (Elouise), and (b) because when Desmond started freaking out in The Constant, Daniel immediately asked if he'd been exposed to a high radiation dose. We know that the Swan, Orchid--heck, the whole island--basically sits atop an unlimited supply of energy. It sounds to me like that'd be enough to unhinge the world if its release weren't regulated (or plugged).

    “Did anyone else notice her literally using someone to sheild herself form the fire arrows.”

    Hahahahaha no. She would.

    Re: Charlotte’s constant—hey, it could be her daddy Ben if only he weren’t off-island (in fact, exiled). ;)

    I’m sad to say I kind of hope Jin is dead, because it bugs me if they pull to many punches. They structure time travel the way they do (immutable timeline) so that *actions* still have real *consequences*. (There’s an Xbox Live Arcade game called Braid which basically imagines a world without consequences. Tons of time craziness. FAN-TAS-TIC game. Feels like the Lost of videogames to me… except it’s a low-budget little independent thing.)

    Of course, who knows, maybe the island can bring Jin back to life. Or maybe that’s just Locke. (Or hey, maybe it’s just nobody and we can stop with the Jesus allegories.)

    I don’t miss the character foci too much. We’ve kind of gotten that out of the way.

    Maddy: “wait... what about Adam and Eve Liz/Toph?” Adam and Eve were the skeletons they discovered in the caves in Season 1. Locke, for some reason, dubbed them Adam and Eve. I’ve seen speculation that they’re Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan—that THIS is the island where they crashed. Cool. But at the moment I’m thinking that Adam and Eve are two of our “current” characters—that is, the characters who haven’t yet died onscreen, “whenever” that may have occurred. As the premier couple on the show, I’m gonna go with Desmond and Penny. We know Des is special, so it would be fitting to honor him as Adam. And we know Ben wants to kill Penny. (Of course, he can’t kill her in the caves if he can’t return to the island. But he can by proxy.)

    Or it could be, you know, Jack and Kate… Sawyer and Kate… Sawyer and Juliet (hehe)… Daniel and Charlotte… Ben and Annie (ooh)… Richard and Ms. Hawking (lololol)… Widmore and Penny (OK, so they’re not a couple)… Sun and Jin… Rose and Bernard… Locke and, uh, Richard… um… yeah. Hurley and Libby. Et cetera.

    “But what I don't get is that in 1996, Des found Dan in Oxford (when DES time travelled) and in 200_, Dan found Des in the hatch (when DAN travelled), but neither of them recognized each other when they met in 2004, after the helicopter came to the island? I don't understand that. It makes my brain hurt.”

    You may be able to make little changes in the past and future. I don’t know how the universe defines little vs. big. But basically, I don’t know what’s going on with memories. I don’t know what order people remember things in. I tried to graph (chart?) it once. It’s on Lostpedia 1.0.

    And we’re going to read some Locke and Hume in my Philosophy of Death class. Coooool.

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  14. ok I haven't posted a slightly outlandish theory for this season yet sooooo what if Aaron isn't in oceanic 6 but walt is? I miss him

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  15. Good point, I'd pretty much forgotten about him....

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  16. After a little more time to absorb the new stuff, I've got some questions to pose:

    1) Does Locke jump through time in the exact same way as Sawyer, Juliet, etc.? When Ben moves the island, Sawyer and Juliet are on the beach and it's sunny. After the flash, they're still on the beach, and it's still sunny. BUT before the flash, Locke is hanging out with Richard and the Others. After the flash, he's alone, and it's pouring. I know that island weather is weird, but the sharp contrast made me wonder what was going on.

    2) What makes Desmond special? He seems to be able to generate new memories. He also seems like he may be able to change fate, but it seems like other characters (Faraday, Locke) may be able to change fate, too.

    3) What's going on with Richard's timeline? He knew to look for Locke and knew that he'd need to remove the bullet, but he also knew that he wouldn't recognize Locke the next time he ran into him. Very tough to unravel. Does Richard know what order the time shifts will happen in? And is it possible that Richard ages just like everyone else, but that his frequent time travels explain the fact that he always looks the same? And is the compass an arbitrary object or is it a metaphorical constant (always pointing north) that foreshadows Richard's role as Locke's constant?

    4) If people native to the island are special in regard to time travel (maybe immune to jumps like Richard and the Others), then how is Aaron's return to the island going to work? Is it possible that Kate will jump and Aaron will stay (a la Locke jumping and Richard staying)?

    5) Will one of the guys who threatens to chop off Juliet's hands turn out to be a young Widmore?

    6) Were those flaming arrows coming from Black Rock crew members? If not, how long until we run into them?

    Any enlightening thoughts are greatly appreciated.

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  17. Rob, your Widmore theory is genius. Never even considered that, but probably should have. And, possibly, Widmore is one of the Black Rock crew members, hence his bidding on the painting and his obsession with finding the island.

    I'm definitely struggling to manage the "Special" list, as Desmond and Locke seem front runners, but Hurley seemed special to me in that episode, and Aaron has to have some role. Also, as I usually do, I'm returning to Jack as also 'special' in some way, and, of course, Ben, too.

    The point about Richard is fascinating--yeah, how does he know all that he knew in that bullet scene with Locke...especially considering that Ben turning the wheel kicked off the time change spree--it's not like it has been happening all the time.

    Sorry, I don't have any answers for your points, Rob, just more questions...

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  18. I thought you all might find this funny. This is an email I received today from one of my advisees (he admits he was just procrastinating instead of studying for exams, but anyway.....)

    Dear Mr. Camp,
    I finally watched the next episode of LOST by the way. I liked it alot but I feel like there is too much going on and its too hard to keep everything together. I don't like how my relationship with LOST is going right now. I feel like I am turning into one of those people that I used to hate. I remember thinking people were so dumb when they said it was too out there in the third season. I remember thinking that LOST would never be to spacey for me. Now I feel like I am becoming one of those losers. It hurts....alot. I miss the good old days when everything was perfect. I remember the first time I met LOST. I had hear guys at school talking about how great she was but I never really believed it. I figured she was just another TV show. Then I met her. It was during her second season. It was love at first sight. I don't really remember what went on that episode but I knew she was the show for me. I went back and watched the first season. Those were some of the best hours of my life. That was when LOST and I were truly in love. I miss those days. I miss the mysterious others with their fake beards and black smoke. I miss the crazy French lady. I miss the simplicity of our early relationship. I miss Boone and seeing Locke come into himself. I just don't understand why my love had to go and make everything complicated. She is always talking about the future now. I don't know what's gonna happen in the future. Why can't we just live in the present. I miss hunting boar with Locke and pressing the button with Desmond. This is our fifth year together. I thought it would never end but now im not so sure. I feel like she is drifting away like a bamboo raft and im not sure if she will ever come back. Maybe I should just sit down with her and talk about things or maybe that would just make it worse. All I know is that I love this show and I don't want to lose her. I could really use some advice.
    Sincerely,
    Mark Vieth

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  19. Camp, that kid is hilarious and he sent a proper email, I'm impressed.Y'all are making my head spin with all this.I love the Whidmore theory. So much to think about!

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  20. Camp, that was absolutely hilarious. I read it to my friends here- the ones that I have since gotten addicted to LOST (we watched the first season together last semester, and now they are on the 4th season after catching up over break)- and they loved it too.

    About the Widmore theory- I agree that its possible that he could have been one of those english dudes in the last episode, but he can't be a crew member from the Black Rock, can he? Didn't they all die? Or am I just getting super confused?

    And Liz, Walt can't technically be the 6th Oceanic 6, because the definition of the Oceanic 6 is that they were the ones rescued from the island, and no one knows that Walt has gotten back as well. But its possible that they'll need him to go back to the island too, although Ben hasn't mentioned that yet.

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  21. "The point about Richard is fascinating--yeah, how does he know all that he knew in that bullet scene with Locke...especially considering that Ben turning the wheel kicked off the time change spree--it's not like it has been happening all the time."

    If I'm understanding you correctly--I'm not so sure about that last point. :) I really, REALLY don't know. But... it would seem....... I don't know.

    The question is: if someone was in the right place at the right time in Season 1, could they see Locke get shot? Was that a distinct, but parallel, timeline?

    Daniel's comment about moving back and forth along a string made me think: no. There is only one timeline, and they can move along it. So the Losties have ALWAYS gone off on this crazy time-travel adventure. The question then is why Ben acted like moving the island was... a choice.

    Or maybe there's just one Primary Timeline, with the "important" stuff, and infinite branches containing different (& conflicting) versions of the "unimportant" stuff.

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    That email is hilarious indeed. :D

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    Widmore, Widmore, hmm, very interesting.

    WIDMORE: That island's mine, Benjamin. It always was. It will be again.
    BEN: But you'll never find it.

    So was he a bigwig? Or did he just try to claim it as his? How far back does he go? Does he really, literally, mean “always”? (As Charlotte would say, nothing’s forever.) And when Ben says he’ll never find it… well, he found it once. Will he really *never* find it?

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    Speaking of folks from Lost history whom we’ll probably see--Henry Gale?

    And I bet the Losties will let the polar bears out.

    And what about that door in the Dharma camp with just a stone wall behind it?

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    Back to “specialness” for a moment. Daniel, in the past, knocked on Desmond’s door. Desmond came out and they chatted. How could Daniel change the past? I guess the answer is that he couldn’t. He had always knocked on Desmond’s door. But somehow—and this is hard to believe—Desmond forgot. Until he had a “dream”, which he actually realized was a bona fide memory.

    So maybe, physically, Daniel always knocked, and Desmond always answered. But Desmond’s CONSCIOUSNESS didn’t REMEMBER it until, in Daniel’s CONSCIOUS future, Daniel does that.

    OK, that makes no sense.

    But the distinction between physical time travel (PTT, previously RTT) and consciousness time travel (CTT) remains important, I think.

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  22. I just had the most multidimensional math class I've ever had, beginning to get into functions of 3 variables. I felt like I had a big head start thanks to the Lost seminar. :D

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  23. Alright. I just came from my Intro to Asian Religions class, where I had a LOST revelation. So we were talking about the Dalai Lama, and how Buddhists believe in re-birth after death. Apparently, after the last Lama died, followers and such used their various methods of meditation and religious rituals to "discover" the area of Tibet that he was "reborn". They travelled there and "interviewed" many young children that could possibly be the reborn Lama. In these interviews, one thing they would do was put a variety of ritual bells in front of the child, one of which was the Lama's old bell and ask which one "was the child's", to see if they chose the right one. Sound familiar?!
    If we are right in thinking that the compass Richard gave to Locke last episode was the same one he presented to Little Locke in "Cabin Fever", then perhaps Richard was hoping, when Locke was young, that he would choose the compass, because it would show him that he (Locke) has possibly been time traveling as a kid, and has met Richard on the island and taken the compass from him? Or hey, maybe Locke has been reborn, and he was Adam (as in Adam and Eve) from the island in his past life, or someone else. I know this is completely random and all these theories are longshots, but hey, you never know, maybe the producers are fans of the Dalai Lama. Just an idea.

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  24. Basically--I agree. That's pretty awesome. I especially like the idea that, after all my random guessing about the identity of Adam and Eve, they *could* just be, well, Adam and Eve.

    Now I'm going to get all into the literal Adam & Eve / Garden of Eden stuff. :D Maybe there's a whole line, starting with them, going through Widmore, Richard, Ben, Locke... Desmond? No clue.

    For what it's worth, re: class connections, I just read a David Hume essay on suicide. Basically, he said that people should be free to do as they please with their lives, including commit suicide and spare themselves some misery. To those who said it was offending God or whatever, he said it was preposterous to think God would give you the capability if He really didn't want you to do it.

    Michael certainly had no choice. Cause, well, the island [*cough* God] wouldn't let him. :D

    Limitless energy... a place where miracles happen... hey, the island literally being God makes a lot of sense. :)

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  25. *Now I'm going to get all into the literal Adam & Eve / Garden of Eden stuff **again**.

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  26. Can I just say that I love when you guys bring to Lostcampia things that you're learning in class or those of us who teach bring things that we do in class.

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  27. I love it too, reading about Hume from Toph was very interesting.
    My foray into Locke and Rousseau... not so much.

    I also greatly enjoyed the advisee letter.

    Someone the other day asked me if I was psyched for Lost this week.
    I said "You know me not."

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  28. Camp,
    Your students just made me happy. And, I read it aloud to my roommates (the one from Maine and the Moroccan) and they think I'm nuts.

    Just watched last night's episode. Very interesting. I really dont want Charlotte to die and I feel like we are just going in circles with the time traveling. I want to know more than they are giving me right now.

    Love Desmond and the baby named Charlie. So great and happy.

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