So, for once we didn't get a preview post up. But wow. That was incredible. So much new stuff to take in! And, Mr. Camp, I was wrong--seems like, for some reason, the same amount of time elapsed for both the O6 and Sawyer's posse. I'll have to think about why that might be.
We still don't know where the rest of the O6 are. We still don't know a lot of things. But, well--the floor is open for discussion now...
With that, I'll go study for my two midterms. I'll have more to say later. In all likelihood, much, much more. :)
Okay, some partially thought-out speculation here.....
ReplyDeleteWay long ago, the Egyptians somehow found the Island. And the statue is that of Anubis, which has a dog head. I think dogs have four toes, so maybe Anubis does, too?
Plus, that Egyptian heiroglyph pendant is the symbol "Ankh" (which, incidentally, also plays a part in a great flick, Logan's Run). Sounds like Ankh means "eternal life", and is sometimes referred to as the "key to life". Is it possible that the reason why there was a successful birth on the island was because the mom still possessed a "key to life"?
Oh my lostcampia is growing by the week. excellent. as always i'm going to push everyone to post even if all you have to say is "JULIET IS THE BIG SPOON BAHAHAHA" or "I gagged when Juliet and Sawyer kissed" or even "Skate is back in full force, sorry Jack you and Juliet can go cry now". (Or if you didn't think those, one of us did....)
ReplyDeleteSo great episode. Not too much action but I thought it was completely solid. I didn't get to watch it until just now because I was studying pictures of tall buildings, pizza boxes and the evolution of paperclips , I am completely serious about this. Apparently that's engineering at Duke.
At first I got really confused when the previously on Lost blended in with the new episode I always think I missed something and get really thrown. Another thing that kinda messes with me, how old is Richard? Ben made it seem like hes about 200 years old or something ("It's my birthday. You do remember what birthdays are don't you") but he seems like he may stop aging soon, similar to how maybe babies will start dying soon. Aside: It was so sweet when the baby was born. I was genuinely happy for Juliet Something big has to happen to the island to make everything get all messed up.
Bau, I like the dog theory. and who is our favorite/only/would be my favorite anyways dog on lost? VINCENT who is clearly important but has been mia for a while.
I was really confused by Amy because I thought she was Harper and she just was kinda going form guy to guy, but she's not. case closed.
As much as I liked the episode I can't think of much to write. I think my brains friend from looking at cantilever beams
SKATE FOREVER
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Skate back in full force? What about the whole forgetting-her-face thing?
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The elapsed-time thing makes a lot of sense in retrospect. Normally (if you can describe time travel as normal), the folks who stayed would be completely detached (in time) from the folks who left. But the key is that the O6 “synchronized” to the rest of their pals. The only non-arbitrary point to which they could synchronize is the point at which an equal amount of time had elapsed.
Note that Charlotte, once she died, no longer stayed synchronized—she no longer flashed with them. Locke, too, was dead and didn’t synchronize. (The O6 would be ~35 years older than they were the last time he met them if he were to come across them in the "present," aka farthest-forward-we've-seen.)
Ben didn't sync either. Perhaps he doesn’t count as one of them (though Juliet and the freighter folks do, so it’s not particular to the Oceanic 815 passengers).
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Love the Ankh thing. Fantastic. SO MUCH TO SAY. But I really gotta go study. More later.
Sorry to be negative, but I thought this episode was pretty shaky. It felt rushed. Really rushed. We went from Locke turning the wheel to Sawyer and friends joining Dharma to Kate's crew returning to the island...all in ONE EPISODE?!?! Personally, I liked the slow tension of the earlier seasons, but I understand that they've got to keep the plot moving these days.
ReplyDeleteA couple things that I did like:
--When they replayed the scene with Locke turning the wheel, Christian wasn't included. Definitely points to the possibility that there's some stuff happening on an "imaginary" level. (In the last episode, Caesar was looking at some notes that seemed to be Faraday's, and one of the diagrams was labelled with "imaginary time" and "imaginary space." When I paused the DVR and saw that stuff, I thought to myself, "Toph's going to love that. I should post something about it." Then I forgot.)
--The statue was great. Seems to be holding an ankh, which fits with the necklace from this episode and hierogylphics from lots of previous episodes. No idea why the Egyptian stuff is important yet, but it's nice that we got a few new clues.
I really liked this episode- I was just happy that they finally answered some questions, like why Daniel was on the island in 1974. Glad that's cleared up now.
ReplyDeleteI must say, Liz, that I agree with Toph about the whole forgetting Kate's face thing. And can I also just say that I called Juliet and Sawyer last season... just putting that out there. And I have virtually no theories about the statue cause my brain is fried, so sorry for this extremely lame post.
All of the Egyptian stuff is interesting. On Lostpedia, about the last episode when Caesar finds Daniel's map, apparently there were new hieroglyphics on it. So, I wonder what's going on with that.
ReplyDeleteAbout the "Lafleur" episode (well, first, I was in a bar in Portsmouth, NH yesterday and I looked into a back room which had "LEFLEUR" scrawled across the back wall....weird!), I like that questions were answered, but it was kind of slow. I do still need clarification on the "past can't be changed" philosophy since they're all living in the past.
I thought the arrival of Richard to the Dharma compound was awesome--though: Richard was demanding retribution for the 'hostiles' that were killed, but didn't Richard's people kill the Dharma guy and therefore they broke the pact???
That was definitely strange that Christian Shepherd was not in the Locke-turning-the-wheel scene. Hmmmmmmm.
When Sawyer swam up to the beach to find Juliet sitting there in last season's finale, I think we all knew they'd get together (sorry, Maddy!). Before the island stopped moving in time, I had a theory the Sawyer and Juliet were going to turn to be the dead bodies in the cave called "Adam and Eve."
Lastly, the new plane that 'crashed' on the island in last week's episode did not look damaged, and it was near the Hydra station--I'm stealing this theory from someone else, but maybe the runway that Dharma was building was finished......(I realize that the new plane crashed in 1974, but)
I'm tired of the split between the love square of Kate/Juliet v. Jack/Sawyer it's predictable and a bit cliche Doctor with emotional baggage (Juliet and Jack) or Better looking criminal type (Kate Sawyer.) I am also not a fan of the clean shaven longer haired Sawyer. He needs his rugged good looks. Horace it the bloke who was stuck in the loop cutting down the tree and getting the bloody nose from way back right?
ReplyDelete"I do still need clarification on the "past can't be changed" philosophy since they're all living in the past."
ReplyDeleteI think past, present, and future are all relative. There is no absolute past, absolute present, or absolute future. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativity_of_simultaneity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_cone
If the past is unchangeable, then so too must be the present and future. 1970 is the future in 1950 and the past in 2000... 2000 is the future in 1950 and 1970 but the past in 2010... it's all relative.
So *EVERYTHING* is set in stone.