Monday, February 25, 2008
S4Ep4 - "Eggtown": Well We're Living Here in an Eggtown by Erika
Here is this week's recap from Erika Olson (aka "e") from LongLiveLocke.com .
[Was it something I said?] ... and it's hard to choke a grenade down. (Just ask Miles.)
There have been two times since Lost premiered when I have gotten chills at the end of an episode. The first was in "Deus Ex Machina," when Locke ran back to the hatch (as Boone was dying) and started banging and crying "WHYYYYY?!?!!?" on the little window, and then all of a sudden the light came on. The second was at the end of "Eggtown," when Kate's "son" was revealed to be Aaron. I did not see that one coming! I'm enjoying my spoiler-free status more and more with each episode (although some of my other spoiler-free friends did call the ending-they're way more clever than I am).
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Thursday, February 21, 2008
Who's In The Coffin? (Spoiler-Free Theory)
What we know:
* The person in the coffin is someone we have previously met, per Darlton via podcast
* This person is known to both Jack and Kate
* The Oceanic 6 are harboring a Secret
* The Oceanic 6 were well-compensated
* There are outside forces, aka Matthew Abaddon, highly interested in the O6's ability to keep their traps shut
* Kate is incredulous at Jack's idea that she might have attended the funeral for said Man in Coffin, suggesting some sort of betrayal
* Kate is living much higher on the hog in her Volvo than we have ever seen previously
* Future Bearded Jack is 'sick of lying'. Kate has made a life-pursuit of lying, and has, apparently, no issue in the future with exalting this to her vocation, given her final conversation with Future Bearded Jack in TTLG and her Volvo
* Future Beginning Alcoholic Jack was a bit twitchy at the thought that Hurley might 'talk' when he was recommitted to Santa Rosa
Putting What We Know together, is it possible that someone who made it off The Island simply refused to keep the Secret? This person turned down the Oceanic settlement in order to be free to tell his story? Might that person have been murdered to keep him from spilling the beans about Craphole Island and its Secrets? There is apparently much at stake in spilling the Secret, or Future Jack would not be so conflicted--he'd just give it up already and campaign against recreational use of painkillers, wouldn't he?
It seems to me that there are those who would kill to see the Secret (and, by extension, themselves and their interests) protected. Perhaps our Man In The Coffin was a casualty.
Perhaps this person was an Oceanic 815 passenger who found rescue, yet refused to come in line with the story that the settlement recipients are relied upon to support? Or it could be an Island resident not associated with the Oceanic ticket counter who, nonetheless, will spill the Secret?
Remaining questions:
* What is the Secret the O6 have sworn to protect?
* Who would refuse to fall in line, at apparently great financial sacrifice in eschewing the settlement, and why?
* Why would the O6'rs alienate the Man In The Coffin? For Island crimes, or those (imagined or real) back in the real world? Or simply for refusing to keep the Secret?
* Why is spilling the Secret so dangerous that our O6'rs will become hired guns for the Benemy, retreat to psych wards or live in an alcohol and oxycodone induced haze in order not to tell?
Source: LostDocarzt
Sunday, February 17, 2008
4x03 Initial Reactions
This episode was an interesting one to say the least, with a shocker of an ending, although I'll get on to that a little later.
So it’s confirmed that Sayid has got his ticket off the island as he strikes a deal with Frank Lapidus. After this we move on into the flash-forward. It was interesting that the golf course guy suddenly got shaken up when Sayid said "I'm one of the Oceanic 6", perhaps this was just because he remembered who Sayid was. Then something somewhat unexpected happens and Sayid pulls a gun out on him. It would be interesting to know why Sayid killed him, but perhaps it was just something Ben asked for. (I'll talk Ben later!)
So how about the vanishing shack...It seems that it wasn't in fact Hurley just going crazy and perhaps the shack can appear in various different places. Perhaps it's even a projection by the smoke monster.
The bracelet Sayid took off Naomi looked similar to the one of the woman Sayid was with, I didn't catch the inscription, I'll check that out in another post.
Lost Clock 1
Perhaps something that might get overlooked in this episode is the apparent time difference from the outside world an the island, 31 minutes. Dan said "This is not good". Now that is something I want to know more about, perhaps the time difference could have an affect on some of the properties of the island, for example healing, although the length of time seems he same, just not the sync. Then again, maybe the payload clock gained time when it was where ever the hell it was for the amount of time it hadn't appeared. Anyway I've got a lot more to say on this so I imagine another article about it.
Ben's secret room wasn't too much of a surprise although that fact that he had a ton of currency and what looked like about 9 or 10 different passports leads me to think he hasn't been on the island all of his life, and that he might well be up to a little more than we thought.
I'm going to skip right ahead to the ending - Sayid and Desmond got on the chopper and headed out off the island. Hopefully we will find out if they are successful (unlike Desmond with his boat) or not. Then we see Ben stitching up Sayid, and he is portrayed to be his Boss. How the hell did he get off the island?? Perhaps it was more than the "Oceanic 6" that got off but the 6 were hyped up because they were supposedly dead. Theories welcome!
Source: BlackRock.org
The Splitting of the Losties
As we all saw in the premiere, to Losties split it up into 2 groups - Locke's Group, and Jack's Group. It's near certain that Jack's Group were the ones who got off the Island, because of what we have seen in the flashforwards. But what if we slow down - Hurley said to Jack "I should have gone with you" before shouting "It wants us to go back". These two statements are contradictory, so maybe Locke's Group fell into some trouble and perhaps something happend to them.
What was before unclear was which group Sayid belonged to, but after close inspection of an HD screengrab - it seems that Sayid is part of Jack's group. This brings up further questions - if it was Jack's group that got off the island then why is it only 6. It is clear from the screengrab that there are many more than 6 members of Jack's group...Maybe they decided to go to Locke's at a later date?
I do think that the 6 who got off could well have nothing to do with the 2 groups, but something must have happend at some point for only 6 to be able to get off the Island, and when it happens I guess it's gonna be BIG!
Source: BlackRock.org
