LT24: Summertime

This begins the summer between Season 2 and Season 3...


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DHARMA FOOD

The numbering on every food item in the Swan hatch is 9FFTR731. When converted on a phone keypad, the numbers are 93387731. Using these numbers for longitude and latitude the location is central Nigeria.

BIG SPACESHIP WEBSITE

Those familiar with spin-off websites – some authentic and some not – the Big Spaceship does seem worthy of keeping track of. The latest two updates are the addition of the words "time god" and a link. "time god" could be a reference to Doctor Who. The website is a PDF of hieroglyphics: http://www.gameset.com/Resources/Unicode/pdf/EGPZ-BMP-0.1.pdf Our clock symbols are found in this document.

CONNECTIONS

Pull out your DVD of the pilot and notice the man who yells "Stay away from the gas.", on the beach after the crash. He is also the doctor who tells Jack his father is dead.


THE LOST EXPERIENCE

The game officially launched May 2 and is sure to provide plenty of fun for the next several months. I will begin releasing a separate email for this in days to come. This email will have the name Lost XP Tidbits. Be sure to look for it.

VALENZETTI

Information is popping up on the Internet about Mr. Valenzetti. We see the words Valenzetti equation on the Blast Door Map.

In summary, he was a brilliant man with no formal education, who supposedly developed an algorithm capable of predicting the exact date of the extinction of the human race. This formula was supposedly witnessed by others, but all evidence was destroyed when Mr. Valenzetti threw his works into a fire. He died in a plane crash.

NOTE: Can't help but think of Jack throwing the final pages of Bad Twin manscript into the fire! Also, Mr. Gary Troup wrote another book called "The Valenzetti Equation". This book is referred to, but never actually written for us.

The source of much information was Wikipedia.com – this page has since been pulled.

The author of the Wikipedia page was Javier Grillo-Marxuach. He was one of the original writers but is leaving the show.

NEW WEBSITE – WIDMORE

Check out http://www.widmore.com/ – can't go very far…yet.

PRINTOUT FOUND AT PEARL HATCH

The printout found at the new Pearl hatch shows a bunch of numbers. But careful examination reveals that the series are exactly 108 apart – minutes. Using what we have visible from screen snapshots, we can conclude that someone has been pushing that button for over 48 years!



DA PLANE!

Notice how the image seems to be a CIRCLE, but the crash of the plane then seems to turn it into the "?".

WHAT ELSE DID WE FIND IN THE PEARL HATCH?

Locke finds a table that at first glance appeared to be a cigarette butt and some ashes. Nope. Notice that a magnifying glass was near this table. What is that they were studying? Are the rocks positioned in some significant way?

Chalk?

TWO DR. CANDLES OR A BAD TWIN?

Some say it is the same guy who used two different names. Judge for yourself:

EKCO PASSPORT

Here is what we can glean from this:

4 = April and 20048 = August 2315 = April 1516 = April 1623 = August 23

I still think Ecko was a fake priest and only became "real" after crashing.

DID YOU CATCH THIS ONE?

Back in the Ana Lucia episode there is a shot of the police cars in the lot. Did you notice the numbers?

SAWYER BUMPS INTO CHRISTIAN'S CAR DOOR

Ana Lucia must not have SEEN Sawyer since nothing was ever mentioned. Of course, Ana Lucia missed the fact that her employer died and that Jack was taking a corpse home. The thing to notice is that the Sawyer bump is a rare 3-person connection.

But why then did Christian take Ana Lucia to the island? Just to have her die? Or is Michael really goofing up by killing "good" Ana and Libby?

WHISPERS

It has been learned that some of the whispers are in German. In "The Other 48 Days", Nathan says that they took one German.

Some believe that German is being spoken on the loudspeaker in "Lockdown".

IS YEMI REALLY YEMI?

Lots of chatter over the question of the Yemi in the dreaming being the "real" Yemi. Of course, he is dead and we all know that dreams can't be wholly trusted – heck, our perceived reality throws us curveballs. But with those points aside, people are wondering if Yemi, and thus the dreams, are being controlled by the Others.

Evidence: John dreamt of Yemi and has never met him – except as a corpse, of course.

Evidence: Yemi stressed that Ecko should bring John to "renew his faith", but just the opposite happened. I will admit that Ecko sort of prodded John back in line with his comments about "it is more important that ever that we push the button" logic. I think Yemi wanted John's faith destroyed.

Evidence: Henry Gale sure spent time undermining Locke's confidence.

Evidence: The Pearl station must have observed that John saw the hidden blast door map and would come looking. So, they stage a hatch, The Pearl, but this is NOT the real "?" location on the map.

Evidence: The salty soil is the key. The Others wouldn't need to create a landmark. They did it for Ecko and John to find it. The plane worked nicely because it reinforced Ecko's beliefs. In order to "find the ?" they used their Dream Machine to manifest an object that Ecko would trust: Yemi and Ana Lucia, for that matter.

Why? So John would stop pushing the darn button! Ecko is right, they must push it now.

Doesn't this imply then that Desmond is indeed an innocent bystander? He was locked in tight, monitored the shaft, had a defense ready, and thought about why he was pushing the button "every single day". The Others would likely have wanted Desmond to stop pushing it, but was locked in tight. We know he went out for food drops, so it seems odd the Others couldn't storm the hatch when Kelvin and Desmond wandered out. Hmmm…

WHO IS KELVIN?

Kelvin is said to have died…according to Desmond. But rumor says that we will meet Kelvin before Season 2 ends. So, Desmond is like Henry, a liar?

Many thought that ex-Henry might be Kelvin and we haven't learned his name yet!

Credits for an upcoming show however does reveal a character named, KELVIN INMAN. Ah ha! We ARE going to meet Kelvin, right?

But wait…the actor's name is Clancy Brown. We have seen this actor in Sayid's flashbacks. We only knew him as Inman…never was given the first name! Is this guy Kelvin or is it like two Helen's?

Enjoy,

KC