Tuesday, March 25, 2008
LT17: Henry Steals the Scenes
Consider how Walt “talked” to Michael when he was at the computer…even kept the screen from being observed a few times. It sure seems that the Others know a little too much about what it going on in the hatch for their not to be a nanny-cam or something.
If this is the case, the Henry was tipping off his friends about an ambush plan. And they thought he was just being strange(r).
THINK IT, WANT IT, FIND IT
The island appears able to give people what the think about: Walt’s polar bear, Locke’s legs, Charlie’s guitar, etc…so Henry sends a group after a balloon that might not be there…but it IS! Consider this subtle point: Sayid says, “This is where it should be.” He is a good tracker, map reader, etc…folks, it is NOT there. Well, until they think about a balloon.
RAIN
Odd events happen when it rains.
WORKOUT
Too many clues to keep straight, but anyone recall something about the Diary writer being a work-out freak? Was Ana-Lucia the author in Season one? We were getting insights from the Tailies before we knew they were there???? Diary writer wrote, “I had the biggest fire that first night”. Reviews of the Pilot didn’t see one fire outstanding. But maybe they should have been watching “The Other 48 Days”. Hmmm…
Speaking of jogging…Locke said, “running like the devil is behind you” to Ana-L.
Desmond said the same thing!
WIDMORE LABS
Notice the pregnancy test was made by Widmore Labs? As in Widmore Construction…the sign in Charlie’s flashback? Construction makes people think Michael. Another fun idea is that Nadia works at Widmore Labs (Sayid’s girlfriend from Iraq).
HENRY, HENRY, HENRY
Just who is “everyone” as in “everyone has been asking me to make a map”. Huh? Maybe they did, but we didn’t hear it.
Got milk? What’s the computer for? You guys have trust issues? Don’t you guys ask questions? Hmm…seems to be on a strange path for a man who floated in, lost wife, caught in trap, beat by Sayid, and sits in cell reading about killing prophets and loving the martyrs. Very odd and seems to know a little too much!
JIN CAN’T UNDERSTAND A WORD OF ENGLISH
Ok, he figured out Daddy-o and I Love You and a few more…by the way, did Sawyer say “Daddy-o” or “Papa-san”?
In case you are curious the speaking from Jin’s perspective was unique for the show and was actually English…in reverse. Here is the conversation forwards for you English-challenged people:
Bernard: Well, how do you know?
Sawyer: I got my sources
B: Aren’t you going to tell him?
S: Not my place
B: You should tell him.
S: Hell no! Let Sunshine tell him.
Enjoy,
KC
LT16: Connections
DeGROOT
Gerald DeGroot is modeled after David GERROLD. He is the man whose became the youngest writer ever to have a script used on a television show. It was a Star Trek episode called, “The Trouble with Tribbles”. He later created Land of the Lost – that Saturday morning TV show for Sid and Croft.
The “De” in DeGroot comes from the man John DEE. Dr. Lee lived in the late 1500’s and straddled the world of magic and science.
Or maybe, Robert Heinlein, is the source of much of Lost. He is suggested often, and even looks like someone on the island.
Heinlein is famous in the mainstream for Starship Troopers (the book, not the movie). Interested people in this line of thinking should check out his comic book called Teemings…it is about a plan to eliminate way by stealing the other side’s children…hmmm.
MIND MELDS
Another popular theory involves the Losties swapping memories. For example, Sawyer is on TV when Kate visits her real dad on the recruiting station. Then in Sayid’s flashback we see Kate’s father holding a picture of a young Kate. How? Electromagnetic energy which is a scientific theory. In the sci-fi world, the best term to describe this is “grok”. That term was coined by…Robert Heinlein.
Check out Heinlein’s book, “Lost Legacy” as well. Is his term “waldo” the bases for the “Others”?
HURLEY
His real name is Hugo.
Victor Hugo?
Hugo Strange? Who? A Batman bad guy…who conducted experiments on the homeless…did someone say “homeless”? Hmmm…
Hugo – Bart’s alter-ego, yes Bart Simpson’s evil-twin that lives in the attic. Ok, maybe we are pushing this connections thing a little too much, but consider this…the book that Lost is releasing soon is called, Bad Twin. True, Bart’s Twin might have been more convincing. OH, and the author of Bad Twin in Gary Troup; which happens to be an anagram for Purgatory.
Could it be that the meaning we are meant to extract from Lost's collection of confused and confusing details is the confusion itself? Is this frenzied state of theory projection a clue unto itself? Is Lost's second season merely an object lesson in mankind's futile search for truth?
REALITY BLURRED
We think plane crash, but was it? How many planes break up into THREE separate parts? After the initial stress splits the plan in HALF, we should be done.
Consider that bottles in Jack’s pocket didn’t break, he came out of his seat belt, Locke can walk, all needed supplies are present, too many people made it alive…something is not right with this picture.
QUOTES TO LISTEN FOR
Charlie: “You murdered someone.”
Locke: “My hatch.”
DIARY WRITER
If the second season author of the diary supposedly knows Henry Gale, then isn’t our list pretty short:
Jack
Sayid
Ecko
Locke
Hmmm…now one of these might have told someone else…or was Henry seen when Sayid brought him back…Ana was with him at first…did Danielle talk…did Sayid fill Ana in later?
Enjoy,
KC
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
LT15: Children of Lost
Kate – her real dad was absent
Aaron – the father was a flake and disappeared
Aaron – Charlie’s dream indicates Aaron had no father around and needed his protection
Locke – troubles with dad
Walt – is Michael REALLY his dad?
Walt – studying the Cockoo bird in Australia – famous for laying eggs in other bird’s nest
Sun – father pressured her…into having a baby?
Jack – father issues
Shannon – no mother, she died
Boone – no father, raised my mother
Charlie – abusive father…was it his or as mom said, “He is special.” (just like a couple of other children we know!)
Hurley – no father
The evil father theme seems prevalent – meaning Jin and Michael may not be father since “no one else should raise the child”. Hmmm…
BOXES
Someone has researched and identified the boxes on the Nigerian plane – they were marked being from the Bronx. Rose is from the Bronx.
HENRY GALE THEORY
Henry is Kelvin! Henry/Kelvin crashed much earlier then a few weeks ago and was Desmond’s partner in the hatch for a while. Now that he is back and no Desmond around, Henry assumes Desmond was killed! Thus his behavior. He might also not be aware of “Others” then.
WAS THERE A KELVIN
Maybe as recently as the second season! Re-watch the first episode and you will notice:
Bunk Bed – Desmond on top…when you have a choice, you choose the bottom one.
Dishes – Desmond washes dishes and then eats a bit later
Book – book on table is open and on the opposite side of the table and the plates and dishes that Desmond collects…meaning two people were there.
Backgammon – the game is shown with pieces on both sides…Desmond playing two hands or did he have a partner
Many other visual clues are present such as eating…Desmond cleans up a meal only to eat again? Every 108 minutes? I don’t think so. And we know the food supply could last about 2-3 months…meaning the last shipment was about then! Kelvin in the balloon making deliveries…er, I mean Henry.
This also explains how this week Henry can tell Locke something new about the hatch!
Enjoy,
KC
LT14: Theories Getting Lost
The first season Diary Writer on the ABC website has been getting extra attention lately.
THEORY: Henry Gale sends the Three off to prove the balloon and grave…we know from promo picks they find A grave. Henry has his tracks covered either way – good or bad (it IS his wife, or as an Other they have the storyline covered). So, it has to be a female body. Henry’s wife or the female author of the Diary from season one? Recall, that the NEW Diary author is related to Gale (brother).
Henry Gale.
THEORY: He is connected to the Losties in some way. The Diary author, John Locke’s father, Sun’s father, tons of theories.
Red shirts
THEORY: The red shirt speculation is twisting and turning, but still alive. The theories range from “Star Trek red shirt guy dies” to “people in red shirts aren’t really there” to “red shirts are Others”.
OBSERVATIONS
Libby is the only one not with a flashback who is a main character AND has not been checked against the manifest…Look out, Hurley!
In episode 1 (remember that one?), Shannon does her best to translate Danielle’s message. Someone has interpreted the whole message and it mentions the Black Rock, but Shannon didn’t catch it…or anyone else. This is the first official “hidden” message the producers announced.
Hurley’s dream (Cluck-Cluck) included information about Walt (face on the milk carton) that at the time Hurley’s mind had no knowledge of!
Check out this link: http://community.livejournal.com/lostdiscussion/30267.html it shows an animated picture of the dream Charlie had (Aaron in the piano). This shot was available only on HDTV screens…look in the upper left-hand corner over the trees!
DIARY EXCERPTS
God, it’s like the nightmare is starting all over again! You can’t tell me that I survived that week in Louisiana to be thrown back into this again. I told myself, every single day in the hospital that all I had to do was stay alive. Just survive and make it to the trial. And the rest of my life would be perfect – that’s what this trip was supposed to be about!
I had to make sure I saved my dive bag, (can you imagine if that washed up somewhere for somebody to open???)"
"Getting stronger – every day. And when I feel like quitting, all I have to do is remember the consequences of not being prepared."
That guy is really starting to get on my nerves – he won’t give me any more cigarettes. Not for free anyway… Pig.
Other tidbits gleaned: the writer has a fan named Larry, who creeps her out but he “keeps asking me out”. On an island? All this is from season one author. It appears she lost the diary.
Enjoy,
KC
LT13: Lost Thoughts
THE MAGNET WALL
This has the ability via electro-magnetic energy to send out messages – via hallucinations, dreams, etc. It does this because it is trying to resolve conflict. Incidentally, this implies the Others want the opposite…otherwise they wouldn’t keep sending in spies to upset the balance (see Henry Gale…and if he turns out NOT to be an Other, then throw this theory out!).
The pushing the Execute button is what “sends” out these messages every 108 minutes thanks to Desmond when the plane crashes
CONVINCE ME
Locke – About 50 people are convinced they can get up and are alive when the plane finally stops falling. One, Mr. Locke, doesn’t think he can because he is paralyzed. But the machine wants consensus…so the “message” reaches Locke and his falls into the majority (50 to 1 mind power). He gets up and walk. Now do I think the machine can heal? Probably not, but what if Locke could walk all the time and his confidence issues is what cost him. And now look at his confidence…well, until the Others came and shook that up. Machine: good, Others: bad.
Kate – Everyone is feeling pretty good except Kate who has this conflict raging inside her – Jack or Sawyer. The machine tries to give her peace of mind like the majority of survivors (considering the state they are in)…and sends a horse…just like the one that got her out of trouble before.
Everyone – The people on this island are a bit too happy…the computer keeps feeding this “can do” attitudes. But the tailies are not so cheery…in fact, most of the time everyone of them looked scared out of their wits. Consensus building by brain waves! Move the Tailies to the other camp and suddenly even Mr. Ecko smiles and baptizes and chops wood. If he starts whistling next episode, you will have to start believing this.
Charlie – he is a little paranoid to start…mind-altering messages in an altered mind due to drugs. He cleans up, he receives the positive messages and becomes “daddy”. Drugs show up again and he suddenly needs a boost like Kate…enter the dream where he is the hero. His messages tells him to be a hero…opps. Now the majority think, “Charlie is crazy”…machine reinforces with majority rules and Charlie even stands in a daze confused about all this. Everyone, including Locke, thinks Charlie is using again…machine reinforces…Charlie goes “bad” lighting fires and dragging Sun into the woods for revenge to Locke. He is just playing his role.
Claire – consider her last flashback…it started as if it was her real OB/GYN appointment, but then turned into Ethan memory. Just enough real and fake to be either a) a dream or b) very weird show!
Walt – exception to every rule…Mr. Wizard Child here can influence the machine as an individual! While 9 out of 10 Survivors in a poll conducted would say “There are no polar bears on this tropic island.”, Walt’s child-like brain and comic book say, “There could be.” And he is just mentally tough enough to make the machine follow his wishes.
Desmond, Ethan and Danielle – partially influenced. The magnetic wall might have started leaking. Inside, you are safe and keep you normal thoughts, “I’m a scientist on this island.” But these three got out of the influence mid-stream…a little wacky, if you will. They take the serum and the influence stops, but they aren’t the same person. Ethan’s role is basically to stop this by introducing serum to a baby – not influenced yet?
Recall that Ethan irritated their “leader” for breaking protocol twice – the list wasn’t done and what are we going to do with this Charlie fellow? Ethan however was a plant, a traitor to the Others…he wanted Aaron to avoid the machine’s influence…so serum before birth! We also know that Ethan seemed to help Claire a bit too much including getting away.
Danielle tries to help as well, but at a different level obviously.
And let’s not forget Erin…Danielle’s daughter…a baby, but too late…sort of…she resisted as well and tried to help Claire get away.
Hmmm…
SAWYER THEORY
Sawyer has been to the island before and knows something about it the rest of the Survivors don’t.
THE FLASHBACKS
Never happened. At least not in the way we see them or the Survivors remember them. We have plenty of examples…Hurley chicken adventure…Boone dreaming of a drowning woman…Charlie’s piano coffin…and so on. SO, why not throw all of the flashbacks out.
How is this possible, we scream? The machine is overlaying the memories or giving them to the Survivors.
What would this mean? That the numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42 were not the numbers Hurley used to win the lottery…or if he even did win it at all!
The darn hatch is using its consensus machine to influence people’s minds!
THE DAVE EPISODE
Many folks are wondering just who this Dave guy is and why would he get a title of an episode? One theory is that Zeke (bearded Other) is Dave. And Dave is a psychiatrist…who treated Hurley.
Then we have the theory that Sawyer’s real name is Dave/David…but didn’t we hear Sawyer call him James…or was that a last name? However, wasn’t the man Sawyer was going to con named Dave?
Dave is also the name of a so-so movie about the presidency having a duplicate replace the original!
Oh, and it’s the name that HAL says in Space Odyssey 2001.
AUTHOR OF THE ABC DIARY
We have read that the second season author of the diary found the book…well, a few clues in there indicate the author could be…Rose! Keep an eye open for any odd behavior on her part.
Enjoy,
KC
LT12: Where Have I Seen That Face Before?
What if I told you that you had seen Henry Gale PRIOR to being caught up in Danielle’s net? This isn’t a spoiler since we all saw him. It was just difficult to notice him. Here is a picture from the last show, Maternity Leave":
THE DIARY
The official ABC site for Lost has always had a diary link. Someone had always been writing something each week – a survivor. It seems like the author was not a main character, but an observer. Much of the diary has been of little use or information. We know the author was female.
However, we have learned that the first author lost the diary, it was found by someone else (gender unknown) and that person has decided to pick-up where the first author left off. Neat little addition, but mostly useless for clues. Until this week…
…the second author of the diary writes that Henry is their brother! HELLO! Can someone ask Hurley to check the manifest for any Gales onboard?
LILLY AND THE ITCH
Rumors state that Kate, Evangline Lilly for those women viewers!, actually gets a rash from something in Hawaii during filming and that producers have to work it into the script.
We have also hear whispers (not those kind of whispers or we would have to visit a psychiatrist) that a main FEMALE character will be killed off this season! Are these last two sentences related? Or is Ana Lucia’s off screen antics enough to give her the boot? Or does Hurley freak when Libby’s past is revealed and he kills her? Or does Anakin, I’m sorry, Charlie have another bad hair day and takes it out on Sun for real?
MORE GUN RUMORS
Kate doesn’t like the fact that Sawyer conned her and the rest. Payback time. Something like this – Kate already has one gun stashed from earlier. We see in next week that she wants a couple of rifles to help Sun (this is the con). Kate ends up with at least half the weapons. We also see in a promo pic that Charlie has a gun that he is handing over to Sayid in the search for the balloon.
THINGS ARE LOOKING UP
In a promo pic, we see the Three Stooges (Ana, Charlie and Sayid) looking up as they stand over a grave site.
We also saw Ecko and Charlie look up to see a parachute and Boone and Locke look up to see the missionary and Ecko looks up a lot and the tailenders looked up a lot when crossing the island and Charlie looks up to find his guitar.
SARAH
It seems that Jack’s wife just won’t leave people’s minds. The latest rumor is that Sarah was cheating with the ex-boyfriend, named Kevin. I’ve always been confused if Desmond said his hatch-mate was Kevin or Kelvin.
The possibilities are endless.
WIZARD OF OZ
Many rumors are starting about the connection between the movie classic and the Lost show. Ruby slippers, balloons and emerald hallways. But like the movie says in relation to Scarecrow’s wish for a brain, “But what would you do with one anyway?”
Hey, even if they find a balloon it doesn’t mean Henry was on it.
BOTTLE OF MEDICINE
These are the two shots of the medicine…Desmond’s are on the left – no Dharma logo…and the ones on the right are from the Maternity ward in last episode. The other difference is the letters GND after the Rx-1. And don’t miss the UPC numbers: 4-81516-23 42.
DHARMA LOGOS
We have the Swan.
Then the “storage hatch” where the tailenders stayed – sort of an arrow pointing up.
Last week the Medical logo.
But we also have a fourth one. Remember the canteen of sour juice that Ethan gave to Claire? It had a different logo:
Look familiar? It should…this logo was also on the shark!
SIN CITY
A photo is circulating where crew members are attending to a dead body on the Lost set. Some say it is way back in Episode 1 where the man has his legs pinched under the engine that they have to left up. But that seems unlikely with a just a mild comparison to shots. The body in the uncredited photo looks really messed up – some think more like the missionary from Nigeria. The point of this is that the crew member is wearing a hat from the movie “Sin City”. The timing of the movie and the filming of the show don’t jive…meaning we are in for another grizzly discovery!
THE OCTAGONAL BOX
Recognize this? Isn’t amazing how much we miss each episode?
The box shown above is from Wayne’s house. The guy who married Michael’s flame and raised Walt…until she died.
And it also found in Hatch #3, the medical hatch! And in an apartment in Australia from the “Greater Good” episode (season 1).
For real Lost fans…you can buy a darn near version of this at Pier 1 and freak out fellow-Lost fans.
GERONIMO JACKSON
Ok, we know Geronimo was the famous Indian chief who fought during the time of Andrew Jackson. That Geronimo was rumored to never have left footprints. I’m thinking the barefoot people walking through the jungle.
Recall that Locke said Desmond didn’t leave tracks.
Speaking of bad hygiene, we are sorting getting the feeling that the dirty appearance of the Others was a farce. Are we then to think that the legs and feet that Ecko and Jin saw (and they looked like young people) was part of the ‘act’? Come on, send the kids out because we have the freaked out enough that big Ecko won’t decided to jump out and kill five children with his bare hands? Yes, they were frightened, but that seems like a big risk…not for the Others really as much as for that defenseless teddy bear. Remember, we saw that bear being held by two boy-girl from the tailenders crash.
CINDY
Remember that we actually met a character for “decent” amount of time…she climbs out of a ditch last…and suddenly is missing. Rumor a while back said she was going to be seen again, but nothing lately.
THE INTERVIEW OF HENRY GALE
I’m thinking lately…just how in love are these hippy cult other freaks who actually are following the leader’s orders. I mean to a point, fine, but when you stop and put yourself in Ethans, Goodwins and now Henry’s shoes…hey, I think its time to catch the next balloon off this island!
“Ok, Henry…here is what I want you to do. These test subjects of ours need a little more thrill put into them. You get caught, claim you are one of them, and then start to undermine their confidence and team mentality by getting the snot kicked out of you by Sayid. Are you up for that, Henry?” HA!
A while back another rumor was heard that said that Ecko will ask someone else to “interview” Henry for answers. Most assume Ana Lucia and especially since she has the map to the balloon and all. But someone suggested that maybe he talks to Sayid!
Imagine if you are Henry Gale and Sayid and Mr. Ecko decide to interrogate the prisoner together! They are going to have to move this show to cable! HA!
ECKO FLASHBACK
Remember when Ecko is meeting with the drug runners in the cozy bar? He ends up killing them for “Fifty”. Anyway, someone has rewatched the show and clearly the name, “Sayid” is spoken by the drug dealers.
THE TRANSCRIPTS – THE LOST DANIELLE LINE
There are transcripts of already aired Lost shows. Back when Sayid first “met” Danielle, there was a conversation in the script that didn’t making editing…it was this:
Sayid: “What were you [science team] studying?”
Danielle: “Time.”
RED SHIRT THEORY
Wear red and your life could be ending. Interesting theory…I’ve screen snapshots from up coming shows and a lot of people are wearing red shirts including Charlie, Ana Lucia, Kate and Rose. I thought Nathan looked good in red.
HANSO TRIVIA
"Hanso" is Sanskrit for "Swan" and "Alvar" means "He who Masters the World Through the Worship of God".
OLD, BUT NEW TO ME
The producers of LOST, put out a promo commercial for the show in the UK. We didn’t see it here in the USA. This came out BEFORE the show got started in 2005. It’s a big file so here is the link if you want to watch it:
http://homepage.mac.com/mprieve/.Public/lost.mpg
It’s 11 megs in size.
Here is a description of it:
If you're familiar with the show, then it all makes a kind of spooky sense: Jack and Sawyer both dancing with Kate; Jin and Michael dancing with Sun; Boone dancing with an noticeably non-pregnant Claire, and (in one brief shot) interceding between Sayid and Shannon; Hurley lugging his suitcase along the shore; Charlie dancing with himself; and Locke seemingly conducting the whole thing (echoed by young Walt). But they're dressed in anachronistic formal wear and the women have lots of smeary mascara. It's set to a druggy Portishead song, called "Numb": "I'm ever so lost/I can't find my way..."
Odd.
Enjoy,
KC