LT270: Chill Out

THE FRINGE

Have you had a chance to see any of the Fringe? This is JJ Abrams latest show that airs on FOX. The season has ended but you can watch on-line at the FOX network website. I’d give the show 4 stars out of 5. I watched the first couple of episodes and then commented to a friend that it couldn’t be recommended. A few weeks later I happen to mention it and he reminds me that I was going to pass on the Fringe. Guess it sort of grows on you.

Check if out if you are looking for something to watch off-season. At a minimum you will gain some more insight into Abrams approach to things. And Abaddon isn’t dead in that series…yet.

The real reason I bring this show up is that its title made me think of something. Remember how the producers promised that everything on LOST would be based on scientific theory? They warned us that this still included a wide range of topics and that some of the science stuff would be “fringe” science. Thus the connection between the two shows.

So we realize that time travel is fringe science. Yet there is a small group of scientists who would say that it is possible. Of course their reasoning usually includes the fact that “anything is possible”.

Has LOST gotten to liberal with its fringe science? You have to admit that the Time Jumps were bizarre. It was strange how some people jumped and others didn’t. Half the Ajira flight was thrown back 30 years and the half remained in 2000 and whatever.

My biggest complaint is that the time travel produced paradoxes. Again, the producers promised us no paradoxes. Yet here we have Aged Miles peeking in at Baby Miles. Any others have observed that we have three versions of Locke now. So much for promises, huh?

But now I’m reminded of something else…


BEN’S LIES

Ben is full of lies and Mrs. Hawking concurs. But is he really telling lies?

Consider his biggest whopper is “I was born on this island.” If you put that statement under the bright light of scrutiny, is it really a lie?

Could he have meant that he was re-born on the island? What about Richard’s comment that Ben would forget everything prior to his days as a Harry Potter impersonator?

My point is that maybe, just maybe, Ben IS one of the good guys, Michael.

Then this leads me next to this…


PRODUCER’S LIES

It seems the producers lied about time paradoxes. But what, if like Ben, they really didn’t lie?

The simplest way to prove the producers statements as accurate is to get rid of the time travel.

Woah! Hold on here. Get rid of the time travel? Why not?

Stick with me here. If I can offer an alternative explanation to what APPEARS to be time travel, then could we say the producers were being truthful? So let’s give it a try.

And now that leads to the title of this post…


MAN, IT’S COLD IN HERE

What if the show is utilizing cryogenics? Then the only thing dealing with time is the strange way the producers are displaying events with flashbacks and flash forwards.

Another term for cryogenic is suspended animation. That just happened to be the main subject of Episode 1 of the Fringe. Hmm…

Now consider ALL the references to snowmen, polar monitoring stations, Sayid grabbing a handful of ice, etc. And don’t forget the Dharma Wheel Room was freezing cold and requiring a parka for Ben.

Sure the show could continue down the path of turning a giant wheel, or stepping into a magic box, but really? What if the wheel is some giant thermostat that turns the temperature up or down? This in turn could freeze or thaw the Survivors.

Perhaps the best circumstantial evidence I can offer is the Hanso Foundation. That website is what introduced us to Joop and six areas of study. One area was entitled, “The Hanso Cryogenics Development Imperative.”

What if Pierre “Candle” Chang freeze our 1977 guys up and then have someone unthaw the bodies some 30 years down the road? What cold, opps, could, this explain? To begin with it might go a ways to explain why it appears someone isn’t aging – every seen that Mel Gibson movie?


NEED MORE PROOF?

Remember way back in Season 1 who we wondered if the crash of Flight 815 was staged? Some suggested the beverages or the oxygen masks released some knockout gas and then the beach site was arranged. Wouldn’t bringing someone out of suspended animation sort of be the same thing?

Ok, how about the fact that a group of people believed that the soul and body would reunite one day after death. Could this be a crude way for an early civilization to explain suspended animation before the term became commonplace around the Sphinx? Yeah, I’m talking about the Egyptians and there have been plenty of references to these guys.

This is why the Egyptians were very precise on their burial rituals. Mummification is what preserved the body until the soul returned.

And guess who was a major proponent of mummification? Jeremy Bentham. He left detailed instructions on how his body was to be mummified and it still remains on open display in some university…in London!

I’m just saying that this theory is no crazier than someone banging on a hydrogen core with a rock and suddenly certain individuals beam to another star date.

In fact, I would argue this is a lot more plausible than the time jumps which embrace the kind of science which we call….FRINGE.


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LT269: Sneak Peeks

CHARLIE’S BROTHER

It seems that Charlie’s brother, Liam, just may have been giving us a sneak peek when he was seen in a flashback. Check out the image on his t-shirt:

Is that our statue on the island? Perhaps the producers have known and planned all this from the beginning. Or it just happens that one dog head looks like every other dog head.


2010 TEASER

The consensus is that the eye we saw in the teaser for Season 6 belongs to Jack. The implication might be that we will begin the final season where we started…with Jack on his back in the jungle.

Some people are going as far as suggesting it is the exact same shot used in the Pilot episode. However, the teaser shows the eye closing where LOST begins with Jack’s eye opening.

Let the theories begin!


VENDING MACHINE

In the flashback with Jacob and Jack at the hospital, did you notice that the candy next to the Apollo bar was named after one of the producers?

PARAPHRASING JACOB

Since this post is entitled, “Sneak Peeks”…

“Help me, Kate! Help me”

Sorry, it is going to be a long off-season.


NUMBERS GAME

4 8 15 16 23 42

Yeah, we know them, we love them. But what do they represent?

If we use the Bible and the first book of Aaron’s uncle we find this:

Genesis chapter 4 is about birth – Claire giving birth to Aaron

Genesis chapter 8 is about building a boat – Michael and the raft

Genesis 15 and 16 is about Abraham and Sarah being childless – island infertility

Genesis 23 is about Sarah dying and being buried in a cave where later her husband would be buried beside her – Adam and Eve in the cave

Genesis 42 is about Jacob and his sons – ok, we know about Jacob…now what is this about his sons?


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LT268: LOST is Real Life

BREAKING NEWS

Every once in awhile I come across an article that triggers my LOST sensors. Here is one:

Air France passenger jet disappears off radar near island
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/06/01/air.france.brazil/index.html

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LT267: Weaving Connections

BOOKS

Dyanna writes and asks about the books read by Amy and Sawyer. The reason you couldn’t find much is that there isn’t much out there on them. For some odd reason, no one can identify them. Personally that seems odd as the titles spots are shown.

I’ll keep my eyes open as this seems like an interesting challenge to take on. Keep checking back to see if I can learn more.

By the way the episode you are referring to is “Namaste”.


RAMIFICATION OF REANIMATION

Here is a theory floating around: Is it possible John died on Flight 815? Assume that Smokey is the Black Shirt then John could have been possessed immediately. Now the journey of becoming the leader seems less important, but the main idea here is that we have overlooked some critical component.

Are those that heal the ones that are possessed and already reanimated? This would then include Rose. She doesn’t seem as evil as the others we have seen influenced by Smokey (think the French team).

There is the part where John can’t seem to kill his father and has to recruit Sawyer to do the dirty work. And would this mean that Richard is following the Black Shirt and this explains his support of John?

Regardless of when John becomes a part of Smokey it does seem at one point that there are THREE John’s on the island. He is in the coffin, he is becoming the leader and he sees his old self shot in the leg. Isn’t there something about a trinity in the Bible, too?

Speaking of reanimation…what about Jacob coming back to life? He appears to Hurley in 2008 as he leaves the jail and gives him a guitar case. Yet, he died in 2007 in the fire. Hmmm…


WEAVING A TALE

We see Jacob weaving a tapestry shown below:

The interpretation is “May heaven grant you in all things your heart's desire". Of course, there is always some debate with interpretation. Another popular wording is, “May the gods grant thee all that thy heart desires".

The second version is also a quote from the book, “Odyssey”. It happens to be line 180 if those numbers mean anything to you.

It appears that Richard is the benefactor of this blessing as he can live without aging. This then reminds me of Jacob blessing Jin and Sun at their wedding. And let’s not forget that while Sun and Jin have been relegated to secondary roles, that Sun is very unique in that a) her father has been a major player in the Hanso Foundation from the beginning and b) she is the only 815’er who didn’t flash on Ajira.

So why weave a message in Greek? If you follow the timeline from ancient Egypt it leads to Greek civilization and then Latin. It this a clue as to the timeframe when Jacob needs the tapestry to be used? Recall that Ilena is holding a piece of this – that could come into play later.

On a religious angle, we know that the Old Testament was written when Egypt was a major power and had its language. The New Testament is like a mirror image of the Old such as love instead of law. The New also has a message of inclusion of Gentiles versus the exclusive club of the Old. And we note the New was written in the Greek language.


KATE COMING FULL CIRCLE

Where the Jacob flash backs more revealing that first thought? Consider that Kate stole a lunchbox with the theme, “New Kids on the Block”. Then years later she steals a baby, aka “new kid”, aka Aaron.

With LOST being about mirrors and reflection and what not…could Vincent be a clue? GOD…DOG. I’m just saying that a rewatch this summer might be a required activity.


WANT TO MAKE A BET?

Anyone care to make a bet that Charlie returns next season? Consider that Jacob gave Hurley the guitar case. Sun finds the Driveshaft ring. Could the song, “You Are Everybody”, be a tribute to Jacob?

Of course, we can make an argument for Hurley being the “bridge” to Jacob as well as Jack, Claire…ok, just a thought.


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LT266: Taking Another Look at the Incident

DOUBLE VISION

Greg, a faithful reader of TIDBITS, is going to love this one. Check out the three pictures of the feet of the statue.

(Photos are from an external website that I lost the citation for. These are not mine and the credit belongs elsewhere)

It seems as if we may have another one of those prop “adjustments”. I’m going to freak if in the end they tell us to slice the show into two shows like every time it rains, or switches from day to night or every 8 minutes or something. Then watch it make sense in parallel. Now that would be tricky.

POSSIBLE OFF-SEASON GAME

A video showed up on the LOST YouTube channel. It pointed to a Twitter account that includes postings that amount to please to Jacob. One post mentioned that “karma” was involved as Widmore’s company stocks were dropping. But isn’t everyone’s?

I’ll keep you posted if we hear anything more.


SUBTLE HINT

Anyone notice that Bernard offered Juliet tea? Then she held her hand over her stomach. Did that mean she wasn’t hungry or that the baby will be fine? Hmmm…


BLACK ROCK SHIP

Anyone notice that it wasn’t storming when we saw the Black Rock? That counters the painting at the auction. And it counters the idea that a wicked storm blew the ship so far inland.

Jacob appears to have caused the ship to find the island. Were these recruits for Jacob’s purpose? Did they split sides and fight over possession of the island? Is this a microcosm of human’s nature?

Someone said to think Noah’s Ark.


ILENA’S INJURY

Recall that Ilena was in the hospital bed with her face bandaged. Could the surgery have altered her appearance? That means she could be almost anyone prior to the hospital stay. What if the show how that accident happened and we learn Ilena was really someone else. Maybe Nadia?

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LT265: Pieces of the Puzzle

THERE’S NO SMOKE WITHOUT A FIRE

Someone suggested that Christian is Smokey because when Jack was off-island he saw his father’s image in the waiting room of the hospital. This was because he was lured to the lobby to locate the origin of the beeping – a smoke alarm. Why else would the alarm be going off if there wasn’t smoke present? And there was, Smokey Christian Shepherd.


PROP ERRORS OR CLUES

Thanks, Greg for the link of the site that tracks these things. I don’t know if you caught it or not, but the cabin Ilena burned down had the dog painting in it. You probably noticed the ash was a different color than before. But did you notice the picture frame around the dog painting also changed?


FLASH AT THE END

When the season ended it appeared that Juliet set off the bomb (which is impossible the way she did it, but hey, that’s for another conversation). I say “appeared” because we saw the light…bright, white light. Any bets that the people present took another time flash? In other words, no one was disintegrated by the bomb because they were all flashed to another time and place.


DOES THIS PIECE FIT?

Remember when Desmond began his mental flashes? He falls while painting and Penny thinks the red paint is his blood? Check out the picture from that scene:

Look closely and you’ll see a white and black rock on the table. Do we have our Adam and Eve?


DID YOU SEE THIS CLOTH?

In one scene Ilena hands Bram a piece of cloth. Here is a shot of that:




If you notice this is the statue. It also resembles the rug that Jacob was weaving. How did Ilena get it?

I thought just popped into my head. If Widmore can send out multiple resources to locate the island, why couldn’t Hanso? If this show is going to come full circle it would seem the family that was at the start would be at the end. Could Ilena and Company being a Hanso operative?


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