I SEE DEAD PEOPLE
LOST TIDBITS has been exploring a simple line of thought which begins with the tried and true concept of good versus evil. Last post we discussed the shoes and how the color might indicate who is on which team. This deserves a bit more follow-up when time permits or if someone can turn a Frozen Donkey Wheel. I’m mostly interested in the shoes John wears prior to Ajira Flight 315 because we know after that flash he is wearing black shoes.
So the shoes provide reinforcement to the good versus evil storyline. I’m then led to ponder about the people we see on the island – are they dead or alive? And are they good or evil?
There is little doubt that Christian died in a physical sense. The Bible refers to this as “giving up the spirit”. Many religions feel this spirit never dies and it just changes locations…in a place without time. Wow, that sounds like an island I know. It also helps to explain why we don’t see dead people as the producers have stated repeatedly. To put it another way, “Angels aren’t dead”.
And neither are demons.
Combining my thoughts of late then we have Christian as a living angel in white tennis shoes and Locke II (pronounced Locke the Second) in black shoes as our island demon.
Of course not everyone on Mysterious Island is a heavenly being. If our little piece of real estate is odd in any way it is in the way the two planes of existence can co-exist. That might be strange, but again we turn to religious text of various views and most include at least a few stories about humans interacting directly with angels and demons. Dan Brown should write a book about this!
STRING PULLING
So who is calling the shots? Religion again provides us an answer of good or evil, Jesus or Satan, etc. I believe the humans are the pawns in this game with Jacob and Man in Black doing what they can to harvest souls for their side.
In the next TIDBITS we will dive a bit deeper into this aspect. I have a theory that begins to incorporate another LOST theme we have overlooked lately: dogs. There won't be a post this Sunday with the holiday, but we will be back no later than the following Wednesday.
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Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Sunday, August 30, 2009
LT293: Tying Things Together
THE WAR
We have been informed by Ilena, Widmore and others that a war is coming. Season 6 will likely reveal this war.
Over the next few TIDBITS, I’m going to try to tie a few prevalent LOST themes into a prediction of what we will observe in Season 6. Not really a theory, but a fitting together of the pieces we have seen already.
I think we have to begin with the sides…
PICK A SIDE
It is not a reach to suggest that there are two sides in general. You are either with us or against us. This does not mean that we can’t have a few splinter groups, but at the end of the day I suspect we are faced with two choices: good or evil.
I realize “good or evil” brings up connotations of morality, but name one story, one book, one movie that doesn’t deal with this? There is a growing trend towards the view that things are amoral, but I sense this is sort of like the person which chooses not to vote for alternative A or B…they still have voted in a sense.
Let’s avoid the nasty cyclical logic of the lack of any morals, and stick with the premises that we have good and evil as our two choices.
LOST has really been about picking sides.
The writers have done a masterful job of concealing who is on which side. I would propose that Charlie has made the greatest sacrifice for the greatest number of people and yet we first met him as a drug addict. We have changed our opinions on Eko and Sawyer to great degrees. You get the point…the sides are not clear; which is has made the show enjoyable as we attempt to figure it out.
I think there have been hints…
SHOES
Yes, I’ve beaten this drum over the seasons, but they do seem to provide a clue. The obvious is this one…
When Jack first “sees” Christian he is dressed in his suit and wearing white tennis shoes. I suggest that this tells us that Christian is on the Good Side.
We then later notice John is wearing Christian’s black shoes aboard Ajira Flight 316 (also in a coffin). This suggests that Locke is on the Evil Side.
If we took the sum of comments about shoes, it would be reasonable to say that footwear is getting above average air time. I’m reminded of when Mr. Friendly has a few Survivors surrounded by the ring of fire and comments about, “Would a man enter another man’s house without taking his shoes off?” Tell me that strike you as a little out of place. It is true that in some cultures, the shoe-wearing in a home is sort of a big deal, but come on! And even if it a reference to other cultures, the point is still made: showing respect by removing your shoes.
My point is that shoes have been spotlighted in the opening scene with Jack running to the beach. A main character, John Locke, is shown with his shoes next to his now functioning toes. Kate is observed pulling the shoes off a dead body. On and on and on we have been “told” by the writers that shoes are important. I merely propose that they tell which side the wearer is on.
NEXT ON TIDBITS
The fact that both Christian and Locke were in coffins wearing either white or black shoes is interesting. It leads us to consider why we see dead people on this island.
That is next post where it will lead us to Jacob and Black Shirt Man, for they are the leaders of the two Sides.
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We have been informed by Ilena, Widmore and others that a war is coming. Season 6 will likely reveal this war.
Over the next few TIDBITS, I’m going to try to tie a few prevalent LOST themes into a prediction of what we will observe in Season 6. Not really a theory, but a fitting together of the pieces we have seen already.
I think we have to begin with the sides…
PICK A SIDE
It is not a reach to suggest that there are two sides in general. You are either with us or against us. This does not mean that we can’t have a few splinter groups, but at the end of the day I suspect we are faced with two choices: good or evil.
I realize “good or evil” brings up connotations of morality, but name one story, one book, one movie that doesn’t deal with this? There is a growing trend towards the view that things are amoral, but I sense this is sort of like the person which chooses not to vote for alternative A or B…they still have voted in a sense.
Let’s avoid the nasty cyclical logic of the lack of any morals, and stick with the premises that we have good and evil as our two choices.
LOST has really been about picking sides.
The writers have done a masterful job of concealing who is on which side. I would propose that Charlie has made the greatest sacrifice for the greatest number of people and yet we first met him as a drug addict. We have changed our opinions on Eko and Sawyer to great degrees. You get the point…the sides are not clear; which is has made the show enjoyable as we attempt to figure it out.
I think there have been hints…
SHOES
Yes, I’ve beaten this drum over the seasons, but they do seem to provide a clue. The obvious is this one…
When Jack first “sees” Christian he is dressed in his suit and wearing white tennis shoes. I suggest that this tells us that Christian is on the Good Side.
We then later notice John is wearing Christian’s black shoes aboard Ajira Flight 316 (also in a coffin). This suggests that Locke is on the Evil Side.
If we took the sum of comments about shoes, it would be reasonable to say that footwear is getting above average air time. I’m reminded of when Mr. Friendly has a few Survivors surrounded by the ring of fire and comments about, “Would a man enter another man’s house without taking his shoes off?” Tell me that strike you as a little out of place. It is true that in some cultures, the shoe-wearing in a home is sort of a big deal, but come on! And even if it a reference to other cultures, the point is still made: showing respect by removing your shoes.
My point is that shoes have been spotlighted in the opening scene with Jack running to the beach. A main character, John Locke, is shown with his shoes next to his now functioning toes. Kate is observed pulling the shoes off a dead body. On and on and on we have been “told” by the writers that shoes are important. I merely propose that they tell which side the wearer is on.
NEXT ON TIDBITS
The fact that both Christian and Locke were in coffins wearing either white or black shoes is interesting. It leads us to consider why we see dead people on this island.
That is next post where it will lead us to Jacob and Black Shirt Man, for they are the leaders of the two Sides.
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
LT292: Island of Misfits
JOHN IN A BOX
I’ll admit up front that this isn’t thought completely through so here are some loose thoughts…
Isn’t it supposed to be “Jack in a Box”?
Wasn’t there a toy stuck on an island of misfits called “Charlie in a Box”?
So we have John in a box while another John is walking around. How in the world did the Dead John get into the metal box?
Isn’t it supposed to be Dear John instead?
Would this make the new group and keepers of the metal box sort of like timeline protectors as much as Ben and Mrs. Hawking think they are timeline protectors?
Did the flash on Ajira Flight 316 cause a “split” from Dead John to Walking John?
I believe that the John in a Coffin had to be the Walking John, because how (and why) else would Ilena and her group move John from a coffin to a metal box? Does this mean the metal box was on board the plane? Would that be a flashback and a half to see two bodies of John being wheeled into the cargo bay?
Like I said…loose thoughts…
PROMO SEASON 6 VIDEO
This video is circulating and I’m not sure what to make of it. Check it out here:
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid6555681001?bctid=30721316001
First, it is very interesting from the perspective of how everyone looks at each other while first boarding Oceanic Flight 815 (man, have we come a long way or what?).
Second, the idea of another plane crash is intriguing.
Third, unsupported rumors are that this video was shown at Comic Con at the LOST panel.
Fourth, the final seconds of footage is actually from the movie, “Knowing”.
For now, it best to view this with a lot of doubt.
REWINDING THE TAPE
Remember when Boone was going to die from his fall from the Beechcraft airplane? At the time Jack was asking everyone for blood donations to do the transfusions on Boone. I’m re-watching some old episodes and this fact jumps out at me differently then when I first saw it.
In a few seasons Kate is going to offer her blood in a transfusion to save young Ben because as she states it, “I’m a universal donor”.
So where was this helpful attitude when Boone was dying? Maybe Kate wanted or needed Boone to die and kept quiet. Hmmm…
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Well, this got me thinking about other characters and how their words and actions might take on a different meaning knowing what we know now. I’m starting on Danielle because there are tons of changes with her now that we know her flashbacks. For example, did she really light the fire to cause the black smoke? There was no black smoke when Alex was taken as she claimed.
You get the idea…I’ll share more as these oddities jump out at me.
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I’ll admit up front that this isn’t thought completely through so here are some loose thoughts…
Isn’t it supposed to be “Jack in a Box”?
Wasn’t there a toy stuck on an island of misfits called “Charlie in a Box”?
So we have John in a box while another John is walking around. How in the world did the Dead John get into the metal box?
Isn’t it supposed to be Dear John instead?
Would this make the new group and keepers of the metal box sort of like timeline protectors as much as Ben and Mrs. Hawking think they are timeline protectors?
Did the flash on Ajira Flight 316 cause a “split” from Dead John to Walking John?
I believe that the John in a Coffin had to be the Walking John, because how (and why) else would Ilena and her group move John from a coffin to a metal box? Does this mean the metal box was on board the plane? Would that be a flashback and a half to see two bodies of John being wheeled into the cargo bay?
Like I said…loose thoughts…
PROMO SEASON 6 VIDEO
This video is circulating and I’m not sure what to make of it. Check it out here:
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid6555681001?bctid=30721316001
First, it is very interesting from the perspective of how everyone looks at each other while first boarding Oceanic Flight 815 (man, have we come a long way or what?).
Second, the idea of another plane crash is intriguing.
Third, unsupported rumors are that this video was shown at Comic Con at the LOST panel.
Fourth, the final seconds of footage is actually from the movie, “Knowing”.
For now, it best to view this with a lot of doubt.
REWINDING THE TAPE
Remember when Boone was going to die from his fall from the Beechcraft airplane? At the time Jack was asking everyone for blood donations to do the transfusions on Boone. I’m re-watching some old episodes and this fact jumps out at me differently then when I first saw it.
In a few seasons Kate is going to offer her blood in a transfusion to save young Ben because as she states it, “I’m a universal donor”.
So where was this helpful attitude when Boone was dying? Maybe Kate wanted or needed Boone to die and kept quiet. Hmmm…
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Well, this got me thinking about other characters and how their words and actions might take on a different meaning knowing what we know now. I’m starting on Danielle because there are tons of changes with her now that we know her flashbacks. For example, did she really light the fire to cause the black smoke? There was no black smoke when Alex was taken as she claimed.
You get the idea…I’ll share more as these oddities jump out at me.
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Enjoy,
KC
Sunday, August 23, 2009
LT291: Lost Footage…Now Found
THE DOCUMENTARY
ABC was doing some cleaning up in their video vault when they discovered a handful of episodes of an old documentary. The subject of the documentary was the Dharma Initiative Group. It seems the documentary was never aired for various reasons.
ABC will air the four episodes on-line at :http://beta.abc.go.com/shows/lost/lost-mysteries Each part will be released about a month apart.
The show’s official title is, “Mysteries of the Universe: The Dharma Initiative”.
MYSTERIES OF THE UNIVERSE – EPISODE 2
A college student near Las Vegas is making plans to attend a costume party in 1978. He goes to a thrift store and picks out a jumpsuit so he can be a janitor. The only thing outstanding about the jumpsuit is that it contains a non-descript Dharma patch. He is photographed in costume at the party which in turn shows up in local newspapers. A few days later, two men appear and question the student.
Nevada is known as a hotbed of extraterrestrial activities. It is the host of the famed Area 51. The military members of Area 51 are known to where similar jumpsuits of various colors denoting their rank. It seems commonplace for staff at the installation to be called away for extended periods of time.
Could Area 51 be linked to this Dharma Group? A Nevada man claims his neighbor, known only as “Phil”, was interviewing for a job out in Michigan with the Dharma Initiative and then suddenly went missing.
Research by the documenter reveals similar missing stories involving the Dharma Initiative can be found in the Portland, Oregon area. Parents of a school teacher named Olivia said their daughter also went through several interviews and strange tests for the Dharma Initiative then one day she just vanished. The parents have never heard from her since.
Olivia’s parents had kept copies of some of the paperwork related to the job interview. On it were question like these:
-- What three words describe you?
-- What animal do you indentify with?
-- Describe your first kiss in three words?
-- Who is your constant?
-- What would you sacrifice to stay alive?
-- What makes you cry?
-- You just stole a sick child’s toy. Why?
What type of organization would use interview techniques often reserved for psychological tests for the criminally insane? Why the secrecy?
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The next episode will be aired on September 8.
I enjoyed the expose on the Dharma Initiative for if you recall, their original purpose and mission is probably nothing like what we found in 2004. It never occurred to me to label the Dharma Group as a “secret society”, but it does fit…maybe even the word cult should be used?
LOST TIDBITS will keep you posted of future episodes.
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Enjoy,
KC
ABC was doing some cleaning up in their video vault when they discovered a handful of episodes of an old documentary. The subject of the documentary was the Dharma Initiative Group. It seems the documentary was never aired for various reasons.
ABC will air the four episodes on-line at :http://beta.abc.go.com/shows/lost/lost-mysteries Each part will be released about a month apart.
The show’s official title is, “Mysteries of the Universe: The Dharma Initiative”.
MYSTERIES OF THE UNIVERSE – EPISODE 2
A college student near Las Vegas is making plans to attend a costume party in 1978. He goes to a thrift store and picks out a jumpsuit so he can be a janitor. The only thing outstanding about the jumpsuit is that it contains a non-descript Dharma patch. He is photographed in costume at the party which in turn shows up in local newspapers. A few days later, two men appear and question the student.
Nevada is known as a hotbed of extraterrestrial activities. It is the host of the famed Area 51. The military members of Area 51 are known to where similar jumpsuits of various colors denoting their rank. It seems commonplace for staff at the installation to be called away for extended periods of time.
Could Area 51 be linked to this Dharma Group? A Nevada man claims his neighbor, known only as “Phil”, was interviewing for a job out in Michigan with the Dharma Initiative and then suddenly went missing.
Research by the documenter reveals similar missing stories involving the Dharma Initiative can be found in the Portland, Oregon area. Parents of a school teacher named Olivia said their daughter also went through several interviews and strange tests for the Dharma Initiative then one day she just vanished. The parents have never heard from her since.
Olivia’s parents had kept copies of some of the paperwork related to the job interview. On it were question like these:
-- What three words describe you?
-- What animal do you indentify with?
-- Describe your first kiss in three words?
-- Who is your constant?
-- What would you sacrifice to stay alive?
-- What makes you cry?
-- You just stole a sick child’s toy. Why?
What type of organization would use interview techniques often reserved for psychological tests for the criminally insane? Why the secrecy?
**
The next episode will be aired on September 8.
I enjoyed the expose on the Dharma Initiative for if you recall, their original purpose and mission is probably nothing like what we found in 2004. It never occurred to me to label the Dharma Group as a “secret society”, but it does fit…maybe even the word cult should be used?
LOST TIDBITS will keep you posted of future episodes.
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Thanks!
Enjoy,
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009
LT290: Course Work
MY COURSES
If you read TIDBITS faithfully then you know two things about me. First, I’m taking college classes. Second, I see LOST in everything…mostly because I’m looking for it.
I just finished a couple of Astronomy courses and someone said something that made me say, “Hmmm…”. What if LOST was about some mission to Mars?
If we wanted clues we have plenty of them beginning with star names like Apollo. The Egyptians called Mars, “Horus the Red”. It is the FOURTH planet from the Sun.
There is a crater on Mars known as the Galle Crater whose nickname is the “Smiley Face Crater”. On the real Henry Gale’s balloon we observed a large smiley face.
I also learned that there are several types of time – solar, sidereal, and um, well others! The time discrepancy we see on the show might be related to WHERE in the universe the island is positioned.
All the planets have orbits that perform a type of dance with each other where at only certain times can certain things happen – like a window of opportunity. Mars has opposition to Earth once every 23 months, for example.
Am I reading too much into my coursework or just maybe…
THANKS FOR THE EMAIL
Got a nice email from a TIDBITS reader who also happens to be running a website regarding my second favorite thing in the world: sports! If you are looking for professional jerseys from NFL, NHL, NBA, & MLB teams, then this Throw Back Guy is your guy. You can buy jerseys at cheap clearance prices and get up to 40% off retail jersey prices.
LOST fan, sports fan, and frugal – why can’t Throw Back Guy be a woman? HA! Check out their website here: http://www.throwbackguy.com
MORE OPTIONS FOR READERS
We are gearing up for the big finale! LOST TIDBITS is now listed on Feedmil.com where you can get RSS and news feeds for popular websites that you enjoy. Just go to www.feedmil.com and search on “LOST TIDBITS” and then click the “subscribe” button.
You can get the RSS feed by clicking the icon and get notified when the content updates on this blog.
You can also become a follower as dozens of other readers have done.
The choice is yours – don’t miss a single post!
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If you read TIDBITS faithfully then you know two things about me. First, I’m taking college classes. Second, I see LOST in everything…mostly because I’m looking for it.
I just finished a couple of Astronomy courses and someone said something that made me say, “Hmmm…”. What if LOST was about some mission to Mars?
If we wanted clues we have plenty of them beginning with star names like Apollo. The Egyptians called Mars, “Horus the Red”. It is the FOURTH planet from the Sun.
There is a crater on Mars known as the Galle Crater whose nickname is the “Smiley Face Crater”. On the real Henry Gale’s balloon we observed a large smiley face.
I also learned that there are several types of time – solar, sidereal, and um, well others! The time discrepancy we see on the show might be related to WHERE in the universe the island is positioned.
All the planets have orbits that perform a type of dance with each other where at only certain times can certain things happen – like a window of opportunity. Mars has opposition to Earth once every 23 months, for example.
Am I reading too much into my coursework or just maybe…
THANKS FOR THE EMAIL
Got a nice email from a TIDBITS reader who also happens to be running a website regarding my second favorite thing in the world: sports! If you are looking for professional jerseys from NFL, NHL, NBA, & MLB teams, then this Throw Back Guy is your guy. You can buy jerseys at cheap clearance prices and get up to 40% off retail jersey prices.
LOST fan, sports fan, and frugal – why can’t Throw Back Guy be a woman? HA! Check out their website here: http://www.throwbackguy.com
MORE OPTIONS FOR READERS
We are gearing up for the big finale! LOST TIDBITS is now listed on Feedmil.com where you can get RSS and news feeds for popular websites that you enjoy. Just go to www.feedmil.com and search on “LOST TIDBITS” and then click the “subscribe” button.
You can get the RSS feed by clicking the icon and get notified when the content updates on this blog.
You can also become a follower as dozens of other readers have done.
The choice is yours – don’t miss a single post!
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Enjoy,
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Sunday, August 16, 2009
LT289: Some Real Clues...or Not?
SEASON SIX PROMO
Here is a promo picture for Season 6:
Sort of clouded in mystery, huh? If you’ve been reading my posts lately then you know there is some emphasis being placed on the numbers 15 and 16. This emphasis comes from the summer game involving those unauthorized paintings.
The poster could be a hint, so look at the 15th and 16th persons. It appears Number 15 is Sayid, but I can’t make out the 16th person in that row – looks female to me.
As TIDBITS is known to do, we kept digging and found this image instead:
Ah, Number 16 is Libby. Wait, Libby?!!
And there’s Michael and Mr. Eko and the whole gang. How can we not pull some theories out of this single image? If everyone is back, then can you “square one”? Loop, dude, loop.
SIDE NOTE: In an interview ages ago, the producers mentioned that 23 was the key number. I’ve seen little supporting evidence of that since, but it has never left my mind and deserves mention. In Season 5 we could argue that 16 was prominent (Flight 316), so maybe they changed their minds, but felt the 23 spotlight shouldn’t be forgotten.
COMPUTER THEORY
Faithful readers will know about my Computer Theory floated a few months ago. It sort of lost (ha) steam when Season 5 started pushing the time jumps because of the Frozen Dharma Wheel.
But with the new promo picture above, I have to at least throw the idea that computer programs are full of loop procedures. Do While…Do Until…For/Next…you get the idea.
It seems with Season 6 teasers we are going to go back to the beginning where everyone is present and accounted for. Maybe the looping is time-oriented, but I have to point out that the producers have also stated that the time stuff was basically over in Season 5. Hmm….
So if time looping is done for, then I wish to revisit computer looping. Most computer program loops are for a) a certain number of iterations or b) until a certain condition is met. I’m leaning towards option B.
I’m working on some ideas that will be presented in future posts, so for now let me just throw out a series of words to consider: computers, eye, and microchip. HA!
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Here is a promo picture for Season 6:
Sort of clouded in mystery, huh? If you’ve been reading my posts lately then you know there is some emphasis being placed on the numbers 15 and 16. This emphasis comes from the summer game involving those unauthorized paintings.The poster could be a hint, so look at the 15th and 16th persons. It appears Number 15 is Sayid, but I can’t make out the 16th person in that row – looks female to me.
As TIDBITS is known to do, we kept digging and found this image instead:
Ah, Number 16 is Libby. Wait, Libby?!!And there’s Michael and Mr. Eko and the whole gang. How can we not pull some theories out of this single image? If everyone is back, then can you “square one”? Loop, dude, loop.
SIDE NOTE: In an interview ages ago, the producers mentioned that 23 was the key number. I’ve seen little supporting evidence of that since, but it has never left my mind and deserves mention. In Season 5 we could argue that 16 was prominent (Flight 316), so maybe they changed their minds, but felt the 23 spotlight shouldn’t be forgotten.
COMPUTER THEORY
Faithful readers will know about my Computer Theory floated a few months ago. It sort of lost (ha) steam when Season 5 started pushing the time jumps because of the Frozen Dharma Wheel.
But with the new promo picture above, I have to at least throw the idea that computer programs are full of loop procedures. Do While…Do Until…For/Next…you get the idea.
It seems with Season 6 teasers we are going to go back to the beginning where everyone is present and accounted for. Maybe the looping is time-oriented, but I have to point out that the producers have also stated that the time stuff was basically over in Season 5. Hmm….
So if time looping is done for, then I wish to revisit computer looping. Most computer program loops are for a) a certain number of iterations or b) until a certain condition is met. I’m leaning towards option B.
I’m working on some ideas that will be presented in future posts, so for now let me just throw out a series of words to consider: computers, eye, and microchip. HA!
**
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Enjoy,
KC
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