tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10763651424933200262024-03-05T10:55:38.919-06:00The Locke-Down Planfor the calendaring of LOST seasons 1-5, and for the present discussion of season 6Becklectichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10778593662608486033noreply@blogger.comBlogger113125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1076365142493320026.post-90322146293672804022010-05-28T16:20:00.001-06:002010-05-28T16:20:29.726-06:00COLIN'S IN A COMMERCIAL!<object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/oAxxv8JmI5c&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/oAxxv8JmI5c&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object>Becklectichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10778593662608486033noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1076365142493320026.post-51100456214230121182010-05-24T23:01:00.027-06:002010-05-25T22:44:15.976-06:00My Post Finale Hater Post<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghxRFP13XD5mhJykz0qNwYyvFBM0Vb92qbI1keDKHfikrOv4KMEa1p7AcqWbXX-bz2J_k8wj31T-4Ghg78BskzKDnI2fg01L112SBH-SdgILbWULPImXnd3Ha2G4aaiSgzsBm6EAKzgZH7/s1600/lost-finale.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghxRFP13XD5mhJykz0qNwYyvFBM0Vb92qbI1keDKHfikrOv4KMEa1p7AcqWbXX-bz2J_k8wj31T-4Ghg78BskzKDnI2fg01L112SBH-SdgILbWULPImXnd3Ha2G4aaiSgzsBm6EAKzgZH7/s400/lost-finale.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5475303575572905186" /></a><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Although I supposed I really did like a lot of </span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Lost</span></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">'s final episode (the Sawyer/Juliet reunion, Jack's act breaking, jumping punch on the cliffs), and while I still think <i>Lost</i> is the Best. Show. Ever. (see: "Through the Looking Glass") After a couple days, I'm not sure if I'll ever be able to get over the completely bizarre, abrupt and disappointing "flash" universe revelation and the now canonized ultimate fate of our Losties.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">
<br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">I'll start with my awakening: There's a</span> </span></span><a href="http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/05/lost_finale_proves_never_trust.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;">short piece in nymag</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"> </span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">that details the vehement denials of the creators of the show regarding the theory that the island is "purgatory," or "limbo" or whatever.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">
<br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">The fact that this "classic"</span> </span></span><a href="http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/05/the_ten_greatest_debunked_lost.html#photo=1x48222"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;">purgatory theory</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">was so concretely denied by both J.J. Abrams and Damon Lindelof and then for it to be so integral for at least </span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">half of the </span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">final</span></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> season</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">,</span></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">I kind of find it hard to ignore. I would like to view what Doc Jensen called "the Church Bus to Heaven" as merely a lame conclusion to a disappointing season. But I'm getting the sneaking suspicion I might have been had. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">
<br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">And it's not like the build-up to a conclusion of the Sideways world is just important to me. Lindelof himself earlier this year said that this "flash" universe was </span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">so</span></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> important it's explanation is "</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">the only answer we owe." I'll just write out the full context of this quote since it's so damning (hee hee), and I don't want it to seem like I'm being mean. PS. This message was </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">broadcast directly to us fans via nerd publication</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/04/ff_lost/8/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;">Wired Magazine</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">:</span></span></span></div><meta charset="utf-8"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">
<br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Lindelof </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">(emphasis added)</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">: </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> It’s not just what would have happened if the plane landed; now Jack has a son and there are these changes. The audience is saying, “I hope they explain the relationship between these two stories,” and that, to us, is </span></span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">the only answer we owe.</span></span></span></b></span></div><meta charset="utf-8"><meta charset="utf-8"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">
<br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">And then, they went with Purgatory for that answer. So, in addition to not really answering and/or getting back to a lot of</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> stuff</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> once </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">seemingly so </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">important (see ANY of Becky's</span> </span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/pre-finale%20hopes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;">pre-finale hopes</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">), the Flash-Sidewayses (Christ, I can't believe I'm still calling them that!) ended up being a big ole bowl of nothing.</span></span></span></div><meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">
<br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Here are some new questions: </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">What did the thin on-island events of the finale, OR THE SERIES AS A WHOLE, really have to do with the Purgatoryverse? How long had Jack been in limbo for since he explicitly died before Kate? Why did this collective mind-meld invent a son for Dr. Jack? Why was only Jack showing <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">wounds from his death? Why did Sayid need to kill fake</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family:arial;"><span style=" ;font-family:Georgia;color:black;"><s><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Keamy</span></span></s><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> Mikhail</span> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">in limbo to get to go to heaven with Shannon? Why was someone like Bernard still a dentist but Sa</span>wyer was now a semi-happy cop? Why was Penny at the damn church? Had she ever even met half these people?! All of these question now appear so silly, I can't help but feel kind of embarrassed even asking them in light of what they chose to go with.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">
<br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">It would have been nice to wrap up the show's last season in a more tangible way, with stuff related to what we've</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> actually</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> been been following for years. Not some last minute vision, and final season invention, of something so completely distant, so unrelatable and so</span> </span></span><a href="http://watching-tv.ew.com/2010/05/24/lost-series-finale-review/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;">on the nose</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> religious it feels like it's from a different plane of storytelling and not really about a magical island in </span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">this</span></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> world.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">
<br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">(I should of course also say: if this isn't the case for you, and everything clicked when that white light came pouring into the church,</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> I'm glad it all came together in your eyes. Or if the show was still worth all the trouble even with a lame finale, that's totally cool too.)</span></span></span></div><meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8"><meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">
<br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">But there still seems to be two points here. 1) This was <i>Lost</i>'s big finale and they went with the one theory they had explicitly said they weren't doing all along. And 2) Why? </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">At the expense of rushing the island storyline along (which consisted almost entirely of "cork gets taken out of a plug, cork gets put into a plug,") and leaving out what were some of the real questions posed earlier by the authors of the show,</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> it feels like either: A) Darlton decided to be like, self referential or something or B) these whole six seasons were kind of just</span> </span></span><a href="http://io9.com/5545911/lost-was-the-ultimate-long-con"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;">a long con</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">
<br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">The part that original nymag piece that really shocked me into this sad post came when the author, who is surprising </span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">not</span></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> Emily Nussbaum, posits a post-finale question posed by fans. "'W</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 19px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">hy didn't Darlton care at all about the show's mythology?!'" To me, that really drove home that this is the end. And in the end, the show's creators and authors decided to not give us longtime </span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Lost</span></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> apologists much to defend the show with. And, most depressingly of all, I don't get to watch another episode next week.</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">
<br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">So there you have it. I hope you aren't infected by my darkness too much after reading this. Then again, part of what made <i>Lost</i> sincerely worth all this time was t</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">rying to make sense of this crazy world with wonderful, smart, terrific people like you all. I hope one day we all get to sit in pews and and bathe in white light together. So I can't wait to hear what everyone else thought. Re-watch soon?</span></span></span></div><meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8"><meta charset="utf-8"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">
<br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Namaste and Good Luck!</span></span></span></div><meta charset="utf-8">Zachary Isaachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01316511521912434386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1076365142493320026.post-27971118354487347652010-05-23T16:37:00.002-06:002010-05-23T17:28:14.761-06:00It's Here.I remember my first encounter with <span style="font-style: italic;">Lost</span>: I walked into a room where my mom was watching this new plane crash show, the one that made me repeatedly say "I'll just stick to Gilligan, thanks" whenever anyone mentioned it. It was a scene from the episode I now recognize as "Hearts & Minds" - the scene in which Boone and Shannon are running from the smoke monster big time. How could I have known six years ago that this show would be the center of most of my thoughts? How could I have guessed that I would've co-created a theme blog for it? How could I forget how hokey I thought Smokey was? Six years of hard work, I guess. Hard work watching the craziest show on tv.<br /><br />Tonight <span style="font-style: italic;">Lost</span> ends in a two and a half hour episode called "The End." Jack, Kate, Hurley, and Sawyer are left, plus Ben, Miles, and Smokey. I'm assuming Jacob's ashes will have blown out by 9pm tonight. There's a possibility Widmore isn't all the way dead. And don't forget about Desmond!<br /><br />I have hopes for tonight, but if none of them are met, I think I'll still enjoy the evening. No matter what questions remain unanswered, this trip was better than Gilligan to me.<br /><br />That said, my hopes include:<br /><ul><li>Eloise Hawking's designs and the source of her omniscience will come to light due to her actions tonight.</li><li>Widmore's secret to Smokey is revealed.</li><li>There's something special about Aaron.</li><li>Any mention of Walt, hopefully, but I know Walt's not really in this anymore.</li><li>Rose & Bernard save the day.<br /></li><li>The Hansos are explained just a litttttttle bit more.<br /></li><li>They go over the no-babies thing one more time.</li><li>Desmond does lots of cool stuff.</li><li>A whole new gang gets lost and it starts all over again!<br /></li></ul>Becklectichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10778593662608486033noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1076365142493320026.post-45142027821629616192010-05-20T10:53:00.001-06:002010-05-20T10:53:47.307-06:00Oh, KG<object width="400" height="225"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=11851275&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1"><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=11851275&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="225"></embed></object><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/11851275">'Lost' audio: Garnett explains the island to 'Big Baby'</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/thejones">The Basketball Jones</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>Colinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05710178310662783395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1076365142493320026.post-60072644936499541892010-05-12T08:01:00.000-06:002010-05-12T14:09:56.472-06:00a thousand questions from beckyA Thousand New Questions, by Becky<br /><br />Since last night's "Across The Sea" gave us a long look at Jacob and MIB's childhood, I have no reason to complain about still having questions. We were provided with a few answers, such as: J&MIB are twin brothers, MIB perhaps never got a name (and is thus more of an archetype, perhaps), Jacob took on his Mother's role of protecting the golden-light-pool-which-contains-the-stuff-that's-in-everyone's-soul, and what we see as Smokey most likely got released because Jacob threw MIB into that very same pool. Going off of that, I still have infinity questions, and I thought it might be useful to put them out here. This way you can add to it or provide your answers or theories in the comments section, and at the end of it all, we can look at (a) which questions get answered, (b) which will only get hinted at, and (c) which we will simply have to explain by ourselves. Here it comes!<br /><ol><li>If Mother came from her own mother, I think we can assume that she took over Island Guardianship from her own mother. Who was the first person to take on that post? How did that person first find out what the golden light pool was?</li><li>Does the golden light pool become the building site for the Temple? If so, why doesn't the Temple water have a similar effect as MIB's adventure in the golden pool? Does Sayid's transformation hint at what MIB's golden pool did?<br /></li><li>Is Smokey something very, very ancient that was released when MIB was thrown into the golden pool, or did MIB become Smokey when he was thrown in? And WHAT IS SMOKEY? All those mechanical clicks and all that puffy black smoke...what makes Smokey take on these characteristics?</li><li>What would ACTUALLY happen if Smokey made it off the Island? I feel like we're still hearing half-truths on that topic. I'd like to know what would actually happen. Would Smokey take over everyone's corpse-copies and pilfered memories? <br /></li><li>Has anyone ever used the golden pool for his own horrible devices? Why weren't the consequences as bad as what might happen if Smokey gets off the Island? I ask because to me it looks like there's no particular evidence that something bad happened because the golden pool was tapped into. Is the endgame protecting the golden pool, or keeping Smokey on the Island?<br /></li><li>How and why can Jacob get off the Island? And why can't MIB do it the same way?</li><li>How and why and what The Donkey Wheel?<br /></li><li>How and why can Jacob see things through his lighthouse mirrors?</li><li>How can it be that a concentration of golden poolwater on the Island is connected to the teensy bits of golden poolwater within all of us who walk the Earth? To ask what the water is would be too open-ended, I think. So I'd like to know more about how people know what they know about it. Basically, what does Mother know that she's hiding from us?</li><li>Has anyone ever released Smokey through the golden pool before? If not, how did Mother come to collect information on how dangerous it is to enter the pool?</li><li>MIB mentioned that he was "special." What makes him say that? If he is special, is it that he's innately special? Was his father someone interesting? Is he special because he has the ability to lie? Doesn't everyone (minus Jacob)? </li><li>Why is Mother so thrilled by MIB's ability to lie when she goes on to condemn his fellow villagers for lying (and fighting, and destroying, and corrupting, and it all always ending the same)? </li><li>Why did Jacob stay the same age for so long?</li><li>What gave Mother the rule-making ability to keep Jacob and MIB from ever hurting each other? Why then could Jacob throw MIB into the golden pool and either (a) kill him or (b) make him suffer a fate worse than death? Aren't fates worse than death also "hurtful?"</li><li>Why could Sawyer see the young boy who appeared to Smokey in the woods? I think the actor who played Child Jacob is clearly the same actor who did both apparitions, but let me check out lostpedia...ah, inconclusive. <br /></li><li>Did Smokey originate when Jacob threw MIB into that golden pool, or did the event just release the Smokey that was already down there? Can't Smokey take on people's memories (because if he can copy their corpses, I guess he can copy their memories?)? We know that MIB's body was left unburied, so it's hard to say that MIB definitely <span style="font-style: italic;">became </span>Smokey just because he appears as MIB. And yet Mother said that to go into that golden pool would be worse than death. Is being Smokey necessarily MIB's "fate worse than death?" Or could there be something else going on?</li><li>Why does everyone sound so unnatural speaking Latin?</li><li>What makes Boy Jacob different from BIB? Why could one lie and one not?</li></ol>Please give me your answers or theories or whatever else in the comment section (or in your own posts, locke-down planners). I don't want to just nitpick a show that I love, particularly while I'm try to watch for character, story, mythology, and entertainment at the same time. I'm frustrated because, although I was entertained last night, I didn't understand any more of Lost's characters, story, or origin mythology. Lying leads to violence - DUH! We knew that when Sawyer got bamboo up his nails in season 1!Becklectichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10778593662608486033noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1076365142493320026.post-8923510336655174652010-05-04T13:40:00.001-06:002010-05-04T13:41:24.700-06:00And!Oh, and I forgot to mention it until now, but I realized a few weeks ago that if you say "Ji Yeon!" kind of strung together, it sounds like "JIIIIIIIN!" but with a cletus the slack-jawed yokel voice. Jiyun!Becklectichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10778593662608486033noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1076365142493320026.post-52633640445869712782010-05-04T08:26:00.001-06:002010-05-04T13:39:29.159-06:00Tonight, The Candidate. Tomorrow, The World!I CAN'T BELIEVE THERE'S FINALLY GOING TO BE A NEW Lost ON TONIGHT! After 14 long days of waiting, we shall spend this evening watching the 5th-to-last hour of LOST. And as I have tried to do in the past, I'm going to take a few guesses about what the episode will be like based on the title alone.<br /><br />The Candidate...makes me think of presidential candidates...or "Mrs. Robinson"...or all the candidate talk on LOST so far. Jacob's dead, right? And these people, according to Smokey, are potential candidates to replace him, right? Then why do half of all recappers/theorists keep suggesting that those little boys/that little boy are/is Jacob, quickly growing back up into Jacob? Wouldn't that make <span style="font-style: italic;">them/him</span> the candidate? I think the boy (and I do think that it's just one kid, with a few years in between appearances) isn't going to end up being Jacob or Smokey. I think he's something else, something that does have to do with J & S, but something that's maybe even more supernatural than they are. Because he reminds Smokey of the RULES, and these rules certainly don't seem to be the kind that come out of a governed body; instead, they seem like ancient rules that were made up a long time ago by someone that maybe wasn't just some guy. All I'm saying is, if the kid is the referee, he's got power over Smokey (or at least his precious rules do).<br /><br />Then what's the Candidate? Is it the one 815 survivor who's going to turn out to be the one to replace Jacob? How will this one person be chosen? Was Jacob once someone else's candidate? These are some huge questions. I wonder if they'll go into all of this, or if it'll turn out that "candidate" really just meant like, a candidate for city council in the diagonal reality. Nah, they'll go into it. But how far? Will they tell us who should replace Jacob? Will they tell us that they're also going to replace Smokey, since this whole cycle thing seems to be ending? I don't think it's a coincidence that there are TWO name-planning areas. One (the cave) is Smokey's, and the other (the lighthouse) is Jacob's. That's what I think, anyway. And that means either Smokey was desperately trying to keep up with Jacob's plans, or Smokey was also planning on finding his own replacement.<br /><br />WE SHALL SEE TONIGHT!!!<br /><br />PS I forgot to mention Ji Yeon. She's a candidate, I think. LOOKS LIKE THE BABIES HAVE TO GET TO THE ISLAND AFTER ALL, right guys? Right? Please just bring those babies so we can find out all about them. Please!Becklectichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10778593662608486033noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1076365142493320026.post-60910823360417064562010-04-27T13:54:00.007-06:002010-04-27T14:02:46.652-06:00Instead of Watching a New Episode Tonight, Why Not Fondly Reminisce About The Previous 5 Seasons With Posters?Please click <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28863833@N07/">here</a>, and then please direct your thank yous to the comment section below. Georgia-based artist Gideon Slife (which I thought was a funny blog name, like Gideon' sLife, but nope, that is his name) made a simplistic poster for every episode of Lost. Below are just a few:<br /><br />note: all art is from Gideon Slife<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjy9z8ryEJsDYLmW8PNx2EVdab__478f1TUYud6zzrRee7JvxLUbnvm6QuuSG74FGk6Dg64qyewAXQrARyw6kh2yKnk1bGwz9Hg7gf5sdYfoUpT-kGDQYHERQUwDIXM-CyZTxQpt-uu-rW/s1600/lost1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 207px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjy9z8ryEJsDYLmW8PNx2EVdab__478f1TUYud6zzrRee7JvxLUbnvm6QuuSG74FGk6Dg64qyewAXQrARyw6kh2yKnk1bGwz9Hg7gf5sdYfoUpT-kGDQYHERQUwDIXM-CyZTxQpt-uu-rW/s320/lost1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464909295451688322" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBRUjw7SJHjuQsUm1QacKvth4GSkOREgKccOXRhBGlKFBjwJyslUKEsDDzeZ1rZjfjpTK6P30x8y3-iHABVpehu7Amae8Z31hR92s6zS7uEL6HK4F-8WRv204DcrTZpO-P_dRL2LGxHd8n/s1600/lost2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 207px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBRUjw7SJHjuQsUm1QacKvth4GSkOREgKccOXRhBGlKFBjwJyslUKEsDDzeZ1rZjfjpTK6P30x8y3-iHABVpehu7Amae8Z31hR92s6zS7uEL6HK4F-8WRv204DcrTZpO-P_dRL2LGxHd8n/s320/lost2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464909353354268370" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix34aN0b47roN52XK6mwabSaG4BaU0xpbSDOHBuGUyhF4PklteHxjj5XuCIj78jR8ycDMwlqZNTs3GoY8TXcF3knyRLSTNVLUieF_7b6wetnYe3uMyuVoaKX2NE_lCG6AfUaHcqyR6w20V/s1600/lost3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 207px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix34aN0b47roN52XK6mwabSaG4BaU0xpbSDOHBuGUyhF4PklteHxjj5XuCIj78jR8ycDMwlqZNTs3GoY8TXcF3knyRLSTNVLUieF_7b6wetnYe3uMyuVoaKX2NE_lCG6AfUaHcqyR6w20V/s320/lost3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464909410750580818" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNmSTld0q12QvTTzaFeZna-YSFLG6IANirV3OV8qmd8IW794A-_d7NsH2joBTUUFmhyVAhcN-7aGArfDJN2at9zC_ae8fZRRfDzyPfQIrZXL0SRyyGRmWLSnLpEorddppAKMMfUfM7QO02/s1600/lost4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 207px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNmSTld0q12QvTTzaFeZna-YSFLG6IANirV3OV8qmd8IW794A-_d7NsH2joBTUUFmhyVAhcN-7aGArfDJN2at9zC_ae8fZRRfDzyPfQIrZXL0SRyyGRmWLSnLpEorddppAKMMfUfM7QO02/s320/lost4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464909462601642146" border="0" /></a>Becklectichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10778593662608486033noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1076365142493320026.post-46934556313273828242010-04-20T10:39:00.002-06:002010-04-20T10:49:31.359-06:00Who wants to direct a TV show?<blockquote></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I do! I do!</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I thought I'd post this link to a slate article about TV director's because, well it's not all about Lost, it is all interesting. And some of it's about Lost:</span></span></div><div><blockquote></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px; "><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">During the filming of "Walkabout," Bender also made subtle changes to the script in order to heighten the drama. One scene, set on the beach amid the ruins of a crashed airplane, called for a knife to fly through the air and land in the trunk of a tree. Bender decided to send the knife into a seat cushion lodged in the sand, while a character sat in the adjacent seat.</span></span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">And, here's the link: </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2250789/pagenum/all/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">http://www.slate.com/id/2250789/pagenum/all/</span></span></a></span></span></div>Colinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05710178310662783395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1076365142493320026.post-18825700015615287392010-04-19T08:21:00.003-06:002010-04-19T08:28:19.698-06:00Finale News - No Spoilers WithinI was booking my flight home for May, and guess what I found out - the LOST finale will be airing on May 23rd, a SUNDAY, in order to steer clear of <span style="font-style: italic;">American Idol</span>'s finale. Is my memory faulty, or did the <span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >President of the United States of America</span> </span>change his tv appearance for LOST? Is this really how the deck is stacked? Obama third, LOST second, <span style="font-style: italic;">American Idol </span>first? I'm still going to be at home during the finale! If it were on Tuesday like I thought, I'd be view-partying with all my friends! Now I'm going to have to orchestrate a Mom-n-Becky LOST party, which is going to be very confusing for her no matter how efficiently I explain things. I'll be lucky if she even wants to watch it with me.<br /><br />If anyone wants to set up a quiet tv-watching video chat with me, I'd be very happy to take you up on it. However, I don't have dvr at home, so it'll be a commercial-riddled experience with no opportunities for rewind. THANKS, RYAN SEACREST! THANK YOU SO MUCH!Becklectichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10778593662608486033noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1076365142493320026.post-56116596620044644422010-04-14T07:49:00.003-06:002010-04-14T08:17:02.910-06:00BECKY. WAS. RIGHT. ABOUT. THE. WHISPERS.<a href="http://thelockedownplan.blogspot.com/2009/12/ill-get-some-ideas-down-right-here.html">Click here</a> for an insanely early prediction of the whispers being dead people, brought to you by none other than Becky. Since last night's episode was SO major, and since SO many things are apparently just going to spill out in the form of Hurley being like "So that's what that is? This simple thing?," I am going to go ahead and get out the rest of my theories right here, so you can see them.<br /><br />1. The whispers are dead people voices. KNEW IT.<br /><br />2. Libby was in the mental institution, sure, but she was also working for Widmore just like Abaddon or perhaps for Mittelos (I'm talking about the original timeline). Her dead husband (the one whose boat went to Desmond - Libby gave the boat to Desmond, that's my main point that she's working for someone who wants Desmond to get to the Island) is none other than DAVE, who appears to Hurley, who SEES DEAD PEOPLE. Think about it - every other person Hurley has seen is (from what they've told us) DEAD. Does he really only see ONE made up person? I think Dave is a dead guy. And I think he's working for Widmore or Mittelos from beyond the grave. <br /><br />However, it doesn't make sense that he would've been able to appear to Hurley on the Island, since his body isn't there. But perhaps his soul is just connected to the Island, or something?<br /><br />3. All the Smokey stuff from <a href="http://thelockedownplan.blogspot.com/2010/02/beckys-smoke-monster-musings.html">this post</a>. Look, that smoke seems like ash to me, and all I'm saying is that Smokey follows laws pertaining to Jacob's ash circles. Could it be that Jacob was once an explorer or visitor or otherwise curious person, and he drilled into the ground at the areas where "the compass needles spin around" (as Smokey told Desmond last night), and he accidentally released Smokey and then found a way to make himself immortal in order to keep Smokey from ever leaving the Island? Like, maybe Jacob is Pandora, but he was able to slam the box shut right before Smokey got out, and it's his job (based on guilt) to keep that box shut. Or more like he opened the box but shut the door to the room really fast. <br /><br />However, does that mean Smokey's a demon that Jacob literally released from hell? Does that take away from the Man in Black's individuality, pre-smokey? Where did Jacob come from? Who came before him? <br /><br />4. That kid from last night!!!!! I (and many other apartmentmates and co-writers of the LockeDown Plan) think that the brown-haired kid we saw had the same beautiful Claire-eyes as the first blonde kid we saw, so it stands to reason that this kid from last night was the same kid, only a few years older. Who is he, though? <br /><br />Maybe Aaron's importance to the Island is that he time jumps at some point back to the very beginnings of things, and he knows all the "rules" or whatever for the Island, and he's able to jump around and remind Smokey and Jacob of said "rules." Like he's the ref for the Island or something, and just because he's apparently been around before, and just because he looks like a preteen, doesn't mean that he can't be Aaron, time-jumped. And thus it's still important as ever for him to be raised the right way because his childhood was always now, and it can still get affected and thus affect the past...? Oy.<br /><br />5. You heard it here first, folks: Adam & Eve from the caves are going to be Sun & Jin, reunited at near-death or death or whatever during a time jump. So their ending is, as the producers revealed, "bittersweet." They're together forever, but together dead. Like Suneo and Jinliet.<br /><br />6. Ji-Yeon, what are you? I still have absolutely no theories on that, other than that she's the "Kwon" candidate. Probably my lack of info has to do with the fact that THE BABIES STILL AREN'T ON THE ISLAND WHEN THEY SO CLEARLY NEED TO BE. Get those babies to the Island! Sheesh!<br /><br />7. The people from Diagonal Timeline who are getting memories of the Original Timeline are simply becoming unstuck in present-time. I think (and again, the apartment + some thinks) that each person is two different people, both from his own timeline, but with the memories of both timelines. Maybe??<br /><br />8. And another thing, and this isn't a theory - I never bought the whole Daniel/Charlotte thing because look, Daniel may have some big crush on her or whatever, but she never gave him a second look either way. Maybe she likes him, maybe she doesn't. But they don't have an actual relationship - not the way that like, Sawyer and Juliet did. Not even the way that Jack and Kate did! and that was ALWAYS a one-way street! But I'm on gchat with my brother right now, and he thinks that it was at least enough to trigger Daniel's memory in Diagonal Reality, so maybe that's enough. Fine, ok, I'll give him that.<br /><br />That's most of my theory bank for right now. I want to remind everyone that these are just personal thoughts, not spoilers at all, since I have no advance knowledge of the show (although I am eerily good at predicting these types of mystery things, probably due to my apparent spiritual connection to whatever is going on over there... on a tv show island).Becklectichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10778593662608486033noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1076365142493320026.post-39246450437613318742010-04-09T07:36:00.001-06:002010-04-09T07:37:34.588-06:00Assuming They That Do Not Age Even Have Birthdays<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXWp9iaIGIGrbPmguoSNThD843sCp4hHxQSkCSr6-Fhl-wS9i-PGIVkH1sH_9mwHx3hyphenhyphenmSFM0Bp_6gu6MI10AuIZpKPKV2g44qc1Qv7CX7Y7OcPSpTxMxYf61517NHHCtPq6hA1lK9GWhc/s1600/mark_pellegrino.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 226px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXWp9iaIGIGrbPmguoSNThD843sCp4hHxQSkCSr6-Fhl-wS9i-PGIVkH1sH_9mwHx3hyphenhyphenmSFM0Bp_6gu6MI10AuIZpKPKV2g44qc1Qv7CX7Y7OcPSpTxMxYf61517NHHCtPq6hA1lK9GWhc/s400/mark_pellegrino.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5458131318417865090" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MARK PELLEGRINO!!!!!<br /></div>Becklectichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10778593662608486033noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1076365142493320026.post-22050174403871035972010-04-06T21:59:00.002-06:002010-04-06T22:05:02.517-06:00I would willingly wake up to this.<a href="http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/dharma-alarm-clock.shtml?icpg=Carousel_DharmaClock_5#video">BAM.</a><br /><br />And I'm not sad that it's a hoax. It's a good enough idea, I have faith that SOMEONE will have sense enough to actually produce it. (Are you hearing me, Spencer's Gifts?)carlyjanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06988028985939439148noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1076365142493320026.post-39353455127274148152010-04-06T10:50:00.003-06:002010-04-06T11:13:53.471-06:00Cuse, Lindelof, KunderaA striking majority of the good shit I come across nowadays reminds me tangentially of LOST (admittedly, sometimes it's simply that I think LOST is good shit and that other good shit has at least that in common... I'm simple).<br /><br />But here's a quote from Milan Kundera (from "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting") that I think relates really well to the morally gray genius of LOST:<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">"To see the devil as a partisan of Evil and an angel as a warrior on the side of Good is to accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are of course more complicated than that.<br /><br />Angels are partisans not of Good but of divine creation. The devil, on the other hand, is the one who refuses to grant any rational meaning to that divinely created world.<br /><br />Dominion over the world, as we know, is divided between angels and devils. The good of the world, however, implies not that the angels have the advantage over the devils (as I believed when I was a child) but that the powers of the two sides are nearly in equilibrium. If there were too much incontestable meaning in the world (the angels' power), man would succumb under its weight. If the world were to lose all its meaning (the devils' reign), we could not live either." </span><br /><br />The next bit is about the origin of laughter being the devil's domain. I won't type it all out because I'm lazy, but maybe check out "The B of L and F" and see for yourself! <br />Some people (cough-me-cough) will scramble to read "Bad Twin" just because they see Sawyer reading it on the beach... and that's a great thing! My thinking is there's no limit what books can teach us about television. Soak it in, folks. And thank YOU, Lost.carlyjanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06988028985939439148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1076365142493320026.post-53559653987904917412010-04-05T17:46:00.003-06:002010-04-05T17:51:36.901-06:00Lost: The Cupcakes<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO5cIPMRedYEtBwwJGrZh_trAvYQ0T8huDhmd6xCqW3cH3j9UM97d51BGK78HcCQMaa3eWrB_Ot-SEMM-ZOOAHj1bmoKwIvb4j1Pa4noMxBCxRKCq8t_CFRP1bC42hynaJQFl6Tke7m0Hk/s1600/IMG_5057.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO5cIPMRedYEtBwwJGrZh_trAvYQ0T8huDhmd6xCqW3cH3j9UM97d51BGK78HcCQMaa3eWrB_Ot-SEMM-ZOOAHj1bmoKwIvb4j1Pa4noMxBCxRKCq8t_CFRP1bC42hynaJQFl6Tke7m0Hk/s400/IMG_5057.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456804479650948834" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">If Desmond were dealing with <span style="font-style: italic;">these</span> bad boys for three years, he'd never want to let Locke take over the job.<br /></div>Becklectichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10778593662608486033noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1076365142493320026.post-10082749896460759562010-03-26T10:27:00.000-06:002010-03-26T10:28:07.648-06:00Lost via Saul Bass<object width="400" height="220"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6660925&server=vimeo.com&show_title=0&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1"><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6660925&server=vimeo.com&show_title=0&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="220"></embed></object><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/6660925">Lost vs. Saul Bass</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/hexagonall">Hexagonall</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>Zachary Isaachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01316511521912434386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1076365142493320026.post-58160149548734374882010-03-25T08:54:00.005-06:002010-03-25T10:04:06.590-06:00Nestor? I just met her!<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;">IMHO (it's a blog, so I can do that, right?), the Richard episode was wonderful. It significantly elevated my opinion of 1867 (damn Nebraska's statehood!) and gave me more insight into why I like Mr. Alpert so much - Nestor Campbell's a great actor! Up to this point, I usually just tuned out when he was on screen, hypnotized by his Rob Lowe quality eyes (no homo).</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAa61Ni0Hjczvj_CVQOzwM5OzIXa9Er9QEJvEJdq7MN0QObczXYIHpj__5Ko1DqdQaoySGoNZ5Mb0bwXL6VRc7j61JxtTKS7EaJ6rvJpXT4cERUB4fuqvMPkmiIsmDH4UiXpezbYQTxbxT/s1600/eyes.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 161px; height: 114px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAa61Ni0Hjczvj_CVQOzwM5OzIXa9Er9QEJvEJdq7MN0QObczXYIHpj__5Ko1DqdQaoySGoNZ5Mb0bwXL6VRc7j61JxtTKS7EaJ6rvJpXT4cERUB4fuqvMPkmiIsmDH4UiXpezbYQTxbxT/s320/eyes.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452601231812680146" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I won best eyes in middle school, but I can't compete with these guys</span></span></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">On Lost, there is no dearth of great characters played by great actors, and I am happy to count Richard/Nestor as one of them. And in a recent interview with E, he seems as excited about the show as we are. "I got the script late, it was like 10 something at night, and I usually go to bed fairly early," said Nestor regarding the finale, "but no, I was up at 12:30, pouring through it, reading pieces of it again." So, the finale is out there. I wonder how much a leaked copy would cost. Significantly more, no doubt, than the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Lost-Complete-Collection-Adewale-Akinnuoye-Agbaje/dp/B0036EH3WK/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1269528321&sr=8-8">entire series on Blu-ray</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">(thx, Zach).</span></div></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0lrQbhQC7z-FY8UqRQxNqJjKWCq9CSr3MfXnQx_NR07EcJhPNJ10uXidnKWIIRlbf4WWcL_NQUBT-9ib391-ESDp9pyAGGejUV_ZhvYeQMYMAAmBzBnONycV1xR5VgwbgEcWhULjlhhNG/s1600/Lost+Blu-ray.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0lrQbhQC7z-FY8UqRQxNqJjKWCq9CSr3MfXnQx_NR07EcJhPNJ10uXidnKWIIRlbf4WWcL_NQUBT-9ib391-ESDp9pyAGGejUV_ZhvYeQMYMAAmBzBnONycV1xR5VgwbgEcWhULjlhhNG/s200/Lost+Blu-ray.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452602266727863506" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I'm less than impressed by the cover art, but the price can't be beat!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">So, what can Nestor reveal about the final episodes?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">There's going to be major heartbreak, there's going to be some very emotional stuff coming down the pike. But the emotional stuff, the payoff will be <i>great</i>. When you see it, and as I read it, it made complete sense what they were doing, and they're doing it in such a beautiful way, what it needs to be. And again, without giving away too much, I think people will be fulfilled even as they may be crying.</span></span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Brilliant. Read the entire interview </span></span><a href="http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/watch_with_kristin/b173236_losts_nestor_carbonell_there_will_be.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">here</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">.</span></span></span></div></div>Colinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05710178310662783395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1076365142493320026.post-15320900940091175902010-03-23T19:21:00.001-06:002010-03-23T19:27:16.860-06:00IT'S THE RICHARD EPISODE!!I can't believe it! I'm watching it right now!!!Becklectichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10778593662608486033noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1076365142493320026.post-76908365380811257892010-03-23T18:18:00.006-06:002010-03-23T21:15:32.083-06:00An Open Letter Before "Ab Aeterno"<p class="MsoNormal">Dear <i>Lost</i><span style="font-style:normal">,</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Right off the bat, I want to say: you’re doing great. Season six is really rocking my socks. I’ve been a week-to-week fan since the summer of oh six, right after Desmond turned the key and everything went purple. Since then, and even more so since Jack yelled, “We have to go back!” I have believed, like Locke, that everything happens for a reason. So it is with a heavy heart I make this plea:</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Please, for the love of Jacob, tell me what the hell is going on in the Altern-815 storyline.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">It’s not like this request and my growing dissatisfaction with the flash-sideways timeline is out of order. Each week, I wait patiently to find out exactly why I’m watching this new world and what it has to do with our on-island, and relevant, plot.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">But FYI, The Island story is working like gangbusters. Since Omni-Locke destroyed the Temple, and those assholes Dogen and Lennon, the show seems destined for greatness. Flocke and Jacob are clearly headed toward a Basinger-Baldwin magnitude clash while the Candidates are trying to figure out who they are and what their purpose is. Just like us. (About them and ourselves.) But, off the Island, it’s hard to connect with characters we don’t know, a lucky Hugo?, and still maintain my love for the on-island characters I’ve known for years.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">That being said, I trust you. Like any good Man of Faith, my belief in your divine plan is unwavering. I just hope you answer my questions when I want you to.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">But like any absent god, I know you won’t.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Much love,</p><p class="MsoNormal">Zach Isaac</p> <p class="MsoNormal">PS: Tonight’s episode is called “Ab Aeterno.” It’s about Richard. Guest stars include Mark Pelligrino (Jacob) and Titus Welliver (The Man in Black from <i>The Incident</i><span style="font-style:normal">). Talk to y’all later.</span></p> <!--EndFragment-->Zachary Isaachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01316511521912434386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1076365142493320026.post-26117467602276248312010-03-16T07:30:00.000-06:002010-03-16T14:37:43.122-06:00Hold ItDo you think Jacob told Ilana (when he visited her in her burn victim room) to get Sayid and bring him back, knowing that Sayid <span style="font-style: italic;">plainly </span>wouldn't come back otherwise? Was that why Jacob visited her? And what's the deal with no touching? No touching!<br /><br />Just figured I'd bring it up, right in time for <span style="font-style: italic;">Lost </span>tonight. "Recon!" I bet I know what that's about: re...CON? Sawyer's coming back! Unless, of course, they're just conning us (like when "Sundown" wasn't about Sun). Oh, <span style="font-style: italic;">Lost</span>!Becklectichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10778593662608486033noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1076365142493320026.post-7634007990410906322010-03-01T16:48:00.003-06:002010-03-01T17:37:50.416-06:00LOST: SlapdownEverybody ready for SAYID tomorrow?!?!?! He really is my favorite of the original A-team. I just hope Nadia doesn't turn his episode into a bore fest.<div><br /></div><div>If you haven't been watching the Lindelof/Cuse SMACKDOWN, here's the most recent</div><div><br /></div><div><object width="480" height="295"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/TJowaMer7BI&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/TJowaMer7BI&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"></embed></object></div>Colinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05710178310662783395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1076365142493320026.post-80191097707258950602010-03-01T14:00:00.001-06:002010-03-03T13:11:31.159-06:00David's Eye Color SituationThis week's episode introduced us to Jack's diagonal son, David...and his beautiful blue eyes. Many have wondered aloud if David's blue eyes suggest that (since Jack has brown eyes) his mother is necessarily blue-eyed. I have replied, sometimes a little too hastily, that <span style="font-style: italic;">genetically</span>, the mother could have brown <span style="font-style: italic;">or</span> blue eyes.* What I also realize is that <span style="font-style: italic;">Lost</span> is exactly the type of show that would cast a blue-eyed child actor <span style="font-style: italic;">just</span> to hint strongly at the identity of Jack's diagonal ex-wife. It's probs Juliet.<br /><br />*Below we see a Punnett square. Since I have tried three times to explain this simply to no avail, I will guide you to the correct section on wikipedia's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetics">"Genetics"</a> page. Please skip down to "Discrete Inheritance and Mendel's Laws." Basically this little section explains how for every gene (eye color, for instance) your parents each donate an allele. Two alleles determine how that gene is expressed. Alleles can be dominant or recessive. If just one of the alleles donated by the parents is dominant, the dominant trait will be expressed (in our case, Brown eyes are dominant. Even if a mom passes down a recessive blue-eyed allele, if dad passed down a dominant brown-eyed allele, the kid will have brown eyes). Two blue-eyed parents must both have all recessive alleles, thus they can only pass down recessive alleles; thus two blue-eyed parents must produce blue-eyed offspring (see: me). However! Since it only takes one dominant allele to express brown eyes, we never know for sure if brown-eyed people have the genotype Bb or BB. At this point we become genetic detectives and I'm still not so sure I did a good job explaining all this.<br /><br />Now! Two brown eyed parents <span style="font-style: italic;">could</span> both have genotype Bb. Since they each have a dominant allele, they have brown eyes. But when they reproduce, they might pass down their alleles in such a way (pretend the As are Bs):<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFv53nE_Ax_YZm2GUflRj5JGVCytuYEqDRfqILJaDAQkiVa5kUrQ4n_pawOqRPVmAsAwR1cq_SOcXS8GzjjRXdGxCRdlVD7thnqBQcHG1co_yoNV38bkRshrseMKyjt5AxODf0HMPz4Zv6/s1600-h/punnet_square.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 146px; height: 146px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFv53nE_Ax_YZm2GUflRj5JGVCytuYEqDRfqILJaDAQkiVa5kUrQ4n_pawOqRPVmAsAwR1cq_SOcXS8GzjjRXdGxCRdlVD7thnqBQcHG1co_yoNV38bkRshrseMKyjt5AxODf0HMPz4Zv6/s400/punnet_square.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442655856148066370" border="0" /></a> which means that there's a 25% chance that the child of two brown-eyed people (with genotype Bb) will have blue eyes, since there's a 25% chance he'll get two recessive genes.<br /><br />Thus, Jack could have genotype Bb (he must, actually, because his blue-eyed father Christian HAD to pass down only recessive alleles), and his lovely ex-bride could, too. So David could have a brown-eyed mom, but let's face it, they did it for a reason.<br /><br />PS I started this post last week, then spent the last three days (and today) sick as a dog (Vincent), so even though I wanted this to make sense, it still might not.Becklectichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10778593662608486033noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1076365142493320026.post-63890114586163727252010-02-23T07:48:00.001-06:002010-02-23T09:26:49.898-06:00A Brotherly/Sisterly DiscussionMy brother happens to watch <span style="font-style: italic;">Lost</span>, too, and he also happens to think about it a lot. Here are some of his thoughts now! (with my thoughts to follow) :<br /><br />"Finally reading Doc Jensen's thoughts on The Substitute (doot doot doo-doo). I have to agree with him that I don't know to what extent we can trust Flocke's assertions, specifically about the cave and numbers and what happens here.<br /><br />"Feels like Flocke in some physical form could have made the marks and numbers and the "candidates" in this case--Hugo, Jack, "Kwon," Locke, Sawyer and Sayid--are/were potential replacements for the Smokey role on the Island. These are all people who have had serious shit in their lives, and maybe Flocke's ability to focus that and make it worse and worse is what leads a candidate at a certain point to just be like "my life literally cannot get worse. I'm willing to take the place of a terrifying smoke monster on a magic island just so I don't have to be sad-sack me anymore."<br /><br />"That way, Hugo's probably out because he's come to terms with his "curse" and Jack's probably out (he's being more chill than before and admits he doesn't even trust himself, rather than being like "I gotta make up for the people who died!! Sayid, take this pill. Just BECAUSE!"). Sun/Jin aren't out of the sadness contest until they actually find each other alive and all that, and even then, something could happen to kill one or the other. Sayid's f'd, but dead, but now claimed...maybe that's also technically taken him out of the running and put him more in an Alpert-type role to the new Flocke regime or something. Obviously, Sawyer is really sad too, but as a conman, I think he can see he's being played.<br /><br />"So maybe this is kind of like a race: Jacob has his "candidates" (maybe that's what's up in the "Lighthouse" that we've seen in previews where Jack was smashing something and Hugo was like "what are you doing!") and he has to select someone to protect the Island and keep Smokey in place before Smokey finds a way to kill him/tip the balance/escape, and Smokey has his candidates to take his place.<br /><br />"I don't know why neither of them have succeeded except that a guy on DocArzt wrote a thing about how Lost is kind of like Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory--you don't find someone to take over the chocolate factory until you find that person and that person does the right thing(s). Anything before that is just progress (toward finding that person).<br /><br />"What do you guys think?"<br /><br />I'LL TELL YOU WHAT I THINK. I like the Willy Wonka analogy a lot. I think it's right-on. I think "Kwon" could easily be Ji-Yeon, since Jacob touched them both while saying how important it was that they stay together or something. I hope Sawyer can see the full deal, and he usually does come through, but sometimes Sad Sawyer is freaking dumb. Also, as far as being "claimed" goes, I'm pretty sure Aaron's heart stopping and starting again in Sideways 2004 was probably him getting claimed by <span style="font-style: italic;">somebody</span>. But where is that claimer operating from?<br /><br />I'm feeling particularly confused about this whole black/white, Flocke/Jacob, Others/Ilana Others situation. I think it's pretty clear that Flocke is a liar, or else they wouldn't have him say such explicit Other-statements as "I wouldn't have lied to you! I would've told you everything!" When a person starts talking that way, it's pretty clear he/she is ALWAYS lying from that point on, and if you ever think they're not, you're asking for it. Because they're DEFINITELY lying, and you're just plain wrong.<br /><br />About the alliances: We used to know for sure that Smokey = black stone = protector (or "security system") of the island (= Christian Shephard, maybe). We also knew that Jacob = white stone = trying to bring people to the island to make it to some end point. Now everything's topsy-turvy. Is Jacob the protector of the island? Why then does he always bring people to it? Is he trying to make the island eventually disappear? Is that protecting its integrity or something? Is he "protecting" the island by bringing these people, one of which will be the next protector?<br /><br />And just whose cave writing <span style="font-style: italic;">is </span>it, exactly? Maybe it <span style="font-weight: bold;">was </span>Jacob's - I don't see a problem with that. Except, of course, that Flocke was the one to explain it, and he's a big fat liar. Ergo, it's not Jacob's writing. I agree that it could easily be Smokey's calculations, for all the "I'm so miserable" reasons, but here's the problem there: when Flocke describes how "protecting" the island means nothing, what's his big plan there? Is he lying, and he truly thinks that the island does need protecting (say, by hiding it from the rest of the world, and by keeping people from it)? Why is he trying to convince Sawyer it doesn't need protecting? Maybe he's trying to kill off Jacob's candidates one by one, and he'll take Sawyer "off the island" but leave him to die at sea or something.<br /><br />And where does Desmond fit into all of this? Surely Jacob knew about Desmond. It's impossible that Jacob just didn't know about him. I THINK! I think Jacob's plan goes as far into the future as Sideways 2004, and that he's going to start using Desmond in that reality. And I think the whole Libby/Desmond/coffeeshop/boat exchange could be revisited in Sideways 2004, and I think it could finally make sense somehow. I think.<br /><br />PS "The Lighthouse" Title-Based Guestimations On Tonight's Episode:<br />The castaways are a lot like a family now, and I guess that's all I remember from Virginia Woolf's <span style="font-style: italic;">To the Lighthouse</span>. What else, what else...light (wavy equal sign) white, I guess. I hope that darn kid shows up again. Maybe he changes the huge lightbulbs in the lighthouse. Where is this lighthouse again? At least the symbol itself seems to hint at people being drawn together to a safe haven, such that the real planning may begin. Episode 4 of 17...that's very close to the quarter-mark. Looks like our heroes are about to accept The Call (perhaps after a heartening discussion with a mentor)!Becklectichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10778593662608486033noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1076365142493320026.post-91947354997107158672010-02-23T07:38:00.000-06:002010-02-23T07:38:00.724-06:00And Don't Forget Dharma Pickles<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQuBZcgRYwvfz9bAYHcI1YoONwbBcxLZtw1pMOsO2ysWupQl0G1KrgqTF-_0D7wwx0vMjd7C0nly2dODhIxHmWjblasVGGHbGGQy9aS-fI_SeBf7uNv9TyoDgZU8zVGxK0jzRggwE-uGc6/s1600-h/0116101811.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQuBZcgRYwvfz9bAYHcI1YoONwbBcxLZtw1pMOsO2ysWupQl0G1KrgqTF-_0D7wwx0vMjd7C0nly2dODhIxHmWjblasVGGHbGGQy9aS-fI_SeBf7uNv9TyoDgZU8zVGxK0jzRggwE-uGc6/s400/0116101811.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440907336941332882" border="0" /></a>Becklectichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10778593662608486033noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1076365142493320026.post-76249548190265887142010-02-22T14:43:00.003-06:002010-02-22T15:15:05.607-06:00a thing/theoryAnd because I didn't take two seconds to double check on Google if I'm the first person to blog this up (there's no doubt in my mind that I'm at least 4 stupid years behind on this one), I feel revelatory making this observation: What if LOST could be summed up as a contemporary take on "Paradise Lost?" <br /><br />From Wikipedia (because I'm not <span style="font-style:italic;">actually</span> smart):<br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. [...] The poem concerns the Christian story of the Fall of Man: the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Milton's purpose, stated in Book I, is to "justify the ways of God to men"[1] and elucidate the conflict between God's eternal foresight and free will.<br /><br />Milton incorporates Paganism, classical Greek references, and Christianity within the poem. It deals with diverse topics from marriage, politics (Milton was politically active during the time of the English Civil War), and monarchy, and grapples with many difficult theological issues, including fate, predestination, the Trinity, and the introduction of sin and death into the world, as well as angels, fallen angels, Satan, and the war in heaven. Milton draws on his knowledge of languages, and diverse sources — primarily Genesis, much of the New Testament, the deuterocanonical Book of Enoch, and other parts of the Old Testament.</span><br /><br />This makes so much sense to me. I doesn't answer all the intricate questions (i.e. What about WALT?), but it at least gives me an idea of what the picture on the box looks like for the whole puzzle... or at least what purpose this puzzle is supposed to serve (i.e. WHY DO I SPEND SO MUCH TIME THINKING ABOUT THIS DAMN SHOW?)<br /><br />Best part-- because we don't live in Milton-times, LOST includes drastically more diverse (and sometimes contradictory) mythologies, sciences and cultural viewpoints. What if we re-write Paradise Lost knowing what we know about String Theory and electromagnetism and probability? How does contemporary human psychology factor in the battle between Good and Evil? But ultimately, here we are three centuries later and we're still talking about fate versus determinism and the Garden of Eden. <br /><br />UM. AWESOME.carlyjanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06988028985939439148noreply@blogger.com1