Remember how excited you felt when Flocke announced that, unlike Locke, he wants to go home? If you're like me, you immediately jumped at any excuse to call the Island "Atlantis" and to posit that the Egyptian hieroglyphics are present because of the Island's one-time proximity (physical, cultural) to the Egyptian Empire. Smokey's from Egypt!
However! Considering how fast the Others put up all their defenses at the temple when they hear that Jacob's dead, I'm guessing Old Smokey calls the temple "home." Where did he come from? When did the temple originally pop him out? Guys! I have a guess!
1. Smokey can't cross any ring made of volcanic ash. He can knock people out of the ash circumference, like Winifred from Hocus Pocus during her smarter moments, but he most definitely has an undeniable and probably ancient connection to that ash law. Aha, he has to follow at least one law, and aha, those are probably the laws that prevent him from killing Jacob without a loophole.
2. Smokey is made entirely of thick, dark smoke. Smoke that reminds me of a volcano. And I think there are some hieroglyphics underneath the temple that back up the idea that he's heavily connected to a volcano.
3. There was definitely a volcano on the Island - Horace's first wife/schoolteacher taught us that right before the Hostile alarm sounded in Ben's class that one time.
ERGO! I think the Smoke monster was born out of the Island's volcano, and that's why he has to honor the ash circle.
Now you might be thinking, 'Becky, that's not much of a theory at all.' But guess what? I'm trying to figure out HOW to make a theory about Smokey. Now that I've guessed that he's possibly from a volcano, I can ask theoretical questions like:
a. What makes smoke turn into a person? Did the smoke come to inhabit a person, and that was the very beginning of Smokey?
b. Does Jacob come from the volcano, too?
c. What's going on with the volcano in the first place? Some islands are formed out of undersea volcano magma. I believe they're called archipelagos. Nope, I'm wrong. They're called High Islands. An island with crazy streams of electromagnetic energy might have formed because of a volcanic blast caused by electromagnetism. Maybe the Island has a direct pathway to something inside the earth.
Anyways, that's what I have for now. Please! Elaborate!
2.04.2010
THINGS JUST GOT INTERESTING.
Did anyone catch the season premiere? Was it any good?
But seriously folks, if you have any new theories based on the completely all-new pristine masterpiece of an episode we saw on Tuesday, please don't hesitate to write about them here!
I'll start:
Josh was totally, 100% right about Flocke being the smoke monster. And I mean COMPLETELY right.
NYmag's recap literally got the smoke monster backwards: He's a who, not a what. Who, yes. What, no. He's a person. and I would guess he looks like the Man in Black.
That's all for now!
But seriously folks, if you have any new theories based on the completely all-new pristine masterpiece of an episode we saw on Tuesday, please don't hesitate to write about them here!
I'll start:
Josh was totally, 100% right about Flocke being the smoke monster. And I mean COMPLETELY right.
NYmag's recap literally got the smoke monster backwards: He's a who, not a what. Who, yes. What, no. He's a person. and I would guess he looks like the Man in Black.
That's all for now!
1.29.2010
1.28.2010
1.27.2010
1.26.2010
Where Walt Grew Up
What is The Island? Bit of Jeopardy humor.
The story: Walt's mother -- out of the blue -- is offered a job in Amsterdam. She takes Walt and marries her boss Brian, who by all accounts seems to be a great guy and a loving father to Walt. Walt's mother -- I hate her so hard I refuse to type her name/I forgot it because I hate her so hard -- and Brian return from Amsterdam, and they go for full custody of Walt. They get it and go to Italy, then to Australia. Walt's mother dies very suddenly, Brian doesn't want him anymore, and Walt is making birds fly into windows.
Replace Amsterdam with "The Island."
Now consider the following:
The people on the island, who seem to have supernatural powers, are Miles, Walt and Desmond. Miles talks to dead people, Desmond can see the future and is uniquely affected by the island's movement through the fourth dimension, and Walt appears randomly, dead birds in his wake. Both Miles -- who grew from infancy on the island -- and Desmond -- our three year dedicated hatch worker and demolisher -- have powers. Whether these abilities are due to duration of time spent on the island, close proximity to the electromagnetic leak (Miles's father oversaw construction of The Swan, and Desmond was enveloped in its force when he turned the failsafe), or both is still unclear.
Now isn't it possible that:
Walt spent time on the island as a child, developed these incredible telekinetic/neuroinhibiting powers, and became to much for the Others to handle? (NB: When the Others capture Walt, they seem to already know who he is, however Ben readily admits that Walt was more than they bargained for.) This would've led to expulsion from the island (though not from the company). So, they all leave the island, though Brian and Walt's mom most likely make trips back; Brian and Walt's mom want full custody -- they never want Michael to know about what his son can now do, and more importantly the Others, to whom Brian is loyal, want to keep him to themselves. Then Walt's mother dies -- maybe she got pregnant on the island -- and again Walt is too much to handle, so Brian blows his assignment of taking care of Walt, giving him over to Michael, who has no idea (nor does Walt, he was so young) that his son had previously lived on the island -- as well as Vincent, who seems to know the island fairly well!
1.25.2010
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1.23.2010
1.22.2010
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1.20.2010
Gosh, I Hate To Admit It
But somehow I think I messed up the Locke Down calculations. I say this because, in posting ahead, I see that S5 E17 is set for January 29th, which is simply incorrect.
Here was my math: there are 103 shows in seasons 1-5. Trust me on that one. Two a day means it will take 51.5 days to watch that many seasons. If I wanted to back up the locke down plan into Feb, I would've said "January has 31 days. That means there are 20.5 days in December to account for. December has 31 days, so if I count back from 31, that brings me to the 10.5th day in December." The 10.5th day is Dec 10th, which is, I believe, when we started this whole thing. WHAT'S THE INCONGRUITY?
(side note: I guess the 10.5th day in December is Dec 11th. Oops! But happy birthday, Josh!)
Maybe I assumed a few two-hour episodes were one hour? That shouldn't have affected this count, though. We have two and a half days of NOTHING to account for!
This means, SLOW IT DOWN, PEOPLE. SLOW IT DOWN. You're in for a world of hurt if you keep going at this speed. You're headed for a bamboo wall!
Here was my math: there are 103 shows in seasons 1-5. Trust me on that one. Two a day means it will take 51.5 days to watch that many seasons. If I wanted to back up the locke down plan into Feb, I would've said "January has 31 days. That means there are 20.5 days in December to account for. December has 31 days, so if I count back from 31, that brings me to the 10.5th day in December." The 10.5th day is Dec 10th, which is, I believe, when we started this whole thing. WHAT'S THE INCONGRUITY?
(side note: I guess the 10.5th day in December is Dec 11th. Oops! But happy birthday, Josh!)
Maybe I assumed a few two-hour episodes were one hour? That shouldn't have affected this count, though. We have two and a half days of NOTHING to account for!
This means, SLOW IT DOWN, PEOPLE. SLOW IT DOWN. You're in for a world of hurt if you keep going at this speed. You're headed for a bamboo wall!
1.19.2010
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1.15.2010
Penelope, part 2
Not to mention, Penelope (from The Odyssey) weaves a tapestry and insists that she can't choose a suitor until the whole thing is done, which it never will be because she unweaves it every night.
HMMMMM!
a) Jacob's tapestry maybe hasn't been unwoven, but it's definitely a large project like Penelope's was. And it might have been to hold off something that wants to happen.
b) "unweaving a tapestry" sounds a lot like unweaving the fabric of time. (It's not a pun if it's not trying to be funny, btw.) This is more of a universal symbol that I'm trying to establish. As in, maybe time looks like a long strip of fabric, and sometimes that fabric skips a stitch or folds over itself. Or someone might even unweave it to redo something, if that person had the capability. I'm not sure how a flash would fit into this metaphor, since tapestries typically don't just unweave themselves at erratic points. Maybe it points to the weaver, and how fitful he feels at the time of weaving. As in, maybe the flashes are Jacob feeling restless or aggravated. Gosh! I don't know!!!!!!!!! In the end, though, no matter how many things you've done to the tapestry, it's still one whole tapestry. Which somehow makes it easier to accept as part of the "everything that happened, happened" theory.
c) In the Odyssey, it's Penelope doing the weaving. So far I've only tried to apply the idea of time as a woven thing, meaning I haven't figured out what Penny Widmore might have to do with the whole thing yet. Is Penny the weaver? No, can't be. But I might try to look into this part again.
HMMMMM!
a) Jacob's tapestry maybe hasn't been unwoven, but it's definitely a large project like Penelope's was. And it might have been to hold off something that wants to happen.
b) "unweaving a tapestry" sounds a lot like unweaving the fabric of time. (It's not a pun if it's not trying to be funny, btw.) This is more of a universal symbol that I'm trying to establish. As in, maybe time looks like a long strip of fabric, and sometimes that fabric skips a stitch or folds over itself. Or someone might even unweave it to redo something, if that person had the capability. I'm not sure how a flash would fit into this metaphor, since tapestries typically don't just unweave themselves at erratic points. Maybe it points to the weaver, and how fitful he feels at the time of weaving. As in, maybe the flashes are Jacob feeling restless or aggravated. Gosh! I don't know!!!!!!!!! In the end, though, no matter how many things you've done to the tapestry, it's still one whole tapestry. Which somehow makes it easier to accept as part of the "everything that happened, happened" theory.
c) In the Odyssey, it's Penelope doing the weaving. So far I've only tried to apply the idea of time as a woven thing, meaning I haven't figured out what Penny Widmore might have to do with the whole thing yet. Is Penny the weaver? No, can't be. But I might try to look into this part again.
Penelope, part 1
Penny Widmore is already very important to LOST - without her, there'd be no Oceanic 6, and on an even larger scale, there would be no Desmond (as we know him). Because of Penelope, Desmond took on an Odyssey-like voyage (sailing around the world) that eventually brought him to the island.
Off of that, I wanted to tell you guys something ridiculous that I noticed. You know the numbers (4 8 15 16 23 42 duh)? You know how they add up to 108? In The Odyssey, Homer says that Penelope had 108 suitors. Come on.
Further Odyssey/Penny Widmore similarities/differences:
Similarities:
-Desmond travels around the world in order to do something he feels he must do, but all the while he wants nothing more than to get back home to Penelope.
-When Odysseus and Penelope get back together, O goes back out on another adventure after a little bit - and the island's "not done with" Desmond yet.
-is there a special boat in the Odyssey?
-Desmond didn't set out with hundreds of sailors in his crew only to have them die, BUT he did see his Swan Station partner die.
-Penny has at least one suitor (remember when Desmond gives her a hard time outside the stadium, but only because he hasn't yet read her "I will ALWAYS love you" note?)
Differences:
-Penelope's father doesn't play a role in the Odyssey, right? It's not like he used to be the king of Ithaca, right? If he is, then this should go in the similar section.
-Little Charlie would be named Telemachos, but I don't blame anybody for avoiding that name.
-Our Penny actually suits up and goes looking for her other half.
I think this is interesting. If you do too, please post a response! Or anything!
Off of that, I wanted to tell you guys something ridiculous that I noticed. You know the numbers (4 8 15 16 23 42 duh)? You know how they add up to 108? In The Odyssey, Homer says that Penelope had 108 suitors. Come on.
Further Odyssey/Penny Widmore similarities/differences:
Similarities:
-Desmond travels around the world in order to do something he feels he must do, but all the while he wants nothing more than to get back home to Penelope.
-When Odysseus and Penelope get back together, O goes back out on another adventure after a little bit - and the island's "not done with" Desmond yet.
-is there a special boat in the Odyssey?
-Desmond didn't set out with hundreds of sailors in his crew only to have them die, BUT he did see his Swan Station partner die.
-Penny has at least one suitor (remember when Desmond gives her a hard time outside the stadium, but only because he hasn't yet read her "I will ALWAYS love you" note?)
Differences:
-Penelope's father doesn't play a role in the Odyssey, right? It's not like he used to be the king of Ithaca, right? If he is, then this should go in the similar section.
-Little Charlie would be named Telemachos, but I don't blame anybody for avoiding that name.
-Our Penny actually suits up and goes looking for her other half.
I think this is interesting. If you do too, please post a response! Or anything!
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