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There is a time portal/wormhole that connects Tunisia to the Island. That's how Ben ends up seemingly fallen from the sky in the Tunisian desert. That's how a polar bear skull is excavated from the Tunisian sand. And that how a small prop plane can take off from Nigeria and end up on the island. The proof: according to Google Earth, the coordinates for 'Tunisia' are: 33 deg, 53 sec N and 9 deg, 31 sec E. The polar opposite of those coordinates is: 33 deg, 53 53 sec S and 170 deg 29 sec W. If you follow those coordinates, you end up....just NE of Sydney, Australia in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, enroute to LA, and not far from Fiji.
Monday, April 28, 2008
Friday, April 25, 2008
Episode Nine -- or Ben's a bad ass again...
I've always had this feeling in the back of my mind that Ben was actually a good guy, and in the end, we'd find out all his evil actions were because he was trying to correct a great wrong. Now I'm not so sure. The smirk on his face after he obviously had just conned Sayid into being his hit man was super creepy. I can't figure out where this is going, but I sure am enjoying the ride.
Let's get to over analyzing this show shall we?
Ben has a secret room, but he also has a secret room inside his secret room, and in the second secret room, he has the ability to unleash the smoke monster (which I imagine to be some sort of nanotechnology). Unleashing the smoke monster is difficult work, as Ben emerges from the secret room more than a little bit dirty and disheveled.
In the meantime, Sawyer is able to avoid strafing automatic weapons fire by hiding under a picket fence and a picnic table. Is he one of the island's protected few? I ask this because it came up on Jimmy Kimmel's show the other night. Here's the transcript:
Kimmel: The island heals some people and doesn't heal others. For instance, Ben needed an operation from Jack to beat cancer, but it seems like Sawyer gets injured every sixth episode and by the next, he's fine. Is that just a TV thing?
Carlton Cuse: Wow. [Laughs] Where are the softball questions, Jimmy? What about the warm-up?
Damon Lindelof: The short answer is, it's not arbitrary. Yes, there is a certain degree of compressing story. The idea that everything you've seen has really happened in 110 days of real time feels fantastical, but that's the convention of the show. However, who gets sick and how fast they heal is something we talk about. In the second episode back [airing May 1], that becomes a major issue in the story. One character gets sick and another who has had experience being healed voices exactly that question: Is there any rhyme or reason to it?
Cuse: The healing is related to the degree to which you are in communion with the island at any given moment. Perhaps Ben getting sick and needing surgery had to do with the fact that he had fallen out of favor, that his connection with the island was maybe not what it had been in the past.
To that end, Claire certainly bounced back nicely after her little scrape. Looked like she even brushed her hair.I loved the fact that when Sawyer wanted to rescue Claire, Ben said, “There’s no time” and Sawyer responded, “I’ll make time.” With all the time jumping and time variations that have been introduced lately, I thought that was pretty humorous. Like the writers were winking at us with a time-making joke. And maybe the manipulation of time (adding to it or taking away from it) is a big reason the Island is the coveted prize.
Also did you all notice when Ben made this remark: “Every one of my people is prepared to die in service to this island.” “In service to” – again an Island that demands allegiance? An Island that determines when you do or don’t die? An Island that can move around or hide itself? The Island must have a soul and a will, at the very least.
The smoke monster didn't kill all of the mercenaries from Widmore's ship, because the doof the executed Ben's daughter appeared in the scenes for next week's show. So he's in the island's favor? The island's okay with random death penalties?
I think I went brain dead after Alex was shot. Actually I think I looked much like Ben did. Truly sad. I guess the whole Danielle backstory will never be told after all - maybe a victim of the writer's strike? How about a special in memorium for Nadia and that blonde extra who always wore the hankerchief on her head who got shot by the freighters? I think I remember seeing her in the background of most of the Lost gatherings, but she never spoke a word. I guess the Penelope deathwatch begins now.
At the beginning of the episode Hurley, while playing risk, said “Dude, I can’t believe you’re giving him Australia. AUSTRALIA IS THE KEY TO THE WHOLE GAME.” And it appears to be a game, because Ben is adamant that the rules has changed. What were the rules before this? It was alright to arrange a killing of Locke's dad, but execution style slayings are off limits? Wow. I need a notebook binder to keep track of all this crap.
Ben said that he knew he couldn't kill Widmore. I'm betting that Widmore is actually the man who captained the Black Rock slave ship, became shipwrecked onto the island, lost the island somehow and actually bought his own journal in the auction.
Did anyone notice the painting over the piano Ben was playing is the same painting in the hallway when Ben left Widmore's bedroom? It looks like a Cezanne.
Was this the first of Jack's addiction being introduced? He was being so shifty with Kate about the pills he was taking, and she obviously was curious because otherwise would she grill the doctor about taking a pill or two? Just say no, Jack! Dr. House takes enough painkillers for the both of you!
Farraday attempts to run some bull on the survivors by giving them a false read on the Morse Code message from the ship. This is cut off by Bernard, who is so old he can decipher Morse Code, even though it's almost obsolete in modern communications. The truth is out there, the Widmore ship ain't there to run a rescue mission.
This is really random and most likely very unrelated, but in the book The Time Traveler's Wife, the first doctor who believes Henry about his time traveling and helps him try to control it is Dr. Kendrich. My first thought when Ben said he wanted to see the Kendrich's was that he needed help with time travel sickness or effects.
Feel free to leave your thoughts on the show, because, as you can tell, I am confused about a lot of it.
Let's get to over analyzing this show shall we?
Ben has a secret room, but he also has a secret room inside his secret room, and in the second secret room, he has the ability to unleash the smoke monster (which I imagine to be some sort of nanotechnology). Unleashing the smoke monster is difficult work, as Ben emerges from the secret room more than a little bit dirty and disheveled.
In the meantime, Sawyer is able to avoid strafing automatic weapons fire by hiding under a picket fence and a picnic table. Is he one of the island's protected few? I ask this because it came up on Jimmy Kimmel's show the other night. Here's the transcript:
Kimmel: The island heals some people and doesn't heal others. For instance, Ben needed an operation from Jack to beat cancer, but it seems like Sawyer gets injured every sixth episode and by the next, he's fine. Is that just a TV thing?
Carlton Cuse: Wow. [Laughs] Where are the softball questions, Jimmy? What about the warm-up?
Damon Lindelof: The short answer is, it's not arbitrary. Yes, there is a certain degree of compressing story. The idea that everything you've seen has really happened in 110 days of real time feels fantastical, but that's the convention of the show. However, who gets sick and how fast they heal is something we talk about. In the second episode back [airing May 1], that becomes a major issue in the story. One character gets sick and another who has had experience being healed voices exactly that question: Is there any rhyme or reason to it?
Cuse: The healing is related to the degree to which you are in communion with the island at any given moment. Perhaps Ben getting sick and needing surgery had to do with the fact that he had fallen out of favor, that his connection with the island was maybe not what it had been in the past.
To that end, Claire certainly bounced back nicely after her little scrape. Looked like she even brushed her hair.I loved the fact that when Sawyer wanted to rescue Claire, Ben said, “There’s no time” and Sawyer responded, “I’ll make time.” With all the time jumping and time variations that have been introduced lately, I thought that was pretty humorous. Like the writers were winking at us with a time-making joke. And maybe the manipulation of time (adding to it or taking away from it) is a big reason the Island is the coveted prize.
Also did you all notice when Ben made this remark: “Every one of my people is prepared to die in service to this island.” “In service to” – again an Island that demands allegiance? An Island that determines when you do or don’t die? An Island that can move around or hide itself? The Island must have a soul and a will, at the very least.
The smoke monster didn't kill all of the mercenaries from Widmore's ship, because the doof the executed Ben's daughter appeared in the scenes for next week's show. So he's in the island's favor? The island's okay with random death penalties?
I think I went brain dead after Alex was shot. Actually I think I looked much like Ben did. Truly sad. I guess the whole Danielle backstory will never be told after all - maybe a victim of the writer's strike? How about a special in memorium for Nadia and that blonde extra who always wore the hankerchief on her head who got shot by the freighters? I think I remember seeing her in the background of most of the Lost gatherings, but she never spoke a word. I guess the Penelope deathwatch begins now.
At the beginning of the episode Hurley, while playing risk, said “Dude, I can’t believe you’re giving him Australia. AUSTRALIA IS THE KEY TO THE WHOLE GAME.” And it appears to be a game, because Ben is adamant that the rules has changed. What were the rules before this? It was alright to arrange a killing of Locke's dad, but execution style slayings are off limits? Wow. I need a notebook binder to keep track of all this crap.
Ben said that he knew he couldn't kill Widmore. I'm betting that Widmore is actually the man who captained the Black Rock slave ship, became shipwrecked onto the island, lost the island somehow and actually bought his own journal in the auction.
Did anyone notice the painting over the piano Ben was playing is the same painting in the hallway when Ben left Widmore's bedroom? It looks like a Cezanne.
Was this the first of Jack's addiction being introduced? He was being so shifty with Kate about the pills he was taking, and she obviously was curious because otherwise would she grill the doctor about taking a pill or two? Just say no, Jack! Dr. House takes enough painkillers for the both of you!
Farraday attempts to run some bull on the survivors by giving them a false read on the Morse Code message from the ship. This is cut off by Bernard, who is so old he can decipher Morse Code, even though it's almost obsolete in modern communications. The truth is out there, the Widmore ship ain't there to run a rescue mission.
This is really random and most likely very unrelated, but in the book The Time Traveler's Wife, the first doctor who believes Henry about his time traveling and helps him try to control it is Dr. Kendrich. My first thought when Ben said he wanted to see the Kendrich's was that he needed help with time travel sickness or effects.
Feel free to leave your thoughts on the show, because, as you can tell, I am confused about a lot of it.
Wednesday, April 09, 2008
New LOST opening...
What if LOST was a bad 80’s sit com? The title theme might go something like this.
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