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| Marc |
 Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 11:14 am |
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| I just watched the first 4 episodes of LOST on dvd last night. Good stuff. |
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| Mrs.LShap |
| Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 10:42 pm |
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Speaking of Locke the Horny...going back a bit...what about the poetic license they took last season by giving him a toupé and expecting us to believe he was Kevin Tighe's son?!
I love the show for pure entertainment, but they expect you to buy into farfetched stuff, like Hurley's inability to lose weight on the island for instance! |
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| bart |
| Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 1:51 pm |
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Yeah, I've commented before on Hurley's surprising maintenance of sumo weight while doing hard physical labor every day and subsisting on fish and mangos. (the cache in the bunker only lasted each person a couple days, so it couldn't have been a significant factor)
Could it be that actor Jorge Garcia likes his epicurean pleasures more than he does Method acting?
But, really, that's a nitpick compared to other bigger clankers -- e.g. Zeke's boat, which appears, in the Season One finale, to be under engine power. Where's the gas or diesel coming from? |
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| Earl |
| Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 2:59 pm |
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The science teacher who died during the retrieval of dynamite (Arzt? Not sure of the name) got on Hurley's case about still being heavy. "Most of us have managed to lose weight since we've been here. I don't know where you're hiding the carbs." I believe Hurley replied that he had, indeed, gone down "a couple belt notches." By the way, let's not forget that the show's been on for about a year, but the characters have been on the island for only a month and half or so. Even if he lost a lot of weight for that amount of time, Hurley would still be a rotund fellow.
Nobody has commented on Locke literally putting the smackdown on Charlie after the baby incident. Too harsh?
I enjoyed the relationship that started between Charlie and Eko during the episode dealing with Eko's back story. The two characters seem to need eachother in a way. Both are Catholic. Eko misses his younger brother whose death still haunts him, while Charlie still feels the sting of the falling out with his older brother. Plus the drug connection. Charlie continually blames his older brother for his drug addiction; Eko is responsible for the drugs in the Mary statues being on the island and, thus, in a roundabout way could be considered Chalie's "supplier" on the island. |
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| Earl |
| Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 3:02 pm |
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bart wrote: But, really, that's a nitpick compared to other bigger clankers -- e.g. Zeke's boat, which appears, in the Season One finale, to be under engine power. Where's the gas or diesel coming from?
Forget the boat. What power runs all the machinery in the bunker? That's a lot of wattage. What power allows Locke to walk? |
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| grace |
| Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 3:28 pm |
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Quote: What power runs all the machinery in the bunker?
Well, there's that bigass cable that Sayid ran into last year; it runs from the jungle into the ocean. Which then brings up the question, "Where the heck does that cable ultimately go, and who's paying the bill for it?"
As one of the people questioning whether Libby the Laundry Babe was a plant, tomato or otherwise, I am looking forward to this Wednesday. I heard they are rerunning the Hurley episode from last year, so we can look for Libby in the background and stuff. That is, they're not necessarily showing it for that reason, but because they are, we can.
Some people in other places think Libby was in the mental hospital (she's a clinical or behavioral psychologist or something, she said) and therefore knows Hurley is loaded; hence her flirtations. |
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| Melody |
| Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 4:18 pm |
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Earl wrote: Forget the boat. What power runs all the machinery in the bunker? That's a lot of wattage.
Earl, I've read a bunch of different theories on the power supply, but the site Wade pointed us to a while back is the most thoroughly researched -- and admittedly geekiest -- I've seen. And most enjoyable to read!
http://www.4815162342.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3377 |
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| McBain |
| Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 5:14 pm |
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| Anyone watching Battlestar Galactica? It's been a really great show so far. |
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| bart |
| Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 12:35 pm |
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Mel, thanks for the Oerstad link -- pretty out there. I like the part about Walt's throwing the knife being guided by a collective conscious mind that used electromagnetism. I mean, if you're going to get kooky, don't hold back or anything.
Locke's throwing punches was out of character. Which buttresses my theory that his hormones are swinging into high gear.
As for the theory of a stock of islanders to repopulate the earth, hmmm. I've heard you need several hundred people to restore a population, otherwise you get too many recessive genes emerging, and an inbreeding crisis. In the history of Pacific Islands, populations that grew as small as the Flight 815 bunch had to intermarry with other islands to survive and maintain a vital society.
For an interesting take on magnetic pole reversal, I recommend Robert Sawyer's third novel in his "Neanderthal Parallax" series. He suggests that the change would affect the human brain in dramatic ways. |
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| Melody |
| Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 2:00 pm |
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Bart, don't the Earth's magnetic poles reverse every so often? Weren't humans of some form or other present the last time this happened? Is there scientific evidence that our brains go wonky during a magnetic pole reversal?
Couldn't I just look this stuff up myself? Yeah, and I probably will since I find it fascinating. But I'd like to hear Sawyer's theory.
Which reminds me ... I wonder if there are any interviews with Damon Lindeloff or the other Lost writers where they discuss their favorite authors or sources or muses. THAT would be an interesting read. |
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| bart |
| Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 2:25 pm |
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IIRC, Sawyer speculated that it would cause activity in the temporal lobes which can (in fact) cause a sense of PRESENCE, i.e. some entity is there. Religious people tend to interpret this effect as a divine presence.
I'm not sure how much Sawyer just pulled this out of his, ah, lobes, but it seems like there was some incidence of people getting MRIs (MRI = giant magnet pointed at your head) and having temporal lobe seizures. Sawyer also theorizes that certain neurons in the brain have enough iron in them, or magnetite, to be somehow affected by magnetic fields. It is factual that Canada geese and other migratory species DO have magnetite in certain cells in their brains, which sets up some kind of special navigation sense. |
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| Mrs.LShap |
| Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 10:26 pm |
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Melody,
Thanks for the link. It's a very interesting theory! |
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| bart |
| Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 12:48 pm |
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I missed the repeat of Hurley's "Numbers" ep last night, and was wondering if anyone watched and was able to see just whose foot he did step on in his airport sprint? Was it Libby, the shrink and tail-sectioneer?
Grace really got me wondering about this, and the whole "plant" aspect. |
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| grace |
| Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 1:26 pm |
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bart,
Last night's ep was the first Hurley one (I think it was the first, anyway), where he won the lottery and all the bad luck hit. The run through the airport was on the other Hurley episode. Dang!
Still, last night's was still a good one, worth seeing again. I loved the guy falling by the accountant's window, and that basically all Hurley needed was someone to say "You know, you might be right. Maybe the numbers were a curse" and he was able to let it go a little. (The nutty Frenchwoman provided that, towards the end.)
Also liked the Charlie/Hurley bit at the end, where Charlie confesses he "was" a heroin addict -- I don't remember if it was pre- or post-detox -- and asks for Hurley's deep dark secret. Hurley finally tells Charlie, and he's like "Okay, so don't tell me, after I've bared my soul..."
Then -- I noticed the episode was written, or at least partly, by David Fury, an old Buffy guy, and realized why I liked it so much. This episode, in my warped perception, anyway, had some Buffy-ness to it.
With regard to Libby, I kept an eye out for her in the background at the mental institution (since she's some kind of psychologist), but didn't see her. Conspiracy theorist that I am, I was halfway expecting to see her CGI'd into a scene, since I'm fairly sure she was cast later, not in the first round. |
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| Mrs.LShap |
| Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 9:22 pm |
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I was also scutinizing the whole episode trying to catch a glimpse of Libby. Rumour had it that she would be seen.
I'm glad I watched it though because it reminded me that Locke was interested in Claire & her baby back then. He definately had/has some kind of alterior motive. Who knows whose side he's on...[/i] |
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