My Thoughts on Lost Season Six Premiere
I'm not one of those people who blog endlessly about every episode of Lost, but I do have my theories. Below are just set of random thoughts about the season six premiers (LA X). This is, of course, going to be of no interest to most of you, but I am bored and avoiding work right now.
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Random Lost Thoughts
Whatever sank the island, it was not the blast from 30 years previous. The presence of the Dharma shark would indicate that the Dharma Initiative still managed to set up shop and perform most of their experiments. In Season One, the pilot tells Jack that the plane was off course when it hit turbulence by like a thousand miles. In the Season Six premier though, the plane flies directly over the submerged island. Maybe somewhere along the way somebody tried to move the island but wound up sinking? Or, maybe, the alternate realities and timelines started with Ben moving the island, it did appear to sink at the end of season four, and that the incident actually prevented the island from sinking.
It would be in keeping with Jack's bad decision making. Think about it, his decision not to save the young Ben Linus, figuring that Ben was the cause of all their problems in the future, instead wound up making Ben into the bastard he was as he was saved by being taken to the temple.
My head hurts thinking about it, and I realize it does not 100% fit with the timeline, but I think there some basis for the thinking. So Ben moves the island but sinks it and sends instead. As Jack and company are thrown back in time they detonate the bomb which creates the incident
Did Hurley hear the numbers in the alternate world? Was he in Australia to do a commercial for his chicken restaurants? Outside the terminal Hurley is on the phone talking about Outback Roasters and some beef over the name, presumably with Outback steakhouse. This would seem to imply that despite a different realty, fate still put all these people together.
A lot was made about Jack's hair and it's length (in the premier his hair on the airplane scene is longer, as it is on the island, while in the series pilot his hair was much shorter). I think the producers just took an easy way out on the hair because it would have required the actor to wear wig half the time. Given that they could barely make Jack's beard look real they probably figured they were done with fake hair and would explain it away with some parallel universe mumbo jumbo.
Charlie's hair was also shorter. The Hobbit is in another TV series where his hair is shorter.
Did anybody else hear jet sounds when Miles was trying to commune with Juliet's body? Did Miles tap into the parallel world? At the time everyone I was watching the premiere with thought, and I agreed, that the weird look on Miles' face as he stared at Sayid's body was because he could not hear or get a read on Sayid. But earlier in the episode Miles tells Sawyer when he is asked to commune with Juliet that "That's not the way it works" implying that it is harder to communicate with the dead that simply tapping into their thoughts. Does Miles now have a conduit into the other universe?
I may be mistaken, but Hurley was not wearing a red shirt in the season five finale. As we pick up the story this season suddenly we see that Hurley is wearing a red shirt. Is Hurley a goner? They have put a red shirt on him before, including in the first season and later in another episode where he imagined killing himself, but now with things wrapping up Hurley may be soon heading for his own date with destiny and may buy the farm before the end of the series.
Anyone who has ever driven out (or been driven out) of LAX can tell you that, in the middle of the day, nobody is going to be able to peel out and make a quick getaway the way Kate's cab driver did. This was like a 24 moment, like when Jack Bauer would tell people he would be across town in 15 minutes when in reality the same drive takes an hour-and-a-half.
The Smoke Monster/ Man-in-Black loves his loopholes. He needed a loophole to find a way to kill Jacob. He also found a loophole around the ash circle of protection. When one of Jacob's bodyguards used a circle of ash to protect himself, the smoke monster found a loophole around that by shaking the room violently until the man was knocked out of his circle.
There you have it. If you're wondering what the image to the left is, it is a graphic novel I wrote some time back for DC Comics. It has to do with the work I am avoiding and, on a very peripheral level, would be something that Lost fans might enjoy. If you like your science fiction with a dose of super-heroes and a dash of conspiracy you should like The Griffin. Someone on Amazon is selling the book for like five bucks, well worth a look.
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Random Lost Thoughts
Whatever sank the island, it was not the blast from 30 years previous. The presence of the Dharma shark would indicate that the Dharma Initiative still managed to set up shop and perform most of their experiments. In Season One, the pilot tells Jack that the plane was off course when it hit turbulence by like a thousand miles. In the Season Six premier though, the plane flies directly over the submerged island. Maybe somewhere along the way somebody tried to move the island but wound up sinking? Or, maybe, the alternate realities and timelines started with Ben moving the island, it did appear to sink at the end of season four, and that the incident actually prevented the island from sinking.
It would be in keeping with Jack's bad decision making. Think about it, his decision not to save the young Ben Linus, figuring that Ben was the cause of all their problems in the future, instead wound up making Ben into the bastard he was as he was saved by being taken to the temple.
My head hurts thinking about it, and I realize it does not 100% fit with the timeline, but I think there some basis for the thinking. So Ben moves the island but sinks it and sends instead. As Jack and company are thrown back in time they detonate the bomb which creates the incident
Did Hurley hear the numbers in the alternate world? Was he in Australia to do a commercial for his chicken restaurants? Outside the terminal Hurley is on the phone talking about Outback Roasters and some beef over the name, presumably with Outback steakhouse. This would seem to imply that despite a different realty, fate still put all these people together.
A lot was made about Jack's hair and it's length (in the premier his hair on the airplane scene is longer, as it is on the island, while in the series pilot his hair was much shorter). I think the producers just took an easy way out on the hair because it would have required the actor to wear wig half the time. Given that they could barely make Jack's beard look real they probably figured they were done with fake hair and would explain it away with some parallel universe mumbo jumbo.
Charlie's hair was also shorter. The Hobbit is in another TV series where his hair is shorter.
Did anybody else hear jet sounds when Miles was trying to commune with Juliet's body? Did Miles tap into the parallel world? At the time everyone I was watching the premiere with thought, and I agreed, that the weird look on Miles' face as he stared at Sayid's body was because he could not hear or get a read on Sayid. But earlier in the episode Miles tells Sawyer when he is asked to commune with Juliet that "That's not the way it works" implying that it is harder to communicate with the dead that simply tapping into their thoughts. Does Miles now have a conduit into the other universe?
I may be mistaken, but Hurley was not wearing a red shirt in the season five finale. As we pick up the story this season suddenly we see that Hurley is wearing a red shirt. Is Hurley a goner? They have put a red shirt on him before, including in the first season and later in another episode where he imagined killing himself, but now with things wrapping up Hurley may be soon heading for his own date with destiny and may buy the farm before the end of the series.
Anyone who has ever driven out (or been driven out) of LAX can tell you that, in the middle of the day, nobody is going to be able to peel out and make a quick getaway the way Kate's cab driver did. This was like a 24 moment, like when Jack Bauer would tell people he would be across town in 15 minutes when in reality the same drive takes an hour-and-a-half.
The Smoke Monster/ Man-in-Black loves his loopholes. He needed a loophole to find a way to kill Jacob. He also found a loophole around the ash circle of protection. When one of Jacob's bodyguards used a circle of ash to protect himself, the smoke monster found a loophole around that by shaking the room violently until the man was knocked out of his circle.
There you have it. If you're wondering what the image to the left is, it is a graphic novel I wrote some time back for DC Comics. It has to do with the work I am avoiding and, on a very peripheral level, would be something that Lost fans might enjoy. If you like your science fiction with a dose of super-heroes and a dash of conspiracy you should like The Griffin. Someone on Amazon is selling the book for like five bucks, well worth a look.
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