tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post5742103160821886596..comments2024-03-19T05:50:19.572-04:00Comments on What's Alan Watching?: Lost, "Confirmed Dead": Who you gonna call? Miles!Alan Sepinwallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03388147774725646742noreply@blogger.comBlogger95125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-63235718817860204542008-02-15T01:39:00.000-05:002008-02-15T01:39:00.000-05:00I like this show but I don't go over it with a com...I like this show but I don't go over it with a comb like I do with The Wire, for instance.<BR/><BR/>I've seen a few things mentioned here that I must have missed or perhaps didn't pay enough attention to back when I almost quit on the show in the middle of season two.<BR/><BR/>So, where's the best site to hit to catch up all the details; however small they may be?<BR/><BR/>ThanksDennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09130711642386374186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-60591042297179171362008-02-15T00:32:00.000-05:002008-02-15T00:32:00.000-05:00Abbadon's photo set of the team put me in mind of ...Abbadon's photo set of the team put me in mind of the original Mission Impossible, where Jim Phelps pulled his team from a binder full of candidate 8x10s. <BR/><BR/>Amazingly, with dozens of distinctive talents to choose from, he picked the same five guys for every mission in the season. Never thought outside the box.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-32134400296204570902008-02-14T18:27:00.000-05:002008-02-14T18:27:00.000-05:002 things: There's all the talk of CS Lewis / Prin...2 things: There's all the talk of CS Lewis / Prince Caspian relating to Lost on ABC, right? Just got the annual report for Disney (who owns ABC)... on the back cover is a big promotional page for Prince Caspian movie! LOST IS A LONG / BIG AD FOR THE MOVIE!? Disney owns both ABC and the movie! <BR/><BR/>Oh, and the helicopter - the tail number, while having some of the numbers from the hatch, appears to belong to a helicopter owned by a real company (Rotorcraft) that a) didn't rent their copter to lost for filming b) doesn't seem to be related at all to Lost. Just like getting your phone number in a movie - the producers just didn't check into who owns it / didn't make up a fictional tail number? they wouldn't screw upthat way? They needed to use that tail number?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-54522603855510969052008-02-12T23:49:00.000-05:002008-02-12T23:49:00.000-05:00Maybe do a quick summary, and then a longer versio...Maybe do a quick summary, and then a longer version the day later. Keep everyone happy :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-43954849581477816862008-02-12T13:21:00.000-05:002008-02-12T13:21:00.000-05:00All this talk of parallel universes makes me wonde...All this talk of parallel universes makes me wonder whether that photo of Ben could have been taken of a parallel Ben - a Ben that doesn't live on the island?television inspection clubhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17016406620546332449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-981794795483202142008-02-11T14:44:00.000-05:002008-02-11T14:44:00.000-05:00anonymous- ben may have disabled dharma's ability ...anonymous- <BR/><BR/>ben may have disabled dharma's ability to find the island with the jamming coming from the looking glass. just a guess.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-38680326210527327062008-02-11T13:38:00.000-05:002008-02-11T13:38:00.000-05:00OK, let's assume that the freighter team is sent b...OK, let's assume that the freighter team is sent by Dharma, to get Ben as revenge for him ruining the operation by gassing everyone and joining with the "hostiles". So my question is: why now? If your answer is "because blowing the hatch made the island visible", think harder. Dharma always knew where the island is--remember the food drop? So...was it the plane crash? What about 815's crash suddenly made the Dharma people decide "hey, it's been years since our operation was destroyed--let's go get the guy!" I don't know. And if they're not Dharma? Who are they?<BR/><BR/>Alan, my vote is for you to write detailed, well-thought-out critiques, and post them whenever you're done, even if it's a day later. Your writing and analysis is why people are here. They can go elsewhere for their instant gratification.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-73576732213573916132008-02-10T12:41:00.000-05:002008-02-10T12:41:00.000-05:00m.chavez - people knew when they found the VW bus ...m.chavez - people knew when they found the VW bus and the skeleton who it was? Sorry, I didn't realize that. I thought it was later when ben had the flashback to killing his father that it all fit together (and earlier in the show when he got his clothes - roger workman). Bet before that? There was ways to tell that was his father? What were those? I guess I missed things!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-53742035203298449682008-02-09T21:43:00.000-05:002008-02-09T21:43:00.000-05:00To the person who asked way back towards the begin...To the person who asked <I>way</I> back towards the beginning of the comments whether the female voice on the phone saying that Minkowski was busy was Naomi - it was Zoe Bell. I can't wait to see what she does on this show.JChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11251502182111287115noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-13610032270754076802008-02-09T15:51:00.000-05:002008-02-09T15:51:00.000-05:00There's a book called "The End of Time" By Julian ...There's a book called "The End of Time" By Julian Barbour who is kind of a counter cultural physicist for lack of a better description. <BR/><BR/>He believes that time is an illusion of the human mind and the proof of it is that quantum mechanics works. Basically he postulates that since electrons and other particle really behave based upon probability functions, then there must be other much more complex probability functions for all things. Therefore, anything has a certain probability of appearing anywhere at any time. <BR/><BR/>This could explain ghosts, deja vu, time travel, and pretty much everything we have seen in Lost, except maybe the smoke monster. The skeleton of the polar bear has a certain probability of appearing in a desert in Tunisia even though it died on the island, it would normally be very low almost nonexistent but when it died on this wierd island perhaps the laws of quantum mechanics are out of wack. Or the dharma initiative just could have had an experimental station in a Tunisia but that would be boring.<BR/><BR/>The Faraday effect does involve light and magnetic fields and light would look "weird" aka "be out of phase" if passed through a dielectric medium with a strong magnetic field applied. <BR/><BR/>This is probably exactly what makes the island so hard to detect unless you push that button and release the magnetic energy, hence get rid of the magnetic field for awhile.Cousin Donhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08523186868781861931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-77124650013355572632008-02-09T03:57:00.000-05:002008-02-09T03:57:00.000-05:00What I'm really happy about is that we're almost g...What I'm really happy about is that we're almost guaranteed an ep or two with Greg Grunberg!<BR/><BR/>And I'm sorry to nitpick your post, baba, but many of us knew that the dead guy in the van was Ben's dad. It was properly explained, you just had to catch the clues.JMChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16527612988543040489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-85909218500316526852008-02-08T23:36:00.000-05:002008-02-08T23:36:00.000-05:00Alan! Hi from a friend of Mona, Arnie and Evan!I ...Alan! Hi from a friend of Mona, Arnie and Evan!<BR/><BR/>I love reading your articles and people's posts. I'd like to offer some of my own thoughts.Some thoughts about Lost.<BR/><BR/>First, this is the greatest show I've seen and can't believe how I mull over shows during the week till the next one. Only 8 episodes for the season : ( ?? And just 3 seasons left : ( <BR/>Keep in mind JJ and the rest are good. all the pages devoted to the numbers and everything else are likely for naught. The one thing I use as an example - the VW microbus and the skeleton. Did anyone figure out that was Ben's dad? Let alone how he wound up there? So the question of who's in the coffin is 99.999% unanswerable - we likely haven't met that person yet. Don't get me wrong - debating these things, making the websites and blogs is great to do and read! But how much has turned out to be right?The tail numbers of the helicopter - N842M - 8 and 42 are from the hatch. Any significance? Google 'N-Number Inquiry' and enter that tail number in the landings.com search... it comes back to a real listing of a helicopter owned bym a company in Montana that doesn't look like a hanso type of Lost related website. They aren't in the office now (11PM), but I'd be curious if they've been getting lots of calls. The producers likely could have made up a tail number that isn't real (unlike the passenger info number that they made a point to own). Or was the need to mix some hatch numbers into the mix outweigh their need to keep this company from getting bombarded with calls? <BR/><BR/>those background tories about the new people. who's to say they took place before they were sent on the mission? Charlotte got back home and got paid lots of money and can throw it around now to get to the polar bear site and knows the dharma logo from this trip to the island? The plane was found after things happen on the island - conventional wisdom is that they all died (as the guy told naomi when putting together the team), but the plane was found some time after the team went to the island? yeah, naomi said when she first was on the show that the plane was found and there were no survivors. just keep in mind they've had flash forwards already.. these teram flashes could also be flash forwards - dan doesn't remember the mission for some reason, but enough to get emotional about it? the tv made a point to say the bodies were unrecoverable (when the picture of the pilot was on the screen), so real ID that these are the passengers can't be made?<BR/>and the plane in the fish tank just before the pilot on TV - the team sunk the (or another) plane and he was reliving that? <BR/><BR/>It's fun to guess, but JJ isn't giving away things yet and likely without key info, you are just guessing (again, who guessed that was ben's dad that Ben killed himself?!)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-20329525815579579982008-02-08T22:54:00.000-05:002008-02-08T22:54:00.000-05:00Okay, this parallel universe thing is growing on m...Okay, this parallel universe thing is growing on me. That would explain Jack's reference in the flash forward to his father being upstairs at the hospital - his father is still alive in that universe. And maybe Kate isn't a fugitive in the parallel world, explaining her freedom in the flash forward. Hmm.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-65075970074032736082008-02-08T20:36:00.000-05:002008-02-08T20:36:00.000-05:00So what's the significance of charlotte wearing a ...So what's the significance of charlotte wearing a bullet proof vest-expecting trouble?<BR/>Alan-take your time-i don't think you rushed when you were doing your NYPD Blue recaps and they became just as vital as the show itself (for me)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-67465148270082902102008-02-08T15:48:00.000-05:002008-02-08T15:48:00.000-05:00I like Naveen (and Sayid), but Jorge put on an act...I like Naveen (and Sayid), but Jorge put on an acting workshop last week. He was amazing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-25165288657768978112008-02-08T15:44:00.000-05:002008-02-08T15:44:00.000-05:00Yeah, I mean, I can see how Desmond might choose t...Yeah, I mean, I can see how Desmond might choose to go with Jack. It's just that it seems like something that should have been <I>shown</I>, not assumed. Because I assumed Desmond would go with Hurley. Maybe they did show it, though, and I missed it? That's what I mean...I feel like I've lost track of Desmond.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-91657824688807401402008-02-08T15:34:00.000-05:002008-02-08T15:34:00.000-05:00Plus Jorge Garcia is a better actor than Naveen An...<I>Plus Jorge Garcia is a better actor than Naveen Andrews.</I><BR/><BR/>Meh, don't agree with that. To each their own, I guess. I think both are fine actors. I just hope Naveen Andrews gets more screen time, and soon. I love me some Sayid.<BR/><BR/>Alan, like others have said, whatever you decide to do in terms of blogging for Lost is alright by me. I'll be reading no matter what.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-60975107818496602472008-02-08T15:24:00.000-05:002008-02-08T15:24:00.000-05:00"What? Desmond went with Jack? Why? He's the one w..."What? Desmond went with Jack? Why? He's the one who told everyone that Charlie said it wasn't Penny's boat."<BR/><BR/>Christy, he probably took that into account, but he's been on the island longer than most of them, save for Ben, Alex, Rousseau, but he's the one of that bunch who really wants to leave.<BR/><BR/>He wants to get back to Penny, and even knowing that's not Penny's boat, he could still see it as the best means to get back to her.Toby O'Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06999037844031101965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-37692454732321144982008-02-08T15:23:00.000-05:002008-02-08T15:23:00.000-05:00So either time is moving slower on the island, or ...<I>So either time is moving slower on the island, or I should just repeat to myself, "It's just a show, I should really just relax."<BR/></I><BR/><BR/>If they had MST3K'd the season 3 finale instead of doing pop-ups, it would have been so much more entertaining. In fact, that's what they should do with next week's "enhanced" repeat.<BR/><BR/>Re: Lapidus' beard & such: Maybe he already had some facial hair to begin with, so there wasn't so much to grow out? The pic of Greg they used showed him with a big moustache, so it's not like facial hair was completely forbidden for Oceanic pilots. Lapidus could also be naturally hairy, like one of those werewolf-lookin' mofos :-DAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-26494938497585494822008-02-08T15:02:00.000-05:002008-02-08T15:02:00.000-05:00On the parallel universe theory:The only reason th...On the parallel universe theory:<BR/><BR/>The only reason the other pilot thinks it was not Greg Grunberg in the downed plane is because of a missing wedding ring. That's it. A person from a parallel universe is *similar* to a person in our universe, but not identical. Not everything would be the same. So, in the parallel world it could be the Greg Grunberg pilot wasn't married.<BR/><BR/>I am still stuck on what Jack said at the end of the season last year - "We weren't supposed to come back, Kate." Why? And what really answers that for me, is because they don't belong there. And why don't they belong there? This is not their world.K J Gillenwaterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12023089365553324315noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-17588480984258234292008-02-08T14:11:00.000-05:002008-02-08T14:11:00.000-05:00Well, we know Desmond's a time travelerI am an idi...<I>Well, we know Desmond's a time traveler</I><BR/><BR/>I am an idiot, I completely forgot about Desmond. Of, course there have been time travel clues.<BR/><BR/>I do think time is moving slower off the island. One of the new people (forget which) asked if they had been living there "this whole time." In the scheme of things, 3 months isn't that long. But a year or so, is.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-14272780988677853262008-02-08T14:05:00.000-05:002008-02-08T14:05:00.000-05:00jim treacher,just because lapidus is working in th...jim treacher,<BR/><BR/>just because lapidus is working in the bahamas, doesn't mean he owns the shop. Maybe he moved there and got a job there. That could happen in those 100 days, easy.<BR/><BR/>Plus, he "claims" that he was supposed to be the pilot of 815. Ok, let's take that at face value. He doesn't say why he ended up not flying the plane.<BR/><BR/>Maybe he had some mental breakdown or otherwise left the airline weeks or months prior to the flight. There's plenty of time for his beard/hair to grow out. I don't think this is as much of a glitch as people are making it out to be.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-20978794738069626982008-02-08T13:31:00.000-05:002008-02-08T13:31:00.000-05:00Plus Jorge Garcia is a better actor than Naveen An...Plus Jorge Garcia is a better actor than Naveen Andrews.<BR/><BR/><EM>Greg Grunberg played the pilot?</EM><BR/><BR/>In the pilot, fittingly enough.<BR/><BR/>Yeah, not only does Lapidus have a beard and long hair, but apparently he's set up his own tour-guide business in the Bahamas, from an office that looks like he's been living in it for 10 years. So either time is moving slower on the island, or I should just repeat to myself, "It's just a show, I should really just relax."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-86727305144136585002008-02-08T13:14:00.000-05:002008-02-08T13:14:00.000-05:00Hurley has probably saved more lives through his k...Hurley has probably saved more lives through his kindness and negotiating skills (and van driving) than Sayid has with his combat training. Sometimes heroism isn't all about being able to snap someone's neck like a twig.Cinemaniahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12742365356939303431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-50281408474881677862008-02-08T12:50:00.000-05:002008-02-08T12:50:00.000-05:00Hurley might be a hero too, but Sayid is the man i...Hurley might be a hero too, but Sayid is the <B>man</B> in my book. Not only can he break your neck with his feet while his hands are tied behind his back, he's sexy as all hell. I'd much rather have Sayid have my back then poor gigantic Hurley... although he can mow down people with a VW like nobody's business.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com