tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post6569478083674051087..comments2024-03-28T18:01:28.997-04:00Comments on What's Alan Watching?: Lost: He seems to have an invisible touchAlan Sepinwallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03388147774725646742noreply@blogger.comBlogger55125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-7789914325168862932007-05-15T11:52:00.000-04:002007-05-15T11:52:00.000-04:00That sand is possibly volcanic ash - something the...That sand is possibly volcanic ash - something the Losties haven't bothered with before now. <BR/><BR/>What happens if there's an eruption???Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-75628462815329012242007-05-11T18:08:00.000-04:002007-05-11T18:08:00.000-04:00^ That, and looking like Harry Potter when young a...^ That, and looking like Harry Potter when young and psycho-bug-eyed freak when adult :-DAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-32764049657361318262007-05-11T16:43:00.000-04:002007-05-11T16:43:00.000-04:00Why, thanks, Andrew! Glad you like my theory. Mayb...Why, thanks, Andrew! Glad you like my theory. Maybe Ben made up an explanation for his people when Claire showed up super-duper preggo and didn't spontaneously go into early labor/death spiral. Perhaps that was the reason for kidnapping her and giving her these injections. To give a reason why Claire's baby survives...it was conceived off of the island, plus they could give her some magical injection that might ward off some made-up illness. This would keep the Others believing Ben.<BR/><BR/>Remember how there was the secret room where the ultrasound was? And Sun asked why they would need a secret room? Juliet explained that this is where the women went to die...perhaps this is the room where Ben kills the women and babies. I don't know...just a theory here.<BR/><BR/>I just don't think they would have shown us how Ben came into the world without it meaning something about how Ben operates and how he thinks. Clearly, the death of his mother (and him being blamed for it) is something that drives him even in the present.K J Gillenwaterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12023089365553324315noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-36069962463364677252007-05-11T15:02:00.000-04:002007-05-11T15:02:00.000-04:00Kristin:I think your Ben's killing the babies theo...Kristin:<BR/><BR/>I think your Ben's killing the babies theory is fantastic. What a twisted tactic to maintain control; contrived but not so contrived as to be beyond belief. I'd prefer that be the answer as opposed to some mystical island reason that only affects children <I>conceived</I> on the island. It's like the only reason Claire's alive is Ben simply didn't have time to get to her.<BR/><BR/>Also, has it dawned on anyone else that even with the 2010 deadline we will still never see Sun come to term unless they dramatically speed things up (which begs the question of what were to happen should any of the actresses on the show become pregnant in real life).Andrew Dignanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03535783608109870688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-85981167675135632452007-05-11T13:53:00.000-04:002007-05-11T13:53:00.000-04:00A few more thoughts:I'd have to go back and look, ...A few more thoughts:<BR/><BR/>I'd have to go back and look, but was the ash circle around Jacob's cabin, or around the mass grave? Is it magic to keep Jacob in the cabin, or to keep Locke's body/soul in?<BR/><BR/>I wonder if the women on the island didn't have the pregnancy problem until after Ben, but he's not causing it directly. His father told him so often that it was his fault his mother died in childbirth, from that point on, on an island that brings forth your desires and helps you resolve your issues, his secret desire made all births kill the mothers, so his circumstances wouldn't be special anymore and he wouldn't feel guilty. Thing is -- he feels MORE guilty, hence the research.<BR/><BR/>If Danielle is Annie (the names have do a similarity about them), it wouldn't be a stretch for survivors of the Dharma purge to lie about their pasts to the rest of the islanders. Ben did. But is she faking an accent, too?Davyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09332729248943434130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-85555295867691156382007-05-11T11:34:00.000-04:002007-05-11T11:34:00.000-04:00I guess I'm coming at the show from a completely d...I guess I'm coming at the show from a completely different angle than most of you, because this episode just pissed me off. I'm interested in plot advancement. I'm not as interested in character development and creepy hints of shadowy things.<BR/><BR/>I'm sick of getting jerked around by the writers, and that's how I felt after they introduced yet another mysterious something (an invisible guy -- Is he in charge? Is he in trouble? Why should I care when I won't get an answer for three years?) and kept on with the ridiculous Jack and Juliet subplot (Is she good? Is she bad? Who cares as long as the writers can chew up whole episodes with ambiguous signs!) without answering any meaningful questions about any of the other mysterious somethings they've strewn all across the island.<BR/><BR/>Depending on what happens in the last episode (I don't watch the previews), I may be wandering off again. I didn't watch season 2 because I was so pissed off about the end of season 1. I can walk away again and find something to do with my time that doesn't frustrate me so much.<BR/><BR/>Maybe hearing that they're going to take three years to make 48 episodes put me in a bad mood before I ever watched this, but they're on a short leash with me. I think this could have been an amazing series if they'd taken three seasons to do it.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12943843895362650422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-77746798837750695372007-05-11T09:56:00.000-04:002007-05-11T09:56:00.000-04:00Ooh, Kristin, eerie: my wife, who never watches th...Ooh, Kristin, eerie: my wife, who never watches this show, watched last night, and at one point said, "Ben's killing the mothers."Abbiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07870171611538822211noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-78582697316739090032007-05-11T01:20:00.000-04:002007-05-11T01:20:00.000-04:00At least we know why the Dharmans aren't around an...At least we know why the Dharmans aren't around any more. So why is Mikhail "allowed" to live outside The Others' compound? I'm still not clear on that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-58589227939856609932007-05-10T21:25:00.000-04:002007-05-10T21:25:00.000-04:00A question...did I hear correctly when Mikhail tol...A question...did I hear correctly when Mikhail told Ben that Naomi (the parachutist who had the book "Catch-22" in Portuguese) said her ship was 130 klicks west of the island?<BR/><BR/>Another question...were the Portuguese guys at the end of season two on a ship in the Arctic/Antarctic or in a listening post?<BR/><BR/>Final question...if they were on a ship, could it be the same ship that Naomi referred to? Could that ship possibly be THAT close to the island?<BR/><BR/>Just wondering...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-80612801331698876902007-05-10T21:06:00.000-04:002007-05-10T21:06:00.000-04:00I thought that, too, about Ben's mother dying. But...I thought that, too, about Ben's mother dying. But he, the baby, survived, unlike all the babies on the island. Now I'm wondering if maybe Ben is engineering the deaths of these mothers & babies for his own twisted reasons.<BR/><BR/>Remember how he said episodes back that he doesn't want anyone to leave the island, but he had the sub there so that they could *believe* they could go back. Could it be that is the only reason he brought back Juliet? To make it *seem* like he brought her there to find out why women couldn't carry their babies to full term...but really he was involved in killing the babies/mothers all along? Why else would he want to keep tabs on the Losties and their possible pregnancies? If their babies/mothers don't die in the same way, the Others will begin to wonder what is going on with their women/babies.<BR/><BR/>If the *real* Others (i.e. the natives) are eternal and unaging, why would they need children at all??K J Gillenwaterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12023089365553324315noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-59678044293713981652007-05-10T18:03:00.000-04:002007-05-10T18:03:00.000-04:00I dig that wacky theory, Anon. I read another theo...I dig that wacky theory, Anon. I read another theory elsewhere that felt it might be volcanic ash and tie in to the volcano stuff we saw last night.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-36168041207863102282007-05-10T17:52:00.000-04:002007-05-10T17:52:00.000-04:00Wacky theory: Weird sand/ash around Jacob's cabin...Wacky theory: Weird sand/ash around Jacob's cabin = dormant smoke monster. <BR/><BR/>Maybe Jacob's consciousness drives the monster.<BR/><BR/>Stranger things have happened...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-11485554823267403072007-05-10T17:08:00.000-04:002007-05-10T17:08:00.000-04:00Anon: I definitely thought so....Anon: I definitely thought so....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-88599959248259544552007-05-10T17:07:00.001-04:002007-05-10T17:07:00.001-04:00Jim Treacher: that makes a heck of a lot of sense!...Jim Treacher: that makes a heck of a lot of sense! Thanks. I'll go back and peruse that part of the episode.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-8043416239713490522007-05-10T17:07:00.000-04:002007-05-10T17:07:00.000-04:00Does anyone think it is significant that Ben's mot...Does anyone think it is significant that Ben's mother died at around the same time during her pregnancy as the Island women who also died while pregnant?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-85163214533227032482007-05-10T17:06:00.000-04:002007-05-10T17:06:00.000-04:00Also: last night, as Emily (Ben's mom) was going b...Also: last night, as Emily (Ben's mom) was going back into the jungle (she was wearing a blue dress,) my husband remarked that she reminded him a bit of Alice in Wonderland. I agreed.<BR/><BR/>Anyone else think this?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-62855915275181876612007-05-10T17:05:00.000-04:002007-05-10T17:05:00.000-04:00Wasn't there some sort of P.A. announcement when t...Wasn't there some sort of P.A. announcement when they first came to the island that everybody would get the daily code to turn off the fence? He probably got it from his dad when he was passed-out drunk.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-36565717769480004452007-05-10T17:00:00.000-04:002007-05-10T17:00:00.000-04:00I just thought of a question. I'd really like to h...I just thought of a question. I'd really like to hear people's opinions on this: how do you think young Ben was able to get the numbers that turn off the sonic fence?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-90059147300426388012007-05-10T16:51:00.000-04:002007-05-10T16:51:00.000-04:00benaiah - Rousseau was part of Dharma? Did I miss...benaiah - Rousseau was part of Dharma? Did I miss something? I thought her ship crashed and the others in her crew died (or something else happened to them). <BR/><BR/>Alan - my guess about the ashes: volcanic ash. Which would tie it to the volcano lesson in Kid Ben's classroom. What does it all mean? I have no idea.<BR/><BR/>By the way, I like how Locke bringing Ben his dead father in exchange for answers mirrored Dorothy bringing the Wizard the Wicked Witch's broom... again, no idea why this matters, but I like it.Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02239086941985919886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-76694833728338981062007-05-10T16:50:00.000-04:002007-05-10T16:50:00.000-04:00Benaiah: I've often wondered how is it that Ben is...Benaiah: I've often wondered how is it that Ben is Alex's "dad." However, I would have a very hard time believing a plot that made Rousseau, Annie. They look and sound so very, very different. I just don't see any way they could be the same person. It's a cool idea in theory...anyone else's thoughts?<BR/><BR/>I wonder if anything will come of Ben actually killing his own father while Locke had someone else do it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-37946125408415951872007-05-10T16:38:00.000-04:002007-05-10T16:38:00.000-04:00This episode is a perfect example of them seeming ...This episode is a perfect example of them seeming to give us answers but only raising more questions. But unlike that stretch in the middle of the season, they did it very well.<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://losteastereggs.blogspot.com/2007/05/11-frames-of-jacob.html" REL="nofollow">Click here</A> for the screencaps of Jacob. He's definitely some kind of ghost-pirate. Or at least somebody from ye olde days. And is it just me, or does he sound a lot like Clancy Brown?<BR/><BR/>Whoever cast the kid who played young Ben deserves a raise. That kid had the Ben Stare down pat.<BR/><BR/>Yeah, Jon Gries was Lazlo in Real Science, and also Uncle Rico in Napoleon Dynamite. And he was on The Pretender for a long time. <BR/><BR/>Kat already got to my O'Quinn joke in the very first comment. Damn it!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-21692576702183427202007-05-10T16:30:00.000-04:002007-05-10T16:30:00.000-04:00Great episode, and it is nice to see the parallel ...Great episode, and it is nice to see the parallel mentioned that Locke and Ben both had to kill their fathers to join the Others. Fathers are a connection to the past off the island, so the Others are like a weird cult that requires physically cutting any links with that baggage. Since everyone on the beach has Daddy issues, there is going to be some serious carnage.<BR/><BR/>Prediction one: Locke can't die or the show will be in serious trouble.<BR/><BR/>Prediction two: Ben will die, even though he provides 90% of the forward momentum at this point.<BR/><BR/>Prediction four: Anne, the girl who carved the statue for Ben will turn out to be Rousseau. Ben was playing with the doll recently, which shows that he hasn't forgotten, and Rousseau was once a member of Dharma. Alex is adopted by Ben because he loved Anne, and perhaps Ben's undoing will be involved in this revelation.Benaiahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15970449360270088624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-61734495154123515812007-05-10T15:43:00.000-04:002007-05-10T15:43:00.000-04:00Which reminds me of a theory that was floating aro...<I>Which reminds me of a theory that was floating around a few years ago, that the Others are descendants of the folks who were on the Black Rock.</I><BR/><BR/>Or The Other ARE the folks who were on the Black Rock.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-2704472461265725712007-05-10T15:27:00.001-04:002007-05-10T15:27:00.001-04:00I saw this point on TWoP and I think it was worth ...I saw this point on TWoP and I think it was worth mentioning: The Others are officially scary again. <BR/><BR/>They were scary once. Really scary. Remember the black smoke? And then it seemed like they were just misunderstood. They were like our Losties. Hating the others was just ethnocentric and closed minded.<BR/><BR/>But the Hostiles are officially scary again. Benocide and mass graves, creepy invisible leader people, immortal people, dead people, etc. And the whispers are back, which is scary too.<BR/><BR/>The Others are scary again and I like it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-77752252842460101592007-05-10T15:27:00.000-04:002007-05-10T15:27:00.000-04:00"You're all just a bunch of degenerates!" "We are?..."You're all just a bunch of degenerates!" <BR/><BR/>"We are? What about that time I found you naked with that bowl of Jello?"<BR/><BR/>"You did not!"<BR/><BR/>"This is true." <BR/><BR/>"I was hot and I was hungry!"Alan Sepinwallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03388147774725646742noreply@blogger.com