Comments on: Time Travel Easter Egg?

By: Erik

Erik — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 01:03:42 +0000

…anyone out there catch the quick EasterEgg in The Substitute?

Locke’s teaching class in the “flash sideways,” and, on the chalkboard (top let corner,) is some sort of bookmark-shaped hieroglyphics piece of fabric.

I’m interested to know the translation of it, especially since it’s placed in the “what WOULD have happened?” atmosphere!

Erik
OceanicAirlines

By: imfromthepast

imfromthepast — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:08:50 +0000

Illundiel, again, I will accept rules as laid out by a movie/tv show even if I don’t agree with them, but the application of those rules should at least be consistent. I loved BTTF even though i disagreed with it’s portrayal of time travel to my core, but I respect that it wrote it’s rules, and stuck to them.

I would even be willing to accept the rules of Frequency as laid out by the movie (ie the wood burning and missing hand) if the show was consistent about it. But like I said, the wallet didn’t fit those rules. Or maybe it did, as I type these words, I thought of a way to iron it all out.

Never mind. I’ll drop that one.

However, I feel the need to point out the irony of your use of the word “immediately” in the context you used it.

By: dp2

dp2 — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:25:37 +0000

Yes, I’ve read (and enjoyed) your time travel articles (also your story, but I’ve fallen behind on that). I’m open to ideas that allow deja vu, though. It doesn’t take much to imagine under the rules Lost has written. Maybe everyone is like Desmond to a degree, with memories running both ways, and Desmond simply had his amplified.

By: jimmy zer00

jimmy zer00 — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 11:53:04 +0000

Though I’m glad Christopher LLoyd got some work out of it.

By: jimmy zer00

jimmy zer00 — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 11:52:09 +0000

The cartoon is probably the main reason that I think 3 is as corny as it is.

By: Illundiel

Illundiel — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:10:28 +0000

well Frequency from a phsysics standpoint was far more believable in regards to time travel because anything that happens in the past would immediately effect the future. The whole reason it didn’t in BTTF was because Marty was not in his own time at the time(that he was getting erased)…I noticed the Sawyer and Juliet thing too and thought something was going on since day 1 and now the Season 5 ending just makes me that much more excited for Season 6(although I don’t think multiverse, hyperspace, or many worlds theories will apply at all)

By: Illundiel

Illundiel — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:07:50 +0000

Dr. Jacob stepped into the Quantum Leap Accelerator and vanished….he awoke on an island…

By: Illundiel

Illundiel — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:04:25 +0000

nothing wrong with part 3. and simplevincent I have the cartoon series on tape, major win

By: imfromthepast

imfromthepast — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 02:04:32 +0000

Yeah I am!

By: Shinto

Shinto — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:00:53 +0000

I don’t agree. Hazmat suits are a staple part of any story involving a plague. And blue VW vans were quite common in the 1970s (being a child of the ’60s and ’70s, I remember that quite well), so it was natural to use them for Dharma. I think the BTTF connection is pure coincidence.

By: Shinto

Shinto — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:59:06 +0000

Now you’re just being silly.

By: imfromthepast

imfromthepast — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:08:42 +0000

as a story-telling device it’s cool, but there is no reasonable basis for it. Not in my mind anyway. To me that kind of meta-timeline stuff doesn’t make sense, like in Frequency, that otherwise cool Dennis Quaid movie. The part where Dennis Quaid is burning his desk, and the burn mark is appearing on Cavesel’s desk, or when he shoots the bad guy’s hand in the past and suddenly the bad guy’s hand in the present shrivels up. You have crap like that in the movie, and yet when he decides to leave the wallet under the floorboards and Cavesel finds it it’s all dusty as if it has been there the whole time. The wallet part makes sense to me, but the rest of it doesn’t.
Same with the de-ja vu idea, I think it’s a cool idea that appeals to my emotional side, my rational side balks.

By: imfromthepast

imfromthepast — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:00:03 +0000

thanks!

By: GeigerCounter

GeigerCounter — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 11:11:05 +0000

yeah, part 3 was the weakest, but still an OK movie

By: simplevincent

simplevincent — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 07:34:13 +0000

start it! that’s amazing!

By: simplevincent

simplevincent — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 07:27:11 +0000

**a vague attempt to spookify this even futher**

http://tinyurl.com/yckju6a

-same color scheme (not the same type) BUT from alias…

By: simplevincent

simplevincent — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 07:20:53 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWeOqWa3-ZM

double post wonk

By: simplevincent

simplevincent — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 07:18:54 +0000

plus one, part three was the worst.

do you remember the cartoon?

By: timmmmm

timmmmm — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:53:51 +0000

Not only that, but during early Season 1 (not sure exactly which episodes) I’ve noticed two lines that seem throwaway at first, but definitely could be easter eggs. In “Walkabout,” when Jack says they have to burn the bodies because they don’t have time to figure out everyone’s religion, Charlie says: “Really, last I heard we were positively made of time.”

Also, in “House of the Rising Sun,” when Michael is flipping out on Jin for attacking him he says: “Hey, why let a $20,000 dollar watch go to waste which is ridiculous since time doesn’t matter on a damn island.”

I’m sure there are more too, but those are ones I’ve noticed so far.

By: dp2

dp2 — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:19:43 +0000

Yes, but I wonder if they experience deja vu or some similar sort of echo when things happen that have a global history but are in their personal future. Perhaps Locke’s leg went bad when he neared the drug plane because he was near where Ethan shot him in the past (I realize it started to go bad earlier, but I like the idea). The Sawyer-Juliet encounter seemed strange to me even when it first aired.

By: The Magician

The Magician — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:45:03 +0000

Yeah, I always thought it was because he was selfish and cowardly back then.

By: Illundiel

Illundiel — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:32:28 +0000

character development, not a continuity error

By: jimmy zer00

jimmy zer00 — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 04:36:31 +0000

bout time to watch them again then. except part 3.

By: jimmy zer00

jimmy zer00 — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 04:35:50 +0000

You’re a cleverly optimistic little shipper, you are

By: Theory156

Theory156 — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 04:16:03 +0000

Of course if you search for it on Google you’ll find it. That’s what google is for, search and find. I think the point Past is making simply that it may be more than coincidence. I personally can’t think of any popular culture movie or tv show other than lost and now BTTF that has utilized that exact VW. That’s not to say there aren’t others, but the fact that this is a time travel movie and has a van the exact same as the Dharma vans, I think is pretty darn cool. If it is just a coincidence I still think it’s cool! So there. Nice Find Past!