They were building outpost stations over hallowed land sacred to the indigenous Hostile peoples.
The Hostiles huddled in the surrounding wilderness, mostly leaving the clueless Dharma Geek-droids to their business, but keeping constant watch and biding their time.
The Dharma went their merry way, continuing to violate the sanctity of Jacob’s Island with mines and labs and factories. They gathered around them an unsuspecting community of innocents,
protected only by a fragile sonic shield and the swiss cheese security of their crackpot police force.
Unbeknownst to the Dharma, however, the Hostiles had taken possession of one of their own, the bugeyed son of the town drunk, and were reprogramming him to infiltrate and destroy their placid, complacent society.
Nominally in charge of Dharmalala, as best as can be humanly guessed, is the hairy man known as Horace.
However, not even Horace has any apparent control over the resident guntoting genius, Radzinsky the Radical.
It is also unclear where the chill Dr. Chang ranks in the power hierarchy. He is there to monitor the electromagnetic mining projects being drilled into the heart of Jacob’s Island, but he often seems like just another victim of the DI machine. Is he just a college professor who got duped into dying in a tropical hellhole?
The rarely seen Pierre Chang took center stage this episode, along with his long lost son, Miles Straum.
Like its archetype obsessed ancestor, Star Wars, Lost runs primarily on high octane father/son duels.
This episode was no exception. It just had a different feeling to it. There was no mano a mano, no violence. It was almost tender.
No hands were lost in the making of this episode. (That might come later, though!)
A little refresher course in the history of Chang is probably in order. Dr. Chang is a man of many names. We first met him as Marvin Candle in the Swan Orientation Video, later as Mark Wickmund in the Pearl video, while in the Orchid orientation film, he had assigned himself the name of Edgar Halliwax. All theories about Chang possibly being one of four identical quadruplets were finally put to rest in the Comic Con 2008 video, where he admitted once and for all he was indeed the one and only Chang.
In some of his films, Dr. Chang has use of both arms and hands. In others, his left arm looks limp. It is an established urban myth among Lost-maniacs that Chang at some point lost the use of his left hand and/or arm, which would be an echo of a favorite Star Wars theme – the amputation of appendages.
We know that Chang sent his family away from Jacob’s Island long ago, and that Mama Chang took her bitterness about this betrayal with her to her grave.
The Comic Con 2008 video also revealed that Dr. Chang knew what the future held in store for him. Probably he was protecting his family from the Incident that was coming, which would be followed by the genocidal Purge, which would in turn be followed by the infamous Reign of Bugeyed Ben. And if you listen to the videotape, it’s clear which time traveler sets him straight. Daniel Faraday, back from Ann Arbor, Swan suited up to return to his time travel battles in the belly of the beast.
We don’t know if Pierre Chang ever noticed that his little baby son had an odd psychic deformity. We do know that Baby Miles grew into a sad, haunted child.
He was chased through life by the unchained chattering of dead people desperately seeking to unload their final secrets on him. And since it didn’t seem like Mom was the communicative type, he grew up angry and confused, selfish and greedy and manipulative and so badly misguided that he ended up stealing his fashion style from
Rufio, leader of the Lost Boys.
Eventually Miles’ special powers brought him to the attention of some of those seeking to exploit the Island’s magic, and back he came to the land of his birth.
The title of the episode was Some Like It Hoth, one of the more blatant clue titles of the season. It didn’t take much thinking to rule out the first association, the old cross dressing masterpiece, Some Like it Hot.
Hurley and Miles had a bit of a buddy act going on, but happily, it didn’t include any makeup or high heels.
If you wanted to stretch, and look for seriousness in an episode that didn’t have much, you could rearrange the word puzzle and find a bit more Egyptology in the title. Some Like I, Thoth?
Thoth is another one of the many, many Egyptian gods. This one is considered the heart and tongue of Ra, the one who makes the Sun God’s will known through speech. Maybe that was part of the title reference. Maybe, kinda sorta. There were a few echoes back to our friendly Egyptian gods and their death fetish. There was a bit of bodysnatching going on, complete with a pretty funny reference to the famously missing corpse of Jimmy Hoffa.
And Janitor Jack (hee!) was seen scrubbing away an Egyptian history lesson from the classroom blackboard. Was this erasure meant as a reminder that those who refuse to learn from the past are doomed to repeat it?
The most obvious reference in the title was a callback to those halcyon days of science fiction glory, when The Rebel Alliance managed to evade the Imperial Army and escape from the planet of Hoth – an ice planet where Wampas, much like our own tropical polar bears, dragged people into caves to terrorize and devour.
The polar bears were only there in this episode for the poop jokes and the storytime. But they were there.
Like every other Star Wars fan, Hurley spent the episode second guessing George Lucas’s story choices. Hugo would have gone for the more emo hug-it-out solution to the Bad Dad situation. None of that metaphorical castration or terrifying revelations. So, hey, since The Empire Strikes Back is the only Star Wars film that Lucas didn’t write himself, maybe it will turn out to be Hurley who really wrote it!
In Lost, the Swan Hatch was built to mine the powers of the electromagnetic beast that lurks beneath the surface of the Island. We’ve known since Season Two that the Swan Hatch had a powerful magnet behind its concrete walls.
But the Dharma mineworkers were encountering this magnet raw. Where Desmond’s fillings only ached when he was trapped in the Swan, this poor schmuck had his filling ripped out right through the top of his head.
Maybe we can think of Dharma Village as an Echo Base, where the Rebels hide behind a shield generator, relying on their remoteness to protect them from the outside world. Just as Hoth was a society of tunnels and caves, both Dharma and Hostiles have mined beneath the Island. So much that happens in this story takes place underground, below the surface – not just of the Island itself – but just below the surface of our comprehension out here in the audience. We never really know what’s going on, but once in awhile we kind of feel it coming together.
In our efforts to keep track of all the subterranean subconsciousness, we have learned to rely on the helpful Easter Eggs the writers so generously toss our way each episode. This episode was like the clearance rack at supermarkets the week after Easter, just a bargain basement sale of clues and teases and wink-nods. Get your notebooks out, kiddies.
The white rabbit was back.
And with our lucky number 8 no less.
Though the number 4 was having a good day as well,
being very much a featured number this week.
One of our new favorite numbers, 316, was out and about.
Just so we don’t forget our Bible lessons during this detour into pop culture. The only question is which only begotten Son will be the lucky one who gets to sacrifice himself for the world his Father so loved.
In Janitor Jack’s classroom, we saw flowers and butterflies,
as we’ve often seen before.
And the star picture at the bottom here, right below the erupting volcano,
looks almost like it was swiped straight off of Kate’s old refrigerator!
Do those arts and crafts mean anything, or are they laughing at us with “clues” like that? Sometimes it seems like you don’t know where to stop with this Easter Egg hunting. You start going a little nuts with it. Like, does it mean anything that the shirts are all plaid?
What about those wild horses over Lara’s death bed?
Was it just me or did anyone else think of The Secret Garden when Chang opened the gates to the Orchid?
Was this the kind of “Circle of Trust” Horace had with LaFleur?
And what was up with Hurley being too demure to say the word FART?
Gregg Nations, the writer of this episode, gets the award for lamest joke in any Lost episode ever, by having Sawyer say this one: “Ever feel like the little dutch boy with his finger in the ….Doc?”
Ew.
I also gotta say, that I am no Star Wars expert, not by a long shot, but even I know that Luke Skywalker lost his hand before he found out Darth Vader was his Fatha.
This was also not a good episode for the Big Four. Sawyer, baby, you know I love ya, but you’re slipping. Any halfway competent Conman would have thought to call Miles and get the videotape removed before he got filmed on it.
It didn’t occur to Juliet that she’d need a cover story for Ben’s disappearance until Roger stumbled back from the errand she’d sent him on.
The Kuliet ship got yet another lame scene of chick bonding through gritted teeth.
Can we quit with the Kuliet scenes? I think we get it, guys. They don’t hate each other even though they are in love with the same man. Again.
Kate popped a Bud with her new BFF, Roger Workman. Which didn’t work out too well, since next thing he was angrily staggering over to Jack, loaded for bear.
Janitor Jack somehow managed, in his uniquely snotty way, to pretty much confirm every one of Roger’s suspicions. Way to go, Jack! You still got it, man.
I wonder if it was foreshadowing the violent end of another father/son pair when Roger “kicked the bucket” across the classroom.
Some people thought it was a shoutout that Miles was reading about the Dodger’s first new manager in 23 years
but I think it was more of a wink to Marty McFly’s find of the Gray’s Sports Almanac.
And naming the football player’s bereaved daddy Mr. Gray was a pointer to that clue as well. But why? Are they telling us that soon our heroes will use their knowledge of the future to rig the past? Or are they just reminding us that Miles, like Biff in Back to the Future II, was a schemer and a money grubber who might be persuaded to use foreknowledge to his benefit?
We found out why Miles wanted exactly $3.2 million dollars from Ben back in the day. Miles had tried to bargain for that amount from Bram in the van. He must have assumed that, since Bram didn’t work for Widmore, he worked for Ben. But was that correct?
When Ben sent Tom off Island to lure Michael into boarding the Kahana as Ben’s spy, Tom tried to prove to Michael that Widmore was bad. He had documented evidence that Widmore had planted graves in the Sunda Trench, trying to fool people into believing Flight 815 had crashed there.
The dead man talking that Naomi brought to Miles had been carrying those incriminating photos. That leans towards Ben telling the truth about who planted the bodies.
So, do Bram – and his riddling buddy, Ilana – work for Ben? Was Bram trying to keep Miles off the boat because his boss, Ben, wanted to keep him away? Bram wasn’t offering Miles any money. He was offering him Enlightenment. Answers. Miles would find out who he was, who his father was, why he could hear dead people, all of it, if he only stayed away from the Island.
Except Miles did go to the Island, he did the opposite of what Bram told him to do, and he has found his father by doing it. Is this another circle? It’s more like a Zen koan. It’s like a riddle that can only be answered when you stop trying to answer it. And when you arrive at your destination by never heading where you’re going, that’s Enlightenment.
Sort of.
Perhaps Bram represents another faction entirely, one that we might think of as a kind of Third Way. He repeated the riddle that his ally Ilana had asked Frank on the beach last week. What lies in the shadow of the statue? We are not getting out of this one easy. This one will take some thinking. It seems a little obvious to me that the thing that lies in the shadow of the statue is the wheel that’s in the well. The wheel in the well is in the shadow of the statue. The vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true. Or something like that.
But maybe we’re supposed to be looking at a different word. What LIES in the shadow of the statue? The monster is a kind of shadow. Is he lying? Has someone lied to him? There’s as many liars on this Island as there are dead people, so I think it’s a distinct possibility that part of this clue involves the act of telling untruths. Words, and all their various meanings, always matter on Lost.
“Think About Temperature.” Hmmm. Let’s think. Temperature. Polar bears in the tropics….Hmmm….You know I’ve been thinking about the temperature for about four years now and it’s still not getting me anywhere. This might be better advice.
“Use Your Imagination.” That seems obvious when it comes to Lost. If we didn’t use our imaginations, we wouldn’t get very far. I think we’ve all tried to imagine what would happen if a body met his own body while coming through the timespace continuum. In this episode we found out. Miles saw his own self as an infant and not a molecule was disturbed in the universe. Another secret video, this one shown only at Comic Con 2007, hinted that it could cause a disaster to encounter one’s own physical self. It’s just a matter of how close you get. Miles kept a safe distance from his own true innermost self.
But he got a little closer to the absent dad he’d spent his lifetime hating. It didn’t have quite the same impact as if Luke and Anakin had dropped the lightsabers and talked it out, but for this one episode at least, Father and Son were allowed a little cosmic harmony.
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great writeup, as usual!
from the “it’s juvenile, but it’s true!” department, that last screenshot shows miles’ form creating a near perfect image of a fine looking breast.
i’m just saying.
Seek help – now!
Great column, fishy! Keep it up. BTW, do you know where Rose and Bernard are hiding?
Use Your Imagination: Bernard & Rose died at the caves. Jack will find their remains.
One small qualm: I believe the picture that Tom shows to Michael depicts that the graves were actually robbed not planted. Those bodies were used to act as the bodies of the Oceanic passengers in the duplicate plane.
So True!!!
While reading your thoughts a thought/theory occured to me. We have been seeing many mysterious underground territories marked with Egyptian hieroglyphs (under the temple, Ben’s house, the FDW). The swan is being built underground of course. Could this be the reason it’s so secretive? All that electromagnetic energy that gave Desmond his ability was being walled up and slightly released every 108 minutes or less. Smokey has been consistently compared to Cerberus (most importantly by Radzinsky’s blast hatch map). This could be in reference to what he and the Dharma folk believe will be released upon the world if not contained (more on that in a sec). The hieroglyphs that appear when the button is not pushed means “underworld.” The giant question mark we see in season 1 seemingly has greater meaning now (as in perhaps the island wanted our 815ers to find and destroy the swan).
My whole theory is that this place will be used to explain god/gods and what we worship, but what if it’s a bit deeper than that? The hints of Shambala/Eden in the Hurley VW Dharma van episode come to mind here. Perhaps we are seeing the original place on Earth. This beautiful island with powers of creation and healing beyond any of our understanding could be the beginning of human life. Cerberus guards this place, as it is not a place for mortal man to venture. It is a place where what we have called (in all our misunderstandings) god dwells. A mysterious entity who judges our souls either worthy for paradise or reshuffles our soul (Mr. Ecko) unknowingly back into an earlier time of our life. We’ve seen Desmond’s knowing consciousness do this, so I really don’t think it’s a huge leap.
So what about the Egyptian hieroglyphs? It’s an ancient language and civilization that had advancements that many civilizations even after could never reach. Perhaps it is being explained that it is the language of origin of Earthly life as we know it.
So what of the impending war? Charles Widmore has allied himself with Dharma (as evidenced throughout the series) to get back and control the island for his own self interests. It is for this reason (and not simply leaving the island) that he was banished.
So why does it want John Locke to destroy the swan? It’s because someone (Hanso) discovered this place. He then heard of a mathematician who had predicted the date of the end of the world through an equation. It became Alvar (descendant of Black Rock survivor Magnus) Hanso’s goal and obsession in life to change this equation. He formed the Dharma Initiative to accomplish just that. Using Valenzetti’s beautiful mind he figures out when and where windows to this place will open (as referenced by Eloise Hawking). He begins bringing his people little by little to the island where he has held the energy underground hostage until he can successfully change the equation and extend life on Earth. I would venture that Ben, Richard, and the indigenous people of the island have a strong felt belief (perhaps all knowing) that they are the good guys because Hanso and Valenzetti had set forth a self fullfilling prophecy that “the others” hope to avoid…
I haven’t seen any evidence that Widmore is working with Dharma. In fact, just the opposite.
The giant question mark is over the Pearl, not over the Swan.
True on the pearl, but it actually fits in better since the pearl was the reason Locke stopped everyone from pressing the button. The evidence connecting Widmore to Dharma (I feel like there was more than this) just off the top of my head would be the painting in his office (we see the word “namaste”), his connection to Paik whose crates were being used in the Dharma drops, and the Black Rock journal which as we know Magnus Hanso (descendant of Dharma creator Alvar) was a crew member of…
I feel like all of Widmore’s “connections” to Dharma have come after the fact, as an attempt by him to learn more about the Island and its whereabouts and how to return to it. Maybe that’s what you meant by “aligned” but I don’t think he and Dharma have the same goals in mind. More like he’s trying to exploit his ties to Dharma for his own personal gain. So, to put it another way, he’s with Dharma but not of Dharma.
Does that make any sense?
Perfect sense, which is what I was trying to convey. Widmore could care less about Dharma’s agenda. He only cares about his own, yet sees Dharma as his way back…
Rufio was the first thing that came to my mind when I saw teenage Miles!
Ken Leung as teenage Miles reminded me of his character in X-men – Kid Omega
I was thinking that the whole time. That’s so wierd.
I totally drew the “goth”-Miles/ Rufio connection too! Great recap, fish.
Also, wasn’t there a small tidbit about this episode, after the press release came out, that it was possibly NOT going to be called “Some Like It Hoth”? I wonder what the other possible title(s) would have been…
Seems clear to me that the focus of the Sports Illustrated should be the heading: “New Boss in LA”. I think it refers to the new 3rd party out there that Bram and Ilana are working for. Possibly Eloise Hawking, who is in LA right now?
thought the same thing. a definite possibility. keep in mind, desmond is in LA too. i loved lasorda.
We are to assume, for now, that Pierre Chang doesn’t know that Miles is his son and that its probably because his DI jumpsuit just says “Miles”. There are other first names too, like Horace and Roger. Then why refer to “Lafleur” and Radzinsky by last names?
…and Hugo Reyes’s jumpsuit says “Hurley” o.O
Awesome ‘Court Jester’ shout-out.
And Thoth: so many threads in this ep: Hurley as scribe; wise counselor & mediator: Miles as mediator for the dead: etc. etc.
I really love these recaps. Thank you.
Wonderful Fishy! Although I’m sure you know this…
Something that has bothered me since the days of TimeCop… re: the same matter cannot occupy the same space… considering our skin sheds and replenishes constantly, it’s not really the same matter… same DNA, of course, but not the exact same body cells…
Then again, I’m nitpicking here.
Fish – So, you think the Hostiles are aware of the Orchid and Swan being built but are just standing back and observing them?
I find it hard to believe that they’re unaware of the two (or more) giant construction sites in their territory, but I also don’t really buy that they wouldn’t do anything about it. Both sides seem pretty uptight about the “truce.”
My theory is that’s why they told Ben to be patient – maybe the WANT Dharma to build these things, and when they’re done, that’s when the Others decide to get rid of the Dharmites.
Makes sense considering they pretended to be DHARMA so the outside intitiative would essentially be faked out…
That’s right, I’d forgotten about that.
lol, swan suited up
combining himym and lost is legend… wait for it… hope you’re not lactose-intolerant, because here comes the… dairy
I watched the video thay you’ve given us a link to again. It would certainly seem that Miles will have a lot to do with “the incident.” It could also go a long way in explaining his ability. This makes me think of Doc’s old “Bad Twin” theory. If I recall it was about tangent universes that had a lot to do with the dark territory. It seems that the bad twin hints may have been valid but because of the paradox coming into contact with one’s self would create…
I was rather underwhelmed by this particular episode…and have yet to go back and watch it. However, I like that your review did bring a few things I flat out missed to my attention like the artwork, the bunny with the number eight stenciled on his ear, and the Egyptian lesson on the chalkboard that Jack was erasing. I feel kind of bad for Ken Lueng, because I think he did his best with a pretty subpar script. If the on-island story would have been stronger, or better yet, the characterization more believable (why exactly does Jin keep disappearing from the story?) it would have been a better, but that’s neither here nor there now. Anyways, enjoyed the review, Fish.
Could it be jughead that lies in the shadow of the statue. Just saying.
The following theory was conceived by Sean Dunleavy, of Bermudas, the blogger at lostbutfound.typepad.com who ahs been proposing for several years that Lost is partly a sociopolitical allegory of american post-911 policies.
This theory, though, has nothing to do with politics, and he presents it as Grand Unifying Theory. Check it out, please:
The Grand Unifying Theory about the Monster, the infection, The Black Rock, the black rocks, Locke’s spinal recovery, Locke’s weather predictions, the strange visions, the psychic powers, the time-travel, the vaccine, the unexplained rashes, and more
The following theory is scruffy and imperfect, but I have a strong hunch it’s on the right track.
Black rock
The Black Rock – a mining vessel – was named after the black rocks abundant on the island. These rocks are the same “non-metallic minerals” that Ben refers to while pretending to be Henry Gale.
The island’s black rocks possess a unique property: Although non-metallic, they are extremely sensitive to certain electro-magnetic (EM) fields – such as the EM fields affecting the island, and the EM fields created by the human central-nervous-system.
If black rock is ground into a fine particulate – whether by natural erosion or by deliberate human action – it can have a variety of environmental, physiological, and psychological effects.
Environmental effects of black rock particles
If released into the atmosphere, black rock particles can “seed” clouds and influence rainfall patterns.
Physiological effects of black rock particles
If ingested – typically via inhalation – black rock particles will be attracted to the electromagnetic fields of the subject’s central-nervous-system, and will “infect” the subject’s brain, spine, and nerves. When the now-charged particles encounter a break in the subject’s nervous system, they travel across it, thereby carrying nerve impulses across damaged areas and restoring nerve-functioning in subjects with spinal injuries. (Note: This is what occurred in the case of Locke, who had his spinal injury cured after he became “infected” by the particle-rich air of the island. It’s also what happened in the case of Jack’s future wife, whom I think Jack’s father secretly infected with black rock particles, in an effort to bring Jack some happiness.)
In rare instances, particle-infection is accompanied by a mild skin rash and fever, lasting only a few days. (Note: Known cases of such symptoms include the rash Sullivan reports to Jack during the golf game, and the fever and rash that Aaron displays not long after his birth.)
Typically, infected subjects are unaware that they have been infected by the black rock particles. This is in large part because the airborne particles are in too low a concentration for the subjects to notice them.
Note that, except in special cases, anyone who breathes the island’s air becomes infected with black rock particles. In other words, ALL OF THE CASTAWAYS HAVE BECOME INFECTED.
Psychological effects of black rock particles
When in the brain, the black rock particles make the subject a powerful transmitter and receiver of electromagnetic information. As a result, infected subjects gain a limited ability to read and influence one another’s thoughts. However, the infected subjects are typically unaware they have this ability, and as such find themselves confused when they experience strange dreams and visions that contain information unknown to the subject but known to others (for example, when Eko dreamed about Ana’s death as it happened).
(Note: The castways didn’t become infected until they arrived on the island, but they remained infected even after they left. This is why they didn’t see strange visions before they went to the island, but see strange visions on the island, and also after they have returned to the outside world.)
Special Effects
Some infected persons may find that their internal particles are sensitive to the black rock particles in the atmosphere; in such cases, an infected subject may find him- or herself able to predict the rainfall patterns of clouds seeded with black rock particles (as in the case of Locke).
In other cases, infected persons may become considerably sensitive to the electromagnetic fields that govern one’s position in time and space. In these special cases, persons may experience their consciousness moving through time in an atypical manner (as in the case of Desmond), or, in rare instances, find themselves physically moving through time and space (as in the case of Sawyer, Juliet, Miles, Jin, Faraday, Charlotte, and Locke, after the island shifts).
(Note that, because the infected person is radiating an EM field, a time-travelling infected person can carry with them any items within the vicinity of their personal EM field.)
Additionally, it is possible for some infected subjects to access artifacts of previously strong EM fields; for example, some infected subjects may find themselves able to detect the lingering electromagnetic patterns of thoughts held by persons now deceased (as in the case of Miles).
Particle Clouds
Although airborne particles are usually not in sufficient enough concentration to be seen by the naked eye, they can sometimes cluster together in densely-concentrated clouds. Such a cloud (referred to by the castaways as a “monster”) will move in a fashion suggestive of it having consciousness. In fact, the cloud is not conscious in any human sense. It only appears to be self-directed because it is responding to nearby electromagnetic fields (in the same way that a pile of iron filings moves in response to the pull of nearby magnets). Specifically, the cloud is responding to the electromagnetic fields of human thought patterns, both those of people presently on the island, and those of people who have been on the island in the past. (Note: These past thought-patterns have been “recorded” into both the particles in the cloud and the rocks of the island). As such, the cloud behaves according to the collective will of the island’s inhabitants, both past and present, living and dead; however, the cloud is most sensitive to the thought-patterns of people nearest to it, or to those of people (or groups of people) holding particularly powerful thoughts.
Even though individuals can exert conscious influence over the cloud, such influence is limited by the cloud being simultaneously influenced by the thoughts of other islanders – both living and dead – and by the cloud responding not just to one’s conscious thoughts, but also to one’s unconscious thoughts, which may be unknown to the person thinking them.
Most – if not all – of the islanders believe the cloud to be a sentient being, and not a reflection of the islanders’ collective thoughts.
Immunity
The vaccine provides a subject with temporary immunity from the effects of the infection.
(Note: That is why, after he takes the vaccine to prove it safe to give to Aaron, Charlie does not experience the bright light and loud noise that accompany the implosion of the Swan Station. It is likely that the light and sound did not exist in the real-world, but only in the minds of infected persons, as a result of the sudden discharge of EM energy overwhelming the black rock particles in their brains. Because Charlie was immune to the infection at that time, he did not experience the perceptual symptoms of light and noise that were experienced by his non-vaccinated companions.)
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Okay, so that was the crash course in the infection/monster theory. So far, the theory’s holding up okay, but we’ll have to see what happens as new information emerges. If you have questions or criticisms, let me know and I’ll adjust the theory as necessary.
Until next time, take care, everyone!
P.S. Walt appears to have been infected before the crash, sometime in his early childhood. That’s why birds fly into windows when he’s around — the electromagnetic particles in his body and brain are throwing off the birds’ navigation systems, which are sensitive to electromagnetic fields.
P.P.S. Ben and (at least) some passengers of Flight 316 are infected too (as evidenced by them perceiving a bright light and loud noise when the Swan imploded).
P.P.P.S. Richard (E.N: and most of the Others, except Juliet), however, does NOT appear to be infected, as he failed to travel through time when the island moved.
from lostbutfound.typepad.com
Real interesting stuff. Thought provoking and screaming for google/wickipedia. My favorite thing about this (the
greatest of all time) show is the way it feeds the mind’s hunger for knowledge long after my formal education days have ended…
Yeah, that’s what I thought. Where the guy really had me was when he mentioned how birds sense electromagnetic fields as a way of navigating when flying around.
Something I was thinking about here was something I was thinking about long ago. Did Walt live on the island? We know his mom left Michael until he was 10…
I don’t think so. He was 11 in 2004 so he would have been on the Island post-Purge, and for a little time anyway, since he remembers being in several other countries in his life.
Not to mention that Walt’s mother received every single one of Michael’s letters. How could she do that from the Island? Extremely unlikely.
Thank you for another great post, Fish.
I wanted to say that it struck me as strange the way Razinksky jumped out of the bushes with his gun pointed when Miles pulled up in the van to pick up the body. Rad said he thought it was Sawyer. Why would he react that way if he thought it was Sawyer? I know Razinski is not a rational man, so maybe it was nothing. I just wanted to share that.
cap10tripps…great comments.
jfitz…Great connection to Los Angeles/Mrs. Hawking. I like that.
hyperRevue… I think alot of us are curious about how the Others seem to have let DHARMA build the Stations. I believe Widmore is involved with DHARMA and perhaps OK’d these projects or pretended to look away, giving his people some story/lie. But The Island and Jacob and Richard and The Smoke Monster? How could DHARMA be getting away with this? I have to believe it will be explained.