Comments on: LOST With Lyndsey… “The Variable”

By: private rentenvorsorge

private rentenvorsorge — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 22:37:35 +0000

Ich würde müssen überprüfen mit Ihnen hier. Was nicht etwas I oft zu tun! I genießen Studium a submit das wird die Leute denken. Auch , vielen Dank für erlaubt mir comment !

By: Blue pinstripe suit

Blue pinstripe suit — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 17:25:17 +0000

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By: Alexa

Alexa — Wed, 06 May 2009 01:54:16 +0000

@ JJStrange

I am glad it didn’t look that way to you: I know it wasn’t intended that way.

I like the way you stated this. I don’t know why she feels like Jack is the one who can redeem her, that she must strive for his approval…oh, yes I do. It is all about daddy issues on the island. Well, at least part of it is.

By: JJStrange

JJStrange — Tue, 05 May 2009 14:38:10 +0000

-Faraday and young Charlotte: I don’t think that was pedophile-ish at all. I do agree that he is looking at her as though he recognizes the woman she will become.

I disagree. Kate is very quick witted, controlling, confident OFF ISLAND..but for whatever reason, when she’s on the island she relents and relinquishes her balls (lol) over to Jack. Kate’s not leading ANYONE on the island…least of all Sawyer! LOL what planet are you on? If you haven’t noticed, Kate and Sawyer have a lot of respect for each other, regardless of the 3 months they spent together on the island way back when…

I think you have this wrong-with all due respect.

By: Alexa

Alexa — Sun, 03 May 2009 00:52:25 +0000

My reply is up here because the reply button after your response, neoloki.

I have spoken to a number of people about the scene as well, and many had varying viewpoints, including the pedophile perspective, as well as a few who felt that the scene fell rather flat. I cannot see how an opinion about how a scene played – and Charlotte said that the man had frightened her – would be offensive to someone personally, but that was not my intention.

I didn’t say that Jack controlled Kate; he attempts to control Kate. He treats her like she is subhuman and that she needs to appeal to him for succor because she is unworthy. This has nothing to do with Kate making her own choices and manipulating people (which is one of her significant defense mechanisms -not that this is acceptable behavior, either). Kate is superficial? I think the writers do not know how to sustain a strong female character and write her that way the last few seasons because they prefer her to be subordinate. She hasn’t played the two of them off of each other (more than any other woman does for entertainment) since early season two, when she realized that she was forcing something with Jack (her disgusted reaction to the kiss she initiated).
Anyway, I would love to hear more of your thoughts.

By: LOST With Lyndsey

LOST With Lyndsey — Sat, 02 May 2009 19:07:39 +0000

Slice, I should never like deprive you of sleep (as a certified insomniac, I do not recommend this to anyone!) thus if you are so inclined you should read my reply to Ambivalentman above, and that should ease your mind re: a snow globe-esque ending. I like your witticisms far to much to risk them being compromised by sleeplessness

By: neoloki

neoloki — Sat, 02 May 2009 16:28:53 +0000

Sorry if a come off as negative. Not my intention. Just typing thoughts.

TV guide confirmed Faraday is dead. I am unhappy about this. He was my new favorite character.

By: neoloki

neoloki — Sat, 02 May 2009 16:25:35 +0000

I’ve talked to a number of people who thought the seen between Faraday and Charlotte was very emotional and moving and I agreed. so when I read the pedophile comment I found it almost offensive it was so misplaced.

Absolutely don’t know what you are talking about, Alexa, with Jack controlling Kate. She seems to be making her own choices quite naturally. By playing Jack off on Sawyer and vice-versa she also is manipulating each to fulfill her superficial whims.

Lindsey, sorry about the issues comment that was rude and unnecessary.

By: Alexa

Alexa — Sat, 02 May 2009 07:42:20 +0000

“Our” not “are.”

By: Alexa

Alexa — Sat, 02 May 2009 07:26:22 +0000

Well, I am glad because I don’t think I am capable of anything else.

Agreed. He went to crazy way too quickly and lost Pierre.

Really. Who leaves their child with a stranger, no matter what profession?

A. Probably true. Is there some kind of portal between the Hostiles’ camp and Daniel and Eloise’s living room? Because it looked to me as if she came directly from shooting adult Daniel to destroying the musical dreams of child Daniel.
B. Good point.
C. No kidding. I would be interested if it didn’t mean that more important things weren’t going to be sacrificed to show the story.

By: Alexa

Alexa — Sat, 02 May 2009 07:23:08 +0000

You are kidding, right? Jack has been treating Kate like crap and attempting to control her since day one. This is one of the reasons are society is so messed up, because we think it is okay for women to be treated as less.

I have loads of issues, like most other people on the planet. I found it to be really creepy. I don’t think that is what was intended but that is how it came off to me.

By: LOST With Lyndsey

LOST With Lyndsey — Sat, 02 May 2009 02:32:32 +0000

Ambivalentman~
I know that they’ve said that they are not going the route of ‘it never happened’, especially since we know that ‘whatever happened, happened.’
In my opinion, the interesting part of that idea would be the actual internal debates of the characters (aside from all the science, mystery stuff.)
I, for one, would love to see some emotional weight brought back. Seasons 1-3 were filled with that stuff, but (for me) it feels like in the search for the answers, the characters have been a bit secondary. I’d love to feel some sense of “my life sucked before I landed on this island (because most everyone’s did,) do I really want to undo it all? Even with everything that has happened, do I want to play out the life I had before?”
I’m a sucker for ‘guts on the table’ stuff.
In summation, I do not really believe that Darlton would end this series with it never having happened. Besides, it’s way too soon to reveal the endgame.
*I’ve also never seen St. Elsewhere. I just know it a great example of a hugely popular series going out with a whimper as opposed to a bang.

By: LOST With Lyndsey

LOST With Lyndsey — Sat, 02 May 2009 02:18:22 +0000

Neo~
I’m assuming that you were not implying that I had indicated that Jack controls Kate…
I quite enjoy Jack. I liked him in the beginning. I liked him on drugs (are you kidding? I LOVED him on drugs…I wanted to save him and shit), and I am thoroughly enjoying the evolution we are seeing now.
So with that clarified, I’m happy to report that I do not, in fact, think that Daniel is a pedophile. Nor do I think pedophiles are funny, though I suppose my sarcasm could be perceived as having been in poor taste. When I said ‘creepy-pedophile,’ I was merely referring to the wild-look in Daniel’s eye and the tears he sheds as he tells Charlotte that she must get on the sub.
Finally, on a completely unrelated front, I most certainly have issues. I like them. They give my brain something to sift through between episodes and in the off-season.

By: Landry B.

Landry B. — Fri, 01 May 2009 19:45:43 +0000

No…and might I say that you can be the most negative person in these rooms neoloki…the camera didn’t show him breathing or not…it showed him “dying” as much as it showed Ben “dying” after sayid shot him…he’s not dead until they burn or bury the body…This is LOST remember?

By: neoloki

neoloki — Fri, 01 May 2009 17:00:11 +0000

Two things: this is not the major character death that is still to come. Also, comic-con video not cannon.We will not see it in the show.

By: neoloki

neoloki — Fri, 01 May 2009 16:55:08 +0000

Great comment.I agree completely. People just like to beat up on Jack and don’t want his character to change. I have enjoyed his character growth.

By: neoloki

neoloki — Fri, 01 May 2009 16:52:47 +0000

this was directed to Happening

By: neoloki

neoloki — Fri, 01 May 2009 16:51:44 +0000

Uhm.. it’s still season 5.

By: neoloki

neoloki — Fri, 01 May 2009 16:49:55 +0000

Your whole Jack controlling and treating Kate like she is nothing is pure drivel. It seems you might be projecting. It has been quite the opposite throughout the series. Kate has been leading both Jack and James around by their noses.

And whats with the pedophile comment? That makes no sense. He loves and cares for the women she will be. It seems you have some issues.

By: neoloki

neoloki — Fri, 01 May 2009 16:44:10 +0000

the camera showed him die!

By: Slice

Slice — Fri, 01 May 2009 16:33:42 +0000

HK – Nice points…when I heard Daniel say, “Anyone of us can die Jack”, I immediately interpreted that as “I AM GOING TO DIE JACK”.

By: Slice

Slice — Fri, 01 May 2009 16:32:57 +0000

Brilliant “Return of the Mack” reference..I had been waiting for that moment since they returned. Jack as a “yes-man” janitor was getting tiresome.

Did anyone else LOL when Daniel walked out of the Oxford graduation with his 80s hairband hair…All I could think of was Tom Keifer from Cinderella…and I thought I could hear “Nobody’s Fool” playing in the distant.

Finally – thanks for the new SERIES FINALE theory. Now I won’t be able to sleep….damn you Lyndsey!

By: Slice

Slice — Fri, 01 May 2009 16:24:25 +0000

All good points, but like Dolce said, this is LOST. If the camera doesn’t show them die, then we can’t assume Daniel is dead. Maybe the “Dorian Gray” Richard will take Daniel to the Temple for healing?

By: faradayslabcoat

faradayslabcoat — Fri, 01 May 2009 14:59:41 +0000

id tend to agree, as the episode closed he was still breathing, the island has the ability to heel people we all know that…plus imdb seems to think that hes in the next three episodes… heres hoping

By: hk

hk — Fri, 01 May 2009 10:55:45 +0000

Reasons why Danliel can’t be dead:
- Daniel and Chang still have to tape a video together after the events of The Variable
- no “death of a major character” theme played

Reasons why Daniel is definitely dead:
- he looked pretty dead
- just a couple of minutes before Ellie shoots Daniel he’s telling Jack and Kate everything he’s about to do – this occurs to me as if Jack and Kate have to complete his mission now
- Charles Widmore says “He *was* my son, too”
- Eloise sending her son to the island, although she knows that she is gonna be (or has been) killing him is a plausible scenario for LOST
- Daniel saying “Anyone of us can die, Jack” very much sounds like foreshadowing

2:5 – advantage “dead”