What is RaceFail? I've seen this mentioned on two blogs so far. I thought it was a BBC reality series, but now, I'm guessing a blog kerfuffle?
I'm enjoying your Lost analysises, mostly because my memory of some of the prior episodes isn't that clear. I'd been trying to figure out where I'd seen Horace before. Amy also seems familar. And for a bit I was wondering if Ben Linus was Amy and Paul or Amy and Horace's kid - which of course makes no sense, considering he came to the island with his father and wasn't born there.
Miles - I'm guessing may have also been born on the island. He was getting headaches and a bloody nose before Sawyer and Juliet. It was Charlotte, then Miles, then the others. Daniel told Miles and Charlotte - that they've clearly been on the island much longer than they realized. So I keep waiting to see where Miles came from - I'm guessing the son of the guy in all those videos.
Also, I'm waiting to catch up with the Dharma Initiative sequence at the very beginning of the season - where we see Daniel Faraday in a DI uniform working at the Orchid, with the head scientist - the guy in those videos passing him and informing everyone to stay away from the power center or very bad things will happen.
As for the triangle of doom? Don't you mean "quadrangle" of doom? After all - before Jack left the island - Juliet clearly had feelings for him and Kate was jealous of Juliet and Jack. Nice twist - having Juliet and Sawyer - the people left behind, while Kate and Jack allegedly rode off into the sunset beyond the island, end up happily ever after - so to speak. Kate and Jack meanwhile are anything but happy. And did not exactly end up together. The opposite of what one expect. (I'm not shipping any characters on this show and really don't care who ends up with whom.) Sort of feel sorry for Juliet, who I'm beginning to like quite a bit at the moment.
I think Sayid is clearly back in 1974 with Jack, Kate and Hurly. Remember he disappeared in a flash of light as did Jack, Kate and Hurly. While I'm not sure about Sun - according to the Lock episode - Sun and the Captain/Pilot (Fayad?) took off in the boats together for the other end of the island, before any of the other passengers could protest. My guess is that Lock, Sun, Ben and the Captain as well as the passengers from the current plane crash are in the present or 2009.
As for changing time? I think it is more than likely they may end up doing something in the past that will screw up the present. Since Faraday keeps mentioning how impossible it is. Except - when he said it was impossible they were jumping around in time, being thrown out whenever they came close. So there's two possibilities - now that they are stuck in the past:
1. The old genre trick - where their travel back in time is what makes certain events that happen on the island later, possible. (ie. The Purge, Ben becoming who he is now, or even the creation of the smoke monster, or the button that Desmond has to push.)
2. the butterfly effect - where they inadvertently change something in the past - such as saving Amy's life, causing irrevocable changes in the present. It's possible that because Amy was saved and Juliet was there to deliver her child, that Horace never gets involved with Olivia. And Amy's child whomever he is - could potentially change the course of events. That's just one possible example.
I've seen both done numerous times. I like option two, but only if we don't hit the reset button, which I find annoying. I don't think the writers plan to do that...hit a reset button, because they appear to have actually read up on the science of time travel and are not using it as a gimmick a la Heroes.
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I'm enjoying your Lost analysises, mostly because my memory of some of the prior episodes isn't that clear. I'd been trying to figure out where I'd seen Horace before. Amy also seems familar. And for a bit I was wondering if Ben Linus was Amy and Paul or Amy and Horace's kid - which of course makes no sense, considering he came to the island with his father and wasn't born there.
Miles - I'm guessing may have also been born on the island. He was getting headaches and a bloody nose before Sawyer and Juliet. It was Charlotte, then Miles, then the others. Daniel told Miles and Charlotte - that they've clearly been on the island much longer than they realized. So I keep waiting to see where Miles came from - I'm guessing the son of the guy in all those videos.
Also, I'm waiting to catch up with the Dharma Initiative sequence at the very beginning of the season - where we see Daniel Faraday in a DI uniform working at the Orchid, with the head scientist - the guy in those videos passing him and informing everyone to stay away from the power center or very bad things will happen.
As for the triangle of doom? Don't you mean "quadrangle" of doom? After all - before Jack left the island - Juliet clearly had feelings for him and Kate was jealous of Juliet and Jack.
Nice twist - having Juliet and Sawyer - the people left behind, while Kate and Jack allegedly rode off into the sunset beyond the island, end up happily ever after - so to speak.
Kate and Jack meanwhile are anything but happy. And did not exactly end up together. The opposite of what one expect.
(I'm not shipping any characters on this show and really don't care who ends up with whom.) Sort of feel sorry for Juliet, who I'm beginning to like quite a bit at the moment.
I think Sayid is clearly back in 1974 with Jack, Kate and Hurly. Remember he disappeared in a flash of light as did Jack, Kate and Hurly. While I'm not sure about Sun - according to the Lock episode - Sun and the Captain/Pilot (Fayad?) took off in the boats together for the other end of the island, before any of the other passengers could protest. My guess is that Lock, Sun, Ben and the Captain as well as the passengers from the current plane crash are in the present or 2009.
As for changing time? I think it is more than likely they may end up doing something in the past that will screw up the present. Since Faraday keeps mentioning how impossible it is.
Except - when he said it was impossible they were jumping around in time, being thrown out whenever they came close.
So there's two possibilities - now that they are stuck in the past:
1. The old genre trick - where their travel back in time is what makes certain events that happen on the island later, possible. (ie. The Purge, Ben becoming who he is now, or even the creation of the smoke monster, or the button that Desmond has to push.)
2. the butterfly effect - where they inadvertently change something in the past - such as saving Amy's life, causing irrevocable changes in the present. It's possible that because Amy was saved and Juliet was there to deliver her child, that Horace never gets involved with Olivia. And Amy's child whomever he is - could potentially change the course of events.
That's just one possible example.
I've seen both done numerous times. I like option two, but only if we don't hit the reset button, which I find annoying.
I don't think the writers plan to do that...hit a reset button, because they appear to have actually read up on the science of time travel and are not using it as a gimmick a la Heroes.
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