6.11: "Happily Ever After"
* April 26, 2010. I've developed a wrinkle on this theory, that posits that Desmond1 has already seen the end of LOST2. Check it out here. It's not a switch, it's a ride-along! =)
Jim has this frickin *brilliant* idea about Desmond as of "Happily Ever After" that I just didn't see...
When Desmond2 touches Penny's hand in LOST2 and faints in the stadium stands, it's Desmond1's consciousness that comes to afterward. And crosswhile, back in the EM shed on the Island, after being zapped by the Big Generator, it's Desmond2's consciousness that opens Desmond's eyes and asks Widmore for a hand up from the floor.
The Desmonds have switched bodies (and realities)!
I originally suspected, and I think Jim did, too, that the idea would start springing leaks left and right once you watch the two Brothers continue on their merry divergent ways, but y'know, with a little help, I think it frickin works!
(And of course, me being me, the more I think about it, the more I WANT it to work. =)
The "little help" it needs is a (at least selective, but perhaps complete) transfer of experience and memory between the two Desmonds. Not out of the question given how crossover downloads seem to happen. In fact, de rigueur—see Charlie's, Daniel's, and now Hurley's experiences (actually, Hurley doesn't remember anything, he just figured out the perfect way to keep mackin' on Libby, eh? =). Both Desmonds wake up in alternate realities AWARE of their both realities, and somewhat clued into the idea that events in one effectively created the other, and that together, he* is in a unique position to help save, preserve, or perhaps repair or improve one or both realities.
*Heh, what's the proper pronoun agreement for this situation?
So, Desmond1 wakes up in LOST2 with the understanding that he's just met Penelope for the first time, a decade or so later than he did in LOST1. Also, that the counterparts of his Losties here in LOST2 can be (re?)connected to their other, LOST1, lives and loves with his help, playing the role of cupid and/or chaos. So, with Minkowski's help, he begins tracking and enlightening them one by one. Does he have a specific plan? I don't know. If I were him, tho, I'd want to "wake up" as many counterparts as possible, get them together with the likes of Daniel, Faraday's journal, the DI-Other-1977 cabal of Chang, Alpert, and the Widmores, and perhaps Ilana if she's available on the spot, figure out what's to be done, and do it.
And, Desmond2 wakes up in LOST1 with his longtime loyalty to Charles Widmore intact, a ghost familiarity with the Losties that Desmond1 befriended, and a notion of a mission that he is charged with by Widmore that will help save the world (and Desmond1's Penny and Charlie), altho ignorant of the specific threat to it and its form. It's this frame of mind that causes Desmond to seek Widmore's hand immediately after waking up in the shed. It's this frame of mind that lets him roll so easily with his rescue/abduction by Sayid, whom Desmond1 trusted. It's this frame of mind that keeps him so at ease in the presence of the Locke-ness Monster, whose identity Desmond1 would have no reason to question. Again, you have to ask, does Desmond2 have a specific plan? No. Desmond1's memories tell him that his EM-munity makes him a uniquely qualified agent for Something Important that must be done on the Island, but uninformed of the master plan, all he can do is trust in others to get him where he's needed and tell him what he's to do.
Now, how can the Desmonds help each other or coordinate anything thru the snowglobe / across realities? Well, if anything they're doing DOES need to be done in concert somehow, unfortunately, they ARE in different realities—neither would know what the other is up to or has completed... until/unless of course, one of them goes in for an MRI, or... maybe after a ton of research and surveying, the other happens to gain entrance to a site on the Island, say, at the bottom of an ancient well, that is popping with periodic high-powered EM activity, but, with only six hours of show time left, what are the odds of THAT happening, right?
I love it. =)
Keep on keepin on~
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
LOST: Ray Shephard
5.06: "316"
In my previous LOST post, I commented on how I believe that Christian Shephard was part of an off-Island cabal dedicated to finding-stroke-reclaiming the Island. However, I neglected to mention how the Shephard bloodline seems entwined with the Island for more than one generation back.
Remember when Jack visits his Grandfather at his rest home? Before he leaves for the Island on Ajira 316? He's been told that he needs to escort Locke's body as a proxy for his father's, and to complete the re-creation, he needs to give Locke something of Christian's. Soon after he learns that granddad has made yet another attempt at "escaping" his home...
Ray's just so... knowing, isn't he? Like Santa Claus when a kid surprises him by the fireplace on Christmas Eve, wink and a nod, y'know? Gotta say, it was nice to see Jack be so at ease around his dad's dad, a comfortable manner he lost so completely with his father, if he ever had it.
Anyhow, Ray packed a bag. He's ready to get away in a serious way. Of course, this time, he HAD to get caught, so that Jack would have to come see him and happen upon his father's shoes, but he DOES have a bag packed. And he boasts that when he does get away, they'll never find him. Sound like the Island to anyone else?
In such a short scene, a brief interaction, Ray's character and demeanor impressed so much upon me about a possible backstory and history with the Island. That perhaps he was part of the military contingent sent there in the 50s. Maybe he was judged "good," his name on a list, spared, and allowed to live with the Others for a time. Maybe he was born into Otherhood on the Island. In any case, I imagine he was made leader, and had to turn the wheel to prevent the military from returning. He's since made a home and a family for himself in the world, but understands that the Island isn't done with him, and is content to play his part and perhaps press his son and his son's son into its service.
Seeing him in that home, speaking to Jack the way he does, he reminded me of Captain Pike in "The Menagerie," from STAR TREK, the original series. He is biding his time, doing what needs doing, content with knowing that in the end, he will be rewarded with a return to the paradise of the Island.
Or, kinda like Wilfred Brimley and friends in COCOON, y'know?
Keep on keepin on~
In my previous LOST post, I commented on how I believe that Christian Shephard was part of an off-Island cabal dedicated to finding-stroke-reclaiming the Island. However, I neglected to mention how the Shephard bloodline seems entwined with the Island for more than one generation back.
Remember when Jack visits his Grandfather at his rest home? Before he leaves for the Island on Ajira 316? He's been told that he needs to escort Locke's body as a proxy for his father's, and to complete the re-creation, he needs to give Locke something of Christian's. Soon after he learns that granddad has made yet another attempt at "escaping" his home...
JACK: Will you at least tell me where the bus was headed?And of course, at the end of Jack's visit, we discover that Ray just happens to have just the thing Jack needs to properly accessorize his John Locke action figure—a pair of Christian's shoes.
RAY: Doesn't matter. Anywhere I go is somewhere better than here.
JACK: You packed a bag?
RAY: Of course I did. One of these times, I'm actually gonna get away. They won't ever find me either.
Ray's just so... knowing, isn't he? Like Santa Claus when a kid surprises him by the fireplace on Christmas Eve, wink and a nod, y'know? Gotta say, it was nice to see Jack be so at ease around his dad's dad, a comfortable manner he lost so completely with his father, if he ever had it.
Anyhow, Ray packed a bag. He's ready to get away in a serious way. Of course, this time, he HAD to get caught, so that Jack would have to come see him and happen upon his father's shoes, but he DOES have a bag packed. And he boasts that when he does get away, they'll never find him. Sound like the Island to anyone else?
In such a short scene, a brief interaction, Ray's character and demeanor impressed so much upon me about a possible backstory and history with the Island. That perhaps he was part of the military contingent sent there in the 50s. Maybe he was judged "good," his name on a list, spared, and allowed to live with the Others for a time. Maybe he was born into Otherhood on the Island. In any case, I imagine he was made leader, and had to turn the wheel to prevent the military from returning. He's since made a home and a family for himself in the world, but understands that the Island isn't done with him, and is content to play his part and perhaps press his son and his son's son into its service.
Seeing him in that home, speaking to Jack the way he does, he reminded me of Captain Pike in "The Menagerie," from STAR TREK, the original series. He is biding his time, doing what needs doing, content with knowing that in the end, he will be rewarded with a return to the paradise of the Island.
Or, kinda like Wilfred Brimley and friends in COCOON, y'know?
Keep on keepin on~
Monday, April 19, 2010
LOST: who's steering LOST2, Michael's noise, and "Hasta, Ilana"
6.12: "Everyone Loves Hugo"
THE LOST2 ILLUMINATI.
In LOST1, I suspected that Widmore, Paik, and Shephard had long-term coordinated designs on the Island, its gifts/powers/resources, and each had sacrificed or groomed a child and/or agent to seal a pact as well as play their part in a planned or pre-ordained conflict or regime change on the Island. I think that's what we're seeing now on the Island. Would these families still be working toward the same end in LOST2, with the Island submerged beneath the Ocean? Perhaps, but there are definitely some key figures we've met in pre-Incident LOST1 who live on in LOST2 who could would take on such chess-playing roles in anticipation of a parallel crisis.
Pierre Chang, Miles's father, is a big muckymuck at the Golden State Natural History Museum. He's one of the few people who lived on the Island who knows that there were time travellers among them on the day of the Incident. The others are Eloise Hawking and Richard. Widmore was Other leader at the time, and Eloise's paramour, so I'm guessing that given the identity of the man Eloise shot that day—Daniel Faraday—that Widmore probably knows about the tachyonauts as well. Others who *might* be in the know include Horace Goodspeed and Radzinsky, who were both present for Sayid's interrogation. Whether they survived the Incident and later took Sayid's story to heart, there's no telling yet.
Chang's, Hawking's, and Richard's encounters with the Losties in 1977, along with Faraday's journal and, no doubt, his work with the DI in Ann Arbor, give these individuals some insight in how things played out in LOST1. By comparing the unfolding reality of LOST2 to Faraday's notes and their interactions with the time travellers, they would quickly realize that they're experienceing a different reality, and Faraday's notes and work could give them a rough map of what's to come in the way of spacetime crises and Incident blowback.
What if Chang, Widmore, Hawking, and Richard, DI and Other heavies, in the wake of the 1977 Incident, pledge to pool their influence and resources to save or correct or protect things as best they can.
But what could they do, and what have they done?
Except for Sawyer (aka LaFleur), they know the names of the tacyhonauts, so with the right resources and relationships, they could easily find and track them throughout their lives. Chang's familiar with everyone who "joined" the DI in the 70s. In addition to that contact, Widmore and Richard met young Ben; Young Widmore and Richard have met time-travelling Locke; Richard met Locke as a child, off-Island; young Widmore and Eloise met Charlotte (who didn't survive "to" the 70s).
A "team-up" would allow the Other bigwigs access to DI science, which on one hand would help Widmore industries make substantial leaps in tech and business, and on the other, would give them access to facilities like the Lamppost, which I think could be vital to any reality-manipulating event in LOST2.
Chang follows his wife and child off the Island, and has kept his family close over the years. Qualified to run all manner of superscientific projects at the DI, he's since become a Somebody at this natural history museum, where he's gathered Charlotte as an assistant and drawn the interest of Hugo Reyes as benefactor. He lives in the same city as his son Miles, and has perhaps nudged him in ways to maintain his partnership with Sawyer once he meets him, a man he came to trust for three years on the Island as LaFleur.
Charles and Eloise get married and raise their son Daniel to be a musician. Music is a natural expression of his Island gift, one that Eloise1 coerced Faraday into giving up in favor of physics. (I was hoping that Daniel would be connected to Jack already as son David's piano teacher.) This might have been in part to prevent his mucking about with the timeline, but I see potential in Eloise's guilt at having killed her own son in LOST1 driving her to protect Daniel in LOST2.
And in the meantime, Charles continues with his business empire building, only this time around, he plants his corporate flag in the heart of Los Angeles. I still say as Other leader in the 70s (and 80s in LOST1) he was straddling Island allegiances, involving himself in the DI and his own business in the off-Island world.
He also strikes up an affair with an outsider "again" in LOST2, a Miss Milton, and becomes father to Penelope Milton, Daniel Widmore's half sister. I've still not figured out who of the two of them is older/younger, and the details or the timing of Charles's relationships, but I'm gonna let myself be OK with the idea that they're not all that important.
Eloise carries on as Charles's better half, perhaps tuning her ability to help him build his empire, as well as to track the not-lost Losties over the years. Maybe she really does have a legitimate reason to tell Desmond that he's not ready. She may believe that she has predicted the correct time for Desmond to meet Penny, in 2007, when her LOST1 counterpart sent the Oceanic Six back to the Island, not realizing that 2004 is the correct/actual crisis point?
That's all I've got on this just now.
COSTANZA'S WORLD?
Heh. Apparently in LOST2, at least one of Costanza's lies is made real...
MICHAEL? WHISPERS? REALLY?!
*sigh* Does that mess make any kind of sense?
WHAT THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO DO.
GIVE ME A LEVER...
Keep on keepin on~
THE LOST2 ILLUMINATI.
In LOST1, I suspected that Widmore, Paik, and Shephard had long-term coordinated designs on the Island, its gifts/powers/resources, and each had sacrificed or groomed a child and/or agent to seal a pact as well as play their part in a planned or pre-ordained conflict or regime change on the Island. I think that's what we're seeing now on the Island. Would these families still be working toward the same end in LOST2, with the Island submerged beneath the Ocean? Perhaps, but there are definitely some key figures we've met in pre-Incident LOST1 who live on in LOST2 who could would take on such chess-playing roles in anticipation of a parallel crisis.
Pierre Chang, Miles's father, is a big muckymuck at the Golden State Natural History Museum. He's one of the few people who lived on the Island who knows that there were time travellers among them on the day of the Incident. The others are Eloise Hawking and Richard. Widmore was Other leader at the time, and Eloise's paramour, so I'm guessing that given the identity of the man Eloise shot that day—Daniel Faraday—that Widmore probably knows about the tachyonauts as well. Others who *might* be in the know include Horace Goodspeed and Radzinsky, who were both present for Sayid's interrogation. Whether they survived the Incident and later took Sayid's story to heart, there's no telling yet.
Chang's, Hawking's, and Richard's encounters with the Losties in 1977, along with Faraday's journal and, no doubt, his work with the DI in Ann Arbor, give these individuals some insight in how things played out in LOST1. By comparing the unfolding reality of LOST2 to Faraday's notes and their interactions with the time travellers, they would quickly realize that they're experienceing a different reality, and Faraday's notes and work could give them a rough map of what's to come in the way of spacetime crises and Incident blowback.
What if Chang, Widmore, Hawking, and Richard, DI and Other heavies, in the wake of the 1977 Incident, pledge to pool their influence and resources to save or correct or protect things as best they can.
But what could they do, and what have they done?
Except for Sawyer (aka LaFleur), they know the names of the tacyhonauts, so with the right resources and relationships, they could easily find and track them throughout their lives. Chang's familiar with everyone who "joined" the DI in the 70s. In addition to that contact, Widmore and Richard met young Ben; Young Widmore and Richard have met time-travelling Locke; Richard met Locke as a child, off-Island; young Widmore and Eloise met Charlotte (who didn't survive "to" the 70s).
A "team-up" would allow the Other bigwigs access to DI science, which on one hand would help Widmore industries make substantial leaps in tech and business, and on the other, would give them access to facilities like the Lamppost, which I think could be vital to any reality-manipulating event in LOST2.
Chang follows his wife and child off the Island, and has kept his family close over the years. Qualified to run all manner of superscientific projects at the DI, he's since become a Somebody at this natural history museum, where he's gathered Charlotte as an assistant and drawn the interest of Hugo Reyes as benefactor. He lives in the same city as his son Miles, and has perhaps nudged him in ways to maintain his partnership with Sawyer once he meets him, a man he came to trust for three years on the Island as LaFleur.
Charles and Eloise get married and raise their son Daniel to be a musician. Music is a natural expression of his Island gift, one that Eloise1 coerced Faraday into giving up in favor of physics. (I was hoping that Daniel would be connected to Jack already as son David's piano teacher.) This might have been in part to prevent his mucking about with the timeline, but I see potential in Eloise's guilt at having killed her own son in LOST1 driving her to protect Daniel in LOST2.
And in the meantime, Charles continues with his business empire building, only this time around, he plants his corporate flag in the heart of Los Angeles. I still say as Other leader in the 70s (and 80s in LOST1) he was straddling Island allegiances, involving himself in the DI and his own business in the off-Island world.
He also strikes up an affair with an outsider "again" in LOST2, a Miss Milton, and becomes father to Penelope Milton, Daniel Widmore's half sister. I've still not figured out who of the two of them is older/younger, and the details or the timing of Charles's relationships, but I'm gonna let myself be OK with the idea that they're not all that important.
Eloise carries on as Charles's better half, perhaps tuning her ability to help him build his empire, as well as to track the not-lost Losties over the years. Maybe she really does have a legitimate reason to tell Desmond that he's not ready. She may believe that she has predicted the correct time for Desmond to meet Penny, in 2007, when her LOST1 counterpart sent the Oceanic Six back to the Island, not realizing that 2004 is the correct/actual crisis point?
That's all I've got on this just now.
COSTANZA'S WORLD?
Heh. Apparently in LOST2, at least one of Costanza's lies is made real...
HURLEY: Oh, you know we got the Human Fund next Saturday night... can you make it?I wonder if we'll meet the legendary Art Van deLay before this is all over? He will be revealed as the ultimate power behind the Jacob, Esau, and the Island, played by Bruce Campbell. =)
MICHAEL? WHISPERS? REALLY?!
MICHAEL: Hey!This whole Michael thing seems like a bunch of static. Noise. Jibber jabber with no authority. He never claims to be an agent of anyone else, he just seems to suddenly feel the need to speak up. What does his appearance in this episode actually DO?
HURLEY: What are you doing here?
MICHAEL: I'm here to stop you from getting everyone killed. You gonna say something?
HURLEY: Why should I trust you? You murdered Libby and Ana Lucia.
MICHAEL: That doesn't matter right now. What matters is you going across that island to blow up that plane. People are gonna die. A lot of people, and it's gonna be your fault.
HURLEY: Why?
MICHAEL: Because people are listening to you now, Hurley.
- He clues Hurley into the notion that there should be a way to do the right thing without getting a bunch of people killed. Okay, fine. But I'd think that understanding is totally within Hurley's nature anyhow. He could've turned that corner without a nudge from Ghost Michael.
- He explains/confirms the "mystery" of the Whispers. They are the souls of the dead bound to the Island because of things they did while alive. Totally frickin unnecessary. I really never thought of the Whispers as a huge mystery. I wrote them off as Other ventriloquism, employed by them to terrorize their opponents and victims. When Ben abducts baby Alex, he tells Rousseau specifically to go the other way when she hears whispers in the jungle. He is sparing her and cluing her in on how to survive on the Island with his people. The Whispers are lost souls? Are we to believe that the Others can somehow ORDER or HERD them for use as a spooky special effect whenever they wish? Boo. Lame.
- He lets us, and Hurley, know that Libby isn't one of those souls. He does this by asking Hurley to pass on his apology to her. Well, kind of good to know, but still, big whup.
*sigh* Does that mess make any kind of sense?
WHAT THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO DO.
ILANA: You have to trust me. I've been training my whole life for this.Hurley's not wrong...
HURLEY: To blow stuff up?
ILANA: To protect you.
HURLEY: Yeah, but how's blowing up the plane protecting us?
ILANA: With that plane gone, that thing won't be able to leave the island.
HURLEY: Yeah, well neither will we. And then we'll be stuck here with it and it will be angry at us.
ILANA: Jacob said Richard would know what to do. And Richard said to blow up the plane, correct?Jacob or the Rules or the situation haven't dictated that Richard, Ilana, Jack, Hurley and co have to pursue one and only one course of action. There's no reason that Richard's plan to blow up the plane, which is his interpretation of the last request that Isabella made of him via Hurley, that he keep the Monster from leaving the Island, shouldn't be part of a larger plan that involves Hurley reuniting the Oceanic Six, their pilot, and Desmondo at Esau's camp. Even tho that just happens to be exactly what the Monster needs to re-create their first escape from the Island...
RICHARD: Yes.
HURLEY: Well, Jacob never said anything about it to me. I mean, what if Richard's wrong?Goodbye, Ilana. We hardly knew ya. Having her Arzt out in the very same episode that features Hurley's ghost whispering ability tells me that she may have Kenobi'd herself, the way Jacob did. For the most part, Richard's correct later about how Jacob doesn't tell people exactly what to do, so maybe having Ilana as a dead adviser is just what that gang needs, eh? And I feel like it's a serious longshot, but hey, we may yet see "her" again in LOST2. Recovering from burns at St. Sebastian's? Well, okay, probably not like that, but somewhere in LOST2... Perhaps as Miles's girlfriend? =)
ILANA: Hugo, I'm looking out for your best interests. All of you! Nothing is more important than this! That thing is evil! And God help us if it ever leaves this island! Because if— [*BOOM* goes the dynamite!]
GIVE ME A LEVER...
SAWYER: That gonna be a spear?That staff or spear or whatever it is will be Something Important, mark my words. It will be exactly the thing Esau needs it to be when he needs it.
ESAU: I'm not sure what it's gonna be yet, James. When the time is right, it'll tell me.
SAWYER: You talk to wood now?
Keep on keepin on~
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
LOST: Frickin awesome. =)
6.12: "Everyone Loves Hugo"
"On my god." Out loud, I said it. "Oh my god." I'm watching alone at 1:30 in the morning with dinner after the late shift at vball, and I'm realizing what Desmond's going to do, just as he tells Ben that it was nice to meet him, and I'm saying it, three times, maybe four. Out loud. "Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh. My. God."
And Desmond guns it.
Frickin awesome. =)
Who's next? Who's important, and trackable by Desmond? If we go by the Numbers, we're looking at...
[X] 4 - Locke
[X] 8 - Reyes
[ ] 15 - Ford
[ ] 16 - Jarrah
[ ] 23 - Shephard
[ ] 42 - Kwon.
Will Locke dance at his wedding?
How will the remaining Candidate counterparts reach enlightenment?
I think it would be great if Kate kisses Sawyer as a ploy to get him to drop his guard while she's in custody, but she gets more than she bargained for. They both do. When they kiss, the reality floodgates open, and they DO feel love, but for other people. Sawyer for Juliet, and Kate for... well, since I can't say "herself," I guess I'll go with Jack.
So Sawyer will use his detective resources to happen upon Juliet, and Kate, once Sawyer helps her get free, will seek out Dr. Jack. I'd like to see Sawyer also receive flashes to his connection with Locke via Anthony Cooper. Once he meets Juliet, he'll have his +1 to Helen and John's wedding!
That leaves Jarrah and Kwon. LOST2's Jarrah already has his Nadia, so who or what would serve as a cross-reality catalyst for him? So far we've seen love and physical trauma bust thru realities. Under the love column, a run-in with Shannon could be the spark that lights him up, but I'm not feeling it. Under the near-death/trauma column, a bullet wound might do the trick, eh? A gut shot like the one he died from? Or, even "better..." Torture. Or... an "accident" that nets out to electrocution similar to what he suffered at the batteries and electrodes of Rousseau and Dogen. Or perhaps under the influence of a truth serum type drug, like in 1977 served up by Oldham. If hatred as fiery and potent as love could punch thru spacetime, I'd say an encounter with Ben might do the trick, too.
LOST2's Kwons are actually Paik and Kwon. In LOST1, did Jin ever get to see a print of a sonogram from the medical station? If he did, I'd say that THAT would be the trigger for Sun and Jin, something they'd see on a monitor at the emergency room at St. Sebastian's, right? Maybe it's enough for Sun alone, and then Sun says some phrase in English that resonates with Jin to trigger the LOST1 download for him. Or maybe she says her LOST1 wedding vows and THAT's the trigger, allowing Jin to recite his as well. And—bonus!—both of them get to learn English in an instant!
I think St. Sebastian's as a rendezvous/rally point makes a lot of sense. It doesn't quite allow for a full-on LOSTapalooza the way the wedding of Helen and John could, but it can easily collect all the major players, and in a short time.
Claire might still be there for observation, and Charlie was last seen running thru its halls. They'll find one another. Jin and Sun are no doubt on their way there from Keamy's restaurant. Perhaps Juliet will consult on Sun's case because of her pregnancy? Locke will be sent there, perhaps accompanied by Ben, and maybe Jack will perform miraculous emergency surgery on him. Maybe Sawyer will show up with his freckle-faced fugitive in tow to get both checked out for a concussion or whatnot after the collision and chase scene.
There are still the non-Numbered 815 Losties... Lapidus. Boone. Rose. Bernard. Maybe Anna Lucia, Michael, Eko...?
And those with DI and Other pedigrees... Juliet. Daniel and Charlotte. Miles (and Anna Lucia? Naomi?). Pierre Chang. Horace Goodspeed. And Ben.
Speaking of Pierre... Given the confession by Hurley and adult Miles back in 1977 on I-day, how much does he know and how much is he prepared for in the way of a cross-reality crisis? Has he been keeping an eye out for the time travellers he met back then? That would include man of the year, Hugo, of course. Working at a museum... That might get him access to certain global resources and even artifacts... Hrmmm...
This has been first blush top-o-my-head riffing on just this one aspect of the episode. Will hafta settle and regroup for a more thoughtful brain dump in a future post.
I am not looking forward to not looking forward to LOST.
*Razzle-dazzle!*
Keep on keepin on~
"On my god." Out loud, I said it. "Oh my god." I'm watching alone at 1:30 in the morning with dinner after the late shift at vball, and I'm realizing what Desmond's going to do, just as he tells Ben that it was nice to meet him, and I'm saying it, three times, maybe four. Out loud. "Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh. My. God."
And Desmond guns it.
Frickin awesome. =)
Who's next? Who's important, and trackable by Desmond? If we go by the Numbers, we're looking at...
[X] 4 - Locke
[X] 8 - Reyes
[ ] 15 - Ford
[ ] 16 - Jarrah
[ ] 23 - Shephard
[ ] 42 - Kwon.
Will Locke dance at his wedding?
How will the remaining Candidate counterparts reach enlightenment?
I think it would be great if Kate kisses Sawyer as a ploy to get him to drop his guard while she's in custody, but she gets more than she bargained for. They both do. When they kiss, the reality floodgates open, and they DO feel love, but for other people. Sawyer for Juliet, and Kate for... well, since I can't say "herself," I guess I'll go with Jack.
So Sawyer will use his detective resources to happen upon Juliet, and Kate, once Sawyer helps her get free, will seek out Dr. Jack. I'd like to see Sawyer also receive flashes to his connection with Locke via Anthony Cooper. Once he meets Juliet, he'll have his +1 to Helen and John's wedding!
That leaves Jarrah and Kwon. LOST2's Jarrah already has his Nadia, so who or what would serve as a cross-reality catalyst for him? So far we've seen love and physical trauma bust thru realities. Under the love column, a run-in with Shannon could be the spark that lights him up, but I'm not feeling it. Under the near-death/trauma column, a bullet wound might do the trick, eh? A gut shot like the one he died from? Or, even "better..." Torture. Or... an "accident" that nets out to electrocution similar to what he suffered at the batteries and electrodes of Rousseau and Dogen. Or perhaps under the influence of a truth serum type drug, like in 1977 served up by Oldham. If hatred as fiery and potent as love could punch thru spacetime, I'd say an encounter with Ben might do the trick, too.
LOST2's Kwons are actually Paik and Kwon. In LOST1, did Jin ever get to see a print of a sonogram from the medical station? If he did, I'd say that THAT would be the trigger for Sun and Jin, something they'd see on a monitor at the emergency room at St. Sebastian's, right? Maybe it's enough for Sun alone, and then Sun says some phrase in English that resonates with Jin to trigger the LOST1 download for him. Or maybe she says her LOST1 wedding vows and THAT's the trigger, allowing Jin to recite his as well. And—bonus!—both of them get to learn English in an instant!
I think St. Sebastian's as a rendezvous/rally point makes a lot of sense. It doesn't quite allow for a full-on LOSTapalooza the way the wedding of Helen and John could, but it can easily collect all the major players, and in a short time.
Claire might still be there for observation, and Charlie was last seen running thru its halls. They'll find one another. Jin and Sun are no doubt on their way there from Keamy's restaurant. Perhaps Juliet will consult on Sun's case because of her pregnancy? Locke will be sent there, perhaps accompanied by Ben, and maybe Jack will perform miraculous emergency surgery on him. Maybe Sawyer will show up with his freckle-faced fugitive in tow to get both checked out for a concussion or whatnot after the collision and chase scene.
There are still the non-Numbered 815 Losties... Lapidus. Boone. Rose. Bernard. Maybe Anna Lucia, Michael, Eko...?
And those with DI and Other pedigrees... Juliet. Daniel and Charlotte. Miles (and Anna Lucia? Naomi?). Pierre Chang. Horace Goodspeed. And Ben.
Speaking of Pierre... Given the confession by Hurley and adult Miles back in 1977 on I-day, how much does he know and how much is he prepared for in the way of a cross-reality crisis? Has he been keeping an eye out for the time travellers he met back then? That would include man of the year, Hugo, of course. Working at a museum... That might get him access to certain global resources and even artifacts... Hrmmm...
This has been first blush top-o-my-head riffing on just this one aspect of the episode. Will hafta settle and regroup for a more thoughtful brain dump in a future post.
I am not looking forward to not looking forward to LOST.
*Razzle-dazzle!*
Keep on keepin on~
Monday, April 12, 2010
FLASHFORWARD: an interesting villain...
D. Gibbons. I'm still playing catchup, via DVR, so, a couple episodes behind, I just watched "Blowback." I like the outline of this bad guy, Gibbons. A really clever idea for a supervillain, he's a genius, a hacker, and a thief. He builds his reps, and identities, on knowledge that he steals from brilliant academics and researchers. His hacking abilities allow him access to breakthroughs before publication or practical application, and he is intelligent enough to grasp the ideas and tech necessary to sell them as his own discoveries and apply them to his nefarious ends.
I'm also liking watching Aaron go to war against James Remar and Jericho for his daughter. =)
Keep on keepin on~
I'm also liking watching Aaron go to war against James Remar and Jericho for his daughter. =)
Keep on keepin on~
LOST: Schrodinger's reality and "Happily Ever After"
6.11: "Happily Ever After"
[A summary of some of my jargon... LOST1 is the original show reality. LOST2 is the new, season 6, alternate reality. The snowglobe is the pocket dimension of the Island, and as far as we know, all the people we've met in the snowglobe have their origins and histories in LOST1. This is sort of another POV / follow-up on an earlier post.]
Science nerds, please forgive me while I play fast and loose with concepts as I try to explain...
Schrodinger's cat. There's a cat in a closed box with an infernal device that may or may not release a poisonous gas that would kill the cat. So, from our position outside the box, we don't know if the cat is dead or alive within the box until we open it up and observe it. Until we do that, the cat, according to quantum mechanics, is both dead and alive. This is not how you create a zombie cat (as far as I know, at least), but meant to illustrate the weirdness of quantum mechanics using an easy-to-imagine everyday scale (as opposed to quantum scale) scenario.
OK. Let's do some imperfect substitution. It may be more metaphor and ideaplay than science, but give it a chance.
The cat = reality, off the Island.
Dead or alive = LOST1 or LOST2.
The box = the snowglobe, bigger on the inside than the outside, as from our perspective, it "contains" all of reality off of the Island.
Poison gas = the events unfolding in LOST2 and LOST1 on the Island.
Opening the box = an anti-Incident, or Incident 2.0.
Reality outside the snowglobe has been in flux since Sawyer, Juliet, and company returned from 1977. The off-Island world is in a fuzzy probabilistic state, a question mark that will resolve to LOST1 or LOST2 (or maybe even a re-wound, re-writable LOST1) once an upcoming Incident-like crisis point in one or both realities occurs.
I think Widmore and the nerd commandos know this.
(It may not seem to fit given the pace of events in the show, but remember, time in the vicinity of the snowglobe is quite fluid. So, timing-wise, Widmore and his AIM henchies submarine into the snowglobe just before the time travellers' return. I'm thinking that Charles gave everyone the "we're through the looking glass now, people" speech to his operatives even before he meets Eloise outside Desmond's hospital. Probably soon after he gets Ben's taunting phone call. And if we believe in the Rules forbidding the return of an exile to the Island, Jacob's death apparently annuls it.)
Granted, it would be the most callous thing, even for Charles, to leave his daughter and grandson behind, off-Island, to blink out of existence if they fail (I originally thought that Widmore would save his family, including Eloise, Penny, and Charlie), but think about the sacrifice that Charles plans to ask of Desmond. What better motivation could Widmore give Des than the salvation of his family? His constant.
The sacrifice in that case would be his own life for his family and reality.
What about a harsher sacrifice? The existence of his son? If Widmore can get Desmond to somehow restore LOST1, but rolled back to a point in 2004, his son would not have been born yet, but a lot of tragedy that befell the Losties, could be avoided, and perhaps Penny could beat Charles to the Island and rescue everyone, just the way Desmond envisioned in his Charlie-dies-in-the-Looking-Glass-flash way back when (that's always bugged me and I'm hoping that the creators haven't written it off/out).
Fun-story-wise, I have a suspicion that the LOST1 Good Guys will tragically fall just short of the win in LOST1 on the Island, but, through Desmond's action/intervention in LOST2, the LOST2ers will save the day. So, the Monster's victory in LOST1 on the Island (which would resolve off-Island reality to LOST2) actually plants the seeds of his retroactive defeat. Crazy talk? Perhaps, but hey, it's LOST. =)
Keep on keepin on~
[A summary of some of my jargon... LOST1 is the original show reality. LOST2 is the new, season 6, alternate reality. The snowglobe is the pocket dimension of the Island, and as far as we know, all the people we've met in the snowglobe have their origins and histories in LOST1. This is sort of another POV / follow-up on an earlier post.]
Science nerds, please forgive me while I play fast and loose with concepts as I try to explain...
Schrodinger's cat. There's a cat in a closed box with an infernal device that may or may not release a poisonous gas that would kill the cat. So, from our position outside the box, we don't know if the cat is dead or alive within the box until we open it up and observe it. Until we do that, the cat, according to quantum mechanics, is both dead and alive. This is not how you create a zombie cat (as far as I know, at least), but meant to illustrate the weirdness of quantum mechanics using an easy-to-imagine everyday scale (as opposed to quantum scale) scenario.
OK. Let's do some imperfect substitution. It may be more metaphor and ideaplay than science, but give it a chance.
The cat = reality, off the Island.
Dead or alive = LOST1 or LOST2.
The box = the snowglobe, bigger on the inside than the outside, as from our perspective, it "contains" all of reality off of the Island.
Poison gas = the events unfolding in LOST2 and LOST1 on the Island.
Opening the box = an anti-Incident, or Incident 2.0.
Reality outside the snowglobe has been in flux since Sawyer, Juliet, and company returned from 1977. The off-Island world is in a fuzzy probabilistic state, a question mark that will resolve to LOST1 or LOST2 (or maybe even a re-wound, re-writable LOST1) once an upcoming Incident-like crisis point in one or both realities occurs.
I think Widmore and the nerd commandos know this.
DESMOND: You take me back! You take me back right now, you hear?!I think all of us focus on the final classic LOST remark in that exchange, right? But what about the line Charles delivers right before it? To me, the way it's delivered struck me as tho it could have been all he originally meant to say—"I can't take you back."—meaning, the reality we came from isn't there right now.
WIDMORE: I can't take you back. The Island isn't done with you yet.
(It may not seem to fit given the pace of events in the show, but remember, time in the vicinity of the snowglobe is quite fluid. So, timing-wise, Widmore and his AIM henchies submarine into the snowglobe just before the time travellers' return. I'm thinking that Charles gave everyone the "we're through the looking glass now, people" speech to his operatives even before he meets Eloise outside Desmond's hospital. Probably soon after he gets Ben's taunting phone call. And if we believe in the Rules forbidding the return of an exile to the Island, Jacob's death apparently annuls it.)
Granted, it would be the most callous thing, even for Charles, to leave his daughter and grandson behind, off-Island, to blink out of existence if they fail (I originally thought that Widmore would save his family, including Eloise, Penny, and Charlie), but think about the sacrifice that Charles plans to ask of Desmond. What better motivation could Widmore give Des than the salvation of his family? His constant.
The sacrifice in that case would be his own life for his family and reality.
What about a harsher sacrifice? The existence of his son? If Widmore can get Desmond to somehow restore LOST1, but rolled back to a point in 2004, his son would not have been born yet, but a lot of tragedy that befell the Losties, could be avoided, and perhaps Penny could beat Charles to the Island and rescue everyone, just the way Desmond envisioned in his Charlie-dies-in-the-Looking-Glass-flash way back when (that's always bugged me and I'm hoping that the creators haven't written it off/out).
Fun-story-wise, I have a suspicion that the LOST1 Good Guys will tragically fall just short of the win in LOST1 on the Island, but, through Desmond's action/intervention in LOST2, the LOST2ers will save the day. So, the Monster's victory in LOST1 on the Island (which would resolve off-Island reality to LOST2) actually plants the seeds of his retroactive defeat. Crazy talk? Perhaps, but hey, it's LOST. =)
Keep on keepin on~
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