While I'm twiddling my thumbs this afternoon...
I caught parts of the last two episodes again when Rowan watched them last night and earlier this afternoon, and of course it got me scattin' on bits of recent LOST-ness...
The painting in Widmore's office. I didn't go back to look at it the first time, but seeing it again, it's not really the hatch mural style. The second time around, and with me more awake, what's *in* the painting is actually very readable, as a POLAR BEAR and an upside down (or was it just floating?) Buddha. So, if you had any doubt about Widmore being connected... COME ON!
=)
I realized after my ramble on the episode that Penny's accent was likely stronger cuz this flashback was so many years before Desmond starts training for Widmore's race.
I'm surprised Sawyer didn't get to say anything about the Millenium Falcon when getting out of "Sheena's" hidey hole. "Never thought I'd be smuggling myself in them..." Or that Alex didn't get to, as she showed quite a bit of spunk and attitude in her replies to Sawyer's smartassery.
The Others *must* have a copy of STAR WARS on the island, right?
I wasn't sure, but Rowan agrees, that no one mentions Ben's name explicitly when referring to Alex's father. Juliet *does* say something like, "When your father wakes up," which certainly seems to refer to Ben, being in surgery and all, but maybe her father's someone else, who happens to be asleep at the same time...? Scheduled meditation...? Vampiric hibernation...? Not yet out of the resurrection bath? I *do* still prefer the Benry-as-adopted-father scenario as the best fit.
Juliet arrived on the island three years and change ago. Was that during the same storm that sucked Desmond onto the island?
The LOST Oracle, like the MATRIX Oracle, is very choosey about her words. Tells Desmond what he needs to hear, I think, not necessarily what's factual. So, the following need not be true, but needed to be said as a way to help motivate him (in case his "cowardice" wasn't enough).
"You may not like your path, Desmond, but pushing that button is the only truly great thing you will ever do..."
Has Desmond seen the end of his life? Or did he relive his past up to the implosion, and since then, has been getting precog flashes? Of course, nothing TOO helpful or far in advance, lest he be able to solve everything, or at least, reveal everything, if not fix it.
I also think that everything in the past that Desmond thinks he's re-living must have actually happened that way.
His discussion with Donovan should be Important. Physicist best friend and all, the professor's certainly not going to forget Desmond's crazy talk in the pub. And when, years later, he finds out that Desmond is lost at sea and his true love has embarked on a search for him, I should think that Donovan would step up and fill in the blanks with some vital information from Des's story that helps lead to engaging that arctic monitoring station. Pretty nifty, eh?
The concussions as life bookmarks are kind of annoying. Convenient for storytelling, in a Fred Flintstone and Gilligan sort of way, and television-drama explainable enough, but still, frickin annoying.
I would like to see the story leading up to Red Shoes's demise in an upcoming episode. Maybe before gettin on the tube, he'd just said goodbye to his wife, the one-legged girl with a heart of gold...?
I like the OZ-ness of Red Shoes's death. Was *so* hoping for his toes to curl up at the end, y'know? Maybe the story that he's a part of flows like an Oz story somehow. Or he was another unfortunate bit of collateral damage in Dharma's schemes (a la the bussing of Dr. Jurke). That could be pretty fun.
The Oracle says that if he doesn't follow his path, everybody (in the world?) will die. If he doesn't follow his path, he doesn't make it to the island, and he doesn't accidentally kill Kelvin, who's trying to steal his boat, and doesn't suck Oceanic 815 to the island, so there aren't any survivors to discover the hatch, and Locke won't force the countdown to zero, inspiring Desmond to step up and turn the failsafe key, unwittingly sending his consciousness back a decade to meet the Oracle with all his knowledge of his future on the island. Apparently, Something Worse happens if he doesn't follow his path. Kelvin might die on his own, and the hatch would explode instead of implode, and the resultant whatever would destroy the world/kill everyone...? Does the thought of Something Worse help push Desmond to give Penny the speech which, if you didn't know about Desmond's time-jumping, would sound perfectly like the words of a commitment-phobe with confidence/pride issues playing the jerk to end a relationship with a woman he loves...? Like a coward...?
I forgot to mention how much I simultaneously enjoyed and was annoyed by the exchange where Locke informs the cool kids that Eko was killed...
"The Island killed him."
"What do you mean? The Island killed him?"
"You know what it means..."
Voldemort killed him? They won't even give it a name to not say. And for the most part, they still don't seem to be worried about it from day to day. I mean, F! The black cloud that roars like a t-rex and detonates chunks of earth and apparently chomps and thrashes people at will, well, that would be a high priority action item on this particular off-site!
Just sayin~
Keep on keepin on~
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