Castaways-
Before anything else is said here today....Charlotte Staples Lewis??? CS Lewis is to me what Locke was to Boone (before the whole "dying" thing): a mentor and a hero. Wow. Of all the helicopter near-crashes, on all the islands, on all the television shows that deal with philosophy/theology more than any other, in all the world...she had to fall up-side down in to a muddy river in mine. I think I'm in love.
Confirmed Dead was the name of this episode, and revealing more information than any other since the pilot seemed to be its game. Sure there are wheel-barrels full of questions that these four new characters brought with them, but we've got two more seasons to go still and I for one am willing to drag things out a little if it means I never have to see Hurley joy-riding a VW bus to fill an episode again. Gosh, that was so lame. (Let it go, big guy.)
Then we meet (again) Daniel Faraday from Essex, MA who is openly weeping for what he claims is a mystery even to himself. Not likely. The dude obviously has issues, but I like the theory that he knew someone on Flight 815 better. (And perhaps he didnt want his wife to know that he had a love interest on that flight.) On the island, he is socially awkward and very nervous when questioned about the gas masks and haz-mat suits that Jack and Kate find in his trunk. This is likely because whoever sent him and his crew believed that the "sickness" we've heard about (ever since Rosseau's creepy story to Sayid in season one about why exactly it was she shot her entire crew) is still in play on the island. This points to someone behind the four new arrivals who knew the island before the "purge", which in my mind points to a probable DHARMA relation to Abbadon and his group of five that he sends.
We're introduced to three other new characters, and the fact that there are four of them made me think of a few random things. For starters, we know that the writers put direct and indirect refernces to classic and modern pieces of literature. One of the writers' favorite authors is Dostoevsky and the book that Ben is given by Locke in season two when Ben is locked up in the hatch is "The Brothers Karamazov" (which I'm currently in the middle of reading) in which there are four brothers of the same demented, evil, sadistic father. Each brother for Dostoevsky represented different aspects of humanity: spirituality, science (knowledge), faith, carnality. The eldest brother was a drunk and passionate hedonist (just like the oldest one of the bunch : the pilot). You get the idea. The numbers, we all know, are important, as are literary techniques "borrowed" from classic writers from the past. Matthew Abbadon tells Naomi in this week's episode that each person in the group is there for a reason. Could part of that reason be to represent something similiar to the "Four Horseman of the Apocalypse"....at least in terms of the "end times" for people on the island???
More literally, we can ascertain from the fact that a scientist (Daniel) named after a famous physicist (Faraday) who dealt with theories of electromagnetism is there because of the electromagnetic forces on the island (and possibly time travel, see: the Stephen Hawkins books we saw last season being read by an Other). The "Ghost Buster" (Miles) is there for Jacob (or at least they are aware of the spiritual components on the island. The pilot is there to fly but to also be someone who can relate to the castaways and put them ease because of his intimate understanding of carnal human nature (see: Of the four-man team he was the one to study the names and people on the manifest, How nice he is with Juliet, and how he's the most calm out of the bunch by far in dealing with the castaways that the others in his team are obviously uneasy about). CS Lewis (Charlotte) is there as an anthropologist searching for answers, for truth, and for an explanation of things she wants to understand with just pure science, and I predict that she becomes a true believer in the island when all is said in done (similar to a certain British atheist who converted to Christianity after setting out to prove that God and religious explanations for the world were wrong).
Staying briefly with the CS Lewis theme, The Chronicles of Narnia (for the two people who dont know) is a series about an alternate world of magic, mystery, and intrigue that begins with 4 children being "called" to it. They aren't able to get there on their own and only specific people are welcome to come to Narnia. Sound familiar?
Moving on, Hurley lets the polar bear out of the cave when he comments to Locke that Jacob's cabin was the other direction from where they were heading. The look on Locke and Ben's face was the same Ben had when Locke told him he could hear Jacob last year. What does this mean for Hurley? He's obviously one of the "good" or "special" ones along with Walt, Locke, and Ben.
Ben at another point begins to say something to Alex along the lines of "I need to tell you something..." but before he can finished, Karl, then Sawyer, but in and interrupt whatever it was Ben was going to say. Most likely that would have been Ben's chance to say that no matter what happens, he did always love Alex, etc. but I also would've liked for him to finish that sentence because it might have been a Ben warning to her (like the one he gave Rousseau last week to get far away with his daughter) to bolt ASAP. If he is genuine in his concern for Alex and Danielle, this points to the possibility that these people sent by Abbadon really do mean harm and could be potentially dangerous to everyone on the island just like Ben and Locke firmly believe. But in light of Hurley's apology for siding with Locke in last week's flash-forward....something might end up being wrong or bad or evil about what Locke chooses to do.
Locke admits this week that he's taking his orders from "taller Walt". There's a lot more I want to say about Walt, but without sounding obvious, Walt is going to play a major role in the upcoming season for sure. Remember him touching Locke's arm in season one and screaming "Don't open it John! Don't open it!" in reference to the hatch? The kid knew that chain of events would be the demise of many, and we know only six get off the island, and that there is something worth apologizing for on behalf of Hurley, and there is something that Jack and Kate and whoever else got off swore to secrecy. That adds up for a lot let to explain and plenty of material for two more seasons.
Thoughts, theories:
-The way everyone knows so much about each other on the island (i.e. BEn's run-down of Charlotte's stats) is time-travel. People can move back and get the info and files they need on everyone. Perhaps thats even the only way to get on the island?
-Richard Alpert and some of the Others are a group of Others inside the Others who have been on the island since their ship, the Black Rock crashed more than century earlier. Jacob is the ship's captain, Magnus Hanso, and there is some sort of fountain of life that enables some of them to live forever (or at least have longer life) which is how Richard appered the same age in Ben's back story when he was like 12 and today some 30 years later. There's more I want to say about this, but I'd like to hear what people think.
- The "man on the boat" that Ben claims to have is Michael and/or Walt. Think about it.
-The polar bear being found in Tunisia was placed there by DHARMA people who took the genetically manipulated bears from the island around the world to try them out in different environments (after they succeeded in breeding them on a tropical island).
-Dan Faraday might be the "Danny" that Ana Lucia talked about in her 2nd season back-story. It was some guy we never saw, but whose name was brought up three times as the former boyfriend of Ana's. She was pregnant with his baby in fact when she was shot on the job by that thief she eventually murdered in the parking lot of a bar. If Daniel Faraday is the same Danny, that would mean he cried for Ana Lucia in that opening sequence of this week's episode when they showed the fake wreckage of Flight 815.
-Brad Bowe is convinced that the animal Locke saw coming out of his sweat lodge last season was a lion......click here my friend.
-How cool was that when Locke said he was saved from Ben's gun-shot wound because his dad stole his kidney???
That's all for now.
All Roads Lead Here,
Locke's "Other" Kidney
We're introduced to three other new characters, and the fact that there are four of them made me think of a few random things. For starters, we know that the writers put direct and indirect refernces to classic and modern pieces of literature. One of the writers' favorite authors is Dostoevsky and the book that Ben is given by Locke in season two when Ben is locked up in the hatch is "The Brothers Karamazov" (which I'm currently in the middle of reading) in which there are four brothers of the same demented, evil, sadistic father. Each brother for Dostoevsky represented different aspects of humanity: spirituality, science (knowledge), faith, carnality. The eldest brother was a drunk and passionate hedonist (just like the oldest one of the bunch : the pilot). You get the idea. The numbers, we all know, are important, as are literary techniques "borrowed" from classic writers from the past. Matthew Abbadon tells Naomi in this week's episode that each person in the group is there for a reason. Could part of that reason be to represent something similiar to the "Four Horseman of the Apocalypse"....at least in terms of the "end times" for people on the island???
More literally, we can ascertain from the fact that a scientist (Daniel) named after a famous physicist (Faraday) who dealt with theories of electromagnetism is there because of the electromagnetic forces on the island (and possibly time travel, see: the Stephen Hawkins books we saw last season being read by an Other). The "Ghost Buster" (Miles) is there for Jacob (or at least they are aware of the spiritual components on the island. The pilot is there to fly but to also be someone who can relate to the castaways and put them ease because of his intimate understanding of carnal human nature (see: Of the four-man team he was the one to study the names and people on the manifest, How nice he is with Juliet, and how he's the most calm out of the bunch by far in dealing with the castaways that the others in his team are obviously uneasy about). CS Lewis (Charlotte) is there as an anthropologist searching for answers, for truth, and for an explanation of things she wants to understand with just pure science, and I predict that she becomes a true believer in the island when all is said in done (similar to a certain British atheist who converted to Christianity after setting out to prove that God and religious explanations for the world were wrong).
Staying briefly with the CS Lewis theme, The Chronicles of Narnia (for the two people who dont know) is a series about an alternate world of magic, mystery, and intrigue that begins with 4 children being "called" to it. They aren't able to get there on their own and only specific people are welcome to come to Narnia. Sound familiar?
Moving on, Hurley lets the polar bear out of the cave when he comments to Locke that Jacob's cabin was the other direction from where they were heading. The look on Locke and Ben's face was the same Ben had when Locke told him he could hear Jacob last year. What does this mean for Hurley? He's obviously one of the "good" or "special" ones along with Walt, Locke, and Ben.
Ben at another point begins to say something to Alex along the lines of "I need to tell you something..." but before he can finished, Karl, then Sawyer, but in and interrupt whatever it was Ben was going to say. Most likely that would have been Ben's chance to say that no matter what happens, he did always love Alex, etc. but I also would've liked for him to finish that sentence because it might have been a Ben warning to her (like the one he gave Rousseau last week to get far away with his daughter) to bolt ASAP. If he is genuine in his concern for Alex and Danielle, this points to the possibility that these people sent by Abbadon really do mean harm and could be potentially dangerous to everyone on the island just like Ben and Locke firmly believe. But in light of Hurley's apology for siding with Locke in last week's flash-forward....something might end up being wrong or bad or evil about what Locke chooses to do.
Locke admits this week that he's taking his orders from "taller Walt". There's a lot more I want to say about Walt, but without sounding obvious, Walt is going to play a major role in the upcoming season for sure. Remember him touching Locke's arm in season one and screaming "Don't open it John! Don't open it!" in reference to the hatch? The kid knew that chain of events would be the demise of many, and we know only six get off the island, and that there is something worth apologizing for on behalf of Hurley, and there is something that Jack and Kate and whoever else got off swore to secrecy. That adds up for a lot let to explain and plenty of material for two more seasons.
Thoughts, theories:
-The way everyone knows so much about each other on the island (i.e. BEn's run-down of Charlotte's stats) is time-travel. People can move back and get the info and files they need on everyone. Perhaps thats even the only way to get on the island?
-Richard Alpert and some of the Others are a group of Others inside the Others who have been on the island since their ship, the Black Rock crashed more than century earlier. Jacob is the ship's captain, Magnus Hanso, and there is some sort of fountain of life that enables some of them to live forever (or at least have longer life) which is how Richard appered the same age in Ben's back story when he was like 12 and today some 30 years later. There's more I want to say about this, but I'd like to hear what people think.
- The "man on the boat" that Ben claims to have is Michael and/or Walt. Think about it.
-The polar bear being found in Tunisia was placed there by DHARMA people who took the genetically manipulated bears from the island around the world to try them out in different environments (after they succeeded in breeding them on a tropical island).
-Dan Faraday might be the "Danny" that Ana Lucia talked about in her 2nd season back-story. It was some guy we never saw, but whose name was brought up three times as the former boyfriend of Ana's. She was pregnant with his baby in fact when she was shot on the job by that thief she eventually murdered in the parking lot of a bar. If Daniel Faraday is the same Danny, that would mean he cried for Ana Lucia in that opening sequence of this week's episode when they showed the fake wreckage of Flight 815.
-Brad Bowe is convinced that the animal Locke saw coming out of his sweat lodge last season was a lion......click here my friend.
-How cool was that when Locke said he was saved from Ben's gun-shot wound because his dad stole his kidney???
That's all for now.
All Roads Lead Here,
Locke's "Other" Kidney
3 comments:
Hey this is Callie and Kelley. We were thinking that maybe Robert Alpert wasn't part of the ship or the Black Rock. Instead maybe he was part of the DHARMA intitative and him and his "hostiles" broke from there. He seemed to know what DHARMA was all about and when they killed everyone they were dressed in normal clothes. And he wears eyeliner, weird. But since him and Ben teamed up to kill everyone, why does Ben seem to be the one in charge not Richard, who one would assume would take charge?
because ben is special, unlike richard. i guess richard COULD be some sort of ex, disgruntled dharma member, BUT they clearly went out of their way to show us that he hasn't aged a day in many many years so i would think that is telling us that he is much older than he physically appears...like, 'black rock' older...but whatevs.
I am really impressed with your Brothers Karamazov reference. I'm not sure I've heard that before.
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