Episode 2-23: "Live Together, Die Alone"

Hello Lost family and friends. Just in time for the season premiere airing this Wednesday, October 4th at 9pm, I am sending out my write-up on the Season 2 finale. Enjoy the little bit of stuff I put together, and if you want to check out the finale one more time before the premiere this week, you can download it for free at iTunes (go to itunes store, look for the Million HIt Lowdown season finales, select the Lost episode). You do not need a video ipod to watch a show from the iTunes store; you can watch it right on your computer in iTunes).

• One of my devoted fans sent me this article from Time Magazine called Why the Future of Television is Lost. Pretty cool article about how great and unique and tv changing the show is. Check it out here: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1538635,00.html

2-23: "Live Together, Die Alone" 2006.05.24

• Joe/Kelvin Inman: the man who dragged Desmond into the hatch is the same man who Sayid met in the Persian Gulf War. In that episode, his name was Joe Inman, while in the finale, his name was Kelvin. This was done only because the show did not want to give it away that they were the same people before the show aired.
• Statue of the leg/foot that Sayid, Sun and Jin saw as they sailed around the island had 4 toes. One reason it was on the island was to remind both the Losties and the viewers that people were on this island well before DHARMA, the Others and the Losties (I believe that is called perspective, folks).
• Boat that Michael and Walt went away in was at the dock called Palla Ferry, which is where the people in the Pearl hatch were told to go to get Ferry back to their barracks.The Others did not appear to freak out like the Losties did when the blinding white light occurred (when the button was not pressed), which implies they have seen it before or knew what it was.
• NotHenry did not want Locke to press the button. Perhaps NotHenry was the one who triggered the blast doors to go down in "Lockdown" so that Locke would see the map, and find the Pearl Hatch, which is what caused Locke to doubt the power of the button and to stop pushing it.
• Penelope = Desmond's girlfriend who has been searching for him for 3 years now. Penelope = GF of mythical Ulysses, and waiting 26 years for his return home.
• The plane looking for Desmond that Penelope was in contact with, and Penelope herself, was the first proof of anything outside the island. This goes outside the "Snow globe" theory of the island.
• Side note: not only is Penelope's father, Charles Widmore, played by an actor that was in the show The OC, the boat Desmond sails was from Newport Beach (The OC).
• The guys in the plane or boat in the Artic: on their screen a number came up which equals the LOST numbers multiplied.
• Things to think about:
• If Desmond was not sent to replace Kelvin, and no one came to replace him or Desmond, where are the replacements?
  
• Why did Kelvin wear the protective suit when Desmond landed on the island, but not when he was working on the boat? Was the "vaccine" fake? Is the "sickness" just a scare tactic?
• Who was Kelvin making the DHARMA hatch map for and how did he know all of the hatches and notes he drew? Did he create it or just continue it?
• If Desmond knew what happened when the button wasn't pressed (the magnetic stuff), why did he let Locke stop Eko from pressing it, and why didn't he warn Locke?
• What is up with Charlie not telling anyone that Eko, Locke and Desmond are probably dead?
  
• Will Walt and Michael actually be able to sail away from the island?
• Does the 4-footed statue have anything to do with anything?
• How spooky was the seeing all the tubes of notebooks from the Pearl Hatch. Were they always supposed to just be left there, untouched? If not, what happened to the people who were supposed to gather and read them?
• Why the hell did Libby give Desmond her boat? What is her freaky connection to everything?

LOST EXPERIENCE:

I am not following this anymore, as I went away on vacation for 3 days in June and was instantly so behind that I just couldn't keep up. Some things I have heard related to it though.

• DHARMA is an acronym, listed out below

Department of

Heuristics

And

Research on

Material

Application

• The Black Rock, the ship that was crashed in the (seemingly) middle of the island where the dynamite was found that was used to blow open the hatch doors, was captained by Magnus Hanso, grandfather of Alvar Hanso, creator of the Hanso Foundation, which supports DHARMA.
• The numbers (4,8,15,16,23,42) are the core numbers of the Valenzeti Equation, a formula solved by Gary Troup (writer of the "Bad Twin", supposedly killed in the Oceanic 815 crash).
• This equation predicts the end of the human race.
• DHARMA was created to manipulate the numbers to ensure the survival of the human race.

SPOILERS:

• Walt and Michael will be listed as guest stars during the credits in Season 3, as they were in Season 2.
• More on Libby next season
• Adding 2 new women and 1 new man (hunk)
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• 1 woman will be young
• Perhaps Libby was married to Dave Widmore, of the Charles and Penelope Widmore clan?