Hello Lost fans,
Another Lost write-up very long and overdue. and sadly, it will be quite lacking. I had to take a break for a while due to a broken IPod, and once that got fixed, I just never took notes. SO, initially, I thought that this episode was going to be focused primarily on the most recent episode from Wednesday, March 1st, "Maternity Leave."
I thought this was a fantastic episode, perhaps one of my favorite. I actually read over 40 pages of comments on it, and watched it twice from beginning to end. However, I ended up going over the last 5 episodes (some deeper than others).
The Hunting Party #11 ( Recap: Michael leaves to find Walt, Sawyer, Jack and Locke follow. Meet up with "Zeke" who has Kate. The flashbacks are of Jack and his issues with his wife)
-I may have already touched on this episode, I've lost track as to how many episodes its been. So just some quick things:
- Guns that "Zeke" has: old WWII looking guns.
- "Zeke" calls out name, "ALEX", can it be Danielle Rousseau's daughter, taken from her 16 years ago?
- "Zeke" quote Alvar Hanso, how does he know this speech that Alvar gave unless he knows him, was there or got some training of his?
- Calls Jack, Locke and Sawyer by their names (actually used Sawyer's real name).
Fire + Water #12 (Recap: Charlie starts losing his mind about Claire's baby, as Claire finds out about his statues of heroin and refuses to let him near the baby. The flashbacks are of Charlie, his brother, the fall of his band and abandonment of his brother)
This wasn't a big plot moving forward episode, except maybe to start pushing the survivors into different camps, with Charlie heading towards the dark side.
- Symbols/Connections to past episodes: there was a stuffed polar bear in the "crib" that Charlie and his brother are singing in, during that terrible, even traumatic commercial they did in diapers. i didn't notice myself since I was closing my eyes (and covering my ears), yet the searing images of grown men with pacifiers and diapers continue to haunt my dreams!
- According to the executive producers, there was a sign on one of the buildings in the cityscape of London during a scene. This sign ended up being too small to see on the final aired episode. They say it said Widmore Construction. Apparently, this company will have some connection to the Hanso Foundation (makers of the orientation film and supporters of the Dharma Initiative). Hopefully, stay tuned for more on this to come.
The Long Con #13 (Recap: Sawyer ends up conning the entire group of people out of the guns in storage by setting up Kate, Locke and even Sun, with the help of Charlie, not only pushing Charlie deeper to the dark side, but now "owning" Charlie for his actions. The flashbacks follow Sawyer in the mid-west (i believe) conning a woman he maybe fell in love with).
- Storyline follows a movie called "House of Games", but stops short in the last scene. In the movie, after the woman gets conned, she then seeks revenge on the guy who conned her. Perhaps Sawyer's woman Cassidy has played out revenge as well, and is involved in getting him to Australia or or even on Oceanic flight...perhaps this storyline is not finished yet. Link to movie details: lhttp://www.netflix.com/MovieDisplay?movieid=60003222&trkid=189530&strkid=1752787065_0_0
- Connection between Sawyer and Kate: While at the diner Sawyer and the scammer he was working with ate at, Kate's mother was their waitress.
- Sawyer has a connection to a lot of people: Jack's dad (met him at a bar in Australia), Boone (was being brought into police station in Australia when Boone was there to try to report that guy he thought was abusing his sister), Kate's mom (see above). More connections between characters mentioned below.
- One speculation about Sawyer taking the guns: to shift balance of power within group. Before this, Locke and Jack balanced each other out. Now there is a 3rd player with no balance. Does this throw off the group?
- The radio that Sayid and Hurley listen to, which came from the Tailies hatch: it's a short wave radio, which means it can get radio waves very far away. therefore, it doesn't help pinpoint where the Losties are located. The radio call letters may be WXR, an old Coast Guard radio station in Alaska back in 1945. The moonlight serenade playing was popular in WWII. May be a theme here (remember the Other's gun was also from WWII).
One of Them #14 (Recap: Danielle Rousseau captures someone she believes to be an Other and delivers him to Sayid, who proceeds to keep him hostage in the Hatch and torture him. The flashbacks are to when Sayid was in the first Gulf War, and his transition into becoming a torturer)
- Connection between Sayid and Kate: one of the US army general (who Sayid first spoke with when he was captured, and then asked Sayid if he had a family while they were riding on the convoy together was Kate's dad. He was holding a picture of Kate in his hands (it was actually a photo provided by Evangeline Lilly, of herself at age 13) Also saw Sayid's picture up in Kate's dad's military office in the episode when Kate kills her step dad.
- When the US General (or whatever) shows Sayid the video of his village being poisoned, there are some numbers in the bottom right corners (part of the 4-15-16-23-42 chain).
- Man Rousseau found says his name is Henry Gale. This is also the name of Dorothy (Gale) from the Wizard of Oz's uncle. In one of the Wizard of Oz books (perhaps Return to Oz), Dorothy tries to return to Kansas with the Wizard in a hot air balloon. There is also a picture in the hatch of a hot air balloon. http://www.4815162342.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8832
- When the timer counts down to 0, it starts to flip (literally) out, and this red and black hieroglyphics fly by. Speculative translation: Cause to Die. http://homepage.mac.com/awaspaas/.Pictures/lost.jpg
Maternity Leave #15
Crazy things:
- Song played Airplane Mobile in crib: It was Catch a Falling Star, it was the song that Claire asked the couple to sing to the baby when she was in the lawyers office about to give up her baby for adoption.
- The mobile in the nursery was the same one on the crib in Claire's flashback in a past episode before she was kidnapped.
- Both of these things came BEFORE the kidnapping. Perhaps someone is psychic?
- It has been mentioned before, but the woman Claire was going to give her baby to looks just like the woman in Desmond's picture in the hatch, and like one of the women on the raft that stole Walt, but with different color hair.
- The airplanes on mobile are Oceanic airplanes. 3 of them are pointing upwards, as they go around while one is pointing downward, like it is crashing.
- It seems possible that the psychic Claire saw in Australia, who keep telling her she needed to keep her baby, may be somehow connected to Dharma. He was influential in not having an abortion, and getting her the money to take the plane to LA. Though he didn't want her to give away the baby, and that was her plan in LA, if he is/was connected to Dharma, then he may have known the plane was never going to make it to its destination.
- Dharma logo on Ethan's canteen (when he gave it to Claire to drink from in the jungle, which she said tasted sour, so I think it was doped to drug her, since Ethan wouldn't drink from it) matches the logo on the shark at the beginning of the season. Ethan did come out of the water when they first saw him, perhaps there is an underwater hatch (there is that rope along the shore that goes into the ocean that Sayid found, perhaps this leads to it?)
- So it seems a long-standing question has been answered - how many groups of "others" are there. Now we know that Ethan, Zeke/Mr Friendly/Gorton's Fisherman, and Goodwin/the ones with the List and Dharma are all the same group.This became apparent when "Zeke" was talking to "Ethan" about the List.
- "Zeke" beard is fake, and the clothes appear to be costumes. Why are the Others disguised? Perhaps Losties can recognize them? Do they work for Dharma? or are they just playing scientists? or are they past "subjects" for Dharma?
- Continues to be many similarities to Stephen King's book "The Stand", with good vs evil, a sickness that kills most of the population, etc. Also similar to his series "The Gunslinger. When Locke gives Henry Gale the book in his make-shift holding cell, Henry says, "What, no Stephen King?".
- There is a little side door in the hallway of the medical hatch. http://www.lost-media.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=displayimage&album=980&pos=352 What is it for? there does not appear to be one in the Losties hatch. And I believe that when Claire, Kate and Danielle return to this hatch, the escape hatch decals are no longer above the door.
- Apparently, the hatch (Arrow Hatch) that the Tailies had found is not 1 of the 6 hatches that are spoken about on the Hanso Foundation Orientation film. This medical hatch may also not be one of the 6. This still leaves 5 other hatches on the island.
- Could be that Henry Gale has extra super hearing, not that the walls are thin in the hatch. Remember when Sayid was in there torturing Henry, Jack and Locke couldn't hear what was going on, and Sayid wasn't being at all quiet. Jack actually had to ask Locke what was going on. Some believe that Ethan had super strength, so if Henry is an Other like Ethan, then his hearing may be above par.
- Question: what is Eko building with all the trees (and the needing of the saw). Most speculation: A Church
General:
- Here is a link to a connection chart, which shows how the different characters link to each other. http://www.4815162342.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8740 People you may not know about : Hurley's boss at the fast food joint which was hit by a meteor (which Hurley feels responsible for because of the curse of the numbers) he then gave a job to at the box company he bought, which is where Locke worked and therefore made him Locke's boss. Also, Locke's mother was a patient at the mental hospital that Hurley was also a patient at. Pretty neat stuff: Also, here is a more detailed write-up of the connections among the Losties. It's dated 12/12/05 so it doesnt include the last couple of connections. http://lost-forum.com/showthread.php?t=24315
- Speculation that Libby is not the shrink she claims to be...being able to set a leg, and do hypnotherapy...some believe she is other or was patient in mental hospital, perhaps same one as Hurley (Hurley couldn't have stepped on her foot when getting on the plane, since he was in the front of the plane and she was supposedly in the tail section.
- Executive Producers have stated that DHARMA is an acronym, though they would not say what it stands for.
- Apparently, 2 people on the raft that stole Walt were twins. Perhaps there is some genetic experimentation stuff going on with Dharma?
- A lot of talk about the island has been how this is every one's 2nd chance to be better people, and not make the same mistakes they had made. But as the time goes on, we see people going back to who they were before the island. Kate has secrets, Charlie goes back to lying and possibly drugs, Sawyer is now back to conning after a little run of being a nice guy, Jack is back to fixing people but kind of controlling and judgemental about it all, and Locke is going back to being angry (remember his anger management classes) and not in control as he wants to be. Mr. Eko had a moment of regression when he killed the Others the night of the crash, but has been working on repenting ever since. The Others claim to only take "good" people, and they have not tried to take anyone from the original group since they took Claire, and they haven't taken any of the Tailies since Cindy when the Tailies met up with the original group.
- There is all this talk of the "sickness" by both Danielle and Ethan. Some believe there is no sickness. Either it is something to scare people, or perhaps Danielle actually has the sickness and killed all of her companions because of it. It is unclear if it is a physical or mental sickness.
- The books mentioned or shown in almost every episode (for example, Sawyer was reading Lancelot in "Maternity Leave", seems to have a connection in some way to something, even if its only remotely, obscurely or just as a good read or perhaps inspiration to the writers/producers of the show. I do not go into it at all, mostly because i just don't remember all the detail.
- Here is the website of the Lostcasts I listen to. While you can listen to the podcasts here or on ITunes if you want, I include this link only so you can check out some of their real amazing links from topics they discuss, including the books I mention above. I can only begin to touch on many of their topics. http://www.lostcasts.com/
Possible spoilers (to read them if you want, simply drag your mouse with the left click down over the blackened lines):
In the previews for the next episode, Sun asks Sawyer for a pregnancy test. Perhaps a little Moon is on the way?During the official Lost podcast by the executive producers imply that Henry Gale may actually be exactly who he says he is.The episode after Jin/Sun will be Hurley focused. The one after that will be Libby focused (finally!).Cindy, the supposed stewardess from the flight that disappeared moments before Ana Lucia shot Shannon, supposedly will be making a return appearance, as, rumor has it, will Desmond.
There is no new episodes for a few weeks at least. Hopefully the next write-up will not be so long, because I will be writing more consistently. Please feel free to send me your thoughts/opinions/speculations and if you want me to include them in the next email, just say the word.
Thanks for reading, as always and feel free to send onto anyone you think will enjoy!
Leigh
