So, who thinks Daniel is the one who builds the electromagnetic gizmo in the hatch??
Miles’ paternity.Of course, about a million other people probably called it as soon as we knew Chang had a baby.
Lots of funny moments, me likey.
Starting to get very curious about this “other side” of the war, the guys who know what’s in the shadow of the statue.
My guess, for future’s sake… is jesus.
bloo
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It’s the others, isn’t it? I guess not. Thanks lostpedia.
Really liked the episode this week. Good to finally get some background on Miles.
I was sure Miles would walk in and talk to his Dad while he was spying on him. The man obviously adores his family, so I was sure Miles was warning him about everyone getting killed was the reason the man sent them off the island and never explained why? Maybe next week! :)
Funkman
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That was such a great scene. The wall of Miles’ cynicism shows a few cracks and the entire episode builds to that really great moment. Gotta love the “Miles, I need you!.. you do?” line afterwards. The fact that this episode had all that happening PLUS the craaaazy stuff with Sawyer, Kate and Roger really put it over the top. AND we got the return of Daniel (when was the last time we saw him anyway? He was trapped with them in the 70s, he saw a young Charlotte and then what happened to him?).
I guess he got on the next sub out of town - which they never made clear in any way. I was figuring he was working on that station at the time. Orchid?
Good episode. The Miles-Hurley exchanges were brilliant. “Ewoks sucked”. Even the parallel Hurley drew between the movies and Miles relationship with his dad was entertaining. And who couldn’t love the line “maybe you can change your own diaper!”.
Seems like the “What lies behind the statue” folks are some third party not affiliated with Widmore (whom they obviously are working against) or the Others (they would have recognized Ben). Interesting.
I like how they’re making extra efforts every episode to go back and tie up loose ends. Miles’ “audition” this week basically confirmed that Widmore planted the fake Flight 815 and bodies, and we saw the origin of “the numbers”. Cool stuff.
Flurg. That’s the one thing that bothered me. I guess that this “origin of the numbers” doesn’t contradict the currently accepted origin of the numbers - coefficients in the Valenzetti Equation - but something tells me that they’re either going to have to have a Battlestar Galactica style cavalcade of exposition episode where they tell us what, precisely, in the hell Dharma is doing out there or all the stuff from the ARGs is going to end up in the trash bin.
The episode, however, was quite excellent. Some much needed levity. And now we get yet another recap special next week. Hooray! I guess May is another sweeps month that they want to pack new episodes into?
I’ve been feeling like this in particular has been an unsatisfying area - all of the wacky experiments increasingly seem like unnecessary diversions from some Huge Holy War.
And they were at a time (second season? third?) the most compelling portion of the show for me by far.
Well the…sort-of canon?..answer is that they’re trying to change the numbers in The Valenzetti Equation to somehow change the fact that the entire world will totally end at some point, but that’s the product of an ARG that an awful lot of their audience didn’t do and Damon and Carlton have been reluctant to rely on that sort of thing. I’d be okay with them just leaving the Dharma Initiative’s overall motives alone, because I think it’s one of those things you can just ignore as trippy 1970s pseudoscientific experimentation.
Of course, on the podcast they frequently complain about people asking for what the supply drop was all about, so maybe they’re just going to wave their hands and hope we forget about some of that stuff.
They do seem to be moving in a direction that leads to most of the experiments being meaningless. Even Dr. Candle let it drop this past episode that the people out on the smaller island station were doing “useless” (or maybe it was “pointless”) experiments with the polar bears.
I agree that it seems to be gravitating towards some kind of religious or temporal (or both) conflict that most of Dharma didn’t seem to be aware of. Make me think the “behind the statue” folks are the Dharma splinter group that knew the real island secrets, and now they’ve returned since the LOSTies opened the way for them (and eliminated the threat of the Others for the time being).
So I don’t mind that they’re just playing psych games for some reason. If the experiments are just methods to change or understand the equation, that works, too. But I’d like them to address how they’re doing it.
But if dicking around while engaged in a Cold War for control of the most important piece of land on the planet which could potentially decide the fate of all mankind - well, that’s pretty goofy. What are the priorities?
I appreciate the developments and stories of late, but I feel like they’ve been dancing a little again with actual plot movement. I realize that Things Are Afoot, but I feel like I have no better clue as to what that might be.
Khoram
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That’s what I was just thinking; now that we know the statue group isn’t with Widmore, and they aren’t Others, maybe they’re working for whoever is really behind the Dharma Initiative. I mean, they wouldn’t introduce a brand new group this late in the game… would they? I hope not. Just by conservation of storytelling (which I guess doesn’t really apply to Lost very frequently) it must be a groupd we already know, so it must be Dharma related.
Also, Naomi is freaking hot.
They explain that in the Lost game. You, the main character, are the one that drops the supplies. It’s a command on one of the many Dharma computers you run into. I think it might have been in The Flame Station, which makes sense since thats the communication with the outside world station.
Well yes - I had the displeasure of finishing that game as well - but the trick then is who dropped the buggardly thing? Or did it just erupt from the ground? Because the Dharma Initiative - The Organization (as we encounter it in the second-to-third season ARG) is supposed to be long dead by the time the Oceanic survivors show up. Back when that happened, there was this giant mystery about who dropped the food. Since then, nothing.
I guess that if the people who want to know what’s in the shadow of the statue are legacy Hanso/Dharma people, that could close that circle neatly.
Is this the first episode in which a character has seen his earlier or later self? I don’t remember any of Sawyer’s left-behindies encountering themselves while they were making all those time jumps earlier in the season.
I’m assuming that the shadow of the statue folks are Daniel’s mother’s group and the ones Ben worked with to get back to the Island, and very likely had/have a presence in the DI (perhaps the DI is a cover for them or something).
I’m going to keep assuming this until someone tells me I’m wrong. ;)
