Lost

Moggraider · 2010-02-18T06:21:29.000Z

jerri blank:

I don’t see how the kid could be Aaron. For one thing, he’s the wrong age. For another, he’s off the island in either timeline.

Yeah! Anyway, I thought the show tried pretty hard to make it look like a little Jacob.

Rightbug · 2010-02-18T06:23:36.000Z

Jazar:

I hate to throw more fuel on the fire but in that scene they were cooking a red herring.

That’s hilarious. I totally didn’t notice that.

Grendelpete · 2010-02-18T06:41:18.000Z

The whole “Jacob finding a replacement” storyline reminded me of Desmond - comes to the island and is tricked into becoming the new hatch guardian, while the old one plans to finally escape.

jason · 2010-02-18T06:55:47.000Z

arctangent:

The whole island thing is starting to look like a bunch of kids in someone’s yard playing an elaborate game with action figures or something, the rules of which change constantly and are mostly incomprehensible to an adult who happens to observe it.

I expect the show to end with Jacob’s mom chastising him for being late for dinner and breaking his toys, especially the smoke-monster toy, which was very expensive.

Oh shit… Lost is Calvinball.

Mark_Crump · 2010-02-18T10:29:55.000Z

Are there ANY female names on the list? It’s possible Littleton means Aaron, not Claire.

Mike_Cathcart · 2010-02-18T10:32:48.000Z

Mark Crump:

Are there ANY female names on the list? It’s possible Littleton means Aaron, not Claire.

Maybe zero, no more than two. Could be Claire and Sun.

corsair · 2010-02-18T19:37:40.000Z

Jazar:

I hate to throw more fuel on the fire but in that scene they were cooking a red herring.

Nope, it wasn’t a herring.

And, yes, that means that it it’s a red herring that it is a red herring.
;-)

HRose · 2010-02-18T21:11:20.000Z

I don’t know why but I had a flash of the Wheel of Time.

The bad guy is the only one who tells the truth in there (not all of it maybe). It resembles the black man revealing mysteries while the good guy never wanted to say anything.

mystery · 2010-02-19T10:25:23.000Z

HRose:

The bad guy is the only one who tells the truth in there (not all of it maybe). It resembles the black man revealing mysteries while the good guy never wanted to say anything.

That’s a Biblical theme, and an oft-repeated theme in Lost: The definition of Faith includes belief without having the answers, or having any chance of getting the answers.

We see more than a few pairs of characters presented to us (one with faith, one without) as examples of this relationship (Jack and Locke, Rose and Bernard, Eco and…everyone else, etc).

HRose · 2010-02-19T18:06:57.000Z

Well, if you want to use “faith” as a theme then you have to give it some development.

Anthropology explains pretty well what “faith” is. Somewhere there must be a motivation about WHY you don’t deserve any answer and are supposed to just act stupidly.

Now “faith” versus proof is becoming a theme of Jacobs Vs smoke guy. I expect this leads somewhere.

DT1 · 2010-02-23T20:41:54.000Z

Hurley pullin’ a Palin!

Lloyd_Heilbrunn · 2010-02-23T20:45:02.000Z

“Jacob’s dead but he just shows up occasionally like Obi Wan Kenobi”…

DT1 · 2010-02-23T20:46:03.000Z

Lotsa Hurley is always a good thing.

Mike_Cathcart · 2010-02-23T21:26:30.000Z

That’s pretty much your only choice with Hurley.

ColonelT · 2010-02-23T21:49:55.000Z

So Kate DOES have a number, 51, and it’s not crossed out. Oddly, 108 WAS crossed out (the name there was “Wallace”).

Nawid_A · 2010-02-23T21:51:11.000Z

ColonelT:

So Kate DOES have a number, 51, and it’s not crossed out. Oddly, 108 WAS crossed out (the name there was “Wallace”).

“Where’s Wallace?!”

HRose · 2010-02-24T01:20:21.000Z

This episode was fun but it went nowhere, and the alternate reality is now resembling more to Truman Show than something plausible.

Also: I want to slap Jacob.

Jazar · 2010-02-24T05:18:11.000Z

Nawid A:

“Where’s Wallace?!”

:(

jerri_blank · 2010-02-24T05:26:00.000Z

Okay, Jack’s kid. He didn’t have a kid originally, right? I was operating under the assumption that the sideways losties were just picking up where the island losties left off and that they had the same backgrounds as the ones on the island. But the reveal of the teenage kid seems to be throwing that off.

I’m confused. (What else is new?)

red_guy · 2010-02-24T05:39:39.000Z

This new episode won’t air here until Friday, but in a previous episode was a pretty obvious difference: Helen - if that’s her name - hasn’t left John Locke, so that scene where he invited a phone sex worker to come on his walkabout never happened.

Also, since he needs his vacation time for his wedding/honeymoon, he’s no longer been talking about his great plans to his coworkers. In the original timeline, he wasn’t supposed to attend a conference.

By the way, in the original timeline, Helen was supposed to have died in 2005 or 2006. I wonder if they’ll revisit that fact.