1861

LOL, Ok, so what were they doing there? Why bears?

1862

Experiments, I’m guessing. And no, I don’t know what kind of experiments - So I guess we are back to the beginning.

1863

Where are Polar bears from? The north & south pole (magnetic pole?)
Why were they pushing the button? (to release electromagnetic buildup?)

They’re studying the effects of magnestism for some reason

1864
  1. The bear shimmered a lot and wasn’t very white and its fur didn’t catch on fire. More like how it would appear on a black and white TV set. Looks a LOT like the stuff that came at Locke and shimmered with pictures in it, and came out of the ground. Nanites? Dunno.
  2. The dump truck seemed oddly familiar. I think Walt was playing with one like it in an episode where he was staying with his adopted father.
  3. The leader of the “farm” that Locke was on was the Other with the fake beard who lit the torches around Jack, Kate, and Sawyer last season.

The artic and antartic regions of the Earth. They also had zoo cages and reference the bears learning how to get the fish biscuits pretty quickly. It could be that the bear isn’t nanites at all but they accidentally gave the bear powers during their experiments and can’t capture or contain it any longer. I think the “polar bear” was more frightened of the fire than actually being harmed by it.

Yes, and yes.

One theory, given Desmon’s apparent new prophetic powers, is that the magnetic research is going on to create abilities in humans. Walt is of great interest to him because he seems to have manifested these abilities prior to arriving on the Island.

Also, a writer of the NBC show “Heroes” is a friend of a writer on “Lost.” Mull that over for a while. :)

It seems likely that Russeaux (the “crazy french lady”) is also part of the original Dharma Initiative research team.

1865

We’ve met the Others; we’ve seen how they live. Via the Lost Experience we know what Dharma thinks the numbers are. As said, the bears have been explained. We know what the Hatch was therefore, and the Swan, we’ve finished up the business with the button and the timer, we know what caused the crash, we know that the Others have a connection to the real world, we’ve seen the aftermath of the explosion, we’ve seen how the Others are playing their ‘good guy’ status…

…I really don’t get the complain that nothing’s happening so far. It’s a slow burn, but they round off as many mysteries as they start.

1866

Uh, no. We’ve seen what the “leader” Other looks like in daylight (in fact he was in episode 2). This is M.C. Gainey.

The leader of the farm was played by Chris Mulkey. This is his first appearance on Lost.

1867

This man is not this man.

Edit: Mystery beat me to it.

1868

Shit. They looked kinda similar what with the long scraggly hair. I thought it could be chalked up to age/time…

1869

The Dharma Initiative only wanted the best and brightest. And they are the Einsteins of the bear world.

People just don’t pay attention to shows.

1870

Lost experience? What the hell is that? How were the bears explained, by the empty cages Kate and Sawyer are in? I don’t even remember seeing a swan. What do you mean by good guy status? Did you glean all of this just from the TV show cause I’ve seen all the episodes and I don’t really feel I have all the information you have.

1871

The Experience was their recent web-game, talking about Dharma thinking the numbers to be involved in something called the Valenzetti Equation - a mathematical way of figuring out when the world is going to end.

The cages Kate and Sawyer in are specifically referred to as being bear enclosures by one of the Others - Mr. Friendly mocks Sawyer for taking longer than they did to work out the sequence to get their fish biscuits. Nobody’s said it was polar bears there specifically, although the fish biscuits point to it, but they’re the only type we’ve seen so far.

The Swan is the official name of The Hatch (just as The Pearl is the monitoring station in the middle of the island, The Hydra is the zoological one where Jack, Sawyer and Kate are being held - most likely, Jack’s in the aquarium where Dharma had the shark with its logo on the tail that attacked the raft back in Series 1).

The Others have specifically referred to themselves as being the ‘good guys’ a couple of times, notably at the end of last series, despite their clear brainwashing attempts and penchant for psychological torture.

Lost answers plenty of its questions, even if in doing so, it opens up plenty more. The fact that they’re almost certainly making much of it up as they go along doesn’t bother me, so long as when the answers are revealed, the show continues to be fun - like Henry becoming the leader of The Others, or Mr Eko’s connection to the crashed plane. It’s a show that’s fun to play along with in that respect - a narrative pricktease, yes, but one that plays a lot fairer than many people are giving it credit for.

1872

All bears eat fish. Lots and lots of fish. Grizzly, Kodiak, Black and Brown bear have been waging genocide on Salmon, Trout and anything fishy they can get their paws on since forever.

1873

Oh, for the love of Pete. It’s the effing polar bears they were keeping in there.

1874

Looked like normal non-perfect special effects to me.

The artic and antartic regions of the Earth.

No polar bears in the Antartic.

Penguins = Antartic
Polar Bears = Arctic

1875

No no, it’s obvious that the polar bears ran the facility. They must have gone feral.

1876

That episode went out of its way to mention the cage was for bears, and the tank where Jack was held was for sharks.

The shark that attacked the raft guys in season 2 had a Dharma logo on it.

The Blast Door even had notes about the zoo facility, and polar bear experimentation, back in season 2. http://lostpedia.com/wiki/Polar_bear

1877

I think the most frustrating part of Lost is that nobody ever asks the right questions. For all of the Others’ insistence that they’re the good guys, why doesn’t anybody ever ask them why they don’t act like it? Pat, shallow answers are silently accepted or rejected at face value without probing any deeper.

Of course, they might be aware of this and it’s just that proper questions and answers might reveal things too quickly…

1878

In fairness, Ben did flat-out tell Jack that he didn’t want to give him any answers until he deemed it time.

1879

They actually riffed on this in the 2nd season too. When Ben is captive, and they are eating some cereal, he asks how old the food is – and when they say they don’t know and haven’t even really thought about it, he remarks about how incurious they are.

I thought this was awesome becaue prior to the supply drop revelation the food seemed like a big plot flaw – how could it have stayed good for so long, and if there was enough to last 30 years in that little storage room, how come now when it looked kinda full, they were saying there’s only enough food for a few people for 3 months?

Now, it is notable that they never thought that through and came to the conclusion that the food must be resupplied, but I write that up to the fact that they are always pretty off balance, with new bizarre stuff happening to them, people getting killed all the time, etc.

1880

Jesus. Each episode is getting worse.

My interest is rapidly being Lost with Lost.