jimbow8 Wrote:..Also, I found it odd that Hurley put baby Aaron in a laundry basket, but nothing clicked until I read this: [INDENT]Exodus 2:3: "But when she could hide him no longer, she got him a wicker basket and covered it over with tar and pitch. Then she put the child into it and set it among the reeds by the bank of the Nile." In the biblical text, Jochebed, mother of Moses (Aaron's brother), hid Moses in a basket to protect her son from the Pharoah's order to drown all of the Hebrew children. In "The Shape of Things To Come", Aaron is placed in a basket to be shielded from what we have been told is Widmore's order to kill everyone on the Island. Moses and Aaron follow Jacob in the Judeo-Christian prophetic line.[/INDENT]
Will Aaron play a part in the eventual "exodus" (possibly in the final season) of the survivors from the island? Moses fled Egypt (Aaron escapes the island as one of the O-6), and later returns to lead his people away. I realize Aaron is just a baby and probably won't lead anybody, but ... it begs the comparison.

Maggers Wrote:I think you're on to something. It makes lots of LOST sense. I'd have never looked in the bible for answers to LOST, but they are there, apparently.

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Also, I found it odd that Hurley put baby Aaron in a laundry basket, but nothing clicked until I read [url=http://www.lostpedia.com/wiki/The_Shape_of_Things_to_Come#Cultural_references Wrote:this[/url]: [INDENT]Exodus 2:3: "But when she could hide him no longer, she got him a wicker basket and covered it over with tar and pitch. Then she put the child into it and set it among the reeds by the bank of the Nile." In the biblical text, Jochebed, mother of Moses (Aaron's brother), hid Moses in a basket to protect her son from the Pharoah's order to drown all of the Hebrew children. In "The Shape of Things To Come", Aaron is placed in a basket to be shielded from what we have been told is Widmore's order to kill everyone on the Island. Moses and Aaron follow Jacob in the Judeo-Christian prophetic line.[/INDENT]
Will Aaron play a part in the eventual "exodus" (possibly in the final season) of the survivors from the island? Moses fled Egypt (Aaron escapes the island as one of the O-6), and later returns to lead his people away. I realize Aaron is just a baby and probably won't lead anybody, but ... it begs the comparison.

jimbow8 Wrote:Oh, by the way, in the 4/25/08 podcast (have you listened to that yet?), DL makes mention of the carrier pigeon released by Claire in a question asking whether birds would be affected by the "time disparity."

Maggers Wrote:Well, uh, yeah, Marc, that's why I wrote "if he were in the real world."

Marc B. Wrote:Three hours of sleep prevented me from picking up on the little details of your post. My apologies.

Maggers Wrote:No apologies necessary, my friend. Are you OK or just having lots of fun or lots of work?

• What if Ben really DOESN'T know WHAT the "smoke monster" is? If Whitmore really did once "own" the Island (and that would mean he had some kind of involvement with the DHARMA Initiative), when Ben and the Hostiles/Others took over, what if for instance Ben knows now how to CONTROL the "smoke monster," but he still doesn't really know what it IS?
  
• When I saw Ben laying on the desert, all I thought of was when we first see Charlotte's backstory: being in Tunisia, discovering the fossilized bones of a POLAR BEAR (Ben's jacket what?) and the DHARMA Initiative tag on it.
  
• I seriously can't believe that Danielle, Karl, and now Alex are all dead. That sucks. I liked them all to varying degrees, and it was really cold how they were all killed off like that before we got to learn anything about them.
  
• I have had EXACTLY one moment where I sympathized (empathized) with Ben now, and that was him mourning over Alex. When he said "I'm going to say goodbye to my daughter," my heart just broke. Granted, right after that we see the flashback of him with Sayid where he grins like the cat who ate the canary, but it was one hell of a moment in the show.
  
• God damn, I love Hurley! When Locke told him to keep away from the door when Sawyer and Claire were outside, and he just silently grabs a chair and throws it out the window to help them in...I practically screamed and jumped for joy. He's so cool!
  
• Holy f*ck...that "smoke monster" is scary. I mean it - I really get this deep, primal fear every time it comes on, in a way that's very unusual to me when I'm watching TV shows or movies. Good special effects, I might add.

Barry Lee Dejasu Wrote:What if Ben really DOESN'T know WHAT the "smoke monster" is? If Whitmore really did once "own" the Island (and that would mean he had some kind of involvement with the DHARMA Initiative), when Ben and the Hostiles/Others took over, what if for instance Ben knows now how to CONTROL the "smoke monster," but he still doesn't really know what it IS?

Quote:I seriously can't believe that Danielle, Karl, and now Alex are all dead. That sucks. I liked them all to varying degrees, and it was really cold how they were all killed off like that before we got to learn anything about them.

Marc B. Wrote:Possibly, but then why didn't Whitmore give his men a heads-up on the thing?