...Why all sharing houses?! Sawyer made it quite clear he didn't like Hurley as a roomie, so why doesn't he just move to another house?! (Not in the top 10 of Lost mysteries, admittedly, but it bugged me all the same!)

I thought they might be sharing for the sake of security. With who knows what out there in the jungle, danger lurking around every corner, and Ben in the basement, I'd feel safer if I had a roomie.

I think that we will see a Desmond flashback before long, maybe involving his time in military prison. I think he'll make it to a boat, maybe Naomi's freighter, maybe not. Maybe on that "rescue" ship Desmond will run into someone he knew from his time in military prison in Scotland, someone we'll have seen in the flashback.

I have not read about this anywhere else. This is just a guess on my part, and we know how well guesses go on this show. ....

God, I love this show.

SPOILERS...............




OK, I got a wee bit right this time. We did see a flashback involving Desmond in the Scots military. But it wasn't in prison, and it was such a realistic flashback that Desmond, himself, flash backed. The person in the flashback that he recognizes is reversed, in that he is recognized in the flashback rather than in the present. Geez...time is so convoluted in this one that it's hard to describe.

Loved this episode. The writers have proved, yet again, that there is no way they can be outguessed. Never. Not by me, at any rate.

I'm listening to an audio podcast with Damon Lindelof and Carleton Cuse, creators, writers and producers of the show.

They stated unequivocally that Michael, aka Harold Perrineau, has NOT yet been seen in Season 4 in spite of his being listed in the credits every week. They said the listing of the cast is a contractual thing and has to be done for legal reasons.

They also stated, as I have mentioned a few times in this thread, that the Dharma training video involving bunnies at the Orchid Station is very important. It has not been shown on air, but it can be found at abc.com if you search. I'm pleased that what I surmised by watching that video may be accurate.

Woo hoo! My understanding of LOST is not entirely lost. It's nice to get validation every now and again.



Here's another train of thought. ALIAS was a JJ Abrams show. He co-created LOST. I never watched ALIAS, so someone can help me with this. Wasn't there some sort of surprise involvement of a super secret government agency in that show? I may be all wrong in my explanation of it, but I was thinking that could also be the case in LOST. Ben may be working for such a super secret government agency, maybe even the same one (that would be a hell of a crossover) and that's why he has access to so much information and so much money. That is just my own little idea; I haven't read it anywhere else.

The entire ALIAS show was about a "super secret government agency" (or agencies). Every season contained multiple double- and triple-crosses, so unless you can be more specific, there's no good answer to your question.

The entire ALIAS show was about a "super secret government agency" (or agencies). Every season contained multiple double- and triple-crosses, so unless you can be more specific, there's no good answer to your question.

Sorry, can't be more specific since I'm just guessing. But I wouldn't be surprised if something similar could be at play in LOST, where "every season contains multiple double and triple crosses" and there may be the possibility of a "super secret government agency."


Back to the last episode.....

2342....those numbers appeared over and over again throughout the episode.

How great is it that at the auction (Lot #2342) Penny's father bought the journal of the first mate of the Black Rock which had been owned by the founder and/or financial backer of DHARMA, Tovard Hanso. The contents of the journal were never made public and were known only to Hanso. If we connect the dots, we can extrapolate the genesis of the DHARMA Initiative on the Island.

If it's 2004 on the Island, and Ben's Purge of the Dharma Initiative was 16 years before that, the Purge happened in 1988. Widmore gets his hands on the journal in 1996. If Widmore is connected to Dharma, and I think he is, then he may have needed that journal to help him and his people find the Island again. If nothing else, this latest episode has shown how hard it is to come and go, safely, from the Island.

I loved this episode. In fact, the previous Desmond episode where he is in the past and told he isn't suppose to take the engagement ring (can't remember the season) is one of my top favorites. So far (except for last week) this season has been very strong.

And some minor spoilers for the upcoming seasons (i.e. to see what the seasons will focus on highlight): Season 4 is about who gets off the island and the fact that they need to get back. Season 5 is about why they need to get back, and season 6 is about what happens when they get back. Source: New York Post

I loved this episode. In fact, the previous Desmond episode where he is in the past and told he isn't suppose to take the engagement ring (can't remember the season) is one of my top favorites. So far (except for last week) this season has been very strong.

And some minor spoilers for the upcoming seasons (i.e. to see what the seasons will focus on highlight)

Thanks for that, Marc. The general layout of what is to come over the next seasons is pretty much what I expected. In their audio podcast this week, producers/writers Cuse and Lindelof said they plan to provide 40 hours of LOST between now and the end of the series. There will be a shortened season this year. As you mentioned in previous posts, the remaining episodes of Season 4 will be compressed from 8 to 5, with 16 episodes in each of the final 2 seasons. But the sum total of air time, they said, would be 40 hours. They think that the strike-forced compression will actually super-charge each episode, so I expect the remainder of this season to be terrific.


I agree that this episode centering on Desmond is a stellar one. I've said before that I think Desmond is a key player in terms of the mysteries of the Island, especially the mystery of time. Desmond literally personifies what happens to time on the Island. The episode you referred to ("Flashes Before Your Eyes" in Season 3 with the white-haired Ms, Hawking, a name well chosen, I might add) is the episode the writers repeatedly mention as laying out their template for time on the Island. Ms. Hawking's speech on "the universe course-correcting" is all important, they said.

Of note, in the audio podcast, Lindelof again referenced the Dharma Orchid training video and the bunnies.

Someone brought up Lost this morning but the thread seems to have disappeared with the recent database merger.

Anyway, curious if anyone noticed the book Sawyer was reading: A Wrinkle in Time. Do you think this is forshadowing?

Marc, this is from a 2005 thread you created on LOST, but I had to bring it back. Yes, indeedy, you were right. They could have called last night's episode with Desmond "a wrinkle in time."

Dr. Mark Whitman - narrator for the Dharma Pearl Orientation video. That's the video in the "question mark" hatch under the Nigerian plane, the video that so upset Locke that he began to doubt everything about the Island and swore he would stop pushing the button.

Dr. Edgar Hallowax - narrator for the Dharma Orchid training video, the one with the bunnies.

While it's the same man, the narrator of the Dharma videos introduces himself with different names for at least these two training videos. I just thought it was interesting to note. I have no explanation.

More random thoughts....

I think Claire's message sent by bird in the 3rd season will be received.

If it's received prior to the Oceanic 6 returning, then it could have been the means by which they were discovered by someone other than Dharma or whomever (Jacob's people?), someone in the outside world not affiliated with the Island. If that was the case, then perhaps it forced the hand of Dharma or whomever to allow 6 to leave the Island with the promise (via a threat of some kind?) of non-disclosure of the Island.

If Claire's bird message is received after the Oceanic 6 have returned, then I suspect it could cause trouble for them.

[SIZE="3"]You know what's bothering me? The radio / phone calls between the island and the ship. If it takes hours and hours of island time for a delivery rocket to travel from the ship to the island, why doesn't it take that long for radio waves to travel the same distance?

I guess you can simply say that the island doesn't effect radio transmissions above a certain wavelength, but shouldn't someone ask the question?

Is there a forum where someone has asked the question?[/SIZE]