We All Little Butties
by Liz
Soo...what's up with Charlie? Boardies are saying maybe he has the "island sickness" that was alluded to earlier, but could it just be that he's seeing things like everyone else? Obviously, his visions are wrapped in some bigger delusional dreams, but they seem pretty much in line with Regular Island Crazy Shit. I appreciated that everyone is freaked out for Claire (I would be freaked out if every time I wasn't watching my baby, someone tried to steal him. Though, aren't the others a little like, "Okay with the screaming already--we GET it; the baby's gone. AGAIN."?), but it seems like everyone has seen something unexplainable (dead father wandering around much) or had something weird happen to them, and it's baffling that NO ONE thinks that MAYBE Charlie's dreams might have something to do with the island. Plus, wouldn't it be pretty easy to tell if he'd been using again? I like how Locke bothered to track him, spy on him, and then busts him before learning what he was going to do with the stash. Laaaaaame.
Everyone is pretty sure Libby has something to do with something. The most vanilla of theories has her at the mental institute where Hurley was sent. It escalates from there. Does she know something about the numbers? Is she an Other who got to the island another way, or had something to do with Hurley and the plane getting there in the first place? I think it was very foretelling that Hurley "recognized" her, and she sort of invented this toe-stepping memory. Real Girl mentions that there is much boardie kafuffle about this as she was seated in the BACK of the plane, and Hurley would not have passed her on his way to his seat at the beginning of the flight. She also emailed me this: "And slutty Libby! Turn around so I can get naked behind you, big boy. I'm so glad she has a party shirt for the island. That'll really deter the Others. They don't like parties." Haaa.
Thoughts on why did Locke didn't destroy the statues?
Did you notice polar bears in the giant crib?
Did Charlie's non-bleeding small cut really need stiches?
Posted on January 26, 2006 | Comments (2)
The Hunting Party
by Liz
Is anyone else as frustrated as I am about everyone's lack of communication? Like, I know you people all have your issues and you're all Men Alone, so to speak, but for the love of god would it kill someone to toss the others a bone for one second? Michael: Oh hey, someone's typing to me on this crazy computer. Jack: Wow, crazy Other guy, tell me more about this island THAT YOU LIVE ON. And yes, we would LOVE to go home; care to help? Kate: Well, Jack why doesn't Hurley watch the computer and I'll come with because I always come with anyway. Plus Sawyer's, y'know, BLEEDING and all.
Okay, on to the goodies!
We know Jack's wife, Sarah, is a cheating McCheaterton. As RealGirl reports the boardies are saying, "Now what are the chances she was seeing someone on the island? That's right, 100%!"
And who would that handsome fellow be? Could it be Jack's running buddy cum local psycho? The boardies' tongues are wagging! This is a screenshot from Ravenscraft showing Desmond and his girl in a pic on Desmond's mantel. While people were maybe saying it was Sarah, a comparison Ravenscraft makes is to the woman trying to adopt Claire's baby.
Or is that too freakin' obtuse?
RealGirl also finds the boardies taking issue with Jack appoaching Ana Lucia about getting troops together. "Wouldn't it make more sense to ask, oh I don't know, a trained soldier about training an army?" Good point. I take issue with the fact that he wants to start a war based on his own agenda and without asking any good questions when he had the chance. Current administration much? Lame. Why can't Locke go hang with Zeke for a bit and get some answers? Like, do we REALLY have to keep pressing this button? (If so, wouldn't they have some leverage against the Others?)
I'll be honest, I didn't pick up much this episode. We were wondering at the end whether the previews for next week's episode, where Aaron does through some sort of Moses trip down the ocean, will speak to the growing Christianity theme. Remember Mr. Eko brought up Moses and Aaron in the last episode.
Now things gathered from our gorgeous Boardies Correspondent:
1. The Others mention Alex, the French woman's daughter.
2. Zeke quoted Alvar Hanso!
"From the dawn of our species, Man has been blessed with curiosity. Our most precious gift, without exception, is the desire to know more - to look beyond what is accepted as the truth and to imagine what is possible."- Alvar Hanso, Address to the U.N. Security Council, 1967
3. Jack didn't have tattoos in the flashbacks when he got married, but now he's got them. There's speculation we'll get another flashback someday about the tattoos.
There is also this site chronicling the mural art in the hatch and comparing it to Claire's boyfriend's art, as well as some of the art in Jack's house. Bizarre!
Posted on January 19, 2006 | Comments (7)
What are you going to do? Beat me with your Jesus stick?
by Liz
Hi! Did you miss me? Do you hate that I abandoned you when Lost took its sweet time on vacation? Are you thinking, Why didn't she post about all the excellent shows that are starting up, like Stars on Ice, American Idol, or the second season of Beauty and the Geek-- shows that are starting up the very week of her birthday like big, reality-based gifts produced by Fox and Ashton Kutcher? Or are you just here for screen shots of the faces in the black fog?
Church!
Brother!
That dude he killed!
Old woman!
(images via ravenscraft)
This was pretty much a "throw away" flashback episode, with only a little more about the goings on of the island. Of course, the biggest stick we were thrown is our first real, up-close-and-personal interaction with the black fog monster. We know it senses and reacts to fear, and all the things it reflected for Mr. Eko makes me think it picks up on a person's dark feelings or guilt. If it tried to feed him a plate of cookies and tell him he looked thin, I might think it was the Jewish mom leg of the island experiments.
I've sort of thought that the whole island and the experiments have something to do with people facing their dark sides. A disproportionate amount of people on the plane have killed or physically hurt people, and all of them harbor some sort of demon they're being forced to face on the island. Perhaps the experiments are about forming a perfect society by ridding people of their bad sides? Leading people out of darkness? 23rd Pslam? Maybe it's a Catholic mother experiment. Make a note that Mr. Eko left his Jesus stick behind after his confrontation with the fog.
Real Girl, my "boardies" correspondent, came back to me with these whisperings:
1. Some people are saying they heard the non-Nigerian drug dealers in the initial drug sale mention Sayid, as in "Does Sayid know?" But they're saying they were speaking in Arabic, making it difficult to make out.
2. An Arabic-speaking person says he heard "sayyidah" meaning "trap." As in "Be careful with this guy, it's a trap."
3. There are lots of hypotheses that the black smoke is actually nanotechnology, bajillions of teeny computers working together.
Posted on January 12, 2006 | Comments (9)