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Clock Like an Egyptian
by Liz
The boardies are hard at work trying to decipher last night's BIG FRICKIN' CLUE given to us when the clock went haywire at the end of the countdown. I spent approximately five minutes looking on some hieroglyphic sites, but that's about all I'm up for. The translation up there is pretty much nonsense to me, but if you get anything out of it, let us know. Supposedly the only real translated word is "die" and the rest are phonetic sounds. But honestly, what kind of warning are you getting across if you all encode it in ancient Egyptian? Whoever these Dharma people are, they sure didn't like to go about things in a straightforward way. Nope, you gotta know the code all the way to the "blah blah blah DIE" warning. In other news, I cannot believe they almost let the clock run out and then stopped it. Man, were we close to finding something concrete out!
You all caught Kate's dad out there with Sayid, right? You saw him sneak a peek at a cute little baseball capped Kate, right? Okay, here's another strange question. Remember when Kate visited her dad in the Army recruiting office and we caught the image of Sayid on the television in the background?
At the time we were trying to figure out when Sayid would have appeared on television and what he was doing. I know this doesn't make any sense, but doesn't it look like the scene from last night when he was dragged from the truck in handcuffs? Will this actually come up again? Are they messing with us now with some meta shit? Who knows!
Another fabulous catch by the boardies is the fact that "Henry Gale" came in on a hot air balloon. "Wizard of Oz" much? Again, making the connection doesn't actually lead us anywhere, other than the fact that 'ol Henry is totally an Other. I got a big kick out of the convenient fact that Sayid knew this because he didn't feel "guilty" about beating the guy. Then he gives Charlie a huge lecture on how he hasn't forgotten anything and how he know Charlie hasn't forgotten anything, either. The only thing he seems to forget is the last time he tortured someone on the island, it ended with him completely disgraced, wandering the island in a state of self-punishment, and vowing that he didn't want to be a torturer.
Not to bring anyone down, but remember the tree frog? Man, don't fuck with Sawyer. He is DONE showing us his sweet side.
Comments
The tree frog was too much for me. And I am about to give up on my dream of the plot line that will enable Sawyer and Jin to make out, as Sawyer is now a frog-killing asshole.
I read on a message board that the frog is an Other, and now that Sawyer killed it he is going to be squashed in the metaphorical palm of the collective Other. Ok, no, I didn't, but I don't understand that plot line AT ALL.
The previews for next week look awesome, though -- more Dharmaness and screen time for Libby!
Posted by: Sally Nordan at February 18, 2006 8:51 AM
Ok, so I'm thinking either 1) They didn't want to shoot new footage for the TV thing and yet wanted there to be a Sayid tie-in, or 2) Sayid's hair is a bit longer in the TV pic, so maybe it's a later event?
If only Kate's "dad" had turned his head, he could have seen his old war buddy. Or...is it war enemy turned almost buddy? Or...is it just plain torturer? ("My name is Sayid. And I'm an tortureholic.")
Also, come on JJ Abrams! What is it with your shows and torture!? I mean, even the arrow shots were just too graphic to watch! I'm kind of surprised we didn't have to look at crushed frog carcass. (At least Sawyer did it quick and plier-less.)
Posted by: Real Girl at February 16, 2006 9:24 AM