Lost - Season II

This interests me a bunch.

 

and ok, who the fuck drew the map and made all the notes? splain that to me lucy.

 

if that's regarding 108 minutes, i would imagine most of it is that way. unless there's an alternate means of travel.



about the 108 minutes. would the others really entrust something like that to these folks? i mean, if it's gonna be bad if they don't hit the button, wouldn't the other people on the island sort of have a vested interest in making sure the button was hit? you'd think if it was legit they'd take care of it themselves.

 

4....8....15 - are they part of the number sequence? (the alarm, Hurley's numbers...)

 

yes. they are the first three numbers.

4 8 15 16 23 42. not sure why they are end up repeated a few times elsewhere. square-root of 16 is 4, square-root of 64 is 8, square-root of 225 is 15.

and of course, 4 + 8 + 15 + 16 + 23 + 42 = 108.

but i can't find any other pattern there. 23 is prime, 16 and 4 are squares.

there are six numbers and six hatches....

 

I am curious about the area on the top left that is scribbled out? Looks like another hatch or maybe a mistake on the mapping. If it's another hatch, does that insinuate that it has been destroyed or that it is off limits (others)???

I gotta say, Wed. episode renewed my interest in the show. The previous 2 episodes were weak at best. I don't get the whole Charlie/Sun thing, unless he's using again or used one time and freaked?

The Locke/Jack dynamic is going to have to blow up at some point. To date, the main power struggle has been between Jack and Sawyer, but it appears Jack has secured the upper hand and with his final statement about the guns to Sawyer as he walked away, Sawyer appeared to be aware of the fact that Jack has him. PLus, Kate seemed to be the catalyst and she appears to have leaned toward Jack recently...there is a sexual tension between those three.
This leads me to believe that Locke is next to pose a challenge or that there will be an asserted power struggle in the coming edisodes. Hell maybe it will be all three of them going at it.

Then I gotta wonder when Michael and Walt fall back in, gotta think they will address thier where abouts soon. Seems they should be up in the rotation.

Somehow, I get the feeling that someone somewhere knows they are there and is watching thier every move. Like this is all some kind of wierd experiment where these people from different walks of life are dropped into an uncivilized situation to see how the establish thier own civilization or something. The significants of the others is either as a second study group or an intentional group planted act as a...placebo (proper sociological term escapes me?) Kind of like the Dharma Initiative was abandoned and they decided to use what was there for this...my distaste for corporate america makes me think there is some major corporation pulling the strings of the whole thing.

I dunno, but the show has recaptured my interest.

 

yeah, i dunno. it seems like a mistake, but maybe it's not. the thing is, everything official (the orientation film, for instance) says there are 6 sections.

charlie and sawyer hatched that plan to get people riled up to the point of having to move the guns. charlie attacked sun to make it look the others did it and sawyer took it from there. i have a minor suspicion that something else happened to sun to impregnate her.

kate is a tease and is getting on my nerves. the locke/jack thing was probably the focus recently to give this henry plotline some legs. i suspect locke goes back to his normal secretive self. jack seems less and less concerned about control over the group (the guns, for example).

the thing about walt and michael is that it'd answer way too many questions to re-introduce them soon. i think more stuff has to unfold before walt can return from the others? i wouldn't be surprised if they end the season with walt returning.

that's definitely the prevailing vibe -- that this is some huge sociology experiment. i dunno. it seems too obvious to me. i would be very disappointed if it turns out that it's all been arranged by some corporation or something just to "see what happens".

i'm thinking all the crazy shit is more of a side effect of the research being done. probably some shit along the lines quantum physics, randomness, fate, etc. sort of bridging the gap between physics and metaphysics. it's like they invented the improbability drive and crazy shit started happening. my sense is that it's not controlled, but being observed none-the-less. it would also explain why the place is all fucked up.

i can't imagine why the others would hide their identities from the survivors unless they wanted to maintain some sense of separation -- which implies a sense of wanting to watch without interfering. but then, they interfere regularly, so that doesn't make much sense. dunno what they want the kids for. genetic experiments, perhaps? seems like the others have maybe enhanced themselves.

hmm... i wonder if they're actually escaped subjects from an earlier experiment....

the supply drop means the dharma thing is still active, tho. if so, who's running the fucking thing!?


so many questions!

 

The term I was serching for was "control group". I am think the others are either as you say, a group who escaped the experiment or a control group there to ensure the cast aways remain with in set perameters. Either that or they are infact the ones running the experiment and doing the observation.
They took all the kids which makes me think the kids are not to be tested due to the long term effects such trauma could have on them and at some point the others said they were taking "good people". Or were they people that did not fit within the general test group peramiters.

If it were to end up being some kind of experiment, it wouldn't put me off. It's not that it's realistic or not, but that type of testing using real people thrust into a situation for the sake of science is believable even though on the side of irrational.

There are theories of it being a form of pergatory and something supernatural, where I tend to think it is something a little more real the more I see. Real, but twisted as fuck.

 

They don't know about it. They're not in the loop.

 

I just want to know which one will end up hooking up with Ginger and which with Marry Ann. I am thinking the professor gets Ginger and Gilligan gets Mary Ann. I guess Skipper is just out of luck. Maybe he can make a love doll out of coconuts like Wilson from Cast Away.