This will not make me appear cool at parties.
Regarding Lost: So now it seems clear that at least certain visions/hallucinations/messages are in fact coming from the island, or the black smoke (Cerberus?). Locke has equated the two, which makes sense to me, but his interpretations of island mysteries have not led him where he thought they would in the past. At any rate, one could now, if one had nothing better to do on a Friday night, make some guesses as to what the island/smoke wants, assuming it is the kind of thing capable of wants.
Specifically, I think we know that it wanted the button pressed, and destroying whatever was under the hatch was not an acceptable compromise.
Consider: we know that the island is aware of things going on around it, even if those things are happening in an apparently sealed area. (Namely, it showed Eko Ana-Lucia's death.)
So, perhaps things go like this: the island knows that Desmond has run out of patience with his task, not to mention his life, and so it sends Locke to the hatch, ensuring that Desmond continues to push the button for awhile. Later, aware of Locke's growing resentment and lack of faith, it recruits Eko for the same job. And since he ultimately failed, it killed him, I suppose out of revenge. Which tells you something about its nature, perhaps.
If one wanted to go nuts, maybe Desmond's boat was drawn to the island for the same purpose.
On the other hand, it seems that, elsewhere on the "internet", people are putting more significance into the image of Eko's brother, Yemi, asking Eko to repent. Still, I think I am on to something, maybe. (Here I note that I don't believe, or need to believe to enjoy, that their are already answers written done to all these questions, so we can sidestep that particular conversation.) The island led Jack to water because it needed to keep at least a few people alive for future button-pushing just in case, and perhaps for other reasons. It killed the pilot because it is crazy go nuts and doesn't need all that many people.
Perhaps the crazy go nuts portion requires future refinement.
I do not know what I think about, say, Hurley's hallucination, or Charlie's dreams. Since they didn't involve the appearance of a dead person, coupled with the disappearance of said person's actual body, I will ignore them for the moment. But the smoke, like the Others, sure seems concerned with moral choices, for some reason.
Sidenote: everyone seems to think that the smoke is telepathic, but maybe it got its information about Eko (and presumably Jack and Locke and everyone else?) from the same source as the Others. So that rather than reading Eko's mind there it was just running his face through whatever database contains those files of Juliet's. Should any such database exist, of course.
Regarding Lost: So now it seems clear that at least certain visions/hallucinations/messages are in fact coming from the island, or the black smoke (Cerberus?). Locke has equated the two, which makes sense to me, but his interpretations of island mysteries have not led him where he thought they would in the past. At any rate, one could now, if one had nothing better to do on a Friday night, make some guesses as to what the island/smoke wants, assuming it is the kind of thing capable of wants.
Specifically, I think we know that it wanted the button pressed, and destroying whatever was under the hatch was not an acceptable compromise.
Consider: we know that the island is aware of things going on around it, even if those things are happening in an apparently sealed area. (Namely, it showed Eko Ana-Lucia's death.)
So, perhaps things go like this: the island knows that Desmond has run out of patience with his task, not to mention his life, and so it sends Locke to the hatch, ensuring that Desmond continues to push the button for awhile. Later, aware of Locke's growing resentment and lack of faith, it recruits Eko for the same job. And since he ultimately failed, it killed him, I suppose out of revenge. Which tells you something about its nature, perhaps.
If one wanted to go nuts, maybe Desmond's boat was drawn to the island for the same purpose.
On the other hand, it seems that, elsewhere on the "internet", people are putting more significance into the image of Eko's brother, Yemi, asking Eko to repent. Still, I think I am on to something, maybe. (Here I note that I don't believe, or need to believe to enjoy, that their are already answers written done to all these questions, so we can sidestep that particular conversation.) The island led Jack to water because it needed to keep at least a few people alive for future button-pushing just in case, and perhaps for other reasons. It killed the pilot because it is crazy go nuts and doesn't need all that many people.
Perhaps the crazy go nuts portion requires future refinement.
I do not know what I think about, say, Hurley's hallucination, or Charlie's dreams. Since they didn't involve the appearance of a dead person, coupled with the disappearance of said person's actual body, I will ignore them for the moment. But the smoke, like the Others, sure seems concerned with moral choices, for some reason.
Sidenote: everyone seems to think that the smoke is telepathic, but maybe it got its information about Eko (and presumably Jack and Locke and everyone else?) from the same source as the Others. So that rather than reading Eko's mind there it was just running his face through whatever database contains those files of Juliet's. Should any such database exist, of course.
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Well, on the last point : It seems more likely that there would be computer-accessible information about an American surgeon than about a rural African drug smuggler.
actually pilots are known assholes.
dont hate on the fog, i'd have killed him too.
Lost?
I could have been to three spin the bottle parties, two monster truck derbies, a naked girl party, fifteen rock concerts and one drug deal in the time it took to read all this about some show by Abraham J. Johnson or whatnot, the M. Night Shamalayan of TV.
As in "How good was Lady in the Water, really, guys?"
To which you answer "I am sure it will make up the money it lost internationally. Or at least on DVD. I hear it comes with a lock of M. Night's own hair and also water from the titular water the lady doth come from! Special Bluest Ray Edition!"
I know I am late, but leave your moustache twirl at the door and listen to my condemnation of Mr. Giant Red Russian Orb is Such a Wonderful Plot Contrivance! Let's shovel money down his throat to make Sean William Scott and, if we're as lucky as sin, Chris Klein the new Kirk and Spock of our generation.
Nevermind the fact that Star Trek sucks, I'll have you know. My 4000 name shiplist is due in PDF form by the end of the week.
Anti Abrahms rants are old business for an old year, and 2006 is over in less than a wink, so it is move on time.
The Good Shepherd is good, I think, but I am not sure yet. In all events, I think I could go better, because, really, what does DeNiro know about spies? Go back to Cops and Mobs, mister. Better yet, go back to the comedic mobster cop genre, I hear they're calling you out because they're left with Reginald VelJohnson and Eric Roberts, and you can't mix and match.
Also, I think, here is what 2007 is supposed to be about, imagine this, if you will:
What Eco did for Esoterism in Foucault's Pendulum, I will do for 1980-1999 pop culture in Cousin Larry Appleton's Pendulum. Or something cleverer. Er.
This should have been an e-mail.
In any event, don't steal my ideas, internet.
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