Lost - Season 4 (spoilers)

[Pariah]

This part of lostpedia seems useful, snce the questions are so hard to keep track of:

Unanswered questions
For fan theories about these unanswered questions, see: Eggtown/Theories On the Island

• Where is the helicopter?
• Why does Miles want exactly 3.2 million dollars?
  • What does Miles know about Ben?
  • What abilities does Miles believe Ben possesses?
• Why is Daniel having difficulty with the three cards?
  • What situation is Daniel presumably "progressing" from?
• Why isn't Minkowski answering the phone?

In the future

• How does Jack's testimony correlate to the discovery of Flight 815's wreckage?
• Is Aaron considered one of the Oceanic 6?
• Why is Kate calling herself Aaron's mother?
  • What happened to Claire?
  • Why doesn't Jack want to see Aaron?
  • Does Jack know that he is Aaron's uncle?
  • Whom does Kate claim to be the father?

 

[Gaddabout]

Also:
The end credits credit William Blanchette not as Aaron but as "Two Year Old Boy."

That was probably out of necessity. I believe the credits are released before the show airs. NBC sends me a cast list for most shows in the promo cycle up to a week before it airs. I don't think Aaron's ever received a credit before, and if he has you can be sure someone would notice it was played by a different (probably older) child actor.

 

[Pariah]

Also, an "eggtown" is a depression era term used by traveling salesmen. One of the worst deals you could get when bartering with someone around that time was trading something for an egg (because the egg was a fairly common item and very perishable). So, if a town was so depressed that a good deal was not to be found, it was called an "eggtown."

Probably a reference to Kate's deal with Miles, rather than the reference to the actual "last eggs" that locke gave to Ben.

 

[Pariah]

That was probably out of necessity.

Are you saying they didn't know who that kid was going to play?

Producers are contractually bound to credit actors properly, I believe.

 

[abomb]

This part of lostpedia seems useful, snce the questions are so hard to keep track of:

Yeah, be sure to click on the link to the page containing user theories and answers to those questions. Some interesting stuff there.

Also, an "eggtown" is a depression era term used by traveling salesmen. One of the worst deals you could get when bartering with someone around that time was trading something for an egg (because the egg was a fairly common item and very perishable). So, if a town was so depressed that a good deal was not to be found, it was called an "eggtown."

Probably a reference to Kate's deal with Miles, rather than the reference to the actual "last eggs" that locke gave to Ben.

I was wondering what "eggtown" was. Maybe a tongue-in-cheek ref to all the pregnancy talk.

 

[Pariah]

I was wondering what "eggtown" was. Maybe a tongue-in-cheek ref to all the pregnancy talk.

That's an interesting thought, too.

 

[Gaddabout]

Are you saying they didn't know who that kid was going to play?

No, I'm saying the producers intentionally gave the actor a vague credit so as not to reveal the big secret at the end of the show.

 

[Pariah]

No, I'm saying the producers intentionally gave the actor a vague credit so as not to reveal the big secret at the end of the show.

They can't do that for the same reason they have to list actors at the start of the show, even though that may reveal who may or may not be in it.

 

[Pariah]

Time anomoly "explained"....

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[Gaddabout]

They can't do that for the same reason they have to list actors at the start of the show, even though that may reveal who may or may not be in it.

I believe SAG allows credits to be negotiated between producers and actor. They also don't list the entire cast at the start of the show.

Chap? What say ye?

 

[Pariah]

I'm getting my information from the official Lost podcast with Cuse and Lindenoff.

 

[Gaddabout]

I'm getting my information from the official Lost podcast with Cuse and Lindenoff.

Which information? Did they say the kid really isn't Aaron, or did they just point it out?

 

[Chaplin]

I believe SAG allows credits to be negotiated between producers and actor. They also don't list the entire cast at the start of the show.

Chap? What say ye?

I'm not really versed in SAG regulations, but there are A LOT. I don't think the credits negotiations are completely between producers and actors. I know there are very strict guidelines that don't allow for a lot of wiggle-room. The cast that is listed at the start of the show is the main cast--the ones that the marketing departments push. The others are like recurring roles, it's all a bunch of legal mumbo-jumbo. And television is a lot different than movies. For mine, we pretty much listed every actor with a large speaking role, and the rest were listed at the end. But it was our discretion (the advantage of working with non-SAG actors). We only had one actor that got a special "and" credit at the beginning, and that was his only payment to work on the movie.

 

[Pariah]

Which information? Did they say the kid really isn't Aaron, or did they just point it out?

The information that their hands are tied as to how they credit actors. Not specific to the kid or Aaron.

 

[JS22]

Screenshot from season 1

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Not sure if it was posted before. But found it interesting.

Aaaaggghhhhh. I completely forgot about this.

There is no way that this show can end logically. But that definitely won't stop me from watching.

 

[Chaplin]

Aaaaggghhhhh. I completely forgot about this.

There is no way that this show can end logically. But that definitely won't stop me from watching.

I don't believe it's from Season 1. Just sayin'.

 

[D-Dogg]

They can't do that for the same reason they have to list actors at the start of the show, even though that may reveal who may or may not be in it.

They could credit him as Aaron or Two Year Old. They chose Two Year Old to credit him, and called him Aaron in the dialogue. So they did something different. Does it mean anything? Who knows.

Interesting discussion that would ONLY come up with a show like Lost.

 

[DWKB]

That screen shot is from season 3 when Locke goes into the hot hut and take peyote. Ben had already been revealed to us by then, so there is no shocker that I see. I don't know where Louis got the idea it was from season 1.



Also, I know movies are different than TV, but Kevin Spacey is not credited in Se7en until the end of the movie as to not give away him being the killer.

 

[abomb]

Here is the Lostpedia entry for Locke's dreams/sweat lodge/vision quest;

http://lostpedia.com/wiki/Locke's_dream

 

[abomb]

Lost (video game) is out today.

http://lostpedia.com/wiki/Lost:_Via_Domus

 

[bankybruce]

That screen shot is from season 3 when Locke goes into the hot hut and take peyote. Ben had already been revealed to us by then, so there is no shocker that I see. I don't know where Louis got the idea it was from season 1.



Also, I know movies are different than TV, but Kevin Spacey is not credited in Se7en until the end of the movie as to not give away him being the killer.

Thanks, I have not seen that movie and planned on seeing it this weekend you big jerk.
















J/K

 

[Gaddabout]

Thanks, I have not seen that movie and planned on seeing it this weekend

Welcome to 1995, newcomer.

 

[Chaplin]

That screen shot is from season 3 when Locke goes into the hot hut and take peyote. Ben had already been revealed to us by then, so there is no shocker that I see. I don't know where Louis got the idea it was from season 1.

I guess the shocker now is why Ben would be a security guard at the airport in Locke's vision. Is the plane a metaphor for Jacob, and Ben is "guarding" him?

 

[Gaddabout]

I guess the shocker now is why Ben would be a security guard at the airport in Locke's vision. Is the plane a metaphor for Jacob, and Ben is "guarding" him?

At the time of the vision Jack, Kate, and Sawyer were prisoners held by Ben and the Others. In the vision Locke was supposed to be looking for someone to help, saw J/K/S with Ben in the terminal and wanted to help them, but Boone told him they didn't need his help at the moment.

As much as I read into everything on the show, I don't think there's much more to draw from that scene.

 

[Bob Chebat]

Blue pill or red pill? Maybe Rod Serling should be narrating the story.