What's up guys? I'm so glad I found this thread. Our air conditioner has been out for a couple days, so I haven't been able to sleep. I decided to look for a Lost message board over at
www.ABC.com. The discussions were absolutely pathetic. There were entire threads about whether the people on the boat were "the others". I did read a few interesting things there though.
1. In the episode where Boone is in the airplane and it falls off the cliff I thought the response on the radio was something like "there were no survivors of oceanic flight 815". In fact that's what it said in the closed captioning. Yes, I checked. However, when you go to the ABC web site and watch the video review of that episode the response is clearly, "no, we're the survivors of oceanic flight 815."
http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/index.html
Click on the "video Gallery" link in the middle of the page. Click on episode 19. It's towards the end of the clip.
2. What was with Locke's legs in that episode? They were reverting back to their previous state until Boone and the plane fell off the cliff. Or was it until the hatch lit up at the end of the episode? I figure it must have been the island making sure that it was Boone who went up into the airplane.
3. On the raft, Sawyer was singing Bob Marley's "Redemption Song". Check out the lyrics to that song.
Old pirates, yes, they rob i;
Sold I to the merchant ships,
Minutes after they took i
From the bottomless pit.
But my hand was made strong
By the ’and of the almighty.
We forward in this generation
Triumphantly.
Won’t you help to sing
These songs of freedom? -
’cause all I ever have:
Redemption songs;
Redemption songs.
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
None but ourselves can free our minds.
Have no fear for atomic energy,
’cause none of them can stop the time.
How long shall they kill our prophets,
While we stand aside and look? ooh!
Some say it’s just a part of it:
We’ve got to fulfil de book.
Won’t you help to sing
These songs of freedom? -
’cause all I ever have:
Redemption songs;
Redemption songs;
Redemption songs.
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Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
None but ourselves can free our mind.
Wo! have no fear for atomic energy,
’cause none of them-a can-a stop-a the time.
How long shall they kill our prophets,
While we stand aside and look?
Yes, some say it’s just a part of it:
We’ve got to fulfil de book.
Won’t you help to sing
Dese songs of freedom? -
’cause all I ever had:
Redemption songs -
All I ever had:
Redemption songs:
These songs of freedom,
Songs of freedom.
4. I don't put any credence in the idea that the others are the descendents of the slave traders. They are clearly people that have come to the island more recently. First of all they have American accents. At least the guy who talked did. They have the small boat and guns that were made no more than 75 years ago. I have to believe that there is some military aspect to the island because of the radio transmitter and the nature of the hatch.
5. Was the lady on the boat... the one that through the bomb... was she Alex? She looked a little older than 16 to me, but I suppose nobody weathers well on an island like that.
6. Mike pointed out how a bunch of the numbers showed up in Hurley's segment as he was rushing to the airport. When his car broke down the numbers 4, 8, 23, and 42 were all on the Digital dashboard at one point or another. The old man he bought the scooter from had a hat on that said "crazy 8's".
7. Claire's baby must have some significance more than just being a baby born on the island. Remember that there was a whole episode where the psychic told her it would be a disaster if she didn't raise the baby herself. He orchestrated her getting on that flight after being so worried about her giving the baby up for adoption. I'm not giving up on the idea that turniphead is somehow specialeven though the others were actually after Walt.
8. I thought the observations in this thread about the radar were pretty heinteresting. However I think it was probably just an oversight by the writers. Or maybe they just needed it for the story and figured nobody would think much of it.
9. Two of the books that Sawyer was reading were "A Wrinkle in Time" and "Watership down". I've never read either book, but I looked up their plots on the Internet.
http://cgi.sparknotes.com/hlite.mpl?words=wrinkle&pd=0&page=summary.html&guide=/lit/wrinkle
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/watership/summary.html
Like the song, "Redemption Song", it's easy to see similarities to Lost.
10. The "monster" or "security system" is definitely some sort of machine or partially a machine. If you slow down that scene where Locke is being dragged it sure looks like there is some sor of chain pulling him. At that point it sounds like a chain on a big sprocket. The closed captioning reads "[gears clicking]" as he's being pulled into the hole. I figure it is some sort of supernatural machine wore more accurately a machine controlled by supernatural powers.