Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Random
I happened to look through the archives to the right of this blog posting... 2008 was apparently the most intriguing year of LOST for me...32 posts... I haven't come close since... haha.. so far I've posted 91 blogs...only 5 more episodes left until the Series Finale... that would put me at 98 posts in my career, if I limit myself to talking about episodes... but I'll probably throw in one more random and then the Final FINAL blog posting summarizing my reign as El Prez... that would get me to 100. Not a stellar blog record but that's not counting the over 200 emails I sent before I got wise to this Internet thing.... that first year was a posting every day... those were the days, Edith.. those were the days....
Happily Ever After
YES!!! Desmond time!! I'm typing this up as I'm watching for the second time.... Its hard to believe that it's been FOREVER that we've seen Desmond but in LOST time, it's only been 3 days since Ben shot him at the marina and then received an A+ beatdown from Des....just like Papa Widmore is getting as I type....
I'm not sure what Desmond's purpose is...the dude survived an electromagnetic explosion in which the Hatch IMPLODED on itself, sending his consciousness on a free ride through time and space... all it seems to have gotten him was a one way ticket back to the Island so that his freakish new power can be used for some "greater good"....
So the Widmore gang built this shack with a giant set of speakers...Widmore claims that he wants to see if Desmond can survive another electro blast... so that question, combined with last week's revelation that Zoe was looking at other electromagnetically strong spots on the Island makes me think that Desmond is going to have to blow up the Island again..SO that would make 3 times the Island has blown up.... how many more times does this place have in it to survive such events?
The Sideways world has Des travelling the world as Widmore's right hand man, although Des has never met the man's family... so no Penny....nope..this Des is without his Constant..
Sorry... just noticed the painting of the scales in Widmore's office....black rock and white rock hanging in the balance... all is right in this Sideways world....
I'm not going to hover a lot on the Charlie side of the story....long story short, when Charlie was dying from trying to choke down some heroin, he saw a "vision" of a woman... "A blonde...RAPTUROUSLY beautiful..."....now I'm not going to claim this idea as my own but my friend Doc Jensen at Entertainment Weekly had a great point: perhaps Charlie saw Claire...but Jensens proposed that what Charlie saw was the Statue of Mary..the same one that housed all of that heroin on the Island... my contribution to this theory is the use of the word "rapturously"...as in caught in the Rapture.... look it up...I think Kirk Cameron has something to do with it...
Anyway, Charlie's near death experience caused him to catch a glimpse of his Island experience...perhaps it was Claire.. and he fell in love after seeing her again... but then, didn't he see her on the plane? Wouldn't he recognize her? Maybe he will in a future episode and they will reconnect...who knows...
Desmond gives Charlie a choice at the bar...Charlie responds by saying that doesn't seem like he has a choice...Desmond replies"
"You always have a choice, brutha"
THIS is the key to the 2 worlds colliding...the unreal Sideways world and the On Island world... I think that all of our key LOSTIES are going to be faced with this choice and they can decide on how they want to live... they can take the red pill or the blue pill... yep, Matrix style!! Sort of... time will tell how the writers change up one of the seminal tales of Alt universe duel existence..
The cool part of this episode was the way Charlie kind of woke up in the car when it was underwater and put his hand to the window... this caused Des to flash to the other world... very cool reveal...it was like he was possessed or something... crazy....
So this all leads Des to Mrs. Widmore, AKA Eloise Hawking...when Des starts poking around about Penny, Eloise goes all postal and puts Desmond in his place..or in some place.... She tells him that what he's looking for is in "violation" and that he's "not ready yet"...WTF??
Not to worry, here's Daniel Widmore, the artist formerly known as Daniel Faraday, master physicist.... he describes to Desmond that he spotted a redhead with blue eyes who works at the museum(Charlotte) and that he knew immediately that he loved her... and that's when things got "weird"...LOL.... yeah.. THAT's when things got weird... hahaha...you know when things got "weird" for me? September 24, 2004...when this DAMN SHOW AIRED!!! It set me on a course of blogging and reading and expounding in hallways and bars and restaurants about space and time and duel universes and Bible studies and polar bears....turns out, it's all about LOVE...
Anyway, Daniel woke up and wrote out the equation for Space Time travel, specifically using the term Imaginary Time...here's where knowing El Prez and his maniacal machinations comes in handy: I paused the old DVR and pulled this phrase from Daniels notebook. I then went to the all knowing Wikipedia and extracted this gem:
The relationship of real and imaginary time can be visualised as perpendicular axes of direction.
Daniel then goes on to mention that in order to stop a catastrophic event, a person could set off a nuclear bomb... I am assuming that doing so wouldn't lead to the destruction of everyone involved, but merely set everyone on a new course or it's like hitting a reset button.... and Daniel did that by having Jack blow up the Hatch before it was created...which split the worlds, giving us this Sideways world...
Now this is all some heady shiyite... so let's keep it to the simplest principle: LOVE
Daniel "felt" it when he saw Charlotte
Charlie "felt" it when he caught a vision of it(we'll presume it's Claire and not the H)
Desmond "felt" it when he saw the vision of his past life and then it was re-enforced when he shook Penny's hand....
Now he's on a mission to make sure that everyone on Oceanic Flight 815 sees the same thing... the question is: Has everyone already seen it? Case in point: Jack seeing Kate on the plane and then her seeing him when she hijacked the cab....could that have been their souls recognizing each other?
Or more succinctly put by Rachel McAdams in Wedding Crashers: "True love is the soul's recognition of it counterpoint in another"...hahaha... I was going to go with motorboating but this is a family blog....lol
So I'll leave it at that... I think Widmore exposed Des to the magnetic jumbo thingys to get him to send his consciousness to the Sideways world, in order to convince the other candidates to "wake up"... that's why Desmond was so ready to help when he woke up on Island... in the Sideways world, he was "awake" and starting to work for Widmore...even while his On Island counterpoint was trekking through the night jungle with Sayid, Ninja Assassin..... I can't wait until Desmond and Fake Locke meet up!! Woo hoo....
That's my time(and space) folks...har har... Peace!
I'm not sure what Desmond's purpose is...the dude survived an electromagnetic explosion in which the Hatch IMPLODED on itself, sending his consciousness on a free ride through time and space... all it seems to have gotten him was a one way ticket back to the Island so that his freakish new power can be used for some "greater good"....
So the Widmore gang built this shack with a giant set of speakers...Widmore claims that he wants to see if Desmond can survive another electro blast... so that question, combined with last week's revelation that Zoe was looking at other electromagnetically strong spots on the Island makes me think that Desmond is going to have to blow up the Island again..SO that would make 3 times the Island has blown up.... how many more times does this place have in it to survive such events?
The Sideways world has Des travelling the world as Widmore's right hand man, although Des has never met the man's family... so no Penny....nope..this Des is without his Constant..
Sorry... just noticed the painting of the scales in Widmore's office....black rock and white rock hanging in the balance... all is right in this Sideways world....
I'm not going to hover a lot on the Charlie side of the story....long story short, when Charlie was dying from trying to choke down some heroin, he saw a "vision" of a woman... "A blonde...RAPTUROUSLY beautiful..."....now I'm not going to claim this idea as my own but my friend Doc Jensen at Entertainment Weekly had a great point: perhaps Charlie saw Claire...but Jensens proposed that what Charlie saw was the Statue of Mary..the same one that housed all of that heroin on the Island... my contribution to this theory is the use of the word "rapturously"...as in caught in the Rapture.... look it up...I think Kirk Cameron has something to do with it...
Anyway, Charlie's near death experience caused him to catch a glimpse of his Island experience...perhaps it was Claire.. and he fell in love after seeing her again... but then, didn't he see her on the plane? Wouldn't he recognize her? Maybe he will in a future episode and they will reconnect...who knows...
Desmond gives Charlie a choice at the bar...Charlie responds by saying that doesn't seem like he has a choice...Desmond replies"
"You always have a choice, brutha"
THIS is the key to the 2 worlds colliding...the unreal Sideways world and the On Island world... I think that all of our key LOSTIES are going to be faced with this choice and they can decide on how they want to live... they can take the red pill or the blue pill... yep, Matrix style!! Sort of... time will tell how the writers change up one of the seminal tales of Alt universe duel existence..
The cool part of this episode was the way Charlie kind of woke up in the car when it was underwater and put his hand to the window... this caused Des to flash to the other world... very cool reveal...it was like he was possessed or something... crazy....
So this all leads Des to Mrs. Widmore, AKA Eloise Hawking...when Des starts poking around about Penny, Eloise goes all postal and puts Desmond in his place..or in some place.... She tells him that what he's looking for is in "violation" and that he's "not ready yet"...WTF??
Not to worry, here's Daniel Widmore, the artist formerly known as Daniel Faraday, master physicist.... he describes to Desmond that he spotted a redhead with blue eyes who works at the museum(Charlotte) and that he knew immediately that he loved her... and that's when things got "weird"...LOL.... yeah.. THAT's when things got weird... hahaha...you know when things got "weird" for me? September 24, 2004...when this DAMN SHOW AIRED!!! It set me on a course of blogging and reading and expounding in hallways and bars and restaurants about space and time and duel universes and Bible studies and polar bears....turns out, it's all about LOVE...
Anyway, Daniel woke up and wrote out the equation for Space Time travel, specifically using the term Imaginary Time...here's where knowing El Prez and his maniacal machinations comes in handy: I paused the old DVR and pulled this phrase from Daniels notebook. I then went to the all knowing Wikipedia and extracted this gem:
Imaginary time is also used in cosmology. It is used to describe models of the universe in physical cosmology. Stephen Hawking popularized the concept of imaginary time in his book A Brief History of Time.
Imaginary time is difficult to visualize. If we imagine "regular time" as a horizontal line running between "past" in one direction and "future" in the other, then imaginary time would run perpendicular to this line as the imaginary numbers run perpendicular to the real numbers in the complex plane. However, imaginary time is not imaginary in the sense that it is unreal or made-up — it simply runs in a direction different from the type of time we experience. In essence, imaginary time is a way of looking at the time dimension as if it were a dimension of space: you can move forward and backward along imaginary time, just like you can move right and left in space.
The concept is useful in cosmology because it can help smooth out gravitational singularities in models of the universe (see Hartle-Hawking state). Singularities pose a problem for physicists because these are areas where known physical laws do not apply. The Big Bang, for example, appears as a singularity in "regular time." But when visualized with imaginary time, the singularity is removed and the Big Bang functions like any other point in spacetime.
HAHAHA...WHAT.THE.HELL..... this show is amazing... so the question remains as to whether this really is "imaginary" like unreal or made up...yes, the definition above doesn't mean it that way but the definition above is REAL....LOST is all about imaginary...imaginary people, imaginary stories... brilliant..just brilliant...Daniel then goes on to mention that in order to stop a catastrophic event, a person could set off a nuclear bomb... I am assuming that doing so wouldn't lead to the destruction of everyone involved, but merely set everyone on a new course or it's like hitting a reset button.... and Daniel did that by having Jack blow up the Hatch before it was created...which split the worlds, giving us this Sideways world...
Now this is all some heady shiyite... so let's keep it to the simplest principle: LOVE
Daniel "felt" it when he saw Charlotte
Charlie "felt" it when he caught a vision of it(we'll presume it's Claire and not the H)
Desmond "felt" it when he saw the vision of his past life and then it was re-enforced when he shook Penny's hand....
Now he's on a mission to make sure that everyone on Oceanic Flight 815 sees the same thing... the question is: Has everyone already seen it? Case in point: Jack seeing Kate on the plane and then her seeing him when she hijacked the cab....could that have been their souls recognizing each other?
Or more succinctly put by Rachel McAdams in Wedding Crashers: "True love is the soul's recognition of it counterpoint in another"...hahaha... I was going to go with motorboating but this is a family blog....lol
So I'll leave it at that... I think Widmore exposed Des to the magnetic jumbo thingys to get him to send his consciousness to the Sideways world, in order to convince the other candidates to "wake up"... that's why Desmond was so ready to help when he woke up on Island... in the Sideways world, he was "awake" and starting to work for Widmore...even while his On Island counterpoint was trekking through the night jungle with Sayid, Ninja Assassin..... I can't wait until Desmond and Fake Locke meet up!! Woo hoo....
That's my time(and space) folks...har har... Peace!
The Package
Holy cow...I just realized I never wrote about this episode! I have much respect for the love of Jin and Sun...I think I finally figured out why...I have a lot in common with them...My wife speaks 2 languages...of course she didn't learn one so that she could move to America and leave me behind..... My wife and I have a daughter...born roughly around the same time as Sun and Jin's daughter.... of course, I was actually in the room when she was born, not assumed dead when the freighter I was on blew to Kingdom Come... Sun and Jin's wedding had a guy named Jacob there... so did ours.. my buddy Jacob Tolley.... of course my buddy Jake just drank a lot of booze and ate 2 dinners...he didn't reach out and mark us for Candidate duty... Jin and Sun like to fish and garden, respectively...my wife likes to garden and, of course, I like fish sticks..
The other point is, when it comes to "true love" like we saw last week with Richard and Isabella, or with Desmond and Penny, sometimes I just don't get the same feeling with Jin and Sun...
But apparently the writers like them and they keep ramming the journey of 2 souls reconnecting down our throats... I'll take it but only for 6 more episodes...then I'm calling it quits!
We learned that Sun's pops wanted to off Jin for stealing his daughters heart... good to see that not much has changed with Papa Paik in the Sideways world... and who would do this dastardly deed? Well we finally got the answer as to why Jin was locked in the freezer of the restaurant Sayid happened upon.. Martin Keamy...
I love the homage to Pulp Fiction that is the Sideways World... random connections, told in differing time segments.. now if only Christopher Walken would show up to tell a story about this watch he carried with him for 4 years...
Like the Sawyer ep a couple of weeks back, this one served as another "bridge" episode to get the Sideways world moving along a certain path... more connections, more intrigue but really just a ruse for whatever seems to be happening in that world.... its all smoke and mirrors folks!! OMG I just figured it out... Smokey has figured out a way to trap our LOSTIES in this weird little Sideways world...All of the reflections that we've seen are the biggest clue for this: Smoke and Mirrors... wow, I think I just blew my own mind...
I'm going to leave it at that because honestly, I have the knowledge of the Desmond episode in my possession so it's time to tell that story.. but with the way the blog updates, you may have already read that entry... so without further ado: scroll up!
The other point is, when it comes to "true love" like we saw last week with Richard and Isabella, or with Desmond and Penny, sometimes I just don't get the same feeling with Jin and Sun...
But apparently the writers like them and they keep ramming the journey of 2 souls reconnecting down our throats... I'll take it but only for 6 more episodes...then I'm calling it quits!
We learned that Sun's pops wanted to off Jin for stealing his daughters heart... good to see that not much has changed with Papa Paik in the Sideways world... and who would do this dastardly deed? Well we finally got the answer as to why Jin was locked in the freezer of the restaurant Sayid happened upon.. Martin Keamy...
I love the homage to Pulp Fiction that is the Sideways World... random connections, told in differing time segments.. now if only Christopher Walken would show up to tell a story about this watch he carried with him for 4 years...
Like the Sawyer ep a couple of weeks back, this one served as another "bridge" episode to get the Sideways world moving along a certain path... more connections, more intrigue but really just a ruse for whatever seems to be happening in that world.... its all smoke and mirrors folks!! OMG I just figured it out... Smokey has figured out a way to trap our LOSTIES in this weird little Sideways world...All of the reflections that we've seen are the biggest clue for this: Smoke and Mirrors... wow, I think I just blew my own mind...
I'm going to leave it at that because honestly, I have the knowledge of the Desmond episode in my possession so it's time to tell that story.. but with the way the blog updates, you may have already read that entry... so without further ado: scroll up!
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