However this thread has gone quiet
Where is everyone?
I leave my comments open to foolkiller's fool killing abilities for retort.
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Like a sleeping giant I have been called upon.
Sorry for my absence, I have been on vacation and then spending the time since playing catch up on everything, including GTP and work.
One of the Dharma videos ive seen has them cloning rabbits in the "orchid" section of the facility.
Just thought id throw that out there.....
At this point I believe that we can throw any clone possibilities out the window. Cloning animals may have been a possible Dharma test, but at this point any idea of cloned humans seems far from plausible. Mainly I think this because the entire Dharma initiative was wiped out, and Juliet's presence on the island seems to show that The Others have not mastered the science left in place by Dharma. So far we have only seen them using the security fence (flip a switch, not too hard) and communications equipment. Nothing complex. If they can't even treat serious medical threats I highly doubt they have the ability to continue Dharma experiments, especially cloning. I also think that Ben sees no need for it as he is of the opinion that the island provides everything they need.
Personally I think that Ben has placed too much faith in the island and any side effects of the island require outside science (Juliet). How this aspect plays out will be very interesting. I find The Others slightly odd in that they lack the natural curiosity of humans. I mean, they don't know what the monster is, nor do they care.
To me that is a clue into the monster being a natural result of the island, or The Others at least believe it is, even if it is just a side effect of a Dharma experiment, because they see all island-related side effects of human actions as natural.
Did you guys get a full two hours of new stuff?
No, one hour of review and then one hour of new material. An interesting side thing they now do is that before every new episode they replay an "enhanced" version of the past week's episode with pop-up facts about filming and reconnecting old clues. It has saved me a lot of looking online to make the obvious connections that we were meant to get. No mysteries are solved, but it does prevent me from saying, "wait, what are they referring to again?"
Wasnt the guy who visited hurley from the airline, also the Haitian in heroes?
IMDB and Lostpedia to the rescue.
Nay, I say. The Haitian is played by Jimmy Jean-Louis. The supposed airline lawyer, Matthew Abaddon, (who is actually the man that hired Naomi and company) is played by a man named Lance Reddick.
The Haitian - Jimmy Jean-Louis
Matthew Abaddon - Lance Reddick
Close but no cigar.
The oceanic 6 are?
jack, kate, desmond, hurley, sayid and baby aaran.
Kate has baby aaran with her to help with the legal proceedings she faced when returning to civilisation, right?
So what happened to claire?
(still on the island i guess)
Quick spelling correction. In Lost Aaron is spelled with an O, as in Moses' brother. Locke makes a point of making that connection.
As for the Oceanic 6, the question is if Aaron counts. In the season finale of Season 3 we have the first flash forward. In that flash forward Jack goes to a funeral visitation. It is closed casket. We don't know who died. But as far as timelines go it seems as if Jack's flash forward is farther in the future than anyone else's. So, it is quite possible it was Sayid's funeral. Maybe Ben's. Unless Hurley loses a ton of weight the casket was too small for him. We know Kate is alive and I assume Aaron as when she meets Jack she says, "He is waiting for me."
Or is Kate's Aaron really Claire's Aaron? If Kate lied to Sawyer about being pregnant and Claire and Aaron die then perhaps she names her own son Aaron?
Or I am looking into it too much. For now I think your list is correct, but I am leaving a large window open for change.
Sayid is a contract killer, killing the people who are investigating into what actually happened on the island, before they find out anything, and he is being ordered to do the dirty deeds by Ben, who has some hold over him, which is to do with jack, kate, hurley et al, getting into trouble for having the truth discovered about what they did on the island, and so he has to do what ben says, or something.
This inclusion of Ben alive and well, and still conniving, is interesting to me. So far Jack and Hurley have wanted to return to the island. Sayid is still tied to the island, obviously, through Ben. Could Jack and Hurley get back with Ben's help?
And if Sayid is now helping Ben, and everyone else is lying, could it be that Ben was always telling the truth when he said that they were the good guys?
And of course, is everyone else dead? Or did they just stay behind to join The Others? Jack is very single-minded and wants to return. Kate the same, despite knowing she has to face her legal consequences. And I think Hurley believes home = sanity. Personally I feel that Sayid returned just to help Ben.
Desmond has been influenced by some kind of rays in the original station, and is now fully aware that he is living his life in two or more time frames, but is slowly beginning to lose the ability to distinguish between the two, and will eventually pop (like neo in the matrix) when it all gets too heavy and he cant differentiate between reality, and future reality.
Ah yes, Desmond. This is now twice that we have seen him jump back and forth in time. And from what I can tell every bad thing in his life is because of the island. He left Penny to fulfill his destiny on the island and save the world. He was kicked out of the military because he went AWOL to reconnect to himself on the island.
So, here is the paradox:
Desmond is on the island because he jumped back from the island and realizing his destiny is tied to the island broke things off with Penny and went to the island.
In essence, he is on the island because he is on the island. Clear? No? Good!
And in Lost production news:
Five more Lost Episodes coming.
http://blog.lostpedia.com/2008/02/carlton-five-more-episodes-of-season-4.html
So we have the eight episodes were were supposed to get with the writer's strike. Now that the strike is over producer Carlton Cuse has announced that we will have five more episodes after that. It is still three episodes short of what we were initially promised before the strike, but those three lost episodes will be pushed into seasons 5 and 6.
The only drawback is there will likely be a four week hiatus between episode 8 and 9. I assume this is because it takes more than a week to produce one episode so there will have to be breaks somewhere and instead of going a couple of weeks between each episode they are going to take a full four weeks off of broadcasting so that the last five episodes will run back-to-back.
Anyone else remember how we were just going to do 16 episodes so that we wouldn't have breaks and filler episodes? Wow the WGA strike screwed us on that one. This will also push the finale beyond May sweeps, so if you have any early summer vacations plan accordingly.
Personally, I would love to see the last three episodes be DVD/Blu-Ray add-ons that have clues but nothing spoilerish. But I think that giving the writers the task of scrunching 8 episodes of story into 5 and then putting the other 3 into the next two seasons is enough to ask for without making them take on the task of semi-filler mystery episodes just for DVD release. Of course, if their new contract gives them DVD money I suggest making them earn it too. Either way I am happy because I got more than I expected.
And this brings up another question about the strike. I wonder if the WGA made sure to say all disc sales and not just DVD. If they were promised just DVD sales money then they will be screwed on Blu-Ray sales, especially since anyone with a Blu-Ray player and HDTV will pay the $10 difference (Wal*Mart only) for Lost.
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