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Interesting Thread

I just stumbled across this thread while looking for something entirely unrelated. It was pretty entertaining to read the early entries where nobody has any clue what kind of show it will be or if it's even worth watching.

I loved the season finale. Even shed a tear or two for Charlie. Amazing that they can make it suspenseful even after telling everyone it would happen two episodes ago.

Questions/Thoughts:
- Someone mentioned that Mikhail better be dead this time and that he's only got one hand now. I've forgotten, what happened to his hand? Was he killed again after the grenade?
-When Michael and Walt were leaving, didn't Henry (wow, funny, I just thought of Ben as Henry because that's who he was back then) tell them to go some distance in some direction and a boat would pick them up? That's gotta be the bad guys that Ben's worried about.
 
JPark said:
- Someone mentioned that Mikhail better be dead this time and that he's only got one hand now. I've forgotten, what happened to his hand? Was he killed again after the grenade?
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Wasn't he holding the grenade when it exploded? Even if he survived, his hand wouldn't have.

-When Michael and Walt were leaving, didn't Henry (wow, funny, I just thought of Ben as Henry because that's who he was back then) tell them to go some distance in some direction and a boat would pick them up? That's gotta be the bad guys that Ben's worried about.
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Hmmm... That might make Michael one of the bad guys next season. (Note my previous supposition that Ben could become a good guy next season.) The trouble with this theory is that Walt, in appearing to Locke, seemingly wanted Locke to stop the Losties from contacting the boat. Which means Walt was protected them. But he's on the boat that might be their next-season nemesis. OK, I'm soooo confused now.
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I have a minor observation about the season finale, which I just watched (don't ask--long story). When the underwater Other lady tells Charlie the code to turn off the jammer, it begins 5543 etc. We learn that a musician wrote this password and it is from "Good Vibrations." Did anyone notice that the password that Charlie introduced didn't start with 5543 etc? It may have sounded like the main melody, but the code 5543 etc is actually the scale-degree numbers for the theremin solo in this song. I have no idea if this means anything; I just thought I'd share my one insight. By the way, thanks to epochblue for posting the link to the best Lost theory ever. I concur!
 
I agree wholeheartedly with Flowbee; I love MR to death as well!

There is almost always someone who is far more knowledgeable about a given topic than me and I benefit greatly from their experience and kindness. On the rare occasion that I can actually contribute to a thread, I am happy to do so. This explains why I've been a member for so many years and yet have so few posts (how I'd love to have an avatar!).

The "Good Vibrations" discrepancy jumped out at me since I teach solfeggio for a living.
 
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Solfeggio is a method to help musicians learn to hear/sing the correct notes when they read them in a score. There are various types--numbers (like that used in this episode) or syllables (like in the infamous "Sound of Music" song)--but they are all essentially mnemonic devices that make an association between a note within the scale and something else. "Do, a deer, a female deer" makes the connection to the first note of a scale, just as the number one does in scale degree notation. The "Sound of Music" song goes through all the syllables of an ascending major scale, so that do re mi fa sol la ti do is equal to 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8. The melody from "Good Vibrations" was 5543 etc or sol sol fa mi etc and appeared just before the refrain of this song (played by the theremin, a spooky sounding instrument normally used in horror movie film scores). Charlie played another melody from this song, one that uses one chromatically inflected pitch that can not be indicated by a simple number; he played mi ri mi sol la do re re re re mi re do la or 3 2# 3 5 6 1 2 2 2 2 3 2 1 6.

This is probably more than anyone wanted to know--certainly more than my students!--but it was nice to be asked. Thanks, Doctor Q!
 
Thanks for the teasing rdowns :rolleyes: but that's how I searched in the first place. Kashchei's explanation makes it clearer than the web pages I found, one of which defines solfeggio as "the practice of singing exercises to the syllables of solmization" (another word I had to look up). Meanwhile, Dictionary.app defines "solfeggio" as "another term for solfège", which is a word for which it doesn't have a definition at all! Sometimes a good teacher is worth 1000 web pages.

I didn't know solfeggio, but I do know what a theremin is, and I've seen and heard them being played in person. Just hearing one is enough to make you think supernatural creatures are lurking nearby. Black smoke anyone?
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Okay guys, this is awesome! They released a new Dharma video from Comic Con. Check it out here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Umnw0MN0ELs

My thoughts:

What occurred was a time shift from some experiment. Mr. Haliwax (Alias's includ Candle Wick and HaliWAX now - what do you think that means?) was holding a bunny that got duplicated because it was sent back in time. That was why he didn't want them close is because he didn't want to make a time paradox with them seeing each other.

Discuss.

P-Worm
 
Hmm, sneaking some sneaky frames in there. Sneaky.

Random building?
"God loves you as He loved Jacob"?
"buy phentermine"?

I hope we're back onto the time travelling bit. I'm sure I remember some interview saying "Time works differently on the island than to the rest of the world". or something to that effect.
 
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I have some bad news everyone:

I just read in the paper today that it was announced that Michael is coming back for season 4. :eek:

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I kid you not, I had a visceral reaction to this news. Michael's character was terrible.....please let this be a bunk rumor, PLEASE.
 
They are constantly trying to mislead us.

Therefore, my conclusion is that Station 6 is a botanical research unit! Rabbit 15 and, um, Other Rabbit 15 have nothing to do with anything!
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epochblue said:
I kid you not, I had a visceral reaction to this news. Michael's character was terrible.....please let this be a bunk rumor, PLEASE.
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Michael has to come back, if even to only explain what happened when him and Walt left in the boat. To just leave that story open-ended would be a huge plot hole to me. Michael and his WAAAALLLT cries did become exceedingly annoying, but I enjoyed the dynamic between father and son on the island, w/o the whole murdering two fellow Losties deal... Maybe I'm a big softie.:)
 
The writer's strike currently in progress is expected to last into January. Lost was supposed to return in February.

They were apparently filming the next season's episodes but stopped due to the strike. It's not clear (at least to me) how likely it is that the show will start as planned or will be shown in an uninterrupted sequence as promised.
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