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Doctor Q said:
Sorry, no humanity awards for Juliette.
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Agreed. Selfish and self-centered.
Doctor Q said:
But... might it have been caused simply by her talking about it?
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No... I think it was arranged by her next employer. If she had such power, I doubt she would have been stuck on the island. :)

Overall, I was happy with last night's episode because I think it signals the start of them actually doing something other than complaining about their plight. Future episodes appear to show some (possibly futile) action. I was so disappointed in last fall's episodes, though, that almost anything would have been seen by me as a positive step.
 
Lyle said:
No, that was Ethan. Now that you mention it, though, they do favor each other.
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They do look very similar.
 

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yellow said:
Mittelos, anagram for "Lost Time". :)
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Interesing. Also for Lite some, for what it's worth.

"Charlie" was interviewed on a radio station here yesterday, and he "promised" that many unanswered questions and dangling story lines would be answered/tied up by the end of the 16 weeks, and that the focus would return to the main group and not so much the Others.

Let's hope he was telling the truth.

This last episode was okay, but not fantastic. It was nice to get the background on Juliette and to find out she wasn't a willing Other (although that was somewhat apparent from before).
 
adzoox said:
Did anyone get that the drug that Juliet makes to create wombs/pregnacy in otherwise "barren" persons may cause cancer and that possibly Ben might have had the procedure done on him (to birth a baby)?
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I thought we'd established that Alex is Rousseau's daughter? The question now becomes has Ben just raised Alex since infant so she doesn't know any better or is Ben the natural father?

My guess is that something that was done by the Dharma initiative left this troop on the island infertile. For some reason they wanted to try and return the fertility to keep the island community alive (thus hiring Julie), so while fertility is an issue they keep abducting children to raise as their own.

But I'm always wrong so pay no attention to that.
 
There's some weird Clockwork Orange stuff goin on there.

It's as if some major scientific enterprise has been cut off from the world and everybody's gone all Lord of the Flies.

Except, as revealed by Ben, they do actually have some contact (TV at least).
 
Finally got through to the http://www.mittelosbioscience.org/ site.

Looks like another easter egg site for the Lost Die Hards.

It will be interesting to see if it gains the momentum the last easter egg site had. Most of the Fans were pissed to find it was an advertising ploy with conclusions that had nothing to do with the show (or not much).
 
atszyman said:
I thought we'd established that Alex is Rousseau's daughter? The question now becomes has Ben just raised Alex since infant so she doesn't know any better or is Ben the natural father?

My guess is that something that was done by the Dharma initiative left this troop on the island infertile. For some reason they wanted to try and return the fertility to keep the island community alive (thus hiring Julie), so while fertility is an issue they keep abducting children to raise as their own.

But I'm always wrong so pay no attention to that.
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Actually, that's as lucid and relevant as any prediction I've seen about this show.

I, for one, think Kate and Alex are going to get it on in an NC-17 film spin-off, and one of them will get pregnant.
 
atszyman said:
My guess is that something that was done by the Dharma initiative left this troop on the island infertile. For some reason they wanted to try and return the fertility to keep the island community alive (thus hiring Julie), so while fertility is an issue they keep abducting children to raise as their own.
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Assuming this is correct, I suspect The Others will be majorly gunning for Sun at a later date.
 
adzoox said:
Her sister seemed to have been "barren" before she had cancer. I think that the drugs may have given her cancer. I think that Ben was a test subject - for the same process. The "sonograms" on the wall in Juliet's research facility were from a male with a womb weren't they?
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To me it didn't seem like they went into the history of Juliet's sister to establish what she was suffering from or if she was/wasn't "barren" before the illness, and that there was no indication that the drugs were the cause of the illness.

I'm certain "sonograms" in the presentation (more like CAT scans or MRI's) were actually from a woman. Where you got the pregnant 'male' idea from was when the recruiter asked something to the effect of 'didn't you impregnate a male lab mouse?' her response was '(yes) but it didn't carry to term'.

But when they were talking about the various sonograms/MRI's Juliet guessed that the woman was very old, but the recruiter said she was actually fairly young. Maybe this was the sonogram/MRI of one of the others, and maybe the island causes infertility in women... however this theory does not bode well for Sun's story maybe it's not Jin's kid after all!
 
pilotError said:
Finally got through to the http://www.mittelosbioscience.org/ site.
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One of the staff bios there is for Ethan Rom:
Dr. Rom is an authority on genetics and genome mapping. His discoveries have helped advance the understanding and treatment of many genetic diseases. With his aid, Mittelos Bioscience has made major breakthroughs in the treatment of cancers, heredity diseases and infertility. Dr. Rom received his B.S. in Biology from Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada and went on to receive his PhD in Molecular Genetics from USC. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and has received many awards and honors for his work and contribution to the Human Genome Project.​
The other bios (not all of them working) are for Dr. Jonas Mittelos, Richard Alpert, Elija Allen, and Juliet Burke.
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I'm currently on the return trip from a wee long weekend vacation during which time I've been watching episodes of Lost from episode one and trying to compile a list of unanswer questions/writing oversights.

During this little exercise I thought about something.

Light and Dark is a pervasive theme through the first season (backgammon story, the stones from Adam and eve, Locke's eyes in Claire's dream).. And we both know that Walt and Claire's baby are "special". What if those 2 are the embodiment of Yin & Yang, Light and Dark?
 
yellow said:
During this little exercise I thought about something.

Light and Dark is a pervasive theme through the first season (backgammon story, the stones from Adam and eve, Locke's eyes in Claire's dream).. And we both know that Walt and Claire's baby are "special". What if those 2 are the embodiment of Yin & Yang, Light and Dark?
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If that were the case, Walt (Yin) should be female.

Although it's an interesting concept - I never thought about the light & dark theme between Walt & Aaron.
 
So, here are my "unanswered" (or writer oversight) questions from (basically) Season One (in no particular order) only.

Lost Questions:

  • Was there a purpose for them crashing there on the island?
  • What do the numbers REALLY mean and why are they so prevalent throughout?
  • Are the numbers bad luck?
  • Is the island magical?
  • Is there a sickness or not? Is the injection needed or not? Rousseau said that “they were the carriers”, apparently referring to the others and some sort of sickness? If Rousseau killed the people she was with because they were “sick”.. sick with what?
  • What is the monster in the jungle? AKA What is the black smoke and why does it sound mechanical?
  • What is with Adam and Eve of the caves?
  • What is with the light and dark stones that Jack found on Adam and Eve?
  • What did Locke see when chased in the jungle?
  • What was/is in Jin’s watch?
  • Did Jack kill the US Marshall? He said it would take hours to die and then there were strangling noises.
  • Where is Jack’s father’s body?
  • What powers the French woman’s signal? If the others control the source of power for the transmission, why didn’t they stop it?
  • Why hasn’t Hurley lost weight?
  • What are the voices that Sayid/Sawyer/Shannon hears in the jungle?
  • What was the psychic so scared about when he read Claire’s palm (about the baby?) The antichrist or something?
  • What is so important about the baby?
  • Why did Ethan take Claire?
  • Why did Ethan hang Charlie?
  • What is with Jack’s tattoos?
  • How was Ethan so strong? To drag 2 people thru the jungle and then single handedly hang Charlie? But Charlie mentioned that all “they “ wanted was Claire/. Did he meet the others?
  • Locke sees Walt as “different”. What is he basing that on?
  • What is Walt’s “power”?
  • There are a lot of themes of “light and dark” on this island. The stones, the backgammon board, the eyes of Locke in Claire’s dream. Walt has “powers”. Claire’s baby supposedly has “powers”. What if they were the embodiment of light and dark? Yin and yang? Both of the children are tied to Locke somehow, especially as he was the person in Claire’s dream with the eyes of light and dark.
  • Why hasn’t Locke told anyone his secret yet? (Besides Boone, did the island kill him for knowing?)
  • How did Walt know about the hatch when Locke touched him? When he said, “don’t open it”. What is so bad about the hatch?
  • Will Sawyer meet the man he needs to kill?
  • Why was Hurley in a psych ward?
  • How did the numbers drive Leonard (psych patient) crazy?
  • Does the "Dark Territory" refer to the only area that the black smoke can travel in?
  • WTF was with the wig they put on Matthew Fox? That was terrible.


Onto Season 2! :)
 
So Desmond woke up butt naked because he traveled through time using the Terminator method of travel (sans pants).... oh... crap... Charlie.

The flight attendant from season 1? "What are you doing here!?!"

Was that the woman who sold Desmond the ring asking Jack if he knows what his tatoos mean?
 
Anyone else catch the flipped scene?

When they first cut to Whidmore's office we see from behind that Desmond is sitting so that there is an empty chair to his left. The next cut has him facing the left of the screen and you can see an empty chair to his right which should not be there based on the previous cut, he sees a picture on the wall to his right with a Polar bear and a statue. In the next cut the empty chair is back on his left and there's no picture.

I think it's just a splice gone wrong so the images are inverted and we're seeing things from the wrong side of the film so the chair and the picture should always have been on his left... but I had to watch it three or four times to make sure I wasn't nuts.

Edit: definitely flipped, you can see the edge of the painting when Whidmore gets the Scotch.
 
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atszyman said:
I think it's just a splice gone wrong so the images are inverted and we're seeing things from the wrong side of the film so the chair and the picture should always have been on his left... but I had to watch it three or four times to make sure I wasn't nuts.
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Splice? Wrong side of the film? You mean Lost isn't shot digitally in HD?
 
DISCOMUNICATION said:
Splice? Wrong side of the film? You mean Lost isn't shot digitally in HD?
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I've no idea how it's shot, probably digitally, I've just seen this type of thing (usually in photographs in magazines) where someone flipped a negative and ended up with a mirror image of what it should have been.

The most notable example was a drumming magazine when growing up where Def Leopard's drummer (Rick Allen) was missing a different arm in two different photos in the same magazine.

With a digital shoot it makes the mistake more perplexing...
 
spicyapple said:
LOST is finally interesting again! They almost lost me as a viewer start of season 3.
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Seconded. I was totally pulled in again by that episode.

DISCOMUNICATION said:
Splice? Wrong side of the film? You mean Lost isn't shot digitally in HD?
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Actually I was flipping the thru LOST magazine at Borders and I saw some production stills and they are shooting on film. However they never go back to film so they wouldnt have to flip the negative at all, just flip it in AVID or whatever digital editor they have. They obviously do their online edit in HD or D2 or something.
 
I missed today's episode.

I checked my tv guide and it says that Lost is also showing on Saturdays. Does anyone know if it's reruns or new? I'm in Canada btw.
 
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