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| | | | Aww come on, Sawyer should always be scruffy. And shirtless.
Yeah, i think Locke's being tested in some way.
Ooh, please don't tell. Even though i'm dying to know. Seriously. *G*
i think Aaron was 5, because Claire was pregnant already when she boarded the plane, so technically.....
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| | | | 4.05 - The Constant
my noodle is sufficiently baked.
Desmond traveled through time? His consciousness, apparently?
Faraday is apparently doing the same thing?
Paging Dr. Ecklie (kelts, you watch CSI, don't you?)
Poor Minkowski. Didn't have Johnny 5 to save him.
i was so afraid Desmond was going to drop dead as soon as that call ended.
OK, with that said - the Losties are still in 2004, while the rest of the world is still traveling at the normal chronological rate? It's been less than a year for them, hasn't it? Penny said she'd been searching for 3 years.
Discuss!
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OK, with that said - the Losties are still in 2004, while the rest of the world is still traveling at the normal chronological rate? It's been less than a year for them, hasn't it? Penny said she'd been searching for 3 years.
The rest of the world seems to be on 2004 also, see the calendar on the ship's sick bay. But yes, time flow has got "relativized" (my guess is since the monster EMP discharge unstuck in time everybody on the island, as per Faraday's experiment?) and it's probably going to get worse. Island total elapsed time seems for now close to the 3-4 months mark. Desmond has been there 3 years since he got shipwrecked, same time that elapsed out-island. Poor bugger, no wonder he has more tics than a psychotic squirrel. The whole time-unstuckiness consciousness deal might have been lifted from P. K. Dick's Martian Time-Slip, an old and superb novel (though no EMP induced required there, it was just due to mental illness/bad brain chemistry).
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| | | | psychotic squirrel. i like that. *G*
i think Desmond will be a little better, now that his mental jauntings seem to have stopped, due to his constant.
Desmond/Penny is such a better romance than the whole Sawyer/Kate/Jack/Juliet love rhombus. i almost cried when he finally got to talk to her. i also yelled at the TV (yes, i do that with this show).
i'm still a little unsettled regarding what the actual calendar date it is in the show, but that's OK. There's been talk of string theory and wormholes in certain forums. i'll have to dig up a few links.
Thanks for sharing! 
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| | | | Yes, well, the show hasn't been a model of narrative coherence *cough* to put it mildly, particularly season 2.
That said, I like the new sci-fied approach and the tight, neat explanations that keep being offered. The "proper EMPs displace some people's consciousness in time" idea could be used as a retconning trick to explain many of those incoherences away. Like this: all the survivors (and the people that already lived there) got a first EMP dose when the plane crashed due to a partial EMP release of the anomaly, and then a major one when the hatch station blew away and the anomaly discharged completely. Now that it has been established what it can do to you, all the funny visions, precognitions and "island lore" that popped into people's heads can be retconned by Faraday's rat experiment.
Given the mess tv writers do with hard science (we still have spaceships exploding with lots of sound in the vacuum of space, sheesh!), I wouldn't put any half-cooked explanation past them here. I'll just mention that string theory (if valid) would not provide any new kind of macroscopic phenomena like the ones seen here, and the energy required for wormholes, as far as it would be consistent for them to exist along the known physics Standard Model, would probably be in the order of several galaxies-worth of mass tightly controlled. That is, if I recall my rusty physics courses which I only took for fun, heh.
A more sensible beast the writers can invoke to make all science freaks like me happier would be strangelets. Their (hypothetical) runaway decay could be the source of the EMP anomaly and all. It still leaves the fricking Nigerian plane around, among other nonsense the writers pulled out of their asses. (That JJ Abrams, he has all the attention span of a magpie in a trinket store when other people are not editing him.) 
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| | | | That was way too much to wrap my head around after being on a beach for a week.
Yeah, that was totally Eckley. Nice to see he has no range of character.
It's -is- 2004. Remember, the plane went down in September, 2004 when the show debuted.
It's now Christmas, 2004. Season Two started at the same point, with the tailies, after all.
If you think of it in terms of Grey's Anatomy - the first three seasons represented a single year of internship, it might help.
Or not.
As for Desmond he's been on the island longer - he was sailing in a boat race when his yacht crashed.
Remember when he met Jack running around the stadium, long before Jack went off to Australia to get his father?
And when he met Libby earlier than that, and she gave him her boat?
Anyways, the three years time frame for him sounds about right.
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| | | | i had remembered that after i posted. As it usually happens. *G*
pina coladas, i'm jealous.
Ecklie showed up on Eli Stone too!
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| | | | 4.6 - The Other Woman
i missed the first 20 minutes or so due to a phone call, so my first blush commentary will be brief:
1. i so enjoy Jack and Juliet together than Kate with -anyone-.
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2. Ben has achieved an entirely new level of creepy.
That is all.
Discuss! (please?)
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| | | | Definitely. i'm really curious as to Widmore's stake in all of it.
Again, i say - Ben = CREEPY.
Goodwin: "What can Ben do?"
*BOOM*
me: "holy shit"
The whole idea of Good Guys and Bad Guys has gotten REALLY muddled. The Losties are fractured, Locke's letting Ben back in his house, Charlotte and Faraday are stopping a gas explosion to prevent Ben from using it...OK, so Ben's a Bad Guy, that's pretty established. But the rest of the bunch is still in that gray area, even our hero Jack.
My local radio morning program, Preston & Steve (93.3 WMMR Philly) has a weekly LOST talk. They podcast them, so if you're ever interested in hearing them (people call in and sometimes they pick up on something i missed), check the station out.
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