Thursday, March 5. 2009
LOST: LaFleur
Argh! No time for recaps today, folks! But I'll rundown the main observances... And, brother, what an episode!
The Statue
Lets just get this out of the way right now. Yay! The statue! Well, almost. The back side of it anyway. It almost sorta kinda looks like Egyptian style, which led me to the following comparison...
Horace vs. Horus
Yeah, I'm still working on this one... stay tuned. The glyph for Horus also showed up when the timer in the Swan expired.... oooo. I started looking into this last night, and discovered a few tidbits, none of which probably matter.... but....
Horace Goodspeed returns as the de facto leader of the DHARMA initiative on the island in, IIRC, 1974. So, we can only assume that our heroes have landed at the same time young(er) Ben is on the island.
Mr. LaFleur, er I mean Sawyer
How's that for a WTF?! The whole gang seems to have found a way into DHARMA during the whole "3 yrs later" period. Wow. Unfortunately there's still no good gory details on how that all took place.
Speaking of Younger Ben
OK, so our gang has spent three years on the island circa '74, and they didn't come across a younger Ben yet? I'm doing the math in my head, and either he hasn't arrived yet (which doesn't make sense) or they just haven't got to this part of the story. I don't recall if any exact dates were given for Ben's arrival, but he was old enough during the upcoming "purge" that he'd be recognizable, and had been there for several years already.... Don't leave this part hanging, guys!
The Star?
Anyone notice the star in everyone's DHARMA patches? It looks like there may be a new station to contend with, at least I didn't recognize that place. Didn't appear to be The Flame, but I could be wrong.
It's a Boy!
But who is this youngster? The offspring of Horace Goodspeed and Amy NoName. I can't even hazard a guess, nothing is coming to mind.
More puzzling is the fact that the big "something" has yet to happen which renders any future births from happening. We've now seen two, three if you count Alex, babies born on the island, which we know can't happen in 2004 island time....
Charlotte
OK, so maybe Faraday isn't Charlotte's father... Blast! Maybe he gets involved with her mother somehow? Or just takes a fetching to her in a time-travelly "I know the future" sort of way?
Richard and Sawyer
How about the look on Richard's face when Sawyer asked him about the bomb, and told him about Locke? Man, the game just changed there. Sawyer may have given everyone some more time, but at what cost? He just laid his cards out on the table bigtime.
Juliet and Sawyer
Ah, but the real meat of things lies here, in the fact that Sawyer and Juliet seem to have a thing going in the 3 yrs forward era. "How long does it take to get over someone...." About three years it would seem. And then Freckles returns. It has a bit of a soapish taste to it but I'm willing to roll with it.
Will Juliet leave the island now that Kate has returned? I guess it depends on what Sawyer does.
Ankh
Referring of course to "Paul's" necklace. Any ties back to the encroaching Egyptian theme? The "temple" where Smokey hides out, the statue, the exit in Tunisia, and now this. Curiouser and curiouser.
The Black Rock
Anyone here believe Horace when he denies any knowledge of "The Black Rock?" I didn't think so.
Sun and Sayid
still no sign of them, but from the previews it looks like we'll find out in two weeks! along with a slightly familiar face if you followed any of the Hanso bits from a few years prior.
Like I said, sorry I don't have time to put a recap together right now...
Lets just get this out of the way right now. Yay! The statue! Well, almost. The back side of it anyway. It almost sorta kinda looks like Egyptian style, which led me to the following comparison...
Horace vs. Horus
Yeah, I'm still working on this one... stay tuned. The glyph for Horus also showed up when the timer in the Swan expired.... oooo. I started looking into this last night, and discovered a few tidbits, none of which probably matter.... but....
Horace Goodspeed returns as the de facto leader of the DHARMA initiative on the island in, IIRC, 1974. So, we can only assume that our heroes have landed at the same time young(er) Ben is on the island.
Mr. LaFleur, er I mean Sawyer
How's that for a WTF?! The whole gang seems to have found a way into DHARMA during the whole "3 yrs later" period. Wow. Unfortunately there's still no good gory details on how that all took place.
Speaking of Younger Ben
OK, so our gang has spent three years on the island circa '74, and they didn't come across a younger Ben yet? I'm doing the math in my head, and either he hasn't arrived yet (which doesn't make sense) or they just haven't got to this part of the story. I don't recall if any exact dates were given for Ben's arrival, but he was old enough during the upcoming "purge" that he'd be recognizable, and had been there for several years already.... Don't leave this part hanging, guys!
The Star?
Anyone notice the star in everyone's DHARMA patches? It looks like there may be a new station to contend with, at least I didn't recognize that place. Didn't appear to be The Flame, but I could be wrong.
It's a Boy!
But who is this youngster? The offspring of Horace Goodspeed and Amy NoName. I can't even hazard a guess, nothing is coming to mind.
More puzzling is the fact that the big "something" has yet to happen which renders any future births from happening. We've now seen two, three if you count Alex, babies born on the island, which we know can't happen in 2004 island time....
Charlotte
OK, so maybe Faraday isn't Charlotte's father... Blast! Maybe he gets involved with her mother somehow? Or just takes a fetching to her in a time-travelly "I know the future" sort of way?
Richard and Sawyer
How about the look on Richard's face when Sawyer asked him about the bomb, and told him about Locke? Man, the game just changed there. Sawyer may have given everyone some more time, but at what cost? He just laid his cards out on the table bigtime.
Juliet and Sawyer
Ah, but the real meat of things lies here, in the fact that Sawyer and Juliet seem to have a thing going in the 3 yrs forward era. "How long does it take to get over someone...." About three years it would seem. And then Freckles returns. It has a bit of a soapish taste to it but I'm willing to roll with it.
Will Juliet leave the island now that Kate has returned? I guess it depends on what Sawyer does.
Ankh
Referring of course to "Paul's" necklace. Any ties back to the encroaching Egyptian theme? The "temple" where Smokey hides out, the statue, the exit in Tunisia, and now this. Curiouser and curiouser.
The Black Rock
Anyone here believe Horace when he denies any knowledge of "The Black Rock?" I didn't think so.
Sun and Sayid
still no sign of them, but from the previews it looks like we'll find out in two weeks! along with a slightly familiar face if you followed any of the Hanso bits from a few years prior.
Like I said, sorry I don't have time to put a recap together right now...
Did the Richard/Sawyer encounter rock or what! I LOVED it!!!
Finally-Horace may/may not know about the Black Rock...Richard is keeping the Dharma folks on a very short leash! and your thoughts?
However I DO believe it is Egyptian. Notice the "kilt" and one leg is slightly in front of the other. Distinctive marks of ancient Egyptian statuary.