She asked Jin and Michael if they had seen Sawyer before they left, and I got the impression that Sawyer was looking for Kate before they pushed off.
I don’t think they’ve walked completely around the island. So it is plausible they are stuck on a peninsula and just haven’t realized it… but people have done quite a bit of nosing around so probably not.
Reading it over again… it does appear to be speaking about an actual rock
OFF the long headland, threshed about by round-backed breakers,
There is a black rock, standing high at the full tide;
Off the headland there is emptiness,
And the moaning of the ocean,
And the black rock standing alone.
but in some ways it could be interpreted as a ship, or just the rock looks a lot like a ship.
What exactly were Boone and Shannon arguing about? I had to take something out of the oven so I missed the part just before they went up the escalator and Shannon told the guard about Sayid’s bag.
Arzt, Jack, Kate and Danielle take off running. Danielle leads them to the banyan trees.
Locke and Hurley stood their ground, with Hurley itching to run but Locke telling him to “just stand still”. Locke seemed pretty confident that the TCM wouldn’t get them, and he was proven right as the sound of it’s movement faded away.
That scene made me think Locke has been close to the TCM before.
I’m pretty sure it was the hatch, unless there are other hatches and similar structures elsewhere on the island. Here are a few shots from the scene at the end of “Numbers”. First one is the beginning of the scene – the farthest zoomout you get. The next two are shots from the zooming in on the numbers. I’ve put two little arrows on the pics as a frame of reference – there are two little black blotches on the rim of the structure that the numbers appear between (the underline is where the numbers are:
Well, in all fairness. Didn’t Locke just stumble across it? It was buried, and even hanging around on the island for 16 years you could have easily missed something that was buried that deeply.
I asked this, and got it on the list of “Lost Questions,” but as noted we concluded from CFL’s map that she seemed to have more information about the location and could draw it with at least reasonable accuracy. However, now, with the “security system” reference, and the preview line of Locke’s suggesting that “the island” itself brought them there, I’m starting to wonder, even if it’s shaped like an island, if that’s actually what it is. So far, it seems to me we’ve been taking the body of land for granted, and have been trying to figure out what’s on it. I mean, correct me if I’m wrong, but amid all the rampant speculation up to this point (they’re in purgatory! they’re in an experiment! etc.), I’m not sure I’ve ever seen “they’ve been drawn in by a huge predatory being that camoflages itself as a land mass!” or something similar proposed as an explanation.
Re the episode: That black smoke on the horizon was certainly a hair-raiser, wasn’t it?
Part of me can’t wait for next week, but another part of me doesn’t want it to come, because then we’ll have to wait all summer. Holy cow, what a show.
I agree that this was something of a redemption show for Sawyer–and it was done plausibly, IMO, without changing his character too much. As the raft is about to sail, Charlie approaches Sawyer with the bottle of messages and hands it to him. No hug, but I interpreted the gesture as a sign of some acceptance and/or respect. Those messages are doubtless pretty darned important to the people who wrote them, and Charlie is entrusting them to Sawyer. Nice moment.
And Jack giving Sawyer the gun speaks volumes, too. I think that many of our castaways recognize that Sawyer has some good in him–kinda like Darth Vader! (Sorry, I’m going to see Ep. III this weekend, and I’m way too excited.)
I know I’m the umpteenth person to say this, but I loved, loved, loved the Sawyer/Jack scene. I’ve never exactly been on the Jack bandwagon; his character seemed a little too forced to me, and I tend to prefer antiheroes to the more “typical” heroes. But Jack played this scene perfectly, and Sawyer was just fine, too (double entendre intended) . I sure hope this show gets some Emmy nods for the actors! Jack, Jin, Locke, and Sun in particular are great.
And Sawyer needs his own show, where he chops bamboo while shirtless. All the time. Dayum.
Was it definitely the TCM Locke saw in that early episode though? It’s been a while, but I thought the thing he saw wasn’t making nearly as much of a ruckus as the TCM usually does. I’d assumed it was something else, especially since he called it “beautiful” later.
And he said something about “a bunch of ninth-graders” who would agree with something or other, implying that he was a ninth-grade teacher.
As for the island thing, the way I figure it is they’re either on an island or a continent. I mean, what other options are there? They know there’s a severe lack of continents in the South Pacific, therefore, by process of elimination, it’s an island. Now how large an island it is, well, that’s open to speculation.
I think it’s interesting with the black/white thing that’s been going on that the Others are clearly associated with black, with the Black Rock and now the black smoke.
Well if Danielle’s estimates can be relied upon, the island is at least 5 km wide.
She says the black smoke was 5km inland which implies that the island is even bigger than that, but I guess it could have been on the other side of the island.
That is high school age, at least around here. Still doesn’t explain why he was in Australia during the school year, though. Maybe a teacher exchange program?
You can have Sawyer. I’d rather watch a shirtless Jin building a raft. All the time.
Have fun staring at Sawyer with no shirt carrying a big pole while we hang out here on the island with the hot chicks…jerks!
Cruel ironic joke - the “Other” are really a bikini clad Bicardi promotion team of hot Swedeish girls. “For vhy no one come to our campfire…ya?”
. I sure hope this show gets some Emmy nods for the actors! Jack, Jin, Locke, and Sun in particular are great.
