That was my take on it too - the flashbacks are more-or-less always ‘first person’, in that you’re shown things that the subject percieved. It’s left to us viewers to catch the stuff going on in the background. While it could just be the director’s license for sake of suspense, I think her face-change was the standard “oh, look at the nasty memory” pre-flashback setup.
Or she was checkin’ out Hurley’s badonkadonkadonkadonk. . . (I can’t believe I just used that word)
And this isn’t meant to mean that her intentions are … transparent … either. The Island is a veritable orgy of mindf*cks.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the writers want to dampen the love affair much of the audience has for Sawyer since last week they had Jack kick his ass psychologically. It does seem that the writers are trying to make AL more likeable, so maybe deflating Sawyer’s baloon a bit is part of the whole process of them manipulating us to their end. Maybe we are the ones who are Lost.
I had the exact opposite reaction to that scene. I thought Sawyer was holding back and intentionally not fighting Hurley - shown by the comical crawling out from under the tarp and getting sucked back in. I think Sawyer likes Hurley (he does get all the good nicknames) and didn’t want to hurt him.
Dude. You just totally blew my mind.
Oh, and Cuckoorex, I also thought that Henry-light could be the leader of the Others, and that he’s going to bust out some super duper … um … something or other when he’s ready to leave the hatch.
I think you guys are forgetting that Sawyer has a masochistic streak, he feels some need to be punished for his sins as a con man. That was well-established in the first season. So even if it’s likely he could have beaten Hurley up, he probably preferred to let himself get beaten.
Rob Corrdry did a piece on discriminations against people like him, racists.
The end of the piece had a huge list flash by of the races he hates. One of the entries was “TiVo List Pauser.” Farther down the list, it said “I thought I told you to stop pausing the list!” A few lines after, “What do you think this is? Lost?” and then a few lines more “4 8 15 16 23 42.”
Are people seriously suggesting those two pictures look alike, apart from the angle? Hanso looks nothing like pseudo-Gale, from what we can see; he looks more like the guy who used to shill for Intellivision.
The more I think about it, the more I think that Pseudo-Henry is the Head Honcho. Just think; last episode of the season, you have the Big Reveal, and lo and behold, Henry has been in control all along and walks away, his limp disappearing…(cue “The Usual Suspects” music)
Har har. I’m not saying that it’s for sure but they do look very similar. The shape of the nose and chin seem almost identical. Is it such a stretch? Nothing on this show is ever coinicidental.
If you put pictures of the guy from Claire’s flashback against pictures of Zeke they look about as similar. It might be that the only reason it looks more obvious is because they showed us the beard and glue.
Sorry, I didn’t mean to sound rudely dismissive – it’s just that the picture of Alvar Hanso appears to be (blurry as it is) a fairly old man, grey, wattled and wrinkled – and the picture itself is meant to be at least twenty years old – and the Blast Door Map marks a “known final resting place” of Alvar Hanso, who we’d expect to be at least 85. I don’t see any real resemblance between the two.
On the other hand, there is the website that mentions “life extension” as a province of the Dharma Initiative. (Though the orientation film doesn’t list anything like that amongst the research areas.)
…and the Blast Door Map refers to him as “Magnus Hanso,” which might be stretched as a reference to the alchemist Albertus Magnus – and immortality was a sometimes aim of alchemy.
I think the “Magnus” is more likely a half-assed transliteration of “Alvar” into Latin, though – and not a proper noun but a title.
My sister’s idea was that everyone is in the psych ward and having flashbacks on what happened on “an island” It’s part of huge experiment in mind control.
