Lost 2.3: "Orientation"

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I bow to your wisdom…

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So this can’t be the same Helen from “Walkabout”…?

In that phone conversation, the woman talked about having to charge him for another hour… and about enjoying talking to him for these past few months, but she’s not allowed to meet customers.

So I wonder if John started calling a sex line and asked specifically for a woman named Helen (because of this one, which I assume he will be losing…)?

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Argggghhhhh… He should have just let it count down and find out what would happen.

Now John and Jack have to be the hatch people? ack!

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That better be some Hunt-for-the-Red-October-style dubbing, or my head’s just going to explode.

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What?

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How long until the entire flim transcript is online? I’m esp curious about the names and such.

Some real answers. It is one of sevar labs. Partly to study electromagnetic anomolies. Some sort of incident makes them have to enter the code every 108 minutes.

Though ans Apple II(e) doesn’t have an execute key, the case / disk drives / daughtercard setup is definitely AppleIIesque.

Brian

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Maybe the tail section includes an ESL teacher…

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Jin’s instant ESL skills, perhaps?

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Let’s overanalyze the Orientation video, shall we?

It was part 3 of 6, and there are other installations/labs elsewhere. Where? What do they do? Swan… why?

The video confirms it’s an island, at least. Definite geomagnetic screwiness going on there, too.

Any significance (or imagined significance) to the names of the people in the video? And all the sciences… do they all apply to the phenomena on the island? I trust we all noticed the polar bears, but what was the very last bit they said about the research? Something about group interactions?

Don’t try to use the computer to… to what? Surf for porn? Set it up to work automatically?

Honestly, I agree that it’s a psych experiment gone a little too far. A big ol’ Skinner Box, if you will. And now Locke has suckered Jack into playing along, wheras if he’d just waited those 2 more seconds… well, I guess the show would be boring that way, wouldn’t it.

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Never mind…

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Somebody in a previous Lost post brought up a connection with the story of Apollo. So the fact that Station 3 is known as the “Swan” jumped right out and slapped me in the face…

http://www.pantheon.org/articles/a/apollo.html

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At the very end of the previews for next week’s episode, Jin says, “Everything’s going to change.” In English.

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I missed the preview for next week! What’d I miss?

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Is there any signifcance behind the film being behind Henry James’ The turn of the screw on the bookshelf?

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All I know is that I speed-read through Flann O’Brien’s “The Third Policeman” the past few days after it was revealed it would be a major focus of this episode, and then you see it for one second in Desmond’s backpack… :frowning: I got punk’d.

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I thought the same thing…'cept I didn’t bother to read it :wink:

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From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turn_of_the_Screw

Sounds appropriate to me.

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I think the folks with Analucia are the tail section and, without the benefit of a doctor and 40 odd other people to help them stay focused, they’ve gone a bit native and wiiiiiild. After a few bouts with the Others (and we all know how tricksy they can be) they’re not likely to trust that these guys are other survivors. Shame Jack wasn’t on the raft.

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All I can say is…freaky. Man…that film was just strange. Sorry, not following the thread as the show is still on in my time zone and I don’t want to accidentally see any spoilers.

-XT

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Locke’s dad is a rotten, evil bastard.

The whole “No, you push it!” scene might have been the most suspenseful moments I’ve ever seen on TV. I love this show.