# Lost 3.07: "Not in Portland" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 7, 2007, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-3-07-not-in-portland/391191 "2007-02-07T07:05:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![StinkyBurrito](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9e5f3/32.png) [@StinkyBurrito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StinkyBurrito)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2007, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-3-07-not-in-portland/391191/21 "2007-02-07T19:25:04Z")
[QUOTE=The Chao Goes Mu] Holy crap, where have I been? I’ve been following the show and these threads religiously. Where did I miss that we suspect the island is Portland? Is this a joke? Please, someone fill me in. 😕 [/QUOTE] Calm down. Yes it’s a joke. **Menocchio** started it by being a smart alec (in typical doper style) in reference to tonight’s episodes title - “Not in Portland”, and others piled on. That is unless I am as confused as you are. 😛 [QUOTE=Winston Bongo] [QUOTE=Menocchio] Huge revelation in the title. This shoots down the popular “the island(s) is in Portland” theory. I wonder how they’ll address all the evidence showing that they are in Portland. Perhaps they’re closer to Eureka? [/QUOTE] Bah! Any Lost fan worth his/her salt knows the “island” is in Portland and that has been the plan from the beginning – the writers just didn’t anticipate the fans being clever enough to figure it out so soon. Now they’re trying to fake us out with misleading episode titles. Shame on you for falling for it! [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_chao_goes_mu/32/3191_2.png) [@The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Chao_Goes_Mu)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2007, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-3-07-not-in-portland/391191/22 "2007-02-07T19:37:47Z")
:smack: It took 1,929 posts for me to obtain my first **Whoosh**! Portland. Yeesh. I should’ve known. Doh. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2007, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-3-07-not-in-portland/391191/23 "2007-02-07T19:59:31Z")
It’s been a long hiatus. At least we’ll be slathered in LOST for the next few months. ---
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2007, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-3-07-not-in-portland/391191/24 "2007-02-07T20:26:29Z")
[QUOTE=vivalostwages] It’s been a long hiatus. At least we’ll be slathered in LOST for the next few months. [/QUOTE] I’m not greedy. I’ll settle for being slathered in Emilie de Ravin. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2007, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-3-07-not-in-portland/391191/25 "2007-02-07T20:49:47Z")
I try my best to avoid spoilers, but I happened upon this interesting [chart](http://bp1.blogger.com/_J_dU7CHa5Rc/Rb3mkztvSHI/AAAAAAAAADM/gomCDpBDqBA/s1600-h/conections29012007.jpg) over on The MisFit’s site (warning… spoilers). It maps out all the relationships between the various characters, and proposes two new familial relationships. One seem possible, the other seems unlikely: Libby and Juliet are sisters. I can see this being possible. Rose is WAAAAAALT’s grandmother-- seems unlikely, since you think she’d know she had a grandson. Of course, this is “Lost”. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2007, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-3-07-not-in-portland/391191/26 "2007-02-07T21:08:42Z")
Does anyone know if the title refers to Oregon or Maine? It probably doesn’t really matter plot-wise, but hey, I’m a geography geek. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2007, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-3-07-not-in-portland/391191/27 "2007-02-07T21:12:48Z")
[QUOTE=cmkeller] Does anyone know if the title refers to Oregon or Maine? It probably doesn’t really matter plot-wise, but hey, I’m a geography geek. [/QUOTE] I don’t know where the hell this very large island could be in Portland, OR. Sauvee Island? They’d have probably run into some berry pickers or bird watchers by now. Certainly nowhere with a shot that could pan out and then you don’t see the city clearly. It’s not like you’d need a sub to get to the banks of the Columbia or Wilamette rivers. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2007, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-3-07-not-in-portland/391191/28 "2007-02-07T21:14:43Z")
[QUOTE=Trion] I’m not greedy. I’ll settle for being slathered in Emilie de Ravin. [/QUOTE] Josh Holloway and Matthew Fox sandwich, please. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2007, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-3-07-not-in-portland/391191/29 "2007-02-07T21:29:04Z")
[QUOTE=Trion] I’ll settle for being slathered in Emilie de Ravin. [/QUOTE] Yeah, there’s nothing like that first hit of heroine in the morning. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2007, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-3-07-not-in-portland/391191/30 "2007-02-07T23:43:09Z")
[QUOTE=Loach] Lost sucks/has sucked/will suck. It hasn’t been good since the plane crash. I bailed on it two years ago. I don’t know why any of you are still watching. They better answer some questions soon or I’ll stomp my feet. [/QUOTE] Heh heh heh. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-3-07-not-in-portland/391191/31 "2007-02-08T02:50:03Z")
I’m sorta wishing I wasn’t watching the special. I appreciate the recapping, but listening to the producers talk about it as if it were fiction makes me sad. ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-3-07-not-in-portland/391191/32 "2007-02-08T03:06:04Z")
Ha! Sawyer’s using Pickett’s head to get fish biscuits! Whoa. Look who just turned into Ice Bitch! Juliet’s a cold one, under all that gentle-acting demeanor. ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-3-07-not-in-portland/391191/33 "2007-02-08T03:14:46Z")
Sawyer should have shot Pickett. If he thought Pickett was pissed at him before, that’s just multiplied big time. No way will Pickett ever settle for capturing them now. So Juliet’s little “peaceful resolution” suggestion is total crap. Juliet already ordered her henchmen to kill them if necessary. Woo-hoo! Alex to the rescue! Wonder how long before she actually meets her mom. ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-3-07-not-in-portland/391191/34 "2007-02-08T03:17:44Z")
So what exactly did Jack use for anesthesia? A glass of chardonnay? Or is this one of those hypnosis-only-no-anesthesia operations? ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-3-07-not-in-portland/391191/35 "2007-02-08T03:25:42Z")
Bluebeard getting all friendly now. “I’m Tom, by the way.” Jack, thinking, “I don’t give a shit.” So, what did Juliet and Benry talk about? ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-3-07-not-in-portland/391191/36 "2007-02-08T03:35:54Z")
So, what’s going on with Mrs. Clue these days? Or Mrs. Klugh… or Mrs. Kloo… or Mrs. Clew… (or however she spells it) Hahahaha! The old Wookie Prisoner Gag. Alex’s “dad”, huh? Who’s her dad? Ben? Or does she think he’s her dad? Well, that’s a freaky room. ---
**Author:** ![BabaBooey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dfb087/32.png) [@BabaBooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BabaBooey)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-3-07-not-in-portland/391191/37 "2007-02-08T03:36:24Z")
What the shit is going on? ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-3-07-not-in-portland/391191/38 "2007-02-08T03:53:48Z")
Holy crap! Juliet got her wish. Ex-hubby hit by a bus! I’m suddenly flashing on “Final Destination”… Jack’s just slashing body parts right and left. And he’s supposed to be a primo surgeon? HAHAHA!!! Tom: “I’m not good around blood…” Jack, waving around an entrail: “Then you’re not going to want to see this!” Well, that’s all she wrote for Vendetta Other (Pickett). Sawyer should have just saved them all the trouble and bumped him off in the polar bear cage. * * * Sawyer’s not looking happy that Kate knows that nice little intimate 1-2-3-4-5 story about Jack. ---
**Author:** ![kushiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-3-07-not-in-portland/391191/39 "2007-02-08T03:57:45Z")
Now, that, that is a tangible link! We’ve been waiting for something like what’s been given in today’s backstory revelation for a long, long time. Not quite answering anything big, but giving us something to go on. ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-3-07-not-in-portland/391191/40 "2007-02-08T03:58:04Z")
[QUOTE=Monstre] Holy crap! Juliet got her wish. Ex-hubby hit by a bus! [/QUOTE] This is _totally_ going to be on “The Soup” this weekend. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-3-07-not-in-portland/391191.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-3-07-not-in-portland/391191.md?page=3)