Yeah, I don’t think it’s the sort of book club where they can just zap an order off to Amazon.com for 15 copies of a book. Can you imagine the extra shipping costs to get them out to “815 Main street, Otherville, Mysterious Paranormal Secret Island”?
That old guy did look very similar, I’ll have to watch it again to make sure. I also agree that Jack’s dad is in on it somehow.
The point wasn’t “is it a different edition of Carrie, rather than the same version” the point is “is it a different edition of Carrie rather than some totally different Stephen King book” which seemed to be what was being suggested when I made my post.
The picture of Jack and little girl (which I didn’t see) has apparently been replaced with one of Jack squatting on the table with a chain in his hand.
That has to be the world’s dullest book club. Can’t be any big surprise as to what books will be read. “Let’s see, what book do we have a bunch of copies of? Well, looks like it’s Slaughterhouse Five again for the 17th time.”
Well, if the hatch had a brand new washer and dryer (sadly likely destroyed by dynamite or magnetism at the end of last season) it is not all that unlikely that books might be included in whatever means brings in the periodic appliance changeouts.
Then there is also the hint that the island ain’t so isolated after all, as it appeared that Pirate Zeke/Mr. Friendly was apparently hospitalized in LA around about 2004 or so.
Well, at least it’s a good book, then.
Say what now?
-Kris
Lookie here. Zeke seems to show up in a hospital bed during Jack’s flashback.
Oops, meant to qualify the statement… Of course, people on that board seem to be divided as to whether or not that was really Zeke or not. In my mind, the guy in the bed looks close enough to Zeke that it’s not a simple coincidence of them hiring an extra who resembles him.
Couldn’t this have been the nebulous vaccine that they kept coming back to in S2? That is what I assumed it was. And if only Kate and Jack got it maybe they are using Sawyer as a control?
The vaccine thing goes along with how the Lost Experience over the summer ended as well I think. I was left thinking it would play a bigger part in S3.
Thanks for the link!
The resemblance looks slight to me*, but then, I was never very good with faces.
-FrL-
*The guy on the bed looks more like Bernard to me than like Zeke. And he doesn’t really look like Bernard either…
This is plausible to me. It gives the motiviation to why they would want Kate to betray Sawyer that was missing from earlier analysis.
I totally didn’t catch that but if it turns out to be Zeke how cool would that be?
It’s all about the Dad! You know, isn’t the guy that play’s Jack’s dad the same guy that played Crichton’s Dad in Farscape who turned out to be an alien?
Fish Biscuit!
The important question here is, did the Others ever feed a fish biscuit to Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaalt?
OK, I officially propose that we retire the “Waaaaaaaalt” jokes. At least until such time as Michael and/or Walt show up again.
Just realized…the “Tale of Two Cities” could easily refer to the book club as well.
I’m sure you’ve already discusssed this, but the Stephen King book was Carrie.
I don’t think it is Zeke in the hospital bed. A resemblence, yes, but it is not him. Zeke is sportin’ some serious “spare tire” around the midsection, and it just isn’t apparent in the hospital bed picture.
Sawyer is good at getting played. Jack has totally flummoxed Sawyer any number of times last season. Sawyer is shrewd, cunning and opportunistic and only the island is keeping him from being a life-long small time hood. Maybe Jack, Sawyer, and Kate were selected because they had the biggest psychological problems and the Others needed to “cure” before they could live in the Others’ camp.
Too many fish biscuits once he got to the island.