Oops – have to amend this.
Kate is the one who spotted that they were being followed, and she’s the one who started shooting at the two Others. Sawyer joined her in the shooting. And it wasn’t Kate’s shot that hit the guy. It was Sawyer that got him. (Just re-watched the season 2 finale with a friend who hadn’t seen it yet).
So I guess we should really refer to this redshirt Other as “the guy that Sawyer shot”.
Polar bears don’t normally live in caves – they hunt at holes in the ice, 'way up North. I wonder if a polar bear could adapt to living and hunting on a tropical island. Maybe we should try it, since it seems likely that loss of their usual hunting environment (because of the polar ice cap melting) will doom them to extinction in the next few decades.
At the end of Season Two, I thought, “Well, Locke’s dead. I guess we’ll never find out how he got paralyzed, unless he shows up in somebody else’s flashback.” Now, with everybody in the imploding hatch inexplicably surviving, and with Desmond’s remembering the future, I’m reminded of the writers having said something like “everything will have a realistically possible explanation.” Sure it will.
I thought of weed as soon as I saw the greenhouse, but still it was somehow disappointing. As soon as Eddie said “I want in” (on supposedly making bombs out of fertilizer to blow something up), I pegged him for a cop. I was thinking BATF instead of local Sheriff’s Dept., though.
John Mace:
Thanks, John! Interesting – do you think that where it shows the square root of 16, 64 and 255, it’s supposed to be 225? And I’d guess that the Cerberus system refers to the tree-crashing-monster (assuming it’s supposed to be a guardian).
A further thought – unless Locke did a stretch in prison that we don’t know about, things don’t look good for young flashback-Eddie.
Real general spoilage for the rest of the season, from Dreamwatch magazine:
The second part of Season 3 will explore evernt on the island prior to Dharma’s arrival in the late 70’s. More will be learned about Desmond and Penny, and it will finally be revealed how Locke arrived in a wheelchair, why the island has healing powers, why Libby was in an asylum, and how Jack got his tattoos.
Eddie might’ve been fond of him in particular and didn’t implicate him in the whole deal.
He’d already been hand-picked and profiled as an easy mark as the “in” for the Humboldt Sherrif Dept’s little under-cover scheme. I’d say he was already quite implicated.
Here is a less “cleaned-up” version of the Door Map, from which it’s apparent that the “255” in John Mace’s link is a transcription error.
And, of course, your point was that the square roots of 16, 64, and 225 make more sense for “Lost” because they give 4, 8, and 15, which are the first three “Numbers”.
I haven’t been involved in any of these threads so forgive me if I am regurgitating ideas.
Current best guess seems to be that there was some big magnetic anomaly, either naturally-occurring or some weird power source gone wacky, that built up in power to the point of jet-crashing overload, and they needed to bleed off the excess power every 108 minutes by entering the code. The failsafe, in this case, seems to have been something that did the Lost equivalent of jettisoning the warp core–the experiment’s over, and the anomaly is probably gone.
That’s how I see it, too; the Losties are test subjects in a Skinner box, being observed by the Others. However, it’s not outside the bounds of reason for the Others to be in a different, larger box of their own, being observed by… other Others.
I fervently hope she is hiding the ability to do a really nice pole dance, and shall be demonstrating that sometime in the near future.
