Well, they did have the photos of the recruits that Christian showed to Sun. They probably did have onsite facilities.
Heh. You’re right.
I wants me a Dharma “Photo Tech” jumpsuit!
This just put me in a proper fit of giggles, irritating my boyfriend no end ho ho .
I’m really liking the way they handle the little vignettes in the flash backs like the guy who wants to find out about his dead son from Miles. At the first visit his yard is neglected and the clothes on the line (including some of his son’s?) look as though they should have been taken in days before. The second visit you can tell the guy is feeling better, the clothes are gone and he’s raking up. Made me feel sorry for the bloke when Miles tells him the truth. Tells you something about Miles that he felt he had to go back – like some things *are *more important than money to him. A theory on what money means to Miles: his mother looked really ill, maybe dying when he went to visit her but perhaps she’s still alive and he needs it for medical expenses. I liked his piercings too, someone has a lot of fun styling the younger versions of people.
Flashbacks can really suck (see this weeks Heroes). It’s definately one of Lost’s strengths that they try to cram in as much relevance as they can, like the dead guy for the audition being one of Widmore’s people carrying documentation relating to the fake plane.
And off the subject of flashbacks altogether it seems to me that whatever accident is about to happen at the hatch (Desmond’s hatch) is going to wrap a lot of things up, probably sending our Losties forward again for a start. It’s already been mentioned in this thread that it could be something Hurley does or Miles/little Miles I’ll just throw in a suggestion of little Ben on his return from the Others.
Wasn’t Horace talking to Chang about iton the phone? I think he wanted to examine it first.
The whole “what body?” line, I read as “we aren’t even talking about this!”
Did anyone else think it was going to be Ben’s spyfrom the video that Widmore was beating up?
I have to wonder about the connection between the way bodies are handled on the island, and the ancient Egyptian treatment of the dead. For example, we find out that Miles can only ‘hear’ dead people if their bodies are intact. Cremation makes them completely dead, and not just mostly dead. I would assume that decaying to dust would do the same thing. And the Egyptians were real big on preserving the bodies of the dead…
I wonder if the idea is that when you die, your memories, and all the things that make you ‘you’ still exist so long as your body exists. There’s just nothing to animate them. The machine stops working. But some people like Miles have the ability to sort of read the record. They can’t animate the dead, but they can see the snapshots.
Then there are the people who seem to have the ability to project themselves - Walt, for example.
Now put the two together, and you have the ‘smoke monster’. It can read the past thoughts of the dead, and use them to project new copies of those dead people - so long as their bodies are on the island. Eko’s brother, Locke, Christian Shepard, Charlie, etc.
There’s definitely something to this.
Hmmn. ::strokes beard thoughtfully, nods slowly::
Have there been any appearances of not-dead people? I can’t think of any offhand, but my memories of the first and second seasons are pretty spotty at this point.
None come to mind that were explicitly paired with a smoke monster appearance. We’ve seen a few apparitions, but it’s not clear that they’re part of the smoke-monster deal as opposed to hallucinations, astral projections, or time travel.
Walt wasn’t dead. Juliet’s therapist was, at least as far as Juliet knew, not dead, and yet appeared with whispers and vanished mysteriously. Dave never even existed, and yet he seemed to have some physical reality to him on the Island.
Walt is just special, so I can see him being an exception to any rule, but Juliet’s therapist Harper indeed did not seem to be dead. Hmmn.
Waaaaaalt.
Healed a gut-shot Locke.
Also Kate’s magic horsie.
Also possibly Locke’s daddy (I’m still not 100% convinced that was him and not a smoke-ghost)
But all agree Walt is special.
Still not clear that was a magic horse, as opposed to an Others’ horse. We’ve seen at least two IRL horses on the island.
It’s a possibility, but smoke-monster generated zombies don’t appear to be that easy to kill.
any thoughts on why Horace appeared in ghost form (we assume) to Locke? (It was Locke, wasn’t it?) Since we’re discussing ghosts and manifestations.
Well, for one, Horace was definitely dead, so he was available for manifesting per the theory above. Second, he seems like a likely candidate for imparting the info Locke got just then about the Dharmites and their mass grave.
Mmmmmm… Dharmite.
I’m not sure if the “visions” (Bloody Boone, dead Horace) are the same thing as the “ghosts” They’re a lot more crypt and strange. As far as I can remember, only Locke has had them. It’s possible he sees them because he’s so intuned with the island.
Bbwahaaha! Nice.
I was just watching “The Other 48 Days” from season 2. One of the dirty others that attacks the Tailies has a US Army knife, which the dreadful Ana Lucia insists hasn’t been made in 20 years.
This lends credence to the notion that the creators had SOME idea of what was going on from the start. I suppose the knife is from an army member from the 50’s.
Except “20 years ago” from Flight 815 is 1984. If they were setting up the army '50s guys it should have been 50 years ago.