Locke is dead in the flashforwards (3 years after the Oceanic 6 got off the island), but alive in “present” time on the island.
The O6 were on a helicopter when the island "moved and crashed into the Ocean. Their life raft was found by Penny’s boat. They lied and said that they had been the only survivors.
Ben found Jack because Jack was pretty easy to find; being famous and working at the same hospital he worked at prior to the crash.
Why is he listening to Ben? Because he is going crazy and Ben is telling him what he wants to hear.
I’m thinking that the plane crashed, just somewhere ‘off screen.’ Both to account for the water bottles found last week, but also to provide more Red Shirts.
Seriously, the show was getting very claustrophic given that there’s a year and a half to go yet.
I think the plane crashed in normal time and the O6 flashed back to the past because everyone else from the original crash “landed” there when Locke pushed the frozen donkey wheel.
I think Sayid is realizing that there’s no way for him to avoid returning to the island, so he’s going quietly rather than wasting his energy to fight it.
I doubt that one. Sayid’s look, on the plane, gave me the impression that the last time he saw Ben was at the little night-time meeting last episode with Jack, Kate, Sun, etc…
Of course, unless the writers are trying to fake us out, it seemed pretty clearly implied that Ben was heading off to do Penny harm, then he was calling all beat up from the phone booth by the docks – with boats in the background (and Desmond and Penny live on their boat).
Perhaps that was just a fake-out. After all, would Des and Penny really sail their boat all the way from England, where we last saw them a few episodes back, to Los Angeles? And quickly enough to contact Faraday’s mom with the urgency that Desmond had earlier? Or would they just hop on a plane and stay in a hotel for a day or two?
But it seems that they are at least currently implying that Ben went after Penny – and his injuries have something to do with that.
Just caught up with the episode via the Magic of TiVo.
In addition to the previously mentioned “might take too long, and there’s already a flight available,” there’s this: What happens when the Oceanic Six (minus Turniphead) show up at an airfield and say, “We’d like to rent a Lear Jet [or Hurley just buys one] to fly us out over the uncharted ocean sort of close to where we disappeared.” I mean, I’m a little amazed nobody noticed them all on the plane together as it was; the show’s already established these people are recognizable celebrities. Maybe I can buy that Joe Average passenger didn’t notice, but it’s at the extreme far edge of plausibility that the first-class flight attendant, someone who would be familiar with events in the travel industry, didn’t do a neck-snapping double-take once she realized who was on her plane. So the charter option, I think, would be a nonstarter.
So Kate showing up at the airport with an international ticket didn’t trip any watch lists?
She was wearing sunglasses. You know what an incredibly effective disguise a pair of glasses can be. Even a noted, intelligent investigative reporter can be fooled by a pair of glasses hiding someone’s identity.
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It also seemed, in all his rage, he dodged getting splattered by that pendulum with blind luck.
I was waiting for him to give it a big push off track![/QUOTE]
On thinking about this bit, I suddenly had to smile.
(Sorry about the previous: I hit submit when I wanted preview, and then rattled on too long.)
On thinking about this bit, I suddenly had to smile. There’s a HowTo screenwriting book titled “Save the Cat” by Blake Snyder (or something close to that, don’t have it at hand) in which he talks about what to do when you absolutely positively have to dump a big chunk of exposition onto your audience or they won’t know what’s going on. His suggestion is that you add something else of ‘interest’ happening on screen at the same time, not necessarily connected to the characters involved in the infodumping. The idea being that splitting the attention of the viewers lessens how bored they get with listening to, say, the minute details of how the museum theft will go down.
One of the examples he had involved a group of characters talking in a room, and visible through windows was a swimming pool with a beautiful actress swimming and so forth.
I think the pendulum was a wonderful distraction. I spent enough attention on watching people crossing its path, half hoping someone would be hit, or as you suggested, give it a shove out of irritation, that I mostly tuned out Mme. Faraday’s babbling.
Hilarious! It made me think of Superbad where Seth kicks the soccer ball off the field for some reason!
How long would they be famous if they dropped out of sight? It has been three years since the big media frenzy. I wouldn’t think the O6 would feed it by going on talk shows or doing guest spots on VH1’s “I Love the 80s” like so many other pseudo-celebs. If they just blended into the background, how long would they remain in the consciousness of even a flight crew?
I’ll bet in three years, “Captain Sulley” is unrecognizable to most people, and he went to the Superbowl!
I just wanted to say thanks for posting this. I’ll probably start looking for this kind of thing during overtalky scenes. Hawings’ scene was annoying, and I did enjoy the pendulum moving.
That said, does Kevin Smith use this technique? If so, there must ALWAYS be a woman swimming in the background during his films!
