LOST 6.8 "Recon"

[Achren]

@Oslo_Ostragoth

Not really about this ep, but a couple of Lost-related things I found:

Mm…cake.

Sadly, it’s now gone.

[Springtime_for_Spacers]

@iftheresaway

I think someone else mentioned this, but I really think Charlotte WAS digging through Sawyer’s stuff. The way she jumped up and kept looking back over her shoulder to see whether he was coming seemed pretty suspicious to me. And there were plenty of shirts on top… drawers are a classic hiding place; why would you look at any non-clothing item you found unless you really were snooping?

That was me, I’m not even sure she went looking in the drawer Sawyer/Ford told her had the shirts she was meant to be looking for.

Originally posted by **TBG **
Even island Sawyer likes “Little House” as he calls it. Remember he took a little grief for that in an earlier season.

I’d forgotten that. As he lost his parents in both timelines I think he likes them for the idealised picture of family life. has anyone noticed if he reads the books too?

[middleman]

@iftheresaway

I think someone else mentioned this, but I really think Charlotte WAS digging through Sawyer’s stuff. The way she jumped up and kept looking back over her shoulder to see whether he was coming seemed pretty suspicious to me. And there were plenty of shirts on top… drawers are a classic hiding place; why would you look at any non-clothing item you found unless you really were snooping?

Have you actually ever MET a woman!?

[Drum_God]

@middleman

Have you actually ever MET a woman!?

No kidding. If I were hiding something, I wouldn’t have told her to dig in the drawers. I would have gotten a shirt out (perhaps one too small :p) and offered it to her. Then, “Let’s go make breakfast together, Sweetie.”

@TBG

Damn, Kate and Allie, ALF, Little House, could they throw in a few more references to shows I watched as a kid next time?

What reference to Kate and Allie? I missed that one.

[ProfessorX]

@kimera

That would fit with the Adam and Eve skeletons. One of my friends who is obsessed with the show says that during the scene where Claire’s boyfriend Thomas dumps her 6-7 months into the pregnancy, you get to see a bunch of his paintings that he had at their apartment. One of the bigger paintings later shows up in Charles Widmore’s office. She thinks that Charles Widmore is Thomas’ father and Aaron’s grandfather. She, long ago, had the theory that Jacon was Aaron all grown up, but Smokey’s confession today makes me think that Aaron will be the new Smokey.

Interesting, but it’s definitely helped by the fact that Claire now has “the darkness” or whatever in here and has joined that side.

[Monstre]

@Winston_Bongo

Which brings up the number one question I have right now: what actually happened in 1977 from the point of view of the 2007 timeline?
…
See what I mean? Some of the 2007 timeline seems to be a direct result of the actions of the time travellers (i.e. Ben being Otherized), while some seems to be the result of a non-time-travel-affected past (i.e. the bomb not going off). How can those two be reconciled?

Before we had the “new” timeline, I always was a believer in the “Whatever happened, happened” framework. This would reconcile that point of view for the 2007 timeline – in which the bomb going off always WAS part of “The Incident” (which was referred to in the Swan orientation video, etc). The effect of the bomb may not have been to destroy all of the “pocket” of energy, but rather to curb catastrophic events that would have occurred when Dharma drilled into it. And afterwards, they sealed it up as much as possible (remember the underground concrete bunker and all that) and built the Swan – which now had a new purpose, the button and the release of continual energy build-up.

It was only Daniel who claimed that the bomb would do blah-blah-blah to prevent the Swan from ever being built and the plane from ever crashing. In the 2007 island timeline, perhaps he was wrong. It didn’t do what he claimed – it was part of “The Incident” all along. Whatever happened, happened.

[Oslo_Ostragoth]

@Achren

Sadly, it’s now gone.

Saved by Cracked.com.

[Uosdwis_R.Dewoh]

This episode made Richard’s “I’ve served Jacob longer than you can possibly imagine speech” a little silly.

Richard: I’ve served Jacob longer than you can possibly imagine.
Jack: A million years?
Richard: Erm… ok, not as long as you could possibly imagine.
Jack: How long then?
Richard: I don’t want to say.
Jack: Why?
Richard: You’ll think it’s lame now.
Jack: Come on.
Richard: A hundred and forty years, give or take a few years.
Jack: You’re right, it feels a bit lame after your whole “longer than you can possibly imagine” speech.
Richard: Yeah I over sold it. I should have said something like longer than you’d reasonably expect when considering the average human lifespan. Or something along those lines.
Jack: Still, 140 years is pretty impressive.
Richard: True. So now what?
Jack: Suicide?

[Rucksinator]

@Uosdwis_R.Dewoh

This episode made Richard’s “I’ve served Jacob longer than you can possibly imagine speech” a little silly.

I was disappointed at how recent (relatively) Richard and the Black Rock showed up. I thought it was like the 1600’s.

[GilaB]

Dynamite (stored on the Black Rock) was only invented in the mid-nineteenth century, so there was a limit to how far back they could go.