Lost 2/28

[93Devil]

That episode was amazing.

I don't know if I will be able to go to sleep anytime soon.

So much was explained, and so many more questions to be answered.

Classic ****ing Lost.

Constants. Constants. Constants.

Book sales for A Wrinkle in Time just shot through the roof as did Netflix rentals of Frequency.

 

[STLIrish]

Great episode. Desmond might be the best character on the show.
But what, exactly, was explained?

 

[Theoldbenchwarmer]

That was a mind**** if I've ever seen one. My girl gave up after 20 minutes. I thought the constants thing was excellent. I've never read A Wrinkle in Time. Lots of similarities?

 

[93Devil]

Great episode. Desmond might be the best character on the show.
But what, exactly, was explained?

Predicting Charlie's demise.

Why he went on the boat race.

Why everyone seems to be intertwined.

Why his girlfriend keeps looking for him.

One of the special powers created by the island.

 

[93Devil]

Explanations of A Wrinkle in Time and how time and the universe might be shaped or arranged.

http://www.math.brown.edu/~banchoff/Yale/project12/math.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wormhole



Mind you, A Wrinkle in Time is read by children at around 11 or 12 years old.

 

[mustangj17]

everything is a lot easier to understand now

 

[Sly]

The show just jumped the shark for all of us who just want to watch a damn television show and not read a Phillip K. **** novel one week and A Wrinkle in Time the next. Fun while it lasted, and at least we got to see a lot of Penny this week.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Good show, but confusing in parts. At least we know why Desmond can look into the future. (I think)

 

[Batman]

Whoa...I just had a thought, and forgive me if this is obvious to anyone else, but what if ALL of the characters on the island are having some degree of Desmonditis? And all of the flashbacks and flash-forwards aren't just a plot device, but are the characters jumping back and forth in time and not realizing it?
About 30 minutes into the episode, I looked over at the wife and she had a confused look on her face I had never seen before. Now, I think my head is starting to hurt too.

 

[Batman]

And did anybody else catch the origin of the Black Rock freighter during the auction scene? I thought Rousseau was supposed to have come to the island on it. If it was wrecked in the 1800s, then...uhhhhh...huh? They might have just introduced a new mystery without 90 percent of the audience catching on.

 

[joe]

I like this show. A lot.

 

[Piotr Rasputin]

Never read "A Wrinkle In Time," which is probably why my wife, who has read it, laughed when I said the episode reminded me of Jean Greay's timeshifts when she was becoming Dark Phoenix 28 years ago in X-Men comics.

And hell yes, this episode was good. That phone call . . . wow.

It still impresses me greatly that ashow about people stranded on an island continues to seamlessly integrate new characters. Just awesome.

 

[Giggity]

Interesting return to the numbers 23 and 42: "Set the machine to 2.342." Lost sure knows how to make nerds happy.

 

[funky_mountain]

probably has nothing to do with anything, but it was interesting to mrs. funky_mountain and myself.

when desmond walks into the sick bay on the ship, he says: "i'm not here. this isn't happening."

that's a line from the radiohead song called how to disappear completely.

batman, my wife picked up on the black rock auction scene, so we went back and watched it. why is penelope's dad interested in the journal?

 

[beefncheddar]

Batman,

Two quick thoughts:

1. Not everyone is jumping in time ... at least not forward from the island. If they were, there would be talk about everyone having random blackouts.
2. Rousseau didn't come on the Black Rock. IIRC, she was part of a science expedition.

 

[STLIrish]

batman, my wife picked up on the black rock auction scene, so we went back and watched it. why is penelope's dad interested in the journal?

Might he be involved with the Faraday/Miles/Daniels-from-The-Wire group? And (eight years prior), trying to find clues as to how to get on the island.

Personally, I'm done trying to figure this stuff out in advance. At this point i"m just enjoying the magnificent ride.

 

[JR]

Terrific episode. Almost over the top but can't wait until next week.

BTW, "A Wrinkle in Time" is a children's book in the same way "Lord of the Rings" or "Alice in Wonderland" are children's books.

 

[93Devil]

Terrific episode. Almost over the top but can't wait until next week.

BTW, "A Wrinkle in Time" is a children's book in the same way "Lord of the Rings" or "Alice in Wonderland" are children's books.

True, but I know it is taught in the sixth grade (and possibly the fifth) in my county's school district.

 

[93Devil]

OK, of the characters that have died, who were their constants?

Was Charlie, Hurley's constant? Whoa.

Is why can Locke walk? Is he a constant of a previous self?

The man that died on the boat, was his constant killed?

Will the show now be based upon trying to kill Ben's constant?

If they can somehow keep up this level of writing a suprise, Lost might go down as one of the greatest TV shows ever, IMHO. Maybe the best.

 

[novelist_wannabe]

I'm with STLIrish. I'm pretty sure I'll enjoy it more if I don't fret over knowing what's going to happen. And this hype sort of reminds me of the "Who Shot JR" fervor surrounding Dallas back in the day.