I was going to wait till after I rewatched the episode to post. But it really packed such an emotional high that I'm gonna ride it and just let it rip:
*Lost's Holy Trinity of Carlton Cuse (Writer), Damon Lindelof (Co-Writer) and Jack Bender (Director) pulls off another masterpiece. "The Constant" belongs up there with some of the finest of Season 1 and I dare say may even crack my all-time Top 5. What makes it even more spectacular was just how perfectly directed and edited it had to be to work. One shot or out of place cut and the feeling of being "unstuck in time" is lost. I've seen a lot of talk about Emmys coming the way of this episode, but clearly it has to get the one for Best Editing.
*As a piece of writing it was a perfect blend of story and mythology. When I heard the title was "The Constant" I figured there'd be something science related serving as a "constant" in (presumably) Desmond's time traveling. But knowing how Damon and Carlton always try to use science fiction as metaphor I guessed the point of the episode was to state that "The Greatest Constant is LOVE." But how to do that without seeming too cheesey? Well, Carlton and Damon did it. The key was Farraday not stating what sort or strength of emotional attachment there had to be for something to serve as a constant. Left up to Desmond that could only be Penny. But for Farraday it was knowing that all his work and sacrifice was meaningful, represented by Desmond, both in the past and in the future. The Constant is indeed "love" but not just romantic love, but the love we can have for each other as members of one interconnected and interdependent human family.
*"The Constant" also presents what amounts to a Grand Unified Theory of LOST. A lot of these points aren't mine:
-The Sickness: Sort of cast-off into the background and generally forgotten as a red herring, the sickness returns! Is "The Sickness" suffered by Danielle's crew, the one warned about with the quarantine tags on the DHARMA station doors, is it really just the result of going through the Island's snowgloble incorrectly and going crazy from all the time displacement? Was the injection given to Minkowski similar to the one Desmond was giving himself? Did DHARMA mistake people going crazy for a biological disease, thus creating a vaccine that really prevented nothing?
-Are the flashbacks really flashbacks or time displacement that the Losties just aren't experiencing as happening right now? Think about it: the only difference between Desmond's time displacement and a normal flashback was he began to understand what was happening and used it to his advantage. Could there be an episode where, say, Jack realizes this, exposes himself to a heavy dose of radiation or electromagnetism, flashes back and apologizes to his father before he dies? Couldn't any of the Losties then resolve their past issues, in the past simply by getting a jolt?
*Demond's gonna die! And he knew it, too. That look on his face that said he finally unburdened himself: he saved the world and told Penny he loved her. As he said, everything was now "Perfect." What else is there left to do?
*Me'thinks Widmore is looking for the Island and needed Maguns Hanso's notes to get there. In the LOST tie-in novel "Bad Twin" (yes, I'm a sucker and read the thing) Widmore is on the board of the Hanso Foundation. So he obviously knew his colleague Alvar Hanso had this Island all to himself but had no way of finding it for his own nefarious purposes. The Lost Experience online game gave the impression Hanso wanted the Island kept secret so the DHARMA Initiative could conduct their experiments in private. And now we know how Widmore eventually knew where it was.
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Monday, February 25, 2008
4x04, "Eggtown"
*"Eggtown's" received some of the strongest negative reviews on The Fuselage since the beginning of season three. Much of the dissatisfaction originates from Kate's trial, called in one Fuselage thread, "The Worst Television Trial Ever!" That's harsh, there's certainly been worse. But it still went against the audience's expectations of what a televised trial should look like. Now for a show that already and proudly bucks every convention of network television, this shouldn't have been a problem. But there was a few too many story beats that on first glance stretched the trial's credibility, seemingly at the expense of getting to a new status quo of Kate being stuck in California.
This is what I've seen a lot of people point to: The prosecutor came across as ridiculously inept. Next, how could Kate really get off that easy? If the case against her was so strong she was the subject of a global manhunt, shouldn't there have been more evidence than just the testimony of her mother? How about the death of her childhood sweetheart, the poisoning of her ex-husband, the aiding and abetting of the robbery in Albuquerque, etc, etc. Was it realistic to believe all of that may have been forgiven by her newfound celebrity as one of the Oceanic 6, but the murder of her abusive father just couldn't? And even if the prosecutor believed that was not the case, why didn't she just risk going to trial anyway as Kate could've been nailed on at least one of the more minor counts against her.
I would agree all of those are valid knocks against the story, except the week before I'd seen something pretty similar go down on The Wire. Not to give too much away, a character who'd been the subject of an investigation for at least two if not three seasons of the show's run was finally brought to trial. Despite a mountain of incontrovertible evidence against him, he was acquitted by a jury sympathetic to his life story. The difference between the two trials was that Kate's was done in just four segments of one episode while nearly five episodes (really five seasons) of groundwork was laid in the Wire to justify the sympathies of a jury.
I think the biggest mistake may have been doing the trial story at all. I think they could've skipped it altogether and gotten to a plot point that just showed Kate got off due to her celebrity without actually needing to show a trial. Or they could've stretched out the trial to at least two episodes where a believable world was established in which she had just the amount of sympathy on her side to get off.
But really, I think it's just another case of expectations being set so high. LOST has been able to capture the flavor of nearly every genre on television. If they missed the mark with one I think that can be forgiven.
*A lot of people are pissed at Locke's new self-proclaimed dictatorship. Really I think it's the completely natural next step of his evolution: he's special, full of potential, but still raw and unfocussed. He hasn't been this groundless since his time with the Button, and the opening scene between him and Ben mirrored perfectly the time in the hatch Ben was most successful at undermining his self-confidence, all the way down to Locke breaking some dishes. I think Locke's progression may be mirroring what Ben went through before he became the leader of the Others.
*There had been a definition of an Eggtown on Lostpedia but it's since disappeared. It was a pretty good one too about eggtowns being salesman lingo for a place where you're damned if you do and damned if you don't.
*Aaron, huh? There was a point I knew Kate's "son" just couldn't be her own. Too much of the episode was built around denying it (with Kate not sleeping with Sawyer, Sun and Jin talking about their own baby and Kate reluctant to hold Aaron). You sort of knew the child would have to be either Aaron or Jin and Sun's. Really, it makes a ton of sense: Charlie sacrificed his life to save Claire and Aaron. Desmond's vision was correct, but the unintended consequence was somehow Claire didn't end up finishing the journey. Maybe she dies on the Island. Maybe she dies during the rescue. Maybe she's around but for some strange reason has to pretend the baby isn't hers. Regardless, Kate's former status quo as "The Runner" has been supplanted with a new one that keeps her firmly rooted. And she seems to be happy about this, the biggest reason she doesn't want to go back to the Island: she finally has a reason to stay put.
*I have no idea what's up with Farraday's card game, but some speculate he's not really crazy but maybe has a "beautiful mind" that could understand the Island's unique physics.
*Me'thinks this week's episode will focus on the now lost helicopter and what happened to it. I'm placing my bets it's a Desmond-centric episode. The title: "The Constant". Hmmm...
This is what I've seen a lot of people point to: The prosecutor came across as ridiculously inept. Next, how could Kate really get off that easy? If the case against her was so strong she was the subject of a global manhunt, shouldn't there have been more evidence than just the testimony of her mother? How about the death of her childhood sweetheart, the poisoning of her ex-husband, the aiding and abetting of the robbery in Albuquerque, etc, etc. Was it realistic to believe all of that may have been forgiven by her newfound celebrity as one of the Oceanic 6, but the murder of her abusive father just couldn't? And even if the prosecutor believed that was not the case, why didn't she just risk going to trial anyway as Kate could've been nailed on at least one of the more minor counts against her.
I would agree all of those are valid knocks against the story, except the week before I'd seen something pretty similar go down on The Wire. Not to give too much away, a character who'd been the subject of an investigation for at least two if not three seasons of the show's run was finally brought to trial. Despite a mountain of incontrovertible evidence against him, he was acquitted by a jury sympathetic to his life story. The difference between the two trials was that Kate's was done in just four segments of one episode while nearly five episodes (really five seasons) of groundwork was laid in the Wire to justify the sympathies of a jury.
I think the biggest mistake may have been doing the trial story at all. I think they could've skipped it altogether and gotten to a plot point that just showed Kate got off due to her celebrity without actually needing to show a trial. Or they could've stretched out the trial to at least two episodes where a believable world was established in which she had just the amount of sympathy on her side to get off.
But really, I think it's just another case of expectations being set so high. LOST has been able to capture the flavor of nearly every genre on television. If they missed the mark with one I think that can be forgiven.
*A lot of people are pissed at Locke's new self-proclaimed dictatorship. Really I think it's the completely natural next step of his evolution: he's special, full of potential, but still raw and unfocussed. He hasn't been this groundless since his time with the Button, and the opening scene between him and Ben mirrored perfectly the time in the hatch Ben was most successful at undermining his self-confidence, all the way down to Locke breaking some dishes. I think Locke's progression may be mirroring what Ben went through before he became the leader of the Others.
*There had been a definition of an Eggtown on Lostpedia but it's since disappeared. It was a pretty good one too about eggtowns being salesman lingo for a place where you're damned if you do and damned if you don't.
*Aaron, huh? There was a point I knew Kate's "son" just couldn't be her own. Too much of the episode was built around denying it (with Kate not sleeping with Sawyer, Sun and Jin talking about their own baby and Kate reluctant to hold Aaron). You sort of knew the child would have to be either Aaron or Jin and Sun's. Really, it makes a ton of sense: Charlie sacrificed his life to save Claire and Aaron. Desmond's vision was correct, but the unintended consequence was somehow Claire didn't end up finishing the journey. Maybe she dies on the Island. Maybe she dies during the rescue. Maybe she's around but for some strange reason has to pretend the baby isn't hers. Regardless, Kate's former status quo as "The Runner" has been supplanted with a new one that keeps her firmly rooted. And she seems to be happy about this, the biggest reason she doesn't want to go back to the Island: she finally has a reason to stay put.
*I have no idea what's up with Farraday's card game, but some speculate he's not really crazy but maybe has a "beautiful mind" that could understand the Island's unique physics.
*Me'thinks this week's episode will focus on the now lost helicopter and what happened to it. I'm placing my bets it's a Desmond-centric episode. The title: "The Constant". Hmmm...
Sunday, February 17, 2008
4x03, "The Economist"
I am going to take a stab at what happened in the last episode involving you know what with the clocks. But it's not going to be very good so I may revisit this in a separate post down the road as we learn more. I think it'll end up being THE defining mystery of the season, for better or worse.
But first... the stuff that doesn't need a more than basic knowledge of quantum physics to understand...
*This episode's garnered the most negative reaction on the Fuselage, and I think that's to be expected. (Now that only means about a 35% negative opinion as opposed to the mircroscopic amount of negativity the first two received but it's still worth noting.) If you leave aside Farraday's Experiment, nothing of great consequence happened on the Island. People moved around, people got captured, people got released. But really the status quo hasn't so much changed as just settled down a bit from the last two episodes' frantic action. Catching our breath isn't a bad thing, except there was something missing in the scenes that didn't so much move the story forward as just ask the same questions we got the last episode: So why are you with Jack/Locke?
*By far the best beat was Hurley playing bait. We know at some point Hurley makes a break from Locke and their exchanges here laid the groundwork for that. But knowing Hurley was actually a willing participant in Locke's scheme shows just how far on Locke's side he still is. Whatever event breaks them apart must be something heavy and irrevocable.
*Meanwhile we got a flashforward that was so removed from what we know should be the way of the world, we're kept in suspense waiting for an explanation. Except we don't get it. We just get the huge reveal that Sayid is now in fact working for Ben, confirming just how far he's turned to the dark side. Apart from that the flashforward wasn't so meaty. Really it stalled until it got to the big reveal, something the show has to be careful it doesn't do so often people get numbed to it.
Knowing LOST well enough we're aware seeing is never believing and after enough flashforwards we'll probably agree with everything that Ben told Sayid and it'll turn out they're the good guys after all. But how much story really is that going to take? We're already waiting for how Jack got from the autograph signing hero we saw in "Beginning of the End" to the drunk, pill-popper from "Through the Looking Glass". Yet Sayid's flashforward arc is much more ambitious than even Jack's and we're left wondering just how many flashforwards it's going to take to fill in those blanks. My guess: Ben is right and whoever hired the Freighties threaten the island and everyone on it. Now off the Island, the Oceanic Six have to stop these people at whatever cost, though how they came to that conclusion will probably take a long time to reveal. While the rest of the world views the Oceanic Six as celebrities and heroes, the guy Sayid killed on the golf course obviously knew they were people he in particular should fear.
*Much Ado About 31 Minutes: In the last episode Locke said he thought Walt was "taller" hinting the Walt he saw wasn't one who left the Island just a few months prior but one who had noticeably aged. Coupled with the Farraday Experiment LOST is paving the way for... something big to happen. I don't think it'll be a reveal so much as an event: the way the experiment played out time becomes an issue not so much if you're on the Island or not, but how you get there. And the flashforwards suggest the Oceanic Six will return to the Island. That may involve questions not just of how they're going to do it, but when.
Time Dilation has been thrown around in a lot of theories, but it's gotten more traction in light of the Farraday Experiment: the clock in the rocket spent 31 more minutes traveling that it should've:
Gravitational time dilation allows time to pass at different rates in regions of different gravitational potential. The higher the local distortion of space-time by gravity, the slower that time will pass. Time dilation due to gravity effects would allow for two objects to stay at a constant distance from each other, but would require the people near the slower-running clocks to be close to something with enough mass to generate such a gravity field. This form of dilation would also allow for real-time communications between the two regions of different time in that the electromagnetic waves are not affected by gravity.
So it's not that time on the Island and time in the outside world is actually different. It's exactly the same, which is confirmed by the boat and Farraday being able to communicate in real time. It's how the rocket entered the Island's "snowglobe". Farraday took pains to tell Lapidus to follow the proper heading out. This may be the exact heading Ben told Michael to take to "find rescue". Perhaps this heading is the only one that involves no time dilation. Anything that differs from it however gets affected. The most interesting thing I've read about this actually hints that the further away from the heading, the more time is lost, and that there's even the possibility of traveling back in time. It is no coincidence that the man left on the boat is named Minkowski, after the scientist who first coined spacetime.
But first... the stuff that doesn't need a more than basic knowledge of quantum physics to understand...
*This episode's garnered the most negative reaction on the Fuselage, and I think that's to be expected. (Now that only means about a 35% negative opinion as opposed to the mircroscopic amount of negativity the first two received but it's still worth noting.) If you leave aside Farraday's Experiment, nothing of great consequence happened on the Island. People moved around, people got captured, people got released. But really the status quo hasn't so much changed as just settled down a bit from the last two episodes' frantic action. Catching our breath isn't a bad thing, except there was something missing in the scenes that didn't so much move the story forward as just ask the same questions we got the last episode: So why are you with Jack/Locke?
*By far the best beat was Hurley playing bait. We know at some point Hurley makes a break from Locke and their exchanges here laid the groundwork for that. But knowing Hurley was actually a willing participant in Locke's scheme shows just how far on Locke's side he still is. Whatever event breaks them apart must be something heavy and irrevocable.
*Meanwhile we got a flashforward that was so removed from what we know should be the way of the world, we're kept in suspense waiting for an explanation. Except we don't get it. We just get the huge reveal that Sayid is now in fact working for Ben, confirming just how far he's turned to the dark side. Apart from that the flashforward wasn't so meaty. Really it stalled until it got to the big reveal, something the show has to be careful it doesn't do so often people get numbed to it.
Knowing LOST well enough we're aware seeing is never believing and after enough flashforwards we'll probably agree with everything that Ben told Sayid and it'll turn out they're the good guys after all. But how much story really is that going to take? We're already waiting for how Jack got from the autograph signing hero we saw in "Beginning of the End" to the drunk, pill-popper from "Through the Looking Glass". Yet Sayid's flashforward arc is much more ambitious than even Jack's and we're left wondering just how many flashforwards it's going to take to fill in those blanks. My guess: Ben is right and whoever hired the Freighties threaten the island and everyone on it. Now off the Island, the Oceanic Six have to stop these people at whatever cost, though how they came to that conclusion will probably take a long time to reveal. While the rest of the world views the Oceanic Six as celebrities and heroes, the guy Sayid killed on the golf course obviously knew they were people he in particular should fear.
*Much Ado About 31 Minutes: In the last episode Locke said he thought Walt was "taller" hinting the Walt he saw wasn't one who left the Island just a few months prior but one who had noticeably aged. Coupled with the Farraday Experiment LOST is paving the way for... something big to happen. I don't think it'll be a reveal so much as an event: the way the experiment played out time becomes an issue not so much if you're on the Island or not, but how you get there. And the flashforwards suggest the Oceanic Six will return to the Island. That may involve questions not just of how they're going to do it, but when.
Time Dilation has been thrown around in a lot of theories, but it's gotten more traction in light of the Farraday Experiment: the clock in the rocket spent 31 more minutes traveling that it should've:
Gravitational time dilation allows time to pass at different rates in regions of different gravitational potential. The higher the local distortion of space-time by gravity, the slower that time will pass. Time dilation due to gravity effects would allow for two objects to stay at a constant distance from each other, but would require the people near the slower-running clocks to be close to something with enough mass to generate such a gravity field. This form of dilation would also allow for real-time communications between the two regions of different time in that the electromagnetic waves are not affected by gravity.
So it's not that time on the Island and time in the outside world is actually different. It's exactly the same, which is confirmed by the boat and Farraday being able to communicate in real time. It's how the rocket entered the Island's "snowglobe". Farraday took pains to tell Lapidus to follow the proper heading out. This may be the exact heading Ben told Michael to take to "find rescue". Perhaps this heading is the only one that involves no time dilation. Anything that differs from it however gets affected. The most interesting thing I've read about this actually hints that the further away from the heading, the more time is lost, and that there's even the possibility of traveling back in time. It is no coincidence that the man left on the boat is named Minkowski, after the scientist who first coined spacetime.
Thursday, February 7, 2008
4x02, "Confirmed Dead"
I really have to start getting used to these hyper-compressed episodes -- there's way too much going on every segment to keep up with and process. A number of stories that would have been set-up over six or seven episodes in Season 2 and 3 have basically been compressed into two. I think it's safe to say this episode may have topped the season premiere in the inexplicable department, but I never really felt confused. The again It's like I didn't have time to be confused. The show's relentless momentum, like The Wire at its best, makes you feel as if you're juggling a bunch of balls in the air and you don't care if and when they'll ever fall so long as you can keep it going.
On a side note, co-creator Damon Lindelof stopped by the Fuselage this evening, his first interaction with the fan base since the WGA strike began. This was part of his self-imposed "radio silence" in support of the strike. I'd take this as a very positive sign that indeed the strike is over and barring a last minute mutiny this Saturday a deal will be approved and LOST may yet be able to complete the final eight episodes of this already breathtaking season.
*A headcase, a ghost buster, an anthropologist and a drunk: these, my friends, are the newest full-timers on LOST. What was interesting was how the episode overall portrayed them collectively as screw-ups instead of the looming menaces they've been set-up to be. So will whatever tragedies befall the Island actually be their fault or will it be a complete accident? Also, between the four of them I think each is going to end up resolving some outstanding issues about the Island's make-up: the Physical Laws of the Island, the Dead, DHARMA and Why Someone Ends Up On the Island.
*For me the most interesting are definitely the headcase and the ghostbuster. First off both very quickly got their characters over almost by body language. They also hold a lot of promise: the headcase is a physicist and that may come in handy considering the Island's bizarre properties. And the ghostbuster -- that speaks for itself. Through him we may finally get an answer to how and why the dead don't stay dead on the Island.
*I'm a little less enthused about the anthropologist and the drunk but I think that's mostly because I just dug the actors who played the other two more. (And clearly Ken Leung's turn as a mental patient in The Sopranos was definitely what caught LOST's eye). The anthropologist seemed to know something about the DHARMA Initiative. I'm gonna guess we'll learn more about their experiments (and what off Island applications those may have) though her. The drunk pilot appears to be almost a control case: what happens if someone's who's supposed to be on The Island never made it, but gets a second chance. We may get a clearer picture of why our original Losties ended up on 815 by learning more about why the drunk didn't end up on it himself.
*I think if Locke keeps inexplicable leading his group all over the Island, it'll become clear very quickly why Hurley in the future thinks he made a mistake by choosing his side.
*FAKE! This was actually brought up in the previous episode thread and LOST is apparently going in the direction that many dread: that a vast and rich conspiracy has planted a fake Oceanic 815 with fake corpses in the bottom of the ocean. So who was it? The leading candidate would be Widmore, but why would he want to do this? Is it to keep people from searching for the plane and thus stumbling on The Island? And now that we know six get rescued, how will their being alive be explained to the rest of the world? Are they going to say somehow the Oceanic 6 escaped a planed that had crashed in the middle of the ocean?
*DHARMA in Tunisia? This was what really blew my mind. There's some speculation this means that what's going on on The Island is in the distant past and that it's actually located in present day Tunisia. Really, I think the simplest explanation is the right one: however Eko's drug plane ended up on The Island will end up explaining how one of the DHARMA bears ended up in Africa. I think this'll have bearing on how people get to and from The Island.
*Oh, just kill him already! So why is Ben wanted by Matthew Abbadon? And when was that picture of Ben taken? When did he leave the Island and for what purpose? Might we see a flashback off-Island with Ben?
*Where doesn't Ben have a mole? Seriously, the man's network is more far flung than the CIA.
*Name Game for the Freighties:
-Daniel Faraday: There's a physicist named Farraday who made important discoveries regarding electromagnetism
-Miles Straume: A play on "Maelstrom"?
-Charlotte Staples Lewis: Reference to C.S. Lewis
-Frank Lapidus: The word "lapidus" is hebrew for "torch" or "candle" recalling the DHARMA orientation film host Dr. Candle/Hallowax/Wickmund.
*BONUS EASTER EGG for 4x01, "The Beginning of the End": Shortly after I posted my last, recap a theory appeared on the Fuselage titled, "HO, HO, HO". Now I had also noticed how odd it was that "HO" kept appearing in the episode: Hurley sees Charlie near the ho-ho's in the store and he and Jack stop playing HORSE right after Jack got "H-O". Later I found out that in the background at the mental institute some kinnex had been assembled an "H" and "O". At first I thought this was an inside joke that according to the timeline it's December 24, 2004 on the Island. But someone also found that "HO" is the chemical symbol for an Holmium, an element formerly known only as Element X. Holmium is used to create the strongest artificially generated magnetic fields.
On a side note, co-creator Damon Lindelof stopped by the Fuselage this evening, his first interaction with the fan base since the WGA strike began. This was part of his self-imposed "radio silence" in support of the strike. I'd take this as a very positive sign that indeed the strike is over and barring a last minute mutiny this Saturday a deal will be approved and LOST may yet be able to complete the final eight episodes of this already breathtaking season.
*A headcase, a ghost buster, an anthropologist and a drunk: these, my friends, are the newest full-timers on LOST. What was interesting was how the episode overall portrayed them collectively as screw-ups instead of the looming menaces they've been set-up to be. So will whatever tragedies befall the Island actually be their fault or will it be a complete accident? Also, between the four of them I think each is going to end up resolving some outstanding issues about the Island's make-up: the Physical Laws of the Island, the Dead, DHARMA and Why Someone Ends Up On the Island.
*For me the most interesting are definitely the headcase and the ghostbuster. First off both very quickly got their characters over almost by body language. They also hold a lot of promise: the headcase is a physicist and that may come in handy considering the Island's bizarre properties. And the ghostbuster -- that speaks for itself. Through him we may finally get an answer to how and why the dead don't stay dead on the Island.
*I'm a little less enthused about the anthropologist and the drunk but I think that's mostly because I just dug the actors who played the other two more. (And clearly Ken Leung's turn as a mental patient in The Sopranos was definitely what caught LOST's eye). The anthropologist seemed to know something about the DHARMA Initiative. I'm gonna guess we'll learn more about their experiments (and what off Island applications those may have) though her. The drunk pilot appears to be almost a control case: what happens if someone's who's supposed to be on The Island never made it, but gets a second chance. We may get a clearer picture of why our original Losties ended up on 815 by learning more about why the drunk didn't end up on it himself.
*I think if Locke keeps inexplicable leading his group all over the Island, it'll become clear very quickly why Hurley in the future thinks he made a mistake by choosing his side.
*FAKE! This was actually brought up in the previous episode thread and LOST is apparently going in the direction that many dread: that a vast and rich conspiracy has planted a fake Oceanic 815 with fake corpses in the bottom of the ocean. So who was it? The leading candidate would be Widmore, but why would he want to do this? Is it to keep people from searching for the plane and thus stumbling on The Island? And now that we know six get rescued, how will their being alive be explained to the rest of the world? Are they going to say somehow the Oceanic 6 escaped a planed that had crashed in the middle of the ocean?
*DHARMA in Tunisia? This was what really blew my mind. There's some speculation this means that what's going on on The Island is in the distant past and that it's actually located in present day Tunisia. Really, I think the simplest explanation is the right one: however Eko's drug plane ended up on The Island will end up explaining how one of the DHARMA bears ended up in Africa. I think this'll have bearing on how people get to and from The Island.
*Oh, just kill him already! So why is Ben wanted by Matthew Abbadon? And when was that picture of Ben taken? When did he leave the Island and for what purpose? Might we see a flashback off-Island with Ben?
*Where doesn't Ben have a mole? Seriously, the man's network is more far flung than the CIA.
*Name Game for the Freighties:
-Daniel Faraday: There's a physicist named Farraday who made important discoveries regarding electromagnetism
-Miles Straume: A play on "Maelstrom"?
-Charlotte Staples Lewis: Reference to C.S. Lewis
-Frank Lapidus: The word "lapidus" is hebrew for "torch" or "candle" recalling the DHARMA orientation film host Dr. Candle/Hallowax/Wickmund.
*BONUS EASTER EGG for 4x01, "The Beginning of the End": Shortly after I posted my last, recap a theory appeared on the Fuselage titled, "HO, HO, HO". Now I had also noticed how odd it was that "HO" kept appearing in the episode: Hurley sees Charlie near the ho-ho's in the store and he and Jack stop playing HORSE right after Jack got "H-O". Later I found out that in the background at the mental institute some kinnex had been assembled an "H" and "O". At first I thought this was an inside joke that according to the timeline it's December 24, 2004 on the Island. But someone also found that "HO" is the chemical symbol for an Holmium, an element formerly known only as Element X. Holmium is used to create the strongest artificially generated magnetic fields.
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