I was snooping around the internet and came across this photo from the 2006 Screen Actors Guild Awards. Looks like the island has about a 70% death rate. One note, out of the nine that are *dead* four had drunk driving charges at some point while on the show. Don’t drink and drive kids!
I know you think that I’m at home right now still doing the happy dance…
But this is what I want to remember about EVERY SCENE (except the last one, of course) that Ken and Barbie were in:
1. I wasn’t going to watch it but when I found out that Ken and Barbie were probably going to be a goners I just had to. Except now I have to send apologies to Scott because he has probably not heard such a constant stream of curse words from me ever (yet there was that one time…). Plus he probably wanted me to shut up already about the horrible acting and how I stayed up until freaking 10:00 to watch this and after last week how could they, blah, blah blah. You can all argue away with me but my feelings stand that I cannot stand Barbie as an actress and the big payoff of satisfaction watching them die was stolen by an entire HOUR of suffering having to stomach those two and their cheesy dialog. I’d rather watch Billy Ray Cyrus dance for an hour than suffer through that episode again. *blech!*
2. I truly think that the powers that be at ABC know that they made a huge mistake just plopping Ken and Barbie down on the beach and expecting fans to just accept them. So they had to hurry and clean up their mess = last night’s episode. Wasn’t there supposed to be some big mythological reveal last night? Maybe the revelation is that Ken isn’t the chronic pooper that we thought he was but rather just some tv-executive killing con man. I mean, were we really supposed to believe all the reshoots of the famous scenes in the show (plane crash)? “Oh, gee, guess I must have missed them the first time.”
3. I’m not going to post a shot from Nikki’s breakout role, but let’s just say my theory on why they *really* cast her was just reinforced.
4. “Plywood.”
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5. So is Boone supposed to be the gay character that was revealed? In the airport, Shannon says, “If you would quit flirting with random guys maybe we could actually get on the plane.” Yes, I know what you are thinking… but he slept with Shannon. Ever heard of bi? Maybe he had a moment of weakness. Who knows. But in our conservative society I doubt they are going to make a prominent character gay. But it’s on at 10 now so maybe they could get away with it. Hurley, Charlie, Desmond love triangle? Ew, creepy!
6. How ironic. In the airport Barbie makes Ken promise her that they will never end up like them (Boone & Shannon). Both couples are dead. Guess he didn’t keep his promise!
7. Yes, I know she was on the Cobra show and that is the same show Locke was watching last week.
8. There is a theory out there that when Desmond *went back in time* his decisions changed the course of time and somehow instead of Rose and Bernard on the plane, Ken and Barbie ended up there. That is why we haven’t see R&B and K&B just suddenly showed up. However, being the obsessive fan that I am I looked through my screencaps because lo and behold, Rose is getting CPR on the beach as Barbie runs around looking all sweet in her clean dress. So there, they *have* to still be on the island somewhere.
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9. Oh, like her acting wasn’t unbelievable enough, look how clean her dress is after surviving a plane crash and running all over the place looking for Ken. OK, so she has a little scratch on her arm. Boo hoo.
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10. Sawyer, “He wasn’t saying You’re Next about them he was saying You’re Next as in you’re all next.” Hurley, “Yeah, that’s not really better.” Crack me up!
11. Artz has been dead at least several weeks and all these bugs, especially the butterfiles because they are they only one’s that I’m remotely familiar with, are still alive?
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12. Now here is an interesting piece that might come back into play in the future. A walkie talkie from The Others.
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13. I found it interesting that Sawyer was so angry when he came back to find his tent ransacked yet he doesn’t waste a second going through K&B’s stuff.
14. The scene where Kate was arguing with Artz and Shannon was very out of character too, at least, it was not the Kate that I remember from Season One. Why would she be discussing the guns with anyone? I remember that she kind-of hung back from the crowd as they didn’t know that she was a fugitive.
15. Hey, the pigs are walking!
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16. OK people! So tell me that Ben and Juliet didn’t notice that the hatch was open when Paulo was down there hiding! Let’s give him the benefit of the doubt, let’s say he closed it to be extra sneaky. So wouldn’t they have noticed, then, that the dirt was off of the cover and the latch was really easy to open? Then, as Nate said in the last comment section, Ben just blurts out his plan? Ben? Remember Henry? Ben doesn’t reveal anything in black and white (he’s like an ethics professor!).
17. Good boy Vincent!
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18. Yeah, we haven’t seen the end of Sawyer and those diamonds. He’s a con man. He didn’t throw them all down there.
19. Opened her eyes just in time to see the dirt coming. I would think with a couple hundred pounds of dirt coming at you, there is no way to dig out of this one. Do you think that the actors will have nightmares about shooting this scene?
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The producers [of Lost] have been deluged with calls and emails from irate viewers after [Shannon] Rutherford joined the lengthy body count in the second series, which is halfway through its run. But nothing in Lost is quite what it seems - the show is told through a series of flashbacks, and she is due to make her next appearance in a scene about another character’s past.
The episode aired on Wed. and at first my excuse was that I was tired. Here it is SUNDAY and I am still obsessing and reading about various ideas and observations. I have formally decided that I cannot possibly find everything about The Other 48 Days. So here are some of my thoughts…
1. I found it interesting that the producers labeled the days for us. Why? They have been evasive so far about creating ANY type of timeline, why give us one now? Are they trying to create a parallel for us between the ways the two groups organized themselves during this time? I just don’t see the point in doing this now.
2. Libby says on day one that she went through a year of med school. Why tell us this? Because the producers know that we are out there going, “Hey, we already know she is a psychologist, how does she know how to dress a wound?” Or are we going to see a possible crossover with Jack?
3. Remember the guy who Libby fixes his leg? His RIGHT leg? (Recurring theme, for those of you who haven’t been in all of my other threads).
4. Where did the chicken come from? We have seen boar (makes sense on an island), polar bears (exotic, possible talk of a circus plane crashing on island), but a chicken? A domestic animal? Cluckety Cluck!
5. Poor Canada … getting such a bad rap on this show. Ethan said he was Canadian. Nathan says he was too. Libby says something about being in Canada for a company retreat.
6. We still don’t know who gave Nathan the banana when he was in the hole. We are led to believe it was Eko because he doesn’t want to see him starve, but we don’t know. And where did the banana come from? This was on day 23 so wouldn’t a banana on the flight be looking pretty brown by now? If you left bananas on your counter just sitting there for 23 days they would be brown, let alone through a plane crash and tossed around on an island.
7. I am sure everyone saw the door to the tailies hatch said “Quarantine.”
8. The box they find in the hatch. Seems like the items in the box were more military-esque than what we saw in Desmond’s compound. Blankets, a bible, a glass eye (HUH?), and a radio. Why a radio? Desmond didn’t have one (that we know of). Is this where the Army knife came in? I don’t suspect much about the knife right now because anyone can go to Army surplus stores.
9. The glass eye. The only theory I have, and I found this on thefuselage.com, is that it belongs to Marvin Crandle. BUT, we have seen many episodes start with an eye so maybe it is just a token to those on the island from whoever has put them there. Much like some people would carry a cross, a Buddha, a troll doll. Just kidding. Plus, speaking of eyes, there is much speculation out there that Eko was blind before the crash. Much like Locke, he found something mystical and healing on the island.
10. I have seen SO FREAKING much out there on all of the religious symbolism of 40. Here are a few: God gave Moses a staff and he was on an exodus through the desert for 40 years. Mr. Eko carries a staff, he did not speak for 40 days, Eko (or I have seen EK) is the biblical abbreviation for Exodus. The 40 days of Lent are a significant period. Noah floated in his ark for 40 days and nights; the chosen people wandered in the desert for 40 years, Jonah led the citizens of Nineveh through 40 days of penance. In the Eastern Orthodox Church when someone dies you mourn for 40 days also. Was Eko not speaking in honor of those that died? 40 days is also when it used to be considered that a soul enters a fetus in pagan religions…. Moses fasted for 40 days before receiving the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai. Jesus spent 40 days fasting in the wilderness in preparation for his ministry. Allah, the Most Exalted, the Most Glorified, has stated this fact in the Qur’aan: During the first 40 days of gestation, all the body parts and organs are completely, though consecutively, formed.
11. The magic bullet theory. JFK conspirators take note! We have witnessed another instance of a single magic bullet! How could Ana Lucia POSSIBLY have shot Shannon? MAYBE you could have convinced me at the end of last weeks show, but now that I have seen the previews for next week, I cannot accept that one bullet shoots Shannon and then goes on to shoot a warning shot at Sayid. Do we see the shot actually come from Ana Lucia? We DO when she shoots at Sayid in the preview but never when Shannon is “shot.” Maybe Sawyer comes out of his near death state to tell everyone that there was only one bullet, in essence saving her from being an outcast from the group, even as much as he seems to hate her. But, Michael did know that there was only one bullet because he and Sawyer have the discussion on the raft and again when they are in the hole.
12. Also, on this note, if you pause the scene where she supposedly shoots Shannon you can see a bloody knife stuck in a tree. Could Shannon have been stabbed first?
13. Black and White. We see this theme again. Bernard and Rose. Locke and Eko (who, from reading about upcoming episodes, befriend one another).
14. I need to go back and watch this, but it is being said that when the tailies find their hatch you can see the radio tower behind the hatch.
15. Why didn’t the tailies hear any whispers before they went to the other side of the island? Why didn’t they see the smoke? What about the “monster” and the rain? They didn’t know that the whispers meant the others were near, but Sayid did because he has heard them before (remember his quest when he found Danielle?). Could it be much like we have two groups from Flight 815 that there are two groups of “others?” Yes, the “others” did attack our group, much like they did to the tailies. But the “others” killed the original group members because they wanted Claire back. The “others” that attacked the tailies did not kill, they just took the people.
The conversation with Goodwin and Ana Lucia was also very interesting. When she asks him why the “others” would keep attacking them if they were good, he states that maybe they aren’t attacking them. I wondered last season if when they took Walt they were taking him somewhere to “protect him” from the sickness, perhaps? Goodwin also states that they are choosing whom to take because they are Good. Does that mean that our original group is not good, except for Claire and Walt?
16. I saw the way the tailies landed on the island as a type of baptism in the water. Just symbolism.
17. It makes sense that Bernard strapped himself in when he was going to the restroom. But, how did he end up in tact, still strapped in, in his seat after the crash? The rest were thrown and in the water.
18. If Nathan was not an Other, what WAS he doing out in the woods for 2 hours? WAS he an Other? Maybe Goodwin knew that Nathan would have hurt Ana Lucia and he was in some weird way protecting her? He did seem to be a little flirty with her. Or, maybe Goodwin was worried that if Ana Lucia cut off his finger that Nathan would rat him out as well as tell all of their secrets, including where the children were?
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As promised, here are my (continued, for my work friends) thoughts from last week’s Lost “Abandoned.”
1. Wondering what Walt was saying to Shannon? ‘’They’re coming and they’re close.'’ (backwards)
2. What if it was DANIELLE that killed Shannon? She had access to a gun. What if she shoots Shannon and runs. Ana Lucia could have been standing there ready to shoot Danielle but doesn’t take her shot. Everyone thinks it’s Ana Lucia, maybe they don’t see Danielle as she does know the forest. It’s an interesting set up because everyone will just know that they heard a shot and Ana Lucia has a gun. What will save her butt is when Sawyer wakes up and he tells everyone that there was only one bullet. Of course, then Ana Lucia will produce the gun and show them one bullet.
3. Danielle did warn Sayid to watch his group for anyone acting strange. Maybe she saw Shannon running around and was somehow “protecting” Sayid in her mind. We did see some odd POV shots last week and my sister made the comment that it was like someone was watching them. I kept thinking someone was going to jump from out of the trees the way they kept framing Sayid and Shannon in the shots. Danielle probably heard the whispers as did everyone out in the forest and thought Shannon was one of the others.
4. Maybe Sayid DID see Danielle shoot Shannon. That would explain the look on his face. Maybe the reaction we see in the previews from Ana Lucia is from her grief knowing she could have saved Shannon but didn’t take the shot. This could lead to her flashbacks as a cop. OR Danielle used something else to kill Shannon and Ana Lucia DID take the shot at Danielle. OR Danielle kills Shannon and almost simultaneously Ana Lucia shoots Danielle to stop her. Danielle is laying on the ground but Sayid looks up and only sees Ana Lucia. Lots of possibilities but I would guess that this somehow leads back to Ana Lucia’s days as a cop and how she thinks she should have saved someone. Maybe the cross over is that she arrests Kate!
5. Previews from this week’s show a clip on the beach after The Other’s had just taken some of the survivors (tail enders), and Ana Lucia finds a paper on the beach that The Others had left behind. What if it was a list with all their names on it. Maybe the tailenders weren’t supposed to survive and that is why they are killing them. OR maybe they are checking of the children or survivors that they need.
Here are synopsis of the next upcoming episodes:
The Other 48 Days
* Scheduled airdate: November 16, 2005
* Flashback: Tail-section survivors
The harrowing first 48 days in the lives of the tail section survivors are revealed. Source: ABC
Matthew Fox revealed that this episode will not feature any of the season 1 cast. Source: E!
Collision
* Scheduled air date: November 23, 2005
* Flashback: Ana-Lucia Cortez
Violence erupts when Ana-Lucia and her group stumble upon the other castaways. Includes a character called “Old Nick”, played by Garry Jackson.
What Kate Did
* Scheduled air date: November 30, 2005
* Flashback: Kate Austen
Kate’s original crime that started her life on the run is revealed. Meanwhile, the survivors lay one of their own to rest, Kate sleeplessly watches over a feverish Sawyer, and Mr. Eko has a surprise for Locke regarding the hatch. Locke and Eko make an interesting discovery about the film, and Michael has a mysterious encounter with the computer.
Merged
* Scheduled air date: December 14, 2005
This episode has some big questions answered. It shows flashbacks of the island. Yes, the island and tells you how the hatch came to be, what will happen if the ‘numbers’ aren’t typed into the computer, and how the ‘others’ came on the island.
Source: E!
The Hunting Party
* Scheduled air date: January 11, 2006
Vindication
* Scheduled air date: January 18, 2006
Here is a link to a strange Lost promo video that was shown in Europe: http://video.google.com/videoplay?do…q=title%3Alost
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