Lost 05/09/07

[Mark CMG]

Because you never know when you might need to dump more bodies in it?

There was about a twenty or thirty year lull, I think.

 

[Hand of Evil]

If you dig a hole to put bodies in, why not fill it back in when you are done?

Because you did not dig the hole, you just dumped the bodies there.

 

[Gab]

Two things I noticed when watching the show again last night:

1. In the beginning of the episode, when Richard comes into Ben's tent while Ben is holding the wooden doll, Ben says something like, You do remember birthdays, don't you, Richard?. A bit of foreshadowing I didn't catch the first time I watched the episode Wednesday.

2. When Ben is young, in school, and they are doing the volcano experiment, Annie (?) asks the teacher if that is what happened to the volcano on this island, ie. So there's a plot device that can be used if the writers need it; say, end the series by having the volcano explode and destroy the island, à la L'Ile Mystérieuse (Jules Vernes).

 

[Taelorn76]

No, only the station that had the giant electromagnet where Dharma folks hit the button every 108 minutes.

Well,

That does explain why the hatch had Quarantine written on it

 

[Taelorn76]

Two things I noticed when watching the show again last night:

1. In the beginning of the episode, when Richard comes into Ben's tent while Ben is holding the wooden doll, Ben says something like, You do remember birthdays, don't you, Richard?. A bit of foreshadowing I didn't catch the first time I watched the episode Wednesday.

My wife caught that as well.


Here is a theory.

People on the island seem to have an extended life. So maybe the island's way to control the population is not let women carry to term.

 

[ThirdWizard]

Re: Extended life span

Ben's father seemed to have aged normally.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Re: Extended life span

Ben's father seemed to have aged normally.

This may be due to the island accepting a person. This could be why Locke was so special to the Others.

 

[Atavar]

If you dig a hole to put bodies in, why not fill it back in when you are done?

Because a pile of dirt isn't as interesting to the audience?

Also, I think that eye we see a glimpse of is Mikhail's missing eye. IT'S ALIVE!!!

Later,

Atavar

 

[Mistwell]

Jacob is almost certainly the smoke creature. The dust from the smoke creature (likely volcanic dust) is outside his hut. And he himself is an invisible entity. So, it seems when Jacob roams the island, he wears the ash.

And he's already met Locke, many episodes ago.

 

[Mark CMG]

Because a pile of dirt isn't as interesting to the audience?

Exactly. So why bother putting them into a clearly dug hole rather than just have it appear they were rolled into a natural ravine? Just a case of either not thinking through something that could have so easily been avoided *or* it actually is something important to have noted. I wonder which one it will prove to be?