Lost 12/08/04

[jasper]

oh please the old fart Locke looks up into the sky. And predicts rain. How long have they been on the island. By now the old fart has notice how the clouds look just before it rains. A trick like shading the sun with your left hand. Then telling the time. And no one notices you glanced at the watch on your left wrist.

 

[Nellisir]

A trick like shading the sun with your left hand. Then telling the time. And no one notices you glanced at the watch on your left wrist.

But...I don't wear a watch.

;-)

Nell.

 

[Arnwyn]

Again, I state we really do not know Ethan is a bad guy,

Oh, I think we do. ("Quit following or I'll kill one of them." Sounds bad enough to me.)

 

[Fast Learner]

I am disapointed in Charlie not staying dead because I now have no fear as a viewer that any of the main characters will die.

Precisely what J.J. wants you to feel. You have been perfectly manipulated.

 

[Buldan]

I'm not certain that Charlie didn't die. I'm not sure Charlie is Charlie anymore.

I noticed that Locke looked at his wrist (couldn't tell if he was wearing a watch or not ... looked like he had a piece of cloth tied to it at any rate) just before telling Jack the time and he quickly looked at it just before he mentioned that it was about to start raining. I have a feeling that he didn't so much predict the rain as he expected it to happen. Like it happens every 3rd day at that exact time or maybe once a week on the same day at the same time. I also don't know if Ethan is a "bad guy" or not. It seems strange that the psychic would send the girl on the flight if her and her baby were going to run afoul of a situation worse than the one he'd already predicted to her. Also, Jack seems to have "visions" if you will. First his father and now Ethan. Perhaps it wasn't Ethan that told him that if he kept following him, he'd kill one of the hostages, perhaps that was just who Jack saw.

I'm digging the show, but I hope it doesn't turn out in the end that the characters are just in the Matrix or something similar.

I also loved Sawyer's reference to Fantasy Island by calling the kid "tattoo"

 

[Hand of Evil]

The rain thing is easy to explain, afternoon storms in the tropics are like clock work, you can hear rain coming, you can even feel the cooling air being pushed before it, you just have to know what is happening. Which, does bring up the question...what did Locke feel when Boone was wanting to turn back.

As for the question of Ethan being bad, Jack did force his hand and we have no proof that Charlie and Claire were forced to go with Ethan. We also do not know that it was Ethan to string Charlie up, sure a lot of things point to it but as far as we know Clarie MAY BE safe and Charlie went off on his own and left Clarie with Ethan and that is why there could be two trails, Charlie could have been left hands tied and blind folded and walked into one of Locke's or the French women's traps (not likely).

 

[LightPhoenix]

One thing I read on another board about Lost is during the scene where Charlie is cut down, the vine noose is placed on his head by Jack, to get it out of the way. The symbolism is pretty close to it being a crown of thorns, and then Charlie is revived, after seemingly being dead.

 

[Steverooo]

First off, I found it VERY strange that Charlie first says he doesn't remember anything, and then immediately afterwards says that they only wanted Claire... The two are mutually exclusive. How does he know that, if he can't remember it?

Second, the underground facility (if there is one) could explain the creature. Big enough to move trees, but never seen? I thought: "Subterranean!" It also moves with a sound like a subway...

As for predicting rain, many watches these days (such as Suunto's H6, or High Gear's Summit) have built-in altimeter/barometers, and can graph the barometric pressure over a 24 hour period, and/or sound an alarm when the pressure drops suddenly (indicating a coming rain). It's possible both that Locke could have prepared himself for a Walkabout with such an item, or that he is simply perceptive enough to have noticed the signs of the oncoming rain...

So it really might be as simple a trick as looking at his watch! (Especially if it has a vibrating alarm, instead of a sounding one!)

But hey, in Lost, who knows? Pretty much anything is possible! I'll be really upset if the "sickness" is hallucinations/delusions caused by some poison/radiation, and it "was all in their minds"!

 

[Dingleberry]

I'm confused by something: we know "Sawyer" isn't Sawyer's real name - so why wasn't that an issue after Hurley checked the manifest? Are we to assume that either Kate or Sawyer told Hurley about it?

 

[Fast Learner]

I assume that he has been using fake ID with that name since he assumed it, years ago.