LOST - Wednesday 10/05/05 9:00 PM EDT

[CrusaderX]

Is Peggy Bundy Helen supposed to be the same character as Locke's phone-sex friend Helen?

 

[reveal]

Is Peggy Bundy Helen supposed to be the same character as Locke's phone-sex friend Helen?

Could be.

Deep in the jungle, Locke has found the boar trail. They're close. He sends Michael and Kate out to surround the beast, but it turns on them and charges. Michael is gored in the leg and as Kate helps him up she calls to Locke to see if he is okay. "I'm fine, Helen, I just got the wind knocked out of me." Who is Helen?

In FLASHBACK, we see Locke enjoying an intimate conversation with "Helen" over the phone. He has a surprise for her — he finally saved up the money to go to Australia and take that authentic aboriginal walkabout. And guess what? He bought two tickets. Sadly, we learn that Helen doesn't share the same feelings for Locke as he does for her.

 

[fett527]

Oh and did you notice that in the video they discussed that they were trying to study all sorts of science and there were Polar Bears playing in a grassy area. Did they genetically mutate polar bears to survive in warm climates? I wonder what the CR would be for one of those.

-Shay

I don't know if the speed of the film threw you off, but I have rewatched the film part and there is definitely the normal ice/water arctic environment in the shot of the polar bears.

 

[fett527]

Is Peggy Bundy Helen supposed to be the same character as Locke's phone-sex friend Helen?

Maybe someone with the DVDs from the first season could do a voice confirmation. I believe we do hear her voice.

 

[fett527]

Looking for connections to Henry James as his book "The Turn of the Screw" was displayed quite openly when they were getting the film. This is interesting:

James wrote The Turn of the Screw in 1897, at a low point in his life....Like many writers and intellectuals of the time, James was fascinated by “spiritual phenomena,” a field that was taken very seriously and was the subject of much “scientific” inquiry. The field remained popular even after the unmasking of the Fox sisters, whose claims of being able to communicate with the spirit world had started the craze for spiritualism in the 1840s. Henry James, Sr., and William James were both members of the Society for Psychical Research, and William served as its president from 1894 to 1896.

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/screw/

 

[Crothian]

Maybe you'd like Veronica Mars better?

not aired in that timeslot here. Oh, I'm not going anywhere but you might have better luck not dancing around the issue of me bothering you if that's was some ultra subtle hint that I should leave this thread or something.

Anyway, great episode. We do get a lot of answers about what's up, or strong hints that way. Social and psychological experimentation, parasychology research. Electromagnetic research. It seems at least one, maybe two more stations on the island. Base didn't blow up like the previous trailer kinda led us to beleive. A turning point in the Locke/Jack struggle? Is Jack finally coming apart at the seams?

Interesting that Hurley was willing to let the wrong number go in.

Next week: Food and Showers.

The episode was okay, but still they made stupid mistakes. The distress singla they found last year, how long had that been going on? Perhpas we can actually start putting together a time line of sorts.

 

[Crothian]

Could be.

Actually, by the way they have Hlene in quotes in that snippit makes me beleive that Locke asked here to go by that name.

 

[Dubya]

Who was in the picture that Jack looked at in the bunker? I didn't get a good look at it. was it a man and woman or woman and woman. The way the Jack and Des scene went when Des said they weren't married anymore made me think it was someone they both knew.

 

[reveal]

Maybe someone with the DVDs from the first season could do a voice confirmation. I believe we do hear her voice.

I don't think it was. I'm pretty sure it was a phone sex worker named Helen. Which would actually make sense. Locke, somehow, stops seeing Helen (wonder if it was an accident and that's where he became paralyzed). Anyway, he gets hold of "Helen" and, since he has a problem letting go, becomes infatuated.

When he crashes and realizes he can walk, he finally understands what it is to "have faith" and now is taking it to an extreme (not that I don't agree with it but he and Jacke are both extremes on opposite ends of the spectrum).

 

[Crothian]

Maybe someone with the DVDs from the first season could do a voice confirmation. I believe we do hear her voice.

She is not credited on any earlier episode of Lost.